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The Battle of Love
Chapter Five: Confession... Mai's Mad at Joey
By: Me, Serenity Takaishi
Serenity awoke to the sound of her cell phone, it was ringing in her ear. She blinked a couple of times before she realized that it was her phone and not her radio.(1) Groaning she turned on the lamp that was on her night stand. Grabbing the pink phone, she flipped it open.
"Hello," she moaned looking at the clock beside her, it flashed 2:38.
"Hey Serenity, it's me," A voice came from the other end, it was signaling love, panic, and desire.
"Mai? Do you know what time it is!" Serenity asked falling back in her bed.
"Yes, it's 2:40 in the morning... But this is an emergency..." Mai trailed off, trying to keep herself from breaking.
Serenity shook her head at the sound of Mai's voice, it wasn't her usual I'm strong, and no one can break the barrier I have around me. Instead it was about to crack and full of pain. "Mai, what's wrong?" Serenity sat back up.
"Your dumb ass brother," Mai's voice suddenly became hard and stiff and full of hate.
"No surprise there," Serenity answered back, almost afraid to say something, but covered it up (in her voice) so Mai wouldn't say sorry for freaking her out. She hated it when she made her friends feel sorry, or at least when it was her fault. "What'd he do this time?"
Mai let out a sigh to calm herself down and started. "Well, after school--Oh wait, me and Tea know that Kaiba wrote that note..." Mai stopped and waited for her response.
"...No he didn't," Serenity lied, not wanting them to get involved.
"Lie!" Mai yelled, and continued with her story. "Anyways, we all decided to go to Tea's right,--"
Serenity cut her off, "Who?" She asked.
"Yugi, me, Tea, Joey, Tristan and Bakura, anyways,--"
"Uh, was Tristan mad about the Akira thing?" Serenity asked interrupting Mai again.
"Yea," Mai answered sounding annoyed.
"Sorry, go on," Serenity shut up and listened to the story...
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"So ya see, I don't know what to do..." Mai finished with the story, trying again to hold back the water works.
"Well, he did go after you, but..." Serenity sighed really mad at her brother now. Then she heard the door open, she froze for a second, "Ut oh."
"Let me guess..." Mai said whipping away the tears that were streaming down her face. "Joey?" She guessed hating to even say his name.
Serenity snuck out the door and down the hall. But she found someone she didn't quite expect, "Mai, you're wrong, it's---"
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"Joey, if y like her then why in the hell did you let her get away!" Tea screamed at the top of her lungs, scaring Yami, Tristan, and Bakura. "She liked you and you go and ruin it! What the hell!" She went on lecturing Joey on how stupid he was.
"Tea, calm down," Yami tried to calm her down, and it seemed to work, but just a little.
Taking a deep sigh Tea continued. "Alright, I understand why you went after her, but why'd you leave here to begin with?" Tea, who was standing in front of Joey, who was on the couch, asked happy to have Yami on her side.
"She's right Joey, you shouldn't have left like that," Bakura piped up from the lazy boy on the left of him.
"Yea, plus you couldn't expect Mai not to follow you when you get an 'urgent' call not from Ren," Tristan added, using air quotations when he said urgent.
"Ha ha, Joey they're all on my side," Tea mumbled under her breath, "That's what you get for messin with Mai's heart like that, I mean, come on you made her cry and--" Her talking to herself was interrupted by Joey himself.
"Wha, speak up I can't hear ya," He said dumbfounded on what she was talking about.
Tea narrowed her eyes and flashed him a glare, one that might even match Kaiba's. "I said that your a dumb ass because you can't see that she loves you and you love her," Tea said, seeing the fear in every ones eyes. "Oh yea," this time she lightened up, "I also said Ha ha, Joey they're all on my side! That's what you get for messin with Mai's heart like that, I mean, come on you made her cry and then you guys cut me off," Tea said matter of faculty, but with a smile on her face. This is while everyone sweatdropped.
"Wait," Joey said, shocked with wide eyes. "I what?" He seemed so weak at this time, if Kaiba would've come over and started putting down everything he was worth (not much) he wouldn't want to fight back.
All was silent in the living room at that time. No one's ever heard Joey feel so bad and so concerned about one thing, or person, at one time. (Well, yea sure there's Ren, but I'm not counting her. Serenity: Hey, rude much! Me: No, I love you, look I took your name, it's just forth fic's pizazz. Sorry bout that!)
