Disclaimer: Well, you should all know these disclaimers like the back of your hand but I'll repeat it anyway... just out of pure habit; I do not own this awesome manga/anime show so I am not taking credit for any of the recognizable characters. But I will take credit for the plot line and the few original characters (even if they have a small part in this.)

A/N: Thank you all for the reviews! Now just go on and do as you please ( read).

Title: Love's Not What It Seems.

Chapter Seven: Solutions.

Coming around and finding yourself at the nurses' office wasn't what Tea would have expected. It wasn't so much of a serious injury. Just a tennis racket thrown at your head...

"Oh, thank goodness you're alright. I thought you'd never wake up!" Tea looked up from the bed that she was lying in and saw a curvy, blond haired woman staring down at her. "I'm the nurse by the way," she added as if it wasn't plainly obvious because of her uniform.

"Eh ...right." Tea sat up and swung her legs over the bed so that she could get up and get back to class. Before her toes could touch the floor the nurse firmly pushed her back down. What was it now? Did I get a concusion!

Trying to rid herself of her annoyed and sarcastic mood, Tea looked up at the woman again," Is there something wrong?"

"Oh, well, you've just got hit with a racket in the head! And since you've been unconscience for a while, I'm guessing that you've could have gotten a concusion..."

"It was a tennis racket! The worst it'll do is leave a bruise and bump!" Tea was getting really irritated with this woman and in less that ten minutes!

"I'm telling you, you've got to stay in bed!"

But Tea did not want to stay in a damn bed because that would mean free time on her hands. She made sure that she only had free time at home and nowhere else because she tended to tear up at those times when nothing presented itself to be done.

"Tea, your friends came over to see if you were okay. They said they won't leave without seeing you." Tea cursed her luck before she groaned when her mother opened her bedroom door. There may have needed to be a little warning for that...

"Who is it?" She buried her head into her pillow, allowing the tears to be soaked up in a messy manner. She knew that some of her make-up may have come out of the pillow case.

"Duke, Serenity and Tristan." Tea sighed with relief that neither Yugi nor Yami were mentioned. She admitted to herself that it was nice that some of her friends decided to pay her a visit as she had become a bit bored and put out just crying while her mum fussed about her and the 'pain'.

She lifted her head up off of the pillow and looked dazedly at the door where her mum stood at the frame. "Sure. Let 'em in." Her mother sighed with relief that her daughter wasn't going to push these friends away like she had once showed she had.

"Tea! Heard all about it! That chick can't even hit a tenis ball right." Tristan exclaimed once he pushed past Tea's mother. Behind him Duke and Serenity apologized to her mother, saying that Tristan was a little excited to see his friend. The tall boy came over to her, kneeling by her bed side.

"Who are you on about?" Tea uestioned though she had a faint inkling of who exactly threw the racket at her. Though, she didn't want to hear her friends go on about it. All she wanted to do was cry as if she were a baby who had their toy taken off was getting old and her throat was sore but she couldn't help it sometimes.

"Don't worry, there's going to be payback!" Tea twisted around so that she was on her back and facing everyone the right way.

"Tristan, maybe you should cool it." Duke smiled knowingly before closing the door once Tea's mother had left to go downstrairs.

"Mai said that she'd stop off once she got off work. I hope you're alright, Tea." Serenity said as she sat on the edge of Tea's bed. Duke went around the bed so that he could sit down on the other edge.

"Don't worry, we've got a plan set in motion. Mai helped so we won't take all the credit." Duke smirked as he looked at Serenity and Tristan. Tea was getting confused now, especially at the looks the others gave Duke in reply.

"What plan? And what for?"

"Tea, we've seen the way you looked at Yami before." Duke's tone changed and became soft. "Only an idiot wouldn't have noticed," he added while looking at Tristan. Tristan put his hands up defencively.

"Sorry, I don't go looking at everyone to see if they're staring at someone else!" He huffed but then turned serious. "Sorry I didn't notice sooner, T." Tea looked oddly at Tristan. He was being oddly sentimental, and she could barely remember the last time he was like this.

"What are ye on about?" She was hoping that they wouldn't say what she was thinking they'd say. It would not only be mildly humiliating but down right awkward. Especially as these people were her friends... People who would be able to tell if she was lying or not.

"We know that you... like Yami. And how hurt you are now." Serenity finished off in a whisper, as if afraid to say it aloud because her best friend may blow up from anger and humiliation. "Please don't deny it to us." She added softly as she looked down at her hands, twisting them around.

Tea looked away from the other two stares she received and convinced herself that there was no use in crying and humiliating herself more. But the tears still built up, threatning to spill over and down her face. She groaned at her weak self control and let them fall.

She felt a soft hand touch hers and she held onto it as if it would make everything better. This had once been what she longed for. To have friends who stood behind her to back her up on the decisions and mistakes she made. These were the people who would stick up for her when her problems got tough and that statement made her cry harder... Though they were tears of joy. Some of them at least.

