Melting Ch.8
By: Castianna
Seto was in a daze. The first place he stopped was a liquer store and bought was a bottle of vodka. He wandered to the park and proceded to get mind numbing drunk. He wandered aimlessly about the park yelling at random things and tripping over everything. The day was passing slowly.
It was sometime after ten and Ashley was getting ready for work. Finally she was dressed and her house work done and she exited her appartment and headed down the street and to the bus stop to go down town to her new job.
The hours passed and Ashleys shift seemed to last forever. Finally nine pm rolled around and it was closeing time. It took her an hour to finish the cleaning and by ten pm she was completely finished and clocked out. She left and walked to the bus stop. She pulled out her cell phone and called the transit number to find out when the next bus was.
"There are no more buses at this time, buses are scheduled to start again at six am. Thank you for calling Domino Transit. Have a great day!" The opperator said and the line went dead.
Ashley sighed and screamed silently in frustration. It was a two hour walk back to her apartment. "Well I better get walking." She muttered.
She was almost home when she walked passed a park. There was a drunk man yelling at a tree across the park. She shook her head and started walking faster so that she could put some distance between her and the drunk.
"Hey! Hey you!" He yelled at her...she walked faster.
"Hey! Im talking to you!" He slurred. "Dont walk away from me, Im the great Seto Kaiba and I command you to turn around and face your betters." He yelled. Ashley stopped and turned. Sure enough, there was Seto Kaiba...staggering drunk across the park towards her, He looked horrible...he must have been drinking all day. She shook her head and walked towards him. At least he had someone who could help him. "Where have you been?" She asked quietly.
"I dont answer to you!" He said and fell backwards. He was now laying on his back looking up at Ashley. "Ashley...I saw him..." And then he started to cry...for probably the first time since he was a child he shed a tear. Ashley knelt beside him. "Who?" she asked, moving the hair from his forehead and looking into his eyes.
"Mokuba..." That whispered name shocked Ashley completely.
"I thought he was missing?" She asked. But Seto had passed out.
"Great!" Ashley muttered.
She grabbed his arm and started pulling. "Get up..." She said through gritted teeth..
"no...mommy...i dont wanna go to school..."He muttered and then came awake..."huh...what?" Then he started to get up with Ashleys help. She put one of his arms around her shoulders and started walking down the street to her apartment building. The stairs were hard to walk up but they managed to stay in one peice. She unlocked her door and walked him to the couch. She helped him sit then she went down the hall to get him a pillow and blanket. By the time she got back he was passed out. She put the blanket on him and the pillow under him, tucked him in nicely then went down the hall to her own room.