"How!? No one knew about it!!! I erased that part of my life!!"

Darien swallowed hard. He couldn't believe this was happening. After all this time, the effort of him trying to forget and erase his past was a failure.

"Did you, Darien?" Serena said her eyes red and the obvious anger on her face. Darien breathed, he knew one day it would catch up with him but he chose to ignore it. He didn't know it would get him back like this.

"Serena, you have to under stand that it—"

"SO, YOU DID!!!!!!! GOD!!!!! DARIEN HOW COULD YOU!!!!!"

"It was a long time ago, Buns, I was stupid and foolish." Darien sighed trying to reason.

"YOU'RE IN HIGH SCHOOL, DARIEN!!!! THAT WASN'T THAT LONG AGO!!!!!!!" she yelled pointing out that fact.

"Buns............shhhhhh" Darien said trying to quite her.

"NO!!!!! Don't call me that!!!! I can't look at you Darien!!!!!" She said turning her head away from him. "I don't ever want to see or speak to you again!!"

"Buns, you don't mean that." Darien said as he took a hold of her hand to stop her from walking away.

"YES, I DO!!!!" Serena said as she tried to snatch her hand back. "AND I SAID NOT TO CALL ME THAT!!!!"

"Serena, Listen—"

"And I mean this too!!! I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!!" Tears spilled from her eyes as she screamed it. Darien stood there stunned as the words rang in his ears. When the words hit him, they hit harder then a punch to the face for him. Out of all the times she had yelled that she hated him it never inflected him but this one time hurt so much that it felt like something was crushing him alive. Darien's eyes went dull turning pitch black. He let go of Serena's hand and she ran away from him as tears ran down her face from her now strained red eyes. Darien heard the elevator ding open as Serena stepped into it. The doors quickly shut and sounded of going down.

Darien heard the clanking of shoes on the floor, coming towards him. There was a low chuckle as the echo of hands clapping together rang through the hallway.

"Bravo!!!!" Diamond said clapping his hands walking towards Darien. "That went better than I wanted it to!" Diamond stopped in front of Darien. "Don't you think so?" Diamond stuck his hands in his pockets. "Mmmm, Darien wasn't it just marvelous. I thought it brought a little dab of spice when she slapped you across the face." He kissed his fingers the way Italians do when the food was perfect. "Mmmwwaa! Bueno!" He chuckled.

There was a slam as Diamonds body hit a wall. He was hoisted up by the collar by Darien. Darien's eyes were dark with anger. Which in fact Diamond enjoyed. Diamond laughed

"Yes, Darien, Hate me for what I've done. The only way she'll trust you again is by some miracle." Diamond laughed loudly "If you're luckily" Darien banged Diamond's body to the wall. Diamond winced from the pain.

"What the Fuck did you tell her!!!!!?" Darien growled

"Oh!! Ho!! Did I touch a nerve!?" Diamond said smug. Darien banged his body on the wall again. "Now, Darien if you keep doing that you'll bruise my back."

"Exactly!" Darien said banging Diamond's body into the wall again.

"And if that does happen there's a little thing called suing, when I tell them why my back is so bruised they'll be on my side. Cause who disserves to be hurt for telling the truth?!" Diamond smiled as Darien let him go.

"What the hell did you tell her, Di?" Darien asked trying to clam down.

"I see you finally remember exactly who I am." Diamond said brushing himself off. "It's been such a long time, Sapph, My brother." Diamond smiled.

"I'm not you're brother!!! And you know that!!! You're brother died before you even met me!!"

"Your right. I should know. I was there when it happened." Diamond smirked, and then he put on a fake pout. "But you look so much like him I can't help it. You make me miss him. I had been calling you, Sapphire, ever since we met. Back then you didn't mind."

"Only reason I let you call me that was because at the time I wasn't sure my real name was Darien!! Now I know who I am!!"

"Are you sure about that? You're hiding your past and that's apart of who you are. How are you ever going to be your true self, when you hide the things you did?!" Diamond stepped closer to Darien and circled him. "Stop trying to be something your not. For you to find your true self you need to acknowledge everything about you. If you try to erase then the you that you think is your true self would just be a lie."

"SHUT UP!!!!!! JUST ANSWER MY QUESTION!!!!!!" Darien yelled, then gritted his teeth and said "What did you tell her Diamond!!!?"

