Tea sat worriedly in the dining room, looking at the sonograms sitting in front of her on the table. That little peanut sized thing in the picture, that was the creation of her and Seto. She smiled as she placed a hand on her stomach. "I love it already, Even if it was an accident." She spoke aloud to herself.
"What was an accident?" Teas eyes shot up to her boyfriend, immediately snatching the photos off of the table, taking notice of his red droopy eyes and slightly ruffled hair. 'Its not a good time right now, he looks like he had a rough day' She thought to herself.
"Oh nothing, I just spilt some milk earlier on accident." Tea giggled nervously.
"And this milk, You love it?" Seto raised an eyebrow, it was obvious that he wasn't buying her excuse, but she did not want to stress him more than he was already.
"Of course I love milk. Its good for you and helps you build strong bones. What? You don't like milk? Who doesn't like milk?" Tea rambled.
Seto sat down beside her at the dining room table and took the pictures out of her hands before she could shove them into her pocket. He took a while to look them over.
The silence was killing Tea, she was so afraid that he wouldn't want the baby, or that he would regret being her boyfriend., But finally after much anxiety he spoke.
"You're pregnant." He said in monotone.
"Y-yes." Tea stuttered.
Again he was silent, Tea didn't know what to say to him, it was obvious that this was bad news to him.
"I-Is it.. his?" Seto asked sounding pained by this question.
"No Seto, i-ts yours. Im not far enough along for it to be hi-" She was cut off by Seto taking her into an embrace. She stopped what she was saying and hugged him back.
"Thank god. That's all that I was worried about." He spoke in a relieved tone.
Tea slightly smiled but then her happiness quickly turned to confusion as she wiggled her way out of his arms and raised an eyebrow to him.
"So you aren't worried or anything? How? Im scared as hell!" said Tea.
"Well of course im worried babe. Im going to be a father, and to be completely honest it wasn't the most responsible thing we could've done considering we've only been together for a few months. But its too late now, were going to have a child together, and I couldn't be more happy for you to be the mother." He complimented, making Tea blush slightly.
"Im glad that you are going to be the father, I know you'll be responsible and caring, and I know you'll love it so much. How are we going to tell the gang though?" Tea pondered on this for a moment, the more scenarios she played out in her head, the more the burden grew on her shoulders and the more she really truly did NOT want to tell them.
"You know, scratch that last statement, I can just hide from them for nine months right?" Tea giggled nervously.
"No Tea, they're your friends, and were going to have to tell all of them, Even Joey." Seto told her, although he wasn't much looking forward to telling them either.
"We can get Mokuba to tell them! Hes cute and they wont kill him!" Tea said aloud.
"Nope, not doing it, no way no how. This is your burden to bare, nope nope nope." Mokuba said as he passed the dining room holding a big bowl of ice cream. "Good luck though guys, and congrats!" Mokuba smiled as he turned his walk into a run and darted for his room before any other ideas could be thought up.
Seto laughed at his little brother "We are going to tell them together. They aren't going to like it at all, but whats done is done, and theres no turning back now." Seto said as he picked up Teas hand and placed a kiss on each of them.
"Right." Tea said, with a look of determination in her eyes.
Seto and Tea both sat on the living room couch, staring at the grandfather clock by the fire place. Each tick made them just the slightest bit nervous. The bell tolled, it was 12 oclock.
Only thirty minutes until they were to be at lunch with Yugi, Joey, and Tristan.
Tea thought its be a good idea to lighten everybody's mood with some good food, compliments of Kaiba.
The couple silently got into the car and drove Waynes Sports Grille, the best burgers in town, also one of the most expensive burgers in town. Turning in and finding a spot Tea and Seto got out and looked each other over.
Tea was dressed in some jean shorts and a loose yellow top, while Seto was dressed in Khaki shorts and a brown shirt with the Quicksilver logo on the front and back. Both were dressed pretty beachy considering the type of weather they were having. It was hot, luckily Seto felt the need to make this unveiling of Teas pregnancy an entire day off. He figured hed need the time after to recuperate after the bloody nose hed probably get from Joey.
