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Chapter 4-
As Seto was putting on the finishing touches to the mural, him and Serenity were looking at the first draft happily. 'I think we did a good job, it looks good to me.' Seto said smiling as it seemed as though Serenity was lost deep in her own thoughts.
As he touched her arm lightly, she was snapped out of her thoughts. 'Sorry about that, yeah it looks good to me too. Do you think you could give me a ride home?' she asked concern for her ignorant brother was shinning in her deep caring green eyes.
'Sure, why what's wrong?' he asked in concern, though surprisingly he didn't want her to leave and was enjoying her company.
'I just want to go home and check up on my brother, to make sure that he's okay.' she explained quietly.
'Why what do you care, it seems as though he doesn't care about you.' he snapped angrily.
'I know, but it seems like you do at least, and for that I'm grateful.' she said smiling.
'Okay, let's go than.' he said his face emotionless as they had gotten inside his limo.
'Are you going to be okay?' he asked in concern holding her hand lightly.
'Yeah thanks to you I will be.' she said quietly as they had reached her house.
'Okay I'll see you tomorrow at school than.' he said smiling as he had drove off back towards his house, once he saw that she had made it safely inside.
When Serenity had walked inside the house, she had noticed that Joey was passed out on the sofa holding a beer in his hand.
Sighing angrily to herself she had taken a trash bag from the kitchen had taken the empty beer bottle that was in his hand and the other beer bottles that were littered across the living room floor.
Once she had thrown the trash bag full of empty beer bottles in the trash, she had went over to the answering machine to check and see if there were any messages.
Since they were all for Joey of course, she wrote them down on a piece of paper and had headed upstairs to her room. She than had turned on her stereo, turning the volume up high and had put in a cd, as she started to hum along with the words.
(Disclaimer- I don't own the lyrics for Nickelback- Believe It or Not-
Believe
it or not everyone have things that they hide
Believe it or not
everyone keep most things inside
Believe it or not everyone
believe in something above
Believe it or not everyone need to feel
loved
But
we don't and we won't
Until we figure out
Could
someone deliver us
Just send us some kind of sign
So close to
giving up
'Cause faith is so hard to find
But
you don't and you won't
Until we figure out
I've seen it a
lot every time the world turns upside down
Believe it or not most
of us feel like we're losing ground
Believe it or not everyone
hate admitting fear
Believe it or not most of us wanna know why
we're here
But
we don't and we won't
Until we figure out
Could
someone deliver us
Just send us some kind of sign
So close to
giving up
'Cause faith is so hard to find
Could someone deliver
us
Just send us some kind of sign
So close to giving up
'Cause
faith is so hard to find
But
you don't and you won't
Until we figure out
Most of us
have nothing to complain about
Most of us have things we could
live without
Everyone need advice on how to get along
You
don't, we won't
Until we figure out
Believe
it or not everyone have things that they hide
Believe it or not
everyone keep most things inside
Believe it or not everyone
believe in something above
Believe it or not everyone need to feel
loved
But
we don't and we won't
Until we figure out
Could
someone deliver us
Just send us some kind of sign
So close to
giving up
'Cause faith is so hard to find
But we don't and we
won't
Until we figure out…
Serenity was about to get in the shower when her brother had stormed into her room, obviously still drunk and pissed off.
'It's about time you got home.' he spat at her angrily.
'Joey I haven't been gone that long, besides why were all those empty beer bottles doing in the living room, are you drunk?' she asked in concern.
'Mind your own business, anyways I've been doing some thinking and I think it's time you finally moved out.' he explained surprising her.
'Joey, why you can't be serious where am I going to go?' she asked as she started to cry.
'I am and I really don't care where you go as long as it's not here,' he said smiling as he came closer to her to give her a hug.
'It's okay sis, don't cry, besides you're old enough now that you need your own place to stay.' he said as he kissed the tears off of her face.
'But I don't have anywhere else to go.' she said angrily.
'It's okay I'll help you find a place, but I guess you can stay here until than.' he said smiling as he pushed her up against the wall and wrapped his arms around her.
'Okay thanks Joey, that would be nice of you to help me out.' she said trying to give him a kiss on the cheek, but Joey had turned his head so that she had to kiss him on the lips.
She tried to pull away, but Joey had deepened it scaring the hell out of her. When Joey had broke the kiss he ran a finger down her cheek and across her lips.
Though before Joey could say anything else he could hear someone knocking on the door. Sighing in annoyance he gave her a soft kiss on the cheek and ran down the steps to the front door.
As soon as he had left she locked the bathroom door, since it was the only door in the house that had a lock on it and stepped into the shower as tears poured down her face once more…
When Joey opened the door there was Tristan looking worried and upset. 'Hey Tristan what's up?' Joey asked in concern.
