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How To Find A Girlfriend In Seven Days?

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Chapter Six

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"Day Five"

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'You're simply the best…'

Kaiba woke to the sound of the alarm clock of his cell phone. His favorite real sound was once again approving as he stretched across the sofa. He loved this song, the reason obvious. He had taken a short nap of exactly twenty minutes to gather some strength before his next lesson and yawned. Checking his wristwatch he realized that he had only mere minutes left until 'Professor Serenstupidity Wheelerette' would show up at his mansion.

He pressed the button of the intercom. "Seto Kaiba. Bring coffee to my office..." Coffee would pressure the urge for tobacco, bad, very bad. "…and something sweet." Serenity.

Where the hell did that come from? Was he losing his mind? One second he was thinking of chocolate, but voicing out sweet, the next he considered the little red-haired witch as being sweet! He was still dreaming! A nightmare to be precise. He slapped his flat palm across his cheek. Man, was he tired. Overworked. That must have been the reason for such a ridiculous thought.

"Mr. Kaiba, Sir? There's vanilla cake, chocolate cookies, chocolate bars, strawberry doughnuts, blueberry muffins…"

"Chocolate cookies." Appropriate. But think of to remind Mokuba not to write the shopping list for the maids alone again!

"Five minutes, Sir."

Kaiba sighed. Oh, raw nerves in that early age… He should go and see Dr. Hankok. Maybe his blood pressure was too high, again. He went to his desk and opened his calendar.

Tuesday; 9 a.m.: Call Doc.

There was a knock on the door and Kaiba called for entry. His maid was serving the ordered coffee and cookies with a bow to her boss. Neatly she set the table and filled his cup with coffee while Seto settled down on the sofa. The maid bowed again as she was ready to leave.

"Oh Kaiba, wouldn't have been necessary."

The devil herself, Wheeler. Serenity had a smug grin on her face combined with the mockingly raised eyebrow at the table, set for our Highness, Seto Kaiba.

"Nice of you to invite me for coffee whilst tutoring you." She swayed in smooth, small strides to the table and sat down on the sofa next to him.

Kaiba punished the demon goddess with a glare but to no avail. "That's not for you, Wheeler."

"What?" She mocked sadness and disappointment. "You've forgotten me? You must have forgotten me. You would never do something like this on purpose and forget me, wouldn't you, Seto?" Serenity kind of purred his first name, eager to annoy the young CEO a bit.

Kaiba growled in response. Gladly he wasn't woken properly yet, otherwise he would surely come up with some Wheeler-destroying remark. The lack of sleep lately had gotten to him finally, probably, surely. Why else would he feel this stirring inside of his stomach when she had said his name… first name…? Seto. It sounded so much… different… than from anyone else.

HOW? His current condition worried him a bit; maybe calling the doctor wasn't enough. He would go and see the doc! This illness had to be cured immediately!

"I'm going to bring another set, Miss. "The maid bowed, apologizing for the misunderstanding. She hadn't known her master would await a guest. "I'm sorry. I must have forgotten this."

Out of words the blue-eyed brunette gazed at his maid, who was rushing out of the door, only to come back seconds later to serve his guest coffee.

"Thank you." Serenity smiled at the maid. Kaiba had nice staff; she had to admit.

Sighing inwardly Kaiba turned to look at the small girl next to him. "You think you're really smart, don't you, Wheeler? I assume you do realize I won't depend on you forever. The day our deal's over will come sooner than you expect and one day you'll regret playing the smart ass, I promise."

"Nice threat, Kaiba." The hazel-eyed woman just smiled. "Gladly you're a man with humor; otherwise I'd be oh so scared of you right now." Sarcasm was dripping from her voice, so much that Kaiba was already even impressed instead of angry.

"You have guts, Wheeler." Kaiba chuckled. "Prove yourself as what you're here for."

"Is that a challenge?" She asked funnily whilst stuffing one of the cookies inside of her delicate mouth. "Mmh…delicious."

In trance, suddenly, he watched her mouth chewing on that cookie… and reminded himself mentally to go with the tobacco next time! "You just named it."

Serenity almost choked on her cookie at his sudden hoarse voice. Gulping down what she was chewing on she grabbed for the cup and drank. "Ouch!" She cursed, almost spitting the hot liquid across the table.

Hot! Hot! Hot!

The coffee… and Kaiba.

