Alright, I'm taking a small pause in my homework to write a little bit, which is something I didn't do in quite a long time actually, but no one is updating which is really sad. Anyway, I'll get started as soon as I figure out how to put the stupid computer dictionary to English so It will stop to say everything is bad…..and I have some check up to do. Alright, that's done, sorry about the delay, I actually had this chapter almost done but it got deleted…and my stupid internet connection keep going out every once in a while
Chapter eleven: For the best and especially for the worst.
"Are you feeling better?" Seto asked, entering the room where Meyli was preparing herself, he found her sitting on the couch all dressed up, she was trying to relax, which was not an easy thing.
"I'm not sure, but at least my stomach is empty now." She answered. "Shouldn't you be with Joey and the guys?"
"I'm not the one getting married here so it doesn't matter if I see your dress doesn't it? So I decided to come and check on you, as far as I'm concerned you are still my little sister so I came to check up on you to make sure you don't intent to run away before the ceremony." Seto smirked at the last part, holding out his hand to help her get up.
"I'm not that big yet you know, I can still stand up on my own." She replied jokingly, taking his hand nonetheless. "As for running away, I'd like to see you try to run dressed as I am." Meyli said. "Where's Mokuba? I haven't seen him at all since I'm here."
Seto chuckled deeply. "He's busy driving all the city reporters as far away as possible with Tristan."
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"Attention everyone, I'd like to tell you something important." Mokuba yelled in the center of the mall. "I'm here to inform you that my sister's wedding was slightly reported, instead of being at 7o'clock in the evening at the city's church it will be held at 5 o'clock in the little church on the top of the hill to the south of the city, so don't be late." The younger Kaiba said, jumping down of his chair and making his way to the limo with a bewildered Tristan next to him.
Once the door was closed by the driver after them Tristan quickly turned to the teen, ready to throw a fit. "Mokuba, do you even realize what you did?"
"I told them to come to the wedding." Mokuba answered simply.
"Exactly, our mission was to lure them as far away as possible from the place, not to invite them." Tristan said.
"Calm down Tristan, none of them will come." Mokuba said.
"But you just told them the right time and place!"
"It's reverse psychology Tristan." Seeing Tristan's lost look Mokuba sighed and resigned himself to explaining everything. "It's quite simple actually; I studied it last week in college. Some rumors of the wedding had started to circulate outside quite a long time ago, although the time and place was not known to the reporter they knew it was today and are running all around the city to find the place. Most stars reporter keeps their information to themselves to make sure they don't have competition so none of them know if there is someone who knows the time and place."
"I still don't get how your plan is supposed to work." Tristan said.
"I said that the wedding was at a different time and place, which makes them believe that someone actually knew those information because if it was still secret I wouldn't have told it had changed."
"But it didn't change…….it was never supposed to be at 7 nor at the city's church." Tristan said.
"I know that, but the reporter and paparazzi don't, and they sure don't expect me to tell them the real time and place of the wedding, they'll think of it as a way to lure them away. They'll think those are the real information about the wedding but that because someone found out I'm trying to make them believe it's at a different time and church. So now instead of searching everywhere through the city they all think it's at 7 in the middle of the city, which leaves us with 2 hours ahead of us to get on with the ceremony and get back to the mansion to celebrate." Mokuba smiled, lying back against the seat.
"I still don't think they are dumb enough to fall for it." Tristan said.
"Watch and learn, I'm the psychology student here and I'm the first one in all of my classes." Mokuba smirked.
"There is a difference between theory and true life you know. They'll see quickly that nothing is going on."
"That's why I put body guards in charge of watching the place and making sure no one gets inside."
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"Are you sure it's a good idea to let him take care of it?" Meyli asked, the last thing she wanted was to have some reporter ruin her wedding, when she started to go out with Joey she couldn't go out with him without someone seeing them and saying something about it, especially after they found out about Joey's not so clean past. Just wait until they'll learn that I'm pregnant.
"I'm not too worried, I told him that if any reporter comes here I'll force him to drop out of his class and take a more 'proper' class for a Kaiba." Seto said with a smirk.
