Fun With Fondu

Bakura helped the cook carry the dishes into the house. Seto and Joey were sitting at the patio table discussing a problem on Joey’s homework that he didn’t understand. Mai, Ishizu, and Anut att at on a bench discussing makeup and hair tips. Yugi and Ryou sat comparing their new duel monsters cards. Malik and Mark were no where in sight, but sougavegave away their whereabouts. When Bakura reappeared, the cook announced that dessert wobe sbe served shortly.

“The dessert course will be served in the sitting room, Master Seto. Shall I have Mae prepare the room?”

“Yes, Celeste, then you can take the rest of the night off.”

Celest gave a small bow, then left the patio. Seto helped Joey gather up his papers then the whole group trooped into the house.

“Will someone please go interrupt the Ishtars? Tell them to get in here now... MY orders.”

A butler in a burgundy jacket rushed out the door. Within a few minutes, he led in two very disheveled boys. They both had blonde hair and tanned skin, but that’s where most of the similarities ended. Marik’s hair was always unruly and made him look like he’d accidentally stuck the Millenium Rod in an electrical outlet.

In the sitting room, all the furniture had been moved and placed to one side of the room. A low table surrounded by cushions now dominated the room. In the middle of the table, a small candle powered burner sat under a small covered pot. The smell of simmering chocolate and cut fruits filled the room. Each of the guests claimed a pillow and waited for Joey and Seto to sit down before they sat. Seto motioned for all to sit down and then announced the ‘rules’ for dessert.

“As you know, this is fondue. You dip the fruit in the chocolate and eat it, but we have a twist. Each of you has a different colored pillow on which you are sitting on. That color corresponds to another one that another person is sitting on. There are only two sets of each, and appropriately, you chose them without matching colors.” Seto took up a small fork and skewered a chunk of pineapple. “This is a fondue fork.”
e, Se, Scrooge, you should have your eyes checked. That looks like a piece of pineapple to me.” Bakura laughed alone at his joke.
“Very funny, Bakura,” Seto gritted out. “This silver Fondue fork will protect you from being burned by the chocolate.”

Seto dipped the chunk of pineapple into the chocolate and held it up.

“Each of the fruits also corosponds to your pillow... yellow for pineapple, orange for the peaches, green for kiwi, red for strawberries, and purple for apricots. When you eat a piece of fruit that matches the pillow you are sitting on, then the other person who is sitting on the same color pillow choses one card from the deck.” Seto pointed to a small deck of cards sitting by the fondue pot. “Bakura, since you are sitting on a yellow pillow, please chose a card.” Seto raised his fork and ate the piece of pineapple. A small drop of chocolate fell from the fruit and rested on his chin.

Bakura read the card then narrowed his eyes, giving Seto a hateful glare.

“Any more rules, Scrooge?”

“Yes, Whatever happens tonight, it has no effect on the relationships we have now.”