Author Note: I don't own YGO or any of its characters.
WARNING: This is another MUST SEE chapter!!!!
'Love or Pretend?'
Chapter fourteen: You can't hide the truth forever
"Man, for once I am glad that it's Monday and we're back in school," Tristan told the gang at school the next morning. "'Cause as much as I enjoyed eating pizza all night and actually getting along with Duke here, I hated being so polite to his mom."
"Hey!" Duke retorted. "That's my mom you're talking about. She didn't have to agree with letting you and Bret stay there for the weekend. So don't go complaining about her."
"Yes she did," Tristan disagreed, looking at him with a growing smile on his face. Then in a baby voice he added, "or else her little Dukeypoo would have failed the assignment and we couldn't have that, could we?"
Duke was about ready to speak when nothing would come out. He folded his arms across his chest and turned the other way, having his head up high, ignoring Tristan.
"At least you guys got to spend time with each other this weekend," Bakura brought his voice into the conversation, hoping to stop their arguing. "I was stuck home working on my biology project for Mr. Allen."
"Um, Bakura? That was only for extra credit. You really didn't have to do that," Yugi reminded him.
Bakura closed his brown eyes shut as his pale white face blushed, feeling very stupid at the moment. "Y-yes... I suppose you're right about that."
"I don't know 'bout da rest of ya guys, but for once I have ta agree with Tristan on dis one. No offense ta you, Yug or your grandpa, but if I had ta stay one more night dare I dink my head was gonna explode," Joey said.
"Why?" Tea spoke up, causing everyone, especially Joey and Yugi, to look at her. "It's not like you did much while you were there."
On the outside, Tea's words didn't look like they took much effect on Joey, but on his insides, her words went straight for his heart. Ever since Tea and Joey got out of the attic Sunday afternoon, she hadn't been too happy with him. Tea had either been ignoring him or avoiding him as much as possible. Not that Joey didn't blamed her for acting the way that she did because he was the one who messed things up after all, though he still couldn't help but feel bad for not being able to talk to her like he usually did.
"I'll have ya all know dat I did do somethin' dis weekend dat will help for da future in school."
"What, are you telling us that you finally learned how to breathe through your nose?" Tristan spoke up again causing everyone, including Duke, to laugh at his sarcastic question.
"NO!" he yelled at Tristan as he sweatdropped in the background. "I got da assignment done for English class. And I made it three pages long, too."
Everyone, except for Tea, looked at Joey shocked with wide eyes. "You actually did three pages of homework?!" they all asked.
Joey grinned to himself as he said, "ya bet I did."
After calming down, Tristan said, "that's cool, but I still think you should learn how to breathe through your nose."
Yugi, Tristan, Bakura, and Duke all walked away laughing, as Joey started acting angry again. "Dat Tristan... Why I oughta! I'll show him one day! Den he'll wish he never messed w—."
Joey suddenly stopped mouthing-off when he saw that Tea was staring at him, leaning against her locker with not much life in her. "You know you're not doing much for yourself by yelling at Tristan when he's not even around you anymore," she told him with a somewhat indignant tone of voice.
He walked over to her and looked into her eyes, she immediately didn't like this; Joey could tell. "I know you're still mad at me, Tea, but why don't we talk 'bout dis? I mean, tried talkin' ta ya yesterday, but ya kept blowin' me off. Can't we just settle things out and go back ta da way things were?"
"What would be the point, Joey? We'd just start all over again and go back to way things are right now. You and I would start talking, and eventually you'll come up to me out of nowhere and kiss me when I least expect it."
"Dat won't happen again. I promise."
"Oh, just like you did before and you ended up kissing me again in the attic anyway? Sorry, Joey, but for right now I'm not someone who could believe in you're promises at the moment."
"Tea, what's da matter with ya? Look— I'm sorry. I'm sorry dat I kissed back at you're house da other night and I'm sorry dat I kissed ya in Yugi's attic yesterday, but all of dat's over now and I want us ta be okay again."
