Science of Attraction- 14
IceAngelDarkMoon
******Hello all, no I am not dead (Ha and You thought you might have been free of me for good. I'm very sorry about the VERY looooooooooooooooooooong wait for this new chapter, but to say I've been busy is an understatement! I've had various sports games, practices, awards, studying for exams, exams, the end of school, basketball camp, working at camp, and on top of all of that I'm in the process of moving! So I'm going to try my hardest to get the next chapter out as soon as I can, but I can't promise how soon. I hope you all enjoy this new chapter. Winners of the guessing game from the previous chapter are listed at the bottom. And all of you can check out more of my poetry, if you liked it, on FictionPress.net. Just go to the search and type in my screen-name (it's the same!) and you'll see a list as well as an original fiction containing slash! ********
~~~~~~A special thanks to my beta reader who now has a working e-mail so I can actually have a beat reader. I hope there are less mistakes and poorly worded areas! Thank you GuardGirlKT!!~~~~~~
%%%%%%%%%%%%I still own nothing of this except what the characters have become and of course Mokuba's 'Happy Dance' is completely MINE! So hands off it!!!%%%%%%%%%%%
@@@@@@@@@@@@This is still a shonen-ai story if you have missed that so far; check yourself into the nearest mental hospital. You are doing your nation a great deed by doing that! And for those of you who don't know what that means, shonen-ai means boy love, love between two male characters. Slash is along the same lines only it can be used for female relationships as well, but still homosexual. And yaoi is usually a very explicit relationship between two males. Yuri is the same as yaoi only with two females. And lastly shojo-ai is girl love, love between two female characters. I hope this clears things up for people, if I got any of this wrong some one please NICELY tell me so I can fix it, but this is the definition to the best of my knowledge.@@@@@@@@@@
The rest of the day passed agonizingly slow for Joey. He wanted nothing more than to be with Seto and never leave him, damn reality (my thoughts exactly!). Science class was almost back to normal by now; they no longer were working on their projects and stayed in their normal seats the whole time. They were learning something about fungus, but Joey paid very little attention to the old prune teaching the class (I have the right to insult teachers, I live with one! Even if he's nothing like what I describe!) The bell couldn't possibly have rung fast enough for Joey. He had caught Seto's eye before sitting down, but he couldn't decipher the hidden message in the blue depths.
Poor Yugi looked about ready to fall asleep in his chair. Joey was starting to get a little worried about his best buddy. Joey knew that there really wasn't anything he or anyone else could do for Yugi, except maybe Yami. If anyone could save Yugi from himself and his nightmare it would be the Egyptian spirit. And just maybe things would work out for the two, but Joey could only hope for the best.
RING! RING! Finally the bell rang out for all to hear it's exclamation that held freedom in its harsh tone. Joey watched as the other students passed him in a rush to get to their homes, work, or sports. He felt a small wave of envy watching them go; they all for the most part had loving parents that they complained about constantly. Everyone thought their parents were worse than everyone else, even when all it was, was that their parents loved them so much. Joey realized he forgot what it was they felt when they looked at their parents and complained about the smothering love bestowed upon them. He smiled an almost wistful smile at all the ungrateful people who never thought of anyone but themselves and their problems. (Can you tell it has not been a good week for the authoress?)
Joey waved goodbye to his friends as they all went their separate ways for various things. Joey then headed slowly but with a definite bounce in his step for the back door again. But there was also a slight feel of uneasiness lurking around the corner that Joey could not easily ignore. He was first to reach the door again and leaned his forehead against the cool metal door frame. He couldn't help the loud sigh that slide out his parted lips, or the slumping of his shoulders, it was just too much for him all these new feelings and wants and old holdings.
He was pleasantly surprised by two strong well muscled arms wrapping themselves about his waist. A head came to rest on his shoulders and a voice whispered in his ear, tickling his ear in the process.
"Your poem was beautiful; I didn't know I had another Shakespeare on my hands! And sighing like that will collapse your lungs one of these days!" The deep rumble whispered in his ear, followed by a gentle brushing of lips against his cheeks. Joey could feel his face lift at just the feel of Seto. But that same uneasiness was suddenly back prowling around and Joey didn't feel as secure in those arms as he had a moment before.
