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Hey! Thanks to everybody who reviewed me! I know the first chapter might have seemed a tad boring that it made you fall asleep on your computer (Maybe that's why not so many people reviewed -.-) but that's just the beginning. You know? This second chapter would add more excitement to it and something does start with what's happening so far...
Bake, if it's Necessary
Chapter Two: All about food, isn't it?
–Next Day–
Tea was walking along the sidewalk to Yugi's house. The blizzard had stopped and it had rained too, so most of the snow was actually gone, but at least ice was still left. She was almost there. When she arrived, Yugi was waiting in front of his house.
"Good morning Tea," Yugi greeted. They both started walking together to school.
"Hello Mr. Negativity," she greeted back, unhappily. Something was bothering her inside. Yugi looked at Tea. Her face was looking gloomy.
"Tea? What's wrong? You seem down this morning."
Tea looked down at her feet moving. "Gee. You noticed?"
Yugi raised in eyebrow. Usually Tea was so dandy in the morning. "Well, can I at least know why you're feeling down today?" he asked again.
Tea sighed and let it out. "Kageki and Suki hired me to work for them and when I was there, right? Then there was this phone call and they asked for Kageki and that so called person requested 500 desserts from us! Do you know how long that would take? And after that he called back again because he forgot what kind of specific desserts he wanted for maybe this party or something. And you'll never guess who that person was?"
Yugi nodded, going along with Tea's situation. "Let me guess... The queen of England?"
Tea looked at Yugi with a, 'don't play dumb with me face.' "Yes Yugi, it was the queen of England demanding 10,000 biscuits or else she'll cut off our heads ," Tea sarcastically remarked. "No dummy! It was the one and only Seto Kaiba on the other line!"
Tea waited for Yugi's reaction. He only laughed softly, thinking it was still sarcasm going on. "So, was it Pegasus then?" he questioned more sarcastically. What he got back was a 'don't play dumb with me' look again. That grin on amusement on his face was surely gone. "You're actually serious about this Tea?"
She sighed and answered, "Yes Yugi... And what bugs me the most is now he knows that I work there now! And what do you think he'll do to me? Do you think he's gonna' rub it in my face? God, of out of all people, why did he have to call OUR bakery!"
In Tea's head, she already pictured what would become of her near future. Picturing Kaiba, strutting along his spiteful ways, knowing how much he detested her and tolerated her presence everyday. He was walking up to her with a smirked planted upon his face, knowing what to say and when to say his verbal spats just to tick her off.
An ache formed in the pit of her stomach, just waiting to be spit out of it's vessel. Usually it was so easy for her to deal with this one certain person, but this time, why did it bother her so much? It wasn't a big deal. I mean, she only works in a bakery. Well, even that's a surprise.
Yugi looked ahead, experiencing the silence that was bearing upon them. He didn't actually get why it was such a problem for her. They knew Seto worked in his own company. So what? Unless Tea was quite embarrassed to work in a bakery shop? Who knows? Yugi thought about this throughout their whole way to school, barley communicating with Tea at all.
RRRiiinnnggg!
At least everyone made it back to class when the bell rang. The class was settling in and this time, the whole gang was there. Thank god for Tea that she didn't see Seto today. But oh-so-strange for him to be absent today. Or what happens if he's just late?
And to Tea's predictions; she was right. Seto barged right in the classroom when everyone was seated and the teacher was all ready to teach. He first glared at the whole class for a second for all of them staring back, then marched to his seat, a tired look on his face.
Oh great... Tea thought, despaired.
"Oooo... Moneybags is late today. Dere's a first for everything," Joey murmured.
"Yeah, that's not your first either. I have to call through a megaphone to wake you up from out your own window," Tristan retorted.
Joey aimed a crushed paper ball at Tristan's head since he sits right behind him. "Eh, work with me here, huh? I'm tryin' my best to do my duties today. And numba' one: insult and make moneybags over there miserable to his ass."
Tea lowered in her seat, her hands covering her face of embarrassment. "Joey, you are my idol..." she commented. She was assigned to the seat left of Joey.
