Ali was happier then she usually was, something about being around Seto made her happy. Uber- Happy.
"Then tell me about yourself" She told him.
"Maybe I don't want to" Seto looked away from her.
She smiled at him, "Then I'll tell you about me, Hi, my name is Aliana Kirin Mitsuraki, I'm 18 years old, I live at the 4seasons. I have a cat called fluffy, whose Uber-Smart. I work at the Soul Mate dating service. My best friends name is Bella, I like mangos and I'm allergic to corn. My parents are split up and I have one younger brother." She told him not once letting her smile fade away
"How on earth did you end up working for that dating service anyway?" Seto asked.
"Long story, see, I was all out of money from getting fired from my old job, working as a secretary, supposably I didn't get him his coffee or something, so I was out of money and out of my job, I went to look up jobs on the internet to find my internet was cut, so I looked in the newspaper, which had a article for it, So I gave it a go, and that's how I ended up here" She explained to Kaiba.
"So in other words, when life marked you as a complete and utter failer, it told you to become a complete and utter failer with a crummy job" Seto said looking down at the long dark haired girl.
"I get good money thank you, and who are you to tell me that my job is crummy" She asked Seto.
"You date people you've never met, how isn't that crummy?" He asked Aliana.
"It's called a blind date," Ali told him
"Which is a stupid concept?" Seto stated.
"Stop dissing my job" She said to him a bit offended.
"I can't help it if your job sucks" He told her.
"Oh, so if I don't work at a high tech building, my job automatically sucks?" Ali asked with a bit of force behind her voice.
"I never said that" He spoke.
"But you were implying it" Ali said glaring at him.
"Oh really?" She said raising her eyebrows.
"Yes really, did I ever say once in my sentence 'your job sucks because it's not in a high tech building'?" he asked, she hung her head and sighed.
"No, but you are just saying it because your successful and I'm stuck at a dating service" She told him.
"I'm saying that the job dating service job sucks and you not stuck there. It's called quitting, you should try it"
"Oh, and where else could I work, HUH?" She asked him
"I'm not a job guide you know, but maybe you should try looking at one"
"I'm fine where I work thank you" She told him, she wasn't about to quit her job, she'd have no money again, and what about Bella, she can't just leave Bella alone there.
"You claim you like me but you going to continue to date other men" Seto said to her sternly.
"What's wrong with that" Ali asked, "Why should I quit my job because it involves a date with other men".
"Are you really that thick" Seto rolled his eyes making Ali angry.
"Me, just because I like you does not mean I have to automatically quit my job," She hissed at him.
"When two people like each other, they start going out. When two people go out they normally just date each other, not a stream of other men as well. Any normal guy wouldn't like this happening and I'm no different," Kaiba told her.
"But we're not going out" Ali told him.
"And we're not if you keep dating other guys" Seto said to her, making Ali snap.
" FINE, I'LL QUIT" she shouted giving him.
Kaiba smirked. "I love it when I win"
She growled, "I hate it when I lose" She mumbled.
Silence filled the room for a moment before Ali broke it, "You want to go out with me?" She asked curiously.
'Shit' he thought to himself.
Ali shifted in her spot on the couch, "Like, before you said that if two people like each other, they go out, does that mean you want to go out with me"
'Shit, shit, SHIT' was all that seem to replay in his mind.
She started fiddling with her hair, "It's not that I have to know, like I want to like, well. Um" She stopped before she made herself feel more embarrassed.
'Oh god, I'm heating up, I can't have him seeing me like this, he'll think I'm a freak, what should I DOO? Uh, uh' She just turned away from him and held her cheeks.
'God, why didn't I think about what I said' Kaiba thought as he watched Ali from the corner of his eye.
'Oh god oh god oh god, what do I do, what do I do, uh, I'll talk to him, yes, I'll do that' Ali thought to herself.
"Uh, so. Um, nice weather we're having isn't it?" She asked Seto. Not even turning around, it was a stupid question, but it was something to say.
"Yeah" Kaiba's response was quick and simple.
"And, and what about, uh. That party last night, that was some party" Ali panicked trying to think of things to say
"This is really pointless Ali" Seto replied simply.
Ali couldn't keep it in any longer.
"DO YOU WANT TO GO OUT WTH ME OR NOT?" She shouted nervously.
He turned to her and starred at her for a long time.
"I just want to know," She mumbled out looking away from him.
"Would you quit that job of yours?" He asked. She looked at him a moment.
"Yeah, I would" She replied.
