"I am ready to party!" Tristan said loudly from the bathroom. He was putting the last minute touches to his hair in the mirror, just as Duke walked in.
"Tris, is that a gray?" Duke asked pointing to a strand.
"Fuck you. There's no gray hair here. I touched it up this morning to hide what little gray I already had courtesy of the roommate I live with!" He laughed.
While Tristan was in the bathroom trying to fix his hair, Joey was still in the bedroom contemplating on what to wear to Seto's party.
"Babe, I told you to go with the cranberry button down with the-"
"I'm not wearing leather. I feel like breathing tonight and being comfortable."
"I feel like getting blown." Joey gave Duke a look. "In more ways than one."
"Who am I to be giving you looks anyway?" Joey asked himself. "It's been too long since I've had any. I'm about to start climbing the walls."
"I offered," Tristan said coming into the room. He walked over to Joey's closet snatching out a black sleeveless button down. "Here, put this on with those jeans and lets hurry up. We still have to pick up Mai and Téa on the way."
It took Joey another forty-five minutes to put on his clothes, find a proper pair of shoes and fix his hair before they finally made their way out of the apartment to pick up Mai and Téa. Once the girls were in the car, Mai looking appropriate for once, they headed to Euphoria to hopefully have a good time.
Euphoria was the most crowded it had ever been before. There was a mile long line outside of the door with people with glossy invitations ready to get inside of the club.
"-Joey!"
Joey turned to look at the entrance where his sister was jumping up and down, trying to flag him down. He grabbed Duke's hand pulling him along where the rest of them followed.
"Me and Mokuba have been waiting for you guys forever!" Serenity shouted.
"Blame Jojo here for trying to pull a Cinderella," Tristan said.
"It's amazing that all these people are waiting here to get inside!" Serenity had a huge smile on her face.
"I feel bad for them. It's not exactly summer time out here, Seren," Mai said cuddling up to Téa.
"I don't make the rules unfortunately." Serenity frowned. "Ma-ma and Pa-pa came to."
"God help us." Joey rolled his eyes.
"Don't worry. We left them at the bar and him and Ma-ma have been chugging beer like you wouldn't believe. Me and Mokuba will make sure they're home safe. Let's get inside!"
Once inside, the crowd and the sound of music blared through their ears as they were handed black satin eye mask like sidekicks to superheroes. The entire club looked as though the Cirque du Soleil came to town. Contortionists and acrobatics were performing along side fire breathers and sword swallowers on the higher stages. Half naked men were performing in cages dancing and grinding against their partners on the inside.
"I feel like I'm in one of my dreams." Duke smiled like a kid in a candy store.
Mokuba was making his way through the crowd to the group when they walked in the door.
"You guys are finally here!"
"Yeah! Where's your brother?" Téa asked and Mokuba frowned.
"He's upstairs in the lounge alone. He refuses to come down. The only reason that he won't leave is because it was me that planned it. I messed up bad."
"Hey, kid! You tried to get your brother to have a good time," Joey said putting his arm around Mokuba's shoulder.
"I should have had the dinner party Joey."
"Don't beat yourself up!" He playfully punched Mokuba in the chest. "Now go and dance with my sister and have a good time. I promise, we'll take care of your brother."
"Please?" Mokuba begged looking up at him and Joey nodded.
"Go have fun, kid."
Mokuba grabbed Serenity's hand and the two of disappeared into the crowd leaving Joey with the rest of his group.
"You guys ready?" Joey asked.
"You didn't! Seriously? You think Kaiba's going to come down because of us?" Duke asked.
"Well it seems kinda fucked up if we're having fun and he's not. Besides, trying is not going to kill anybody."
"Fucking saint Jo." Tristan smirked grabbing Joey's hand and guiding him to the upstairs lounge where the others followed behind. Once they were upstairs, there was medium built blonde male in a white tank and tight fitting black jeans in front of the door.
"Marik!" Tristan greeted with his arms opened. "What the hell are you doing?"
"The sprout gave me a couple of bucks to play bouncer to protect the king. Your friend is in there having a ball. Sarcasm intended."
"Did you try to lift his spirits with some pixie dust?"
"You know him. Something about it'd mess up his healthy figure. Go head in there before the prince dies of boredom and its off with everyone's head."
When Marik had let them into the room, it was a sad sight. Seto was sprawled out on the couch looking like the birthday kid where nobody showed up to the party. Laying in a tight fitting black button down and medium blue jeans, he had his mask on with a dark blue party blowout between his lips.
"This one man party is waaaay better than the one with the five million people downstairs," Joey commented. He looked around before his eyes landed back on Seto, who he had to admit, looked damn hot in his current position.
Seto only blew the party favor loudly before it was launched from his mouth and hit the ground.
"Real mature, Kaiba," Duke said rolling his eyes. "Get your ass up and let's go downstairs. We didn't spend hours getting ready for nothing and I would like to think my ass looks extremely extraordinary in these pants tonight, so let us dance, please."
