Chapter Seventeen – School
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Chapter Seventeen – School
"Aw shit… do I have to?
?" Kriss looked at her alarm clock. It was six fifteen in the morning.
"Um, yeah, you knew about this since like, uh, last week!" Marik told her. Turning off the clock and yanking the blanket off of Kriss.
"Yow! That's cold! Give it back!" Kriss said, sitting straight up and glaring it him.
"No! You've got to go to school first!" Marik taunted.
Kriss grumbled and got up. She looked at Marik, then at her uniform, "Shoo," She said, gesturing at the same time.
Marik chuckled and left the room. Kriss scoffed to herself and started to get into her blue uniform.
Kriss emerged looking rather weird and somewhat like a Duke-Poser. In fact, she felt weird too. Marik laughed and asked her,
"Are you walking?"
"Nah, I think I'll just steal your motorcycle, again!" Kriss cheerily responded.
Marik glared and gave her the, 'don't even think about it' look, which she got rather often…
Kriss chuckled and went through the door; Thorn ran up and skidded behind her. He grinned.
Kriss looked at him, "No."
Thorn looked crushed. His ears drooped and his tail sagged as he went back up the stairs to the room.
"A little harsh, huh?" Ishizu asked.
"He knows he can't go…" Kriss responded.
Kriss continued her trek, (Yes, another trek.) She walked to Duke's place to see if he was ready yet. He burst through the door and didn't even notice her as her rushed in another direction.
'Wow, like I'm not used to that…' Kriss thought dully. She then ran off in the direction Duke had gone; her laptop bag banging at her side, and getting quite annoying.
Kriss looked at the swarming school that reminded her instantly of a bee hive and took a deep breath. This was it. The first impression.
Kriss walked up, she got some funny stares, but nothing too major. She'd thought it'd be a lot worse, being in a guys' uniform and all. Kriss found her class and opened the door. Everyone stared at her. She spotted Duke. And Joey, and Kaiba. Kriss sighed.
"Oh great, everyone who hates me all in one class…" She breathed.
"Oh great, a cross dresser!" Seto smirked.
Kriss glared at him.
"Oh great, an amateur…" Kriss retorted.
Seto glared back, but did not say a word.
Kriss sat down next to her brother.
"Why are you in a guy's uniform?" Duke asked.
"'Cause there were no skirts that fit me, thank Ra…" Kriss then added, "You know what that means?"
"That…uh…no…"
"I'm going anorexic…"
Duke chuckled.
"People are going to think you're weird for wearing a guys' uniform though…"
"People are going to think that I'm weird for having to live in a dumpster for four years, think I care?" Kriss asked.
"That's true…"
Another boy walked in. He had white hair and a cool pendant around his neck. He walked over and stopped in front of Kriss' desk.
"What? Do you want to make a joke?" Kriss asked.
Duke punched her arm. Kriss growled.
"No, that's my seat," The boy said.
"Oh!" Kriss replied, she hopped out and sat in the one behind Duke.
Kriss heard Seto say something and a couple people laugh, but she didn't care at the moment.
"What's the beef between you and Kaiba?" Duke leaned over and asked.
"I dunno, but he started it," Kriss whispered back.
"It's never your fault…" Duke exasperated.
"I know! I'm the innocent victim!" Kriss grinned.
"Yeah… "Innocent"" Duke sighed.
"That's me!" Kriss grinned again.
The teacher walked in. She looked at Kriss.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"A cross dresser," Seto smirked.
"Oh can it Kaiba!" Kriss spat.
The teacher asked again, "Who are you?"
"The new student…" Kriss told her.
"Oh, yeah, I got an e-mail about you!" She remembered.
Kriss made the 'loco' sign to Duke; he snickered and made the gesture to stop.
The teacher was scanning her screen, "Oh yeah… Miss…. Devlin?" she asked.
Everyone burst out laughing. Duke glared at Kriss.
"And I knew he put my under that name, how?" Kriss asked.
"Now everyone knows I'm related to you!" Duke hissed.
"Do you not want to be related to me? I can kill you, you know!" Kriss hissed back.
Duke looked at her funny and went back to looking forward.
"I thought so," Kriss said.
The teacher looked at her and Duke.
"Perhaps you'd like to go sit over there, there's and empty seat next to Kaiba," She suggested.
Seto pushed the empty desk away from his.
"Um, I think not," Kriss shook her head.
"Too bad, now," She ordered.
Kriss grumbled and got up and walked across the room. Yugi and his friends were all huddled in the middle of the row. Kriss passed them but did not make eye contact. She knew Wheeler would take any opportunity to taunt her in any way, shape or form.
Kriss sailed by them and sat in the desk by Kaiba. Seto glared at her. Kriss returned it gladly.
"Well, I think that you two will soon be good friends!" The teacher concluded.