Tristan looked at Tea, an eyebrow raised. "Tea, I didn't even know you were here today. You're so damn quiet. Somethin' the matter?" he questioned, curiously.
"Yes, something is the matter," replied Yugi, feeling sorrow for his dear friend, turned around, facing her. He was sitting in front of Tea.
Tea took her eyes to the window, her elbow on her desk for support to have the side of her face laid on the palm of her hand. "It's nothing at all... Trust me..."
Yugi, Tristan, and Joey exchanged 'What's up with her?' glances. Then Yugi mouthed, 'I'll tell you guys later,' to them. Tristan and Joey nodded approval. That's when their teacher, Ms. Sasaki, whacked a ruler on Tristan's desk, seeking their attention. And no doubt, it did.
"Now, are we all ready to shut our mouths? You're wasting mine and everyone else's valuable time!"
All three of them obeyed, knowing this teacher was NOT the one to mess with.
Survival had made it's answer for Tea for half of the school day. She had made it all the way to lunch. The bakery 'incident' wasn't troubling her anymore. She forgot all about it. Not until–
Tea was alone at a table with her lunch, waiting for the others to arrive while they were still in the boy's locker room after gym. She decided to go there herself to see what was taking them so long. (And yes, she was brave enough to do that.) She got out of her seat and was about to take her first step when she accidentally collided her face onto someone's body.
"Oh, I'm sor-" The victim's voice cut her off.
"Next time watch where you're going Gardner or your face could have stained my blazer," Seto rudely noted.
Tea rubbed her nose, which mostly was an impact onto when she bumped into Seto Kaiba. "Gee, who scraped the icing off your cupcake? I was about to say sorry until you started talking over me with your oh-so-brutal words," Tea replied. And broke my nose with your hard-ass boned figure...
She started to turn away from him until she stopped to listen to what she knew he would probably assert to next.
"Speaking of cupcakes... I didn't know you were that hopeless to work in pastry shop as an employee? Because if that is precise, you are always welcomed to labor a second job at my company gala as a servant. Oh wait, hold that thought, I wouldn't trust you to serve me food after all. You might cram them in your pockets to prevent starvation for yourself in the future and why–"
And boy was that a hell of a good insult for her.
She quickly grabbed the bowl of hot noodles that was going to be her lunch and stood on her toes to plop it right on Seto's head. All the noodles and soup was dripping all over his face–
"GARDNER! YOU BETTER HAVE AN EXPLANATION FOR THIS!" Seto yelled hysterically, retreating back and wiping all the noodles off his head. His eyes were the most facial feature that mostly stood out with hatred. This moment of drama caught everyone's eye in the cafeteria.
"What's there to explain! You criticize me for the billionth time, and I actually did something about it to embarrass you! Now to get through your thick head straight, don't ever criticize me like that EVER again!"
There was a moment of silence after Tea spoke. Again, she was about to turn away when she heard Seto speaking. "Like that's suppose to scare me..."
She turned around and–
SWAT!
All her five senses could only infer with was the tray of spaghetti concealing her entire face Seto had just hit her with. Everyone's eyes were wide in shock to what they never knew the, Seto Kaiba, would ever comeback to so sensibly, and strangely with. The spaghetti was utterly hot...
"AHHHH!" Tea screeched, her heart racing in agony. Tomato sauce cloaked all over her uniform and hair. She could hear gasps from all the other students in the cafeteria. She gaped at him, eyes blazing and as angry as hell. He was folding his arms, grinning at her.
"You. Are going. To PAY!" she finally burst out, viewing from under her saucy covered bangs.
A smirk slowly started to show upon Seto's mouth "Would you prefer cash or check?"
She grabbed the next variety of food she could see then. She threw a vanilla pudding bowl, aiming at Kaiba's face. Unfortunately, he was too quick and duck down to avoid the hit. The pudding went farther back, all the way that it swat someone else in the face.
She gasped. "I am SO sor-"
"FOOD FIGHT!"
"Wha-?"
Food was flying everywhere you see now. It was cafeteria mania chaos. Tea and Seto were grounded on the floor to get around to the nearest exit.
"Congrats' Gardner, you've made our day," Seto said, his voice taunting.
