Darien was beginning to worry about Ami, when she finally uttered a loud sigh. She looked dazed as she stared at him.

"Darien...please tell me I was dreaming when Rini said the door was locked and she hadnt a key for these things" Darien shook his head sadly.

"im sorry, but you werent dreaming." Ami moaned and fell backwards on the floor, dragging darien down with her.

"Yow! Ami watch it!" Darien cried, rubbing his stinging wrist from the metal that had sharply rubbed against it. Ami blushed and sat up.

"Sorry..i am just not exactly thrilled with the situation right now...." Darien nodded.

"Niether am I. If serena found out, God knows what she will do to me!" Ami looked at him in awe.

"We are chained together around a bedpost and all you can think about is Serena?"

"No, actually just what she will do to me" Ami stifled a laugh.

"yes. I can see where you are coming from. I dont think she will find it thrilling that you are handcuffed to some girl around a bedpost and cant find the key" Darien laughed.

"And knowing its you, she probably thinks she has more to worry about." Ami looked at him. Darien tried to explain, stuttering over his words.

"Ami..you know what I mean-when you said-that thing earlier-about her leaving and you and i-oh you get it I think she took it seriously." Ami laughed at his embarrased tone.

"Darien, she takes everything seriously!-well except for studying."

"And school"

"And eating healthy"

They both laughed.

"But I love her anyway" Ami said, leaning back on the side of the bed. Darien shut his eyes and did the same as ami.

"yeah. I guess same here" Ami looked at him strangely.

"What do you mean I guess?" Darien shrugged.

"well, we have been fighting a little lately"

"Oh"

They sat silently for a few moments. Then Ami let out an exhasperated sigh, and pulled hard on the cuffs, shaking darien from his position.

"I am going to get these off if its the last thing I do!" Ami yelled, pulling the cuffs as hard as she could.

"mmm.....aarrrrrrrrr OW!" ami grumbled, rubbing her red hand. Darien had given up trying to pull his masculenly large hand out of the cuffs, but he was surprised Ami's slim fingered one didn't even come close.

Ami slammed her fist on Rini's bed.

"This is great. just great. I am going to miss my second computer class all because of Serena!" Darien turned towards her. \

"how is it Serena's fault?" Ami glanced back at him.

"well if she werent so hungry, SHE'd be the one handcuffed to you" she said matter-of-factly. Darien smiled.

"you are most likely correct." Suddenly they heard feet running up the stairs. "Ami? Darien?" cried a small voice. Rini.

"Yes? Rini what is it!? do you have help?" Ami and Darien answered with hope. Rini hesitated outside the door.

"Um..well I kind of forgot that its Sunday..."

"What is your point?" Darien asked.

"well, the key shop isnt open on Sunday."

"AAARRRGGGGGG!!!!!" screamed Ami, losing control.

"um, I am gonna go find the girls" Rini said, running down the stairs. Darien groaned. Ami was angirly slamming her fist into the carpet on each word. "WHY *slam*DO*slam*THESE*slam* THINGS*slam*ALWAYS*slam* HAPPEN*slam* TO*slam*ME?????? *slam*" Darien realized things were not going to get better as Ami began to cry out of anger, and he unsuredly pulled her to him and hugged her the best he could with cuffs on. She buried her head in his shoulder. Darien felt her nails clawing at his blue shortsleeved collered shirt, but he tried to ignore the scratching pain. All he could do was lean back and let her cry. He had never seen her so flustered.

Ami lifted her head to see Darien looking down at her. He seemed amazingly close and she pulled back quickly, embarrased.

"um..sorry I freaked out like that.." she said. "I feel very foolish" Darien smiled. "well you did what any other extremely aggrivated person would have done." Ami smiled and wiped her eyes.

"i..uh..sorry about your shirt" she said, her eyes widening at his tearstained shoulder. "well as long as you didnt blow snot on me I should be ok. This is almost a daily thing for Serena" Darien said, shrugging her apology off. Ami laughed through her choked up throat.

"No I did not blow snot on you you discusting ...creature!" Darien acted offended. "Hey thats not nice!" he said, turning up his nose. Ami shoved him playfully. "you are an idiot."

"what? no-ok wait maybe i am" he agreed.

The minutes went by slowly. Ami was staring out the window with her arms crossed acrossed her chest. Darien was staring at the floor, one arm hanging, and one arm on half of Ami's denim jeans, since she had her arms crossed. The chain was only about seven inches in length, so they were sitting pretty close to one another. Ami glanced at her watch, which was on the arm handcuffed. She caught Darien by surprise when she brought her arm up, causing him to nearly fall over.

"Its 5:48 pm" Ami reported, sighing.

"What? its only been an hour? oh God." Darien said, moaning. Ami nodded.

"I know. No offence darien, but I really dont like being chained to you." Darien was surprised by her bluntness, but laughed.

"And to tell you the truth, I feel inferierated being chained to a braniac like you, when you hardly compare to me" Ami turned from the window and looked at him.

"Oh so you think you are smarter than me?" Darien got up to his knees, dragging Ami up with him.

"Maybe, maybe not Princess Mercury" he teased. Ami glared at him but smiled. "you wanna make a bet?" Darien put his face very close to hers, so that she felt his cool breath on her nose and lips.

"Your on" he challenged.

For the next hour, Ami and Darien compared I.Q's, geometry scores, physic scores, exams, the works. Each yelling out answers to questions Serena wouldnt understand one single word or number of. Finally, all Darien and Ami could do was laugh until tears were rolling down their faces.

"I cant believe you didnt know 39 to the 9th power!" Ami yelled, hitting him over the head. Darien ducked away from her and poked her in the stomach.

"Well we cant all be brains like you." Ami shook her head. "Suck up."