Revolving Love: The Miracle Is On The Ice!

Miracle 3 - The Roof Top

This is a revised chapter of the original so rereading will be at your best interest. Thank you so much!

Narrator

Once again the moon rose and fell, establishing the sun's rule the following day after the Monday incident. Which means it was Tuesday. And like every morning, the blonde woke, sleep deprived and exhausted. Fumbling with the pink rabbit printed bed covers, Serena Tsukino tumbled to the bathroom, cursing Darien shields for his ever intrusive presence in her dreams and fantasies, costing her precious sleep night after night.

If one was to be truthful, one could understand why Miss Tsukino went to sleep that night thinking she was finally going to get a full night's sleep. After all, it was her unconfessed feelings for the shield boy that had kept her up night after night. So having found a suicidal courage and confessed to him, she had hoped that finally he would not intrude in her mind and hopefully she would be able to sleep. And as were her expectations, it is really not that hard to understand why she was in such a foul mood that morning.

Not only was her expectations not met, she had slept even less that Monday night, resulting in a headache and burning eyes.

"Curse you Shields." She uttered, peering at her sleepy face in the mirror as if looking for a reason to understand her current predicament. And as she did so, memories resurfaced and she groaned in protest at her utter stupidity. She cursed her traitorous body for moving her to stand before shield that Monday morning, she cursed her evil tongue for uttering words that had both humiliated her and placed her in this unexpected web of trouble and most importantly, she cursed both her best friend, Molly, and her now enemy, Georgina, for having invoked that irresistible pull that had rendered her under the gaze of shield, causing her to utter those foolish words.

"I will kill you both, and sell every piece of your body to conjurers all over the world." She muttered to herself before climbing clumsily into the tube, letting the hot steam wake her up fully.

When she returned from the soothing caress of the running hot water only to find evidence under her eyes still proclaiming her look of sleep, she groaned.

"Where is my makeup?" she whispered to no one in particular as she went in search for the items with hopes that the magical masks called makeup would hide the evidence of her sleep disability, not yet willing to declare that she had insomnia.


Serena's Pov

"Serena darling, Molly and Melvin are waiting for you."

"I'll be right there Aunt Luna!" I answered as I picked up my backpack, looked into the mirror for a minute and run out of the room. I was supper excited but very nervous as well. What would I do when I see him at school? I'm I suppose to go talk to him? Are things supposed to change between us? I thought of his friends then and shook my head. No…nothing would change. He would still always be an arm's length away.

The thought sobered me a little and the excitement evaporated from my movements and features. I had gone through the trouble of letting my hair shine a little more than normal, and I even glossed my lips! There was nothing I could do about my big eyes and I hated putting makeup on but this morning I think I looked overall… cute.

"Hey girl, ready for your big day!?" Molly asked with all the excitement I had just lost but Melvin looked like he was going to be sick.

"You really like to shorten my life span unexpectedly don't you?" He said and I gave a nervous chuckle. Luna gave me a look which I easily determined that she wanted to know what Molly and Mel were talking about, that was not an information I wanted her privy to.

"Come on; let's go before we are late." I said hastily and they roused up from the couch, catching my drift.

"See you later Aunt Luna."

"Be careful and come home as soon as school is over."

"Understood. Bye then." I waved and we left the house. I breathed a sigh of relief…if Luna learned that I was dating, she would contact my grandmother…and grandmother was the last person I wanted to meddle in my affairs.

"So, did you call him last night?" Molly asked as soon as we were out of Anuty's ear shot.

"Call who?" wasn't that a dumb question. She glared at me.

"Darien of course! Who else?"

"I don't even have his number."

"XXX – XXX – XXXX"

Melvin and I both looked at her with wide eyes.

"How the hell!?" We both said at once.

"Hohohohoho…don't underestimate the gossip mill, we know everything about anyone of interest!" She said with all the pride of a war lord and laughed to emphasis her point. I shook my head and sighed.

"It's not that easy." I said.

"Of course it is! You asked him out, he accepted and promised to make it final if you can prove to him that you are worthy of him. Though that little bits really pisses me off! Who the hell does he think he is? You fit for him? Yeah right …" Molly began and we all sighed.

"Hey Molly, Serena, Melvin!" We turned around to see some of our friends jogging up to us. We stopped and let them catch up.

