"Tea... Why do you haunt me? Why does it seem that everywhere I go you come
to follow me? Is it that I really want to be with you? Is it that my life
isn't complete without you? My heart aches, but my head doesn't know why.
None of this makes any sense. I never want you to leave me, but I feel like
I'm holding a butterfly. Too fragile to keep, but too strong to let the
wind sway its course... Please forgive me for all the wrongs I've done to
you. Of all the people I've ever known, you were the most special. I'd hate
to loose you... Maybe I'm just scared. Maybe I'm confused. But I know that
I love you. I'm just afraid to let myself truly care for you since almost
everyone I've ever been close to has left me. I've never admitted this to
anyone, not even Mokuba, but... I really don't have any idea what I'm
doing. I may always seem so sure, but I'm not. And of all the stupid things
I've done in that past... Letting you go was the biggest. I know you can't
hear me. I know that you're fast asleep and will be leaving soon... But I
had to tell you. I had to tell you that, no matter what happens, and no
matter how cold and selfish I may seem... I'm going to watch out for you,
and make sure you're safe. Even if you find someone else to make you happy,
I'll still take care of you. You may not even notice it, but I'm always
going to be there for you Tea. I'll always going to come for you little
princess..."
********************
"Mm... What?" Tea sat up groggily in her bedroom as the sun sent its blinding rays streaming in. Just as she was about to swing her covers off the chipper face of Yugi popped around the corner.
"I see you're up. Feeling better?" Walking fully into the room he sat down next to her on the bed and gave a cheery smile.
"Wha happened?" Rubbing at her eyes she tried to come back into reality.
"You're parents asked me to pop over and keep an eye on you until you woke up. They had to leave for their flight so they couldn't stay. Do you want some soup?" Hopping up before he heard an answer he started heading for the door. "I'll get you some. Be right back!"
Tea watched him disappear out of the room and blinked a couple times around the room as thoughts ran through her mind. 'Last I remember I was being attacked by that... guy, and someone showed up to save me.' Closing her eyes she tilted her head curiously. 'But who was it?' Leaning back onto her pillow she sighed and opened her eyes again. 'Whoever you are, thank you. I'll try to pay you back someday if I ever find you.'
***********************
"No..." Seto slammed the phone back down on the receiver for the umteenth time in the last hour as he leaned back in his desk chair. 'She's fine. I made sure she got to her parents house safe and sound. But, I should make sure...' Picking up the phone once more he hovered his finger over the keys. 'But what if she doesn't believe me? What if-'
"No..." The phone went back down and he tapped his fingers agitatedly down on the desk top. 'There wasn't any real damage done. She just passed out from exhaustion, too much adrenaline, too much fear at once. But... I should at least check.' The item of choice went back to his hand and he got as far as the first three numbers before it returned to the receiver.
"No..." 'She's going to be just fine. She only passed out, nothing more. A few bruises maybe, but nothing serious. Maybe I should just, though...' The endless list of doubts and whims passed through his brain, as he was oblivious to the small set of eyes watching him through the minuscule crack in the doorway.
*******************
"Doo dee doo dee doo..." Yugi hummed to himself as he stirred the soup on the stove.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
Reaching over he grabbed the phone and shoved it to his ear as he continued stirring.
"Gardner's."
"Hey Yugi!"
"Oh, hi Mokuba, what are you calling for?... Oh, wait. Hold on a second." He took the soup off the burner and poured it into a bowl as he also placed it on a tray and readjusted the phone again. "Okay, so what's up?"
"I wanted to see how Tea was, is she there?"
"Yup." Walking up the stairs he put the tray down next to her bed and then took the phone away from his ear and held it out to her. "Tea, phone for you."
"Mm..." Tea had since lied back down on the bed and started going back to sleep. Now she rolled over and took the phone from Yugi. "Hello?"
"Feeling better?"
She blinked a couple of times. "Um... yeah, guess so. Why?"
"No reason. Thanks!"
The heard the phone click and then the dial tone. Handing it back to Yugi she gave a little shrug and lay back down on the bed. "All done... Goodnight."
Yugi smiled. "I'll leave the soup there for you if you want it. Sleep well." Walking out of the room he closed the door behind him and leaned against it. 'I wonder how Mokuba knew about Tea? Hm. Awe well. Maybe he was just seeing how she was in general. No biggie.'
*******************
"SetoSetoSetoSetoSeto!"
