"My heart is in my hands, my head is in the clouds,
my feet have left the ground, my life is turning around and round…"

I'm going to change names for the next chapter. Tea will be called Joey, Kaiba's now called Pacey and Yugi's name is Dawson!

"And every voice inside my head is telling me to run like mad,
oh bows and arrows, stars and sunsets…"

I was just joking. I've been watching the first episodes of Dawson's Creek and it reminds me of my own story, but… however! Chapter 7 is on!

"Every heartbeat, every kiss just makes me wonder what all this is,
suits of amour, hearts and arrows…"

Chapter 7 - Letting Go

Kaiba suppressed a yawn and blinked at the computer screen. His eyes felt sour and the lids heavy, even though he was used to nights with few sleep. But this time it was no wonder he felt totally exhausted. He had done a lot of thinking when he had massive time to do so while he was flying around in the sky in his chopper till late after midnight. The weather was terrible and the sky pitch black, not a single beam of moonlight was to be seen, but Seto was glad about it.

No one knew he was all above them. He had often done that when he was feeling bad. Often something like that had happened when Mokuba was growing to a teenager and Seto had his hands full with parenting as well as being CEO of Kaiba Corporation. Mokuba had been an awful teenager; gladly he was going to fulfill his twentieth year of life soon. He was grown up and if he set all the things right in his life, other than his older brother, Mokuba could call himself happy to have an own family some time in future.

Thinking about Mokuba's future made Kaiba almost flinch and lose control of the chopper but it made him also realize that something like the kiss with Serenity mustn't happen ever again. It was a moral question and even though Seto couldn't get the feeling of her lips on his out of his system at the moment, soon it would fade and finally go away. It had to, no matter what it would take him. It was ridiculous that this had happened at all.

Kaiba had never really cared about women, hadn't had the time to. A few girls and women had been quite exciting but exhausting as well and he meant mentally. So he had been always glad sharing Mokuba's experiences of falling in love, although soon it turned out to become unhealthy for the teen. That was the time when he dated two girls at the same time. But Seto never complained. Mokuba was young and he should live his life with anything nice and beautiful that was passing him by on his way. That included finally Serenity.

Serenity was Mokuba's first serious relationship in a long time and certainly that had to mean something special. If only Kaiba could just snap with his fingers and she was out of his mind, his dreams and his heart – as few as he liked to admit the latter. The whole mess had caused him an awful night and his head started to pain at the temples. He had decided not to fly back home, instead landing the chopper at Kaiba Corp. and staying the night in the office.

Bad idea. Kaiba hadn't slept that much because of a steady but too high heart rate and a paining body from all kinds of emotions he usually suppressed. Strangely suppressing them didn't function last night. So about four in the morning he finally fell asleep, if you could call it sleep, being awake every half hour because of dreams including family members and women. The weirdest dream had been about his mum and dad. Every thought pained remembering them. He denied every memory but still, he had some treasured ones.

In the dream Mokuba wasn't born yet but Seto's mum had been pregnant. The little seven-year-old was asking the woman about the baby and she had to promise the kid that she would always love him as much as the baby. Then she told Seto that when the baby boy is here and will grow older with his big brother, he would need him even more than his parents. Seto had asked why and his mum explained to him, the older sibling was the pride of any younger sibling's life and with that came the happiness, joy and fun in his life. Seto meanwhile was having a big grin on his cute face.

Seto yawned again and forced his mind to stop thinking of the dream. That had been the most awful one but the other ones weren't better. Some of them were ridiculous like three little kids clinging to him and calling him 'uncle Seto' while Serenity was walking around their mansion with yet another huge belly. Some of them were painful like Mokuba yelling at Seto that he wasn't his brother anymore and that he would never forgive him. One dream was repeating the latest events, exact meaning: their kiss. Oh and finally, yet another bad dream had been when Seto saw how Mokuba was crying into Joey Wheeler's chest about his big brother's betrayal. Then Mokuba wished Joey to be his big brother and they were happily smiling. Ridiculous and weird.

Kaiba knew he should not think about his dreams but what else was there to think about? He wasn't able to concentrate on his work and had therefore even cancelled two of his appointments. How pathetic! He had needed to be woken by his secretary coming in his office, finding the sleeping CEO on his sofa in the same clothes as yesterday. Thankful for the en suite bathroom next to his office he could at least save his whole appearance to a slight extend. He had drunken three big cups of dark oily black coffee so far and his stomach grumbled when suddenly the phone rang.