"I'm not going downstairs," Seto said turning to lay on his back so that he was now looking at the ceiling.
"Hey asshole," Mai began walking over to him. "Your brother spent too damn long to plan this party for you. Let's go before Tris and Joey haul your ass down there."
"We've done it before," Tristan warned cracking his knuckles threateningly.
"If you or Wheeler lay a hand on me, there's going to be consequences to pay. And besides, this is not what I planned. Why would Mokuba ask me what I want and then plan this obscene poor excuse for a party? I wanted a quiet evening. At home. With a gourmet dinner and wine, not poppers and hard liquor."
"Like the one you spend any other night you're not down here?" Joey asked. "Look, do you seriously want to remember your birthday like this? Most of us wouldn't have came if we couldn't at least tolerate you."
"Or enjoy free booze."
"That too."
"Does anyone else see this is hopeless cause?" Duke began to strip himself of his jacket. "Why are we trying this hard if we know the stubborn ass isn't going to come join everyone else?"
"Duke…we have to at least try," Téa said to him.
"Listen to Devlin," said Seto. "I'm not leaving. Besides, I'm too comfortable."
Duke, Tristan, and Mai stripped their coats and tossed them onto unoccupied couch in the room. Tristan then turned Joey and Téa.
"We're giving you two five minutes while we keep his birthday shots on ice or me, Mai, and Duke are taking your shares." He grinned sliding on his mask.
"See you in a bit, babe." Mai leaned over giving Téa a quick kiss before she exited behind Tristan and Duke.
Joey sighed looking at the pathetic sack on the couch. How was he supposed to convince Seto to come downstairs with the rest of them to have a good time?
"You're birthday only comes around once a year, Kaiba." Téa tried.
"Good riddance," he said sourly.
"Kaiba, you come downstairs and enjoy yourself…I promise I'll never bother you again."
Seto turned to Joey. "Why are you trying so hard?"
"I don't want you to regret it. Besides, I promised Mokuba because he was desperate for you to come down there. He knows he messed up badly, but he really wanted you to enjoy your birthday and he just didn't think that would really happen at a stuffy dinner party in a big empty house with the two of you alone. You have a good time any other time you're down here, what makes today any different? How was your last birthday?"
Seto looked reluctant to say anything as he looked back up to the ceiling.
"Well?" Joey pressed.
"Home with Mokuba."
"And the one before that?"
"Wheeler, what the hell are you getting to?" Seto was getting impatient.
"I'm getting to the fact that you haven't had a birthday that you could actually call a birthday."
"And you have to give Mokuba some credit. It looks good," Téa added.
"Yeah, the cirque theme does look incredible. Now, all we're missing is the clown so you need to hurry up. The crowd's waitin' for you." Joey smirked. He could have sworn he saw Seto wanting to smile when the little corners of his mouth turned up a bit only to fall. He then turned his head back to Joey.
"You'll leave me alone?"
"I know, doesn't it just sound so appealing?"
"Fine. Gardner, you owe me too," Seto said swinging his feet over the couch and standing.
Téa stuck out her tongue playfully before linking arms with Joey as they began to follow behind Seto out of the room. They started their way down the winding stairs that over looked the club only for Joey to see what looked like his mother swinging on a pole.
"What the hell is my mother doing?" he asked out loud.
Mrs. Wheeler hooted loudly as she landed on her two feet and began to dance sandwiched between to male dancers.
"Having a lot more fun than we are." Téa guided him down the rest of the stairs and they all walked over to the bar.
"YO!" Tristan greeted loudly to them. "And you had exactly 36 seconds before this bomb was mine! Let's go birthday boy!" He said grabbing Seto around his shoulders and pulling him against him, handing him his shot.
Everyone tossed back a shot before Tristan was ordering another round.
By the eight round and the time between lingering, everyone was beginning to feel the alcohol, especially the females. Mai was falling over against Téa who wasn't better off herself.
"Let's dance!" Seto said to Joey who looked at him confused.
"Yeah. Right." He snorted turning back to mixed drink and taking a little sip.
"I'm serious."
Joey thought about it. "Okay, but don't get all weird on me." Joey grinned.
Before he knew it, they were out on the dance floor. Seto pressed close to the blond's front his arms sliding around the slender waist and pulling him closer.
Suddenly Joey was feeling hot. The alcohol and Seto starting to grind his hips into his was making his mind swirl and his arousal rising quicker than usual. Probably since he hadn't had any sex in so long, his mind was on a trip all by itself. The bass wasn't helping either. The reverberating sound was going through his body and he was reacting.
Joey pulled away for a bit, dancing alone for a bit, while Seto danced in front of him. He looked up to see Seto with that stupid smirk.
"What?" He asked.
"Nothing."
"-Ladies." Tristan said coming behind Joey his hips swaying along with the other. "Are we going for more shots?"
"I'm up for it," Seto said.
Both Tristan and Joey looked at Seto shocked.
