~~~ A Horrible Apartment + A Horrible Guy ~~~

MIAMIGI: * sigh*
I've gotten some comments that say the fic
is going too slow. For example, Usagi met
Mamoru at the end of chapter two.... o_O"
So I guarrantee y'all that this one will be
much faster, truce? ^_^

DECLAIMER: *singing off key*
Do I own SM! No~~~
Who owns SM! Naoko 'n minna-chan~~~~
So what should IIIII do!
backgrounf music
Don't sue me~~~~
* sweatdrop*

RATE: PG-13

Hey again 'bout the whole * wanna put this on your site*
thing. Remeber, it's ok with me! That is if y'all would inform
the the address of the site, and PLEASE noted the fic as
mine, MIAMIGI shiissmart@hotmail.com! Arigatou!!!

CHAPTER 3
Midnight Trouble

~ * ~ * ~ * ~
(Serena)

Ring~~~ ring~~~ ring~~~

Serena woke up reluctantly. She took a glance at the white
bunny alarm clock, which the baka, as she called, had
bought for her in order to keep her on time.

The numbers shown on the face of the clock brought her
back to reality. It was a quarter after eight!

" AAAAH! How come nobody even tried to tell me the
time! Darien-san!!!"

She put on the cream silk jacket she bought when the
gang went to shop all together for the blouse of their
uniform. Rushing into the kitchen, there sat a man who
had a tight, sleeveless wool black shirt and the silver
pants, making toasts. He heard the noise made by
the Sleeping Beauty, and gave her a *FINALLY* gaze.

" Good afternoon, Serena."
" How come you didn't wake me up?!"
" Coz I thought that the expensive, yet ugly alarm clock
I had givenyou as a gift would have worked. See,
you are up, Meatball."
" YOU!!!"

Noticing she was still wearing the half transparent
nightgown, she quickly covered the front of her body by
the jacket in her hands. Darien saw it and remarked
literally.

" What's the use, Meatball head? I've seen them,
*ALL* of them already! 'Sides, there's nothing but two
flat, vast plains.You should put those big, fat balls
on your chest instead of on your head."

Anger started to be floating on her blushing red face.
After yelling " How dare you!", she ran straightly into
her pink-decorated bedroom.

= ~ = ~ = ~= ~ =
# Flash Back#

She screamed when she first saw Mamoru baka and his
dear sister Tara, she inferred them as thieves in *HER*
apartment. She was surprised at two things also. One
is the fact that an apartment in such a poor, disgusting
condition could still attract people. But most of all,
what she could not believe is that, unlike her image
of robbers, the one in front of her was exorbitantly
handsome. And, unfortunately, when she lifted up her
arms, the towel wrapped around her body, well,
dropped (MIAMIGI: *slight smile* that rhymes ^_^).
Which made the pairs of eyes grew even wider
than they already were, since there was *nothing*
underneath the pink towel, so you can see practicularly
*everything*. She embarrassingly picked up the loosen
towel and ran back into her room.

After a few minutes, while the two stocked people were
still standing there, not exactly comprehending what had
taken place, Usagi showed up at the doorway again.

She took in a deep breath and asked carefully, startled
to make the so-called thieves angry and hurt her.

" Who are you and why are you here?!"

The guy who looked familiar, gave her a cold gaze and
replied,

" That's what I was gonna ask you, missy! This is *MY*
apartment and what gives the right to trespass!?"
"Iie, you listen, and you listen good. I rented this apartment
and YOU are not suppose to be here!"
" Be quiet both of you! Enough!"

It was Tara. She was hearing the whole conversation thoroughly
and became up with a solution.

" I think both of you had rented this apartment, perhaps the
landlord made some sort of mistakes. Why don't we meet here
again tomorrow mornign and figure this problem up?"

The next day they called the landlord's house but no one answered
, so they decided to go straightly to his house. But the house
was *EMPTY*. What happened was, the landlord needed money,
so he tricked the two poor things and ran away, as his
neighbors said. Precisely, he had lied to all of his renters.

With Tara's help, they finally agreed to live together. For the
reparing, Tara would handle them, since she was the expert
at decorating. In no time you can't tell the difference between
the hell-like apartment and a brand-new one.

# End of Flash Back#

= ~ = ~ = ~= ~ =
(Darien)

A sense of regret was sent through his body down the spinal
cord.

' Have I been too hard on her?' He thought silently. Feeling
extra sorry for what he had done, he walked up quietly
to her room and gently knocked on the door.

No reply.

He figured that she might be extravagantly mad at that
moment, so he just told her that he would drop her
to school, to meet him at the driveway in ten minutes.

' Should I apologize to her? Maybe not. Demo... she might
think that you only feel pity for he that she has to walk to
school and decided to take her. Especially when you two
are in the same school.. Then again.. AH! This is way too
complicated for me to understand! I give up!'

