Once Upon a Dream
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh no matter how much I would like to, nor do I own the Romeo and Juliet play.
Authors note: I am so glad you guys loved my first chapter! I am hoping for at least 2 new reviewers for this chapter. I hope you like it.
Story Description: AU Serenity and Joey have always told each other everything? Right? Everything, except for one secret that happened after they were separated. And what happens when this "secret" comes back into Serenity's life after all of these years? SetoXSerenity.
Chapter Two:
So Did I
Joey was in the living room stuffing himself like a turkey while watching TV. Wheel of Fortune was the only thing on and Joey was starting to doze off. Everything in their house was remotely clean. They had a large kitchen for Serenity to cook in, three bedrooms, two bathrooms; most of the walls were covered in a shade of blue paint and stuck with pictures of Joey and Serenity. Serenity had designed the only unique rooms in the house; her room, her bathroom, and the kitchen.
Her bathroom was painted in solid black except for the crescent moon painted in the center of the wall opposite the sink. The cupboards were black along with a black stone countertop lying across them. In the middle of that was a stainless steel bowl-style sink with its long slender neck craning above the basin. At the very end of the bathroom was a large shower.
The kitchen was painted a deep shade of red with black stone covering countertops and the island in the middle. The island held the stove and extra counter space for miscellaneous things. The backsplash on the walls were black and white diamonds lining the walls. The kitchen was decked with all the usual ornaments of cooking you would normally find.
Her room was a deep shade of purple and was covered in little white symbols from all kinds of languages with their meanings written carefully under them. She had an easel complete with several kinds of paints, charcoal pencils, and a multitude of paint brushes. She had a book shelf filled to the top with books. A cupboard sat stuffed with different kinds of paper, past masterpieces, and various drawing tools. Last but not least was a full-scale picture of Van-Gough's Starry Night located behind her computer desk sealed onto the wall.
Serenity wasn't at her easel or typing furiously on her keyboard though. She was staring down at the floor pale and ghastly, staring at a small white card that she had just dropped on the ground. Tears were flowing freely now staining her carpet with the salty water.
Joey could hear the sobbing from the other room and ran to the noise like he always did.
"Seren what's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost. Why are you crying? Can you just say something please?!" Joey persisted
"H-he died." She stammered pointing at the card
"Who? The guy that sent you the flowers? Who sent them?"
"He's supposed to be dead!" She screamed
"Just calm down Serenity. Who sent them?"
Serenity fumblingly placed a class picture in front of Joey's concern ridden face and pointed out the boy three from the left in the front row.
"H-his name was S-Seto…"
"…KAIBA!" Joey rudely interrupted
"No, no, Mizoka. Seto Mizoka." Serenity corrected "He and his parents died in a car accident along with his baby brother. He was my best friend after you left and we did everything together. Then I moved away and we promised to call and stay in touch and well…"
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Serenity eagerly held the phone up to her ear as she listened to Seto talk about happenings at school since she had left.
"I miss you a lot Seto. I haven't seen you in forever!"
"I miss you too Reni."
"I know, how about you come over today. We can go to the park and play all day like we used to. What do you say?"
"Sure! I'll get my parents to drive me over right now. Bye, I'll see you soon!"
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"…and I waited there all day, right by the window, watching for him to pull into mother's driveway. I had fallen asleep on the windowsill and when I woke up the news was on…"
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Serenity slowly inched her eyes open and turned her head to the noisy television set. The news was on and she decided to go sit by her mother until she was told to go to bed.
"…and now to our top story of the evening," The reporter began "Earlier today there was an accident on Highway 15 that led to the car exploding. Police have found a pair rollerblades, and not much else. The car has been reported to belong to Houtori Mizoka…"
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"…and I passed out after that. I never heard from him again and I assumed that he, didn't make it." Serenity was about to burst. She had never told anybody this story, and for good reason too.
"Come here Seren." Joey said holding out his arms to comfort her.
They sat on her bed like that for over twenty minutes; Joey's shirt was so soaked with tears that he had to take it off after ten minutes.
"Serenity, Serenity calm down. Just forget about the note okay. I hate seeing you cry about things like this, so just forget about it. Now look up at me and without a tear say that you'll be okay and forget about this." Joey lectured. He wasn't always a slob; he could be a real softie under that gangster attitude when he wanted to be.
