Disclaimer- *I know, it's a little late. But better late then never right? ^_^;* Ok, Retaw does not own YGO, and there are a few funny quirks that she doesn't own but I can't tell you yet or it will spoil the story! Speaking of which, that's what we should get back to!

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"Caitlin?" Tea poked her on the back, "Caitlin we've got to get up."

Caitlin groaned and turned over. Tea sighed and poked her again.

"Caitlin, common we're going to be late for school."

Caitlin didn't move, so Tea turned on her old fashioned alarm clock while yelling, "CAITLIN IM SORRY I HAVE TO WAKE YOU UP THIS EARLY!"

Caitlin jumped three feet in the air because of the sudden loud noises and landed with a loud thud, which indicated Caitlin had fallen onto the floor from the bed. (Which she was able to win in 'Rock. Paper, Scissors' with Tea)

"Sorry, but you've got to get up now. It's time to get ready for school." Tea said, stopping the alarm clock.

Caitlin rubbed her eyes and got up slowly, "Why does it have to be this early?" She moaned.

"It just does, listen, I've set aside some clothes for you to wear in my closet and luckily my mom had a spare tooth brush for you to borrow."

"Thanks I guess." She rubbed her head, on which she landed on, and then her back, where Tea poked her so hard.

"And tell you what, if you can get dressed in ten minutes, you get to have breakfast."