= ~ = ~ = ~= ~ =
(Serena)

She hesitated about the idea of taking Darien's ride, but
since school would start in a short while, plus it was the first
day of ROH, *AND* it's definitely not so appropriate to be
last the first day of school! For the above reasons, and the
other secrete two miles long list, it left her no choice but
to wear a sunny smile, and ask him for help.

She had told him to drop her three blocks away from ROH,
so that no one would know they lived together. Also, she
had made him swore that he would never, ever say a word
about where he lived nor should he invite his friends over.

At her view, as soon as Darien-baka entered the school
building, he hadn't had one single moment of loneliness.
Always surronded by girls, who had love hearts in their eyes,
some young, sluttish female teachers, and a few elder ugly
women blinked at him. Not she was jealous or anything,
since she saw Darien staring at her during lunch, when a
cute guy was flirting with her. But it was something...
different, something unexplainable.

After school, Serena took the bus and went straight home,
did not bother to say hi to her friends. Made herself dinner,
bathed, and by the time she went to sleep, which was
around midnight, Darien was still not home.

' Humph, hope he's getting SOME excitements!' she
thought to herself bitterly.

= ~ = ~ = ~= ~ =
(Darien)

" Darien? Darien? Darien!!!"

The towheaded guy was leaning towards Darien and
screamed approximately beside his left ear. The last note
was like the explosing of a volcano, which had clearly brought
him back to Earth. He had driven to the arcade right from
after school, and hadn't move an inch away fromthe table
since. As usual, the five guys: him, Andrew, Greg, Ken, and
Chad were gathering together and chat whatever they feel
like. (MIAMIGI: waiters chatting with customers for a whole
day?! It's not pretty nice is it?!)

"God, Andrew, what is it!" He shouted back annoyedly.
Obviously, he had something going arounf in his little brain.
(MIAMIGI: *nervous chuckles* hey um... I dunno if his brain
IS small or not, plus it's just a figure of speech, so y'all please don't
be mad at me *puppy eyes*)

" Just askin' you what you have in mind."
"Nothin'."

Ken gave a knowing smile to everybody, and explained,
" OK, let me help you, Dare. Minna, what he's been going
through is girl trouble."

Chad' eyes widened up, shining in sparkles.
"Really?! Our Mr. Bachelor has costantly found himself a
partner? The world is turning upside-down!!!" He was
expecting the so-called Mr. Bachelor to be all jumpy
by then. Instead, he was deeply drowning in his own
thoguhts again.

' Should I go back? It's getting seriously late. But if I do,
then only thing I can think 'bout when I'm n the apartment
is the naked Odango Atama... Wait, you're falling for her or
what?! .......Nah, probably just admiration for the perfect
shape and curves of the God's angel....But she's not that
great, according to all the thin 'n long legs...Now, see,
that's why I can't go back home! '
= ~ = ~ = ~= ~ =
(Mix)

Things went on like that for a few day. Briefly, it was
nothing else but getting late for school, seeing Darien
surronded by female admires, avoiding her friends,
making herself dinner, and goes to bed late. What
really discomforts her was the time *DARIEN*
came back from school. She was concerned and
desperatedly wanted to ask him, but since she
was trying to act cool, words just simply can't
fly out of her mouth. Finally, she forgot everthing
and walked up towards Darien during lunch at the
cafeteria.

" Um, Darien, I have to talk with you. Now."

There was a tone of seriousness in her voice.
Darein sensed that and he gladly pushed the
numerous amount of girls aside, who were giving
cold gazes to Serena, and followed her outside.

"So, what's up?" He greeted, consciously glad that
it was daytime. If it's the other way around, then
Serena might be in a dangerous situation by then,
for the sake of his uncontrollable behavior.

" You're up."
" ...I don't understand."
"It's that..." Her voice faded as the nervousness grew
more and more. ' Come on, Serena, nothing's wrong
with concerning your fr....roomate!'

#Flashback#

" 'Kay minna, class dismissed." Ms. H finished the teaching
and Serena rushed outside with extravagant speed. Pluh!
Crash into something again.

" Gomen nasi, I wasn't watching the road..."
" Meatball head, it's time for some explanations!"

Gazing up, there stood the four best friends. All of them
showed seriousness on the faces, and strangely, Ami's
hands were empty--- no books.

Rei spoke up,
" What's up with you lately, huh? We never hang again,
You have begun to keep things to yourself, and you've
been avoiding us. Now spill."

Serena tried her hardest to bring up her innocent, most
convencing smile up, but it said nothing else except
* I'm in a big trouble*. Surely not even dummies would
fall for that.

" Don't even try that, hear? We know you inside out."
Makoto took a step forward. Then Minako burst out
of yelling,

" You better tell us what's going on, girl!"

Clearly, Amy was the only sane one remained.

" Guys, let her talk!"
" Come on, minna-chan, can;t we just get
this over with?"
" Not until you at least give us a hint."
" But...."
" NO!"
"...OK. You see, my apartment was being rented
to two people at once, which of course is illegal.
And now I have to live with that person."