Mokuba skipped up the stairs two by two and bounded into his brother's office where he jumped onto his older siblings lap with a big smile.
"Seto!"
Kaiba stared at him blankly and gave a small I-don't-want-to-deal-with-this- right-now sigh. "What is it Mokuba?"
The grin grew wider all the same as Mokuba turned around on his brother's lap and looked over the screen to see what his brother was working on.
"Oh not much." Minimizing the window that was up he opened up solitaire as he mentioned idly, "Tea's feeling fine in case you were wondering."
"What?" Seto blinked a couple times at the back of the little one's head. "How did you-"
"Later!" Mokuba hopped off his lap again and walked out the door with a smile still planted on his features.
********************
A few moments after, Seto smirked and shook his head. 'Thanks Mokuba.'
Opening up the window on his screen again he finished the program before closing it again and shutting the computer down. He'd just started working again that day, and after a few well-planted excuses for his absence everything was running smoothly again. As he got up from his desk the solitary question that had been racking away at his brain ever since the night before resurfaced again.
'Why do I have to be so worthless. and Tea has to be so perfect? Or maybe I should maybe just go by that whole beauty is in the eye of the beholder ruse.' He let a sigh escape his lips and got up to walk down the stairs and lean against the kitchen counter. 'I wonder where she is now?' Seto narrowed his eyes. 'I should just forget about her. But... I don't- I just- ... I promised her. And I'm going to keep that promise.'
Getting up again he walked out the door and down the sidewalk in the direction of the game shop.
*********************
"So what are you doing tonight?"
"Oh, not much. Serenity's comin' over for a visit so I figured we'd rent a movie or somethin'" Joey shrugged and kept staring at the TV as he answered Yugi's question.
Tristan glanced from where he was on the floor. "Hey, can I hang with you guys?"
The blonde shrugged. "Sure, why not? Glad to have ya."
Yugi shrugged. "I can't come. Grandpa wants me to do some inventory." He rolled his eyes. "Awe well, it's only every once in a while. But I like the help when I can. What are you gonna do Tea?"
"Hm.. I think I'll probably go shopping, cruise around town a bit." She smiled. "I haven't had my monthly dose of cash binging yet this month."
Joey reached into his pocket and pulled out a little card and handed it to her. "Try this place, they got some cool clothes that you might like..."
"Why do YOU have a card to a women's clothes store?" Tristan's face looked half afraid and half ready to break out laughing.
The blonde sent him a death glare. "Serenity gave it to me ya nimrod."
Yugi smiled and rolled his violet eyes. "Sure Joey."
"She did!"
"Sure Joey."
"But she did!"
"Sure Joey."
*********************
"Hm... Should it be the black top, or the red?" Tea held the new clothes over her body as she looked in the mirror. "I think... red." With a smile she put changed into it and then looked at her completed outfit in the full body image that replicated her. Knee-high black zipper boots with a short black mini skirt. Plus the selected scarlet tube top and a silver cross on a chain for her necklace.
"Perfect!" With a happy bounce she headed down the stairs and grabbed the keys before she was out the door.
*********************
Seto leaned against the back wall of the nightclub. Okay, so it might have been a little weird for him to be here. But he'd walked around a little and had decided he needed to be around people. This was the closest revenue that he could think of, and the most likely for him to be able to just lean back on the wall and be ignored.
The thing that surprised him though, was when Tea walked through the doors. He couldn't help but laugh. 'Tea's here. Don't the forces of fate love playing with my heart strings? Maybe she won't notice me...' His eyes wandered around the shadowed corner and he smirked. 'Very likely she won't. Awe well...' Crossing his arms he shook his head. 'We'll just stay here...'
*********************
"Mm... Zesty!" Tea took her first glass of punch out of the bowl. Of course she was feeling pretty thirsty after dancing around for an hour without getting anything to drink, so she took another few glasses and headed out once again to the dance floor.
**********************
'That's odd...' Kaiba's gaze had been filtering over in Tea's direction for most of the night. He didn't find it weird that Tea kept drinking lots of punch, but the thing that was bothering him now was that she seemed to be getting unsteady on her feet. Not a very likely thing to happen to someone who studies dance and can go for hours on end without getting really tired.
His conscious sent him a pang to his brain to go find out what was happening so he left his corner and headed over to the punch table.
