A Nightmare So Real part 2, by Rhiannon
Darien sat in his apartment, alone in the dark. He was staring at nothing, thinking only of the events that had transpired that day. His only love, his Serena had dumped him and for no apparent reason. If she were seeing someone else, someone who would make her happier than he could, he would have let her go. But there was no reason. He had tried as hard as he could to love her and make her happy, but she no longer wanted anything to do with him.
*KNOCK, KNOCK*
What in the world? Darien thought as he went to answer the door.
"Who is it?" he asked.
"It's Luna and Artemis. May we come in?"
Now what on earth can these two want, Darien thought as he let them in.
"Darien we really must talk with you about Serena," Luna said, getting straight to the point.
"Why do we need to talk about it Luna?" he asked, feeling downcast and low.
"Well, Darien; Artemis and I were wondering if you knew why she seems to have changed so suddenly. I mean, last week she was happy with the way that her life was. Then this week she doesn't want anything the same. She no longer wants to be Sailor Moon, and worst of all she doesn't want ~you~!"
"Wait a minute Luna you didn't tell me that she didn't want to be Sailor Moon anymore," Artemis began, but when he took one look at Luna's expression he knew he'd better can it.
"Look Luna, I don't know any more than you and Artemis do...I mean yesterday we were so happy together. We went out had ice cream and saw a movie. ~WE~ seemed fine yesterday. As for her not wanting to be Sailor Moon...I just don't know what happened to her," Darien finished feeling worse because Luna and Artemis were there to see him in this state of unhappiness and dejection.
"Darien, I'm sorry that we bothered you, we were just hoping that you could shed some light on her changed personality. We'll leave now," Artemis said nudging Luna to the door.
So Darien went back to sitting in his lonely and dark apartment. The light in his life was gone now, and he wanted nothing more than to have it back.
He walked to his closet and pulled out his photo albums. For the most part the pictures were in boxes, but there were some that Serena had decided to put into albums.
-Flash Back-
"Darien, you have so many pictures here!" she squealed.
"Yeah, they're of trips I've taken and places we've been together."
"Really?"
"Yep, most of them are of you or us."
"Oh Darien!" she cried as she got up from where she sat to hug him fiercely.
"Hey meatball head, what's all this about?"
"Do I need an excuse to hug you?" she said with her head buried in his chest.
"No," he smiled.
"Well I'm hugging you because you have so many pictures of us together and I think it's so sweet that you do. Now to show how much it means to me that you have so many pictures of us I'm gonna put them all into a photo album!" she cried excitedly.
"Serena you don't have to..."
"I know I don't, but I want to so that someday when we're old and we've been married for 50 years we can look at these pictures and always remember."
-End FB-
"Always remember," he said aloud, "I'll always remember Serena, the question is will you? Or will you forget everything that meant so much to both of us? Will you forget that I love you with my whole entire heart?"
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"Luna you didn't tell me that she refused to be Sailor Moon," Artemis said a little hurt.
"I didn't tell you because she's said it so many times that it's just become an idle threat."
"But Luna, she broke up with Darien, and because she broke up with him she could be serious about not being Sailor Moon."
"Artemis," Luna said looking away, "I just don't know what's happening to her anymore. I mean this goes deeper than just teenage angst. I wish I could get to the bottom of this, but she won't talk to me about it. I know she won't. She's never really confided in me, but we talk about things, I just know that she won't seek my advice in this situation."
"Maybe she won't seek you Luna, but she may seek one of the other girls," Artemis reassured.
"Maybe Artemis, Maybe."
"Luna this isn't your fault. Whatever Serena is doing, she's doing it because she wants to."
"I know Artemis, I know."
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Well Serena, Serena thought to herself as she strolled about the mall, You've finally dumped that excess baggage, now what are you going to do?
"Shop 'till I drop!" she answered herself aloud.
So hyperactive Serena bounded through the mall buying whatever she wanted. Normally she'd buy childish things, toys, stuffed animals, and little knick-knacks for Darien. But today she walked around like a new woman. Buying things like a high heeled shoes, new clothing mostly in black, lots of makeup- stuff that she never wore-, even a ~diet~ soda. In short Serena was being quite the opposite of her normal self.
Now, to find something for my Muffin, she thought, Wait! What am I saying? I broke up with that jerk, why am I thinking of buying him something? Unless I still love him, but that's impossible, not after the way he's treated me!
"Hey Serena," a voice called breaking her from her thoughts.
"Hi Raye, watcha doin' here?"
"What's it look like dummy? I'm shopping!" Raye said enthusiastically, "Looks like you did quite a lot of shopping today too huh? Find anything good?"
"I sure did!" Serena exclaimed, "But I'm kinda tired of shopping right now, what do you say we go to your place and look at all our purchases there?"
"Sure Serena, just let me grab a soda."
"Well you could have the rest of mine, Raye, there's still half of it left."
"No Serena I'm not gonna drink any of that sugar rush soda of yours."
"It's not sugar rush soda ~Raye~ it happens to be ~diet~, thank you very much!"
"~You~ drinking a diet soda? Well glad to see that your finally getting over your obsession with sweets," Raye said not suppressing the tone of surprise in her voice.
"Yes diet, now lets get outta here!"
With that the two of them went off to Raye's. Serena feeling on top of the world, and Raye completely bewildered as to what had happened to the quirky Serena she knew. Raye knew something was up, there was something different about Serena but it was probably nothing. Right?
To be Continued...
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