"I never knew you could hit like that!"

"Gosh Ryou, you pulled a number on Kaiba!" you said enthusiastically. "He jus.I was sick of his talk I guess." He muttered, blushing and looking to the floor. You blinked and smiled. "Do you think we could trade partners for the project?" you asked sweetly. "Please say yes. Please say yes. Please say yes." You chanted in your head. Ryou looked up, a little distressed, "You want to be partners with Duke Devlin?" he sputtered. You twitched a bit at the thought, "That pervert!? Get real Ryou!" you screamed in your head. "No stu." you broke off remembering how sensitive Ryou could be. "No, silly." You said, smiling brightly. "Ok, good recovery." You told yourself. "I want to be your partner. After all this, I don't think I'd have a good working environment with Kaiba." You said, a sarcastic, and maybe a bit smug, smile crossed your face. Ryou beamed pride, "I did get him good didn't I?" he snickered. You laughed at this and forgot the pain in your leg. "So, when should I come over?" you asked. "What?" Ryou gasped. "Meet you? So we can go to the Library? For research? Geese, spaze." You said, pulling your backpack open and taking out your stupid school planner, "School Pride. Yay." You thought sarcastically as you saw that same old Domino High slogan. Most girls put their boyfriend's pictures on the front, but not you. No one had seemed worth your affection sense you moved here last year. For the most part it had been hell. But you had to deal with it anyway so whatever. "Noon sounds good." Ryou said, breaking our railroad of thought. "Oh, oh right! Yeah, noon sounds great. See you tomorrow!" "Bye!" he said sweetly, picking up his books.

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