(a/n: Hey everyone thank you for the reviews. I want to thank so many people but I'm to lazy. I'll do it when this story is over. There was one person who wanted to make Kari five. Sorry, but I made Kari eight because I decided their ages already and the years. My math would so off if I made Kari a five year old. Also I'm sorry I couldn't remember the reviewer who wanted Kari to be five. Sorry.)
Nine Years
Chapter Six:
"A-hem" a voice cleared behind Serenity. She paused for a minute before saying a quick goodbye to Shaila. Then she put the phone back in her purse and turned around to meet him. She frowned at this.
"I can't believe I stopped talking because of you!" She muttered under her breath.
"What was that?" Kaiba said.
"What do you want?"
"I just want to talk" he replied and sat down on the bench Serenity sat on earlier. "Sit" he said gesturing her to sit on the bench.
"No thank you, I'll stand" she said while folding her arms while leaning against a tree.
He chuckled a bit.
"What's funny?"
"You're so stubborn"
"Look who's talking" she retorted.
"How's life?" He asked, not making any eye contact.
"Fine..." she replied. She was also not making eye contact. "Yours?"
"Hectic"
"You deserve it" she said coolly.
"You're right" he said looking up to her.
She had a confused look on her face. She was expecting him to defend himself but instead he had agreed with her.
"Confused?"
"Yes"
"Too bad...You sounded like you were talking to a child" he said, changing the subject.
"I wasn't"
"Yes you were"
"You're nosy" she said.
"I couldn't help but overhear" he said standing up, heading over to where Serenity was.
"Mind your own business" she said heading back to the party. He caught up with her and they entered together. People were now dancing. Serenity didn't like dancing a lot, actually, it's because she didn't know how. She started heading back to the garden but Kaiba caught her arm.
"Where are you going?"
"Going back and let go!"
"Aren't you going to dance?" He said after letting go.
"No"
"Dance with me"
"If I'm not dancing with anyone, what makes you think I'll say yes to you?"
He frowned at this and said, "You don't have anyone to dance with, so I'm asking.
"True..." she admitted. "But I still don't want to dance...especially with you " she added.
But he didn't take no for an answer. He grabbed her arm and pulled her in the dance floor. She couldn't get out of this one.
"What do you think doing!" She said glaring at him.
"Dancing with you" he replied.
She stepped on his foot hard, but he didn't flinch nor do anything, he continued dancing.
"You'll have to do better than that" he said.
She stumbled a little but he easily caught her.
"What...you don't know how to dance?" He said mockingly.
She shook her head a little, while he raised an eyebrow in response.
"Let me lead..."
She didn't say anything or look at him. She was annoyed with his behavior and that glare kept intact. To Serenity, it felt like an eternity already but to Kaiba it felt amusing, to see her furious and to keep up with him. He also felt satisfied that he got part of his wish.
'This will do for now'
When the dance finished she gave out a mental sigh.
'About time. I thought this would never end. And what's with the nice guy routine?'
She let go quickly and headed back to Cherie. He stood there for a minute, savoring the moment, and then headed back to Mokuba.
At the carnival...
"Bye I got to go..." Serenity said quickly and hung up.
Shaila had an awkward look in her face before she had hung entirely. All she could hear was the dial tone.
'Please hang up and try again...'
She snapped out of her thoughts, shook her head in disbelief, and closed her cell phone with a snap. She put the silver Samsung phone back in her purse and turned towards Kari who was getting the sweet taste of flavored-bubblegum Cotton Candy of her fingers. She rolled her eyes at this.
"Come on Kari..." she muttered while holding on to her wrist lightly.
"My stomach hurts..." Kari whined softly. Apparently, she was tired and nauseous of tonight's stay at the carnival and the events that happened earlier.
"It was bound to happen" Shaila said sighing. "Come on, let's go make you feel better...ok?" Shaila said giving her a small smile and headed towards Serenity's rented car.
At the party...
"Hey where did you go?" Cherie asked.
"Um, outside for a while" Serenity replied, sitting down next to where Cherie was. Dinner was about to be served.
"Oh...hey who was the tall guy you were dancing with earlier?" Cherie asked curiously while smiling slyly to herself.
"A guy who works for another company" Serenity said looking in down at her plate.
"Uh huh...he's kind of cute" Cherie said looking over at him.
Serenity said nothing and played with her napkin. Cherie was about to say something when the food arrived. Serenity gave a mental sigh and thanks to the waiter. The dinner contained a nice, tender, juicy, steak, a boiled potato with different kinds of toppings inside it, and a side salad. Serenity smiled to herself of how Joey would have seconds over this meal. He missed Joey, Mai, and Matthew. Matthew was about Kari's age, only five months older and his birthday past already. He had Joey's blond, wild, messy hair. Both the parents were blond but he definitely had Joey's wild hair, emphasis on wild. He was about 3'7" now.
Serenity wanted Matthew, Joey, Mai to come along but Mai and Joey had no time. Mai had her own fashion line and was currently making arrangements to put her line in a boutique/store. And Joey was an architect, also currently working on making a blue print of a private building for a doctor. Surprise? Well it was also a surprise with all the gang too and Serenity. After high school he decided to do something that might be exciting or that will help others and the city. So far it was working.
Serenity stopped thinking about them, because thinking of the made her homesick. The other members of her department talked, laughed and made arrangements of this and that matter. She sighed to herself and ate her dinner in silence. Suddenly sensed a pair of eyes on her. She turned her head sideways, slowly, and saw Mokuba looking at her. He quickly looked away from her gaze and continued eating. She had a quizzical look on her face before resuming to eat her dinner.
On the other side of the room, Mokuba and his brother were sitting with another company and he was talking with some of the members. His life was going so far great; he had a job only because of his brother and he currently had a girlfriend Rebecca Hopkins. But he couldn't say the same for Seto. He was drowning into a life of work and no love. Mokuba couldn't stand to see his brother this way. After all, Kaiba raised him, gave him a roof to live in, and gave him happiness. Even though Mokuba had part of taking down Gozuburo by giving Seto his part of the company, he knew they wouldn't be this far with out Seto.
He sighed to himself and looked over at his brother, who was talking to the president the company, actually, the president talking to him. He saw that Kaiba wasn't paying attention and his eyes were looking beyond the president's eyes. Mokuba too, looked at what he was looking at and understood. He was looking at a girl who was smiling at herself but that quickly vanished and she took a small bite of her steak. Kaiba stopped his gaze on her, thinking it was useless to just stare at someone for hours, but Mokuba didn't stop looking at her.
'I wonder if my brother still likes her. I think he does...the way he was staring at her. It's obvious. I wonder if she feels the same way.'
He saw the dance they shared earlier and their talk outside. He kept staring at her until she looked over to him. He looked away quickly, but not quickly enough to see her puzzled expression. He gave out a small sigh and continued eating.
(a/n: Yeah...I'm done. I might update a little slower next week cause I have many things to do. I'm busy on Tuesday and Wednesday. And on Thursday, school starts so yeah. I'm gonna be busy and such. I'll try to update my stories, actually I don't know about 'new girl' before Sept. 9. For now please review.)