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How To Find A Girlfriend In Seven Days?
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Chapter Two
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"Day One"
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"You're late!" Kaiba exclaimed to the small grown young woman who looked grimly at him in response.
"Listen Kaiba, I've got a University to attend, a childish pizza-stuffing messy older brother and now you, I've got to deal with. So shut the hell up, it's just five past eight!" Out of breath Serenity's face went from the usual peachy color to a furious red.
Kaiba smirked. "Are you feeling sick? You're all red over the face."
"GRRR!"
If you didn't know, Seto Kaiba loved to annoy. It was like a hobby and apparently there was no one else but him and Serenity Wheeler in the room. So add one and one and you see, she was the next available victim. Did I mention that they were in his office at home? Taking lesson meant work. So Kaiba assumed the office was adequate.
"Take a seat." The brown-haired man motioned for her to sit down on the sofa while he was sitting down opposite her. "What do you want me to do?"
"Huh?"
"Remember? You. Me. Teaching. Hello? Anybody inside?" He waved a hand in front of her face but she slapped it away.
"I KNOW THAT!" The hazel-eyed girl growled at him. "Shut up now."
"Okay." He crossed his arms and leant back, waiting for her lesson to start. From time to time he raised an eyebrow in order to urge her on but she didn't say anything. "Well?"
"I don't know where to start." Serenity stood up and walked up and down the room until she came to an abrupt halt. Triumphantly she pointed her index finger in the air and gazed at Kaiba. "In order to teach you, I need to know about your deficits beforehand."
"Deficits?"
"Yes. I want you to imagine I'm a girl you want to chat up." Serenity sat back on the sofa, crossed her legs elegantly and gazed at the empty space next to her as if she was watching an imaginary friend (or so). "Go on."
"Ridiculous." Kaiba muttered and huffed a breath.
"No, this isn't ridiculous. Imagine I'm the girl you want to chat up. I sit here and stare into… nothing actually. I'm bored. You see me and you want to talk to me. Now go one and say something!"
Kaiba wondered if she told the empty space next to her or him. Wheeler had her eyes fixed on whatever and wouldn't look at him. Funny somehow.
"Well?" Gazing across her shoulder her eyes finally met him with a glare. She really expected him to act with her in this role play. She must be insane!
"I can't."
"Wha--- Why?"
"I wouldn't chat you up if you were the last woman on earth." The blue-eyed CEO told her honestly and truthfully but with a small smirk coming through his cold façade.
"ARG!" Like thunder and lightning the little red-head turned and glared with burning eyes. Seto swore they were on fire. "That's not the point, Kaiba! Imagine I'm someone else!" She screamed at him.
"Oh… then." He drew small circles in the air with his index finger. "Turn around."
The woman did as she was told. "Now, say whatever you'd say in order to chat someone up."
Silence.
"Kaiba, I dare you!"
"I CAN'T!"
"WHY THE HELL THIS TIME?"
"I see you. I know who you are!"
"THEN CLOSE YOUR DAMN EYES!" She shouted at him and turned back. "Will you do that now?"
"Fine."
"Eyes closed?" She wanted to be sure this time.
"Eyes closed." He assured her.
"Then imagine a girl you'd like to chat up. I am her, sitting here and I'm bored. Now go on…" Serenity prayed to god above that the damn smart ass would finally do it!
"Hello." He said monotonously.
"The nicest you can, please." She already corrected him and he gritted his teeth.
"Hello." He tried more friendly but how much more friendly could he sound through gritted teeth while his eyes were narrowed to these blue blazing slits? Right, not very friendly. But Serenity decided to let it slip. "Do you want to drink something… with me?"
Serenity turned and looked at him. Actually he was looking quite funny with his eyes closed and that uneasy expression. She suppressed the gurgle rising in her throat. "Why would I do that?"
"Huh?" Kaiba opened one eye suspiciously. "You still playing your role, Wheeler?"
