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Love or Lust?
Chapter One: Getting A Job
By: Huasheng
of
Huasheng Productions©
"Yes, mom. Yeah I'm fine, you don't need to worry." Serenity said into the phone to her mother as she unpacked her belongings from her suitcase.
"Are you sure?" her mother asked worried on the other line. "Have you settled in with Marik yet?" she asked, her voice getting hard as she said the boy's name.
"Yes mom, Marik came and picked me up from the airport." She replied, quite annoyed by her mother's comments and nagging.
"Why on earth did I agree to let you go back to Domino?" her mother's voice was weak, she apparently didn't want to fight.
"Because you love me and you want me to be happy." Serenity said happily on the other line.
"Yes, but why Marik?" her voice got demanding, and Serenity just had about enough of her mother's stubborn attitude towards her childhood friend.
"Mom, first of all as I told you, I want to stay here in Domino City, and second I don't know anybody else in this town except for Marik. He was nice enough to give me his spare room." She said trying to explain the situation to her over-protective mother.
"You could stay with Joey," her mother said quietly.
"I can't believe you just said that! After what he did, he could go to hell for all I care." Serenity was angered by the thought of her brother.
"Serenity, don't say that about your brother, he didn't mean for that to happen—"
"You mean he didn't mean to abandon us for that bimbo, Mai! You might have forgiven him mom, but I can never forget all the pain he caused us. Now let's just drop the subject about him." Serenity was hurting inside, thinking about her brother after so many years brought her pain. "How are you doing? Are you okay?" Serenity asked changing the subject, also concerned about her mother's health.
"Fine. But I don't like that white haired boy at all!"
"Mom, why do you always have to be so mean to him? We were like best friends when we used to live in Egypt. Why are you so mean to him?" She asked as she walked into the kitchen and grabbed an apple for a snack.
"Because I don't trust him that's why. And when I saw him kiss all those years ago, well." Her mother said plainly trying to make her daughter understand. "Why are you so fond of him anyway?" she asked rather curious of her daughter and Marik's relationship.
"Mom, it's nothing like that, we're just friends. And that kiss, well, I don't know, I saw young." She walked over into the living room, where she slumped into the leather sofa, which was a bit out-dated for this generation.
"Whatever, but if I find out that you boy were – " her mother said angered at the thought.
"Mom, you know I'm not like that." She said flicking on the television from the remote control.
"I know, I know, that's why I sent you there to get a job." she saddened that her only daughter was off in some unknown city, trying to make a living – and living with a man!
"Okay mom, I got to start dinner, I'll call you later." She said looking at the time, remembering that Marik would soon be home from work.
"Alright sweetheart, you take care of yourself. And if that boy tries anything stupid with you than jus—" she was interrupted by a rather infuriated daughter.
"MOM! He's not like that! And I'm sure you know that as well as I do. Now I have to go, but I promise to call again. Bye mom, love you." Her last statements sounding more cheerful than her tone before.
"I love you too. Bye." And they both were disconnected from the phone.
Serenity picked herself up from the rather comfy couch and made her way to the refrigerator, where she pulled out some leftover pizza slices that they ordered last night. She put two slices in two plates and heated them up in the microwave. All the while she was accompanied by the sound of the television voices.
The second the pizza was ready, Marik walked through the door, and as usual Marik struggled to pull his key out of the keyhole.
"You just can't seem to use that thing properly, can you?" Serenity asked sarcastically.
"Haha." He said still trying to pull it out. "Damn key." He let out in frustration.
Serenity walked to the door, "Let me help," Marik took a step back to let her proceed. She pulled it out with ease.
"How do you do that?" he asked astonished. She handed him his dinner, and than walked over to the couch, changing the channel to a rather likable station. Marik sat right next to her looking quite stressed. Serenity saw it.
"Are you alright Marik?" she asked taking a bite out of her pizza.
Marik just loosened up the tie on his expensive suit. And looked at serenity with bold eyes. "No." he said plainly. "Work sucks! My boss is a total asshole and my collogues could kiss my ass. The only reason my still working for them is because I need to keep the Egyptian Items of the past safe from those crazy bastards." He said getting up from the couch and walking over to the large window. She followed him.
