To vendred13: I meant café as in like a restaurant ^ ^
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This chapter is mainly about Lara, but heck she's important to the story so read away!
I don't own yu-gi-oh, but I do own the evil that is Lara. MUHAHA!!
Yes, I'm insane!
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Chapter 5: Lara's Plan
"Why can't I be in high school yet?" Mokuba whined to his friends during lunch, as the all sat under a large tree eating their food. Of course, Mokuba knew from his brother that the high school kids didn't have to go to school tomorrow but he did, and to back it up, he had to take a math test.
"Well, you'll never get into high school with your math grades." Kai said matter-a-factly.
"SHUT UP KAI!" Riku and Mokuba both yelled at him this time.
"Fine, I'll shut up." He said throwing his hands up in the air with mock surrender.
"Aren't you going to eat?" Riku asked Mokuba. He shook his head. "Oh, in that case, can I have your lunch?" she asked. Mokuba handed it to her. She lit up. "Oh wow, you get the best food ever, thanks Mokuba!"
Yes it was true that Mokuba's lunch was quite delicious everyday. Today, it happened to be sushi. Riku gobbled down the tuna, avocado, and cucumber rolls in what seemed like less then a minute.
Kai stared at her in amusement, and Mokuba drew circles in the ground with a stick that he found.
"Mokuba, do you want to study for math now?" Riku still hadn't given up on them studying together. She really could be quite persistent. But, so could Mokuba, and once again he shook his head. "I give up!" she said, sighing.
"It's about time." Kai muttered. Riku turned towards him and looked ready to sock him in the stomach, and since she was ready to do so, she did. Well, she would have if Kai hadn't caught her arm. "Not bad." He said, putting her arm down, "But still not good enough."
"I really hate you, you know that?" she said, pissed.
"I know." He replied, once again taking out his book.
"So Mokuba are you going anywhere over vacation?" Riku asked, taking her mind off of Kai.
He shook his head. "Nii-sama is way too busy and besides, he doesn't like vacations."
"So what are you gonna do?" she asked.
"Well, I suppose I'll just play video games or watch TV or surf the net like I always do." Then he added. "I guess that I'll study for math too, cause sensei is gonna give us a packet to do over break right?" he asked.
"Most likely, since he always gives us tons of homework over break."
Mokuba nodded slowly and went back to drawing in the dirt with his stick, and that was why he didn't see Lara come over to their tree.
"Hi guys!" she said.
All three looked up at her. The friendliness was definitely what caught them off guard.
"Hi Lara." Mokuba mumbled, not wanting to get into any kind of confrontation with her.
Kai took the more direct approach. "What the hell do you want?" he asked.
"Well, well, that's not very nice is it?" she asked, sitting down, to Riku's horror. Riku inched away. She wanted to be as far away from Lara as possible, which meant being closer to Kai, but it was an easy decision. "I just wanted to talk with you guys." She said, her friendly voice was still there, surprisingly.
"About what?" Mokuba asked, with a tone of voice that said he really didn't care.
"Well, are you guys ready for that math test tomorrow?"
Now it was clear where this was going.
"We're fine." Riku answered, her voice seemed to waver though.
"You sound nervous Riku." Lara said.
"I'm not nervous!" she exclaimed, but her discomfort around Lara was clear to anyone, and especially to Lara herself.
"I'd say you are." Lara replied casually, with that air that popular people put on. "Do I intimidate you that much?" she asked.
Riku stared at the ground. Kai and Mokuba stared at Riku. What was wrong with her? Why couldn't she just tell Lara to screw off like the other two always did?
"Or wait; are you just jealous of me?"
"What do you mean?" she asked quietly.
"Ah, nothing, never mind, Riku." She replied sweetly.
"How's the math going, Mokuba?" she asked.
"Fine." He replied shortly. Lara was about to say something back, but she heard her name and gave the threesome a casual wave before running over to her large group of friends.
Well, now their mood had been completely ruined.
"What the hell is her problem?" Kai spat. Riku didn't respond.
For some reason, Lara had always intimidated her. It was like Lara was seriously out to get her.
"RIKU!" Riku jumped when Kai yelled her name.
"Jeez, no need to yell!" she shot back.
"Well, when I said your name the other ten times in a normal voice, you didn't seem to hear me!" he retorted.
"Oh…r-really?" She asked. "Sorry, I guess I was daydreaming." It was a bad excuse.
"Are you upset about what Lara said or something?" Kai asked.
"No, w-why would I be?" she asked defensively.
He shrugged. "I don't know, you just seemed nervous around her, that's all."
"I'm not nervous around her!" she shot back.
Mokuba looked at his watch. "Let's go in you guys." He said, jumping up and running towards the building.
Riku got up quickly as well, but Kai grabbed her arm.
"What?" she asked.
"Why are you upset over Lara?" he asked.
"I told you already that I'm not!"
"Well any moron can see that you were because you're near tears now and you stuttered when you talked to her!" he shot back.
"Just leave me alone!" she snapped. He was right. She was close to tears.
"Fine!" he retorted, annoyed. "Be that way!" and so, he let go of her arm and strode away.
