Sorry this took so long. I hope I wrote this right.

Chapter 13

Faye cried into Anzu's shoulder as they all drove back to their homes. Yugi sat with the girls in the backseat of the car while Honda drove; Jounouchi, riding shotgun, glanced back worriedly occasionally.

"I should h-have listened t-to you, Anzu-chan…" Faye sobbed. "Anzu patted her back. Her make-up was hopelessly smeared. "But I w-was t-too stubborn… I'm s-sorry…"

"It's not your fault," Anzu insisted.

It continued on like this. Faye would babble on how it was all her own stupid fault, and Anzu and the others would try to convince her it wasn't – it was Kaiba's fault. Nevertheless, Faye cried herself to sleep. That night she slept at Anzu's house in her dress, making it wrinkle. But it didn't matter; come morning, it would be burned.

The first time Faye didn't show up for school, Kaiba wasn't surprised. In fact, he expected it. The second day of absence also came unsurprised, but on the third day, he was approached by Anzu.

She cornered him during lunch against the wall and jabbed a finger into his chest. "You're going to pay for what you did," she hissed. Kaiba cocked an eyebrow in reply. "I guess you're just a heartless son of a bitch that doesn't care. Or else you would have known that Faye hasn't picked up the phone or answered texts in three days!"

Now Kaiba was amused. So Faye was hiding from the world because of that night. Or, rather, hiding from him. He let a small chuckle escape his lips. That, however, made Anzu even angrier.

"You think this is funny?" She was almost shrieking. "You were playing a game, and you neglected to tell Faye-chan that!"

Kaiba was starting to grow bored. When would this girl leave him alone? He grabbed her arms and moved her so that now he was cornering her. He bent down close to her face. "It's not my fault she is so weak," he said in a low voice, his words venomously thick. "Besides, she should feel lucky to have dated me in the first place"

SMACK.

Kaiba lurched back, his cheek once more stinging. He scowled at Anzu, whose eyes were blazing. What was it with girls and slapping?

"You self-centered jerk!" Anzu shouted harshly. "Not everyone is throwing themselves at your feet to date you!" She stalked off, leaving Kaiba to his thoughts.

More days passed with Faye still a no-show. Admittedly, Kaiba was curious, if not worried. She had no reason to disappear. She didn't move back to America, did she? He had to check.

He skipped school that day to visit her apartment. He asked the man at the desk what room was hers before taking the elevator up. He knocked on her door and waited. The door was opened by a tall young man with messy dark brown hair, pale blue eyes, and a round face. "Who're you," he asked flatly in a grumpy voice in English. "Speaky English?"

"I speak English perfectly well," Kaiba replied flatly. "I am Seto Kaiba…"

The man's eyes flashed in recognition and anger. "So you're the guy who hurt my sister! You…"

He was interrupted by Faye's voice saying, "Dom? Who is it?" She came into view over the man called Dom's shoulder. She was wearing green flannel pajamas, her hair a mess and her eyes tired. She looked like she hadn't touched food in a while. She saw who it was at the door, and immediately her face revealed a mixture of confused emotion, like she didn't know what to think. Eventually, shock took over, and she simply said, "Oh."

Dom spoke again. "Get the f–– outta here, man. And take your f––ing necklace, too." He chucked something that whizzed by Kaiba's ear and crashed into the wall behind him before slamming the door. Kaiba heard a lock slide into place. He bent down and retrieved what Dom had thrown. It was indeed the necklace he had given Faye, but it had lost its luster from being rubbed, the emerald smudged with fingerprints. The head, too, had snapped off. Without another word, he put it in his pocket and left.

Mokuba found it later that day. "Hey, didn't you give this to Faye?" Kaiba answered with an affirmative grunt. "What happened to her? I liked her; she seemed nice."

"Nothing," Kaiba replied. Mokuba looked at him scornfully and distrustfully, but didn't press that subject. Instead, he asked his older brother, "Don't you have another girlfriend yet?"

Kaiba didn't answer that.

