Recap:
"Yes, I'm new! My name is Max." She said not bothering to smile.
"There is a uniform rule here!" Joey said warningly. Max looked at him and frowned again.
"Yeah, I guess I haven't gotten mine yet." She said lying. "Well, I guess it was nice meeting you, but I have to go." Max said walking past him. Joey turned around and ran after her.
"Did you need me to show you the office?" Joey asked smiling at Max. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath then opened them again.
"No thanks!" Max said faking nice "I have a map that I memorized, but thanks anyways." Max said and walked past Joey again. Little did she know that a pair of sapphire eyes watched her from behind a tinted window, before their owners got out and walked to school.
F.F to the Office
Max walked into the quiet office and got the papers that she needed without trouble. Standing outside the office she looked at the class scheduial.
'Hmm, fun.' she growled in her mind looking at the piece of paper and heading to the first class listed. Max walked down a few hallways and stopped in front of door; She looked at the paper then looked to the number on the class room.
'Yes, this is it!' She sighed, slid the door open and walked in. Max felt the attention of the class room fix onto her as she walked forward and handed the teacher the slip.
'Just great, I already draw to much attention!' Max bit her lip discreetly as the teacher looked over the list. She smiled at up at Max.
'Jeez, what is with everyone? All they do is smile, it's getting annoying!' The teacher smiled again and stood up.
"Class!" She said attempting to get the attention of the class who already was paying attention to Max. "Class this is Max Harper! Max this is the class!" Max sighed at the teachers robotic words and looked quickly over the class. Max's gaze rested on the blonde named Joey that she had met earlier; he was whispering to two of his friends, a short boy with spiky purple and yellow hair, and a taller boy with pointy brown hair. Then she spotted a boy with white hair, glancing over to a tall boy with perfect brown hair and sapphire eyes who was reading a book and paying no attention at all to what was going on.
'Why does he look so familiar?' Max thought as the teacher started talking again.
"Why don't you ask Miss Harper some questions to get to know her better?" The teacher said happily as the class nodded in agreement. Max's face fell as the Blonde Joey raised his hand.
"How old are you? And where are you from?" He asked with his cheesy grin.
"I'm seventeen and I'm from America." Max said in a soft but commanding voice.
"Mr. Kaiba!" The teacher said annoyed "Will you at least pay attention?" she frowned at the boy who was reading. He closed his book frowning and looked up. Max met his calculating gaze, his eyes widened in recognition. Max's just narrowed her eyes at him willing him to keep his mouth shut. He smirked at at her and leaned back in his seat.
'That's the guy from the airport! Mr. Kaiba? That name sounds familiar.' Max was interrupted when the spiky haired kid asked her a question.
"Do you play Duel Monsters?" He asked in a surprisingly childlike voice.
"No, I don't think that I have heard of that game." Max said lying again, she saw the guy with sapphire eyes raise his eyebrow, but he did not say anything, yet.
"Where do you live?" Asked a girl with short brown hair and brown eyes that was sitting next to the spiky haired boy.
"I live in a house." Max said, the girl looked at Max confused.
"Why did you come to Japan?" Asked a boy in the back.
"Because I like the food." He nodded his head like he believed her.
"What do your parents do?" Asked the girl with brown hair again. Max narrowed her eyes.
"My parents are... they are scientists." Max said, not really wanting to tell the truth again.
'To bad 'Blue Eye's' Knows who I am so he knows about my parents, I hope he doesn't say anything. He does look very familiar, I'm sure I've seen him before the airport!'
"Is your hair naturally blue or do you dye it?" The boy with spiky brown hair that was sitting next to Joey asked.
"It's natural!" Max said absent mindedly "Sometimes it turns green, pink, purple and even rainbow, depending on my mood!" She finished sarcastically making the class laugh, the Kaiba boy just looked at Max emotionlessly.
"Okay, class! Enough questions!" The teacher said calming the class again. "Very amusing Miss Harper, please take a seat next to Mr. Bakura. Mr. Bakura, please raise your hand." The boy in the back with white hair raised his hand; Max sighed again and walked down the aisle towards the empty seat next to Bakura.
'Hm, he looks a little to innocent!" Max thought walking up and taking her seat. Bakura looked at Max and smiled.
'There they go again!' You thought with a sigh.
"So does your hair really turn rainbow?" Bakura asked Max, she looked at him like he was a halfwit.
"Of course not!" Max said almost appalled.
"I was only kidding!" He said smiling again before turning back to his textbook.
"Miss Harper, Are you familiar with algebra?" The teacher asked looking up at Max.
"Why else would I be taking this class?" Max asked sarcastically.
"Oh, I-I'm sorry I-I did not mean it like that!" The teacher said looking nervous.
'Oh, great! Yet another wet noodle for a teacher.' Max sighed and looked at the teacher.
"May we just start the lesson?" she asked flatly. The teacher nodded and started turning red.
