Girls

Previously:

"I love you guys."

"I love you too." Both her parents said at the same time. She could tell both were close to tears. "We'll call when we get in." Ilene said.

"I love you guys so much." She repeated, tears falling from her eyes.

She heard a smile behind their voices. "We love you too."

"I've got to call the girls now. Please come soon."

"Already practically out the door." Her father humored.

"Bye daddy. Bye mom."

"See you sweetie."

"See you honey."

Serena felt a tear run down her cheek as she stared at the phone. She hadn't realized just how much she missed her parents. She quickly wiped it away as she dialed Amy's number.

"Hey Darien. How are you?"

"I-it's not Darien."

There was a pause. "Who is this?" She asked confused.

"Amy, it's me."

"This can't be." She paused again. "Rena?"

"The one and only."

"Wait, what? No-"

"Please Ames. Can you three-way Lita? And have her call Mina or something. I really don't want to say this three times."

"S-sure." She said, still in shock.

Serena listened as Amy explained to Lita to call.

"Why so urgent Ames?" She heard Lita ask.

"Just do it."

"Oh God. What's wrong? Someone die?"

"No. Quite the opposite. Just call Mina, please."

"As long as you promise someone's not dead."

"I promise. You'll be quite happy with what you and Mina will hear."

"Okay. Hold on."

Serena smiled as she heard the ringing tone.

"Hey Leets." Mina said half-cheery.

"Still down girl?" Lita asked.

"Of course. What do you expect? It hasn't been that long. I miss her."

"Hey Mina." Amy said announcing her presence on the phone.

"Oh, hey Ames. So what up with the three way chat?" Mina asked.

"Actually, four way chat." Amy said.

"What?" Lita and Mina asked at the same time.

"Hey girls." Serena said with a sly grin.

"Who-" Lita stopped, pondering.

"That's not Rena." Mina said. "This isn't funny."

"Mina, it's me. I promise you."

"OH MY GOSH RENA!" Lita and Mina's voices screamed in unison.

Serena held the phone away from her ear as the questions from all three came at once. "Guys, hold on. Slow down. I can't answer all of your questions at once."

"Sorry." Came three replies.

"It's okay."

"So me first." Amy spoke. "How did you get Darien's phone?"

"I'll explain everything when you guys get here."

"Here?"

"I'm with Darien. I was moved here. After the whole thing with Rubeus, I was put into witness protection. They moved me here."

"So you've talked to Raye?" Mina asked.

"I'll explain everything when you get here. You guys can come, right?"

"Of course we're coming!" They all shouted.

"Um, hold on." Amy said.

The three remaining girls listened in.

"Rena, your parents are at my door." Amy said as they heard a door open. "Mr. and Mrs. Selene. What are you two doing here?"

"You're on the phone with Rena?"

"Yah."

"We've got three extra tickets for you Lita, and Mina. We're on our way to Rena." Serena heard her mother announce.

"Thank you so much!" Amy screeched.

"THANK YOU!" Lita and Mina yelled.

Serena heard her parents laugh. "Be ready in 10. We'll be there soon."

"We love you Serena."

Amy put the device on speaker.

"Love you guys too." She smiled.

…

"How'd the calls go?" Raye asked as she saw a teary Serena walk back into the room.

"I'm officially deaf." She giggled.

"I thought I heard someone screaming." Raye joked.

"They're on their way."

"Who?" Darien asked.

"All of them." Serena smiled. "I miss them."

"What'd your parents say?"

Serena pulled up a chair. "Daddy was going to call the police. He couldn't believe it was really me." She glanced to Darien. "Speaking of Daddy, son, why didn't you tell me you were talking to my parents?"

"Oh – uh – well I had to have a way to check up on Raye without her knowing."

"Hey!"

"Just to make sure everything was okay when I left. And I wanted to see how you were doing." He said looking Serena in the eyes.

"I didn't realize you cared that much." She said sorrowfully.

"Okay everyone, Darien needs to rest. We're moving him to another room." Dr. Mizuno announced as she walked through the doors.

"Everyone's coming tomorrow." Serena announced as she stood. "My parents and the girls."

"You've got a lot of explaining to do." Darien gave a light chuckle.

Serena bent over and lightly pecked his lips. "Don't get worse on me tonight." She stood and smiled. "Wait! I don't have to leave."

"Just because you work here doesn't mean you can stay."

"No, but I work tonight."

"No you don't." Darien said. "When I called off for my 'vacation' earlier, I called you off too."

"Damn."

"Go get some rest." He took her hand and squeezed it lightly.

"Fine, fine."

"You can stay at my place. You too Trista." Darien offered.

"I think I need to do some damage control first. I'll send a car over to watch your place, but I have to get back to HQ." She gave Serena a hug. "Call me if you need anything, but get some sleep."

"Will do."

"I'll call for the car now, follow you to his place, and wait for the car."

"Bye bro." Raye said giving her brother a light hug. "And no more getting shot."

"I'll try."

"Love you." Serena smiled.

"Love you too."

"Come on love bird, I'm tired."

"You know it's already tomorrow."

"We're going to sleep through the day."

"Then it'll be like old times with our slumber parties. Stay up all night and sleep all day."

Serena and Raye smiled as they walked out of the room.

Trista laughed. "See you later Darien. You call me if you need anything either."

"Will do. And you call me if anything changes with anything."

"Will do." She said his statement. "Gotta follow them. See ya." She said before following the two girls.

A/n: Okay, there's the girls reactions. Hope you guys aren't too disappointed with this chapter. In a little slump. Lots of personal stuff...but i'm leaving in a few days. I'm leaving on vacation for 10 days on July 2nd, so I won't have much time to write while I'm away, then i'm back for 5 days and gone again for a week. so I'm pretty much gone almost the whole month of july, and that second trip, I won't be able to write at all. I'll be playing with little munchkins all week...I CAN'T WAIT!!! But yah, sorry again, and please feel free to PM me with suggestions. It's always nice to hav ea little input from my readers!

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