few tears slowly formed in her eyes when her brother was suddenly thrown to the ground.
She caught herself again quickly and only saw that Joey was sitting on top of him and beating him.
That was when she panicked - she knew Joey was going to lose. It would certainly turn out pretty bad for him. She ignored her cheek, which was still aching, and the blood that was running from her lower lip and ran to the two of them lying on the floor. Desperately she tried to tear the two away from each other. Joey was pretty badly affected, but her brother also had a bleeding nose.
She was just too weak to dissuade the two of them from each other. Here and there she got a kick, but she ignored it. Her brother and Joey were just more important right now.
After a few minutes she stood beside the two of them, perplexed and completely desperate. Why didn't anyone help? There were enough people around and all they did was form a circle and cheer the guys on.How she hated this neighborhood, how she loathed these people.
"Stop it," she yelled, even though she knew neither of them would pay attention to her.
But all of a sudden the tide seemed to be turning.
There she was again.
This voice.
The voice that got on her nerves at school.
The voice that actually sounded really good.
The voice she never thought she would be happy to hear.
Seto Kaiba's voice.
"Out of the way!" was the only thing he had said, but it sounded like music to her ears. He would help her. She was sure of that. She just knew.
Jelana turned around and her eyes searched for him and then he came out of the crowd.
"What's going on here?" he asked coolly as he stopped next to her. He didn't look at her and a cold chill ran down her spine.
Normally she would have yelled at him, you could see what was happening here. But she was so incredibly happy to see him that tears were in her eyes again.
"You just don't listen to me ..", she explained desperately and at the end of the sentence her voice failed.
That didn't seem to matter to her counterpart, who she still hadn't looked at.
With firm steps he walked up to the two boys fighting each other and interfered. With a strong jerk he pulled Joey away from Takumi and held him by the collar, although he resisted it with all his might.
Joey was probably the lesser of two evils for him. Slowly he even seemed to give up and Jelana took this chance. She rushed to him and pulled him away.
"Man. Are you crazy?" her voice skyrocketed so upset she was.
In the end, of course, she knew that her boyfriend had only meant well and she was glad that he was doing well according to the situation. So she simply took him in her arms and whispered a "thank you" in his ear.
As soon as she had hugged him, she let go of him again. The crowd that had calmed down a bit since Seto was raging again.
Jelana turned around again, startled. What happened?
She just saw her brother just run away. Kaiba made no move to run after him, he just stopped. Was everything okay with him?
Jelana gave Joey a quick checking look to see if everything was okay.
He had a few bruises, scratches, one black eye, but it didn't seem serious, so she could leave him alone for a short while.
It was the second time that Kaiba had saved her and so it was time to say thank you.
She stood next to her tall, dark-haired classmate and carefully took his arm. First she wanted to know if everything was okay with him, but he pulled his arm away energetically. She wanted to say something, but was interrupted by him. He was obviously very angry.But why?

"Do you never really think about it? What do you hang around in such places?" he snapped at her.
His voice was even cooler than usual, even if you might think that it couldn't be done anymore, and it was the first time that he looked directly at her.
His gaze wandered over her lip, which was still bleeding slightly, and lingered on her eyes for a very brief moment.
"You should find another company!" he said, while he just rushed past her and left her standing.
Only now did she realize she had been holding her breath and gasped.
What was that supposed to mean? Now she couldn't say thank you again and why was he giving her a lecture?
She just couldn't figure out this guy ...