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Disclaimer: I don't own any Sailor Moon characters. Although i wish i did, but i dont, so i cant, yeah.
Title: Band Luxuries
By: Happy Noodle Girl
Rating: PG-13
Part: Chapter 2, First Encounter
AND HERE WE GO!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!....
The next morning Serena woke up to a bright light shining into her room. She looked over to her night-stand to find that her clock read: 8:30am.
"God dammit. I need curtains. Damn sun." She mummbled as she slowly pulled herself out of bed and slugged into the bathroom to take a shower.
Once she was done she got dressed, putting on a pair of worn and ripped jeans, a black sleavless shirt that clung to her figure nicely, and a pair of Dr. Martins (pronounced: Dock Martins. Just incase you didn't know :). She quickly pulled her hair up into her trade-mark "Odangos" as her father would so lovingly call them, and shot out her bedroom door and down-stairs for some breakfast.
"Mom! Can we go shopping today?" Serena asked at the breakfast table while her parents ate.
"Why do you need to go shopping? You have plenty of clothes already Odango." Her father said matter-of-factly.
"DAAAAAD!" She wailed.
"Don't call me that! Plus a girl can never have too many clothes. Right Mom?" Serena argued with her father. (She's right! I love clothes)
Her mother gave a slight giggle at her daughter.
"She's right Ken. A girl can never have to many clothes. Plus school is starting on Monday. She needs some new clothes." Serena's mom, Ilene, explained to her husband.
"Oh alright. Just don't go makin' us go broke." Her father said handing Serena the credit card.
"Yes!" Serena yelled triumphantly.
"Come on Mom! Let's go!" Serena yelled happily as she got up and put her dishes in the sink for her father to clean.
Her mother laughed again and did the same as her daughter. Ilene grabbed the car keys and they were off, while Ken was left sitting at the breakfast table.
"Bye?" He said as he sighed and he too put his dishes in the sink and started cleaning.
"So Serena, I'm guessing you also want to go to the guitar store?" Ilene asked, knowing what reaction she would get from her daughter.
"Really? YEAH! That would be awesome Mom! But you don't know where a guitar store is around here." Serena said as she looked down at her lap sadly.
"And what makes you think that? Actually I looked in the phone book this morning and looked up the nearest guitar store. It's a place called "Whittaker." And it's in the local mall." Ilene explained to her now exstatic daughter.
"Mom. You. Are awesome." Was all she said as they continued driving.
They parked in the shopping mall parking lot and went inside.
"So, where is it?" Serena asked her mom as they walked down the halls of the mall.
"See that's where you come in Serena. Use your guitar homing sensor and find it." This brought out a laugh from Serena.
"Come on Mom. Lets go find the directory." She said as they walked around searching for the directory that could tell them where "Whittaker" was. (Just to let you know, Whittaker doesn't exsist in Japan. It's actually here where I live. It's a great guitar place. Lots of cool guitars and guitar stuff. It's my heaven :)
"Ahah! There it is." Serena said as she spotted "Whittaker" from across the hall.
Ilene and Serena quickly walked to the store. Once they were inside, Serena looked around in amazement.
"Wow." Was all she said.
There was plenty of room, guitars everwhere.
She began to explore, leaving her mother to fend for herself. She walked over to the wall of guitars.
"Oh my god. They actually have it here." She said to herself.
"Gretsch, White Falcon." She heard an echo behind her.
She turned around to see Darien staring up at the same guitar that she had been staring at. She blushed.
"Oh. Hi Darien. I didn't know you were here." Serena looked him up and down, he was wearing a pair of baggy black Dickies pants, and a loose, semi-baggy black t-shirt with high-top black converse shoes. You could see his well muscled arms and chest through the t-shirt.
'Yum.' Was all Serena could say.
"You like that Guitar?" He asked her while he slipped his hands into his pockets and effectively snapping her out of her daze.
"Oh. Yes I do. I've wanted one ever since I started playing." She said looking back up at the pure white guitar.
"Yeah. It is a beautful guitar."
In truth it really was a beautiful thing. It had the shape of an acoustic guitar, was completely white, execpt for around the edges and the knobs, which were gold. If Darien hadn't of been there she would have been drooling.
