They both sat in complete silence, neither wanting to say the first word. Kaiba stared blankly at the wall dividing them from the driver and Joey watched his feet as if they were the only thing that existed in the world. He moved them up onto the seat beside Kaiba and leaned against the window, boredly watching the houses and trees pass by. Kaiba down at them distastefully and opened his mouth to say something but moved his eyes up Joey's body to his face and decided against it. Joey felt the eyes on him and met them. Kaiba held the gaze for a few seconds before looking down.

"I'm sorry," he said.

"And?" Joey put his feet back down and crossed his arms. Kaiba looked back up.

"Isn't that enough?" Joey dropped his arms.

"No. You know what I want."

"An explanation." A statement, not a question. Joey nodded in confirmation and leaned over so he wouldn't even miss one word of it.

At Tristan's house

' Where is everyone? I thought I told them to meet me here...' he thought as he let Serenity inside. The party had already been set up but as they entered the room, nobody jumped up to yell surprise or greet them. Tristan looked at his watch.

"Oh Tristan, this is so beautiful. Did you do this yourself?" Serenity exclaimed looking around the room at all the decorations. Tristan shrugged.

"I wish I could say I did but..."

"Do you like it?" Duke came out of the kitchen. They looked at him uncomfortably and Serenity seemed to get closer to Tristan a little.

"Why don't you go see if everything's all set up in the kitchen?" Tristan said to her. She looked at him a minute and then disappeared into the kitchen. Tristan grabbed Duke's arm and pulled him toward the front door. "What are you doing here?" he whispered angrily.

"Saying good-bye to a friend. I was invited," Duke said acting innocent.

"That was before you decided to... Duke. I want you to leave."

"But I just..."

"Well that's not good enough!" Joey's shouts were heard from outside. Their eyes shot to the front windows.

"You didn't let me finish," Kaiba's voice followed.

"I saw where that was going and believe me, you're finished." The front door opened and Joey came inside. "Hey guys, what's up?" Serenity, hearing her brother's voice, rushed out of the kitchen, smiling, as usual.

"Joey!" she hugged him.

"Hey sis. How do you like your party?"

"I still can't believe you guys put this together without me knowing. When did you have time?" she replied her excitement returning.

"For you? We made time. Right Tristan?" Joey looked at Tristan and Duke, ignoring the fact that Kaiba had followed him in. Tristan, still trying to figure out which was worse, Duke or Kaiba...just nodded weakly. Duke pat him on the back.

"Absolutely," he said cheerfully. Tristan watched him walk into the kitchen but couldn't find the motivation to object.

"So where are the rest of the guys?"

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"Are you sure that guy said to go this way? We've been walking forever," Yugi complained.

"Yeah. I'm positive," Tea responded.

"We're late for Serenity's part," Yugi pointed out looking at his watch.

"We should call Tristan and let him know what's going on," Yami suggested.

"Good idea." Tea pulled out her cell phone. "Awe, I don't believe this. There's no service out here," she said annoyed.

"That's odd," Yami said.

"We could go back and use the pay phone," Yugi said trying to help.

"That's too far back. Maybe there's another one up here." Tea answered. "When we find that boy, he's in for it." She looked at her phone again. "Oh cool! I got service now!" She stopped and quickly dialed the number. She was surprised when Duke answered the phone.

"Taylor residence," he said.

"Where's Tristan?" she replied angrily.

"He's around. Why? Don't you want to talk to me?"

"No. Put Tristan on."

"He's busy entertaining. What can I help you with?" Tea got annoyed and handed the phone to Yugi, taking a few steps forward away from them. Yugi looked at the phone confused and then put it to his ear.

"Hello?" he said meekly.

"Yugi? I don't believe this." He hung up.