"If that's what I think it is, I threw it in the bin several months ago." Seto said, staring at the box in his brother's hand.
"Well I just found it in your desk draw." Mokuba said, which made his brother frown in annoyance and confusion.
"What were you doing in my office?"
"Looking for a calculator. Well, you've got all you need, get on with it!" Mokuba said, pushing the box into his brother's hand.
"Mokuba! Look, this really isn't the time or the place for me to…"
"It's a time and a place. Just do me one favor, don't fuck it up again!"
"Mokuba Kaiba! I do not want to hear you use that language again!"
"You had me worried sick! Now just get on with it! Before the bell rings!"
"I told you Mokuba, no."
"Yeah Kaiba! Go on, or are you too scared!" Yami taunted, smirking.
"Has no one here ever heard of diplomacy! I said this isn't the right time! So shut the f…"
"Pot calling kettle black." Mokuba muttered, knowing full well that his brother would give if people kept annoying him.
"Yugi! What's going on?" Ryou said as he ran up the hill, Bakura, Tristen, Duke, Malik, Marik, Têa, and Mai following him.
"What the hell is up with everyone! It's none of your damn business when I do this!"
"Do what?" Mai said, before spotting the box in Seto's hand. She squealed slightly and began to jump up and down.
"Oh. My. God!" Têa squeaked, also bobbing up and down, her hands clasped,
"Ohmygodohmygodohmygod!" she finished both of them grinning like lunatics and getting weird looks from the boys.
"Go on Kaiba!"
"Yeah! Get on with it!"
"Kai-ba! Kai-ba! Kai-ba!" They all started to cheer the rest of the people around either joining in or scowling and muttering before hurrying off.
"Seto?" Joey said, gently putting a hand on his love's shoulder. Seto turned around, his face scarlet, but the colour draining from it in nerves, giving him a motley red/white complexion.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, when,
"Right everyone, move off! Lessons in two minutes! Get going!"
Seto sighed, and slipped the box in his pocket before turning around and stalking off to his lesson.
"Is anyone going to tell me what that was about?" Joey said, looking from one of his friends to another,
"You'll find out soon enough!" Yugi said, grinning at his yami, who gulped, guessing what was going to be expected of him, and by the looks on the other yamis faces, they were thinking the same, as was Duke. (A/N: No, Joey isn't that thick, he never saw the box as Seto kept it hidden from him. And I know that probably sounded odd, but whatever.)
Seto's POV
Oh gods! Why did he have to find it then! Why did it have to be me!
My thoughts are scattered and my stomach feels like thousands of butterflies are doing a tap-dance in it. My hands and arms are tingling like I've just got rid of pins and needles, and all I can think is that now I haven't got a choice. I can't back out now. But gods! I'm so nervous! I didn't feel like this on our anniversary! Oh how in the seven hells am I going to do this!
"Kaiba! Why aren't you in your lesson?" a teacher yelled, halting me in the deserted corridor.
"I just… I mean… I really don't know." I finish pathetically, blushing again.
"This isn't like you, Kaiba. But I'll let it go this once, just go to your lesson." I nod and think where I'm supposed to be going, before turning and walking back down the corridor.
"Here comes the groom, just like a broom!" Two boys sing as they walk past, sniggering behind their hands at the altered lyrics they'd obviously just thought up. (A/N: or they might be actual lyrics, I'm thick, I dun know. . )
I curse and walk a bit faster, pushing the door to my lesson open to find no teacher. Perfect.
As I close the door a rousing round of 'here comes the groom' starts up; and people start laughing.
I can only imagine how red I must have gone as I went to my seat and thanked the lord as the teacher walked in that Joey wasn't in any of my lessons today.
"Right class, settle down, Kaiba? Are you ok?" she says, and before I have chance to answer someone in the room yells,
"He's fine miss!"
And someone else adds,
"Just got his head full of ideas for which wedding dress he's gonna try and get Joey into!"
I don't think I've ever been so embarrassed, I mutter something about Joey not wearing a dress if I paid him, and instantly wished I hadn't.
"Fine than, he's got his head full of which wedding dress he's gonna be wearing!"
"Kaiba! In a dress! You gotta be kiddin'!"
"Well one of them's got to wear one! ' Else it won't be a proper wedding!"
"It's usually the uke isn't it?"
"Yeah, and from what I heard, that's Kaiba!"
Normal POV
"Class." The teacher said threateningly, remembering all too well the day it had got out she was getting married,
"Is this true?" She then said to Seto, who was still red.
"Not yet…" he answered, shuffling his feet and looking at the table.
"When then!" She said excitedly, forgetting how embarrassed he was.
"I'm not sure."
"He's got the ring in his pocket miss!" someone yelled, grinning like the rest.
"Oh let's have a look then!" The teacher said, smiling at him and holding out her hand.
Resigned to the fact that not even the teachers were going to let this go quietly, he pulled the box out of his pocket and handed it to her.
She opened it and gasped,
"Gosh! It's butifull! And it must have cost a fortune!" she said, staring at the ring.
"Could I have it back now?" Seto said, a slight annoyance showing in his voice, but the teacher didn't seem to notice as she pulled him to his feet and said,
"Let's have three cheers then! Hip hip!"
"Hurray!" the class yelled back
"Hip hip!"
"Hurray!"
"Hip hip!"
"Hurray!"
"And one for good luck!" someone yelled, just as Seto thought that his torture was over.
"Hip hip!"
"Hurray!"
"What the hell!" someone yelled from the doorway, and as the brunette looked over, his heart stopped, 'please don't say anything! Please don't say anything! Please don't say anything!' he thought desperately.
"Kaiba just won the little competition we were having!" the teacher said brightly, finally letting Seto sit down and walking up to Joey who looked as though he believed her as much as he would believe someone who said the sky was green.
"Right… Have you got any chairs?" he said, looking around the room,
"No, sorry Joseph." She said as she closed the door in his face.
And that's what it was like for the rest of the day, apart from when Joey was in earshot, which meant Seto spent as much time around Joey as possible, waiting for the moment when he could ask the blond the big question.
Lunchtime rolled around, and by this time, Joey was completely pissed off.
"Look, Seto. Whatever it is, just say! It can't be that hard!"
"Oh believe me Joey, it is." Seto said, picking at his food, he felt too sick with nerves to eat anything.
"You're acting like this is some life or death thing! What the hell is bothering you!"
"It feels like it is. And I think it will be for me if I mess it up."
"Stop talking all cryptic and just tell me straight!"
"I will Joey, just not now. Not here."
"Well when then?"
"I don't know, but I will tell you."
"Here comes the…"
Seto turned to glare at the group of girls, and they looked as though they were going to carry on their song, until they spotted Joey and scurried off giggling.
"Yeah Seto, I've been meaning to ask you about that as well. Why has everyone been singing 'here comes the bride' with altered words every time they see you? And what was all that about first period?"
"Err…"
"Oh just bloody tell him!" Duke yelled,
Seto closed his eyes again, looking as though he was about to be sick, and nodded numbly,
"Alright…" he said in barely more than a whisper,
"Joseph Wheeler," he said, sliding off his seat and getting down on one knee, as the canteen went silent, every eye on the pair as Joey slid around in his seat to face Seto,
"Will you marry me?"
Joey's hand clasped to his mouth, his breathing increasing as he stared at the ring in the small box in his boyfriend's hand in disbelief.
