A/n: I want to thank all my reviewers new and old, I'm glad to see after months of waiting your still here with me. As promised a longer chapter than the last one. I'm still just getting warmed up if you still think its too short. Someone asked me about the time line and when we last left off with Sere and Kimi, kimi was about three months, time has now skipped ahead in chapter 3 and 4, so now Kimi is three nearly four years old. Enjoy Chapter four.

The first time was hard enough

"Kimi you can leave the table when you drink all your milk," Serena told her daughter who was refusing to do so. Kimi crossed her arms as a frown possessed her beautiful features. Just as Serena had suspected she was stubborn like her father and it was almost uncanny how much they looked a like with the exception of her eyes they were all hers.

"No, I don't like milk."

"But if you don't drink your milk we'll never get to the park today, and it'll be a long time before mommy has time to take you there again, now do you want to be negative Naru and ruin our day?" Kimiko shook her head. "Than please drink your milk."

"No," Kimiko said shaking her head.

"All right well you can just stay here until you do." Serena stood up and left the dining area. Since Kimiko was a baby Serena had been forced to moonlight more to help pay all the bills. She had gotten a grip on shopping for herself, but she could barely control herself when it came to Kimiko, sometimes she just forgot to look at the price entirely. She wasn't sure how she had even managed to keep her beautiful home. But that didn't matter she had just made her last mortgage payment because of her father who had finally made an appearance to see his grandchild on Kimiko's second birthday. His gift making sure she would always have permanent home. Serena was so grateful as it took a huge weight off her shoulders. She had her dream house, a beautiful child, but she couldn't help, but reminded even more at night at the absence of a husband and father for that beautiful child.

"Mommy, let's go to the park," Kimiko told her pulling on her matching yellow skirt. They were both dressed in short yellow skirts, and cute bunny tops with yellow suspenders.

"Did you drink your milk?" Kimiko nodded. "Show me." The little yellow cup was empty. "Good job baby now we can have fun." Kimiko smiled and nodded. Serena also smile, the smile also was her own. She didn't know if she could handle Kimiko having his smile too. That smile that had made her want to rip her clothes off no matter the place public or private. They went to the door and slipped on their matching yellow flats. Serena was telling her they were going to get ice cream a little later as she opened the door reveling the one and only Darien Chiba, the only man to ever steal her heart and innocence.

"Serena, love," Darien said immediately flashing her that breath taking smile. Serena felt her knees go weak, but stopped. She shut the door in his face.

"Kimiko, honey wait right here." Kimiko nodded as Serena put down her ball and slipped out the front door as Darien moved back. He didn't expect to be welcome into the house, but at least she obviously wanted an explanation, that was good in his eyes, that was all he needed.

"Look Sere, I know your probably mad at me for just running out on you after our night of passionate love making, but I had a meeting and..." Serena slapped him hard leaving a red mark across his cheek.

"You're a lying bastard Darien Chiba, and I want you to leave now. I don't want to hear any of your lies. Your not going to waltz back here as if you didn't hurt me and expect to be back in my life like that." She snapped her figures. "Like you said it was just a fling no need to call repeatedly or drop by." She threw his words back at him and it was like another stinging slap. She crossed her arms waiting for him to leave. "Well what are you waiting for, go!" Darien stood his ground.

"No, I came here for a reason, and I'm not going until I have what I want."

"I'm not sleeping with you and I won't hesitate to call the police."

"No, that's not what I'm here for right now."

"You can't have her," Serena told him getting angrier. Darien looked confused.

"Sere, what are you talking about, who can't I have?"

"Don't call me Sere and you know exactly who I'm talking about you bastard, you've never cared about her before, why now?"

"Care about who?" Darien asked. Just than his question was answered for him as Kimiko ran out of the house with her ball.

"Mommy I wanna go to the park," She whined. Darien didn't miss a beat as he took in her every feature including the ones that were all Serena like her eyes, or the length of her jet black hair. But everything else was all him, Serena had gotten pregnant with his child.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Darien raged now becoming angry. Serena stared at him in disbelief after she ushered her daughter back inside.

"Didn't tell you?" Serena asked.

"Yes!"

"I left you a message and you callous bastard, you never made no attempt to contact me and now that you're here and can't avoid the truth, don't you dare try and pin this on me, you knew!" Serena was furious. "Go away, stay out of our lives, we're doing just fine on our own!" Darien was seething. "Go away Darien Go away!" He left and punched the gas on his convertible as he went. Serena calmed down and went back inside. She leaned back against the door trying hard not to cry over the man she had loved so much for nearly four years a man who had run out on her and all for nothing.