"Marik, don't even think about quitting. So what if the people you work with are jerks, you love your job, and shouldn't give it up." She tried to make him feel better and relaxed by rubbing his shoulders smoothly.
"Could you go a bit to the left?" he said sarcastically.
"You're an idiot." She said leaving his side and returning to her dinner. He too joined her. After 20 minutes of chewing their leftovers and watching television, Marik turned off the TV with the push of a button, and it upset Serenity.
"It was just getting to the good part!" she whined trying to get the remote control out of Marik's hand.
"I don't care," he said with an evil smirk on his face, "Now tell me, do you have any job interviews tomorrow?" he asked moving his body so that her was face-to-face with Serenity.
"I think I have one," she said again trying to grab the control pad. He sat on it so she couldn't reach it. "You know I've touched it before, it doesn't matter to me."
"You said that was an accident." He said feeling deceived. She just starred off into the air. He caught her attention again. "Anyway, forget about that. Who is it with." He asked concerned.
"I'm not sure it's in my notebook somewhere, I think it's some Kaiba dude or something like that." She got up from the couch, picked up the plates and headed over to the kitchen to wash. Marik followed her, not believing what he heard.
"You're going to try to get a job at Kaiba Corp.?" he asked raising a brow.
"I guess, why is there a problem?" she questioned as she approached the sink, and began her chore.
"Yeah. The CEO of that company is a heartless bastard, he probably won't even allow in his office. Take my advise, don't even bother to go there, make an appointment somewhere else." He tried to explain joining her to wash the dishes he left there this morning.
"Marik don't worry about it, I'll get in. And as for him being a heartless bastard, well that's what got him to be one of the five richest empires in the world. And tell to tell you the truth, I need the money." She said washing off her hands and heading towards her bedroom.
"Fine. But don't come whining to me when he makes you cry." He said sarcastically and headed into his own room.
"Kaiba Corporation has staff of the highest respect and quality, I'm sure nothing of the sort will happen." She replied not sure of what she going to get herself into.
"Hello everybody, and hello sunshine. It's 6:30 exactly and a beautiful day it will be today. There will be a chance of light showers and a possibility of –" Serenity rolled over on her side of the bed and hit her talking alarm clock. The voice of the overly pleased man that annoyed Serenity with every fiber of her being.
"Argghhh!" she whined as she climbed out of bed, stiff as could be. Her eyes were still weary and she felt as if her arms were going to fall off. She put on her silky pink robe and walked out of her room.
She found Marik on the kitchen table, reading the daily paper, and munching down a bowl of corn flakes. He looked up to see her frizzy hair accompanied by her half-closed eyes. He just smiled at the sight in front of him.
"Morning." He said with sly smile on his face.
"Up my ass." She said as she sat next to him on the table.
"Hard time sleeping?" he asked putting the morning news down. She just nodded. "Why? You got a bad dream or something?" she nodded again. "You want to talk about it?" she just got up from her seat and headed for the bathroom. She made a pit stop at the linen closet and pulled out two towels.
"I need a shower." She said lifelessly, and closed the bathroom door behind her.
The congested bathroom didn't help her mood at all. She removed her robe and silk nightgown, which was both skimpy and alluring, wearing nothing at all underneath it. The faucet was turned on to cold, hell she needed some sort of wake up call to snap her out of her weary state of being. She entered it slowly, trying to resist the coldness against her toes. Shivers went threw her entire body as she slid into the tub fully. Her skin pleaded for the warmth of heat. Lost in her thoughts she just applied the some soap onto her loufah and spread onto her body. Her body had not yet adjusted to the temperature of the water. She washed off the soap and than continued with washing her hair. Than the conditioner and than washed it all off and exited the tub which resembled the freezer in the kitchen. Wrapped a towel around her upper body and used the other towel to dry off her hair. She blow-dried it straight, styling it into a professional bun that made her look both qualified and casual at the same. She picked up her nightgown and robe and proceeded her way out of the bathroom.
