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Chapter 3: Talk It Over

Tea's eyes widened. Never had she been so close to someone's face…especially Seto Kaiba's! She had to pull away…it wasn't that hard a task. He might get suspicious if she just sat there….

But somehow, she couldn't find the will to pull away. And for some reason, it looked like Seto couldn't either. What was going on?

Seto was stiff. Why was he practically in this girl's face? Why didn't he just sit back up? Why did she just pull away? For some reason…he couldn't. He didn't know why. What was he planning on doing, kissing her? Where was the logic in that? HE HATED HER GUTS!

But she did help tend your foot…a voice said in his head. Seto became annoyed. Where did that come from? Oh, screw it.

Why was Tea even thinking of staying in that position? It was outrageous! Being close to this…this…git? Of all the nerve…. It's not like she was about to kiss the guy. Where was the sense in that? Man, he back was killing her…. She had been sitting in an arched fashion. She had to stretch her back…. So, she did. And in doing so….

"MOMMY!" Rae called from the doorway.

"WE'RE HOME!" Kari continued. (You can tell I did that just to annoy the heck outta you readers. I'm SO evil….)

Rika Gardner came out from behind the entrance to the kitchen.

"Oh, there you are! Wait…where's Tea? Is she alright? Did she-"

"Mom, calm down," Rae replied.

"Yeah…dad's at that meeting, right?" Kari asked hesitantly, trying to keep their word to their cousin.

"Yes, dear. Why?"

"No reason. Just wondering. But, back to Tea. Seems she got detention," Rae said.

"Detention?" Mrs. Gardner's eyes widened. "Why, I never thought Tea…what did she do? What could she have done? Oh my poor Tea…" Mrs. Gardner rambled on and off, walking around the living room, holding er forehead. (If you didn't notice two chapters ago, Rika Gardner is the nicest family member Tea has. Her cousins: they like her half the time. Her uncle: you'll see.)

"Ma, relax!" Kari said, exasperated. She dumped her backpack on the floor and fell into a chair. "She was…disturbing classes or something, by having a fight with someone, or something…" Kari wasn't too good at explaining things.

"A FIGHT?" Mrs. Gardner jumped up.

"No mom!" Rae shouted, "Not a physical fight! A…vocal fight. She and…some other kid," she didn't wish to say, Seto Kaiba, "were arguing about something. Nobody really knows what. I mean…Tea's friends might, but yeah, that's why. No biggie. Her detention shouldn't be that long," Rae explained, clearer than her twin ever could have.

"Do you know whom she argued with?" Mrs. Gardner pressed on. The twins hoped she wouldn't be coming to that.

"Umm…" they both said, in unison.

"Come now, and I want the truth, or you two will be in cleaning detention," Mrs. Gardner smirked.

"SETO KAIBA!" they both shouted out, for fear of getting stuck on cleaning duty. Such naïve children….

"Seto Kaiba?" Mrs. Gardner fell back onto the couch, "The Seto Kaiba?"

"The one and only," Rae replied, blushing slightly.

"She really did get Tarak's temper," Tea's aunt murmured, referring to her brother: Tea's father.

"She's SOOOO lucky to be getting detention with him," Kari cooed.

"Oh, so he got detention as well?" Mrs. Gardner sat up.

"Yeah," both girls replied dreamily. Rika Gardner shook he head at this. Girls these days: give them a famous, and hot guy, and love was sure to be there.

"Now, I wish I really was Tea," Rae sighed.

"I know," Kari replied.

"She is sooooo lucky," Rae couldn't help to repeat. Those two didn't know just how "lucky" Tea was at the moment….

Tea stretched her back. She suddenly came within a hair's width away form Seto's mouth. His eyes widened slightly. What was she doing? For some reason, he was inclined to close that gap, but then….

Tea's hand became nervous and jittery. In her nervousness, her hand jerked involuntarily and tapped Seto's foot, a bit harshly. He pulled backed, and took a sharp intake of breath. For once, he was glad for pain. It had brought him back to his senses.