"What have you got in store for me today?" Back was he, the non-emotional CEO.

"Errr… quite a lot of things." She said. "At first there are some things you shouldn't say in order to score, I mean, with chatting up."

"As like?"

"Don't ever say such things like 'Are you here often?'. That's so lame. As well as 'Am I allowed to press your beautiful body against mine?'. That's even disgusting, too. And please don't ask 'What's your zodiac sign?'. Who cares about zodiac signs? I wouldn't want a guy who's first checking horoscopes if we might match. Bullshit." Serenity almost scolded teacher-like.

"Touchy. What's your zodiac sign?" Kaiba just asked out of amusement.

"That's not… that's… WHY?" She just told him not to ask! Okay, he wasn't chatting her up but… NO. Why was he interested in her damn zodiac sign? "What's yours Kaiba?"

"You tell me yours first." He propped his chin on his palm, resting his elbow on his knee and smirked. "Then I will tell you mine."

"That's childish."

"So? Then just say it and I'll stop annoying you."

Serenity groaned annoyed and waved her hands in the air suddenly. "Fine! Mine's Taurus!"

"That explains why you're always so stubborn." Pleased with the answer he had finally gotten, Seto leant back.

"So, what's yours?" C'mon, Kaiba, tell her. She desperately wanted to know now and analyze his behavior like he had done with her!

"Mine?" Arrogantly he sipped his coffee as if he didn't know what she was talking about.

"Yeah, yours!" She had a temper, he could tell. "What's your damn zodiac sign?"

"Scorpio. Now, satisfied with my answer?" Plan was to act as if she was the one who bugged him with stars, horoscopes and zodiac signs all the time. He would play the ever so annoyed, mature, no nonsense allowing CEO.

"…" Serenity stared at the young man next to her for a moment before she gasped for breath. "This can't be true. Tell me the truth. I don't believe you."

"It is the truth. Why should I lie about something as unimportant as this? In fact, I'm born October, 25th. If you still want to act like a child and won't believe me, read my ID." He coolly said, slightly confused at her sudden attitude.

"But…" Huh? "But Scorpio's are supposed to be honest, maybe a bit scheming but very emotional and passionate and…they'd be… they'd be…"

"What are they?" He narrowed his eyes.

"My match." She hung her shoulders in disappointment, then, suddenly, glared at him, furious. "YOU are NONE of THAT!"

HER MATCH? WHAT? Did she honestly believe in this crap? Surely not…

Kaiba could use this though and smirked. "How would you know, Wheeler? I am honest to hundred percent, not like you hypocrites who'd tell anything just to caress each other's wimpy and weak souls. Scheming I may be too for my own benefit but only to limits, okay? And passionate I am obviously. I'm passionate about a lot of things and maybe even more than you, certainly, won't see ever." He pointed an accusing finger at her. "My emotional side as well, maybe I have one, maybe not. That's none of your business."

Serenity opened her mouth to protest when she failed to form words, her mouth closed again. The action repeated itself a few times until she finally just crossed her arms, sulking. The damn bastard was even right. He was honest, scheming, and passionate (at least about Duel Monsters, his company and his only sibling)… but emotional? Pah! Never.

"Are you done behaving so childish?" Kaiba asked in a sigh.

"If you are." The girl smirked slightly. "It's not that I believe in horoscopes anyway."

"Sure. Is that why you know so much about my zodiac sign?" He returned the smirk in very better fashion of showing superior domination.

"I've just read about matching zodiac signs in some stupid magazine. Never mind." She desperately needed to get away from that particular topic. "Have you got any clue where you're going to find any women?"

"What?" Confusing. Was she doing that on purpose? Kaiba scowled skeptically. "They're everywhere."

"Hm… but you still haven't got one. I'll tell you something. Here are some clues where to find women and where to get to know some. At first at parties, of course. If you get to know someone at a party it might have the advantage of having at least one mate in common."

"Like, who do I know who knows attractive women." A very pessimistic smirk crossed the CEO's facial expression. "Like, I do know, for example, you and you might have nice girlfriends…" Testing, just testing here, if Wheeler knew anyone else at all.

"Yes," Serenity smiled with smug force, "If I invited you to a party of mine, I'll surely have some very attractive friends." She waited until his face visibly lit up at the mere thought and then… "Bad luck for you, I'd never invite you to any of my parties."