"You're not serious are you?" Meyli was suddenly worried. She knew Mokuba loved his classes and wouldn't do paperwork for anything.
Seto burst out laughing at her sudden apprehensive look. "Of course not, I've always known that Mokuba didn't want to work for Kaiba Corp and anyway I never intended to force him to. Anyway he has a gift for helping people, and you're going to need psychological help once that little thing comes out." He pointed to her belly. "After all, he's half Wheeler." He added with a smirk.
"Why you!" Meyli tried to hit him but she had little liberty of movement to run after him in her dress, even if it was pretty simple it was still a wedding dress after all.
Seto laughed as he stopped in front of the door, not realizing it had opened in the middle of their argument. "Don't worry, I'm sure he won't charge you too much." His smile disappeared when something hit him behind the head, he turned around quickly, expecting to see Joey but ended up staring in two ocean blue orbs.
"After spending so many years with you she can stand up to anything." Anzu said with a playful glare.
"About time you got here Anzu, I was starting to wonder if I should get worried." Meyli said, walking up next to her brother, giving him one of her sweetest smile, which the CEO knew to be a bad sign. "Now if you guys will excuse us, this is now officially girl business." The soon-to-be wife pushed Seto outside of the room and pulled Anzu in before closing the door in his face.
Seto was about to turn around to go back with Yugi and Joey when he realized that his sister actually said 'guys' he looked over his shoulder and saw Raven lying casually against the wall. His more rational side told him to be polite but his guts were still telling him that something was wrong with this guy if the barely hidden hatred in Raven's green eyes were any indication. In those kinds of situation the young man just couldn't stop his natural self defense wall from rising. "You're late." He said coldly, passing in front of him to join the others.
Raven rose from the wall and walked next to him. "There was a lot of circulation, for some weird reason everyone was rushing to the town center." Raven answered though his voice was just as cold as Seto's.
Seto observed him from the corner of his eyes, he had deal with people long enough to know when they were either lying or omitting certain parts of the truth and he was positive that was the case. "Doesn't matter, as long as Anzu is here in time I couldn't care less about the rest." This was particularly true considering Raven. Why on earth he hated the guy so much was beyond him, he never really did anything to him but the young CEO had the feeling that the guy next to him was doing inhuman effort to not kill him. Seto sighed and turned around to look at Raven. "Alright spill it."
Raven stopped to look at him. "I have no idea what you are talking about." He said trying to pass next to him.
"I don't think so." Seto said, blocking his way. "This is my sister's wedding and I don't plan on letting anything ruin it the slightest, I can see that you don't like me at all and I believe I have the right to know why."
"Stay away from Anzu." Raven said, glaring the Seto. "She's mine."
"What are you talking about?" Seto asked. "I'm not going to steal Anzu away from you." Of course deep down the CEO wished to do just that, but that's never a good thing to do unless you want to lose all of your friends and the concerned girl.
"Sure you're not trying to steal her." Raven said sarcastically. "I'm sure you remember this." Raven said taking out the same pictures he showed to Anzu the previous evening. When he saw the pictures Seto tried to say exactly what those picture were, a big misunderstanding, but Raven didn't let him the time. "You can save it. Anzu already told me everything about this thing being totally innocent and to be honest, I don't care nor do I want to know if it really was nothing but I'm not blind, I saw the way you were looking at her, you are better keep your distance in the future or you'll regret it." Raven pushed him out of his way and proceeded to the room where the wedding was to be held.
Once Raven was out of his view Seto smirked, he wasn't used to have people order him around, except maybe Meyli, and it sounded a lot like a chalenge to him, he walked back to the room where Joey was getting ready with the others. When he entered the room Mokuba and Tristan were already back from their little trip in the city.
"There you are." Mokuba said when he opened the door. "I was starting to wonder if you eloped with the bride."
"You are disgusting kid." Seto said, sitting down on the small sofa. "Tell me, why do I have to be the best man again?" He asked.
"Because it is important for Meyli." Mokuba said.
"You must really like her to accept to have Seto as your best man." Tristan said to Joey.
"I think I'm the one suffering the most out of this." Seto said, more to himself than the others.
"Gee, thanks." Joey said.
