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Caylee felt like she was betraying Seto. Guilt tore through her heart as she watched Mokuba race up the stairs to help his older brother get ready for his date with Tea.
She knew what Tea really wanted and that the girl would do anything to get it, but she didn't have the heart to tell him the truth, for she had hoped for him to figure it out. But here he was, not minutes away from the date and he was getting ready for it.
She sighed and held a cushion to her chest and curled her legs around it.
"What am I going to do?" she asked herself.
"How about tell him the truth?" Roland replied from the doorway.
She turned to see the aging bodyguard standing in the doorway to the lounge room. He had told her about what happened but couldn't do anything to stop his employee once the young CEO had made a promise on something.
"About Tea? Yeah that would go down well," she replied sarcastically.
"Well that too, but tell him that you love him," the man said.
Caylee blushed some much that she could have sworn that her face was the same red as her hair.
"I can't. I don't want to lose his friendship," she whispered.
The old man sighed and ruffled his hair.
"Its kind of sad to hear those words from your mouth Miss Caylee. Those are the words coming from the tough young lady who has survived six years on the streets on her own but can't tell the man that she truly cares about that she loves him," Roland stated.
"Oh thanks for pointing that out for me. You made me feel so much better," she said sarcastically.
The old man rolled his eyes at her but she knew the truth – she was being a coward.
"Just try," Roland stated, leaving her alone in her thoughts.
She looked up when she heard a cough from the doorway. Caylee could have sworn she blushed and would have had a nosebleed had she not stopped herself quickly.
Seto was wearing dark denim jeans and a nice sapphire blue shirt that fit his torso well, leaving a few of the top buttons undone. He looked almost normal and she was having trouble stopping herself from jumping him.
"How do I look?" Seto asked.
"Beautiful," she whispered, then blushed.
Oh please tell me Seto didn't hear me say that.
Seto blushed. He had heard it.
"Thanks Caylee. Mokuba will be staying at a friend's place tonight and I don't know when I'll be back. Don't cause too much trouble okay. Wish me luck," he said happily, leaving her alone in the lounge room once again.
Tears fell from her emerald eyes as she watched the one she loved leave her behind to go be with another.
"I'm sorry Seto, but I can't wish you luck. Not when it breaks my heart," she whispered.
Her heart was breaking and the tears didn't want to stop. Running, she grabbed her set of keys, phone and wallet and ran out into the night.
Seto sighed and rubbed his face with cold water, then looked up at his appearance in the mirror.
His expression was drawn and strained as he felt the mask of coldness leave his face.
The date with Tea wasn't going so well.
He had brought them to semi-formal restaurant to talk and get to know each other, but he had yet to find anything worth being interested about in the female brunette. A feeling like he was going to be eaten by woman seemed to be in the air and the look of possessiveness in her eyes had scared him greatly.
What are you doing? She's not the one you truly want, go back to the mansion, grab Caylee and kiss her senselessly already!
His conscience seemed to be the only voice that had made sense to him all night. He should have just told Caylee the truth, saved himself the heartache for the redhead and spent the last few hours with the one he loved instead of the one he had used as decoy for his feelings.
"I'm such a fool," he whispered.
No shit Sherlock!
He sighed again and walked out of the bathroom and back to his table. He saw Tea waiting impatiently, tapping her fingers annoyingly.
He was so going to regret saying yes to the date.
Bracing himself, he strode forward, "Tea . . ." he started until his phone started ringing.
"Excuse me for a moment," he said, walking away.
Going to a secluded dark corner, he looked at his phone to see that the ID was for the phone that he had given Caylee.
"Caylee, what's the matter?" he asked, allowing the conversation to start.
"THE PROBLEM IS KAIBA, THAT CAYLEE IS PRACTICALLY STONE-COLD DRUNK AND ALMOST DRY-HUMPING SOME RANDOM DRUNK GUY ON THE DANCE FLOOR!" Bakura shouted.
He yelped at the sudden loud shout that he had received from Bakura. That was when he realized that something was truly wrong - Caylee never drank alcohol. She hated it, mostly because everyone who hit on her at the club was drunk.
"What? Are you sure that she is?" he cried.
