Lass: New chapter, people! I managed to get it done thanks to the great
reviews of Chibi-Kari, Chinxy, Daisy-chanMistress of Evil and
MistressMoonDemon. Thank all of you!
Serenity: She does not own Yu-Gi-Oh, but the plot of this story is hers!
Mokuba: On with the story. I think it's sad, though, that no one reads this...
Serenity entered her maths class, sitting down behind the table in the very back of the classroom. 'Why does Yami want to talk to me? Could it be because of yesterday?'
Just then, class started and she had to turn all of her attention to the teacher, meanwhile scribbling down notes.
Inside another class, lessons hadn't started yet. The teacher was very late, and all of the students were talking to each other. You can probably guess whose class it is already...
"So, when I finished off his last monster, his life points were brought down to zero. He almost started to weep. Can you imagine?" Joey asked his friends. He had just told his friends about some match he had won. "When he gave me his strongest card, he really broke down. It was completely ridiculous! The boy was older than my sister, and he was crying like a baby!"
"Of what you told us he was pretty attached to that card, wasn't he? What would you do if you had just lost your Red Eyes to some stranger who was humiliating you all the time you were duelling, while duelling is your whole life?" Yugi asked friendly.
Joey's eyes drifted downwards. "Ok, you're right. I probably was much too hard on him, wasn't I?" All of his friends nodded slowly, all of them feeling a little sorry for the boy.
As they continued about duelling, Yugi spotted Kaiba sitting in a corner of the room, typing away on his laptop. He decided to be nice to him, and walked to him. "Hi there, Kaiba! How are you today?" he asked in his high- pitched voice.
"I'm fine, Yugi, just fine," he answered (A/N: he was in a good mood today, remember?), before returning to his computer.
Yugi didn't know exactly what to do now, but then the others walked over to him, seemingly wanting to ask him something, so he walked in their direction.
At the same time, another boy out of their class, who they didn't know that well, walked over to them. He surprised them all with is question, even Kaiba, to who they were close enough to hear (A/N: Of course I want him to hear this. It's so much fun make him!).
"Joey, could you tell your sister I'm ready for my rematch?" They were all looking at him clueless, except for Kaiba, who hid it behind his screen.
"Rematch of what, what do you mean?" Joey asked.
"I mean the Duel Monsters rematch she promised me," he answered.
"Duel Monsters? Serenity plays Duel Monsters?" Joey didn't understand it at all, and neither did the rest of them.
"Yeah, quite a while, I believe. Didn't you know?"
"I hadn't got the faintest idea... So, she won?" he asked, now eager to know anything about it.
"Yeah, she really kicks butt. I've heard she never lost a duel before."
"So, do you miss your rarest card a lot?" Joey asked teasingly. Mai shot him a warning glare, but he didn't pay attention to it.
"Well, that's the strange thing of your sister's duelling," the boy answered. "She agrees to duel, but only according to her rule; the loser hasn't got to give her his rarest card, but she picks one. Of all of her duels I've seen, she never picked the rarest card. She usually picks weak cards, or cards her opponent isn't much attached to anyways. So no one ever feels too bad about losing to her anyway. She did agree to give me a chance to win my Koumori Dragon back, though."
"Your Koumori Dragon? She picked your Koumori Dragon? You hated that card, and it's weak! Why did she pick that one?" Joey was completely surprised by this story.
"As I told you before, she picks weak cards and cards her opponent isn't much attached to anyways. Well, in my case, she couldn't have picked a better one. I have to admit I was very surprised when she managed to beat me, mainly with her Kuriboh and her Dark Magician Girl, and even more when she decided to take my Koumori Dragon."
Before Joey or any of the others could say something else the teacher finally entered the noisy classroom. "All right, class; get your books out of your bags! This Friday, we have a lot of catching up to do," he said, but he was interrupted by the class, who was really not happy about that. He was the one who was late, not them! But they had to work anyways, so they just grumbled a bit and did what the teacher asked them, though only half heartedly.
