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Tea-The Chosen One
dacncers of the night
Lady-Wicca666
Luckygirl777
Takashi Kusinagi
AkioftheAkatsuki
Summary: He had all of the fame and fortune in the world, but all he wanted was someone that would treat him like he was as normal as anyone else. He might get his wish when he meets a cafe waitress who is having problems of her own. Will they be able to help each other?
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! or the song "Best Days" by Graham Colton. I just own the story.
Chapter 7
Atem woke up the next morning feeling a weight pressed against his chest as he was laying on the sofa. As soon as he was fully awake, he looked down to see Tea still resting on him peacefully and realized how beautiful she looked just sleeping. He sighed in comfort when he felt the that warm feeling radiate from her while they were laying together. This is the feeling he was missing a couple of days ago. He could feel her hand move across his chest as she stirred in her sleep and smiled down at her when he saw that she was waking up. Tea lifted her head from him and looked up to see Atem looking at her softly. She started to move a little to give him some room to sit up from the sofa.
"Sorry, it seems like everytime were asleep together I always end up on you in the morning." she said with a light blush. Atem chuckled and sat up next to her.
"I don't mind at all. In fact, it's makes me sleep with much more comfort. Whenever I'm here with you, I feel so complete." he said. Tea turned to look at him in his eyes. She was starting to feel the same way about him, but wasn't sure if she should react to them. Suddenly, she started to feel herself moving closer to Atem and he was doing the same thing. Her heart was beating rapidly in her chest as they were moving closer and closer. Their lips were only inches away from being pressed together and both of their eyes were closed as they waited for their lips to make contact.
RING! RING! RING!
They pulled away from each other when the phone rang interrupting what was about to happen and Tea got up to answer it. Atem swore under his breath cursing the gadget that ruined a perfect moment. Tea picked the phone up from the receiver and placed it to her ear.
"Hello," she said.
"Hello, I am from Clean-sweepers Inc. and I am calling about our new vacuum cleaner. You will be impressed in its new turbo suction and-"
"Uh, thank-you, but I'm not interested so please don't call here again." she quickly said and hung up the phone just when he was about to talk again. She sighed and leaned on the table trying to calm down her beating heart as she was still thinking about what almost happened between her and Atem. She turned around and saw that he was still looking at her with those same eyes that refuse to let her look away. The room was quiet without neither one of them saying a word. Tea broke the silence when she was getting uncomfortable with the silence.
"Um, that was just a wrong number. Some guy was just trying to sell some stupid vacuum cleaner." she said. Atem chuckled lightly and walked over to her.
"Yeah, I get those same phone calls all the time. It gets to be a real nuisance everytime too." he said. They both started to laugh at his comment. After they stopped, they were met with that uncomfortable silence again and they looked away from each other. Atem had sighed from the silence and turned back to Tea after a minute.
"Listen Tea, about what happened just now, you know if we weren't interruted by the phone, you and I would have kissed and I wouldn't have regretted it." he said. Tea sighed and turned to look at him.
"Atem-" she started, but he cut her off knowing what she was going to say.
"I know, you want to take things slow and I respect that. I just want you to know how I feel about you right now and that I would wait for you for as long as it takes me to." he said. Tea saw how honest he was about his feelings just by looking into his eyes. She could see how intensely he was looking at her and couldn't help but be hypnotised by his gaze. She opened her mouth to say something back to him.
"Atem, I-" she was cut off this time by Atem's cellphone ringing. Atem was getting frustrated from all of the interruptions he and Tea were getting this morning. So he reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone to answer it.
"This better be important, I was in the middle of something." he said angrily.
"I'm sorry sir, but you have that meeting you were scheduled to be in this morning and I was just reminding you so that you wouldn't be late." said his assistant. Atem slapped a hand over his eyes when he forgot about it. He sighed over the phone.
"Thank-you, I'll be there in about ten minutes." he said and then hung up the phone. He turned back to see Tea with her head down looking at her feet.
"I have to go, I forgot that I had a meeting to attend to this morning." he said. Tea nodded her still keeping her head down.
