I'll Always Love You
A Sailor Moon Lime
By Insane Lord Akuma
Disclaimer: I dun own sailor moon. Planters nuts contains nuts. Japanese food processors are not to be used for the other use. Blowing is not a kinky word. Running from a wild bear can get you killed. I don't do windows. Most cranberry juices are only 10 percent juice.
"So Darien, I heard you got blown off last night." Andrew snickered.
"Rub it in all you want. I can still mack any girl I want to. I spend enough time in the gym." Darien responded.
"More like you spend enough time with your dick!" countered Andrew.
"Look who's talking, Mr. Stays-home-at-night-with-lady-hand-and-her-five-daughters!" Darien cackled.
"Oh shut up. So... this the same chick who always flicks you off every time you piss her off?" Inquired Andrew.
"Yeah... The same hot chick that gave me a hard-on like no other."
"Oooooh! The studmaster has finally fallen!!" Andrew teased.
"Yeah, maybe I have. But she blew me off last night... I've never been blown off before."
"We all get blown off at some point. Your ego didn't get in your way, did it?"
"Maybe it did, Andrew. All I did was say that all the girls fell for me at the beach, then she blew."
"That's your problem, right there. Girls hate it when you say stuff like that. Rita's taught me that lots of times."
"So what should I do to win her back? I've heard about you and Rita lots of times."
"Sorry. Um... Try sending her flowers."
"Flowers? What, you think I'm made of money? I'm a fricking college student. I've got bills to pay."
"Well, what's more important? Bills, or love?"
"Instinct says bills, my mind is screaming love. What type of flowers you think she'll like?"
"Probably roses. I hear they sell roses in all colors at this one shop on the corner."
"Is it cheap?"
"Probably not. But, you can't put a price on love."
"Maybe." Darien got up from the arcade stool, and went out to bye Serena flowers.
Meanwhile, Serena had been bugging Luna to let her read more of the journal, but Luna was firm in telling her not until she brought up her grade in mathematics.
"Grades now are more important than finding out how slutty you were in the Silver Millenium." Luna said with her normal dignity.
"But Luna! I don't care about grades. I'm going to end up being Queen of Crystal Tokyo one way or another! And first thing I'm doing is irradicating Math. Math is EVIL!!!" Serena whined.
"You'll do no such thing, young lady! Or my name isn't Luna if you do. I'm putting my foot down on that one!" Luna said, stomping her foot, accidently sliding off Serena's bed in the process.
"You know Luna, when you put your foot down, you really do put your foot down." Serena giggled at her cat.
"Oh be quiet. You have your moments as well, Serena. The difference between the amount of moments you have and the amount of moments I have is quite significant, you know!" retorted Luna.
"Oh hush up with the big talk..." Serena let her mind drift to Darien. 'He was so cute... He had great muscular arms... He probably had a defined chest too... And he liked me, Damnit! And I shoved him off. He'll probably never be interested in me again. I'm just a meatball head...' Serena sighed to herself.
"SERENA!! Are you even listening to me???" Luna yelled.
"Huh? You were saying something? Sorry, wasn't paying attention." Serena sighed.
"You're still upset about last night aren't you?" Luna tried to comfort Serena.
"Yeah... Darien might be a jerk, but he was so sweet and kind last night. It was as if he was a whole new person. Heh. He doesn't even know I'm Sailor Moon. He'd probably flip if he found that out."
"Well, you know you can't tell him, unless he has some equally important secret that you can keep for him. It's the only way I'll allow it." Luna said in a firm voice. "As your guardian and protector, it's the only way."
"Yeah, I know. Maybe he's lost interest in me, maybe I'll never see that sweet side I'm so unnaturally attrated to again..." Serena thought outloud.
"Oh I wouldn't count on that." Luna blurted out.
"Why's that? You know something I don't? You do, don't you!"
"I don't know anything Serena, honest. I just have this strange feeling you'll be hearing from him again." Luna covered. 'Phew.. that was close. Almost told her Darien would be soon to be husband... Mustn't let that out too quickly. It could ruin everything.'
"I hope your right, Luna. I hope you're right. Now could I read the journal?"
"Not until your math is done. It's really quite simple. You just take the two pegs, square them, then take the square root of the sum of the two squares..." Luna started rambling on, and Serena just thought about Darien. Her thoughts were interupted by the sound of the doorbell ringing. She could here some voice asking if it was the home of a Serena Tsukino. Then she heard her dad calling her.
