Hey, this is my new story. If you read my profile, you'd know that I mentioned I'd jump from one story to another, & I do apologise. BUT I will try to post as much of this story AND 'Eternally Yours' in my busy and stressful life. Grrr... I did limit myself to posting and focusing on TWO stories at a time though, despite me already typing a third one. So many ideas so little time.
*sigh*

Well, enjoy!


Warning- Major OOC; NO talking cats, NO Sailor Senshis (their alter egos, yes, but superheros, no), NO Tuxedo Mask, NO evil monsters trying to take over the world (evil people, yes, however) & NO Sailor Moon...
Oh, & the obvious warning: Mature Content for future chapters.

Disclaimer- I do not & will never own Sailor Moon characters. Except for the obvious characters that I clearly made up...


JUMP & FALL

CHAPTER ONE:

A MESS OF A DREAMER WITH THE NERVE TO ADORE YOU

THE EAR piercing screams coming from hundreds of girls and guys could be heard from miles away, as they screamed for one name and one name only.

"Oh my Gosh! Daaarieeen!"

"Darien! Darien! Marry me!"

"I love you, Darien!"

The crowd had bunched up at the entrance of the Mall, watching as their favourite super star walked a path cleared from all their craziness and grasping hands reaching out for him. He smiled and waved as he made his way to the white clothed tables that had been set up for him to sign the autographs his fans were desperate to have. Following one of his many guards, he sat down before a bunch of head shots of him and a handful of black Sharpies.

Leaning back on the comfortable, fold out chair, he watched as multiple security guards from the Mall and some of the personal ones his agent had hired, tried to calm the crowd down, trying to get them into an orderly line so that the autograph session could start. He laughed inside as he remembered his night as the chaos in front of him continued. His night had been filled with girls practically jumping into his arms; grinding up against him on the dance floor every chance they got. Lots of drinking and super models, more drinking and actresses he'd never met, more drinks ordered and aspiring models and actresses alike introduced themselves to him but in his case they had thrown themselves all over him. Not that he minded, because out of all his choices last night he had gone home with another Barbie Doll blond who wanted to work with him in the future- maybe as an extra if she were lucky enough.

He had left her alone in the hotel he had booked for night, with no number or any means of a way of being able to contact him. She had been fun, he had to admit that, but that was it. There was no way he was going to have a relationship with her or with anyone at all right now despite what the tabloids might have printed today. He could imagine headlines reading- At it again! Shield's leaves nightclub with Mystery Blond and Is this the beginning of a new celebrity love? At least the Barbie Doll blond would get her fifteen minutes of fame which could possibly sky rocket her career for another few months or so. But in the end she would be like the others in Darien's life- just a girl who was with him for one night of his life.

Sighing, he suddenly realised his parents were most likely to get reeled up again from his latest escapades plastered all over every gossip magazine, keeping track on him. Then again, it wasn't like they hadn't had their fair shares of scandals and what not in the Hollywood world. Sighing again, he knew he would have to visit them afterwards and as much as he loved and cared for his parents, his visits were always about, "Why haven't you settled down yet?" or "What's this I hear you've had at least three, THREE, women in ONE week?" and of course this- "When I was your age, I had already proposed to your mother..." And it would go on and on.

Lost in his sudden change of thoughts, he was suddenly interrupted by a lady who stared at him with concern as she carefully watched him collect his thoughts back to reality. She was at least in her forties, wearing a black head piece over her fading brown hair.

"Mr Shields are you alright?" she asked, gently patting his shoulder.

When he nodded, her knowing gray eyes twinkled and she spoke into her microphone that touched her cheeks, "Mr Shields is ready. Please forward the first ten people."

Taking off his dark sun glasses, he readied himself for the very long hours to come; this was his third autograph signing this year and probably his fiftieth one in his whole career and hopefully the last one for this year. Why couldn't they just print his signature and copy them onto his pictures?

As he signed and smiled, he inwardly thought he needed a break; God knows he had to have a break. Darien wanted a break. And even though he loved the world he was living in, sometimes it was so suffocating he could no longer breathe.

It was time for that break he promised himself years ago- where he didn't give a damn as to whether or not the whole world would miss the Darien Shields.

- & . . .

Nineteen year old Serena Tsukino ran for her life. As fast as her five feet and two inches of a body could take her, because He was here at this very moment, in her part of the city! And of all the ways of finding out, she had found out through the radio she had been mindlessly listening to as she took her bath. What made it worse, was that His number one fan, which was her, had only found out twenty minutes ago when He supposedly had already been at the Mall for two hours.

