chapter 15
"Bye Joey!" Serenity yelled to her brother from the bottom stairs of her apartment. She heard loud thuds as Joey jumped down the stairs two at a time and for the final four, taking a big leap, landing beside her.
"Ya got everythin sis?" He asked.
"Yep. I'm going to go meet my friend at her house. Her mom's driving us." She said confidently, no evidence in her eyes that she was nervous.
"Ya sure you don't need a ride?" Joey asked.
Fear built up inside her. She became a little nervous. "It's ok Joey." She smiled at him."It's just a few blocks away."
"Ya mind if I walk with ya?" He asked.
She started to get even more nervous. "Hold on. I think I left something inside. I'll be down in a moment." She ran upstairs and dialed her friends phone number. "Hello? Shia? Hi. Do you mind if I drop by your house for a few minutes?" Serenity asked. She stayed silent for a few moments, listening to what her friend was saying. "Why? Well, because I'm supposed to be.." She put her hand near her motuh and looked around for any sign of Joey. Then she whispered, "I'm supposed to be going with Seto to a trip somewhere and I said I was going to a camping trip with you." She pulled the reciever away from her ear and waited for her friend to stop screaming.
"Hello? Serenity?" The girl asked from the phone.
"So..?" Serenity asked.
"Hey Serenity, what's going on in there?" Joey asked. "I'm coming up ok?" She could hear him coming up.
"Hold on." Serenity said. She waited for an answer and and she put the phone down on a table. "It's ok Joey!" She yelled. But Joey had already come up and was standing right in front of her.
"What are ya doing?" He asked.
"I'm talking to my friend and making sure I have everything." She lied.
"Oh. Let me talk to her." Joey said.
"Ok." She picked up the phone. "Shia? My brother wants to talk to you..." She nodded her head and said "uhun." before giving the phone to Joey.
"Hello? What's your name? Shia? Ok. If anything happens to Serenity could ya please call this phone number or my cell phone?" Joey told her his cell phone number and thanked her. He gave the phone back to Serenity.
"I'll be downstairs k?" Joey said to Serenity as he gave her the phone.
"Ok Joey." She replied. She listened to her friend say something.
"Yeah, sometimes he can be mature and most of the times he can't. Anyways, can you cover for me?" She asked.
"Of course!" The girl screamed into the reciever loud enough that even Joey could almost hear it.
"Thank you! I owe you big time." Serenity jumped up and down. "Bye." She hung up and jumped down the stairs. "Ok, let's go Joey.
"Sis, you sure--"
"Yes Joey! I'm sorry, I can't take it anymore! I'm sure I'm going to be ok. I have no diseases, I don't have asthma and I don't have any disabilities!" She yelled. She took deep breaths and calmed down. "sorry."
"s ok. Bye. Have a great weekend!" He waved and walked away.
"So...? What's going on between you and Kaiba?" Shia asked.
"Nothing. He's my friend. That's it." Serenity said.
"That's it?" Shia gasped. "No way. Kaiba? Friend?"
"Well, sorta. I'm still trying to get him to be a little nicer. But the weird thing is, it's actually really easy...and he's like just automatically nice to me.." Serenity replied
"Oh...so you DO love him." Shia snickered.
"NO. Nothing like that. It's like I know him from before but yet I don't." Serenity said.
"Ren.. Your not making any sense. Just admit it. You love him."
"Anyways, lets go." Serenity walked toward her friends tiny car.
" Bye Ren! Just don't do anything crazy!" Shia laughed and drove away.
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?" Serenity yelled after her.
Serenity walked towards the mansion doors. A voice spoke up from a hidden speaker. "Name?" it asked.
"Serenity Wheeler."
"Come right in." The doors opened and she walked in towards the mansion.
As she opened the doors that led into the house, two hands were wrapped around her eyes and she heard the words "guess who?" come out of someone.
She knew that voice. It wasn't Kaiba...It wasn't Mokuba...It was Duke..
"D-Duke?" She sputtered.
"How'd you know?" He said, shocked that she immediately recognized him.
"Remember...I was blind...I have a good hearing ability.." She said slowly.
"Riiighht." He replied.
" So what are you doing here?" She asked, suddenly realizing she was in the Kaiba mansion.
"What are YOU doing here is the question that should be asked." Duke replied.
"I asked you first." She said. trying to stall and think of an answer.
"Business. With Kaiba. You?" He asked." Don't tell me..it's..is it?" he asked, getting a bit curious.
"No..." She had no idea what he was talking about.
"phew." He let out a breath of relief.
She looked at him in a weird way. Then she noticed Kaiba come into the background. He put a finger to his mouth to tell her to be quiet. She nodded.
"Huh? what are you nodding at?" he was about to turn around but she pulled on him to look at her after seeing Kaiba's expression. They were now really close...
He smirked.
She twitched.
He leaned in closer.
She could smell his foul breath.
"You wanna play..huh?" Duke asked.
Before she could reply, Duke yelled out in pain.
"What the hell are you doing in here?" Asked Kaiba, holding on to Duke's ponytail.
"remember? business? He gulped.
"No. There is no business. You came here to see if you can sell your game to me, and I refused the offer. Now get out." He hissed.
"But--"
"No uninvited guests allowed in here." Kaiba said. " rule number 075568. Got it?" He threw Duke out of the mansion.
"Then what is Serenity doing there?" Duke asked but the door was slammed into his face. "Better go ask Joey.." Duke said as he got up, pretended nothing happened, and called is limo driver. AGAIN.
AHA! I AM STUPID. DON'T THINK I'M SMART..THIS CHAPTER SUCKED...BTW REVIEW WHILE I RANT ON. AND, if you guys haven't ntoiced,(referring to the people who read this story in my previous account) I'm sort of changing the story line...and I only changed like a few lines a each chapter and the whole story is gone into a total different plot. amazing huh? REVIEW. REVIEW. REVIEW!thanks