"I'm okay; I'll just forget none of this happened." Serenity said strongly.
"Okay then, 'night sis."
"Goodnight Joey. Thank you." She whispered as he walked at the door.
He didn't know how it felt to have all of those feelings dug up again. She couldn't 'just forget about it' just 'stop crying' she had to work this out in her head that Seto was gone and could never come back.
She placed the flowers in a vase, placing them by her easel where they could get plenty of sun. She then took out a ratty shoebox from her wooden chest and placed the picture and flower card, replaced the lid, and stored it away in the chest again.
Serenity then lay down on her soft bed and fought her way through sniffles and tears until she fell into a still slumber.
The bell had rung and Serenity was now walking the halls in a daze. She had intentionally stayed after school to watch the Romeo auditions, after that note she had forgotten all about it.
"What happened that day?" She mumbled "Oh Seto,"
"Yes?"
Serenity wheeled around to face Seto Kaiba. His intense blue eyes stared into her sorrowful doe ones with questioning.
"Not you, another Seto, which I knew long ago. Aren't you supposed to be at the Romeo auditions?"
"They're over. The Juliet ones are going to start any minute now. You may want to get over there." He hinted nudging her to the auditorium.
"I'll see you later I guess." Serenity said before disappearing into the dark doors.
Mr. Thompson looked around the red velvet lined room very nervously. Serenity was not here, she had to be here to try-out.
The door opened and Serenity rushed down the aisle and down towards the stage. Mr. Thompson let out his held breath, not knowing that he had even held it.
"Sorry I'm late!" She exclaimed.
"Serenity, you will be going first." He stopped her and whispered into her ear, "Just remember what I have taught you."
With those words of encouragement Serenity hoisted herself unto the stage and waited for instructions.
"As I explained earlier, you all will audition the same scene and I'll choose four "finalists" you can say. Once I narrow it down to those four I will bring in the chosen Romeo and I will see who the best compatibility with him on stage." He paused.
"The scene is Act 5 Scene 3. Go."
Serenity took a deep breath and started the scene by laying down on the floor.
"O comfortable friar! Where is my lord?
I do remember well where I should be,
and there I am. Where is my Romeo?"
Serenity turned her head pretending to her a noise drawing near, and then she turned back to Mr. Thompson playing as Friar Laurence.
"I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest
of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep:
a greater power than we can contradict
hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.
Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;
and Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee
among a sisterhood of holy nuns:
stay not to question, for the watch is coming;
come, go, good Juliet,"
Mr. Thompson said professionally, he paused and said his next line.
"I dare no longer stay."
Serenity waved her hand at him
"Go, get thee hence, for I will not away."
Mr. Thompson sat down to let her continue.
"What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand?
Poison, I see hath been his timeless end:
O churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop
to help me after? I will kiss thy lips;
haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
to make die with a restorative."
She leaned down to kiss an imaginary Romeo,
"Thy lips are warm."
"Lead, boy: Which way?" Mr. Thompson said in response.
"Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!"
Serenity picked up her invisible weapon and stabbed herself.
"This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die."
With that she collapsed onto the stage, thus finishing her audition.
A wave of applause had erupted in the hall. She had been practicing that particular scene in her room earlier yesterday morning. She was ecstatic that it had paid off, now all she needed was to do well if she was one of the last four.
Serenity sat down by Mr. Thompson and watched the others audition. Some had no emotion while they spoke, some made vain attempts at movements like she had done, some never took their eyes off of the script, and some were just fine in their auditions.
"Well this was had, there were so many, good, actresses in here so I'll cut this short. The final four are Tea Gardener, Emily Redding, Tally Thompson, and Serenity Wheeler!" There was a muffled clapping by those who didn't make it and as Mr. Thompson started talking again it stopped. "Now the four of you up on stage and I'll call Romeo down from the back row. Were ready for you now Seto!"
Serenity had pushed herself onto the stage and froze there when the name Seto was mentioned. She had to keep reminding herself that they were not the same person…or were they?