"From the guy who wanted to housesit the lounge," Tristan said laying a kiss in the crook of Joey's neck. "Let's go."
The rest of the night seemed to go as a blur. The constant back and forth between the bar and the dance floor.
"Mokuba, thank you," Seto said putting his arm around his brother's shoulder while they were at the bar once again.
"You should have a shot with your brother," Duke said.
"No underage drinking!" Seto said.
"You act like I've never done it before!" Mokuba defended.
"I thought you'd be designated driver?"
"By the time he's ready to leave it'll be out of his system." Tristan handed them two of them the readied shots.
"You tell anyone your older brother let you drink, you're dead. The press would eat my ass."
"Doesn't sound to bad." Joey laughed.
Everyone cheered as the brothers drank the burning liquid. Mokuba made a disgusted face as he started to cough.
"Only water for you for the rest of the night." Serenity gave him a glass which he took gratefully.
Drinks had went round so much, everyone had just about lost count as to what was going on. The group took a quick group photo, courtesy of a photographer Mokuba had paid for, and decided on one more jump around on the dance floor. Mai and Téa took it upon themselves to dance on stage along with the DJ, while the rest of the gang danced together on the floor. Serenity had even danced a bit with Tristan after he had worked at the idiotic charm.
Joey could tell that Seto was enjoying. There was no way that he couldn't be having a good time considering he was around good people and alcohol.
The cure-all.
He laughed as Seto danced with his father, who was sporting a fiery red wig falling in waves and a long shimmering dress and the bright make-up complimented his outfit once more.
Then that's when Joey saw it.
Seto's lips turned up into the cutest smile Joey had ever seen before.
For the little bit of time that he had known Seto, the man had never smiled and it was a shame. It fitted him better than his clothes did and gave him some personality. It turned what tried to be so intimidating and arrogant to almost childlike and innocent.
Seto caught Joey's eye and he held out his hand to Joey who took it. He turned Joey around so his back was to his chest as he meshed their bodies together.
Joey started to heat up again.
"Do I get a birthday dance in private?" He heard Seto breathe into his ear.
"Now I know you're drunk."
"Maybe, but I know what I want."
"Sorry, that's a no go. You're taking advantage of this situation too much."
A hand slowly crept down the front of his jeans, grazing over his groin and making him shiver.
"Kaiba…I think you've had enough."
"-Let's go up stairs for a bit!"
Joey was saved by Mokuba.
Mokuba began the line for the group to head up stairs (Tristan making a detour to the bar and snagged a bottle) and they went into the lounge where a huge cake was sitting on a decorated table. The cake was three layers, airbrushed with a pretty blue and embroidered with a baby blue icing. A big twenty six candle was sitting on the top layer. It was long before they were all singing Happy birthday to Seto who looked on in amazement.
Joey could see it in the other's eyes that this was a first. To be surrounded by people and actually enjoying himself for once. For taking a chance at something new and actually having fun with it. Even having sex, whether at the club or at home could equal out to what happened when you surrounded yourself with friends. Well, friends was kind of pushing it; but the point was that Seto wasn't alone.
He was happy, even if he never mentioned it to Joey or anyone around him.
"Just like a birthday should be," Joey said as him and Tristan lugged Seto up the stairs to the house. Mokuba had already dropped off Joey's parents safely home, as he promised and then they dropped Mai and Téa off to their apartment. Now they were trying to get Seto inside of his own. "Shouldn't be able to fucking walk after it."
"Hey, Mokuba…your brother may look like he doesn't weigh shit, but we're not carrying his fat ass up the stairs so he can get his beauty rest," Tristan said.
"Bathroom," Seto said suddenly looking sick.
"Seto, you can't sleep in the bathroom." Serenity told him, closing the entrance door and locking it behind them.
"No, I mean-"
Before Joey and Tristan knew it, Seto broke away from them taking off and running to the nearest bathroom on the first floor.
"Schmuck…can't even hold his liquor." Tristan laughed lifting an almost full bottle of alcohol to his lips and drinking.
"You brought that home?" Duke asked and Tristan answered by holding it out to him. "No thank you. Come on, let's go outside for a smoke." He grabbed Tristan's hand a guided through the kitchen to the patio.
Joey grimaced as he heard retching sounds from the bathroom when Mokuba wrapped his arms around Joey hugging him.
"You okay?" Joey asked.
"Thank You, Joey. Even though my brother's in the bathroom probably throwing up his internal organs, I appreciate everything you did tonight. I know he had fun with you all."
"Well I'm glad you think so," Joey said rubbing Mokuba's back and patting it. "Come on, let's go and check on your brother."
"I'll go and check on Tristan and Duke," Serenity said making her own way to the patio where she saw both the backs of both Tristan and Duke both going back and forth on a bench like cushioned swinger.
"Sorry about that," Tristan said.
"Hey, sometimes I bring home ass and sometimes I don't," Duke said as he took the cigarette handed to him and took an inhale. "Besides, it was Kaiba's birthday. I actually had a half way decent time."