"Oh my Serena, what you did yesterday was very brave!" Mika, a plump girl with small dark eyes and brown hair said with a proud smile. I knew half of the people within our group of 'nerds' would no longer befriend me for crossing to the 'dark side' as the popular people are referred to, but the little who will still talk to me would always be special to me.

"Thanks Mika." I said and we resume walking. We immersed ourselves in gossips and laughter that I managed to avoid eye contacts with those who were glaring at me.


Darien's Pov

Lost in thoughts, I did not realize that we had arrived in school.

"Darien?"

What I had done with Georgina yesterday felt like poison to me now. Normally after sleeping with her, I would feel good but this time I felt awful.

"Darien!"

Why? Because I could not get over the fact that I might have just betrayed Serena. It wasn't as if we were really dating. The agreement was I'll go out with her until the formal and make her my girlfriend if she succeeded in making me fall in love with her. Absurd…there was no way that was ever going to happen. I couldn't love her, and I knew she wouldn't be able to make me love her. So technically, I hadn't betrayed her. That was how my mind was reasoning things out but my heart wouldn't agree. I saw over again Serena's face when she asked me out, when they were laughing at her and when she turned to walk away. Then when I had said yes to her, the look of shock that had not hidden the happiness in her. When I had held her back against me, I had felt the erratic beating of her heart, strong and pulsing.

Would that heart beat with such vigor when she learned of what I had done? Or would it shatter into a million pieces? And why did I care at all?

"Darien!" Rei's high pitched voice penetrated my thoughts and my head lifted up to meet her worried, exasperated face.

I blinked.

"What?" I asked dumbly and she rolled her eyes. She pointed to the right and I followed her had with my gaze and realized we were in school.

"What were you thinking about so hard that I had to keep calling your name over and over?" she asked.

"Nothing major." I answered off handedly as I made to pick up my book bag.

"Didn't look like nothing major to us." Andrew commented then I noticed they had all been staring at me. We were in a long van that had enough room to accommodate 15 people; it was a custom made car by Mercedes. Kagan's father had ordered it for us when we graduated from middle school; it was his present to all of us for graduating. Though by that time, I had already been in high school so he had gotten me a car of my own which I now used scarcely because most often than not, I was always with the guys and when we were together, we often either used Kagan's car or this van.

"I bet he was thinking of yesterday with Goergieeee…" Rei said in a teasing voice and they turned to her, their interests sparked. Sitting in the driver's seat, Kagan's eyes bored into me. I didn't have to guess at his thoughts, I knew it! And it made me feel worse all the more.

I got out of the car, trying to shut my ears from whatever Rei was telling them. This was one of the things I hated about her, she never minded her own business! But then again, she and George were best friends after all, I had no doubt that Georgina had gone to her and told her what happened after I left her in the room.

"See Darien, you so dig Georgie!" Jason said as if this was a new discovery and he had had the honor of being the one to discover it. I Ignored him.

Rei walked over to my side and gave me a wide smile but I wasn't fooled, there was something in her eyes that promised retribution for what I had done to her friend.

"Georgie, this way!" she called to Georgina who was already walking toward us. I wanted a hole to open up under me and take me away; I wanted to be strike down by lightening. I wanted to disappear but I would be damn if I let her see that I was anything but confident. By the time she reached us, everyone had gotten out of the car, the doors were closed and they were watching us as if we were their favorite show.

"Morning everyone." She said and her sultry voice flashed an image of her bare skin in my mind. I wanted to groan with mortification. When had love turned to lust?

I blinked at the thought.

Lust….

I shook my head, no…I didn't want to consider that possibility, it would undo me and everything I had been trying to do.

"Morning Georgie, how are you doing?" Jason asked, all smiles and approached her. He draped his hand around her shoulders, something that always bothered me and he knew it. And I was bothered, not because he was draping his hand around her, but because he was doing it purposefully to provoke me.

"I'm good. Tired but well all the same."

"Tired?" Amy asked; the soft hearted member of our group.

"Oh don't worry Ami. I was just very restless so I couldn't sleep much." She said and Amy nodded but still, her eyes were clouded with worry.

"Maybe you can ask the teacher to let you sleep for a few minutes during self-study time." Mina commented as she came up in front of her and felt for her temperature. I just wanted to get going but if I walked now, it would be a bad idea.

"Mmm…maybe." She commented off handedly as her gaze landed on mine.

"I'm going in." I said.