"SERENA!!! GET DOWN HERE!!! NOW!!!" Her dad hollered. Serena soon appeared.
"What is it, Dad?" A surprised Serena asked at the bouquet of roses she was greeted with.
"The delivery boy just delivered these to you, along with this, and this." Serena dad said, handing Serena the flowers, an expensive box of fancy chocolates, and a fancy looking card envelope. "Whoever it's from, it's no one we're related to. Bunch of cheapskates we have for family." Serena's dad muttered as he walked off into another room. Serena took her stuff upstairs, set the beautiful bouquet of giant pink and white roses on her dresser, plopped down on her bed, ripped open the box of chocolates and started chowing down, before she finally got to the fancy looking card. Opening the envelope, Serena pulled out an ornate card that looked so fancy, she almost expected it to scream 'expensive' when she opened it. However, almost to her dismay, the card did not scream expensive, or say expensive anywhere on the card. Instead it read:
'Sorry for being such a jerk last night. I hope you aren't too mad at me. I really would like to see you again.
XXOO
Darien"
"He... he wants to... to see....see me again..." Serena stuttered at the thought of seeing Darien again. 'He even has good taste in cards, great choice in picking out flowers, and superb choice in chocolate. This is the best chocolate I've ever tasted.' Serena giggled to herself. She had to tell someone. She called her best friend to talk about guys with; she called her good friend Mina.
"Hello, Mina's not in right now, care to leave a message in oh say, a million years?" A sarcastic voice answered the phone.
"Have a bad night, Mina?" Serena asked.
"Worse than you can imagine, Serena. So what's up, and why'd you wake me from my beauty sleep?"
"A guy that's super cute likes me!!!!" Serena squealed.
"OH MY GOD!! YOUR KIDDING??" Mina exclaimed.
"NO!!! HE DOES HE SENT ME FLOWERS AND A CARD AND SUPER EXPENSIVE CHOCOLATE FOR BEING A TOTAL DICKHEAD WHEN HE TOOK ME OUT LAST NIGHT!!!" Serena was so excited she was about to fly out the window now.
"So what's this cute guy look like? He got big arms?"
"Big, strong, I was able to hang off them without him flinching."
"You lucky shit. What color hair?"
"Don't I know it! He has black hair, blue eyes, tan skin. Oh god is he dreamy!"
"I hate you!" Mina yelled.
"Wait till Raye finds out!" Serena snickered.
"You're going to tell Raye? She'll blow a couple fuses that you got a cute boyfriend!" Mina reminded her.
"I know! That's the idea. For once, I'll have something she doesn't, unless she and Chad finally got together. I swear, those two have the biggest things for each other, and neither will admit it. We really need to play match maker again!" Serena grinned.
"I know, and the more we hint at it, the more they deny it! Playing match maker sounds like a blast! Where and when, and how we getting tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber there?" Mina asked.
"Good question... Lita can help us get the two lovestruck nitwits there... Now he we gunna get them to kiss?"
"Don't you just have some love spell you can use?" Mina sighed.
"No, unfortunately. Luna won't let me use any of my Sailor Moon powers for personal use, although that's never stopped me from using them before..."
"I HEARD THAT SERENA!!!" Luna growled from the corner of Serena's room where she was resting on her blue satin pillow.
"She always interupts at the worst possible time." Serena complained.
"At least you don't have Artemis peeking in on you while your in the shower." Mina commented. "Ah, the wonders of having a perverted male cat that can talk. Makes Luna look nice, doesn't he?"
"Luna looks like a walk in the park compared to Artemis." Serena snickered.
"Artemis always was the little pervert..." Luna commented from the corner. Serena laughed.
"What's so hysterical?" Mina puzzled.
"Oh, Luna's just dissing Artemis, that's all." Serena giggled.
"WHAT'D SHE SAY???" Mina yelled with interest.
"Oh, just that Artemis was always the pervert." Serena giggled and answered.
"Oh, Something I already new." Mina sighed. Just then a clicking sound was heard over the phone.
"I got another call, Mina. Talk to you later for further Match making plans, K?" Serena said.
"Sure, just one thing before you go." stated Mina.
"Sure, what?"
"What's Mr wonderful's name?" Mina asked. Serena sighed.
"He's jerk Darien..." Serena said a little ashamed.
"JERK DARIEN??? You owe me details, young lady. Well, Bye!"
"Bye!" Serena clicked a button on her phone, switching to the other line. "Hello?"
"Serena?" A male voice asked.
"Da-Darien? Is that you?"