"Yes?" He hissed in his usual sharp tone but in a hoarse voice.

"Mr. Kaiba, there is once again a certain Ms. Gardner on the line, wishing to talk to you." The receptionist informed politely as ever.

"I don't have time." And with that he slammed the phone back down.

This had been Tea's second try to talk to Kaiba and once more he refused talking with her. Why should he? He just wanted to be left alone. This whole life seemed suddenly even more complicated than it already was. Thanks to women. Who needed them? Kaiba had to sort this out and really soon. With Serenity there were two options. Option one was easy. He could just ignore her. Option two was making sense. He could talk to her and make sure she was convinced about their mistake. Quite emotional. He would start with Tea. There was only one option left with her.

Seto would need to talk to Tea. Maybe Serenity was even right and if he explained Tea his points, she would finally give up on him. He only wished Serenity was right and he wasn't making a fool out of himself. But what greater fool could he be than he already was? No running away anymore. He needed to talk to Gardner.


Yugi wiped along the counter in the Game Shop. It was boring. The whole morning no one had really shown up. Then Yugi went for lunch and when he came back there was just one guy waiting but he didn't buy anything. Whole eight hours Yugi spent in this shop day in and day out and nothing exciting happened. Sometimes he wished back the times when he used to save the world together with Yami. At least Tea had loved his other soul at that time.

How far had Yugi come? The unbeaten Duel Monsters champion was having the most boring life with the lowest of the low life jobs and not even his family was at his side. His grandfather was with Dr. Hawkins in Malaysia while Yugi's mother had moved to another town. Yugi was left with the Game Shop. No wonder Tea preferred Kaiba to him. Seto Kaiba wasn't a champion anymore and a guy with no friends but he still was leading a huge company as the president which was something great he had achieved on his own. He was rich, wealthy, could buy anything, diamonds for Tea, flowers along the paths she was going…

Except that Kaiba didn't want her. Yugi wanted her but she had spent a night with Seto Kaiba. Oh you loyal high priest, you! Yugi rolled his eyes at his own thought while he was cleaning the shop after he had closed it. He had been talking once again with Joey last night after the football game but Yugi guessed that had had given his friend one beer too much because he was speaking of confessions. Confessions of love.

Joey was convinced that Yugi had to confess his feelings for Tea and the ball was on her side of the field afterwards. Yugi made a mental note not to talk to Joey ever again about serious things after a game of football on TV. But maybe Joey was right. If Yugi really told her that he had feelings for her, then she could make a decision. If only Yugi could definite his own feelings towards her. He couldn't say he had fallen for her. Was he in love? He cared about her an awful lot. That was sure. He would do anything for her if she asked him to and even if not. He wanted to be with her twenty-four hours a day. He wanted to have her around when he was happy or even sad. He wanted to plan things with her. He wanted to take her in his arms and kiss her head while they were watching silly movies on TV. He wanted to share his meals with her and carry her bags when she was shopping. He wanted to see her dance and maybe, just maybe, he would learn to dance as well, so they were able to dance together. He would want to make love to her. Yes, in dedication to her body he wanted to show her how much he loved her.

There it was. He loved her. It made sense. Everything made sense. Yugi loved Tea. How could he not see that? He wanted to share his whole life with her and in order to achieve that, he had to tell her that he loved her. Either she loved him back or she rejected him. He couldn't keep it inside anymore and he would at least fight. He had always done that. Ironically Kaiba had somehow always been part in Yugi's fights. This time they were not on the same side. Yugi would win this, he was sure. He packed away his cleaning items and ran upstairs to take a quick shower before he would go to Tea and make his confession.


Tea couldn't help her anger inside. During lunch break she had tried to get Kaiba on the line but she got told he had a conference. After work she had tried once more and got told that he simply had no time. This was bad, really bad. She needed to control her anger and stopped at the fast food restaurant for an early dinner. Gladly she had to attend her dancing course tomorrow. That would burn calories.

Arriving at home the woman immediately stepped under the shower in need for refreshment. Why did damn Kaiba refuse talking to her? Was the great Seto Kaiba scared talking to a woman? Maybe she should just inject him two liters of vodka, so he was able to be human. Tea wrapped a towel around her brown-haired head and slipped into the bathrobe. On the way into her bedroom she passed by the stereo and switched it on before she got dressed into some comfortable clothes.