She was off. It was kinda habit to NEVER turn down food, or a chance to get food, even if she was reasonably sure Tea was joking about the whole thing. Didn't matter anyway, she wanted to get dressed quickly.

~~~ FIVE MINUTES LATER ~~~

"That's not what I gave you!" Tea said, examining Caitlin's clothes.

"Yea I know. It's the same shirt and socks and stuff, I just had to change the jeans because they were- bothersome."

Tea laughed at her choice of words, "We're going to have to go shopping and buy you some of your own new clothes."

"PLEASE TEA ONE LIFE CHALLENGE AT A TIME!"

Tea might not have thought shopping was a life challenge, but Caitlin did. She had never handled more then ten dollars before and it was a challenge to keep it all in her pocket without spending it on those delicious little candies at the store. It overwhelmed her to walk into a store with thousands of choices for ten dollars. She couldn't just go in and buy a ten dollar thing take it or leave it, you could buy two 5 dollar things, five 2 dollar things, the possibilities! There was NO WAY she'd be able to buy an outfit -that was more then ten dollars- when the alternative was candies that melted in your mouth.

"Uh, whatever. So, do you want to put on a little makeup before school?"

"No."

"Oh common Caitlin!"

"No."

"First impressions are always the best things-"

"No."

"You need to impress the teachers Caitlin! It's your first day!"

Caitlin glared at her, then sighed, "Fine."

"Oh! But first do you want to have breakfast?"

"You can eat, I'm suddenly not hungry."

Tea laughed and grabbed her makeup bag, she would have been hungry, if she hadn't already eaten when Caitlin was dressing.

Tea was happy to stay at home and hang out with her pals, but she was also eager to see what would happen with CAITLIN at school. Caitlin was quite a character,

And this was going to be quite a school day.

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Author- ^_^ Dare I stop there?

All- NO!

Author- ^_^; Just asking. ~~~~~~~~~

"Just calm down. We've gotten new students before you don't need to be nervous."

"Tea's right Caitlin, just be yourself."

"That's all well and good Yugi, but I don't really know myself very well. I can be completely different people!"

"I think you're over exaggerating." Tea said calmly.

"Nope, see I'm really clumsy, but I'm also good at balancing. I've got terrible upper body strength but can climb anything. I LOVE to be on stage sometimes, but I can be painfully shy at others."

Yugi laughed, "I feel that way too sometimes, but you'll be fine I promise."

Caitlin, Tea, and Yugi were walking up to the school together. Apparently, Tea walked with Yugi everyday and met up with Tristen and Joey at the classroom. Once they were there, Caitlin paused at the doorknob.

"I- I'm so nervous."

"Don't worry Caitlin! I'll save you a seat right by me all right?"

Caitlin smiled weakly, "Ok, as long as I sit by someone I know."

"Ok, well, we're going to go in and tell the teacher you're here ok?" Yugi opened the door and went in.

"Ok. See you in a bit." Caitlin smiled, and when they were inside, she sighed.

*Never in a million years did I picture myself here. At SCHOOL.*

"Caitlin?"

Caitlin's eyes met a middle-aged woman. She assumed this was the teacher by the way she was dressed, how her brown hair was up, the wrinkles around her eyes, and that her name tag said, 'TEACHER.'

"I'm Caitlin." She said softly. The teacher smiled.

"Hello, I'm your English teacher Mrs. Trunt. I understand you will be in this class room for a while?"

"Uh, yeah I guess so."

"Are you excited?"

"No. No offence." She added quickly, "I'm just very, VERY nervous."

"Well, it's time to start, so I will introduce you and take that as your cue to come into the classroom?"

"All right."

Another smile formed on Mrs. Trunt's face and the wrinkles formed around the corners of her eyes again. She went into the room, and soon, Caitlin heard her talk.

"Quiet down everyone! I assume you all have your homework? Good. I have an announcement to make. Today we are receiving a new student, her name is Caitlin and she will be in our classroom for a while. Now I want you to give her your full attention."

Caitlin awkwardly walked in and put her hands behind her back. She started fidgeting again, with her fingernails. She saw Tea smiling at her, along with Yugi, Tristen, Joey, and Bakura. She didn't smile back though. There were so many eyes looking at her, she saw nothing but the people in front of her, and heard nothing else but her own breaths. She almost gasped when the teacher tapped on her shoulder.

"Caitlin? Will you please introduce yourself to the class?"

"Oh, uh, yeah."

She cleared her throat authoritatively. Then she cleared it again.

And again.

*Shot what should I say!?*

And one more time.

"Yes Miss Caitlin, you have our attention."

She saw a few boys in the class smirk and a few girls whisper something to their friends.

"Ok, uh, my name is Caitlin, I am staying with Tea Gardener for a while. Thank you."

She tried to get off the spot light and hurried down to the seat Tea was saving,

And tripped.

Caitlin jumped onto her feet and dusted herself off. Then she sat at the desk trying to ignore the classroom laughter.

"Excuse me Caitlin?"

She looked up at mention to her name, "Yeah?"

"You won't be sitting there."

"What!"

"You will be sitting at that seat over there-" She pointed at a seat next to a brown haired girl, "Where I can see you."

"But-"

"I need to keep an eye-"

"But-"

"On your behavior-"

"But-"

"For the next few days or so-"

"But Mrs. Trunt!"

"So you will sit next to your friend next week if you behave well."

Caitlin was horror struck. She was going to be on the clear other side of the room, away from Tea, Yugi, Tristen, Bakura, AND Joey. What luck! She dragged her feet off to the desk the teacher was pointing at and slumped into the chair.

"Hello!" The girl said, "My name's Jerry Smith! What's your last name?"

Caitlin was not in the mood for being friendly at the moment, and the girl's chipper attitude was getting really annoying really fast.

Caitlin sent her the death glare which she thought meant, leave-me-alone- I'm-not-having-a-good-week. The Jerry girl took it as, get-away-from-me-or- I'll-bite-your-head-off. Either way was good at the moment.

*As long as she doesn't bother me.*

