The Next day was a Sunday and Serena spent the day doing homework and some writing. Latter that Afternoon a thought hit her. She wanted to stop thinking about all this weird stuff that had just happened in the last two days. 'Time to kick it with the girls' Serena exclaimed to herself. She grabbed her blue and white cell phone and dialed Mina's number.
"Hey Sere! How are you?"
"Hey Mina! I'm doing ok. I'm just really stressed out today. Is there any way you can go out with me tonight?"
"Dancing?!" Mina exclaimed excitedly. Serena giggled at her cousin. She knew she would be down for going out.
"Well of course dear Mina! What ells would we do?"
"I don't know, go see a boring movie, Like Ray likes to do." Mina said with a giggle of her own. "But don't tell her I said that." She said quickly
They both laughed at that remark.
"Ok sounds good." I'll tell my mom I'm going to spend the night with you and Ray at Rays house and we can try and get in touch with the other girls." An excited Serena said as she started to look threw her closet for clothes to wear to the club.
Mina and Serena were able to get in touch with the other girls. None of the other girls could go out other than Lita. So they all got their overnight bags ready and waited for Mina to pick them all up.
…...
Two men sat in a lightly lit room in a huge mansion.
"So how did it go yesterday Dar?"
"Not the way I had planned I assure you."
"That bad, huh?"
"Yes Mal. That bad." Said the pain stricken Darien. He glanced at his white haired friend, as if looking for the answer to all his questions.
"I don't know how much longer I can stand being away from her. And this plan is not working."
Malachite looked at his friend with sadness in his eyes. He knew how long Darien had waited for his one true love. And now here she was and it was like she didn't feel the connection herself. Then again being a human was a very complex thing. He should know he was once one. And the life he had now, that they had now was a lonely one. And he himself new the pain his best friend was going through. But his mate and himself just clicked and it was perfect. But poor Darien.
"This has got to work though. Her parents know how much danger she's in and they are in."
"Yes they do. But they haven't told Serena and I don't blame them. She has already been in a confrontation."
"A confrontation?" Asked Malachite with worry in his voice. "With whom?"
"One Seya."
"No way! What did he want with her? How dare him! I'll go kill him myself."
"Hold on Mal. I took care of him for now. I think he knows not to mess with her again. But I'm worried. I want to keep an extra eye out on her but I don't want the chance of her seeing me. She already doesn't trust me. I don't need to ruin what chance I have with her. "
"All this time you've been watching her Dar and she's never seen you."
"She never knew what to look for. And when we touched I felt this flame light up inside me and I'm sure she felt it too. And if that's the case she'll since me when I'm close by. She might not know it but she'll be able to since me. She might just feel like some ones watching her but if she looks around and I'm not well hidden I could ruin any chance of being with her."
"Ok, ok, there has got to be another way." Malachite said as he started walking back and forth.
Darien just looked at his hands on the heavy wood desk. How could she not want to be with him? Why didn't she feel the same as him? Could she possibly not be his one true love?
"I've got it!" yelled a very excited Malachite
"No." Darien said quietly, but just enough for Malachite to hear him.
"Hey man that's not right. I'm very capable of figuring out a solution for your problems."
"I'm so sorry Malachite. That is not what I meant at all. I was just lost in my own thoughts. Now back to you. What did you come up with my good man?" Darien said with a light smile, and hope in his gaze.
"You need to give her a charmed crest of your family. That way any vampire that sees her with your crest on will know she belongs to you. Then with it being charmed you will be able to pin point her exact location instead of just having a general idea of where she is now.
Darien jumped up from his chair in excitement.
"That is a perfect plan! I don't know why I never thought of it before."
Darien rushed out the door leaving very pleased Malachite in the room.
…...
Mina pulled up to Serena's house at eight in the evening honking her horn letting her cousin know she was there and waiting.
Serena hugged her parents good bye for the night and grabbed her pink overnight bag by the door and ran out to meet Mina. Jumping in the front seat and throwing her bag in the back she hugged her cousin. Hey Mina thanks for picking me up!
"No problem chika!" Mina said with a wink as she started her car and drove off.
The yellow car pulled into a small drive way to a small house. Serena was the first to make it to the door of the little house. She grinned widely as she rang the doorbell as fast and as long as she could until an annoyed Lita opened the door.