"Yeah... You have no idea how hard it is to find you."
"Well, considering I've never had anyone TRY to find me..."
"Did you get my little gift?"
"Yeah, thanks. That chocolate was too much."
"Sorry I gave it to you, then, if it was too much..." Darien started to apologize.
"Oh don't apologize. I meant it was too good for my taste buds. It was the best chocolate I've tasted!"
"Well, glad you liked it. Listen, I've gotta get to the gym before 10 this morning. You want to do something a little later?"
"Sure, what and when?"
"Oh I don't know... You want to come... over to my place?"
'His place... that could be a little... scary... I'm already going over to the place of a guy I hardly know... I'm not sure if that's a good idea...'
"Serena, did I lose you?"
"No... Just deciding if your place is a good idea or not. But it sounds okay. Just don't pull anything smart on me, or I'll do more than step on something sensitive. Do I make myself clear on that?"
"Crystal clear. How does 11 sound? I'll make lunch..."
"11 sounds great. It's a date, then. See you then. Bye!"
"See you then, Good looking." Darien said before he hung up.
Serena hung up the phone, then nearly exploded with giddy glee.
'I get to see him again!!! I get to see him again!!! Oh I'm so happy.' Serena thought to herself, her stomach feeling like it was doing flipflops. Then the thought of what she'd wear hit her. All she could think of was getting Mina over there to help her. She grabbed her phone and dialed Mina's number.
"Mina's not home, leave a message after the cussing and swearing." Mina's sleepy voice answered once again.
"Mina, sorry to wake you again, but I've got a date in an hour and a half and I don't know what to wear!! This is your area of expertise..."
"Say no more, be right over there." Mina quickly hung up. Within what seemed like minutes, she was over there ready to work. She hurried up to Serena's room, and started to attack her wardrobe. "So, I take it that was jerk Darien that called?"
"Yeah... He asked me over to his place, and I'm not turning that down!" Serena grinned.
"Ooooh, Serena's gunna play little vixen!" Mina chuckled.
"Mina, I'm not going to give myself to him, not for a few years, assuming he is... THE one. No, playing Vixen is either yours or Lita's area." Serena snickered, knowing she'd get bopped for that one. Sure enough, Mina did turn and bop Serena on her head.
"Not funny. So what happened between you two last night?" Mina asked, searching through Serena's closet. Serena relayed the whole story of the previous night to her friend. "Ohhhh... So some flowers and expenisive chocolate make up for that, eh?"
"Well, yeah. He seems genuinely sorry enough. I'll let this one slide by... But I warned him he'll get something worse then me stepping on his nuts if he pulls any more bullshit like that on me again." Serena smiled innocently as she remembered what she did to Darien last night. "Yes... much more than a slap and step..."
"You go girl. Here, this little tank top is perfect!" Mina said, pulling an enticinly seductive red tank top out of Serena's closet. "This'll do nicely. Now... what else do we have in here..." Mina said, handing Serena the tank top and going back to searching for other stuff.
While Mina was searching, she looked at the tank top. She had recieved it from her cousin as a gift, but thought it was a little too revealing to wear, and now she was supposed to wear this to a guy's place, a cute guy that she liked's place at that. Her attentions were diverted back to the real world when Mina announced that she had the perfect pair of pants for Serena to wear. Mina had found Serena's tight tight pants that had cuff around the feet. They were pinkish white in color, and had a way of looking shiny and reflective in the right type of light. Serena noticed that they'd go with the red tank top rather nicely, and didn't make her look too much like she worked a corner somewhere.
"That tank top and those pants will make a stunning combination. Now we just need shoes. High heels are too formal, shoes are too casual. Sandals might work if they're fancy enough. Ah, these will do nicely." Mina said, pulling out a pair of white leather woven sandle shoes. "Try that outfit on and see what you think." Mina said. Serena took the outfit and went into the bathroom to try it on. After changing into the outfit and deciding it wasn't all that bad, Serena moved on to her hair and whether or not she should wear make-up.
"You don't want to give Darien a heart attack, do you?" Mina asked.
"Not really. I just want to look good for him." Serena sighed.
"Oh, beleive me. If he doesn't gasp at you in that, he's got a boyfriend he isn't telling you about." Mina assured her. Serena punched her friend for her last comment.
"What about jewelry? That's important." Serena asked.
"I'd say just wear what you usually wear. That outfit will pretty much go with anything, although it would be best if you used stuff with stones of warmer shades... That outfit is more on the warm side of the spectrem of color. Cool shades would go bad with it." Mina decided.
