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Title: Your Betrayal
Chapter Title: Start Of A New Future
Author: ChibiTengu ^.^
Rated: T
Serena ran all the way home her eyes blurry with tears, when she got home she bursted through the door and ran up the stairs without closing the front door behind her.
"Is that you, Serena?" Ikuko called wiping her hands on a wash cloth, then peeking her head out of the kitchen door. Serena reached her room, slamming the door after she was in it completely.
Ikuko flinched, "Honey, what's the matter?" Ikuko called from the kitchen, she was baking a lemon pie, Serena's favorite since well...ever. Ikuko walked out of the kitchen seeing the front door wide open. "Serena close the door behind you, don't leave it open…" She walked over shutting the door with a soft click.
"Serena?" She called again, just starting to notice that Serena wasn't answering. She walked up the stairs, then knocked on her daughter's door.
"Serena…come on open up, please." There was a bang from inside and a cry of pain. "Serena you open this door right this moment!" She yelled, banging on the door. Serena sat on her floor nursing her red lumpy knee. There was another loud knock.
"Just go away!" Serena said, with a cracked voice. She let out a sob as the pain in her knee grew and grew.
"Serena, sweetie please let me in…please?" Ikuko called leaning against the door hoping that Serena would open the door. Still Serena wouldn't let her in, she didn't want her mother to find her in such a state of pain and agony. Soon Ikuko got tired of waiting so she grabbed the door knob and gave it a hard twist pushing the door open to find her daughter crying and holding a bruised knee.
"Serena what is it, what happen?" She asked walking over and kneeling next to her to take a look at her knee. Serena wiped at her eyes, turning her face away, trying to hide her tear streaked face.
"It's nothing I just fell is all." She tried to get up, but her bruised knee screamed with pain. Serena let out a hiss falling back onto her butt and crying even more…
"God why am I so weak?" She asked... Ikuko let out a sigh, stroking her little girls beautiful blonde hair.
"Sweetie your not week-"
"Yes I am! If I was stronger then Darien wouldn't have cheated on me with Raye and-" Ikuko stared at Serena with a sort of stunned of surprise.
"You think it's your fault that he cheated on you…do you really blame yourself, Serena…?" She asked in a sort of mutter. Serena nodded bitting her lower lip, nibbling on it.
Ikuko let out a sigh, sitting down next to her daughter… "Serena it is not your fault that Darien cheated on you. It's his own fault and he should be the one you blame, not yourself. Serena, you have to remember that you are not alone if you ever need to talk you can talk with either me, or your father…" Serena looked at her with a skeptical look.
"Okay maybe not your father," She laughed. "but you can talk with me anytime you need to, remember that sweetheart…I'll always be here for you and Sammy." Serena nodded releasing her lip.
"I-I know mom, I was just being stupid and blaming myself…sorry." She said with a sob. Ikuko wanted to pull Serena into a hug and never let her go, she hate to see her daughter in such pain. "It's as if she's lost part of her soul…it's heartbreaking to see her like this." At that point on Ikuko began to dislike Darien and she wouldn't mind ever seeing him ever again.
Serena ended up taking a nap, no dreaming at all which was good and all, but Serena wouldn't have minded to see Rini again…only this time with Rini calling her Mama and running to her with the intentions of loving words, hugs and kisses.
"Rini…" She muttered in her sleep, a tear slipping out of her eye. Ikuko let out a sigh closing her eyes. "She misses Rini…" She thought. Ikuko bent down, kissing Serena's forehead, and heading downstairs to begin on supper. When she reached the bottom step of the stairs she saw that Kenji had just walked in.
"Hi sweetie, how was your day?" He asked walking over and giving her a kiss on the cheek. He sniffed smelling her lemon pie. "Do I smell lemon pie, my favorite." He said with a chuckle, wetting his lips.
"Kenji I'm worried about Serena…her and Darien's break up is hitting her really hard, I think she'll have to go into therapy." Kenji set down his briefcase, letting out a laugh.
"Ikuko you must be joking." Ikuko felt her face go red and hot, he wasn't taking her seriously.
"I mean it Kenji, I'm not joking! Serena is really upset, I think that she mind just end up doing something she'll reject..." That scared Kenji enough to consider sending his little angel to therapy. He stood in his thinking pose.
"Your sure that you aren't just overreacting, dear?" Ikuko shook her head and muttered, "I'm not overreacting, Kenji." Which got a sigh out of him. He scratched the bridge of his nose and said, "I'll make a few calls and see if anyone can recommend someone…she's really that bad, Ikuko?" He asked with a frown.
She nodded, "Yeah I think so." Then it was settled, they would send Serena to therapy and just see if something can be done.