"I told you already what I told her. The truth. Well........................" Diamond smiled wickedly "...........some of it."

"You mean a half of it was the truth and half of it was a lie!!!" Darien said ready to charge at Diamond.

"No, actually everything I said to her was the truth, all I did was leave out some parts" Diamond shrugged nonchalantly. Stopping in front of Darien. "Oh, and if your wondering why I'm telling you this. It's because it's to late Sapph. No matter what you say or do she won't want to listen to you. I know she'll listen to me and as long as I can keep her away from you she won't ever know the whole story." Diamond straightened his form as he smiled wickedly. He walked towards the elevator and pressed the button for it to go down. Diamond looked backed at Darien from over his shoulder.

"Now, if you excuse me, I have to do some comforting" Diamond snorted not believing what he was saying as he stepped into the elevator the doors closing behind him.

Diamond walked out of the hospital with swag to his walk, pulling out his keys. As he was walking out of the hospital he searched for Serena but saw her no where, which meant............

Diamond smirked as he neared his car and heard crying. He fixed his face to wonder erasing his smirk. Serena was sitting on the ground beside the silver Honda LX, Her legs brought to her chest, her hands wrapped around her knees, with her head lad on her knees as she cried. Diamond held down the confident smug look that wanted to show on his face keeping a concerned expression instead.

"Serena?" Diamond said as he walked a little closer towards her. She looked up at him. Her tears stained her cheeks as they ran down her face.

"Oh, Diamond!" She sniffed "He did it, he actually did!!" she cried. Diamond nodded sadly turning his head away from her so he didn't see the tears on her face.

"I know, it hurts but I think you shouldn't sit on the ground, here get up." He said as he held out his hand and she took it to get up. He held her close as she cried into his shirt. He didn't know why but it pained him very much to see her crying. He couldn't look at her with tears running down her face it made him want to REALLY comfort her. And he really didn't do such sweet things, it wasn't his style. He sighed.

"Dry your tears." He said more to save him self from the pain tugging in his heart again. "You must be tried after seeing your mother and the situation with Darien—"

She whimpered hearing Darien's name. "---Let me take you home." He said as he walked her to the passenger side of the car, setting her in the seat. He pulled the seatbelt over her buckling her up. He then paused at his action surprised at himself.

"Thank you" Serena whispered but Diamond still heard it. He looked to her and then pulled himself out of the car. "Welcome" he said still puzzled by his action as he shut the passenger door and walked to the driver side.

"Are we there yet?" Diamond asked as he drove down a busy street with a few stores here and there.

"Yeah, I think you can stop here." Serena said as they got close to a turn. Diamond looked at her weird. She had said she lived in a house and the houses were a few blocks down. The street they were on was for stores and apartment buildings.

"Are you sure this is it?" He questioned, Serena glanced at him as she opened the car door.

"Yeah this is it." She nodded, Diamond sighed giving up as Serena got out of the car.

"Hey, Serena." She turned around to face him. "Be careful" Diamond said sincerely. Serena smiled which warmed Diamond and caused him to smile too.

"Ok, I will, bye Diamond" She said and closed the car door.

Serena watched Diamond drive off and waited for his car to disappear from sight before she walked the rest of the way home. She thought that Diamond was a really nice person. There was nothing wrong with him he seemed like she could trust him but deep down inside she felt she had to be careful around him and not totally trust him. Like he had a whole motive to something. Despite how much she believed the things he said already. She felt she couldn't tell him exactly where she lived in case she was right.

Serena started her way up the silent block towards her house dreading walking by herself and jumping from every little thing.

Serena walked down the Hall of Moto Azabu Private High School carrying a box of Art Materials. Four or more Moto Azabu Boys followed her going back to the gymnasium.

"Hey, Serenity let me carry that for you." One of the boys offered. She shook her head.

"No, it's alright, I got it." She said adjusting her arms slightly to have a better grip of the box.

"You sure, it looks heavy for you. You might drop it before we get to the Gym."

Serena smiled. The Moto Azabu boys had started acting differently and Serena liked it. They didn't tell her to ditch what she was doing and hang out with them or try and flirt with her. Most of the older grade boys left her alone and gave her more respect too. Serena was glad that they didn't bother her any more.

At first she wondered what got them to change the way they acted and stop bothering her. As she got to thinking about it she refused to think any more about the reason. Even though it was obvious to the reason why or more like who. She didn't want to; she refused to think about it. That it was him that got the boys to stop bothering her. It was his doing. She REFUSED to think about........