Tea opened her mouth to bring a slight down fall of his Joeyness, but her mouth was dry, in fact, she felt like crying it was that bad. Finally, she shook it ff, but her voice came out a hoarse whisper. "See Joey, this is what you get and deserve for treating the love of you life like you did..." After that, all was silent and it stayed that way until Tea's cell rang, "So that's the way it is, you can just go find someone else and just let me go--" (2)
"Guys, that's Serenity's cell ring, (3) I'm gonna answer it, but if she's gonna be screaming, I'm putting it on speaker phone, and giving it to you," She flashed a look at Joey then answered the phone, 'Hey Ren,"...
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"Seto?" Mokuba asked shading his eyes from the kitchen light. "What are you doing up this late?" Mokuba yawned walking over to the sink.
"Me, what about you? You shouldn't be up this late Mokuba," Kaiba looked up from his laptop, rubbed his temples and watched his little brother get a glass from the cupboard.
"I woke up cuz I had---"Mokuba cut himself off wondering to tell Seto about his nightmare or not, not. "Had to get a glass of water," Makuba lied walking over and sitting beside Kaiba at the table. (It's kinda like a bar & their stools at a table, but it's a counter made of marble.) "So, whatcha doing? Plotting to break Serenity and Akira up, again?" He gave Seto a mischievous grin. "So why do you care?" Taking a drink of water, he was beginning to become satisfied with his noisiness.
"First of all, I'm not trying to break them up, secondly, I don't care about Wheelerette," Kaiba gave Makuba a ha ha, very funny look.
"Sure, right, I believe you..." Mokuba grinned and set his glass down. "Lies!" He yelled and took off running away from the stool. "Now," Mokuba said at the stairs. "You've never been a very good liar, and you like her! Seto and Serenity sitting in a tree," Mokuba started, announcing it to the world.
"K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes love, which he hasn't admitted to yet, then comes marriage, I bet she can't wait!" Mokuba stopped and starting laughing at his accomplishment. Holding his gut he felt someone tap his shoulder. "Shi--" Mokuba almost said, still laughing, he turned around and found Kaiba glaring down at him.
"No," He said flatly. "Now, go to bed, and if you don't stop, I'll make you go to Kaiba corp tomorrow, all day," Kaiba threatened crossing his arms.
"Alright, I'll go to sleep, but you have to admit it," Mokuba tried to wager trade.
"I don't like her, that's all there is to it," Kaiba refused the wager.
"You wouldn't be plotting against her if you didn't care about her," Mokuba gave the famous Kaiba stare, but didn't have enough hate to be true, a little more practice.
Giving back his glare he kept denying. "Mokuba Uriku Kaiba," Kaiba said sternly. (4)
"Yes Seto Shanrigen Kaiba!" Mokuba responded with the same 'enthusiasm' as his older brother. (4)
"Please just go," Kaiba asked once more, lightening his voice.
"Admit it," Mokuba got back.
Both brothers kept the quarrel up, both being as stubborn as ever. Finally, Mokuba said he'd go to his room, but wouldn't go to sleep. Kaiba gave up and took it. So he and Mokuba went up the rest of the stairs in disagreement.
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"Akira?" Serenity said seeing him shut the door. "What in Ra's name are you doing here?" She was in total surprise at his three in the morning visit.
"What, Akira, what's he doing-- Serenity?" Mai said having no clue then bewildered by what she thought.
"Mai!" Serenity screamed into the phone.
Akira just looked at Serenity with slight confusion.
"Um, hi Akira, can you hold on a sec?" Serenity covered the mouth piece of her phone to talk to him.
"Yea," Akira smiled sending butterflies to Serenity's stomache.
"Alright, Mai, I'm going to call Tea, Joey's there, so... You can come over here, Akira won't mind," She flashed Akira a sincere and apologetic smile.
"Thanks Ren, I'll be over in about twenty minutes..." Mai sounded thankful, more thankful than ever.
"Buh bye," Serenity hung up and looked at Akira. "Hi, Kira, what are you doing here?" Serenity asked placing her phone in her pocket.
"Well, I thought I'd surprise you, and, I didn't have anything else to do, I couldn't go to sleep," Akira shrugged off the feeling of the nightmare he'd had half an hour ago.
