I own nothing except the Gardner brothers and the plot

After school Tea, Atem, Yugi, Joey, and Tristan were on their way back to the Game Shop.

"Maaan," groaned Joey,

"I thought I was prepared for that test in algebra, but, sheesh... It was like Mrs. Satoshi played a mirror force when I thought I knew the answers..."

Tristan mockingly said, "Should have studied more Joey."

"Hey! I was talking to my sister most of this week...! Hn? Oh, HEY, and you did worse than I did numbskull!"

"Shut it hamster-head," Tristan shouted, locking his arms around his neck.

"Besides, if Serinity kept you up, have her call me up..."

"What didcha just say!?"

"Guys, guys," Yugi passively tried to consel, "come on, calm down."

As Yugi tried to play peacemaker, Atem and Tea watched on. Or Atem did, Tea's thoughts were still lost in the cloud concerning her brothers odd behavior this morning.

What am I going to do with them, she wondered.

As Yugi managed to seperate Joey and Tristan for a few moments, Atem whispered something to Joey who paused, then nodded.

Yugi looked at Tristan and said, "Hey guys, if you're having trouble I'll help you study."

Suddenly teary-eyed, Joey and Tristan grabbed Yugi's hands and sobbed out, "You're such a good friend, Yugi...!"

"Guys... You're being silly."

Atem watched them, still slightly confused by his friends over active then notcied Tea's distance look and was about to talk to her when Joey pulled him aside.

"Dude, I'm worried about Tea, she's been quiet since we left school, do you think we should talk to her?" he asked with a concered look on his face.

"Yeah but I think that I should be the one to do it because it would be easier to get the correct information out of her then have all of us at once trying to get something out of her that she doesn't want to talk about." Atem replied with a even more concered look. Atem was busy trying to think on how he should bring up the conversion with Tea, he didn't notice the smirk on Joey's face.

"Sure bud, go ahead and talk to her take your time and found out whats wrong bud." Joey said with a creepy smirk on his face.

"Joey..."

"Hey go do what ya gotta do!" Joey said interupting Atem, then walked away. Joey went to Tristan and Yugi whispered something to them,then dragged them to the kitchen.

"Joey!" Yugi yelled " I can walked you know!" Atem shook his head, Joey will never change. Atem went over to Tea, who hasn't left the couch and sat next to her, she didn't even looked at him. Atem cleared his throat to let her know that he was there but she didn't look at him again, so not knowing what else to do and was starting to worry so he reached over and touched her shoulder causing to jump and looked over at him.

"Atem, you scared me ... wait how long have you been here?" she asked a little confused.

" I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you just now. I've been here for while trying to get your attention without scaring you." Atem said with a gental voice.

"Oh," she said then started to look around " where are the others?"

" They went to look for something to eat in the kitchen, but that's not important, the real question is are you okay?" Atem asked with a concered look. Tea didn't answer right a way, and that started to worry Atem. Tea sighed a mumbled something that was difficult to hear, but one thing Atem heared us " they are so confusing"

"Who's confusing Tea?" he asked almost afraid to hear the answer.

"My brothers, they never celebrate my birthday anymore, so why are they celebrating it now?" she said by burring her face in the nearby pillow.

" Maybe they feel gulity about not celebrat-" he starting to say.

" Even if I asked them not to celebrate my birthday anymore" Tea interrupted. Atem was shocked.

'why did Tea asked her brothers to not celebrate her birthday anymore' he thought.

"Is that why you were uncomfortable this morning when we walked to school?" Atem asked.

" That is one of the reasons why I was uncomfortable this morning." Tea answered, who also noticed the shocked look on Atem's face, Tea let out a sigh.

" I would not rather not talk about it," she said getting up " I better get going"

" Tea wait... let me walk you home" Atem said getting up and walking over to her.

"oh okay" she said with a light blush.

"YUGI! GUYS! I'M TAKING TEA HOME!" Atem yelled.

"okay be back soon." Yugi said sticking his head of the kitchen door.