"Of course, go on. I asked you, why would I do that?" She smiled at him, flirting.
So this was meant teasingly! Yes! Poor Seto…
"Because I asked you to."
Why else?
"Hm…I'm not sure." She laid a finger on her chin and gazed up at the ceiling. "Convince me."
"Wha---hmph. Well…" He thought for a moment. "I'm going to pay."
The girl with the long auburn hair cringed visibly.
This won't function! No, no, no, no, no. no, no, no…
"Pay? Try it without impressing a woman with money!" She ordered.
"Grrr…" Kaiba felt highly fooled right now. "What do you want me to say instead? This is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. We should forget about this whole deal about you teaching me. It won't function anyway!"
"How can you be sure?" Serenity shot back. "I am teaching you right now, telling you not to impress with money, so? Will you just come up with something else to convince me? That's all I'm asking of you but hell, if you want to chicken out, fine. It's not me who wants a girlfriend!"
"I don't want to chicken out!"
"No? Then why don't you just play along and listen to my advise?" She scoffed.
"Easier said than done. Tell me how to impress with other than money!" He hissed.
"Well… what are your qualities?"
Kaiba looked at her blankly, then said, "My wealth, my achievements, my intelligence, my company, my dueling skills…"
"Hm, wait a second. All these things are great but I doubt you can convince a woman to drink something with you by telling her anything like that. Can we try something else?"
"And what might that be?"
"Let me chat you up and you can see how I do it."
"Good. I always wanted to know how girls chat up men."
"Um…" Serenity blinked. "I meant I'm the man and you are the girl."
"You must be kidding me! I won't play a girl." Kaiba had no clue why she pestered him that much.
"You don't have to dress up as such, Kaiba! Just sit there and let me chat you up. Imagine, I'm a guy, that's it! Can you do that? Now? Can you?" Nearly freaking Serenity glared daggers at the blue-eyed dragon-like fiery and cold all the same time but handsome man.
"Fine." He turned and smirked avoiding to meet her eyes until she had spoken to him.
"Hello. I've noticed you for a while and I was wondering if you might like to drink something with me?" She really, really tried her best.
"Actually, I don't know." Kaiba replied snappy but girlish. "Convince me!"
The girl couldn't help rolling her eyes. "Well, I wouldn't ask if I could see past you but that's too much to ask because you're really attractive. Please don't send me away."
Kaiba's head turned slowly, his smirk playing funnily on his lips. "I knew you can't resist me."
"KAIBA!"
"Are you girls really falling for that crap? I wouldn't ask if I could see past you but I can't because you're sooo fat that nobody else fits into the same room as you…" He mocked playful.
Dryly Serenity said, "Add humor to your qualities. You can be sooo funny."
"Thanks."
"Save it, Kaiba. Just one thing, seriously. If you want to ask a girl if she wants to drink something with you, then ask 'would you like to…' instead of 'do you want to…'. Sounds nicer, you know?" The small woman massaged her temples. This would grow to a headache later. She was sure on her part.
"Ah…" Swiftly his hand grabbed for a pen and he began to write on a notepad.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm going to write down your advise. This is a lesson. I should make notes." He replied without gazing at her.
By the way our favorite CEO had a beautiful handwriting. That's at least what Serenity thought of it. She had seen him a few times on a computer but he was actually able to write, manual, with his hand, the right one in his case. He was human! Bless him!
"Am I allowed asking you something, Kaiba?" She cynically dared to say.
"No, I'm not interested in you." He stated simply with a big smirk.
"That's not what I wanted to ask!" She nearly screamed in his cold face.
"What else?" Unimpressed he replied.
"Did you… Have you ever had a girlfriend?"
"No."
Serenity wouldn't have expected such a direct answer to her question.
"That's why you're here." He added though and dedicated his attention to the notepad again.
"But… never mind." No need to push his buttons, the anger ones she thought of. Sure, it wasn't a topic the cold-hearted CEO would like talking about.