They were all still thinking about what their classmate had just told them. None of them even had any idea Serenity was duelling, let alone winning every duel.
Kaiba had to admit that he did get a little respect for the younger Wheeler now. He knew the boy they had just talked to wasn't that bad of a duellist, and winning with the kind of weak cards he had just talked about...
The bell rung, as a sign the break had started now. Serenity remembered Yami asking her to meet him now, but he hadn't said where he would be. So she went off in the hall to look for him.
It was very crowded, and Serenity hated it. Then a path was made in the hallway. She took a look to where the path had come from.
Serenity pushed herself to the wall too when she saw the school bullies coming her way, their faces grinning and looking evilly, but it wasn't needed. They didn't even give her a second look. It seemed like they were going somewhere. Or searching for someone...
Not wanting anyone to get hurt, Serenity silently followed them, careful not to be seen by any of the members.
She wasn't surprised they were walking to the younger part of the school. An evil chuckle of the leader told her they had found their target. And indeed, they changed directions.
Serenity gasped shocked. 'Mokuba!'
Their target was indeed the small boy, who was sitting alone on a bench, as his friend just walked away. Then, he noticed the boys coming towards him. He seemed frightened, which wasn't so strange if you knew these bullies had managed to get some students in the hospital, or at least almost.
When they kept coming closer, Mokuba's eyes widened. He stood up and was about to take a run for it. But at that time, it was already too late.
One of the boys grabbed his wrist to prevent him from running, while the others started throwing insults at him, laughing at his frightened expression. None of his classmates helped him, afraid of what the older boys would do.
Mokuba got small tears in his eyes as he knew no one would help him with this.
"Big brother ain't gonna help ya now, little termite! Ya're so doomed!" the voice of the leader reached his ears. He started to struggle to get free, doing the only thing he could.
Then, his leg hit the leader, harder than he had expected from such a small boy. His face pulled into a raging expression, his fist hit the boy hard. The other members of the gang were laughing as his fist connected for the second time, while Mokuba lost all hope. But then, he heard something...
"Hey, you there! Stop this nonsense immediately!" As the leader turned around, he saw who the voice had come from. Wheeler's sister, defending Kaiba's brother. How ironical...
"And why should I stop at your command?" he asked slyly. Mokuba was relieved the beating had stopped, for now at least.
"You'd better pick someone your own size. Or are you just too wimpy to fight a real fight?"
His face got enraged again. How dared this girl challenge his superiority? She should be shaking with fear now, but instead, she just kept throwing insults at his head, continually repeating how much of a loser he was if he couldn't even beat someone his own size.
"After her," he growled at the rest of the gang, completely forgetting Mokuba. 'Serenity, what are you doing?' he screamed inside his mind.
The gang was now standing in a circle around Serenity, all of them looking very pissed off. Instead of shivering with fear now, as they had hoped she would do, she just continued insulting them, calling them weaklings.
"I thought you were more of a man than this. Attacking small children instead of just fighting someone your own size! How low can you go?"
That was when one of them snapped, lunging towards her. She stepped aside and made him trip, causing him to stumble into one of his mates.
All of her fighting techniques were needed to defend her now, as they all attacked her. And even that wasn't enough to avoid being hit. When one of their fists connected with a bruise her father had recently gave her, she winced in pain, but continued fighting, happy Mokuba wasn't the target of their rage anymore.
Mokuba saw them fighting now, and was desperate in search of something that could help the poor girl in the middle of this all. "Mokuba," a stern voice asked from behind him. When Mokuba turned to find his brother behind him, his face lightened with relief.
"One of your classmates came running to me telling me you were attacked by those jerks. What happened?" Mokuba's face became serious again when he was reminded of the bullies, and then turned into a pleading expression. "Please help her, Seto," he said, pointing to the fighting group behind him. He couldn't see Serenity, and he was very worried about the girl who saved him.