How could she have not known about this? She felt embarrassed to even think of herself as his number one fan at the moment! A number one fan would have known immediately about something like this happening!

The something being that the one and only Darien Shields was having an autograph signing only an hour away from her.

Oh please, oh please, still be there! She thought. Her golden hair clung to her face as her Caribbean blue eyes widened at the sight of the large crowd that had gathered at the Mall entrance for hours now. Sighing and relieved that she had made it on time; she began to walk slowly towards the crowd.

"Due to some personal problems, Mr Darien Shields can no longer continue this autograph signing session. I hope you all understand and have a beautiful day!"

Serena froze as she listened to the announcement being made through a mega-phone. She heard the protests of the other fans ahead of her as some already began to leave, shaking their heads in disappointment. All of a sudden-

"NOOOOOOOOOO!"

"Serena, where have you been? You're an hour late!" said a dark haired, violet eyed beauty who was a friend of Serena's; her name was Raye.

Four pairs of eyes watched as Serena slumped into her usual seat at the internet café, called The Crown, where the group always hung out at whenever they all had the chance to meet up on holidays or just days where they felt like bumming out. Especially now that school was over for the year and it was summer break, each of them were now occupied with a new job or already busy working hard with what job they had and what they were good at.

Serena- even though she no longer needed to- was currently still taking ballerina lessons whilst teaching it too for little girls at the dance studio the University provided, where in turn she was studying for a Bachelor of Visual Arts. She hadn't found her inner artist until her final year of High School, where everyone had been ultimately surprised with how good she had become with her art pieces and drawings and expressing them. Not only was she the best and most graceful ballerina in their school that year, but she had also become the Da Vinci of Avery Senior High School.

Meanwhile, Raye Hino was picking up gigs from bars to clubs at night to perform as she continued to help her Grandfather during the day with their family business, The Shrine, a place to relax in their sauna or to have a massage by some of the city's best masseuses or masseurs. But when in school, she had a completely different demeanour towards completing her major- Bachelor of Laws and Media Studies, where singing would have to come second if she were to graduate. As much as she loved it, it was more of a hobby and a stress relief; besides, she felt she had to be realistic with her life despite all the dreaming.

Serena mumbled her reply which none of the four girls sitting around her caught.

"Huh?" prodded Mina- a gorgeous, blond hair and blue eyed girl who could easily pass as Serena's sister for those who weren't acquainted with them. For the past two weeks of their summer, Mina had been able to snatch a few photo-shoots which later got her demanded even more in the fashion world. Her modeling agency, Butterfly Modeling Agency, were being swamped with phone calls asking just for Mina Aino. And when giving her modeling career on break she focused on trying to complete school to gain her Bachelor of Journalism, just in case things didn't go too well with modeling she hoped to become Chief Editor for her very own elite magazine. Who knows?

"I said- never mind," Serena replied, this time audible.

"So... You weren't at some super star's autograph signing at the Mall?" Lita asked. She was the tallest of the group, with dark but beautiful green eyes and brown hair that was softly curled. Not only was she the tallest but the toughest one too and underneath all that she was the biggest softie and a really great cook too, the reason why she was taking up Bachelor of Business- majoring in Management and Hospitality, to hopefully one day own her own restaurant. But for the mean time, Lita Kino had scored a spot as an Assisting Chef at a prestigious night restaurant, Botany Éclair,just for the summer.

Serena's head snapped up, to glare at her green eyed friend, "What do you know about it?"

"About what?" Lita asked innocently.

"About Darien Shield's autograph-" Serena stopped as she mentally hit herself.

"I never said his name," Lita continued with a chuckle as everyone else giggled.

Serena blushed and sighed, giving up trying to cover her tracks. Sighing she asked, "Fine. How'd you guys find out?"

From that question, Raye, Mina and Lita turned their heads to look at their shyest and final friend off the group- Amy Mizuno- an aspiring doctor, currently studying for her Bachelor of Health Sciences, majoring in Human Physiology and Anatomy while doing a Master of Health Information Management. And if you thought that was it, you thought wrong as Amy wanted to continue her studies to complete a Master's degree of Clinical Neuropsychology before studying even more in a Medical School to become a doctor following her Mother's footsteps. So, with her blue black hair and dark blue eyes and innocent features, she was easily dubbed as the groups nicest, most caring and purest one; only her closest friends knew of the fire she had within her that she hid from everyone else. Aside from that, she was currently working as a waitress in the same restaurant as Lita, which worked well for her as she preferred to study during the day even if it was their summer break.