"I understand, I'll be fine go ahead." she said. He stepped up to her until he was standing in front her and lifted her chin up with his hand so that she was looking at him.
"My meeting is only an hour and I'll be out of there right after it's over. I still haven't forgotten about our date so why don't you come over to my company later and we can leave from there." he said. Tea scrunched her face in confusion.
"First of all, I don't have any idea how to get there and second, I don't even know where it is. So how exactly am I going to get to your company?" she asked. Atem smiled and shook his head.
"Don't worry about any of that, I have everything all planned out. You're going to be here all day, right?" he said.
"Yeah, I got nothing else to do since the cafe's still closed." Atem nodded.
"Okay, well I have to get ready to see these cheese-heads so I should be heading out now." he said. He grabbed his keys from off of Tea's coffee table and walked to the door with Tea following him. When he opened the door, he turned back to look at Tea before he stepped out. He placed a hand on her cheek and rubbed it affectionatly with Tea closing her eyes and leaning into his touch.
"Remeber what I said, okay?" he said. Tea opened her eyes and nodded her head. Atem smiled and leaned down to giver a light kiss where his hand was on her cheek and turned around to leave. Tea watched him as he walked out to the parking lot to his car as she placed a hand on her face where he kissed her. When she closed the door, she leaned back against it and sighed. She thought about what Atem just told her and now knows that he has feelings for her, but wasn't sure about her feelings yet. Everything was still fuzzy right now so maybe when they have their date later, everything will become clear.
Atem was sitting inside the board meeting room with other members around the table listening about another merger from a different company. He sat there with a bored expression on his face wondering when the meeting will be over. He really wasn't planning on being here with these people, all he wanted really wanted was to be with Tea right now. To him, this meeting was just a waste of his time because whatever the person was talking he wasn't going to agree to.
"So Mr. Mutou, if we combine our two companies together, it would bring in millions and of course we would split the profits down the middle. With your business skills and my inventions, we would be the most successful company that anyone has ever seen. So I have the contract and all it needs are our signatures to get this deal started ad there's no need to read it, everything in this contract is legitimate so all you have to do is sign on the dotted line." he said in a sinister voice. He passed the paper over to Atem and waited for him to sign it. Atem looked up from the contract form and glared at the man standing in front of him.
"You seem very eager for me to sign this form. How do I know that you won't double cross me?" he asked testing him.
"Oh you won't have to worry about that, you and I will be partners once everything is situated." he said getting a little nervous. Atem had placed a smirk on his lips and picked up the contract so that he could tear the whole thing in half. The man stood there with a horror stricken look on his face.
"W-w-what have you done?" he asked. Atem stood up from his chair while keeping his glare on him.
"Did you actually think that I wold be stupid enough to sign a contract form after you tell me that I don't have to read it? Not only have you insulted my intelligence, but you have just made a big mistake today. You see, you had just wasted my time coming in here today for this sorry excuse for a meeting and you just wasted yours also because guess what, you're not the only one who has been asking me to merge my company with theirs." Atem said. The man had a desperate look on his face.
"Pl-please, you don't know what you're giving up. This could bring in millions." he said.
"Yeah, millions for you when you take over almost half of my company, right? I am a very fast reader and before I tore up your prized contract, I read a very interesting little portion on there. That if I had signed it, I would agree to turn over all access of my company to you. You must be out of your mind if you think I would ever agree to something like that. This is mainly one of the reasons why I don't want to merge my company with anyone. Now if you would be so kind, I would like you to leave here because there is someone I am expecting to show up and if you have to make this difficult, then I'll have to call security to escort you off the premises." Atem said threatening him. The man was hesitant at first, but did what he was told and left the room without any difficulties. After Atem called the meeting over and everyone left the room, he sat down in his chair with a tired sigh and faced the window. Sometimes, he wishes he didn't have the responsibility of running a company, but this is what he chose to do. He stood up from his chair and left to go down to his office. He saw Katie sitting at her desk typing up documents and she looked up from her screen to see Atem walking over.
"Hey boss, how was the meeting?" she asked. Atem sighed again and leaned against his office door next to her desk.
"Would you believe me if I told you that it was a meeting about another company merger?" he said. Katie shook her head.
