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Chapter 2: Everyone Gets Curious

Lynn jumped up from her seat and exited the room. Boy was she glad she didn't have to listen to anymore arguing from those two. She looked up and sighed as she approached her locker, seeing two of her friends playing around.

'Joey and Tristan… Goofballs.' she thought as she rolled her eyes, smiling. She then noticed everything seemed to go quiet as soon as they noticed her there. She knew then something was up and they weren't just there as part of the décor.

"What do you want guys?" she asked as she opened her locker and piled her stuff inside.

"Joey here wants to ask you a question." Tristan pushed Joey forward but Joey held onto him for dear life.

"You were the one who brought it up!" Joey argued.

"Nuh uh!" As they argued, they took turns pushing each other up to Lynn. Obviously this was going nowhere fast.

"Guys! Just ask already." She tried to hide a smile but it appeared anyway, despite her efforts. Joey scratched the back of his head and gave a cheesy grin.

"Well… What's with you and Kaiba?" So. They had heard about earlier's episode. Wonderful. How was she supposed to explain this? Just then Yugi, Tea , Bakura, Ryou, Marik, and Adi appeared.

'Craaaaaap. Now I have to explain to everyone!'

"What Joey means is… ARE YOU AND KAIBA DATING!?" Tristan's eagerness to know took everyone by surprise. Lynn's eyes jerked wide open and a loud pop echoed throughout the hallway, making Lynn immediately gasp.

"Tristan, I am so sorry! Reflex reaction…" She bit her lip and reached out to move his hand so she could see how red it was but ended up trying not to laugh as he literally climbed over Joey to get away from her. Bakura smirked and looked at Marik who was also amused but in a darker way.

"Tristan, I'm so sorry I slapped you." He continued to pretend to be mad.

"Aren't you going to say anything?" Lynn asked giving him an innocent look. Once again, he said nothing, pretending to be looking up at the ceiling.

"Trisssssstan." She called his name, her voice coated thick with sweetness.

"Is there anything I can do to make it up to you?" Now it was her turn to pretend. She stuck out her bottom lip in a pout and gave him the puppy dog eyes.

"Welllllllllll… Maybe there is one thing…" he finally replied.

"Name it." Lynn crossed her arms like nothing had ever happened.

"Just answer one thing…" She narrowed her eyes.

"He just wants to know if you're dating Kaiba." Joey interrupted.

"That was not what I was going to ask!" Lynn stared at Tristan waiting for the question he did want to ask. He looked at her a bit sheepishly.

"So… Are you?" He asked, hiding behind Joey.

"I already told you guys… I'm gay." Lynn closed her locker, took Tea and Adi's arm and pulled them off to class.

Marik leaned over to Bakura and whispered "Fifty bucks says she's not." Bakura grinned.

"You're on."

"Uh… what'd I miss?" Yugi asked as everyone else started to their classes. Ryou smiled softly.

"I'm not sure but I'll explain what I can." he replied as they both headed to the Library.

"Lynn… You can't hide it forever." Adi whispered as she placed her stuff on her desk.

"What's it matter? I hate him and that's all they need to know." Adi looked at her.

"Your life is made up of secrets! Secrets I don't even know…" Lynn ignored her. Secrets were made and kept for reasons and Lynn had reasons for both.

'She talks about secrets when only a year ago I found out about her being the devil's sister, after being friends for 10 years! How do you even keep a secret that big under cover for that long? Pretending he was just a friend that always seemed to be around… and then pretending he was her boyfriend… Ha! That was the most comical thing in the whole situation. How I had eventually become suspicious since they acted like they didn't know each other in school… How she moved to a different one… And how he had refused to kiss her in front of me! Well, now it's obvious as to why. And she wouldn't have even told me the truth then had it not been for him leaving his laptop at home… and came to get it while we were studying… and of course I had to spy on their little conversation before he left again.' Lynn chuckled. Oh how uncomfortable that must've been for them both… But even more so for him. How she loved to see him squirm and completely out of his comfort zone! Sure, he could pull off holding her romantically and playing it to seem so real… But when it came down to the hard part, it was too much for him to handle. Yes, she loved seeing him suffer.

'Kaiba and Adi… How could I have not noticed back then? Adi had been and still was the spitting image of Kaiba only shorter. Back then the height hadn't shown so much difference between them but now, Kaiba is somewhere around 6 ft 3 and Adi is only 5 ft 2… Same brown hair and basically the same blue eyes except Kaiba's seems more of an icy color… and definitely cold while Adi's only shows tons of emotion and happiness…' The teacher tapped her desk.

"Miss Shotou! If you can't pay attention in class, maybe you'll be more awake in Detention." Lynn looked up at the teacher and mumbled "Sorry" while gripping the desk.

'That devil hasn't even been here a day and already I'm in trouble because of him!' She couldn't believe her luck. She transferred here to get away from him and now he's here and she has Detention!

'At least it doesn't amount to much. It's usually either picking up trash or reading…' The bell rung. Lunch time! Lynn really didn't feel like facing her two inquisitors from earlier again but it's better than sticking around the Library doing nothing.

"Lynn. Please stay a moment." She sighed hearing the teacher's request and walked up to her desk. She watched her fill out the detention slip.

"It says here you're failing your Business Comp class."

"Only because I missed a test, or so the teacher said."

"No matter, you're still failing. You'll be spending Detention with a tutor." Lynn growled.

