Please!! Have mercy, don't kill me!!
Now seriously, stop the glaring and drop that knife… so sorry for taking to long to update…and also, further on, sorry for any mistake. Seriously, it has been plenty CRAZY lately, and I must admit, I had quite a writer's block. I couldn't even write my name…which is totally wrong. Work has been crazier than ever and thankfully, I just graduated and well, am opening my own business, so you can imagine…but you came here to read the story, not my problems and lame excuses, so here it goes. Enjoy and REVIEW or I'LL be the one with the knives and glares! Au revoir!
Disclaimer: Does my name sound Japanese to you? No es mio, que puedo decir?? SM is not mine, but I just had my birthday and I accept any kind of gift!
VI. Reunions
People walked frantically, everywhere. Luggage could be seen anywhere. There was people crying, people hugging, couples kissing, children laughing and screaming, and in the middle of this whole circus, a young man and a woman tried to walk towards the principal entrance.
"She wasn't so thrilled I guess." Luna stated as she walked besides Darien to the parking lot at the airport.
"I guess you know her better than I do." He smirked watching the young woman, who shifted her sleeping daughter to the other side of her hip.
"You're too clueless." She said playing along.
Dare chuckled at the remark, he had heard that thousands of times.
"You know Darien, we can't be living here with Artemis and Diana." Luna stated once he showed the condo to his new aid.
"Why not?"
"Dare, this isn't too big. It was different before, I practically lived at your home, but here, it's too small."
"Small? Luna, are you feeling well? We have two empty rooms."
"It doesn't matter. I can't live here when Artemis comes. We'll have to move to some other place. I can stay as long as it is necessary with Taru, but I can't and won't be living here. Ok?" she asked, not even waiting for an answer.
Darien just sighed. He had given up on trying to convince Luna for something. It was mostly imposable.
"Well, nice time to arrive to your work." A brunette, almost blond young men smirked to another brunette man.
"Andrew, what are you doing here?" Nathan asked to his older brother.
"Nice to see you." Andrew, or Drew, as they called him said to Nathan giving him a hug.
"When did you arrived?"
"Some days ago."
"Well, how nice of you to tell me until now." Nathan smirked, taking a seat on his desk chair and motioning for his brother to sit.
"Sorry. Was planning on calling you, but then I met this chick, and you know how things are."
"Planning on settling down?"
"Oh no! Not yet. Planning on opening another restaurant here, that's my main reason of being here."
"Where are you staying?"
"Didn't mom tell you? I bought an apartment on downtown. Here's the address" he said handing him a card.
"Oh. Well, glad to have you close. So, who's the lucky one?"
"Ray Lawrence. Met her at a café just after I arrived. Asked her out, and having our second date tonight."
"Lawrence, Ray Lawrence, heard that name before…so, moving fast, uh?"
"No, just going along with the flow."
"AGAIN! Your going out AGAIN?!" Rena asked her black haired friend.
"What's the problem with that? I'm free to date, and as long as it doesn't mess anything else, I'll keep dating him." Ray stated rather exasperated while digging in her closet for the 'perfect outfit'.
"Rena, have you seen my…" Sammy trailed off coming inside and looking at the black haired girl. "I knew something bad would happen to Ray if she continued sharing space with Mina." He said with a grin.
"Oh, stop it Sammy, can't find my red top. I know I had it here." She stated, now starting to throw clothes on a pile.
"What were you looking for Sammy?" Serena asked looking down from the magazine she was reading.
"This is a really, really nice place." Ray said looking around at the apartment.
"Thanks." Drew answered, "So, tell me more about you." he said while handing her some wine.
"Mm, this is really nice." She said tasting the wine, "my name is Ray Alice Lawrence, and I am currently dating." She said in a playing voice.
Drew laughed a bit, and then added, "Well nice to meet you, Ray Alice, but I was wanting to know more on you not more about your name."
"Well, as I told you before, I am in my last year of college, thankfully, and will be opening my own boutique soon! You know I'm studying fashion, along with some friends, with whom I live by the way. Now, you told me you had or was opening an restaurant. Tell me more."
"Well, those are the plans, but we didn't come here to talk about work."
