AN: Thank you for all the reviews :D I really appreciate them. I will finish this story even if it kills me, I rather hope to finish it soon. It one of the harder stories I've written due to the fact that almost all of it is written through inspiration. That is why the chapters are so short, and why updates have taken so long. It's not often inspiration strikes so I was really rather lucky with this story. Most writing is a lot of hard work not sitting around waiting for that ah ha moment. However I kept writing myself into situations that I didn't know how to get out of without that ah ha moment. (And the chapters written without it are among my least favorite). All that being said I feel really bad making everybody wait and so this is me persevering... I also have a bunch of new ideas for fics floating around but refuse to start another new one till this is finished. Enjoy.

I sat a my kitchen table with a note book in front of me and chewed on a pen cap. What exactly was I going to do. I needed a plan, but those had worked out soooo well for me in the past couple of days. Maybe I should go back to letting Mina do my thinking for me, or she kept mentioning the cat... maybe the cat should do my thinking for me. I snorted and went back to studying my notes. Serena left for school at 8:45, was late for school, got detention from 3:30 till 4 headed to the arcade. Yes I also knew when her gym classes were, that she regularly spent Fridays at the temple, and a myriad of other things were written down in my little book, that should anyone find would get me locked up. I do seem to remember mentioning crossing the line, let's face it I'm so far past the line I can't even see it anymore. Mina's suggestion of seduction was easier said than done. As Serena is so fond of reminding me I'm a jack ass. I don't chase women, women chase me... I ignore them. Or in Serena's case taunt them till they hate me and then when I haven't got a shot in hell decide hey I kinda want one.

I flipped to a blank page in my note book and wrote a bold 1 and circled it for good measure. What was my first move going to be? What should it be? Hmmm, ok what was the first thing I needed to accomplish... I needed Serena to stop ignoring me. I wrote that down in equally bold print next to the 1. Maybe if I just wrote it boldly enough it'd happen. I shook my head and moved my pen to the next line of the page. What was going to be my first move in getting Serena to stop ignoring me... make it so she couldn't i.e be everywhere. I probably knew her schedule better than she did maybe it was time Serena learned she had a stalker. I mean if she wasn't going to call the cops on me for kidnapping she probably wouldn't call them because I start following her. She might start thinking I'm really creepy though. BE SUBTLE, all caps, underlined twice. This was going to be really hard. Looking back at my past actions is there anything that suggests I'm at all capable of subtly? 2. Figure out something I can do for her that she'll really like. Hmm that was going to take some thought. 3. Beat her over the head with it. That I could do. No problem. Maybe that should be my entire plan?

It only took two days for Serena to stop ignoring me, I was leaning on the wall by the gate to her school. Again.

"Fancy meeting you here Meatball head." I drawled and she stopped in act of brushing past me. After a minute she turned to face me, and gasp, actually looked at me not through me.

"Yeah Darien what a surprise, me being outside my school after I get out of detention. It's even more shocking today than it was yesterday or the day before. The real question is why are you here jack ass?"

"DARIEN!" She snapped. Oh yeah, she'd asked me something, I should probably pretend to be an intelligent being instead of standing here grinning like a moron.

"How about I give you a ride tomorrow, then you won't have detention."

"Why on earth would you do that? And more importantly why would you think I'd ever get into another vehicle with you?"

"Because I like you, we both know you can knock me out if you want to thus giving me incentive to behave, and getting out of a half hour detention is worth 5 minutes in my company?" Yes I had actually thought about the answer before hand and thought my arguments were fairly good.

"I don't believe you and not a shot in hell." She turned on her heel and started walking away. I of course, being a good stalker and taking my new profession very seriously followed.

"Why are you following me!" She shrieked spinning around. That'd been quicker than I'd thought. She'd barely gone 10 steps. I smirked, I was getting to her, and what do you know I was sorta having fun. Remember all of this started because I take perverse pleasure in annoying Serena... for some reason the phrase one step forward two steps back came to mind.

"I'm just headed to the Arcade, it's where I go every afternoon. Last time I checked it was in this direction." I answered in my most condescending tone speaking slowly.

"Urrrrgh!" Serena spun back around growling in frustration and stormed off. Yup two steps back... definitely a masochist. I followed a step behind.

"Stop staring at me." Serena growled and I smirked. How exactly had she known I'd been staring.

"And stop smirking." My grin widened.

"So failed any classes lately?"

"Really do you have a jack ass gene? Are you incapable of normal human interaction?" I moved up to walk beside her and she didn't speed up as she usually did but let me walk beside her.

"Apparently only with you."

"Oh goody I feel so blessed!"

"And so you should, I'm quite a catch you know." I joked and she snorted.

"I'm not catching you so much as I can't get away."

"I'm glad you're finally acknowledging the inevitable."

"Oh thank god the Arcade!" She ran the last bit to the front doors, but I noticed the sidelong glance she tossed my way and smiled. I was getting somewhere.