She skimmed through more of the photos noticing one where the woman was laying down on a couch and Seto lay on her obviously pregnant belly. He could have only been about three as Tea was sure Mokuba was the one inside of the woman.
The last photo that Tea looked at was a picture of Seto and Mokuba covered in paint from head to toe, both smiling widely, in the bottom left hand corner of the photo was writing that said 'My two beautiful boys decided to paint the kitchen for me.' This made Tea giggle as she could only assume with Mokuba being so young that Seto conned him into destroying their mothers kitchen.
"Whats so funny?" A voice came from Teas doorway. Tea quickly turned to see Seto looking curiously at her.
"Oh, I was just looking at these pictures over here, looks like you talked Mokuba into making yalls kitchen an arts and crafts project." She giggled.
Seto walked up beside her and smiled at the pictures. "Yeah, mom was pissed, but when our dad came home and had a laughing fit she couldn't help but laugh herself. He said that it looked better than the bird wallpaper that was on there before, god those were some ugly birds." Seto grimaced at the thought of his old kitchen wallpaper.
"How bad was it exactly?" Tea asked curiously as Seto sat two plates of food on the bed hed brought with him. And took down the picture to better show her. Tea sat down and ate her food along with Seto as the conversation went on.
"It was pretty awful. See they had just bought us this huge arts and crafts thing that came with a rediculous amount of paint. I had already drawn on all the canvases so I told Mokuba that we needed to find a new canvas a.k.a. the kitchen. We took every single bucket of paint we had, including some that we hand found in the garage and kind of just threw it. Then we rolled in it and made prints of our bodies on the refrigerator. Made foot prints on all of the pots and pans, we wrecked it. We ended up being grounded for a week, but it was totally worth it." Seto laughed.
"Even on the pots and pans?" Tea asked in amazement as they both giggled.
"Is this your mom? You guys have the same eyes." Tea asked him.
"Yeah that's her." Seto replied simply.
"Gosh, she looks so.. so free spirited, why would a girl like her marry someone like Gozaburo? Better yet even think of breeding with him." Tea said in disbelief.
"Gozaburo wasn't my father, he adopted me and Mokuba after our parents passed away." Seto stated, slightly amused by her confusion.
"Wait but, Gozaburo was evil, why would he adopt two little kids? And wait, your parents are..? When did they..? You know what, never mind. Im sure its troubling, talking about all of this. I don't want you to be sad or anything." Tea shook her head as if shaking away all of the questions floating around in her mind.
"Tea, were together now. I don't mind telling you these things. Its something you need to know." Seto said half smiling.
"O- okay, well then I guess you can tell me, but if you feel like stopping then just let me know and we don't have to talk about it alright?"
This made Seto smile as he began speaking "Well.. My moms name was Karen Mahavi, My fathers name was Alix Mahavi. She was a stay at home mom, and he was a bussinessman. They were amazing parents. Mom was the caring one, she never judged us or hurt us. Dad was the funny one, he had a great sense of humor but he also kept everything in line. If we did something bad, mom would wait for him to get home before she took any action. They were a perfect team."
"About three years after Mokuba was born, I was six at the time, my mom got really sick. She was diagnosed with cancer. And the treatment was only making it worse. She died within six months of finding out she had it. Dad did his best raising Mokuba and I. He had a lot of money saved up, about three million dollars actually. So he worked from home to take care of us. I stepped up to help take care of Mokuba so my dad didn't go insane."
"One night, one of my fathers co- workers had informed him of a stock market crash, he rushed out, and that was the last time we saw him. He hit some black ice, and the car slid out of control. In their will we were to go to our aunt and uncle, along with our trust funds of two millions dollars each. Our aunt and uncle spent every penny of it within a year, and dropped us off at the orphanage. That's where I challenged Gozaburo to a game of chess, if I win, then he adopts Mokuba and I."
"He underestimated me, he didn't know that my father was one of his number one fans, watching every chess match on television with me in his lap. I knew every one of his strategies. So he adopted us, He was an abusive man. I slept for only a couple hours a week. I had deadlines, work to finish. I was always behind but was never allowed to show an ounce of exhaustion. He formed me into some unfeeling, robot, Or so he thought. There were times where I thought that's all I was, but then I just thought about my parents, they were my light, my one hope. I wasn't Gozaburo Kaibas son, I was Karen and Alix Mahavis son. I wouldn't ever be a robot. Id always be Seto Mahavi." Seto finished "That's pretty much the jist of everything." Seto finished and let out a sad sigh.
He looked over at Tea, his eyes full of sadness and yet still that small glimmer of hope in his eyes, his mom and dad. No matter what brought him down in this world, his parents would always be the ones to keep him on his feet. Even in their absence.
Tea traced the outline of Setos face in one of the many pictures as she looked at his mothers face, so full of life in the picture. She couldn't imagine her being that sick.
She moved her hand onto Setos chest where she rested it and slowly rubbed up and down, tracing along his pelvis and back up to his collar bone. She brought her mouth up to his ear "Lunch was delicious, thank you." She whispered before kissing the top of his ear and bolting up off of the bed.
Raising one finger in the air she put a determined look on her face and said with a deep manly voice "WE GO TO THE MOVIES" then proceeded to run out of the room.
Seto laughed at her being so silly and jumped up to chase after her.