Chapter 4
Shadows
" Explain to me, why were going to this stupid party again?" Seto Kaiba asked his younger brother Mokuba. Seto was standing in front of a full-length mirror in his bed room, trying to put on aa majestic blue tie that went with his white suit. Mokuba rolled his eyes at his other brother.
" Are you really cold hearted like most people say you are? This women is returning home from... where ever she went too. Plus, her parents were apart of one of our stepfathers old experiments. It's the least we can do. The girls gone through enough in the past few years then we have." Mokuba told him. Seto continued to fiddle with his tie.
"Blasted tie!" he said aloud. "Why won't it tie?" Mokuba chuckled under his breath.
"Aww! Need some help big brother?" He baby mocked his older brother. Seto growled at his younger sibling.
"No!" he said bitterly, " No, I don't need help!" Finally he got the tie all "tied" up. He then walked over to his bed and sat down. "Anyway, what does this girl look like?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"Is it a crime?"
"No... do you like the sound of her or something?"
"Mokuba!"
"Just asking! Gee! No need to get all pushy!" he said walking over to his brothers bed with the balls' invite in his hand. "Here. that's what she looks like. She's cute huh?" he said handing it over to his brother. Seto looked down at the picture and his eyes widened.
"It can't be... It's her!"
Back at Turn Manor, Jesse had already been fitted into a floor length, cerulean blue, strapless, evening gown and was getting ready in her room. She had on the gown, a pair of high heals that matched her dress. At the moment she was looking at beautiful, silver pendent on a lovely hand made silver chain. upon the pendent was a dragon. The pendent had once belonged to her mother. She looked back down at her Jewelry box and saw another neckless. she picked it up and put on the neckless her love had given her before she last saw him, a long time ago.
Shortly afterward, guest's started to arrive. Car's pulled up to the door and guests would pile out, and Jeaves or other butlers would greet and escort them inside. Jess watched from aa hallway window on the second floor. Jess wanted to lurk in the shadows as the guests arrived, then "magically" disappear. But Jeaves insisted that she be watched until he came to get her. So now, she watched the guests arrive with one of the maids. The maid was sitting in a chair, not to far from where Jess was standing, also watching the guests arrive.
While Jess watched the cars pull in and out, one car that was just pulling in caught her attention. It was a limo, and something about it seemed so familiar. Jess turned to the maid, hoping she knew who it belonged to.
"Miss, do you see that limo that just pulled in?" Jess asked the maid. The women stretched her neck out so she could see.
" Yes, Mistress, I do," Said the women, "Why do you ask?"
" Who does it belong to?" Jess asked as she continued to watch the limo.
" I believe it belongs to Mr. Kaiba, Mistress." The name Kaiba ran through her mind like the sound of a gun shot and chills went up and down her spine like lightning. Her memories of Mr. Gerzobero Kaiba we're worse than nightmares. But now that the woman had mentioned that the limo belonged to a Mr. Kaiba, she could see that she was right. Even though her memories of her childhood were scarce, she could still remember Gerzobero Kaibas' limo. The two looked identical.
Jess watched the car pull up to the door. Jeaves was waiting for them, but Jess found this weird. She just saw Jeaves escort a woman into the house a few seconds before.
"Were the Kaiba brothers the ones whom Jeaves was talking about earlier?" Jess thought to herself. She continued to watch as the boy's, one about her age (the oldest) and the other who looked about ten to eleven years old, get out of the limo. Jeaves greeted the eldest first then the younger of the two. The maid had gotten up from her chair and was standing next to Jess also watching the boy's.
"Mmm! That man is looking fine tonight!" exclaimed the woman. Jess gave her a weird look.
"I hope you talking about the older boy and not Jeaves." Jess told her. The woman looked taken back.
"Of coarse I was talking about Seto Kaiba!" the woman exclaimed. " Jeaves is too old for both me and for you!" Of one thing the woman was right. Jeaves was way to old for Jess, but for the woman, that was something else. Jess watched in scilence as the two boys followed Jeaves into the machine.
"I'll be in my room if anyone wants me," Jess told the woman, as she left the window side and walked toward her room. She opened the door to her room and went inside. She then closed the door and locked it.
" Soon Jeaves will be coming to get me for this stupid 'Welcome Home' party that I didn't want to happen, " Jess thought to herself. "Maybe some reading will calm my nerves," she said eyeing some of her books on the bed side table. She went over, grabbed a book, sat down on her bed and began to read.