"Who wants to be the only guest anyway?" Quick-thinking smart ass. "That is, if I'd show up at all."

"Right," The girl sighed, knowing if she kept playing the smart one, they'd keep fighting verbally like politicians for a vote, constantly throwing oh so smart but very cynic comments at one another. "The next possible location to get to know someone would be cinema."

"I don't know about you, but I usually watch a film there instead of talking; if I ever go to cinema." He stated matter-of-factly. Not even sarcastic he was. It was simply true.

"I'm talking about the row, Kaiba. When there's quite a long row, it's the perfect opportunity to start a conversation, with a bit of a smile you can easily talk to someone." Actually, he could scare them off to be the first in row, Serenity mentally snickered at the thought.

"I've never been standing in a row and guess what, Wheeler, I never will. People are used to stand out of my way and if not I make them." There was this look in his eyes, the same he got whenever talking about challenging Yugi to a duel and Serenity rolled her eyes. "I don't go to cinema anyway."

"Fine, what about dancing events? Switching partners constantly, like when…"

"Square dance isn't my thing, remember?"

"Oh, yeah. Shopping malls are great to meet people! Where do you go shopping usually?"

"I order my labels online."

"You're never going outside in a shopping mall?"

"Rarely." Kaiba shrugged. "Where's the need to? My staff buys food and everything to keep the household. My brother and I order clothes online. The only exception would be cars… does they count?"

Serenity shook her head sadly. Hell, it was really not so easy to send the multimillion CEO somewhere he might chat up a woman. Seems like there really was a problem - other than he himself - to get involved in some kind of a relationship.

"Book shops." She suddenly blurted out. "Do you read? Sure you do. Buy your books and magazines in book shops. Some of them even offer the costumer coffee and tables to read. You might find a nice companion there."

"Good idea," He grabbed for a brownie and bit in it, munching it down in thoughts. "Maybe some female is even able to read the 'Financial Times'? That'd be cool."

He-he. Serenity couldn't suppress her amused smile. He could, even if it was hardly imaginable, be really sweet at times, like now, when he was in deep thoughts, probably pondering in his mind about a girl discussing with him some boring financial statistics. That wasn't funny but the dreamy face of his whilst chewing on that cookie.

"What?" Kaiba quirked an eyebrow at his teacher. "Any more constructive ideas?"

"Hm…" Teacher-mode activated. "In restaurants, when someone sits alone, you might ask if you're allowed to join. It may be risky though. It they say yes, you won't have to eat alone. But if they say no, you might even lose your appetite."

Kaiba just scribbled the info on some random sheet of paper lying there ready to fill with instructions during his lesson.

"Another possibility would be charity work if you do so what I doubt you do." The girl raised an eyebrow in sympathy.

Kaiba, again, wrote it down. "I doubt finding any adequate candidate in an orphanage. Young women usually won't love to work there. They're too weak. A strict hand is needed in such a place, after all." He gazed up at Serenity casually. "And I'm not really into elderly nurses."

HE DOES WORK IN AN ORPHANAGE? HE OF ALL PEOPLE? THE HEAD HONCHO FREAK OF THE FREAKS? SETO KAIBA HIMSELF? DOING… THIS! Serenity shook head in order to clear her mind and ears, worrying they might be blocked up and she couldn't hear right.

"What are you doing in an orphanage? I mean, what kind of work."

Seto smirked. SURPRISED! Girl, if you knew… But he would answer her question. "Mostly I just financially support them, buying not just toys but necessary things to guarantee a good education or an adequate stage of luxury for kids their age. If I can afford the time I use to pay a visit every once in a while. Lately I was tutoring them in Duel Monsters."

Bugging brats! But Mr. Kaiba suppressed the urge to voice that out. He liked them, though, somehow, just a bit, a bit more even maybe – he felt like the big brother to them. And, after all, being a big brother he did like a huge lot.

"You know," He suddenly kept talking and leant back stretching his long legs out under the table, "I was thinking about building a Duelists Academy." It slipped off his lips faster than he actually wanted. He felt the need to give a threatening glare at the small Wheeler. "Don't tell anyone about this, I dare you! As my teacher you're obligated to keep everything I tell you a secret!"

