Corporate Prince

Chapter 37: Admittance

Sanae was waiting for Ana outside her house that Saturday with a beach bag.

"Hurry up!" Sanae shouted at her and they made a dash for the bus stop. They boarded the bus that would take them an hour out of town to the nearest beach. As they rode, Ana's mind darted everywhere. All week she'd been trying hard to deny what she'd felt at the party, but there was only so much she could do to reject her feelings. She looked around to see if anyone was listening and leaned over to her best friend to whisper in her ear.

"Sanae, I think I like Amin-chan." Now that she'd said it out loud, she was even more sure of her feelings.

Her friend turned to her unsurprised and sighed. "Well, it took you long enough to figure that out. Is that why you've been acting weird all week?"

"Ugh." Ana couldn't say anything in response.

"So, what are you going to do?" Her friend asked her with a small smirk. "Confess?"

"No. If I do that and we... start really going out, grandpa will push for us to get married and I won't be able to go to college." She bit her lip and frowned.

To her surprise and irritation, her friend burst out laughing. After she calmed down, Sanae explained why she'd done so. "Ana-chan, do you really think Kaiba-san would roll over and obey anyone? If that's not what you want, then tell him your demands for a relationship. I bet he'll concede to most of them."

Ana pondered the idea. If Amin-chan refuses to get engaged, then grandpa can't do anything about it. Would he look for another fiancé for me though if that happens? After sitting on the bus for an hour, the bus pulled up to the beach, and they got off. Arata and few others had already arrived. They were standing on the road outside the beach. When he turned to Ana, she got the sense something was wrong.

"What happened? Why aren't you going in?" Ana asked as she approached.

"Well, the thing is we may have to cancel. It looks like someone booked the beach for a wedding," Arata explained.

The group of teens looked dejected as they stood outside, unsure of what to do. Arata frowned and then gave a forced smile.

"If you all want to go home, I'll wait for a while to let people know what happened as they—"

A flashy black motorbike drove up and stopped next to them. The man on the bike took off his helmet, revealing Seto. He stared at them, perplexed. He took one look at the beach and seemed to understand what happened.

"Ah, Kaiba-san—" Arata tried to tell him, but Seto ignored him and pulled out his phone to make a call.

"Mokuba, is the house you stayed at last week clean? ... Send me the code.... Because." Then he hung up. He pressed a few buttons on his phone and all of theirs rang. Ana looked at it and found an address that she could use to search with.

"It's a ten-minute walk. I'll go open it. Come or don't. I don't care either way." Seto put his helmet back on and sped off down the street.

Everyone looked around, confused. Ana put the address into her phone and zoomed in. Ah. That ass. At least give a better explanation. How did he get everyone's number? Sanae looked at her confused and the other students were looking around baffled.

"It looks like there's another beach." Ana explained and hauled her bag higher on her shoulder. She followed the map route. Hesitantly, the others followed her. When they got there, they found a high rock wall and a gate. Before Ana could press the call button, the gate swung open. She rolled her eyes and headed in. Inside they found a two-story house with large windows and a small private cove. Their group stared at the house, unsure, until Seto opened the door.