"See, that's where you're wrong. To you, you just think we should move things on and everything will be okay again, but to me it's going to take some time. And for some reason you don't understand that what you did yesterday change something inside of me. It changed how I look at you as someone I care about, and maybe it always will. But until I can figure out my feelings for you as a friend I need you to stay away from me."
Tea was about to walked away when Joey grabbed her arm and somewhat forcefully pushed her back on her locker. "Don't do this, Tea. Because I know in your heart ya don't mean it. You're one of my best friends and I need ya ta stay by my side like ya always have. Please... Just dink 'bout dis for uh little while. Let me talk ta ya later and I promise things'll go back ta normal."
Tea shook her head slowly and stared into his eyes. "I can't believe you. And I wish I could, I truly wish I could, but I can't. So just leave me alone. I need to go." Then she walked away before Joey could speak again.
"So, Tea, are you still coming over to the game shop after school today?" Yugi asked her after fourth period had ended and lunch began.
"Yeah, I guess so. I talked to my mom about this morning before I left for school and she had no problem with it."
"Great," Yugi said as he smiled to himself. "I can't wait."
"Hey! Yugi, Tea! Wait up!" Bakura's voice was a distance behind them. The silver white-haired albino ran up to them with a bright smile on his face. "Hey guys! What did I miss?"
"Nothing yet," Tea replied. "We were just about to go to the cafeteria and get lunch."
"All right. I guess I'll meet you up there in a few minutes then."
"Why not right now? Do you have somewhere else to be, Bakura?" Yugi asked him.
"Actually yes. I need to go return an important book to the librarian that I used this weekend for my biology project before I forget. I won't have time to do it this afternoon because I'm going somewhere with my mum right after school ends. So I better go check it back in before she leaves for her lunch break."
"Why don't I go with you?" Yugi said.
"Huh?" Tea and Bakura looked at him confused.
"Yeah. See I've got a book that's going to be overdue by tomorrow and I since I won't need it anymore I can just take it back now. That is, unless you don't want to be alone going to the cafeteria, Tea. Then I'll just turn it in later like I was planning to."
"No. I don't mind going alone. You and Bakura just go to the library, return your books, and I'll meet you guys with the others in about ten minutes like we always do. It's no big deal," Tea told him, telling herself that Yugi was once again being overprotected of her.
"Okay," Yugi agreed. "I guess then we'll see you in a few minutes. Thanks!"
"Cheerio!" Bakura added and they walked off to the library together.
Tea smiled to herself as her two friends left and continued walking down the busy hall towards the cafeteria. She was about a minute away from there when she felt a tug on her right arm. Tea was pulled into an empty classroom and the door was slammed and locked shut.
Tea looked straight ahead at the empty classroom and walked around, seeing no one in sight. "Hello? Is anyone in here?"
"Ya know, you're not da easiest person ta get a hold of in dis school," a familiar voice said from behind her. "Lately, da only way ta get your attention is through lockin' ya up with me."
Tea turned around and unpleasantly saw him leaning against the door to get out. "Joey, what are you doing? I'm suppose to be meeting Yugi and Bakura in the cafeteria in just a few minutes. I don't have time to listen to you talk right now."
"Well den I guess it's gonna have ta wait because our friendship is on da line here, and I'm not lettin' it go dat easily."
"What are you talking about?"
"Tea, before ya leave and get out of here we need ta talk."
"We have nothing to talk about, Joey. I don't have anything to say to you," then she walked towards and was about to unlock it when Joey turned her around.
"Well I do and you're not leavin' dis time. I don't care what you're excuse is 'cause I can assure ya dat none of it is more important than what I have ta say ta ya."
Tea felt no reason in arguing; figuring it was probably pointless with Joey anyway. "Fine. What do you have to say to me? Just hurry up so I can leave and get the cafeteria before it gets too crowded."
