Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Loop Hole of Love ❯ Ready ( Chapter 30 )

Ready

I sighed and picked at my hair with a brush, and suddenly began to miss Figura and the others, the way they teased me about Pharaoh and the way the adoration sparkled in their eyes as they looked at me...I missed Egypt.

But then again, I was having quite the time here in San Francisco! Duke was here and all the others had become quite like family to me by now.

I stared at the horrid brush in my hand and frowned at my unruly purple curls. It was about the time I was contemplating hacking at it with scissors, Tea came in with a sly smile.

"You look like a cat that just ate a canary Tea" I commented with a smile.

She glanced away and her smile got bigger, I could tell she was up to something, the contents, where as of yet unknown to me though. I coughed and eyed her, as she approached me and took the brush from me.

"Come on, we are going to get you glamed up girl" Tea said with a cheery chirp, as she took the brush, and began a rythmic and soothing pattern, of brushing.

"I've got just the thing to!" she mummbled as she dug into the bag she had snuck in with her.

I was by myself and Mateo was in the other room watching the television set, one of his favorite time-passing activities. He was all ready for the party and I still looked like something the Sphinx drug in!

Tea pulled out a bottle of some sort of purplish liquid, and rubbed her palms together and began to massage in into my hair with a serious face.

Within the hours in took( or so it seemed) to "put me to rights" as she put it, she had teased and pulled and layered and primped and yanked and straightened everything immaginable! She would not permit me to see into the mirror, and I huffed as she sat on the bed and told me to turn around. she had put some sort of liquid "makeup" on my face, and it was alot more pleasant than the thick black brush on makeup of Egypt.

She told me to turn around several more times before she grinned, squealed and dashed to my side to crush me against her in a hug.

I hugged her back. After all, it had been Tea who had helped me with so much, she had truly became a friend to me in all possible sense of the word.

I frowned as I noticed her shoulders shake, and pulled her face up to mine, to see black streaks running down her face, and I realized she was crying!

"Tea, what is wrong?" I asked her, my brows knitting together in worriment.

"Y-y-your so b-beautiful! H-how could h-he ever look at me?!" She sobbed, gripping my shoulders and burying her face in my chest.

"Tea, what are you speaking of?" I asked, even though I knew, yes, I knew indeed.

"Yugi! Yugi, would never look at me with you here, and I've seen the way he looks at you when you are not looking! I would kill to have someone look at me like that Avari!" Tea sobbed miserably, as we sunk to the ground, the crying girl still hiding her face on my chest.

"Shhh, Tea, Pharaoh notices you, all you have to have is confidence" I said to her soothingly, petting her hair.

"Confidence! I am so plain next to you" she murmmered.

"No you are not Tea, you are special in your own way and looks should not play a role in choosing a life-mate. You are many things I am not Tea...you sew for Ra's sake, and you are more kind than I could ever be...you also have blood-innocence, I have no innocence of any kind anymore" I whispered to her encouragingly.

"I-I could g-get someone like Yugi?" she questioned, much like a little child, as her sobbing subsided.

"Yes Tea, you could"

"But don't you want him?!" she cried aloud, searching my face for jealousy or rage. She found none.

"Not everyone wants the Paharoh, Tea, remember that" I said with a weak smile. I hadn't lied to her! Not really....just some ommiting...

"You give me your blessing?" she aked as she clutched my arm frantically.

"Of course, go get him" I said, and as soon as the words flew from my mouth, unbidden, she screamed and clutched me, smiling through blackened eyes.

I was conflicting deep inside myself as I said those words and knew Paharoh might possibly take to Tea. If that happened I would have to deal with it...question is....could I?

She was smiling, when she glanced at the clock to my back, and she, pushed me aside with a quick:

"Ohmygodohmygodohmygod! I only have a few minutes to get ready Eeek!" she said as she disappeared in the bathroom.

I smiled and finally turned to look at my self in the mirror, and was a bit shocked.

My hair had been teased and twisted into, ringlets all over my head, and two strands had been braided and tied in the back so it resembled a crown. My hair shone like a brilliant purple summer dusk, and it gleamed and moved like a live thing when I walked. I had on my dress and the gold filligreed chocker Tea had given me. My eyes where like two lightly charcoaled amythest gems in my expertly powdered face. The lip coloring Tea had put on was a deep maroon color that made them look enticing.

I actually laughed at how sultry I looked. I looked like a woman who knew how to seduce, and when I keep my eyelids at half-mast and looked out through black lace lashes, I looked positively ...naughty!

I laughed again, and this time, Mateo opened the adjoining door, that lead from the living quarters to the bedroom, and I think he stopped breathing for a minute.

"M-mistress?!" he stammered, and his big golden eyes grew impossibly large. Even though I had told him to call me Avari, he prefered Master or Mistress.

"Yes, Mateo?" I asked coyly, looking at him.

"What uh, what happened?" he asked in that deep voice of his.

"Nothing much, just preparing for the party" I answered and surveyed the tall muscular man in shock.

He was wearing tight, tight leather pants that looked as soft as a rose petal, and knee-high, midnight boots with shinning silver buckles. His dress shirt was a white, clean cut and crisp shirt tailored to fit every curve of that strong, rock-hard body. His wild mane of white hair was tied loosly in an easily taken out braid, that trailed past his shoulders. A single white curl escaped the black tie and fell in front of the most beautiful golden eyes.

"Well, we should go, nay?" he said, and I nodded, because just looking at him made, a lump go into my throat and a warmth fill my stomach.

"Oh, yes, we are ready" I chocked out and I found him grinning, as he slid around to the back of me and put his arms around my waist.

"Are you sure? We could busy ourselves with other activities" he purred in my ear and I fought not to turn around and let my hands roam the smooth expnase of his toned stomach.

"Mateo, let us go" I said with a resolution I had not been feeling. I was shocked at how close I had been to letting him take me right there.

Danm libido.

I didn't get it, I had many men willing to bed me if I so choose. Bakura, Mateo, and most assuredly Duke. I could live without the Paharaoh, so he had given me my first taste of love-making? So? I needed him for nothing now...I wished I beleived that...

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