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"Darien, have you made up the contract for Serena's new office and apartment?" Andrew asked, poking his head into the office.
Darien looked up from the papers he was reading off his desk. "Yeah, just checking over them right now," he said, rubbing the bridge of his nose.
"I must say Dare, I'm impressed, and you certainly worked hard to have it all done for when she got back."
Darien laughed. "Not that you weren't helping or anything."
"Hey, you went out to check out the apartment."
"Yeah," he nodded. "And I know she'll love it."
"Alright, so you going to tell me what's up," Andrew said, as he crossed his arms and leaned against the doorframe.
Darien arched a brow. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Sure, nothing at all. Darien, I've seen the way you look at her."
"Look at who?"
Andrew shook his head. "Oh come on man, don't play stupid with me, I know you have the hots for my sister. I should be annoyed, but I kind of think the two of you would work. You two always were close when we all were younger."
Darien sighed. "Drew, you know I couldn't."
Andrew laughed and shook his head, "don't think you're good enough… or are you still hung up on Anne?"
Darien shook his head. "No, I'm well over Anne."
"Okay, we'll I'll lay it out straight for you, I don't mind, but if you hurt her in any way, I'll kill you."
"Well, if it happens, now I know you don't mind."
Andrew laughed. "Oh boy, I think the two of you are hopeless," he said shaking his head.
Andrew left Darien alone in his office with his thoughts. Oh boy, now what do I do? The thoughts raced through his brain as he tried to clear them, but they all went back to Serena.
Serena laughed as the photographer snapped shot after shot of her.
"Have you ever thought about going into modeling or something? I could make you famous. You could be my Mona Lisa."
Serena shook her head. "Thanks Pierre, but I think I'll just stick to being the glue behind all the socialites."
"Sweetie, I've heard that you are the hottest name out there. Everyone wants to have you design their homes, and they want to have a party done by you…"
She shrugged.
"Yeah boss, I've been so busy with calls this week, I had to fire another person to help with the call intake," Joyce smiled.
Serena smiled even wider. "Well, that means business is going good."
"Oh Serena, you break my heart. Let me take you to a few places, take your picture and I could have you in every magazine across the world."
"Excuse me," a voice said from the doorway. "Is there a Serena Tsukino here?"
Everyone looked. Her crowded New York apartment became even more so as the infamous Rae Hino Mars standing there with a sweet looking woman beside her.
"Yes, I'm Serena," Serena said, curiously as she made her way to the door.
Rae gave her a surprised look. "Wow, you're much prettier than I imagined you would be," she said.
"Thanks, I think," Serena frowned. "Can I help you?"
"Yes, I was in town for a photo shoot for an upcoming promotion of my new movie and heard you were back in town. See I've decided to decorate my house in Japan, and well, impulsively since I knew you were here, decided to come."
Serena beamed. "Japan, how excellent. I was going to fly home tomorrow back to Japan, and since I'm working on setting up my new office in Japan, I'd be willing to check out your house. I do have to look around first, and then I'm sure we could work out something."
Rae smiled her perfect vixen smile that made her a playmate her first year out in the modeling world. She was now enjoying her turn into singing, which she had proven that she had a beautiful voice.
After setting up a time for Serena to come over to her house during the next week, Pierre called for Serena to finish the photo shoot.
Rae left and Pierre gave Serena a smirk.
"What?" she asked the wonderfully gay, quirky, but sweet Pierre.
"Sweetie, you already are a socialite, can't I just take you to the top."
Serena laughed. "I think I get enough of that from my future sister in law."
"Oh really, who's you're brother going to marry?" Joyce's new assistant asked.
"Mina Minako," she said as she struck another pleasant pose for Pierre.
"Wow, my dear, you certainly live a high life, and you don't even move into the shining spotlight," the assistant smiled.
Serena shrugged. "My brother was her lawyer during some tough legal case over a paparazzi scandal and they never separated."
"Oh that's right; she was being sued by paparazzi for getting hit by her car…" Joyce said, "I think I remember you telling me about it."
"I remember reading about it," Lindsay, Joyce's assistant smiled shyly.
"Actually," she said, flipping through her papers, she then pulled out a magazine. "I think there's a picture with you and her in it."
Serena arched her brows. "Oh, how exciting," she said sarcastically.
Lindsay flipped the magazine open then showed her the page. "See."
Serena's eyes widened as she snatched the magazine from her. "Oh my god."
"Drunken debauchery for the leading socialites of Japan," Joyce read aloud.
