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Chapter #22: The Recovery
*~*~*Reader's POV*~*~*
[Why did I even agree to this?] Kaiba asked himself as he went to Elaya's room. [Room 34. First room on the left.] He thought, remembering the secretary's instructions. He opened the door to find Elaya sleeping. [No surprise. Now let's see if she'll wake up.]
He crossed the room to sit on her left side to hear the single beeps on her heart monitor. He then noticed that someone was in the washroom. The door creaked opened and out came Teresa, in a grey jacket and skirt with a light blue blouse underneath with a matching grey tie.
She nodded in his presence. "Kaiba." She said and made her way to where her briefcase was. It was black with silver buckles. Kaiba noticed that she kept checking her watch.
"Thanks for......um......coming. This early, I mean." Her eyes never met his.
He didn't respond. It was 6:12 in the morning. He might as well finish some work that he needs to catch up on anyways. Elaya wasn't gonna wake up any time soon. He plugged his laptop into the nearest outlet and began typing. Now Teresa was really sure that she didn't want Kaiba watching over Elaya......if he even did for that matter.
"I'll be back around 6..Joey, Yugi, Tristan or Téa might come around after school..okay?"
"Yeah, whatever." Kaiba said, not looking up from his computer screen. Teresa looked on for a moment [What happened to him?] before leaving the room.
*~*~*~*
It was 7:25 before Elaya stirred in her sleep.
"Mmm." She mumbled before opening her eyes. "Hey Seto"
Kaiba looked at her eyes and noticed that her pupils were dilated. [She's under a strong drug.] "Morning."
"What time?" She blinked slowly as the sunlight poured in from her window.
"7:26"
"Man.I sleep late." Her speech was slurred. She tried to sit up, but found that she couldn't. "Kaiba?"
"What?" He answered finally looking up from his screen.
"Can you pass me the bag over there . . . by the door, please?" He sighed and stood up, grabbed the bag and put it on the floor in front of his chair.
"Pass me the sketchbook that has a black cover, will you? Don't look inside it." Kaiba found it first. In big silver letters-in her printing-on the front it said, 'Elaya's Stetchbookie-thing!' He chuckled.
"You're such a dork." He said. She smiled thinly.
"I would comment, but not enough strength yet. Do you know when breakfast is coming?"
"No." He handed her her sketchbook. "Not like I care or anything..but what's in there?"
"Sketches, duh." She said, finally able to sit up. "Ah, much better." Kaiba noticed that her pupils had shrunk a bit, but knew that she was still a bit out of it.
"Of what?"
"Interesting people or things that I have to sketch. Like this one." She showed him the first sketch. It was coloured. It was a picture of him and Mokuba on the swings and behind him-although very faintly were two people pushing them. His parents.
"You did this one at the orphanage didn't you?" He asked as the memory flooded back to him.
"Yeah. Lemme show you another one." He returned the book and she skimmed through some pages.
[It doesn't make sense.] He thought. [How could she know what my parents look like, down to every wrinkle, if she never saw a picture of them?] They only picture that he had left of them was at the back of his Duel Monster Card Frame. One side had Mokuba, the other his whole family. [She knows something..but what?]
"Check this one out!" The next picture was a self portrait of her on an angle. This one was black and white.
"How did you do that one?" He asked.
"Mirrors. It took me a long time to get it right. Is it good?"
"Yeah. Picture Perfect." He muttered. This time, he skimmed through the back pages, but stopped when he saw another picture of him and Mokuba. It was the picture of them that each of them kept in their respective picture frames. Of course, it was the entire picture of them playing chess, with a light mark of where they had cut it.
"Do you like that one too?" She asked, looking over his shoulder.
He looked up suddenly. "Yeah." He shut the book and placed it back beside her. She began to rummage through the contents of the bag that her mom had dropped off that morning.
After placing a spare set of clothes aside, she cried, "Alright! My walkman!" She pulled out a silver disc player with matching headphones. "You like the Rolling Stones and the Guess Who?" She asked Kaiba. "'Cause that's the only CD I have in here."