Pouring himself a glass he took a sip and then sniffed it. 'Alcohol, how juvenile.' Throwing the rest of the cup into the trashcan he walked over to Tea who was talking to a group of guys in the corner and giggling like crazy.
Seto took a step in next to her and put his hand on her shoulder while talking to the other males.
"Excuse me. I need to borrow her for a minute."
One of them folded his arms hautily. "Why should we?"
A smile crept onto the CEO's face as he turned her away and started walking away to the other corner. "Because, I'm her boyfriend."
*********************
Reaching the corner he put either hand on her shoulder and stared into her somewhat hazy eyes.
"Tea? How are you feeling?"
She smiled and giggled. "I didn't know you were my boyfriend." Stumbling sideways she fell onto his shoulder and stared up into his eyes with another giggle. "I sure have a pretty boyfriend."
'Oh my god you're wasted...' Rolling his eyes he put her arm over his shoulder and started leading her to the door while talking to her.
"I'm going to take you home. Okay Tea? We'll get you a little more sober back there... I can't imagine what sort of a hangover you're going to have in the morning."
Another silly giggled answered him. "I can hangover!"
"Ack! Tea!" He tried to hold her up as she let her body go limp and then she smiled at him.
"See? I good hangover!"
With another roll of the eyes he pushed open the door and walked down the sidewalk some in the direction of the parking lot.
"Yes Tea, I see that." He looked down at her and noticed her eyes dropping so he took one of his hands and gave her face a little tap. "Try to stay awake till we get to the house. You can sleep once we get there..."
"Sleep is goooood."
"Yes, sleep is good. But try to stay awake." He dragged her over to the passenger's side of his car and opened the door for her. Helping her to slide in he put on her seatbelt and then walked over to his side and turned on the ignition.
***********************
Pulling into the front driveway he got out and opened her door.
"Tea? We're here. I'm gonna take you inside now, okay?"
She giggled. "I like inside."
"I'm sure you do..." Reaching his arm underneath hers he helped her stand and then inside the house onto the couch.
"Now you just stay here. I'll go get you some water."
Tea smiled at him. "I like my boyfriend..."
A slim smile traced his face as he left to go into the kitchen.
Opening up the cabinets he looked for a glass and finally found one. Another glass item caught his eye on the top shelf. Taking it down he looked at the bottle and smirked. 'Vodka...' His eyes wandered back to Tea who had since lied down on the couch and was giggling at the ceiling. 'Why do I always have to run into her everywhere? Why can't I just forget it all and-' He smiled and looked at the vodka again. 'Why not? It's just one night.'
((BWAHAHAHAHAAA!!! ^_^;;; Sorry bout that... But doesn't this sound fun? And I love weekends, lots of time to type... Anyway, typing to more I go. Review! If any of you have suggestions of thing I should do then you can tell me in reviews =) I'm always open to some ideas... Later!))
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"Mm... What?" Tea sat up groggily in her bedroom as the sun sent its blinding rays streaming in. Just as she was about to swing her covers off the chipper face of Yugi popped around the corner.
"I see you're up. Feeling better?" Walking fully into the room he sat down next to her on the bed and gave a cheery smile.
"Wha happened?" Rubbing at her eyes she tried to come back into reality.
"You're parents asked me to pop over and keep an eye on you until you woke up. They had to leave for their flight so they couldn't stay. Do you want some soup?" Hopping up before he heard an answer he started heading for the door. "I'll get you some. Be right back!"
Tea watched him disappear out of the room and blinked a couple times around the room as thoughts ran through her mind. 'Last I remember I was being attacked by that... guy, and someone showed up to save me.' Closing her eyes she tilted her head curiously. 'But who was it?' Leaning back onto her pillow she sighed and opened her eyes again. 'Whoever you are, thank you. I'll try to pay you back someday if I ever find you.'
***********************
"No..." Seto slammed the phone back down on the receiver for the umteenth time in the last hour as he leaned back in his desk chair. 'She's fine. I made sure she got to her parents house safe and sound. But, I should make sure...' Picking up the phone once more he hovered his finger over the keys. 'But what if she doesn't believe me? What if-'
"No..." The phone went back down and he tapped his fingers agitatedly down on the desk top. 'There wasn't any real damage done. She just passed out from exhaustion, too much adrenaline, too much fear at once. But... I should at least check.' The item of choice went back to his hand and he got as far as the first three numbers before it returned to the receiver.
