Runaway by Le Petit Chaperon Rouge
A/N: thank you for reviewing! I love you all! Ice-cream for everyone! phew, finally another chapter up. I'm truly sorry it took so long, but my finals are in may and I have been studying all the time. After my finals I have 3 months holiday, so I'll have plenty more time to update! I'll try to get the next chapter up by next week, but I'm not sure if I can make it.
Chapter 18. Secrets revealed and cover ups.
What happened last time:
She quickly found them, it was a group of three girls chatting in their matching outfits. Serenity took of her coat and approached the girls. The first one to notice her was a jumpy blonde.
"heeeyyy! You must be the new one!" she yelled. Immediately the other girls turned around to face Serenity, who felt a little awkward.
"um… hi. I'm Serenity" she introduced herself a bit uncertain.
"And I'm Kaori! Nice to meet you!" the energetic blonde said while shaking Serenity's hand wildly.
"I'm Michiko" A beautiful tall girl introduced herself. She had long red hair, that hung likes flames down her back, and the deepest green eyes Serenity had ever seen. The third girl had short brown hair and dark eyes. She introduced herself as Aneko. She was a very calm and reserved person, and radiated something motherly.
"Okay! Let's get this thing going!" Kaori shouted. Aneko gave Serenity a pile of folders.
"here, you can hand these out to the by passers." she explained. "let the drawing attention of people to Kaori and Michiko, well take care of the rest."
"Okay, everybody ready?" Michiko asked. Everybody nodded. "let's do this!"
"So how is you costume?" he asked slightly narrowing his eyes as he leaned back into his leather chair.
Serenity swallowed.
"It's ok…"she said uncertainly.
"Why don't you show it to me?"
Serenity blushed a bit when she let the coat slip of her shoulders. She already felt uncomfortable wearing it, but now Kaiba was staring at her like that she felt even worse. Blushing worse and worse she looked down, avoiding his gaze. He was staring at her…just staring. The costume fitted her perfectly. The tight dress showed of every curve on her body perfectly. Kaiba could feel his temperature rise. He saw dozens of girls in this costume, but not one looked so perfect init as she did. A long silence followed. Finally Serenity looked up, and could have sworn that she saw a blush on Kaiba's face.
" You are dismissed" was all her said, before he spun his chair and back was facing her. Slowly putting her coat back on Serenity walked out and bid Kaiba a good evening. The moment she closed the door behind her, she felt how insanely her heart was beating. She put her hand on her chest en sighed.
"It's been a long day"
Serenity hurried home. The sky was getting dark quickly, and dark clouds were forming. Soon the first raindrops fell into Serenity's hair. She just sighed and grabbed her coat tighter. She fought her way through the big crowd of people on the street, who obviously all thought the same as she did: get home quickly.
As she searched her pockets for her keys, she tried to figure out a way how to get in to the house unnoticed. Suddenly she got a great idea. The rain pipe was right next to her window, and if she remembered correctly she left it open this morning.
Serenity kicked of her heels and held them in her right hand. Skilfully she climbed up to her window, hoping nobody had closed the window. Phew, it was still open. Whit a light thud she landed on the floor of her room. She took a glance in her mirror. Shit! Her make-up was run out and her hair hung in soaked streaks around her shoulders. Carefully slipping of her coat she sneaked to the bad room to grab some towels. When she was sneaking back to her room she heard hr brother call:
'Ren? Is that you?". Serenity heart stopped beating for a second. She heard her brothers footsteps coming closer.
"Yeah! It's just me!" She called back quickly. "I'm just gonna take a shower!" She said locking the bathroom door just before her brother appeared around the corner.
"Weird…I didn't hear the door at all" Joey thought to him self as he returned to the kitchen to grab himself a snack.
Meanwhile in the bathroom, Serenity quickly washed off all the make-up, while she let the shower run. She wrapped herself in a towel and went back to her room to change into some dry clothes.
"Where were you all day?" Joey asked as Serenity entered the kitchen. "I was worried about ya"
Serenity put up a fake smile. "I uuh…" At that moment the phone rang. Joey hurried to pick it up.
"hey honey!" he said after picking it up. Serenity sighed in relief. Mai had saved her without even knowing it. She slipped out of her seat and went to back to her room. She laid back on her bed, staring at the ceiling. Tired as she was, she fell asleep.
Kaiba was looking at the report in his hands. He must have read the first sentence a thousand times, but still he had no idea what it said. Sighing he put it away in his suitcase. He'll read it later. Today was just one of those days. Usually he would have finished that report right away, but not today. All he really wanted was to go home, have a meal and go to sleep. Looking at the files on his table made him remember he couldn't do that. He'll just have to stay till deep in the night, and work. Trying to ban everything from his head, he picked up one of the files and stared to work on it. Although his left brain kept on bringing images of a certain girl….
When he woke the next morning, he noticed he laying on the leather sofa in his office. Once again, he didn't made it home. Sometimes he doubted if this was the life he wanted. Most 22-year olds didn't make it home because they were too drunk, but not him. He couldn't make it home because he had to work too much. Most people his age partied all night, while he was working. He shook his head violently. He shouldn't think like that. He had everything he wanted. Well….not everything. He wanted more. Some one to share his life with. But who? Most girls were just after his money.
"I bet Serenity isn't" a little voice in his head said. I bet she is. He thought to himself, she not any different from all those other girls. He kept on arguing with himself while getting up from the sofa.
Serenity woke form her slumber as she heard her brother sing in the shower.
would you like to swing on a star
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a fish?
Frank Sinatra, swinging on a star
As he continues singing Serenity felt herself sweatdrop. Out of all songs…..