Yeah, sure, as if… Serenity remained calm and took a deep breath. She wasn't his shrink, after all and last she checked she hadn't wrote her name under any contract. What was he thinking of her? Didn't he trust her, or just anyone at all? Oh, yeah, right – he didn't. But in the end his idea sounded great and therefore, she just smiled supporting.

"I won't," She said, "Sounds like a great idea to me."

"Just an idea." Kaiba had enough of that topic. Some things should remain a secret after all. What was he thinking in the first place?

"Okay, let's go on," Serenity found it hard not to keep pushing him. She wanted to know more. Maybe he was right after all and there were sides in Seto Kaiba she wouldn't know at all. "I'm going to speed this up a bit, okay? More possible places would be during political work because of the same intentions you'd have. Then there would be sports. Team sports offer fun and fitness and aren't dangerous, plus there's always the little come-together afterwards. Um… sport events are good, too. Maybe even Duel Monsters tournaments as some kind of sport, like chess is also. But only when you like the same competitor, otherwise you won't get along with the one you're talking to…"

"Why is that?" A discussion about something logical as Duel Monsters should always be objective; there wasn't even place for second opinions; was there?

"For example, you and I are sitting, watching my brother fight against… well, let's just say… Mai Valentine. Predict the winner, Kaiba."

"Valentine. Even though she's just a woman, she'd be better than the mutt." Logical for Kaiba, insulting for Joey.

Serenity hadn't expected anything else, sadly. She sighed. "Okay, I'd go with Joey and that he'd be the winner. So you'd have no chance with me if you insult him. Clear?"

"Not really…" Kaiba smirked.

"Well, then imagine Yugi and Marik Ishtar dueling. Your prediction?"

"Yugi." Matter of fact, he had beaten him once, he'd do it again.

"I'd say the same and look, from my point of view we get along. I'd like you more." Point proved.

"Are you saying that you only would like me if I have always the same opinion as you?" That was confusing, and even – insulting!

"Seeing it superficial, yes. And small talk like chatting up or talking to someone for the first time at all is superficial." Matter of fact; that was true as well.

"True." Logic and truth weren't always close, he had to admit.

"Well, then there are places you should avoid trying to chat someone up or getting to know someone." Serenity was all into her teacher status right now. Oh, was she liking it! "Like the office or your working place at all. In your case your employees would think of you badly or you might even hurt someone with being with their ex-partner. It would be a lot of gossip going around, which makes a bad image of you. Though, it is tempting."

"Hm…"

In this very moment Kaiba's maid decided to fill up both their cups with coffee again. Serenity gave a small friendly smile at the rather young aged woman in her black and white working dress. Examining the employee of her student, the hazel-eyed girl registered the maid's highly attractive looks; the short black hair that covered her head in a fashionable way, supported by two amazingly big dark eyes. But adding to that were her long slim shaped legs within the short skirted dress and its low neckline! Bang! SUMMARY: Was Kaiba tempted to lay his hands on his maid?

Kaiba meanwhile was stirring the black liquid in front of him – why? That was a good question. Black coffee, no sugar, why stirring it at all? Could it be that Mr. CEO was indeed daydreaming? Having pictures of a certain employee right now…

"So you want her."

The blue-eyed man laid down his spoon on the saucer and gazed boringly at the girl next to him. What did she want again? Had he missed out on something? What was the matter? Insanity must run in her family…

"Who?"

"You perfectly well know who." She shot back. Playing dumb wasn't helping him this time! She knew his secret! At least she was sure that she did.

"No." Now, he was finally being sure to hundred percent about her psychical disease. "But I can recommend someone to help you, Wheeler." Bring your brother, too – ha-ha.

"You're the one who needs help if you honestly think you'd have a chance with your maid!" Yeeeaaah, aaand one more point goes to the incredible, amazing and fantastiiiiiiiiic…. Seeerenityyy Wheelaaaaa! (You hear the stadium's speaker.)

"My…huh? My what? My maid? Are you completely snapping, Wheeler?" She had lost all common sense and brain and whatever little thing usually helped her thinking – what was that with women? Seto was sure he soon had to call an ambulance for the little hazel-eyed devil.

"You could at least admit it!" She jumped to her feet, in the process knocking down the cup with coffee he held in his hand. "O-H---F-U-C-K!"