"Oh boy, what happened this time?" she asked as she leaned back in her chair.
"Well, this guy tried to get me to sign a contract without even reading it. Telling me 'oh, you don't have to worry about reading it, everything on that form is legit.' He didn't think I read the form, but I did." he replied.
"What did it say?" Katie asked.
"It said that if I signed it, that I would agree to give all of my access to my company over to him once the merge was complete." he said. Katie gasped.
"No way." she said. Atem nodded.
"Uh-huh, so you know what I did? I tore up that form like it was a useless piece of junk to me." he said. Katie laughed.
"I know that's right. I'm sorry you came down here for nothing boss." she said. Atem smiled and shook his head.
"Oh, it's alright, but I was just in the middle of a conversation with Tea before my damn phone rang." he said. Katie sat up in her chair with a amusing smile planted on her face.
"Oooo, what were you two talking about?" she asked leaning on her desk resting her chin on her hands. Atem laughed.
"Like I'm going to tell you what we were talking about. Let's just say, I think that were acting more on our feelings now. I told her how I felt about her and that I would wait for her when she was ready for me to be with her. I just hope our date today proves that." he said.
"Don't worry Atem, she's going to come around. If she's willing to have this date with you, then she's ready to move on with her life. Oh man, when she told me about what her ex did to her, it made me want to hunt him down myself." she said ripping a piece of paper. Atem raised both of his hands.
"Now calm yourself down Katie, I already took care of the scumbag." he said. Katie then put down the paper and smiled cheerfully.
"Oh, then I feel so much better. So when were you planning on taking her out?" she asked.
"I was going to have my driver pick her up now after I finished up around here first. I'm going to call him now so that when she comes, I'll be ready to get out of here."he said.
"Well then you better take these forms now so that you can get them done before you leave, and don't worry, your schedule is clear for the rest of the day." she said as she passed him his paperwork. Atem nodded as headed for his office.
"Thanks alot Katie." he said. He opened his door and walked over to his desk to place the forms down. He sat down in his rolling lounge office and spined it around to face the window. The last time he was like this was the same night that he met Tea and had a sad, gloomy face. Now, he just couldn't seem to stop smiling since he's met Tea and thanked the angels above for bringing her into his life. He turned around in his chair to face his desk again and picked up the phone to dial his limo driver.
"Yes Bailey, I need you to pick someone up for me and escort her to the company." he said.
Tea was sitting on her sofa reading her book that she received from Atem. She only had a few chapters left to read and it was getting very interesting, that she just couldn't put it down. She likes to imagine herself as the girl in the story helping the golden dragon who is actually the prince. She closed the book to take a break form her reading and let out a long sigh as she clutched the book to her chest. She closed her eyes trying to imagine what the prince would look like once the spell was broken, but suddenly, she had imagined someone else. Instead of the prince in the story, she thought of the one person that has made her have such strong feelings about.
She looked around to find herself in the same place where Atem took her with the horses when they went to the ranch. The sun was beginning to set and there was no one around. Suddenly, she felt warm arms wrap around her waist and turned her head to meet with those amethyst eyes that she has grown to love. She could feel herself turn around to be faced with Atem gazing down at her lovingly. He placed his hand on her cheek and she couldn't help but to close her eyes and lean into his touch. When she opened her eyes, she could see him leaning in close to her and she leaned up to meet him. They were only inches away form each other.
...closer...
...closer...
...closer...
RING RING RING
Tea snapped out of her daydream by the phone ringing. She was breathing so heavily from what she had just imagined about her and Atem together. When she heard the phone ring the third time, she got up from her seat on the sofa and answered it.
"Hello." she said.
"Hey Tea, it's Cathy." Tea smiled into the phone.
"Cathy hi. How are you and Lisa doing in California?" she asked.
"Oh my gosh Tea, it is absolutely amazing. The sun is shining, there's so many new sites to see and not to mention the total hotties here too. Oh man Tea, I really wish you were here with us." she said.
"I know, I miss you guys too. By the way, how's the dancing auditions? Did you both have any luck?" Tea asked.
