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Chapter 3: The Stranger From Before?

Lynn entered through the doors, still pondering a way to fix the damage she's unleashed.

'I wonder how long it'll take for Kaiba to hear about this…' She looked up. Her locker was just at the end of the hallway, not far at all. She gasped, stopping dead in her tracks. He was headed right toward her!

'That didn't take long.' She thought about running but she was frozen in time. She closed her eyes, bracing for the harsh words that were sure to come. She waited and waited but only the voices and shuffling of people going to class filled her ears. She slowly opened her eyes. Kaiba was nowhere around. He must've walked right past her! She sighed, relieved, but still cautious as she continued on to her locker. She quickly grabbed her stuff and slammed the door shut. She kicked her foot against the locker, frustrated. In just a few hours, everything she liked had managed to start becoming the same exact things she came here to escape from.

'He's a fricken stalker.' she thought angrily. She sighed heavily and looked up. That's when she noticed Marik leaning against the wall next to her. She gasped and jumped about 10 feet in the air.

"Marik! What-" She took a deep breath. "What's up?" she asked uneasily. He smirked.

"Expecting someone else?" He smirked.

"N-No. Why do you say that?" His smirk was almost unbearable. He uncrossed his arms and closed the small gap between them, moving a few strands of hair behind Lynn's ear. She shivered from his touch but even more so from feeling his breath on her cheek.

"Surely you wouldn't be thinking about backing out of our little deal, would you?" She looked genuinely surprised.

"No, of course not!" Not that she hadn't thought about it though…

"Remember that I own you." She suddenly glared at the floor.

"Only my soul-" she began correcting.

"It's enough." He waved his hand brushing her off, but she was determined to finish her sentence.

"-And only until I fulfill my promise. Then you will set me free like YOU promised." It took all of his might to hold back his laughter.

'Yes Lynn. You'll be free. Free to forever wander the Shadow Realm!' He walked away, not saying a word, leaving her to only worry about being late for class… For now.

'Today is just getting weirder and weirder and not in a good way.' Lynn walked into her 6th hour class only to feel like she was going to pass out.

'Not only does he have to come to this school, invade my classes, and get me detention, now he wants my seat too!?' She gritted her teeth, making her anger quite obvious.

"Lynn, please take your seat." Her glare softened into a look of annoyance.

"I can't."

"Excuse me?"

"There's an It in my seat." People gasped, not believing someone actually said that about Seto Kaiba, multi-billionaire. Then it happened. That moment her heart was secretly hoping wouldn't happen… His eyes pierced through hers, causing a cold ache in her heart. Every horrible thing he had done or said to her was now fueling her anger, and what was worse was the smirk that slowly played over his face.

"Take a seat!" the teacher demanded. Lynn, finally able to look away, looked around for an empty seat. Panic swept over her as she realized the only open seat was the one right in front of Kaiba! Tea gave her a look as if to say "I'm sorry". Lynn tried to smile at her, letting her know it was okay and not her fault but it was only a halfway smile. Forcing her feet to move, she stomped over to the desk and sat down. She cringed at the thought of him thinking he had won. He always thought he was the best at anything and Lynn was determined to prove he wasn't!

"Turn to pages 82 through 93. These maps will help you with today's worksheet. For example: The Pilgrim's sailed the ocean blue… Follow the trail on the map of the Americas labeled Columbus's Expedition. When did they sail?" The answer was unanimous.

"1492!"

"Exactly Class. Now, I will pair you in groups of two. One will do the even problems, the other the odd ones. I don't want this taking more than a couple of days." Lynn waited for her name to be called, hoping that the teacher would overlook the fact she was sitting in front of her most hated enemy. No such luck. She watched everyone get paired up with their friends, even Yugi with Tea and they didn't even really sit by each other!

After being paired up, Lynn knew this whole thing had to be rigged somehow. There was no way she could just coincidentally be having this much bad luck in one day. She turned her desk to where it now faced Kaiba's, so the teacher would think they were working together, and began to work on the paper. She had no intentions of "working together" on this! He watched her with a triumphant smirk, making her uncomfortable on purpose.

It seemed like many awkward hours had passed and Lynn was unable to concentrate on anything except her anger and the things of the past. She had to say something and break this crazy silence and get this off her mind Something that wasn't so… awkward.

"I didn't know you were such a stalker." Oh no. That wasn't awkward at all. He exhaled loudly at her comment.

"I came here to get away from you and here you are." She was careful to keep her tone rough but quiet.

"My sister goes here." Lynn refrained from looking at him and rolled her eyes. She didn't trust him one bit… even if what he said was a well known fact. He narrowed his eyes a bit.

"Don't flatter yourself. You came here because of me." The way he said "me" had a sickening tone to it.

"Don't make the mistake of thinking I came here because of you." There was clearly disgust in the way he said the word "you". The amusement in his voice, however, was still obviously there and she knew exactly how he meant that twisted comment of his. Part of her was surprised he even answered her at all and the other part was just flat out angry.

"Looks like fame has made your head swell. Well congrats. You've become the stupidest airhead ever." She was lucky the bell had rung. It made almost running out of class easier and excused her of an explanation to the teacher… but that bit of good luck only lasted for a few seconds. Before she was out the door completely, she heard the teacher remind the class they were to get together after school and finish the assignment…

"As if!" she mumbled, heading to her locker.

'He's just lying about the real reason he's here. He's an idiot!' Lynn thought she had Seto Kaiba all figured out but… he didn't even know how he felt about her reactions so how could she possibly know?

He grinned. 'She hates me.' was his only thought… for now.