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Thank you to everyone who has reviewed so far! Just to let you know, this chapter won't really be focusing on Seto X Serenity, so I'm sorry if you're a little disspointed.

Tea was bored out of her mind, something that didn't happen that often. In fact, rarely ever. But now, as she sat it a corner next to her gloomy husband, watching her friends talk together at the far end of the room, she was bored.

Tea supposed that she could have left Kaiba there; it's not like he would have minded. But still, Tea somehow felt guilty about dragging him here. She had practically forced him to come, and now he didn't do anything other than scowl at people passing by. It probably would have been better if he hadn't come, but now Tea had to suffer the consequences.

Tea looked longingly at her friends, until she saw Joey and his sister walking towards them. 'At last,' Tea thought to herself. 'Someone noticed that I existed.'

"Hi Tea," said the blonde man. "Kaiba." Seto nodded curtly, which surprised Tea. Her husband was never one to be polite to Joey.

"I assume you remember my sister?" Joey asked. Kaiba nodded again. Tea was taken aback: was he blushing?

"I'm Serenity. I've never had the chance to properly introduce myself, so I'm doing it now." She held out a hand and Kaiba took it.

Tea shook her head. She was more confused now then ever! What was going on with Seto? She attempted to push the thoughts from her mind and went back to talking with Joey.

'They think I'm so stupid, all of them," thought Marik as he glared at everyone. 'They don't realize that I see everything.' And indeed he did. He could notice tension from a mile away, so how come he hadn't noticed anything between his and Bakura's hikari's before tonight? 'Because I didn't want to.'

As Marik stood in a small corner, his eyes moved to the last place he'd seen Malik and Ryou go. Wondering whether Bakura knew, he focused his gaze on the albino. He looked just about as miserable as Marik himself, if that was humanly possible.

'When you think about it, we're not so different, him and me.' Marik thought. 'After all, we're both from Ancient Egypt and we both hate everyone in this room.' Still, the very thought of Marik sharing anything with that pathetic tomb robber was enough to make him kill himself.

Marik needed to somehow distract himself, so he began focusing on the doorway again, wondering how long it would be until he saw Malik again. A few minutes, maybe? An hour? Sometime tomorrow? Marik couldn't say for certain, and that's what bugged him most of all.

Marik decided that the best thing to do right now was try to sleep. Closing his eyes, he had nearly managed to doze off until a loud sound filled his ears. Opening one eye, he saw the stupid Duke Devlin turning on the radio and dancing to some song Marik would never be able to remember the name of. Closing his eyes again, Marik didn't even see Bakura until he was standing right in front of him.

Yami had to admit that his mood hadn't lifted all night. In fact, it seemed to dampen with each passing minute. He had wanted to talk to Tea all night. He had even excepted that he would probably have to do so in the presence of her idiotic husband. And now Joey had beaten him to it.

The pharaoh attempted to try and keep calm. It's not like Joey meant to ruin Yami's perfect moment. Joey didn't even like Tea as more then a friend. Although Joey didn't know it yet, Yami could see that Joey was completely in love with Mai. He had been for a long time, but obviously was to scared to confront his feelings.

'He is a mad fool to deny love,' Yami thought to himself, then stopped. After all, wasn't that what he'd been doing. Ever since he'd known Tea he'd had so many perfect opportunities to confess his undying love, but he never did. In fact, while contemplating this, Yami decided how to describe himself. The ancient pharaoh of Egypt, who had saved the world numerous times, was pathetic.

"Why are we doing this again?" asked Marik. It was obvious that he doubted Bakura's brilliant plan.

"We are doing this to confirm our suspicions," Bakura stated plainly. The blonde Egyptian stopped in his tracks.

"Maybe I don't want to confirm my suspicions."

"Are you telling me that you honestly have no interest in finding out whether your hikari is cheating on you?"

"Well..." Marik trailed off. His mind was all jumbled. In truth, he had no idea whether he wanted to know or not. In the dark, Marik thought he saw Bakura smirk, but he couldn't be sure. They were in the dark after all.

"I still don't see why we have to take them by surprise."

"God, sometimes I wonder how you nearly managed to take over the world. You have less of a brain then Joey Wheeler."

"I resent that!"

"Whatever, I think they're in here." Bakura pressed his ear up against the door, then turned towards the blob he thought was Marik.

"Are you ready?"

Marik didn't say anything, only made a strange noise. 'Oh my god! Did he just whimper?' Bakura took a deep breath, and the moment he turned the doorknob, Ryou's face flashed through his mind.