Serina
walked home from school her long blond hair flowed behind her, it reached past
her knees. She wore a blue and
white-checkered skirt and a white shirt; it was part of her school uniform. She went to Sunnyvale High, where she was
now a senior. Her brother, Sammy, was
now a freshman in her school.
She
has lived in Washington her whole life and was always getting into trouble for
her grades, but now it has all changed.
Ever since Darien, her boyfriend for three years already, came into her
life and she realized that someone loved and cared for her she has been doing
well in school, actually she had the second highest GPA in the school. The highest GPA belonged to her friend for
six years, Ami Valentine.
Ami
has always been smart and kind. Her and
Serina always got along great, and they always will. Serina and Ami both are studying to be doctors; Darien was
already one of the highest respected doctors in the state even though he is
only 21 years old.
Serina
saw the arcade just ahead of her.
Everyday after school she use to go and play all the video games, but
now it is just a place to hang out with Darien and the rest of her friends. She walked into the large arcade and walked
over to her usual table.
Andrew
walked out from behind the counter and over to Serina. He had short blond hair, about 5'8" and
dressed in a blue shirt and blue jean pants and had a white apron over it.
"Hey
Serina, how's it going?" She smiled as
he sat down in the seat across from her.
"Good,
nothing can be better." She sighed as
she sunk into her chair more. He just
had to laugh; she always did that you would think he wouldn't think it was cute
anymore.
"I
see, why can't you be any better?"
Serina looked at him in a scandalous smile.
"Cause
now I am with you." They always flirt
with each other just for the hell of it.
"Hey,
I thought I only get that answer?" A
man, about 6'1" with dark black hair in black pants and a neatly tucked in
black shirt with a leather belt, walked up behind Serina. He put his arms around her waist and lifted
her up about an inch; she tilted her head back and received a long passionate
kiss.
"You
do Darien, but so does Andrew and John and Steven, oh and Patrick, and I can't
forget Matthew and Chris-" She was stopped by another kiss. "Ok, you are the only one." She smiled at her oh so fine
boyfriend. He looked over at Andrew,
who was his best friend, and stuck, out his tongue. "Now Darien, I told you not to do that unless you plan on using
it." She gave him a devilish grin.
"Oh
but I am planning on it, but just a little later." He returned the same grin and winked at her.
"Oh
please, I'll be in the back if you two need anything. I can't stand all this mushy crap. And you two are the worst."
Andrew stood and walked away from the table. Darien took the seat next to Serina and pulled her closer to him.
"Now
it is later." He pulled her chin up to
meet his and kissed her once more. He
quickly let her go when Rei, Mina, Lita, and Ami walked into the arcade. They were all best friends with Serina and
each other. Serina thought it was funny
how he would make out with her in front of Andrew, who was his best friend, but
not hers. They took their seats all
around the table.
"Hey
Serina, what have you and Darien been up to lately." Rei always wants to know everything. She had long black hair and always wore red. Lita had long brown hair, Ami has short
brown hair and Mina has long blond hair but only half as long as Serina's.
"Nothing
Rei, we didn't have enough time before you had to come around asking
questions."
"Hey
where is Andy?" Mina has the biggest
crush on Andrew but never has enough guts to admit it. He tapped her on the shoulder.
"I'm
right here beautiful." Andrew always
flirts with everyone and they all go along with him. Serina tapped Darien's arm.
"You
need to take some lessons of how to talk to a girl from Andy. Be more sweet like him." Darien frowned.
"If
I did that then I would be dating the whole block and not just you. But I like it this way, don't you?" He wrapped his arm around her; she nodded
and rested her head on his chest. The
rest of the girls drank milkshakes while Serina and Darien just talked about
their plans for the weekend. After an
hour of chatting at the arcade everyone went their separate ways except for
Serina, she stayed with Darien and they walked around the pier and gardens.
It
was a wonderful night for just being outside looking up in the night sky. They lay down on top of Darien's red sports
car and watched the moon and stars bounce in the dark sky.
"Serina?" He looked over at her and smiled.
"Hmm?" She looked into his love filled eyes.
"I
have to ask you something." His face
turned to his normal stone face.
"Darien,
are you alright?" She lifted his face
to hers, as their eyes met Darien felt calm like nothing could be better. He nodded and slowly reached into his
pocket. He pulled out a small black
box.
"I'm
going to be fine Serina, well maybe not if you say no." He opened the box as he said that and inside
was a large diamond ring on a gold band.
"You knew I was going to do this sooner or later but I'm doing it now
instead of later. Serina, will you marry
me?" He took the ring out of the box
and slipped it onto her left ring finger.
She threw her arms around him and hugged him fierily.
