"Hey, Mokuba," Mel greeted, as she walked toward to Mokuba, who was standing by the school steps.
"Man, Mokuba, you are lucky. I mean she is hot. If that jean skirt is any shorter, it would be freaking underwear! Not to mention the top. Is it just me or are her boobs huge! Especially 'Be Naughty, Save Santa a trip' black shirt. I bet she is on the naughty list," Mokuba's friend Raidon observed. Mokuba punched him in the arm.
"Dude! That's my girlfriend you're talking about!"
"So, I can still say she's hot. If she dumps you, I'm taking her, just to let you know."
"And what makes you think she will dump me? If anyone is going to dump anyone I'm dumping her."
"Face it bro, you would never dump something like that." Mokuba just glared at him.
"Who is dumping who?" Mel strutted her way into the conversation, because she could. Ah, the perks of being beautiful.
"No one is, I hope. Anyway, let's just get to class, we are going to be late," Mokuba explained.
"We have like ten minutes, but if you want to go I'll go," She smiled.
"Well, I just wanted to talk to a teacher about something, if you want to stay you can," Mokuba told her, with a little hurt in his voice, because she didn't say yes right away.
"No, I'll come," She flashed her pearly white teeth, "Let's go, we can beat the rush. Bye Raidon, Taro, Alex, and Kane," She waved, and then locked fingers with Mokuba, which made Mokuba blush.
"Um, Mokuba, do you want me to stop, like holding your hand and stuff, because you blush when I do, am I embarrassing you or something?" She asked after they got away from the group.
"Uh, no. It's just that," He looked down, his long hair covering his blue-violet eyes. "I never had a girlfriend before, so it's just a little different. "
"Aww, here, you're my first boyfriend, so we can take it slower if we want, like wait a little before we do PDA's," She reassured him.
"PDA's?" Mokuba was confused.
Mel shook her head and giggled, "Public displays of affection silly, now let's go get to class."
They separated to go to their lockers, and then go to first period.
"Ok class, I have news for you, we are going to do a project!" Mr. Tan announced, while throwing his sculpted arms in the air, the entire class groaned, "Hey, I didn't say it was good news, now I am assigning partners, so at least you can have some fun. Here they are. Melody and Kane…"
Mokuba's heart sank. His beset friend was partnered with his girlfriend.
Well at least it's not Raidon, Mokuba thought, who knows what moves he would try. But Mel is better than that anyway. I trust her, and I trust Kane too.
"…Mokuba and Hana, Akira and Kisho, Amy and Raidon," Raidon groaned. Amy was a total loser; he had to maintain his social status of "cool", "Takara and Greg, Naomi and Haru, Yuri and Blake, Jenny and Kai, Dayne and Yukio, and finally Mimi and Jiro. Ok, the project is life on the beach. I will hand out sheet of your assignment, and you can use the rest of the class to 'discuss' or in your words, talk about the newest music or something." Every student was about to get up and walk to their friends, when they were interrupted.
"Oh, did I mention as motivation for this project I'm taking the class with the best average, on a field trip to the beach! To 'study more beach creature'," He used the air quotes to say "that's what I told the principal, but it's really just for fun".
The class erupted in a roar of cheers.
"But that's only for the class with the best average, now go talk about your projects!" Mr. Tan smiled, because he hasn't lost his title of coolest teacher.
"Howdy partner," Kane pulled a chair right next Mel, as he flashed a gorgeous smile. Mel didn't understand this 'cool' thing. I mean Mokuba should be cool, because of his money and is hot brother, Raidon is a jock, Alex is funny, but Kane is defiantly the hottest, not to mention he has a great personality. So why was Raidon so cool, if all he has is sports? Whatever, as long as she was high on the social chain, then it didn't matter, and something told her she would be.
"So, what does it say on our sheet is our animal?" Mel asked, looking into Kane's deep blue eyes.
"Um…," He flipped through the pages, "You're not going to like this, but its hermit crabs."
"Why wouldn't I like it?" Mel questioned.
"Oh, well I just thought…"
"Because I'm a girl I think all creepy crawlies are gross, way to stereotype," Mel said, sounding hurt.
"Oh, sorry I…I didn't…"
Mel put her perfectly french manicured hand on his shoulder, "Kane, I was kidding," She giggled and flipped a golden curl behind her shoulder, "You're not the only one who has jokes."
"I guess not. So I guess we should go to the beach, and do some research or something. Take pictures and junk. I think we should both do research on the net tonight, about the crabs, then meet and compare; we will probably do that in class. Then we should meet to see what questions we could cover, and talk about presentation. We should probably go to the beach too. Can you go this weekend?"
