Once Upon a Dream

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh no matter how much I would like to.

Authors note: Sorry the last chapter took so long I was having a major writers block, then I had finals so let's hope this chapter flows a little more smoothly. Glad you like it! Please Review!

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 Six:

Good and Bad Surprises

Serenity sat at her easel, her hand was moving in slow strokes with a brush in-hand and pastel paints close by. She had been inspired by reviewing her lines with Seto last night. Yes last night Serenity realized, looking at the clock; it was now three in the morning.

She carefully put her brush down and crawled under her covers. The background had to dry anyway so she might as well get some sleep since it won't be dry till after school.

Four hours later Joey was pounding on her door yelling something she couldn't understand. She flipped the covers and crawled out of bed to answer the door.

"What's with the yelling Joey?" Serenity croaked, rubbing her eyes

"Did you just get up, sis?"

"Yeah, why?" She yawned

"It's 7:00. Aren't you supposed to pick up the person you borrowed that bike from in half an hour?" Joey asked

"Seven! Why didn't you say something!" Serenity said, slamming the door in Joey's face

"I'll just make breakfast for you then, oh queen of the household," Joey mocked

"Thank you Jo," Serenity said, opening her door wide enough to kiss him on the cheek

Joey continued to the kitchen to make them some breakfast. Living alone with his sister had its ups and downs but it was all they could stand to do after their mother died last year. Neither of them ever found out how she died, she just fainted one day and a week later they got a call from the hospital saying that she had passed away. Thankfully Joey had turned 18 a couple of days before she died. The house had been paid off fully as well as the car so it was mostly utilities and food they had to worry about paying for.

"Not the most luxurious life, but it's good enough for us…" Joey mumbled under his breath

He started the eggs and popped in the toast. Serenity dashed out of the bedroom as soon as the toast popped out of the toaster, she grabbed a piece and ran out the door with a rushed "Bye Joey, I love you!"

"More for me I guess," he growled

Joey was happy for his little sister, and yet, a little worried. Before, Serenity didn't want to go out or do anything social and spontaneous. But now, now she was never home. She was always somewhere or another. It worried Joey what she was up to, he didn't know what she was doing out there. More than once he had wondered if she had a boyfriend secretly from him. It wouldn't be the first time either. The only thing he couldn't figure out was: Who is it?

Serenity gently rapped on Seto's door, calling the attention of about every maid in the house, and waited patiently.

"About time you got here," Seto chuckled, opening the door

"Nice to see you too." Serenity said sarcastically "Come forth, Romeo, your midnight chariot awaits. Would you like to drive?" She held out the keys to him

"Yes I would," Seto extended a hand at an attempt to grab his keys

"No, no, no you must respond, have I taught you nothing about medieval manners?" Serenity scorned

"Yes, fair maiden, I would'st prefer that I drive thine chariot instead of thee." He mocked

"Much better," Serenity smiled handing over the keys

Serenity hopped on the back of the motorcycle, clutching onto Seto's waist and they were off. The school was in front of them in a matter of minutes and as soon as they had gotten on, Seto and Serenity got off the bike and headed towards the main entrance.

"Bye, I'll see you at practice." Serenity said, standing in front of her first hour

"Yeah, see you." He mumbled

After forcing Seto to his LA class she headed into her science class. Once inside she was bombarded with Seto's fan-club, they were all chattering on about how cute of a couple they made, some said that they wished they were her, others asked how far she'd gotten with him.

"So are you two going out?" A mousy looking girl asked. The whole group of girls silenced and looked at her in curiosity, hope, anger, hatred, jealously, sadness, and a whole bunch of emotions Serenity couldn't make out.

No…

"Yes, we are." She lied

Every one of the fan-girls dispersed and went to their seats like they had learned everything they wanted to know. She heard them whispering still though.

