Kaiba was irritated. He was stuck in an elevator, in the dark, with a pile of trash and a trembling girl. He reached in the pocket of his jeans (he's wearing jeans and a t-shirt with a navy blue half-zipped up sweater) and pulled out his cell. It didn't have a signal but at least he could use it to see with. He checked the buttons on the elevator's control panel again but they were dead. He pulled the emergency handle and managed to reach firefighters long enough to tell them just exactly who was stuck in the school elevator. He loved hearing the fear in people's voices when they talked to him. A long time passed before they heard noises that meant people were working on the machine.

"Will you stop that sniffling!" Kaiba demanded very annoyed because he hadn't even done anything, yet. In the last few months he was getting bored of her just taking his games silently or crying. He wanted to see her temper and her rage but couldn't seem to bring it out. Of course that made him try harder but that made the silence and crying worse for both of them. He couldn't figure her out. Why wasn't she responding like anyone else? She infuriated and mystified him to no end.

"S-s-sorry *snif*" Serenity said fighting back her tears. This was the worst day she had ever had! Being stuck in the dark was bad enough but with him made her just break down because she just couldn't take it anymore.

"Why do you cry so much anyway? Grow a backbone already!" Kaiba said

"I cry because you torture me all day! What did I do? Why won't you stop? Who made you a monster?" Serenity questioned not really hoping for an answer.

"I "torture" you because you're the mutt's sister and I hate him. Also I want you to stand up for yourself instead of letting you dog brother or his ridiculous girlfriend or the geek squad do it for you!" Kaiba blurted out. He didn't care if she knew the truth. He was bored with her anyways.

"Oh so you did all that for me so I could be a stronger person?" Serenity stated every word with sarcasm and dislike.

"Whatever Wheeler think what you want. Just stop crying!" Kaiba said ending the conversation

"I did stop crying you lunatic." Serenity mumbled to herself but he heard it.

"Ah ha! There's your temper! Where's it been hiding Wheeler? Behind the protective wall of "friendship"? Ha what a load!" Kaiba exclaimed

"You really look at friendship like that don't you?" Serenity said softly

This struck a nerve with Kaiba. Everyone else, like Tea , tries to conform him to their belifs and never took any time to consider what he felt. He told them over and over that he thought of friendship as useless and futile. They never seemed to listen to what he was saying and kept repeating their speeches till they were all blue on the face. This girl heard him. It's like she had been paying attention and trying to figure him out while he had been cruelly mocking her and her friends. He felt a moment of guilt but shook it off.

"I guess you got the brains in the family" Kaiba said flatly"And the looks too" He thought.

"Kaiba I don't mean to be nosy but why do you think of friends like that? Why don't you have faith in other people to come through?" She asked with sincerness and curiosity.

"Well you are being nosy because its none of your business!" Kaiba said a little annoyed that she was trying to dig into his personal life.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you. There was a time I looked at the world with anger too." She thought drifting off into some memories.

He didn't believe that for a second. He knew she was a goodie-goodie and could never hate anyone. She didn't hate him even after all he put her through so there was no way she could hate or be angry ever. Well he knew she had a temper but it was really rare.

"Yeah right Wheeler. You don't even get angry with me so how do you expect me to believe you were ever miserable with anger issues?" He said

In the dark he couldn't see her but knew she was probably hurt that he didn't believe her. Then the strangest thing happened. She began telling her story to him. He was going to stop her but after hearing a few sentences he just sat back and listened. She talked about her father and how he was drunk a lot and would beat up Joey and sometimes her and how he gambled away a lot of their money and even most of her furniture. Then she talked about the divorce and her eyesight. Then she finished with the happy ending of her father being sober and her living with him and Joey in the city. Kaiba was stunned into silence, for once. How could she be so nice after all that! The only one he could relate her to was Mokuba. He stayed a sweet kid even after everything. He was brought out of his shock by a faint sniffle sound. She was crying again. He searched his pockets and found a tissue. He slid over to her using his cell as a light and offered her the tissue.

"Thank you" She said after taking it.

Kaiba felt so weird. Almost protective of her. Maybe it was because he didn't know how to deal with a crying girl but after hearing her story and kinda relating he felt a connection to her and now that they had something he was going to protect her. "So this is why everyone defends her" he thought.

He cleared his throat to get her attention. "I'm sorry for my action over the last few months, Serenity. I never took time to get to know you and I had no idea about your past. Please forgive me?" He apologized. He was feeling venerable. He didn't want to lose her connection to him. Was this a friendship? He felt like he needed her to be close to him.

Sorry about the short chapter. If I don't get any reviews telling me its good or bad I might just stop writing. *sigh* its my 1st ff ever and id love to get a review but idk its probably no good. As everyone can tell im awful at writing ff's. lol