"I don't care." He replied and returned to the screen. But all he could see was those pictures of the swings and of the chess game. They were so life like, and as far as he knew, she never saw either of those images for the past couple of years.
"M'kay." She slurred. That's when someone knocked on the door.
"I'll get it." Kaiba said, sighing as he put his laptop on the ground. As he opened the door, a nurse wearing all white appeared, pushing a breakfast cart and an electrical thermometer.
"Thank you." The nurse said to Kaiba. "Good morning, Elaya! How are you?"
"Could be better" Elaya answered and giggled. She put her headphones on and instantly began nodding and moving to the beat. The nurse told her to open her mouth to take her temperature. She did so, and when they were done, the nurse left, saying that she'll back later.
"I see a red a door and I want it painted black..No colours anymore I want them to turn black." Elaya sang to the music of the Rolling Stone's 'Paint it Black', mimicking a drummer and guitarist as she did so. "I see the girls go by dressed in their summer clothes.."
"Do you mind?" Kaiba glared as he sat down at his computer. She only stared at him but stopped her singing.
"Is my singing that bad?"
"No, it's just that I'm trying to work."
"On?" Before Kaiba could answer her, the door knocked again.
"It's opened!" Elaya shouted. The knob turned and in came Mokuba.
"Elaya! You're awake!" He ran with outstretched hands towards her, jumped on her bed and hugged her. She hugged him back lightly.
"Hey Mokuba. Nice uniform." She smirked. It was a maroon vest over a white shirt and gray tie. His slacks were gray as well. "You look positively dazzling, darling" She complimented in a fake movie-star accent.
"Mokuba what are you doing here? You have school." Kaiba said.
"In an hour! Don't worry big brother. I just wanted to stop by for a bit." Kaiba sat down, obviously defeated.
That's when Mokuba noticed the breakfast table near the end of the room. "Do you want your breakfast, Elaya?"
"Yes please. Do you mind bringing it over here?"
Mokuba pushed the cart over to her and put it in front of her. Her breakfast consisted of fruit-grapes and cantaloupe-a container of milk, two pieces of toast and strips of bacon. "Yum." She said as she rubbed her palms together.
She picked up a single grape from the fruit bowl and placed it on the tip of her nose. She balanced it on her nose by tilting her head back. It was an old circus trick that she used to do with Mokuba when he was younger to make him laugh. He clapped a bit, and then she made her tongue touch her nose and the grape fell in her mouth.
"Cool." The youngest one said. "Seto, did you see that?" Kaiba barely looked up.
"That must be one exciting game of Solitaire that you're playing, Kaiba." Elaya joked, throwing a grape at him, hitting him squarely in the forehead. It dropped on the keyboard and he flicked it out of his way.
"So, Mokuba how's school?" Elaya asked as she picked up another grape and popped it in her mouth. Mokuba took a piece of cantaloupe instead.
"Well, its okay..I don't get much homework, but even if I do, I can always ask my big brother for help!" Elaya smiled and chewed thoughtfully.
"Are your teachers mean or nice?"
"Really nice!"
"In high-school, it gets much worse. I have this one teacher-"
Kaiba zoned out of their conversation for a bit only to find that he was surrounded by darkness. His memories of the Shadow Realm kept plaguing him, even when he wasn't sleeping. This was one of them. He felt his soul rip apart from his body and the pain was unbearable. His mind became filled with screams and bloody images. Then, he saw Dieen reaching out towards him. Her long swords closing in on him with every second that passed....and just as they were about to slice him in two, he heard a voice from behind him. Suddenly, two arms lifted him out of harm's way and he began to float. // Kaiba..//
"Kaiba? You okay?" Elaya asked.
"Big Brother? What's wrong?" Mokuba said looking at him. Kaiba finally looked up, realizing that he was back in the hospital, away from the Realm.
"I'm fine." He returned to the screen, still unable to concentrate.