Tea sighed. Should she risk it once more and try to reach Kaiba? Or should she give up on her try to talk to him like humans do? Her decision had to be made another time because suddenly, the doorbell was ringing. Hopefully it wouldn't be Mai again. As much as Tea liked Mai as a friend but seeing her everyday wasn't doing good. She wondered how Joey did that, though, Joey was even worse.

Opening the door Tea's eyes widened in surprise - almost shock.

"I'm here to talk." The tall man said with his arms crossed and his usual blue-eyed glare.

"Well…" Tea still had a hard time trying to believe it but opened the door for him to step inside. "Then come in."

Walking into Tea's apartment he stopped abruptly and turned. She raised her eyebrows at his glare.

"You can take a seat if you want to."

"No, I'd rather stand." He replied.

"Well, I'd rather sit." And with that and a suddenly flash of danger in Tea's eyes she let herself fall down on one of the chairs in her kitchen. "I'm glad you finally decided to talk to me."

"I need to put some things straight."

"Well?" The woman waited for Kaiba to start but he hesitated. Serenity was right, he was just weird.

"I'm not in love with you." His first statement came quite surprisingly. Not the fact itself but the sudden choice of telling her that. "That night in Rainmen's I was in really bad mood because of someone, and I've tried to drown my sorrow in alcohol. Then suddenly there was you and add one and one. You know yourself how it ended. Anyway, it won't happen ever again. To me it was a mistake and nothing more. I'm in love with someone else."

Finishing his speech Kaiba gazed at Tea who was silent for a minute, then smiled. "Great. I'm happy to inform you that we have the same opinion in that case."

"We have?" Seto blinked and finally, sat down opposite Tea. So she didn't even want to be with him. Then why did she want to talk with him so desperately?

"Yes, we have. I'm not in love with you either and my story of how it could come that far between us is quite similar to yours. I was really down that night and drinking seemed a quite adequate solution to take my mind off some things. That's the only reason I invited you coming up here. I don't want it to happen again because I'm in love with someone else as well." She stated calmly.

"Then why the desperate try to talk to me?" Seto couldn't help asking in his need to know.

"Because I simply wanted to know why it could have come that far at all. And by the way I wanted to make sure that it stays between me and you. No one needs to know that." The dark haired woman explained friendly.

"So now you know why. We both were feeling quite down. That's it and I really don't see a reason why I should tell someone." Kaiba told the woman in that certain arrogant tone of his.

"You already did." She replied with an accusing glare.

"That's not true. I didn't tell anyone." He denied with force to his voice.

"You did. When you were leaving Rainmen's the other day and I was stopping you in need to talk, you didn't turn when you told me what bloody joke you and me is and that our spent night of fun had been a mistake in the first place. You didn't realize, Yugi heard what you were saying, did you?" Tea nearly hissed at the man opposite her who was shaking his head slowly.

"So he knows. Tell him to keep his mouth shut about it." He carelessly replied.

"I would if he cared about me." Mentioning it her mood went to sadness. "Since he knows about it, he's changed towards me, acts as if he doesn't care and spends even more time with Rebecca than he already has done before."

"Rebecca." Kaiba spat that name out like some kind of poison. He couldn't help Tea, didn't care about her anyway. But if Rebecca was a problem to her, it could only mean Tea was in love with Yugi. Maybe he could use that fact later.

"You don't like her, do you?" The blue-eyed woman asked.

"No, my brother was in love with her for more than three years but she never even looked at him twice and he could have really any damn girl in the world but he wanted Rebecca Hawkins. You see, all she cares about is Yugi." Kaiba suppressed a snort.

"Well, think positive, Kaiba. Now your brother's with Serenity and that's even better than a blond whining witch." Always a friend she tried to lighten up at least Kaiba's mood but the raised unbelieving eyebrow of him gave her doubts. "Aren't you okay with Mokuba dating Serenity?"

"Of course I am." He replied quite loudly and sent his flat palm on the table.

"Okay." She gazed shocked but tried not to show.

"Well, are we done now?" Kaiba asked impatiently.

"Not yet. I've got one more question to you." Nervously Tea was looking around in search for words to express what she needed to know.

"What now? I can't help you with Yugi. If he only cares about that stupid brat of a girl, I can't help it. I wish I could." He raised an eyebrow at the big blue confused eyes of Tea.