He was ahead and Tea was crawling behind. "Yeah, well, hurry your butt up before I have to give you a boost."
Seto was hurrying along, avoiding the smashed up foodstuff that splattered all over the floor. He viewed around in disgust. People were going crazy at it up above like 7 year olds.
Moronic imbeciles...
All he could smell was the flavor of noodles that was relishing all over his head. No thanks to a certain somebody that was luring behind him... Why did he even throw that tray of spaghetti anyhow? He was acting childish! It just came out of nowhere. But somewhere inside of him, it felt good.
He decided to obtain himself and get out of here on foot. He got up, not caring whatever Tea was doing behind him.
Tea saw Seto stand up in front of her and run out of his way, dodging flying piles of food that were almost hitting him. "You're not getting away that easily!" She stood up and ran after him. The cafeteria was a very large place to get through to.
A piece of sushi was hit at her. "Ah! Whoever threw that, you're gonna pay dearly!" Tea rebelled. She ran faster and eventually went around and stopped right in front of him when he started to slow down his pace.
"And where do you think you're running off to? I'm not done dealing with you yet!" she exclaimed.
"I think was about to step out the door before your insignificant little self decided to stomp in my way."
Tea huffed, her hands now on her hips. "And what is that suppose to mean? You were the one who started all of this so you're the blame for this whole situation! And don't say anything because this is all your fault!"
Beat that Mr. Smart-ass... Tea thought with triumph.
"If I can recall correctly, you should be the blame for all of this from my perspective. My criticism comes to you every single day, and you handled it by hurling a bowl of noodles on my head!" he inquired.
Tea thought about that for a moment. "Indeed, yes. I had no choice in my life except covering your head with something more enjoyable to see everyday. You actually–"
The vice-principle entered inside the cafeteria, checking on what the problem was. "Everybody, STOP the insanity in here this instant!" he echoed loud enough for everybody to hear.
Tea sighed, irritated by another disruption. God! Why does everyone have to cut me off today!
Mr. Takani's face was reddening in anger and the students stopped playing food war. "Now who is the culprit who started all of this?" Everybody shared glances at each other, not sure who to blame. In a second, everyone's finger were directly pointing towards Tea and Seto who were right in front of Mr. Takani.
Mr. Takani eyed them, his anger boiling calmer now. "Correction. Or should I say culprits.. And out of all people, Miss Gardner and Mr. Kaiba?"
"But-but-but, Mr. Takani, it wasn't my fault! It was–"
"Miss Gardner, I'd advise you to keep quiet before you get into any more trouble than you already are in..." Mr. Takani declared sternly.
Tea now kept her emotions sucked in and followed her vice-principle to his office with Seto Kaiba, out of all people who she would ever know would ever get into trouble. It was astonishing that he didn't even protest against all of this..
When they were inside, Seto and Tea sat on metal chairs, facing Mr. Takani who was sitting back at his desk. They were both still and silent, food still dripping on themselves.
Mr. Takani spoke. "Now; can I please have the reason why you two were the start of this whole mess?" he asked. He was turning to both of them, waiting.
Tea, nor Seto did not speak. She didn't know what to say. I mean, it wasn't really any of the vice- principle's business, right? But thinking of the case of verbal abuse...
She looked at Seto, but all he was doing was looking dead straight ahead. This was her cue...
She opened her mouth to talk. "Yes Mr. Takani. The reason is because of this person right next to me, who happened to–"
"Actually Ser, the reason was that Miss Gardner over here, wielded a bowl of noodles at my head for the reason which I accidentally stepped on the girl's foot without watching my view. Then after, someone, who I cannot identify, threw a plate of spaghetti at her head for only trying to defend me. So overall Ser, her little shenanigan caused all of this idiocy to happen. What an awful excuse to try to harm someone so innocent..." Seto said firmly, trying to sound persuasive.
Tea couldn't believe all that she had heard. "What! Stepped on my foot? Can you actually believe that Mr. Takani? What idiotic fool would believe all that crap?" she voiced, angrily.
