Chapter 10. Three Dad's and a Little Rini.
Reality Check.
"Hey, meatball head," says Darien with a smirk and drink for her.
"Darien," says Serena. "Don't call me that."
"Sorry, but I just miss it." He hands her a drink and she takes it.
"Thanks." She kisses him on the lips lightly and he smiles. "For this. I love it."
"No problem. I just felt like you should get a proper welcome back."
"I really appreciate it." Serena smiles at Darien then she catches a glimpse of Seiya looking at her. She then see him leaving the apartment. She bites her lower lip but continues to converse with everyone else. She hadn't seen some of the people since high school. It is fun to see them again after she has been gone for a while.
"Serena I can't believe that Yaten was in the apartment," says Mina. "Gosh, I would die. He didn't go into my room, did he?" Mina looks worried.
"No, I told him he couldn't," says Serena.
"Oh, good." Mina is relieved. "So, he wanted to go into my room?"
"Yeah, I think he's interested."
"No way. Serena I know this is your party and I love to hang around you and…"
"Mina you can go to him."
"Thanks." Mina hugs Serena. "Love you. Bye!" Mina starts to search for Yaten in the apartment. She heads for the door of the apartment and sees Yaten and Seiya sitting on a bench next to the elevators. Mina re-enters hoping they didn't see her.
"Seiya it's tough," says Yaten.
"This has happen to you?" asks Seiya.
"No, not exactly. I just feel for you man. Love is tough. We're never going to get it so we gotta move on when we can't have it."
"That sucks. You know the way I feel about her. She drives me insane." Seiya runs bow his head and runs both his hand through his hair.
"I know…"
"No, you don't. When I'm with her everything's perfect." Seiya looks up at Yaten with so much emotion in his eyes. "I love Serena."
"But she's in love with Darien. She met him first and they have a kid together. Just let it go."
Seiya stands up and goes over to the stairs. Yaten looks up at him and rolls his eyes. He knows what he is going to do. When Seiya is depress he always does physical work like running or play basketball.
"Seiya it's twelve floors." Seiya nods his head and starts to run down the stairs. Yaten nods his head and walks over to the apartment. Mina then opens the door and green eyes meet blue eyes.
"Hi," says Mina in meek voice.
"Hi," says Yaten as he stands up. "Were looking for me?"
"Sort of." Mina dazzles him with a smile.
"I was going to call you."
"Like I haven't heard that line before." Mina laughs.
Yaten grins at her and escorts her back into the apartment. They run into a friend of Serena's who Yaten recognizes. Mina greets her and introduces her to Yaten.
"Amy," says Yaten.
"You know my name?" asks Amy.
"Yeah, want to meet my brother Taiki." Yaten looks around to see Taiki talking to Andrew. He turns around when Yaten calls him up. Taiki walks over and is surprise to see Amy. They both blush when they see each other.
Serena excuses herself from everyone leaving Rini with her mom. She quickly goes over to a room, which happens to be Seiya's. Serena sits down on the bed then looks out the window where she could see the full moon. She then remembers one night that the moon was full and she had made the decision of a life time.
FLASHBACK
Beep! You have one message.
"Sweetie I'm working late tonight. I won't be able to go to that Halloween party. I'm sorry. I'll make it up to you. Love you."
Serena sighs as she presses delete on the answering machine. She looks at her outfit sitting on her bed then touches her belly. She didn't want to go and told Darien she wouldn't go if he couldn't go but then changes her mind about it.
"I guess you'll have to wait," Serena says to herself. She grabs the costume and puts it on. A couple minutes later she is wrap up in a pink coat and is out the door.
When she arrives at the party she takes off her coat and hands it to the door man. The door man's jaw drops when he sees her costume. Serena makes her way through the crowd hoping to find some of her friends at the party.
END OF FLASHBACK
Meanwhile, downstairs Seiya exit's the building and breaths heavily leaning on the van for support. He looks up and sees a full moon in the skies. This reminds him of that night when he met Serena.
