Science of Attraction-8
IceAngelDarkMoon
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Joey could feel the pain still as he got dressed fro school and put on the school uniform. The swelling and pain had gone down a lot, but they were still pretty large. Seto's cream had worked really well; he'd have to remember to thank Seto later. HE made his way down the stairs extra quietly; his father had not been drunk the night before and would wake up easier. Luckily for Joey his dad was still fast asleep on the couch as he left. He walked fast to Yugi's house he wanted to just get as far from that house as he could, but he still felt like he couldn't leave it.
"Hey Joey!" Yugi called as soon as Joey was close enough to hear the shorter boy. Joey put on the smile that was his cover in school and called back.
"Hey yourself Yug! (Yes I really meant that to just be Yug and not Yugi!) What have you been up to?" Joey didn't really want to talk about what had happened to him this weekend so he decided to beat Yugi to the question. Yugi colored a little in his cheeks but answered.
"Well I still haven't been sleeping very well. But Yami's been trying some old Egyptian remedies for me. I think I'm starting to worry him." Yugi looked thoughtful after the last part. Joey knew that Yugi liked his Yami, maybe even loved. But Yugi had to come to terms with his feelings first. But Yugi was still very upset over his Grandfathers death a few weeks before. Joey couldn't blame the boy; Grandpa had been like his own grandfather and was a really great person. Joey didn't think he would lose any sleep over his own father's death, but that wouldn't be for a long while, he assumed. By this time they had reached were Tristan joined them and Ryou joined them if they were on time. Today everyone was running on time and the whole group was assembled, minus Tea, whom no one particularly missed. Usually she went and picked up Yugi, then most of the time everyone was surprisingly early and had left before Tea got there. (Sorry to any one who likes Tea, but I hate her!) Everyone started to complain about spending the entire weekend working on their science project. Joey just laughed at what all had happened and kept quite.
"Earth to Joey, please come back to earth!" Broke into Joey's thoughts as he walked, he hadn't even realized that he had gone thinking again. Tristan was knocking on his head calling into his ear.
"Why you little..." Joey said and tackled Tristan to the ground; it was their usual tussle for the morning. Joey enjoyed fighting with his friend every day; it gave you a sense of comfort in routine. But everyday it was fun to see what actually started the fight. While he was rolling around with Joey he saw Seto arrive and walk into school. Seto looked towards Joey but didn't say anything or do anything. If anyone else had been watching they would have thought it odd, because almost like with the fight Kaiba always jeered Joey or one of the gang about something and then walked in. But he couldn't do it that morning, he didn't know if he would ever be able to jeer at Joey again and mean it. Joey smiled at him, but Tristan knocking the air out of him covered it and Joey went back to his fighting again.
The bell rang and everyone rushed to get to class on time. Joey ran to his homeroom, as did almost the entire group except Ryou, he had a different homeroom. Joey saw Seto at the end of the hallway, but he knew that if he looked at Seto for too long he would get flustered. He had to act like nothing had changed; he had to pretend he and Seto still hated each other. He quickly ducked into his classroom and took his seat.
"Today class you get to start your poetry project. By Wednesday you have to turn in a love poem. You can choose any format and length, but it must get a point across. You will recite them in front of the whole class, too. So get started you will have all today and tomorrow in class to work on this assignment." The evil Language Arts teacher must have plotted for a long time to get such a perfectly evil assignment. Joey was really bummed at first but the more he thought about it the easier it seemed to him. He could just write a poem about how he felt about Seto. There was only one problem he had a limited vocabulary. But the teacher just about said that anything goes, and he figured f it was from his heart it would work out just right. He started working on it right away and was about halfway finished when the bell rang for the end of class. He couldn't believe it; he was enjoying the poetry project in his least favorite teacher's class. Maybe things really were changing, if only things with his father were like this.
The rest of the day past pretty much uneventful until science class. Joey had successfully avoided Seto for the whole day, and Seto had avoided him. His friends luckily hadn't pressed him about his science project. Joey took his seat and stared straight down at his desk top, he would not look at Seto, he wasn't sure if he could control himself if he saw Seto. Seto quietly took his seat in the opposite corner from Joey and stared straight ahead and would not turn around for anything, he was having a similar to the problem that Joey was having.