"Darien wait….I need help with my homework." She said quickly and like a comedy act, all their gazes turned on me. From the corner of my eyes, I saw Kagan roll his eyes and I had to agree. But I had no excuse to turn her down; I've always been the one who helped her with her homework. But I didn't want to…not this time.

Looking up I saw a flash of gold, one sparkling eye and a sound like bell in a quiet meadow drifted to my ears. My escape had arrived on the dot!

Thank you Serena!

"I'm sorry but Zaiden will have to help you with your homework." I said. A flash of anger flickered over her face.

"Darien!" Rei said but my attention was pinned on the blonde who was trying to hide among her friends. I had caught her eye for a second but she quickly turned away.

"Excuse me." I said and headed over to where Serena and her friends were. I could feel eyes on me but I had eyes only for the blonde who was now speed walking and dragging her friends to hide her.

"Oh Serenaaaaaaaaaaa…." I said in a silly singsong voice and I could have sworn a shiver ran down her spine.

"Keep going!" I heard her whisper urgently to her friends and I held in a laughter. What was the point of trying to avoid me? But her friends stopped abruptly and she pitched forward, landing herself on the floor. Her whole face turned red, redder than I had ever thought a person could get. Literally, she was glowing! And it didn't help that people were snickering. I almost felt for her…almost. I walked to stand in front of her and squashed down.

"Aren't you going to raise your head?" I asked as she was still facing down. She murmured something.

"What was that?" I asked but she said nothing. Second later she raised her head to look at me and the look in them was not one I had expected. Defiant…she was glaring at me!

"Hmph!" she snubbed and made to stand. I stood up and offered her my hand but she didn't take it. Gracefully, she stood up and dusted her dirty clothes. Luckily, every last speck of dirt came off. She wiped her face too but when she missed I spot, I made to clean it for her. I never touched her. She softly but swiftly moved out of touching range and cleaned it herself.

"Good morning." She said and bowed formally.

I was puzzled; she sure didn't stay embarrassed for long that's for sure.

"Morning." The puzzlement was heard in my voice.

"Well…it's almost time for class." She said and walked past me. Seriously, this was it? I reached out and grabbed her hand.

"And where do you think you're going?" she looked at me in confusion.

"To class?" She said, her face furrowed as if she was considering something very difficult. Her friends stood a foot away watching.

"You and I need to talk." I said softly. She blinked.

"About what?" she asked.

"Tell your friends to go ahead."

"No!"

"No?"

"No." She was stubborn, I'll give her that but I held the cards in my hand.

"Is this how you plan to prove to me that you are worthy of me? By choosing your friends over me?"

"If I threw my friends away every time my boyfriend found them inconvenient, what will keep me from throwing that boyfriend away if I found him inconvenient? And what kind of person will I be if I walked away from my friends for no reason other than to satisfy someone who may or may not be my boyfriend?" I had to give her that, she had a point. I was awed and I admired her strength. Loyal…she was loyal and despite the fact that she was turning my request down, I still felt respect for her.

"Very well said. Then will you meet me at your own convenience?"

"We meet at first period, whatever you have to say, it can wait until then."

"Very well but blame yourself if you do not like what I say." I said and let her go and walked past her. I hated it when girls were the first to walk away. It made me feel inferior.

"You ok?" I heard one of her friends, Molly…I think that is the name of the red haired, asked.

"Yeah." She answered almost breathily. So, despite how calm she had appeared, she actually had been a nervous wreck, no wonder her hand was so moist.


Serena's Pov

I breathed a sigh of relief when he walked away. How mortifying it had been to fall on my face in front of practically the whole school! Oh I was going to kill Molly for pulling away when I needed to hang on to her and letting me humiliate myself on the floor.

Then instead of just helping me up, he had to ask whether or not I would rise my head up. Of course not, I loved eating the dirt. How insensitive! And he expected me to take his hand afterward? What…did he think I was that desperate? However my reaction to his approaching arm had definitely not been under my control. My body shifted out of the way on its own, causing questions never considered before to rise up.

Why?

Why had I moved away at the last minute as if he meant to harm me? I looked up and gazed at his hand by his side before he walked into the school building. I blinked.

Darien's whole hand was big but not that big, it was muscular with no hairs on it. It looked sleek…maybe that was the early morning sun. It looked warm…I wonder how it would feel to press it against my cheek, to hold it in my hand…to….

Getting out of topic.

Whatever the case was, Darien's hand was not hairy.

