"Damn it," cried out Seto, holding his toe and falling over. After desperately trying not to shout out even more, the pain subsided and Seto was able to slowly get up once more. In the dark, the tall handsome CEO sighed. He looked over to where Joey was peacefully sleeping and fought the urge to join him. Shaking his head, Seto knew he had 20 minutes before he had to leave for the airport.
The flight would take him halfway across the world; away from his precious pup. Seto couldn't help that the conference was in New York, but he never liked the idea of being away for three weeks. And why hadn't the blue eyed beauty told his brown eyed lover that he was leaving? Seto hadn't quite figured that out yet, but one thing he knew was that couldn't come up with enough courage to face those sad eyes and tell Joey he was leaving. Especially with what happened last night.
Joey had come to the Mansion, as he usual did. But last night he was unusually quiet. It had been a month since that night when Joey had come to Seto's office and confessed his feelings. And it had only been two weeks since Seto and Joey had made their relationship public. After all it was kind of hard to ignore them when Seto had grabbed Joey in the Kaiba Corp. lobby and had passionately kissed him in front of all the cameras that tended to follow the billionaire around. Seto thought maybe some annoying magazine was pestering Joey to give them "the juicy details." This was when Joey got upset.
"No," argued Joey, breaking apart from Seto and getting up from the couch, "It's not always about that. For that matter, it doesn't always have something to do with you."
Joey's eyes had widened as soon as the words had come out, but inside he knew it was true. Seto slowly got up and walked over to where Joey was.
"Please," said Joey, pushing Seto away, "I just need to straightened things out." Joey left the room, leaving Seto speechless and confused. Was he losing him?
When Seto finally followed after Joey, hopefully giving him enough time to think he found Joey sleeping in the guest room. What was this? Seto walked over to the side of the bed and stared gently down at him. Leaning over he noticed the very thing Seto was afraid of.
"Oh Joey," whispered Seto, carefully wiping away the tears from Joey's eyes. Slowly Joey opened his eyes.
Sternly but yet in a caring way, Seto said, "You have to tell me what's wrong." He sat down at the edge of the bed.
Joey sat up, leaning against the headboard. He looked deep into Seto eyes, who's hadn't left his.
He smiled weakly and wrapped his arms around Seto's neck, pulling him close. "Nothing is wrong."
That was all Joey had said for the rest of the night. Later on when Joey was soundly sleeping beside Seto, Seto couldn't help but be curious about Joey's mood changes. Obviously something was bugging the other boy, but he didn't want Seto knowing. So far he was doing a good job at keeping it a secret, but hopefully Seto would eventually get it out of him. He did after all care very much for Joey and it pained him to see Joey like this.
There was one reason that seemed obvious to Seto; work. Sure he wasn't always putting work before them, but some days the work was less avoidable. Lately, especially with the conferance coming up, the work was starting to pile up. Seto had found himself distracted when he was with Joey, and Joey hadn't liked it. But Seto had always tired so hard to make it up; but somehow lately Joey was getting even more upset with him.
The thought was going through his mind as he quietly opened the guest room door the next morning. The hurt that was in Seto's heart was almost unbearable, but he knew he had to go. So taking a huge sigh Seto stepped through the door leaving the blonde hair alone in the dark.
As Seto made his way to the airport and boarding the plane his mind was in a blur. He didn't recognize people he should have and he felt like apart of him was missing, and worse, he knew who was. Was he losing him?
Just as the plane took off, Joey bolted upright in the bed shouting out Seto's name. But it was too late, Joey knew he was gone. Why Seto had left Joey wasn't quite sure, but he knew he was gone. Joey curled up in a tight ball and couldn't help the tears from falling. Was he losing him?
Comments... btw... almost cried when I wrote this! lol
