Chapter 3
Disclaimers: I don't own YGO. How many times do I have to say it???
A/N: Hey you guys! I'm sorry I haven't finished this in quite a while... well I hope I gave you what's worth the wait. Tell me if you want me to improve, please! Luv you guys!
Kaiba sighed. His brother was falling in love with a girl. Making it worse, it was Serenity Wheeler. She was not really returning his affection, because he could see that she was not paying much attention to him.
"Crap. My brother will result with a broken heart. I should really make him forget that. But how?" he thought.
He was a great schemer, and had always been good at that. He could come up with a plan in about 5 seconds with deep thought.
'I got it! I have to distract her from him. I can make her fall in love with me, making her think that I actually liked her... but I can dump her at any time I want, and make sure that Ellie doesn't get in the way." He thought.
As much as he hated to do it, he should because it was for the sake of his brother.
Serenity noticed that Mokuba had been paying a lot of attention to her last night. It couldn't be that he was falling in love with her-she had known him for years and she wasn't about to break their friendship.
She didn't like him that way. She never did, only as a good friend. She could never love him.
She felt kind of sorry for Mokuba.
'Best that I avoid him for now.' She thought.
"Hello, I want to speak with Captain Ashton. Is he there?" Kaiba asked curtly.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Kaiba, he is not present. Can I take any orders?" Answered a cool female voice.
"Okay, I need you to get my private plane ready for tomorrow. Tell the captain that he will be piloting it."
"What's the destination sir?"
"Hmmm... my vacation-spot in Ginashima town." Kaiba hung up the phone.
His plans to get rid of Serenity were in order.
'God, she is so damn dead... this plan is fool proof.' Kaiba thought evilly after he made his last call.
"Hey, brother! What's up?" Mokuba suddenly interrupted his thoughts.
"Nothing." Kaiba asked impatiently. God, why did Mokuba have to interrupt such a fine, progressive moment?
"Okay... I'll tell you what's up with me." Mokuba said, taking a seat on the couch next to his big brother. 'Come on, faster, I haven't got all day.' Kaiba noted mentally.
"Bro... have you ever experienced dating a girl?" he suddenly asked.
"Mokuba, are you kidding me? I don't give a fig for girls!" Kaiba said.
"Oh yeah you do. What's your relationship with Ellie then if not love, huh?" Mokuba retorted.
"Fine. So I went on dates with her. But so what?"
"Girls don't work that way, Seto." Mokuba reminded him, narrowing his eyes and crossing his arms. Kaiba shot a glare back at him. "I treat girls the way I want, Mokuba." Kaiba said, scowling.
"Well, what if you liked a girl and you want to get to know her more, date her...all that stuff..." Mokuba said, ticking off on his fingers.
"Face it, Mokuba. I don't give a damn about girls and never will."
"Even when you have a wife?" Mokuba questioned skeptically.
Kaiba rolled his eyes. "Oh please. Maybe once Ellie knows how I really am, she would just divorce me but I get her money." He scowled again.
Mokuba's eyes widened in shock. "Seto, you can't do that. You, of all people... it's not fair to Ellie and it's not fair to her father and mother too." Mokuba said.
"Damn it, Mokuba. I won't ever change my views of girls and that's that!"
She turned the key in the lock, opening the rigid door. "Serenity! How was your day?" called the tired but persistent voice of Joey Wheeler. She smiled to herself. Joey was always there to cheer her up after an exhausting and busy day.
"It's okay, bro," she replied, trying to add more cheer to her voice.
"Good." Concluded Joey, leaning backward on his swiveling chair. He spun it around to stretch his arms and he gave a great big yawn. "Damn, I can't believe how exhausting this day is."
"Ditto." Serenity agreed, running an anxious hand through her long silky brown hair.
"Oh, yeah, by the way... I forgot to tell you, there's a message for you on the answering machine." Joey said, standing up. "Oh, I see... sure, I'll go check it out." She said, taking two strides to the answering machine, right beside the phone in the corner of the room.
"I'll go check on the food for lunch." Joey said.
"Hey, Joey, make sure you don't burn it!" Serenity joked, watching her brother roll his eyes in sarcasm before she pressed the answering machine's play button.
"Ahem. Good morning, Miss Wheeler. This is Mr. Kaiba's secretary, and he wants to meet with you. Please see him at Kaiba Corp. International Airport as soon as possible. Thank you."
Serenity flicked the playback button on the answering machine and the message puzzled her more than ever. Why would an important, busy person like Kaiba ask someone like her to meet with him? This was weird.