Joey pulled away from Tea and the door, trusting that she wouldn't leave now. He walked around the room for a few moments and finally started to speak.
"I know dat when I kissed ya yesterday in Yugi's attic it didn't exactly come as something natural or expected. And I know dat I upset ya when I did it, but da truth is ya weren't da only one dat felt somethin' inside yourself when it happened. What I'm tryin' ta say is yesterday I told ya dat I thought I loved ya. And I still dink dat I do, but when I said dat dare was somthin' missin' with it."
"What?" Tea asked, calming down and focusing in on what he was saying.
Joey face started to get a little more serious. "You got all my feelings for you yesterday, but I didn't get any of yours. Ya never told me how ya felt 'bout me. Ya didn't even reject me. At least if ya rejected me I would have known da truth, but ya didn't say anything! You just stood dare!"
"And how was I suppose to act, Joey?" Tea asked as she was walking closer to him. "Please, tell me. I'd love to know. Just tell me this, how are you suppose to act when you have one of your best friends kiss you out of nowhere, tells you that he loves you, and live with it naturally? How?"
"I... I don't know..." Joey had no idea what to say.
Tea face started to soften up as she saw her friend beginning to look sad and confused with her own thoughts and angers towards him. "Joey, let me tell you something. That first kiss you gave me up in Yugi's attic was in fact surreal to me. At first, I couldn't believe that you would kiss me a second time after I told you not to. But then I felt something inside of me disappear as the whole thing was going by. It made me forget how much confusion I was having over Yami and everything else in my life up to that moment. And at some point I even began to like it— a lot. Though, when you kissed me the second time it didn't feel as great."
"Why not?" he asked her with full attention.
"Honestly, because I felt guilt in the second kiss. Guilt that reminded me of our friends and how they would think of us if they knew we did like each other as more than just friends. And please don't take this the wrong way or anything, because I care about you with all of my heart soul, but I can't like you in the way you want me to when there are other people we need to think about before we did something like that."
Joey inched closer to Tea and cupped his hand with her cheek. "Can't or won't?"
She looked up at him more closely; her lack of convince for him quickly came back. "Don't do this to me, Joey Wheeler. You've already broken my heart once, and I won't let you do it again."
The brunette couldn't take any more of this. She was prepared to leave when Joey stopped her half way to the door.
"You can hide your feelin's towards me from Yugi and da others for as long as ya like but ya can't it from your heart forever. If ya keep dinkin' dat ignorin' da truth with what's goin' on between us will help, it won't. 'Cause it'll eventually start ta slowly bring you pain in denial. I know dat you're uh very strong person on da outside, but sooner or later dat love ya have for me will break ya down on your insides because ya try so hard ta shield it away and it won't go. So if ya walk out dat door you're goin' ta begin hurtin' from everythin' dat I've been goin' through da last couple of days, and I'm tellin' ya da truth. I would know."
Tea turned around to face him again, the tears threating to fall out any second. "Then what am I supposed to do, Joey? Just tell you that I love you and have everything change between us for everyone. Is that what you want me to do?"
"No..." he softly spoke to her as he wrapped his arms around her waist and buried his face in her hair. Tea wrapped her arms around his back and cried into his off-white school shirt. "Just listen ta what your heart tells ya. Dat's all I'm askin'. Dat's all I wanna know. Just tell da truth so we can both feel better about dis and let things go back ta da way they were."
Joey lifted his head off of Tea's shoulder and brought her chin up to meet him in his eyes. The brunette's eyes were glistening from her tear stained face. "I love you..." he whispered slowly to her.
'No, I can't take this right now. It's just too much to handle. I'm starting to let Joey get too close to me again, and I can't let that happen. I'll be hurting Yugi, Tristan, Bakura, Duke and even myself if I allow Joey to continue to go on with this whole crazy thing. I need to stop this now just like I promised I would.'