Serena handed the magazine back to Lindsay and turned to Pierre. "I think I'll take you up on that offer. I need to make sure that I keep a good name for myself."
Pierre smiled delightedly. "Excellent, damage control, every person needs that, even though you've probably barely been stinted by that photo. All the people are going to see is Mina Minako out on the town, and in the background, one of her gorgeous friends."
Serena rolled her eyes. "I'm letting you take pictures, what you do with them is up to you."
"Oh I'm thinking Vogue, Elle, or some other hot women's magazine," he smiled.
The lady from In-Style, whom she was taking the pictures for gave her a bright smile. "You know Serena, there are lots of people who would die to have a person like you do a series in their spreads on the latest decorating trends."
Serena laughed. "How did this happen. I went from completing my trip here in New York, getting the photo shoot on my work with Justinian and getting my apartment seen by all the hot shot wannabes. Now I'm going to be in all these women's magazines and doing a series… I don't know if I can really handle this."
Joyce smiled brightly. "Think about all the publicity. You're going to be raking in the clients and then you'll get the right to say yeah or neigh."
"Oh, that reminds me, you did arrange that meeting with Diamond James for me right?"
Joyce nodded. "Yes boss, way ahead of you. I had it emailed to you, and I added it to your palm pilot this morning."
Serena smiled. "Excellent, now I can just see my brother and Darien when I return home about my new office and apartment. I'm sure I'll have a stunning place already for me to sign for when I return home."
"Alright Serena, thanks darling, you were simply fabulous."
"Thanks Pierre," she said kissing him on the cheek.
"I'll be in touch about the next photo shoots. Although I was struck with inspiration actually. Meet me at Central park tomorrow morning, we're going to start there, then I'm going to meet with you in New Zealand next week. I think I heard you mention that you were going there again."
Serena nodded. "Actually in two days."
"Perfect. I'll have my people call your people, and fantastic, we've got ourselves some stunning photos, and I'll have them all begging for you to be in their centerfolds."
Serena laughed. "You're too much Pierre."
"I try darling. Well tomorrow morning it is."
She nodded. "See you then."
The day finished quickly. Serena spent a quiet evening in her Manhattan apartment, while Joyce confirmed all the details with Pierre for her.
The next morning she did the photo shoot with Pierre in central park and then she and he boarded a plane for New Zealand that afternoon. She completed the final details of the house she worked on and finished the shoot with Pierre. By the time she boarded the plane for Tokyo three days later, she was exhausted.
She arrived in Tokyo, exhausted. She had not only done a lot of planning and final details on a lot of the homes she had been working on, but her thoughts had been circling around a certain hunk when she tried to sleep.
Serena drove her jeep out of the parking lot at the airport and headed further downtown to Andrew and Darien's offices.
When she arrived, the secretary gave her a bright smile. "Ah, Ms. Tsukino, it's nice to see you again."
She smiled. "You too. Are either Andrew or Darien in?" she asked.
Serena received a nod. "They're actually just in the board room if you just want to head in. they finished their meeting with the new partners just a little while ago."
Serena beamed. "Excellent, thanks Wanda."
She made her way into the office, heading for the boardroom. Inside was empty. She then turned and wandered down the halls. She came across Darien's office first.
She knocked lightly but there was no answer.
She pushed the already ajar door open and smiled when she saw Darien sleeping at his desk. Her heart did little flips at the sight of him, and she knew that she was in trouble.
"Darien," she said, coming into the room, her voice barely a whisper.
He murmured but didn't stir.
She grinned then, when she felt inspiration strike. She gently tickled his ear. "Darien," she said, her voice only a little louder now.
Still nothing.
She frowned, then grinned again when she leaned down, and blew gently on his ear, and stroked his neck.
"Darling, if I didn't know better, I would think you're trying to make me aroused," his deep masculine voice suddenly said.
She jumped back. "Sorry," she laughed then. "Just was trying to wake you up."
He sat up and rubbed his eyes. "Yeah in more ways than one."
Her cheeks brightened.
He stood then, gazing at her.
"Sorry, I uh… I," she stammered.
He just smiled. "Nothing to be sorry for," he said, as he closed the distance between the two of them.
She gulped nervously, and then her mouth hung open in shock when she realized how close they really were.
"oh Serena," his voice making her shudder, as his breath brushed her skin, creating a tingling sensation.
He moved closer and closer, and she felt almost certain he was going to kiss her.
TBC!