"You looked possessed." Elaya stated matter-of-factly. With every passing minute, Elaya seemed to be returning to her old self. [I guess that the drugs are wearing off.] He thought.
He checked his watch. "Mokuba, if you don't leave now, you'll be late for school."
"Then I choose not to leave."
"But then you'll be late."
"Then I'll stay here with you two." As the brother's argued, Elaya laughed and said the one thing that would cause Mokuba to leave without second- guessing.
"Mokuba, if you stay, that means that I can finally braid your hair like I promised I would in the orphanage!" Mokuba immediately jumped off the bed and hurried to the door.
"On second thought, I guess my education is too good to miss..." The younger brother rubbed the back of his neck. "Bye guys!" He then raced down the hall, out of sight.
"Good one." Kaiba said.
"Works every time." Elaya answered. She finished the rest of the breakfast in silence before slowly climbing up on her knees and leaned over the edge of the bed to where Kaiba was working. She was reading off the screen, upside-down. She couldn't really see any writing but she made it up.
"My name is Seto Kaiba, but my friends call me Kaiba. I have blue eyes and brown hair and enjoy working independently for my company, KaibaCorp. I think that I'm Mr. Big Shot: all that and a bag of chips, but in reality, I'm the opposite. I-"
"Stop that."
"Come on. You're no fun. Didn't you learn anything from that movie, 'The Shining?' All work and no play makes Jack-or in your case, Seto-a dull boy."
"The what?"
"Shining! Made in the '80's with Jack Nicholson..please tell me that you know what I'm talking about!" Elaya returned to her lying down position before continuing. "Never mind." She grabbed her sketchbook, opened it to a new page and began to draw. She looked around the room to find something interesting. Her gaze dropped over to Seto.
[I wonder if Seto would ever model..ha! That's a laugh. He wouldn't take his shirt off for a million dollars. Kinda wish that I had that kind of money--] Elaya's thought snapped back into the reality where Seto Kaiba didn't like her anymore. Heck, she'd had a crush on him forever back in the orphanage. He was cute and was nice. [Key word: WAS nice..still is cute though.] She looked over to him. He was perfectly still. [He perfectly perfect for a still portrait..] she thought.
Elaya began to sketch his portrait. She made sure that every single curve of his jacket was on the right angle and that every tense muscle in his shoulders was displayed. She noticed his eyes had light circles underneath them. [Probably doesn't get enough sleep. Poor guy]
\\ Elaya? I'm glad that you're up. Are you okay? You weren't responding before // Justi burst in, interrupting her thoughts. She had been talking to Justi before--when she sleeping--in her soul room.
// Sorry, I was distracted. //
\\ By Mr. Kaiba, I presume? \\
// Shut up! // Elaya shut out her darker side just before she began to laugh. She continued her sketch. His hair was his hardest feature. It took her hours to do before when she was 10, but she had gotten the hang of it and was finished in a matter of minutes. She did his laptop next, the least of her worries.
Her next move was his eyes. She placed them in the usual frown, but reflected the computer's image in them. Very faintly, she wrote in the reflection of his eyes, 'blah blah blah' over and over again. She did the background next. She placed a window behind him, just like in the hospital; and on the walls, she wrote-faintly of course-'I'm an enigma wrapped in a riddle shrouded in a mystery.' This was true in his case.
She looked at the clock. 8:15. [Joey must be getting up by now. Téa is probably walking over to Yugi's house now. Hey, maybe I can call her!] Elaya put down her finished sketch of Kaiba and turned to him.
"Kaiba? Can I use your phone?"
"Why?" He asked angrily.
"I wanna call someone, obviously."
"No kidding, who?"
"None of your business!"
"None of my business? This is my phone you're going to use." Kaiba retorted.
"So?" Elaya questioned, getting agitated. "Fine. I wanna call Téa before she goes to school!"
He looked at her, then back at his screen. "Here" he said, "Not to long, though, I'm expecting someone to call."
"Who? Your girlfriend?" She mocked. She kinda wished that he didn't have one. Yet, she knew that he didn't.
