Author: Serenita
Title: A Hearts Pain
Rating: PG
Chapter Four
Chapter Four

Serena was tired. That she had to say
was true. She was up half of the night crying. No
school today, so she decided to go to the Arcade to
see her friends. None of them were there except
Andrew. She went up to see him. He smiled at first
then his face fell when he saw her expression.

"What's wrong Serena?" he asked. She sighed.

"Was Darien here already?" she asked. Andrew
nodded.

"You just missed him." Serena was silent for a
moment.

"Andrew?"

"Yeah?"

"Can I tell you something?"

"Yeah."

" Darien didn't meet me yesterday so I got worried
and I called Darien last night. When I did... A... A
woman answered the phone. I could hear his voice in
the background. He was alone with another
woman!" then she broke down and cried. Andrew
tried to comfort her. Andrew never thought he could
ever be this mad at his best friend, but he was. Serena
was the most caring person. Darien once told him
that he couldn't even imagine life with out her, and
now he was cheating on her! Through her tears
Serena looked up at him.

" Andrew, promise me something."

"Anything, Serena."

" Please don't tell Darien that.." she looked off in the
distance.

"That I know." Andrew didn't know what to say. He
wanted to yell at Darien but if he didn't promise
Serena... well, he had to promise her. This was
enough on her already.

"Sure, Serena, I give you my..." just then Darien
walked in. Serena saw Andrews's eyes spark with
anger and she turned to see him. Her hand flew to
her mouth. Darien waved to them both. If it weren't
for Serena being there and him giving her his word,
Darien would have been dead already. Serena's eyes
glimmered with tears as she ran past Darien and out
the door. Darien watched her leave and called out
her name. He looked confused then turned to
Andrew. Andrew glared at him, and then looked to
the direction Serena had gone. Sadness filled his eyes
as he turned from Darien and continued his work.
He didn't look at him the whole time he was there.
He decided something was wrong with Serena and
she had told Andrew about it. It also must have had
something to do with him since Serena told him
absolutely everything. He turned to leave and
Andrew saw him going.

"Darien!" Andrew said. Darien turned to face him.
"If you hurt her, I'll kill you." Andrew was serious.
Best friend or not, he wouldn't let anyone hurt
Serena like he did, Serena was like a kid sister to him.
Darien's eyes grew wide. "Go! Go after her! Before
you lose her, GO!" Andrew shouted. Darien turned
and went after Serena


Serena stopped and sat down on a bench at
the park. She placed her head in her hands and
started to cry. Darien was her world. If he left her...
she would kill herself. There would be nothing left to
live for. Rini wouldn't be born, she wouldn't be
Queen, and she wouldn't have him by her side either.
She heard heavy footsteps coming closer to where
she was. She looked up to see Darien running
towards her. She got up and turned to run from him,
but he caught her. "Let me go, Darien." She said
calmly.

"No, Serena. Not until you tell me what's wrong."
Serena's eyes filled with hate. Something Darien had
never seen in her eyes before.

"Don't give me that crap, Darien! You know exactly
what's wrong! You're apart of it!" Darien was
confused. "I called your place last night and a
woman picked up Darien, a woman! You were..."
she stopped. She didn't want to say it. Darien
understood, but was know a little mad that she
would think that.

"Serena, that was Caroline. She's a classmate of mine
and we were working on a project."

"Oh, well you should of told me about it, Darien,
'cause than I wouldn't have waited for you for over
an hour yesterday!" she said sarcastically. Darien
winced as she yelled at him. He was tired from
staying up last night working on the project and was
real sick of her yelling at him. "Oh, and another
thing, what about tomorrow? Are you canceling that
too? Not planning to tell me about that so I can wait
for you AGAIN!?! So I can..."

He swung his hand around and slapped her clear
across that cheek. "Serena! Shut Up! Your acting like
everything is about you! The world doesn't revolve
around YOU!" Serena's anger melted into sadness.
She placed a hand over her cheek were he had
slapped her. Darien's eyes went wide as her realized
what he just did. He looked down at his hand, which
was turning red. "Serena I..." she cut him off.

"No, Darien, your right. The world doesn't revolve
around me." She said in a quiet voice full of hurt and
pain. "I revolve around my world. Do you know
what my world is? YOU! You have always been. I
thought I knew my world. But to tell you the truth, I
don't know my world anymore, Darien, I don't know
you!" And with that she turned and ran with tears in
her eyes. Darien just stared at her as she left. He let
everything she had just said soak in. She was right.
Everything she said was true. He turned back to walk
back home to meet Caroline for another study
session. But deep down he wanted to be holding
Serena in his arms, kissing her, and telling her that he
loved her right then.


Oh Boy. Look what he did. What's he gonna do
about it? E-mail me!