Kaiba didn't ask anything now, he just walked over to them. "Hey!" he said commanding. The guys stopped beating... whoever it was and turned to him. Their faces turned from angry to frightened as they saw the tall CEO standing there. He was the only one in the whole school they were afraid of.
That was the reason they had attacked Mokuba at first. It was some kind of a deed to show him they weren't afraid of him. Well, they were, and as he stood in front of them, they decided not to take any risks and run for it, which left only Serenity leaning against the wall, and some guy on the floor who she managed to knock out.
Kaiba then turned to Mokuba, not even taking a second look at Serenity, though he was very worried about the girl. He had to keep up his cold mask.
"Now tell me what happened here," he said to Mokuba.
Mokuba spat out the whole story, meanwhile he was looking worried at Serenity. There were no bruises or scratches visible. Kaiba noticed it too. 'She has to be hit a few times, but there's nothing to see.'
He was surprised to hear what she had done for his brother, but he was even more surprised when he saw the member of the gang she had knocked down still wasn't back to consciousness. 'She probably hit him very hard. I sure got to know some pretty surprising things about her today.'
She looked down at the stare of the two boys. "I guess I'd better leave," she muttered, as she suited the action to the word. She almost froze when she heard Kaiba's voice behind her.
"Thanks," he whispered, hoping she hadn't heard it. She had, but, at the tone of his voice, she acted as if she hadn't. Kaiba thanking someone was very rare, and probably very hard for him to do.
As the girl disappeared out of sight, Kaiba sighed in relief. This Wheeler girl made him feel so strange lately...
He didn't like the feeling, so he decided to avoid her as much as possible. His train of thoughts was interrupted at the sound of the school bell, a sign for him to get to his class. "Have a nice rest of the day, Mokuba," he said as he ruffled the boy's hair.
His little brother watched him disappear from sight too. He had been very surprised as he heard his brother thanking Serenity. He hadn't done that for many years, at least, not this sincerely. 'This sure is a strange day,' he thought, as he walked to his class.
Serenity walked to the ladies' room and got in, ignoring the sound of the bell. Then, she collapsed. She was lying on the floor, and she could impossibly get back up again. Everything hurt, and she got the body paint off the places where she was hit. At those spots, blue and red skin was seen.
Serenity heard the door open, but she didn't have the strength to get back up. "Serenity!" She recognized Mai's voice. "Here you are! Tea and I have been looking everywhere for you."
Just then Mai noticed Serenity wasn't moving. "Serenity?" she said as she walked over to her. When she looked into the girl's face, she saw Serenity was barely conscious. Mai put her arm around her and picked Serenity up.
The story had already been told around whole Domino High, and Mai and Tea were worried about Serenity. They had decided to go and look for her, but the teacher of Serenity's class had told them she hadn't shown up yet. The administrator had told them Serenity was still at school, so they had started searching her.
Mai saw Tea and called her. "Tea, I found her! Over here!" Tea immediately came, and gasped as she saw Serenity.
"Mai, you'd better take her home. She isn't looking good at all. I'll warn the teachers." Tea said, acting immediately. Mai nodded, and took off to the door.
Tea first walked to Serenity's class. An "enter" was heard as she knocked on the door. Tea walked to the teacher. "Serenity went home. She isn't feeling well." The teacher told her it was ok, and Tea left again.
She sighed as she entered her own class. Everybody, even Kaiba, was watching at her, waiting for what she had to say. "Mai is taking Serenity home. I'm sorry to say this, Joey, but she wasn't looking very well," she added.
Kaiba looked shocked, maybe even worried, but it went unnoticed by most of them. Tea, because she was standing in front of the class, did see it, and a thought formed inside her mind. 'Could he be...? No, he can't be, can he? No, not with Serenity. He probably just feels guilty, that's all.'