"I'm not talking about you." Seto said. "Though I have to admit that if anyone had told me five years ago that one day I'll be best man at your marriage with my sister I would have laugh for at least a week." He added with a smile.
"I would have done the same if someone ever told me that I would end up with someone of your family." Joey said.
"Especially since back then I was the only family member that you knew." Mokuba said with a grin. "I really don't understand why you look so grim Seto."
"I don't know, somehow I have the feeling that everything will go wrong."
"Don't worry, we double checked everything, and as a bonus, since you are the best man you get to dance with the bridesmaid." Mokuba said with a grin.
Seto looked questioningly at his brother, wondering if the kid actually knew something, he was always good at knowing what was going through everyone's mind, especially his. "I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that."
"What? I sure wouldn't mind dancing with Anzu." Mokuba said seriously.
"She's too old for you and anyway she's already financed, better luck next time kid." Tristan said.
"Anyway you already had enough girlfriends to last you for three lives." Seto said.
"You know Seto, I was trying to cheer you up a little bit but all you did was convincing me even more that girls aren't really your thing." Mokuba said nonchalantly, waving his hand in the air.
"And what exactly are you implying?" Seto asked with a smile, of course he knew exactly what he mean, after over four year of 'hooking up' they had given up all hope to ever see him get a girlfriend and Meyli officially labeled him as gay. Of course that joke never left their little group, even if it was just an inside joke the press would make a fuss over it for at least a month.
A knock was heard on the door and Roland stepped in, telling them it was time to start. "Ready?" Seto asked Joey as they left the room. "Not anymore." The blond said.
XXXXXXXXXXX (for your pleasure and mine I decided to skip some of the ceremony, mainly the 45 minutes when the priest is talking about god this and god that, love one another and I'm skipping directly to the interesting part (even if personally I hate having to write those kind of mushy stuff)) (by the way, no comment about bad use of words or text or order of thing, I don't even know those words in French and I only went to one wedding which I thought was really boring)
As soon as she appeared everyone stood up to watch her walk up the path to the altar. Her entire body was trembling was she slowly made her way next to Joey, her entire thoughts were concentrated on only three thing don't fall, don't be sick, put one foot in front of the other, don't fall... She could feel everyone's eyes on her. Then, as soon as she arrived in front of the priest she looked to her left and everything except her and Joey vanished away. She was there, next to the guy she was probably going to pass the rest of her life, she sure hopped to be with him forever.
Meyli snapped back to reality when she heard the priest ask her if she was willing to take Joey as her husband, for the better and the worst. Her mind still half in the cloud she managed to answer with a simple "Yes"
Joey was doing his best to stay half concentrate on what the priest was saying, as soon as he saw Meyli his mind wanted to go black, she was the most beautiful sight he ever saw, he could only concentrate on her. He couldn't believe that it was finally happening, when Meyli appeared next to him he had to concentrate with all his might to not take her in his arm and kiss her. When he heard her say 'yes' he felt in heaven. When his turn came he answered "Yes" at the same question.
Then the priest asked the dreaded question. "If anyone here have any objection to this union may he speak now or keep silent forever" Both Joey and Meyli held their breath, prying god that no one would come and ruin this unique moment, after about 10 second of unbearable silence the priest finally declared them husband and wife. When he said the famous "You can kiss the bride" Joey didn't need to be told twice, he had been waiting a good three months for this moment.
Once the ceremony was over everyone moved to the penthouse next to the ocean that Seto and Mokuba rented for the night to be away from the press, it was just like an hotel but much more luxurious. When Meyli and Joey arrived almost everyone was already there, since they wanted to keep the party private they left separately and took different ways.
"Alright ladies." Meyli said once everyone was there. "Time to see who will be the next lucky girl." She said as she climbed a few steps of the stairway and turned her back to everyone. All the unmarried girls went behind her under the eyes of their apprehensive boyfriends. Meyli threw her bouquet over her head and turned around to see who the next one who would get married was. The winner was a young blond girl with blue eyes, about 16 or 17 but Meyli had no memory of ever seeing that girl before, but she guessed that she was probably the girlfriend of someone she or Joey knew.