"Well, I'm really glad to see you, but I've gotta call Tea," Serenity had walked over to him and hugged him. Then placed a kiss on his cheek. "Joey's a jerk and has screwed up the balance of the group, so... Yea, issues."
"It's alright, I'm just glad I got to see you, cuz..." He didn't want her to worry, so he didn't mention it. "I missed you, and I got a bad feeling something was gonna happen," He said not really lying, since that is why he came.
"Um k," She said kissing him again. "I gotta talk to Tea and get all my wonderful friends here so this doesn't turn out like Gozaburo did..." She flipped open her phone just to shut it. She turned to see the confused look on her lover's face. "He's... Long story short, Kaiba's dad, gone," She said thinking about Kaiba, and wondering why of all the things she said, she said that.
She opened her phone again but dialed Tea's number this time. "Alright, Kira, this is kinda going to be private, I'm going to talk in the bathroom. She took a deep sigh while she waited an answer.
"Hey, Ren," Tea finally answered.
"Thank god, Tea!" Serenity whispered into the phone. "First of all, you and Joey, and whoever else is there, come over, now, and second of all, I have a very big problem! Ya know that note, Mai said you guys knew who wrote it and I think That K---"
"Serenity!" Tea screamed turning it off speaker phone. "I have it on speaker phone, shhhh!" Tea yelled putting the phone to her ear, "Guys, Mai was just kidding, we have no clue," Serenity heard Tea, she knew she was in trouble. Tea ran to the door and shut it to talk in private.
Serenity had turned slightly pink, and she really didn't want everybody to get into it. "Sorry Tea," She mumbled laying her head on the sink, awaiting her downfall, when everyone got there.
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Everyone was left unconvinced, and staring at the door. "They know?" All of them questioned at the same time.
"They're never gonna tell us," Joey said, still in a freaky mood.
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"So what now?" Tea asked feeling the cool breeze of the wind.
"I think wait, you have to promise not to tell anyone," Serenity said taking in a deep sigh.
"Promise..."
"Alright, I think I might like Kaiba, but not that much, just enough to be called a crush," Serenity confessed.
"... Um, Ren, are you sober? Or maybe hi?" Tea asked cleaning her ears out to make sure she heard her right.
"I know, but-- I don't drink or smaoke anything!" Serenity yelled effended that she even thouhgt that. "But it's just a little crush, so please, don't tell anybody, unless it's Mai, better yet, no one, now swear on Yami's life," Serenity demanded knowing she wouldn't tellif she did as she was told.
"I swear on Atemu's life, I won't tell a single soul about this," Tea sai, doing as she was told.
"Good, I gotta go, oh yea, bring eveyone here and we'll all talk. So---"
"Who's we?" Tea asked wondering why they all had to go.
"Everyone at your house then Akira and Mai," Serenity spoke back knowing what she was going to say.
"Serenity!" Tea yelled again "What's Akira doing there?" She asked curious.
"He cam a few minutes ago, he wanted to see me! God why does everyone think that?" She told Tea, but asking no one.
"Sure, I'll be over soon, see ya," Tea rolled her eyes and hung up.
Shaking her head, Serenity too hung up, walked out of the batheroom into the living room and saw Mai sitting down talking to Akira.
"Mai, hey, are you ok?" Serenity walked up and gave her idol a hug.
"Yea, no not really," she let out a groan and showed a little smile.
"I know you hate Joey right now, but me and Te are going to make it better, k," Serenity sat down on the couch beside Mai and Akira sat in teh arm chair beside teh couch.
"Alright, but I'm gonna kick his ass when he gets here," Mai's eyes narrowed then became scincere to thank Serenity for this.
"He, you're welcome, hun," Sereity said, taking after Mai, them now both giggling...
Me: Well, how was it? I tried really hard, but I left the end crappy! Yea I know, but I wrote this all in one day & didn't feel like finishing it! So to you freaks who actually like this shit, here ya go! No I'm just joking, I like this. I wish I could type faster and get to the Serenity Kaiba stuff but sadly I can't so--
Keo: I helped write this! Did you like it! I wrote the Kaiba & Mokuba part : ) He he it was good huh?
Me: Yes Keo, great job, we all love Kaiba, not all of us but some! Ok, all of us love little Mokuba, I do!
Keo: We'd better stop talking, it's just making you type more...
Me: Yes, I know -sighs- Keo, you can say it...
Keo: You've read, now review!