Seto finally arrived at Duke's house. He turned off the engine of the truck and loudly rapped on the door.
"Someone better be dead!" Duke shouted from inside as a warning to whoever woke him from his sleep. A sleepy looking Duke opened to the door to see his friend looking at him.
"Duke, I need a favor." Seto said.
"Duke, who are you talking to?" came a feminine voice from inside.
"No one," he yelled inside cryptically.
"Who's that?" Seto asked gesturing inside.
"Nobody," Duke replied as his wife Serenity appeared in the doorway.
"Hi Kaiba, how are you?" she asked sweetly.
"Go back to sleep, Serenity." Duke instructed. Serenity turned and gave her husband a look.
"You know, if you treat me like that I can always go home." She threatened good naturedly as she went back upstairs.
"Don't be like that!" Duke said as he turned his attention back to Seto.
"Remember how you used to fake our I.D.'s in high school? I need a fake bride." Seto said handing Duke the pictures that the hospital had taken of Serena when they brought her in from the ocean."
"Come on, Kaiba, I'm kinda busy." He said indicating the direction his wife had just gone.
"Not anymore, she's going home." He said forcing Duke to take the pictures.
"All right, I'll do it, but if we get caught, it's your butt!" Duke warned as Seto walked back to his truck and drove home.
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"It's my wedding day, why do I look so annoyed?" Serena whined as she flipped through the photos that Seto had gotten made. Duke had done a good job on them. Although Serena had this terrible look on her face in each one, giving a humorous look to the photos.
"Well, your dad showed up and started being a jerk. He threw potato salad all over my mom, and we had to throw him out!" Seto lied.
"How come, I always look so upset?" Serena questioned as she looked at the next picture.
"Well, you were grumpy a lot. Because first you were gaining weight then you lost it. It went back and forth, thin, fat, thin, fat…"
"Was I always this miserable?" Serena interrupted him. "Wasn't I ever happy?"
"Well, sure honey, lots. I mean you were the happiest little wife and mother ever. Oh, look here, before you lost the weight!" Seto said pulling out the picture of an annoyed looking Serena with a huge stomach.
'There, now are you satisfied?" Seto questioned as he took the pictures back. Serena stared at her hands and then glanced at him.
"Yes," she said reluctantly. "I supposed I really do belong here in this…hovel!" she added bitingly. Seto grinned at her remark as he stood up and left. Serena stay sitting on the steps of the front porch staring out at the front yard. "I guess I really do belong here." Serena said to herself. "I didn't marry very well did I?" she added as an afterthought.
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"I LOVE L.A.!" Grant Staten shouted as he danced to the oldies music he had playing. Ever since Grant had told everyone on the yacht that Serena had supposedly run away from him, he had lived the good life. He had women swarming the yacht who totally enjoyed his company.
'What's your name again?" he questioned one of the bikini clad women on the yacht.
"Tofutti Kline" she answered as she sipped her martini.
"Tofutti I love it!" he said as the phone rang in the background.
"If that's my mother-in-law tell her I'm not here!" Grant instructed an annoyed Andrew. Andrew sullenly picked up the phone.
'The Staten Yacht" he spoke into the receiver.
"Hello, Andrew," came the voice of Serena's grandmother. "I'd like to speak to my granddaughter." She commanded.
"She's not here madam, they have gone out shopping." Andrew lied as he had been told to. Edith hung up the phone slightly peeved at her lack of being able to get a hold of her granddaughter. Andrew hung up his end and continued to serve Grant and the other women on the yacht. All the time wondering what had ever happened to Miss Staten.