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Tea- The Chosen One

Shikon-Princess

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Lady Wicca666

Luckygirl 777

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Chapter 7

Tea woke early next morning and got dressed. Naomi had scheduled a session for her today instead for next week because she was going out of town for a few weeks. So before she left, she wanted to make sure how Tea was handling living with the Mutous. She got up out of bed and headed to her bathroom to shower. Her stomach healed very well and she was amazed by the recovery. Once she was finished with her shower, she stepped back into her room to get dressed. She wore a black hoody shirt that showed the curves of her waist and black cargo pants with chains on the side pockets. She has been wearing alot of black clothing ever since her parents died. Back then she loved anything that was colorful and pretty, but as the years went by, she stopped wearing bright colors because it made her stand out and unnoticed and she felt that they were too girly for her. As she was getting ready, she was wondering what plans her and Atem were going to be doing for today. She felt excited to be spending the day with him and this gave her an opportunity to find out how she felt about him. She had surprised herself last night when she gave Atem a kiss on the cheek. It was like an unknown force started pulling to him and it made her have certain feelings about Atem whenever she was around him. It was still pretty early and everyone was still asleep so she quietly went downstairs and was about to leave out the door when a voice stopped her.

"You're not planning on running away now are you?" She turned around to see Atem behind her with a playful smirk. She blushed and turned around to look at him.

"Uh, n-no. Naomi wanted to see me today instead of next week before she goes on her business trip." she explained. Atem was shocked that she was leaving so early just to see Naomi.

"It's still pretty early. Do you want to have a little breakfast before you leave?" he asked. Tea shook her head.

"No, I'm not hungry and I really have to get going." Atem walked up to her and grabbed her hand gently. Tea always seemed to blush every time he did that.

"Are you trying to avoid me? Did I do something to make you mad at me?" Tea looked up at Atem with a disbelief look on her face.

"No, you didn't do anything wrong that would ever make me upset with you. If anything I feel so happy when I'm around you. I guess I just need some time to myself for a little while before I go to Naomi." Atem sighed in relief.

"Good, because I thought that I came on too strong when I ask for you and I to spend the day together." Tea shook her head from left to right.

"Please don't think that at all. Actually, I'm looking forward to it. Where are we going anyway?" Atem gave her a smile.

"We are going to the carnival. I thought that it would be alot of fun since we had such a good time at the arcade last night." Tea thought that she was dreaming when she heard they were going to a carnival.

"Really, I've never been to a carnival before." Atem was flabbergasted when she said that.

"Are you serious? Then I guess I have to make sure that this a day that you will never forget. It starts at noon so I'll be waiting for you 'til you get back."

"Okay, I'll be back soon." With that she left the house and walked to Naomi's office building. It was a great morning to just walk and have time to think about everything that is going on with her life. She went from being a lonely, cold hearted girl into someone who one day was accepted into a circle of friends all in a weeks time. She couldn't help but feel happy knowing that she had so many people that care about her and it for the first time in her life, it made her feel loved and wanted. She arrived at the building, rode the elevator to the 8th floor and opened the door to see Naomi at her desk filling out paperwork. She looked up when she heard her door open and saw Tea come inside.

"Hello Tea, come on inside. I'll be with you in just a second." Tea went over to the sofa and sat down. Naomi then straightened her desk from all her papers and got up to sit next to Tea.

"So, how is everything going with the Mutous?" Tea shrugged her shoulders

"It's okay, it's better than all of those other houses I was forced to go to." Naomi nodded her head and took out her clipboard to take notes.

"That's great to hear. So tell me what's been going on with you in the last week." Tea took a deep breath before she told her story.

"Well, the first day was still a little new to me. I got up like I would normally do and got ready for school. I was on my way out of the door when I saw Atem, Yugi, Joey and Tristan standing there waiting for me." Naomi looked up to Tea.

"So they wanted to walk to school with you. That was nice of them. Tell me what happened next."

"We got to school and was about to get settled when all of a sudden some blond hair floozy came over ans tried to get Atem's attention. He turned her down of course and wanted to know who I was. She got up in my face like I was scared or something, but all she got was a dose of embarrassment when I told her off. After school was over, we were about to leave, but I left my book inside the classroom. So I let the guys go ahead outside and wait for me while I went back. When I found it, I heard someone behind me and turned around to find that Carmen girl again and she asked me to be friends with her. I knew it was a ploy so I refused the offer and that's when things got brutal. She had her groupies gang up on me, picked up my book and and threatened to put my secrets out in the open to the whole school. Not only that, they kicked me in my stomach and the coward came up to me and slapped me in the face." Naomi gasped.

"Oh my goodness, are you okay?" she asked.

"Yeah I'm fine." said Tea.

"Why would this girl just attack you like that? Wasn't there any teachers or staff around when this happened?" Naomi asked frantically.