On her way out Marik spotted her, and was rather astonished by what she could do to herself in less than one hour. "Serenity..." he said trying to get her attention. She turned to face him.
"Yes?" she asked, he sensed a hint of annoyance in her tone that wasn't there before.
"Do you want me to drop you off at Kaiba Corp.?" he asked a bit intimidated by her.
"Yes please." She turned her heel and headed for her room. 'Same shower, same hair, same suit, same answer, no.' she thought to herself as she recapped the events that occurred in the previous days. 'What's the point? He probably won't even have a position available!' she taunted herself to change her mind and to spend the day roaming the streets of the familiar city she had come to. 'Maybe Marik could take a day off and come with me? No he's got a lot of work to do.'
From the closet she pulled out her outfit, it was professional and casual to resemble her hairstyle. She put it on, the skirt ending just at her knees and the top, a full sleeved, V-shaped opening at her neck that went down just to the beginning of her breasts. Showing just the right amount of skin and just a little bit o cleavage that her bra gave.
Her eyes drifted over to the clock, to see that it was already 7:37 a.m. and she ran out of her room to Marik waiting impatiently at the door, keys and briefcase already in his hands.
"Sorry Marik," she said running over to him and grabbing a piece of toast on the way. They both ran out of the apartment building after Marik locked the door, and once again failed to pull the key out. They both were late for their day's events, Marik's board meeting, and Serenity's appointment. Serenity's heels weren't helping either of them.
Once in the car, Marik raced down the street heading for the building that could have been spotted miles away due to it's unbelievable length. The two were dead silent in the car, too busy thinking of the excuses they would have to make up for their tardiness.
Marik finally reached Kaiba Corp., Serenity climbed out of the car and they both said their good-byes to each other. Serenity turned her heel to go head on with her latest challenge, finding a job, and no other place than Kaiba Corporation.
She walked gracefully trying not to show how nervous she was. The man standing at the door held the door for her. He said politely like he said to all of the other employees and visitors a happy "Hello", and when they left, an even more cheerful "Good-bye". She simply smiled widely, bring joy to the old man.
She was stopped in her tracks looking at how hectic this place really was. Outside it was so calm and peaceful, but inside was entirely a different story. People were yelling and screaming at each other for either their mistakes or that they were in the wrong department.
'So much for quality and respect' she said inwardly laughing at her remark.
She headed towards the front desk where a woman in her late twenties with blonde hair sat, talking onto the phone, with what seemed to be a client. Serenity was on her tiptoes trying to see over the long marble counter top. Not that she was short, oh not at all. She was 5'8", she had grown much from her teenage years. But the counter was a bit too high for the average person, and the lady was sitting making it impossible to see.
Serenity decided just to wait until the receptionist was done talking. She waited for 5 minutes for what seemed like forever.
"No sir, it impossible for Mr. Kaiba to see you at the moment, he much too busy already to deal with this type of event." The blonde said into the phone.
'An event that won't increase his value or reputation, that's the type of thing that he doesn't have time for.' Serenity thought to herself. 'Selfish bastard'.
The receptionist finally hung up the phone and turned attention to Serenity. "How may I help you dear?" she asked politely.
"I'm here to see Mr. Kaiba."
"Do you have an appointment, love?"
"Yes, I do. It's under Serenity Wheel— Serenity Frank." Serenity corrected herself, remembering that her mother and her had changed their last name.
The blonde quickly typed something into the computer to confirm serenity's information. "Yep, it's right here. Follow me." The lady left her desk and headed towards a hall, which consisted of dozens of elegant elevators. She pressed the button for elevator to come down to the first floor, once they entered the elevator, alone, the receptionist spoke again, "You're actually a couple of minutes late, so he's talking to someone right now, but you can just wait outside." Serenity just nodded at her remark. The elevator finally stopped, at the 67th floor – the one at the top.
The lady led Serenity down the empty hall, the walls were painted different shades of beautiful acrylic blues. It's effect-leaving people misplaced and uncomfortable, just how Mr. Kaiba liked it. The lady stood in front of the door and pressed the button for the intercom.
