Chapter 16 The Truth

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Serenity

The next day, Serenity stood in front of the mirror in her bedroom. She had decided when she had gotten off the phone with Tea that she wouldn't let this bother her. It was his loss anyway, she told herself, although she kept catching herself thinking of him, and this made her angry with herself. The fact that she couldn't get him out of her head when he had obviously forgotten all about her made her hate herself.

"Why can't I do this?" She asked, flopping on her bed. "I've been through worse things than this. And...it's not like we were actually going out. No...we weren't..." but she kept picturing his beautiful sapphire eyes, and the more she thought about it, the worse she felt. At first, she tried to look on the positive side. "Well...there are people far better than him that I can date..." but then she realized it. "...no...there's not. Kaiba was the best there was..."

The phone interrupted her thoughts. She picked it up and put it to her ear.

"Hello?" She asked.

"Hello, is this Serenity?"

"Yes, who is this."

"Seto." he said. Her heart skipped a beat.

"...S-Seto? Why are you calling me?"

"Well, I was wondering if you still wanted to go out again. I mean, we did have a good time at dinner the other night, and well...you did kiss me and all." He cleared his throat.

"Yes but..." She couldn't decide what to do next. Should she hang up on him? Should she ask him about Karen? Or maybe she should act like she didn't know anything about it. No, that wouldn't do.

"But what? Do you not want to go to dinner with me again?"

"No, it's not that...Tea...Tea told me something."

"Tea? I saw her yesterday."

"Yes, and she saw you. She said that you two talked."

"We did."

"And...you bought flowers."

"I did. Where is this leading to?"

"Well...she said that...you bought flowers...for a girl named Karen..."

"Yes. What about her?"

"Well, why didn't you tell me you had a girlfriend when I went out with you. If you had just told me, I still would've gone."

"Girlfriend?" Sudden laughter broke out over the other line. "Serenity, Karen's not my girlfriend!" There was more laughter.

"She...isn't?"

"Of course not! She's the wife of my ex-driver!"

"...So...why would you buy your ex-driver's wife flowers?"

"To say I'm sorry for the loss of her husband. Serenity, when I was in the car accident, my driver was killed. Karen's his wife. I wanted to apologize."

"...I'm going to kill Tea..." She said. Seto laughed.

"I wouldn't do that. So, are we still up for a...what was it? Not-a-date?" Seto asked. Serenity decided to try her luck.

"No, but I'd be glad to go on a real one." She said, praying that he liked her the way she liked him.

"...When?"

"Um..." she thought for a second. "How about...Thursday? Joey has to work then, and he won't know I'm gone."

"Thursday it is, then." Seto chuckled. "Karen...really. She's probably seven years older than me."

"Well how was I supposed to know that?" Serenity laughed. "Tea just called me raving about how you had found another girlfriend."

"I think Tea needs to...ah, never mind. Look, I'm going to let you go now. What time on Thursday?"

"Mm...How about eight. Joey works from seven to ten."

"Okay. I'll...see you then."

"Yeah...bye." They hung up, and Serenity screamed with happiness. He didn't have a girlfriend...and they were going on a real date! Nothing could mess this up now, because now she knew that he really liked her. Seto Kaiba liked her!

Short? I know. But hey, at least I got it done. Next chapter will be up soon. Once again, thanks for reviewing! We almost have 100 reviews! Yay!

Oh, and by the way, I'm not a Teabasher, I just wanted to put in someone who the readers could hate. And, Tea seemed like the perfect candidate.