Chapter Eleven
Too Much Time Together?
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"Hello?" Ilene answered the phone.
"Hello, Mrs. Tsukino? This is Darien. I thought I'd call you personally, you daughter just woke up." Darien said into the receiver.
"Really?! We'll be right over. Tell her we love her." Ilene said with joy.
"Okay, will do."
"Goodbye." Ilene hung up before Darien could say anything more.
He walked back into the room where Serena and his beds' were.
"You mother said that they'll head right over and that they love you." Darien said, approaching her bed.
"Thank you so much Darien." Serena said with a smile approaching her lips.
"No problem, only the best for the one I love." Darien smiled back to her.
"I'm sorry, but you'll have to leave. Visiting hours are over." The doctor came into the room.
"But my parents just found out I woke up, and they're on their way over here, can I atleast see them for a few minutes?" Serena begged.
"I suppose it couldn't hurt, but you guys will have to leave, you've been here all day, I'm sure you have to go to school in the morning, right?" The doctor guessed.
"Yah, that's true." Lita agreed.
"We'll stop by tomorrow after school." Josh said.
"Yah, bye you two, see you later." Zac said waving good-bye.
"Bye," they all said in unison.
"And you get back in your bed, Mr. Chiba." The doctor said with a sly tone.
"Okay, fine, but can I atleast have my bed moved closer to Serena's?" Darien begged.
"Fine, what harm could it do?" The docter sighed. He walked over to Darien's bed and moved it next to Serena's, so close the two beds were rim to rim.
As soon as Darien laid back down on his bed, hand in hand still with Serena, her parents burst into the room.
"SERENA!" Her mother yelled as she ran over to Serena's free bedside. "Are you okay?"
"Yah, ma, I'm fine." She said giving her mother a one-armed hug. "But it's all thanks to Darien, and the doctors of course." Darien just laid there, gently squeezing her hand.
"We're so glad your okay, Serena." Her father said, just now making his way to her bedside. "and thank you sir, you are a very nice young man."
"Oooooooooo, Serena, why are your beds so close?" Sammy, her brother, teased.
"You little, you're always so annoying." Serena exaggerated, she really did love her little brother. "He saved my life, and we love eachother." She said, waiting for her father to blow a fuse.
"Really? Is this just because he saved your life Serena?" Ken said, in a concerned tone.
"No, not at all. I've love him for days now, I was going to talk to him today, but I didn't get a chance." She said, surprised her dad didn't freak out on her.
"Okay, good. Guess we'll be seeing more of you, Da-" Ken paused.
"Darien." Darien finished.
"Right, Darien. I want to thank you for looking out for my daughter." Ken finished.
"No problem, I always look out for anyone who means something to me." Darien smiled at her, then her family.
"Nice to meet you, Darien, and thank you so much. You don't know how much my baby girl means to me...no, us. Where are the girls though?" Ilene asked.
"Visiting hours were over, I begged the doctor to let you guys come in. They went home, they have to go to school tomorrow.
"Oh, well then I guess we should be going then, Sammy does have school too." Ilene realized.
"Yah, and we have work." Ken noted. "I'll stop buy tomorrow before I go."
"Okay, daddy." Ken bent down to give his daughter a hug, "and thanks for not freaking out on me." She whispered into his ear."
"No problem baby." He whispered back.
Ilene and Sammy gave their good-bye hugs, and they walked out the door.
"Good night, my sweet." Darien said.
"Good night." Serena replied.
Darien leaned over for a goodnight kiss, the sweetest one either have ever tasted.
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Darien woke up the next morning to find Serena sleeping like a baby, and her dad sitting next to her sleeping body.
"Good morning, Mr. Tsukino." Darien whispered, careful not to wake his sleeping beauty.
"Oh, good morning, Darien. How are you doing this morning?" He greeted back.
"Fine, thank you, sir." Darien said.
Ken came over to Darien's bedside, so they wouldn't wake his daughter. "Please, call me Ken, Darien."
"Okay, Ken, Darien." They both chuckled. "I'm kidding. What time did you get here, Ken?"
"At like 6 this morning."
Darien looked at a clock on the wall. "You mean you've been here for an hour and a half, just watching us sleep?" Darien questioned.
"Yah, well I was thinking that you must be one kind boy to have risked your life to save Serena like you did."
"Well, like I said, she means something to me. I love her, and I'd risk my life for anyone whom I care about, especially someone I love."
"That's nice, I'm glad she found someone like you."
"Thank you, Ken."
"Crap, I have to be to work in an hour, and it's a good 45 minute drive from here, I'll see you later. Tell Serena that I'll be by later this afternoon, and that I love her."
"Will do, have a good day at work."
"Okay, bye." He pecked his daughter on the forehead and left for work. She's happy with him, and she will be for a while.
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A few hours later, she finally woke.
"Hi Darien." She said, streaching.
"Hey, your dad was here earlier." He informed.
"Really," She looked at the time. "Wow, I slept a long time."
"Yah, I got worried so I called the nurse in. She said it's normal for a stab victim with your injuries to sleep for long periods of time."
"Oh, well thank you for worring, but you should worry 24/7, you were injured too, worry about yourself."
"I'm fine, you were hurt worse. I'm gonna be even more worried, the doctor came in a few minutes ago, and said that you could go home later today. You dad said that he'll be by later and that he loves you. He'd probably be offered to take you home then. I'll have to call the guys or something."
"I'm sure my dad can take you home, or at least to our house. You shouldn't be left home alone."
"And you say I shouldn't worry." They laughed.
The doctor walked in on their conversation. "Good, your both awake. Okay, just some information for you two. You guys can go home today, if you want to call someone to take you. I'd like someone to be with you at all times, at least for a few days, just in case anything happens. And probably your favorite question, you can return to school in the day after tomorrow, on Friday, just in time for the weekend, right?" The doctor joked.
"Well my parents both work, and my friends and brother have school."
"And my roommates have school as well."
"Could we watch eachother?" They both asked.
"I guess that would be fine, considering that you have no one else. Yes."
"My dad will be here this afternoon, can you explain all of this to him when he gets here. I don't want him thinking that I just want to spend all my time with Darien, you know?" She asked.
"Yes, that'll be fine. Call a nurse in when he gets here, and I'll come and explain."
"Okay, thank you doctor." Darien thanked.
The doctor left. "Se we get to spend even more time together!" Serena exclaimed.
"Yah, I could never spend too much time with you." Darien said.
"Or me with you." She said as she leaned in for a kiss.
"What do you think about making 'us' official, will you be my girlfriend?"
"Of course! I'd love to be your girlfriend. I've never had a boyfriend before..."