Tea pulled away from him and said, "Joey, I can't do this. It just happening all too fast and nothing feels right and I'm completely scared."
"I know..." Joey whispered again as he pulled Tea back to him in the same position and looked into her sapphire eyes like never before. They were both in a locked mesmerizing state, as they knew what was coming next. Joey angled his head right and bent down a bit, a little hesitant for Tea's reaction. She kept looking into his eyes without breathing a word, moving away when he started coming closer to her. "No, Joey, no. Don't do this again, please. I won't be able to take it if you do. Just let me go."
"I can't hide from da truth from myself anymore, Tea. And you shouldn't either."
Tea's eyes were full of surprise from the way Joey was acting. She had never seen him like this before. His captivating brown eyes looked so comforting and warm at the moment, she couldn't help but stare back into them willingly.
It must felt almost like eternity when she realized how close Joey's face was to hers again. Her voice was lost in the whole thing, but not just before she said her last words and couldn't say anymore to him.
"Joey, don't..."
Then he moved in as close as he could one more time until his lips touched hers, closing his eyes in pleasure of kissing her again. Tea's eyes widened scarcely in shock. She couldn't believe this was happening— again! All of her fears, worries, and unusual desires were starting all over again— just like before. Though, along the way this time, Tea felt something more with this particular kiss. It was the undeniable bliss and warmth that Joey gave to her in his heartfelt kiss that made her melt in his arms. The brunette couldn't believe what she was about to do, but in some strange reasoning within herself it felt right. Slowly wrapping her arms around his neck while closing her eyes she deepened the kissed, much to Joey's surprise. The blonde returned his hands back to her waist, keeping a firm but gently hold on it, he fell in love with the perfect moment that he was finally sharing with Tea.
But unknown to either of them, someone had been watching the little scene between the two the whole time. Only to go into shock when he saw the sight of Joey and Tea kissing in the empty classroom, knowing that this little secret of theirs wasn't going to be secret for much longer...
Who do you think saw them kissing?
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!
WARNING: This is another MUST SEE chapter!!!!
'Love or Pretend?'
Chapter fourteen: You can't hide the truth forever
"Man, for once I am glad that it's Monday and we're back in school," Tristan told the gang at school the next morning. "'Cause as much as I enjoyed eating pizza all night and actually getting along with Duke here, I hated being so polite to his mom."
"Hey!" Duke retorted. "That's my mom you're talking about. She didn't have to agree with letting you and Bret stay there for the weekend. So don't go complaining about her."
"Yes she did," Tristan disagreed, looking at him with a growing smile on his face. Then in a baby voice he added, "or else her little Dukeypoo would have failed the assignment and we couldn't have that, could we?"
Duke was about ready to speak when nothing would come out. He folded his arms across his chest and turned the other way, having his head up high, ignoring Tristan.
"At least you guys got to spend time with each other this weekend," Bakura brought his voice into the conversation, hoping to stop their arguing. "I was stuck home working on my biology project for Mr. Allen."
"Um, Bakura? That was only for extra credit. You really didn't have to do that," Yugi reminded him.
Bakura closed his brown eyes shut as his pale white face blushed, feeling very stupid at the moment. "Y-yes... I suppose you're right about that."
"I don't know 'bout da rest of ya guys, but for once I have ta agree with Tristan on dis one. No offense ta you, Yug or your grandpa, but if I had ta stay one more night dare I dink my head was gonna explode," Joey said.
"Why?" Tea spoke up, causing everyone, especially Joey and Yugi, to look at her. "It's not like you did much while you were there."
On the outside, Tea's words didn't look like they took much effect on Joey, but on his insides, her words went straight for his heart. Ever since Tea and Joey got out of the attic Sunday afternoon, she hadn't been too happy with him. Tea had either been ignoring him or avoiding him as much as possible. Not that Joey didn't blamed her for acting the way that she did because he was the one who messed things up after all, though he still couldn't help but feel bad for not being able to talk to her like he usually did.
