Chapter 14:
The next morning Darien and his father were in his office. Darien had wanted to talk with his father as soon as possible. The two of them sat in silence for a few minutes, neither of them not sure what to say. After a while Derrick cleared his throat. "There's something that you wanted to talk to me about, right?" Derrick asked.
Darien moved his eyes off the ground and to his father. "Yes, I did want to talk to you." He told his father. "It's about Serena."
"Oh, what about that blind girl?" Derrick asked.
Darien sighed. "Yeah, I wanted to talk about Serena. I want you to know that I do care for her. More that I did for Beryl." Darien told his father.
"Do you really care for her?" Derrick asked his son.
Darien looked at his father and nodded. "Yes, I do care for her. I'm sorry if she isn't rich or anything, but I really do care for her."
Derrick looked at his son. He sat there looking at him quietly for a few moments. "Well, if you really care for her then why are we still talking? You should tell her."
Darien looked at his father and blinked. "Wait, you don't care?" He asked his father.
Derrick looked at his son and shook his head. "No, I never really liked Beryl anyway."
Darien smiled as he stood up. He left the room to go upstairs. He knocked on the door to Serena and Mina's room. When he heard a come in he went inside. He saw Serena sitting on the bed. "Hey." He said as he walked over to her.
"Hi." She said as she sat up.
Darien sighed as he sat on the edge of the bed. "I need to talk to you." He told her.
"About what?" She asked, curios.
"I need to tell you how I feel about you. Please don't say anything until I'm done." He told her. "Yesterday after dinner I talked with Beryl. I told her that I no longer had feelings for her. I told her that I now had feelings for you. I understand if you don't feel the same way.
Serena smiled. "I do feel the same way about you." She told him.
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Outside Mina and Andrew were taking a walk. They both were quite. They weren't sure what to say. Mina bent down to look at the flowers and sighed. "These are nice flowers." Mina said, breaking the silence.
Andrew bent down and looked at the flowers. "Yeah, they are nice." Andrew agreed. "Mina, there something I want to tell you."
"What?" Mina asked as she stood up.
Andrew ran his fingers through his hair and sighed. "Well, I want to tell you that I like you."
Mina looked at him. "Well, I like you too." She told him.
Andrew sighed again. "I'm sorry." He told her. "That's not what I meant to say."
"Oh, then what did you want to say?" She asked him.
Andrew sighed again. "I want to tell you that I want to get to know you better. I mean I got to know you better, but I still want to get to know you. Does that make sense?"
Mina stood up as she giggled. "I do too." She told him.
Andrew looked at her and smiled. "Great, you want to go out to eat?"
"Now?"
"Sure, why not?"
"Alright."
Mina and Andrew left the garden and walked to his car. They got into the car and he drove them into town. They went to a café and had lunch. While they ate they talked about all sorts of things.
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Upstairs inside Serena and Darien were sitting in silence. They had been for the past ten minutes. Darien then cleared his throat. "Um, Serena." He began. "Do you want to go to an art gallery this weekend? I sold your painting to one and I thought that we could go. I know you can't see, but is that all right?"
Serena smiled at him. "Sure, let's go. I don't mind. You could tell me what some look like."
"Okay, so Friday's good right?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, so I'll go now." Darien said as he got up and left the room.
As soon as he left Serena smiled happily. She was happy that he had invited her somewhere. She wanted to tell Mina but she had no idea where her sister was. She just sat on the bed waiting for her sister to come back so she could tell her.