Firefairy032003 Wow! I was surprised that so many of you liked this fic so far so here's the next chapter hope you enjoy it!…
As she carefully opened the box curiously, she noticed that there was a small silver locket filled with pictures of her and her brother Joey along with a charm bracelet filled with little silver charms of good luck symbols.
'I can't believe that I still have this, Joey gave me this right before he died.' she thought to herself sadly as tears started to slide down her pale face as she placed the locket around her neck and the charm bracelet around her left wrist.
(Flashback- 'Hey Joey what's up, where are you going?' Serenity asked him curiously as she noticed that he was headed out somewhere.
'Nothing, I'll be right back I'm just goin to go meet up wit some friends, later sis.' Joey said softly as he kissed her forehead lightly before he had left…
Joey was walking towards a dark alleyway to meet up with his friend Craig. Even though him and Craig along with a few others were in a small gang, Joey wanted out of it because he didn't want his little sister getting involved and getting hurt.
'Hey man what's up? You left me a message saying that it was something important you needed to talk to me about?' Craig asked him curiously.
'It is, I wanted to let ya know dat I want out of this.' Joey said tentatively. 'What? Why?' Craig asked him confused. 'Because I don't want my sis getting involved.' Joey explained gently.
'I understand, just know that there will be consequences for your decision.' Craig warned him, smirking. 'And what's dat suppose to mean?' Joey asked him confused. 'You'll see soon enough.' Craig said smiling as they went their separate ways…
A few days later Joey and Serenity were at the park near their house. And as Joey was pushing her on the swings he had stopped to place the charm bracelet around her wrist. 'It's pretty, but what's it for?' she replied, smiling as she jingled the various charms happily.
He than told her about the gang and that he had dropped out of it. 'It's for good luck, in case you ever need it. And this is to remember me by in case anything bad happens.' he explained as he handed her a small silver locket.
Suddenly they heard gun shots go off nearby. 'Joey I'm scared.' she whispered shakily as they had hid in the bushes, Joey's arms were wrapped around her protectively. 'I know, but it'll be okay, I'm here for ya.' Joey whispered to her soothingly.
Suddenly one of the shots had hit Joey somehow, as blood was pouring out from around his mouth as his breathing became shallow and his body went limp.
'Joey?… Joey please answer me, wake up!' she yelled to him as tears silently slid down her cheeks. 'You always were a joker.' she said, trying to smile despite her pain. 'But it isn't funny this time! Get Up...please.' she whispered, and then tears overcame her. End of flashback)
Serenity was lost in her own little world as she placed the locket around her neck, feeling the cold metal send shivers down her spine. She had than came across Joey's old dueling deck.
'What's this, is this a part of what dueling monsters is all about?' she thought to herself confused. She had than grabbed her keys and a long blue hooded pullover as she headed towards the park to clear her head…
As she had reached the park she walked towards the swings, she sat there in silence for a while not really knowing what to do. Though when she had stood up to leave, her foot had kicked a small box that was on the ground.
Curiously she picked it up, examining it carefully as she had pulled the black satin ribbon that was around the box, placing it onto her head and putting her hair into a long single braid.
She had than read the note that was inside. It was from Seto saying that if she was interested to meet him down at the end of the pier and he would explain everything than.
Placing the note in her pants pocket, she saw that there was a blue eyes white dragon card along with another note. This one said that he though that she deserved it, but not to tell anyone about it because it was rare, and that Yugi and the geek patrol thought that he had destroyed it.
Smiling at his small cursive handwriting, she took her hooded shirt off to reveal a strapless tye-dyed blue shirt. Tying her hooded shirt around her waist, she was headed towards the pier…
As she had reached the pier, Seto was already there waiting for her. Once he had noticed that she was there, he had tried to explain duel monsters and how it was played.
'Why are you wasting both of our time, trying to explain something to me that I'm not even interested in? We could both be spending our time doing something much more important.' she said to him.
'You came down here didn't you, so you must have some sort of interest, otherwise you wouldn't of came here.' he replied smirking.
'Whatever, I don't want nor do I need your help, I have things much more important to do than stand around and discuss something so pointless.' she snapped at him angrily as she had walked away back towards the park and the swing set that she was on earlier.
Though surprisingly as she was lost in thought, her thoughts were drifting off and back to Seto. 'What was his problem anyway, one minute he's nice and even almost caring, the next he's back to acting like the cold heartless bastard that everyone is familiar with.' she thought to herself confused and lost in her own little world…
As Seto was headed back to Kaiba Corp to work on a new prototype for the new duel disks that will be used at his next tournament, his thoughts went back to Serenity and to what happened at the park.
'Why do I even care what happens to her, the only person I care about is Mokuba.' he thought to himself smiling as he had left Kaiba Corp and was headed home to the mansion.
