She burst into tears. This was the worst letdown of her life. She grabbed onto the Seto, which startled him, and started to cry. Seto shocked, decided not to complain. He hugged her as he had done with Mokuba so many times. Serenity just wept, making Seto's shirt wet.

The thunderstorm outside raged on, throwing fierce winds, tossing tree branches. Bolts of lighting flashed out creating a spark in front of the dark gray clouds. Everyone was indoors, hoping for the storm to end. But at the Kaiba Mansion, Seto was holding on to Serenity, trying to comfort her as much as he could. But it was no use, crying just couldn't make Joseph Wheeler open his eyes and live again. Crying only made a person feel better- sometimes that is.

Seto held Serenity close, rocking her gently side from side. She cried herself to sleep that night. Seto was still up when she feel asleep and moved her gently, as he propped himself up on the wall.

Morning came-and Serenity opened her eyes, head on Seto's chest. Seto was snoring lightly, and Serenity got up to go to her room, and stopped, when she heard another crack of thunder. 'It's nicer being with him,' she decided. She picked up the shards of glass on the floor, and threw them into the waste paper basket. Her eyes fell back to laptop-with the profile still on the screen. She blinked back tears, and turned off the laptop. He was dead. There was nothing that she could do about it.

Seto woke up, to the boom of thunder. 'Are you ok?' he asked gently.

She looked up, her eyes were red, 'I'll-I'll be fine.' She told him stubbornly.

He blinked, amazed at how strong Serenity was at emotions.

'Well, then, um, today's Friday, I guess you have school. Your friends don't know about this do they?'

'They don't. Of Course they don't. If they did, they'd think I'm a wreak.'

'Then they wouldn't be your friends. Would they?' he asked gently.

She turned around to look at him. 'Would they be my friends?' she questioned.

'They wouldn't. Those are the friends who judge you by your looks or how popular you are or of such.'

'If you were my friend, would you?'

'I wouldn't, because we've been through the same things.'

Without notice, Serenity wrapped her arms around Seto, who had never really been hugged before by anyone-excluding his family. (biological mother, father and brother)

'I love you Seto,' was all she said.