There was a loud knock on a pale chestnut door, waking up a very provoked teenage girl. As she jumped out of bed from the scare, she hit her head on the headboard behind her.
"OWWWWW!" she yelled as she opened the door only to find whomever had knocked was now gone. When she tuned her back to go inside her peaceful domain she felt something cold and wet hit the back of her neck. She quickly turned to face whatever in God's name hit her. And to her fears it was her little brother, Sammy.
"SHRIMP, GET READY TO RUN, CUZ I'M COMING AFTER YOU!" she yelled out as she grabbed her baseball bat from the hallway in front of her door. Her little brother screamed and ran down the stairs with ease, but for this girl it was a different story. About the time she finally got all the way down the stairs she had carpet burns on both her knees and her fingers had wood splinters from the rail. As she stepped onto the carpet in the living room from the stairs, she could hear her mother comforting her so called little brother. As she slowly limped into the kitchen, she wished she hadn't. Her mother was sitting at the dinning table with Jon, her mom's boyfriend. Sammy was sitting on her lap. 'What's he doing here?' she opinionated referring to Jon.
"Serena, why were you chasing your brother?" her mom asked
"Mom, he sprayed me with his water gun."
"Serena, he was just playing with you."
"But Mom,"
"But nothing. He's only 7 and you are 16."
"But…"
"Serena, I don't want to hear anything else, if you wouldn't have been chasing him you wouldn't be hurt."
"Serena, your mother's right." Jon added in.
"No one asked you." Serena rudely pointed out.
"SERENITY TSUKINO! YOU APPOLOGIZE RIGHT THIS INSTANT."
"Hey, what's all the noise about?" Serena's older sister, asked as she walked into the kitchen.
"Nothing Raye, just some silly argument." Serena shrugged as she walked over to the refrigerator.
"Good morning Jon, good morning mom, good morning Sammy, and good morning Serena." Raye said as she smiled at each person. Serena wasn't buying anything from the beauty product peddler.
"What's up with you?" she asked as she sat down at the round mahogany breakfast table.
"Well, Darien and I are going to the new amusement park today, to celebrate our 4 month anniversary." Raye happily replied.
"Sorry I asked." Serena unenthusiastically declared.
"Raye, dear…it's been four months already, when are we going to meet this young fellow?" Jon interestedly asked
"Well, I'm happy you asked, because I want you all to come to a barbeque at his house tomorrow. It's going to be nice.
"Sure, we all would like to come." Serena's mom said as look directly at her.
"I'll mark my calendar. But I need to be heading out if I want to get to work on time." Jon languidly said.
"Oh, me too. I'm supposed to meet this new client today." Irene smiled.
As Jon and Irene stood to leave, the house phone began to ring. With Serena being the closest to it, as she was putting her bowel in the sink, hurriedly answered it, thinking it was one of her friends.
"Hello." Serena talked into the phone.
"Hello, is Raye home?"
"Who's speaking?"
"Darien."
"Oh. Yea, she's here." Serena joylessly handed the phone to her older sister.
"Bye everyone." Jon said as he walked out the front door.
"Bye." Everyone yelled back, excluding Serena.
"Sammy are you ready to go over Julie's house?" Irene softly questioned.
"Yep," Sammy excitedly squealed.
"Well, go get in the car. Serena if you leave the house please remember to lock it up. Raye have fun."
"Bye, Mom." Serena sighed as she walked up the stairs to her room.
"Yea, Mom." Raye giggly smiled as Irene left.
When Serena was back into her white and fluffy room. She happily jumped onto her bed. And feel back to sleep. After what seemed about 50 hours. The phone rang.
"RAYYYYYYYEEEEEEE! GET THE PHOOOONE!" Serena sleepily yelled from her room. When the phone kept ringing. Serena madly got up from her warm bed. And ran down the stairs. All the while calling out Raye's name. When Serena got to the bottom of the stairs she realized that it wasn't the phone ringing it was doorbell. As she slowly opened the door, she came face to face; well she came face to chest with some mysterious guy.
"Can, I help you?"
"Is Raye home?"
"Um, I don't know. I can go check."
"May, I come in first?"
