Serena slid on the floor of the cold bathroom floor as the bell rang to signal the start of Domino high's first class. Silent tears ran down her face as she furiously wiped them away. After a few moments, she tugged down her sleeves, loosened her hair to hide her face and quickly applied a coat of peach lipgloss. Before entering the class, she took a deep breath and opened the door.

Everyone turned to look at the new girl who had just entered. Yugi and his friends stared at the angelic looking creature. Something seemed oddly familiar about her. He didn't know what, but he had seen her somewhere. Serena walked to the teacher's desk and handed him an office slip.

"Class this is our new student. All the way from England, this is Serena Pegasus and she'll be joining our class today." stated the instructor before pointing to the only empty seat near the back row.

Serena avoided all the glances she received as she made her way to the desk. Seto Kaiba glanced up from his seat after hearing the name. 'So she's finally returned' he thought to himself.

Few people actually knew that the infamous Maximillion Pegasus had a daughter. In fact, the only reason Seto knew of her existence was her prodigy status in the technology and dueling world. At age eleven, she had gained the status as the world's #1 duelist and was creating some of the most complicated programs in history. Kaibacorp had even bought a few of her works when Gozaburu was president. But after she had turned twelve, Serena vanished completely as she gave up dueling and programming. In fact, it was her retirement of duel monsters that allowed Kaiba to acquire two of the four blue eyes white dragons. Here she was in Domino only four years after this turn of events.

'So that's where we remember her from' thought Yugi. 'That's right Yugi, she looks just like that woman in Pegasus' castle- Cecelia' Yami added 'but, something seems off. I feel a deep sadness in her soul.' Yugi glanced back at Serena. It was true the girl seemed somewhat defeated as her red-rimmed eyes showed signs of crying.

Seto continued to stare at the new girl. He was itching for a duel and wondered if she was as good as her former reputation. As his eyes gazed down, he noticed something strange on her slim wrist.

Serena had expected the stares. Domino city was notorious for their support of duel monsters, so she wasn't surprised at the reactions when her last name was revealed. She shifted her head slightly when she noticed Kaiba's eyes had drifted toward her arm. She stared at him alarmed. She frantically stretched her sleeve to hide her wrist. 'No one can know about that, no one can ever know about this' she thought as she hid her hands under the desk and gave Seto an icy glare.

'What was that?" Seto pondered to himself 'it looked like a scar, but why were there several? And why were some spots messily bandaged? If she had hurt herself, surely Pegasus would have taken her to a medical professional." Usually, Seto wouldn't have been bothered by the trivial problems of his classmates but if he was going to get her to duel him, he wanted her at her best.

As the bell signaled for lunch, Serena sprinted out of class leaving her bookbag behind. She had barely convinced her father to allow her to come back home and there was no way she was going to give this up. Her world was threatening to fall apart all because of that one boy. He wasn't supposed to know about this. 'Serena, you have it under control' she consoled 'you only did it because you missed him and you missed home. You're back now and everything is going to be perfect once he's home from business. You're okay." Serena took a deep breath as she steadied herself on the brick wall.

Yugi and his friends searched for Serena. She had darted out of class so quickly that they didn't have a chance to introduce themselves. She looked so sad and lonely that Yugi had to make sure she had at least a few friendly faces to show her around.

Seto stayed at his seat. Lunch was simply a time for him to catch up on his work at KC. Kaiba looked over to the seat next to him and noticed Serena's bag on the ground. 'Hmmm why hasn't she returned for it?' Kaiba wondered 'Didn't girls need them for … makeup or something?' His attention focused back to the homescreen as he typed in Serena Pegasus into the database.

Serena would have gone home if she had remembered to bring her bookbag. In fact, she was tempted to leave it behind and simply walk home if she knew the way back. She sighed loudly as she slowly walked back to class. The class was fairly empty when she returned since the lunch hour hadn't ended and she relaxed until she saw the boy typing furiously into his laptop. She stiffened. She had to talk to him. She had to make sure he hadn't seen anything.

"Hi, I'm Serena" she said musically.

"I know who you are" Kaiba replied stiffly without looking up. Serena was taken aback by his tone but chose to ignore it.

"Well, that's not fair! I don't know who you are!" she pouted trying to get him to loosen up. Serena couldn't believe what she was doing. She grumbled as she saw her facade was doing nothing to affect Kaiba. 'What was she going to do?' she thought frantically.