"You will all be choosing lots in class that will have when you have to stay after to present your projects. I hope you all finished and did an excellent job on them; they are worth half of your grade. If you fail, like I'm sure a couple of you will, you get to spend some quality time with me this summer and get to do this all over again. Now send one person from each group up to get your time then tell your partner when you stay after." The science teacher held up a bowl with a bunch of papers in it. Half the class stood up and went to get their time. Seto stood up and confidently went forward towards the bowl, Joey sighed in relief, and he always got the worst time when he had to pick like that. It was almost as if the first spot was drawn to him, but that was just sill to think that paper had a mind of it's own. He could hear the agonizing groans of the people that had gotten the earlier times and the shouts of joy from those that got later times. Joey was holding his breath as Seto put his hand in the bowl and pulled out a number. Joey couldn't tell if it was good or bad, Seto was too good at hiding his emotions. Seto calmly headed over towards Joey's desk still holding the piece of paper. Seto reached Joey's desk and Joey looked up expectantly but Seto just set the paper down on his desk and turned in a swoosh of coat (yes the one that chooses not to have the laws of physics apply!).
Joey was almost relived not to talk to Seto, he wouldn't have known what to say or do. Besides he knew to everyone else it must look like he and Seto were not getting a long any better, worse than before even! Joey carefully unfolded the paper and read it carefully.
"Damn it all! I swear some one up there hates me!" Joey hissed and looked up at the ceiling implying the heavens above. Now he really thought those evil pieces of paper were after him! He and Seto had just gotten the very first spot for presenting. He had to stay after that day and present their project to that old fossil that had started all of this. I used a couple choice words too say exactly what he thought of the teacher. He glanced up at Seto who had been watching, and was surprised to see Seto chuckling quietly to himself in his seat. He had thought that Joey's reaction was priceless, it was hilarious watching him pale at the sight of such a small piece of paper. Joey was almost hoping up and down he was so mad! Besides he was confident that they had done a really good job on the project. Malik went over to Joey then to talk with him.
"Hey Joey, did you get the very first time?" Malik asked quietly in his accented voice. It was like listening to silk (what a hunk of silk, squeal!!) Malik looked not any much happier than Joey.
"Yea, but what's it to you?" Joey was now suspicious. Malik just smirked like he always did and answered as he walked back to his seat.
"I was just seeing who's going before me. You know, to tell what type of mood the teacher is in. But after your project ours should look wonderful!" Joey kicked himself for even talking to Malik. Malik himself wasn't bad, but he knew exactly how to push your buttons and make you steamed. The rest of class was boring, as everyone had to take notes on the life of a slug. The bell rang announcing when everyone else could leave, but to Joey it was the sound of pain. He hated having to go first; it always made him feel like he had done a horrible job.
"It's not that bad having to go first." A voice whispered into his ear as he picked up his stuff. He had to resist the urge to turn around and hug tackle Seto. (Hug tackles are the best type of hug ever!! I'm serous, try it, and just be sure not to knock the person unconscious, which defeats the entire hug!)
"And what makes it not so bad?" Joey asked his back still towards Seto as he finished picking up his books and stuff.
"Well for one thing it means we get it out of the way and don't have to worry about it. And for another it means we don't have to stay after the next few days." Seto touched Joey's shoulder to tug on his shirt. "Come on we have to go present it now. But I...I was wondering if you would like to study with me afterwards in the park?" His cheeks turned an adorable shade of pink, as he got flustered asking Joey. Joey smiled and nodded his head. He would do anything not to have to go home, but this was an added treat. He felt like his heart might bust soon from all the pounding it was doing in his chest at the thought of getting to spend more time with Seto. It really did prove that Seto really did love him, and was not just trying to hurt him. Seto started to lead the way to the teacher's office were they would be resenting when Malik came into the room.
"Hey Joey can I talk to you for a moment?" Malik asked quietly. Joey looked at Seto for a moment to see if he minded then headed over towards Malik into the hall.