"In english, please? You lost me with the warm shade part..." Serena complained.
"Oh sorry. I'd say use red or purplish stones for jewelry. Anything else like blue or yellow or orange would like kind of bad with that outfit." Mina sweatdropped.
"Okay, thanks for your help. Now if only you could help me with this one little problem I have now." Serena said, finishing putting on her jewelry.
"What's the problem?" Mina inquired.
"I'm supposed to meet Darien at his place. I have no clue where he lives. Maybe I can get lucky and run into him on the street. He's gotta live around here somewhere, I see him often enough, and there's only one gym in the area. I'll just wait for him there."
"That's what I'd do. Okay, I'll be going now! See ya, girlfriend!" Mina started to leave.
"Hey, wait, I'm ready to go myself, I'll see you to the gate." Serena said, walking with Mina out the door, only to be spotted by her dad.
"Where do you think you're going in THAT get-up, Missy?" Serena's dad grumbled.
"Out on a date, Dad. And I'm still out of Midol, so I wouldn't tempt me if I were you." Serena said, watching her dad back off at the sound of the M word again.
"I'll be sure to get you some when I'm at the store later on, Serena." Serena's dad said, going back into the room he'd come from. Serena and Mina walked out the door.
"Dang girl, you sure know how to handle your father." Mina commented.
"I just took my mom's advice. Blame it on PMS. It works with all men, she says. It gets my dad to not yell at me when I come home late." Serena giggled.
"Lucky. If only I didn't live with my mom, oh that would be nice." Mina sighed. "Well, see ya later. Bye!" Mina said, walking off toward her house, which was the opposite way of where Serena was going.
"Bye Mina!" Serena yelled after her friend, then walking towards the gym where she'd meet Darien.
Meanwhile, Darien had been working out at the gym for a good while.
"So you got a date with her?" Andrew asked inbetween pull-ups.
"Yeah, she's coming over to my place. I'm not going to do anything with her, just yet, for some odd reason, though." Darien stated before pushing the bar up over his head once again.
"You? Not try and get some? That's a first." Andrew said, pulling his chin over the bar again.
"Yeah, well, Serena's different from the rest, somehow. I can't place what it is, but she's different somehow." Darien said, the bar still above his head.
"You going to tell her your little secret?" Andrew grinned.
"What secret?" Darien asked.
"The one about the roses and the cape, and moons?"
"Shut up about that. Your the only one who knows about my alter ego. If it got out that I'm..." Darien put the bar up and sat up on the bench to make sure no one could here him. "If it got out that I'm Tuxedo Mask, I'd have a million girls lined up at my door demanding my autograph. It's just something I don't need."
"Good point. You can trust me. I'll tell no one." Andrew assure his friend.
"Good, cause if word gets out, you're the first one I'm coming after." Darien said, an ominous tone to his voice.
"So what time's your date, hot shot?" Andrew quickly changed the subject.
"In about... twenty minutes." Darien looked at his watch. "I should go. Talk to you later." Darien got up and went into the locker room where he showered and changed, and went to get into his car to go home when a familiar voice stopped him.
"Hey Big Boy!" a female voice called to him.
"Serena? What are you doing here?" Darien asked, turning around.
"It's the only gym in the area, and I figured you'd be here, so I thought I'd surprise you. Besides, we're meeting at your place and I don't know where you live." Serena said matter-of-factly.
"Oh. Good point. Well, hop in." Darien said, walking over to the passenger side of the car and opening the door for Serena.
"Thank you, kind gentleman." Serena said while climbing into the car, the tightness of her pants around her lean shapely legs not escaping Darien's eye, nor did the look that sassy looking red tank top she was wearing gave her. He just looked at her figure for a moment, and finally all his control over not saying anything about her clothes burst, and he gasped at the site of what Serena was wearing. Upon hearing this, Serena just grinned to herself.
"Is something wrong, Darien? I heard you gasp." Serena asked Darien, secretly knowing how evil she was being.
"Um, no." was all Darien could say. 'Goddess, she had to wear something that made her look that gorgeous. Today will really test my self control, I think.' Darien walked over to the driver's side of his red sports car, and got in. After a quick drive, they were back at Darien's apartment building. Darien had a hard time convincing himself that it was okay to take the elevator, that the closeness of it wouldn't bother him. He surprisinly made it through the elevator ride okay. He walked with Serena to his apartment door, opened it, and let Serena in to his place.