"Didn't we all?" Tristan chuckled. "I can't wait to do it again. We should have a Halloween party. Of course we can't pay thousands to have Euphoria for exclusives, but we can figure out something to do."
"Maybe."
"Who would ever thought that we would be sitting outside like this in Kaiba's house? I could get used to this." Tristan sighed. "We should raid his fridge."
"That too." Duke turned to Tristan. "I love you, Tristan."
"Likewise bud." Tristan smiled. "How about that raid?"
Serenity smiled to herself as she turned and walked back inside of the house to see how Joey and Mokuba were doing with Seto in the bathroom. Mokuba was rubbing his older brother's back while Joey stood by the sink holding a glass of water.
"Seto, are you okay?" Serenity asked.
"Better out than in, sis. He'll live." Joey laughed.
"Joey…" She admonished, giving him a disapproving look.
"I'm fine, Serenity," Seto said wiping the back of his mouth with his unsteady hand as he stood. Joey handed him the water. He took and drank the water quickly.
"Need help getting to your room?" Joey asked.
"I get that private dance after all?" Seto grinned.
"Can't do anything polite without the backlash of humor can I?"
"Who said I was being humorous?"
"Seto are you sure you don't need any help? I'll help you." Mokuba offered.
"I'm fine Mokuba."
Joey lead the rest of them out of the bathroom.
"I should probably get Tris and Duke so we can head home. You need a lift Serenity?"
"Where the hell do you think you're going Wheeler? All three of you are still beyond the legal intoxication limit and Serenity with no license? At least stay until you all are at least halfway sober."
"I, myself, feel almost perfect," Tristan said walking into the hall with the rest of them holding a sandwich as big as his mouth.
"They always do." Seto rolled his eyes. "Mokuba, show these clowns to one of the extra bedrooms while I go upstairs and lay down before I puke the rest of what's left in my stomach up." He made his way to the stairs.
"Good night, honey." Joey, Tristan, and Duke said in unison with matching grins.
Seto flipped them off in response as he made his way to his room.
An oncoming headache coming full force.
The next morning Joey awoke to loud snores coming from beside him. Tristan had to share his bed since Duke refused to have the other lay next to him for "personal reasons". Joey figured to have the brunet so close to him would tempt the ebony haired princess to kiss the frog…and then do him. Joey had just wanted sleep last night so he didn't care if Tristan slept next to him or on top.
Joey swung his feet over the side of the bed, his head pounding. Taking a quick glance at the alarm clock on the wardrobe he couldn't believe it. He had only been sleep for about five hours; it was only 9:36. He stood up, took a quick stretch before making his way downstairs to get bit to eat.
As soon as he entered the kitchen, he found Seto standing shirtless in the middle of the floor drinking water from a bottle. His eyes closed, head leaned back just a bit, the movement of his adam's apple moving smoothly as he swallowed the water; Joey felt his pants get tighter just watching. His gaze followed lower coming to the well defined chest that Joey knew Seto prized considering that night Seto turned down a bit of the "good time" dust. Then to see the other male standing there with a pair of sweat pants that clung to his-
"See something you like?" Seto asked interrupting Joey's thoughts.
"Yea-No." Joey stuttered, his eyes coming to meet the others. "I came to ask you did you have any aspirin. My head is killing me."
Seto walked over to the counter, opened a drawer reached inside finding a small white pill bottle. He tossed it Joey who caught it.
"Thanks."
"Hn." Seto responded. He gave Joey a skeptical look. "Hungry?"
"Yeah. I can run and go and get something from where I work. My mother has this new October pumpkin spiced coffee you should taste."
"Surprise me." With that Seto walked out of the kitchen and went back to his room.
All Joey could think about on the way to the café was the way Seto drank water. If he did that so sexy, what the hell was he like in bed?
Nevermind.
He didn't want to know. Who didn't know? Seto had the reputation around the neighborhood of being a rabbit; hopping from one twink to the next. With obvious differences, he reminded Joey of a weird combination of Duke and Tristan.
Joey hadn't been like that since he had turned nineteen. He seemed to be the only one in his group of guys that had broken out of that phase. It was occasional that he needed to a quick lay to stay sane, but Joey wanted more. Dating had more perks than just one night stands. So why was it that no one decent in the city wanted to experience it?
When he walked into the shop, Joey noticed a new cashier behind the counter cursing at the cash register. Joey walked over, leaned over the bar and hit a button. The drawer popped open.
"Thanks," The boy said looking up. From Joey just looking at him, he was young, probably about seventeen. He had red hair which was coming from underneath a blue baseball cap with their café logo across the front.
"-Jojo!" Joey turned to see his mother coming at him with her arms wide open. "Baby, what are you doing here on your day off?" She asked giving him a quick hug.
"Ma, you're making him wear that hideous hat?" He asked, returning the hug, but gesturing to the hat on the cashier's head.
"I think Justin looks cute." Mrs. Wheeler smiled, reaching over and pinching his cheeks.
