Who Is It? 1

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Chapter Nineteen


It was late when Roland and Seto got home, when they went into the living room the sight that they saw made them smile, Joseph and Mokie was sound asleep on the couch.

Roland walked over and gently touched Mokie and whispered, “Come on son, let’s go to bed.” Mokie opened his eyes and as he sat up and rubbed his eyes and he said, “We were watching Transformers, how did it end?”

Roland chuckled and said, “Tomorrow we’ll all watch it and you can see, now its late lets go to bed.” Seto went over knelt down beside Joey and he softly said, “Joey come on, its time to go to bed.”

Joey stretched and the sight of his muscular body made Seto gulp, he was getting excited and he closed his eyes and then he said, “Come on, Joey get up.”

Joey opened his eyes and when he saw Seto, he smiled and reached out and touched the side of his face and he said, “You’re home.” Seto chuckled and said, “Yes, now come on its late, get up and go to bed.”

Helga came into the living room to check on the boys, she was in her flannel night gown and as Roland came back into the room after putting Mokie to bed, the sight of his sister made him chuckle and he said, “Sis, you’re a vision.”

She picked up one of the pillows off the couch and threatened to hit him with it, but the laughter coming from Joseph made her change her mind, smiling she said, “Alright, it’s late and tomorrow is the party, so I suggest that everyone gets to bed.”

Joseph said, “I love this family, there’s never a dull moment and that’s what makes it so great.” Helga came over, she put her arm around him and kissed his cheek, and she said, “You’re so right, now it’s late, so you and Seto get up those stairs and get some sleep.”

So Seto and Joey walked up the stairs and went to their rooms, while Roland stood there beside his sister and Helga asked him, “Did you find out anything?”

Roland looked down at her, kissed her cheek, and said, “I called several people, now I’m waiting for someone to call, and so until then, we just go about our lives as if nothings changed.”

Helga kissed his cheek and she said, “Sleep tight, I’ll see you in the morning.” Roland gave her a hug and kissed her, and as she went to her room, then he walked around the Manor making sure that all the doors were locked, and then he went to his own room and went to bed.

The next morning at breakfast, Helga said, “After breakfast, I need you boys to help Roland make sure that everything is ready outside for the party, while I make sure that we have enough to feed everyone.”

Mokie said, “Why do we have to do?”

Roland chuckled and said, “That’s Helga’s way of saying that if we get under foot that she’ll probably beat our butts, so let’s go outside and pretend that we’re busy.”

Seto and Joey laughed as they listened to what Roland was saying and then his cell phone rang and when Roland answered it, he said, “I’ll take this in the den.” Seto wondered if it had anything to do with the other night when they were at Kaiba Corp. and that mysterious phone.

Roland closed and locked the door, then he went over and picked up the phone secured line and called the number back and said, “ Bubba, what did you find out?”

“Ro, it seems that there had been friction between this Gunner and Saber for a long time, from what I was found out, it was almost like a powder keg ready to go off. I’m faxing you some papers of the Police Interrogation, maybe you’ll be able to figure out what was going on.” Bubba said.

Roland thanked him and as he hung up the phone, he sat there waiting for the fax, when he heard a knock and as he went to see who it was, he found Seto standing there.

“Dad, what’s going on, and don’t tell me that it isn’t any of my business.” Seto said.

Roland motioned for him to come in, then he closed the door, he was about to say something when the fax machine turned on and as Roland walked over to get the papers, he turned around and said, “This doesn’t leave this room, is that understood?”

Seto nodded his head, then Roland picked up the papers and as he was reading them he said, “Last night when we were at Kaiba Corp., I called a few people who lives in New York and asked them to find out what he could on this gang that Shadow and her brother belonged to.

The phone call was from one the men I called; he told me that there was a lot of friction between Gunner and Saber. Then the man told me that he was sending me some papers and maybe they could help Joseph figure out what the hell went on, and why this Gunner told Shadow that Joseph turned her brother over to the Police.”