"....Darien....." She dropped the box and the contents of it spilled out.

"I told you, you should have let me carry it for you." The boy said bending down to pick the stuff up and the rest of the boys following suit.

They had been going through the meeting point of two hallways and there he was walking down the other hall towards them his glasses fixed on his face. He was staring at her, only her, not in any other direction. He didn't pay attention to the boys that were scrabbling around her trying to pick up the glue, scissors, tape and any other stuff that fell out of the box. And she wasn't either.

"Oh, How I liked to run. Why won't I move!!? Come on just run to the crowded gym!! So he wouldn't be able to find me! Instead of being in the deserted hallway!!! GOD, I can't move!!!!" At that moment she was scared of him.

Scared because of what Diamond had told her even though he really didn't give details, even if Diamond did she would refuse for him to. She really didn't want to know the details because it wasn't so hard for her to imagine Darien commit such a crime. Even though she was scared of Darien at this moment and wanted to run away and scream bloody murder!

At the same time she wanted to run into his arms, she did not know where the sudden urge came from but it boiled inside of her. She wouldn't admit it but she missed him. Serena had not seen Darien since last Thursday when she yelled at him. She hadn't seen him for a week and she refused to acknowledge not seeing him for that week killed her. On Tuesday she refused herself to even think of him or glance in any other direction just in case she would see him.

She didn't want to look at him because she was ashamed she missed him so much. On Tuesday she had successfully hid and ran from him before Darien even spotted her. However today when he spotted her, she doesn't move, Serena had all the time to run, she knew he wouldn't chase after her but still she stood there.

"No. I have to wait for them to finish picking up the stuff that fell out of the box." She told her self, giving herself that excuse.

"Serenity? Everything's back in the box, we can continue going back to the gym." The same boy from before said now holding the box. But she wouldn't move. Her feet felt like they were glued to the floor.

Darien slowly took off his reading glasses and put them into his bag. He felt if he made any sudden movements that she would want to run. And he really didn't want her to run away from him it would hurt too much. It hurt already that she had ignored him for a whole week.

He slowly walked up to her closing the space that was between them. He raised his hand to touch her cheek and in that second Serena felt that she could move again. Like she could run for hours on no end.

"No!" she yelled as she spun around and started to run away. But before she even got three foot steps away. She felt a hand grab her wrist and slam her back against something hard. She winced. Darien had grabbed her wrist and slammed her against his hard chest very roughly. He squeezed his hand tight around her wrist. She felt his breathe tickle her ear.

"Serena, Please...." These two words sent her eyes fluttering to the back of her head and she closed her eyes, trying to hide the fact that the two simple words that came from his mouth had affected her. "....Just, Listen—"

She pulled her body away from him, turning to face him. "No, Darien, I said I didn't want to see or speak to you ever again!! I'll tolerate having to see you here, but I want you to stay away from me!"

Darien tried to step closer to her but she moved back "Serena—"

"You heard what I said! Stay away from me!!" Serena yelled as she walked backed towards the boys that helped her with the box.

They were all looking at her stunned. They had never seen any one yell or get so mad at Darien before, especially they had never seen the expression of pure hurt on Darien's face either as Serena walked away.

"Come on, we got to take this stuff back to the gym." Serena said to them as she stormed off towards the Gymnasium.

They walked quickly behind her, the boy that was carrying the box asked

"Um, Serenity, why was Endymion calling you, Serena?"

"And why were you calling him... what was it, um, oh yeah, why were you calling him....Darien?" another boy said

She didn't answer.

Serena walked out of Moto Azabu Private High School as she sighed. She made it through the day with no problems except for that one moment with Darien. She hated herself for it but she couldn't, wouldn't forgive Darien. She wouldn't let herself forgive him after what he did. She couldn't believe it but it was true. He had helped some one rape a girl.

Serena heard the beep of a car horn and looked up, her eyes catching the silver Honda LX. She walked down the steps of the school as the window of the passenger side rolled down. She bent her head down to peak in.

"Hey, Serena!" Diamond said with a smile, she smiled back

"Hey, Diamond, What are you doing here?"

"Well, I haven't seen you in a couple of days, so..." Diamond said slyly

"Diamond!! You saw me yesterday!" Serena laughed

"Couple of days, couple of hours, I guess I don't know the difference" Diamond said chuckling "either way, I missed you; things are just boring when you're not around."