"Mommy are we still going to the park?" Kimiko asked hestitantly seeing her mother was very upset. "I'll drink my milk now mommy I promise."

"No, Kimiko its not your fault," Serena told her quickly recognizing her tone of voice, she had heard it in her own when her parents had divorced. She bent down and brushed Kimiko's hair back. "I'm not upset with you sweetheart, okay, now why don't we get to that park?" Serena forced herself to become her cheerful self as she picked up her daughter and her ball before they headed to the park for a day of fun.

"What!" Andrew exclaimed on the phone.

"Yes, my daughter, and she didn't even have the decency to call and tell me."

"Man that doesn't sound like the kind of woman she described to me. Are you sure you just didn't get her message."

"I'm positive, I would have noticed in the last three years if a message telling me I had a daughter popped out."

"Well look on the bright side your already halfway through your requirements," Andrew told him. "Just marry her."

"Marry her?" Darien asked. "Ha! I'm not sure I even want to marry her now the lying..."

"Don't go there Darien, even if she didn't call, would you have picked up if she did?" Andrew asked. Darien sniffed.

"I might have."

"The way you left, I honestly don't think you would have. You haven't given this woman a single thought in nearly four years until you needed something from her. I wouldn't be so quickly to judge, you barely know her if you ever did." Darien groaned he had never stopped thinking about Serena that was why she had been his first choice. It wasn't like he hadn't been hurt as much as she was at his leaving. But Darien Chiba was not the marrying type. He was a playboy, it was what his body was built fore just like he had the mind of a CEO. "Man I agree with father its time you settled down, got to know your own kid, and enjoy life. You've been living in another world and its time you got out."

"I'm not a husband."

"I never thought I was, but Dare if you get to know the right girl, you'll see that everything changes. And everything changes even more when you're a Father. You need to apologize and if nothing else at the moment you need to earn the right to be called Daddy. And if you want to be CEO, I suggest you earn the right for Serena's love. To be honest I never understood how you could walk away from a woman like her from what you told me about her."

"Your no help." Darien hung up in his face, because he knew Andrew's words had truth to them. "Ugh what am I going to do, I have a daughter, I thought I'd at least have ten months to prepare or at least find a way out of that to make the divorce easier later on." His hotel phone rang and he answered.

"Darien where are you baby, I'm alone and naked in your bed," Beryl told him, she hoped sincerely that he was out buying her a thirty-two karat diamond ring. Oh she could just imagine the rock he would put on her finger.

"I am in Japan for my wedding, so your just going to have to get dressed and out of my apartment," Darien told her. He was getting tired of her showing up at his apartment unannounced and walking in as if she lived there. It wasn't like she had clothes in his closet. "And stay out of it, your not welcome there anymore." He slammed the phone down in annoyance. "Bitch."

"Wedding!" Beryl yelled into the phone just as the dial tone sounded. "He can't be in Japan for his wedding when I'm here! I'm supposed to be his bride. Japan!" Beryl's mind suddenly went back to the message his Japanese whore had left on his machine. She screamed and tore up the apartment. She paced back and forth angrily thinking of ways to get rid of Serena before she called a private airport where her Daddy's jet waited after calling her father. He would see to it his little girl got everything she wanted and no whore Darien met in his travels was going to get in the way.

"I can't believe that bastard had the nerve to show up after nearly four years," Raye told her.

"Next time he comes around I'll squash his head in like a bug," Lita told her as her fist collided with her other hand letting them know she meant business.

"I think you should give him a chance." Everyone turned in shock to look at Mina.

"What?" Serena asked. "Mina I can't do that, its not just me he'll hurt this time, but Kimi."

"Sere, I know you think that, but despite his behavior I think you two have a shot. You owe it to yourself to at least get closure this time, set boundaries with Kimi so that if he does decide to leave again he'll be just another boyfriend."

"You know, I never thought I'd say this, but Mina is right," Amy told her. Lita and Raye started to agree slowly as Mina looked surprised Amy was agreeing with her. "You need closure if not an actual lasting relationship, I never could describe what I felt when I saw you two together..."

"Disgust you felt disgust," Serena told her. "I can't go back to him you guys, he betrayed my love, as soon as he got what he was after he left me. He let me fall in love with him knowing that he would leave me in three weeks, and I like an idiot fell for him just like every other dumb ass out there. The only difference between me and them now is that I have his child and I will not fall willingly back into his bed when he comes baring false promises." Serena stood up. "The first time was hard enough don't convince me to go through that again." Serena left quickly before they could reply she needed to be alone, and she obviously couldn't count on her friends on this matter.