"Give the guy a break before he quits."
"Jojo, I'm not being mean." She turned to Justin. "Sweetheart, you don't have to wear that if you don't want to."
"It's fine, Mrs. Wheeler. It hides the red." Justin smiled, closing the drawer.
"You don't have to be so nice to her." Joey joked poking his mother. "Tell her how you really feel."
"I'm not too old to spank you, Joseph. Keep it up." Mrs. Wheeler warned jokingly. "What's wrong? Hungry?"
"I promise the guys that I'd get some breakfast for us." Joey lied. A little lie was better than telling his mother that he had spent the night over Seto's. She would take it completely to another level.
"Okay. Come with me to the back, baby. We'll scrounge up something."
When he got back to Seto's place, he had more than enough bagels, doughnuts, sandwiches to last them three days. As soon as he walked through the door, Mokuba, Duke, and Tristan bombarded him and snatched everything out of his hands before he could walk into the doorway.
"So, Halloween here Kaiba?" Tristan asked.
"Taylor, just because we had fancy to-do last night, does not mean this relationship takes permanent status."
"Aww…really." Joey frowned. "And I thought for a second we could all just get along."
"Please. I still have a reputation to uphold and hanging with the terrible threesome is not going to do it any good."
"Or any worse," Duke mumbled.
"We're one to talk about reputations Devlin. We all know about yours."
"Hey Kaiba, that wouldn't be an insult referencing Duke," Tristan said biting into a bagel.
"How about it Seto? How about a Halloween party here?" Mokuba suggested. "What could be so bad about it?"
"How about my house being destroyed by a bunch of intoxicated train wrecks? Sorry Mokuba, last night was decent, but I pass on the next party."
Mokuba frowned.
"It's okay, Moki. My friend Jess is having a party. We can go there," Serenity said leaning in and giving him a small kiss on the cheek. Mokuba and Serenity looked back at the group to find the stares boring into them. "What?"
"Moki?" Duke repeated.
"You two had sex." Tristan's lips turned up into a grin. "There's no way Mokuba's getting nicknames without giving it up."
"Can you not talk about my sister and her boyfriend's private life?" Joey chucked a piece of his doughnut across the kitchen's island at Tristan. "Asshole."
"Hey! I'm just saying it."
"Well don't say it Taylor." Seto took a sip of his coffee. "You see why we can't have anything here Mokuba? I might have to kill someone." He eyed Tristan.
"Get a decent costume and I won't tell a soul you did it." Duke snatched up the other half of Tristan's sandwich.
Joey laid on the couch with his Psychology textbook sitting on his chest. He had only looked at it for ten minutes before he was watching a press conference of Seto on television, promoting some new technology for his company. Joey didn't know what it was for, all he knew was that the male on the screen looked amazing.
Seto was wearing a simple black suit with a white shirt and matching black tie underneath.
So why did he look so good if he was dressed so simple?
Joey sighed. Maybe it was because of the way he looked at his audience with confidence. Confidence was sexy in a guy. Joey noticed the way the blue eyes glistened with a fire that Joey found himself getting lost into. Why was he finding Seto so attractive? When did this happen? One minute he was trying not to strangle the other, now he was thinking the unthinkable.
With his mind in another place, his body had a mind of it's own. Joey's hand moved rubbed the growing bulge in his jeans and he let out an involuntary moan. The more and more Joey watched the lips of the others on the screen made him harder. Undoing his top button, he hissed, his hand moving inside of his pants and boxers.
"Shit…" He let out a small whimper as he found his throbbing length and wrapped his fist around it slowly.
"-Joey?"
"Fuck!" Joey yelled jumping up, his book falling to ground. He quickly tried to shove himself into his boxers and managed to zip his pants close without zipping anything that would hurt. He turned around to see his mother, Duke and Yugi staring at him.
"Don't worry about it, honey." Mrs. Wheeler laughed. "Since I first heard you when you were thirteen in your room, you haven't exactly been quiet sometimes."
"Ma! Can you not say stuff like that?" Joey did a double take as he saw who else was in the room. "YUG?!"
"Hi, Joey."
Joey jumped over the back of the couch and wrapped his arms around his best friend. It seemed like forever since he had last seen him since the other went on a trip with his grandfather on an archaeological dig in Egypt.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Joey asked, still in shock.
"Break from the desert. Figured I'd come back to make sure everyone was still alive," Yugi smiled.
"Were you jerking off to your psychology book?" Duke asked as he picked the book up off of the floor.
"No, no, no." Joey's mother smiled. "I see Seto Kaiba on TV. Jojo has a crush on a rich someone."
"Crush on Kaiba?" Yugi asked. "It has been too long."
"Sorry you have to come back to BS, Yug. Say, what are you doing tonight? We should go to Euphoria tonight."
"Already agreed." Yugi smiled. "Besides, Yami has the night off. I stopped by the café to see you, but you had already left. So Duke and your mother dropped me off."