And had she not been the one who always said it was better to stand right behind your friend, ready to catch them when they fall? She sure had changed since then.

She quickly wiped away the tears and said, "So what is this mastermind plan of yours?"

"Oh, that was the simplest thing to come up with and yet we needed Mai's help with it," Tristan admitted.

"We can wait for Mai and she'll explain with us. She'll also know what to do if you don't agree."

"I'm am not doing that!" Tea exclaimed after she heard what Mai had to say. The four best friends had waited little over five minutes for their other friend to get there but from the looks on her friend's faces Tea decided not to push the matter.

"But it's a great idea!" Mai tried to assure Tea. "And it'll be totally safe, I guarantee it."

"I'm going to tell you my answer one more time; no!" Tea tried to calm down, also attempting to hide her blushing face. It's not that the idea was totally appauling bit it did seem a bit desparate.

"But there could be great guys that you can meet." Serenity joined in with the hardship of trying to get Tea to agree.

"No, it's absolutely out of the question."

"Look, your mom even agrees. I asked her on my way up." Tea dropped down onto her fully made bed and shut her eyes tight.

"You...asked...my mother." It wasn't a question but a statement. Tea quickly propped her head up so that she was able to glare at Mai.

"Just in case. And by that I mean you have not to much to argue against."

"Do you know what this will make me look like?"

"No. So what will it make you look like?"

"Some desparate, needy, stalker!" Tea spluttered.

"Stalkers are people who-"

"I know what a stalker is, Tristan." Tes sighed, exasperated from all the arguing. She could see that they wouldn't back down until she agreed and she was becoming sick of the time wasted.

"Just try it. I'll make a deal with you; if within four months you don't settle on some guy you can stop it. Deal?"

"So you're saying that if I don't settle down with some guy before the four months are up I can delete my account on this meeting site?"

Mai nodded happily, hoping that this meant that Tea was finally giving up. "It sure means that."

Taking a few seconds to think to herself Tea contemplated what could actually happen; she could get over Yami and have a bit of fun. "Fine. But we keep the deal."

"Of course," was all Mai could say before she squealed. She knew that Tea would have cracked at one point or another but she was glad that it happened sooner than she had first thought. "Now, I've set up your account so I'll login in for you and you can go on whenever. I even added a few good catches so that you have nothing to complain about."

"Wait- you alrady made my account?"

"Yeah."

"Without waiting for my answer?"

"I guess. I would have deleted it if you kept saying no. But hey, time's a wasting, right?" Mai was hoping to laugh off the thing before Tea got really mad with her.

"We helped pick out some of the detail things," Serenity added as if it helped any.

"We hope you enjoy yourself..." Duke said as he began pushing Tristan towards the door. "Well, we better get going now. Give you time to adjust, ya know how it is." He smiled sheepishly while bending down to give Tea a hug.

Tristan pushed Duke out of the way and harrassed Tea with his bear hug. Serenity smiled sweetly when it was her turn and told Tea to take care. Mai just winked like her usual self and ushured everyone out of the room. She handed Tea a piece of paper and left along with everyone else.

Tea unfolded the piece of paper and looked down at the sentence that had been turned into a word. MyFriendsRockMySocksOff. How typical of the gang.

Tea rolled her eyes and pulled her laptop into her lap. She sat up properly and turned it on. She went onto the internet and typed in the website name that she had been given.

She quickly logged in and saw just how many 'good catches' Mai had added. Just over fifty guys that had something in common with her.

To heck with this. I'd rather find a guy myself.

A beep sounded as Tea went onto a search engine. She gave details of what she liked and then she searched possible candidates from her area and school. She found at least a hundred of guy sfrom her school who were free and willing to go out with her.

Then as she was about to log off one profile caught her eye.

'Don't know why I am here and with other, more important things to do, I should not be here.' Tea raised her eyebrows at the odd tagline. Discarding that she clicked onto the profile view and saw that there was no photo to identify the person with. She added them and went onto her own profile.

"A little change will not harm anyone." Tea muttered to herself as she changed her profile photo to one of her pulling off a dancing pose with dru ice all over the stage. The dry ice made it hard to make out Tea's face and she left the photo at that.

Next she edited her name. Not only was she going to be a laughing stock at school if her name was found out but she'd have to face it for a long time if her profile name stayed that way.

"What kind of name do these sites have?" Nothing that came to Tea seemed good enough. Silly ones like 'xxDancer_Babexx' seemed so balantly obvious and exposing. She needed something with a bit of mystery.

Something that still described her but not something that made it like 'UnrequitedPlans'.

Tea sighed and decided to go with it since she wasn't up to making up a different username when she wasn't even really interested in what she was going to be doing anyway.

She clicked on the save button and hoped that she would have some luck with this.

A/N(2): I'm sorry, I'm such a pig for not updating sooner but I don't have too much time since I have my holidays coming up and all my other stories. I'm sorry!