Kaiba tried to tell himself the same thing. 'Why am I so shocked about this? Why do I even care about how she is? It's probably just a misplaced feeling of guilt, that's all.' But he couldn't shake off this strange feeling he had also felt when Mokuba was captured by Noa. Worry...
Mai put Serenity in the front seat of her car and sat behind the steering wheel. She looked at the poor girl beside her and sighed. 'Why must it be Serenity? Things haven't been going well for her lately already, and now this.'
She drove to Serenity's house, hoping her father would be home to take care of her. Unbeknownst to Mai, Serenity was thinking the exactly opposite. 'Please, don't let him be home yet. I don't want to be left alone with him.'
When they arrived, Mai helped Serenity get to the door, and she rung the bell. One tear dropped from Serenity's eye unseen as she heard someone opening the door. "Mr Wheeler, I'm so glad you're home," she heard Mai say. "Serenity has been beaten by the school thugs, and she's not well, so I brought her home."
"Thank you very much, Mai. Hand her over to me, I'll take care of her, then you can get back to school."
Serenity felt herself being handed over to her father, while he was thanking Mai over and over, but in this state, there was nothing she could do.
Her father closed the door and kept standing there, with hid daughter in his arms, until he heard Mai's car pull off. When the sound had disappeared, he dropped Serenity on the ground.
"The school thugs, huh?" he asked her coldly.
"Really, I didn't do anything this time," Serenity pleaded, her voice barely above a whisper. "I told no one..."
"You'd better not," he said, his voice filled with hate. Then she noticed he didn't seem drunk. "I'm going away for the weekend. I don't want you to get out of the house. I already bought enough food to last trough the weekend. Have fun," he said, giving her one vicious kick as he walked out of the door, a bag in his hand.
With her last power, Serenity crawled over to her room and grabbed the Square. As she put the two cards in it, she finally lost consciousness, not able to stay up any longer.
Lass: That's it for this chappie! I hope I'll see you next time!
Mokuba: And, for the (probably) very few of you who are reading this...
Serenity: Review!!!!
Serenity: She does not own Yu-Gi-Oh, but the plot of this story is hers!
Mokuba: On with the story. I think it's sad, though, that no one reads this...
Serenity entered her maths class, sitting down behind the table in the very back of the classroom. 'Why does Yami want to talk to me? Could it be because of yesterday?'
Just then, class started and she had to turn all of her attention to the teacher, meanwhile scribbling down notes.
Inside another class, lessons hadn't started yet. The teacher was very late, and all of the students were talking to each other. You can probably guess whose class it is already...
"So, when I finished off his last monster, his life points were brought down to zero. He almost started to weep. Can you imagine?" Joey asked his friends. He had just told his friends about some match he had won. "When he gave me his strongest card, he really broke down. It was completely ridiculous! The boy was older than my sister, and he was crying like a baby!"
"Of what you told us he was pretty attached to that card, wasn't he? What would you do if you had just lost your Red Eyes to some stranger who was humiliating you all the time you were duelling, while duelling is your whole life?" Yugi asked friendly.
Joey's eyes drifted downwards. "Ok, you're right. I probably was much too hard on him, wasn't I?" All of his friends nodded slowly, all of them feeling a little sorry for the boy.
As they continued about duelling, Yugi spotted Kaiba sitting in a corner of the room, typing away on his laptop. He decided to be nice to him, and walked to him. "Hi there, Kaiba! How are you today?" he asked in his high- pitched voice.
"I'm fine, Yugi, just fine," he answered (A/N: he was in a good mood today, remember?), before returning to his computer.
Yugi didn't know exactly what to do now, but then the others walked over to him, seemingly wanting to ask him something, so he walked in their direction.
At the same time, another boy out of their class, who they didn't know that well, walked over to them. He surprised them all with is question, even Kaiba, to who they were close enough to hear (A/N: Of course I want him to hear this. It's so much fun make him!).