"Well, our auditions won't be until tomorrow so Lisa and I are rehearsing right now. We just thought we take a break and tell you how we were making out."
"I'm doing okay. Everything is still the same here except Mrs. Kat is away with her family so the cafe is closed until you guys come back." she said. Tea could hear Cathy gasp on the other end of the phone.
"You're not in that apartment by yourself reading books again, are you? Come on Tea, you have to do something besides being cooped up all day with nothing to do. Now I want you to get up off that sofa and have yourself a good time today."Cathy said in a demanding voice. Tea laughed at her friend's dmeanding nature.
"Don't worry Cathy, I have something planned for today. I kinda have a date-" Cathy cut her off by squealing so loud that Tea had to pull the phone away from her ear.
"Oh my gosh Tea, you have a date?! With who?!" she asked excitingly. Tea could hear Lisa's voice in the background asking the same question and sighed.
"I don't think I should, I don't want the two of you to get a heart attack." she said. Tea heard Lisa voice's on the phone so she guessed Cathy had her on speaker phone.
"We won't Tea, please just tell us." said Lisa. Tea hesitated at first, but told them anyway.
"Alright, I'll tell you. I'm going out on a date with Atem." she said. There was silence on the other end of the phone and Tea was afraid her friends had fainted but quickly put that thought aside when she heard them scream.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" they both were screaming loudly and Tea pulled the phone away from her ear again getting furious at them.
"Girls, calm down. Sheesh, what are trying to do blow my eardrums out?" she asked. They both had quiet down after a minute later.
"Sorry Tea, it's just that you're going out with the most famous, hottest guy ever. Oh, we have to go. When we get back, you have to tell us every detail." said Cathy.
"Okay, you girls rest up for that audition and good luck. I'll talk to you soon." she said.
"Thanks Tea, bye." they both said. Tea hing up the phone once they were gone and sighed again when she sat back down on her sofa. She was still trying to control her heartbeat and breathing from that daydream she had about Atem.
"No matter what I do, I just can't seem to stop thinking about Atem. I've never met anyone like him before, heh, this is so strange. I told myself that I would never get into another relationship again and here I am letting someone get close to me. I can't help it though, ever since he came into my life, it was like he picked up the pieces of my broken heart and put them back together. I can't help but care about him. Does that also mean that I could be in love with him? He already told me his feelings for me so maybe I'll know exactly what I really feel when we go on our date." she thought. The sound of her door knocking brought her out of her thoughts and she got up to see who it was. When she opened the door, she looked to see a man dressed in a chauffeur's uniform standing outside.
"Hello, are you Miss Tea?" he asked politely.
"Yes I am. Um, may I help you?" she asked. He took off his hat and bowed in front of her.
"My name is Bailey and I was sent by Mr. Mutou to escort you to his company." he said. Tea stood shocked when Atem sent a limo driver to pick her up. She snapped out of it when she noticed that Bailey was still waiting for her to answer.
"Oh, uh thank-you. Could you wait a minute while I get my bag?" she asked.
"Of course miss." he said. Tea turned back to get her bag from her table and made sure she had her keys inside. She picked it up and grabbing her jacket while going out the door locking it. Bailey led her out to the parking lot where Tea seen a long black limo waiting outside. He opened the door for her and she thanked him before getting inside and seen how beautiful the limo was. It was about a forty minute ride when they finally arrived at Atem's company and Bailey opened Tea's door. As she stepped out, she was met with the most tallest building that she has ever seen. Bailey guided her inside and walked over to the elevator. When they were inside, he pushed the button for the tenth floor and rode the elevator up to Atem's office. The doors opened once the elevator stopped and they both walked out. Tea looked around to see so how busy this place was.
"Tea?" She turned around when she heard her name being called and turned to see Katie walking down the opposite end of the hallway. Tea smiled when she walked over to her.
"Katie hi, how are you?" she asked.
"I'm good. Are you hear to see Atem?" Tea nodded.
"Yeah, I just got here a minute ago." Katie smiled and turned to Bailey.
"Hey there Bailey. Why don't you go on ahead and I'll take Tea to Atem." she said. Bailey nodded and turned to leave but Tea stopped him before he did.
