Chapter 5: Coming Over
After school, I walked home with Tea. We split at the corner of my street where we said we would meet tomorrow morning. I made my way down the garden path and around the house to the back door. I opened the door and walked into the kitchen. I saw Rini sitting at the kitchen counter, still in her pj's, drinking cold coffee, and reading the morning paper. I had forgotten all about Rini and my dad lying to me, about Seto and me being in the same school long before I got home.
"Hey Rini! I'm home!" I said as I slipped my backpack off my shoulder and dropped it onto the floor.
"Hey sweetie!" she said as she put down her coffee mug and looked up from the paper, "How was school?"
"Ok," I replied at almost an instant. "I met new people." Then it dawned on me. "Including Seto Kaiba, dad's new boss," I said as I pulled out a stool and sat down next to Rini. Rini looked back at the paper. " Rini! Why didn't you tell me that my dad's new boss is still in high school? And he goes to the same school?" I asked her, trying to look her strait in the eye. Rini finally turned to me and looked me strait in the eye.
"Sweetie, you have to understand that I didn't know until after you left this morning. I swear I didn't know that he was still in school. Besides, I found out the hard way from your father."
"What did you do?"
" Duh! I made my famous chocolate chip pancakes for him to calm him down. Your lucky he didn't ground you and lucky that you can still go to Amy's today," said looking back down at the paper.
" Ya I guess your right," I said fiddling with my thumbs, which was really childish. "Come on Rin! Get ready so we can go! We only have a half an hour. So let's get going!" I said as I got off the stool and walked out of the room. I went in to the hallway that's connected to both the front door and the stairs. Just as I reached the foot of the stairs, my dad started to come down from upstairs.
"Your home early," I said to him as he came down the last few steps. I guess he had just changed cause he came down the stairs in his best pants, best shirts, best tie, best shoes, and guessing best underwear. " Boy! Don't you look spiffy! " I teased him.
"Well my new boss is coming over, I need to look my best." He said as he checked his refection in the hallway mirror. I heart raced at the speed of light when he said this.
"New… boss… here? How? When?" I asked him in a shaky voice. My father turned to me and gave me a strange look.
"My new boss, the CEO of KaibaCorp. Yes he's coming here. He's going to be herein twenty minutes. Why?"
I sank to the bottom step, covered my face with my hands, and gave out a loud groan. I felt like a large baseball had hit me head on.
'Great!' I thought to myself, ' Seto's coming over to my house! In twenty minutes! Why? Why did I have to run into him?" My dad walked over to my side and put his hand on my shoulder, but I just shrugged it off. I got up and started up the steps. Halfway up I turned back to my dad.
"Tell Rini we have fifteen minuets to get out of here," I told him and ran up the rest of the stairs. I ran to my bedroom and got my stuff ready to go to Amy's. Five minuets later, I was running down the stairs with a small gym bag draped over my shoulder. Rini was in the shower and my dad was in the kitchen. I threw my gym bag down next to the front door and ran into the kitchen, looking for my camera. I searched everywhere but couldn't find it. Finally, after five minuets of searching, I turned to my father.
"Dad," I said as I rummaged threw the silverware draw (why, I have no clue), "Have you seen my camera?"
My father was leaning over the stove, cooking something. He turned around to face me and said, "Yes, It's in the Living room on the coffee table."
"Thanks!" I said quickly and ran out of the kitchen into the living room. Like my dad had said, I found my camera on the coffee table. I picked it up and walked back to my gym bag in the hallway. I unzipped one of its pockets and threw my camera in. Just as I re-zipped the pocket back up, Rini came down the stairs with a towel still on her head.
"Rini! Are you almost ready?" I said annoyed.
"Yep! I'm almost ready." She said as she threw me her keys. " Can you go start up the car so we can leave?" She asked me as she walked into the bathroom so she could brush her hair. I gave a small sigh, picked up my gym bag and said " Sure." I opened the door, and for the second time that day, ran into someone. Ok, this was more of a bump, but hey! I still ran into someone! I quickly jumped back to apologize to whomever it was I ran into. To my surprise, it was the same person I had ran into earlier.
"Seto! I'm so sorry! I didn't see you!"
"Riyo! You live here?" he asked me. I nodded my head. I was to deep in a state of shock to do anything else. "We really need to stop meeting like this."
My dad heard the commotion and poked his head into the hallway.
"Mr. Kaiba! You're… you're here!" he said surprised. He quickly threw his oven mitts off and greeted him at the door. " I see you've met my daughter Riyo."
"Ya, we've run into each other." He said smiling at me. I couldn't help but smile back. My dad led Seto into the living room and left me in the hallway, waiting for Rini. I totally forgot about the car. Finally, Rini came out of the bathroom. She caught me staring into the living room at Seto.
"I guess he's Seto Kaiba. Greg's new boss." She said as she snuck up behind me, startling me. I answered her with a simple nod of the head. "He's cute!" Rini squeaked out. I was so scared, for I though Seto had heard her. After a few seconds, I gave her a death glare. She just smiled and walked into the living room. My father introduced Rini to Seto. I never thought I'd be this embarrassed in my entire life, cause next thing I knew, Rini had said to Seto; " You're a very handsome young man." I Never, NEVER heard Rini say that to any guy (besides my dad) before! I was so embarrassed. And Seto could tell, cause he looked over at me. I swear my cheeks went bright red. I looked at my watch, trying to hide my blushing cheeks, and to my horror, Rini and I were late. Five minuets late!
" DAM! Rini! We have to go, NOW!" I said as I grabbed my gym bag once again. Rini ran to the door and opened it in a hurry. " Bye Seto. I'll see you tomorrow. Oh ya, you're work sheet's on the kitchen counter. Bye!" and hurried out the door after Rini. Once on the road, I used Rini's cell to call Amy, telling her that we were going to be a little late.
"I have so much to tell you," I told her, "and it's only been one day!"