"Then" he paused for a bit then let a out a soft "yes"
Her heart skipped a beat and happy tears came into her eyes, she looked at him for a moment before smiling, "I want to go out with you to," She said gently.
Kaiba didn't say anything, he didn't even look at her and Ali knew why. She felt that this was hard for him to take in and he too was embarrassed a little but he would never show it.
" I-I'll quit my job, tonight" She mumbled out
"I could find you another job, if you want" He replied weakly.
Something about Kaiba's voice had made Ali embarrassed and shy. Because he wasn't like his self, he seemed a little distant.
'Did I do something?' She asked herself.
"Only if u want to," She told him
There was another long pause until Kaiba said, "I'll start now".
"No, you don't have to" Ali said to him freaking out.
Her attempts to get him to stop were useless; Kaiba was already out the door and on his way to his study.
"Ahh, wait" She followed in down the door to his study. She watched him sit down in his seat, "you really don't have to".
"Too late" Seto said looking at his computer.
"No, really Mr. Seto you don't have to" Ali said walking to his desk
"Stop calling me Mr. Seto" he growled at her.
"That's your name" She smiled at him.
Seto cringed in anger.
"It is not my name, my name is either Seto, Kaiba, or Mr. Kaiba, none of this Mr. Seto business," He told her sternly.
One thing Aliana never got was names; she called her little brother, Little Jiro. Even though his name was only Jiro. She used to call Edmund, Mr. Edmund, but she stopped that when she knew he wasn't a Mr. He was an Edmund. Nothing else.
She smiled at him and answer, "Ok Seto".
"Seto?" He asked curiously.
"Well, don't only close people call you Seto, well I thought, me being your. Well. I don't know if I'm your- right now. But I can be, I mean. I want to be, What I'm trying to say is that, me being your girlfriend is going to be pretty close, so why not call you by your first name, you don't see you calling me Mitsuraki" She stuttered out, she sighed knowing she got through that mouthful.
'I did it, phew, I thought I wasn't going to make it, but I did' She thought to herself.
"No, you don't" He told her simply. She moved closer to him and looked over his shoulder.
"What job?" He asked making her jump, she didn't think he would speak to her, but he did. She looked around and shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know, m-maybe I don't have to quit right away, like. I don't get any dates anyway, but I still get paid, because. Well, I'm not perfect like the other girls in there" Ali said softly,
"They're not perfect" He said swiftly, "Because no one is, people who are skinny and big breasted aren't perfect, their sluts, not only do they show off there body, they act stupid doing it" He added on.
This shocked Aliana, he called people who are pretty, skinny and big-breasted sluts, does that mean if she was like that he would hate her? But she wasn't going to look into it; she wasn't ever going to be like that. It says that girls stop growing at 16, so Ali was stuck like this. Forever, except if she became obtuse, or anorexic. Or she got breast implants or liposuction. But Ali wasn't planning on any of that, she liked her body, so it wasn't perfect, so she didn't have a tight body, or a good looking one when she wore skimpy things, she wasn't complaining, she loved the way she looked, because she was good enough to have Seto Kaiba have a 2nd look, then what's stopping her from taking the chance and grabbing him before anyone else gets a chance, and anyway. Ali wasn't going to just stop liking him, She remembers her crush in year9, she was like in love with him for about a year, and whenever she tried to stop liking him, she'd start liking him more, it was frustrating, but knowing that's over and down with surely makes her happy.
"Well, don't you like those kind of girls?" Ali asked.
"No" he said simply, "And why would I like sluts, they show off their body, they want guys like me to fell sorry for their stupidity so they stick out there boobs and pretend to be ditzy to get one night of pleasure, it's pointless" He said not even looking at her, Ali silently smiled at him, knowing that he didn't think like that, like one night stands are a good thing, because Aliana didn't want to be like that, and part of her knew that Seto knew that Ali wouldn't just take off her clothes and say "Take me now"
She felt good about that, because when it came to her body, she self confident about people seeing it, that's why she never wears things that show her stomach, her cleavage or the top of her legs. That's a no showing zone, and Ali doesn't think Seto going to see it any time soon either.
"I mean, you have a point, but doesn't it turn you on knowing they will let you go down that far with them?" Ali asked Seto.
"Again, I hate sluts, and if you were a slut, I would hate you" Seto said in monotone.
"Well I'm not" Ali told him.
"I know" He responded.
"I wouldn't think of you as the slut hater, I would of pictured you as one of those men who pay prostitutes to come to their houses" Ali said softly.