"My business you idiot."
"Hey, don't diss the girl in the hospital bed. Of course, I've heard worse."
"Just hurry up." He put plainly before returning to the screen.
Elaya then dialed Téa's cell-phone number, and sure enough on the second ring, she answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Téa, it's me, Elaya, from the hospital!"
"AH! Oh my God! E! How are you?" Téa squealed from the other end of the connection.
"Fine and dandy! You?"
"Thank God that you're alright! I'm good. Me and the others might come after school..how's Kaiba?"
"Good, he's good." [Good-looking of course..yeah, he is.] She felt herself smack her forehead. [That was the wrong thought!!] "Where are you?"
"I'm walking to Yugi's house." Elaya heard a faint doorbell in the phone.
"Elaya? How are you?" A boy's voice said after a few minutes of silence.
"I'm great Yug! Considering that, I've been through hell--well, the Shadow Realm--and back. You?"
"Fine." He laughed. "I'm really glad that you're alright." Elaya felt something nudge her shoulder. It was Kaiba, telling her to get off, pointing to his watch. She stuck her tongue out at him.
"Listen, I'm using Kaiba's phone, and he's about to kill me if I don't get off this exact second. So, I'll see you guys later then?"
"Okay." Yugi said on the phone. Téa then returned to the phone. "Alrighty then, we'll see you around four, okay?"
"Yeah, okay. Say 'hi' to everyone!"
"We will! Bye!" Both Yugi and Téa shouted into the phone.
"Later." Elaya put the phone down slowly, then returned it to the impatient Seto. "Here Mr. I-can't-wait-a-second-longer."
He took the phone from her and returned to his work. Her hand hurt from drawing, so she didn't want to do any more of that. She wasn't in the mood for any music. She had already run out of ideas to spend her time and it was barely 8:30. She glanced back at Seto who hadn't changed position since the beginning. He was still hunched over a bit, with his fingers clicking rhythmically against the keyboard. [This is going to be a LONG day.]
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Chapter #22: The Recovery
*~*~*Reader's POV*~*~*
[Why did I even agree to this?] Kaiba asked himself as he went to Elaya's room. [Room 34. First room on the left.] He thought, remembering the secretary's instructions. He opened the door to find Elaya sleeping. [No surprise. Now let's see if she'll wake up.]
He crossed the room to sit on her left side to hear the single beeps on her heart monitor. He then noticed that someone was in the washroom. The door creaked opened and out came Teresa, in a grey jacket and skirt with a light blue blouse underneath with a matching grey tie.
She nodded in his presence. "Kaiba." She said and made her way to where her briefcase was. It was black with silver buckles. Kaiba noticed that she kept checking her watch.
"Thanks for......um......coming. This early, I mean." Her eyes never met his.
He didn't respond. It was 6:12 in the morning. He might as well finish some work that he needs to catch up on anyways. Elaya wasn't gonna wake up any time soon. He plugged his laptop into the nearest outlet and began typing. Now Teresa was really sure that she didn't want Kaiba watching over Elaya......if he even did for that matter.
"I'll be back around 6..Joey, Yugi, Tristan or Téa might come around after school..okay?"
"Yeah, whatever." Kaiba said, not looking up from his computer screen. Teresa looked on for a moment [What happened to him?] before leaving the room.
*~*~*~*
It was 7:25 before Elaya stirred in her sleep.
"Mmm." She mumbled before opening her eyes. "Hey Seto"
Kaiba looked at her eyes and noticed that her pupils were dilated. [She's under a strong drug.] "Morning."
"What time?" She blinked slowly as the sunlight poured in from her window.
"7:26"
"Man.I sleep late." Her speech was slurred. She tried to sit up, but found that she couldn't. "Kaiba?"
"What?" He answered finally looking up from his screen.
"Can you pass me the bag over there . . . by the door, please?" He sighed and stood up, grabbed the bag and put it on the floor in front of his chair.
