Me: Hey, I'm back! Here's the third chap! Hope you love it!

The Battle of Love
Chapter 3: Hell in Calculus
By: Serenity

The warning bell rung for the students to go to their next class. For Mai, Serenity, Akira, and Kaiba, it was Calculus 101.

The students started scurrying to their seats, slowly, everybody managed to find their seat before the teacher arrived. The teacher was a tall, slender figure. He was slightly built with strait black hair slicked back into a ponytail. This teacher was very...eccentric...no unique Serenity's eyes.

"Hello class," Mr. Iskuri said, sitting down at his desk pulling out the attendance. "Antura?" He asked starting the list of students. Yuri Antura, she was the most popular girl in school, she had big blue eyes and stood about 5'5".Her sandy blond hair reached to her shoulders and her bangs were always curved over across her left eye. "Yea," She said in a low, yet high pitched voice.

After finishing thee attendance, Mr. Ishuri stood in the front of the room rambling about only God knows what so Mia and Serenity started passing notes.

wat u doing after school?Mai quickly passed the note to Serenity making sure the teacher didn't see.

Serenity opened the folded piece of paper and wrote her response. me & akira r goin 2 the park... y?

Mai grabbed the note just as Mr. Iskuri turned around from the chalk board. awwwwwwww u got a date w/ ur hottie bf!

so Wat's it 2 u?... u could have a bf 2... if u asked out your lover!

ha ha, very funny ;p anyways, do u think he like me? Mai passed it to Serenity when the teacher started to get suspicious, so they both decided to stop. But reading what Mai wrote, she rolled her eyes and turned around to give her an 'you idiot, of course he likes you' look. But to her surprise she found Kaiba staring at her.

Serenity's eyes widened then she quickly turned around feeling her stomach turn. Suddenly, she didn't feel so good, she felt like throwing up. She kept the feeling to herself. "Please take out your homework from last night," Mr. Iskuri finally said 20 minutes into the period. Serenity reached into her bag and pulled out her notebook, but to her surprise a note fell out. 'What's this?' she asked herself picking it up. She examined it and decided she'd find out later. She shoved it into her pocket and looked at the assignment. It wasn't really hard, it was almost to easy, although if it were Joey's homework it would've taken him at least 2 hours; while it took Serenity 15 minutes.

"Please hand them forward and take out your book," Mr. Iskuri said waiting for the papers at the beginning of the first row."Turn to page 507, and we'll begin." Everyone opened their books and moaned at what the homework would be. (It was on the board) Hearing the 'cries of help' Mr. Iskuri sighed, "You will not have to do all of it, I will be setting you up in partners. You will do this together, and if you don't goof around, you should get it finished."

All the partners were picked, and most people would've rather done it by themselves. Akira was with Yuri, Mai with Jason Manzi, a really intelligent, really hott jock. And Serenity, her fate was almost worse than death, she was stuck with Kaiba... Mr. Ishuri passed out the four page assignment that he expected his class to get done in... Less than an hour.

Serenity walked over to Kaiba's desk and sat down. She looked over at Mai who was to involved with the hottie to notice her pain, then she looked at Akira. He flashed her an apologetic look of concern. All Serenity could do was frown and put her head down for a few minutes. Kaiba smirked, Serenity knew he was, she could feel that coldheartedness burn through her skin.

Finally, she lifted her head and looked at Kaiba. "Alright, let's get working..." Serenity said sad with no enthusiasm in her voice. Serenity realized she for gotten her pencil and went back to get it, She walked passed Akira who'd already started his worksheets and he looked up. He noticed the note in her pocket and stole it before she realized it was gone. Guess she was to tied up with Kaiba to realize Akira had stolen the note out of her pocket. Kaiba had seen what happened and knew hell would soon break loose.

Akira had not yet opened the note when Yuri stole it from him. "What's this?" she asked unfolding it, she may have been popular, but she wasn't a snob... just nosey. She read over the note her face soon became sad. The smile that had once been on her face completely disappeared. "Oh, Akira, I'm sorry," She handed him the note to let him read it. His face became pale and eyes filled with hurt. He looked as if he were about to cry, but said nothing. Folding it up, he put it in his pocket and made a note to find out what was going on.

Kaiba had seen the whole event take place and was overjoyed. Serenity was quietly working on the papers so she didn't notice. Kaiba decided to let it go for now... not long until it would react havoc. He looked at the simpler math in front of him, he rolled his eyes and did it. There wasn't anything easier, Kaiba thought watching Serenity slightly struggle through it. But, what amazed him is that she got through it faster than most of the class... Okay, all of the class. They compared answers and went to their seats. Serenity had only a couple wrong but fixed them.

Mr. Ishuri was walking around the room and noticed Kaiba and Serenity were done but the rest of the class seemed to be only half way. He was truly amazed at... himself. He figured he taught it so well that they flew through it... (WRONG!)