"Hey. You wanna meet the guys?" Darien asked her, once again pulling her from her dream-like-state.
"Sure." She said looking back at Darien.
He led her down a flight of stairs. At the bottom of the stairs were drums, everywhere, all sorts. Small drums, big drums, even bongos. They were all beautiful too. Serena then saw two guys standing around a drum set. That's when she started getting nervous, and Darien knew it.
"Hey, you don't need to be nervous. It's just the guys."
'That's easy for him to say.' She thought sardonically.
"Sorry. I just get nervous when I meet new people. Just a habit." She said as they neared the two guys.
"Hey guys. I want you to meet a friend of mine. Serena, this is Andrew the drummer and Chad, he's the bassist." Darien introduced them.
Andrew was just as tall as Darien but with sandy blonde hair and a paler complextion compared to Darien. He looked like a really nice guy. Serena smiled at him and then looked to Chad. He looked the part of a guy that would be in a band. Shaggy, untamed light brown hair that fell in his eyes, threatening to block his eyesite; he was a bit shorter than the other two but not much. He seemed like a nice guy aswell, Serena smiled her greeting at him.
"So, Dare here tells me you might audition for the open guitarist position in the band?" Andrew asked as he smiled at her.
"Yeah, I actually decided to do it." She answered.
"Really?" She turned around to face Darien who had spoke.
Serena giggled sweetly and nodded her head.
"Yup. I got my stuff all picked out. What I'm gunna play and all. I was up 'till after midnight getting it down." She explained.
"Now that's what I like in a girl: Never puts her guitar down." Darien said as he and his buddies laughed. She laughed along with them.
"Hey Darien." Came a sickeningly sweet voice from behind Darien. He turned around to come face to face with a flaming red beauty.
"Beryl." It came out more as a growl than anything else.
You could tell that he despised this girl.
Serena gasped, but no one noticed. 'It's the beast from my dream, albait, she does look a little different, no red beady eyes or fangs but she might aswell have them, she looks like a real bitch if you ask me.' Serena thought shell-shocked.
"What do you want Beryl? Following poor Darien around again I see. You know, you should really get help with your obssession with him, it really isn't healthy." Andrew lashed out at her in a dry tone.
She gave him a nasty glare and then returned to looking at Darien. She raised her hand and slid it down his cheek resting it on his shoulder, as she pushed herself against his body. Darien stood stiff against her movements.
"Beryl, get away from me. I'm warning you." Darien said, his voice rigid and emotionless.
Beryl payed no heed to his reactions.
"You know you want me Darien. Come on. Let's ditch these losers." Beryl whispered into his ear, but loud enough for Serena, Andrew and Chad to hear.
Serena had had just about enough of this. She could tell Darien did not like her, and didn't want her anywhere near him. Neither Chad nor Andrew liked her she could tell.
Serena reached over to a drum set and grabbed one of the drum-sticks. She walked betweem Andrew and Chad and gently pushed Beryl away from Darien, holding the drum-stick to her neck as of it were a knife or some other deadly inadement object.
"Look here. I don't think Darien likes you hangin' around him. So just beat it before I have to call security on you." Serena said threateningly to her face.
Beryl looked down at the drum-stick in Serena's hand, and looked back up at Serena with the slightest bit fear in her eyes.
"Just who do you think you are?" She said laying her hands on her hips, trying to come off as tough.
"I'm a friend of Darien's. I don't know who you are but I know you're not a friend of his. You can tell he despises you, so why don't you just give up and stop embaressing yourself and leave huh?" Serena said smiling sweetly at her.
"Look here..." Beryl started again.
"No. You're annoying. So Leave already!" Serena laughed. She couldn't believe how annoyingly stubborn this woman was.
Beryl finally huffed, turned on her heels and walked away back up the stairs.
Serena turned around to look at Darien, Andrew, and Chad, their faces showing shock and amazement.
"Wow Serena. That was awesome dude." Chad said as he smiled his approval of her.
"Yeah Serena, not one girl Darien has ever dated has had the guts to stand up to Beryl Preasely like that. I'm amazed." Andrew said as he patted her shoulder good naturedly.