'Me and Duke need your help with something.' Tristan started to explain looking worried.
'Can it wait, I'm kind of busy at the moment.' Joey explained annoyance, though Tristan didn't notice it.
'No, what could keep you this busy, especially when your friends need your help?' Tristan asked him curiously.
'I'm helping my sis with something, but I guess it can wait until later. What do you need my help for?' Joey asked in concern.
'I'll explain it on the way to Duke's house, I don't want to tell you hear, just in case your sister hears me.' Tristan explained smiling.
'Okay, let's go than.' Joey said smiling as he grabbed his keys and coat and had slammed the door behind him…
Serenity sighed in relief as she could hear the front door slam shut. 'I guess that means that Joey went out. Good I'm glad, I wonder what the hell was wrong with him? Maybe he was just acting that way because he was still drunk, that has to be it, right?' she thought to herself confused and upset.
She had than decided to try calling Seto and see if he would help her. 'Yeah right, and than he'd want to kill Joey.' she thought to herself sadly as she hung up after she let it ring twice, sighing sadly to herself…
Seto was about to fax the paper work over to the other business men that he had finally finished, when he heard his cell phone ring. He was about to pick it up, but the person had already hung up. 'I wonder who that was, I thought no one else had this number.' he thought to himself confused as he looked at the mysterious number.
He decided that the only way that he could figure his out on his own, was to call the person back. Although they didn't answer so he waited for the voicemail to pick up. 'Hey this is Serenity, you know what to do, so leave me a message after the beep.' was all it said as he hung up in shock and disbelief.
'I wonder how she got this number?' Seto thought to himself as he hung up, not saying anything. 'Than again, why was she calling me, of all people?' Seto thought to himself confused, as he decided that he would drive over there to see if she was alright…
Serenity had quickly taken a shower and after a slight hesitation, headed downstairs to grab something to eat. She had looked out the window excepting to see that Joey was still out, but instead she noticed that there was a limo pulling up to her driveway. Shocked she slipped on a pair of sandals and had rushed outside.
She was right, for when she walked outside and had approached the limo, Seto had stepped out of it smiling at her questioningly. 'What are you doing here?' she asked smiling as her eyes had light up happily.
'Well I got this strange call from someone and when I found out that it was you, I wanted to come and make sure that everything was alright.' he explained as she had lead him inside.
'Oh yeah, so I guess you figured out that it was me.' she answered shyly.
'Yeah it wasn't that hard to figure out that it was you.' he said smirking as he sat down across from her at the small table. 'So why did you call me anyway, is everything okay?' he asked in concern.
'Yeah, I don't know why I called you.' she said not looking at him.
'Don't lie to me Serenity, I know that if you didn't need anything at all than you wouldn't of called me in the first place.' he said reasoning.
'Yeah that's true.' she said quietly.
'Does it have anything to do with your brother?' he asked her tentatively.
'Yes.' she said finally looking into his deep blue eyes.
'Do you want to tell me what happened?' he asked holding her hand and gently squeezing it.
'I guess so, when you dropped me off I found him drunk and lying on he sofa. So I picked up the empty beer bottles to throw them away, than I headed upstairs to the bathroom. Suddenly he came inside and started yelling at me,
saying that I had to leave and find another place to stay. And than he tried to do something to me, I don't know what he was trying to do but it scared me.' she said stuttering as she burst into tears.
He stood up and handed her a box of tears that were nearby on a counter near the stove. 'It'll be okay, I promise, you can stay in one of the guest rooms at the mansion if you want.' Seto said surprising both of them.
'Are you sure, that would be nice of you. But why are you being nice to me, you don't have to do anything if you don't want to.' she said looking away from him.
'Why wouldn't I want to help you, now why don't you get you things together and I'll leave Joey a note telling him where you are.' he suggested knowing that no matter what Joey did to her, she would still care about him.
She just nodded in agreement smiling as she had ran up the steps to gather up the small amount of things that she had.
'I can't believe he would try to do anything to harm someone as sweet and innocent as Serenity. Well at least now I can protect her from him hurting her anymore than he has already.' Seto thought angrily to himself.
'Okay I'm ready to go.' she said holding up a small suitcase that looked almost empty.
'You don't have a lot of stuff, do you?' Seto asked smiling as they had walked outside.
'No, but that's okay, I have everything I need even if it isn't all that much.' she explained smiling.
Though when they were about to get inside the limo Joey's old beat up car had pulled up, causing Serenity to tense up. 'It'll be okay, why don't you get inside the limo and lock up all the doors, I will take care of this.' he whispered to her softly, as she nodded her head in agreement and had followed his orders as Joey had stepped out of the car.