Serena awoke with a start, sweating something fearers. Her eyes wide, panting and heaving her breath. A flash went through her mind, scaring her some much that she bolted awake. After a few seconds her breath grew steady and normal, and her heart beat slowed back down to it's normal rhythm. She put her hand to her forehead wiping at the sweat.
"What was that flash…it was so scary." She whispered, pushing herself up by her elbows and looking around. Her room was dark and noiseless as it always was at night. Luna hadn't come home, so she must be out and about with Artemis doing god knows what at this hour. "What time is it?" She thought asking herself. She looked at the clock that sat on her nightstand. It read 5:45 am… She let out a sigh, laying back down to go back to sleep…but after a few minutes of laying completely still she found it useless and swung her legs out of bed, kicking off the sheets as she went. When her feet touched the floor a cold sleepiness washed over her.
"God please just let me sleep…all I want to do is sleep. I don't want to face the reality that Darien and I are over. I know it happened, but I don't want it to be true. I just want to wake up and to have found it all to be some bad dream, nightmare is a better word for it…" Serena said, letting out a stiff yawn, feeling as if the sleep that was washing over her was far off and she wouldn't be able to fall asleep even if she was tried.
She let out a sigh touching her forehead with a hand, "Why'd this happen to me, haven't I gone through enough as it is…haven't I lost enough, can't I keep at least one thing of my past life?" She asked the emptiness around her, only not be be answered, which made her mad. Serena's head snapped up.
"Why'd this have to happen to me!" She said in a loud heated whisper, afraid that it would wake up her parents and Sammy, but was glad that it hadn't. "Why couldn't it happen to someone else. All I want is one little thing, that all. And you had to take that away from me!" Serena really hated fate, if someone told her it was fate, she'd tell them to shove it where the sun don't shine. That got a giggle out of her, then the giggling wouldn't stop coming. She soon fell off her bed, hitting the floor let out more giggling. "What's the matter with me?" She thought asking herself. What was so funny that it was making her laugh so much, she hadn't felt like this since before Lita, Mina, and Amy told her about Darien's cheating.
Soon the giggles subsided, Serena wiping the happy tears from her eyes. As the giggles left her, she laid on the floor looking up at the ceiling that was covered in glow-in-the-dark stars. Their were crescent moons, suns and little stars all over her ceiling. When she was feeling sick, or sad she'd look up at them and they'd always make her feel better. In a way they reminded her of home.
Serena let out a sigh. So it was over...her and Darien were really over. It was time for her to realize it and move on...she didn't want to live in the past. She pushed away all the memories of their past and their very distance past. She looked over to the wall seeing it turning a soft pink. She got to her feet and looking out the window to watch the sunrise.
"This is the day that I leave the past behind and focus on a new future." She almost flinched, realizing that it wasn't fair that Rini wouldn't be in this new future. Then a thought struck her. "Why can't she be born. Even if she's not going to be the future princess of Crystal Tokyo, what's stopping her from being born. Darien doesn't have to be the father...if I have a child, or children one day, and I have a baby girl, then I will name that little miracle Rini." Her body got all warm and fuzzy just thinking about it. That was it she would forget about her and Darien's future and start a new. She could do this...she had to do this if she wanted to keep her dreams alive...she couldn't wait to see if Darien ever seen the mistake he had made, if she did it might be to late for them... She soon started to get ready for school. Today she was going to be on time for the first time ever.
Her family was surprised to find that Serena was up before them, and she had made them some breakfast. Serena beamed at them from the door of the kitchen carrying out a big pasta bowl full of scrambled eggs.
"Morning you guys, hungry?" She asked. Ikuko blinked her eyes, Kenji just scratched his head.
Sammy smirked and said, "Who are you and what have you done with my sister, the lazy meatball head." Ikuko looked seeing her daughters blonde hair down and not in their normal long pig tails.
"Serena your hair-"
"I decided to wear it down today, come on everyone before it gets cold." She said walking over to the dining room table, setting down the bowl of eggs and walking back into the kitchen carrying out a plate full of toast and sausage, setting it down on the table. "Dig in everyone." They walked over to the table, taking a seat, eyeing the food.
"Is it edible?" Sammy asked poking the eggs with his fork, afraid that it would bite him. Serena glared down at her rude little brother.
"You don't have to eat it if you don't want to, Sammy." She snapped going to grab his empty plate. He slapped at her hand, almost trying to stab at it with his fork. Ikuko and Kenji looked at their to children with a smile. "Serena's back to her normal happy self...the cooking part is new though." She thought with a giggle. Kenji could only just smile.
"Both of you stop it, no fighting at the table." Kenji said with a serious voice. Serena and Sammy stopped, and blushed. Serena took a step back bowing her head in embarrassment.
