Shvon: Thanks, I really did my best to describe those moves! The condom breaking with Tiffany and Tristan would be... so delightfully ironic that I might consider it!! XD

Chapter 12: I don't

Serenity was barely listening to her history teacher, when the teacher's voice snapped her back into reality.

"Y-yes?"
"Your presence is required to the headmaster's office."

The red-haired girl mentally sighed. She kind of already knew why she was called in the headmaster's office. Her head slightly down, she stood up and let the classroom.

She knocked on the wooden door.

"Yes, come in."

She timidly opened the door.

"Y-you wanted to see me, sir?"
"Yes, Miss Wheeler, please have a seat", he replied.

Serenity sat in front of him, her teeth nervously biting her bottom lips.

"So", the fifty-year-old man said, "Do you know why you're here?"
"I-I have no idea", Serenity muttered.

The headmaster raised an eyebrow.

"Really? I find it quite hard to swallow."

The pregnant girl bobbed down.

"Miss Wheeler, I want you to know that it does not please me to do that, but I cannot keep you in this school anymore. Pregnancy is against the rules, and there is nothing I can do about it."

Serenity felt tears coming up her hazel eyes.

"B-but, sir, as long as it doesn't affect the way I work at school-"

He shook his head.

"I'm sorry, Miss Wheeler. I really am. I think you are a good student and this is a shame I actually have to do this, but no pregnant girl is allowed to attend Domino high school. No exception."
"But this is unfair! I've done nothing wrong here, please, sir, let me at least finish this year!" Serenity begged.

The headmaster shook his head again, and he seemed really sorry for her.

"This rule was made by the parents coucil who stated that a pregnant girl is a bad example for the others. I'm sorry, I really can't keep you here. You can finish this day, but after this, you won't be allowed here anymore. At least, as long as you're pregnant."

Feeling that she was about to burst into tears, Serenity ran outside the office. She did not return to her history class. However, when Tea and Duke stepped inside the cafeteria, she was already sitting at their usual table, her head leaned on the wooden surface.

"Honey", Duke said as he sat and kissed her cheek, "Didn't you have a history class?"
"Yeah", she replied with a low voice. "But I was called to the headmaster's office in the middle of it."
"What for?" Tea asked.

Serenity opened her mouth to answer, but Joey and Yugi's arrival interrupted her. Her brother sat in front of her, a big smile on his face.

"Hey sis', I've got good news for you! I found an apartment for us. We can move in next week. It's a pretty nice one, you'll like it. Mom send me money for the furnitures."
"Great", Serenity said. "I'll have plenty of time to admire our new place."
"Why?" he asked as he frowned.

She stared at him with a very sorry look on her face.

"I've got bad news for you Joey. I've just been kicked out the school, thanks to the rule who doesn't allow pregnant student. Hurray for the parents council and their stupid idea that girls like me give bad example to others."
"Yeah, like you're a worse example than Tiffany", Duke said.
"Yeah, I'm looking forward for a rule against sluts", Serenity replied.
"It might be for the best, Serenity", Tea said. "Without school, you'll have more time to take care of yourself and your little boy. That's the most important."
"Yeah but I just... hoped I would be able to finish this year."

She sighed.

"Looks like it's not gonna happen. Maybe it's really for the best but... it really makes me sad. I thought... I thought I would be able to make it."

She stared at her belly.

"'Cause you're kind of hard to hide, you know that?!"

Duke laughed, softly caressed her stomach and kissed her cheek.

"Don't be so rude with him!" he said with a teasing voice. "Watch the way you speak with my son!"

She pretended to be insulted.

"Excuse me? Are you carrying him right now?"
"Nope, but according to my biology class, no matter if he's in your belly or not, he's still half mine."
"The hell with biology!" Joey said. "I flunked the last test!"
"Don't tell me", Duke said as he rolled his gorgeous green eyes.

Serenity's eyes caught Tristan and Tiffany kissing at another table. She grimaced.

"At least I won't see that anymore. It's disgusting."
"Yeah, did someone try to put some sense into his head?" Yugi asked.
"I did", Duke said. "But it didn't work."

He paused as he stared at the weird couple.

"Quite obviously."

Serenity stood up.

"You know what? I'll go back home. I've got no reason to go to my next classes knowing that I won't even be allowed to come back tomorrow."
"Do you want me to drive you back, honey?"

She shook her head with a smile.

"No, I'll just walk. It's a nice day and it's not far."

The red-haired girl kissed her boyfriend.

"Now, please watch as the bad example finally leaves this school", she said with a mocking voice.

Tea laughed as she walked away.

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At the end of the day, Tristan went to Tiffany's home with her. When they stepped inside, Tiffany's parents were about to leave.

"Oh, hi sweetie", her mother said.

The beautiful blonde woman frowned.

"Who is this guy again?"
"Mom, that's Tristan! I talked about him like a thousand times already!" Tiffany replied, seeming pretty upset. "You never listen to me, do you?"
"Of course I do hun. I just don't remember that guy. Christian, is that it?"
"TRISTAN!" Tiffany yelled.
"Tiffany, it's ok, I don't mind."
"Well, maybe if there was less than one guy per month, we'd remember better", her father replied with a cold tone.