"Just say that you think how sad that is. Pathetic even, huh? No need to keep it inside." His stare hit her so sudden that she slightly flinched.
"Well, if it lightens up your mood, I have never had a boyfriend either." Casually she crossed her legs and leant back, crossing her arms.
"Ha! What about spike head and dice boy? You honestly want to tell me, they do all of this for you if they get nothing out of it?" Ridiculous!
"Hey! I can't help it if they won't give up!" Serenity glared offended at a doubtful glancing Kaiba.
"They're idiots." Obviously as she wasn't even worth the effort.
"They're my friends though." If she really told them that there wouldn't be a chance in hell for them, would they still be there? She wasn't so sure after all.
"Not that I care." He shrugged with a wide smirk.
"Tell me Kaiba." She began.
"What?" The smirk stayed in place.
"I've seen your brother and may I say he seems really skilled in the techniques of chatting up. So why don't you just ask him instead of me? Not that I complain but a) you could save the money and b) you would spare me a headache." She gave a damn about the money right now. THAT smirk really gave her a headache, one resuming in punching the lights out of Mr. Smart Ass soon if he didn't stop.
"Right. But…" He took a deep breath. "We don't want me to end up with a fourteen-year-old, now do we? Mokuba knows a lot of things but I doubt he'd get far with mature women. Clear?" He shrugged. "Can we go back to our lesson now?"
"Course. Can we give it another try if you don't mind?" Serenity turned back facing nothing but the empty place next to her. "I'm the girl, you're the man, chat me up."
Kaiba groaned but took a breath in order to play his role. "Hi."
Serenity turned with raised eyebrows. This didn't make it easier for him! He stared at her for a moment forcing his mind not to think of the fact that THE WHEELERETTE was the object he needed to practice with. Opposite him, Serenity wondered. Why in hell hadn't he closed his eyes? Wasn't it robbing his ability to role play with her?
And holy crap had he eyes! Woah… Piercing, cold, penetrating, beautiful, straight, wrenching…
"I was wondering if you would like to drink something with me?"
"Huh?" And Serenity snapped out of her dream, already comparing Kaiba's blue eyes with the ocean, the sky, a swimming pool though that would be water again, sapphires... BUT he made her snap back into reality and she gazed at him dumbfounded.
"ARE YOU DAYDREAMING OR WHAT? I'M NOT PAYING YOU INCOMPETENT FOOL FOR DAYDREAMING!" No one messed with the lovely, bright-natured, friendly president of damn Kaiba Corporations, which is one of the most successful companies in the damn world for a damn reason, damn it!
"Why are you freaking, you… FREAK?" Serenity wasn't one to mess with, either. The small Wheeler had developed quite a temper since Battle City!
"I don't FREAK! You're DAYDREAMING when you should teach me!" He thundered at her with furious – add it to the list above – eyes.
"I was NOT daydreaming!"
"You bloody were!"
"STOP CURSING!" She screamed.
"Don't tell me what to do in my own house, Wheeler!" He shouted back.
"GRRR!"
A teenager, almost the seize of Seto Kaiba, slim build, wearing a black shirt and blue jeans, stood in the door for a while now and his eyes shifted from the tall-grown brown-haired to the small-framed girl and back, repeatedly, for quite a while now. His jet black hair swayed on top of his head and across his shoulders. What a scenario he thought and wondered what was going on here.
"JUST DON'T ACCUSE ME FOR DAYDREAMING!"
"BUT YOU FUCKING WERE!"
"QUIT THE CURSING, BOY!"
"DON'T TALK LIKE YOU WERE MY MOTHER!"
Oh, they were quite obsessed with using capital letters by the way.
"YOU STARTED WITH THIS!"
"ME? YOU WEREN'T PAYING ATTENTION. I WILL SUBTRACT THAT FROM YOUR PAYMENT!"
"YOU CAN'T DO THIS!"
"I BLOODY CAN DO WHATEVER I DAMN WANT TO DO!"
