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Chapter Seven

Everyone was laughing and having a great time. As the evening ended, the men were in the living room talking, the women were in the kitchen doing the dishes and cleaning up, Serenity and Mokuba were playing video games and Seto and Joey were outside talking.

"I hope that our coming here doesn't cause you any problems tomorrow at school" Seto said.

Joey just shrugged his shoulders and replied "hell, I don't know any of them that well that they can say or try to say who I can and can't be friends with." Joey told him. The stars were bright in the sky and Seto couldn't ever remember seeing them so clear, hell he couldn't ever remember sitting outside at night at all. His adopted father wasn't a monster, but he still wanted his sons to be someone and they couldn't do that if they didn't keep their noses to the grindstone.

Just then Katie came outside and said "boys, I think that it's time that we all call it a night. Your sister and your brother have fallen asleep playing her video game and soon it will be midnight, so I think that we all need to get some rest, you all have school tomorrow so lets get to bed soon."

"Midnight?" Seto didn't know it was that late, so he and Joey went inside and as they were saying their goodbyes, Roland had picked up Mokuba and carried him out to the car. They thanked the Wheelers for having them over and Roland asked "if they could return the favor sometime?" Frank and Katie said "we'd love that, just give us a call." Then Roland and them got into the car and drove home.

The next day at school, started out just fine, but later on in Gym, Joey encounter some hostility. Some of the guys started giving him the fifth degree and asking "why was Kaiba and his family at his house over the week-end?"

That pissed Joey off and he finally said "who the hell died and left all of you in charge of the damn world?"

Couch had heard what they were saying and he stepped in and said "alright, want to be that way, then ten laps for all of you now."

As they ran around the field, Joey got stares from some of the guys that would of scared anyone else, but coming from New York, hell Joey was use to worse things and just ignored them, which made them angrier. Till after taking their showers some of them told Joey "watch your back." Joey just walked to his locker and got dressed and went to his next class. They didn't scare him at all, but then he thought about his sister and that really angered him. If they ever tried to scare her then they'd have to deal with him!

In Art Class, some of the kids asked Serenity "why have you started hanging out with Kaiba?" Serenity just stared at them and then she said "mind your own business." Mokuba was afraid for her because he had gotten beaten up but some of them last year and they nearly killed him. He was sorry that any of this happened and when he tried to tell her this, Serenity just smiled and told him "don't worry, I can take care of myself."

Then after school, while Joey was waiting for Serenity, he had some of the bullies approach him and they said "stop hanging around with Kaiba, or else!" Joey just stood there and then he asked "or else what?" This one of them said and he took a swing at Joey, but he just moved aside and that guy hit the ground hard enough to knock the wind out of him. As he laid on the ground gasping for air Joey said "listen up, and listen good. No one other then my parents tell me what to do. Now if anyone you want to continue this we can go to the old field on the other side of campus and get down and dirty, otherwise shut your damn mouths."

Serenity and Mokuba came walking up and saw what happened and they ran over and Serenity asked "are you alright?" Joey reassured her that he was and then the limo came and picked up Mokuba, but Joey said that they'd walk and so he and Serenity went on home. As they walked, Serenity said "it's a little like back home isn't it?"

Joey put his arm around her shoulders and he told her "a little, but don't worry we can take on these idiots with one hand tied behind our backs." They laughed an continued home.

When the limo pulled into Kaiba Corp, Mokuba got out and ran inside and took the elevator to his brother's Office and ran inside and told Seto what had happened at School today. Seto couldn't be there because he had three really important meetings and one would determine if a large factory would be opening in Domino and bringing in more jobs there. Seto closed his eyes and he made a decision, he and Mokuba wouldn't ever be seen with the Wheelers because he didn't want to be responsible for any of them to get hurt. It was a decision that wouldn't ever come to be, because Joey wouldn't allow it.

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Chapter Eight Coming Up...Finding what Friendship really is...