"Ok now, we will be doing one of the most famous scenes from the play; Act 2 Scene2 people. Mr. Kaiba you will be rehearsing with Miss Gardener first." Seto leaped up to the stage and Mr. Thompson gave the ready signal.
Tea didn't do too well and gave up in the middle of the scene, storming out of the auditorium mumbling "How could that giant glacier be Romeo!"
Emily and Tally, two of Seto's fan girls, did okay until they paid attention to him more than what to say.
"Next! Miss Wheeler, you're up."
Seto stared walking towards Serenity and she stepped forward once in response.
"But,
soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and
Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who
is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far
more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her
vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it;
cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew
she were!
She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?
Her
eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, 'tis not to me
she speaks:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having
some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres
till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her
head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As
daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy
region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were
not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that
I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!"
Serenity was shocked by the emotion put forth into it but still got out her line, "Ay me."
Once the tension lifted they continued on like they were talking to one another after class, just a conversation between friends. Seto silently smiled that she continued and didn't falter like the previous two girls.
"She
speaks:
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious
to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of
heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals that
fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing
clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air."
"O
Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse
thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll
no longer be a Capulet."
"Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?"
"'Tis
but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a
Montague.
What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm,
nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other
name!
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other
name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo
call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that
title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of
thee
Take all myself."
"I
take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new
baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo."
"What
man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night
So stumblest on my
counsel?"
"By
a name
I know not how to tell thee who I am:
My name, dear
saint, is hateful to myself,
Because it is an enemy to thee;
Had
I it written, I would tear the word."
"My
ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
Of that tongue's
utterance, yet I know the sound:
Art thou not Romeo and a
Montague?"
"Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike."
"How
camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?
The orchard walls are
high and hard to climb,
And the place death, considering who thou
art,
If any of my kinsmen find thee here."
"With
love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;
For stony limits
cannot hold love out,
And what love can do that dares love
attempt;
Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me."
"If they do see thee, they will murder thee."
"Alack,
there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords:
look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity."
"I would not for the world they saw thee here."
"I
have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;
And but thou love
me, let them find me here:
My life were better ended by their
hate,
Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love."
"By whose direction found'st thou out this place?"
"By
love, who first did prompt me to inquire;
He lent me counsel and I
lent him eyes.
I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far
As that
vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,
I would adventure for
such merchandise."
"Thou
know'st the mask of night is on my face,
Else would a maiden blush
bepaint my cheek
For that which thou hast heard me speak
to-night
Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny
What I
have spoke: but farewell compliment!
Dost thou love me? I know
thou wilt say 'Ay,'
And I will take thy word: yet if thou
swear'st,
Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries
Then
say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it
faithfully:
Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,
I'll
frown and be perverse an say thee nay,
So thou wilt woo; but else,
not for the world.
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,
And
therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light:
But trust me,
gentleman, I'll prove more true
Than those that have more cunning
to be strange.
I should have been more strange, I must
confess,
But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,
My true
love's passion: therefore pardon me,
And not impute this yielding
to light love,
Which the dark night hath so discovered."
"Lady,
by yonder blessed moon I swear
That tips with silver all these
fruit-tree tops"
"O,
swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes
in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."
"What shall I swear by?"
"Do
not swear at all;
Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious
self,
Which is the god of my idolatry,
And I'll believe thee."
"If my heart's dear love—"
"Well,
do not swear: although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this
contract to-night:
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too
like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It
lightens.' Sweet, good night!
This bud of love, by summer's
ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we
meet.
Good night, good night! As sweet repose and rest
Come to
thy heart as that within my breast!"
"O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?"
"What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?"
"The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine."
"I
gave thee mine before thou didst request it:
And yet I would it
were to give again."
"Wouldst thou withdraw it? For what purpose, love?"
"But
to be frank, and give it thee again.
And yet I wish but for the
thing I have:
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as
deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are
infinite.
I
hear some noise within; dear love, adieu!
Anon, good nurse! Sweet
Montague, be true.
Stay but a little, I will come again."
Mr. Thompson was so taken aback by the performance that he had forgot to end the audition, after remembering what he was supposed to do he stopped them. "I think we have our new Juliet. Congratulations Serenity I knew you could do it all along."
Seto shook her hand in congratulations and whispered "So did I."
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