"BLOODY CURSER YOU!"
"YOU'VE CURSED YOUSELF!"
"SO?"
And this was the point when the most attractive sixteen-year-old in Domino (or maybe the whole world) couldn't take it anymore. The face of the girl had the color of her hair and his dear brother's eyes were lost in between two slits though glaring daggers at her.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?" Mokuba shouted from the top of his voice. This would need a lot of tea with honey and citron later.
"…"
"…"
"Hmph! She started the shouting!"
"I- WHAT?"
"YOU WERE DAYDREAMING IF YOU FORGOT!"
"I WERE NOT!"
"SHUUUUUT THE FUCK UUUUUUUUP!" Mokuba's throat felt sour.
"…"
"…"
"But…" Serenity began.
"Will you just shut up now?" The raven-haired teen growled.
"She was…" This time Seto tried his luck but didn't come very far.
"BOTH OF YOU, DAMN IT!" Roaring now from his down-cut patience Mokuba waved with his hands in frustration and anger. "Are you children or what is going on? What are you doing here at all apart from fighting? The both of you will shut up now, GOT THAT?"
Sheepishly the girl gazed down at the ground. A boy younger than she was told her what she had done wrong and the worst part was, he was right about their chilish behavior. Though she'd go to hell and back but not admit that she had been daydreaming! Anyway, she felt ashamed of herself.
Seto on the other hand crossed his arms and pouted. Yes, he pouted. He could do with anything but not becoming told what he should do. Then again, this was Mokuba and if Mokuba told him something… you know the rest. He would do it. Just like that. Seto somehow obeyed to Mokuba and this was good after all, otherwise I'd have to write countless pages with Seto and Serenity arguing what may be funny but become boring with the pages passing… however.
"Now, will you two tell me what is going on here? What are you both doing here at all?" Mokuba stood there and waited for them to reply but got no response, apart from both of them agreeing with one answer, one word, the same time.
"Nothing."
Seto glared at Serenity.
Serenity glared at Seto.
They both gazed sheepishly at Mokuba who let out an exaggerated sigh and blew strands of black hair from out of his eyes.
"Fine. Then I will leave you two to whatever you're doing. BUT, if I hear anyone of you yell again, then be prepared for the worst." He scolded with his index finger waving before he glared like an old stubborn grandfather and finally, disappeared.
Then silence in the room. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Serenity sighed. "Your brother's right. I apologize for acting so childish."
Kaiba gazed at the woman. "Hmph. Yeah." His way of agreeing and voicing out an apology.
"Shall we go on now with the lesson?" The girl swiftly pushed back a strand of auburn hair behind her shoulder and gazed at the bottom of their whole argument, his damn blue eyes for God's sake!
Until those eyes closed briefly. "I think we should go on tomorrow."
"Yeah, good idea. We should take it more professional from there." Serenity lifted her body from the sofa she was still sitting on and grabbed her purse.
"I agree with that." Kaiba stood up as well, gazing down at her. Oh well, she was small compared to him. He kind of liked that.
A furious little witch she was! How the tell she should teach him really was far beyond his imagination. Well, she seemed indeed knowing the things Kaiba needed to learn. That was at least something, after all. And who was there other to ask then the cute little Wheeler?
Ooops! Did he just think that or was it an author's mistake? The guess is yours.
"Good night, Kaiba. See you then tomorrow." She spoke, not daring to look at him while she made sure of distance between them. It was an unwelcome feeling of unease to gaze up at him. Why? She had absolutely no clue!
"8pm sharp, Wheeler."
"Yeah, yeah…"
Seto gazed at the door Serenity Wheeler had disappeared through with a smirk. If they would succeed with the lessons, jackpot baby, but if not, consider the possibility, if not then it was worth the annoying of that female demon within angelic skin!
Seto grinned.
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End of chapter two.
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(The story forms slowly – I still need to know if it's worth continuing, so please review and tell me what you think of it! Thank you…)