"WHAT?!" the voice on the other side said irritated and angry.
The lady went from nice and pleasant to timid and intimidated, "Hmm, Mr. Kaiba sir, you have a visitor."
"Tell whoever it is, tell them to come after when Linda leaves!" he said rudely and than cut off the connection.
"Good luck," the blonde said and left Serenity's sight. Serenity's attention was caught by a rather loud voice that seemed to be saying something rude and insensitive. She leaned in and put her ear against the enormous mahogany doors, and listened.
All she could make out was, "You're so pathetic! Your work is pitiful and inaccurate! I don't how you got this position but you're FIRED! NOW GET THE HELL OUT OF MY OFFICE!" a manly, crude loud voice said.
A young girl came running out of the office, crying her eyes out from the abusive words that were thrown at her by her now ex-boss. Than she heard something loud from the office. She peeked her head into the grand office and was amazed by the sight. She knocked on the door lightly, and to her misfortune, the youngest CEO in the world heard it and turned around to let his cold, icy blue orbs met her precious, but her now timid, gorgeous hazel brown ones.
"What?!" he asked irritated beyond belief.
"I'm here for a job interview Mr. Kaiba." She said confidently trying not to be put down by the very, very tall man. He seemed about 6'6", but he actually was 6'4". Her confidence threw Kaiba off track, he wasn't used to people like her, he usually intimidated the shit out of people, no matter what the gender, profession, or anything else for a matter of fact.
"Come in." he said coldly.
Serenity was astonished by his ways, 'Does he even smile?' she asked herself. But quickly forgot about that and focused her attention on the interview. Serenity walked into the office and took a seat in front of his desk. Kaiba wasn't pleased.
"Don't remember asking you to sit down." He said as he sat down in his large black leather chair, and looked at her with a cold, angry face, that even a mother would fear.
Serenity than removed herself from the comfortable seat and forced her hand out for an appropriate greeting for this type of meeting. "My name is Serenity Frank," this time she made no mistake.
Kaiba didn't return the greeting and looked at her again with his usual cold, mean face, "So,"
Serenity was a bit annoyed by his I'm-the-king-of-the-world-and-the-rest-of-you-should-bow-to-me-or-face-death attitude, "Well, Mr. Kaiba, I'm here for a job interview,"
"There are no openings, and I don't remember placing an advertisement for help, so what are you doing here?" he asked even more cockily and obnoxious than before.
"Well you must have something open," she handed him her resume from the thin briefcase she carried with her, "I mean this empire is enormous you mus—" she was interrupted.
"Leave." He said plainly leaning back into his extraordinary chair.
"Excuse me?" she asked astonished by his tone of voice and attitude.
"I know you heard me the first time, but you must be slow, so I'll say it for you again. Leave." He said it with arrogance heard all over in his voice.
Serenity was not about to hear anymore of this man's bullshit, she simply stood up from her chair and walked towards the door, as if it was her only exit to this nightmare. 'What a bastard!' she thought, as she was just about to place her hand on the doorknob to turn it, 'Marik was right!'
"Wait." he said interrupting her from her thoughts.
"What? Forgot something rude to say to me? Or the world for that matter of fact." She said with spunk in her tone.
"Sit down." He said rudely.
"Why?"
"I have a preposition for you."
"Ohh really?" she asked with a smirk on her face and brought herself to sit on the chair that she claimed as hers minutes ago. "And what would that proposition consist of Mr. Kaiba?"
"Here." He handed her a thick file that was obviously his favorite colour, blue.
"What's this?" she asked removing it from his hands and started flipping through the dozens of papers with numbers flooding them.
"If you can finish accounting these, properly, in a reasonable time, than, I think that I could set things up for you." He said folding his hands and letting his elbows rest on the arms of the chair.
"What's the job?" Serenity asked getting down to the point.
"Why don't you finish this first, and than we'll talk." He said waving his hand to dismiss her.
"Where am I supposed to work?"
"Go down to the receptionist and she'll tell you what to do." He said no longer paying attention to her and focused his attention to the 47" computer monitor that was in front of his eyes.