The hand I had pulled away from had not been Darien's….what I had seen in the seconds before I pulled away was a hairy hand that seemed to come at me with the intention of grabbing painfully.

I shook my head….something definitely was wrong with me.

Finally, we entered the school building though I was aware the whole time of the eyes on us, on me and the gossip that was fluttering about like bees. This wasn't going to die down anytime soon…how the heck did I get myself into such a situation?

We made a mad dash to the cafeteria to grab a toast and orange/apple juice before heading over to class. My mind was so occupied with what Darien wanted to say to me that I missed the conversation that was circulating among my friends.

"Very well but blame yourself if you do not like what I say."

That sentence he had said kept repeating itself over in my head. What did it mean? Was he going to breakup with me even before we officially went out? Was one day too much for him to handle? Had his friends talked him into giving up on me? And how did he plan on breaking up with me? In front of the whole class like how we got together? Then again, he had asked for privacy and I had denied him that. So really, if he was going to do anything humiliating to me, I really had no one but myself to blame.

"What do you think he meant when he said 'Very well but blame yourself if you do not like what I say." Way to go Molly, for asking the same question I am traumatized over. And how had she heard him from where she and the others had been standing?!

"I don't know and I don't want to find out." I answered. Shortly afterwards, we entered the classroom only to come to a sudden stop. I blinked three times trying to understand just what was happening. I looked toward where my seat was, or should have been and someone else was sitting there. She looked up at me apologetically and nodded her head back. I followed that motion until my eyes landed on a smirking Darien who patted the empty seat next to his.

"OH MY GOD!" Molly said in an excited whisper but I was upset. He had no right to do as he had, not without asking me! I wasn't some puppet he could control just because of my feelings for him. Did he think I'd be grateful? I would run to sit next to him? Smile and be all happy? He was about to get a taste of the real Serena Tsukino.

"Go Serena!" Molly whispered excitedly and I walked to where I've always sat.

"Excuse me but you are in my seat." I said politely to the girl sitting on my seat. I think her name was Lydia. I felt sorry for the scene I knew I would cause but it was time the school realized I wasn't some fool who was twisted around Darien's finger.

"Your seat is over there now." She answered.

"Did the teacher assigned new seats?"

"No but…"

"Did you ask my permission to evacuate your seat to take my?"

"Well…"

"Well then please get off my seat before I report to the principle."

"Serena stop being a bitch and come sit here already! Geez, it's just a seat!" He said with a sigh of tiredness as if he was dealing with a child. He thought me a child? Then that was what I would be.

"Never ever call me the B word again do you hear me Darien Mamoru Shields? And second of all, I don't know where you get off in telling me where to sit. This is my seating spot, if you want to sit by me then you move. Don't decide anything on your own. I may like you but that does not give you any grounds at all to exercise some control over me. This is my seat and until I decide to move, I will sit here until the teacher moves us! Now please Lydia, get off my seat." I said all this in a deadly calm voice but the look I gave her moved her off the seat without a second thought. I reclaimed my seat, ignoring the silence that had suddenly invaded the classroom. Molly finally came to sit down and gave me a funny look.

I probably shouldn't have made such a big deal about it but one thing I could not stand in my life was being controlled, decisions being made without me being informed. I hated it. It was enough that my life was as hard as it is, I was not about to let a guy who wasn't even yet my boyfriend to dictate me around.

"Bitch"

"Starts dating a cool guy and suddenly she has attitude."

Yeah whatever. I didn't really care what they had to say but all the same it was annoying, talking about me as if they knew me.

"Hey you…just what kind of girlfriend are you?!" that was Jason. I turned around to stare him straight in the eye.

"So far as we are all concerned, I am not yet his girlfriend."

"You might never be at this rate." He retorted sarcastically.

"I'm starting to think that might be a blessing." I said and turned around to face the classroom. I would have given anything to know what was going on through Darien's head in that moment. But the teacher walked in and I began to take my books out to worry about what he thinks.


Darien's Pov

"Good morning students." Mrs. Haruna said as she walked in with a big bright smile. I tuned her out. All my attention was drawn on the blonde whose attitude just confused the mess out of me. Before yesterday she had always seemed like a sweet natured push over girl. It was inconceivable that she had such a stubborn nature. I had gone out of my way to make a seat for her by my side and look at the thanks I got.