"Wow, your Mr. Organized aren't you, we have like 3 weeks Kane, but I can go whenever. Can I have your number, so we can call each other? I don't have a screen name in Japan yet, sorry."
"Sure, my number is 555-0624," Kane said
"Kay, mine is," She looked around for a piece of paper, but then decided to write it on his hand, "My number is, 201-555-6452. It's my cell, I answer it more. And this way you can reach me and don't have to go through the maids and stuff."
"Cool," Then Kane and Mel started talking for the remainder of the class.
Raidon walked over to Mokuba, "Yo, Mokuba, you have some competition. Mel just gave Kane her number, and now their laughing. Oh man, she did the flippy hair thing too."
Mokuba glanced over toward them, and saw that they were laughing and Kane had her number on his hand. "Dude, Kane is a funny guy, and he probably needs that number to call her for the project, plus, Mel's hair is in her face, is she supposed to leave it there?" Mokuba told him.
"Ok, whatever you say, but I know flirting when I see it, and I can defiantly see some going on," Raidon informed Mokuba.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiing
"Yeah, right," Mokuba told him, as he gathered his things and waited for Mel.
"Bye Kane, talk to you tonight. Oh and I think I can go to the beach this weekend," Mel waved to Kane, as Raidon passed Mokuba and smirked.
"Wow, you and Kane are becoming close. What were you laughing about?" Mokuba asked.
"Oh, he was just telling me a funny story about how his sister tried crab and she liked it until she found out what it was and then she didn't talk to her dad for a week. He explained it better though. Oh, we are going to the beach this weekend, do you and Hana want to come I mean Kane still has to call me about the date, but we want to go this weekend," Mel offered.
Mokuba sighed in relief. Raidon was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. How could Mokuba believe she would do that? Was he jealous? Nah.
"I don't know if I can. I think I'm going to do some meeting with Seto,"
"Oh, well that's cool. Let's go get to gym," Mel instructed.
"And exactly how do plan to steal it? It's probably locked in a safe with cameras and stuff! And how will that decline the company. We don't have much time to think about useless stuff, Melody!" Her dad shouted on the other line of the phone.
"But if this card is so important, he will be a wreck without it. He won't have time to concentrate or anything, he will be so worked up, I think it's a great idea," Mel praised herself.
"Well I don't, and even if you were to steal his Blue Eyes White Dragon, then it would take a lot of time to plan, time we don't have. I'll tell you what, I'll consider it as a grand finale kind of thing, but don't count on it," Her dad told her and hung up the phone.
"Don't count on it," Mel mimicked. She thought it was a brilliant plan, and she was going to find away to do it. She then hung up the phone and went back to lunch.
23….ding…24…ding…25. The golden elevator doors opened. She was there.
"Miss, can I help you?"
"Um, yes, can you tell me where Mokuba Kaiba's office is?" She asked.
"It's the second door on the right, but I don't think he's in right now."
"Well, do you know when he will be back?"
"Not for a while I think. You can wait, but I'm not sure if you want to wait that long. Did you wish to give him something?" The lady asked, noticing the basket of muffins and candy, and two sodas in her hand.
"Uh, yeah, but I guess I can't give it to him.
"I can give it to him when he returns, if you want," She offered.
"Nah, can you just buzz me into Kaiba's office?"
"Do you have an appointment?"
"No, but it will take two seconds."
"Ok, then, I'll see if he will take you in," She pressed the button, "Kaiba, a little girl wants to see you, it will only take a few seconds, she claims."
"No."
"Are you sure, you will turn down a little girl, how mean will that look?" She smiled at her.
Mel heard a sigh. "Fine, fine, I swear Rolls, I'm going to fire you someday soon if you keep manipulating me like that."
"So you've said, she coming in now."
"Thank you." Mel said in a polite tone.
She entered the office. It was as huge as the she remembered.
"Ah, Melanie or something?" Kaiba said.
"It's Melody. I came here to see your brother, but he isn't here. I wanted to give him this and hang out, but apparently we can't, so do you want it?" Mel offered.
"Um, just leave it. I'll decide if I want it later," He ordered her.
She walked up to his desk and placed it down.
"Er, I'll tell Mokuba you stopped by," Kaiba told her.
"Thanks, that's all I ask. He's a great guy, you're lucky to have him as a brother, you know," She smiled.
Kaiba lifted his head, and almost smiled, "Um, thanks,"
Then she turned and walked out.
Ah yes, Melody Harting, winning the hearts of all. Although, he probably wouldn't think that if he knew I put laxatives as candy, right before an important meeting with a client. Oh, I'm so good.