Tristan saw Tiffany's cheeks becoming red with anger.

"Well", the man said with a careless tone. "We're going to the restaurant now. Have a nice evening."

The teenager took a deep breath when the door closed, and then screamed with rage.

"I hate how they treat me! I just... DAMN IT!"

She grabbed a Pepsi in her fridge and sighed heavily.

"Kaito was the favourite. Well... before he told them he was gay. After this, uh... I guess no one was the favourite. It wasn't me, that's for sure."

He hugged her when he saw tears in her eyes.

"I'm sorry about that", she finally said.
"You don't have to be."
"Tristan..."

Tiffany stared at him with her sapphire eyes.

"Why do you love someone like me? Even my parents don't think I deserve it."
"Well from the outside, you might look bitchy, cold and whatever the others can say. But I know it's just a mask, and I love you because I can see the true Tiffany behind that mask."

He softly took her face with his hands.

"And she's funny, sensitive and adorable. The fake Tiffany hurts the others sometimes, but I know it's only because the real Tiffany is hurt. Really hurt. This is why I love you."

There was so much tenderness and sincerity in his eyes and voice that Tiffany shed a tear. She bit her shaking bottom lip and looked away.

"I don't deserve this", she muttered.
"What do you mean? Of course you do!"
"No, I don't!"

She moved back, away from his soft and hot hands. She did not deserve the warmth of his love. She deserved to be cold and left alone. Tiffany bobbed down.

"I-I don't because... I lied. You said you love me, but I..."

Another tear when down her cheek.

"I don't deserve those words... because when I said them, I... I didn't mean it."
"What? But, Tiffany, you said-"
"I lied, ok?! I'm a liar, a bitch, a slut, or whatever they call me! I-I just wanted to annoy Serenity 'cause she's got everything and I can't stand it! She even has the brother I don't have anymore! The..."

Her voice broke.

"The loving boyfriend I'll never have..."

Tristan was staring at her. By the look on his face, anyone could tell that those words were very painful for him.

"That's not true. You had one, but you toyed with him. And you spoiled everything."

The beautiful blonde looked away as she felt others tears going down her pale cheeks.

"Well I guess the real Tiffany's too hurt to love anyone back, isn't she?"
"I don't know about that. I really don't know. But she does hurt others. A lot."

He slowly shook his head as he headed for the door.

"Farewell, Tiffany."

The girl burst into tears when the door closed.

I'm an idiot...

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When Duke opened the door and saw Tristan, he frowned.

"Tristan?"
"Can I come in?" he asked.
"Well... yeah, sure."

Duke stepped aside to let him enter, and them he closed the door. Tristan walked towards the lounge, where Serenity was sitting on the couch.

"You were right", he simply said as he dropped on the couch next to the red-haired girl. "A-about Tiffany."

He bobbed down.

"I mean I... I really loved her. I never did it to hurt any of you. I swear... there is someone behind that bitchy mask who's absolutely adorable. Or at least, I thought there was... b-but she just told me... she lied. She used me against Serenity."
"I'm sorry to tell you that I warned you", Duke simply said as he shook his head.
"Don't make it harder than it is!"
"But, Tristan, how could this happen? I mean after all you said about her, how did you manage to fall in love with her?" Serenity asked.
"She came to me not long after this story with the pendant... she said she was sorry you were hurt, that she did lie about the necklace but that she never kissed Duke. She said that he did."

He shook his head.

"I guess that wasn't true either... anyway. I was already pissed so I believed her. And she just... I don't know, she asked me to go out somewhere after school, I don't know how I ended up saying yes! She was so sweet, I could hardly believe it... we spoke about our lives and all... you wouldn't believe what she had to endure."
"She's still a bitch with me and I've done nothing to her", the pregnant girl said.
"You might not realize it, but you are everything that she wants to be, you have everything that she wants to have. You have friends who love you, hers are just a bunch of stuck-up bitches. You have Duke. You have a loving brother-"
"So does she", Serenity cut. "I saw the necklace, he gave it to her!"
"He's dead."

Serenity blinked several times, but Duke rolled his eyes.

"Do you have a proof of that? It might not be true."
"She has plenty of pictures of him in her bedroom and also one of those little... I don't know how you call it, those papers that they give to funerals with a picture and a short text. So yeah. It's true. All those things she said... I-I mean her parents are so rude with her too... I really thought..."

He sighed.

"I really thought she was not what she seems to be."
"I don't wanna be mean", Duke started, "But I told you. Didn't I?"
"You also thought I was doing it because of both of you, which isn't true."
"Yeah, I guess I was wrong to call you a jerk. You've been lied to, that's not your fault."

He smirked.

"So you saw her bedroom, uh?"

Tristan shot him such a deadly glare that he didn't bother asking more questions.

End of the chapter: Here goooes I know it took me forever!