A Sailor Moon Lime
By Insane Lord Akuma
Disclaimer: I dun own sailor moon. Planters nuts contains nuts. Japanese food processors are not to be used for the other use. Blowing is not a kinky word. Running from a wild bear can get you killed. I don't do windows. Most cranberry juices are only 10 percent juice.
"So Darien, I heard you got blown off last night." Andrew snickered.
"Rub it in all you want. I can still mack any girl I want to. I spend enough time in the gym." Darien responded.
"More like you spend enough time with your dick!" countered Andrew.
"Look who's talking, Mr. Stays-home-at-night-with-lady-hand-and-her-five-daughters!" Darien cackled.
"Oh shut up. So... this the same chick who always flicks you off every time you piss her off?" Inquired Andrew.
"Yeah... The same hot chick that gave me a hard-on like no other."
"Oooooh! The studmaster has finally fallen!!" Andrew teased.
"Yeah, maybe I have. But she blew me off last night... I've never been blown off before."
"We all get blown off at some point. Your ego didn't get in your way, did it?"
"Maybe it did, Andrew. All I did was say that all the girls fell for me at the beach, then she blew."
"That's your problem, right there. Girls hate it when you say stuff like that. Rita's taught me that lots of times."
"So what should I do to win her back? I've heard about you and Rita lots of times."
"Sorry. Um... Try sending her flowers."
"Flowers? What, you think I'm made of money? I'm a fricking college student. I've got bills to pay."
"Well, what's more important? Bills, or love?"
"Instinct says bills, my mind is screaming love. What type of flowers you think she'll like?"
"Probably roses. I hear they sell roses in all colors at this one shop on the corner."
"Is it cheap?"
"Probably not. But, you can't put a price on love."
"Maybe." Darien got up from the arcade stool, and went out to bye Serena flowers.
Meanwhile, Serena had been bugging Luna to let her read more of the journal, but Luna was firm in telling her not until she brought up her grade in mathematics.
"Grades now are more important than finding out how slutty you were in the Silver Millenium." Luna said with her normal dignity.
"But Luna! I don't care about grades. I'm going to end up being Queen of Crystal Tokyo one way or another! And first thing I'm doing is irradicating Math. Math is EVIL!!!" Serena whined.
"You'll do no such thing, young lady! Or my name isn't Luna if you do. I'm putting my foot down on that one!" Luna said, stomping her foot, accidently sliding off Serena's bed in the process.
"You know Luna, when you put your foot down, you really do put your foot down." Serena giggled at her cat.
"Oh be quiet. You have your moments as well, Serena. The difference between the amount of moments you have and the amount of moments I have is quite significant, you know!" retorted Luna.
"Oh hush up with the big talk..." Serena let her mind drift to Darien. 'He was so cute... He had great muscular arms... He probably had a defined chest too... And he liked me, Damnit! And I shoved him off. He'll probably never be interested in me again. I'm just a meatball head...' Serena sighed to herself.
"SERENA!! Are you even listening to me???" Luna yelled.
"Huh? You were saying something? Sorry, wasn't paying attention." Serena sighed.
"You're still upset about last night aren't you?" Luna tried to comfort Serena.
"Yeah... Darien might be a jerk, but he was so sweet and kind last night. It was as if he was a whole new person. Heh. He doesn't even know I'm Sailor Moon. He'd probably flip if he found that out."
"Well, you know you can't tell him, unless he has some equally important secret that you can keep for him. It's the only way I'll allow it." Luna said in a firm voice. "As your guardian and protector, it's the only way."
"Yeah, I know. Maybe he's lost interest in me, maybe I'll never see that sweet side I'm so unnaturally attrated to again..." Serena thought outloud.
"Oh I wouldn't count on that." Luna blurted out.
"Why's that? You know something I don't? You do, don't you!"
"I don't know anything Serena, honest. I just have this strange feeling you'll be hearing from him again." Luna covered. 'Phew.. that was close. Almost told her Darien would be soon to be husband... Mustn't let that out too quickly. It could ruin everything.'
"I hope your right, Luna. I hope you're right. Now could I read the journal?"
"Not until your math is done. It's really quite simple. You just take the two pegs, square them, then take the square root of the sum of the two squares..." Luna started rambling on, and Serena just thought about Darien. Her thoughts were interupted by the sound of the doorbell ringing. She could here some voice asking if it was the home of a Serena Tsukino. Then she heard her dad calling her.
