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Everyone Needs an Excuse

Chapter 3: A Rose, A note, and A key

Téa,

The brilliance of this rose is petty compared to your beauty.

Please meet with me under the cherry-blossom tree after school.

With my love,

Your secret admirer

Téa sighed. Another one probably asking me to go with them to the School Dance. She had found this note along with a beautiful, deep red rose in her locker. How this guy and all the others got in to her locker was a mystery to her, and she was a little worried. Along with the note and rose the culprit had also covered her locker with light pink rose petals. Great! Now I have to de-petal my locker before the petals go sticky! She looked around at all the people milling around going to their classes after lunch. Ah, maybe later. She grabbed her books, shut and locked her locker, then headed off to her next class.

"Seto Kaiba please put your laptop away!"

Kaiba mentally growled at the teacher then continued on ignoring her and typing. He was doing his work. These stupid teachers should be happy with that, I mean, he could get them fired with the blink of an eye and yet still they pestered him!

Ms Timan sighed as she gave up. She new she couldn't win this one, but it was very annoying that in every lesson she had him in he would be typing away on his laptop and not listening to her. Although he always managed to hand in all assignments on time, and finish all his work… Ah well.

Kaiba glared at her retreating back. Finally! Now I can get some work done in peace… hmm? What's this? A small icon appeared on the screen registering that he had a new e-mail from his secretary. He clicked on it to open it. Good. She should have the results from the information I sent her for a dance partner. The e-mail was opening when he heard a laugh from his right. He rolled his eyes in annoyance and sent a glare in the person's direction.

"What's wrong Kaiba? Too busy too have time to do common work? Always have to have electronic devices with you?" a whispered voice ridiculed at him.

"For your information Mutt I am perfectly capable of working with or without a laptop, I just find it considerably easier with so that I don't have to stoop to your level-"

"What? Afraid of using a pen and paper!" Joey was thoroughly enjoying this.

Kaiba sent a glare at him. "Actually-"

"Kaiba and Joey, you can both see me after school for interrupting the class with your carry on." Ms Timan was sitting at her desk in the front of the classroom and she could here their fight getting louder and louder until she had had enough, even if she was going to be in trouble with Kaiba for keeping him after school.

Kaiba's look was so icy you would think that his laptop would have frozen by now. That teacher is just wanting to be fired! Damn it! The e-mail wasn't opening! It had come up with a 'page cannot be displayed'. He was just clicking refresh when he heard the dim-witted person next to him mutter.

"Heh heh, that'll teach him!"

Kaiba rolled his eyes. He was also in trouble, moron. He went back to trying to open the e-mail.

Everyone in the classroom was packing up and leaving to go to their next lesson, last lesson. However there was still one person still sitting down. Kaiba. He was still trying to open his damned e-mail!

Téa noticed him and walked over.

"Hi Kaiba!" She said with a friendly smile.

Kaiba's eyes slowly moved from his finally opening e-mail to the top of the screen to the annoying girl's face.

"What do you want Gardner?"

Her face fell a little at his harsh tone. "Well I was just wondering if-"

"And I don't really care." He interrupted. He was not in the mood to hear whatever the cheerleader of the geek squad said.

Téa was a little angry at being interrupted, but she had her patience. "Well, I was wondering if you could give this to Mokuba for me." She produced a folded piece of paper with Mokuba's name on it from her bag.

Kaiba raised an eyebrow. "And why would you want to give a note to my little brother?"

Téa glared at him. "Can you just give to him?"

Kaiba smirked. "What if I decide not to?" He leant back in his chair and folded his arms.

Téa sighed in annoyance. "Fine. You decide whether to give it to him or not." She threw the paper down onto his laptop keys then went out of the classroom to find her friends and go to her next class.

Kaiba's eyes followed her out then came back and rested on the letter she had given him. Hmmm… He picked it up and glared at it thoughtfully. His mind made up he carefully unfolded the paper and started to read.

Ah ha! There she is! Joey silently walked up behind her in the middle of the crowded corridor. He then sped up and bashed into her on his way past as everyone started entering their classrooms. She stumbled and dropped her bag, her things falling out and scattering over the floor of the now nearly deserted corridor. He turned around when he "realized" he had knocked her and knelt down to help her pick her things up.

"I'm sorry Ms Kellie! I didn't mean to. I just wasn't watching where I was going." As he was picking up her things his eyes landed on the prize. He reached over to pick it up.

"Oh that's okay! No harm done." She took the things Joey handed to her and put them in her bag. "Now better get to class!" She hurried off into a nearby room as Joey stood up.

"Hehehe…" He put his hands in his pockets and wandered off to his class. Every step he took his pocket making a jingling sound.

-shocked face- I finished another chapter! Yippee!

By the way the note is not a love note or anything! This story is not TéaXMokuba! Just so no one gets the wrong idea.

Hope you all enjoyed this. If you did feel free to review and make me more eager to write the next chappie!

Till then toodles!