"I'll have ya all know dat I did do somethin' dis weekend dat will help for da future in school."
"What, are you telling us that you finally learned how to breathe through your nose?" Tristan spoke up again causing everyone, including Duke, to laugh at his sarcastic question.
"NO!" he yelled at Tristan as he sweatdropped in the background. "I got da assignment done for English class. And I made it three pages long, too."
Everyone, except for Tea, looked at Joey shocked with wide eyes. "You actually did three pages of homework?!" they all asked.
Joey grinned to himself as he said, "ya bet I did."
After calming down, Tristan said, "that's cool, but I still think you should learn how to breathe through your nose."
Yugi, Tristan, Bakura, and Duke all walked away laughing, as Joey started acting angry again. "Dat Tristan... Why I oughta! I'll show him one day! Den he'll wish he never messed w—."
Joey suddenly stopped mouthing-off when he saw that Tea was staring at him, leaning against her locker with not much life in her. "You know you're not doing much for yourself by yelling at Tristan when he's not even around you anymore," she told him with a somewhat indignant tone of voice.
He walked over to her and looked into her eyes, she immediately didn't like this; Joey could tell. "I know you're still mad at me, Tea, but why don't we talk 'bout dis? I mean, tried talkin' ta ya yesterday, but ya kept blowin' me off. Can't we just settle things out and go back ta da way things were?"
"What would be the point, Joey? We'd just start all over again and go back to way things are right now. You and I would start talking, and eventually you'll come up to me out of nowhere and kiss me when I least expect it."
"Dat won't happen again. I promise."
"Oh, just like you did before and you ended up kissing me again in the attic anyway? Sorry, Joey, but for right now I'm not someone who could believe in you're promises at the moment."
"Tea, what's da matter with ya? Look— I'm sorry. I'm sorry dat I kissed back at you're house da other night and I'm sorry dat I kissed ya in Yugi's attic yesterday, but all of dat's over now and I want us ta be okay again."
"See, that's where you're wrong. To you, you just think we should move things on and everything will be okay again, but to me it's going to take some time. And for some reason you don't understand that what you did yesterday change something inside of me. It changed how I look at you as someone I care about, and maybe it always will. But until I can figure out my feelings for you as a friend I need you to stay away from me."
Tea was about to walked away when Joey grabbed her arm and somewhat forcefully pushed her back on her locker. "Don't do this, Tea. Because I know in your heart ya don't mean it. You're one of my best friends and I need ya ta stay by my side like ya always have. Please... Just dink 'bout dis for uh little while. Let me talk ta ya later and I promise things'll go back ta normal."
Tea shook her head slowly and stared into his eyes. "I can't believe you. And I wish I could, I truly wish I could, but I can't. So just leave me alone. I need to go." Then she walked away before Joey could speak again.
"So, Tea, are you still coming over to the game shop after school today?" Yugi asked her after fourth period had ended and lunch began.
"Yeah, I guess so. I talked to my mom about this morning before I left for school and she had no problem with it."
"Great," Yugi said as he smiled to himself. "I can't wait."
"Hey! Yugi, Tea! Wait up!" Bakura's voice was a distance behind them. The silver white-haired albino ran up to them with a bright smile on his face. "Hey guys! What did I miss?"
"Nothing yet," Tea replied. "We were just about to go to the cafeteria and get lunch."
"All right. I guess I'll meet you up there in a few minutes then."
"Why not right now? Do you have somewhere else to be, Bakura?" Yugi asked him.
"Actually yes. I need to go return an important book to the librarian that I used this weekend for my biology project before I forget. I won't have time to do it this afternoon because I'm going somewhere with my mum right after school ends. So I better go check it back in before she leaves for her lunch break."
"Why don't I go with you?" Yugi said.
"Huh?" Tea and Bakura looked at him confused.