"SERENA!!! GET DOWN HERE!!! NOW!!!" Her dad hollered. Serena soon appeared.
"What is it, Dad?" A surprised Serena asked at the bouquet of roses she was greeted with.
"The delivery boy just delivered these to you, along with this, and this." Serena dad said, handing Serena the flowers, an expensive box of fancy chocolates, and a fancy looking card envelope. "Whoever it's from, it's no one we're related to. Bunch of cheapskates we have for family." Serena's dad muttered as he walked off into another room. Serena took her stuff upstairs, set the beautiful bouquet of giant pink and white roses on her dresser, plopped down on her bed, ripped open the box of chocolates and started chowing down, before she finally got to the fancy looking card. Opening the envelope, Serena pulled out an ornate card that looked so fancy, she almost expected it to scream 'expensive' when she opened it. However, almost to her dismay, the card did not scream expensive, or say expensive anywhere on the card. Instead it read:
'Sorry for being such a jerk last night. I hope you aren't too mad at me. I really would like to see you again.
XXOO
Darien"
"He... he wants to... to see....see me again..." Serena stuttered at the thought of seeing Darien again. 'He even has good taste in cards, great choice in picking out flowers, and superb choice in chocolate. This is the best chocolate I've ever tasted.' Serena giggled to herself. She had to tell someone. She called her best friend to talk about guys with; she called her good friend Mina.
"Hello, Mina's not in right now, care to leave a message in oh say, a million years?" A sarcastic voice answered the phone.
"Have a bad night, Mina?" Serena asked.
"Worse than you can imagine, Serena. So what's up, and why'd you wake me from my beauty sleep?"
"A guy that's super cute likes me!!!!" Serena squealed.
"OH MY GOD!! YOUR KIDDING??" Mina exclaimed.
"NO!!! HE DOES HE SENT ME FLOWERS AND A CARD AND SUPER EXPENSIVE CHOCOLATE FOR BEING A TOTAL DICKHEAD WHEN HE TOOK ME OUT LAST NIGHT!!!" Serena was so excited she was about to fly out the window now.
"So what's this cute guy look like? He got big arms?"
"Big, strong, I was able to hang off them without him flinching."
"You lucky shit. What color hair?"
"Don't I know it! He has black hair, blue eyes, tan skin. Oh god is he dreamy!"
"I hate you!" Mina yelled.
"Wait till Raye finds out!" Serena snickered.
"You're going to tell Raye? She'll blow a couple fuses that you got a cute boyfriend!" Mina reminded her.
"I know! That's the idea. For once, I'll have something she doesn't, unless she and Chad finally got together. I swear, those two have the biggest things for each other, and neither will admit it. We really need to play match maker again!" Serena grinned.
"I know, and the more we hint at it, the more they deny it! Playing match maker sounds like a blast! Where and when, and how we getting tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber there?" Mina asked.
"Good question... Lita can help us get the two lovestruck nitwits there... Now he we gunna get them to kiss?"
"Don't you just have some love spell you can use?" Mina sighed.
"No, unfortunately. Luna won't let me use any of my Sailor Moon powers for personal use, although that's never stopped me from using them before..."
"I HEARD THAT SERENA!!!" Luna growled from the corner of Serena's room where she was resting on her blue satin pillow.
"She always interupts at the worst possible time." Serena complained.
"At least you don't have Artemis peeking in on you while your in the shower." Mina commented. "Ah, the wonders of having a perverted male cat that can talk. Makes Luna look nice, doesn't he?"
"Luna looks like a walk in the park compared to Artemis." Serena snickered.
"Artemis always was the little pervert..." Luna commented from the corner. Serena laughed.
"What's so hysterical?" Mina puzzled.
"Oh, Luna's just dissing Artemis, that's all." Serena giggled.
"WHAT'D SHE SAY???" Mina yelled with interest.
"Oh, just that Artemis was always the pervert." Serena giggled and answered.
"Oh, Something I already new." Mina sighed. Just then a clicking sound was heard over the phone.
"I got another call, Mina. Talk to you later for further Match making plans, K?" Serena said.
"Sure, just one thing before you go." stated Mina.
"Sure, what?"
"What's Mr wonderful's name?" Mina asked. Serena sighed.
"He's jerk Darien..." Serena said a little ashamed.
"JERK DARIEN??? You owe me details, young lady. Well, Bye!"
"Bye!" Serena clicked a button on her phone, switching to the other line. "Hello?"
"Serena?" A male voice asked.
"Da-Darien? Is that you?"