Maybe I was being insensitive to her feelings, or I was taking her for granted or using her. And maybe I was acting without her permission but still! It was uncalled for her comment about not being my girlfriend being a blessing. How fickle people's emotions are. One minute she is publicly declaring her undying love for me and the next she is better off without me.

I hated admitting that she was probably right.

I was being nice by giving her a chance and she had the nerve to act all high and mighty on me. This was why I hated dating. As soon as they know they have you, they change and become a bitch. What had I expected from a nerd who's never had so much attention on her before? She was using me just as much as I was her to gain popularity. I had no reason to feel guilty but if she was going to act like that, I doubt she would be popular for long.

"Darien!" Jay hissed at me. I looked up and the teacher was staring at me with an annoyed expression.

"Will you continue reading for us?" she said exasperated. Reading?! We had been reading? What page? Oh hell. With all attention on me, none of my friends could whisper the page to me without getting us in trouble and I had no idea what the heck we were even reading!

"Um Mrs. Haruna?" I looked at her.

"Yes Serena?" The teacher was still looking at me.

"Can we go back one page? To page 58? There is something there I don't quite understand." Mrs. Haruna blinked.

"Oh sure. What is it you don't understand?" she began talking and I sat back down with a sigh. She just bailed me out and I knew she did it on purpose. Serena never rouse her hand in confusion, it was always to answer. Pretending she was confused about something, please. But it worked though Georgie and my friends knew she had done it to save my ass and here I was thinking badly of her.

I was starting to comprehend that Serena was a mystery and what I thought I knew about her were nothing more than the observation of a blind man. This might not be bad at all.

I caught up with the class, Serena delaying them long enough for me to read all the pages I had missed and I coughed as a signal that I was caught up. She understood because afterwards she said she understood then.

The little devil. A good devil anyways.

Class went on smoothly; the bell rang and before I could catch up to talk to her, she would be gone. We have two more classes before lunch and each time she managed to elude me though this time I did not try to make her sit by me. However what had happened earlier traveled all around and snickering was heard behind palms and lockers. I had no doubt that some thought that I had finally met my match. But that was cool, what wasn't cool was the fact that Serena was practically making enemies of anybody who was a somebody in the school. I knew Georgina and Rei were behind the enemy making and I hoped to talk to her to stop it.

At lunch, I entered with all my friends and as always, our seat was left empty for us. That seat was for the highest group of popular people in our school and you'd be a fool to sit there. If Jason didn't break you, Rei would kill you and Georgina and Mina too. The others didn't really care about the social status.

But it wasn't our table I was looking at. The tables were lined from left to right. The line to get food faced the right. The left side was for the popular group, the middle for everybody and the right for the uncool, nerds and rejects. It was that area I looked but I couldn't find her though I did find her friend Molly. I thought maybe her status boost had made her sit with the popular crowd but she was not there either nor was she sitting in the middle seats. Unlike everyone else, we never ate the cafeteria food; a special food was always made for us by a private all time famous chef, Sevivan. She was a grandmotherly figure but she was kind and loved to cook. She was very well known and the restaurant, Sevivan Sevens was started by her 50 years ago. A famous restaurant that produce all sorts of food from all over the world. Her foods were unmatched!

Having my food handed to me and thanking her graciously, I walked to where Molly was sitting. I knew all eyes were on me but I had never cared about the attention before, why now?

"Hey."

"Yeah?" she turned to me with wide eyes.

"Where is your friend?" anger flashed across her face and her eyes narrowed.

"As you can see, I am sitting among friends." She hissed at me. I blinked. Were all nerds only nerds on the outside and spitfires within?

"Where is Serena?" I corrected myself.

"Better." She said and smiled. "Sometimes she likes to be by herself. She's up on the roof, don't tell her I told you or she will kill me." She said with a giggle.

"Sure thing…and thanks." I walked back to my friends who were standing there staring at me.

"See you guys later."

"Where you going?" Jason asked.

"To sit with my girl, where else?" I said with a smirk as a dark look crossed over Jason's face. He was not going to accept Serena anytime soon. I walked out of the cafeteria and headed to the stairs that lead to the roof of the 4 story school building.

When I reached the door that opened to the roof, I peeked out through the shaded square window that viewed out but I could not trace her figure. I slowly opened the door and entered, closing it slowly and soundlessly behind me. I looked from left to right but there was no one there. I heard soft movements to my left and I walked to the corner of the roof where the side of the roof door shaded a small area.