"That's not what I wanted to know. There's something else about our night together. I… well… I can't remember exactly every detail and…" She paused seeing Kaiba's slightly shocked expression of fear what details she might want to remember still. She sighed inwardly. "Did we protect? That's what I want to know! Have we used any kind of protection?"

Being the slightly mean guy Seto was he couldn't help his lopsided smirk. "You mean, you can't remember?" He asked calmly and in a deep low voice that Tea shivered. But she nodded truthfully. His smirk grew and with a traditional 'hmph!' he finally replied with a glare and in an arrogant tone. "Of course we did. How stupid do you think I am? I wouldn't want to pay for a brat!"

Even though Tea could be slightly mad at him for the last statement she couldn't help feeling glad and clutched both of her hands to her chest. "Gladly." She exclaimed and smiled.

"Are we done now?" He asked lazily and smirked. "I really had a bad night and feel dead-tired."

Tea was about to answer his question when her doorbell rang once more and her brows furrowed in surprise. She headed for the door when Kaiba rolled his eyes in impatience and stood up. Approaching the front door Tea slowly opened it and was surprised to find Yugi waiting outside.

"Hi Tea." He said and his mouth slowly moved to a smile until Kaiba came into view and Yugi's expression immediately darkened. "Kaiba." He almost growled.

"Oh happy day." The tall brown haired stated sarcastically in a dull tone.

"Yugi, come in and take a seat." Tea held the door open for him to step inside but Yugi stood like frozen in the doorway while Kaiba was making his way to leave.

"Don't worry, Yugi, I'm leaving." The blue-eyed man said and moved until he was standing in front of the smaller guy.

"You better do." The other growled at him threateningly and glared. Neither Tea, nor Kaiba had ever seen Yugi like that. He seemed totally out of himself.

"What's your problem, Yugi?" Kaiba glared back down at him and crossed his arms. He was wondering if this was finally Wheeler's influence. Yugi's behavior had seen better days.

"You are my problem, Kaiba. Get the hell out of here and leave Tea alone!" The smaller guy himself didn't even know what made him talk like that. He had never felt so angry in his whole life before. Who did Kaiba think he was? Tea belonged to Yugi and not to that arrogant asshole of a second best duelist. "You'll always be second best!"

"Watch out what you're saying!" Kaiba hissed trying to control himself. Yugi was going too far now for his taste.

"Are you threatening me?" The other one shot back immediately.

"And if I did!" Slowly the words rolled down Kaiba's tongue and held the most arrogant tone ever in them as the tall brown haired was in need to show his domination.

But it was too late and even Kaiba couldn't think that quickly. In no time Yugi had grabbed him by his collar and pushed him against the nearest wall with such force that the taller man could see stars for quite a while. Yugi growled and put higher pressure to his grip while Kaiba's head was hanging low, not giving away his expression. The Duel Monsters champion slowly started to have regrets and was afraid he might have seriously hurt the CEO before suddenly he made out a weird noise from the other man. Realizing the chuckle of the man in his grip, Yugi's violet eyes narrowed again.

"What are you laughing, Kaiba?"

Lifting his head the blue-eyed man was indeed chuckling. "You're funny, Yugi. Seems like I am the one laughing now. Look at you, how far you've come. The praising friend to everyone you once have been, talking about trust and support, calling me cruel and complaining about hatred in my soul, but look at you and how pathetic you are right now. How far is it with your trust in Tea? Or even me? How far do you support your friends? That far that you're not able to care what they want to tell you? That far that you need to beat me up? It's ridiculous, really. But love makes you do crazy things, huh?" Kaiba put on his trademark smirk.

During Kaiba's speech Yugi had loosened the grip on the taller man but glared up at him. "Says the one who doesn't even know love exists!"

"Stop now!" The voice of Tea suddenly rang in both of their ears. "Yugi, let go of Kaiba. He hasn't done anything, except for talking to me. So why are you freaking out completely now? Are you gone insane? Last I remember you couldn't care less about what happened between me and him. Now you're pulling an act like this. I can't believe it. Nice friend you are!" Tea shook her head being confused like never before.

Yugi, who had actually let go of Kaiba, gazed with sad eyes at the woman. "Tea, I didn't mean it."