Riku stood looking after him, her tears now freely falling.
***
Shizuka sat at her computer and looked up the classifieds for job listings.
She had been searching ever since she had come home, and now three hours later, she was still searching. Even her brother had failed to distract her for even five minutes from her self-assigned task. She needed a job and she needed one now, and as her luck would have had it, she got a hit!
But when she saw the company for which the job was advertised, she almost fell off of her chair, and at that glamorous moment of having no balance her brother walked into the room.
"So Shizuka, how's you're search going?" he asked, casually glancing over the computer screen. "Kaiba Corporations?!?" he exclaimed. "What the heck?" He looked at his sister questioningly.
"Um well, I was looking for companies that needed secretaries and look what popped up!" she said, trying to hide her moment of falling-off-the-chair glory. "It doesn't mean that I'll apply for it." She said.
"Damn straight you won't apply for it!" Jounouchii exclaimed.
That got her pissed. "Well…well maybe I will!" she shot back.
"WHAT!?!"
"Yeah! Maybe I'll get the job at Kaiba Corp!" she was on a roll now. "You can't stop me!"
"There is no way that any sister of mine is going to work for that…that…JERK!"
"Stop me!" She challenged.
"I will lock you in the house, but you are not working for him!!!" He yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Mind your own business!" she yelled back, equally as loud. "Maybe he is a jerk, but he's a jerk that'll give me a paycheck!"
Not to mention, I'll get to look at that face everyday…Oh shit! NO!!! I AM NOT IN LOVE WITH KAIBA!!! BAD THOUGHTS!!! BAD!!!
"I'm not in love with him…" she muttered, but quickly slapped her hand over her mouth when she realized that she had said that out loud.
"In love with who?" her brother asked.
"No one." She muttered quickly.
Oh shit! I'm an idiot!
"C'mon, who is it sis!" he teased. "When a girl says that she doesn't love someone, it means that opposite!"
"How would you know?" she challenged. "Are you a girl?"
"Who is it? Honda?" he guessed.
Honda!?! Yeah…Honda…
"You guessed it!" she smiled. "Now get out, and if you say a word to anyone, you'll be dead!" She quickly pushed him out the door and slammed it behind her.
"Honda…" she repeated the name.
What had she just done?
Oh my god…
My brother thinks that I'm in love with Honda…
He can't keep a secret for his life…
CAN MY LIFE GET ANY WORSE???
Now she was in trouble. She denies that she loves Kaiba though she does and to cover that up tells her brother that she loves Honda, which she doesn't and now…now she's going to apply for a job at Kaiba Corp and her life is totally screwed up, oh and she had just spent ten bucks on black lip liner that she was never going to wear in her life. That was the last ten dollars that she had to her name.
She had to get this job, and she had to devise a way to keep her brother's mouth shut.
***
As luck would have had it for poor Riku, her next class was with Lara and not one of her friends was in it.
Now, it's interesting to know why Riku reacts that way around Lara. Why is Riku intimidated by Lara?
It's quite simple. Lara is better then her at everything and makes a point of it all the time, and she's an evil witch. Lara gets better grades, can do more sit-ups, and scores more goals in soccer. And to a ten-year-old this is bad enough, but Lara doesn't stop there.
Riku sat down at a desk near the back of the room, knowing that Lara, the teacher's pet always sat in the front where she could answer the most questions, but today was totally not her day, so Lara sat down next to her.
"Hi Riku!" she said.
Riku mumbled something that sounded like 'hi'
Lara quickly began to unpack her books onto the desk next to Riku's. "So how was the rest of your lunch with those so-called-friends of yours?" she asked, as if she had asked something that was perfectly legitimate.
"What d-do you mean?" Riku asked quietly.
"Riku! Don't tell me that you're that naïve!" she exclaimed. "You mean you haven't heard?" she asked.
"Heard what?"
"Well, the rumors are all over, oh you poor dear." she said, feigning sympathy. "Do you really think that a kid like Mokuba with all that money and prestige wants you as a friend?" she asked.
"I-I don't know what you mean." She replied.
"Between us, friends, Mokuba doesn't like you. He keeps you around because he needs you to help him with his homework and such c'mon can't you tell?" Lara asked, thrilled with the uncertainty that was emulating form Riku.
"That's not true." She whispered.
"Oh, but it is…I mean think about it, why would he bother with a girl like you anyway? He's rich! He has his pick of any body that he wants." Lara finished. "Just think about it, I don't want you to get hurt later."
Riku didn't respond, she just looked down at her desk. Lara smiled evilly when she knew that Riku wasn't looking.
I'll get you Mokuba. I'll show your rich spoiled-brat self how hard life is for everyone else. I hate you more than words can describe, and I hate everyone like you. It's not fair that it was taken away from me.
Riku felt extremely uncomfortable right about now. She wanted to tell the teacher that she wasn't feeling well and get permission to leave the room, but she stayed in her seat, not daring to move as long as Lara's eye was on her.
Lara would break Mokuba one step at a time, starting with his friends, and he would know how to ignore Lara Samuida.
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