CHAPTER 1: CONFESSION

Kaiba's head hurt and the music blaring around him and the constant chattering of the unknown people in his mansion made it worse.
"Mokuba!" He shouted for his little brother but it was no use. His head spun from the countless "harmless" drinks he'd consumed and he cursed at himself for being so stupid.

He frowned as he spotted a familiar red, yellow, black haired kid pumping his fist to the music in the crowd. As usual, that familiar annoying face was surrounded by other, familiar annoying faces. Kaiba decided he had to avoid them at any cost…though…they might actually know where Mokuba was. That kid would be in for the biggest punishment of his lifetime.

Because of Mokuba, their mansion had turned into a wild party central with an unlimited supply of beer and other substances. Although how those substances or the beer was obtained, was beyond Kaiba's comprehension. At least for the moment.
"That brat." Kaiba muttered as he tried to walk through the idiots who had crashed what was supposed to be a relatively small party. The alcohol was getting to him fast and he had to shut this party down before that happened or else the next morning, he'd wake up to a burnt down mansion or worse.

"Mokuba! Yugi, have you seen Mokuba?" Kaiba had finally managed to struggle his half-drunk ass over to the full drunk Yugi.

"Kaiba! Guys, look! It's Kaiba!" Yugi grinned at the taller boy and Kaiba looked down at him, unamused.

"Kaiba! Buddy! What an awesome party! I haven't had this fun…well in like forever!" Joey draped his arm over Kaiba's shoulders and Kaiba immediately gave him a death glare. Joey shrugged himself off and started making fun of Kaiba's face.

"Morons! I'm…asking you a qu-question! Where is Mokuba?!" Kaiba tried very hard not to start slurring his words.

"Sheesh Kaiba, are you drunk?!" Tea giggled hysterically and suddenly, the entire dweeb patrol joined in as they slapped each other on their backs. Kaiba glared at them, understanding that as usual, they were of no help.
"Good for nothing losers." Kaiba walked away from their laughing fit, heading towards the stairs. He tried to get a better look over the hundred or so heads filling just his living room but nowhere could he find the raven haired boy. Giving up, Kaiba slugged his way up the stairs and to his bedroom.

When he got in and shut the door behind him, the noise from downstairs was drowned out and he took a relieved breath.

"Finally, some peace and quiet."

"Who's there?" Kaiba's eyes searched the dark room to find a silhouette sitting on his armchair.

"What do you mean who's there? This is my room. Who are you?" Kaiba slurred his words slightly and he squinted his eyes in the darkness to get a better look at the figure.

"Oh…" There was an odd familiarity to the feminine voice.

"Oh, what?! Get out of my room." Kaiba could feel the anger rising in him. It was one thing to gate crash his private party but this was out of bounds. This was his bedroom, his personal space.

"Kaiba…do you have some aspirin? My head's killing me." The figure slightly slumped over and for a moment Kaiba wondered if she'd passed out.

"No. Now get out." He could feel the control he had on himself beginning to fade as his movements became more sluggish. The buzz coming over him was nice but he hated the immobility that came with it.

"So-sorry. I…it's just my head hurts a lot. The music…just too loud." The girl shook her head and then sat up straight. "Guess I should've listened to Joey when he told me to take it easy."

"Joey…wait…" Kaiba racked his mind to place the voice with a face. Joey Wheeler…no…Wheeler…"Serenity Wheeler?" He asked, still unsure.

"Bingo! Good job, Kaiba! You get one point!" Serenity giggled and clapped her hands, irritating Kaiba even further.

"What are you talking about? How did you even get in here?" Kaiba could now see bits of her in the filtering moonlight from his window as he approached the armchair. She was just as he remembered.

When her eyes met his, he saw the deep, honey brown eyes sparkle at him. Her delicate face was framed with long, auburn hair, cascading down like waterfall. A sweet smile adorned her face.

Kaiba blushed as he realized he actually thought she looked cute and immediately shook his head to rid it of the ridiculous thought.