"And??? That's why you were so down?! Unbelievable."
"Yeah, you could have told us."
" Gomen. I SHOULD have trusted y'all"
" So who is the other victim, then?"
"..............."
" Well?"
" Don't laugh."
" We won't."
" Darien Chiba."
"........ Come again?!"

She explained the situation thoroughly with the girls.
Including the midnight problem, and they had suggested
her to talk with him ASAP.

# End of Flash Back #

She cleaned her throat and spoke up.

" I just wanted to clear up this problem we're having..."
" What problem?" He sounded innocent and naive, but
deep down he knew exactly what is going on.

' Please don't let it be that..."
"The problem of the time you return home," she answered.
' It's that.'

SLowly shaking his head, he replied nonchalantly,

" It's none of your business, Odango Atama. I can go
home whenever I like."
"But do you know how worried I was?! All you selffish,
self-centered, arrogant baka can think about is yourself,
while the others are worried sick! Why do I have to live
with someone soooo prideful snobbish, and uncaring like you!
I hope you stay out as late as possible and never come
back!"

She ran rapidly towards the female restroom, in order to
get away from Darien (MIAMIGI:*murmur* well, there's only
one place in the world that males can't go, and that's female
bathroom, ne? *sweatdrop*) so he won't be able to see the
waterwork starting on her face.

He thought shockedly while standing idly at the same spot.
' Did she say that she was worrying about me?'

= ~ = ~ = ~= ~ =
(Serena)

She was standing in front the mirrow in the same bathroom,
for which she had been inside approximately one and a half hour.
At last, her tears had stopped. Serena searched in her purse
. Since it was a mess and she was CERTAINLY annoyed and
tired of finding, so she just pour the stuff out on the table,
grabbed the press powder she had been searching for, and
began to conceal the water-puffy face of hers. She was sure
that the door was opened, but did not pay much attention to
it.

" You know, instead of wasting your money on the costimic,
which you surely don't need, you should have spend them
on something worth-while."

By the reflection on the mirrow, she noticed the shadow of a man.
Directly without observing, she just knew who the person was.

" Get outta here,you the baka-est baka in the whole entire three
galaxy! If you don't respect me, please at least pay some respects
to ladies' room, ne?!"

" You should know by now that girls will pay anything to just
get me to go into their bathroom," he protested sarcatically.

' Damn, see what you have done! You came here to apologize
and the only thing flys out of your darn mouth was teasing.
Damn you muffin-flavored-lazy-dummy!!! (MIAMIGI: *sweatdrop*
I got the silly nickname from *****, so if y'all don't like it, forget
that it's even there, truce ^_^)

Serena glared at Darien coldly. She knew something's up, but
yet still confused. All she could think about is how dreadful he could
possibly be at this kind of disasterous moment.

"......."
" Gomen nasi, Me...Serena-san. Please forgive me for whatever rude
things I said. I didn't meant it. Truthfully, I came here to say sorry.
It's just that I can never be normal when I'm around you. It's like
as if you have some sort of evil power or something."
" Hai, arigatou Darien-san, that's very *TOUGHING*."
" SEE WHAT I MEAN!!! Word just keep forming on my lips."
" You are forgiven." There was a slight smile on her puffy face.
(MIAMIGI: *chuckle* puffy?? Haaaaa! Doesn't it sound funny?
*angry crowd* Ok.. I'm sorry for mentioning that, but you have
to agree with me that if you have been crying over one hour,
you face WILL be puffy, ne????! Onegai! GO with me here!)

Serena suddenly remember the whole idea of the quarrelling,
she turned around and looked straightly into his eyes.
When their eyes met, both of them simultaneously felt a bizzare
impulse running down their spinal cord. It was unexplainable,
yet amazing.

" You haven't answer my question,still. Now, why do you
like to return homw late?"
" ........"
" Spill the beans, Darien!"
" Guarrantee me that you won't be extremely angry
, or else you are not getting a single word."
" Guarranteed."
" CuzevertimeIseeyouatnightIwouldrememberyournakedbody!!!"
" Well, I've been trying to forget the event, Darien."

A unbelieving glare was shot from Darien's mightnight blues.
' She understands what I said?!"

'........Hai, I can.... WAIT A MINUTE! HOW CAN I HEAR YOUR
THOUGHTS?! ARE WE MIND-LINKED?!'

' Mind-linked?! You are CRAZY! This is not called MIND-LINKED
, this is called...'

Serena shot him a annoyed and anxious look.
' How can you be so stupid! This IS called mind-linked,
you baka!'

~ * ~ * ~ * ~
Hmph, mind-linking?
Kawaii!!!!
Minna-chan, y'all think
it's good so far?
Whatever the answer is,
TELL ME!!!!
Feebacks are my sustenace!
And I promise you that I will
reply every single letter!
'Sides, I still have no idea
about what ROH stands for?!
Ideas and comments are widely
needed!

Ja ne~~~

* ~ the pure *GI* girl ~ *