Serena walked into the cafeteria and walked over to where the girls had gotten a table.
"Hey girls" Serena sat down at the table with her tray of cafeteria food (yuck).
"Don't 'Hey Girls' us! Tell us, are you and Dare finally a couple yet?" Raye asked, as all the girls leaned in closer on their seats to listen.
"Huh? What are you on about?" Serena asked, clearly confused by the look on her face.
Mina sighed with disappointment, "Guess that's a no"
"Okay, I will ask again. What are you on about?" she asked, looking at each of her friends for an explanation.
"Well, uh... You see Darien is in my Chemistry class and he told me that he was going to ask you out, to be his girlfriend... You know like a couple?" Amy started
"Soooo....? Did he ask ya?" pressed Lita
"I don't think I gave him the chance." Said Serena simply, before taking a sip of her coke.
"What do you mean?" asked Raye
"Well we were asked to stay behind to decide whether to do the kiss or not for Romeo and Juliet. He said yes but I said no." She paused
"Yeah.... So what?" asked Lita
"Well, after a bit I basically told him that I wanted more than a casual fuck and a good time and then... I left"
Amy gasped, "What? Why?"
"Well, because there are heaps of complications"
"Like what?" Raye scoffed
"Like you for one."
"Me? How do you mean?" she asked
"Because it would be way too awkward, being your brother and all."
"Serena, you're just making excuses! I wouldn't care; I want you to be with him for god sakes!"
"I don't care! I meant what I said; I want more than a casual fuck."
"Serena! Darien likes you... Ohh... Come with me!" She said getting up and dragging Serena and the girls with her. Literally dragging Serena to her locker.
Raye opened her locker and pulled out her video camera. She rewinded to the place from last night where they had filmed Serena and then passed it over to her.
"Why is this at school?" she asked
"Just watch it!" Raye said frustratingly
Serena watched.
"Okay Sere, What do you want in a guy?" asked Raye
"Good question Raye," came Amy's voice in the background
"I'm not sure. I guess I've always dreamed of a guy who loves my smile and my dorky laugh. Somebody who doesn't care what I wear, or how I do my hair. I guess I just want someone who loves me for me."
Serena watched as she smiled at the camera. Raye turned it off.
"Look Sere, I know you probably don't believe me but Darien LOVES your smile and your dorky laugh. He doesn't care what you wear or how you do your hair and He loves you for you! Isn't that what you want in a guy?"
"Yes, but..."
"No buts. GO FIND HIM!" Raye cried
"Stop treating me likes a child, Raye!" Serena yelled
"Maybe when you start acting like one!" Raye yelled back
"I can make my own decisions, I have a brain"
"Then maybe start using it, Serena. You're so immature!" she shouted to Serena who was already walking away, trying to hold back the tears forming in her eyes.
After turning the corner, she couldn't hold them anymore. She bolted through the corridors to the toilets, without noticing that she passed Darien at his locker on the way.
"Serena," Darien yelled, but Serena didn't hear him
Serena sunk down on the cold, hard ground in one of the toilet cubicles. Thankfully the toilets were empty because all that could be heard was Serena's sobs as she tried to dry her eyes from the tears. No success, they just kept falling.
Darien barged into the girls' toilets, "Serena?"
Serena froze. "Serena, I know you're in here" he said as he started to check the cubicles. All were empty but one was locked. He knocked on the door, "Serena, let me in"
"Go away Darien, you shouldn't be in here."
"Serena, let me in!" He repeated
"No! Just leave me alone" Serena cried
"I don't believe I'm giving you a choice, let me in or I will let myself in. Either way, I'm coming in"
After no reply, Darien sighed, "On the count of 3, I will break the door down"
Still no reply. "1...... 2......." Click, Darien watched as Serena opened the door to reveal her tear stained and blotchy face.
"3" Darien finished, looking at how beautiful she was even after crying
"What do you want?"She asked, avoiding his eyes
"I want to know what's wrong" he said
"Nothing's wrong" she said, grabbing some hand towel to dry her eyes.
"Nothing? C'mon, Serena... So nothing made you run through the corridors with tears in your eyes all the way to the bathroom where you where hiding in a cubicle on the floor crying your eyes out?"
"It doesn't matter Darien. Just leave me alone," she said as a girl walked in, only to see Darien and instantly left again. "Now go before you get in trouble."
"No, neither of us is leaving this bloody bathroom until you tell me what is wrong!"
"Fine, it's not like I was leaving anytime soon... You're going to get sick of this before I do"
"I highly doubt that" he smirked as the bell rang for class, signalling the end of lunch.
"Bells gone, don't you have a class to go to?"
"Probably, but I couldn't care less. Besides, don't you have a class to go to?"
Serena shrugged, still not making eye contact. "Study"
"So, you gonna tell me what's wrong?"
"Why should it matter?" Serena asked, lifting her head to meet his eyes.
"I don't like to see you upset. I really like you and I don't want to see you hurt."
"So what?"
"So tell me..."
"Fine, your sister and I had a disagreement" Serena sighed,
"About?" Darien pressed
"It doesn't matter"
"Yes it does, what was the fight about?"
"You really want to know?" he nodded, "You..." Serena said, getting up from the ground, Darien following suit. Serena made her way to her locker, Darien followed.
"What about me?" he asked, as she opened her locker.
Serena grabbed a pile of books for her next class. "Look Darien, It doesn't matter, okay? It's just something between Raye and me. She may think that what she said, she didn't mean but I know that deep down, Raye has always thought that about me." She said, with no emotion at all.
"What did she say, Sere?" Darien asked.
"It really doesn't matter. I don't even know why I'm talking about this to you!"
Darien groaned, "You're so infuriating! Stoping being so juvenile"
"Then leave me alone," she yelled, slamming her locker shut and walked away, leaving a very confused Darien in her wake.