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Chapter 3: Stolen Kisses

Darien awoke the next morning feeling better than any other day in his life, he didn't know why he felt this way, he just did. With one glance out the window he saw the sun was already high in the sky indicating he'd overslept. He shook his head to chase the last remains of sleep away, he never overslept why would he have done that today?

He shifted to swing his legs over the edge of his bed, but something was weighing him down by the waist and arm. He turned to look to see what is was and felt his jaw drop open; Serena was sleeping in the bed beside him! One slender arm of hers was wrapped around his waist; his arm was around her holding her against his side. Her golden hair was unbound and fanned out around them like a curtain of sunshine; she did look beautiful in the morning.

Darien shook his head again to get those thoughts out and pinched himself in the stomach. Ouch! Ok, so this must be a very realistic dream, maybe it was one of those dreams that you had a really hard time waking up from, because there was no way Meatball Head Serena was sleeping in his bed.

What was more disturbing was the feeling of pure rightness about it, how the sight of her sleeping beside him made something glow warm and bright in his chest. It was unlike anything he'd ever felt before, the way his arm was around her indicated a familiarity that he couldn't recall.

For a few moments it was if someone else had taken over his body, he felt his lips curl into a warm smile and his thoughts begin to wander. Before he knew it he was leaning down to place a soft kiss on her sleeping lips like it was something he did every morning upon waking up. He jerked his head back just as their lips touched, why had he done that.

Images filled his head of another time and place where she'd woken up next to him before. He was leaning back against the head board of the bed while Serena straddled his waist her mouth wreaking havoc in his senses as she roamed his chest. Where were those memories coming from, surely they'd never happened, Meatball Head was his arch nemesis in his every day life.

She had however been acting very strange lately, avoiding him at all costs and looking at him with an expression devoid of any happiness. It worried him that she hadn't been acting like her normal self he couldn't recall Serena ever being upset about anything. Had something happened to her he didn't know about? Why was she avoiding him so much? These questions he'd wanted to ask her, but he could never find her and he'd never really talked to her before. Maybe it was his somewhat guilty conscience that had inspired this whacked out dream.

Darien tried to shift his arm out form under trying not to wake her, he had no idea what would happen if she did. He managed to get his arm free but her arm around his waist tightened as she snuggled more securely into his. She had a smile on her face that made him question if she was still asleep. As if hearing his thoughts her eyes opened staring up at him with a mischievous light to them.

"You can't get away from me that easily," Serena said curving an arm around his neck and pulling his head back down to hers before he could say anything.

Her lips parted under his with an expertise that surprised him and her little tongue was darting into his mouth before he could put the kiss to a halt. Her tongue found his and drew it into the kiss, she did it without his knowing and his eyes widened with shock. Serena was kissing him like they'd been lovers for years she deepened the kiss when he didn't.

The taste of her overwhelmed his senses, as if he should've been remembering something. It was so familiar, had he kissed her before? He found himself responding to the kiss despite the questions swirling around him his head. Kissing her seemed so natural; he was like a man starved for the taste of as if he hadn't kissed her in a long time. He heard her purr on approval as he began to respond, as if she was starving for him as well.

She somehow switched their positions scrambling on top of him pressing her soft body against him creating feelings he should not have been feeling for a high school girl. Her mouth moved over his frantically as if this was the only kiss she was ever going to get from him and that caused him to frown, this was just a dream wasn't it?

She pulled away and he found himself pressing her back against him ensuring that she couldn't escape. He looked up and saw her staring down at him with the devoid sorrowful expression on her face; he hated seeing that look on her face. She should be happy, why was she so sad? The fact that it seemed to be him creating that expression made him worry even more, why was he making her so sad?

"It can only be a dream can't it?" she asked softly in a voice that sounded thick with too many tears. Darien reached up and brushed a strand of hair away from her face, wanting to wipe that sad expression from her face as well.

"Is this the only way I can have you now?" she asked a tear escaping her eye, Darien brushed it away leaning up to place a kiss against her cheek. How was he supposed to respond to that question? Was there a good response to that question, probably not.

"If a dream is all that I can have of you then I would dream of you every night," the words came out of his mouth with a startling intensity and he knew that he meant him. As much as that confused him he saw the sorrowful expression lift a fraction.

Her hand came up and pressed against his forehead and he saw her fingers emit a soft glow. His eye lids began to drop and sleep began to settle over him again, but he struggled to remain on the surface. He didn't want to leave this dream just yet.

"Then maybe you will dream of me again my love," she said softly, before darkness settled around him.

When Darien jerked himself awake again he looked franticly around his room for any sign of Serena, there was none. A bitter disappointment filled him and that surprised him, when had he started having such feelings for Serena? One thing was sure he felt differently about her, and he would have to examine what he exactly felt.

Darien went about his normal day, going to school and after school went to the arcade. For the entire afternoon he sat there looking for any sign of Serena, she usually came in even though she blatantly ignored him. He saw no sign of her all day.

"Where is Serena?" he finally asked Andrew, surely he would know.

"Why the sudden interest?" Andrew asked knowing how Serena felt about Darien.

"It's just…never mind forget that I asked," Darien said trying to shrug the questions off a thoughtful expression taking over his face. Andrew looked at his best friend wondering what he could possibly be thinking about.

"She told me she was going away for a few days," Andrew said absently awaiting his friend's reaction. Darien's head jerked up to look at him a troubled expression crossing his face again.

"Why?"

"Problems," Andrew said, that was about as simply as he could put it, and to his surprise a very sad expression crossed Darien's face. Sorrow and something that looked like regret.

"Would I be one of those problems Andrew?" Darien asked softly. Andrew looked at his friend wondering what he could be thinking about, what had caused this sudden change in him.

"You pick on her a lot Darien but I don't think she views you as a problem," Andrew said truthfully. Darien looked thoughtful again then got up and left without saying another word.

Serena started up at her long lost home with happiness; it now stood as proudly as it had before it was destroyed. The sense of peace that she was looking for was already settling over her like a long forgotten cloak of protection. As she walked into the great hall servants were there already greeting her.

Serena found her old chamber with ease trying not to remember all the times she spent hear with Darien in their dreams and dressed in one of her old gowns. The Earth still looked beautiful like a blue crystal ball and that drew her thoughts back to this morning.

Her stolen kiss she hoped had caused him to remember something, it was all she could do for now. Maybe he would eventually remember on his own, that was all she could hope for anyway. With a sigh Serena went down to the royal library and sat down pulling a random book from the selves.

Serena actually loved to read; it tended to settle her thoughts a great deal and tats what she needed the most right now. She hoped the few days she would spend up here would give her what she needed and maybe she would visit Darien in his dreams again.