Aliana sat in her car outside the Sea Palace holding onto her steering wheel, her heart was beating non-stop and her breathing was getting heavy.

'I can't do this,' Ali thought looking at the clock turn to 6:30.

She sat there stiff as a board until a limo pulled up, her jaw started shaking as if she were cold. The limo door opened and Kaiba got out. Her heart started pounding and her breath was heavy.

She started the car, "I have to get out of here" she gulped.

'I can't go in there, I can't see him' Ali thought to herself, she shook her head and turned the car off.

'I have to, I must, I cannot let Bella down, and I cannot go home without a story for Fluffy, and what if Edmund asks how the date was, what am I suppose to say, I chickened out, No way man!' She thought as she smiled proudly.

"Think of the money Ali, think of the money, that's all ok" She said to herself. She calmed down a bit before she opened her door and got out.

She locked the doors with the keys and walked towards the Sea Palace.

'Why am I freaking out, I have to calm down, all I am doing is going on a date with Mr. Seto, nothing else.' Ali thought to herself.

She walked through the doors and saw Mr. Seto at a table looking around. Most likely for her. She slowly walked up to him and smiled.

"Hello Mr. Seto" Aliana said smiling.

Seto looked over and his expression went shocked.

"You?" he said.

"Oh, I'm sorry I'm not what you were looking for, but-"

"You're a business women?" He asked sternly.

'What is he talking about?" She asked herself, she tilting her head.

"No, I'm Aliana, the girl from Soul Mate" She told him.
" What is Soul Mate, a company?" He asked.
"Well yeah" She answered, "You rung us up asking for a date"

Seto's face- X(

"WHAT!" he shouted, Ali fell back on a chair from the sudden scare.
"You- you rang up the soul mate dating service for a date" Ali stuttered out.
"I DID NO SUCH THING," he shouted smashing his fists on the table making Ali jump.

"I-I'm sorry, I just took the date. I don't look into details." She said trying not to get to freak out.
"Well aren't you smart, leaping before finding out the facts, well done idiot" He said to her.

'If I had a baseball bat, it would be plastered in your head instead of your butt because you already have a pole shoved up there' she thought.

"Well I am sorry, It wasn't like a had a choice to come here, if I had my way, I would be at home with my cat right now" Ali told him.
"Oh, and someone pushed you through that door with a gun to your head?" He mocked her.

"This was a mistake," Ali said standing up.
"Oh no, is the little princess going to cry" Kaiba was going over the edge, it wasn't Aliana's fault, she didn't do anything.

'Oh, why is he being so mean to me' She thought to herself.

Tears started developing behind Aliana's eyes.
"What I do is my business" She tried to hold her tears in but they streamed down her face. She looked down and ran out of the restaurant.

She ran to her car and wiped her tears away.
"This wasn't my decision, I think I would have been better with the perverted man," She said to herself. She felt around her bag for her keys, but nothing.
"No, no, this isn't happening, I am not going back in there" She shook the bag but nothing.

She slowly walked back in to see Kaiba still at the table. She didn't want to go near him, so she walked up a waiter.
"Uh, can you please check if there is any keys at that table" Aliana asked the waiter."Sorry honey, I got so many things to do" The waiter walked away. Ali sighed and walked towards the table.

"Oh, the idiot has returned" Seto said rolling his eyes at her.
"Thank you, but I do not think I needed an announcement," She told him smiling.
"That wasn't an announcement, I was merely stating the obvious" He smirked at her. Oh this amused him.
"I like stating the obvious" Ali giggled.

"Well I do not care" He sneered, Seto seemed to be looking away and glancing at her more and more, like it was a rhythm. Ali just smiled. She loved being nice, and that her also her weakness, she had never been mean, she was just to nice when she was young, she would do other peoples homework, everything, and not much had changed, But Ali is living alone and is happy about it.

"Well that is great, because I did not want you to care"
"Good" He mumbled out
"Thank you" She smiled at him.
"Whatever," He said.
"Thank you anyway" She kept on smiling. She wasn't going to let a snobbish rich man ruin her night, she wasn't going to get upset, not anymore. This man's insults weren't going to pierce her.

"It wasn't a compliment," He told her.
"Well I am taking it as one anyway" She said smiling, he just rolled his eyes at her.

She looked on the table to see her keys.
"Oh I found them" She picked them up, "Thank you for a great date, I think it went quite well, except for the fact we did not get to eat, and not having anything interesting to talk about, it was very nice to meet you" He stood up as she said that.
"Yeah, whatever" With that he walked away.
"Well good bye" She waved at him as he walked out of the building, "Nice man".

She unlocked her door and walked in to see Fluffy just clicking the remote to turn off the television, "Fluffy!" She pointed to her feet and her cat walked up to her. Fluffy looked up at her with big puppy dog eyes.

"No, no fluffy, I told you 20minutes, it's been-" She looked at the clock"- Over 2hours, Fluffy, you promised me,"Fluffy meowed, "No, no I do not forgive you" Fluffy meowed again, "I cannot trust you again"Her cat rubbed against her leg, "No, no I've made up my mind" She told her cat.It meowed, but a sad meow, "FINE" She shouted at Fluffy, it meowed happily and jumped into her arms, "Next time, you sleep on the counter" Ali threatened her cat.

It meowed and licked her face, "I know what your going to say, it didn't go well, he was nice, well nice enough, but it was all a fake, he did not ring up and make a date, he was set up" Ali sighed and clicked her messages.

