Disclaimers: Well I'm in jail. Well I will be because I'm thinking about stopping- Never mind jail isn't the way to go. I do not own YuGiOh and I never will. Nor any songs I might use in this chapter.
My mother and I had taken the ferry over to the Island and we were standing at the front doors off what looked like castle of the second biggest house I had ever seen. Seto's was still bigger. My mothers dress was getting muddy at the bottom and I wanted to laugh, but not because that it was funny just because I was so nervosa. My mother knocked and the door slowly opened. A man in a tux who was probably the butler answered the door.
"Oh, Miss. Morgan!" He then advert his gaze over to me "And you must be Kestrel. Please come inside we've been waiting for you. He step aside and even though my mother had walked in I still had a scared look of shock on my face. It was a mixture of fear and confusion. 'This guy knows my name?' I thought as my mother dragged me inside.
The main hall was very big a tad bit bigger then Seto's but it all looked the same to me. We were led into a series of rooms and I tried to memorize it all but I gave up after seeing the entertainment room which had a wet bar. Although it seemed like every room had a wet bar.
"This guy really likes Alcohol." I said leaning over to my mother who looked nervosa. She did not answer me. I saw her eyes begin to dart from side to side and I smiled a little reading her emotion filled face. She was having second thoughts about coming here. It was a little funny because I had calmed down a little. Well on the outside. Inside I was screaming in torture and pain. We finally came to two double doors engraved with what looked like a thin coat of gold outlined Duel Monsters. The butler flung open the double doors and we came to what looked like a giant ball like room. There was a giant dance floor, a split staircase that re joined at the top, and finally a Long table with three place settings and about twenty chairs that were not top be used that night. At the end of the table in a throne looking chair sat a man in a red outfit with silver hair and his hands folded in a lock position up top the table. The butler motioned us to go ahead and sit down, but I was still in shock at the beautiful room. Gold engraved the walls and paintings hung all around. I looked up at the ceiling in the middle of the room and gasped placing my hand to my mouth. Hanging from the ceiling was a chandelier. You know. One of those huge ones that you usually see in movies, but this one was bigger. WAYYY bigger.
"Kess!" My mother hissed at me.
I snapped out of dreamland and looked over to my mother who had been tugging on my long sleeve. My mind caught up with my body and I walked over to the table. The man dressed in red chuckle a little as I was helped by the butler into my seat. Mom sat on the other end in a smaller looking more beautiful version of the chair the man in red was sitting in and I sat in an ordinary looking rosewood carved chair that was amazingly comfortable.
"I see you're intrigued with my home." The man said.
"It is beautiful." I said back about laughing at his voice but remembering my manners.
"Ah yes." He nodded once and then set his arms down. "Anyway, you must be Kestrel; you're a spitting image of your mother a divine beauty indeed." I blushed a little. I had never really been complimented on my looks and so it confused me. "Well I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Pegasus J. Crawford I am your mother's boss."
I nodded at him my mother just saying silent and still looking very nervosa. My nervousness had gone away as soon as I started talking to him. Why was my mother still acting strange? Thoughts went though my mind and then I realized I should say something back to this Pegasus. "It's very nice to meet you Mr. Crawford. You should know my name already."
He laughed a little again and nodded. "Yes I do, Kestrel Morgan. Pretty name by the way, but I feel like we are leaving your even more beautiful mother out of the conversation."
My mothers head shot up and she forced a smile. "Oh really now, its alright you both get to know each other a little more then we can all talk alright, love?"
My head shot over to my mother there it was again. She had called him "love" For some reason my stomach turned. My instincts told me that I wasn't going to like the rest of the night. How right I was.
"Why don't we just skip to dinner? I bet your hungry from your journey. It's my fault for being such a hermit, and living on this island." He clapped his hands twice and three men came in with plates and set them down in front of us. They were like little steaks with sauce that was splattered on the clean white plates. I picked up a fork and a knife and dug in. "Now Kestrel, tell me what do you think about love?" He said taking a small bite of steak as his wine glass was filled as was my mothers. To the brim none the less. It was a little funny how they both kept waving the men who served them until there wine glasses were filled, but as soon as Pegasus asked me that I froze. My head turned slowly over to see Pegasus's eye was missing although it was shadowy I could tell.
"Well sir that's like me asking you how you lost your eye." I quickly said knowing he was waiting for an answer.
He looked down slowly and then smiled. "I see. You think love is something that should be kept secret."
"No." I quickly shot back looking up. "Love just makes you do things that you don't want to do. My mother and I have moved so much I do not want to love...well now I think I've failed." I said thinking of Seto. 'I wonder what he's doing right now.
"She's in love with this white haired boy who came to watch her ride Sage." My mother finally decided to join our conversation.