"No..." 'She's going to be just fine. She only passed out, nothing more. A few bruises maybe, but nothing serious. Maybe I should just, though...' The endless list of doubts and whims passed through his brain, as he was oblivious to the small set of eyes watching him through the minuscule crack in the doorway.
*******************
"Doo dee doo dee doo..." Yugi hummed to himself as he stirred the soup on the stove.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
Reaching over he grabbed the phone and shoved it to his ear as he continued stirring.
"Gardner's."
"Hey Yugi!"
"Oh, hi Mokuba, what are you calling for?... Oh, wait. Hold on a second." He took the soup off the burner and poured it into a bowl as he also placed it on a tray and readjusted the phone again. "Okay, so what's up?"
"I wanted to see how Tea was, is she there?"
"Yup." Walking up the stairs he put the tray down next to her bed and then took the phone away from his ear and held it out to her. "Tea, phone for you."
"Mm..." Tea had since lied back down on the bed and started going back to sleep. Now she rolled over and took the phone from Yugi. "Hello?"
"Feeling better?"
She blinked a couple of times. "Um... yeah, guess so. Why?"
"No reason. Thanks!"
The heard the phone click and then the dial tone. Handing it back to Yugi she gave a little shrug and lay back down on the bed. "All done... Goodnight."
Yugi smiled. "I'll leave the soup there for you if you want it. Sleep well." Walking out of the room he closed the door behind him and leaned against it. 'I wonder how Mokuba knew about Tea? Hm. Awe well. Maybe he was just seeing how she was in general. No biggie.'
*******************
"SetoSetoSetoSetoSeto!"
Mokuba skipped up the stairs two by two and bounded into his brother's office where he jumped onto his older siblings lap with a big smile.
"Seto!"
Kaiba stared at him blankly and gave a small I-don't-want-to-deal-with-this- right-now sigh. "What is it Mokuba?"
The grin grew wider all the same as Mokuba turned around on his brother's lap and looked over the screen to see what his brother was working on.
"Oh not much." Minimizing the window that was up he opened up solitaire as he mentioned idly, "Tea's feeling fine in case you were wondering."
"What?" Seto blinked a couple times at the back of the little one's head. "How did you-"
"Later!" Mokuba hopped off his lap again and walked out the door with a smile still planted on his features.
********************
A few moments after, Seto smirked and shook his head. 'Thanks Mokuba.'
Opening up the window on his screen again he finished the program before closing it again and shutting the computer down. He'd just started working again that day, and after a few well-planted excuses for his absence everything was running smoothly again. As he got up from his desk the solitary question that had been racking away at his brain ever since the night before resurfaced again.
'Why do I have to be so worthless. and Tea has to be so perfect? Or maybe I should maybe just go by that whole beauty is in the eye of the beholder ruse.' He let a sigh escape his lips and got up to walk down the stairs and lean against the kitchen counter. 'I wonder where she is now?' Seto narrowed his eyes. 'I should just forget about her. But... I don't- I just- ... I promised her. And I'm going to keep that promise.'
Getting up again he walked out the door and down the sidewalk in the direction of the game shop.
*********************
"So what are you doing tonight?"
"Oh, not much. Serenity's comin' over for a visit so I figured we'd rent a movie or somethin'" Joey shrugged and kept staring at the TV as he answered Yugi's question.
Tristan glanced from where he was on the floor. "Hey, can I hang with you guys?"
The blonde shrugged. "Sure, why not? Glad to have ya."
Yugi shrugged. "I can't come. Grandpa wants me to do some inventory." He rolled his eyes. "Awe well, it's only every once in a while. But I like the help when I can. What are you gonna do Tea?"
"Hm.. I think I'll probably go shopping, cruise around town a bit." She smiled. "I haven't had my monthly dose of cash binging yet this month."
Joey reached into his pocket and pulled out a little card and handed it to her. "Try this place, they got some cool clothes that you might like..."
"Why do YOU have a card to a women's clothes store?" Tristan's face looked half afraid and half ready to break out laughing.
The blonde sent him a death glare. "Serenity gave it to me ya nimrod."
Yugi smiled and rolled his violet eyes. "Sure Joey."
"She did!"
"Sure Joey."
"But she did!"
"Sure Joey."