"Thank-you Bailey for driving me here, I really appreciate it." she said. Bailey smiled and bowed.
"You're very welcome Miss Tea. I hope we see you more often." he said then turned back around to go back to his limo. Katie wrapped her arm around Tea's and walked down to Atem's office.
"Atem told me that you guys have a date today. Are you excited?" she asked. Tea smiled at her.
"Well yeah, I guess you can say that." she said. Katie laughed and walked her over to her desk.
"Trust me girlfriend, you're going to have a great time with him." Katie pressed her intercom button on her desk to call Atem.
"Yes, Katie," he said. Katie was stifling a laugh when she heard Atem tired voice over the intercom guessing he had another boring phone call from someone regarding another business deal.
"Sir, there's someone who's here to see you." she said sounding professional. She could hear alot of shuffling in the background.
"Is it who I think it is?" he asked anxiously wanting to know.
"Yup, it sure is, I'll send her right in." she said as she turned off the intercom. Katie turned to Tea and pointed to Atem's office door.
"He's right in waiting for you." Tea nodded and walked over to the door to open it. She stepped inside and looked around the spacious office. There were plants in the corner of the room and pictures hanging on his wall of different artwork. She noticed his desk in the middle of the room, but he wasn't sitting behind it and guessed that he was in the side room. Tea walked over to the large window behind his desk and looked out to see the incredible view of the city. Everything from where she was standing looked just like a little toy city. She was so fixated with the view, that she didn't notice Atem coming out of the room in his casual clothes. When Atem came out the room, he looked up to see Tea looking out of his office window with a light smile on her face. He gazed at her for a few minutes just watching her and couldn't help but see just how beautiful she looked. He walked over to her and wrapped a gentle arm around her. Tea was startled a little when she felt someone touch her shoulder, but calmed down when she found it was only Atem.
"Hi, I was so busy looking at the view I didn't hear you walk over." she said. Atem chuckled.
"I didn't mean to scare you, I'm really glad you're here though." he said. Tea nodded and looked around his office again.
"This company of your's is huge. Is it hard to run such a busy place like this?" she asked.
"Yeah sometimes, especially when you have people wanting to try any trick in the book just to get me to sign whatever deal they want to make with me." he said. Tea looked to him and could hear the frustration in his voice as he explained. Apparently, whatever Atem encounters everyday here in his office and some of the people that comes to his company makes him like this. She now understands why he doesn't like being so famous. All he wants to do was run a company the way he wants to without having to worry about publicity. She grabbed his hand and intertwined it with hers. Atem looked down to see a small smile on her face like she was telling him that it's okay now. He returned the smile and squeezed her hand gently.
"Let's get out of here, I want to show you what were going to be doing today." he said. He grabbed his stuff along with his jacket and they both walked out of his office. They saw Katie still at her desk doing some more typing and she looked up when she saw them come out the office.
"So, you two getting ready to go?" she asked smiling.
"Yeah, why don't you take the rest of the day off Katie. Since I don't have anything scheduled so you can just go ahead and leave." said Atem. Katie giggled as she stood from her desk.
"Thanks boss, you know Tea, you should come here in the office more often. I think if you do, then Atem will let me leave early all the time." she said. She and Tea started laughing while Atem stood with a blush.
"Ugh, just get out of here." he jokingly said to Katie. She held her hand to her head like she was in the army.
"Yes sir." she said and saluted him.
"Dismissed soldier." he said. Katie and Tea giggled.
"Okay, you guys ave a great time." she said. They both nodded and headed towards the elevator to ride down to the first floor. As soon as they reached the bottom, they came out and walked to the parking lot to hop inside Atem's car. He started up the car and drove out the lot. Tea turned to him once they were on the road.
"So where are we going?" she asked curiously. Atem smiled as he kept his eyes on the road.
"It's a surprise, I thought it be more fun to show you when we got there. It's still very early, did you have breakfast this morning?" he asked. Tea shook her head.
"No, I was too busy reading my book to even think about food." she said.
"Well then let's grab a bite real quick before we do anything. Is that okay?" he said looking at her. Tea smiled and nodded.