"Pass me the sketchbook that has a black cover, will you? Don't look inside it." Kaiba found it first. In big silver letters-in her printing-on the front it said, 'Elaya's Stetchbookie-thing!' He chuckled.
"You're such a dork." He said. She smiled thinly.
"I would comment, but not enough strength yet. Do you know when breakfast is coming?"
"No." He handed her her sketchbook. "Not like I care or anything..but what's in there?"
"Sketches, duh." She said, finally able to sit up. "Ah, much better." Kaiba noticed that her pupils had shrunk a bit, but knew that she was still a bit out of it.
"Of what?"
"Interesting people or things that I have to sketch. Like this one." She showed him the first sketch. It was coloured. It was a picture of him and Mokuba on the swings and behind him-although very faintly were two people pushing them. His parents.
"You did this one at the orphanage didn't you?" He asked as the memory flooded back to him.
"Yeah. Lemme show you another one." He returned the book and she skimmed through some pages.
[It doesn't make sense.] He thought. [How could she know what my parents look like, down to every wrinkle, if she never saw a picture of them?] They only picture that he had left of them was at the back of his Duel Monster Card Frame. One side had Mokuba, the other his whole family. [She knows something..but what?]
"Check this one out!" The next picture was a self portrait of her on an angle. This one was black and white.
"How did you do that one?" He asked.
"Mirrors. It took me a long time to get it right. Is it good?"
"Yeah. Picture Perfect." He muttered. This time, he skimmed through the back pages, but stopped when he saw another picture of him and Mokuba. It was the picture of them that each of them kept in their respective picture frames. Of course, it was the entire picture of them playing chess, with a light mark of where they had cut it.
"Do you like that one too?" She asked, looking over his shoulder.
He looked up suddenly. "Yeah." He shut the book and placed it back beside her. She began to rummage through the contents of the bag that her mom had dropped off that morning.
After placing a spare set of clothes aside, she cried, "Alright! My walkman!" She pulled out a silver disc player with matching headphones. "You like the Rolling Stones and the Guess Who?" She asked Kaiba. "'Cause that's the only CD I have in here."
"I don't care." He replied and returned to the screen. But all he could see was those pictures of the swings and of the chess game. They were so life like, and as far as he knew, she never saw either of those images for the past couple of years.
"M'kay." She slurred. That's when someone knocked on the door.
"I'll get it." Kaiba said, sighing as he put his laptop on the ground. As he opened the door, a nurse wearing all white appeared, pushing a breakfast cart and an electrical thermometer.
"Thank you." The nurse said to Kaiba. "Good morning, Elaya! How are you?"
"Could be better" Elaya answered and giggled. She put her headphones on and instantly began nodding and moving to the beat. The nurse told her to open her mouth to take her temperature. She did so, and when they were done, the nurse left, saying that she'll back later.
"I see a red a door and I want it painted black..No colours anymore I want them to turn black." Elaya sang to the music of the Rolling Stone's 'Paint it Black', mimicking a drummer and guitarist as she did so. "I see the girls go by dressed in their summer clothes.."
"Do you mind?" Kaiba glared as he sat down at his computer. She only stared at him but stopped her singing.
"Is my singing that bad?"
"No, it's just that I'm trying to work."
"On?" Before Kaiba could answer her, the door knocked again.
"It's opened!" Elaya shouted. The knob turned and in came Mokuba.
"Elaya! You're awake!" He ran with outstretched hands towards her, jumped on her bed and hugged her. She hugged him back lightly.
"Hey Mokuba. Nice uniform." She smirked. It was a maroon vest over a white shirt and gray tie. His slacks were gray as well. "You look positively dazzling, darling" She complimented in a fake movie-star accent.
"Mokuba what are you doing here? You have school." Kaiba said.
"In an hour! Don't worry big brother. I just wanted to stop by for a bit." Kaiba sat down, obviously defeated.
That's when Mokuba noticed the breakfast table near the end of the room. "Do you want your breakfast, Elaya?"
"Yes please. Do you mind bringing it over here?"