"Sorry Dad." She muttered, blushing even harder. She wanted to show them that she was fine and they didn't have to worry about her, but here she was embarrassing herself as usual... Sammy took a big helping of eggs, toast and some sausage. He took a bite of the eggs and chewed them up. He swallowed after a few seconds, and then shoveled some more into his mouth.
"Is it good?" Serena asked. Sammy nodded.
"Where'd you learn to cook?" Serena shrugged sitting down in her own seat and taking some eggs and toast, she didn't feel like eating any sausage... She took a bite, chewing.
"Lita taught me a little, and I'm taking some cooking classes in school to." Ikuko smiled, taking a bite of her own eggs. "These are quite tasty..." She thought chewing, swallowing after awhile.
"Yes these are quite good, sweetie." Ikuko said. Serena smiled a big smile.
"Thanks, Mom." She said blushing a tad bit. "They like it...thank god. I thought'd I'd mess up for sure." She thought with a sigh of relief. She took another bite of her eggs and then looked at her watch. She let out a gasp, some eggs falling out of her mouth and into her lap.
"Oh crap I'm going to be late, bye you guys!" She said bolting out of her chair and running for the door. Ikuko stood up, running after her.
"Serena what about lunch?" She asked. Serena shook her head pulling on her shoes and grabbing her bag going for the door.
"Sorry Mom I don't got the time to wait. I want to be their on time today." She went to open the door but there was a knock. Her hand stopped, hovering over the knob. Serena was afraid who was waiting beyond the door. "God please don't let it be-"
"Serena answer the door." Ikuko's hand moved past her daughters opening the door. Serena let out a sigh of relief seeing that it was only Andrew with a bouquet of Irises (meaning hope) and Stargazer Lilies (meaning Innocence). Serena let out a gasp, seeing the beautiful flowers took her breath away... "Did he bring those for me...?" She thought asking, starting to blush. She cleared her throat, closing her eyes trying to collect herself.
She then looked Andrew directly in the eye and said, "Andrew...what are you doing here?" She wanted to smack herself in the head. "God why'd I go and ask something so rude as that." She thought to herself. Ikuko let out a gasp.
"Serena how rude that's not how you greet someone." Serena blushed.
"Right, sorry. Hi Andrew...what are you doing here?" Ikuko rolled her eyes. "Well at least she said hello before demanding that he tell her why he's here..." She thought.
"I- well I wanted to come and check on you. When I saw you yesterday you weren't looking so hot and I was worried...I brought you these." He said handing her the bouquet of flowers. Serena accpeted them with out a thought.
"Thank you, their beautiful." Andrew blushed, scratching the back of his head.
"Uh your welcome...you on your way to school?" He asked. She nodded, still holding onto the bouquet.
"Yeah that's right...you want to walk with me?" She asked, seeing that he had his book bag hanging off his shoulder. He shrugged, and then nodded his head. He did really want to walk with her. He wanted someone to be there in case she started to pass out again...
"Okay well that's go then." Serena said with a giggle. Andrew eyes opened, hearing her laugh surprised him. He had ran into Mina yesterday afternoon after school, and found out that Darien and her had split up...more like Darien cheated on her with Raye and he dumped her for Raye. It still shocked him now to hear that Darien had cheated. He never took Darien to be one of those sort of guys. Well as the saying goes 'You can't judge a book by it's cover...' It seemed that Darien was the opposite of that saying... Andrew cleared his throat.
"Hey sorry to hear about you and Darien, I didn't know and I'm sorry." Serena flinched, but then pushed away the aching memory. "No the past is the past." She thought, trying to reassure Andrew with a smile.
"I'm fine, really. So you don't have to worry about me." She said, smelling the flowers. "They smell really good." She thought her smiling growing even bigger. She turned to her mom holding out the flowers.
"Hey Mom would you mind..." Ikuko took the flowers from Serena and smiled a small smile.
"Not at all, I'll go and put them in some water." She said, walking into the kitchen and quickly filling a vase with water and putting the flowers into the vase, then walking back out to rejoin Serena and Andrew.
"Well shall we?" He asked.
Serena giggled and said walking out the door and putting her arm through his, "We shall." Serena looked back over her shoulder waving bye to her Mom, who was staring at her gape mouthed. "Well she sprang back quick didn't she..." Ikuko thought blinking. Serena let out another giggle.
"What's so funny?" Andrew asked with a chuckle. Serena shrugged.
"Oh nothing, nothing at all." She said with a smile. Serena walked with a spring in her step and she couldn't be happier.
Author Notes!
Hey everybody 2 chapters in a day I'm on a roll lol! Hope you enjoyed it and please R&R? I want to know what you thought and please tell me what you liked most about it...? I know this chapter isn't long, but it's a chapter none the less. Thanks again for reading and hope you are looking forward to more ^.^
ChibiTengu ^.^