*********************
"Hm... Should it be the black top, or the red?" Tea held the new clothes over her body as she looked in the mirror. "I think... red." With a smile she put changed into it and then looked at her completed outfit in the full body image that replicated her. Knee-high black zipper boots with a short black mini skirt. Plus the selected scarlet tube top and a silver cross on a chain for her necklace.
"Perfect!" With a happy bounce she headed down the stairs and grabbed the keys before she was out the door.
*********************
Seto leaned against the back wall of the nightclub. Okay, so it might have been a little weird for him to be here. But he'd walked around a little and had decided he needed to be around people. This was the closest revenue that he could think of, and the most likely for him to be able to just lean back on the wall and be ignored.
The thing that surprised him though, was when Tea walked through the doors. He couldn't help but laugh. 'Tea's here. Don't the forces of fate love playing with my heart strings? Maybe she won't notice me...' His eyes wandered around the shadowed corner and he smirked. 'Very likely she won't. Awe well...' Crossing his arms he shook his head. 'We'll just stay here...'
*********************
"Mm... Zesty!" Tea took her first glass of punch out of the bowl. Of course she was feeling pretty thirsty after dancing around for an hour without getting anything to drink, so she took another few glasses and headed out once again to the dance floor.
**********************
'That's odd...' Kaiba's gaze had been filtering over in Tea's direction for most of the night. He didn't find it weird that Tea kept drinking lots of punch, but the thing that was bothering him now was that she seemed to be getting unsteady on her feet. Not a very likely thing to happen to someone who studies dance and can go for hours on end without getting really tired.
His conscious sent him a pang to his brain to go find out what was happening so he left his corner and headed over to the punch table.
Pouring himself a glass he took a sip and then sniffed it. 'Alcohol, how juvenile.' Throwing the rest of the cup into the trashcan he walked over to Tea who was talking to a group of guys in the corner and giggling like crazy.
Seto took a step in next to her and put his hand on her shoulder while talking to the other males.
"Excuse me. I need to borrow her for a minute."
One of them folded his arms hautily. "Why should we?"
A smile crept onto the CEO's face as he turned her away and started walking away to the other corner. "Because, I'm her boyfriend."
*********************
Reaching the corner he put either hand on her shoulder and stared into her somewhat hazy eyes.
"Tea? How are you feeling?"
She smiled and giggled. "I didn't know you were my boyfriend." Stumbling sideways she fell onto his shoulder and stared up into his eyes with another giggle. "I sure have a pretty boyfriend."
'Oh my god you're wasted...' Rolling his eyes he put her arm over his shoulder and started leading her to the door while talking to her.
"I'm going to take you home. Okay Tea? We'll get you a little more sober back there... I can't imagine what sort of a hangover you're going to have in the morning."
Another silly giggled answered him. "I can hangover!"
"Ack! Tea!" He tried to hold her up as she let her body go limp and then she smiled at him.
"See? I good hangover!"
With another roll of the eyes he pushed open the door and walked down the sidewalk some in the direction of the parking lot.
"Yes Tea, I see that." He looked down at her and noticed her eyes dropping so he took one of his hands and gave her face a little tap. "Try to stay awake till we get to the house. You can sleep once we get there..."
"Sleep is goooood."
"Yes, sleep is good. But try to stay awake." He dragged her over to the passenger's side of his car and opened the door for her. Helping her to slide in he put on her seatbelt and then walked over to his side and turned on the ignition.
***********************
Pulling into the front driveway he got out and opened her door.
"Tea? We're here. I'm gonna take you inside now, okay?"
She giggled. "I like inside."
"I'm sure you do..." Reaching his arm underneath hers he helped her stand and then inside the house onto the couch.
"Now you just stay here. I'll go get you some water."
Tea smiled at him. "I like my boyfriend..."
A slim smile traced his face as he left to go into the kitchen.
Opening up the cabinets he looked for a glass and finally found one. Another glass item caught his eye on the top shelf. Taking it down he looked at the bottle and smirked. 'Vodka...' His eyes wandered back to Tea who had since lied down on the couch and was giggling at the ceiling. 'Why do I always have to run into her everywhere? Why can't I just forget it all and-' He smiled and looked at the vodka again. 'Why not? It's just one night.'
((BWAHAHAHAHAAA!!! ^_^;;; Sorry bout that... But doesn't this sound fun? And I love weekends, lots of time to type... Anyway, typing to more I go. Review! If any of you have suggestions of thing I should do then you can tell me in reviews =) I'm always open to some ideas... Later!))