"Yeah. See I've got a book that's going to be overdue by tomorrow and I since I won't need it anymore I can just take it back now. That is, unless you don't want to be alone going to the cafeteria, Tea. Then I'll just turn it in later like I was planning to."
"No. I don't mind going alone. You and Bakura just go to the library, return your books, and I'll meet you guys with the others in about ten minutes like we always do. It's no big deal," Tea told him, telling herself that Yugi was once again being overprotected of her.
"Okay," Yugi agreed. "I guess then we'll see you in a few minutes. Thanks!"
"Cheerio!" Bakura added and they walked off to the library together.
Tea smiled to herself as her two friends left and continued walking down the busy hall towards the cafeteria. She was about a minute away from there when she felt a tug on her right arm. Tea was pulled into an empty classroom and the door was slammed and locked shut.
Tea looked straight ahead at the empty classroom and walked around, seeing no one in sight. "Hello? Is anyone in here?"
"Ya know, you're not da easiest person ta get a hold of in dis school," a familiar voice said from behind her. "Lately, da only way ta get your attention is through lockin' ya up with me."
Tea turned around and unpleasantly saw him leaning against the door to get out. "Joey, what are you doing? I'm suppose to be meeting Yugi and Bakura in the cafeteria in just a few minutes. I don't have time to listen to you talk right now."
"Well den I guess it's gonna have ta wait because our friendship is on da line here, and I'm not lettin' it go dat easily."
"What are you talking about?"
"Tea, before ya leave and get out of here we need ta talk."
"We have nothing to talk about, Joey. I don't have anything to say to you," then she walked towards and was about to unlock it when Joey turned her around.
"Well I do and you're not leavin' dis time. I don't care what you're excuse is 'cause I can assure ya dat none of it is more important than what I have ta say ta ya."
Tea felt no reason in arguing; figuring it was probably pointless with Joey anyway. "Fine. What do you have to say to me? Just hurry up so I can leave and get the cafeteria before it gets too crowded."
Joey pulled away from Tea and the door, trusting that she wouldn't leave now. He walked around the room for a few moments and finally started to speak.
"I know dat when I kissed ya yesterday in Yugi's attic it didn't exactly come as something natural or expected. And I know dat I upset ya when I did it, but da truth is ya weren't da only one dat felt somethin' inside yourself when it happened. What I'm tryin' ta say is yesterday I told ya dat I thought I loved ya. And I still dink dat I do, but when I said dat dare was somthin' missin' with it."
"What?" Tea asked, calming down and focusing in on what he was saying.
Joey face started to get a little more serious. "You got all my feelings for you yesterday, but I didn't get any of yours. Ya never told me how ya felt 'bout me. Ya didn't even reject me. At least if ya rejected me I would have known da truth, but ya didn't say anything! You just stood dare!"
"And how was I suppose to act, Joey?" Tea asked as she was walking closer to him. "Please, tell me. I'd love to know. Just tell me this, how are you suppose to act when you have one of your best friends kiss you out of nowhere, tells you that he loves you, and live with it naturally? How?"
"I... I don't know..." Joey had no idea what to say.
Tea face started to soften up as she saw her friend beginning to look sad and confused with her own thoughts and angers towards him. "Joey, let me tell you something. That first kiss you gave me up in Yugi's attic was in fact surreal to me. At first, I couldn't believe that you would kiss me a second time after I told you not to. But then I felt something inside of me disappear as the whole thing was going by. It made me forget how much confusion I was having over Yami and everything else in my life up to that moment. And at some point I even began to like it— a lot. Though, when you kissed me the second time it didn't feel as great."
"Why not?" he asked her with full attention.
"Honestly, because I felt guilt in the second kiss. Guilt that reminded me of our friends and how they would think of us if they knew we did like each other as more than just friends. And please don't take this the wrong way or anything, because I care about you with all of my heart soul, but I can't like you in the way you want me to when there are other people we need to think about before we did something like that."