Amy blushed in turn, not embarrassed for herself but for her blond haired friend who sat across from her, with her big blue eyes and weird hairstyle she had had ever since Amy knew her from Middle School. Oh Serena, Amy thought shaking her head.

Everyone waited, and when Amy still hadn't done anything, Mina, who sat beside her, gently nudged her. Finally making up her mind, Amy pulled out her Black Berry and began frantically speaking, "I'm so sorry Serena. I don't know why it gotten sent to me-"

"Of course you do, Amy!" Raye interrupted, "After all, you're the only one here who can tolerate her as a friend."

"But that's the thing, she isn't really much of a friend as you girls are to me," Amy continued.

"Nawww... Ames- just show her," Lita said.

Serena's eyes narrowed, looking at each one of her best friends as Amy and Mina began fiddling with the phone, whispering harshly. After a few moments, Mina gently placed the phone onto the table and pushed it slowly towards Serena. Looking down at the screen, Serena saw that they were on a YouTube page that had the title- Crazy Girl Crazy for Shields (A MUST WATCH!). Frowning slightly, Serena couldn't make much off the screen cap of the video which was showing bricks and leaves, but for some reason her heart beat picked up and her palms began to sweat.

No... It couldn't be!

"Go on, push the button. Play it," Raye urged on.

Shaking slightly, Serena pressed play and reddened at the horror of seeing her displayed on the small screen for all YouTubers to see. Oh, my GOD! How? When? What? Her mind panicked. It was the embarrassing display she had regretted staging as she watched herself kneeling on the pavement by the mall she had been at earlier in the day, screaming in despair of having just found out that Darien was no longer there. There were giggles that could be heard in the video as it shifted away from Serena, revealing non other than her rivalry- Ann Oaks.

[Camera zooms in on Serena, her trade mark pigtails being a dead give away.]

"Noooooooooo!" Serena was screaming.

[Camera shakes and Ann's face was smiling at it.]

"She got like this after it was announced that Darien had just left," Ann talked into the video as her friends giggled around her.

[Camera shifts onto a poster of Darien and the time table of his appearance.]

More giggling was heard.

[The camera is zoomed back onto Serena who sat limply and sobbed...]

"She is just plain evil!" Serena growled as she picked up the phone, ready to smash it on the ground. She was ready to smash anything really.

"Hey hey! Put that phone down nice and slowly, Serena," Amy said as she leaned over the table to grab her Black Berry away from the murderous looking, blond pigtailed girl.

"But she does have a point, Serena," Raye began. Serena shot her a deathly glare, but Raye ignored it as she continued to speak, "I mean- you are crazy for him. Way too obsessed actually. Come on, you've loved him since High School and you still act like you're in High School when it's about him."

"She's right you know," Mina muttered as Lita just nodded.

"What- what are you guys saying?" Serena was on the verge of spilling more tears, but she bit her lip to try and keep them at bay. "That- that-"

"It's time to grow up. You're nineteen. You have a boyfriend who loves you to bits but you're still dreaming off meeting this- this guy!" explained Raye, in what she believed was a much calmer and nicer version than what she had been thinking.

"Plus, it's known everywhere what kind of guy he is. Why would you want to dream of meeting a guy who, I'm pretty sure has never had a relationship for more than a week or whatever? I mean, it's not worth it. He's pretty much Hollywood's Playboy," Lita joined in. "Plus, if you ever did end up meeting him, and he broke your heart, he would definitely get a beating from me which will so no longer make him a Heart throb."

"How could you say that, Lita? I remember when you all liked him too. Yes, even you, Amy." Although she tried to defend herself, Serena knew she already lost.

Once again, Amy blushed as she said, "Exactly that, Serena. Liked. We grew out off him. Yes, he's still a good actor and handsome but- Seiya has told us that- Well..."

"What Amy is trying to say is that, Seiya told Jed who told me that, if you don't start seeing him as someone you could really be with, he might as well just let you go. Plus, he doesn't get the whole obsession thing about Darien," Mina said, finishing off with a slurp to her milk shake.

Serena hung her head, not looking at any of her friends. She liked Seiya, she really did, but she just wasn't that committed yet. And she had to admit, she was still waiting for an adventure. But what kind of adventure exactly? She began to doubt.

Raye sighed and wrapped her arms around Serena, "We just care about you, Serena. We love you and just don't want to see you get hurt." She gave a slight squeeze before unwrapping herself from Serena's body and shifting her attention back to her mocha flavoured iced drink.