"What is it this time? Do you want to know what our project is on to see if yours is better?" Joey asked tiredly, he really wasn't sure if he actually wanted to talk to Malik at the moment.
"Is everything all right between you and Kaiba?" Malik asked slowly feeling out each word but he was watching Joey intently to see his reaction. The good thing for Joey was he had had a lot of practice pretending things were different then they really were and he kept his emotions in check.
"Why do you ask, Malik? Are you concerned for me? That really is a touching thought." Joey was really curious as to Malik's motive.
"You wish. No I just happened to notice you and Kaiba were both avoiding each other like bad blood. I mean more than usual. I missed all the taunting and fighting." Malik said with his easy grace.
"I'm sire you did Malik, but there is nothing different going on with us. Now if you don't mind I have to go present my project now!" Joey turned away from Malik and headed back towards the classroom and office.
"It's almost like you two either are fighting and really mad at the other, or you want the other. Which is it?" Malik asked as Joey turned the corner. Joey pretended not to hear Malik this time and kept walking. But he was really worried. Had Malik really thought that they liked each other or was he just making that up? Did any one else notice? How could Malik be the only one? But then Joey remembered the funny looks that Yugi made towards Joey when he thought Joey wasn't looking, they were the looks that said, 'I knew it!' but in a nice way. How were they going to keep it a secret? At least until Joey got away from his father?
Joey knew that he looked a little flustered as he reentered the classroom but he couldn't help it. Seto looked at him encouragingly and squeezed his shoulder to reassure him. He didn't even ask Joey what was wrong, which Joey again felt thankful for he wouldn't have known how to even start. Just as they were about to enter the office (which is completely a different room that you can only enter through the door and you cannot see in or out of!) Seto leaned over and gently kissed Joey's cheek. Joey could feel a stupid grin plastering itself on his face as they entered the office. The teacher sat inside waiting expectantly. They stepped all the way into the office and then began their presentation (don't ask how the project got there but it's there already!).
"I see I was right when I put you two together, you are both still alive and in one piece!" The teacher pointed out as they stepped in. The boys both secretly thought how wrong the teacher was, they were now both missing their own hearts which the other were now holder of. They both knew that this teacher had been what had gotten them together, but she would never even know it! "So, what did you two do your project on?"
"We did our project on the science of attraction, or magnets. (Ha, there is a reason this fic is called that!!! And you all thought there was no method to my madness, well usually there isn't!)" Seto started off. (This is where I originally planed to leave off, but since not much else has happened I will continue a little farther!)
"We studied that opposites attract." Joey put in and they started their presentation.
The two lovers went into detail about how the science of magnets works and all the scientist that had worked in the field. (I would have typed a report or information, but it was all so boring and you all would have fallen asleep!) Then they got to the part where they had to present their actual project or visual.
"For our project we decided to show that two opposites do attract." Joey started this time (no he doesn't mean they are going to show the teacher that the concept works with people, too!) He then proceeded to pull out their project.
"We have a Blue Eye's White Dragon magnet as the southern pole and the Flaming Swordsman magnet as the Northern pole. When you let the two near each other they are attracted. This shows that opposites attract. Then when we bring in a Petite Angel it is pushed away, showing that likes push against each other."
"Very good boys, you seemed to have learned a lot on this project. I just have one question before you are free to go, why did you chose those duel monsters for the project?" The teacher looked really curious as to their reasoning.
"Well we were looking for things people could relate to and they have really good pictures." Joey said before Seto could even think of an excuse.
"Very well, I see a very good project before me so you get an A minus. Now take your project and get out of here I have to get to the next project now." With that they gathered their thing and left the classroom. On their way out they passed Malik but Joey just ignored him. Waiting on the curb for them was Seto's limo. They tossed the project in and then started walking to the park. The same park that they had gotten stuck in that weird predicament before.
TBC
I know that not much happened, but this needed to be in here. I had to work in the name of the fic and get through the school day. I don't think the next few days will be described like this one. Please review and tell me what you want to see happen or not happen. IADM