Joey inched closer to Tea and cupped his hand with her cheek. "Can't or won't?"
She looked up at him more closely; her lack of convince for him quickly came back. "Don't do this to me, Joey Wheeler. You've already broken my heart once, and I won't let you do it again."
The brunette couldn't take any more of this. She was prepared to leave when Joey stopped her half way to the door.
"You can hide your feelin's towards me from Yugi and da others for as long as ya like but ya can't it from your heart forever. If ya keep dinkin' dat ignorin' da truth with what's goin' on between us will help, it won't. 'Cause it'll eventually start ta slowly bring you pain in denial. I know dat you're uh very strong person on da outside, but sooner or later dat love ya have for me will break ya down on your insides because ya try so hard ta shield it away and it won't go. So if ya walk out dat door you're goin' ta begin hurtin' from everythin' dat I've been goin' through da last couple of days, and I'm tellin' ya da truth. I would know."
Tea turned around to face him again, the tears threating to fall out any second. "Then what am I supposed to do, Joey? Just tell you that I love you and have everything change between us for everyone. Is that what you want me to do?"
"No..." he softly spoke to her as he wrapped his arms around her waist and buried his face in her hair. Tea wrapped her arms around his back and cried into his off-white school shirt. "Just listen ta what your heart tells ya. Dat's all I'm askin'. Dat's all I wanna know. Just tell da truth so we can both feel better about dis and let things go back ta da way they were."
Joey lifted his head off of Tea's shoulder and brought her chin up to meet him in his eyes. The brunette's eyes were glistening from her tear stained face. "I love you..." he whispered slowly to her.
'No, I can't take this right now. It's just too much to handle. I'm starting to let Joey get too close to me again, and I can't let that happen. I'll be hurting Yugi, Tristan, Bakura, Duke and even myself if I allow Joey to continue to go on with this whole crazy thing. I need to stop this now just like I promised I would.'
Tea pulled away from him and said, "Joey, I can't do this. It just happening all too fast and nothing feels right and I'm completely scared."
"I know..." Joey whispered again as he pulled Tea back to him in the same position and looked into her sapphire eyes like never before. They were both in a locked mesmerizing state, as they knew what was coming next. Joey angled his head right and bent down a bit, a little hesitant for Tea's reaction. She kept looking into his eyes without breathing a word, moving away when he started coming closer to her. "No, Joey, no. Don't do this again, please. I won't be able to take it if you do. Just let me go."
"I can't hide from da truth from myself anymore, Tea. And you shouldn't either."
Tea's eyes were full of surprise from the way Joey was acting. She had never seen him like this before. His captivating brown eyes looked so comforting and warm at the moment, she couldn't help but stare back into them willingly.
It must felt almost like eternity when she realized how close Joey's face was to hers again. Her voice was lost in the whole thing, but not just before she said her last words and couldn't say anymore to him.
"Joey, don't..."
Then he moved in as close as he could one more time until his lips touched hers, closing his eyes in pleasure of kissing her again. Tea's eyes widened scarcely in shock. She couldn't believe this was happening— again! All of her fears, worries, and unusual desires were starting all over again— just like before. Though, along the way this time, Tea felt something more with this particular kiss. It was the undeniable bliss and warmth that Joey gave to her in his heartfelt kiss that made her melt in his arms. The brunette couldn't believe what she was about to do, but in some strange reasoning within herself it felt right. Slowly wrapping her arms around his neck while closing her eyes she deepened the kissed, much to Joey's surprise. The blonde returned his hands back to her waist, keeping a firm but gently hold on it, he fell in love with the perfect moment that he was finally sharing with Tea.
But unknown to either of them, someone had been watching the little scene between the two the whole time. Only to go into shock when he saw the sight of Joey and Tea kissing in the empty classroom, knowing that this little secret of theirs wasn't going to be secret for much longer...
Who do you think saw them kissing?
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!