Lovely Problems (Seto Kaiba x Reader)

F o u r

It was well over seven pm. I had finally reached the comfort of my small apartment after a very tiring first day at work... as a waitress. My legs hurt, my arms hurt, and more importantly my head hurt. Clearly, memorizing a whole menu and arguing with a stubborn teenage CEO had me more than a little tired. Combine that with the jet-lag and stress-- I was exhausted beyond imagination.

I looked at the small table on my right tiredly. There, stacked on top of eachother were ten small boxes filled with delicious sweets... sweets which Kaiba had taken small bites of. My eyebrow twitched at the memory of his torture, making me run back and forth to satisfy his demands... just to have him laugh at me in the end

"You can take them, they're yours." He had said smartly, his blue eyes shining with mischief and something else... something predatory. "It's a little gift from my part, for being such a good waitress today."

My head hurt just by thinking about it.

Not only was I baffled and confused at his behaviour, but also extremely anxious for what was to come. It was only my first day, and I had already made myself a troublesome enemy, without a clue how.

I hadn't been able to bring all 30 boxes, so I just carried 10 over. The manager and Karen had stored the rest in the fridge, which I was thankful for, I guess.

I opened a box and found a delicious looking piece of fruit-tart. It was perfectly shaped and glittering with sugar sparkles on top. The only thing that ruined its pretty presentation was a small missing piece on the edge.

I looked at it carefully. Something told me that he purposefully took a bite out of all the pastries just to annoy me. He definitely had planned it, for some kind of sadistic relief I guess.

"Should I still eat them, though? Throwing them out will be such a waste." I thought. Yeah, he had taken small bites out of everything, but that didn't mean that I couldn't still eat them. All I had to do was cut them in half and voila! Nothing else to worry about!

But as I took a knife I began to think back at Kaiba again; at the way he elegantly brought the fork to his lips; how he licked it clean and slowly savoured the sweets he didn't like...

I shook my head immediately.

"Okay hormones, calm down. No matter how sexy he may be; I won't fall for a rude asshole!"

I told myself that over and over. Part of me wanted to see how it would feel to take a bite directly from the missing edge, so I could experience an 'indirect kiss' like in the books. Another part of me though (the LOGICAL part) screamed for me to stop and think about it. No matter how erotic it sounded, it was still dirty and just plain weird! Yeah, I wasn't going to indirectly kiss a stranger, no way.

So I cut the tart in half and laid down on my plain couch. Tomorrow would be my second day, I needed to remain cheerful.

And not think about that blue-eyed idiot.