Seto and Tea took each others hand and whispered a quick 'I love you' before the gang waved them to their table, all seemed well enough at first. Joey had finished his third appetizer while the rest of the gang was sipping at a cold soda.
"Hey guys how it going?" Yugi asked, as always.
"Its going great. Were graduating next month can you believe it?" Tea smiled, trying to make happy conversation.
"I know! All that work for all those years, and finally its paying off." Yugi smiled.
"Are you happy to be graduating Kaiba?" Yugi asked.
This took Kaiba slightly off guard for a moment, but didn't let anyone see "Yeah im happy to get all of it out of the way, itll give me a lot more time to hang out with Mokuba and Tea." Seto said, attempting to be nice and make small talk. He couldn't blow this by being rude to them.
No matter how badly he wanted to make a comment about Joey eating like a dog he held his tongue, he had to for Tea.
They took their seats, making small talk, the food was delivered shortly after they ordered and everyone happily ate. Seto took down his rock hard composure just the slightest and managed to have some short answer for any questions that were asked, until of course, Joey spat one through his chewed up onion rings and ketchup drool.
"So whats da idea bringen us to a place like dis Kaiba? Eh? You just felt like being nice en having lunch wid us at da most expensive burga joint in town?" Joey asked, quite accusingly, he knew something was up.
"Joey does have a point Kaiba, I mean, You aren't usually this nice." Yugi added.
Seto looked worriedly at Tea, to which Tea nodded in understanding of what was about to be said.
"Well…" Seto awkwardly scratched the back of his head, there was no hiding it, no putting on some mask. This man was worried sick and everyone could tell. "Tea and I, we kind of have something to tell you guys, since you're her friends, we figured you deserved to know."
"Were your friends too Kaiba, don't forget that." Yugi smiled.
"Speak for ya self Yug, Im only hear for Tea and dats it! So whats going on? Spill da beans rich boy." Joey barked.
"Im pregnant." Tea quickly cut in. Everyone sat in shock for a moment, thinking that maybe they didn't hear her right.
"And I don't appreciate you talking to the father of my child that way Joey, you are my best friend and he is my boyfriend, and now hes even more than that. Were having a baby together, And I want my kid to have his Uncle Joey. But NOT if you and Seto cant get along." Tea explained, holding her ground before Joey could begin his outburst.
"I.." Joey didn't exactly know what to say, and the rest of the gang stayed quiet, waiting for his answer.
Joey lowered his head in what seemed to look like defeat. "Yugis been tryin to tell me dis whole time dat its your life and I don't control it, I guess hes right. Its your decision, and if your happy wit rich boy. Den
I guess ill have to start being happy wit rich boy too." Joey sighed, he knew it was the only way he could keep Tea as a friend without freaking out all the time about her being with Kaiba.
"So you guys are having a baby? Isnt it kinda early for dat?" Joey asked, cringing at his own words.
"It is, we were pretty irresponsible, but we cant really turn back time and fix it. So that's it, Tea and I are having a child and we wanted to make sure that all of you knew that youd be Uncles. I know you probably want to kick my ass and you have every right to want that. But just know that I love Tea, and were going to try our best together to be good parents, but still.. We might need your help too."
That was it, his exterior was gone and The real Seto Kaiba was completely showing through. The one that Tea got to be with every day. This awkward, cute, funny, amazing person was finally seen by others eyes besides her and Mokuba's.
The fact that he did that for her meant more than anything.
"Well, it was pretty dumb of you guys to get yourselves into a situation like this, But nobody's perfect. Your going to be great parents and well be here for you too. Right Joey?" Yugi smiled at his bestfriend.
"..Right" Joey gritted, trying to hold back the anger he wanted to unleash.
The rest of lunch went fairly well. They talked about plans for the baby, what they might name it depending on the gender, and how they would tell her parents(which they still hadn't figured out). The group walked each other out to the parking lot and as everyone was departing Seto extended a hand toward Joey.
And although His mind was telling him to break each and every one of Kaibas fingers individually, he extended a hand as well, and shared a friendly shake with the man he dearly hates but had to eventually grow to like one way or another, for Tea.