Tea awoke in a start; the events that happened the other night seemed like a dream. Her dreams, no, nightmares, were filled with images of the high priest and that woman that looked like her. She suddenly understood why Yugi was so upset, he couldn't bear to see her, and being honest, she couldn't bear to see him again today. Oh how she wished she didn't have to go to school today, but life wasn't that fair, she still had to go through three more days. She just hoped that Yugi wouldn't approach her with this until the weekend was over.
She got on her school uniform, and remembered what Ishizu had said the other night before she left, " I'm sure that everything will work out for the best Tea."
" Everything will work out for the best?" Thought Tea, " What's the best, what happened to that woman five-thousand years ago? I don't think that was for the best…Argh! Why Kaiba?" She was a nervous wreak, nothing she tried could get her to stop thinking what happened, " And the fortuneteller looked straight into my eyes back then. Talk about creepy!"
She slept in today due to the nightmares, and she would have to hurry to get to school on time. She thanked all that is, when she arrived in homeroom class in time for the first bell. She took her regular seat, and waited for the inevitable. Yugi would arrive soon; he always did get to class just in the nick of time since he became World Champion. Everyone would challenge him to duels, Joey and Tristian on the other hand were always late, and not because of duels. They always arrived late because Joey was a chronic sleeper, and always overslept, and it was always Tristian prying him out of bed just so they both could even make it to school.
The second bell and Yugi wasn't there yet. Now this was odd, he was never late for class. After ten minutes of boring lecture, the door burst open with the regular school day special. Joey and Tristian run through the door at the same time, apologize to the teacher, and walk to their seat all the while arguing amongst each other on who's fault it was that they were late.
When the teacher had assigned the class work and sat down, Tea questioned Joey about Yugi, " Hey, why isn't Yugi here?"
" Huh?" Joey started, " Well, ya see we were over at Yugi's house this morning. Mr. Motou needed us to tell the main office that Yugi was sick, and before we left he stuck us with some chores!"
" And we still would'a made it here in time if you didn't make such a scene with the garbage basin." Tristian tells him.
" Hey, I couldn't help it if a black cat was coming my way! Do you want me to lose all my duels with the bad luck?" Joey countered.
" You'd probably lose them anyway." Tristian mocks.
" C'mon guys, stop it. Why do you think Yugi is sick?" Tea asked.
" Dunno…" Joey says, " Hey, what's with the bags under your eyes?" He adds after noticing that drowsy look in Tea's eyes.
She couldn't tell them why she had the bags under her eyes, at least not yet, " Nothing."
" I don't think its nothing Tea, you also seem a little different today…" Joey says trying to figure out what was bothering Tea, he was never good at such things.
Suddenly the bell rang, and they each had to go on their separate ways until lunch. Saved by the bell, as most would say, Tea never got the chance to lie again. She was never good at lying. She now had a whole hour to figure out what to do, should she tell Joey and Tristian, or not? It was an important question that she would have to answer soon.
In her next class, there was only student that she knew. Probably the toughest person she would have to meet today since Yugi was sick, she knew it probably wasn't the nicest thing to think about her friend, but she truly hoped that he would stay sick for the rest of the week. The only good thing was that she most likely wasn't going to have to deal with this person, Seto Kaiba.
She entered the class and took her usual seat, and noticed something odd. Kaiba wasn't already there. Since he had homeroom and this class in the same room, he never had to get out of his seat for the second class. But he was nowhere to be found. It seemed awfully suspicious that both he and Yugi, the two males affected by this current of events, were both missing the same day. The only difference between Kaiba and Yugi, though, was that Kaiba never saw the events in the past.
He walked in sometime before the first bell, like Tea; he also had bags under his eyes. This was not a good sign. He took his regular seat at the back of class, a place he took so the other students whom he very much so disliked wouldn't bother him.
" He probably is starting to feel tired from staying up all night for the past month." Tea tried to reason with herself.
She really didn't like the thought of Kaiba knowing this; it would be a very uncomfortable situation if he and she were to actually talk about it. She never really thought of Kaiba like this before, she always just ignored him, like he wanted. And now, since she was thinking about him, she found she couldn't stop thinking about him!
" No, I gotta stop thinking about this, that was just some bad dream last night. And even if it wasn't, Kaiba would never in a million years even think about marrying me." She kept telling herself, but the feeling wouldn't go away.
It was bothersome too; she looked at her desk in hopes that Kaiba wouldn't notice her staring at him. Why did this have to happen to her? Why couldn't life just continue like it had been, why did that old woman have to look right at her?
The teacher stood up in front of the class when the bell had rung; he counted heads and got right into his lesson plan. He had intended on letting the class work in-groups today, and as fate would have it, he chose for Tea and Kaiba to be in the last group, since they were too tired to pay attention.
After much hesitation with the staring battle between herself and Kaiba, Tea finally moved over to the back of the room. She opened her textbook to the required page, and they set to work on the problems, agreeing without needing words what they should do. Much like she expected, it was an uncomfortable situation. She now was so close to him that she couldn't ignore him, and as for him, he just didn't like having to deal with any of Yugi's friends period.
It was only after a while that they needed to talk to each other, it was on a question that tea couldn't figure out. She unconsciously said, " Hey, I can't remember what this one is."
Kaiba sighed, Tea could tell that he had appreciated the quiet. This started to make her blood boil, she always hated how anti-social he could be, " Well that unexpected," He started, " out of all the idiots in here, you were the last person I would expect to forget something." Kaiba said.
Despite his dislike to have to deal with her, Kaiba was still a businessman, and he knew that if he wanted the people that worked for him to do a good job, he couldn't put them down. In this case, he was in a partnership, and although what he said was not meant to be nice at all, he phrased it in such a way that she couldn't get too upset.
Too bad he didn't know women like he knows about business, " Well I'm sorry," Tea seethed at Kaiba, " I didn't get much sleep last night, and it's kinda hard to remember small things when you're sleepy." It was only after this statement that Tea realized who she was talking to.
" And you're complaining to me?" Kaiba said, it was all he needed to say, after all, he was famous for his regular late nights.
It wasn't long before she could think of a good comeback though, " Yeah, you should know. You must be always forgetting little things, like, what day is it?"
Now she had him on this one, he knew the month and the number day, but he had completely forgotten what day of the week it was. An unimportant detail, but one that now had some importance now since he was asked it.
" Hmph, what does it matter?" He snorted back at her; he really didn't have an answer.
With no winner over that little spat, the two just looked at each other for a moment or two, before realizing what they were doing. Tea snapped back to her book saying that she just remembered what to do, and Kaiba looked back at his own book looking as calm as he can.
The bell broke the silence at last, and the students got up to take their leave of the class. She would use the next period to think about telling Joey and Tristian about her vision of the far past. After all, she would have to deal with it sooner or later. And if she waited for later, things would just get worse.