Tea walked slowly to the door and took a big gulp before she opened the door. When it was opened, a guy with a hair just like Yugi and wearing a black snow coat greeted Tea with a smiling face.
"Hey Tea! It's been a long time. Merry Christmas!" he said as he lift a bag full of gifts. Tea who recognize the face and voice, fainted.
Everyone who was surprised of Atem's sudden arrival, immediately looked at the girl and shouted "Tea!" and Atem dropped his bag full of gifts to catch Tea just in time before she land fully to the floor.
Everyone got relieved and as soon as they saw that Tea is safe, Yugi said "Atem, please come in" while getting the gifts that had fallen to the ground.
Atem nodded and entered the living room while carrying Tea bridal style, then he slowly put her to the sofa and sat just below her. The others also sat in the living room each with an amazed face on seeing Atem, they remembered that it was just like yesterday when he finally rested and now he is with them spending the christmas eve together.
They smiled and started asking him questions one after another, while Atem also smiled on seeing his friends with him in one place spending the Christmas eve. He was happy that nothing had changed since he left, his attention was caught when he heard his friends asking him different questions and he answered them all. After 5 minutes, Tea's hand move which caught everyone's attention. Yugi looked at Atem apologetically while saying "Atem, sorry but you must hide first. Tea fainted maybe because of your arrival." Atem nodded and agreed.
When Tea woke up, her sight was still in blur but she could recognize each person who are around her. She then smiled at them and got to a sitting position, "What happened?" she asked everyone.
Joey answered "Huh? You don't remember? You-ouch!" he winced in pain when Mai slapped his hand. Tea wondered why her friends movement suddenly changed, which is like their hiding something to her.
She didn't mind it first and just asked innocently "Didn't remember what?"
Mai answered her with incomplete words just to make an excuse, "You…uh…you fell asleep while we…uh…finished the decorations." Joey chuckled only to be shoot back by 5 killer glares, he then covered his mouth with his hands and just smiled.
"Oh…sorry, I didn't mean to," was Tea's only reply.
Everyone answered "No, its ok…hehehe."
Tea remained silent for a moment and silently thought, But for a moment I thought I saw Atem…hmmm guess it was just a dream, Thank goodness.
Suddenly Tristan ask that made Tea gasp and in the same time flinched, "Sorry Tea, are you now ok?"
Tea just nodded and answered "I'm ok, and I'm sorry too because I made you all worried. I really thought that Atem really arrived, but it was all a dream…thank goodness", everyone looked at each other with worried faces which also made Tea worried.
"Guys, what's wrong?" she asked.
Yugi said softly to her "Well Tea, it's just that…well…Atem really did arrive and it was not a dream."
"Yeah, you did faint after you saw him" Joey added.
Tea only had a blank expression found on her face, she then said "But you said I-I only fell asleep."
Everyone shook their heads and Atem who hide behind the door came out and said sadly "It's ok, I know she was just surprised to my sudden arrival." He then gave her a gentle smile, Tea who saw him fainted again.
"Tea!" everyone said while coming closer to Tea and Atem only gave a long sighed.
After another 5 minutes, Tea woke up and was greeted by Atem's face. "Great! You're now awake. Please don't faint again" as he make a worried face.
Tea who looked at him nodded and said "Sorry everyone…for making you worried again. Let us now eat, you all are probably hungry" while turning her head to face them.
Everyone agreed and sitted immediately to the table, they talked to each other as they began to eat. Afterwards they all fell asleep after their small but happy christmas party.
It was past 12 midnight when Tea woke up from her sleep, she couldn't return to sleeping so she decided to go to the balcony. She watched the light of the moon beautifully not noticing that someone also woke up. As the shadow came closer to her, she turned back and saw that the shadow belonged to Atem. She saw him smile at her and she smiled back to him, Atem slowly walk beside Tea and watched the light of the moon together.
After a few seconds Atem spoke, "Isn't it nice to watch the light of the moon when the wind is cold?"
"Uhuh, but not too much or we'll freeze to death" Tea said jokingly, but she didn't expect that Atem would take it seriously.
She just find out when Atem placed a warm blanket to her. It was very sweet that made Tea's heart skipped a beat, but she didn't let Atem notice it.
The two remained silent for a moment until Tea spoke and ask "Atem, I just remembered. What is the reason why you came back?"
Atem looked at her sadly and said "Why, don't you want me to come back?"
"No! No! No! it's not what I meant. It is just that…were not really expecting you will still come back here, I thought you wanted to rest now."
Atem chuckled a bit and said "Well I was watching you all in the heaven. And when I saw that all of you are sad, I also became sad. It was when my parents saw me and ask Why don't you visit them sometime? and I just fell down from the sky." The two looked at each other and suddenly burst into laughter.
"Hahaha…that was…hahaha…so touching" Tea said as she patted Atem's back, Atem was supporting himself to the edge of the balcony's wall as he also laughed hardly then turned serious after a few seconds.
"Tea…" Atem said as he looked at Tea, the girl flinched as she heard Atem say her name.
"Hmmm?" she just replied while also facing Atem.
"…Let us now go to sleep" while holding Tea's hand as they returned to their own rooms.
To be continued...