"OF COURSE I'M SURE! Marik is trying to get her out but she's being stubborn and difficult like usual. But not only that she keeps muttering about not being good enough for somebody or muttering about the reason she stayed for something. So I'm going to ask this as nicely as I can, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO CAYLEE AND WHY IS SHE DEPRESSED ENOUGH TO DRINK HERSELF INTO A STUPOR?" Bakura cried.
Seto looked back to the few hours before the date. Caylee had seemed kind of withdrawn from them but she still seemed to be smiling.
He didn't know why.
"She seemed fine before," he muttered.
"Well, she isn't now. So I suggest you get your pasty Japanese butt down here now before I come and find you and drag you here by your balls!" Bakura threatened.
He gulped at the threat, knowing very well that when it came to Caylee, Bakura and Marik would live up to their word.
"Alright, I'll be there soon," he replied hanging up and turning back to Tea.
That was when he heard her muttering.
"That stupid whore better not be doing anything to jeopardise this or she will truly regret it. Stupid redhead bitch, what does she have that I don't. Oh well, I will get Kaiba – his money and his body, and I don't care what I will have to do to get it," Tea muttered with a smug smile on her face.
He growled. Tea was no different from the others who had tried the same. She would regret every trying to get to him.
Wait redhead? She's talking about Caylee. Did Caylee know what Tea was planning? He thought.
"That will never happen Tea," he growled viciously.
The girl turned in shock to his voice then smiled, an attempt at seductive, that just made her all the more foul in his opinion.
"Don't even try it Gardner, come near me, Mokuba or Caylee again and you will regret it dearly," he snapped, exiting the room, motioning for someone to deal with the woman.
As he stepped into his car, he dreaded what he would see when he arrived at Dark Sanctuary.
"About time you bastard," Bakura cried, shaking his fist.
Seto rolled his eyes, "I had to take care of some unwanted rubbish,"
Bakura smirked, "Sounds like the date with Tea didn't go so well,"
"No it didn't, she was just like every other girl I've tried dating, only after my body and my money. Now where is Caylee? I'm going to take her home to she can sleep off the alcohol," Seto stated angrily.
"That's if you can catch her," Marik stated walking up to them.
Bakura raised an eyebrow and left a silent question hanging in the air.
"She ran off as soon as she saw Kaiba over here. I don't know what you did Kaiba but it must have been big for Caylee to start drinking, she only gets this bad whenever she is majorly depressed over something. This has only happened once before but we never knew why, only that she was depressed," Marik explained.
Soft keys from a piano sounded around the club, then an angelic voice, laced with sadness began to sing.
Seto looked over at the stage and gasped.
Caylee was standing on the stage, haggard in appearance and tears falling down her face as she sang. Her eyes were closed, yet it felt like she was singing from the heart, like the pain was going to kill her.
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
Your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
The song was so sad that he swore that Marik and Bakura also had tears in their eyes from the hidden meaning in the song.
What happened Caylee? What did I do that has made you feel like this? He thought, letting a single tear fall from his sapphire eyes.
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
Caylee looked up at the end of the song, letting the tears continue to fall before dropping the microphone and running towards the nearest exit.
He couldn't help himself as he ran to catch up with her, pushing and shoving anyone who stood in his way. He could feel the pain that Caylee was feeling, like she was heartbroken and nothing could heal it.
"Caylee, Caylee, stop please. Come back," he tried to call out above the music, but it was drowned out by everything else in the club.
He watched as the hair of fire, rushed out exit and into the cold alleyway behind the club.
Seto saw her panting and crying on the alley floor, her body trembling with cold and sadness.
"Caylee?" he stated, reaching to place a hand on her shoulder.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" she cried, lashing out, hitting him across the face as she turned around to stand up.
It shocked him enough that he landed flat on his ass, not suspecting her cry. He stood up and tried again, "Come on Caylee, let's go home,"
She growled, her eyes turning black in anger just like he had seen when she had taken down her gang. It was like she was turning into some angry beast. Darkness seemed to shift around her as she started to slowly back away from him.
"Wait Caylee. What's wrong? Please let me help you," he said wary of her.
She laughed, one that said that she didn't believe him.
"You help me. Get real Kaiba, go back to your girlfriend and I'll go back to my little underworld and we'll never see each other again. It would make things a whole lot easier for me as I won't have to look at the one I care most about screwing some other woman," she cried.