Hazel-eyes gazed at the hand which hit something hard, realizing that it was the cup in Kaiba's left hand before she watched like in slow motion how the black liquid left its place inside the cup, swamp out of it and shoot like a wonderfully dark cascade in the CEO's direction. Wide-eyed the girl clamped her hands over her mouth as it, finally, poured down on his snow white business shirt! From the stains on his shirt to his blue-eyes she didn't dare to look at all.

Seto didn't saw it coming. To him, it wasn't like in slow motion. Something hit him. Something burnt him. That was it. Damn. And the moment the warm liquid touched his sensible skin – after all it was his belly, the place where he… let's continue this later – he jumped from up his sitting position on the sofa to a standing and slightly bending forward form, pulling his disgustingly wet shirt between thumb and index finger from off his body. And of course, he was cursing!

"Damn it! What the--- Ouch! Watch what you're doing!" His voice barked at her but she just couldn't tear her gaze away from the dark stain on the bright shirt.

"Oh shit."

"Yeah, oh shit." He hissed in an annoyed tone, glaring down at the small Wheeler.

Serenity's eyes slowly, like in trance, wandered upwards the CEO's slender body to his head, his eyes to be exact, the two icy slits of blue, fuming like frozen fire – can fire freeze? However, it damned on her finally that she was just standing there, gawking. Quickly she tried to regain her sensed and grabbed for the napkin on the table, dabbing carefully at the brunette's stomach with it in a very embarrassing manner.

"Oh Kaiba, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to… It was an accident! I'm so sorry…" She babbled whilst continuing her task – as if it would really help now, would it?

Seto gave out a small growl and grabbed her wrist to shove it away from her target, him. The girl looked at him, ashamed, bashful, yeah and of course blushing madly. Not only had she obviously drowned Kaiba's shirt in coffee, no she dabbed him like a grandmother with a stupid napkin as if it would help. Hello! That shirt had been white, the coffee black. A napkin certainly couldn't do wonders!

Kaiba groaned at her simple presence and the fact that he needed to get that wet thing of his skin, it was a disgusted feeling around his navel, which resulted in him shivering, how awful! With just a slight push of his arm Serenity landed back on the sofa while Seto was stomping his way over to the drawers beneath his desk. Somewhere inside, but where… there had to be… somewhere here… uhu! He found it!

The girl swallowed. How embarrassing! She anxiously watched the tall-grown technique freak snapping open his drawer and hastily pulling out a shirt, throwing it on the desk. Before the auburn-haired could even blink twice he had lifted his arms to grab the shirt on his back, pulling it quickly over his head. God, she needed to bandage her head in order to keep her jaw from dropping, resulting in her salvia to ooze from out of the corners of her mouth! Bad, bad. It was already enough that her eyes were balling and leaving slightly their usual area inside of her head.

But, as I can imagine, you want to know, why was that? (Play dumb with me, I'm telling you anyway.)

As the shirt was being lifted over the brown locks of Kaiba's head his back was slightly bending, showing the dragon-like eddies of his seemingly never ending spine, beginning so far down at his waist up to the nape. A few ribs she could make out as well. All in all it was so damn smooth that she needed to swallow the sudden amount of liquid in her mouth. From his exposed back to the curves of his upper arms, indicating his trained form, there wasn't much way to go and her eyes drank in the sight. Oh my…

Kaiba threw the shirt carelessly on the ground, moving his shoulder blades in the process. Every movement of the muscles was having an effect like she was getting high at the moment, smoking some illegal things. He grabbed for the white t-shirt on his desk and lifted it to stuck his head in the hole, in the process bending his arm upwards, giving the girl a good view of how strongly built his biceps was after all. Swallow, the second.

Whilst shoving the cloth over his head and down his body, her hazel eyes glued to what exposed skin was left. That meant at first across his though skinny but broad chest, then down across his stomach to his waist. And there, she had seen it! How cute! The tiny, oh so tiny-tiny, light, so cutie light trail of thin baby soft hair from his navel down to the waistline, only giving her a slight clue on where it might end… SIGH! Swallow, the third.

And hey, it was sooo damn hot in here. Was something wrong with the mansion's radiation system? Pooh! Blink, blink… and her vision was so blurry, hopefully she wouldn't fall unconscious!

Seto took a few big strides back to the girl, casually flopping down on the sofa next to her again. A bit mad he was still but to what use? Senseless! He sighed annoyed while Serenity, red in the face, bit her bottom lip.