"Sure, I guess. You can wait right there on the couch." Serena rolled her eyes. This was probably one of Raye's boy toys. As long as Serena's been alive, guys have flocked after her sister.
When the stranger finally came inside the house she could finally see his whole appearance. And she wasn't too disappointed. He was muscular with jet-black hair, and he had the prettiest midnight blue eyes she had ever seen.
"Raye!" Serena screamed up the stairs.
"So…you must be Serena?"
"Oh. I know who you are. You're Darien." Serena adjusted her head from side to side.
"I am…Nice to meet you."
"Same here. So today is you twos' anniversary?"
"Four months and counting."
"That's a long time."
"Yea...I know…I usually last two weeks."
"You must really like Raye then." Serena smirked.
"Very Much."
"Interesting." Serena smiled and stood up. "Well…Darien…I must tell you…Raye's my sister…I know her a little better than you. A word of advice is to watch out." Serena walked over to the stairs.
"For what?"
"RAYE!" Serena called up the stairs once again. Still no reply. Serena shrugged her shoulders at Darien.
"Well I guess she's not here." Darien stood.
"Too bad." Serena sat down on the last step.
"If you see Raye tell her-"
"Darien, honey, what are you doing here?" Darien and Serena heard from the stairs. They both turned to look that way realizing that it was Raye.
"I came to pick you up."
"Speaking of the devil." Serena muttered under her breath.
"Oh, that's so sweet of you. I see that you've met my little sister Serena."
"Yea, um. She's just as charming as you."
"Oh, really?" Raye asked just before she kissed Darien.
"Okay, I'm going." Serena loudly yawned as she ran up the stairs.
"Bye, Serena." Raye called after her.
"It was nice meeting you, Serena." Darien said as the front door closed.
Serena waited on the stairs for about 2 minutes thinking about Darien. She hated the fact that he was so perfect and her sister got him. That's when she needed to take a walk. After a quick 5-minute shower, Serena hurriedly pulled on some jeans and a halter-top; next she combed her ankle length golden blond hair in to a ponytail, added her hoop earrings, and applied her makeup. And walked out her room door. When she reached the middle of the stairs, she realized that she had let Raye borrow her keys a couple of nights ago. In a fury she ran up to her room, to grab her cell phone from the stand and dialed Raye's cell.
"Hello," Raye answered from the other line.
"Hey, Raye. You have my keys?"
"I have them with me, I think."
"Ugh! I need them."
"Why?"
"I'm going out."
"Well, umm…wait there. The park isn't too far from the house, I'll send Darien down."
"Why can't you come?"
"Because I have to hold our place in line, we haven't even got past the ticketing gate."
"Why can't you come and he stay?" Serena whined.
"Serena." Raye scolded. "Bye."
"Bye."
"Great, just what I need." Serena thought aloud. Serena slowly walked down her stairs to the living room the watch some TV. Serena flipped through the channels landing on her favorite movie, Dirty Dancing…next to Anastasia and Bambi. 20 minutes into the movie the doorbell rang.
"Come in," she called out from the couch.
"What if I had been a stranger, you'd be fighting for your life right now." Darien said as he walked into the house.
"But you're not. So I'm okay." Serena turned around.
"Are you always like that."
"Like what?You've only known me for about 5 minutes."
"No, I've known you for about 4 months."
"No, you've known ABOUT me for 4 months." Serena stood up.
"Yea, you got me there."
"Can I have my keys?"
"What?"
"My keys…"
"OH, I'm sorry." Darien said as he handed Serena her keys.
"No prob. Hey can you do me a favor?"
"Depends."
"On what?"
"What it is."
"Can you take me to my friends house?"
"Hmmmmm…nope." Darien concluded as he walked out of the door. Serena then turned off the TV and locked the door, finally running after him. When she reached him, he was already in his car.
"Come on, you gotta." She cried as she reached the drivers part of the car.
"No, I don't."
"Plllllease? You're my sister's boyfriend." she continued to cry as he started up the car.
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"You have to be nice to me."
"Who says?"
"I do." Serena smiled. Darien just rolled his eyes.
"Come on!"
"No."