"Only you." Said Lita as the annoyed face melted into a smile.
"You know you love me!" Said Serena as she walked into the house.
"Hey Lita!" Said a bubbly Mina!
"Hey Mina!" Said Lita as she shut the door behind them as they walked into the house.
"Are we ready to party?!" Yelled Mina as she threw both her hands up and started dancing for a few seconds.
"You better believe it" Exclaimed Lita just as excited.
"I know we haven't done this in ages. It's just a bummer Amy and Ray couldn't come." Serena said as she set her bag on Litas Bed.
"Yeah, but that's not going to stop us from having tunes of fun!" Lita said hugging Serena!
"So what do we wear tonight ladies?" Asked Mina with an evil grin as she eyed both girls and started plowing through the stuff in her bag.
"Uh oh here we go." Serena said giggling
Well I already have my outfit picked out said Lita as she ran into the bathroom to change.
"Traitor!" Serena yelled at the retreating Lita as she looked at the closet amount of clothes Mina seemed to be able to stuff in her overnight bag. A dark blue shirt caught her eye and she picked it up.
It was actually really cute and not too revealing. It was a sleeveless dark blue shirt with black rose patterned lace over the blue top with a black lace bow at the top middle of the shirt.
"Here we go here's the perfect…"
Mina stopped as she turned around and noticed Serena looking at one of her tops.
"Wow I didn't even know I had that in my bag." Mina exclaimed as she examined the shirt Serena held more closely. I think that would be perfect with the black mini skirt I have here. Mina handed Serena the skirt as she shoved Serena in the bathroom with Lita before she could protest about the skirt.
This is going to be so awesome! Yelled Mina as she left the two girls in the bathroom to figure out what she was going to wear.
An hour passed by and all the girls were dressed and ready to go. Serena wore her blue and black shirt with a black pleated mini skirt, and blue heels that matched her top. She wore her hair down deciding to stray away from her normal hair style. She tied a blue and black ribbon around her neck making a choker and she wore black rose earrings to complete her outfit. Lita wore a forest green silk halter top dress. It fell down a little past the middle of her thigh. She wore matching green and black heels with green ribbon that wrapped up her ankle. She wore her hair in a side pony tail with a black rose where her hair was tied. Mina wore a bright yellow off the shoulder shirt with a white three layered skirt. She wore white heels with a yellow bow on top. She wore her hair half up with a yellow bow in it. She also wore silver hart earrings.
"Who's hot? Wear hot!" sang Mina as they all checked their reflections in the bathroom mirror one last time before walking out the door.
Serena and Lita just laughed at what Mina said.
"You're a dork Mina." Exclaimed Serena threw her laughter.
Mina hugged her cousin. "You wouldn't have me any other way would you Sere?"
"No, definitely not."
Shall we? Asked Lita walking out the bathroom door.
"Yes we shall." The two blonds said as they left the bathroom as well.
In the club they were playing one of Serena's new favorite songs "Your Body" by Christina Aguilera. Mina grabbed Serena and Litas arm and drug them out onto the dance floor. They immediately started dancing to the song. Serena forgetting about everything that happened this week let herself get wrapped into the music and just enjoy the feel of that moment. A few songs latter they all agreed to sit a few songs out and grab a soda since none of them were old enough to actually drink. They sat at the bar drinking their sodas and giggling as they talked about all the hot guys in the club.
"Excuse me ladies" Said a masculine voice.
They immediately straightened up and snapped to attention as their gaze fell on the handsome man. He had long dark brown hair and hazel eyes. He was very tall too. Each girl took on a different reaction to the man in front of them. Serena turned bright read and diverted her gaze from the man as if trying to find something more interesting like the floor. Mina just gave him a sexy smile and looked at him waiting for his next words. Lita locked eyes with the man and blushed a light pink as her mind went into hyper drive wondering what was going to happen next.
The man cleared his throat. "I hope I'm not intruding on anything ladies."
"Oh no not at all." Mina interjected noticing the man's intent stare on Lita.
"Well that's good. My name is Nephrite by the way. I was just wondering if you would mind gracing me with your presents on the dance floor my dear." He said with a smile as he offered his hand to Lita.
"Of course." Said Lita in a daze.
The man guided Lita off onto the dance floor.
"No way." Exclaimed Mina
"Yes way." Stated Serena with an even more shocked face than Mina had. "You know Litas freaking out right now."