"Yeah... You have no idea how hard it is to find you."
"Well, considering I've never had anyone TRY to find me..."
"Did you get my little gift?"
"Yeah, thanks. That chocolate was too much."
"Sorry I gave it to you, then, if it was too much..." Darien started to apologize.
"Oh don't apologize. I meant it was too good for my taste buds. It was the best chocolate I've tasted!"
"Well, glad you liked it. Listen, I've gotta get to the gym before 10 this morning. You want to do something a little later?"
"Sure, what and when?"
"Oh I don't know... You want to come... over to my place?"
'His place... that could be a little... scary... I'm already going over to the place of a guy I hardly know... I'm not sure if that's a good idea...'
"Serena, did I lose you?"
"No... Just deciding if your place is a good idea or not. But it sounds okay. Just don't pull anything smart on me, or I'll do more than step on something sensitive. Do I make myself clear on that?"
"Crystal clear. How does 11 sound? I'll make lunch..."
"11 sounds great. It's a date, then. See you then. Bye!"
"See you then, Good looking." Darien said before he hung up.
Serena hung up the phone, then nearly exploded with giddy glee.
'I get to see him again!!! I get to see him again!!! Oh I'm so happy.' Serena thought to herself, her stomach feeling like it was doing flipflops. Then the thought of what she'd wear hit her. All she could think of was getting Mina over there to help her. She grabbed her phone and dialed Mina's number.
"Mina's not home, leave a message after the cussing and swearing." Mina's sleepy voice answered once again.
"Mina, sorry to wake you again, but I've got a date in an hour and a half and I don't know what to wear!! This is your area of expertise..."
"Say no more, be right over there." Mina quickly hung up. Within what seemed like minutes, she was over there ready to work. She hurried up to Serena's room, and started to attack her wardrobe. "So, I take it that was jerk Darien that called?"
"Yeah... He asked me over to his place, and I'm not turning that down!" Serena grinned.
"Ooooh, Serena's gunna play little vixen!" Mina chuckled.
"Mina, I'm not going to give myself to him, not for a few years, assuming he is... THE one. No, playing Vixen is either yours or Lita's area." Serena snickered, knowing she'd get bopped for that one. Sure enough, Mina did turn and bop Serena on her head.
"Not funny. So what happened between you two last night?" Mina asked, searching through Serena's closet. Serena relayed the whole story of the previous night to her friend. "Ohhhh... So some flowers and expenisive chocolate make up for that, eh?"
"Well, yeah. He seems genuinely sorry enough. I'll let this one slide by... But I warned him he'll get something worse then me stepping on his nuts if he pulls any more bullshit like that on me again." Serena smiled innocently as she remembered what she did to Darien last night. "Yes... much more than a slap and step..."
"You go girl. Here, this little tank top is perfect!" Mina said, pulling an enticinly seductive red tank top out of Serena's closet. "This'll do nicely. Now... what else do we have in here..." Mina said, handing Serena the tank top and going back to searching for other stuff.
While Mina was searching, she looked at the tank top. She had recieved it from her cousin as a gift, but thought it was a little too revealing to wear, and now she was supposed to wear this to a guy's place, a cute guy that she liked's place at that. Her attentions were diverted back to the real world when Mina announced that she had the perfect pair of pants for Serena to wear. Mina had found Serena's tight tight pants that had cuff around the feet. They were pinkish white in color, and had a way of looking shiny and reflective in the right type of light. Serena noticed that they'd go with the red tank top rather nicely, and didn't make her look too much like she worked a corner somewhere.
"That tank top and those pants will make a stunning combination. Now we just need shoes. High heels are too formal, shoes are too casual. Sandals might work if they're fancy enough. Ah, these will do nicely." Mina said, pulling out a pair of white leather woven sandle shoes. "Try that outfit on and see what you think." Mina said. Serena took the outfit and went into the bathroom to try it on. After changing into the outfit and deciding it wasn't all that bad, Serena moved on to her hair and whether or not she should wear make-up.
"You don't want to give Darien a heart attack, do you?" Mina asked.
"Not really. I just want to look good for him." Serena sighed.
"Oh, beleive me. If he doesn't gasp at you in that, he's got a boyfriend he isn't telling you about." Mina assured her. Serena punched her friend for her last comment.
"What about jewelry? That's important." Serena asked.
"I'd say just wear what you usually wear. That outfit will pretty much go with anything, although it would be best if you used stuff with stones of warmer shades... That outfit is more on the warm side of the spectrem of color. Cool shades would go bad with it." Mina decided.
