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Chapter 17- Name

-Wednesday-

-Serenity-

My heart started to pound when I was at the front entrance to the library. The brown, wooden doors were in front of my face, and I slowly lifted my hand to the doorknob. I quickly pushed the door open and walked to the front desk, taking my time. I didn't have the money, meaning I wouldn't be able to graduate.

"Hi, my name is Serenity Wheeler and I'm here to-" I started to say as the librarian took some papers from the drawer and searched my name.

That's when I noticed that this was a different librarian. I put my hands on the light brown counter and just strummed my right index finger against it.

"Ah, yes. Serenity Wheeler. You don't own anything," she said and smiled sweetly at me.

"But that's impossible. I do owe- -" I started to say with confusion in my voice, when she placed the paper in front of my hands. I saw my name scratched out with a yellow highlighter.

At the end of the line, it said, "paid in full."

I picked up the paper and put it close to my eyes to see if my eyes weren't deceiving me.

"Maybe you paid yesterday," she said, pinched my left arm gently. "You might have forgotten."

"Oh, yeah… Yeah, I… I did," I lied, and felt guilty for doing so.

I wasn't the type to lie, but, then again, I did want to graduate.

"Thank you," I said and left the counter, knowing exactly who paid for me.

-Seto-

I took the folded paper from inside my blue trench coat, in the right upper pocket unfolded and saw her name again:

Serenity Wheeler.

It couldn't be? The sister of that mutt? I couldn't believe I fell in love with the dog's sister. At least, she doesn't look or act anything like that mongrel. That's always a good sign. I looked up and saw Serenity Wheeler walking towards me.

"Hey," she happily said, as I gave her a half smile.

"I... I want to thank you for paying my books and I want to repay you," she said with her hands clasped together.

"I don't want you to, Serenity. Look, you helped my brother and I wanted to pay you for your services, but you didn't let me. Even though I did paying you, I would still pay for your books. Don't worry about it," I told her as she nodded her head and smiled pleasantly.

"I just want to ask you something," I said to her as I reached out and embraced the small auburn haired beauty.

This was an awkward moment because people were staring at me in shock. But I didn't care.

"Sure, go ahead," she said nicely as she leaned back against my chest.

I looked up and saw the students walking away, waving and smiling at us.

"Why didn't you tell me your last name is Wheeler?" I asked her kindly, hoping not to get a slap in the face.

She looked up at me as her back was against my chest.

"Because…because…well my brother hates you. He despises you for who you are and how you treat you him and his friends," she said as she stood up straight and turned around to me, face to face.

"So, why do you hang around me? I would expect your brother to tell you not to do anything at all with me," I said as I continued holding her gently.

"That's true, but I wanted to see you for who you really are, not from what Joey says. I wanted to find out more about you, but I didn't expect to fall in love," she said, smiling as I smiled back, showing off my white teeth.

"Not only that, but you were the one insisting me to help out Mokuba, when you could easily get someone who has a professional job. In reality, you aren't the bad guy, Seto Kaiba," she said, winking at me, as I realized that she is right.

"Yes, that's true, but you want to see bad? I show you bad," I grinned at her as she giggled and kissed my cheek.

"Seto, why do people see the other side of you? The bad and feared side of you?" she asked with concerned as I knew one day she was going to ask me.

Might as well tell her the truth, like I told her father.

"My step-father made me into who I am today. However, I never knew how to love. But I do love my brother, but never really loved anyone else. I never thought that one day I would meet the one," I said to her as I lifted her chin and kissed her forehead.

"I understand," she happily said and gave me a gentle smile.

"Seto, may I ask you something?" she said as she took the small milk carton from the tray and opened it.

"Sure," I said casually, as I took a wisp of her hair and felt the soft, silky texture.

"Who is 'the mutt'?" she asked putting a red straw in her milk and taking a sip.

"The mutt… the mutt is your brother," I simply said, closing my eyes, thinking that she would slap me.

I waited for the moment and opened an eye. I noticed that she was giggling quietly.

"I can see why," she said as we both laughed together.

For the first time I do care for someone else, besides my brother. The person who showed me how to love was the one for me. No, IS the one for me. Serenity Wheeler. The one I adore so much, yet… am still afraid of losing her.

Sorry for the short chapter. And I am very sorry if it was boring. The next chapter is called Living Nightmare and it's all about Seto's point of view. I'm sorry if you see any grammar in this chapter. Thenext chapter is written down, and tomorrow I'm typingit.

Okay… The question I need to ask… I have a story with me called The Hunter and The Hunted. It used to be posted on However, back in 2003, did a big upgrade and if you had a new story, that story was automatically deleted. Yes, it sucked and made me so upset. I had a story that was rated NC-17 and it was short (4 chapters long) and I had over thirty reviews. When they did that upgrade, my story was gone completely, along with the reviews. Oh and the author who wrote The Hunter and The Hunter no longer exists.

The title of the story would change since Serenity is the Slave and Seto is the Vampire Hunter. Oh.. and forgive me, Seto and Joey (NO! THIS IS AYAOI FIC)will act OCC! I don't want you to be upset, and I'm sorry if Seto and Joeyis OCC. Mai will also be in this story.This story has nothing to do with my other idea of Seto being a vampire. Yes, I have another story in mind of Seto being a vampire, but Serenity is a stripper. A bunny stripper. LOL! The bunny part is where I got my idea from reading waaaaaaaaay too much and over and over and over again, Love Celeb by Mayu Shinjo. Love Celeb is a manga, by the way. –sweatdrops-

Anyways, would you like me to do this story or not? Please put your opinion when you review me. It would be called The Slave and The Hunter (which is pretty lame, but does anyone have any ideas for a title, let me know?) Oh, the story will be slow in progress (since I need to change a few things). And I would post theteaser prelude tomorrow. I would like to finish Ugly Duckling, and Satanic Embrace (story is on hold, I apologize).

Thank you.

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