"Kaiba, why are you always so meeeaaan?" She drew out the word in a childish groan before tilting her head back and taking a swig from a bottle that Kaiba did not know she'd had.

"Didn't you just say your head's hurting? Then why are you drinking even more?" She took another swig before placing the bottle with a loud clink onto the coffee table in front of her and looking up. Kaiba was surprised as a sad, lonely smile appeared on her pink lips.

"It's funny, my dad always said drinking made the pain go away. But it's not. It's still there. My head still hurts, Kaiba." Kaiba stared at the drunk girl in front of him, the throbbing pain in his own head taking a backseat for the moment.

"You're dad's wrong." He concentrated his steely blue gaze on her as she continued to observe him with a silly look on her face.

"Correction. My dad WAS wrong. He's dead you know. It's been a year." Her expression darkened as she lowered her gaze to the floor and took another drink from her bottle. Kaiba, not knowing what else to do, tried to take the bottle away.

Serenity made a loud, annoyed sound, and took the bottle out of his reach.
"NO! My bottle. Get your own!" Kaiba stood back again and decided to take a seat across from her. Several seconds of silence passed between them before Kaiba finally spoke.

"Sorry about your dad. Mokuba and I lost our parents when we were very young." He said, closing his eyes and leaning his head back.

"I know. I know all about you." She said it so casually but Kaiba opened his eyes to look right at her.

"Oh yeah? How so?" Kaiba rose a brow at her, his vision blurring slightly before going back to normal.

"Wikipedia." Serenity scoffed for a second at her own joke and Kaiba's expression and suddenly, they both started laughing. Kaiba couldn't believe his own ears, but yes, he really was laughing and that too, with a girl.

When they both finally calmed down, Serenity smiled at his flushed face. "I've never seen you laugh like that Kaiba, you should do it more. It'll make girls fall for you even harder." Kaiba's smile immediately faltered as he stared at Serenity, wide eyed.

Flustered, Serenity tried to cover her embarrassment. "I mean, well you're so handsome and well, I mean no-tha-that's not what I meant…" She trailed off, trying to recover.

"It's the alcohol. It's okay." Kaiba said and smirked at the troubled girl. Serenity looked at the bottle she'd placed on the table again.

"Yeah…maybe it is." Another cute smile spread across her face and Kaiba admired the way it lit up her face. "Say Kaiba, let's play a game."

"A game? You'll lose." Kaiba said confidently.

"Wait! You can't say that! You don't even know what I wanted to play!" Serenity exclaimed.

"You're not even half as good as your brother, and next to me, he's nothing. You have no hope of winning." Serenity frowned at his arrogant expression and somehow, Kaiba found the look extremely enticing.
"I never said I wanted to play duel monsters." Serentiy pouted, folded her arms, and looked away from him. She looked positively like a stubborn child and Kaiba once again rose a brow at her while hiding a smirk under his hand that now covered the bottom half of his face.

"Duel monsters is the only game worth playing in my book. Oh and chess. Chess is good too." Serenity's expression changed as she looked at Kaiba straight in the eye.

"We'll play never have I ever. Here are the rules, every time one of us says something that they didn't do, the other players, only if they did it, need to take a drink. It's better with more people, but the two of us will have to do." Kaiba watched Serenity get up and walk over to his private bar and bring two glasses and a thick bottle of liquor over.

"You do know that's hard liquor right? And I never agreed to play." Kaiba had a feeling this wasn't a good idea. He didn't care but he was sure that Wheeler would not approve of his little sister in Kaiba's room, drinking with him.
"Oh come on, don't be such a spoilsport! It'll be fun. This way we can get to know each other." She turned her puppy eyes on him as soon as she took a seat and with a long, silent glance at her, Kaiba shrugged. What the heck, if he got drunk enough, he could pass out easily.

"Alright, I'll start. Never have I ever bunked school." Neither of them took a sip and now it was Kaiba's turn.