"Serena. You shouldn't have done that. She can get real nasty." Darien warned her.
"Hey. Don't worry about me. I can take care of myself. Plus, she didn't look too nasty when I told her off." Serena explained, putting the drum-stick back in its place with the drum set.
"I still don't think you should have done that but thank you anyway. She can be a real bitch. You go out with a girl once and she never leaves you alone." He said while he lifted up his hands in a motion saying that he was clueless about the whole ordeal.
Serena just laughed at the picture he made. He just looked so cute.
"Serena!" Serena heard her name being called. She turned around and looked over by the stairs. She saw her mother standing at the bottom calling her. She quickly waved her hand for her to hold on a few seconds. She turned back to the guys.
"That's my Mom. I gotta go. But I'll see you guys tomorrow at three right?" She asked, confirming the time of try-outs.
"Yup. Tomorrow at three. See ya Serena." Darien said as she smiled and walked away. Andrew and Chad just waved and shouted,
"It was nice meeting you Serena!"
Serena smiled at them and said,
"You to you guys!" And then walked away with her mother.
"Dude, if she plays half as good as she looks, she's in!" Chad said as he slapped Darien on the back as he laughed.
"She is kinda cute isn't she?" Darien asked himself.
"Cute!" Andrew was outraged.
"She's GORGEOUS man. How could you let her walk away without askin' for a date?" Andrew said astonished.
"Come on you guys. She doesn't like me like that. Plus she's not like that. She's...I dunno, I just couldn't approach her like that." Darien explained.
"Oh I got it. You think she's a lesbian?" Chad asked laying his hand on his bestfriend's shoulder comfortingly.
"NO!"Darien yelled at his friend, glaring at him.
"You mean like she's too good for ya Dare?" Andrew asked.
"Yeah. Exactly Andy." Darien agreed with his bestfriend.
"Well dude. If she makes it in the band, you can get to know her, and maybe you won't feel so nervous around her. Plus you can totally tell she likes you, I mean, why else would she tell Beryl off? She was buggin' ya so Serena got jealous and decided to step in. What more is there to tell?" Chad said as they walked out of the store.
"She was just helping me out. It was obvious I didn't like the way Beryl was all over me. She was just being a good friend." Darien explained.
"Sure she was man. She's got the hots for you Dare." Andrew said smiling.
Darien just rolled his eyes and kept on walking.
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Ok, I think I'm gunna go day by day on these chapters. I might skip a day or so between chapters because nothing special will be going on that day. So yeah. Don't forget to review! Thanx. bye :)
-Happy Noodle Girl
Disclaimer: I don't own any Sailor Moon characters. Although i wish i did, but i dont, so i cant, yeah.
Title: Band Luxuries
By: Happy Noodle Girl
Rating: PG-13
Part: Chapter 2, First Encounter
AND HERE WE GO!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!....
The next morning Serena woke up to a bright light shining into her room. She looked over to her night-stand to find that her clock read: 8:30am.
"God dammit. I need curtains. Damn sun." She mummbled as she slowly pulled herself out of bed and slugged into the bathroom to take a shower.
Once she was done she got dressed, putting on a pair of worn and ripped jeans, a black sleavless shirt that clung to her figure nicely, and a pair of Dr. Martins (pronounced: Dock Martins. Just incase you didn't know :). She quickly pulled her hair up into her trade-mark "Odangos" as her father would so lovingly call them, and shot out her bedroom door and down-stairs for some breakfast.
"Mom! Can we go shopping today?" Serena asked at the breakfast table while her parents ate.
"Why do you need to go shopping? You have plenty of clothes already Odango." Her father said matter-of-factly.
"DAAAAAD!" She wailed.
"Don't call me that! Plus a girl can never have too many clothes. Right Mom?" Serena argued with her father. (She's right! I love clothes)
Her mother gave a slight giggle at her daughter.
"She's right Ken. A girl can never have to many clothes. Plus school is starting on Monday. She needs some new clothes." Serena's mom, Ilene, explained to her husband.
"Oh alright. Just don't go makin' us go broke." Her father said handing Serena the credit card.