"And I got you all dinner," Joey's mother added pulling out some containers of food from paper bags. "Baby, I do have to go because I'm in a rush to see your father, but I want you to enjoy your evening and be safe," She said leaning over and kissing him goodbye.
Mrs. Wheeler gave Yugi and Duke twin kisses before leaving the apartment.
"So…about Kaiba..." Duke started and Joey shook his head making his way into the kitchen to grab some plates. "Don't shake your head. No one jerks off to someone they don't at least find attractive."
"How do you know I was watching him? Could have been a hot male model in the anatomy section of the psych book."
"Yeah right," Yugi said helping Joey by grabbing the plates. "How is Kaiba?"
"How do you think? He's Kaiba. He okey-fucking-dokey." Joey pulled out some glasses taking them to table.
"Joey…" Duke was about to get serious. "You know, its okay. So we'll tease you, but it's cool. I'm pretty sure that Kaiba's an okay guy once you get to know him."
"He doesn't want to get to know anyone unless it's in the bathroom of that dirty club."
"How do you know?" Yugi asked.
"We talked when he came over one night for dinner at Ma's since his brother is dating Serenity. He has the brain of Tristan. He thinks dating is a disease."
Yugi looked at Duke with a frown. "Well I say this calls for a hard night, especially on some catch up because it seems I missed a lot."
"Not much. You know us, Yug. Same ole' Same ole'," Duke said taking a seat at the table.
"Still feels great."
Despite Yugi's return, Joey's mood had turned gloomy. He tried to keep a smile on his face to keep Yugi from worrying, but underneath his facade of a smile, he felt like shit. Yugi was off with Yami, Duke was off with someone, and Tristan was sitting V.I.P in the lounge with Marik doing who knew what.
"Joey, not again," Ryou said leaning on the bar. "Anything I can get you?"
"Something sober like."
"One Coke coming up." Ryou smiled as he walked away.
As soon as Ryou returned, Kaiba walked over to the bar with his arm wrapped around the slender waist of a red haired male. Joey recognized the male instantly and shook his head.
"Two rum and cokes Ryou." Kaiba ordered. The male beside him wrapped his arms around Kaiba's neck whispering something in his head and Kaiba turned around looking at Joey. "Wheeler." Was all he said as he turned back around to the red head.
"Kaiba...Alister." He mumbled into his coke bottle.
He couldn't believe the brunet. He had to almost beg his friends to get Kaiba to actually celebrate his birthday, they ended up having a great time with the asshole (even though he wouldn't dare admit it), stayed over the other's house, he went and got breakfast for the prick and now…Kaiba was acting like he didn't want to acknowledge Joey, making him, for some strange reason or another, feel like a fool.
But then again…he had forgot the clauses in the verbal contract he made with Seto the night before. He was to never bother the other again. Joey was a man of his word.
It just sucked having to be that guy.
Joey pulled out his cell phone checking the time. It was about one in the morning and Joey had a test to go and cram for. Yugi would understand his taking off without saying good bye. Besides, trying to find him in this crowd would be too much of a hassle.
"See you later, Ryou," He said lowly as he paid his tab.
"Pass your bedtime?" Seto said turning to him. Alister gave an annoying high pitched laugh.
Now he wants to say something.
Joey ignored him leaving the club.
"Moki, are you okay?" Serenity asked and Mokuba turned to her.
"I'm fine. Why?"
"You seem…on edge. If you're uncomfortable being here, we can always go back to my house. My mother and father are at our neighbors."
"No…it's fine Seren. Maybe I just need something to drink. I'll be back."
Mokuba squeezed past the many people in the small cramped apartment trying to get to the punch bowl. The only reason he had agreed to come to the Halloween party, was because it seemed Serenity really wanted to come. As soon as they walked in the door, said friend was wasted.
Plus, Mokuba wasn't exactly accustomed to such an atmosphere. He had friends, but it was small group and did legal things like, have playing video games or roleplaying. Booze and drugs were forbidden.
He poured himself some the bright pink lemonade into a cup and took a sip, frowning.
"It's spiked with some Goose!" A black-haired girl slurred and stumbled into him. "Mmm…you're kinda cute," She said with her fingers sneaking under his shirt and hooking onto the waistband of his jeans.
"I'm here with someone." Mokuba tried to say as nicely as possible moving away from her before she could go further.
"We'll be quick. She won't even know." She grinned coming closer.
"-He said he was here with someone." Serenity interjected, stepping beside Mokuba.
"Nh…Serenity Wheeler," The girl said her name dripping with disgust. "Your brother still a fag?"
"Fuck you." Serenity stepped closer to the girl about to knock the other girl into another world. Mokuba had never heard Serenity use such language before.
"Come on, Seren. It's not the serious."
"Yes, listen to your boyfriend, bitch." She walked off.
"Maybe we should go." Mokuba suggested.
"We can't." Serenity pouted. "I already told Jess I would stay."
"You haven't seen Jess since we first walked into the door."