'Whoops, was that the wrong thing to say?' She thought to herself.
"Gee thanks" Seto said in monotone.
"I'm sorry, but that's kind of how rich men use there money, because not many girls really want to get with them, because most of them are rich old wrinkled bastards" Aliana said simply,
"Thank god I'm not old and wrinkled," Seto sounded kind of relieved.
"Yeah, but sluts kind of come into the nature of rich guys, because they have enough money to buy those kind of things" Ali tried not to sound rude, but that's what she thinks of rich people
"If I was ever a prostitute, I think I would put my standards higher" Seto said turning to face Ali.
'Maybe he hasn't met the prostitutes I know' Ali thought to herself.
"Yeah, but rich people give out more money than normal people" Ali stated, "N-Not that I know or anything" She said quickly.
"Why don't we change the subject?" Seto suggested.
"That would be wise" Ali nodded, "What about, well. You. I still know nothing about you"
"I own a large company, I have one younger brother and still need to beat yugi" Seto said quickly
Aliana tilted her head to the side, "whose Yugi?" She asked him.
"You know, Yugi Moto The son of a bitch who beat me at duel monsters" Seto told her; pretty surprised she didn't know whom he was talking about.
"Oh, the king of games?" Ali asked him.
"Yes" Seto said with regret.
Aliana seemed amused by this, she watched most of the battling on the television and that was the one she laughed at, the mighty Seto Kaiba defeated by a short boy.
Ali laughed, "I think it's pretty funny, that you can't even beat a little short boy, and you're the one with the duel monster company" Ali giggled.
"Do you want me to hate you?" He asked in a threatening tone.
She shook her head, but continued, "But you have to admit, a little boy defeating you, that is pretty pathetic-" She covered her mouth after the last word came out.
Seto glared at her for a long time.
"Well it's obvious that you don't want this relationship to go any further" Seto told her, her eyes widened
"No, No, come on, it slipped out, get a sense of humor Mr. Seto. It's not like it's the end of the world. So what if he beat you, it doesn't mean he's better than you, oh wait. It does" Ali laughed at herself.
"That's it, out" He scowled.
"Oh, Mr. Seto, I didn't mean it, I said the wrong thing. I'm sorry," She said to him in an apologizing voice.
"And why should I accept your apology?" He asked her, he still seemed pissed off about what she said.
"I wouldn't intentionally insult you, or make you mad, you believe me don't you" She asked him in a calm but sad voice.
"Not really" He said simply.
"Why not? It's not like it's a big deal, it's just a game," she said to him.
"Just a game? Duel monster's is not just some game, it's what I base my living on, or are you too thick to notice that?" he practically screamed at Ali.
Aliana didn't understand it, this game, made Seto so angry, so testy, isn't it just a game.
"Why are so testy? It's not like if you lose your going to die, it's not the end of the world" She spat back at him
"Have you ever worked hard to earn something then to have some no body come along and steal it?" he sneered,
"There will always someone better" She replied to him.
"Then who's better than Yugi Moto? Huh? Answer me that!" He was practically shouting at her. She cringed at his anger, but kept her cool.
"They'll come along." She said softly.
He gave a little growl of anger.
"I don't even know why I'm discussing this with you, you don't anything about the game anyway"
"See, a game. Aren't games supposed to be fun, who cares if you lose? Don't go crazy," She told him gently.
"What about any sporting events? Aren't they just games?" He asked her with force behind his voice.
Aliana felt like crying, she didn't know why Seto was so mad, mad at her. What did she do? She felt helpless, like at anytime he was going to hurt her, or hit her. She felt like running while she also felt like calming him down.
"Clearly you don't watch the news that often. Athletes can get pretty testy when they lose" Seto said to her.
"So you want to be like those people? Those people who hate losing, who take everything so seriously, who don't care about winning, only if they crush those people lower then them?" She asked, her eyes piercing through his soul.
Ali's eyes weren't a calm blue anymore, they were icy blue, whenever she looked at something, it seemed like she was piercing through it, she wanted her eyes back, but all she could do was watch Seto with them, until he turned back to normal, until she could see his warm eyes, not those uncaring icy blue eyes, the only she had right now.
'Is this the real Seto? Because I do not like what I'm seeing, his eyes, are icy, his breath, is angry, he makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I want the old Seto, the Seto I like, and the Seto who likes me. Not this one, never this one. Please come back to me Seto, Please Come Back'