"Yes!" Serena yelled triumphantly.
"Come on Mom! Let's go!" Serena yelled happily as she got up and put her dishes in the sink for her father to clean.
Her mother laughed again and did the same as her daughter. Ilene grabbed the car keys and they were off, while Ken was left sitting at the breakfast table.
"Bye?" He said as he sighed and he too put his dishes in the sink and started cleaning.
"So Serena, I'm guessing you also want to go to the guitar store?" Ilene asked, knowing what reaction she would get from her daughter.
"Really? YEAH! That would be awesome Mom! But you don't know where a guitar store is around here." Serena said as she looked down at her lap sadly.
"And what makes you think that? Actually I looked in the phone book this morning and looked up the nearest guitar store. It's a place called "Whittaker." And it's in the local mall." Ilene explained to her now exstatic daughter.
"Mom. You. Are awesome." Was all she said as they continued driving.
They parked in the shopping mall parking lot and went inside.
"So, where is it?" Serena asked her mom as they walked down the halls of the mall.
"See that's where you come in Serena. Use your guitar homing sensor and find it." This brought out a laugh from Serena.
"Come on Mom. Lets go find the directory." She said as they walked around searching for the directory that could tell them where "Whittaker" was. (Just to let you know, Whittaker doesn't exsist in Japan. It's actually here where I live. It's a great guitar place. Lots of cool guitars and guitar stuff. It's my heaven :)
"Ahah! There it is." Serena said as she spotted "Whittaker" from across the hall.
Ilene and Serena quickly walked to the store. Once they were inside, Serena looked around in amazement.
"Wow." Was all she said.
There was plenty of room, guitars everwhere.
She began to explore, leaving her mother to fend for herself. She walked over to the wall of guitars.
"Oh my god. They actually have it here." She said to herself.
"Gretsch, White Falcon." She heard an echo behind her.
She turned around to see Darien staring up at the same guitar that she had been staring at. She blushed.
"Oh. Hi Darien. I didn't know you were here." Serena looked him up and down, he was wearing a pair of baggy black Dickies pants, and a loose, semi-baggy black t-shirt with high-top black converse shoes. You could see his well muscled arms and chest through the t-shirt.
'Yum.' Was all Serena could say.
"You like that Guitar?" He asked her while he slipped his hands into his pockets and effectively snapping her out of her daze.
"Oh. Yes I do. I've wanted one ever since I started playing." She said looking back up at the pure white guitar.
"Yeah. It is a beautful guitar."
In truth it really was a beautiful thing. It had the shape of an acoustic guitar, was completely white, execpt for around the edges and the knobs, which were gold. If Darien hadn't of been there she would have been drooling.
"Hey. You wanna meet the guys?" Darien asked her, once again pulling her from her dream-like-state.
"Sure." She said looking back at Darien.
He led her down a flight of stairs. At the bottom of the stairs were drums, everywhere, all sorts. Small drums, big drums, even bongos. They were all beautiful too. Serena then saw two guys standing around a drum set. That's when she started getting nervous, and Darien knew it.
"Hey, you don't need to be nervous. It's just the guys."
'That's easy for him to say.' She thought sardonically.
"Sorry. I just get nervous when I meet new people. Just a habit." She said as they neared the two guys.
"Hey guys. I want you to meet a friend of mine. Serena, this is Andrew the drummer and Chad, he's the bassist." Darien introduced them.
Andrew was just as tall as Darien but with sandy blonde hair and a paler complextion compared to Darien. He looked like a really nice guy. Serena smiled at him and then looked to Chad. He looked the part of a guy that would be in a band. Shaggy, untamed light brown hair that fell in his eyes, threatening to block his eyesite; he was a bit shorter than the other two but not much. He seemed like a nice guy aswell, Serena smiled her greeting at him.
"So, Dare here tells me you might audition for the open guitarist position in the band?" Andrew asked as he smiled at her.
"Yeah, I actually decided to do it." She answered.
"Really?" She turned around to face Darien who had spoke.
Serena giggled sweetly and nodded her head.
"Yup. I got my stuff all picked out. What I'm gunna play and all. I was up 'till after midnight getting it down." She explained.
