Disclaimer: I do not own YGO, though as much as I'd love to, Kazuki Takahashi owns this awesome show/manga. Or is it just the manga? Whatever!
A/N(1); Not exactly AU at the beginning since she's just gonna changing through the course of the story.
A/N(2):Enjoy! That's all
Title: Love's Not What It Seems
Chapter One: Change...
Tea was lying in bed, looking up at the ceiling. Thoughts crossed her mind from the past. Thoughts about her crush on Yami, Yugi's darker half, who now was not exactly a half of him. Everybody knew Yami to be Yugi's twin who had been in boarding school in America. She remembered the time she was about to tell Yami about her crush on him only to have him excitedly interrupt her with a bit of his own news.
News that broke her heart. And it still was in bits of glazed-over ice.
"Tea! Get up!" Tea's mum yelled from the kitchen. Tea groaned loudly and muttered to herself about getting up too early.
"I'm already up, mum!" Came her tired voice.
"Get out of bed!" Her mum knew her so well that it seemed she could read her mind at the worst of times. Tea had intended to pretend to be sick the night before-hand. Or be late so she wouldn't have to see Yami in homeroom or get a seat next to him, like she did before, because all the class would be there and no one liked to sit in the front row and it would definitely have left her with the one or two optional seats in front. It would also mean that she might actually have been able to pay attention in class for once.
Tea flipped over so that her face was buried in her pillow. Oh how she wished she had never heard those four simple words. It had wrecked her whole life! It really had. She lost her interest in dancing because the ex-most important person to her didn't exactly cheer her on anymore about it. She had payed even less attention in classes than usual. Her parents hadn't been proud of her last semesters report card. She had lost herself in the wave of emotion that had wrecked everything for her. She couldn't find a reason anymore to repair what was broken.
"Don't make me come up there!" Tea groaned again and muttered colourful words about the morning. She had certantly lost her interest for the morning, the sun even. Her parents noticed that. They noticed everything change about her.
It began with how she never called back her friends after school, always declined any invitation to hang out with them that got them curious about her whereabouts. They had thought that she had found herself a boyfriend and so blew off all her friends to hang out with him. They hadn't liked it one bit. Her father had sat her down and lectured her for an hour about the issue at hand. Only at the end had she told him that she had no boyfriend and that she had let her interest in a special guy slip away. It startled her parents.
They loved her very dearly and would do anything to see her happy. But no matter what they did, nothing worked.
"Tea Gardner! I mean it, and if I go up there the pancake I just put on might burn and it'll be your one!" Tea had noted that her parents didn't exactly see a difference in her eating habits. She hated pancakes now. It was a dessert he had taken a liking to when she introduced had it to him. Tea hated anything he liked. And he liked a lot of things.
She detested Duel Monster games, shows that he loved, food that he liked, places that he adored, and friends that he cared about.
She knew it wasn't her friend's faults that they hadn't noticed her change, but she still preffered to blame them for not noticing a change of a best friend. They had rarely talked to her at lunch since the whole world-threatning had stopped. They were preoccupied by showing Yami things, places and such stuff.
A knock came upon her door, "Tea, hun. Come on, or else you're going to be late for school," came her mum's voice, only genlte this time. Tea scrunched up her face. 'Hun' had reminded her of Mai, a friend who still bothered to call, and being a girl, noticed the new Tea. The colder one.
"Fine!" Tea quickly stumbled out of her bed and looked around. She saw that the door was slightly opened and that her mother was peaking in. She marched over and banged it shut in her mum's face. She could hear her mother's soft sigh.
"Breakfast will be ready when you're finished with the morning routine,"and with that her steps were heard on the slightly creaky staircase.
Tea sighed loudly. She hadn't intented to hurt her parents, she tried not to, but she still maneged it. She looked around again and spotted her uniform on her computer chair, just where she had left it after she washed it last year after school finished for the summer. She picked it up and brought it up to her nose to smell. It smelled fine. She quickly put it on without taking a shower like she always did before and looked at herself in her long mirror. She had a slight goth aura about herself. She used to be afraid of somehow looking like a goth in public or in privacy. Now she didn't give a load about what people might think of her.
Probably nothing good or 'cool'.She thought.
She thought for a while longer trying to kill some time. Then she remembered where she had supposedly put her school shoes. She got down on all fours and looked under her bed. Reaching a hand out she got her brown school shoes and looked at them oddly. She remembered that she thought they looked cool last year. Now she practically saw loafers! She dropped them and walked up to her wardrobe. Her style was slightly tilted to punk now. More skinny jeans and funny t-shirts. She reached down and got out her black strapped boots. Now she was gonna rock her uniform look.
So what if I get in trouble?!Tea quickly put them on and looked at the mirror. Even before she would have preffered them to the brown 'loafered' school shoes.
She had also changed her usual school bag for her new favourite messenger bag. She looked closely at her face and bit her lip lightly. She wanted to put on some make-up but not too much. She walked to her dresser and opened the top drawer and got her make-up bag out. She searched for her usual black eyeliner. She rarely used it before so it looked brand new. Putting on a thin line under her bottom lashed she did the same on the top ones. She put the liner back and looked at the mascara.
Too messy, and might look too much. With that she was ready. Only ten more minutes and she'd need to get to school. It was a twenty minute walk, she knew she could strech it out to be a little bit late. The only problem was that she'd have to pass the Mutou's household.
Scars remind me of too much. But whatever, Yugi was always early to get to school so Yami must usualy tag along after him at the early hour. But then the worst moment came. The voice of Mai Valentine drifted up to her bedroom. She groaned quietly and began her walk down the stairs after closing her door.
As soon as Tea reached the bottom step her mother and Mai were staring at her.
"Hey, hun. Thought I could give you a ride to school. Nice boots though I'd wear heels instead." Mai smirked forgetting Tea's mum was right next to her.
"Yeah, change needed from those stupid 'loafers'." Was all Tea said before she grabbed a granola bar and a bottle of water and was out the front door without so much as a 'goodbye' to her mother.
"Well, thank you for the pancakes Mrs. Gardner, they're delicious. Bye, then," Mai waved goodbye and followed suit by going out the front door, closing it quickly and rushing up to her car.
This is gonna be a long day, Tea thought as Mai got in the driver's seat of her car.