"I beg your pardon?" The teacher looked up at her sharply.

"Uh, my stomach. Hungry." The teacher nodded slowly and handed her the slip.

"Be in room 204 after school. He'll meet you there." Lynn spun on her heels and hurried down the hall. She was too agitated to care about Joey and Tristan who had been waiting for her outside. For the moment, they were easy to ignore.

'Who does she think she is!? Telling me I need a tutor when she couldn't even do a basic chemistry equation yesterday!' She reworked the problem in her head.

'SnO2 + H2 → Sn + 2 H2O… You balance the Oxygens first and then, since doing so puts the Hydrogens out of balance, you correct those by adding a 2… and you end up with SnO2 + 2 H2 → Sn + 2 H2O instead of her answer of SnO2 + 2 H2 → Sn + 2 HO2.'

-Outside-

"I wonder what Lynn's so upset about earlier." Yugi asked worriedly.

"I don't know but I'm gonna find out!" Joey vowed.

"She's been acting strange since she saw Seto Kaiba." Tea sighed and then continued.

"I hope she's okay. It's like she's turned into someone else."

"Maybe she'll turn into a toad!" Marik volunteered that theory a little too happily.

"I don't know you guys. I don't think it's worth prying into." Tristan said, rubbing his cheek from where he had gotten slapped earlier.

"Well, we've got to do something. She's completely insane about it." Ryou commented.

"Right! We've got to find out what makes her tick!" Joey threw a fist in the air and everyone else sighed. It was going to be a long day.

-Normal POV-

Lynn walked through the doors leading outside and slammed her stuff down on the picnic table. Naturally everyone turned to look at her.

"Uh, Lynn? What's wrong?" Tea asked. Lynn sat down next to her and started telling the story.

"I'd rather be in tutoring than picking up trash any day. Yuck!" Lynn glared at Tea .

"What class are you failing Lynn?" She turned to look at Yugi.

"Business Comp One." Adi and Yugi's eyes went big.

"Who's tutoring you!?" Lynn was taken aback by Adi's sudden tone. She glanced at Yugi and then back at Adi.

"I don't know. Didn't say." Yugi looked down.

"Hopefully it isn't Kaiba." Joey piped up. Lynn glared at the table.

"Not likely. He's not even in the class." Ryou chimed in.

"Ha! That's right. He isn't." Lynn eyed Joey contentedly.

"Why should he be? He runs a billion dollar company." Adi reminded her but, of course, Lynn tuned it out.

"They'd never get anything done anyway. He's her little bo-" Lynn jumped up and tackled Joey.

"Say boyfriend and I'll set your deck on fire!" Joey squirmed under Lynn's grip as Tristan and Ryou tried to pull her off of him. Once successful of that, Marik sighed as if he was bored.

"So much for that entertainment." Lynn turned to face him and to give him a piece of her mind but his smirk stopped her. He stared at her as if trying to mentally inject her soul with poison. She blinked and tore her gaze away. By this time, Joey had recovered.

"Jeez. I was just playing with ya. Good thing we can't summon duel monsters here otherwise ya would've probably stuck Yug's Dark Magician on me." Joey laughed.

'It's Yugi's best card so of course she would use it! I don't think she duels but if she did, I'm sure she'd have one of those strong monster cards too.' Joey thought to himself. Lynn was flat out angry now… but not at Joey… She was angry with Adi. Had she told them her secret about having a crush on the Dark Magician? Why else would he have said that? It's true Joey was random but surely not THAT random, right? To pick a card out of nowhere that just so happens to be her card crush? With her thoughts not all there, she began to mumble an apology.

"Sorry Joey…" She shook her head clear and continued.

"I just hate him! There's no way on earth that stupid-" She quickly glared at Adi.

"-Bastard and I would ever get together!" Lynn seethed on the inside. How dare Adi tell her secret about the Dark Magician! Well the bastard comment was payback enough for that.

"My brother and I were adopted so we do have a father! How dare you even say that? He's the top duelist in the world, and there's nothing you can do about it!" Adi fumed, rattling Lynn a bit.

"He's not better than Pegasus." Lynn retorted.

"He's better than you!" Lynn gasped.

"Guys! Stop fighting!" Both Lynn and Adi ignored Yugi who was trying to get them to stop before someone said something they would definitely regret.

"Face it Lynn. You'll never be as good as my brother!" Lynn gritted her teeth. Adi was sure asking for it! So Lynn said the only thing she could… without thinking about it first.

"Oh, right. Yeah. Tell me Adi. How does it feel to have a brother as the big, flipping, world champion, always in the spotlight, always praised and looked up to, and you're stuck in the shadows of his greatness and his footsteps and you don't even duel!?" Adi's eyes were wide and full of tears. Lynn didn't even watch as Adi took off running back inside. Tea called out to her and tried to catch up, leaving only the 6 of them at the table.

"I didn't know she couldn't duel…" Lynn looked at Yugi, pain reflecting in her eyes.

"She told my secret… So now she and I are even."

"And I thought friendship meant more to you than that." Mai smirked, coming up from behind. This was the second person Lynn completely hated.

"Back off you fake, bleach blond bimbo!" Mai held up her hand.

"I only came to tell you your little friend is whining in the bathroom… and I need to do my hair before class!" As she stormed off, the bell rang. Lynn was already feeling worse than before. She didn't need Mai's little bit of news to go along with it. She slumped down and followed the group back inside. How was she going to fix this? That was the question.