Joey carefully extracted himself from Seto's loving arms to turn and face his new lover (I guess that's what they're considered!). He could see the affection clearly written there in the eyes that peered back at his own. There was no pretense, no lies, just the pure emotions no longer hidden. No matter how this ended up he would always remember that look in Seto's eyes right then and know that he had been the cause for it. Just as some day he might be the cause for the polar opposite emotions, but if that day came he would face it then.
"Thank you, but it was just lucky. Besides I had a wonderful subject to write about." He flicked Seto's nose before turning to head out the door. "Come on, I have some brownies to bake!" Joey took off at a run making Seto run to keep up with him or at least even close. They raced each other the rest of the way to Seto's mansion. As usual Seto won by just a little bit, and only by using his long legs to his advantage.
"No fair, your legs are too long." Joey pouted as they entered the door side by side. He made his irresistible puppy face at Seto, but Seto just gave his rumble chuckle.
"No yours are just too short!" They then proceeded to stick their tongues out at each other, and would have looked incredibly childish had anyone been watching. As Seto closed the door behind them he leaned over and captured Joey's lips with his. Joey gasped at the sudden change of events but reciprocated the action almost immediately. The kiss soon deepened and their book-bags dropped and all thoughts of brownies had temporarily vanished with that small contact. When they finally pulled back for air, Joey had his back against the door with Seto holding his cheek with one hand and the other braced on the door above Joey's shoulder. Joey in turn had his hand holding Seto's shoulders from under his arms (they're wrapped upwards towards the neck).
"I think we've pretty much broken or word to not revel these feelings until I was free, don't you think?" Joey asked slyly still holding Seto close and looking up from his spot at the taller youth. Seto gave a small almost bashful smile.
"I think you're right, but I don't think either of us could hold that back do you. Besides as long as your father doesn't see or hear about it you're safe, right?" He gave a worried look to Joey. But Joey just smirked (a trait he picked up from his love) and kissed Seto on the nose.
"Yup, so I think we're safe in a house all alone together." Joey smiled up at his taller love, and then slowly untangled himself from the brunette. "I still have some brownies to make." Joey made his way towards the kitchen almost leaving Seto there at the door. But almost out of the front hallway, Seto snagged Joey's arm and kissed him lightly again and then headed off to the kitchen leaving Joey behind. Joey just shook his head at Seto's antics and smiled as he set after his love.
"I'll order the pizza now so it gets here about the same time as Mokuba. You can start on the brownies whenever you like." Seto said. He gestured to the open phone book and phone as he started to dial the pizza place. As Joey got out a bowl and the ingredients for the brownies, including a box of brownie mix, Seto called and ordered the pizza. Just as Seto set the phone back in the receiver it rang. Seto answered it in one swift motion that looked practiced. Seto muttered a few things that Joey couldn't hear from across the kitchen so he just kept mixing the batter for the brownies.
"It's Mokuba; he's going to go have dinner at a friend's house instead of pizza with us. He says he's sorry about missing you Joey, and he still wants a brownie when he comes home." Seto said covering the mouth piece to tell Joey this. Joey smiled at what the younger Kaiba was doing for his older brother.
"Tell him I'll be sure to save him an extra big piece! And to have fun, I'll just have to come back another time when he's here!" Joey yelled excitedly to the other boy who relayed the message to his brother and then hung up the phone.
"That means we have the house to ourselves until after eight tonight. What do you want to do?" Seto asked Joey, with his eyebrows making a suggestion. Joey laughed at Seto's none too obvious idea, but shook his head at the idea.
"I have something we need to talk about anyway. I want to know how to free myself." Joey stated, and the smile and suggestion promptly left Seto's face.
TBC
~Again I'm sorry about the long wait, please review and let me know what you think, I always love to read what you have to say. I actually found Joey's original poem the day after I posted the last chapter, I knew I would find it as soon as I posted, oh well. I would post the poem at the bottom of this but…um...it seems I kind of miss placed it again (damn those little notebooks!) I promise to post it as soon as I find it again, but with my moving that could take a while!
The correct answer to the mysterious guest was: WILLIAM BLAKE, and the Poem Tyger!! My all time favorite poet and poem, which I discovered while I read In the Forest of the Night, by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (an incredible book to read!). And the WINNERS of the guessing game from the last chapter were:
DarkStar
Lady Geuna
GuardGirlKT
Empress Faria
And some people got the book I first read the poem from are:
Phwee?_yami_hobo
Moonlight Sonata
I Hope I didn't forget anyone if I did I'm very sorry!