Chestnut Roasting on Puppy's Fire
Part Two

"Seto Kaiba! Get off me now! You know how heavy you are?" Joey shouts again. Seto then realizes he is still on top of the Sugar Pumpkin Fairy Joey.

"You look cute in a dress, mutt." Seto gets up and says.

"Stop making fun of me and call me mutt." Joey says as he gets up, "I don't believe this, I just saved you and this is what I get?"

"Joey!" Mokuba runs up and hugs Joey.

"Hey, kiddo." Joey pats Mokuba on the head.

"You're injured!" Mokuba says worried. Joey hurt himself when he saved Seto.

"Don't worry about it. It's nothing to me. I got injuries ten times worse before." Joey smiles.

"So, what are you doing here?" Mokuba asks.

"I work here." The blonde says as he fixes his dress.

"You work as the Sugar Pumpkin Fairy?" Mokuba asks. The hotel takes it's X'mas image seriously. All the hotel employees have to dress up as X'mas characters. Still, it's really brave of Joey to put on a dress and parades around thousands of hotel guests.

"No, I work at the kitchen. I fill in for Maple. She is the Sugar Pumpkin Fairy but she can't work today." Joey answers.

"Who is Maple?" Mokuba asks. The boy knows a lot of Joey's friends but he never heard of Maple.

"I don't really know her. She was crying at the employees' lounge. Her sister is sick and she wants to go back and see her sister, but the manager says if she leaves she will lost her job, so I cover for her while she goes see her sister."

"You don't really know that girl but you put on a dress for her?"

"She was crying. She really wants to see her sister. If Serenity is sick I would want to go see here too." Joey says, "Maple will lose her job if I don't fill in for her, and it's really hard to get a job."

Seto smiles. The forever good-hearted puppy. It is so cute and sweet that Joey will do anything to help even a complete stranger.

"So, what are you two doing here? It's dangerous to wonder around here at the dark. The hills are steep." Joey asks the Kaiba brothers.

"We got lost and we can't find out way back to the hotel." Mokuba answers.

"Let me take you back to the hotel. Come on, there is a snow storm coming and it's not safe out here." Joey says. The blonde takes the Kaiba brothers back to the hotel.

"Thank you so much, Joey. Hey, are you hungry? I will roast some Chestnut for you. I'm very good at roasting chestnuts. Seto is crazy about roasted Chestnuts. He eats them all the time while he is working." Mokuba says.

"You're such a good boy. Seto is so lucky to have a brother like you. Here, let me roast the chestnuts for you." Joey walks up to the fireplace and starts roasting chestnuts.

While Joey roasts the chestnuts, he looks around the room. There are papers and files everywhere. There are also 3 computers set up at the corner of the room.

"Gee, what did your brother do? Move his whole office here?" Joey asks Mokuba.

"Seto has a lot of things he need to take care of. He just comes here so I can spend time in the Santa's village." Mokuba answers.

"Why do you think about work all the time? You're so lucky to be in Santa's village with your brother. You should be spending time with Mokuba. It's X'mas!" Joey says.

"Just because it's X'mas doesn't mean I have to stop working. Only Sentimental fools like you will celebrate a meaningless holiday like X'mas." Seto says.

"You don't even know how good you have it. You got Mokuba to spend X'mas with you. Do you know how lonely it is to be all by yourself at X'mas?"

"Don't be so naïve. Only weaklings get lonely. The strong ones can do well even if they got no ones."

Joey sighs, "why do I even bother talking to you? You'll never understand. You never love anyone. All you care about is your work."

Joey stands up and heads toward the door. Mokuba asks, "Joey, where are you going?"

"I still got work to do outside."

"But Joey, there is a snow storm outside!"

"I need to cover up the X'mas flowers out on the field or the snow storm will blow them all away. Besides, being in the snow storm is much better than being with your brother. I don't want to spend time with someone who think I'm a naive fool." Joey leaves to room.

TBC…..