Happy Valentine's Day! Sorry it took so long for me to update this chapter, cause I started praise band for my church, I was sick, school, and other stuff that I'm not going to tell. I couldn't think of anything to type down for this chapter. WRITTER'S BLOCK! I hope everyone is patient as I am expecting. Anyways on with the story.
Serena walked out of the auditorium to head towards the office. She thought that she didn't do anything wrong, but in this school you can blame anything on her, and get away with it. Rumors go around a lot, and they are mostly false about Serena's life. For instance one time that she did it with one of the seniors. Serena felt so embarrassed and angry, because of the ugly rumors they spread around that are not true. If something that bad were to spread, then she would have transferred schools.
She walked through the door to see a white room full of secretaries taking phone calls, filing paper from who knows where, calling other students to sign out, and taking their breaks every now and then. One of them looked up to the young teen, and turned to face her.
"Miss Tsukino, the guidance councilor would like to speak with you," one of the secretaries said.
Serena said thank you in a soft tone, and headed to the room where students seek advice. She has never been into that place, but many people go there for schedule change, advice, disciplinary counseling, or just to be out of class. There was really no reason for her to be there in the first, but what brought her here. Was it someone framed her for something that they did or was it a prank for laughs? She didn't know and probably don't want to find out.
The young girl reached to the door, and walked into the room. It was a simple white room with two off-white comfort chairs, a deep colored oak desk with stuff on it, a black leather chair, and on the wall were some random pictures. She stood there for a few minutes. Then the advisor walked in, and noticed Serena was in the room.
"Why haven't you sat down, Miss Tsukino?" Mr. Cougley asked.
"In my family it's impolite for the child to sit down until the person with the higher authority sits," Serena responded politely.
"Well you are not at home, so you can sit down when you come in next time, but you do know why you are here, Miss Tsukino?" she nodded no, "It's about you and your family problem."
"Sir, there is nothing wrong with me about my parents' death. I can assure you that I'm fine about it. I have to keep up with my studies than grieving in my own self pity. I do miss my parents but that is not going to keep me away from my studies."
The councilor sighed in disappointment, "Miss Tsukino, you are the first one that acted this way about their parents after the first day without them. You must feel devastated after their death. This is really not you. If you say you are alright, but if you feel the least sad you can come see me."
She got up and shook his hand, "Thank you Mr. Cougley. I'll let you know if I feel like that."
She walked out of the room, and started to walk back to her class. Serena took it very slowly, and didn't know why. She told herself that she has to be strong. Her parents wouldn't want to see her weak like this, and she didn't want to see herself like this. She couldn't keep it up for any longer; she couldn't keep what's inside her forever.
By the time she got right in front of the auditorium Serena busted out crying her heart out. She didn't even care if everyone in the world heard her. She missed her family, and she wanted them back to make everything back to normal. Only she couldn't bring them back to life. The young girl remembers all the good times she had with her family, and wishes she could make more of the good memories with them, but they're gone forever.
Then someone tapped her on the shoulder, but she didn't notice that anyone was there. The person knelt down behind Serena, and was worried for her.
"What's wrong, Serena?" Darien whispered in her ear.
Serena was startled and turned around, "Darien, I didn't know you were here. I thought you were inside practicing with the others for the play."
"I was, but I heard someone crying, and I went to check it out. When I found it was you I got worried," with a concerned look.
"You were? I never knew anyone besides my family that ever cared for me. I mean the teachers are supposed to be nice kind of like acting it, but as in students nobody likes me the way you are expressing it right now," her face showed a flood of tears with a broken heart.
"There is always someone for everyone," he helped Serena to her feet as they walked back inside.
"Did anyone make a fool of themselves while I was gone?"
"Not that I know of," was all he could say?
They continued with their classes, and walked out to the student parking lot where the busses pick up the students to go home. Serena and Darien looked around to find their bus, but they didn't find it so they waited. There was an awkward silence, and didn't what to say.
Serena finally spoke up, "Which bus do you ride?"
"I ride bus 212. What about you?"
"Me too; I didn't know that, because I didn't ride the bus. I sort of missed it this morning. So I walked to school in the rain."
"That's why you were soaking wet this morning. You shouldn't do that. You could've caught a major cold if you keep doing that."
"Why do care so much about me? I'm nobody. No one ever cares about me. Why haven't you turned away from me like everyone else has?"
"I'm not like most people either. At my old school called me the weird kid, because I live alone with no parents."
"You don't have parents?"
"Yeah, I really don't tell that to most people. The reason it got out where I used to live be that one of my friends told everyone, and they made fun of me."
Serena never knew that there were more people without parents. She thought that she was alone, but there were a lot more people like this. She would have never thought that Darien didn't have parents. The young girl felt pity for her new friend. At least she has someone that she can get her problems straight.
"Serena, are you there?"
"Oh," snapping back to reality, "Sorry. I was thinking of something."
"Well we'll have a lot of time to talk later, but for now we better get on the bus before it leaves us."
"Ok," she climbed on the bus.
The ride home was quite quiet besides of the trouble makers doing who knows what to each other. They couldn't find anything to say, or they thought of one another. Serena caught a glance of him, and admired a little bit. He was her first actual friend, and she felt glad he stayed with her. Most people will pretend to be her friend for a day, and leave her in the dust. There was one thing that she admired the most it gave butterflies in her stomach, and it was his ebony hair.
It was very dark but not too dark, it was more unruly than straight, and it matched with his midnight blue eyes. There was something about him that made him different than everyone else. Besides the fact he stayed with her more than anyone else in the school, it was something else, but she couldn't figure out. Something made her heart race; something made her see him differently, and feel comfortable, but uncomfortable at the same time.