"Whatever," Serenity walked out of his office, closing the door behind her, and than proceeded to the elevator and down again to the main floor.
She met up once again with the pleasant blonde at the front desk and she led her to a spare compartment where she could work in silence.
An hour passed and Serenity had made her way on to the 67 floor, with the folder still in her hands. She pressed the button on the intercom to confirm entrance to his office.
"What?!"
"Is that always your answer?" Serenity asked with a smirk on her face.
"Come in."
She entered the office gracefully, holding the folder close to her left breast. She took a seat in front of the Kaiba, who was still typing furiously onto the computer.
"What? Do you have questions? Look if you can't do this by yourself than I don't think that you should even have stepped foot into this building." He said coldly.
"Actually sir, I'm done." She placed the folder neatly on his desk.
He looked at her suspiciously. "How could you be done so fast?" he asked her taking the file into his hands and checking it for errors, or incompletion. She just shrugged and he wasn't at all impressed by her response.
Serenity detected some mixed emotions on his face. First there was amusement, 'He's probably thinking that I did it all wrong and that I was a fool to come here in the first place' Serenity thought to herself. After that, there was confusion, than last but not least there was shock.
"Who helped you do this?" Kaiba asked rudely throwing the folder on top of his desk, not caring if anything fell out.
"Nobody sir" Serenity said softly in defense.
"Well lets see how well you do when you're all alone." He said coldly, consistently showing eye contact, just to scare the shit out of her and little did he know, but it was working. He handed her another folder, except it was twice the size of the last, and than he faced his computer screen again, totally ignoring her.
"Hmmm, Mr. Kaiba, where am I supposed to work?" Serenity asked timidly.
"There's a couch over there." He said pointing to an obviously blue long leather couch, which was only for luxury, not for professional uses.
"A couch?" she asked raising a brow.
He just stared at his screen, ignoring her remark. She was to frustrated to fight, so she just picked up the folder and headed towards the couch.
It was about two hours and twenty-six minutes later that Serenity had completed her task. She walked over to the angry Kaiba that was yelling at someone on the phone. She took a seat in front of him hopping that she would get a job.
"No you stupid imbecile! DAMMIT! If I want to get something done right I need to do it my bloody self!" Kaiba yelled into the receiver of the phone, and than slammed it down into its place. The whites of his eyes were no longer white, but a shade of deadly red. He saw Serenity sitting in front of him and spoke, "Done?" he asked.
"No sir, I had some questions." She said humorously trying to see if he would at least smile. He didn't. He just gave her a blank stare of irritation. "It was a joke sir." She said placing the folder on his desk and than letting her eyes wander to the floor. He said nothing, just flipped through the pages of the folder, trying to evaluate the preciseness of the work. He was pleased but didn't show it.
"Alright, I only have one opening for you. You can either take it or leave it, its up to you." He said shifting his focus to her.
"If it's a janitor something, forget it." She said rudely.
"It's the privilege of being my personal assistant. The woman you saw run out earlier was appointed to that job about a week ago. She failed. If you want the job, it will pay you..." he thought about it for a while, "about 40,000 a year." He said plainly.
"That's it?"
"Well you have to do you your job properly, and if I feel you deserve a raise, than you shall have it.' He said lifting her sprits, but than brought them right back down, "But I highly doubt that will happen."
"How long are the hours?"
"Whenever I need you." He said getting up from his seat and walking over to his door. "I'm going out for lunch." And put on his trench coat, "I expect that then I come back, my table will be organized, there will be a hot cup of coffee on my desk. Two spoons of sugar, dark, no milk, and no cream. Take all of my messages while I'm gone and when I come back I'll show you where your desk is." And with that he left.
"What a bastard!" she said aloud. "Well atleast now I have a job." She said, and than realized that she had a job. "I have a job!" she aloud happily. "I've got to tell Marik! No, he's probably busy." She said, her voice lowering. She decided that if she wanted to keep this job, and possibly get a raise, she'd need to be optimistic about Kaiba, and take all of the bullshit he has to say.