"Never have I ever…lost a duel to Joey Wheeler." Serenity frowned at him but poured herself a glass and took a sip of the liquor. Her body shuddered at the harsh, bitter taste and she frowned further as Kaiba laughed. Indeed, this would be fun.

"My turn. Never have I ever lost a duel to Yugi." Kaiba knew he had that coming and so he shrugged and took a sip from his own glass. What surprised him was Serenity didn't.

"Why didn't you take a sip?"

"Simple, I've never lost to Yugi. And I did say never have I ever."

"What?!" Kaiba's brows furrowed for a second, not believing it.

"I can't lose to him if I never played, silly. You're turn." For a moment, Kaiba blinked at Serenity before giving her a lopsided smile and continuing.

"Right…never have I ever…" And so the game continued and Kaiba was shocked to see that Serenity was beating hi. Then again, she was more innocent than him. He began to think if he should spice up the game.

"Never have I ever…kissed a guy." Serenity's eyes widened at the sudden change in topics but silently took a sip. Of course she'd kissed a guy. She'd kissed several, but nothing anything too serious. Kaiba tried to imagine the boy she may have kissed and he ended up with Tristan's face. It was no secret that the dweeb crushed on Wheeler's sister, not even to him.

"Never have I ever watched a…porno." Serenity smirked at Kaiba's shocked expression and she reveled in it. Kaiba had not seen that coming. Serenity watched as Kaiba contemplated the statement and finally raise the glass to his lips. Her eyes went wide with surprise as he took a large swig and she nodded in fake appraise.

"Ready? Never have I ever…fooled around with another guy." Kaiba waited. Serenity's face went red. Despite all she drank, her nerves were on edge with the question. A suffocated feeling overwhelmed her and she took the scarf wrapping her neck off and loosened the top two buttons of her shirt. Kaiba's gaze intensified as he watched Serenity. She looked nervous and toyed with the glass in her hand.

"I'm taking that as a no. A virgin then, huh?" Kaiba delighted in the expression Serenity made. He'd gotten her at her own game. It was hilarious as Kaiba laughed aloud. "Chill. I was just kidding. You don't have to answer." Serenity stared at him stone eyed but slowly tipped her glass back and drank the last of her liquor. Kaiba stopped laughing as he saw what she did.

This time, he tried to imagine sweet little Serenity being dirty…a kiss was chaste but the other things…he just couldn't imagine it, not even with Tristan.
Serenity filled her glass halfway and drank that bit back too and was about to get more but Kaiba got to the bottle before she did. She was already swaying while sitting down, any more, and she'd probably puke all over the place. That wouldn't be pretty.

"You've had enough. It's time to end this game."

"But-"

"No. No more." Kaiba took the bottle and the glass away from her and downed the rest of his own and stood. He swayed himself a little as he walked the glasses and bottle back to the bar and turned to look at Serenity.

"I-I guess I'll be going then…" Serenity stood and dangerously swayed on the spot and almost fell but Kaiba caught her in time. He steadied her but didn't let go of her. She looked up at him and smiled sweetly.

"Thank you. See Kaiba…I always told Tea you were a sweet guy. She never believed me." Kaiba stared into the deep brown depths as he considered her words. All his life, he'd always been called ruthless and arrogant but never sweet…this was the first time a girl had ever said that about him.

"You talk to Tea about me?" Kaiba asked as he continued holding her up.

"Yeah…sometimes…it's normal to talk about your crush right?" Serenity was smiling at him stupidly and he wondered if she even understood what she'd said. Apparently she did because the next second, Serenity's eyes went wide and she tried to break free of Kaiba's grasp on her.

"I…oh crap…I said too much. I'll get going. For real this time." A flustered and drunk Serenity slowly started making her towards the door. It took a moment for Kaiba to realize that his arms were now empty and that warm feeling that had slowly built up inside him was rapidly fading. He grabbed Serenity and turned her around and she bumped into him, hard enough to topple the two over. She landed right on top of him.

