The day soon turned to night as they finished up at the dance studio. Tea had a blast, and Seto was just as happy watching her beautiful dancing. She changed back into her regular clothes and they made their way back to Setos car.
"Thank you so much for today Seto." She said, smiling widely at him.
He smiled back at her, taking one of her hands while opening the car door for her. "It was nothing, I just wanted to make you happy and take your mind off of everything. Youre looking a lot better too, since.. Well you know." He said awkwardly as he shut her door and proceeded to his side.
"Yeah, these bruises are finally fading.." She looked at her arms to see the light brown bruises staining her skin, "Hey, can I ask you something?" She turned to Seto, now in the drivers seat.
"Sure, whats up?" He looked at Tea curiously as he started the car.
"Do you think.. that maybe, I don't know. I was just wondering if maybe, I could stay with you until my parents get back from their business trip, Im still having trouble even thinking about being alone." She looked down at her feet, disappointment shown on her face. "I feel like I should've gotten over all of this by now…"
"Tea" He looked at her sternly "You were raped. The fact that you are smiling right now shows that you are getting over it. You went through a a very traumatic experience, and your taking it very well. Don't down on yourself. Your doing really good." Seto explained, while placing his hand on hers.
She watched their fingers as they intertwined and smiled up at him.
"Your right, I am doing good. And thank you so much for keeping me on track through all of this. I would have never in my life thought that Id be sitting here with you right now. But it makes me so happy to know that I have you to keep me level headed." She showed a toothy smile as he smirked up at her.
"You want to go get something to eat? Im sure your hungry after all that workout in there." He gestered back to the building they had been in.
"Which workout? The dancing, or the making out?" She asked playfully.
"Both." He replied, giggling at the irony of the situation. Him and Tea, together.
Laughable was an understatement.
Seto stopped at a breakfast nook not far from his house. He had called Mokuba and invited him along as well, in which he politely declined due to the fact that hed already eaten.
Tea and Seto sat together talking about anything and everything.
"So, how long exactly have you liked me?" Tea asked curiously.
"Well, Ive always held you in high respect, you and Yugi seemed to be the only sensible two in yalls group, Tristan wasn't bad either, he could be just as stupid as Joey sometimes though. I guess Ive always liked you, but I couldn't just give up my front, especially when Ive done so many horrible things to keep all of you away." Seto explained.
"Why did you push us away?" Tea asked, even more curious to this question.
"Its kind of complicated to explain." He attempted to get off of the subject.
"Ive got all night." She smiled, slight determination showing in her face
"Well first off, hes my rival. That, in and of itself gives me a reason to dislike Yugi and all of you. Second off, all of you tried to pry into me. As a businessman Ive been taught for my entire life to never show emotion, and trust no one as a friend. Everything I do, I do to make sure that Mokuba will be secure in the future. Im very serious about my business and making sure that Im taken seriously as a 17 year old CEO. Many people take me for some young fool, and I just cant have that." Seto said seriously.
"Oh I understand, You wouldn't mind making friends, But you still need to maintain your cut throat staus as a CEO, while also keeping any sort of real friendship o-or relationship from the news." Tea summed up. Thinking about her and Setos friendship, relationship whatever it was.
"Exactly, Im supposed to be the man of no feeling, Ice prince. Im known for that, and highly respected for it. That's why our relationship will have to be under wraps for awhile." He said, looking at her with slight disappointment showing in his eyes.
"I don't mind. It would probably be easier that way anyways. If we keep it quiet, I wont be bombarded with loud groups of enraged fan girls." She laughed, sipping her coffee.
Seto also laughed at this comment as he took her petite hand into his own. Nobody would recognize him in the simple jeans and hoodie hed worn out. So there was no danger of the new couple being seen by anyone.
But god must have a wonderful sense of humor, because as this comforting thought went through his mind, who better to decide to have breakfast in the evening but Yugi and Grandpa, who immediately recognized Tea and walked up to their table.
Kaiba noticing the two walk in, quickly withdrew his hand and put on a cold expression. Tea looked around in confusion for a moment before seeing the cause of her boyfriends reaction.
She put on the best smile that she could and waved at them as they made their way to the couples table.
I hope they don't notice the bruises She worriedly thought to herself.
"Hey guys! Whats up?" Tea asked giddily.
"Hey! Geez I thought Id never see you again." Yugi joked.
"Whos your frie- Oh Kaiba its you, I almost didn't recognize you." Yugi smiled
Seto gave a grunt in response, while slowly sipping on his coffee.
Yugi looked Tea up and down, he noticed something was off about her. She was hiding something. He looked her up and down, finally noticing the light bruises on her arms.
"Tea.." He trailed off for a moment, staring at her arms. She began rubbing them nervously, as if attempting to rub away the brown.
"What happened to you? Did, Did he do this to you?" Yugi looked at Seto and Tea in confusion.
"No Yugi, I promise, All Kaibas done is help me through all of this, he wouldn't hurt me." Tea replied to Yugi.
"Helped you through what Tea? Look, I know that I told you that you could tell me whenever your ready, but this is before I saw these bruises. Tea, whats going on? Is everything okay?" Yugi asked worried about his best friend.
Tea let out a sigh of discomfort "I shouldn't have kept it from you for this long anyways." She shook her head slowly and closed her eyes, before reopening them and looking up at Seto, who was acting completely uncaring about the situation at hand. She knew better than to think he didn't care though.
Tea opened her mouth to begin but was cut off by Kaiba "Maybe we should get our food to go and we can talk about this at my place." He offered.
"Yeah, that'd probably be best." She said a little bit too hastily while giving mentally thanking Seto.
"Alright, just let me go tell Grandpa." Yugi replied before going over to the table his grandfather was sitting at.
With this moment of being alone, they took a second to give eachother a quick glance.
Worry showing in Setos eyes.
Sadness showing in Teas.