"Sorry, Kaiba, I really didn't mean to---"

"Yeah, whatever." He muttered at her, running a hand through his hair in order to straighten the strands, which had fallen out of place.

Bravely the girl turned to the guy next to her but instead of focusing on his eyes – the last she would do right now – the first frightening step brought her eyes to a halt at the picture on his ever so perfectly body-hugging t-shirt. How cute! A Blue-eyes plushie!

"This looks nice." She smiled. A compliment would mend his foul mood, wouldn't it?

But there was something else. The Blue-eyes was surrounded by the words, written in bold red letters, saying: Cuddle me – I don't bite. Hee-hee. She giggled slightly. "That's funny."

"It's a gift from my brother to my last birthday. He thought it was looking cute. Though, I don't intend to cuddle my t-shirt…"

Kaiba could be as dimwitted as he claimed other's to be, honestly. Serenity smiled at his dense attitude. She, surely, knew what Mokuba was indicating with that gift of his! Everyone, not only Serenity, even the media for example, had compared Seto Kaiba to his beloved Blue-Eyes White Dragon (or any other dragon) once or twice. He was claimed to be superior, dangerous, menacing, threatening, frightening, proud and of course, last but not least, biting. So Mokuba's message clearly said: Cuddle my big brother – he doesn't bite.

Could Mokuba be trusted? He was a Kaiba, too. Even Seto's same flesh and bone. Difficult…

"Uh, I think it's cute. And it suits you." Serenity had a point and she hated lying.

"Mm…" Kaiba observed his shirt skeptically. "Do you think girls would like it? I mean, they probably like all this plushie crap. Then again, Pegasus does as well but he's probably gay. I don't want to look gay, not in my worst nightmare!"

The girl laughed at his behavior. "I've never met Pegasus in real, so I can't tell about his sexual preferences." And Kaiba, well, he even chuckled with her, almost laughing, as she kept on talking. "It does look sweet, but gay? Don't know… nah! It makes you look a bit more boyish."

"Boyish?" His gaze narrowed in confusion when his smile faded.

"Younger. You're looking younger in it." She rolled her eyes but laughed still.

"How much younger?" He didn't like the thought of looking like a kid!

"Just a bit, don't worry. Still older than me." She grinned deviously. "Wear this and a worn out blue jeans and you have to watch out for girls biting your ass!"

OOPS! Did she just say that! Kaiba's sudden smirk told her so. Oh no, oh no, oh no…

"You think?" Her opinion had to have some root within her mind. The thought at all was quite nice, but not primary important, though. "I won't wear filthy jeans in order to make someone like me, though. Physical attraction should be secondary."

But he would save her opinion of him, though. Wouldn't hurt, now would it?

"You are clearly something else, Seto Kaiba. I've never met such a complex guy like you." The young woman just shook her head at him. Dense? Sometimes he was. Stupid? Not at all. He had his points and kept them. Immensely stubborn? Yes. Maybe he was the Taurus after all… "Shall we go on with your lesson or are you having enough of me for today?"

"No, keep it coming, Wheeler. I'm all ears for you." The tone was quite sarcastic but only Kaiba himself knew how much truth his words held. Cause, true they were.

"I'm going to make it short though. Places not to meet women would be dark bars, in which people usually are drinking. The darkness and the alcohol might hinder the optic immensely and that's not a good start for a proper relationship." Serenity counted her reasons even with her fingers, to support herself visibly. "Online isn't a good idea either. Computer communication might give you the illusion of intimacy though you're actually far away. When you finally meet face to face, there may be too many expectations. A simple chat is okay but distance relationships don't work usually. You might end up thinking you knew more of the other than you really do."

"How do you know?" He was curious if she knew all that out of experience or another girl's magazine.

"Tristan had an online girlfriend for six months." She blurted out casually until she realized whom she had even told.

"Spike head? What happened?" Kaiba cocked his head to one side.

"Promise me to keep it a secret at first!" She demanded waving a finger.

Seto rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, I promise. Now, tell me." This was sooo interesting! That spike head had had an online girlfriend, that shadow of the mutt with a female, imagine! Ha-ha. At least he wasn't together with Serenity…

"They met after six months, okay, and let's just say she wasn't really the pride of mother earth. Not that it was so bad that Tristan would have split up with her but she was… well, quite 'one-track-minded'." She supported her sentence visional, making little sign with her fingers. "Plus, it seemed that he wasn't the only one she was 'dating'."

