a/n: sorry I took so long to update, I was a little busy with multiple fics and counting down the days until Christmas and my birthday!
That morning came and it seemed just about everyone had found sleep, that is, except Yami, he was too worried about how his proposal would go over. He had managed to doze most of the night, not very deeply though, deep enough to get a little rest but shallow enough not to realize he had fallen (a/n have you ever laid down and gone to sleep but when you woke, you didn't know you'd fallen asleep until you looked at the clock? that's kinda what happened here).
Yami walked into the living room, seen no reason continue trying to go to sleep. He plugged in the Christmas tree and then realized Kaitlin was about to get up, she had a few last minute things to get ready so she went to bed early and set her alarm for about 9 o'clock, and it was 8:57. Figuring it would take just a couple of minutes for a cup of hot cocoa he decided to put some water on for that, he knew his sister would want something to wake her up. She had a new kettle and he was pretty glad it was the whistling variety, but there was a concern that it would wake Yugi. Then Yami was comforted by the fact that Yugi's door was closed. He then heard someone moving around in the living room. He looked to see his sister was already up.
"Good morning" he abandoned the idea seeing she seemed pretty much awake and walked into the living and took a seat beside Kaitlin.
"Good morning, how'd you sleep?"
"I barely slept at all... what about you?"
"Same here" Kaitlin replied
"I'm worried that Téa will say no to my proposal" Yami was more than a little concerned "Kaiba and Michael said it's a crazy and think I'm a fool
"Better to let people think you a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt, and besides, you'll never know what she'll say unless you ask"
"You're probably right" Yami looked up to see Yugi come out of his room rubbing his eyes; still half asleep. He gave a hollow chuckle he knew that Yugi had been looking forward to this since, well December 1st. Yami was having trouble waiting himself, he had plans and they all surrounded Téa and asking her to marry him... he was so nervous and Kaitlin could see him relax when he saw Yugi, looking so much like a little child that was woke up long before he was ready to awake to a new day.
"Good morning Yuge" Kaitlin said
"Hey Kaitlin" He replied
The rest filtered in after Yugi, Joey was the last up and Téa had been second, Tristan was second to the last.
They had breakfast and then went for presents.
They opened all their presents, or what they thought was all of their presents.
"I guess that's it" Téa said with a gentle smile, not realizing what was yet to come
"No, Téa, that isn't it" Yami said then he pulled out the ring box that he'd so skillfully hidden from view within the tree. Tea gasped in shock, why hadn't she noticed that, a blue ring box should stick out like a sore thumb against a green tree.
"Téa, you were the one who was their to help me find answers when I was lost, and now I have a question that only you can answer" he went down on one knee in front of the surprised teen girl.
"Téa Gardener, will you marry me?" he asked and presented the ring.
She gasped in complete shock. She didn't expect a marrage proposal on Christmas morning.
To be continued...
A/N: sorry about the short chapter, I had to leave you hanging another time and in order to do that I had to cut this one rather short (don't you just love cliff hangers lol)
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