Shock coursed through his body. Not in the entire time that she had known him had Caylee called him by his last name. Hearing her call him that pierced his heart like had brought a dagger down into his chest.
"She's not my girlfriend Caylee. She was just after my money and my body, but you knew that already, didn't you?" he retorted.
"You would have known too if she had threatened you to stay away as well. I thought that you would rather figure it out for yourself rather than me tell you the truth and then push it back in my face just like the stubborn ass that you are," she cried.
He looked down in defeat. Seto knew it was true; he would rather figure things out than have people push the truth straight in his face. Caylee had known that and kept out of his way.
"Well I'm not Caylee. I should have just followed my heart and told you truth," he muttered.
Caylee scowled, "Stop muttering Kaiba-boy, and just grow some balls already – spit it out!"
Seto growled lowly.
"FINE! I'm falling in love with you Caylee!" he shouted.
Caylee stumbled back at few paces at his shout. But the shock was so much for her that her anger seemed to dissipate as her eyes returned to their former beautiful emerald green.
"W-what? B-but then why did you say yes to Tea?" she stuttered, tears beginning to fall down her eyes.
Seto looked up with determination into Caylee's eyes, sighed and slowly walked forward until he could cup her cheek in the palm of his hand.
"I was stupid Caylee. I thought that I could never be good enough for you and that I could possibly forget about my feelings by going out with someone else but it never happened. All I wanted was you," he explained.
Her eyes widened in shock and more tears followed, he hurriedly tried to wipe them away but more just followed. She sobbed then embraced him, burying her face into his chest. All he could do was try to comfort her.
Caylee leaned back and looked up into his eyes, "I thought I wasn't going to worthy of you Seto. When you told me to wish you luck, I couldn't bring myself to as it would break my heart,"
He gasped, "What are you talking about Caylee? You're everything that I want. We may be complete opposites but that's what makes me want you. You bring joy, happiness and fire to my life and you're so loyal to everyone around you. Even through everything you've been through, your still a fighter. It's your fire that wants me to melt the ice that I built around my heart. You may drive me crazy with some of your antics but I'm learning to live with it. Please, don't leave me,"
Caylee brought her arms around his neck and pulled herself up so that she could whisper in his ear.
"I've already fallen Seto," she whispered.
Caylee felt so warm and safe in Seto's arms and he carried her bridal style up the stairs to their rooms. She still couldn't believe that he felt the same way about her. She felt content with her life for the first time in six years.
Seto set her down on her bed, pulling down the covers and taking off her shoes, belt and her jewellery, making her as comfortable as he could while she was still intoxicated.
I'm just lucky I won't be throwing up in the morning, but I can't say anything about the headache that's going to be greeting me when I wake up, she thought, letting her eyes fall shut.
Her eyes fluttered open once again as Seto kissed her forehead softly and brushed her bangs away from her forehead.
Caylee smiled and grabbed his other hand, intertwining their fingers so that she could kiss them softly.
He smiled at her as well.
"I would kiss you right now but I would prefer to do it when I know I'm sober and everything doesn't seem like a dream to me as it does right now," she whispered.
He chuckled, "Trust me Caylee, I know what you mean. I'm still praying that this isn't a dream too,"
A thought came to her suddenly.
Sheepishly she asked, "W-would you sleep beside me tonight? That way we will both know when we wake up that it isn't a dream,"
His smile grew bigger at her words and slipped his shoes and jacket off. Pulling the covers off, he crawled into bed beside her, pulling her close to his side. She felt the warmth radiating across to her and his heartbeat as she laid her head against his chest.
"You don't seem cold to me Seto and that's one strong heartbeat there," she whispered against his chest.
Caylee felt him chuckle at her words, it was a nice feeling.
"Thanks Caylee, though I'm starting to think that that only started once you came into my life. Gods knows Mokuba was starting to think the same thing too," he whispered.
She chuckled - Mokuba definitely would think that.
"Good night Seto," she whispered.
She felt the arms around her tightened and Seto lean his face down so that it was resting on top of her head as she slowly drifted to sleep.
"Good night Caylee,"
Me: few, I really loved this chapter, bit lovey-dovey in the end but still brilliant.
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NEXT TIME: Seto and Caylee's relationship is now known to the others and begins to develop more.