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The day didn't go so well, Caitlin managed to get through all her classes fine, just not such a good impression on the Teachers. She always gave the same speech when she was introduced, 'Hi my name is Caitlin I'm staying with Tea Gardener thank you.' Except she'd end it differently every time so the people who were in all her classes wouldn't get THAT bored. Her favorite ending was, 'That is all.' Or, 'Any questions?'. Except that the any questions one didn't go so well because people would actually ASK questions such as,

"Is there a last name attached to that first?"

"Where do you live?"

That was a hard one, Caitlin would usually say, 'Not here.' But then they'd say,

"Where did you come from?"

"What are your parents heritage?"

So Caitlin would end up snapping at them to mind their own business and get sent to her seat. The only highlight of the day was at lunchtime when a unbelievably cute, very popular dude asked her,

"If you lived in such an amazing foreign place, why'd you move here?"

*Oh yeah, I forgot I told math class I lived in an amazing foreign place.*

She just answered, "Because I wanted to."

"That's a stupid answer."

"Well it was a stupid question."

"No it wasn't it was a good question!"

"Fine I wanted to live here because it is-uh- a very interesting place!"

"That's all I wanted." He said, walking away casually to his group of friends while Caitlin walked over to hers.

He wasn't that cute anymore.

"So Caitlin, how was your first day of school?" Tea asked when she sat down at the table with the gang.

Caitlin just grumbled and covered her head with her hands.

"I saw Josh talking with you over there." She said, obviously trying to start a convo.

"Oh that's his name."

"You were talking with him and you didn't even know his name?"

"It wasn't a personal conversation, he was just asking about me."

"That's not personal?"

"I just wish people would stop digging into my past!"

"Well, you don't really supply them with a lot of info..." said Bakura.

"Well what am I supposed to say? Hi I'm Caitlin, I'm homeless and was abandoned by my family when I was nine?"

"They're going to fine out sooner or later." Yugi spoke up.

"I know they are, I just wish they wouldn't. I mean what makes me so fascinating?"

"You're mysterious, and your new. This school hasn't had anything new happen for a long time and you are probably going to be the gossip subject for at least a few weeks." Tea answered.

"Ugh."

"Don't feel bad." Joey said, finishing up his pudding, "I know a ton of people who would kill to be the subject of girls gossip."

"Yeah-" Tristen smirked, "Like you."

Joey grabbed Tristen in a headlock and it took Bakura, Yugi, and Tea to pull them apart. Just then, the bell rang. It was time to go to PE. Luckily, there weren't assigned seats there, Tea had assured her before hand.

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"Alright!" The teacher called, "Settle down peoples! Now today I want you all to make your way outside -be careful around the pool- and each get a group of four. I will give you instructions from there when we're outside. Now let's go!"

The group started to go out the double doors, (which were right behind the pool) but Caitlin didn't.

"Caitlin? Aren't you coming?" Yugi said, curiously.

"Oh, I'll be there in a minute." She put her hand into the water and took a deep breath.

"You'd better hurry, coach wants-"

"I know Yugi I'll be there."

"Well, ok." With that, he hurried outside with the group.

Caitlin swished her hand in the water a little bit. It was so calming to have peace and quiet along with a little cold water to put your hands in. She was just about to get up when.

SPLASH!

Someone pushed her in from behind. Caitlin felt the cold water wash all over her and sputtered when she came back up. There, in front of her, was a group of girls. They were all laughing, a lot, and reminded Caitlin strongly of a pack of hyenas with makeup. She just looked up at them for a long time before pulling herself up the side of the pool.

Only to be pushed in again.

"Oh! I'm so sorry I didn't mean to do that!" The leader said sarcastically. Everyone laughed.

Caitlin slowly got out of the water and gave her another one of her famous death stares. She gave people death stares when they were REALLY pushing it, only this one was worse and she used it in only on special occasions.

"Oh!" The girl said, "You're all wet! You had better dry up before the coach sees you and gives you a detention."

Caitlin just glared at her, *Don't murder her, don't murder her, you're fine.*

*...Please don't murder her.*

"I would lend you the clothes I changed out of in the bathroom, but sadly-" She said, smirking, "I don't want them to get covered in the germs YOU have."

That was it, she couldn't take it anymore. Caitlin walked right up to the girl, face to face, and said cooly, "Oh, I don't want your clothes."

"And why not?" The girl answered, obviously annoyed that Caitlin wasn't getting more hysterical about it.

"Why not? Oh, just because you need them more then I do." She said, pushing the girl into the water and grinning when she heard the smack that indicated a belly flop.

"How's the water?" Caitlin called, grinning.

"YOU RUINED MY NEW CLOTHES CAITLIN! MY PARENTS BUY ALL MY CLOTHES FROM FRANCE AND THEY CAN'T BE REPLACED!"

Caitlin smirked and made her way into the bathroom to try and dry her hair with paper towels.

"YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE ME IN HERE CAITLIN! I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS!" She screamed, splashing wildly, "GET BACK HERE!"

Caitlin paid no attention to this, and when she was in the bathroom, she was overjoyed to see the clothes the girl was talking about in the stall. Now, knowing what she knew about the girl, she would probably change into the clothes and get Caitlin in trouble instead of her.

It wouldn't be a sin to- tamper with them a bit right?

She picked up the clothes, looked at the tag, and laughed, "Target! I knew she didn't get these clothes from France."

Suddenly, she got a diabolically perfect, get-back-at-her-for-saying-I've- got-germs, plan. She smiled and stuffed the clothes into the backpack she had left in the bathroom and started to go, only to hear a voice say,

"Why aren't you in class Miss. Caitlin?"

*Poop.*