Music Lover's Alert: "S&M" by Rihanna
Chapter 39: Girls' Night Out 2
Once the two women and Mokuba were all in the limo, Mai talked nonstop about all the things Mokuba could do to woo a lady without showing her his penis. Mokuba nodded and pretended to listen, but none of her advice struck him as particularly useful. He was too busy thinking about when, how, and if to tell Seto that he had unofficially married Serenity.
When they got to the club, Mai swiftly sweet-talked the bouncer into letting them all in. Then, the ladies sat down for a drink while Mokuba wandered aimlessly around the club trying to figure out what to do with himself. He settled for being a wall flower out of sight of Serenity and Mai. The colorful, pulsating lights and loud music gave him a headache, but watching all the bodies rub against each other was somewhat entertaining.
On the other side of the club, there was a shiny black bar with multicolored stools before it. An impressive array of oddly shaped glasses hung upside down above the bartender.
"So hun, what do you think so far?" Mai yelled over a pair of cosmopolitans.
"It's loud here," Serenity yelled back, "I can feel the hair cells in my ears dying already."
"Good!" Mai yelled.
A man in blue jeans and a tight red and black top approached them. "Hey ladies! Wanna dance?"
"Get lost, chump" Mai yelled.
"You wanna see my stump? It's more like a log, actually."
"Go away!" Mai yelled more clearly.
The man looked at Serenity and asked, "What about you, babe?"
Serenity, stunned by the attention, just blinked.
Mai stood and leaned towards the man. "Keep your filthy hands off my sister-in-law!" Mai screamed directly into his ear.
"Sorry!" the man said quickly before leaving.
"Why are we here again?" Serenity yelled.
"So we can dance," Mai replied.
"Neither of us are wearing pants," Serenity said with a confused look on her face.
Mai gulped down the rest of her drink. Then, she got up and pulled Serenity to her feet. "Dance, sister, dance!"
Serenity left her half-finished cosmopolitan on the bar and followed Mai onto the dance floor. The music reminded her vaguely of the noise they blasted at the high school dances she had attended with Tristan, but none of the individual songs were familiar to her. She moved awkwardly, trying to follow Mai's example. Dancing without a man to lead her was difficult for her, but she welcomed the challenge.
After a few songs, she gained confidence and all of her cares melted away. On several occasions, men tried to dance their way next to her and touch her, but Mai kept a sharp eye out for drooling males. She quickly stepped between them and her sister-in-law, butting them away with a sharp jab of her hip or elbow. Serenity barely noticed these maneuvers, and continued to dance in an easy, carefree manner.
Meanwhile, Mokuba watched as a pale man who looked almost like his brother except for his short stature danced closer and closer to a girl about his age. She had a certain energy and fire in her eyes that Mokuba had found rare in people ever since he and his brother came back from their Duel Academy planning trip. It was something that most members of his generation had lost. Rather, most of the member of his generation who had had it in the first place had been lost. Serenity had a small spark of it, but this girl had a raging inferno inside of her.
The short, pale version of Seto seemed to notice it, too. He put his mouth right up to the girl's ear and said something into it. The girl smiled and turned towards him. Then, the two of them danced very closely for several minutes. The man kept licking her ear and occasionally working his tongue down to her neck.
Mokuba felt a tap on his shoulder and turned to see Serenity. "No luck, huh?" she asked.
Mokuba shook his head and looked back at the dancing people. He wanted to see if he could spot the fire princess again, but she was nowhere to be seen. "There was one girl in a dress that looked like Japan's old flag, but she…"
"Is that her over there?" Mai asked, pointing to the door.
Mokuba looked to see a frail, limp body wrapped in a piece of white fabric with a red dot on it draped over the shoulder of a small man leaving the club. "Oh my God! She was fine two seconds ago."
Mokuba scrambled to go after her, pushing and shoving people out of his way. However, by the time he reached the door, she was gone. He stood there sweating and looking up and down the street.
"Something wrong, kid?" the bouncer asked.
"That short guy who was carrying a girl. Where did he go?" Mokuba asked.