Letting out a sigh, Serena lifted her gaze but not daring to look at any of her friends. "I guess you guys are right. Maybe it is time I should grow up," she said. The girls gave little smiles and nods while Serena stood up. "I have to go and see Seiya. I promised him I'd go over his house today." With that, she grabbed her mini shoulder bag and waved over her shoulders without a glance back to her friends.

"I wonder if Seiya knows what he's getting himself into?" Mina sighed.

Raye just nodded and continued sipping her drink; Lita just smiled and flipped her phone open, waiting for a reply to a message she had just sent.

"It's alright guys, Serena will make the right choice. She cares for Seiya and she wouldn't hurt him," Amy said.

"I hope you're right, Ames," Lita mumbled. All the girls looked over at her, their question obvious on their faces- Why? "Because, Yaten just replied saying that Seiya had chosen a ring today. And well- I guess today is the day he's finally going to ask Serena-"

"What! Already? He's going to propose?" Mina cut in.

"Oh, Mina, where have you been these past few days?" Amy asked.

"Dazing off with her new lover boy, perhaps?" Raye chided.

"I'm serious, guys!"

"Mina, he's not exactly proposing. He's more like..."

"Committing," Amy finished for Lita.

"Yeah."

"Huh?"

"Mina, seriously? Where have you been?" Raye sighed as she shook her head, "Remember? Seiya's whole plan to have a few weeks of a romantic break with Serena, on a luxurious cruise ship?"

"Oooh... So he's just, like, giving her a-"

"Yes," Lita laughed.

- & . . .

"Darien, why won't you just settle down now, darling?" an elegant looking woman asked, with her professionally short cropped, raven hair just recently done and eyes as dark as the deep oceans, with her skin finally showing signs of aging which she didn't really mind as she found countless use of botox and plastic surgeries useless.

"Ma, it's not that simple-" Darien began, sitting in front of his parents on a black leather settee in one of the two sitting areas of their elegant seven bedrooms and three stories high of a mansion.

"Not that simple? Son, I married your mother at twenty-three and look how happy we are still after twenty-six years of marriage!" His father said. A man who could still pass to be in his late thirties but his greying hair was the dead giveaway however he- the greatest rocker of the 80's and once a major heart throb, much like his son now, and one of the world's biggest party animal who was later tamed- became and still now is a big time music producer, the one and only, Sterling Shields. The man which Darien was a spitting image off in Sterling's younger days, minus the whole mullet thing.

Darien looked over towards his two-time Oscar winner of a mother and mentioned tamer of the once wild Sterling Shields and now Hollywood's most respected socialite- Judy Spelling Shields, who just delicately shrugged her shoulders and gave him a look that clearly said- You know how your father is like, darling, just make him happy for now. It was her eyes which Darien was blessed with, however- his were much steelier and mysterious unlike his mother's who was soft and gentle, despite the dark intensity of their blue eyes.

Shaking his head, he ran his hands through his jet black hair and leaned against his knees, looking down at the beige coloured carpet of the room. "Fine," he finally said after a few minutes of silence, "But I'm taking a break. I need to clear my head."

"Whatever works for you. Just as long as you start thinking about real relationships when you get back, instead of these- these romping rampages of yours!"

"Yes, Pa. I'll think about it," Darien replied. It was really hard for Darien to believe that his father had once been one of the craziest and wildest rockers in the world especially now that, Sterling Shields seemed much more of a man who acted like he never had anything scandalous written about him. Which was beyond hardly true, as Darien remembered as a teen, Googling his father once and reading all the things he had done. Then again, Darien was pretty much of a repeat of Sterling, the only difference being, Sterling had fallen in 'love' at twenty-three, whereas, Darien had just celebrated his twenty-fourth birthday and was yet to experience something like- love; even yet he was still had to experience any feeling close to even liking a girl.

Feelings. Huh. He thought.

"What are you going to do?" His mother's melodic voice entered his thoughts.

"Oh, I was thinking about going on a cruise. Make the media believe that I'm off to Hawaii or something, but I'd really like to go on a cruise ship for some time," he replied. He'd actually already planned everything. He wanted no one to know, okay maybe a few people, but that was it.

His father seemed pleased about the whole idea that his son was trying to get away from the lifestyle Hollywood had to offer him, even if it was only for a few weeks or so. "Cruise ship, huh? Maybe you'd even find someone on there."


- & -
END OF JUMP AND FALL
CHAPTER ONE:A MESS OF A DREAMER WITH THE NERVE TO ADORE YOU


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