"One more hour Mokuba, I promise."
Mokuba knew this wasn't a good idea.
"Jojo, are you sure you want to close the café tonight? Aren't all your friends going to be at Yami and Yugi's tonight for the Halloween party?"
"I'll survive one Halloween without the guys. Go home, Ma. I'll be okay," Joey said sitting on a stool. The café was almost empty except for a couple, and an elderly man reading the newspaper.
"If you need anything Joseph, call us. It's Halloween and it's crazy tonight," Joseph said, patting his son on the back.
"Yes I know, Pa-pa. You two have fun at Mel and Dan's. I'm fine."
Mrs. Wheeler gave her son one last look before turning to leave, her husband behind her.
Joey made himself a cup of the his mother's special October brew coffee and sat behind the bar waiting to close up.
As a welcome back party, Yami had decided to throw the party at his apartment and invited most of their friends, plus about thirty more, including Kaiba. Joey, instead, lied to everyone telling them that his parents had a party to go to so that meant that he had to close up. Whether he would be over later or not would depend upon if he was in the mood. After the stunt Kaiba pulled at the club just a couple of days ago, Joey did not want to see him. It was sad to admit, but there was that small twinge of jealous of seeing Alister wrapped around the Seto. Of all people, Alister, nicknamed the club's "cum bucket".
Joey couldn't understand. Seto was attractive enough to have any woman or male to build a family with, but would rather screw around with whatever wasn't nailed down. What Seto took for granted, he longed to have before he would be bald and gumming steak.
Joey heard the sound of chairs scraping and watched as the couple made their way out of the door.
Another thirty minutes and the old man was gone.
Joey was alone.
He decided to take as long as he could to get ready and close. He washed the dishes, wiped down the tables and the bar, cleaned the appliances, and counted the drawer. Just as he finished, the door chime signaled someone's entrance and Joey looked up.
"Sorry, I forgot to…" He raised his eyebrow. "What are you doing here, Kaiba?" He asked about to bag the money. "Aren't you supposed to be at Yami's?"
"So are you."
"Nope. Had to close up shop."
"We all know that's bullshit. You can fool your too small brained friends, but I know you just used that as an excuse. Your mother was more psyched about this party for you to go to than you were. She would have gladly covered your shift."
"You and my mother talk now? So you'll be friends with her but not us?"
"If I did become friends with your mother, would it kill you? In case you never bothered to hear me not mention, me and Mokuba don't exactly have any parental guidance."
Joey turned on his heel walking to the back putting the money back and then walked back up to the front.
"I'm about to close the barnyard buddy," Joey said leaning on the bar staring at the other.
"You've been acting weird Wheeler." Seto thought about it. "More than usual."
"I'm fine…as long as I don't see you."
Seto sucked in breath, narrowing his eyes at Joey. "There's those lies again."
"Would you get out of here already? I want to go home and go to bed."
"Either you're going back to the party with me or we're having a party here."
"Why are you trying so hard?"
"I don't want you to regret it."
Seto said it so low, it was almost hard for Joey to hear it, but he did. It was the same words Joey had spoke to him about a week ago on his birthday. Seto actually took in a word he said that night?
"Yugi's hoping you'll end up coming. If I'm the reason that you won't end up going than I won't go and I'll head home, but he really wants you there."
"I thought you wanted nothing to do with me after the party? Matter of fact, I thought you wanted nothing to do with the rest of us after the party?"
"One more time won't kill me," he said sitting down at the bar. "I know you've cleaned up and everything, but do you mind fixing me a complimentary cup of that spiced pumpkin coffee? It's been on my mind all day at the office."
Joey couldn't help, but laugh as he went and fixed Seto his coffee.
Mokuba released a heavy breath as he watched his Serenity dancing with another girl. He had been ready to leave since he first walked in the door was getting more and more irritated and anxious by the minute. Boys kept eyeing Serenity like a piece of meat and girls kept falling all over him and spilling their drinks on him. After a while he would probably be able to wring out his clothes and refill the punchbowl. He wasn't even getting turned on by Serenity dancing too close with the chick either.
He had allowed her to have one too many drinks. He hadn't planned on letting her drink at all, but he didn't want her to pull her away from doing what she wanted to do. That was a bad thing to do as a boyfriend…
Right?
Mokuba stood up and walked over to Serenity, taking her hand and pulling her away from the other female and into the kitchen.
"You should probably drink something that isn't spiked."
"Moki, I'm fine." Serenity giggled. "You should relax more." She leaned forward pressing her lips against Mokuba who pulled away. "What is it?"
Mokuba frowned. "You're drunk Serenity."
"No, I'm not." She giggled again. "I'm fine."
"We're leaving now."
"I don't want to."
"Serenity, is this really the crowd you want to be around?"
"-Hey, let her relax." A tall guy walked over a smirk on his lips as he looked at Serenity. He handed her a cup which she took and began to drink quickly, despite Mokuba trying to take it away from her.
