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"You would give advice on how to annoying Kaiba so that I can get voted off this proverbial island as soon as I possibly can," I replied, before turning and looking up at one of the windows behind me and seeing Kaiba looking down at me. He turned and moved away from the window and I shivered. "The media is bad enough, I don't need to be watched here too."

"The downfall of being a beautiful young woman," my Uncle said, "You look just like your mother, and I tell you that it's no secret how your mother caught my brother's eye."

I rolled my eyes. "This isn't making me feel better Uncle Max."

"Oh…was I thought that's what I was doing," he said with a chuckle.

"I don't want to be here," I groaned, "I want to be at home, sitting behind my desk working on my ideas for the second book while I'm waiting for the first one to come back from the publisher."

"Oh for heaven's sake Krystal, live a little," he said, "What ever happened to the girl who used to run around the castle with a smile on her face?"

I thought for a moment. After my parents were killed when I little I was raised by my Uncle Pegasus, but I've always called him Uncle Max since he goes by Maximillion. Due to this fact I spent a lot of time in the castle in "Duelist Kingdom". It was my stomping ground when I was little…I was the Queen of that castle, or so I thought. "I grew up…"

"There's always a little room for fun," he said, "There's always room to put down the computer, pen, or pencil and live a little."

"Says the man who spent his days painting new Duel Monsters," I said.

"But I always made time for the little Queen of the castle," he said and I knew he had a smile of his face.

"The 'Queen' isn't so little anymore," I said, sadly, "And I don't know if I can have fun with this."

He laughed. "I'm sure you can."

"Sure…" I replied, "I've got to go."

"Alright…remember, don't look down on this, have fun," he said before hanging up.

My phone beeped as the call ended and I just stared at it. 'How the hell am I supposed to have fun with something I don't even want to be doing?'

-Dinner-

Silence

Normally I hated silence, and as myself, the other girls, and the Kaiba brothers (surprisingly Seto made it home for dinner) sat at the long dining table, there was complete silence.

"Um…Krystal, I've read your books," Akiko commented, trying to break the ice, "I really enjoyed them."

I looked up from the soup that I had been pushing around and gave a half-hearted smile. "Thank you…and I liked your spring collection last year," I said, "I actually bought a dress from it."

"Really? Which one?" she questioned happily.

"The blue sundress with purple flowers," I replied, "I wore it to a family reunion."

"Did it go over well?" she asked, "I bet it looked beautiful on you."

"Yeah…it was a very small reunion," I said, "Everyone loved it." 'Everyone being Uncle Max…' I thought.

"That's wonderful," she said.

"I bought almost your whole summer collection," Casey Lee interjected, "That whole summer I was the best dressed model in New York…though that's nothing new."

'I bet your conceited attitude isn't anything new either,' I thought, looking back at soup and completely ignoring the conversation that ensued about fashion and Akiko's past and possible future collections.

"So Krystal…what's your favorite style?" one of the girls asked suddenly.

"Hmmm?" I asked looking up to see all eyes were on me, "Oh um…comfy, casual I guess. I'm always writing so when I'm in my house I don't get too fancy with my outfits."

"What if the paparazzi decided to spy over the fence or something?" Casey Lee asked.

"So they'll catch me in a pair of short and a tank top, maybe even a pair of sweats," I replied, "I do wear makeup and fix my hair. I don't look like a hobo or anything like that, it's just when I'm in my house and not going anywhere I don't see the point of wearing a six thousand dollar dress. Hell, I don't even spend six thousand dollars on a dress."

Casey Lee's mouth was open in complete shock and I heard chuckles from down at the end of the table and I looked out of the corner of my eye to see both the Kaiba brothers trying not to laugh.

"If you don't look your best at all times the public could criticize you," Sarah said.

"Do you know how many pairs of heels I would go through in a week if I were to wear them around my mansion?" I questioned, "I pace up and down the stairs when I'm trying to come up with ideas and tweak ideas. I don't need no damn stair master to keep my ass in shape."

"So you're saying you would rather walk around looking like a slob rather than look like an actual public figure like the rest of us?" Casey Lee asked, that snarky tone rising in her voice again.

"No…" I retorted, "I'm saying maybe you should trying walking up and down the stairs rather than making yourself sick after every meal."

"You bitch!" she snapped, standing up so fast she knocked over her chair.

"Sit down!" Kaiba snapped and we all looked down at the end of the table at him, "Casey Lee…sit down. Krystal, maybe you should finish your dinner in your room."

"Oooooooh scary, Seto Kaiba's sending me to my room…what shall I do?" I said dramatically, as I grabbed my soup and left the dining room. 'Too bad he gave me exactly what I wanted.'

As I sat in my room to eat I decided to watch some TV, sadly the news was all that was on, but it was better than nothing. Once I was done with my dinner though, the news wasn't that appealing anymore…so I walked over to my door and peaked out. I could hear that dinner was still going on and figure I was not getting dessert (leave it to Kaiba to "ground" me and take away dessert), so I figured that I would go find the library.

The library was easy enough to find, due to the fact that all I had to do was go around the corner and the door to it was open. The library was huge, but sadly it was only half the size of the one at Duel Kingdom…but though this library was smaller, there was a variety of books.

"I haven't read this book in a long time," I said pulling an older looking book out of book case.

"Didn't I send you to your room," Kaiba said, startling me.

"Oh I'm sorry," I said sarcastically, "I didn't hear the part of the rules where you got to control every aspect of my life."

"I sent you to your room because I didn't need a cat fight to start during dinner," he said.

"You and Mokuba seemed to have found it funny for a minute there," I retorted.

"Until things got a little too serious," he said.

I burst out laughing. "Things…too serious for you? You're kidding right?" He just stood there with that fowl expression on his face and I stopped laughing. "Think of it this way Kaiba…life is like a game of Duel Monsters, we all make certain moves and our lives can go one way or the other," I said, dumbing things down, "What happened between Casey Lee and I, that's just like one of those nitpicky moves that hits someone right where it hurts."

"You find this all as a game?" he questioned.

"We're being eliminated one-by-one," I said, flatly, "Yes…it's a game. Like a bad version of Duelist Kingdom."

"What about Duelist Kingdom?" he asked lowly.

"Nothing…" I said putting the book back where it belonged, "So I take it I'm eliminated because of my bad attitude?"

"That would be a reward for you," he said, "I can tell you don't want to be here…so I'll make you suffer a bit longer, good night Miss McKinley."

"You asshole!" I yelled, only to his laughter echo down the hall.

Jewels: WOOO! Two chapters in one day! Go me! Hope you liked the chap!