Roland let Seto read some of the papers and as he read them, Seto was so damn angry, he looked up at his dad and said, “When are you going to show Joey these papers?”

Roland took the papers from Seto and he said, “Not until after the party, listen we’ve got to keep this quiet, I want you, Mokie and Joseph to have a good time, Joseph has been through enough it’s time for him to be able to enjoy this time with you, your brother and your friends.

When the party’s over, I’ll let him know what I found, so please promise me that you won’t let Joseph or anyone else know what I just told you.”

Seto promised that he wouldn’t say a word, and then he said, “What’s going to happen to Shadow when Joey finds out what really happened?”

Roland walked over to the window and as he looked out, he said, “That’s going to depend on Joseph, but if I know him, he’ll probably just want her to go home and forget everything that’s happened here.”

Seto and Roland went back to the kitchen and Roland said, “Come on, let’s go outside and see what we can do.” After the boys went outside, Roland said, “That was Bubba, he found out some thing, but I won’t say anymore about it until I’ve talked to Joseph, that’ll be after the party.”

Helga watched her brother go outside, she knew that whatever Bubba found out, it wasn’t exactly what you’d read in a romance novel, she prayed that whatever it was, that now Joseph would be able to put that part of his life behind him and then he’d be able to look forward to his future.

Everyone started showing up around eleven, and when they all got there, Helga asked Roland, “Will you please fire up the grill.”

As they all gathered around the pool, Tea sat beside Joey and she said, “You did it, you said that you’d get better and you did.” She hugged him and then she said, “Let’s go swimming.”

Joey reached into the bag beside where he was sitting and he got the pair of gloves that the doctor gave him, then he said, “Will you please help me get these on, I have to wear them so that the water in the pool doesn’t bother my fingers.”

After he got his gloves on, Joey stood up and said, “The last one in the pool is a rotten egg.” Then he dove into the pool and started swimming. Soon Tea, Tristan, Yugi, Yami, Ryou and Malik followed him.

The only ones left were Marik, Bakura and Seto and just about then, Roland walked over and he said, “Who wants to help me, I’ve got to go get the mesquite chips from the shed, I need them when I start the grill.”

That did it, Bakura, Marik and Seto dove into the water, as they surfaced, they heard Roland laughing and he said, “Yeah, sis you owe me twenty dollars.”

Mokuba came out about then with his girlfriend and they threw off their towels and dove into the pool too, then Yugi said, “Hey Joey, how about a game of Knights.”

Yami, Bakura, Marik or Seto didn’t understand what Yugi was talking about, so Mokie explained the game to them and soon everyone was playing. Helga stood there watching them, she walked over to Roland, and she said, “Now that’s what I love seeing, them having fun.”

Roland smiled at her and before she had a chance to get away, he grabbed her and threw her into the pool. Everyone playing stopped when they heard Helga’s scream, then they saw her plunge into the water with a splash.

She came up and as she floated in the water, she looked directly at the one responsible and said, “When I get out of this water, Roland Douglas O’Brien, I swear I’ll make you pay.”

Roland stood there laughing when all of a sudden someone pushed him and he went flying into the water, when he came up, there stood Solomon standing there and he said, “That’s for what you did last year, remember what happened?”

Roland swam towards the edge of the pool thinking he was going to be getting out, but someone had other plans, Helga motioned for the kids to get out, then she swam over and she dunked Roland twice before he knew what happened.

She finally got out with the Bakura’s help, leaving Roland there in the water floating there, he wanted to say a few choice things to both Solomon and his sister, but with the kids there, he just said, “Alright, now we’re even, can I please get out.”

Helga smiled at her brother who was still floating and she said, “Alright get out, but don’t you dare try anything else.”

Roland swam over to the edge and Bakura and Marik helped him get out, he stood there dripping wet and he said, “You know this party really did turn out to be pretty good after all, didn’t it.”

Everyone cheered and shouted, “Thanks for the party.”

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