Now Fluffy, she has been with Ali most of her life, Aliana picked her out when she was 13, and trained her to play poker, watch television, even use to toilet, everything a human could do. Fluffy was Ali's only roommate, she was loyal, never left the apartment and she was always there for Ali, even in the worst of situations.

"3messages" The phone spoke. Aliana's eyes widened.
3messages and it had only been 2hours.

"Wow Fluffy, 3messages, what a bargain" Ali smiled at her cat.

"Message 1" The thing spoke, "Hey girl, it's your Bella. So how did the date go, you're probably still there, or maybe he has taken you home, if you get laid tonight, you have to at least get his number. Well when you get this, ring me and tell me everything,"
"End of message"

"Hmm, Bella" Ali said slumping onto the couch. That was Bella.

Bella had been her best friend since Ali's first day working at Soul Mate dating service, Bella's real name was Belinda, but she didn't like that name, so she made it Bella. See Aliana has been working at the date service for more than 4years, and on the first day, she made her first friend, Bella. Now, Bella showed her the ropes, showed her how to tickle a guys funny bone, how to make their bump grow, how to get out of sticky situations. Mostly everything Ali needed to know, Belinda was a true friend.

"Message 2" the contraption spoke again, " Hey Aliana, it's Edmund, just wondering if the date went well, if you ever felt like getting coffee, or lunch together, I'm always at home when you need me, well, love you, uh, I mean, I don't love you, ok, uh, I'm just going to go-, End of message" Ali laughed, Edmund was so shy around Ali, though she never looked into it, she was pretty shy around him.

Edmund had been living next to her ever since she moved into the apartment, and they had become friends, he usually comes over after work to give her some leftovers. He was usually pretty nice, but when he was around Ali, he would be calm one moment, and the next; his face would be redder than a tomato. I mean, Edmund was the only family she had, well, around those parts. Her little brother and mother live on the other side of town, around 2hours drive to get there.

"Message 3" Ali got up and went to her fridge, " Hey Ali baby, it's Brody, wondering how the date went, hope you had fun, hope that Kaiba dude didn't work you up to much, well ring Bella when you get back, because if you ring me first, she'll probably kill me, well see you" It shut off.

"Well, I think I might wait until the morning, if I ring now, they'll think it went bad, even though it did, when I see Mr. Seto next, I should apologize, it was my fault for not looking into the details" Aliana blamed herself, her cat hissed.

' But this time, I do not think it was only my fault, I went to the date, and so did he, so that means he wanted it, right?' Ali thought to herself, she took out a bottle of water and went back to the couch.

The cat jumped up on Aliana's lap and laid down, but not before getting comfy.

"Did I make him mad?" She asked Fluffy, the cat meowed and Ali smiled, "I know I shouldn't keep thinking about it, but something about his eyes makes me want to see him, something about his voice makes me want to hear him, something about his features makes me want to touch him" Ali covered her mouth.

Fluffy's face- O.o

She could not possibly be falling for this man, be having feelings for him, he was mean, rude and nasty to her. She should report him for abuse or something; there should be a fine against being mean to a lady who did nothing to him, all she did was go to the date, she did that almost every night, and no one has ever abused her like that. Never.

"Now, do not look at me like that, you know as well as I do, that it just slipped out, I do not feel that way- do I?" Ali asked herself, she slid down the couch so her head was just on the padding and Fluffy was now lying on the ground.

' He was so mean, yet I cannot stop thinking about him, all I want to do is to see that nasty, mean man, something must be wrong with me' She thought to herself.

"I mean, when a man is rude to you like that, you have no feelings for him, you feel nothing for them, right fluffy?" Ali asked her cat.
Her cat meowed and stretched herself out on Aliana's lap."That's right, he is just a meanie, and I have no feelings what so ever for him" Ali said straightening her and Fluffy out.

'I mean that man is nothing but a crude, a crude individual' Aliana said to herself trying to calm her mind down' but he was dreamy'

She laid her head on the ground and smiled as she closed her eyes.

' He did have nice eyes, but they were filled with hatred, hatred and sadness, never have I seen so much emotion in ones eyes' She thought smiling as she started to drift off

'I should, change them, those beautiful icy eyes, the emotions need to be, be set free' was her last thought before falling asleep.

That night Ali dreamed of Kaiba, dreamt of his smile, even though she had never seen it, dreamt of his scent, his touch, his taste. She longed for it to be hers, even though her dream did not end in a happy ending, Her last sight of Mr. Seto was when he turned to her with such rage and shouted "I HATE YOU"

Ali jolted out scaring Fluffy half to death. Ali wiped away the tears swelling up in her eyes and patted Fluffy to calm her down.
"Oh Fluffy" She lied back on the ground and placed a pillow under her head, "Why would he hate me so?" She asked, even though she knew no one would answer. No one knew the answer, only Mr. Seto knew, and he didn't seem to like it when Ali talked to him or when he saw her, or anything at that.

She closed her eyes wiping away to sweat running down the side of her face and sighed.

' If he hates me, then why can I not stop thinking about him, he is the only thought in my mind, I am even dreaming about him, I cannot not like such a man, no, I refuse to like such a man' Her mind growled.

'But, I cannot control my feelings, but, the real question is, does Mr. Seto feel the same?' She drifted into sleep again and calmed her feelings down in doing so.