One corner of Kaiba's mouth twitched, then broke out into his traditional mean smirk but his blue eyes sparkled with a glint of pure fun. Indeed, to him, it was hilarious!

"Virus alert." He simply said with a hint of a joke.

"Quite." The girl agreed. "So, you see, not a great idea how to get a girlfriend. By the way, try to avoid events especially for singles. There you could literally feel the people's desperation. That'd be just one hell of stress and expectations…"

"…and a complete waste of money." He completed her sentence.

"Right." That was true after all, even she knew that.

We have to be aware of the fact that they could complete each other's sentences, but, unfortunately, neither of them realized. Too bad…

The girl stifled a yawn suddenly, blinking her eyelids, making them agile and not as heavy as they really were.

"Tired." Not a question but a fact and Kaiba stated the obvious. "Maybe we should take a break and continue tomorrow. I've still got some work to do anyway."

A bit disappointed about his abrupt and unexpected suggestion Serenity's hazel eyes expressed nothing less. But she regained her senses, knowing that he was right. The only thing sad about it was that he was preferring his work over her. Wasn't he? Maybe. Maybe not. Why did she care at all? Truth to be told she knew why. They had come to a point today where… where she had even liked him - somehow. The risk was high that tomorrow everything would be back to normal again.

Normal. What was normal after all?

Serenity sighed. "Tomorrow we'll talk about how to ask for a rendezvous and the date itself. You'll see, it's a matter of planning." Cradling her small purse in her hands she made her way to the door but turned to say Goodbye. Kaiba stood there, hands in his pockets, wearing the cute plushie shirt, and she couldn't help her smile, looking forward to tomorrow. "G'night, Kaiba."

"Wait up." He said as she was about to leave. "One more question before you leave."

"Yeah?"

"I still don't get what was the thing about my maid before you clumsily burnt me with hot coffee. What was that all about?" He hadn't understood a single thing. A freaking Wheeler, talking about a maid, who innocently just had done her work – she was one of the few good employees he had – then the small demon yelling at him to admit something… WHAT had he done at all?

"You don't have an idea?" Serenity doubted this. He usually seemed sharp-sensed. Then again, social things weren't his strength… maybe, just maybe…

Kaiba shook his head.

"You don't have the slightest clue?" Okay, she had to be sure! You understand that, don't you?

"I wouldn't ask if I knew." Now his voice was having that sharp stabbing tone what made everyone flinch in response but Serenity just sighed a breath of relief.

"Um…I was just thinking that, well, the maid's uniform seems a bit inadequate, old-fashioned and too… tasteless. Just a thought. Never mind." She shrugged, hoping he'd take it.

"The head maid usually orders their uniforms in self-arrangement but if you think it's that bad I will give her a clue on your opinion." Kaiba crossed his arms. "That's it? That's why you were freaking and pouring coffee down on me?"

"Hey, I've apologized for that!" Did he have to mention it over and over again?

"I accept your apology." Kaiba said as honest as he was. No joke. Very serious. Woo-hoo.

"Thank you for the cookies and all. They were delicious." She could have been gone long, long ago, don't you think?

"Thank the maid." Seto plastered a smirk upon his lips, not that he would have invited a Wheeler for any cookies.

"Uh… yeah, um… she's nice, isn't she? And well-mannered…" This was going in the supposed direction. "…and she's very beautiful as well, don't you think, Kaiba?" There it was, the final destination of her babbling. Meaningless babbling? No. Not at all. Serenity was way too curious about his view on this point.

"Well-mannered suits. I don't know about anything else, it's not my place to judge about her beauty." He shrugged casually. "She's doing a pretty good job here and that's all that matters, don't you think, Serenity?". A bit suspicious he had gotten though now. Why was she asking such weird questions? He had purposely given back the question back to her, including to call her by her first name.

"Yeah." She warily smiled. She felt relieved though. Why? She had a clue. "Never mind. Good night."

"Good night." He politely bid as she left his office, heading out of his home.

A strange feeling accompanied Serenity today as she left the Kaiba mansion. Today she had liked Seto Kaiba. Really liked. Whatever is was, that made her like him…

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End of chapter six.

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I like parts of this chapter and I don't like parts - hope you like more than I do. Tell me if it's any good. THX. ;D