FLASHBACK
Seiya enters the party with his brothers. They were there as the three musketeers, which work perfect for them. With the mask hiding their faces they were sure not to be recognized by anyone since it was their plan. The three find their way to the concession stand and pour some drinks.
They were on the prowl for girls to dance with. None of them had any problem with that since the girls all drool over their musketeers outfit and fell for their charming comments. Seiya on the other hand stayed away from the dance floor and was lucky to do so because he would of miss the beautiful angel entering the party.
Seiya turns around and sees a pretty blonde with long golden hair put into two buns on each side of her head and the rest of her hair dangling down by the sides. Her attire consist of a pink coat and it came off as she enters the room revealing a pretty pink sleeveless top that looks like a bathing suit and a little material that seems to be her skirt barley covering her thighs. She wore nylon stockings that made her legs look longer and a pair pink pumps with a tiny cotton ball just above her skirt and butt.
He could only just watch as she makes her way through the crowd and passes him just a few feet away. Seiya puts his drink down and follows her. All night he couldn't come up with the courage to talk to her or anything until he got too close to her and someone accidentally pushes him unto her.
"Oh, I'm sorry," says Seiya feeling his face blush in embarrassment.
"It's okay," says Serena with a smile that melt Seiya's heart. "I'm surprise I haven't crashed into someone tonight. I'm sort of klutz."
"You don't look like one."
"Thanks."
"Nice costume." Seiya looks her up and down.
"Thanks. You look quite dashing yourself." They both laugh. A quiet moment occurs until some music starts to play.
"Umm you want to dance." He extends his hand to Serena whose eyes widen at his question. She smiles and accepts. They enter the dance floor and sway to the soft music playing. Soon they were laughing with each other at something or other that they'd say.
After the dance, the two head over to a balcony to get some fresh air. There they could see the beautiful full moon in the night sky. Serena rubs her arms to keep warm and Seiya quickly takes his cape off and wraps it around Serena to keep her warm.
"Thanks."
"You're welcome."
"You came alone?" Serena always the curious one.
"No, I'm here with my brothers." The both lean on the balcony railing looking at the view of the city.
"Oh." Serena wraps the cape closer to herself.
"And you. You're here with friends?"
"No…I was suppose come with boyfriend but he couldn't get the night off. Work." Serena sighs then continues. "I understand it but tonight was really important to me and I really wanted him to be hear."
"That's too bad."
"I don't blame him for not being here with me. I know work is important to him and I don't want to mess that up for him cause he has really come far. I'm proud of him and…" Serena trails off and begins to think to herself.
"And?"
"Oh, I lost my train of thought." Serena laughs at that. "You must be annoyed that I keep rambling on about my boyfriend." "No. He's one lucky guy."
They hear a countdown from afar and an announcer is saying that the votes for best costume were being tallied up and at midnight they would reveal the winner. People are counting down till midnight.
"Ten, nine, eight…"
"Who do think would win for best costume?" Serena turns to Seiya holding the cape close to her chest. Seiya sends her grin.
"Seven, six, five…"
"I'd say the sexy bunny is going to take it." Serena blushes at his comment. She turns her head to see the night sky and sees a shooting star pass by.
"A shooting star. Make a wish." Serena closes her eyes tight and Seiya watches her.
"Four, three, two…"
Seiya grabs hold of Serena and rubs the side of her arms noticing that she still felt cold even with his cape around her. Serena opens her eyes and they both look into each other's blue eyes getting lost in each other. By some cosmic force they pull closer to each other until their lips caressed each other.
"One!" People cheer at the midnight of hour of Halloween but no one seem to pay attention to the couple by the balcony kissing passionately beneath the starlight night.
AN: I just thought it should end right here. Sorry for all you Darien and Serena fans but Seiya's going to win this time. Read my other story Swaying a girls heart and the soon to be sequel, which right now is untitled. LOl. I hope you enjoyed it.