"Hey Yugi, isn't that the little Hawkins girl?" Seto asked when he saw the young girl who not had the flower.
Yugi looked at her. "Looks like her alright, I wonder what she's doing here, did you invite her?" He added with a smirk.
"Really funny." The CEO said. "But seriously, Meyli doesn't know her and I don't see any reason for Joey to invite her, so why is she here?"
"She probably came with someone else." Yugi answered. When the other girls stopped teasing her, Rebecca walked up to someone who was standing near, she hugged him and kissed him on the lips. "Looks like you're family will get even bigger soon." Yugi said, recognizing the guy Rebecca was hugging as Mokuba.
"He's better not be thinking about it if he wants to keep his head." Seto answered half jokingly.
"The bouquet of the bride never lies, Seto."
"Yea right, you know as well as I do that those things doesn't mean anything."
Yugi laughed. "You're right, but they do seem to be in a serious relationship."
"I guess that explains why Mokuba suddenly wasn't going out with a girlfriend everyday anymore." Seto said.
"If you'll excuse me." A voice said above all the others; it belonged to the manager of the penthouse. "Diner will be served in 10 minutes if you would please proceed to the dinning room.
Joey smiled while holding out his hand to Meyli, she took it with a smile and they made their way to the dinning room, everyone else following them. The dinner went smoothly, there was a few toast to celebrate the new couple and the baby that would soon come, once everyone was done the ballroom was opened and everyone moved there to dance and chat. Of course, since it was their marriage, Joey and Meyli were invited to open the first dance. Everyone watched them dance for a minite before joining them.
"I believe that as the bride's maid you owe me a dance." Seto held out his hand to Anzu, smiling inwardly at Raven's glare because he knew that no matter how much Raven hated the idea to let his fiancé dance with him, he had no choice, it was an unwritten tradition. With an uncertain look at Raven, Anzu took his hand and followed Seto to the dance floor.
"Are you alright?" Seto asked not long after they started dancing, for a professionnal dancer Anzu's movement were a lot stiffer than they should have been.
"O-of course I'm fine." She said. "It has just been a while since I did this kind of formal dance.
Seto nooded but he was not convinced by her answer, he continued dancing, fully aware that Raven was watching him carefully. As soon as the next song began Raven was next to them. "Mind if I take over?" Before either of them answered Raven was already taking her away from him.
Seto simply shrugged, he was half agravating the guy on purpose, he turned around and walked to meet with more friendly people. Joey and Meyli had already stopped dancing, people kept coming to congratulate to them and for friendly chat. "Mind if I take your beautiful wife for the next dance?" He asked Joey with a smile.
"Why are you asking me?" Joey asked.
"Last I checked I still had the capability to answer for myself." Meyli replied back with a smile.
"My apologies Miss Wheeler." Seto said with a grin as he held out his hand.
"Idiot." Meyli giggled as she took it.
As the evening went on, greeting and news were exchanged and the group finally found some time to sit together, though Anzu was nowhere to be seen and Mokuba was still dancing with Rebecca who was apparently a serious girlfriend, how they happened to first go out together was still a mystery.
"I'm going to get something to drink, you guys want anything?" Joey offered as he stood up. Meyli, Yugi and Tristan all called for a drink.
"I guess I'll help you out then." Seto said, stading up and following Joey to the bar.
After they ordered, Joey took the three first drink and left Seto to take care of the two left. Once he got them he turned around to leave but saw Anzu sitting alone at the bar, his curiosity being picked, he walked up to her. "What are you doing here all alone?"
Anzu's eyes grew wide when she saw him standing right next to him. "N-nothing, I'm just...relaxing a bit." She looked down at the almost empty glass in front of her.
"Where's Raven?" Seto asked.
Anzu shrugged, still not looking up at him. "I dunno, probably talking about something with someone somewhere." She giggled, drinking the rest of her glass.
"Since when are you there?" He asked, seeing that Anzu didn't have all her head anymore.
"I don't know..."
"You could have come and join us you know." Seto said.
