Chapter two: Rumors and the new girl

It was in the late afternoon in the school, Yugi, his yami hikari, Yami, Tristan, Joey, Ryou and his yami hikari, Bakura and Seto Kaiba sat in class, bored out of their minds. The teacher was lecturing on and on about something stupid. Yugi, and his twin brother, Yami and Kaiba and Ryou and Bakura, also twins took notes on it while Joey and Tristan took a nap instead. Just as the teacher was getting to the really boring part, the principal popped his head into the class and asked the teacher to come right outside a sec. He did and Yugi and Ryou decide to get their two friends up before the teacher came back while Yami and Bakura argued about the duel monster in their last game. Kaiba barely paid any attention to them. Such a bunch of pathetic losers, all of them in this class with me. He thought as he ran his fingers through his dark brown hair, pushing them out of his sapphire icy eyes. He picked up his laptop and started to look at his companies' business when the teacher came back in. "Class we have a new student today. Please say hello to Tea Gardener." A young girl stepped into the classroom. Great, Kaiba thought as he closed his laptop and looked up to see her. He gasped inside as he looked at her. She was very slender and very beautiful to the eye. She had shoulder length dark brown hair, light brown highlights with dark black roots on the top. Her skin was pale but not as white as the albinos Ryou and Bakura. She had dark sunglasses on so he couldn't really tell what color eyes she had but they must be beautiful as she looked around at the class with interest and amusement on her face. She looked at everyone as she said, "Hello I'm Tea Gardener." Everyone in the class responded with 'Ohayo' in Japanese. Tea looked a bit surprised and looked at the teacher. "It's Japanese for 'hello'." He told her and then he looked around the classroom for a seat for her. "Take the seat next to Seto Kaiba. Kaiba please raise your hand." Kaiba was momentarily stunned but quickly covered it and raised his hand. She came towards him and sat down beside him. All the guys stared envious at Kaiba as the girl sat next to him in class. "That's real nice, Kaiba," Joey said to his friends, "A new student, and he get her."

Tea was later introduce to the other student as she made her way through most of the other classes on her agenda. It was at lunch when she had a hard time finding an empty seat to sit at the cafeteria. Hmmp I guess most people can be as ravenous and hungry as I could be. She looked around and saw a group of the same students she had seen in her first class, along with Kaiba at their table. She walked over towards them. "Mind if I joined you?" She asked and most of the boys stopped what they were doing and stared at her. The blond guy looked up at her and said in a new York accent, "Ya 'ure. C'mon 'ere and 'at." She said thanks and sat between Kaiba and another brown spiked hair boy. "I'm Tristan." The guy next to her said. "And I'm Joey Wheeler." The other guy who had the accent said, "Over there is Bakura and Ryou, the albinos." He pointed to a pair of white hair guys, one older the other having a ring around the neck. "And this here is my best buds, Yugi and Yami Moto." He pointed to two kids who had streaked with black and red hair with blond bangs and purple eyes. One looked older than the other and the smaller one had a puzzle around his neck. "Hi." The young one said shyly. She smiled and said hello to them back. Just then four other girls and two other blond hair guys, one with really spiky hair, the other flat joined their table. "Oh hey Mai." Joey said to the blonde hair girl with violet eyes. She smiled down as she went to sit next to him. "Hey Joey." She gave Joey a kiss on the cheek and saw Tea and said, "I'm Mai Valentine."

"Tea Gardener, nice to meet you." She said as she watched a girl with long red hair and hazel eyes sit next to Yugi who said, "I'm Serenity Wheeler, Joey's little sister. And the girl sitting next to Tristan is Miho and Isisuke next to Yami. And finally Marik, the spiky one and Malik, the not so spiky. They are hikar...uh... twins too and are brothers to Isisuke." She pointed to Miho, a girl with purple hair and then a dark Egyptian girl and the blondes, the younger one carried a rod in his pocket. They ate their lunch as they chatted with her. "So Tea, where are you from?" Mai asked, "if you don't mind me asking?" Kaiba was also a bit curious as to where she lived she said, "I travel a lot basically, so I don't stay in one place too long. I used to live here but that was long ago." She said. Everyone was silent until Joey said, "So did you hear the rumor about the accident at the Bay Bridge." This brought Tea to full attention as she heard Yugi said "Yeah, this is the third accident this week and by God the worse." Ryou nodded. Mai and Isisuke also agreed in the conversation. "I can't even think of going down to that bridge without getting my Jaguar blown to bits by whatever's happening on that bridge. They think it's the work of a biker gang doing pranks. Those jerks should be arrested for what they've done and rot in prison." Tea looked over at Joey and asked, "Were there any eyewitnesses to the scenes." Her voice was serious and determined as she looked at each of them through her dark tinted lenses. Nobody said a thing. They shook their heads. Tea sighed and rummaged through her bag for a piece of paper. She looked at it and said, "Who has Geometry, Science and English?" Nobody answered that except Kaiba. "I do. Those are our last periods on the agenda after this." He said as he looked at her schedule. She took off her sunglasses and Kaiba's heart did a leap as she stared at him with sky blue eyes into his sapphire icy ones. "I'm going to leave early today, could you tell the teacher I sorry and ask him for the work I'll need for the class." She snatched another piece of paper and wrote down something. She handed it to him. "That's my address, so you could deliver to me." She said and everyone was too stunned as Tea left, her glasses back on just right before the bell rang. All of them wondered who that girl really was? Yami, Bakura and Marik were the ones most curious. Who was that girl and where did they see her, the Hikaris wondered as they followed their counterparts to their classes. But Kaiba in his head as he headed towards his classes, thought she had the most beautiful eyes he ever seen.