"Why do you think I am in lo-" I stopped myself. I was in love with Bakura. I still kind of liked him, but Seto came in and we had our fights and then it was down to that night where he almost kissed me. 'No I'm in love with Seto. Bakura was just...there.' I nodded to myself slightly not noticing all eyes were on me. "I am not in love with Bakura. I will tell you I am in love, but not with Bakura." I half smiled a little, but still felt bad.
"Well if you won't tell me who tell me what you think about your mother loving again." Pegasus asked.
"Pegasus!" A familiar stern voice came from the double doors. My heart stopped and skipped three whole beats. I knew that voice. It was...
"Kiaba boy!" Pegasus stood up and turned fully to him. "What brings you to my humble home?"
"You know damn well why I'm here. You put off our meeting for a dinner with some close friends. Work is more important you know. Unlike you I like to get things done."
The back of my head was already exposed to him and I did not turn. I was still a little in shock. I wanted to do something about it but I didn't know what.
"Oh you I put our work off for a very good reason you know."
Just as Seto was about to speak I stood up and turned to him my dress swaying a little. "How dare you come and interrupt our dinner! Really if you knew that Mr. Crawford was having company you shouldn't have come, but now I'm going to have to ask you to leave."
Seto stood in shock staring at me. The expression on his face was priceless. Although I wanted to run to him, wrap my arms around him, and kiss him I knew that he wanted to keep our relationship a secret. So I respected his decision.
"I see." Seto began. "Well princess I'll just curtsy and leave you to your damned home cooked meal that seems so important to you." Pegasus sat down again as my mother and Pegasus stared at each other and nodded. Seto slightly turned and half smiled which looked more like a smirk, but I knew he was trying. I fully smiled at him and then turned around and sat back down as the doors slammed.
"Well now that Seto Kiaba is out of the way I go back to my question. What do you think about your mother loving someone again?"
I hadn't really heard what he said before so then I blinked confused and just spoke. "I wouldn't care." 'WAIT NO I WOULD CARE I WOULD!'
"Good." My mother said. "Because I'm in love with Pegasus, you see I never had a job. I would just come here every day and pretend to be working." She smiled at the now what I thought most evil cruel man in the world. "I met him on the internet and he asked me to come here. He paid for everything, that house we live in is his old mansion, our plane tickets, our food, your school, and He bought Sage for you as soon as I told him how in love you were with horses. This must be a shock to you, but I'm really in love."
Everything inside me broke, Shattered into millions of tiny pieces. I sat there dumbstruck and on the verge of tears. I didn't want my mother to love again. Love meant marriage and marriage meant death. I started to whimper a little trying to hold back tears. I stood up quickly and revealed my tear stained face. "You can't love again! He is an old drunk! You're both just old fucking drunks!"
My mother stood up "How dare you young lady!"
"LADY? ME? Hell no!" I was screaming now. "This is what I will never be! A preppy little princess! You think this is me?" I gestured at the dress. "No! Hell no! You know what." I picked up the chair and threw it across the ballroom floor. It broke as soon as it hit the wall. "You never cared before and now you want to be my mother! You're nothing but a drunk! I'm surprised that's not your tenth glass of wine! You both deserve each other! I took off to the double doors and started down the halls and rooms in heels.
My mother was about to go after me, but a hand on her shoulder told her to sit back down. "Let her go. She needs to deal with this on her own. This must be hard for her." Pegasus nodded.
I cried as hard as I could go though the maze of the mansion. I finally stopped at a window and realized I knew where I was. I followed the rooms out and found the front doors of the mansion. "Finally!" I said bursting out of the doors and running down the stairs. Step after step I couldn't get those words out of my head. I bumped into something hard and fell back onto the steps. Seto turned around and looked down cocking his head.
"What happened to you?" He asked.
I looked up to him and stood up wrapping my arms around him and crying harder. His body was comforting and I immediate felt a small sense of relief. "Please...take me home with you." I asked hoping he would say yes.
Seto looked down to me and then hesitantly placed his arms on my back and the back of my head. "Of course."
I smiled a little and sniffled taking a deep breath. The surrounding wind seemed to bind us together and circle us. Seto picked me up and I buried my face in his broad chest. He then began to walk back to his plane. We left the island and arrived at Kiaba corp. After that I fell asleep and I'm guessing he didn't bother to wake me, but I felt better like I belonged and I was wanted. Seto loved me, and I loved him.
I want you all to know...this chapter was a pain in the ass. I don't think I did so well writing in character for Pegasus. Oh well. Thank you for all your comments. I'm really happy that you all like my story. More surprises coming up like the dance that you all are waiting for that's going to be fun. What's going to happen to Kess after that big shocker? Oh well read to find out. I want a certain person to know that I purposely spelt Seto's last name wrong. Ha. Well, Just the same I won't put out the next chapter tell more people review. I want at least...eh...I'll be nice. Two more reviews! Remember this chapter probably wasn't going to come out for another three weeks because I was having so much trouble. Your reviews helped me write. It's a big confidence boost. So please. REVIEW!