He had to smirk at himself. His brother hated how he was always saying he was the only one he cared about. 'We'll always be there for each other.' Mokuba would often say, 'But you need to get a girlfriend.' Mokuba would say as he would than burst into laughter…
Meanwhile… the next day at school Serenity was in a better mood and was busily drawing something in her book, as she heard someone approaching her. 'Hey Serenity.' Yugi said to her cheerfully.
'Hey, can I ask you something?' she asked him catching him off guard, because she wasn't pushing him away. 'Sure, what's up?' he asked her giving her a cheerful smile as he sat down next to her on the grass.
'Did you know anyone named Joey Wheeler?' she asked him gently. 'Yeah, he was a duelist, just like me and Kaiba. Why do you want to know?' he asked her confused.
'Well, I'm his sister and last night I was unpacking some things and I came across his old duel deck. I don't know what I should do with it.' she confessed to him sadly as she showed him the worn deck of cards.
'I think you should keep it and learn how to use them, even though you think it's stupid and a waste of time.' Yugi suggested smiling as he had stood up and walked away.
'Why would I want to keep this? I don't know anything about dueling?' Serenity thought to herself confused. 'Though something tells me that Yugi was right, this is something that Joey would of wanted.' she thought to herself happily…
Serenity was walking around the playground lost in thought, not wanting to go to her next class, when someone's voice had broken her thoughts. 'Don't you ever go to class?' Seto asked a smirk plastered across his face. 'I could say the same to you, but I'm not in the mood so just shut up and leave me alone.' she snapped at him angrily.
'Whatever, I don't care what you think. And you might want to learn how to control that temper.' Seto snapped at her angrily as he sat down on one of the wooden benches. 'Why do you always have to treat everyone like shit?' Serenity asked him angrily.
'I don't know, I could ask the same to you.' Seto said smirking. 'What do you know about me? If you did know anything you'd see that unlike you, I can be nice to other people.' Serenity snapped at him angrily.
'Yeah only when they have something that you want.' Seto said smirking. 'Why do you make it seem like it's a bad thing when you're the same way towards everyone that comes near you?' Serenity asked him angrily as she had stormed off.
'Why do I keep letting her get to me?' Seto thought to himself angrily as he sat there, lost in thought. Serenity had walked angrily back into the school building. Serenity was walking with her head down not seeing who was walking towards her, not noticing that it was Tea.
As Serenity had ran forcefully into Tea, her books fell to the ground. As Serenity had looked up she'd finally realized who it was. 'Hi, Serenity right? Next time you should watch where you're going. I'm Tea by the way.' Tea said cheerfully.
'Whatever.' Serenity mumbled softly as she was about to walked away from her, bumping into her shoulder. Though surprisingly Tea had grabbed her wrist tightly as she glared at her angrily.
'She's a real bitch in my opinion.' Mai whispered to her. Though Serenity wasn't paying any attention to the lesson as her thoughts had drifted off. But they were soon interrupted as Yugi and Tea had entered the classroom with the nurse as she had explained to the teacher what had happened.
Their English teacher had than walked up to Serenity's desk, and handed her a note as she had returned to the chalkboard. The note had said for her to step outside with her belongings and follow the nurse to the principles office.
Smiling she handed the note to Mai for her to look at as she had grabbed her stuff and had quietly exited the classroom. 'Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs. Gardner had informed me that you had gotten into an argument with her and had than hit her. Is that what happened, don't try to lie about it, Mr. Muto is a witness.' the nurse had said gently.
'Yeah that's how it was started but…' Serenity had explained as they had reached the principles office and she was cut off. 'Go ahead through that door, principle Jones already knows about the incident.' the nurse said gently as she had walked back to her office, leaving Serenity alone standing in front of the office door.
She was temped to just walk away, when a tall dark haired man had stepped outside into the hallway. 'Mrs. Wheeler I presume?' the principle asked looking down at her seriously. 'Yes.' Serenity said tentatively not looking up to face the man that was standing in front of her. He handed her a slip of paper that said that she was expelled.
'It'll stay that way until further notice or there is a conference with your parents or legal guardian.' he explained softly as he handed her a thick brown envelope with a pink form stapled to the front of it.
'Whatever, I'm glad to be finally away from this horrible school.' Serenity said as she dropped the packet to the ground in front of her. She was about to leave the office, but decided to have her fun just once more.
'Just to let you know teach…' she said, turning, 'You're dear little Tea isn't so innocent either.' And she showed the fingernail marks that Tea had left on her arm, already starting to swell. She didn't wait to see his reaction, but instead left the office, then the school, for good…
Firefairy032003 Here you go another chapter I hope you all enjoyed it so just review to let me know what you think of it so far…