"Oh! I'm sorry!" Tea quickly looked down and started wrapping up his foot again. Meanwhile, questions were running through Tea's head.

What the crap was I doing? What was HE doing? Why am I even thinking about this? It's not like I would have…would have what? Kissed him? Shut up, Tea, that's somewhere you don't want to go….

Tea finished bandaging his foot up in about five more minutes. She removed her hands afterwards.

"You'll have to keep off tat foot for the next few days…and keep your shoe off," she explained.

"Yeah, I know, you don't have to baby me," Seto retorted, roughly.

"Ho, ho! If you had actually listened to me before, you wouldn't be in this mess! Therefore, I think I do have to baby you!"

Seto stood up, putting all his weight on his good foot, "Well excuse me for wanting to get out of this stupid place! I don't want to be stuck here! Do you want to? You make it sound so!"

It was Tea's turn to stand, "I'd rather be anywhere else in the world than stuck in here with you!"

"Me? Sure you would! What was with what you were doing a few minutes ago? Getting right in my face like that?"

"That was not my fault! That was your fault! If you hadn't jostled your stupid foot, I wouldn't have looked up! If I recall, you weren't exactly trying to pull away either!"

"Geez, do you ever shut up?" Seto replied.

"When you shut up, I'll shut up!" Tea retorted, angrily.

"Fine!"

"Fine, yourself!"

"I'm out of here. I can't stand listening to your babble any longer!" Seto pushed her aside into the desks, and limped over to the door.

Tea bumped into the desks, hitting her upper arm. She gasped in pain. No…not there….

"Ow…" Tea gasped out. She slumped to the floor, holding her arm, feeling the pain grow. Stupid moron…pushed me into the desk…pain….

"Oh come off it, that couldn't have hurt that much," Seto growled from the doorway. A tear ran down Tea's face.

"It wouldn't have, if it hadn't already been hurt…" Tea whispered.

"What?"

Tea stood up, difficulty and shakily, and suddenly ran out the door. Where her feet where taking her, she didn't know. She just hoped that she didn't run into a wall in this darkness.

Seto watched her dim outline fade away, "Good ridence," he walked back into the room, and sat at a desk, running his hands through his hair. How was he going to survive this?

Tea slumped against a wall, and let the tears flow freely. Her head rested between her knees. Why her? Why did she have all the bad luck in the world directed towards her?

She was really in a bad mood, "Stupid uncle…with his stupid projects…stupid bruises…stupid brain…stupid Kaiba…stupid cuts…stupid parents having to go dying stupidly…."

"You want to share something with the class, Miss Gardner?" a light shown down on her. She looked up, seeing Seto's outline faintly, against the light.

"You! How long have you been here?" Tea threw at him.

"Long enough. Need to get something off your mind, Gardner?"

"What? And I'm going to tell you?" Tea snapped back.

"No. I was just confirming that something's bothering you," he smirked. Crap, Tea thought, how did she fall for that one?

"Very clever," Tea replied.

"I'll just leave you to your thought then," Seto turned away, just as thunder roared.

"Kaiba…wait," Tea suddenly spoke up. He turned his head to look back at her. "Don't…please don't leave…not yet. I…don't like being alone…."

Seto raised an eyebrow, "You don't? And I thought you were like most teens…loving to be alone."

"Well," Tea smiled slightly, looking up at him, "Tea Anzu Mazaki Gardner is not a normal teen."

"Mazaki?" Seto sat down a good foot and a half from her.

"Oh…my previous last name…. My uncle doesn't let me forget it. He's sort of…drilled it into my head."

"I see…" he said, trying to push through his thoughts, and remember his real last name…. Ah, that was it…Naomu.

Seto huffed and then said, "That brings me to the next subject: questions that I need answered. Otherwise, they just might drive me crazy this weekend." He heard Tea laugh.

"From me?" Tea looked at him incredulously.

"Yeah," Seto looked away, "Like…about this 'your parents are dead' thing. When did this happen?"

"Why should I tell you?" Tea looked away.

"Oh, so now you're denying your own saying about getting to know everybody?" Seto smirked.

