Okay, Okay, we know. This one was late. Give both Katya and Anna a break. We've both been busy, and Katya lost her account. Then she laid everything onto me to finish this story. So long story short, Anna a.k.a. Trinity Mikamura gets to finish TFAS. So… Enjoy.
Disclaimer: Anna and Katya do no own any Yu-Gi-Oh! characters. Do not sue.
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~*~Ryou's POV~*~ ::Thursday::
It was the big day. The day where the school found out who was the Sweethearts king and queen. And our little group had been through hell and back.
On Tuesday, Anna had lost her journal to the rage she had toward Duke and Britney. We gave it to Seto on Wednesday to return to her. He nearly got his head ripped off. Just to get them back to decently normal terms, we had locked the two of the in one of the Kaiba mansion offices, with Mokuba's assistance, and watched as chaos ensued for about an hour and a half before Anna broke down and Kaiba comforted her.
Now it was Thursday and the entire school was in the gym. The couplings had been introduced and the school's show choir had sung a song or two. All of the student's awaited the results.
"And this year's Sweethearts royalty is…" the StuCo president announced, then opened the envelope, "Goodness! It's a tie this year. Duke Devlin, Anna Delena-Carsons and Seto Kaiba, Brittney McKelen!"
Student Council members, including Katya, went up to the four. As Katya went to Anna, who was on Kaiba's right side, she seemed to slip Seto something while handing our actress friend the bouquet of flowers the queen usually received. I watched her mouth something, and Anna nodded, Seto giving his O.K.
Then our two friends stepped up to the podium.
~*~Seto's POV~*~
When we stepped up to the podium, I was a little nervous. You would think that I would be ready to do this seeing as I was a CEO of a major corporation. Yeah right. What we were doing was yet another Sweethearts first.
After we removed our "prizes" from ourselves, my crush decided to speak first for the two of us.
"Fellow students, school staff and administration, friends and family of the royalty candidates, and members of the student council, Seto Kaiba and I regret saying this, but we cannot accept the crown."
There was a collective gasp from everyone that was watching. That's when I stepped up beside my ebony-haired friend.
"We say this because reliable resources, which shall remain nameless at this point in time," I spoke, privately eyeing the crowd for our friends, "which have caught our pairings' partners working each other instead of with us."
I held up one of my hands, revealing a tape recorder which we had used to catch Brittney and Duke in the act.
"This tape recorder," Anna continued, "has evidence of our partners' betrayals of us. Our resources were lucky to have gotten this when they did or we would have never caught this."
I pressed the play button on the recorder and held it up to the microphone. Soon, Devlin and Brittney's voices were heard.
"Devlin, you are so cute. I don't know why I had myself paired with that snobby, stuck-up Kabia-guy. I'll never know why I ever wanted to pair myself with him."
"Probably the money. But do you think I enjoy being paired with that chick Anna? She's a royal pain in my side!"
"Why don't we rig the voting so that both you and I can be together for king and queen."
"I know. Most of Anna's votes will be mostly out of pity anyway."
Turning off the tape recorder, I looked over at Anna. Her eyes were closed and a stray tear had fallen down her cheek. She was hurting. I was too, but not as bad as her.
Moving closer to the microphone, I took over the speaking. "As you heard, at some point during the voting process, the votes became rigged. And from some other resources, we found that the pairings were also rigged."
"Mr. Kaiba and Miss Delena-Carsons," one of the teachers in charge of the Student Council began, "the accusation you are giving, though proven, is largely based on speculation. If what you say on some points is true, then why weren't we alerted of this before, when votes were being counted and pairings made?"
I watched as Katya stood up from the spot she had been sitting in. "It was because I had been the only one who noticed," she told him, "And when I tried to bring it up, you waved me off like you didn't care. It should have been Seto and Anna and Duke and Brittney, but some of Brittney's friends changed it."
Then she went over to the blonde girl that we had come to hate. Her hand was clenched tightly into a fist.
"And this, Brittney, is for my friends."
That's when she decked her with a right hook.
~*~ Katya's POV ~*~ ::later that day::
Okay, so I got a detention for punching that little b!tch. It felt good, so I didn't care. But seconds after their announcement was made, Seto and Anna remained the Sweethearts king and queen while Devlin and Brittney were dumped.
The two that should have been together in the first place finally were. They were a good couple. And we almost had them completely together.
After detention, I went over to Yami and Yugi's place. When Yami let me in, Yugi tackled me.
"We're so close! So close!"
"Aibou, calm down."
I had to smile. "But Yami, you saw Anna's face, as well as Seto's. They were blushing!"
"At the dance," Yugi announced, "the final part of our plan will take place on the dance floor. You guys have been working with the others on the dance moves and everything?"
"Yeah," I answered, "You, Yami?"
"Yes."
"Alright. Operation: Cupid's dance is ready."
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Okay, so what will happen at the dance? And what kind of dance have Yami, Yugi, and Katya been working on with other students, including Anna and Seto, on for the dance?
Find out next chapter.