Mokuba pushed the cart over to her and put it in front of her. Her breakfast consisted of fruit-grapes and cantaloupe-a container of milk, two pieces of toast and strips of bacon. "Yum." She said as she rubbed her palms together.
She picked up a single grape from the fruit bowl and placed it on the tip of her nose. She balanced it on her nose by tilting her head back. It was an old circus trick that she used to do with Mokuba when he was younger to make him laugh. He clapped a bit, and then she made her tongue touch her nose and the grape fell in her mouth.
"Cool." The youngest one said. "Seto, did you see that?" Kaiba barely looked up.
"That must be one exciting game of Solitaire that you're playing, Kaiba." Elaya joked, throwing a grape at him, hitting him squarely in the forehead. It dropped on the keyboard and he flicked it out of his way.
"So, Mokuba how's school?" Elaya asked as she picked up another grape and popped it in her mouth. Mokuba took a piece of cantaloupe instead.
"Well, its okay..I don't get much homework, but even if I do, I can always ask my big brother for help!" Elaya smiled and chewed thoughtfully.
"Are your teachers mean or nice?"
"Really nice!"
"In high-school, it gets much worse. I have this one teacher-"
Kaiba zoned out of their conversation for a bit only to find that he was surrounded by darkness. His memories of the Shadow Realm kept plaguing him, even when he wasn't sleeping. This was one of them. He felt his soul rip apart from his body and the pain was unbearable. His mind became filled with screams and bloody images. Then, he saw Dieen reaching out towards him. Her long swords closing in on him with every second that passed....and just as they were about to slice him in two, he heard a voice from behind him. Suddenly, two arms lifted him out of harm's way and he began to float. // Kaiba..//
"Kaiba? You okay?" Elaya asked.
"Big Brother? What's wrong?" Mokuba said looking at him. Kaiba finally looked up, realizing that he was back in the hospital, away from the Realm.
"I'm fine." He returned to the screen, still unable to concentrate.
"You looked possessed." Elaya stated matter-of-factly. With every passing minute, Elaya seemed to be returning to her old self. [I guess that the drugs are wearing off.] He thought.
He checked his watch. "Mokuba, if you don't leave now, you'll be late for school."
"Then I choose not to leave."
"But then you'll be late."
"Then I'll stay here with you two." As the brother's argued, Elaya laughed and said the one thing that would cause Mokuba to leave without second- guessing.
"Mokuba, if you stay, that means that I can finally braid your hair like I promised I would in the orphanage!" Mokuba immediately jumped off the bed and hurried to the door.
"On second thought, I guess my education is too good to miss..." The younger brother rubbed the back of his neck. "Bye guys!" He then raced down the hall, out of sight.
"Good one." Kaiba said.
"Works every time." Elaya answered. She finished the rest of the breakfast in silence before slowly climbing up on her knees and leaned over the edge of the bed to where Kaiba was working. She was reading off the screen, upside-down. She couldn't really see any writing but she made it up.
"My name is Seto Kaiba, but my friends call me Kaiba. I have blue eyes and brown hair and enjoy working independently for my company, KaibaCorp. I think that I'm Mr. Big Shot: all that and a bag of chips, but in reality, I'm the opposite. I-"
"Stop that."
"Come on. You're no fun. Didn't you learn anything from that movie, 'The Shining?' All work and no play makes Jack-or in your case, Seto-a dull boy."
"The what?"
"Shining! Made in the '80's with Jack Nicholson..please tell me that you know what I'm talking about!" Elaya returned to her lying down position before continuing. "Never mind." She grabbed her sketchbook, opened it to a new page and began to draw. She looked around the room to find something interesting. Her gaze dropped over to Seto.
[I wonder if Seto would ever model..ha! That's a laugh. He wouldn't take his shirt off for a million dollars. Kinda wish that I had that kind of money--] Elaya's thought snapped back into the reality where Seto Kaiba didn't like her anymore. Heck, she'd had a crush on him forever back in the orphanage. He was cute and was nice. [Key word: WAS nice..still is cute though.] She looked over to him. He was perfectly still. [He perfectly perfect for a still portrait..] she thought.