"Sure, let's go." she said. Atem then made a short detour and they both arrived at restaurant. They found a table to sit outside after they ordered what they were going to eat. The whole time it was nothing but laughs and funny stories of what happened with them when they were small and learning more and more about each other. Atem and Tea were having a wonderful time, but there was one thing that was just about to ruin it.
"Well, well, well. Isn't this a beautiful site." They both turned to see Renku standing behind them with a smirk. Atem and Tea stood from their seats to face him.
"What are you doing here Renku?" Tea asked coldly. He walked closer to stand in front of Tea.
"C'mon Tea, all I want is for us to have what we had before. Just dump this lowlife and come back to me." he said. Tea glared viciously at him.
"And all I want is for you to leave me alone. I already told you that I'm not coming back to you because of what you did to me and I meant it."
"Look I'm sorry okay. I just want us to have another chance together, please baby, I love you." Renku said in a fake sympathy voice. Tea's eyes widened when she heard what she said. He had just said the same words that she was to hear from him when they were together. Tea's head drooped down with her bangs covering her eyes. Atem was looking at her in concern hoping she wasn't thinking of taking Renku back while Renku put on a hidden smirk thinking that his plan was working.
"We can work this out babe, come back to me where you belong." he said. Tea's head was still down show no signs of moving until she lifted her head to look at Renku.
"I've been waiting for you to say that you love me for so long." she said quietly.
"And you'll be hearing them from now on. Just come on back baby." he said with a smirk. Tea looked at him with a blank stare and shook her head. She then turned around and stood next to Atem and put her hand in his and Renku was getting a confused look in his face.
"What are you doing? I thought you were coming back to me." he said. Tea looked at him with a angry glare while Atem looked at Tea waiting to hear what she had to say.
"I wanted to hear those words when we were together, but now that you said them, I don't even feel anything by them. I know that you never loved me and I know you were just playing with my heart. Did you actually think that I was going to suffer from that pain again? Now I want you to leave me and Atem alone." she said as she turned away from him. Renku was now furious with her answer. He clenched his fist and prepared to strike at her.
"You whore!" he yelled and tried to grab her but Atem stepped in front of her and grabbed his wrist to clench so tightly that he could easily break it again if he wanted to.
"If you as so much as think about laying a hand on Tea, I will personally make your life a living hell for the rest of your days. Since you have difficulty listening to my first two warnings, why don't I give you a little souvenir?" he said. With that he snapped Renku's wrist out of place and he was screaming in pain. Once he let go, Atem grabbed his collar and punched so hard that he flew across the pavement. Atem then walked up to him to pick him up again and got ready to make another hard punch when he felt arms wrap around his waist stopping him. He looked behind him to see Tea giving him a teary look.
"Stop, just stop Atem. You've done enough, please don't stoop down to his level." she whispered. Atem looked at her softly and sighed. He turned back to Renku again with a murderous glare.
"Tea just saved your sorry excuse for a life. If she wasn't here, believe me I would finish you off right now. Now, I am going to tell you this for the last and final time, stay away from Tea, oh and if I hear you calling Tea a whore again, you will get much worse than what I just gave you. Now you better get out of here now and this time, head my warnings." he hissed at him. He dropped him down on the pavement again and Renku clutched his injured wrist to his chest while he ran down the road. Atem and Tea were quiet for a few minutes just watching him when Tea turned to Atem.
"Are you mad at me?" she asked. Atem blinked in surprise and turned to look at her.
"No, why would I be mad? I'm actually glad that you stopped me. Sometimes my anger can get out of control so I really have to be careful with my emotions." he said. Tea had her head facing down looking at the ground with interest. She felt his hand take hers and she looked up to see him smiling at her.
"Come on, I don't want this incident to ruin our day, let's go." he said. He led her to his car and got inside to drive from the restaurant with Renku watching from the shadows. He took out his cell phone and called up Rachel.
"What is it?" she asked.
"Rachel, that plan you were talking about, let's put it in motion. I don't care what you do to Tea now. Do whatever you want to do to get rid of her. I have to get back at her and that boyfriend of yours." he said. Rachel was laughing on the other end of the phone.
