"If you plan on living any longer than this you best get off my car and pray to whatever god you chose that you didn't scratch it because buddy, if you did you will die right where you stand." I threatened
"Many apologies ma'am." The man said and stepped away from my car and started wiping at the spot he was leaning against.
"Just stop touching the car please. Who are you and what do you want? Office hours are over and I would like to go home." I said stopping several paces in front of the man.
The man quickly began getting nervous because of my clearly annoyed gaze and started stumbling over his words. "I'm, uhh, I'm here to… to deliver something… I mean I have a gift for you from someone… wait not that isn't right either… umm…"
"Stop. Just stop. For the love of all that is holy please just give me what you have for me and leave." I said annoyed even further. I really just wanted to go home and talk to my little brother.
"Yes, ma'am." The man said and opened his messenger bag and handed me a box.
I grabbed the package and the man bowed and got on a bike and peddled away.
"What the hell? Who is sending me a box via bike messenger?" I examined the box which was wrapped with brown paper and nothing wrote on it. I unlocked my car and got inside to open the box. I started to take off the paper and noticed that the box was a beautiful purple color. Once I got all the paper off the box I opened the gift. Inside was framed picture of Tea, Joey, Tristian, Yugi, Caleb, Corey, and myself that we took while eating ice-cream at Kaiba Land before the duel. At the bottom of the box was a note.
I thought you might like a picture to commemorate your new found friends. Now when you look at this picture you'll always know you'll have friends for life.
-Tea
I smiled bigger than I thought was possible and a warmth surrounded my heart. I don't have pictures with anyone other than my family and I couldn't believe that Tea would be so kind as to send me a picture I had forgotten we took. I gently place the frame down on the passenger seat and started heading home.
I pulled into the drive way and began to take the brown paper out of the car to throw away. Once I finished I grabbed the rest of my stuff and the picture and headed inside. I quickly put my brief case down and headed to my room. As soon as I entered I quickly began taking off clothes and putting of my comfiest sweat pants and tee-shirt. I placed my new picture on one of my bed side tables and went back down stairs to call Corey. The phone rang a couple of times before he answered.
"Hello?"
"Hello? Is that really all you have to say to me?" I said jokingly
"Huh, what, no, of course not! I'm studying I didn't look to see who was calling." Corey said and I heard the sound of a book closing. "Did you get my vibe last night? I got one from you and Caleb but I wasn't sure if it was because you got mine or not."
"Yes we both did. I'm proud of you for that; I was worried the academy would be too far away to reach us." I said with glee "How was your first day of classes? Do anything exciting?"
"It was great, I'm in a lot of classes with Jaden and Cy, and they're great. Jaden is going to be a good rival for me, he's really strong. Today we got to learn about the beginning of spells and traps and all the different classification…" Corey continued explaining his day in great detail, but the whole time he never lost this enthusiasm.
"That sounds great, how was staying in the house the first night?" I asked with a laugh.
"It wasn't bad my room is pretty sound proof, it kind of felt like I was home; everything is set up pretty much the same." He replied. "What did you and Caleb do when you got back?"
"We actually met up with Yugi and his friends and went to a nice little pizza place and saw the new superhero movie together." I replied
"You went to the new movie without me!?" Corey said with a fake sadness, "What happened did anyone die?"
"I'm not going to tell you, you're just going to have to wait and see for yourself." I said mimicking his fake tone. "Oh guess what, you're going to get a kick out of this."
"Oh god I'm scared to even ask." He said sarcastically
"Seto Kaiba asked me to dinner on Wednesday!" I said a little more excited than I intended.
"What seriously? Why would he want to take you to dinner?" he asked surprised
"Well geez bro thanks for the support. Is it so surprising that Seto Kaiba want to have dinner with me?" I said pretended to be hurt
"No of course not, it's just that you weren't exactly the nicest when we met him Saturday." He said trying explain himself.
"I know but when we left the restaurant we talked and I think I made up for it." I told him
"Well you really must have, I wonder what he wants to talk about at dinner then. You must be worthy of his conversation topics since they were too advance for the rest of us." Corey laughed.
I laughed with him, "Yeah you must be right, who knows."
"Hey I got to go I have a lot of studying to do for a test this week." Corey said with a sigh.
"Alright good luck on that test, I love you." I said with sadness, I wasn't ready to hang up yet.
"I love you too, tell Caleb I said hi." He replied.
"I will, talk to you later." And I hung up the phone.
The rest of the night was pretty boring, Caleb didn't make it back home until after 10, and by then I was ready for bed. He walked in and ate and immediately went to bed, so I followed suit and went to bed too. Tuesday was less eventful as Monday and went by as slow as humanly possible, by the time I was ready to go home I felt like I had live through that day for an eternity. Caleb didn't stay in the office near as late as he did Monday. Caleb came home by 7 and we ate dinner together and decided to go for a wolf run. We ran the perimeter of the estate, chased the rabbits off again, Caleb accident killed one though so we had a wolf dinner that night too. I think Caleb was running off stress because he usually doesn't kill rabbits or other animals that visit the fields of our estate. We ran until the sky was completely dark and there wasn't a trace of sunlight on the horizon. When we were tired we came back inside and watched our favorite TV shows. The house was quiet without Corey around, there wasn't him constantly asking questions about homework or life. By 10 we were too exhausted to continue an episode of Grey's Anatomy and we both slumped off to bed. Wednesday morning I woke early so I could get an extra outfit ready to take to work with me for my dinner tonight with Kaiba. I was looking for to what today would bring and I practically skipped around my room while getting ready. Once I found the perfect outfit that was sexy but wasn't overly sexy, I placed it in a garment bag and began dressing for the day in the office. Once I was ready I came down stairs to find Caleb in the kitchen eating some eggs and bacon.
"What's with the garment bag?" he asked through the eggs in his mouth.
"That's gross you're spewing eggs all over the floor and yourself." I said and draped the bag on the back of a bar stool.
"You didn't answer my question." He said brushing off the eggs onto the floor.
I rolled my eyes at him, "It's a dress for my dinner with Kaiba tonight. I don't want to show up in a business suit." I said and grabbed a protein bar out of the pantry.
"You have a date with Kaiba tonight?" he asked looking surprised.
"Don't be so surprised. Why does everyone in this family think it's such a surprising thing for me to get asked out to dinner?" I said playfully defensive
"Well one its surprising because you haven't been asked out to dinner by someone who you weren't trying to close a deal with, and two you haven't been on a date since you were 18." He retorted
"It's not a date… I don't think at least. I don't know what it is exactly, but its dinner okay, just dinner." I said taking a bite out of my protein bar.
"It's a date. Trust me you show up in whatever dress you have in there he'll think it's a date." He said looking at the garment bag again.
"So you're saying I should just go in what I'm wearing right now?" I asked second guessing my choice in changing clothes beforehand.
"No, just that I know your clothes I've seen them, I know you don't own any modest dresses that you wear out." He said continuing to eat his breakfast.
"So now you're saying I'm going to look too sexy for him to think that is anything else but at date?" I asked
"What? No? Yes? I don't know, you're confusing me now." He said flustered, "You know what just wear whatever is in the bag okay? He'll figure it out, come on lets go."
"Woah wait, you can't ride with me today, I'm taking my car to the restaurant." I stopped him
"He's not picking you up really? That is kind of a dick move." He said annoyed and the lack of gesture by Kaiba.
"No he offered to send a car but I hate being driven by someone else when I can drive myself, you know that." I said
"I know, god your stubborn." He said and walked out the door
"Damn straight…." "And don't you forget it!" I yelled after him.