"No, Yugi, stop it. Save your words for later, I need to think right now. I'd be glad if you leave my apartment now." Her look was as sad as Yugi's but she meant every word. "Please. I'm confused and need to think. I'm sorry, Yugi, but this has been too much for me at the moment."

Not believing his ears Yugi stared at his friend for a while until his head suddenly sank and he turned to leave without another word.

"You too, Kaiba." She said low.

"You don't have to tell me twice." He snapped and turned to walk out. But he stopped, not turning to look at her. "He loves you. I hope it was enough of a favor to do for you when I haven't fought back. Next time I won't be that nice." And with that he finally went and left Tea staring after him.


"What are you doing?" Rebecca asked the tall raven haired man gazing into his own refrigerator.

Mokuba drove to Rebecca after work and picked her up before they made their way to the Kaiba mansion where he gave the blonde a short tour of the house. She was impressed but typical Rebecca she had already some ideas of how to change it. Typical Mokuba was to go in search for something to eat. He was damn hungry and loved to prove himself in his cooking skills.

"I will prepare dinner." He muttered and the blonde raised an eyebrow.

The girl lifted herself up on the counter and sat down there, slightly leaning back and watching Mokuba. Her eyes wandered across his broad back dressed in a black shirt that hung loosely from out of his blue jeans. His long black hair he had tied into a ponytail but reaching out with her slim fingers, Rebecca pulled it loose.

"Hey, you cheeky chick." The young man turned and sent his deadly grin to which all the girl had fallen for him in high school. "What are you doing?"

Rebecca grinned as well, not replying to him. She knew as well how much of an effect she was having on boys and wasn't wondering when Mokuka's eyes scanned the area beneath her short school skirt before he locked eyes with her. His arms snaked around the girl's body and he pulled them closer until they were face to face.

"I like your hair better this way." Finally she answered and ran her hands through the long dark locks. He was deadly.

Although Mokuba has stayed the night with Rebecca, they didn't do anything more than kissing. After all the girl was just about sixteen and she had refused to any offer so far. Even the one of the most famous and handsome guy in Domino, who had spent the night next to her. His reaction had amazed her when she asked him not to go any further than to kiss. With a smile he told her that it was okay.

"Oh god, help me…" He mumbled and started to kiss below her jawbone down to her neck and across her key bone which sent shivers down her spine. Ever so softly his hands brushed along her arms and to her back while he kept kissing her neck.

Rebecca couldn't help closing her eyes and entangled her fingers in Mokuba's black hair. She loved his smell which probably was an expensive brand of eau de toilette and inhaled the scent. Slowly but steadily she was falling for him and cursed herself for not doing earlier. However, now could be the perfect time, the perfect age. Lettings her hands run across his broad shoulders she smiled. He was perfect for her.

"Mokuba?"

"Hm?" His eyes darted upwards to lock with hers.

"I think I'm falling in love with you."


This had been an awful day. Kaiba sat in his limousine on his way home and tried to keep his eyes open. Dead tired he thought about what hell of a day he had gone through. At first his night had been sleepless on the sofa in his office. Then he couldn't take his mind off Serenity and last but not least he had finally told Tea his opinion. Gladly she wasn't in love with him.

Tea was obviously in love with Yugi and the other way round. It was no wonder that Yugi was mad at Kaiba but his fit of rage hadn't made the day any better. If Kaiba hadn't his own head full with problems, he would have taught Yugi respect. But in his current condition the tall dark haired was just glad he was finally arriving at home. All he wanted to do right now was to have a quick shower and fall into bed, needing rest.

The limousine stopped and Seto climbed out before he was making his way to the front porch only to recognize a familiar figure standing there and gazing at him with an unreadable expression in her warm hazel eyes. This was just what he was missing. He couldn't cope with her right now and just sent a warning glare at the small woman ahead.

"Isn't Mokuba at home?" Kaiba asked nonchalantly and passed her by.

"I haven't rung the bell so far." Serenity replied and tried to control her heart beat which was suddenly pounding like hell. "I've just arrived here."

Kaiba just unlocked the door and walked inside, leaving the door open for her to follow. Carefully she stepped inside and watched the tall man taking off his coat.

"What?" He snapped at her glaring.

"Have you seen your brother today?" Nervously fiddling with her fingers the young woman looked away from his cold blue-eyed gaze. "You said he's going to call me but he didn't."