"Oh, look! It's someone as mean as Kaiba!" Joey the boy from earlier said looking at Max. Max only glared at him and frowned, he stuck out his tongue and smiled. Max rolled her eyes and looked away towards the other side of the room. She saw Kaiba watching her with a discrete interest, Max frowned and looked down at her desk.
"Okay Class, we are going to have a test today!" The teacher said happily among a chorus of groans. "Miss Harper, you have not been studying with us, you are not required to take the test today."
"I will take the test." Max said not bothering to look up.
"Alright!" The teacher said as she picked up the stack of tests and started handing them around. She put one face down in front of Max. She finished distributing the tests and walked to the front of class.
"You may start now!" She said sitting down, Max flipped over the page and looked at it. "You have an hour and a half to finish it!"
'Hn, this will only take ten minutes.' Max thought as she looked over the paper. Max started writing, eight minutes later she was finished. Max stood up walking to the front of the class, and stopped in front of the teacher's desk.
"May I help you?" The teacher asked looking up at her kindly.
"I'm finished!" Max said handing the teacher the test as someone walked up beside her, the teacher looked over to the new arrival.
"You're finished also, Mr. Kaiba?" The teacher asked. The boy just handed the teacher the paper without saying anything. Max looked over out of the corner of her eye at Kaiba slightly interested though she did not let it show, he was also covertly watching Max. Max blushed unnoticeablly and looked the other way on purpose.
'Why am I blushing?' Max thought in confusion 'He's just a silly boy!' She told herself firmly and looked at the teacher.
"You both got every answer correct!" The teacher said looking at Max "I expected this from Mr. Kaiba, but not you, Miss. Harper! Frankly I'm surprised. May I see you when school is over?" Max frowned at the teacher, but nodded her head.
"Yes." She said reluctantly agreeing.
"Good!" The teacher said with a smile "You may both do whatever you want till the end of class, so long as it does not disturb the other students." She said going back to her papers. Max turned around and went back to her seat and pulled a piece of blank paper out of her bag, along with a few pencils. Max set them on the desk and started drawing. She sketched out the body of a giant dragon and added a small human in front of the dragon to show how huge he really was. Max continued sketching, drawing out the details of a Blue Eye's White Dragon. She looked at the human not sure what to draw in his place. After a minute she decided to draw the human facing the dragon, and gave the human an Ancient Egyptian outfit and headdress. He was also holding a small ax-like rod, with something that resembled an eye in the middle. Max looked closer at the item.
'I don't remember drawing that.' She thought frowning at the paper.
"Did you know that it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile?" Max looked up to see that Joey boy and the people she assumed to be his friends standing in front of her. Max noticed that there was no one else around except the teacher.
'Huh, I should pay more attention!' Max thought looking at the boy who spoke, he was short with purple spiked hair and blonde highlights. Max raised her eyebrow.
"Yes, I did! And that is how I get most of my exercise." The short one smiled at her and Joey laughed the others just looked amused.
"I'm Yugi Moto." he said and pointed to the tall one with spiked brown hair. "This is Tristan and Tea." he pointed to the only girl in the group then to one you hadn't seen before. He had long black hair that was pulled back into a ponytail a dice shaped earring dangled from his ear, He looked at you curiously with green eyes. "This is Duke and Joey said you two already met." Yugi finished looking back to Max.
"Uh, Nice to meet you all?" She said as more of a question than a real greeting, though it wasn't taken that way. "As you already know I'm Max."
"I knew it!" Said Duke who had not been in this class when Max was introduced.
"Knew what?" Max asked confusion briefly graced her face.
"That you're Max Harper The Mmmppph..." He was cut off by Max jumping up and clamping her hand to his mouth, She glared at him.
"Don't Say it!" Max growled as she took her hand off his mouth.
"Uhh, say what?" Joey and Yugi said at the same time. Duke looked at Max confused for a second before he got what she meant.
"Umm, well you see..."Duke started to say unsure "We, uhh.. I've met her before!" He finally got out.
"Really? When?" The girl, Tea asked.
"She came to my shop!" He said shrugging his shoulders.
"Oh, yes I did! He has a nice shop to!" Max said going along with his ruse, Yugi looked at her confused.
"Why didn't you want him to tell us?" Yugi asked.
"She needed help with a game. Guess she was embarrassed." The group nodded obviously buying it.
"Oh, ok! See you guys later, I have to get to class." Yugi said walking out followed by the others until only Duke remained.
"So... Why can't I tell them?" Duke asked looking at Max.
"Because I don't want to be known for that any longer. I've given up Duel Monsters!" Max said simply as she gathered up the stuff on her desk.
"Haven't you ever heard that quitters never win, and winners never quit?" Duke asked raising an eyebrow.
"I don't want to win any longer! So quitting is just fine with me!" Max said putting the paper in her bag.
"I bet you still carry a Duel Deck around!" Duke said crossing his arms, Max looked at him and frowned.
"This conversation is over!" Max said picking up her bag and walking out leaving a smiling Duke behind her.
"Ha! You do!" Max heard Duke shout behind her, she just ignored him and kept walking.