"Aw, what's wrong? Did my cousin get dumped again?" she asked teasing him. Renku clenched the phone in his hand and growled.
"Shut the hell up. Just do what you planned to do and I'll meet you later." he hissed back at her and hung up the phone. He looked back at the direction of Atem's car one last time before leaving to deal with his injured hand.
Atem was driving for about a half hour until they reached their destination. Tea looked out the window to see where they are and turned to Atem waiting for him to say something, but all he did was grin at her.
"Where are we?" she asked. Atem opened his car door and walked around to open her's too. Once she stepped out, he took her hand and led her inside a building. When they walked down the hallway, Atem opened the door and it open to reveal an indoor ice skating rink. Tea's eyes widened when he brought her here. They walked inside and she turned to look at him.
"I had the whole rink rented out just for today. Are you up for a little ice skating?" he asked. Without waiting for her answer, he left to get them each a pair of ice skates. Tea sat down on the bench felling a little nervous about this. Atem cam back with the two pairs of black skates and he gave them to her to put them on. Once they were strapped up, Atem was the first one out on the ice and looked back to see Tea still standing in her spot. He skated back to her wondering what was wrong.
"Aren't you coming out?" he asked. Tea was leaning against the pole nervously.
"Uh, if it's one thing that I never knew how to do, it would be ice skating." she said. Atem smiled and took her hand in his.
"Don't worry, it's easy once you get used to it. I'll teach you how." he said as he led her onto the ice. Her feet were a little wobbly at first so she held on to Atem's hand very tightly.
"You promise you won't let go, right?" she asked. Atem chuckled and held her close to her by wrapping his arm around her waist.
"I won't let go until you tell me to. Okay, let's take it slowly, one, two, one, two. That's it you're getting the hang of it."he said praising her. Tea was actually getting into it now. She was having so much fun just skating around with Atem on the ice rink. She would test herself when she let go of his hand and skate by herself. She would fall a couple of times, but she would always have Atem pick her back up again. After about an hour of learning and a few chases here and there, they both took a break to sit on the bench and rest. Atem brought back hot chocolate for them to sip on to warm them up. Tea smiled when she turned to Atem who was still sipping his drink.
"This is so much fun Atem, I'm really glad you planned this for us." she said. Atem smiled back at her.
"Well you did say you didn't want to go anywhere too fancy, so I thought that this would be perfect for our first date." Tea nodded.
"And you couldn't be more right. Can I ask you something?" she asked. Atem nodded.
"Sure, anything." he said.
"Remember when you said that your anger gets out of control sometimes?"
"Yeah." he said. Tea was a little hesitant about asking him the next question, but she asked him anyway.
"Well, did it ever happen before where you couldn't control your actions?" she asked. Atem looked down in his cup of hot chocolate to see his reflection before he answered Tea's question.
"It happened when I was about nine and Yugi was six. We were playing in the park one time and Yugi had ran over to the swings while I went to the sliding board. Every once in a while, I would check and see if he was okay before I started playing again. When I turned to look at him again, I saw a group of older boys pushing Yugi off of the swings so I jump off the sliding board and ran over to help him. One of the boys was about hit him, when I grabbed his arm and pulled him away from Yugi. It was like some power source flowed through me because all I could think about was protecting Yugi. I don't remember much from the fight, but I do remember them being sprawled out on the ground and I was breathing so heavily. I picked Yugi up from the ground and we walked home." he finished his story still looking at his cocoa. Tea scooted over so that she was closer to him and leaned her head on his shoulder.
"Is that how you felt today?" she asked. Atem turned his head to her.
"Yes, when Renku was about to put his hand on you, I felt that same power surge through me. I had to do all that I could do to protect you from him, but when you wrapped your arms around me and looked at me with those tears in your eyes, I knew that I had to stop." he said.
"Thank-you for that."she whispered. They were quiet for a while when they heard a soft melody of the song Best Days play on the speakers. Tea lifted her head to hear the song better.