"Isn't it obvious why? She attacked me so she could get me out of the way and think that it would give her the opportunity to go after Atem and I guess I was gone for a while because Atem and the guys came in to see what happened. They were furious and let's just say that Carmen is the most hated person to us now. I swear if I ever see her face again, she is going to wish that she had never met me." Tea said with a far away glare. Naomi was looking at her in concern.

"Okay so Atem and the others came in the room and then what happened?" she asked. Tea sighed.

"Well he told her that if she ever came near him again, that she would be sorry, but I got my own score to settle with her. After we got home, he fixed up my wounds and I was amazed that he was so gentle with me."she said with a soft look.

"Wow, so tell me what happened next."

"Well that night, I couldn't sleep and I went downstairs into the living room. I was looking at all of the pictures on the mantel and I saw one with a man and a woman in it. Atem came up to me and told me that they were his parents in the picture. He was telling me the story about the night that they were killed in a car crash."

"Oh my, so that's how they died. I can imagine just how devastated they were when it happened." Tea nodded.

"Yeah. The next morning, they invited to go to the arcade with them. I was with Atem walking around to find a game to play when I spotted a karaoke game. He asked me to play it and that he would sing with me. It was the most fun I had in a long time." Naomi smiled.

"It seems like you and Atem are getting alot closer now." she said.

"I don't know. I mean every time I'm with him, I just can't help but feel carefree around him. I get these strange feelings whenever he's around." Naomi was thinking about what Tea was telling her.

"So you get feelings for whenever you're around Atem?" Tea nodded.

"I never felt like this before. When he embraces me, I feel like I can just stay in his arms forever. He kissed me on my cheek once and it was so sweet."

"Do you think that you could be in love with him?" Tea gasped. She never thought that she was in love with him, but she did have to admit that the signs were there. She wasn't sure how she felt about Atem, but she can find out.

"Well, I don't know. We're suppose to be spending the day together at the carnival to day, so I guess I won't know until then." She got up and walked over to the window and looked outside. Naomi got up and followed Tea.

"Tea, if you're not sure of these feelings that you have, then look inside your heart and it will tell you the answer." Tea nodded and turned back to look at Naomi and smiled at her.

"You know, this is the first time that I have seen you smile and let me tell you, it is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. If Atem is making you feel like this, then I say spend as much time with him as possible." She then gave Tea a hug and looked at the clock to see that it was almost time for Tea to go.

"Well I guess that's it for today. Oh, before I forget, are you doing anything special for your birthday with your friends?"

"You know that I hardly ever celebrate my birthday anymore. I just look at it like it's an ordinary day." Tea said.

"But dear, it's your 'Sweet 16'. Surely you told them that your birthday is in 2 weeks, right?" she asked. Tea shook her head.

"I told you, I don't want it to be a big deal. I have to get going now." Naomi sighed.

"Alright Tea, I leave for my trip tonight so I'll call you as soon as I get back. I have to say, this session was one of the best that we ever had. I feel like we're making progress."

"Okay, bye Naomi."

"Bye Tea." Then she left the office to go home. Naomi went back over to her desk to make a phone call.

"Mr. Solomon, I need your help with something."

Tea was walking back to the mansion and was thinking about her session with Naomi. She realized that there was a possibility that she might have feelings for Atem. She had so many questions about this. How long has she felt like this? Should she tell him? And more importantly, would he feel the same way? She was startled out of her thoughts by someone calling her name.

"Hey Tea over here." She looked up to see Joey, Tristan, Yugi and Atem. She walked up and met them halfway.

"What are you guys doing here?" she asked.

"We came to walk you back with us." said Atem. She looked over to him and blushed.

"You guys didn't have to do that. You came all this way just to turn around and go back." They all smiled at her.

"Don't sweat it Tea, we didn't mind one bit." said Yugi.

"ATEM!!!!" They all turned around to find the one person that they were not expecting.

"You have got to be kidding me." said Tristan. Carmen ran up to Atem and grabbed his arm. He was trying to make her grip loosen on him cause it felt like she had claws digging into his arm.

"I am so glad I found you. You have to go to the carnival with me tonight. Oh it would be so romantic and afterwards we can have a little fun ourselves." she said with her hand on his chest. Atem growled and and pushed her off of him. Tea felt something strange rushing through her as she was watching Carmen trying to push herself to Atem.

"I thought I told you to stay away from me for what you did to Tea. Or did you forget with that short-term memory loss of yours." he said. Carmen looked past him to see that Tea was standing with the others. She gave off a sinister look to her and turned back to Atem.

"Well she's okay now and you don't have to worry about her. It's not like we killed her or anything." she said waving her hand carelessly. Tea put on a disbelief look and lowered her head and her bangs were hiding her eyes. She clenched her fists so tight that she could easily draw blood if she wanted to.