"Couldn't tell ya. It's probably classified, and he has the ID for it, so I don't ask."
Serenity caught up with Mokuba and put her chin on his shoulder as he stared into the night. "What is it, Mokie?" she whispered.
"Not good. Let's get out of here."
"By this time, Mai was close enough to hear as well. "Why? We just got here."
"I think I just saw a girl get murdered, or at the very least drugged."
"Girls pass out from alcohol all the time in places like this," Mai whined. "Quit being such a stick in the mud and come back inside."
"Not this girl. She was completely alert and sober one minute, and then-"
"-Oh, I get it! You fell in love with her. Listen, hun-" Mai interrupted.
"-I know what I saw! Serenity, let's go. If you want to stay here, Mai, we'll send the limo back for you later."
"All right. I believe you. Just tell me one thing first, though," Mai insisted.
"What?" Mokuba asked impatiently.
"Did you realize how much you sounded like your older brother just now? The resemblance was absolutely-"
"-Can it, Mai!" Mokuba said before whipping out his phone and summoning their driver.
Serenity looked at Mai and shrugged innocently. Mokuba had indeed taken on Seto's firm, commanding approach to getting something important done. In this case, he was looking out for her physical safety and she found it incredibly sexy. However, under the circumstances she could not do anything to alleviate her arousal. She stared at him in silence, burning that image of him into her mind so that she could recall it later.
Mai's voice interrupted Serenity's thoughts.
"Yeah? What is it, Mai?" she asked.
"We didn't get to finish our girl time."
"Yeah, I guess not. Um… let's make it girl's night in next time. I think I've had enough of this clubbing stuff."
Mai made several taunting remarks about Serenity's refusal to have a good time, but she ignored them. They all seemed to reference the size of her amygdala anyway, and Serenity knew that Mai had no way of knowing the actual size of it. Even if her amygdala was a little larger than average, it was doubtful that anything could or should be done to correct it. A healthy, functioning amygdala was a blessing to any mammal.
The limo arrived, and once they were safely inside Mokuba explained in detail what he had seen.
"Why did you waste all your time staring at one chick instead of chatting up a bunch of chicks like I told you to do?" Mai asked after he finished.
"I… I had a feeling about her. She reminded me of someone," Mokuba said timidly.
"Who?" Mai demanded, still upset that her evening had been interrupted.
Mokuba froze. Serenity, and not just her. There were scores of people like her at Domino High. Were. They weren't there anymore when we finished building Duel Academy. His eyes darted from Mai to Serenity, trying to decide what to say.
"Mokuba you little-" Mai started.
"-Give him a break, Mai," Serenity intervened, "Mokuba probably just saved us from a serial murderer or rapist."
Mai scoffed. "Come on! The dude got one chick who was stupid for going out all by herself."
Mokuba started at their reflection in the black windows of the limo. You wouldn't understand even if I told you, Mai. You stayed inside when people like her were in the street. You believed the government when it said that the protesters were violent and killed each other.
Mai continued to whine and complain the rest of the way back to the Kaiba mansion, but Serenity and Mokuba ignored her, lost in their own thoughts.
When they got home, they found Janet asleep in her crib. However, Joey and Hermos were still up and playing with a brightly colored electronic device with big buttons.
"How did it go?" Serenity asked.
"Janet cry a lot," Hermos said before Joey could answer, "She only stop when sleep."
"Joey! Why didn't you call?" Serenity asked.
"I did, but you didn't answer," Joey said.
Serenity remembered that she had not brought her phone with her because Tea's costume had no pockets and a purse would have gotten in the way of her dancing. She blushed crimson.
Thankfully, Mokuba defended her. "Why didn't you call me, then?"
Joey blinked his soft brown puppy dog eyes at Mokuba in confusion. "Why would I call you? I called-"
"-Where's my daughter, Wheeler?" Seto growled from the doorway.
Serenity whirled around to see her legal husband with hot blue flames in his eyes wearing a plain white suit and a blue tie.
"She's right here. She just fell asl-never mind," Joey said when he saw that Janet had been roused from her slumber by her father's angry words.