"Joey, could you tell your sister I'm ready for my rematch?" They were all looking at him clueless, except for Kaiba, who hid it behind his screen.
"Rematch of what, what do you mean?" Joey asked.
"I mean the Duel Monsters rematch she promised me," he answered.
"Duel Monsters? Serenity plays Duel Monsters?" Joey didn't understand it at all, and neither did the rest of them.
"Yeah, quite a while, I believe. Didn't you know?"
"I hadn't got the faintest idea... So, she won?" he asked, now eager to know anything about it.
"Yeah, she really kicks butt. I've heard she never lost a duel before."
"So, do you miss your rarest card a lot?" Joey asked teasingly. Mai shot him a warning glare, but he didn't pay attention to it.
"Well, that's the strange thing of your sister's duelling," the boy answered. "She agrees to duel, but only according to her rule; the loser hasn't got to give her his rarest card, but she picks one. Of all of her duels I've seen, she never picked the rarest card. She usually picks weak cards, or cards her opponent isn't much attached to anyways. So no one ever feels too bad about losing to her anyway. She did agree to give me a chance to win my Koumori Dragon back, though."
"Your Koumori Dragon? She picked your Koumori Dragon? You hated that card, and it's weak! Why did she pick that one?" Joey was completely surprised by this story.
"As I told you before, she picks weak cards and cards her opponent isn't much attached to anyways. Well, in my case, she couldn't have picked a better one. I have to admit I was very surprised when she managed to beat me, mainly with her Kuriboh and her Dark Magician Girl, and even more when she decided to take my Koumori Dragon."
Before Joey or any of the others could say something else the teacher finally entered the noisy classroom. "All right, class; get your books out of your bags! This Friday, we have a lot of catching up to do," he said, but he was interrupted by the class, who was really not happy about that. He was the one who was late, not them! But they had to work anyways, so they just grumbled a bit and did what the teacher asked them, though only half heartedly.
They were all still thinking about what their classmate had just told them. None of them even had any idea Serenity was duelling, let alone winning every duel.
Kaiba had to admit that he did get a little respect for the younger Wheeler now. He knew the boy they had just talked to wasn't that bad of a duellist, and winning with the kind of weak cards he had just talked about...
The bell rung, as a sign the break had started now. Serenity remembered Yami asking her to meet him now, but he hadn't said where he would be. So she went off in the hall to look for him.
It was very crowded, and Serenity hated it. Then a path was made in the hallway. She took a look to where the path had come from.
Serenity pushed herself to the wall too when she saw the school bullies coming her way, their faces grinning and looking evilly, but it wasn't needed. They didn't even give her a second look. It seemed like they were going somewhere. Or searching for someone...
Not wanting anyone to get hurt, Serenity silently followed them, careful not to be seen by any of the members.
She wasn't surprised they were walking to the younger part of the school. An evil chuckle of the leader told her they had found their target. And indeed, they changed directions.
Serenity gasped shocked. 'Mokuba!'
Their target was indeed the small boy, who was sitting alone on a bench, as his friend just walked away. Then, he noticed the boys coming towards him. He seemed frightened, which wasn't so strange if you knew these bullies had managed to get some students in the hospital, or at least almost.
When they kept coming closer, Mokuba's eyes widened. He stood up and was about to take a run for it. But at that time, it was already too late.
One of the boys grabbed his wrist to prevent him from running, while the others started throwing insults at him, laughing at his frightened expression. None of his classmates helped him, afraid of what the older boys would do.
Mokuba got small tears in his eyes as he knew no one would help him with this.
"Big brother ain't gonna help ya now, little termite! Ya're so doomed!" the voice of the leader reached his ears. He started to struggle to get free, doing the only thing he could.
Then, his leg hit the leader, harder than he had expected from such a small boy. His face pulled into a raging expression, his fist hit the boy hard. The other members of the gang were laughing as his fist connected for the second time, while Mokuba lost all hope. But then, he heard something...