"Okay? Thats all you can say is okay?" she said in a deathly whisper. Yugi, Tristan and Joey backed away from her afraid of what she was going to do. Atem stayed where he was knowing that her anger wasn't directed towards him. They were lucky that they weren't in Carmen's shoes right now. Tea walked to her very slowly.

"You had those stupid little flunkies of yours grab me by my arms, kick me in my stomach and you being the coward you are slap me and threaten to read my book to the whole school and all you can say from this whole situation is that I'm okay now? You don't feel guilty about what you did, do you? All you care about is that if you don't get your way, you find any means to hurt anybody that gets in your way. I hate girls like you and I've seen enough throughout my life to know that you tick me off just by staring at you. You don't know anything about me or my background and if you were in New York right now, you would be getting your ass kicked!" she yelled viciously.

"OHHH!!!!" Joey and Tristan exclaimed. Carmen scoffed at Tea.

"Oh please, like you could ever do anything to me. I can get anything I want just by a flick of a wrist. I'm rich, popular, beautiful and loved by everyone and what do you have. Nothing, absolutely nothing. I've heard about you from alot of people that your an orphan who's loved by no one. You're like a doormat to me and you deserve to be walked on. So you don't have the guts to slap me." she smirked smugly. Atem was furious at what Carmen was telling to Tea.

"How can you say something like that? You really don't care about anyone but yourself!" He turned to Tea and saw that she was shaking with anger. He tried to walk to her, but backed away when he saw her face. Tea clenched her fists much more tighter than they were.

"Heh, a doormat, huh and you think that I want to slap you." Tea chuckled coldly.

"No, I'm not going to slap you, but I am going to show you just how much of a doormat I can be!!!!!" With that Tea tackled Carmen to the ground and started punching her repeatedly in the face. Carmen was barely putting up a fight.

"WHAT'S THE MATTER?! CAN'T TAKE IT?!!!" Tea yelled. She was just about to punch her one more time when someone caught her wrist. She turned her head to see Atem.

"Let go of me!!" she yelled and tried to pull her arm back, but Atem held a firm grip.

"Tea, that's enough now." he whispered. Tea glared at him and kept pulling her arm.

"Someone has to teach her a lesson that she can't do this people every time she doesn't get what she wants! Now let me go!!!" Atem pulled her up to him and hugged her.

"It's okay now. Everything is okay. You made your point perfectly clear." he whispered in her ear. He looked up to see Carmen's group come and help her up and walk away. He turned back at Joey, Yugi and Tristan.

"Guys, could I have a minute alone with Tea?" he asked. They nodded and walked back to mansion. Atem looked down to Tea and noticed that she had been quiet since he pulled her up. He was startled out of his thoughts when she spoke.

"You hate me now, don't you?" she whispered.

"No, I could never hate you. She had it coming to her anyway." Atem said. Tea pulled away and lowered her head.

"I don't know where all of that rage came from, but it was like I couldn't control myself." She felt chin being lifted up and she saw the loving look he was giving her.

"Let's go back home and get you calmed down. Then you and I have plans in a few hours, okay?" Tea nodded and they both headed back to the mansion. When they got there, they saw Yugi, Tristan and Joey sitting in the living room and all three of them came over once they came inside.

"Are you alright Tea?" asked Yugi.

"Yeah, I guess. Besides from my sore fist, I think that I'm okay."

"I don't think that Carmen is okay though. Did you see the way she looked?"said Tristan. Joey started laughing.

"I know. Tea you did a number on her. When you tackled her to the ground, she was all like "AAHHH!!!" and then you was all like "pow, bam, bang" oh man I thought I was going to die laughing."

"Well I'm going in the kitchen. I have to get some ice for my hand." She went to the kitchen and put some ice into a bowl and took it upstairs to her room. She went into her bathroom and took out some bandages for her hand. Then sat on the bed and put her hand in the bowl of ice. It was easing the pain down some. Just then, there was a knock on the door and in came Atem. He came up to her bed and sat down next to her to see that she was trying to ease the soreness of her hand. He reached over to pull her hand out of the bowl and massaged it a little. Tea was watching Atem as he was making her hand better and that strange feeling came back again. She still wasn't sure how she felt about him. She was interrupted from her thoughts when he spoke.

"Does it still hurt?" he asked concerned.

"Uh, a little, but I think the ice is helping a bit." Atem nodded.

"It's going to be hard for you to move it for a few days, but the swelling should go down soon. Is it okay if I wrap your hand for you?"

"Yeah, go ahead." He picked up the bandages and wrapped it around her hand.

"You have a mean hard right hook. Remind me to never get on your bad side." he chuckled. Tea giggled and smiled sheepishly to him.