"Oh yeah. Then again I think I'd be freaking out too if I got asked to dance with a major gorgeous guy like that." Said Mina never letting her eyes leave the two people dancing.
"As if, you would be all for it. You would be determined to make him fall head over heels for you." Stated Serena, as she observed the two on the dance floor as well.
Mina laughed. "Ok maybe but I would still be intimidated. Did you see how tall he was? I mean, he's taller than Lita."
"Yeah he's like massive!" Serena giggled.
Mina grabbed her soda and sucked down the last of it. "Ok girl, let's go out there and have some fun! Lita shouldn't be having all the fun."
"Sounds good to me." Serena said as she stretched her arms over her head and jumped of her bar stool.
They walked back onto the dance floor near Lita and her dance partner and started dancing again.
Again Serena found herself lost in the music once again. She was quickly brought back to reality as soon as she felt a hard body behind her dancing alongside hers. Her face flushed immediately realizing what was going on. She darted her gaze to wear Mina was supposed to be but she was no longer there. She franticly looked for Lita and found her dancing a little ways away from her. She relaxed a little but her mind was going crazy. Who was this guy dancing with her and where the heck was Mina? Serena decided to turn around to see who the mystery man was and froze when she saw the hard blue eyes that were the same as her attacker that one night. The man smiled as he saw the recognition in Serena's eyes.
"Good to see you too princess."
He pulled her closer leaning in to place a kiss on her neck
"Didn't think you could get away from me that easily did you dear?" he whispered into her ear as he traced a finger down her back, making Serena suck in a breath of air as she felt ice cold chills run down her spin.
This can't be happening she thought grimly.
"What do you want with me?" Serena managed to bite out. As terrified as she was she was surprised her voice was deciding to work with her.
"Oh you don't know princess? Tisk, tisk, tisk, looks like the prince is keeping things from you I see. None the less this is to my advantage. You are so beautiful my dear."
"Prince? I think you have the wrong person." Serena said as she tried to push away from him, but was stopped by his strong arm around her waist.
"No I definitely have the right one." He said taking in her scent.
Seya walked them outside the club to a dark ally. Serena tried desperately to get away from him but couldn't find a way too. She tried screaming but he quickly threatened the life of her friends if she so much as thought to scream, and any physical ways she tried were quickly ended by his shier strength.
"If you want money I have it and you can have as much as you want." Serena stated desperately as he shoved her against the wall tracing his hand up her leg.
"Get away from her." Screamed a very scared and annoyed Mina.
Seya quickly looked to the direction of the voice.
"You." He said with an even bigger smile. "You belong to the princes' right hand man. I smell him all over you."
"What if I do?"
"Mina! Just run! Get out of here!" Screamed a desperate Serena as she struggled to get away but was quickly stopped by Seya applying more pressure to Serena's throat. In a flick of an eye Seya let go of Serena and flung Mina against the brick wall. Malachite was her last thought as she fell into darkness.
"Mina." Cried Serena as she ran to her cousins' side.
…...
"It's finally finished." Spoke a very happy and hopeful Darien.
The priest held out the charm for Darien to take it. Darien took it thanking the man for all his help. The charm was in the shape of his family crest. A sored with a rose in the middle of the cross guard. There was a circle that went around the top of the sword with the four elements around the sword in the circle. No one would touch Serena with this on.
"Am I good, or am I good?" Asked Malachite.
"You are so full of yourself." Stated Darien with a smile on his face.
"You act like that's a bad thing."
Darien just laughed at that one.
"So when are you going to give it to her Darien?"
"I don't know. Maybe I can see if she can have dinner with me tomorrow. And give it to her as an engagement gift."
"That would be good but I doubt she would wear it then. I mean she doesn't even want to get married right now."
"Maybe I could give it to her mom and she can give it to her as a little something from her. What do you think?"
"You do have a better…..
Malachite was cut off by Mina's voice calling his name and then a very faint pain griped at his head for just an instant.
Malachite dropped to the floor. Darien rushed over to him.
"What's the matter Mal?"
"Mina" he gasped out in agony
*Hello everyone! Sorry it's taken so long to write a chapter. It's been a ruff year for me this year. I've lost four people in six months. But i've finally picked myself back up and started writing again! Hope you guys liked it! Please review! *
