Author's Note: The prompt for this chapter is "Assigned Seats". I hope I avoided the cliche pothole that could open me up to.

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He didn't know why there was a girl sitting at his computer. He always sat at the computer on the very end. It was his computer, and everyone knew it. He'd made all the necessary changes to the computer to ensure that it was up to his normal standards. If the school was going to force him to work on one of their computers during a class, then he would at least ensure that the computer in question was stable, reliable, and fast.

Kaiba loomed over the girl. "What are you doing?"

She looked up from her book, startled at the interruption. "Are you the teacher?"She shoved the book back into your bag and stood, offered her hand for him to shake, and introduced herself. "I just transferred to this school a week ago. Nobody told me they had a programming class! I was signed up for a stupid choir class instead, but I transferred into this class as soon as I heard about it."

At first, Kaiba wondered why everyone seemed to be confusing him for an adult, then he realized that she was the same girl who ran into him in the hallways. "I'm not the teacher. Now get out of my way." She wasn't in his seat anymore, but he couldn't sit down while she was standing in front of it and blocking his path.

She looked around and took a step back. Unfortunately that step back also happened to be a step closer to his computer.

He pointed at the chair she had been previously occupying. "That's my seat."

"Oh. OH!" She scrambled away from the computer, clutching her stuff close to her body. "I'm sorry! I didn't know this class had assigned seating."

"It doesn't." Kaiba sat down and began typing in his log-in information. He ignored the confused look that she sent him.

Not wanting to sit next to someone so rude, she decided to sit down at a computer on the opposite side of the room.

Kaiba had half-expected the girl to sit at the computer next to him. He was a little surprised, but pleased, when she didn't. He certainly didn't want her to sit next to him.