She quickly organized his desk in less than forty-five minutes, it was a big desk and had dozens of papers all over the place. She scurried down the front desk at the bottom floor to ask the receptionist where the coffee machine was. Serenity found out there was one in Kaiba's office but it was to the farthest to the right in the corner, where the long couch was. Serenity was getting quite tired going up and than back down 67 floors.
She made Kaiba's coffee just the way he wanted it, dark, two spoons of sugar, no milk, and no cream. She put it in one of those thermos coffee holders since she didn't know when he would come back.
One hour had passed and Kaiba still wasn't here yet. Serenity decided to have a little fun, so she sat in his chair. She put her legs up just for the hell of it, relaxing as if she was the CEO of Kaiba Corporation. She put up her hands behind her head and leaned back, and rocked the chair as if she was an old granny on a rocking chair.
Serenity was too busy in her own thoughts to see that a teenage boy had sneaked into the office without her knowing, "Who are you?" the boy asked tilting his head.
Serenity quickly snapped out of her daydreaming and fell off the chair and to the floor because of how startled she was. But she was relieved that it wasn't Kaiba, or she would be done for. He came around the to the back of the desk and helped the unknown woman up.
"Are you alright?" he asked concerned pulling her up.
"Yeah, thanks," Serenity said as she fixed her skirt and top.
"Well, who are you?" he asked lifting a brow.
"I should be asking the same thing to you? You seem pretty young, you probably aren't even supposed to be in this building, heck not even so called 'Leader's' office." She said sarcastically, "Okay if you leave right now, I won't tell anybody you were in here okay?" she asked ruffling her hand in his hair.
"Well, there's no need for that, I'm the so called 'Leader's' brother." He said crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Oh really," she said embarrassed, "I'm sorry I didn't know"
"It's okay, who are you?"
"I'm your brother's new personal assistant," she pulled the chair back into its place, and fixed the papers that were re-shuffled from her fall.
"What's your name?" he asked taking a seat on one of the couches that were against the cold blue walls. Serenity joined him on the couch but kept her space from him.
"My name's Serenity, and you?"
"Mokuba."
"How old are you Mokuba?"
"Guess." He said deviously.
She needed to make a wise decision on this, "I would say maybe, twenty or nineteen."
"Why does everybody think that!" he said outraged. "I'm sixteen!"
"Wow. You really don't look that young."
"Well it's just a number, it doesn't mean anything. Anyway, how old are you?"
"I thought you said that your age was just a number, and it doesn't mean anything?" she said sarcastically.
"Yeah, yeah, just tell me. You shouldn't be embarrassed you look pretty young to me. I'd say you were about twenty." He said taking an estimate.
"No, I'm actually twenty-three, but you were close enough."
"Hey Serenity,"
"Yes?"
"Do you where Seto is?"
"Who's Seto?" she asked confused.
"My brother, have you seen him?" he questioned worriedly.
"I remember him saying that he was going out for lunch, but I don't know where or who he went with." Serenity said rubbing the back of her neck.
"He was supposed to go with me, but he never showed up, that's why I came here." Mokuba said lowering his eyes in sadness.
"Have you eaten anything yet?" Serenity asked trying to make him feel better. He shook his head. "Do you think I could take you out for a pizza or fast-food? It's up to you." Serenity offered.
Mokuba lifted his gaze to meet hers, "But don't you have work to do?"
"Nope, your brother hasn't given me anything new, so I'm free, and I don't know when he's coming back, but I think we can eat and come back without him knowing."
"You sure?" Serenity nodded. "Okay than, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" and Mokuba ran out of the office and pulled her out of it too. They both ran out of the building and took a bus to a close by McDonalds. They spent around forty-five minutes eating, and than headed back for Kaiba Corp.
Mokuba escorted her up to his brother's office, to find a very, very upset CEO.
"Hahaha! I know I saw that too!" Serenity said laughing loudly, as she sung the mahogany door open.
"That's was hilarious..." he trailed off when he saw his older brother starring at him with a deep intensity. "Hey big brother," Mokuba said afraid of his brother's mood.