"Of
course I will marry you Darien, was that why you got worried all the
sudden? You thought I was going to say
no? Oh Darien." He didn't say anything all he did was just
hold his knew fiancée. He pulled her
away from him and kissed her, like there was no tomorrow.
"Thank
you Serina, you just made me the luckiest man alive." She shook her head.
"No
Darien, you made me the luckiest girl, you are so sweet and romantic, oh and I
can't forget to mention that you are sooo cute." She giggled as he pulled her closer into his arms and kissed her.
"I
love you Serina." He lay back down on
the car and Serina lay down too, using his stomach as a pillow.
"I
love you too." She held her hand up to
her face and looked at her large diamond ring again for the fortieth time in
the last five minuets. She snuggled up
against him and he put his arm around her.
She smiled brightly.
It
was a quarter after midnight and Serina still wasn't home, her mom, Ann, was
getting worried since her husband, Jack, was so overprotective. She paced around the house hoping that Jack
wouldn't know that Serina was late.
"Ann,
would you sit down, Serina is fine. She
is with a good man, nothing will happen to her." She looked on the couch and saw that Jack had been watching her
the whole time. "You knew this was
going to happen sometime."
"What
will happen?"
"You
didn't know? Last week Darien came over
after Serina left for school, he was very nervous, anyway he asked for permission
to have Serina's hand in marriage." Ann
smiled; her baby girl would get married soon.
"We got to talking and he told me about how Serina has changed his life
and how he didn't have family until he met her. I couldn't say no because he couldn't support her but we both
know he can give her whatever she wanted.
And he has already, love, happiness, wealth, and other things. I was upset at first since I never took the
chance to get to know the boy, I was always running him off and telling him to
keep his hands off my little girl."
"Oh
honey, I'm glad you finally gave him a chance."
"I
figured I owe it to him since I have been unfair. He told me that they have been dating for over three years now; I
wasn't as shocked as I thought I would be, but instead I was grateful. You remember when Serina was hit by that car
two years ago?" She nodded. "Darien was the doctor who saved her life. Most other doctors said it couldn't be done,
nothing would be able to save her, but he did it. I would never be able to watch the person I love more then life,
laying in a bed half dead and knowing that if I messed up she will die. I would go crazy, but Darien was calm on the
outside but know I know that inside he was falling apart. I admire and thank him for that, if he
didn't love her he would have given up the first week. He gave me back my baby and now I am giving
her to him." His voice cracked on the
last word. Ann hugged her husband and
took his hand.
"Come
on, when Serina gets home I don't want to be down here in case she isn't the
only one coming home." She stood up
followed by Jack.
"Your
okay with that? I am not." She shook her head.
"We
raised a good girl, she knows what is right and wrong. She will make the right choice." They walked upstairs and too their room.
Serina
crept into the house; she looked around the house and saw nobody was up. She motioned to Darien that nobody was
there. He walked into the house next to
Serina. He grabbed her around her waist
and kissed her.
"You
have to be quiet." She whispered to him
as she led him to the kitchen. He sat
down on the wood bench for the dining table and watched Serina grab chocolate
ice cream from the black freezes. She
grabbed a spoon and sat on Darien's lap.
She fed him a spoonful of ice cream and took a bite for herself.
"I
love this." He licked his lips and
kissed Serina. The ice cream was tossed
on the table as Serina deepened the kiss.
She tucked her arms behind his neck, and pulled him closer. Darien groaned as she did that.
After
a few minuets they were on top of the table making out. They heard a noise in the living room and
spilt up when Jack walked into the kitchen.
Serina wiped her lips that were all red from kisses. Darien shyly looked up at Jack, who was
glaring down at them.
"Darien,
I think it is time you say goodnight to my daughter and go on home." Darien nodded and walked out of the house,
Serina walked closely behind him.
"You
know, daddy wasn't to upset." She
closed the front door and walked into Darien's arms.
"I
know, I think he is starting to like me, but I don't want to make him change
his mind so I'll hurry and say bye."
She made a sad face but soon flipped it when he kissed her one last
time.
"I'll
see you later." He stepped away with
her hand in his; he kissed it gently then let go. She watched Darien go into the car and drive away.
She
walked in the house and was taken in by a huge hug by her father. He let her go and took her left hand and
looked at the large ring. He knew about
it but has never seen it, it was beautiful.
"Congratulations
honey, your mother and I are very proud of you. You choose your men well."
He kissed her softly on the forehead and walked away after saying
goodnight.
In
her room she got changed and crawled in bed.
She slowly drifted off to sleep thinking of her new fiancée and thinking
of how the wedding will go. Darien
asked her to marry him…It's about time.