Serena smiled "That's sweet."

"Is it sweet enough for you to watch a rented movie with me at my place?!" Diamond said lifting the small plastic bag that held a DVD.

"Diamond!" Diamond knew her answer would be no. That she had homework and some other excuses but like every time for the past week, he made offers she could not refuse.

"There'd be Dinner! Home cooked meal!!" Diamond persuaded.

"Diamond Durden, can cook?" Serena said raising and eye brow.

"Yeah, so what...." He whispered making Serena laugh. "I can't live off of fast food my whole life now can I?!" he said pushing the passenger door open. "Come on Serena!!!! I even got the movie you said you wanted to see, Akira!"

"I do want to see that movie." Serena sighed "Fine!" She got in closing the car door behind her. "So what DO you know how to cook?"

Diamond smiled slyly as he drove off. "Pasta, macaroni, Pasta, Pasta, pasta, macaroni, pasta—"

"So basically just pasta! And I thought I was in for a treat." Serena said crossing her arms.

"AND macaroni!" Diamond said laughing

"It's the same thing as pasta, Diamond! Just in a different shape!" Serena said making Diamond laugh even more.

"Well, what I have to offer is that I can make you any pasta you want with any sauce you want."

"Well, fine, it's better then nothing." Serena said with a laugh.

Darien sighed as he stared at the glass of water that was set in front off him. He was seated at the bar in the crown. Darien had no idea why he was there. He guessed because he was hoping he would be able to see Serena if he came here. It was useless though, she hadn't been to the crown for a week and a half. Andrew walked up to him a cup and a cleaning rag in his hand.

"Yo, Darien! What's wrong? You looked like some one just died." Andrew said cleaning the cup with the rag. Darien sighed once again.

"To long of a story to tell you."

"Does it have to do with Serena?" Andrew questioned. Darien nodded in response.

"Then sum it up." Andrew enforced putting down the cup and the rag.

"Fine." Darien huffed looking at the glass of water in his hands. "You remember what I was like before and when I started High school."

"Of course, I do!! I got beaten up by you everyday!!! Also the typical swirly, being shoved into the small contents of a locker, oh and there was that one time you gave me the wedge of a life time, my ass STILL hurts from that!!! Everyday I came home with black eyes and bruises!!! In places I never knew you could get a bruise! And plus you got into a fight almost every other day! What still baffles me is that you were one of the top students; you were on the honor roll and everything!!! Freaking smartest kid in school!!!" Andrew yelled.

"Shesh, lower your voice a little!" Darien said Hating hearing all the things he did.

"What also baffles me is that we ended up being the best of friends." Andrew said in a normal tone.

"Yeah." Darien said with a smile. "Surprisingly."

"So, what's all that have to do with Serena?" Andrew questioned, Darien looked at Andrew, as Andrew thought on what it had to do with her.

"Oh, did she find out?" Andrew asked

"Some what." Darien said lowering his eyes.

"Yeah, she would be mad if she found out about that stuff. Endymion the "Bully"."

"She didn't really find out about me being a bully to high school kids or kids that were my age. I wish she did instead of the other thing she found out." Darien said as he clenched his hands into fist as they rested on the bar counter.

"What else is there? That's all I can think off." Andrew said as he looked at Darien's face that held a complex look. "Was what she found out worse than you bullying kids, getting into fights, and cursing out teachers, all of it ending up on your permanent record, all within the ninth grade?!"

"Yes, much worse." Darien breathed out. "And it happened before High school started."

"Damn, I can't imagine........" Andrew said scratching his scalp trailing off and then looked to Darien. "What exactly is it?" Andrew asked. "That she found out?"

Darien stood up "I've got to go."

"But..." Andrew shut his mouth, it was obvious from the look on Darien's face that he wasn't going to answer Andrew's question.

Andrew stood there puzzled and overflowing with curiosity as he watched Darien walk out of the crown.

So there you have it. The next chapter which i hope you enjoyed. i will work on the next chapter and TRY to have it out in a few days.

Tell me what you think is going to happen. what you think of the chapter. and what you think happened in Darien's past.

P.S. I love all of you for taking the time to read my story. and continuing to read it this far. when i started this story i was surprised people actually like it so i give my love and greatfullness to all of you. *kisses and hugs!*

9/13/09