He was in a room of fog. In the distance, he saw a faint green glow, and he followed it. It seemed to retreat from his approaching footsteps, and he sped up. It, too, sped up. All at once, the fog vanished, and he saw what it was. It was Faye, encased in glowing green, wearing the dress from the gala. He shouted her name, and she turned and fled. He chased after her, but suddenly he was falling, falling…

This whole Faye situation didn't seem to die down for Kaiba, not since visiting her apartment. Infuriatingly, he never left his thoughts alone. She infiltrated his dreams, making it impossible to sleep at night. No one talked to him during the day at school, not even Yugi. Even without her being there, she was everywhere.

Why couldn't she leave him alone? Why couldn't she see that it was over? Get over it! She needed to get out of his head! Days passed. He paced his office restlessly, tugging at his hair. The phone rang; he ignored it.

What was it about her that he couldn't stop thinking about? Was it her face when she saw him? Was it the fact that it was obvious she hadn't been eating? Was it the fact that it was his fault?

Mokuba had voiced the question of why he didn't have a new girlfriend yet. He hadn't answered. He couldn't. How could he when he didn't know the answer?

He stopped his pacing suddenly, listening to the phone ring and feeling the sun on his skin as it streamed through the windows. An epiphany dawned on him. So that was why.

He strode over to the phone, picked it up, hung up on the caller, and dialed his secretary. When the other end picked up, he ordered, "I need two trucks, pyrotechnics, and a hundred dozen roses of every color."

Faye heard the knock at her apartment door and ignored it. Dom answered it instead. She listened to the murmur of voices from her dark bedroom. Footsteps approached her room, and her door swung open to reveal Anzu. "Get dressed," she said. Her voice revealed a sense of awe and disbelief. "There's something you must see."

Dressed in flare jeans and a black tank top, Faye followed Anzu as they ran through Domino towards the school. They arrived to find the entire front lawn of the school covered in fresh roses of every color. Faye gasped as the perfume washed over her. All the other students were outside the fence, unwilling to tread on the flowers. "What's going on?"

"I'm not sure," Anzu replied, "but come on, there's something you should see at the top of the building!" She grasped Faye's wrist and together they waded through the roses, climbed the stairs of the school, and stepped onto the roof. Anzu pulled her to the edge of the roof and the fence that surrounded it, and Faye gasped again.

The roses were arranged so that yellow ones spelled out kanji, pink ones formed a heart around the kanji, and red ones filled the rest of the yard. The kanji read: I love you, Faye. Forgive me?" "Who did this?" Faye breathlessly asked.

"I did," came a familiar deep voice. The two girls whirled around to face Kaiba. He approached Faye cautiously, as though afraid she'd bolt. He knelt in front of her (and in front of Anzu's glare) and held out a white rose.

"Faye-chan," he started, his gaze locking with hers. "I know I've been a jerk to you. I know I've hurt you. But I've had some time to think, and I realize that I made a huge mistake. You are one of the kindest people I know. In fact, I've never met anyone like you. And… I think I… I think I love you. What I want to know is if you'd be willing to take me back. If… If you'd be willing to forgive me." As he ended his little speech, he was shaking slightly. Almost as if he was nervous.

Faye glanced at Anzu, who shook her head, obviously disapproving. She turned back towards Kaiba. "Kaiba-kun," she started softly. "In all honesty, I don't know what to say. When I was with you, I was so happy, but it all turned out to be a game… But I also see in your eyes your desperation, your need for acceptance, for me to say 'yes.'" She took a deep breath. "I could be incredibly stupid, but my gut says this is not a trick. Logically, it makes no sense that you would come back, begging, to me, when you were the one who ended it in the first place." She paused, looking long and hard at his despondent eyes, his torn expression.

"In all honesty," she continued, "in all my hours of thinking, I still don't know what to think. For the last several days, I've been thinking of how stupid I must be to keep the necklace you gave me. How stupid of me to think that maybe, just maybe, you had a little bit of heart in your chest." She chewed her lip. "And yet, here you are now…" She took another deep, shuddering breath. Kaiba's gaze was pleading. "I would be the cruelest person in the world if I didn't say 'yes.' Not only cruel to you, but also to myself. So… I say… I say yes."

And she took the white rose.

Did I do that right? Did you guys believe it? I really wanted this story to be 13 chapters... though there's going to be an Epilogue. Did you guys like it? Please tell me! I need to know!

Thanks for reading anyway!