It is 10:00 A.M. and Calculus is over.
"Don't forget that those problems are going to be counted as a quiz grade! I won't have any sympathy for those of you who don't do it!" Mr. Arlem states with a completely serious face.
The bell then rings in a really low-pitched and boring tone. Serenity waits for everyone, except for Seto, to leave the room. She waits for about thirty seconds and then goes up to Seto, who is still on his laptop.
"Um…Seto?" Serenity says in a completely worried tone of voice. I hope that I can get him to talk to me.
"What do you want?" Seto says in a somewhat annoyed voice. Great! I just had to give her the pencil. Now she probably thinks that we're friends or something stupid like that.
Serenity takes Seto's pencil out of her binder and hands it to him. As Seto is putting it away in his binder, his sleeve gets pushed up again but, this time, it's the other wrist. Serenity sees more cuts on this wrist than the other wrist, but most of the cuts on this wrist are older, unlike the other wrist, which has newer looking cuts that are way deeper.
Seto…Do-"Seto cuts Serenity off abruptly.
"Look, leave me alone." Seto says with an extremely annoyed tone.
"Why do you cut yourself?" Serenity says with a shaky voice while looking down at the white tiled floor. Why? Why would he do something like that to himself? Why…why would I even do that to myself? I wish I didn't cut myself over something stupid like living my own life without Joey interfering.
"H-how do you know?" Seto is quite shocked that Serenity knows this and is completely stunned. How- how did she find out? Wait…why didn't I play stupid? I mean, it works all the time when Mokuba asks me if anything is wrong.
"I saw your wrist when you were giving me a pencil to borrow and I just saw the other one just now…" Serenity looks up from the floor and sees a totally shocked Seto.
"Oh…why didn't you say anything to me then?" Seto says staring directly into her hazel colored eyes. Why didn't she tell the teacher? Sure he already knows but still. "Why didn't you go up to Mr. Arlem and tell him right then and there?"
"Because I didn't want Teá and Miho to hear me and I definitely didn't want everyone else to see me go up there and hear me tell him…" Serenity starts to stare at the floor again. "Besides, I want to help you to stop…seeing your cuts…I-I no longer want to kill myself." She then looks up to look at Seto.
"Why…why do you want to help me?" Why would she want to help me anyways? After all, it's too late to save me. On Monday I'll be dead and there isn't anybody who can stop me from jumping off the rooftop of Kaiba Corp. "Wait… YOU want to kill yourself too?" Seto is now even more shocked that someone that is as happy as Serenity would want to commit suicide.
"I don't want to kill myself anymore. Besides, unlike you, I only cut myself because I was upset last night so I sort of lost control and cut myself three times with a knife…" Serenity says with an unsteady voice and starts to look at the tile floor again. Why-why did I do that last night? I ruined my life and my skin permanently. I could've been a model… "I-I want to help you be-because you have so much to live for. You have Mokuba, Kaiba Corporation, and uh-"
"See, I only have two things to live for. You, though, have friends, Joey, a bright future, your very pretty, and many other things…" Did I just say that she was…pretty?! Stupid hormones! Seto looks at the clock and notices that he is going to be late for French class. "Look, I have to go…"
Serenity looks up from the floor. Her eyes are teary and her face is wet. "You aren't going to-"
"No I'm not. I have to go to class before I am late and get detention." Seto says calmly. He puts his laptop away, puts his backpack on his back and starts to leave.
"Wait! What class are you going to?" Serenity grabs her backpack and catches up to Seto. If he's going anywhere near y class, then I could walk with him to class and continue talking!
"I'm going to French in room 53. Why?" She probably wants to walk with me and continue this conversation.
"Really? That means that we can walk with each other." Seto starts to walk again.
"Yeah but because of our conversation, we might want to run otherwise we'll be late for class." Serenity catches up to Seto, who looks at her face and realizes that her eyes are no longer bloodshot red. "That's good."
"What? Us walking together?" Serenity starts to blush. Do I like him?
"That and the fact it no longer looks like you cried. So, what class are you going to?" Seto looks straight ahead and notices that Serenity is looking at him. He also notices that she is blushing a little. He starts to smirk.
"I have Spanish in room 50. So does Mokuba now that you-" Seto looks directly at her with an emotionless face.
"No, he doesn't, but I think that he'll put the pieces together though. He'll figure it out all soon enough." Unfortunately, it will be too late.
"Oh…personally, I think you should tell him."
"Why should I tell him? After all, once he finds out he's going to freak out, get mad, and yell at me." Besides, I don't want to tell him. "Did you tell Joey that you cut yourself?"
"No but-" Seto cuts Serenity off hastily.
"So then, why should I?" Even I know the mutt will freak out if Serenity told him that she had cut herself purposely.
"I am going to tell him today." Why does he always interrupt me?
"Oh…I guess that means that you're absolutely serious about not wanting to kill yourself anymore."
"I am serious." Serenity and Seto stop walking after realizing that they're at room 50. "Can we finish this later? Maybe at lunch? I can sit with you or you can sit with me and my friends."
"As long as Duke, Tristan, and the mutt don't start anything." Or Teá and Yugi with their bullshit about me finally becoming friends with them.
"Okay! And uh…" Serenity looks at the yellow tiled hallway floor. "…can you promise me that you'll tell Mokuba today that you cut yourself?" Please say yes! If you do then I'll know that I can actually help you.
Seto looks at Serenity for thirty seconds and realizes that he hasn't answered yet.
"Yes I promise to tell Mokuba today." Seto starts to head for class. "See you at lunch." Seto smirks and looks back. He sees that Serenity is looking at him and smiling. Maybe I should tell Mokuba when he gets into my car that way after we go to the arcade, he won't be that upset about it… I hope.
Serenity goes into her Spanish class and sits down in her seat that is right next to Mai. Seto goes into his class and takes his seat, seconds before the bell rings to start class.
Do I actually-no I don't like her! She doesn't like me and I definitely don't like her either! Stupid hormones! Always acting up at the wrong times!
Why was I blushing when I was talking to him? Well…I sort of like him. After all, he was very nice when I talked to him today. Once again, Joey lies about another guy just in order to get me to never hang out with him. I wonder if he likes me too. Maybe he does. Maybe that's why he's going to sit with me at lunch and that's why he allowed me to talk to him. I actually hope that he likes me that way we can hang out more and I can prove to Joey and everyone else that they were wrong about him being a jerk.