Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh
December 17
Regretfully Atemu had returned to work the next day. Yami had completely understood and had said that he was going to be spending the day working with his grandfather at the Game Shop. Atemu had promised though that he would be home by 7 at the absolute latest which had made Yami extremely happy.
Atemu had walked into the office and was happy to see that his secretary's desk had been changed and now was no longer decorated by various Chinese figures and instead was decorated by little porcelain ballerina's, which he knew his last secretary hated which meant Bakura had done as he had asked and fired Ms. Wong and hired a replacement.
He walked into his office and began to work.
While Atemu had been on his lunch break there was a knock on his door he glanced up from his sandwich and said, "Enter."
In walked a young girl with shoulder length brown hair and blue eyes. If Atemu had to guess this was most likely his new secretary. "Mr. Sennen sir, I have a message for you."
"And that is?" Atemu asked, turning his attention back onto his lunch. He had caught the seductive almost predatory look in the girl's eyes and he wasn't going to make it worse by giving the girl what could be interpreted as his undivided attention, since that would only encourage her. Honestly you'd think that every CEO in the history of the position had slept with his secretary.
The girl was slightly put off but decided not to show it and instead answered her bosses question, "The message was rather…odd sir."
Atemu fought against the urge to roll his eyes, "I don't care if it's odd. Just give me the message so I can get back to enjoying my lunch and you can get back to doing what I'm paying you to do." Atemu said sharply.
The girl took a deep breath and said, "A man called here earlier today and said that he wanted to speak with you. I asked if you were expecting a call from him and he told me that you were not…though he had mentioned that either your cellphone had died or you left it out in the car again."
Atemu glanced up, knowing that Yami would have been the caller. "What was the message?"
"The man just said to tell you that he was craving something really sweet but he didn't have any money with him so could you get something on the way home. I know…it was probably a prank…"
"Go back to work." Atemu said, dismissing the girl with a wave of his hand.
"But sir."
Atemu glared at her and his voice took on an authoritative edge, "I told you to get back to your desk and do your job. For future reference if that man calls again he is to be patched through to me immediately. Now, if you aren't out of this office in the next ten seconds then you can clean out your desk and look for employment elsewhere." Atemu snapped.
The girl paled before she quickly scurried out of Atemu's office and back to her desk leaving Atemu to enjoy the rest of his lunch in peace.
True to his word Atemu shut down his laptop and began to put away all this stuff at 530. He walked out of his office fifteen minutes later without so much as a glance at his secretary.
He climbed into his car and began to head home, however he made a detour to the grocery store since he had remembered that Yami wanted him to pick up something sweet.
He walked down the pastry aisle however nothing really jumped out at him that Yami would want.
He smirked though when he remembered that pregnant people often craved ice cream. So he headed the ice cream section before pulled out four large tubs of Yami's favorite ice creams and setting them in the cart.
"That should keep him satisfied for awhile." Atemu mumbled before he walked to the checkout counter.
"Good evening sir. Did you find everything okay?" The cashier asked.
Atemu just nodded his head in recognition that the cashier had addressed him but not actually responding. The cashier checked out the four tubs of ice cream and Atemu paid for his purchases before heading back out to his car.
Atemu climbed back into his car and headed back home. He was glad that tomorrow was Saturday which meant that he wasn't going to be going in. Things were still hectic yes, but not so hectic that he couldn't afford to take the weekend off.
He pulled into the driveway and climbed out of the car before reaching back in and pulling out the grocery bags holding Yami's precious ice cream. He frowned when he noticed that the driveway was completely clear of snow since it had snowed earlier this afternoon, shortly after lunch. There should have been snow.
He walked into the house and said, "Yami, I'm home."
With a smile Yami walked out of the kitchen to greet him, "You actually were home by 7. That's great Atemu."
"I said I would be." Atemu said. Yami nodded and walked up to him and kissed him on the cheek.
Atemu set the bags down on the ground so he could wrap his arms around Yami's waist and pull him in for a deep kiss. Once the kiss broke apart Atemu said, "Yami, I have a question for you." Yami looked up at Atemu in confusion for a few seconds like he was trying to guess what Atemu wanted to ask him.
After he couldn't come up with anything he asked, "What is it Atemu?"
"Did you shovel the driveway?" Atemu asked.
Yami frowned slightly in puzzlement, "Shovel the driveway? Why would you want to know if I shoveled the driveway?" Yami asked.
Atemu sighed and just held Yami close to his chest while he tried to find the words to explain what he was thinking since he knew just by the way that Yami had responded to his question that he HAD shoveled the driveway and was just wondering why Atemu wanted to know if he did or not.
"Yami, I don't want you to shovel the driveway anymore." Atemu said slowly.
"And why not Até?" Yami asked.
Atemu didn't say anything but rather slid his hand up so that his open palm was resting on Yami's stomach. Yami's eyes widened in realization of what Atemu was getting at. Atemu was worried about Yami losing the child because he overworked himself.
Yami pecked Atemu on the cheek and said, "It's sweet of you to worry about me like that but you don't have to Atemu. My doctor said that I could do anything that I normally would until I'm five months along so shoveling a little light snow won't hurt me."
"You promise? You aren't just saying that to make me feel better?" Atemu asked.
Yami nodded. "Don't worry Atemu; I wouldn't do anything to risk losing our child. I promise."
Atemu sighed, "I still don't want you doing that Yami. I'll do the shoveling when I get home from work." Atemu said firmly.
Yami sighed but nodded before he started to tug Atemu out of the entryway and into the dining room, "Come on Até, I made dinner."
Atemu laughed but followed the enthusiastic Yami into the dining room only to freeze when he realized he'd left the ice cream he'd bought sitting on the floor.
Yami, once he noticed Atemu had stopped following him frowned, "Atemu what's wrong?"
"Nothing Yami, I just stopped at the grocery store on the way home and I'd left the stuff on the floor in the entryway." Atemu said.
"Oh, okay." Yami said before he walked into the kitchen to grab dinner.
Atemu walked back into the entryway and grabbed the four tubs of ice cream he'd bought and carried them into the kitchen just as Yami was pulling a pan of baked chicken out of the oven.
Atemu walked past Yami and set the plastic bags on the counter and opened the freezer and stuck the four tubs of ice cream inside before closing it.
"What are you doing Até?" Yami asked as he walked back into the kitchen.
"Putting the ice cream that I bought you in the freezer so it doesn't melt all over the floor." Atemu said.
"You stopped on your way home from work to buy me ice cream. That's so sweet, thank you." Yami said pecking Atemu on the cheek.
Atemu smiled before he followed Yami back into the dining room and the two enjoyed dinner.
After the two had gotten dinner cleaned up they went into the living room to just relax, though Yami did go and pull one of the tubs of ice cream out of the freezer and two spoons, one of which he offered to Atemu.
"No thanks Yami, I bought the ice cream for you, not for me." Atemu said.
With a shrug Yami stuck his spoon into the ice cream and began to eat some of it. "How did you know I'd been craving ice cream?" Yami asked.
"Because my secretary gave me your message that you wanted me to stop on the way home and get you something sweet. I just figured that you'd meant ice cream." Atemu said.
Yami just smiled before he began to sing, "On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me four tubs of ice cream…"
With a grin Atemu sung the next line, "Three fainting relatives."
"Two hours skating." Yami added.
"And a great, life changing piece of news" Atemu finished pulling Yami in for a kiss.