"I guess we can't follow Kaiba around anymore." One of them sighed

"How about that Devlin kid?" another said, referring to the infamous Duke Devlin

"It's settled! We are now the Devlin Dames!" She heard a small group of cheers behind her. "Hey Serenity?" the mousy girl tapped her on the shoulder "Can we ask you some more things?"

"Sure," Serenity agreed

"Aren't you and Duke friends?"

Not really…

"Yeah, why?" Serenity asked

"Does he have a girlfriend?"

Many…

"Not that I know of," She didn't make any eye contact

"Last one. Does he have a crush on anyone?"

Me…

"Yeah, but I don't know who she is. It's not very big though."

"Ok, thank you!" The girl turned around and an explosion of chattering exploded around her.

At least, she thought to herself I got them off Seto's back…

The bell rang as the teacher walked in the room. "Good morning class. I can see your rather energetic today. Good. Were going to be doing some experiments today, and it might take all that energy to keep some of your breakfasts down. Let's all hope you didn't have any big ones." Ms. Hotohokuri said with a smile on her face

"Another wonderful practice session," Serenity said dully

"At least tomorrows the last one, right?" Seto stated

Serenity placed her hand on Seto's forehead "You don't feel sick. My optimism must have taken a vacation to your mind."

"Very funny," Seto chuckled "You want to come over, or a ride maybe?"

"Sorry Romeo, I have the car today. Joey wanted to spend some brother-sister bonding time with me. He feels like he doesn't know me anymore." Serenity mockingly sympathized "Bye."

"Wait," He said grabbing her wrist lightly "I wanted to ask you about a certain rumor I had heard."

"Another one?" She cocked an eyebrow

"One that involves you telling my fan-club that we were dating," Seto watched Serenity blush, and couldn't help smiling

"It got them off your back, and mine, didn't it?"

Seto grabbed Serenity's petite figure and kissed her before saying a suave, "I can't disappoint my fans, now can I?" putting on his helmet he zoomed out the parking lot, a satisfied smile still firmly positioned on his face.

"Joey I'm glad you want to spend time with me and all, but I'm going to go to bed. Night!" Serenity gave Joey a big hug before heading off to her room

Serenity took her shower and slipped on some pajamas before sitting down at her easel again. She started sketching them figures onto the background in light charcoal before Joey was yelling at her to pick up a phone.

"This is Serenity," she said through her artistic daze

"Hi Serenity, please don't hang up." said a pleading voice over the phone

She dropped her pencil "Tristan? Is that you? Give me one good reason I shouldn't hang up."

"Come on what can I do over the phone, its not like I am at your front door or anything."

"Fine, what do you want," Serenity surrendered

"To explain" He started

"Explain what! You were perfectly clear the last time I saw you. My friend brought me home, gave me one of those no-contact cheek to cheek kisses and all you could see was green. I think I just about covered it, don't you? Well except for the whole 'I'm going to kill the bastard' part. You can explain that one to me because I don't get how killing my best friend is going to help you get together with me. Care to explain that one?" Serenity ranted

"He seriously didn't kiss you-kiss you?" Tristan squeaked

He did, but you don't have to know that "No! We are just friends." She fibbed

"Then when did you hook up with Kaiba?" Tristan sneered

"Seto and I are none of your business. How did you find out anyway?"

"I saw it for one thing, and a little birdie told me all about it. Plus there are rumors about you two spreading like wild-fire." He paused "Joey doesn't know about it does he? If he did Kaiba wouldn't dare show his face around you."

"I was going to tell him, eventually."

"Sure, I might have to be a good buddy and tell him for you," He laughed

"Even if you did, he wouldn't believe you anyway. This conversation is done Tristan; don't call back some other time." Serenity snapped and hung up the phone before continuing her sketches.

Great the last thing I need at the moment is one more thing to stress me out. I have the play, classes, Joey, and now this! Let's just hope Tristan doesn't do anything stupid, but knowing him, he'll pass stupid and do something horrible…