Changing Times

Chapter 1: Beginnings and endings

Their relationship started before senior of high school. Even though the relationship only a year and a half, it was a year and a half full of happy memories, except for the last month of their relationship. It was a month filled with terrible things said and done, and very regrettable moments in their lives, but many in her's.

They spent their senior year of high school together, but as they were together, they also spent it very far apart. He had gone to a private school and she went to a public school in another city. They lived only a half an hour away from each other. They seemed like a perfect couple. They even thought that they would still be together throughout college. But sadly, they didn't make it to the first day of college.

Darien had graduated a month before she did. As a graduation present from his parents, he had received a trip to Europe with his best friend, who he had grown up since preschool. The bad part of his graduation present was that he was going to leave 2 days before Serena's graduation and would be gone for an entire month.

Before he had left they were talking about their situation and were weighing their opinions, break up, take a break, or stay together. She wanted to take a break, he wanted to stay together. In the end, he had convinced her to stay together and just to wait for him to return.

She had spent the night before he left for Europe and in the result of that night; they spent a wild passionate night together. The next morning Darien's family, the parents of his best friend Andrew, and Serena took him and his best friend to the airport and watched them depart for the trip.

It was a very emotional and sad time for her. She was sad that he had left her. Even though technically he didn't really left her, but it sure felt like she was alone, since he wasn't there with her physically.

Everyday that he was gone, he had called her. Just to talk and to reassure her that he loved her and would be home very soon.

2 weeks had gone by and she had gotten really sick. The 3rd week went by and she wasn't getting any better. So she went to the doctor's to see what is making her sick or to see what sickness she had gotten. By the end of her visit to the doctor's, she had found out that she was pregnant.

By the time she had gotten home from the doctor's, she had told no one of her pregnancy. During the last week that he was gone she had debated very much with herself about her situation and what she was going to do. She came to the conclusion that he wasn't ready to be a father and nor was she ready to be a mother, but she couldn't get herself to get an abortion. She was thinking about having an adoption like her situation. But she herself didn't know how she would be able to give up her own child.

When Darien got home from Europe, Serena didn't tell him that she was pregnant. She was planning to, but somehow she wasn't able to tell him. The summer had faded away as her stomach started grow, but she hid her pregnancy all too well.

September came all too soon for her because college was going to start and then he would leave. They had gotten into a big terrible fight that had ended their relationship just as he was moving into his dorm. They broke up the day before his first day of college would start. He had gone to Santa Clara University, which wasn't very far home his home of 18 years.

And yet, Serena still didn't tell Darien that she was pregnant with his child. But instead she told Andrew because Andrew was the one who introduced them in the first place. Andrew and Serena were very good friends before she and Darien had gotten together.

Andrew and Serena had met about 3 summers before high school at a summer camp. But they had always kept in touch after camp. Even though Darien was off at Santa Clara, both Andrew and Serena were going to Stanford. But Stanford wasn't starting for another week after Santa Clara.

Andrew was very upset with Serena when she told him. He wasn't very happy with her, but she had made him promise not to say anything to Darien about her pregnancy. Andrew had convinced Serena that she had to tell Darien, but she was allowed to do it in her own time.

After she told Andrew, she told her parents, they weren't happy either and had believed that she was throwing away her future, but were there with their support. Serena had told them that she had already spoke with Stanford's administration about her situation and had come to a compromise of living in a small house on campus with Andrew and was allowed to go to school.

Both Serena and Darien came from wealthy families. Darien's father was a big shot bankruptcy lawyer and his mom was private school teacher at an all girls school. Serena's father was the Vice President of RMS (Risk Management Solutions a company that makes software that works with the weather that helps out insurance companies) and her mother spent most of her time golfing or volunteering at a homeless shelter.

So you could say that Serena was pretty well off, but even if she didn't have the support of her parents she would use her savings account which she had enough to support herself for a couple of years then after her savings account she would use her trust fund.

But Serena had the support of her parents, Andrew and her friends. So she didn't have use her savings or trust fund. By the time March came around she had turned 19 and a week later, she had given birth to a set of twin boys. She had given her boys her last name so that way Darien's family would never know until she told them about the boys. Strangely enough her boys, Geoffrey Christopher Tskuino and Christian John Tskuino were identical twins, but at the same time not. For Geoff had jet black hair like Darien's with Serena's crystalline blue eyes and Chris had Serena's silver blonde hair with Darien's sapphire blue eyes. Those were the only differences the twins had, they were both had the same body type and were the same in every way except their hair and eye color.

The first 2 years of Stanford went by, and as Serena had promised 2 years before that she would tell Darien about their boys. She and Andrew transferred to Santa Clara as a start of telling Darien. But still she was just going to place her into his life again, but without telling about Geoff and Chris.

During the 2 years at Stanford Andrew and Darien still talked, and were still best friends. Darien would ask Andrew how Serena was doing every now and then. Andrew would just tell Darien she was okay and would say nothing more, because Andrew knew that it wasn't his place to tell Darien about his children and that Serena would tell him soon enough.

When Darien found out that Andrew was transferring he wanted to room with Andrew, but Andrew had told Darien that he couldn't because he was renting an apartment with Serena. At first Darien wasn't happy that Andrew wouldn't be his roommate and had asked why. Andrew told Darien that he and Serena were transferring to Santa Clara. Darien wasn't happy about it, but soon he had accepted that he would have to face Serena when the fall began…