Mr. Takani thought for a few seconds then cleared his throat. "I would Miss Gardner. And I sentenced you with a week's detention for your inferior misbehaving. Actually, detention cleanup crew. Everyday after school, you will be doing the janitor's job from now on. Is that clear? Or you don't believe idiotic fools either? Now both of you, out of my office and clean yourselves up."
That was all Mr. Takani had to say to get Seto up and moving along his business. Tea followed right after him. "Oh, and Miss Gardner, meet me here after school to discuss your tasks..."
Tea rolled her eyes and answered, "Yes ser..." to him back. Stupid, good for nothing, idiotic, preposterous jerk!
After she closed the door behind her, Seto was already out of her sight. She started pacing towards the bathroom to see if she could clean herself up. Just when she was about to turn the corner, she heard a laugh from someone maniacal.
In front of her was Seto standing right there when she turned, probably waiting for her to rub it in her face. "Shut up Kaiba. You are so immature! You can't take your punishment like a man the way you're deserved to? Everything you said in there was fake and you know it. I cannot believe Mr. Takani fell for it. Just be lucky that our high school's vice-principle is such a moron..."
Seto glared at her, denying all that she said. "For all we both know, I don't give a damn Gardner. I had plans and I can't waste my precious time in school detention. I have other important matters to attend to. And besides, who would believe a petty wench like you? I even thought my plan would backfire," he replied.
"Well, your little plan cost me a week's detention! Thanks so much Kaiba, I always wanted to try being a delinquent!" she snapped back at him.
"Great. Try it out. It suits you." He grinned his most famous grins and walked away, proud for his naughty deed he just did. It had to be done though. No CEO can be locked in school for detention, right?
Tea closed her eyes, wishing he could just burn into ashes she could sweep away forever. She couldn't take it no more. HE was just completely impossible. She stomped her way to the bathroom, exhausted from all these emotions.
Tea, after cleaning herself with all the wet paper towels she could use since there were no extra blazers, walked through Domino high's halls to back to lunch with the all the time she had left of it. She was starving because she didn't even have one bite of her food. Everyone was probably gossiping about all this now. And it was them who even snitched on her.
Can't trust anyone around here, now can you? she thought, hopelessly.
And through her trip, there were already a couple of girls roaming around, eyeing at her for the most obvious reasons. Seto and her were probably the talk of the whole school already. Gosh, one little food fight and everybody has to know. What did all those girls ever see in him? But in her mind, Tea had already thought of some:
1. Number ONE male sex symbol (Although she ever so pushed that hideous thought out of her head.)
2. Kaiba's rich so give up trying.
3. President of his own damn company.
4. Again, handsome, yet sexy, eye candy for all females, and someone who'd you love to see when you wake up in the morning instead of your current, poor, pathetic boyfriend.
And all of these were the thoughts only the other girls in this school would know.
"Hey TEA!" She heard someone call her name from down the hall. She turned around and saw Tristan heading her way. She stood there until he caught up to her.
"Hey Tea, I've been lookin' all over for you everywhere. What's this I hear 'bout you and Kaiba getting into some food fight?" he asked while catching his breath.
"So you've heard?" she inquired.
After one last breath, "Hell yeah. Everyone is sayin', Tea this, Tea that, Kaiba this, Kaiba that. Mind tellin' me what happen?"
Tea shrieked out loud, letting some of her anger that was caged inside out. "Yes, and it's easy to explain. Kaiba, tried one of this pathetic put-downs on me again, and I bombed a bowl of noodles on his head. Then everyone blamed us for starting the whole freakin' food fight and the Mr. Takani gave me a week's detention!"
"What? I swear that bastard is gonna pay... And you didn't even explain yourself?"
Tea pointed a finger to her chin. "Hmm... Let me think... Of course I did! Then Kaiba came up with this crappy excuse that I got provoked when he accidentally stepped on my foot and he believed it! Just because he's Seto Kaiba and I'm Tea Gardner.. Don't you just feel what I feel Tristan? Don't you just feel the pain?"
Tristan rose an eyebrow, fazed to how Tea was reacting. "Okay Tea, I understand. I will do something about it. Just calm down..." he replied slowly, being a bit verbally cautious.
