LET ME BE THE ONE TO LOVE YOU MORE..
Procastination sure is an amazing thing, it makes your sense of time to become completely useless. To me, it had been just a few weeks when I posted chapter 53. And now that I check, that was almost two months ago!!
I promise I´ll really try to finish soon. After all, I still have 6 more chapters to go and this two year project will be finished. Thanks to all of you who have followed the story after all this time.
Here comes the sun is a song from the Beatles, and I love playing it in Rockband (yeah, I know I suck at the guitar but I still like to play)!!!
54. Here comes the sun…
--And finally, spring is back!!—yelled Mina.
--It was about time—said Malcolm—I almost got a depression from all that cold.
It was Sunday, the first warm weekend in the New Year and almost two weeks had gone by since Serena´s fathers burial. Darien and Serena had been invited to an outing to a national park area nearby the city that the girls had organized to just make them get away from the usual landscape and breathe some much needed fresh air.
All around the signs of the new season were almost exploding while you looked at it. The trees along the trail they were taking whispered and the forest floor was covered with budding flowers and herbs. There were also plenty of birds that were returning from their winter refuges and gloried on the late morning freshness.
Darien and Serena walked behind their group of friends, holding hands and listening to everything their friends said. Mina and Mal leaded because they had been to the place before and knew the way to a splendid corner, for sure one of their secret places they had discovered together. Mina was happy with the whole outing even if her shoes, backpack and the whole mountain of things she carried around was starting to slow her down; well, she was happy most of the time for almost every little thing, which was just so different from Mal, who tended to be a more… calmed and composed person.
Behind were Lita and Andrew, also kind of leading the way since Lita was a natural leader for this kind of things. In the middle were Raye and Chad, amazed with the whole scenery and taking pictures like there was no tomorrow. Following them were Amy and Adam, silently trying to figure a way in a GPS device one of them brought, just in case since they all knew of Mina´s horrible sense of direction, just as matching with her inability to piece together a famous quote.
They were supposed to walk for a whole hour and reach this amazing place where they would have lunch and just relax for a couple hours before walking a whole hour back and returning to the city. They had left the main trail about forty minutes now and they were supposed to get soon to that secret place of Mina and Mal anytime now. Darien was not very much into hiking, but he thought that a change in places would be good for Serena.
Of course she caught a horrible cold from that day he caught her drenched in the morning rain and he had had to nurse her back to health after a couple fevers and plenty of coughing. She spent three days sick and he became a complete expert in the art of making that miraculous soup of hers that she once gave him when he became sick. It was true; a good dose of love into the recipe and the effects could be really amazing.
But otherwise, that day out in the rain had marked a change in her and it had been for the better. He still caught her staring into nothingness and thinking to herself a million things she didn't want to say, but it was not that scary silence anymore; to be honest, after all the ordeal, he had come to realize how disturbing her silence was at that time. By no means he wanted to see her go back to such a state, not anymore and much less because of people like her parents.
Darien stared at her and her beautiful sky blue eyes greeted him. He could feel a faint trace of pain there and while he knew there was no way he would ever erase it completely, he was more than determined to give her a whole life of happiness and a loving family of her own that would be strong and united as it could be possible. The sun had returned to their life just as the spring came back after the harsh winter. She had already recovered her smile and just that had been a big step forward.
--What´s the matter, Darien—she asked and small tender smile came to her face, reaching her eyes as a true smile born from the soul.
--Do you know that I love you—he said out of the blue.
--I know—she answered and squeezed his hand—I love you too. All this walking around has made me hungry…
--Sorry, I can only give you a kiss for now—he said with seriousness in his voice. He was teasing her and she knew it because he had brought quite a lot of snacks in his backpack.
--It will have to do for now—she teased back—But as the man in our family, you should provide me with something to eat soon or I will faint…
Darien laughed at her small joke and hugged her before kissing her lips lightly.
--Here, I will find you a nice mamooth leg to roast and after you have eaten, Ill drag you by the hair back into our cave and…
--And?—she asked teasingly while quirking an eyebrow…--What is the caveman going to do to me?
His blood jumped in his body at the sound of her inviting question after so many weeks without them being intimate. He had understood just how sad she had been and had been more than happy to be her cuddle toy every night if that made her recover and regain her confidence. But he was also a healthy young man very madly in love with that blonde beauty and every day refraining from making love to her had been quite taxing. He would have said something real naughty had it not been for their friends saying that they had arrived to the nice clearing with the beautiful patch of wild flowers and the small creek flowing in the middle of the whole place.
And he would have to wait until they arrived back at home to show her just what the caveman inside him wanted to do to her. But then again, he had waited for several weeks now and a couple hours more would be easy to handle.
Or so he thought.