"Yeah… "friends'" Kriss scoffed.
"I'd rather die," Seto responded.
"Yeah, anyways," The teacher began her lesson. It was geometry first. Kriss was an expert at it.
Then they moved on to science, which she was also good at. The one that amazed everyone was that she was even better than Duke at Spanish. Duke was the best in the class, until Kriss at least.
By the time lunch rolled around, Kriss was quite pleased with herself. When the bell rang, Duke waited at the door for her to catch up.
"Yo," Duke said.
"Yo yourself," Kriss responded.
"We've got to work on that..." Duke said.
"I know…"
They walked to the cafeteria, apparently in that short of time, word about Kriss spread like a wildfire throughout the school.
Everyone stopped talking at once and turned at stared at her.
Kriss sighed, and then she leaned back and whispered to Duke,
"I have the feeling someone's staring at me…"
"Don't we all?"
"No, I really, really think that someone's staring at me!"
"EVERYONE is staring at you Kriss!" Duke shouted.
"Thank you for that update!" Kriss thanked.
Everyone laughed at her as she walked. She got her lunch then waited for Duke to get out of the line.
"Where do you usually sit?" She asked him.
He pointed over to where Yugi and Co. were sitting.
"Ah, how predictable," Kriss scoffed.
Nevertheless, she walked over anyways. This was going to be a fun lunch.
They were talking about dueling when Kriss and Duke came over.
"Oh come on! Ishizu is so better than Kaiba!" Tristan said.
"Everyone is better than Kaiba," Kriss said.
"You barely even know him!" Joey argued, "Dino Dork's Girlfriend," He added under his breath.
Kriss however, did not let it go unnoticed. She pushed Joey out of his chair, moved his tray aside and sat down.
"Well… that solves the seat problem…" Kriss responded.
"Hey! You're the seat problem! You're everyone's problem!" Tristan bursted, sticking up for his friend.
"No I'm not, however, annoying people like you are," Kriss said dryly.
"I am not annoying!" Tristan argued.
"Okay! Now you're arguing about being annoying! Just shut up and leave me alone!" Kriss shouted.
Tristan took this as his queue to listen for once.
"Duke, she has problems, why do you hang out with her man?" Tristan whispered.
"I heard that you know," Kriss said blankly.
Joey "sneakily sneakily" grabbed his tray off of the table and began eating in peace on the floor.
"I have to, kind of… She grows on you after awhile," Duke explained.
"You know, I think it was more confusing when you explained it…" Kriss said.
"Yeah, I think so too!" Joey piped in.
"You're always confused…" Kriss said.
"Oh yeah! Dino Dork's Girlfriend. Ha Ha! You can't push me! I'm already on the floor!" Joey pointed out.
"No, but I can still step on you!" Kriss smirked.
Joey looked scared so he stood up and stuck out his tongue, Kriss pushed him.
"That wasn't nice!" Tea told her.
"Neither is him calling me Rex's girlfriend! I don't see you yelling at him," Kriss shouted back.
"That's because friends are too valuable to waste! Yelling at friends never makes anything better! Life is much more bearable with friends!" Tea said.
"Are you done yet?" Kriss asked.
"No, I'm not!" Tea said angrily.
Duke nudged her.
"Don't, it'll just make her more mad…" Duke said.
"You get angry too easy…" Yugi stated.
"It took you that long to come to that conclusion?" Kriss asked, "Wow, I'm almost afraid to hear what Joey thinks I am…" Kriss scoffed.
"No, I just needed to restate that," Yugi explained.
"Well, we didn't need it restated, I do that on my own," Kriss said.
Yugi shrugged.
The bell rang. The gang threw away their trash and went back to class.
"That was a short lunch…" Kriss observed.
"Yeah, I forgot how short it was…" Duke agreed.
Kriss and Duke went back to class. Duke went to his seat and Kriss journeyed over to hers. Seto was still just as mad as when she first came over.
"Back?" He asked.
"Yeah, not like you care…." Kriss responded, hauling out her laptop.
"Don't forget it," Seto spat back.
"I can't, you won't let me," Kriss responded.
Seto just ignored her. Not like she cared, she just ignored him back.
After school was over Kriss met Duke at the front of the building.
"So, do you need a ride?" Duke asked.
"No, you ignored me this morning… I'll just walk again," Kriss said.
"When did I ignore you?" Duke asked.
"This morning! I went over to your house and you ran out and didn't even notice me!" Kriss told him.
"I didn't? Huh… that's weird, I would have at least seen you I thought…" Duke mused.
"Well, I guess not!" Kriss said.
"Nope!"
"You're not helping yourself…"
Well, I think I'll end the hilarity there for now. I have no clue what the next chapter is going to be about…
-Kriss
P.S. R&R!