"That's what he told me. Anything else, ask him. I haven't seen him today." Kaiba didn't look at her while he was looking like usual through his mail.

Serenity actually didn't know where to look for Mokuba. She could start in his room but the sudden noise of laughter coming from out of the kitchen stopped her. Questioningly she looked up at Kaiba who was sending a wondering glare in the direction the laughter seemed to come from. Walking straight to the noise he was wondering as well as the woman following him. The noise sounded like laughter but not just any laughter, but the laughter of a girl.

Seto stopped in front of the kitchen's door and pushed it open. His blue eyes widened when he saw his brother in a lip lock with Rebecca Hawkins.

"Oh hi Seto…" Mokuba grinned with the girl in front of him sitting on the counter.

"What are you doing?" The older brother growled in a deep voice and the younger one furrowed his brows.

Seto sent an almost hateful glare at both of them. Both! Mokuba didn't get it why suddenly his brother had a problem with him having a girl in the house. He hadn't seen Serenity so far but slowly he realized the small figure behind his older brother. Mokuba's grin faded and his eyes widened.

"Have you lost all common sense?" With a furious glare Seto angrily started to yell at his sibling who had actually no clue what was happening right now. "How much of a moron are you?"

"But"

"No but. That's not what I taught you to do!" Seto pointed accusingly at the raven-haired. "Do you have just the slightest bit of honor in you? I thought you were through with your premature behavior." The yelling continued.

Meanwhile Serenity fought against her tears. Mokuba was cheating on her and all she wanted to do right now was to run away. The picture of the blonde sitting there made her sick and slowly she turned to leave.

"Serenity…" Mokuba had finally found the brain to run after her. Passing by his furious brother he stopped her midway and gazed at her. He had no words to say to her actually. "I didn't mean for you to see me like this."

"And how was I supposed to see you? Was I supposed to see you at all?" Shaking her head in disgust she gazed into the gray-blue eyes she had once trusted.

"I guess Mokuba has finally lost all brains within this premature creature of a whore he's brought in my house." The familiar growl of Seto rang in Mokuba's ears and he turned to see his brother sending the icy glare that normally only his enemies would receive. "You're not worth the dirt on your shoes, if you're not able to see how bloody stupid you are right now."

While Mokuba was trying to get what was happening and why the hell his own brother was insulting him like never before, Seto slowly walked to the front door and opened it.

"Get out." The brown haired told Serenity whose eyes widened in surprise that Kaiba was throwing her out. Obeying she did what was told her to do. She couldn't wait to get out of here anyway.

With a last dismissive glare Seto slammed the front door shut, leaving Mokuba to stare into space. The blond head of Rebecca was showing behind him with a worried expression on her face.

"Wait up there." The menacing voice of Kaiba made Serenity stop in her tracks. She hadn't realized him following her and was surprised to see him pulling out his car. Stopping the same next to her the passenger's door went to open in an attempt to offer her the seat but Kaiba didn't say a single word. Serenity climbed inside with a pounding heart and the CEO sped off.

During the ride to Serenity's place both of them had been silent, neither one saying anything at all. Serenity was gazing out of the window and couldn't get her mind off Mokuba and Rebecca as well as Seto's behavior afterwards. By the way the painful feeling of her boyfriend's betrayal was accompanying her in every vein of her body.

Kaiba stopped the car in front of the apartment building Wheeler was living in. Gazing at the woman next to him he felt helpless and hurt. Strangely his own heart was in pain when he realized his brother cheating on the woman both of them loved. How could he hurt her? Anger overcame the older sibling and in a fit of rage he said things to Mokuba he had never ever said to him before.

"Will you be okay?" His blue eyes shifted to read any sign of feeling, good or worse, in her face.

Serenity nodded and gazed up at the man next to her. "Thank you, Kaiba." She said hoarsely. Her voice was fading in her desperate try to suppress her tears. Then she opened the door and climbed out of the sports car before she disappeared into the building.

Kaiba felt his headache growing even and with a sigh he sped off in his car.

Mai Valentine was alone at home as her long term boyfriend Joey Wheeler was working in an afternoon shift when Serenity entered the apartment. The young woman's head hung low while she was making her way through the apartment until she disappeared in her bedroom. The blonde wondered, sensing something was wrong and followed the auburn-haired.

