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I have finally gotten around to this chapter. As I was writing this my Mother commented on my small use of vocab so looking through the thesaurus I have found replacement words. The ones that I never heard are defined at the end of the story. This is a lot longer then the other chapters. Enjoy!

Mochaholic 101

Like every other morning Seto did his morning methodical.(1) Wake up early, go to kitchen, make coffee, sit at table, drink coffee, read paper, drink coffee, turn page, drink more coffee, turn page, drink coffee, turn another page drink last bit of coffee, refill cup, so on and so forth. By the end of the morning two pots of coffee (or more, depending how early he got up) would be gone.

"Good morning big brother!" a young boy with long somber hair and titanic ashen eyes bounded into the kitchen all to enthusiastically.

"Good morning Mokuba." The initial(2) looked up from the morning paper. "What are you doing up so early?" At the current moment it was 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning.

"I have something to show you." Mokuba conveyed(3) Seto an assemblage of papers.

Seto took another extract of coffee; taking the papers handed to him. He arched an eyebrow as he scanned the title. " Mokuba what is this?"

"What is what?" Mokuba questioned innocently.

Seto rolled his eyes and read, "Easy ten steps for Mocholics. A way to combat coffee addiction."

"I thought it might help you."

"I'm not addicted to coffee." he took another sip of the opaque(4) liquid.

Mokuba smiled, trying unyieldingly not to laugh.

"Well I'm not."

Mokuba's smile conveyed into a smirk, crossing his arms he replied "The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem."

Seto frowned at his brother, taking another sip of coffee, "I do not have a problem with coffee."

"Face it Seto, you can't go a day, well, an hour, without coffee. The days just beginning and you already drank half the pot." He nodded towards the half empty coffeepot.

"I can too. I didn't fill the whole coffeepot today."

Mokuba snorted "Sure you haven't. How many cups have you had already?"

Seto grimaced, "That's besides the point. I can go all day with out drinking coffee."

"Sure you can." He said sarcastically. "I bet you couldn't make it till nine."

Seto's eyebrow twitched, pushing away his coffee cup, "I'll show you, I'm not addicted to coffee. So when I win you'll stop bugging me about it."

"And if you lose," Mokuba leered evilly "you'll have to go a week with out it."

Seto's eyes widened at the horrendous thought, then narrowed quickly "Then it's a deal, when I win you'll stop bugging me."

"And when I win," Mokuba finished, "you can't have coffee for a week." He went to one of many vast cupboards, drawing out his favorite cereal.

'How did I end up with such an evil little brother?' Seto thought, watching Mokuba pore a bowl of cereal. 'I must be rubbing off a little Too much on him.'

The luscious smell of coffee filled his nose. The cup he started then pushed away was still steaming. Seto's hand twitched, looking over at the cup he sighed; wanting desperately to take one more sip.

Across the table, Mokuba followed Seto's desiring eyes towards the cup of coffee. 'There is no way I'm going to lose this bet.' He smiled at the thought.

Catching his adolescent brother's look Seto said firmly; leaving the table; "If you need me I'm going up stairs to do a little work."

"Okay. And don't forget, No Coffee!"

"I don't have a coffeepot in my room, Mokuba."

"Really?" Mokuba mocked as Seto left the room.

'When on earth did he become so mean.' Seto climbed the large stairway. 'I didn't think I was rubbing off on him That much. No more TV for him.'

Entering his room he went to his computer to begin work.

For an hour Seto sat at his desk fighting the urge to run down stairs and chug the rest of the coffee.

He could almost smell the fumes billowing off a nice hot cup. Infract he did smell coffee. In his doorway stood Mokuba with a nice fresh, hot cup of coffee.

Seto twitched.

"How can you like such bitter, nasty tasting stuff big brother?" He made a face at the cup in his hands.

He twitched again. "Mokuba that's cheating!"

"What? I'm not doing anything against the rules." He waved the cup around trying to hide his smile.

Seto twitched once more. 'Fine two can play at that game.' From his desk he pulled out a pair of handcuffs. Not the kiddy one's you can buy at the store that has a cheat release button; but real ones that cops use.

He hooked one end to his ankle and the other to his chair; then tossed the key across his room.

Turning back to his laptop he continued his work. "I am not going to lose the bet Mokuba."

Frowning with defeat Mokuba left the room.

For what felt like days; but really only an hour; Seto twitched, trying to submerge his overbearing craving for coffee. 'Never again will I bet my caffeine.'

"Wow big brother," Mokuba once again reappeared in the doorway but this time without coffee; "You really did it."

"Of course I did." Seto stated proudly. "Why did you make that bet anyway?"

"Coffee's bad for you. This one person on the news went to the hospital for drinking too much." He looked down at the floor. "You always have a cup in your hand and well," he glanced at Seto with a worried look; "I didn't want that to happen to you."

Seto's face lightened, a small smile fashioned "Mokuba, I swear that will never happen to me. I drink a lot but never indulge myself with it." That was a lie but Mokuba didn't need to know that.

"Do you promise?" Mokuba gave his best serious look.

"I promise." Seto attempted to stand; forgetting that his leg was handcuffed to the chair; fell flat on his face.

"Are you okay Seto?" Mokuba put a hand over his mouth, giggling.

"I'm fine." Looking around the room Seto couldn't spot the key he threw. "Can you help me find the key?"

"Sorry big brother, my favorite cartoon is on." He grinned, bounding out of the room.

"Why you little!" Seto franticly looked around for the key. He needed a cup of coffee and he needed it Now!

Hope you liked it; please review!

Mochaholic- word I made of for coffee addict. Use it if you want.

1Methodical- Routine

2Initial- Older/oldest

3Conveyed- Handed

4 Opaque- Dark