Stori winked at Lana before turning back to Johnny.
"Well, let's see what you got girly," Johnny said facing the giant screen in front of them. I'll make you eat those words, Stori thought as she too faced the screen.
"Let's get this party started! Players, get your grove on," said the machine. Johnny smirked. They began.
Johnny started by showing off some of his top moves. First he did a triple step; then a slight hand touch; and finished those with a fancy spin, step, and touch.
He looked over at Stori to see what lame progress she was making. But when he saw her, he let his eyes grow wide. Stori was doing better than he was! She moved like a cheetah and yet smiled gracefully as if it was no jiff. Most of the time she was jumping in the air, turning, and landing on the right spot every time. Johnny was so preoccupied that he had let his score go down.
"Hey, make a move Johnny!" Shouted a kid from the crowd.
"Huh? Right," Johnny quickly went back to his stepping and soon caught up.
In Stori's mind, all she could think about was making Johnny eat his words. But suddenly she felt something go wrong. She quickly opened her eyes just in time to see herself tip in the air. She had tried to do a triple step like Johnny but had jumped instead and ended up tripping.
She desperately reached out to the air in front of her hoping she would grab onto some invisible string…but it was no use. She fell backwards into the crowd behind her. Unfortunately for her, everyone moved out of the way as she fell and she ended up falling right on her back; bouncing up about an inch before falling back down on her back again. She winced at the pain and strained herself to try and sit up. She felt someone's hand reaching out and help her up. She opened her eyes to see Lana there beside her asking if she was okay.
"I'm fine Ana-san," she sat up completely. By the time she was up, with help from Lana, the game had already ended and she had lost. She glared up at Johnny as he spoke, mockingly at her:
"Oh, so sad. It's hard to see such a good dancer fail. I really had hopes for ya kid…guess you just not ready to face Johnny Steps," she crowd around him started to cheer and say complementing things to Johnny. Stori and Lana just glared at random people in the crowd who where snickering at Stori. If looks could kill then all of the people they had looked at would have all just fallen over dead by now. But alas, they didn't. And Stori despised that fact.
With one final glare at everyone, Lana helped Stori make it to the doors of the arcade. Stori had one arm around Lana's neck while Lana had one hand holding on to Stori's arms that was around her neck while the other one was under Stori's other arm.
Lana had wanted to take Stori home like that, but she utterly refused. Lana wasn't trying to embarrass Stori, not that she hadn't already been embarrassed enough that day, and she was just trying to help. But Stori told Lana that it was all right and that she should go and enjoy her time.
"Why don't you go on back to KaibaCorp, Ana-san. I'll be fine. I don't want my injuries be responsible for you having a sour day," Stori said with her back turned to Lana.
But before Lana could say anything, Stori had already started her trek home. "Okay…make it home safely Tori-kun," Lana whispered looking back at her staggering friend one last time before heading in the direction of KaibaCorp.
(A/N: Have you noticed how Stori and Lana have all these cute little nicknames for eachother? I think it's just so cute! Oh and btw, Lana and Stori will sometimes call eachother by different nicknames as Lana just did now with 'Tori-kun' Just letting you guys know. Oh and before I forget, this chapter is a two part chapter so, as you may have seen, the first part was about how Stori gets injured while trying to shut Johnny up, and the second half…I 'm not gonna tell ya what's its about. You'll just have to read for yourself. Now, BACK TO THE STORY!)
For the rest of the weekend, Stori stayed at home, partly to recover and partly to try and get some of the project done…without Seto being there. But alas, she found that she needed his help after all so she put it all aside and went back to being miserable for the rest of Sunday.
"Are you feeling better Tori-kun?" Lana asked Stori as she met her in the lunchroom. It was Monday now, and Stori was indeed feeling much better, but she didn't say it to her friend. Instead she just gave a slight nod and walked away from Lana.
Lana gave her vanishing friend a worried look. Stori hadn't talked hardly at all that morning. Lana sighed before turning right and sitting at the table she and Stori sat at…sometimes.
Stori got a cup of coffee for lunch every day now. It was cheaper on money, and it also kept her awake for the rest day, so she had made it a sort of need for everyday. Sure every now and then she would get a regular lunch, and granted she would sit with Lana every chance she got, but lately she had been spending her lunch time in the hall way by the coffee vending machine.
She grabbed her cup of coffee and sat down on the bench that was obviously now claimed as her 'lunch bench.' She sighed. The only reason why she had been spending her lunch time in the hall way was because she had been having a lot of things on her mind lately. There was homework, which she got a tone of now; her friends; her family; her school project, which she despised; and…
Her thoughts where interrupted by the sound of approaching footsteps. She snapped out of her little 'thinking trance' and looked up to see who it was. It was Seto. He, too, was getting a cup of coffee for lunch. He had also been doing that lately, but that was cause he was working on his laptop now more often. She guessed there was something going on at KaibaCorp that he was working on. She rolled her eyes away from him and turned back to her half full coffee cup.
"I sure hope you got some work done on the project, Stori. Seeing as to how you had plenty of time to do so over the weekend," she heard a mocking voice say. She cold sound of his voice cut through her thoughts like a knife cut skin. She mentally felt her body temperature go down by at least 10; but she refused to show any signs of emotion on her face as she turned to look at him.
He wasn't looking her way; instead he was looking lazily at the vending machines in front of him. Stori glared.
"Maybe. What about you? Did you get anything done, pretty-boy?" she shot back. He let his fierce eyes shot to the side to meet with her sky blue ones.
"Actually I had a meeting I had to go to. So no, I didn't," Stori could tell right away he was lying. She knew he hadn't really had a meeting. She knew cause she had seen him at KaibaCorp with Mokuba talking to some guards. But she decided to just play along with his game.
"Oh, that's right, you're a CEO. How silly of me to think that e CEO would have any time to look up some info," she said with a fake innocent look on her face. Seto didn't fall for it.
"You're a lousy liar, you know that?" he said coldly. She smirked at him.
"No, no, its true. After all, I'm sure you where so busy with keeping all of those people from going any further than the main hall of Kaiba Corp. After all you seemed to be in such a stressful situation telling all those guards to keep them away from the elevator," she let that last word have a sting of attitude in it.
"Let me guess…you went to the open house, huh?" he asked looking her strait in the eyes. He was very good at keeping his cool in front of others. Especially when by 'others' he meant 'fools-who-tried-to-prove-him-wrong.' He let his cold eyes narrow.
"Yep…but I didn't really want to go, Ana-san dragged me into it," Stori said finishing the last of her coffee. She walked passed him and tossed the empty cup in the trashcan before heading towards the cafeteria doors.
"Well since we obviously didn't get anything done on the project…I guess that means we'll have to work together on it," he said with a slight twinge of slyness in his voice. But it was too small for Stori to notice. She stopped at the doors with her back turned to him.
"Yeah…guess it does…" she huffed.
"Alright then. See you at your house then."
Kind of short, I know, but still good right? Well, since I still feel bad about not updating in 100 years, I'll give you a hint into what happens in the next chapter:
Seto finds something of Stori's and learns a dark secret of hers.
There you go! Muhahahaha, I will tell you no more. R#R please, and no flames thank you. Ohh, disclaimer: SMB does not own YGO, although she does own these strange characters in her stories. Later guys!