Without another word, she strode briskly across the room, grabbing her jacket, she headed for the front door. With a thud, she closed it behind her.
'Where the damn hell are you???' Kaiba thought impatiently. He swung his wrist to see the time on his watch. His secretary informed him that she had phoned the Wheeler's residence 15 minutes ago. She was late!
"Sorry I'm late." A soft, sweet voice said behind him. He turned around, seeing Serenity there with a cheerful smile on her face. 'Damn,' Kaiba thought. She was a stunning sight for him to see. Long locks of chestnut brown hair were strewn upon her beautiful face. Mahogany brown eyes looked deeply back into his and she had an aura of sincerity.
'Okay, Seto, don't fall into that spell...' he reminded himself, straightening up nervously.
"Um... Mr. Kaiba." She said in a quiet voice.
"Right. Whatever..." Kaiba growled in his low voice. Serenity giggled but she was silenced with one look from Kaiba's serious face.
Kaiba was determined not to be won over by this girl's charms and beauty, but it was worth a lot of concentration. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his lifetime.
"Wheeler... why did you quit from your job at the Kaiba Mansion? I wasn't quite paying enough, or what?" he demanded.
Her face crumpled into a look of surprise. "I just found out that I could get a new job. You paid quite enough to satisfy me, but I felt like I can be something more in this world." She said quietly. 'Is this some sort of interview?' she thought.
He didn't reply, because he was busy staring at something else nearby. 'Shit! It's Mokuba... Need to get her away from here NOW!' He was busy thinking. With some serious consideration, moving in lightning speed, he grabbed Serenity by the arms and shoved her into his nearby office. She tried to scream, but Kaiba stifled her scream just in time. "Don't make any extraordinary noise. I will tell you later." He hissed, slamming and locking the door and was ready to face his brother Mokuba.
"Seto... what are you doing here?" Mokuba asked quickly as he approached his brother.
"Nothing much. Work, you know. And you?"
"I heard from your secretary that you were here... I was hoping that you wanted to go hang out with me. After all, it's a free day, you know." Mokuba said.
Kaiba hesitated before he was able to give his next reply. "Sorry, Mokuba, but I'm working late. Maybe next time. You can ask your friends, you know."
But that was totally the wrong thing to say because what Mokuba said next was really heart-piercing to Seto.
"YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND ME!" Mokuba yelled. "ALL YOU DO IS WORK, WORK, WORK AND DO YOU EVEN HAVE TIME TO SPEND WITH YOUR ONLY BROTHER? YOUR ONLY SIBLING? I WOULD GLADLY HAVE HUNG OUT WITH MOM AND DAD IF THEY WERE ALIVE! AND I ALWAYS HANG OUT WITH MY FRIENDS! I CAN EASILY ASK THEM, BUT YOU, YOU'RE ALWAYS BUSY!" Mokuba yelled. He had a fierce look in his eyes that Seto had not seen before.
And with that last retort, Mokuba stomped away, leaving Seto staring after his fading brother's shadow.
MEANWHILE, IN KAIBA'S OFFICE... KAIBA CORP. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...
"LET ME OUT!!!" Serenity tried shouting, but it was no use. Kaiba had locked her in... and she wasn't able to get out of the locked room until he came back.
She slumped down the door. Why did she even agree to meet Kaiba in the first place? He was nothing to her but her employer. Nothing else.
She stopped feeling upset. She knew it would not get her anywhere. She had to find a way to get out. Getting up, she reached into Kaiba's mini library and searched for any hidden keys if there were. Her search turned out to be hopeless. She sighed. Then she started exploring Kaiba's office. 'He locked me here... It doesn't matter if he catches me snooping around his stuff anyway. And he's so mysterious, I don't really know much about him.' She thought.
She rummaged through his mahogany desk. 'What's this?' she thought as she picked up a big brown book. She opened it, gasping in surprise as she dropped the book. It was a photo album. She thought that people like Kaiba wouldn't have any photo albums. But Kaiba was still a person...
She took it back in her hands and flipped through it. 'Aw, he's so cute!' she thought, gazing at a small picture showing the small Seto and Mokuba on a swing together. Serenity flipped through the album, and once she had finished, she closed it with a soft thud.
"Having fun?"
Serenity looked behind her to see Seto Kaiba glaring at her. 'Ohmigosh...' she thought. 'I'm in for it now...'
A/N: Sorry it's so short and that it came out really late... ugh... I hate school! It's taking up a lot of my time and I couldn't update... oh well... glad I finished this chapter... hehe... cliffie... Anyways, please please please please REVIEW!!! I'M BEGGING YOU!!!!!