Tea stormed away from him, her eyebrows furrowed. "Well you don't know how frustrated I am right now! I hate him! I HATE him! And he tried rubbing it in my face that I work in a bakery shop! What's so wow about that to tick me off?"
Good thing this was an empty hallway for now.
"Whoa, rewind that for me? Did you just say you work in a bakery now? Let me guess, Kageki's, right?" he asked loudly.
"Yes!" Tea screamed back to him from halfway down the hall. "I'll see you later! And tell Joey and Yugi about this too. Oh, and make sure you make Kaiba suffer!" she pointed out, the last part she said with a strong voice.
Tristan began walking the other way, thinking in his mind for a perfect plot. And to his smart ways of mischief waiting, he had an idea that would probably lead to the perfect solution.
"Hehehehehe..." he cackled, evilly.
Seto was sitting inside an empty classroom, eating his small lunch in peace; purposely staying away from every human soul until time passed by when the peace was over. Specifically someone who made him smell like flavored noodles...
He was eating a rice ball, taking his time and enjoying the grainy goodness. Until when someone entered the classroom door...
It was a student, but a student wearing a ski mask? The person was a boy. The mask revealed his eyes and his nose only. Probability, it was just an old winter hat that was cut holes into. And he began running towards Seto...
The stranger seized Seto's cell phone that was on his desk and ran out of the classroom with it. Seto sat there, eyes shocked and scandalized.
What is this, a burglary scam!
He immediately got up and ran outside after the robber. He stopped out the door, looking the direction where the person could have left to. He saw him round the corner up ahead.
"GET BACK HERE WITH MY CELL PHONE!" he hollered.
For Seto's extremely muscular fit body, he had the speed to catch up to the guy faster before he ran through the stairs. H e tried pulling the hat off, but his hand couldn't succeed to reaching far enough so he wouldn't run into him. Whoever this person was, why would he mysteriously come in the classroom to find him, and run off with his cell phone like a lunatic?
Both of them were speeding down the stairs to the 1st floor, Seto still not able to get at him. He was irritable, tired, smelly, and he was not having a good day.
That's enough hoarse playing! I have to win this the old fashion way...
Just when the robber came to a halt, he uncovered his face, breathing heavily for fresh air. A small piece of blonde hair was poking from under the mask...
And who wouldn't Seto recognize who this was?
"WHEELER!" Now he was fully fueled to end this.
Joey, his face grimaced, now trying to run faster. Dang it! Now he knows my name!
Seto literally jumped on him on his back, forcing Joey's body to downslide to the floor. The loud response from tumbling on the floor was heard through some teachers to sense that something was occurring in the hallway. And towards Mr. Takani's attention...
Joey was in pain that Seto jumped on his back. He tried fighting him off while Seto grabbed his arms behind his back and locked them.
"Okay Wheeler, this is not a game, nor is it supposed to be one of your dim witted ideas. I believe, you mutt, that you possess something that belongs to me. Hand it over Wheeler."
Joey winced, feeling Seto's weight on his sore back. "I-I don't have it Kaiba. I-I swear..."
"Then tell me the reason why you ran into the roomand escaped out with my phone?"
"YES, Mr. Kaiba, I would like to know that too."
Seto and Joey looked up, facing their vice-principle, Joey secretly hiding a quick smile and Seto struck speechless for his odd ways of tracking down his victims.
"Mr. Kaiba, GET off Mr. Wheeler at once. You were already in a problem today, but your's right now is far too serious. You will be having a suspension for two days and clean up crew with Miss Gardner as well!"
Seto was busy explaining to Mr. Takani while Joey was too busy stirring inside his thoughts.
Bingo! 100 points for me, 0 for theMoneybags! Yeah baby! But wait a minute... He has detention wit' Tea too? Uh-oh... Dats not the plan... Eh, Tea can survive wit' him, can't she? I happened to taught her everythin' she knows to defend herself... She could just kick him if he tries somethin' in the place where every guy's weak spot is... Then he'll be the one sprawlin' all over the floor in pain!
(Whew... Made it through my second chapter...)
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