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Chapter 6

The biggest question currently was how to introduce Faye to the paparazzi. He'd been in public with her, but the media hadn't gobbled it up yet. The whole point of this entire endeavor was to both entertain himself and to have a new "official girlfriend." But to have one, the paparazzi needed to snap some photos.

He needed to go somewhere more public than a movie theatre and a rainy park. A café in the middle of the city, perhaps? He liked the sound of that. He took out his laptop and swiftly looked up both outdoor cafés and the weekly weather report. Perfect. Wednesday was going to be nice and sunny.

He withdrew his blackberry from his pocket and called Faye. They had exchanged numbers at the end of their rainy walk in the park. It rang three times before she picked up.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Faye-chan."

"Kaiba-kun! Hello!"

"Wednesday's weather is supposed to be nice. I was thinking we could have lunch together in an outdoor café."

He could almost see her smiling. "I'd love to! What time?"

"I'll pick you up from your apartment at noon."

"Okay!"

Kaiba waited in front of the limo as Faye descended from her room. Mokuba had practically forced him into a pair of jeans and a black short-sleeved T-shirt. He hated wearing short sleeves because of the scars that wrapped and curved around his arms. There weren't too many, but he hated them, and he hated it when people noticed them.

The door to the building opened, and Faye stepped out. She was wearing dark jeans that flared out at the bottom and a pale blue fitted T-shirt with a design of angel wings on the back. A smile bloomed on her face when she saw him.

"Kaiba-kun!" she exclaimed, delighted to see him. "A limo?"

He couldn't help but smile back, though his smile was slight. "I'm treating you today."

She grinned and hugged him, but when he stiffened, she pulled away. "Oh, sorry. I guess you're not a huggy person."

"I'm not," he admitted. He opened the car door for her. "Let's go, shall we?"

During their ride in the limo, Faye noticed the scars on his arms. She traced one. "You probably don't want me asking… but where did you get these scars?"

He suppressed a shiver that rose from her light touch. "Let's just say I've had them since I was young." She nodded in understanding and withdrew, and the conversation was dropped.

The café's outdoor seating consisted of pretty little round, black-wire tables, matching chairs, a short iron fence, and boxes of flowers. They were seated near one of these boxes, and Faye caressed the blooming flowers' petals lightly with her fingertips.

"These flowers are so pretty," she breathed.

"No as pretty as you," he said, reaching out his hand and brushing a lock behind her ear. She turned pink, and he forced himself to not smirk. How could girls fall for such cheesy words? They seemed so simple, sometimes. "I got you something." He reached into his pocket and withdrew a small box. "I saw it the other day and immediately thought of you."

"Oh," she mumbled as he opened the box to reveal a glittering silver necklace. "You didn't have to…" The pendant was the silver profile of a fairy, and her wings were bright emeralds.

"I wanted to," he insisted. He got up and walked behind Faye. He slipped the silver chain around her neck, latching it in the back. She touched it where it rested, her blush deepening.

"It's beautiful," she said. "I like it a lot…"

"I'm glad you like it." He leaned down and, wrapping his arms around her torso, nuzzled her neck. His smirk was mistaken for a smile against her warm skin. Girls were so easy.

The next morning, Kaiba checked the gossip section of the newspaper. Sure enough, there was a picture of him and Faye from yesterday. The headline read, "NEW GIRLFRIEND?" The following article talked about this new official girlfriend excitedly, and how his previous girlfriend had broken up with him when she got a job offer in America.

He smirked. All according to plan.

Faye was almost late to school that day, so it was lunchtime when Kaiba saw Anzu brandish the morning's newspaper in Faye's face.

"Did you see this?" Anzu asked.

"Yeah…" Faye frowned. "They called me a wallflower."

Yugi spoke up next. "Don't you mind being the target of the paparazzi at all?"

Faye shrugged. "I can't really say. I've never been targeted by the paparazzi before. Can't be much different than high school gossip. I think I can handle it…"

"You think," Jounouchi echoed. "What if you can't?"

Faye didn't have an answer.

Kaiba's cranking up the fluff, ain't he?

Yes, well... Maybe newspapers have gossip columns, and maybe it's only for magazines. The newspaper has it now. :P

The chapters are being broken up more, as revealed by all those long lines across your screen. I guess it's just speeding up. ^.^