And in this shade I found Serena fast asleep. Her head was propped up on her bag and her body pulled up in a fetal position as if cold. I watched her for a while, taking in the large shirt she wore, the baggy pants and the big afro-like hair that shielded her face from prying eyes. For some strange reason, it perplexed and angered me that she laid there so defenseless.

Well so much for having lunch together.

I approached her on silent feet and sat by her, watching the rise and fall of her overly clad chest and the silent flow of air that escaped her nose.

After a minute, I turned my eyes to the sky, closing my eyes against the stinging rays of the sun's heat. The silence of the peace surrounding me was welcomed. I couldn't remember the last time I had been so calm and not on egde.

What am I doing? I wondered. This girl was surely going to be hurt at the end of this bitter experience and though morally my mind established that it was wrong to use her as I was, I couldn't seem to take back what I had arranged.

I sighed, my inner thoughts at war.

"Must be tough being popular if that sigh is anything to go by." Her voice penetrated through my confused mind, snapping my head in her general direction. I watched in awe and surprise as she lifted up her upper body from the floor. She spread her hand wide as she stretched, a yawn escaping her lips before she turned cerulean eyes on me. I sat shell shocked. How had I missed her eyes?! They were so huge and blue with silver specks swimming within her blue depths. Having gained a somewhat less concealed appearance of her face, I became aware that though she wasn't the most gorgeous girl among the bunch, she certainly had a cute heart shaped face. Maybe if she stopped wearing her hair in that ridiculous afro-net, she could even pass as pretty.

"Hello, Darien…are you there? Yoohoooo!" I snapped out of my stupor when Serena's voice once again intruded my thoughts and her hand passed before my face to gain my attention.

"What were you thinking so hard about Dar?" I lifted my brow at that, amused at her nick name for me.

"Dar?" I asked, laughter laced heavily in my voice. To my further amusement, her faced flashed crimson red as she turned her face away from me.

We sat in comfortable silence for a while, me watching her and she determined to not look in my direction. Then when I could take the silence no more, I looked around and then up at the large clock on the school tower. Lunch time was almost over.

"Where is your lunch?" I asked because I could see no lunch tray around.

"Don't feel like eating the food I brought from home and I don't want to waste money buying another one." She said staring into the sky. Standing up, she walked to the edge of the rail, once again stretching out her body. She stared down watching whatever had caught her interest.

After a minute, I walked up to her and touched her shoulder.

"Come eat with me?" It was not a demand, a command or anything high and mightier. It was just a simple sincere hope to have launch with her. She saw it because she extended her hand to me and we had lunch together. It was pleasant. I saw the funny side of her, her cute side, her open and life filled laughter and I knew I could no longer use her.

It was time to tell her the truth of why I accepted her.

"You accepted my proposal to go out with me so you won't have to deal with Georgina didn't you?" she said and I stared at her open mouthed. How the hell had she known!? She laughed at my dumb founded expression.

"I often watched you and sometimes when you are with her you have on this pained look. You don't hate her; on the contrary you love her. What I can't figure out is why you are with me when obviously she loves you too and you two can be together."

Damn.

She was good. How exactly was I going to explain to her?

"It's complicated." I answered.

"I'm sure I can keep up." She said looking at me. She was so opened, so upfront. I sighed.

"She just wants to use me."

"Aren't you doing that to me?"

"No!"

"No?" she was right though. I was using her and I felt utterly wretched.

"If you knew, why didn't you refuse when I accepted to go out with you?" I asked her.

"Because I'm a fool and this is the first time I've ever been in love. In other to give up, I must know that I tried everything to make it possibly. If I don't try, I would always regret it." She answered honestly.

"I admire your honesty." I told her and she smiled. A soft warm smile.

"I find not being honest tiring. It leads to too much misunderstandings."

"I wish it was that simple."

"It is. It is you that makes it more complicated than it's supposed to be." We were silent for a minute. Before we could talk again, the bell rang. She got up immediately.

"Well my friends will be worried. See you later Darien."

"Yeah." I sat and watched her walk past me.

"Serena?"

"Yeah?" she said as she opened the door.

"Let's make this going out real." I said.

"I've always been real. It's you who needs to believe in it." She said and walked out and the door closed gently behind her. I stared at the spot she had been standing for a moment longer before getting up and picking up my tray of leftover food.

Maybe I could get over Georgina with Serena's help. I certainly wanted to know more of her now than anything.


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