Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the plot line and such. Well, for all parts up to here at least. Naoko and Joss, they are Gods in their own little ways and I praise them for their creativity and such. You get the point.
On With The Story!
You guys are going to KILL me for some of the things beginning in this chapter.
*RING*
*RING*
"Hello?" I said, picking up the phone in my room.
"I'm gonna start charging you for these calls you know!" a male voice answers on the other side.
"Let me guess. Another bouquet?"
"Yes. He really wants you back."
"I can't go back to him and keep him from what he really wants."
"And what does he really want?"
"Mortality and everything that comes along with it. He wants the two of us to be human again and live as we were supposed to all those years ago."
"And why, exactly, can't you give him that?"
"It's long and personal."
"Okay. Just come and get your delivery."
"Okay. Thanks Angel." I say, hangning up the phone. I make a brief exit from my room and down the hall to the gand staiscase, jogging down it.
I exit the staircase moments later and into the lobby, finding a bouquet of my favorite flowers. Roses. I approach them, finding Cordelia already reading the card.
"'To: Serenity, my beloved. Please talk to me, I swear we can work through this. I love you. Endymion.' He sounds like a great guy. You don't find many of his kind anywhere in the world." she says, reading the card aloud and giving her opinion.
"Hmm." I said, putting my hand on my chin and examining the flowers.
"What?" she says.
"Red, pink, and white. He remembers." I said, gently smelling one of the white roses.
"What about them?"
"Red means I love you. Pink means I like you. And white - " Angel starts, approaching us from behind the desk.
"White means I want to marry you. Anyone want to take bets that the engagement ring is hidden in here somewhere?" I finish, crossing my arms in front of my chest.
"It is. It was attached to the ribbon that held the card." Cordelia said, holding up the ring.
"How did I know."
"So why won't you take him back? What did he do that makes you hate him so much?" she askes.
"I don't hate him, on the contrary, actually. I love him so much that I would give anything just to be in his presence. But he deserves to be happy and get everything he disires and I can't give him that." I said, picking up the bouquet and taking the ring from Cordelia and leave.
"But he desires you!" I hear Angel yell at me.
Shaking my head, I climb the stairs to my floor.
"He loves me, I know he does. But I can't give him what he truely deserves."
"You make him happy. And you yourself said that he truely deserves to be happy." a male voice says. I turn, seeing Wesley standing before me, a book in his hands.
"But I know he wants me and mortality. At this point, he can't have both."
"Why not?"
"Because in my human form I'm dying, okay? You happy? You finally know the reason why I can't be with him!"
"Have you ever thought that, with today's medical advancements, you may be able to find a cure for whatever you have?"
"There is no cure. I've spent the past century looking for one, but there are none. So, if you'll excuse me, I'll be going to my room now." I turned, solemnly, and walked to my room, closing the door behind me. I set the flowers in the corner along with the other five bouquets and set my ring on the nightstand next to the phone. I walked to the window and opened the curtains, revealing the clear night sky. I opened the window, allowing the cool, summer breeze in, and pulled up the chair, sitting and staring into the night.
"Endymion, my love. It's been many years since you and I have been together. Too many, in fact. Sixty-seven years, three weeks, and four days and I still can't stop thinking of you. I just wish I could give you everything you want. I know you say all you truely need is me, the others keep telling me this as well. But I can't help but wonder if your life will truely ever be full if that's all you had. If you had to stay with me and live, immortally. My only problem now, is talking to you about this."
I sighed I stood, pacing my room for a few moments. I looked out the window one last time and smiled.
"Why can't I?" I ask. I grab the ring from beside my phone and slip it on my left ring finger and, smiling, I quickly exit my room and almost run down the hall and down the stairs. I run past the trio, working diligently at the front desk, and onto the street, heading east.
I knock on the door for the second time, figiting slightly. I raise my hand to knock a third time before the door opens, revealing a beautiful, dark-haired woman in a tight red tube dress.
"Is En- Darien here?" I ask, trying to look past the young thing.
"And who, exactly are you?" the girl asks.
"I should be asking you the same thing."
"I'm Raye, his girlfriend." she replies, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"His gir-girlfriend?"
"Ren?" Darien's voice calls from in the apartment before he comes up behind the girl in nothing but black pants.
"I guess I shouldn't have wasted another thought on you." I spat at him, removing the ring and throwing it at him.
"Ren! You have the - "
"The wrong idea? I don't give a damn anymore Endymion! You just lost me for the last time! Good bye!" I yell, storming away from the apartment. All I heard behind me was a door slamming shut and a lot of yelling before I stepped into the solitude of the elevator, tears making seemingly endless trails down my face.
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'?" Angel quoted, trying to cheer me up.
"Whoever said that was never in love." I said, wiping, yet another, tear from my face. I stared out the window, trying my best not to breakdown crying. The bastard did it to me again. He made me fall for him and then broke my heart. Why is it that he and I are on a cycle that just repeats at all the wrong times?
"Whoever said that probably never had to fall out of love." Cordelia said, sitting across from me.
"You guys shouldn't be here taking care of me. You all do have jobs to do. You shouldn't be concerned with me."
"You're our friend. We care about you."
"Well don't. I'll only bring you down." I said, hugging my legs tighter to my chest.
"Come on Angel, let's leave her."
"But she - "
"She really needs to be alone right now."
"Alright. Get better reijin megami*." Angel said, gently kissing me on my forehead, and left, Cordelia following behind him.
I sighed, smiling slightly. I had good friends. I stared out the window for a while longer before looking at the clock on my nightstand. 2:57 am.
"It's time." I said to myself, standing from my chair. I walked to my small closet and opened it, pulling out an oversized zip-up sweatshirt and throwing it on and pulling out a pair of black sandals and slipping them onto my jean-covered feet. I exited my room once again and headed down stairs.
AHHHH! Cliff-hanger! I love these, but I don't think I do enough of them. Oh, well.
Anyone want to guess what it's time for!?!?!?!? Cuz I'm looking for suggestions cuz I REALLY don't know. I don't even have an idea for the next chapter. Well, I shouldn't say that. I have a few ideas, I'm just not sure which one I should do. Oh, well . . . . REVIEW!!!
*reijin megami ~ beautiful goddess. In her immortality, Serenity's beauty is incomparable. She is very ethreal and seems to glow with a hidden power.
