Seto and Tea had just walked out of the movie theatre, hand in hand. They had decided to go and see Transformers 3.
"Oh my gosh that was the best one yet. Bumble Bee was so funny!" Tea said.
"Yeah it was really good, Too bad Megan Fox wasnt in it, she is sooo hooottt." Seto replied.
Tea answered with a light punch on his arm which made both of them chuckle.
"Geez I cant believe Im finally going back to school tomorrow, Ive gotten so used to not going." Tea explained to Seto.
"Well youll be fine, and your friends will be happy to see you again. What exactly are you going to tell them? Its been almost three weeks." He asked his girlfriend, with slight worry lining his words.
"Ill just stick with the origional story, sick with the flu. Maybe I should think of something worse though? Maybe Mono?" She asked Seto.
"Mono works, except we defanitely cant tell people were dating now. I dont want your fake Mono." Seto said sarcastically pulling away from Tea in a joking manner.
"Psshh if you dont watch yourself Ill tell everyone your infected." She threatened.
Both of them laughed and Seto gave her a sweet kiss. "Well we still have most of day, its only three. So what do you want to do?" Seto asked
"Well we do need to stop by my house to pick up some clothes, but other than that I dont know. You should pick something for us to do." Tea offered.
"Alright. Ill think about it while I drive you over to your house." Seto agreed.
In less than a half an hour they were at the front door of Teas home, she fumbled with the keys slightly before unlocking and opening the door only to see her mother and father sitting on the couch staring at her. "Hello Tea." They said in unison.
"Mom, Dad! You guys got home early from your bussiness trip! Oh I missed you so much!" She ran up to her father and hugged him tight, doing to same thing to her mother. Seto stood awkwardly at the entrance to their home.
"Hello darling, we got in lastnight. Where have you been? And who exactly is this?" Teas mom asked almost accusingly.
Tea looked over at Seto as if looking for an answer. Seto nodded in response and Tea nervously began.
"Well mother and father. This is my boyfriend you guys may already know him, his name is Seto Kaiba."
A suprised gasp was heard from her mother as her father sat still glaring daggers in the direction of Seto.
"Whats the problem? I thought you guys would be happy for me." Tea said, disappointment showing in her voice.
"You thought that we would be proud? Do you not understand? Has he not told you?" Her fathers voice grew louder with each word.
"Told me what? What are you talking about?" Tea looked over to her boyfriend to see sadness and dissapointment all over his face.
A chuckle was heard from Teas father "Well this is just precious." He stood from the couch "You begin dating a bussinessman of his statcher without even thinking that he could possibly be competing with your own ken? Have you forgotten that I also am a bussinessman Tea? What you dont realize is that you are giving yourself to the man who is putting my company in debt every damned day!" Teas father was raging.
"Wh-whaat?" Tea looked at Seto shocked about what shed just heard.
"Oh sweety" Her mother began "He is using you, to get closer to us. He wants to know our secrets and take us down. You fell right into his trap." Teas mother scolded.
"I promise you Tea, its not like that at all. At least let me explain myself." Seto said softly to her, acting as if her parents werent even there.
"You dont dare speak in my household, do you understand me? You are not welcome here! Now I suggest you leave before I..Get..Angry." Her father spat.
"No Dad, he has the right to at least tell his side of the story." Tea said, fighting back tears.
She motioned him to begin. Seto let out a long sigh before starting.
"Your fathers bussiness and mine have had a long running rivalry for awhile now, its the way bussiness is Tea. Its what we do. But I have never played dirty and I have never tried to put your fathers company out of bussiness, actually there have been a couple of times that Ive offered a partnership but gotten struck down. There is a company right now, Lang Corporations that is quickly putting itself into debt and its been up for grabs. Kaiba Corp. and Mazaki Industries have been bickering over it trying to get it for ourselves. The only thing Ive done is bid on the company, I havent taken any other action then that. However I did recently have a security lockdown at my company due to an attempted take over of the system, the virus seemed to originate from Mazaki Industries. Not pointing any fingers though." Seto glared up to Teas father for a moment, before returning his innocent stare to Tea.
"I dont care enough about your fathers company to use you to get anything out of it. I dont care who your parents are or how much they hate me. The only reason that I didnt tell you this before was because I thought youd break up with me for it. I was scared, to be completely honest... I dont want to lose you." Seto stared deeply into Teas eyes, trying his hardest to prove to her that he was being truthful.
"Oh dont you listen to that jibberish Tea and I mean it! He doesnt care about you! All he cares about is himself! Hes putting on an act to get you to trust him! He is an evil man and I do not want to see you get hurt." Her mother rambled.
She shook her head back and forth vigerously trying to silence her mothers voice "SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" Tears poured down her face as she glared at her mother and father.
"You do not have the right to tell me what I can and cannot do. Neither of you have ever been in my life for any longer than a month at a time and yet I still show you love and I still take all of your shit! I get straight A's in school. Ive never been absent a day in my life and that was with my own willpower of waking up every morning and getting myself dressed and walking MYSELF to school. What both of you need to understand is that this man has shown me more affection in two weeks than either of you have shown me in my entire life."
Tea took an angry breath and silenced her mother before she could interupt her.
"My entire life I have made my own decisions, and damn good ones at that. I have never gotten any sort of recognition for taking care of myself. I could be a crack whore right now. I could be selling myself on the corner. But Im not, the only time I ever even hear from you is when I do something you guys dont want me to do.. I wanted to dance 'No Tea, you will be a lawyer' I wanted to hang out with my friends instead of researching colleges that I didnt even want to go to 'No Tea, you must do your research.' And now, I want to be with Seto Kaiba, your worst enemy. But A man who saved my life and never asked anything in return. And I REFUSE to listen to your Bullshit." Tea finished bitterly, out of breath yet refreshed for finally being able to get rid of her built up anger towards her parents
"He saved your life did he?" Her mother let out a chuckle. "Oh Id just love to hear about this." Another chuckle came from her mother, as her father looked curiously over to a shocked Seto, for Tea even bringing that night up.
"You saved my daughters life?" Her father asked very seriously.
"Y- yeah." Seto put a determined look on his face "But its not my place to speak of it. Its Teas bussiness."
"I wouldve been killed if it werent for him, and thats all that you need to know. Im leaving now and I wont be coming back for a long time, if ever. Dont call me, dont try to find me, and the authorites cant do anything because legally I can leave the house by myself. When you are ready to accept me and Setos relationship, we can try to be a family again. But for now, I will not let you control me. I still am indebted to Seto, and I do intend on repaying him for saving me." Tea said calmly as she proceeded to exit her parents home.
Seto followed close behind and shut the door behind them as her parents sat open mouthed and wide eyed on the couch in shock of her daughters outburst.