"Hey, you there! Stop this nonsense immediately!" As the leader turned around, he saw who the voice had come from. Wheeler's sister, defending Kaiba's brother. How ironical...
"And why should I stop at your command?" he asked slyly. Mokuba was relieved the beating had stopped, for now at least.
"You'd better pick someone your own size. Or are you just too wimpy to fight a real fight?"
His face got enraged again. How dared this girl challenge his superiority? She should be shaking with fear now, but instead, she just kept throwing insults at his head, continually repeating how much of a loser he was if he couldn't even beat someone his own size.
"After her," he growled at the rest of the gang, completely forgetting Mokuba. 'Serenity, what are you doing?' he screamed inside his mind.
The gang was now standing in a circle around Serenity, all of them looking very pissed off. Instead of shivering with fear now, as they had hoped she would do, she just continued insulting them, calling them weaklings.
"I thought you were more of a man than this. Attacking small children instead of just fighting someone your own size! How low can you go?"
That was when one of them snapped, lunging towards her. She stepped aside and made him trip, causing him to stumble into one of his mates.
All of her fighting techniques were needed to defend her now, as they all attacked her. And even that wasn't enough to avoid being hit. When one of their fists connected with a bruise her father had recently gave her, she winced in pain, but continued fighting, happy Mokuba wasn't the target of their rage anymore.
Mokuba saw them fighting now, and was desperate in search of something that could help the poor girl in the middle of this all. "Mokuba," a stern voice asked from behind him. When Mokuba turned to find his brother behind him, his face lightened with relief.
"One of your classmates came running to me telling me you were attacked by those jerks. What happened?" Mokuba's face became serious again when he was reminded of the bullies, and then turned into a pleading expression. "Please help her, Seto," he said, pointing to the fighting group behind him. He couldn't see Serenity, and he was very worried about the girl who saved him.
Kaiba didn't ask anything now, he just walked over to them. "Hey!" he said commanding. The guys stopped beating... whoever it was and turned to him. Their faces turned from angry to frightened as they saw the tall CEO standing there. He was the only one in the whole school they were afraid of.
That was the reason they had attacked Mokuba at first. It was some kind of a deed to show him they weren't afraid of him. Well, they were, and as he stood in front of them, they decided not to take any risks and run for it, which left only Serenity leaning against the wall, and some guy on the floor who she managed to knock out.
Kaiba then turned to Mokuba, not even taking a second look at Serenity, though he was very worried about the girl. He had to keep up his cold mask.
"Now tell me what happened here," he said to Mokuba.
Mokuba spat out the whole story, meanwhile he was looking worried at Serenity. There were no bruises or scratches visible. Kaiba noticed it too. 'She has to be hit a few times, but there's nothing to see.'
He was surprised to hear what she had done for his brother, but he was even more surprised when he saw the member of the gang she had knocked down still wasn't back to consciousness. 'She probably hit him very hard. I sure got to know some pretty surprising things about her today.'
She looked down at the stare of the two boys. "I guess I'd better leave," she muttered, as she suited the action to the word. She almost froze when she heard Kaiba's voice behind her.
"Thanks," he whispered, hoping she hadn't heard it. She had, but, at the tone of his voice, she acted as if she hadn't. Kaiba thanking someone was very rare, and probably very hard for him to do.
As the girl disappeared out of sight, Kaiba sighed in relief. This Wheeler girl made him feel so strange lately...
He didn't like the feeling, so he decided to avoid her as much as possible. His train of thoughts was interrupted at the sound of the school bell, a sign for him to get to his class. "Have a nice rest of the day, Mokuba," he said as he ruffled the boy's hair.
His little brother watched him disappear from sight too. He had been very surprised as he heard his brother thanking Serenity. He hadn't done that for many years, at least, not this sincerely. 'This sure is a strange day,' he thought, as he walked to his class.