"In english, please? You lost me with the warm shade part..." Serena complained.
"Oh sorry. I'd say use red or purplish stones for jewelry. Anything else like blue or yellow or orange would like kind of bad with that outfit." Mina sweatdropped.
"Okay, thanks for your help. Now if only you could help me with this one little problem I have now." Serena said, finishing putting on her jewelry.
"What's the problem?" Mina inquired.
"I'm supposed to meet Darien at his place. I have no clue where he lives. Maybe I can get lucky and run into him on the street. He's gotta live around here somewhere, I see him often enough, and there's only one gym in the area. I'll just wait for him there."
"That's what I'd do. Okay, I'll be going now! See ya, girlfriend!" Mina started to leave.
"Hey, wait, I'm ready to go myself, I'll see you to the gate." Serena said, walking with Mina out the door, only to be spotted by her dad.
"Where do you think you're going in THAT get-up, Missy?" Serena's dad grumbled.
"Out on a date, Dad. And I'm still out of Midol, so I wouldn't tempt me if I were you." Serena said, watching her dad back off at the sound of the M word again.
"I'll be sure to get you some when I'm at the store later on, Serena." Serena's dad said, going back into the room he'd come from. Serena and Mina walked out the door.
"Dang girl, you sure know how to handle your father." Mina commented.
"I just took my mom's advice. Blame it on PMS. It works with all men, she says. It gets my dad to not yell at me when I come home late." Serena giggled.
"Lucky. If only I didn't live with my mom, oh that would be nice." Mina sighed. "Well, see ya later. Bye!" Mina said, walking off toward her house, which was the opposite way of where Serena was going.
"Bye Mina!" Serena yelled after her friend, then walking towards the gym where she'd meet Darien.
Meanwhile, Darien had been working out at the gym for a good while.
"So you got a date with her?" Andrew asked inbetween pull-ups.
"Yeah, she's coming over to my place. I'm not going to do anything with her, just yet, for some odd reason, though." Darien stated before pushing the bar up over his head once again.
"You? Not try and get some? That's a first." Andrew said, pulling his chin over the bar again.
"Yeah, well, Serena's different from the rest, somehow. I can't place what it is, but she's different somehow." Darien said, the bar still above his head.
"You going to tell her your little secret?" Andrew grinned.
"What secret?" Darien asked.
"The one about the roses and the cape, and moons?"
"Shut up about that. Your the only one who knows about my alter ego. If it got out that I'm..." Darien put the bar up and sat up on the bench to make sure no one could here him. "If it got out that I'm Tuxedo Mask, I'd have a million girls lined up at my door demanding my autograph. It's just something I don't need."
"Good point. You can trust me. I'll tell no one." Andrew assure his friend.
"Good, cause if word gets out, you're the first one I'm coming after." Darien said, an ominous tone to his voice.
"So what time's your date, hot shot?" Andrew quickly changed the subject.
"In about... twenty minutes." Darien looked at his watch. "I should go. Talk to you later." Darien got up and went into the locker room where he showered and changed, and went to get into his car to go home when a familiar voice stopped him.
"Hey Big Boy!" a female voice called to him.
"Serena? What are you doing here?" Darien asked, turning around.
"It's the only gym in the area, and I figured you'd be here, so I thought I'd surprise you. Besides, we're meeting at your place and I don't know where you live." Serena said matter-of-factly.
"Oh. Good point. Well, hop in." Darien said, walking over to the passenger side of the car and opening the door for Serena.
"Thank you, kind gentleman." Serena said while climbing into the car, the tightness of her pants around her lean shapely legs not escaping Darien's eye, nor did the look that sassy looking red tank top she was wearing gave her. He just looked at her figure for a moment, and finally all his control over not saying anything about her clothes burst, and he gasped at the site of what Serena was wearing. Upon hearing this, Serena just grinned to herself.
"Is something wrong, Darien? I heard you gasp." Serena asked Darien, secretly knowing how evil she was being.
"Um, no." was all Darien could say. 'Goddess, she had to wear something that made her look that gorgeous. Today will really test my self control, I think.' Darien walked over to the driver's side of his red sports car, and got in. After a quick drive, they were back at Darien's apartment building. Darien had a hard time convincing himself that it was okay to take the elevator, that the closeness of it wouldn't bother him. He surprisinly made it through the elevator ride okay. He walked with Serena to his apartment door, opened it, and let Serena in to his place.