"I can't, I don't have the right to. Raven will get mad..." Suddenly realising that she said something she shouldn't have Anzu jumped on her feet, fear all over her face. "Forget I said that..." She tried to walk away but ended she lost her balance, expecting such a thing would happen Seto was ready to catch her.
"Come on, I'll take you to a room." Seto said, leading her away, he couldn't let her stay here until she ended up drunk, she already had trouble standing up on her own.
"No." Anzu protested. "I'm fine, let me go, I'm not supposed to be with you."
"So this is about me then." Seto was not really surprised to learn it, what surprised him was that Anzu actually knew of her boyfriend's aversion of him, it not really something you're letting other know. "Don't worry, I doubt your boyfriend is stupid enough to wish you to get drunk here."
"What do you think you're doing?"
Speaking of the devil. "Seto turned around to look at Raven. "I'm taking care of your girlfriend, something you are obviously incapable of doing, this is a wedding, not a bar, she should be having fun dancing or being with her friends instead of drinking alone in a corner."
"And by friends I suppose you mean you, and maybe that brother of yours? Though I see he found himself a new slut."
As much as the idea of killing him for that last comment was tempting, he just couldn't, he had a half drunk woman holding onto him and he couldn't do that to his sister. "This is more than just between you and me Raven, Anzu is in the middle of this as well. If you were actually taking care of her properly then you wouldn't have to fear that she might leave you for someone who treats her like she deserves."
"And you think you could be that man?" Raven said with a smirk. "A guy like you don't even deserve to look at her."
"And what is that supposed to mean?" Seto asked, letting go of Anzu who was now watching the scene with fear, she knew of her boyfriends short temper and she saw in the past that Seto could get just has dangerous if treatened the right way.
"You, you and your entire family, you guys good for nothings bastards. Ever since the first day that I met you and your brother I knew that you were rotten to the bones, and your sister is no better. You three don't belong where you are, you don't deserve what you have, you should be somewhere in an alley just like the slut you called your mother."
That was it, at soon as Raven finished his sentence everything except both of them dissapeared. He could take insults about himself, he could hold himself back most of the time when it concerned his brother and sister but no one had the right to insult his mother in any kind of way, he wouldn't allow it. He punched the black haired man with all his might, who jumped on his as soon as he realised what had happened. None of them heard the voice of the poeple who were yelling as they fell to the ground. Being a trained fighter, Seto managed to get on top, he raised his fist and hit him a second time and a third, not feeling the pain on his right hand. He raised his fist again but before he could hit him a fourth time, Mokuba and Joey grabbed each of his arm and pulled him up.
Now free, Raven launched a punch on Seto, who could do nothing against it because Joey and his brother were holding him back. However Yugi and Tristan caught Raven and pulled him away before he had a chance to strike again.
"Let me go." Seto said, trying to get away from them, he was going to kill the guy right there.
"Seto, stop, it's not the time nor the place." Mokuba tried to reason him with little success.
Yugi and Tristan where having just about as much problem holding Raven, none of them knew what was going on but they couldn't let them fight. "Raven lets go." Anzu said, grabbing his hand.
"Mind your own business." Raven said, still trying to get free.
"I think you should listen to her and get lost." Yugi said. "Take whatever dignity you have left and leave."
After a few second Raven calmed down a little and he stopped fightung, though hatred was still written all over his face. Tristan pushed him lightly toward the dor, still holding his arm in case he decided to try again.
"Come on Anzu." Yugi said, letting Tristan to take care of Raven and holding out his hand to help Anzu.
Seto glared at the black haired man as Tristan escorted him to the door, he was hopping for one last opportunity but even though he wasn't fighting them anymore, Joey and Mokuba had not losen their hold, they knew him too well to take the risk, however, when Raven passed in front of Meyli, Seto's eyes crossed hers and all anger and hatred dissapeared to be replaced by guilt an regret. The look in her eyes made him fell worst than he ever felt in his life, he would have been able to take anger and even hate from her, but what he saw in her eyes totaly crushed his heart: hurt.
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There you go, 4500 words, you're lucky, I'm working tomorrow and it's 1am (I really wanted to finish this tonight) sorry for the really long wait, I hope you enjoy it, and don't forget that if you kill me then you'll never know what will happen next