Serenity walked to the ladies' room and got in, ignoring the sound of the bell. Then, she collapsed. She was lying on the floor, and she could impossibly get back up again. Everything hurt, and she got the body paint off the places where she was hit. At those spots, blue and red skin was seen.
Serenity heard the door open, but she didn't have the strength to get back up. "Serenity!" She recognized Mai's voice. "Here you are! Tea and I have been looking everywhere for you."
Just then Mai noticed Serenity wasn't moving. "Serenity?" she said as she walked over to her. When she looked into the girl's face, she saw Serenity was barely conscious. Mai put her arm around her and picked Serenity up.
The story had already been told around whole Domino High, and Mai and Tea were worried about Serenity. They had decided to go and look for her, but the teacher of Serenity's class had told them she hadn't shown up yet. The administrator had told them Serenity was still at school, so they had started searching her.
Mai saw Tea and called her. "Tea, I found her! Over here!" Tea immediately came, and gasped as she saw Serenity.
"Mai, you'd better take her home. She isn't looking good at all. I'll warn the teachers." Tea said, acting immediately. Mai nodded, and took off to the door.
Tea first walked to Serenity's class. An "enter" was heard as she knocked on the door. Tea walked to the teacher. "Serenity went home. She isn't feeling well." The teacher told her it was ok, and Tea left again.
She sighed as she entered her own class. Everybody, even Kaiba, was watching at her, waiting for what she had to say. "Mai is taking Serenity home. I'm sorry to say this, Joey, but she wasn't looking very well," she added.
Kaiba looked shocked, maybe even worried, but it went unnoticed by most of them. Tea, because she was standing in front of the class, did see it, and a thought formed inside her mind. 'Could he be...? No, he can't be, can he? No, not with Serenity. He probably just feels guilty, that's all.'
Kaiba tried to tell himself the same thing. 'Why am I so shocked about this? Why do I even care about how she is? It's probably just a misplaced feeling of guilt, that's all.' But he couldn't shake off this strange feeling he had also felt when Mokuba was captured by Noa. Worry...
Mai put Serenity in the front seat of her car and sat behind the steering wheel. She looked at the poor girl beside her and sighed. 'Why must it be Serenity? Things haven't been going well for her lately already, and now this.'
She drove to Serenity's house, hoping her father would be home to take care of her. Unbeknownst to Mai, Serenity was thinking the exactly opposite. 'Please, don't let him be home yet. I don't want to be left alone with him.'
When they arrived, Mai helped Serenity get to the door, and she rung the bell. One tear dropped from Serenity's eye unseen as she heard someone opening the door. "Mr Wheeler, I'm so glad you're home," she heard Mai say. "Serenity has been beaten by the school thugs, and she's not well, so I brought her home."
"Thank you very much, Mai. Hand her over to me, I'll take care of her, then you can get back to school."
Serenity felt herself being handed over to her father, while he was thanking Mai over and over, but in this state, there was nothing she could do.
Her father closed the door and kept standing there, with hid daughter in his arms, until he heard Mai's car pull off. When the sound had disappeared, he dropped Serenity on the ground.
"The school thugs, huh?" he asked her coldly.
"Really, I didn't do anything this time," Serenity pleaded, her voice barely above a whisper. "I told no one..."
"You'd better not," he said, his voice filled with hate. Then she noticed he didn't seem drunk. "I'm going away for the weekend. I don't want you to get out of the house. I already bought enough food to last trough the weekend. Have fun," he said, giving her one vicious kick as he walked out of the door, a bag in his hand.
With her last power, Serenity crawled over to her room and grabbed the Square. As she put the two cards in it, she finally lost consciousness, not able to stay up any longer.
Lass: That's it for this chappie! I hope I'll see you next time!
Mokuba: And, for the (probably) very few of you who are reading this...
Serenity: Review!!!!