Knocking softly on the door Mai waited for reply but as there was no response she dared to pipe her head inside. Serenity was lying on her bed with her face hidden in the sheets and apart from the noise you could see that she was crying from the shake of her shoulders. Worried Mai carefully went near the woman and sat down next to her. The blonde reached out with her hand and brushed away some damp strands of auburn hair which clung to Serenity and began to softly caress her hair.

"What's happened?" She asked in a soft tone to her voice.

"Everything." Came the muffled reply before Serenity slightly turned to speak properly. "Mokuba's with Rebecca. I've just seen them!" A new fit of tears burned along her skin and she sobbed like a young kid.

Mai reached out for a handkerchief and gave it to the other woman. "Where have you seen them?"

"At home, Mokuba's home! He had her at home! And they were kissing!" She exclaimed and let herself become comforted by Mai's soft touch.

"But… slow, Serenity. Would you like to tell me from the start?" The violet eyes of the ten years older woman looked friendly and warm.

Serenity turned to finally look at Mai properly. "Mokuba hasn't called me like he said he would and I went to go to his place when Kaiba arrived in his limo. Annoyed as ever he led me in and we both were surprised when… when…" Another wave of tears hit the young woman but she calmed down slightly after a while. "We heard voices from out of the kitchen and we found Mokuba and Rebecca kissing each other."

"Oh god, Serenity, I'm so sorry." Mai took Serenity's hand in hers and gave it a comforting squeeze. "But how could that happen?"

"I don't know. I just feel so stupid. I was honestly believing I could trust him. I've been a fool." She cried but Mai smiled sadly.

"No, you're not a fool. He's just stupid if he can't see what he's throwing away." The blonde couldn't help her own anger building inside against the young Kaiba.

"That's what Kaiba told him as well." Serenity mumbled pulling up her knees and hugging them with her arms.

"Kaiba?"

"Yes, he's got really angry at Mokuba and was yelling at him all kinds of things like that he's not worth the dirt on his shoes and that he's a moron and even more." Sniffing the girl wiped along her face with the sleeve her shirt. "Then Kaiba called Rebecca a whore."

Mai raised her eyebrows almost to the beginning of her hairline. "Seto Kaiba did that?"

"Yeah and then he's thankfully given me a ride home."

"A ride home." Mai repeated bitterly thinking of that last time Kaiba offered someone a ride home. Tea had been his victim in that case. "Nice of him but…" Sighing she tried to find words. "Don't let yourself get fooled by him, yeah? I doubt Kaiba's just nice if nothing comes 'round for him in the end."

Serenity gazed up at Mai and shrugged. "Don't know but… there's something else I haven't told you. It's happened yesterday when I was waiting for Mokuba at Kaiba's place. Seto came home and usually he's quite mean to me but I asked him why he didn't like me. He told me many things after that an assured that it hasn't got anything to do with me. I was really touched and I guess he was just weak… I don't know exactly but… we kissed."

Serenity was confused by Mai's silence. "Really, Mai, we kissed. And it was really strange because I wanted it as much as he did and then suddenly his cell phone rang and we broke apart. He must have felt miserable after kissing his brother's girlfriend and regretted it. Because after that he just left with no word about what had happened."

The blonde sighed thoughtfully and sadly. "Serenity, better forget about it."

"That's what I was supposed to try but instead I found my damn boyfriend kissing someone else and all he could say was that he didn't mean for me to see him like this!" Serenity almost snorted at that asshole's stupid remark. "And then there's Seto who's really nice to me at times and there's this kiss I can't get out of my head. I'm so confused." She whined.

"Serenity," Mai started in a very serious tone. "About Kaiba I need to tell you something. I'm not allowed to tell anyone actually but I have to in that case. Do you remember the evening Kaiba was in Rainmen's?" After a nod from the smaller woman the blonde continued. "That evening he invited Tea to drink with him and guess what! He had been really nice. That's why Tea accepted his invitation and they both started to get drunk. In the end he had used this opportunity to get her laid."

Two hazel eyes stared at Mai in disbelief and disappointment. "Oh."

The blonde just nodded. "I just don't want you to get fooled by him. I promised Tea not to tell anyone, so please, keep it a secret."

Nodding Serenity gazed at her friend. "Mai? Could you leave me alone now? I'd like to be alone for a while and…"

"Of course." With that Mai gave a friendly smile of comfort and left.

(A/N: So what do you think? Tell me. I appreciate it. ;-D)