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A/n:

I'm Not Playing Anymore

Prologue           Sticky Hands

Little Serena skipped happily towards the park, a lollipop in hand,  and her mother tailing after her with a smile.

"Serena! Be Careful!" Irene Tsukino called out with slight worry as her energetic daughter gave her one of her most charming smiles and a sweet nod. "Yes mother."

Serena sat at the grass a contented smile on her face as she watched the birds fly above her.

"Hey Sere-chan!" A loud happy voice spoke behind her as small hands covered her eyes. "Peek-a-BOO!" Mina shouted.

"Mina!" Serena squealed with delight as hands removed from her sight and her best friend tickled her.

"Let's go play at the swings!" Mina suggested holding out a hand to her. "Race you there!" Mina shouted and broke off into a run.

"Okay." Serena answered running alongside her while shouting with excitement as they raced towards the swing.

After awhile, "Serena! Mina! Come eat right now!" Serena's mother shouted over to them.

"Hai!" They chorused and went over to the picnic table.

"Yum!…mmmm…" Serena said in delight as she closed her eyes and savored the pastry her mother brought.

"This is really good, Aunt Irene." Mina spoke between mouthfuls. Serena nodded her head vigorously in agreement.

In the middle of her third batch, Serena noticed someone at the corner of her eye. A young boy about her age with sad-looking eyes stared at them lonely.

Serena elbowed Mina. "Min, do you know who that is?" Serena whispered.

Mina looked and shook her head. "I dunno." *chomp chomp chomp* "Just leave him alone." Mina said offhandedly.

Serena averted her gaze away and stared at her food instead.  Not minutes later, she stood up abruptly, an ice cream come in hand and went over to the sad boy.

"Hello." Serena spoke her voice friendly.

"…"

"Are you mute?" Serena asked concerned looking innocently at the boy who gazed at her solemnly. She tried to imitate some hand movements that she saw on TV yesterday about talking to deaf people.  

"I'm not deaf! So stop trying to do whatever it is your doing." The boy snapped.

Serena just cocked her head. "Well how would I know? You were just staring at me like so…" she imitated him.

"I did not!" The boy retorted reddening slightly.

"Did to." Serena stuck out her tongue.

They went on like that for a while, when the boy folded his arms in front of him. "What are you doing here anyway? Don't you have some other people to annoy?" the boy asked crossly.

Serena suddenly remembered something. "Oh, I came to give you this." She said proudly holding put the ice cream cone where the ice cream had already melted, dripping on her hand and unto the ground. "Sorry if it's melted. You distracted me that's all and I forgot." Serena spoke smiling sheepishly.

The boy accepted the melted ice cream dumbfounded his head cast down. "It's stupid of you to forget when the ice cream was dripping sticky all over your hand." The boy said quietly. 

"I said it wasn't my fault. It was yours!" Serena replied indignantly.

"Yours."

"No Yours!" Serena cried out. They went on again like that when Mina interrupted them having finished eating her share of food.

"Sere! Let's play some more!" Mina shouted from the picnic table, her mouth was still smudge with ice cream syrup.

"Okay!" Serena shouted turning towards her slightly waving.

"Go back to your friend and don't annoy me anymore." The boy spoke grumpily trying to turn away and ignore her.

"Hey! Why don't you join us? Even though you irritate me so, I don't want to see you looking so sad here by yourself." Serena spoke cheerfully eyes lighting up as she grabbed the boy's hand and began to drag him.

"We're playing tag. You can be IT!" Serena chatted.

The boy looked at her funny surprised at his hand being gripped so strongly by a girl. "Okay." He agreed.

"By the way my name's Serena. What's yours?" Serena asked as though just remembering that she still didn't know the name of her new playmate.  She held out a sticky hand to shake with him.

"Darien Chiba." He accepted her sticky hand with his own sticky hand. "Thank you for the ice cream." Darien spoke softly as Serena began to run thinking that she hadn't heard him.

"You're welcome!" Serena shouted a few meters away from him motioning him to come over.

A/n: What do you think? Please review!