"Can you not drink stuff strangers give to you?" He asked as he finally pulled the cup away. "We need to go. You said an hour and that would be it."
"Let me say bye to Jen."
"Jess." Mokuba corrected. "And you can say bye to her another time. Let's go, please."
"Fine!" Serenity snatched away angrily from Mokuba going to the door and ripping it open with Mokuba following quickly behind.
"Serenity, will you slow down?" He asked trying to catch up to her. He spotted her about halfway down the stairs before missed a step and tumbled down the stairs. "Serenity!" He called racing down the rest of the stairs and knelt immediately by her side. "Serenity, are you okay?"
When he turned her on her side, her eyes were glassy as her body began to shiver uncontrollably.
"Serenity?" He asked, his heart starting to beat rapidly with panic. "Serenity?!"
Serenity didn't respond as she stared into Mokuba's eyes not able to speak. Her eyes began to roll into the back her head as she shook more violently. With trembling hands, Mokuba managed to dial 911. He could barely even speak when the woman operator came over the phone, as tears fell.
Once he hung up he prayed silently she'd be okay until the ambulance came as he sat by her side on the cold floor helpless.
Joey couldn't believe that him and Seto were actually able to have a nice conversation. He had learned about the other's job and he had told Seto about his school work and his future career plans. It was nice when Seto wasn't trying to play Mr. Big all the time and could actually sit down, over some delicious pumpkin coffee, and not have Joey force his hand.
Joey glanced at his watch and almost choke.
"Shit, it's almost one. Can you drop the shades and lock up. I have to wash these last two dishes and then I'll set the alarm so we can leave to get to the party before its over."
"Your friends don't know what over means."
"I know." Joey laughed as he made his way into the back; his voice fading. "My mother would say the same when Duke and Tris would come over on school nights in high school. Who would have thought it would follow us to this point."
Seto dropped the shades and put the 'closed' sign on the door, locking the door soon after. He could hear Joey rambling on about something as the water turned off and he made his way to back where Joey was.
Joey dried his hands quickly to head to the front. Once he turned the corner, Seto was standing there, his eyes boring into Joey's making him stop in his tracks. He swallowed thick feeling all of sudden nervous as Seto's whole demeanor changed since he was left alone in the other room.
"What are you doing?"
"Giving you what you want."
Seto's voice was dripping with sex making Joey hard instantly. The taller male seemed like he was charging at Joey, making Joey back up until his back collided with the tall shelving unit, steel dishware falling from the top and clattering to the ground.
"Kaiba-"
"Yugi has loose lips when he drinks too much," Seto whispered against Joey' mouth, who could feel the slight brush of the other's lips against his own. "He told me how he caught you when he walked into your apartment. Your hands in your pants, undoubtedly stroking your cock as you watched me on the television screen."
Joey eyes closed as Seto's hand rubbed his arousal through the jeans. He threw his head back against the stainless steel, holding his body up. Seto took advantage, biting into the flesh of Joey's neck.
"If you ever wanted a jerk, you should have called me." Seto grinned against his skin.
"It's nice your finally identifying your…true identity." Joey moaned as his pants were un buttoned and his zipper was down in a flash. "Kaiba, we can't do this…oh shit…"
Seto dropped to his knees, yanking Joey's pants and boxers all down at once. Joey's hardness sprung up, the head leaking with that glistening precum. Joey looked down thinking he would lose it as he saw Seto on his knees before him.
"Keep watching, Wheeler. You might not ever get another show like this again."
Seto wasted no time with teasing and brought Joey completely into this mouth. Joey couldn't believe this was happening. This had to be a dream. The cocky bastard wasn't between his legs blowing him.
He didn't want to wake if it was a dream.
No wonder Kaiba had so many people riding him. He probably had a fan club on his head talent alone. The way he worked his tongue around Joey's cock displayed he was talented in both during and after work hours.
"Fuck…Kaiba…" Joey gripped the back of the other's head as Seto bobbed his head back forth before he throated the cock. Joey felt his legs wanting to go weak. "Kaiba…" Cupping his sacks, Seto sent Joey into a world of ecstasy, without the need of drugs, and Joey clenched his eyes tight before coming hard and spilling all he had to give down the back of the other's throat. "Shit." Was all he could manage to say before he slid to the ground with a dazed look in his eyes.
Seto moved beside with a satisfied grin.
"I don't…know whether to…kill Yug or thank him," Joey panted.
Seto was about to answer when his cell phone began to vibrate in his jacket pocket. He pulled it out answering as he saw Mokuba's number.
"Mok-Mokuba, calm down I can't understand what you're saying."
Joey began to fix his clothes as Seto spoke on the phone.
"Are you okay?…Which hospital are you at?…Me and him are on our way." Seto ended his call with Mokuba and stood up. "Wheeler come on."
"Is Mokuba okay?" Joey asked apprehensive.
"He's okay, but your sister isn't." Seto watched the color drain from Joey's face. "Come on, we have to go to the hospital."