Joey got home and sees a black box sitting on the dining table. He opens it and sees a cute angel custom with a Halloween Party invitation that says, 'Let's spend time together this Halloween, my son.' Joey read the notes twice to make sure it's true. It had been a long time since his dad spends time with him. His dad is always drunk.
When Joey was young, his dad would put costume on him and take him out trick-or-treating at Halloweens. Those were some of his best childhood memories. It will be nice to spend Halloween with his dad again.
The REBD master puts on the costume and gets to the address on the invitation. It's an extravagant and erotic nightclub with a lot of masqueraded men standing around drinking wine; a huge empty stage is in the middle of the room.
"You must be Wheeler's son. You make a lovely angel." A waiter walks up and says. Joey chuckles, "I know I look silly. I'm only wearing this because it's from my dad. By the way, where is he?"
"Your dad is talking to his friends. He'll be with you soon. Have a drink while you wait for him." The waiter offers Joey a fancy drink.
Joey takes the drink and goes to the back of the club to search for his dad. There is a luxurious English oak room and Seto Kaiba is playing poker with a bunch of middle age men in Tuxedo. "Kaiba, what are you doing here? It's illegal to gamble at our age! You're going to be in trouble!" Joey says.
"Be quiet, mutt." Seto says as he puts his cards on the table, "I won, gentlemen."
"And I thought you'll lost your factory to us. We underestimate you." The men at the card table gives Seto an envelope, "here, you won this."
"You wager your factory on a card game?! Don't you have any senses?" Joey shouts at the CEO.
"It's just a factory. I have a lot of them." Seto stands up and walks away
"What will your stock holders think if they find out you gamble with your company? What do the workers and their families do if you lost? You can't just do whatever you want arrogant jerk!"
"You dare call me a jerk? Who do you think I'm doing this for?" Seto opens the envelope and shows Joey the papers inside, "These are loan sharks. They made your dad sold you to them because your dad owned them a lot of money. I play poker with them to win you back."
Joey snatches the paper and starts reading it, "My dad will never do that to me! He said he wants to spend time with me this Halloween!"
"Yeah, and he gets that costume for you because he loves you so much. Wake up, stupid mutt! Your dad is completely wasted, he didn't even know he signed that paper."
"Don't make fun of my costume!" Joey heads back out to the club, "I'm going to find my old man."
"No, you're leaving with me." Seto says as he grabs the blonde.
"I'm not leaving without my dad!"
"You still don't know your situation, fool! This is a SEX CLUB! They put you in a costume to be the main attraction of their sick perverted show on that stage tonight, and every night afterward! That drink in your hand is loaded with drug! Stay here and you will never get out again!" Seto yells, "Let that sorry excuse of a father rot in here by himself!"
"Another bad word about my dad and I'll kill you!" Joey yells back, "Go away! I can take care of myself just fine!"
"Yeah, just like you took care of yourself last couple of times when you skipped school for days and came back all cut up and bruised. One of these days your dad is going to land you in hospital, or get you killed, or worse." Seto stomps out of the place, "you can stay here. I don't care if you throwing your life away."
A couple of hours later, Seto arrives at the front door of Kaiba Mansion and sees Joey sitting at the doorsteps. "Where is your father, mutt?" Seto tries very hard not to say something rude about the man.
"I took him home. He is resting." Joey answers.
"What are you doing here at my house?"
"Waiting for you. I was rude to you so I came to apologize. Where were you?"
"I went for a walk because you made me very irritated and I don't like my brother to see me like that."
"I'm sorry…"
"When I went to the club, I didn't expect any thank you. But you actually threatened to kill me after my rescue."
"Oh, right! Thank you for saving me!" Joey feels horrible about his ingratitude, even if it's not intentional. The blonde looks so sincere, Seto cannot be mad anymore.
"Don't worry about it. No one ever do anything for you in your life; not even your father. It's given that you don't know how to thank people. Like I said, I didn't expect any thank you."
The last sentence makes Joey feels bad, "same as you…no one ever thank you for what you did so you don't expect any thank you."
Seto shrugs, "That's the business world. Everyone keeps taking and asking for more. I'm used to it, being CEO and all. It's not important."
"It is important! Thank You Thank You Thank You! I'm sorry I forgot say it!" Joey says seriously. His earnest somehow makes him look like a puppy and Seto can't help but chuckle.
"I'm trying to be nice here! Don't laugh at me!" Joey pouches, and that makes him even more puppy-like. Seto breaks out in laugher.
"Master? What're you doing out here?" One of Seto's servants comes out of the door.
"Just talking to my friend." Seto answers. He turns to Joey and says, "you want to come in for a bit?"
"Sure…." Joey blinks. Did Seto just call him 'friend' and invited him into his house?
"Oh, yeah. Next time you can wait inside the house for me…. and you can change out of your angel outfit before you come." Seto says to Joey. The blonde then realizes he forgot to get out of his costume, "What…I…"
The startled blonde looks so cute it makes Seto's heart skip a beat. The billionaire walks closer to Joey and says, "you look very cute in it, mutt."
Joey blushes and moves away, "you know what? I just left my dad at home. I really should go."
It's much easier being mean to Joey. At least when he was being rude to Joey, Joey will yell back. Every time he tries to get closer, Joey runs away at once. "You rather go back and watch your drunk dad sleep than staying with me? Even though he sold you to a sex club and I went save you?" Seto grunts.
"It's not that. I'm just worried about my dad." Joey is about to leave when the butler runs out of the house and shouts, "Master Mokuba disappeared!"
Joey runs into Kaiba's house at once.
TBC…