"I am NOT sleeping with you." Ray stated coldly
"What? We came here because YOU said you wanted to see where I lived, and what I meant was we could talk about other things." Drew said trying to hide his smile after looking at Ray starting to blush deeply, and saying the only thing she could say,
"Oohh…"
OoO
An awkward trio. That's what they were. Darien sat on one of the couches, Luna sat on the other one, and little Diana sat besides her mother looking between each other.
They were all expecting the arrival of a person, one whom one of his friends was supposed to bring back, an hour ago. A friend whom soon was going to be DEAD if he didn't hurry, one who would not see day light again, if he didn't knock the door just in that mome-
"I'M HOME!!" a voice boomed from the back. Darien sighed. Finally, she was home.
"Sorry it took so long." Nathan, such friend that just had saved himself from an insufferable death said, "Traffic is horrible at this hour."
"TAWU!!" Little Diana screeched in happiness. It was evident, even for the 'cold hearted' Darien, that this little girl loved the 'big' girl, who was terribly annoyed by the small bundle of joy hugging her legs, in a tight grip it seemed.
"Hi, Diana. Nice seeing ya too. Now, let go, I need to walk."
"Hotaru, am I so happy to see you!" Luna said, coming to the older girl and grabbing her in a tight hug. It was a funny sight, both mother and daughter had a preteen in a tight hug, one in the legs, and the other in her torso.
"Nathan." Luna moved from Hotaru to Nathan now. She slightly hugged him, carrying her daughter afterwards who had freed Hotaru from her death grip.
"Luna, good to see you." He said with a smile, producing a lolly-pop to little Diana who squealed with delight giving him a happy 'Thwank you' and taking the offered item.
"You know, she shouldn't be eating any candy at this time of the night." Luna said sternly, though her eyes betrayed her. It was evident for everyone in the room she was happy to be home at least.
"Well, then, I should be glad I'm not staying for long. I'll give the sugar, but won't stay for after effects." Nathan stated, giving a wide grin, Darien just rolled his eyes, Hotaru sat on the couch, looking at the events, Diana started sucking her sucker, and Luna glared at said man.
"Oh, I'll enjoy the day YOU have children, and I'll be the one taking them lots and lots of sugar. You just wait."
Laughter erupted from all of them.
"The day Nathaniel Johnson has kids will be the end of the world." Darien laughed.
"Hey!" Nathan squealed, but it was obvious for everyone he knew it was true. Darien knew too well his friend did not want to settle down, ever.
"Oh, please. I bet you two will be the first to get settled." Luna stated matter of factly.
"Yeah, but by the way it goes, Kevin will be the first to, um, have a bundle of 'joy' by the hard work he's doing." Nathan laughed, Luna grinned, Darien smirked, Hotaru blushed, and Diana looked rather confused at to what they were talking.
Darien enjoyed laughing like this. Yeah, he had a great time with his friends, but he had to admit. He missed Luna, she was the girl of the group of men, even married, Artemis had soon joined the group, every time they went to his home. Well, what he used to call home. After they moved to Chicago, it was harder to be together, now maybe, they would be lucky enough to be together again and just enjoy the simple things in life.
OoO
"So, Ray? Are ya telling us how it went last night?" Mina, always the curious one asked while everyone ate their breakfast. Well, it seemed as if they were swallowing their breakfast, and the black haired girl was almost falling asleep in it.
"It went excellent." She said muffling a yawn.
"It sure was, I went to bed almost at 1:30, and you weren't back." Amy added.
"You know, it's not healthy to go to bed that late." Lita, 'mother goose' as everyone called her, admonished. Everyone groaned.
"Stop it Lita. We're young, we're free, we're pretty, we're-"
"-having migraine if you don't stop talking Rena." Ray cut in.
Serena giggled, "Sorry."
"Well, it's was very interesting, but I'm leaving." Sammy said suddenly, grabbing his stuff and disappearing by the back door.
"So, Rena, how are you going to do with Rini?" Amy asked looking down at the five year old who was currently playing with her spoon as if it were a doll.
"Don't know." Rena admitted.
"You know I don't mind you taking her to the boutique." Lita said.
"Yeah, but I don't want to cause more trouble."
"Well, I have some free time today, maybe I can take care of her." Amy offered.
"Really! That'll be great! Thanks!!"
Amy smiled sweetly, as only she knew how, then, she picked up her book, and once again, continued with her reading.