Midnight Tea
Serena marries the man of her dreams and begins her life of happily ever after. Something interrupted her ever, however, and now she is back where she started. Although, she is not as friendless as she thought.
Prologue
The stars reflected the hope in two pairs of eyes on a warm, clear night. Two lovers were having a bitter parting in a place that held so many beautiful memories: the roof of an apartment building.
"Please say yes, Serena," he pleaded softly. "Please." His dark hair covered his bright, blue eyes so that she, mercifully, could not see the tears brimming in them.
"There's nothing left for me to say. I can't marry you, Darien, I just can't." She dropped her eyes and tried to take her hand from his, but his grip was too strong.
"Why do you think that you'll be happy with him? He's just trying to-"
"Darien, don't. Please let me go," she said firmly, having had enough of this painful conversation. It was no use trying to talk to her soul mate about her fiancé.
"You're making the biggest mistake of your life," he said bitterly, letting go of her hand and turning away from her. He hoped that his unusual outburst of anger would make her reconsider, but he had no such luck.
"Isn't that for me to find out?"
"Well, when he leaves you for a whore he picks up over there, don't come running back to me," he growled.
"Dam it, Darien; I've waited for you long enough! If you had just spoken the second we met, I wouldn't be leaving!"
He had no response to her retort. She was right. He had had plenty of time to make her his own, and now he had lost her completely. He didn't want to let his anger go, though, and her determined face fueled it even further. "You're just using him to try and forget me. He'll never give you what you need; what I can give you."
"You really think you're all there is, don't you? I can't believe that I couldn't see how arrogant you are. He makes me laugh, Darien. Could you ever do that? No? Well, then, as you can see, he does have something to offer, even if he isn't you, and doesn't have the wonderful qualities that are buried in you at this point. I thought that I could make you change, that I could help you become a better man. Instead, you are trying to talk me out of a marriage that would make me happy. What kind of man does that? A selfish man does, Darien, and I can't live the rest of my life with someone so selfish." Serena began to cry and ran down the stairs.
Well, he thought, time will prove me right, and then what? We'll see how you like the loneliness and pain. He would regret not having their midnight tea sessions. Every Thursday night, they would go onto the roof of their apartment building and have tea at midnight. They used to talk and laugh about anything and everything. Now that was going to end. He was more sorry than she would ever realize.