Tea was silent. Seto knew he had won. Maybe…maybe she should tell him. Who knows…maybe it would get some things off her chest….

"When I was six. They died when I was six. My only relatives were my Aunt Rika, and Uncle Kaz. When I was eight, Aunt Rika had twins: my cousins." Seto sat, thinking. She had been orphaned earlier than he had. However, she had a family to go to. He did not.

"I see," Seto replied. She may have been orphaned, but she sure hadn't experienced the hardships he certainly had.

"Yes, and-" she stopped. Now that was going too deep. Only two people knew about that…and she was one of them.

"And?"

"Nothing…I forgot."

"Sure." But, Seto let the matter rest. She had a right to her secrets. After all, it wasn't like they were friends or anything. Suddenly, something popped up in his head. How was it that they had been fighting furiously not ten minutes ago, and now, they were talking like old friends? Too weird….

"However…about that crystalline technology stuff…do you actually comprehend that? Or are you just trying to look smart?" Seto inquired, smirking.

"I'm smarter than you know, Seto Kaiba," Tea retorted, smirking at him.

"Yes, I'm sure," he said, pretty sarcastically, "I'm surprised Kaz even explained the works to you…."

Tea's head shot up, "That reminds me…how do you know my uncle? And why are you bringing up all this crystalline crap?"

"You brought up the "crystalline crap," if you remember, back in our "detention." And, as to knowing your uncle, he sells quite the bunch of software to me." He looked over at Tea, whose mouth hung agape. "What? Didn't you know I was one of your uncle top buyers?"

"No…. Just what exactly has he been selling?" Tea wanted to know. She was pretty sure she did, though.

"Well, my meeting today," a shadow crossed over his face, as he remembered the meeting he was missing, "was supposed to be an opportunity for me to buy that crystalline technology he invented-"

"HE INVENTED?" Tea suddenly stood up, sort of forgetting her hardship with her knees.

"Yes…who else did you expect?" Seto looked at her strangely.

"Why that no good…taking my work and calling it his own…had no idea…projects went that high in…world," Tea muttered, breaking sentences apart.

Seto's eyes widened, "Your work?"

"Yes! MY work! Every year, Kaz gives us a new computer project, and I bet I know right where they all go! FOR SALE!" Tea's eyes flamed. Boy, was she going to has something to say when she got home….

Seto couldn't believe it. This girl…the one who hung out with the mutt, and all the other geeks…was actually above their level? Not only in smarts, or no. Seto paid good money for all that software Kaz sold him. They were a pretty wealthy family. And she chose to hang out with them?

"Before you run off, you've now left me with one more question," Seto stood up, "Why do you hang out with the mutt and all them, if you're actually-"

"Relatively like you? Newsflash Seto Kaiba! I've only told you this a thousand times! They are my friends! I don't care if I have a pretty good foundation on capital! I don't care how smart I am, and how average they seem! I'd probably be just like them if I wasn't pushed!" she stopped the moment that escaped her mouth. Seto looked at her strangely.

"Well…this is something new…something I haven't heard in a while…pushed," Seto repeated.

"You…didn't…hear…a thing," and with that, Tea forgot her fears, and ran away…again. She couldn't believe it. Just when she had him had been starting to sort of…get along. Just when she had started feeling comfortable around him, and talking with him, she had to utter one of her more, inner secrets. Now, he was going to demand what was wrong. And she couldn't escape. She was locked on the second floor of the school with him, while a storm surged outside (so she wasn't about to jump out a window).

What was she going to do, stuck with him for the next three days?

Well, that's it! Chapter's over! Well…at least they've started getting along…in a way. And Tea's finally showing some secrets: a good thing! Wait for more secrets in her life to come out! And y'all probably hate me for not getting in that kiss! Just wait though…just wait…I'll think of something. Okay, that sort of ruined the moment. Hope you sort of enjoyed it and the suspense at the beginning. Sorry if it was kinda boring. It was meant to be more of a beginning of getting together, and an informative chappie, if you get my drift. I don't know when I'll update next, so bear with me! REVIEW PLEASE! Later!