She got out of bed, and wanted to grab he working clothes. She felt her heart stop beating. She left the clothes in the bathroom yesterday! Shit, shit ,shit! Sneaking out wouldn't be a problem, but this….
Clueless she walked into the living room, where Mai was watching tv.
"Good morning!" Mai greeted her.
"Morning…."Serenity greeted back.
"Since you're here anyway and your brother is in the shower" Mai said. "you might wanna explain this" she said holding up Serenity dress. Serenity's eyes grew wide.
"give me that!" She said quickly trying to snatch the dress from Mai's hands.
"You tell me how you got it first!" Mai said holding the dress tightly, so Serenity couldn't snatch it back.
Serenity kicked herself mentally. HOW in the world could she have been SO stupid?
"Fine….have it your way…" Serenity said slowly. "I work at KaibaCorp. now give it back!"
"what, what, what?" Mai said in shock. "Serenity…your brother…."
"I know! But I owe Kaiba the money!" Serenity practically screamed as she snatched the dress from a shocked Mai.
Serenity ran of to her room, with Mai following her.
"Now you listen to me closely Seren" Mai said as she closed the door behind her. "You work for your brothers archenemy, five days a week. How are you planning to cover it all up?"
"Uhm…I haven't really thought about that yet…" Serenity answered while playing with the fabric of the dress.
"Oh shit!" she suddenly yelled. The little clock on her dresser said: 9:00. She was already an half hour late!
"Mai please…I need your help" Serenity begged. Mai sighed, knowing which way this was going.
In the car
"So…tell me." Mai said. "what kind of work is it exactly?"
"Promotional work…"Serenity said hesitating.
And like that they sped off to KaibaCorp.
Around 9: 30 Serenity came running to her colleagues. Aneko seemed worried why Serenity had come so late. Michiko just rolled her eyes en muttered something about "getting into trouble". Kaori didn't even notice Serenity since she was running around throwing flyers in the air.
The rest of the day went normally. While handing out flyers to by-passers Serenity was thinking about two tings:
1) How thankful she was that Mai promised to cover for her.
2)didn't every person in this town have a IDD flyer already!
After a lot of begging and promising she promised to cover for serenity and she said to leave it all to her. Serenity was confident that Mai was knowing what she was doing.
That evening Serenity had to go to Kaiba again. One of his goons came to take her up to his office. Serenity could feel her legs get weak. Not again….
She walked into Kaiba's office, he sat in his leather chair, his back facing her. An awkward silence followed. Serenity was nervously shifting her weight from one leg to another. Finally Kaiba spoke:
"So…it's your second day, and you come one hour late to work."
"I…I …"Serenity stuttered.
"Silence! I don't want to hear you pathetic excuses!" He hissed while spinning in his chair to face her. "Normally I would fire you for something like this…but I have an alternative…"
Serenity felt cold sweat on her back. What the hell did he want from her?
"What is the alternative?" She asked shaky.
"You stay here tonight"
Serenity's eyes grew wide. Stay the whole night…with him?
"If you decide to leave" Kaiba continued. "I'll fire you, and get my 3 million beck through a lawsuit." Serenity swallowed.
"Ok…I'll stay.." She said hesitantly.
"You can start putting those files back that are on my desk"
Sighing, Serenity slipped her coat of her shoulders and picked up the stack of files.
Kaiba followed Serenity with his azure eyes. He had hoped to get some work done, but how could he, with something like this in his office?
Serenity stretched out to put a files in one of the highest drawers, and she could sense Kaiba was looking at her. Stupid dress, she cursed mentally.
It was around 8 o'clock when Serenity was done putting away the files. She had already been working for 3 hours. Her arms hurt from holding all those files and stretching out the whole time. Silently she sat down on the leather sofa, waiting for Kaiba to give her another job to do.
"you're done?" he asked her coldly.
"yes, Mr. Kaiba"
"fine, you can put away these last files that I've just finished"
Serenity got up and picked up the files. The first file she had to put away had to go in the highest drawer, the one Serenity just could not reach. Suddenly she felt how someone stood behind her, took the file from her hand and put it in the drawer. Shocked, Serenity turned around and stared at Kaiba's chest. Just then…something snapped.
Kaiba planted his lips roughly on Serenity's. From pure shock, she didn't stop him. She felt his right hand run through her hair and rest in her neck. She wanted him to stop, and scream at the top of her lungs. But a part of her wanted to stay like this for ever. In the meantime Kaiba was mentally yelling at himself, about what the hell he was doing. But he couldn't stop himself. It would be like trying to stop a giant avalanche.
Serenity felt how Kaiba softened his kiss, shyly, gently, she kissed him back. Abruptly he stopped and backed away. Serenity felt the cold metal thought the thin fabric of her dress. It made her shiver. Kaiba made his way back to his desk, and sat down in his chair.
"you're dismissed" was all he said.
Serenity wanted to say something, but the words wouldn't come out. So she just grabbed her coat and left. Outside, she walked slowly down the street, thinking about everything that had happened that evening.
Kaiba was staring out of his window. He felt broken. The moment she kissed him back, something happened. As if her kiss had reminded him that he was human too, that he couldn't do everything on his own. Everything that he had denied for all those years, suddenly seemed so stupid to him. Maybe he should go home early today…..
Serenity kept dreaming about the kiss. I the back of her head she heard an accusing voice yell: "You let him kiss you? You little whore! It's your boss!"
Serenity knew to whom that voice belonged. Her stehp-dad. She had banned him from her mind, and she didn't know why she kept hearing his voice. She tried to convince herself that he was the past. She'll never see him again.
Turing to her other side, she thought about Kaiba. She knew everybody told her he was dangerous, but that was exactly the thing that attracted her to him. And besides, it was her life! She could do whatever she liked, and nobody was going to stop her.
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