Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!.

Summary: Tea's hopes of being with Yami are hopeless. Brad Phoenix, an American exchange student, develops a crush on the beautiful brunette. Will Tea accept Brad's love, even if he is dense and a bit goofy?

Pairings: Tea x Brad, Yugi x Ryou, and Seto x Yami

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Soon the bell to homeroom rang and the students stood up from their seats to leave. Tea sighed in relief because she thought homeroom would never end since she wanted to get away from the okami boy. However, she did keep a promise to the freshman that she would show him around.

"Okay, Tea. I'm ready for the tour." Brad said with enthusiasm.

"Um, sure, but I need to see your schedule in order to show you around." Tea explained.

"No prob." Brad grinned, taking his bookbag off his shoulders and opened one of the zippers, searching for it, "I know I have it in here somewhere."

Tea sighed; a bit annoyed where the wild black haired boy didn't know where he placed his own schedule. 'This is going to take forever' she thought. Just thinking about it got on her nerves. Soon four minutes had passed and the brunette's patience was starting to grow thin, "Did you find it yet?" she asked, her voice almost stern. She also had a pissed off anime face and an anime vein on the left side of her temple.

"Aha! I found it." Brad replied with a goofy grin and held it high.

"Finally, I mean… splendid. Now, let me see." Tea said, taking the card from Brad's hand and looked at it carefully. Her eyes widened when she realized that the okami boy's schedule for each period was identical.

"What's wrong?" Brad asked, scratching his head in confusion.

"What? Oh, nothing. Just that your schedule is identical to mine." Tea replied with a nervous chuckle.

"Okay, sounds cool. How about we head to our class now?" Brad suggested, placing his schedule in his bookbag and placed it back on.

Soon the two finally left homeroom and headed to first class. After five periods of learning, lunch had finally arrived. Tea was actually glad she made it through because lately her classes were getting boring but somehow Brad added something to her classes, like they were more alive and a bit interesting. However, the brunette still thought he was still annoying. Joey waved his hand to get Tea's attention.

"Hey, Tea. Over here!" Joey called like a happy-go-lucky blonde he was.

"Joey, must you always act like an idiot?" Duke sighed and shook his head.

"Yeah man, sometimes you embarrass us too much." Tristan had to agree with Duke on this one.

"What is this! Gang up and bash on Joey Day!" Joey exclaimed and huffed angrily.

"Joey, calm down. I'm sure Tristan and Duke didn't mean it." Ryou smiled and turned to face the two boys, "Right?" he asked a bit sternly but in a friendly way.

"Right." The two said in unison.

Tea and Brad walked to the table and sat with the gang, "Brad, these are my friends. This is Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Ryou, and Duke." She introduced her friends in the order she met them.

"Nice to meet you, Brad." Yugi smiled.

"Yes, it's nice to have someone new for a change." Ryou agreed, also referring to his first time being the new student.

"Nice hairstyle. Did you come up with it yourself?" Tristan asked quizzingly.

"No, I was born with it that way." Brad answered proudly.

"Wow, sure beats Tristan's pencil hair." Joey snickered.

"Ha ha, very funny Joey." Tristan said with sarcasm.

"So Brad, tell us what's America like?" Duke asked curiously.

"America is definitely awesome. I pretty much lived in Hollywood, California and mostly go to the amusement parks. You have no idea how fast the roller coasters go there, it's sweet!" Brad explained with enthusiasm.

Soon lunch was over and last period had finally arrived. Tea and Brad both had gym class in the workout room. They were both paired up and the older girl felt comfortable being partnered up with a goofball.

" So, what do you want to do first?" Tea asked.

"Well, I could work on my arms with the dumb bells." Brad answered, feeling his biceps.

Tea nodded and followed the okami boy to the dumb bell section. The black haired freshman chose 60 lbs while Tea stuck with 30 lbs. Brad was working out his arms with pure intensity and sweated a bit. Tea noticed this and started to think about something. 'He shouldn't wear himself out like that' she thought in a protective way.

"Don't workout so hard… your starting to sweat and… I don't anything happening to you." Tea explained to Brad seriously.

"Okay." Brad said, confused by Tea's behavior and wiped the sweat off his forehead.

The two students worked on the other exercising machines to improve their other body parts before thirty minutes had passed. Soon school was over and everyone walked out. Tea was tired from the entire workout she did with Brad. Brad saw Tea and ran up next to her.

"Tea, you alright?" Brad asked, concerned that Tea might have worked out too hard.

"Yeah, I'm fine." The brunette assured, "Why do you ask?"

"Because I know you worked out intensely and I'm just worried that you wore yourself out." the okami-jin explained.

Tea couldn't help but smile, "Don't worry, I'm fine. A good rest should do the trick but I'll be fine."

"Alright… just don't wear yourself out." the freshman said seriously.

"I won't." Tea assured before she saw Brad leave and waved to her. 'Maybe he isn't so bad…he is nice, in an little brother sort of way' she thought and went her own way. She started to think she could use another workout for some odd reason. The brunette bit her lower lip but something wanted to make her do it when she walked into the house.

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I hope you all enjoyed the chapter! Anyway, it makes you wonder what Tea is going to do. Anyway, please review and I'll update once again when I get the chance.