Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Falling From Grace ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

YUGIOH

Falling From Grace

 

 

Chapter 4.

It was studyhall, and coincidentally.....it was flu season in the early spring. Many people were out that day. Though Tea still had a lot of people in her other classes, study hall was practically deserted. The only people in her class this period was herself, Seto Kaiba, and Ms. Finster the teacher.

 

The idea of Tea slipping Kaiba the potion again came to mind, with so few people in the class. But quickly Tea reasoned with herself, thinking, `Forget it, Tea. It's not like he's going to be drinking something during studyhall, anyway.'

 

To assure herself of that, Tea glanced over at him.......and noticed that Kaiba had a cup of steaming hot coffee with him. `Oh, great!', she thought, feeling miserable.

 

But she shook it off, insisting, `Well....there's no way of doing it, anyway. I mean, the teacher's in class with us, too! It's not like I can just get up and pour this thing in his coffee, without the teacher noticing!'

 

At that moment, Ms. Finster sneezed and got up, saying, “If you two don't mind, I'm going to head to the teacher's lounge for this period. This cold is absolutely killing me. And since there's only two people here anyway, and during studyhall no less, I'm sure you two can handle it on your own.”

 

Tea was in a state of panic, and was about to cry out, `Noo!', in some mad way of keeping her here, so the temptation wouldn't be there. But Kaiba beat her to it, saying, “Fine”, never loosing sight of the laptop screen, as he continued to type.

 

The teacher got up, with Kleenex in hand, and headed out the door. Now it was just the two of them. Tea gulped, trying to think up another excuse to not do this.....and she thought of one. `Well, this is Kaiba! It's not like I can just dump something into his coffee without him noticing. I mean, even if I tried to distract him, he got the eyes of a hawk......he notices everything! He'd probably think I was trying to poison him or something. Nope, can't do it......no chance. I'll, just have to.....'

 

At that second, Kaiba got up from his seat and headed to the door. As he was doing this, she observed all his books, suitcase, laptop, and yes......hot coffee was still sitting there in it's place. `Oh my god, where is he going?', she thought in a panic.

 

Unconsciously, she didn't even realize the question began to even pour out of her mouth, as she asked, “Where are you going?”

 

Kaiba stopped in his tracks, and glanced down at Tea. "Bathroom", he said automatically. He then added quickly, "Not that it's any of your business", rudely snapping at her just as an added touch. He didn't want her thinking he was being nice, after all. The last thing he'd do is give the friendship cultist any false hope that he was trying to be 'friendly'.

 

He turned back to leave, but paused. Kaiba then looked back over at his things, then at her. With a scowl on his face, he moved to where she sat, and leaned down on her desk with both hands, practically nose to nose.

 

His death glare at her was frightening, scaring Tea nearly to death as she wondered why he was suddenly showing any attention to her at all. She quickly got her reason though, as he hissed, “If I see the slightest item moved on my desk when I get back, due to your childish tampering......especially my laptop, I `will' make you pay. Got it, Gardner??”

 

She swallowed in fear from the threat. Normally, she would get outright defensive from him even thinking she would do such a stupid thing. But since she had been considering it, it felt like he had reached in, grabbing a hold of her soul with his hand, and was then reading it out loud to her.

 

Tea looked so frightened, Kaiba couldn't help but be amused by it. He leaned back up off her desk. Then with a smirk, he snorted, “Hmph......stupid woman.....”, and headed towards the door.

 

“Stupid?”, she asked, suddenly angry. “Hey! Who are you calling.......” But as she began to question him, the door was rudely slammed in her face, as Kaiba walked out.

 

“Ooooh!”, Tea cried out in anger. She then looked over at his cup with an almost evil glare, and snapped, “You want to be that way? Fine! You deserve this, anyway!”

 

Tea got up, and headed to his coffee cup, pulling out the potion given to her by Marik, and pouring in every last drop. “We'll see how high and mighty you are after you have a sip of this, ya big jerk!”

 

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Kaiba came back minutes later, as she was quietly writing in her book trying desperately to keep the cocky smirk off her face.......but failing miserably. He glared at her suspiciously, then headed to his seat. Immediately, he looked over everything, to make sure nothing appeared to be touched or tampered with. Sure enough, everything seemed to be in order. He even smelled his coffee for safe measure, to make sure she didn't pee in it or something disgusting.

 

At first, Tea was worried that maybe he suspected. But when he didn't find anything and went back to typing, she realized that wasn't the case. `Okay, Tea......breath. All he has to do is take a sip of the coffee. As soon as he does that, I'll head over there and get his attention to look up at me!'

 

She couldn't help but be nervous over this, but she couldn't honestly see any chance of it going wrong......her plan would be perfect. Then when this was all done, it would be Kaiba that played the fool!

 

It didn't take very long in-between his typing that he took a sip. He then put the coffee back down, and continued to type.

 

`Did it work? Did it affect him?', she wondered.

 

Again, as if on cue, she noticed Kaiba suddenly hesitate from his work. He placed his hand to his head, as if he had suddenly suffered from a momentary dizzy spell. But right after, he shook it off and went back to his work.

 

`That's my cue!', she thought, all giddy from what was about to happen. `Nothing could go wrong.....Kaiba will be paying big time for being such a jerk!' Tea carefully headed over to Kaiba's desk, until she was right infront of it.

 

Kaiba didn't seem to even notice her and continued to type, staring into the screen of his laptop. “Ahem”, she muttered, clearing her throat, trying to get his attention. `Gee.......can he become attractive to an inanimate object?', she suddenly wondered. `What if he's fallen in love with his laptop??'

 

“Get lost, Gardner”, Kaiba muttered, still not bothering to look up, as he continued to type.

 

`Oooh, he can be so thick, sometimes! The least he could do is look at me!', she thought. But how was she going to make him look up? Not the greatest thinker in the world, Tea blurted out the first thing that came to mind, saying, “I am not leaving, until you atleast look at me, right now!” `Uh.....that sounded almost too obvious', she thought, and added, “You can atleast show that much decency to the person trying to talk to you!”

 

`There, now it only sounded like I was trying to force manners into him', Tea thought.

 

Kaiba scoffed at her comment though, still not looking up, as he continued to type on his laptop, muttering, “Gardner......what makes you think you're even worth acknowledging?”

 

Tea was fuming now, thinking, `What would make him look up at me? What?' So Tea suddenly snapped, “Coward! Afraid to even face a helpless woman!”

 

Kaiba stopped typing. As if in slow motion, she could see his head starting to turn, about to face her. `Here we go......Kaiba's toast!', Tea thought, all giddy. She never even seen the door open behind her, too focused on the moment at hand.

 

And that's when Tea's world fell flat on her face. Before she knew what had happened, she was protectively pushed aside, by her 'hero' saying, “Don't worry Tea, I'll handle this prick!”

 

 

Narr: Sorry I missed a day, for those reading. I didn't mean it, but it's really tough to keep this up during the holidays. Infact, for this Thanksgiving, our family split up to join our parents. Hubby went to visit his parents and I stayed here for mine. So, you'd think with us each having only one kid to watch, it would easier on me. I thought it would......the problem is, the little terror's bored, now. So I'm constantly being bugged to pay attention to him so he's occupied. It doesn't help that I'm also feeling guilty if I'm not, since my other kid's being literally apoiled with attention with Dan's parents. Anyway.......so there's more delay than I expected. But I'll try to keep up. Maybe I'll even try and add another chapter in to this grouping for today, to help keep ahead.