"On the way there we can get to know each other…seeing as you date my sister."
"I won't for long if you keep acting like this." He threatened
"Damn! Just forget it." Serena said as she kicked Darien's car.
"Don't kick my car!"
"Nice talking to you." Serena angrily walked off.
"Get in." Darien yelled from the window.
"Thanks." Serena squealed as she jumped into the car.
"Don't touch anything," Darien said as he pulled the car into reverse. "So where to?"
"Hilton Duplex!"
"Who lives there?" Darien asked as he started to drive.
"Do you have to know everything?"
"I thought we were going to get to know each other."
"Oh. Lita."
"Excuse me?" The car stopped.
"My friend...Lita…lives there." She sighed.
"Oh."
"So Darien…how old are you?"
"23." He started to drive again.
"You're old." she laughed.
"I am not. You're young." Darien retaliated.
"I'm 16."
"Naïve."
"Ha!" Serena folded her arms.
"Ha? Who in their right mind says that?" Darien chuckled.
"Who doesn't give their future sister-In-law rides?"
"What?"
"If you and Raye keep going down this road that's what I'm going to be."
"You're such a weirdo." Darien laughed.
"Good. I like to be different. Because if you're normal. Then you're weird."
"That makes no kind of sense."
"Sure it does."
"How?" Darien pulled in front of the apartment building.
"We're here already."
"Explain." Darien turned the car off.
"Okay. Are you and I the same?"
"Hell No."
"Okay. So we are two DIFFERENT people right?"
"Right. But I'm normal."
"How are you normal, if you're different than everyone else."
"I just am."
"Right. Since no two people in the world are the same then everyone is different. So if you are normal. You are different than everyone else. Get it?"
"Get out of my car." Darien laughed.
"Too smart for ya huh?" Serena laughed and got out.
"Bye Serena." Darien smiled and drove off.
"Bye." Serena whispered and turned and walked into the apartment.
Serena slowly walked up the stairs to room 643 and knocked on the door. Serena so lost in thought, didn't even hear her best friend open the door.
"Serena?" Lita called out
"Hey Lit." She smiled.
"What's up?" Lita give Serena a hug, her protruding belly in the way. As Serena walked into the empty 2-bedroom apartment she could smell Lita's famous cookies. Serena took her shoes off at the door, and followed Lita into the kitchen.
"Lita, do you ever stop cooking?" Serena happily asked as she took a couple of cookies off the baking sheet and sat down at the island bar.
"I love to cook."
"It's a wonder you're not fat, wait you are." Serena said as she looked at the tall pregnant emerald green-eyed brunette.
"Shut up, it's a wonder YOU'RE not fat!" she said as she took 6 cookies away from Serena.
"HEY!"
"Now, Serena since your all situated...what's wrong?"
"How do you always know when something is wrong?"
"I know you, is all."
"Okay. Remember I told you Raye had a new boyfriend?"
"Yes…your exact words were 'I don't know why Raye has a new boyfriend. She always breaks their hearts."
"Oookay…anyways…I met him today."
"Is, he cute?"
"Gorgeous, but that's not the point."
"Okay."
"Well, anyways. Where was I?"
"You met him today."
"Oh, okay, well I met him today…"
"We've established that already."
"Shut up."
"Okay, well I was coming to visit you, that's when I realized that I didn't have my keys. So I called Raye, because she had my keys last."
"Okay, what does this have to do with him?"
"Wait a minute."
"Okay."
"Well, she said that he, Darien, was going to bring them to me."
"Okay."
"So, he finally came right. And I asked him, if he would give me a ride to your house. Right…"
"Right."
"And he said no."
"Ouch!"
"I KNOW, so… after a long time of persuasion."
"Serena!"
"What?"
"You know!"
"It worked. Besides it wasn't even that long."
"Okay."
"Well on the way here, we were talking and stuff."
"About what."
"Nothing Really."
"That's why you're upset?" Lita raised her eyebrows.
"No! While we were talking he looked at me with so much emotion…he looked at me as if…as if….I don't know. God, Lita his eyes are so powerful and beautiful." Serena grabbed another cookie. "Lita. I think I'm in love."