"Hello Mokuba." He said sending shivers through both the younger Kaiba's and Serenity's back. "What are you doing with her?"
"Mr. Kaiba, it isn't his fault I—" Serenity was interrupted.
"I don't remember asking you to speak!" Kaiba shot at her, causing her view to lower to the floor. "Mokuba! Answer me!" he yelled at his younger brother.
Mokuba resisted for a while but than spoke, "I asked Serenity if she would take me for lunch because I was hungry and you didn't meet me where you said you would." Mokuba let out timidly
"Yeah right," Kaiba said getting up from his chair, "tell me the truth."
"I'm not lying." Mokuba said in defense.
"Fine than, I'll talk with you later. Go home." Kaiba said facing the large window that stared at the bottom of the floor, to the top of the roof.
"Okay," Mokuba obeyed, "bye big brother. See ya later Serenity."
Serenity worded a 'Thank you' but without making a noise.
Once Mokuba was gone, Serenity spoke, "Mr. Kaiba? Should I leave also?"
"No."
"Than what would you like me to do sir?"
"Come here."
Serenity walked up behind him, "Yes?" she asked. He turned around and their eyes met.
He than opened his mouth, "Stay away from my brother." He said coldly.
"Okay." She said, "Is that it?"
"For now." And he went over to his desk to get something from his briefcase. He pulled out slender black cell phone and handed it to her. "Keep this."
"For what?" she asked looking at it and checking out the options.
"So whenever I need you, I can reach you." He said, and than repeated himself, "Whenever." Than he pulled a couple of papers with writing on them. "Sign them."
"What is it?" she asked skimming her eyes over it.
"Our contract. Take home if you want, but I want it by tomorrow morning at 9 a.m." Serenity slid it into her own briefcase and waited for further instructions. He spoke again, "You are dismissed. You can have the rest of the day off."
"Thank you Mr. Kaiba." She said happily, a smile engraved deeply on her face.
"Don't expect this kind of kindness from me. You were nice to my brother, I just have to repay you, and now my deed is done." He said heading towards the door and opening it, "Leave." He said coldly, and she did so.
Once she got outside she ran to the payphone to call her friend – Marik. She picked up the receiver and put a quarter into the slit and dialed his cell phone number.
"Hello," Marik asked on the other line.
"Hey Marik, it's me!"
"Hey Serenity, what's up?" he said walking down the halls of his work place to his car.
"Nothing, but I've got great news! Come pick me up! I'm the Kaiba Corp. building." She was almost yelling into the phone.
"Alright, I'll be there."
And they both hung up on their phones. Serenity waited by the curb patiently, and Marik raced down the street to meet her.
Once he finally got there he ran out of his 2000 year red Lexus to Serenity. She shrieked when she saw him and ran to him, disregarding the fact that she was wearing heels. He saw her coming to him and caught her when she jumped into the air in joy. He twirled around a little bit, so she got scared and wanted to come back down.
He put her down gracefully and she spoke, "Oh my god Marik! I got a job! As Kaiba's personal assistant!" Marik's smile turned upside down.
"You've got to be kidding me. Your working for him, as his servant?" he asked angrily.
"Not servant, assistant." She corrected him, opening the door of the car, getting in and than shutting the door behind her.
Marik also got in the car, and put his key into the ignition, staring it up, anddrove down the street. Still the both of them arguing if her job was a good idea.
All the while Serenity and Marik were embracing each other, Kaiba was watching them like a hawk as he waited at the door of his building for his limousine to arrive.
'Oh, so she's got a lover boy?' Kaiba thought to himself as he watched the both of them speed of down the street. 'Figures.' He laughed inwardly and smirk came across his face. 'And with Marik, that's funny.' He saw his ride home and climbed into it gracefully, little did he know that he had an unexpected visitor waiting for him...
TO BE CONTINUED...Author's Note: Well people, that was boring right? I'm sure it was. Sorrie! But I promise that the next chapters will be really, really good, and the plot will get a lot better! I promise! Read & Review plz! All comments are greatly appreciated!