Elaya began to sketch his portrait. She made sure that every single curve of his jacket was on the right angle and that every tense muscle in his shoulders was displayed. She noticed his eyes had light circles underneath them. [Probably doesn't get enough sleep. Poor guy]
\\ Elaya? I'm glad that you're up. Are you okay? You weren't responding before // Justi burst in, interrupting her thoughts. She had been talking to Justi before--when she sleeping--in her soul room.
// Sorry, I was distracted. //
\\ By Mr. Kaiba, I presume? \\
// Shut up! // Elaya shut out her darker side just before she began to laugh. She continued her sketch. His hair was his hardest feature. It took her hours to do before when she was 10, but she had gotten the hang of it and was finished in a matter of minutes. She did his laptop next, the least of her worries.
Her next move was his eyes. She placed them in the usual frown, but reflected the computer's image in them. Very faintly, she wrote in the reflection of his eyes, 'blah blah blah' over and over again. She did the background next. She placed a window behind him, just like in the hospital; and on the walls, she wrote-faintly of course-'I'm an enigma wrapped in a riddle shrouded in a mystery.' This was true in his case.
She looked at the clock. 8:15. [Joey must be getting up by now. Téa is probably walking over to Yugi's house now. Hey, maybe I can call her!] Elaya put down her finished sketch of Kaiba and turned to him.
"Kaiba? Can I use your phone?"
"Why?" He asked angrily.
"I wanna call someone, obviously."
"No kidding, who?"
"None of your business!"
"None of my business? This is my phone you're going to use." Kaiba retorted.
"So?" Elaya questioned, getting agitated. "Fine. I wanna call Téa before she goes to school!"
He looked at her, then back at his screen. "Here" he said, "Not to long, though, I'm expecting someone to call."
"Who? Your girlfriend?" She mocked. She kinda wished that he didn't have one. Yet, she knew that he didn't.
"My business you idiot."
"Hey, don't diss the girl in the hospital bed. Of course, I've heard worse."
"Just hurry up." He put plainly before returning to the screen.
Elaya then dialed Téa's cell-phone number, and sure enough on the second ring, she answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Téa, it's me, Elaya, from the hospital!"
"AH! Oh my God! E! How are you?" Téa squealed from the other end of the connection.
"Fine and dandy! You?"
"Thank God that you're alright! I'm good. Me and the others might come after school..how's Kaiba?"
"Good, he's good." [Good-looking of course..yeah, he is.] She felt herself smack her forehead. [That was the wrong thought!!] "Where are you?"
"I'm walking to Yugi's house." Elaya heard a faint doorbell in the phone.
"Elaya? How are you?" A boy's voice said after a few minutes of silence.
"I'm great Yug! Considering that, I've been through hell--well, the Shadow Realm--and back. You?"
"Fine." He laughed. "I'm really glad that you're alright." Elaya felt something nudge her shoulder. It was Kaiba, telling her to get off, pointing to his watch. She stuck her tongue out at him.
"Listen, I'm using Kaiba's phone, and he's about to kill me if I don't get off this exact second. So, I'll see you guys later then?"
"Okay." Yugi said on the phone. Téa then returned to the phone. "Alrighty then, we'll see you around four, okay?"
"Yeah, okay. Say 'hi' to everyone!"
"We will! Bye!" Both Yugi and Téa shouted into the phone.
"Later." Elaya put the phone down slowly, then returned it to the impatient Seto. "Here Mr. I-can't-wait-a-second-longer."
He took the phone from her and returned to his work. Her hand hurt from drawing, so she didn't want to do any more of that. She wasn't in the mood for any music. She had already run out of ideas to spend her time and it was barely 8:30. She glanced back at Seto who hadn't changed position since the beginning. He was still hunched over a bit, with his fingers clicking rhythmically against the keyboard. [This is going to be a LONG day.]
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