Serenity had opened her book and kept looking at Akira. She could tell something was wrong, she couldn't figure out what. At last, he'd looked at her and gave her that look. That look that says you hurt me, I never want to see you again... It's a look of mixture; fear, panic, heartache, and hurt.

Serenity tilted her head in confusion, what had she done wrong? Why was he mad all of a sudden? She tried and tried but couldn't figure it out. She acted as if she were reading but she couldn't, her mind was set on Akira. She couldn't bare see his usually bright and joyful eyes killed, full of pain and sorrow.

At the end of class the children started jumping to the door, you could barely hear Mr. Iskuri say have a nice weekend. Serenity waited for Akira outside the door, he was going slow today. Then, he came out of the classroom, he saw Serenity and his eyes lit up with anger.

"Akira, what's---" Serenity cut herself off she saw how made he truly was. They stood there in silence, not knowing what to say, Serenity opened her mouth. "Why are you mad at me?" She asked knowing that it'd make it worse. Akira just shook his head in bewilderment. "How can you ask that?" He said anger and sadness in his voice. Serenity looked at him a like he was smoking something. "What are you talking about?" Akira rolled his eyes, "The note that was in your pocket, I can't believe you would do that."

Serenity still having no idea what was going on opened her moth to speak, but was stopped. "Listen, 'Ren, if you want to break up with me, that's fine, but you shouldn't be doing things behind my back..." He held his hand out giving her the note.

"Listen, you look like you don't know what's happening, so I'll give you a chance to explain yourself tonight... But, if it not a really really good explanation, we're history..." Akira turned and left waving goodbye to Serenity, he knew if that note was true, it'd be hard to gain her trust back... but they'd stay friends. That's just the kind of person Serenity was. One you'd hate to loose, she's sweet and cares about you more than herself. She'd do anything to help... And at times when she scared to death, she'll fight it, win it, then not want a party to celebrate it. Serenity was one in a million... No, she was one of a kind.

Serenity's eyes filled up with tears, she clenched the note in her handand walked to her locker.

She through her books inside, then grabbed the ones she needed. 'What happened? I should read this note... But who could it be from? I don't even know where it came from. But the contents of it made Akira very mad at me... It's like his heart was being broken, and it was put back together and shattered again.' Serenity thought to herself, then opened the note...

Serenity,
I thought you were gonna break up w/ that Akira kid!
WTH! You said you loved me... and you were breakin
up with him today... Well, i guess you have the rest
of the day. Remember... the get together we have!
After your date w/ Akira. You could do it there...
Serenity, please, I'd feel better if you choose one of us.
It's weird living a life not as close as we could be
because of that lame jackass! You arranged a date
w/ Akira tonight, but don't forget... We have one too!
Please don't be late:) Gtg!
Love ya,
You know who

Serenity shook her head, "What the hell is this?" She asked herself. "Who's this from? " Serenity thought about it for a moment...'No! It had to someone from first or second period... I was sitting by all girls in second... Who was i sitting by in first?' Serenity thought for a second and her face went white

'KAIBA!' she screamed in her mind, 'No, it's revenge for what i did to him this morning! How could he do such a thing...? He's willing to tear me away from Akira to get revenge!'

Then Serenity thought of something that brought joy, not a lot, but a little, to her mind. 'He can't be doing this to me just to get revenge, But the only other reason would be that he like me! OMG! OMG! What if he really does! But, Akira, I have to tell him, he'll understand, he knows Joey and Kaiba hate each other... As long as they don't find out I like him... I'm good. Because knowing Joey, he'll want a duel for me. As if he'd win a duel with Kaiba!'

Serenity walked to her next class and worried the rest of the day, but only slightly.

Of course Serenity was starting to get annoyed, as she went through his stressful day. Everybody was coming up to her and asking her about Akira. Were the still an "it"? Why didn't you sit with him at lunch? I heard you broke up with him. Oh yea, I heard she was dumped, just like the little rat she is!

She'd been hearing remarks all day, but she was relieved when the final bell rang...She knew everything between her and Akira was going to be fixed within hours...

Me: Did you like it! I hope it wasn't to short... But see, the next chap may be really really really short, so if it is, sorry-sweatdrops-I was reading over the first chap... i forgot to mention be has a bf! Sorry! That's who she's going to the dance with...(Made it summer dance, school's almost out)Or is he... dun dun dun!Oh, and if this chappie made no sense, sorry, i was thinking to fast for my writing skills :p
Keo: You have writing skills?
Me: -hits him with a mallet- If you value your life, SHUT UP!
Keo:-dazed- You've read, now review... look, it's Barney, he has strawberry pie. Yea, hey you stupid fat assed dinosaur! Come back I want some pie!-starts casing Barney-
Me: -Rolls my eye- Well reveiw please!