Janet's electric blue eyes darted over the faces in the room until they landed on the most familiar one. "Uncle Mokuba!" she cried with outstretched arms.
Seto swiftly closed the gap between himself and his daughter. He picked her up and said, "Don't worry, Janet. Daddy is here."
Janet hiccupped first and blinked, then started crying in her father's arms.
"See? I told you it wasn't my fault," Joey said to a stunned Seto.
"That's a diaper change cry," Mokuba said without thinking.
"No way!" Joey said in disbelief, "How would you know that?"
"I'll bet you a day in a dog suit that Mokuba is right," Seto said over Janet's crying.
"No more bets!" Serenity said as she took Janet out of Seto's arms and laid her on the changing table. She took a peek inside the diaper and found that Mokuba was indeed correct. "Joey, get me a clean diaper."
"Where?"
"You let your brother babysit and you didn't even show him where the diapers are?" Seto growled at his wife.
"Fine, Seto. You get the diaper," Serenity said hotly, feeling more daring than usual in her skimpy dance costume.
Seto felt something twitch inside his pants, and his knees wobbled a bit. Damn! Why couldn't she do this when we're alone? Not wanting to look weak in front of his in-laws, he said, "You never showed me, either."
"Oh for crying out loud!" Mokuba exclaimed. He walked over to Joey and pushed him aside so that he could access the cabinet right behind his head. He grabbed a clean diaper and tossed it to his wife.
Serenity worked quickly and efficiently while her legal husband and brother glared daggers at each other. Her other husband stood quietly out of the way, not eager to draw any more attention to himself than he already had.
Then, Hermos started crying. Mai picked him up and stroked his soft blond hair. "Joey, let's go home. It's late and we're all cranky."
Joey sighed and said, "Fine. Goodnight, Serenity. Sorry for being such a bad babysitter. I'll get better, though. I promise."
Serenity balanced a freshly changed and no longer crying Janet on her hip with one hand and hugged her brother with the other hand. "It's OK, Joey. Mai and I have already decided to make it a girl's night in next time. No babysitting required."
Joey looked hurt. "But what if you and Moneybags go out and-"
"-There are certified professional babysitters out there, Wheeler. Next time, we'll go to-"
"-Uncle Mokuba!" Janet cried with her arms outstretched towards the younger Kaiba brother.
Mokuba took her from Serenity and held her. "Janet, it's rude to speak when other people are talking. I know your father does it a lot, but it's a bad habit. Do you know what a bad habit is?"
"What's a bad habit?" Janet asked with her gorgeous blue eyes shining up at him.
"A habit is when someone does something a lot. Habits can be good or bad or neither. A bad habit is bad because it hurts someone," Mokuba explained.
"Like when Mommy and Uncle Mokuba go away?"
"No, that's not a habit because we don't do it a lot."
"Oh," Janet said as it sunk into her expanding field of knowledge. She was also a little distracted by all the eyes watching her. She clung to Mokuba even more tightly as the tensions built with the silence in the room.
Finally, Mai broke the ice. "Well, we'd better get going. We, um, have things to do tomorrow. Dishes. Laundry. Gardening. We better get a head start," she said as she grabbed Joey's hand and dragged him out the door while carrying Hermos.
As soon as the Wheelers were gone, Seto narrowed his eyes at Serenity. "Why did you let that baboon look after our daughter? Don't you trust Mokuba?"
Serenity blinked her olivine eyes in surprise. This was not how she expected Seto to become angry with her. If anything, she expected Seto to accuse her of trusting Mokuba too much. "I… wait, you're insulting Joey. You promised you wouldn't do that. You vowed," she finished strongly.
Seto felt his groin throb again. God, he loved it when she used that tone of voice on him. His face reddened and he muttered, "Mokuba, leave."
"What? Why? I'm not going to let you yell at Serenity when it's my fault, too."
Seto took a deep breath and said as calmly as he could muster, "You misunderstand, Mokuba. I'm horny. She's going to dominate me."
"Oh," Mokuba said in the same tone that Janet had used and left without another word carrying his niece.