"I don't regret it now. I did earlier, but as I thought about what she did to me, I have nothing to feel ashamed about." Atem agreed. He finished with wrapping her hand and was was looking at her eyes. Tea was also staring at him and it was like a gravitational pull was around them. They were leaning in closer and closer and closer until...

"HEY GUYS!!!!" They pulled away from each other so fast that they almost got whiplash. Joey came into Tea's room, but was clueless as to what happened just now.

"C'mon, we got to get to the carnival! We have to be the first ones to get the food before anyone else does!" Atem looked up at Joey.

"We'll be down in a minute." Joey ran out and went back downstairs. There was an awkward silence between the two and it made the both of them very nervous. Atem turned to Tea and saw that she was looking at him too. He cleared his throat and began to talk.

"Uh, are you ready to go?" he asked. Tea nodded.

"Yeah, ready when you are." All five of them left the house and walked down to the park where the carnival was being taken place. Tea was speechless by all of the booths that were open to choose from.

"Guys, Tea and I are going to spend the day together so we'll meet back here at the entrance after the fireworks okay?" Yugi, Joey and Tristan all had sly looks on their faces.

"Sure Atem, we understand that you want to be alone on your date with Tea. C'mon guys, let's go get some corn dogs before we go on the rides."

"Uh Joey, I think it would be best to go on the rides first before you eat." said Yugi.

"Naw, I got a strong stomach so I can handle it." They went off leaving Atem and Tea alone. Atem turned to look at Tea to see a sparkle in her eyes from all of the activities that were taking place.

"I see that you like it so far." he said. She looked over her shoulder and smiled.

"Yeah, this is better than what I imagined. There so many things to do I don't know where to start." Atem laughed.

"Well let's go by the game booths and maybe I'll win a prize for you." He grabbed her hand and led her to through the park. They went to the water gun booth where you squirt five ducks and win a prize.

"Hello young man, would you like to win a prize for your girlfriend." an kind old man said. Atem and Tea blushed.

"Um, yes I would." He gave him five dollars and the man turned on the the ducks for them to move.

"The little rascals are very fast, so you have to have the right timing to get them. Good luck." Atem stepped behind the water gun and waited for the exact moment to shoot. He made the first shot, then the second, the third, then the fourth, and finally the last shot.

"Good eye coordination my boy. You have a choice from any of thr prizes available. Atem turned to see that Tea was looking at a black puppy plushy with droopy ears and a white heart shaped spot on its chest. Atem turned back to the man and picked the prize.

"Could I have the black dog?" He smiled kindly at Atem and handed him the dog. Atem then handed it to Tea and she smiled at him.

"Thank you Atem. He's so cute." she said.

"What are you going to name him?" Tea pondered on the right name for her new plushy and she found the perfect one.

"I think that I'll call him Chico." Atem smiled as he was watching Tea hugging her stuffed puppy.

'She looks so beautiful with that smile of hers. I think this is the most she has ever been happy in her whole life.' he thought. The whole day was filled with laughter, games, rides, food and Joey barfing up what he devoured from the food stands. It was now night time and the fireworks were about to start. Atem and Tea found a private place to sit together and watch.

"Have you ever seen fireworks before?" Atem asked.

"Well I always seen them on TV, but never up close like this."

"So you had a great time today."

"Definitely, I never had so much fun before like this in a long time." It was quiet for a few minutes while they were waiting for the fireworks. Atem was watching Tea play with her stuffed puppy's ears.

"Hey Tea, about what almost happened in your room today before Joey came in-"

"No, it's okay. I've been thinking about that too and whenever we are alone together like this, I get these feelings about you that I never felt about anyone else. I was talking about this with Naomi today and she told me to follow my heart. " Atem stared at her. He moved closer to her and held hand.

"Tea, I have to know. What exactly is your heart telling you?" he asked. Tea looked into his eyes to see the love and affection that he held. She was thinking about all that they have been through and the talks they had together and she only had one thing to say.

"My heart is telling me that I'm in love with you." she whispered. Atem put his hands on her face to bring her closer to him.

"I am so relieved to hear you say that because I am in love with you too." Then he brought his lips to hers and gave her a fiery, passionate kiss. They didn't want to break apart, but they were running out if air so they stopped in order to breathe. They both had smiles on their faces knowing that they had the same feelings for each other. Just then the fireworks appeared in the sky and the loud boom brought Tea to a surprise. She watched all of the different colors and shapes. She never seen anything so special and she was watching it with the one she loved.

"Wow, it's so beautiful." she whispered. Atem looked down from the sky to Tea.

"Yes, it is." She turned to see him looking at her and lowered her head to hide her blush.

"I was talking about the fireworks." Atem lifted her chin up to look at him.

"I wasn't." Then he gave her another kiss more intense than the first one. As they were kissing, Tea had only one thought on her mind.

'This has to be the best day of my life.'

Well they finally kissed! What did you think about this chapter? Make sure you review. :D