They remained like that, neither of them making an effort to move or help the other. When Kaiba finally found his voice, he asked, "Serenity, you like me?" His voice was gruff as usual but softer somehow.

Serenity stared down at his blue orbs and tried not to breathe. This was a dream for her. Kaiba and her...was he really asking her?
"Yes…I do." Kaiba had her pinned under him in seconds as he flipped her around on the carpet they lay. Now Serenity could see his silky brown bangs slightly covering his face as he leaned close to her, inches from her face.

"Do you like me?" She had to ask. The question was burning away at her and she needed an answer quickly. She held her breath as she looked into his eyes.

Kaiba could see her questioning gaze and he thought about her question. Before this night, he'd probably say no…but what about now? A simple, drunken conversation had exposed him to her more than he'd exposed himself to anyone under any condition. He'd done it not under the influence of alcohol but because somehow, this girl had found a way to be normal and comfortable with him.

"Well…you're pretty." He laughed in his drunken state at Serenity's frown.

"Be serious, please." She couldn't bear not knowing anymore. For two years, she hid her feelings. She secretly admired him as she joined Domino High. She held back her heartbreaks over and over again as she saw other girls approach him and even worse when he graduated this past year. She entered her senior year as he went onto his second year of college. Still, she hadn't forgotten about him. Due to her close friendship with Mokuba, she caught glimpses of him occasionally but those perfect cold, blue eyes never looked her way.

But now, they had. They had finally acknowledged her and she wouldn't let them look away without an answer.

Kaiba stopped chuckling and brought his hand up to cup her face. Her eyes grew wide as she felt the cool touch slide across her cheek and she thought she'd suffocate from not breathing. Just when she thought she wouldn't get an answer, his soft lips leaned in and pressed down on hers.

A moments shock later, Serenity started to kiss him back. The kiss grew into something beautiful and then something urgent. She was doing it. She was kissing Kaiba. So many fantasies and so many dreams, all suddenly coming true.

As the kiss drew to an end, Kaiba pulled away to see Serenity's eyes tearing up.

"Why are you crying?" He asked, confused.

"It just means that much to me…your kiss." Serenity whispered as she lay under him. It felt right somehow, just being here with him. She was glad she got drunk and ended up in his room while looking for a bathroom.

"Serenity…can I kiss you again?" Serenity nodded and this time, she claimed his lips, kissing him passionately. She could taste the liquor they'd shared on his lips and also the spicy mint flavor of peppermint. She inhaled his scent and it filled her being with a wonderful warmth.

Kaiba too didn't hold back. As soon as Serenity gave him permission, he knew he needed more and more. One kiss after another, their heat grew and before they knew it, the two of them were panting for breath, both their bodies aroused. He knew he needed more but for the first time in his life, Kaiba was afraid to ask. After all, this was not something Kaiba could just take.

"Serenity…" Kaiba started as he pulled away from Serenity. She pulled him back with her arms that had long ago wrapped around him lovingly. "Wait…Serenity I do like you…but…" He didn't know how to word it. The CEO of the biggest gaming company had no idea how to tell the girl he liked he wanted to do it with her. Great.

"Kaiba…take me to bed will you?" Kaiba stared at Serenity for a moment, astonished that she'd extend the invitation. Ever since Serenity could imagine, she'd wanted this. All she wanted was him. And now she had him. She would not let go. Not now. Not ever. She just hoped Kaiba felt the same way.

"Serenity, I promise, I won't hurt you." With those words, Kaiba climbed off of Serenity and took her in his arms bridal style before gently laying her on his king size bed.

"I know you won't Kaiba, I trust you." And with those words from Serenity, Kaiba sealed their fate.

Author's Note: Happy Birthday Seto, sorry this is late, but it's all for you and my wonderful readers. If you liked this, then please remember to review and follow for upcoming chapters. Thank you so much for your support, it is truly appreciated.