Title: A Nightmare So Real part 1
Author: Rhiannon
"But Serena, what do you mean," he asked alarmed.
"I mean that I don't want to be with you anymore, Darien. I just think that it's time for us to both move on," she replied coolly.
"Is it something I've done?" he asked desperately, "Tell me and I can change it. I can make you happy if only you let me Serena."
"Darien think about it, do I really need a reason to break-up with you? You're always busy with school and you never have time for me. And I just don't think it's fair that I have to be with you just because we are supposedly destined to be together. I mean I'm still too young to settle down with anyone and I need to be with people other than you. I need time to be young Darien."
"But Serena...I love you," he whispered, "You can't just do this to me, I need to have something more than the excuse that I'm always busy with school. Serena I need to know exactly why," he said, his voice choked with emotion.
"Darien like I said I need to be with other people, we can't go on just basing our lives on what happened in the past. You're a big boy now, I'm sure that you can handle a small change in your life."
"Serena, this isn't a small change in my life...this is...I don't know what this is!"
"Look sweetie, you and I both know that this would have ended sooner or later, so let's just call it quits now instead of later."
She was so cold and distant to him, her cruel words. Those eyes he knew so well were cold and unfeeling. She didn't love him anymore, or she was doing a good job of hiding her emotions from him.
"Serena, please tell me that you don't mean this," he whispered softly.
"Look Darien," she said exasperatedly facing him, "I don't have all day for you to understand this. Let me reiterate this to you, I don't want to be with you anymore. I don't love you. You are like a thorn in my side. You just cause problems for me. I don't think that I should have to put up a façade for you just to make our destiny a reality. I want to change ~my~ destiny."
With that she walked away from him, leaving him speechless. He couldn't believe or even begin to make sense of what just happened to him. The woman that he loved, more that life itself, had just ripped out his heart and stomped all over it.
Oh Serena, why did you? he thought sadly.
He sat down on a bench and wept. He didn't really care who saw him. His entire life was over, as far as he was concerned. Life without Serena was not living at all.
Oh Serena! What did I do? How can I win you back? he thought desperately. After a few hours of sitting and thinking he went home still trying to make sense of what happened to him, still wondering what could have happened to make Serena so cruel to him.
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"Serena, you did WHAT?" exclaimed Luna.
"Oh Luna! Just stop it! I need to have a life and a relationship other than with Darien. Why can't you understand this and leave me alone about it?"
"Serena, this is not just something that you can take back. You do realize that if you change your mind about this Darien may not want you back. You may well have destroyed him."
"Luna don't you listen? I should have ended it with Darien a long ~long~ time ago."
"But Serena, just last week you couldn't seem to see Darien often enough. Now all of a sudden you want to break it off with him? Why?"
"Look Luna," Serena said looking the cat in the eyes, "I am only going to tell you this once, so listen good: I don't want to be with Darien anymore. I don't want to live my life based on the past. I want to live and be free of all of this!"
"Serena? What do you mean by 'all of this'?"
"Luna...I don't want to be Sailor Moon anymore."
"Serena," Luna began quite shocked, "We have been through this dozen's of times. You can't not be Sailor Moon. It is your destiny and your duty..."
"OH, TO HELL WITH DESTINY AND DUTY," she cried, "I WANT TO BE NORMAL! And from now on I will. YOU GOT THAT?!"
Serena stormed out of the room leaving Luna at a loss for words.
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I need to find out why Serena would do this all of a sudden, Luna thought, I should speak with the rest of the girls, they may know why Serena is doing this to Darien.
"Hey Luna!" someone cried breaking Luna out of her reverie.
"ARTEMIS!" she cried nearly jumping out of her fur.
"Sorry Luna," he said sheepishly.
"Didn't your mother teach you to never sneak up on a person? And how many times have I told you ~not~ to come in Serena's room, unless she's here?"
"Well of course my mother taught me to never sneak up on people, but you're a cat! And you've told me to not come in Serena's room lots of times, but it's never stopped me before."
"Oh Artemis {sigh}...What ~do~ you want?"
"Well we really need to step-up the girls training. I've been getting strange signals and it's not the negaverse. I think it may be something even bigger."
"Oh Artemis what am I going to do?"
"Well Luna, if the girls are prepared then I'm sure that they can handle whatever this is."
"Not about ~that~...about Serena," replied Luna in a very concerned voice.
"What about Serena?"
"She's broken-up with Darien."
"WHAT!?"
"Yes my reaction was exactly the same. Oh Artemis, I've no idea why she did it. She refuses to tell me why. She just said that she wants to make her own destiny. But what I can't understand is how one week she is madly in love with him and the next she just goes and dumps him."
"Hmmm," Artemis said seriously, "Maybe Serena is just having trouble coping with the fact that her entire life has been pre-determined. But she's known about it for too long for it to be barely bothering her now."
"I guess maybe the reality of it all just hit her. But after so long? It just doesn't seem right."
"Maybe we should talk to Darien, see if he knows anything about why she'd do this to him."
And with that said the two cats went in search of Darien.
To be continued...
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