"Oh I love this song." she said as she closed her eyes to listen to the lyrics. Atem stood up from the bench and placed both of their drinks down to grab both of Tea's hands and skated on the ice.
"Dance with me." he whispered. Tea looked at him and giggled.
"On the ice? Can we do that?" she asked. Atem smiled.
"Sure, just follow my lead, kay?" Tea nodded and he started gliding on the ice bringing her with him.
With everything I've ever done
I'd give it all to everyone for one more day
Another night I'm walking through
Another door I walk into, I can't break
And it's a winding road
And it's a long way home
So don't wait for someone to tell you it's too late
'Cause these are the best days
There's always something tomorrow
So I say, let's make the best of tonight
Here comes the rest of our lives
Atem had brought Tea a little closer to him as the music was getting stronger as they skated around the ice.
I count the steps, the distance to the time
When it was me and you, so far gone
Another face, another friend
Another place, another end but I'll hang on
And it's a winding road
And it's a long way home
So don't wait for someone to tell you it's too late
'Cause these are the best days
There's always something tomorrow
So I say, let's make the best of tonight
Yeah, let's make the best of tonight
Here comes the rest of our lives
Rest of our lives
Tea looked up to Atem as she was gliding with him while listening to this song. Her feelings to Atem were now becoming much more clearer to her.
It's a winding road
And it's a long way home
So don't wait for someone to tell you it's too late
'Cause these are the best days
There's always something tomorrow
So I say, let's make the best of it
Don't wait 'cause no one can tell you it's too late
'Cause these are the best days
There's always something tomorrow
So I say, let's make the best of tonight
Yeah, let's make the best of tonight
We'll make the best of tonight
Here comes the rest of our lives
As the music was down to its final notes, Atem and Tea had spun around slowly ending the dance. They were still wrapped up in an embrace with Atem's arms around her waist and Tea's hand on his chest. They both smiled and slowly broke away, but still held hands and skated around the rink for another song that came on the speakers. After hours had went by, it was now time for them to leave since it was getting dark now. Atem drove Tea to her apartment after they left the ice rink. When he parked his car in the parking lot, he walked her up to her door. They both stood for a few seconds until Tea looked up to Atem.
"Um, thanks for today, I had the best time ever." she said.
"I did too, I can't wait for us to do this again." he said. Tea smiled and nodded.
"Atem, remember what you said to me this morning about your feelings?" she asked. Atem nodded.
"Yes I did. Have you thought about it?" he asked.
"I have and after today, I think..no, I know I feel the same way about you. I feel like I need to be with you. When I was dancing with you and your arms were wrapped around me, I feel so at home being with you." she said. Atem gazed at her lovingly as she said how she really felt about him.
"You have no idea how happy you just made me right now." he said.
"Believe me, I do, because you make me just as happy." she said. Tea then moved closer to press her lips lightly against his to kiss him. As soon as their lips met, they both felt a spark of passion igniting. Atem wrapped his arms around her as he intensified the kiss bringing much more passion. After two minutes passed, they both broke the kiss trying to catch their breath while having a smile on their face.
"I'll call you tomorrow." he whispered. Tea nodded.
"Okay." she whispered back. They leaned back to kiss one more time before Atem left to drive back home. He got in his car and waited for a few to reminisce on the fantastic day he shared with Tea. He started his car and headed for home.
In the shadows in front of the Shining Star cafe was a limo waiting with Rachel and Renku inside waiting for the plan to take action and in order for it to work, Rachel had to hire a few guys to break into the Shining Star cafe. Renku turned to his cousin.
"You think this will work?" he asked. Rachel laughed evily.
"Of course my dear cousin, it's impossible for this plan to fail. Once they come out of there, it'll be the start of our revenge." she said. As soon as she finished talking, the guys opened the limo door and got inside.
"It has been done Miss Rachel." one of them said.
"Excellent, here is half of the payment now and you'll get the other half once the job is done." she said. When the limo drove away, they left the cafe putting extreme danger for when someone enters it. For in the back of the cafe inside the kitchen under the sink...
...was a bomb.
Oh no! I'm even scared of what's going to happen next. Let me know how you like this chapter in you reviews. TTYL :D
