Disclaimer: Stop! Don't make me do it... They already know... they know... all right... they know who I don't own.... Can't I just write 'Property of Kineticfairy' on his (Seto Kaiba's) back? Please?

Chapter 14... for I Wanna Be A Mom fans everywhere.

'I wonder where Téa is.' Yugi thought, looking around. Mr. Fujishima was stacking papers. No one had seen her all day and she was marked as absent, and Seto Kaiba, punctual Seto Kaiba, was damn near late for class, it was just... something like the twilight zone. Yugi tapped his pencil end against the desktop. Yugi tended to notice, more and more, that Téa was hiding something he wasn't quite sure what it was. He looked over at the clock, a few more minutes to go and then he could call Téa cell and find out what was going on with his best friend. She seemed so secretive of late. While he was thinking he missed the paper being thrown over his arms, he blinked and looked down at the paper, Mr. Fujishima sighed and walked back up to the desk.

"Fill these out and have them in Friday, other than that you are all free... to..." he was going with the movement of the clock hands, school was very near out, "get... out... of my... classroom." The bell went off and everyone got out of their seat at different times, the scraping of chairs and clatter of feet as they all rushed to get out of the class. Joey walked over to Yugi with Tristan and Ryou by his side. Yugi was just pulling out his cell phone.

"What's up?" Joey inquired, rising an eyebrow.

"I just want to know what's up with Téa." He said pressing the familiar number. After a minute the phone was picked up. "Téa! Téa, where are you?" he blinked. "Well, are you... okay, will you be coming back?" He looked at Joey who looked like he was dying to grab the phone from him. "Joey, wants to talk to you." He handed Joey the phone, he looked relieved as he grabbed the phone and pressed it against his ear.

"Where are ya, what? The hospital? I'm glad, we'll come see ya." He said, but winced. "What do ya mean.... 'No?' Fine! Just make sure ya come in tomorrow, 'kay. There's a girl." He smiled and handed Yugi back the phone.

"Take care, Téa." He hung clicked the end button and sighed. "Let's go get Téa a present, she'll love it."

"And a good 'ol confession out of her. I don't like how quickly she dismissed the idea of letting us visit her... where is she staying, that's the question." Yugi nodded and Ryou folded his arms, frowning in disapproval.

"Téa's old enough to take care of herself, we shouldn't be in a rush to see why she doesn't want us coming around." They all looked at Ryou with blank looks.

"You're intentions are good, Ryou, but leave this to us, man." Tristan told Ryou, resting a hand on his shoulder. Ryou's expression dropped and he closed his eyes. Was it any wonder why Téa didn't care what they thought about Aki Ueda... they simply made up their minds about him as quickly as they could and there was no changing the opinion? Maybe that was why he dumped Téa. Well, Ryou couldn't be sure... it was true that Téa did use to share most of her thoughts with them, but she just wasn't doing so any longer and it confused him highly. Ever since Aki dumped her, she had been acting strange.

"Okay, so how are you planning to get her to confess about her hidden secret."

"Getting her the greatest gift, no doubt." Joey exclaimed looking confidante in what he was about to do. Ryou sighed, there was no end to Joey's confidante in matters like this, maybe that was how he landed Mai... Ryou sighed and the four of them left the classroom.

He arrived at the hospital and found Téa fixing her shirt. She turned around and blushed, pushing her hair behind her ear. "Hi." she said, smoothing down the stomach of her shirt.

"Are you ready, I signed you out already." She nodded and picked up her cell phone and he walked over to her. "Here." it was a clear shopping bag and she looked in a found a pair of jean, shoes and a sweater. "Ms. Kako insisted on getting you something." Téa smiled at him and pulled out the small box. "I got you that, but... Hansley helped me pick it out." She smiled and opened the velvet blue cover. She gasped. A gold and tinge pink heart locket and engraved on the top was 'Baby and me' she felt her eyes water and she touched her heart and she held it out to Kaiba.

"Will you put it on me?" she wondered. He swallowed the lump that suddenly formed in his throat and hesitantly nodded.

"Sure, come here." She walked slowly over to him and he took it from her and out of the box. She turned around and brushed away the hair on the nape of her neck. He brought the locket over her throat and began to clasp the necklace. He brought it down carefully against the back of her neck and his fingertips brushed the soft skin that rested there. She pulled back and turned around, looking at it and tracing her fingers over the divider.

"What do you think?"

"Looks good."

"It's beautiful, thank you." She embraced him, arms under his and around his torso. Once again he froze in her embrace, but this time he touched the small of her back. What the hell was this? He closed his eyes and pressed his cheek against her hair, her hair that was so soft against his skin.

"You're welcome. But I wouldn't have been able to do it without Hansley." He was trying to give away his credit.

"Then I'll have to thank him, too. Can we go?"

"Yes." But he wasn't expecting her to take his hands and lace his fingers with hers. He pulled away and she smiled. "Sorry."

"It's okay, it's you, Kaiba." she walked ahead of him and his face fell, from its usual look to one of deep confusion with... what... a tinge of sadness? He followed after her.