'What the hell is going on, and what are you doing her Kiba?' Joey spat angrily towards him.
'What does it look like mutt, I'm taking your sister away from you so that she'll be safe away from you at least.' Seto explained smiling.
'What! What the hell, I'm not letting her go without a fight!' Joey yelled angrily steeping closer to him.
'I guess you didn't learn your lesson from last time, huh mutt.' Seto spat angrily at him preparing for him to attack.
'Shut up moneybags!' Joey yelled at him angrily as he tried to punch him in the face, but Seto had easily blocked it and had pushed Joey roughly away from him.
'Why can't you get it through your thick head that you won't win?' Seto asked him angrily.
'That's what you think.' Joey said smiling as he pulled out a knife.
'I see you know that you're not going to win a fight, so you take the cowards way out?' Seto asked laughing at Joey.
'Shut up Kiba!' Joey screamed as he lunged towards him with the knife, pointing it towards his neck. Though Seto just punched the knife out of Joey's hand cutting his knuckles in the process. Though he than surprisingly pinned Joey to the ground.
'Why won't you just admit it that you're not going to win this, so just give up already?' Seto asked as he punched Joey in the stomach.
'You'd like that wouldn't you Kiba? To see me whimpering out in pain in defeat?' Joey snapped at him trying to wrench Seto off of him, so that he could hit him back.
'Yes, but it's not what I want you idiot, it's what's best for your sister and what she'd want. I'm sure she doesn't want to see me beat you up.' Seto yelled angrily.
'Now I'm going to get off of you and if you try to pick up that knife again or try to hit me, I won't hold back and you'll be sorry.' Seto snapped angrily as he stood up and had brushed himself off.
Joey had than stood up and walked over to the limo to say goodbye to Serenity, as she rolled down the window fear in her eyes.
'I guess that this is for the best since you kicked me out earlier.' she snapped angrily at him surprisingly.
'Sis I didn't mean that I was drunk and you know that. I'm sorry for what I did earlier, please don't go.' he begged her softly.
'It's too late, you had your chance over and over again. And I'm tired of all the pain that you've put me through.' she said angrily as she rolled the window back up, not giving him a chance to say anything else as Joey went into the house slamming the door behind him.
Seto than sat down inside the limo next to her. 'I'm sorry you had to witness that, but I had to do something.' Seto said silently as they started on the drive towards his mansion.
'No it's okay I understand, are you okay though, your hand is bleeding.' she said softly.
'Yeah I'll be okay, it's just a small cut I think I'll live.' he said smiling as they reached the mansion as he helped her up and out of the limo.
When they had stepped inside one of the nurses had attended to his wound and had cleaned it out and had than placed a band-aid over it as he showed Serenity to her room, and than around the mansion.
'Thank you Seto for everything.' she said smiling.
'Yeah, you're welcome, well there's some business stuff I need to take care of but if you need anything just let me know.' Seto explained smiling.
'Okay, I'll leave you be than I'll come later.' she said sweetly as she left his office shutting the door behind her, leaving Seto to drift off deep into thought.
'I think I made the right choice, at least now the place won't seem so empty, but what if something happens to her? I can't let that happen.' he thought to himself sadly as he was interrupted as he heard a knock on his door, it was one of his servants.
'Master Kiba, is the young lady staying here permanently?' the young servant girl asked sweetly.
'Yes, her name is Serenity and I'd like it if you'd keep an eye on her until you got used to being here.' he ordered quietly.
'Yes sir.' she said bowing as she was about to leave.
'Wait a minute.' he asked softly surprising her.
'Yes master?' she asked uncertain.
'What is your name?' he asked confusing her.
'It's Alexia sir.' she said softly.
'Well Alexia I think it would make our new guest feel more comfortable if you called me Seto, instead.' he explained shocking her.
'Yes Seto.' she said awkwardly as she left smiling and headed towards Serenity's room…
As Serenity was getting out the few things that she had brought with her, she heard a soft knock on the door. And as she went to answer it, there was a young girl with light golden blonde hair walked quietly into the room.
'Hi you must be Serenity?' the young girl asked uncertainly.
'Yes hi I'm Serenity, what's your name?' she asked her smiling.
'I'm Alexia, Seto wanted me to make sure that you were situated and that you had everything that you need.' she explained smiling awkwardly.
'Yep thank you for asking me though.' Serenity said as she motioned for the young girl to sit next to her on the bed, and she did after a light hesitation.
'If you don't mind me asking, how old are you?' Serenity asked curiously.
'I'm nineteen, my birthday was last month.' the girl said quietly.
'Cool I'm only one year younger than you, my birthday was three months ago.' Serenity said smiling.
Well there you go another chapter I hope you all liked it and please read and review! (looks at everyone pleadingly- pretty please?)