"Now that's what I like in a girl: Never puts her guitar down." Darien said as he and his buddies laughed. She laughed along with them.
"Hey Darien." Came a sickeningly sweet voice from behind Darien. He turned around to come face to face with a flaming red beauty.
"Beryl." It came out more as a growl than anything else.
You could tell that he despised this girl.
Serena gasped, but no one noticed. 'It's the beast from my dream, albait, she does look a little different, no red beady eyes or fangs but she might aswell have them, she looks like a real bitch if you ask me.' Serena thought shell-shocked.
"What do you want Beryl? Following poor Darien around again I see. You know, you should really get help with your obssession with him, it really isn't healthy." Andrew lashed out at her in a dry tone.
She gave him a nasty glare and then returned to looking at Darien. She raised her hand and slid it down his cheek resting it on his shoulder, as she pushed herself against his body. Darien stood stiff against her movements.
"Beryl, get away from me. I'm warning you." Darien said, his voice rigid and emotionless.
Beryl payed no heed to his reactions.
"You know you want me Darien. Come on. Let's ditch these losers." Beryl whispered into his ear, but loud enough for Serena, Andrew and Chad to hear.
Serena had had just about enough of this. She could tell Darien did not like her, and didn't want her anywhere near him. Neither Chad nor Andrew liked her she could tell.
Serena reached over to a drum set and grabbed one of the drum-sticks. She walked betweem Andrew and Chad and gently pushed Beryl away from Darien, holding the drum-stick to her neck as of it were a knife or some other deadly inadement object.
"Look here. I don't think Darien likes you hangin' around him. So just beat it before I have to call security on you." Serena said threateningly to her face.
Beryl looked down at the drum-stick in Serena's hand, and looked back up at Serena with the slightest bit fear in her eyes.
"Just who do you think you are?" She said laying her hands on her hips, trying to come off as tough.
"I'm a friend of Darien's. I don't know who you are but I know you're not a friend of his. You can tell he despises you, so why don't you just give up and stop embaressing yourself and leave huh?" Serena said smiling sweetly at her.
"Look here..." Beryl started again.
"No. You're annoying. So Leave already!" Serena laughed. She couldn't believe how annoyingly stubborn this woman was.
Beryl finally huffed, turned on her heels and walked away back up the stairs.
Serena turned around to look at Darien, Andrew, and Chad, their faces showing shock and amazement.
"Wow Serena. That was awesome dude." Chad said as he smiled his approval of her.
"Yeah Serena, not one girl Darien has ever dated has had the guts to stand up to Beryl Preasely like that. I'm amazed." Andrew said as he patted her shoulder good naturedly.
"Serena. You shouldn't have done that. She can get real nasty." Darien warned her.
"Hey. Don't worry about me. I can take care of myself. Plus, she didn't look too nasty when I told her off." Serena explained, putting the drum-stick back in its place with the drum set.
"I still don't think you should have done that but thank you anyway. She can be a real bitch. You go out with a girl once and she never leaves you alone." He said while he lifted up his hands in a motion saying that he was clueless about the whole ordeal.
Serena just laughed at the picture he made. He just looked so cute.
"Serena!" Serena heard her name being called. She turned around and looked over by the stairs. She saw her mother standing at the bottom calling her. She quickly waved her hand for her to hold on a few seconds. She turned back to the guys.
"That's my Mom. I gotta go. But I'll see you guys tomorrow at three right?" She asked, confirming the time of try-outs.
"Yup. Tomorrow at three. See ya Serena." Darien said as she smiled and walked away. Andrew and Chad just waved and shouted,
"It was nice meeting you Serena!"
Serena smiled at them and said,
"You to you guys!" And then walked away with her mother.
"Dude, if she plays half as good as she looks, she's in!" Chad said as he slapped Darien on the back as he laughed.
"She is kinda cute isn't she?" Darien asked himself.
"Cute!" Andrew was outraged.
"She's GORGEOUS man. How could you let her walk away without askin' for a date?" Andrew said astonished.
"Come on you guys. She doesn't like me like that. Plus she's not like that. She's...I dunno, I just couldn't approach her like that." Darien explained.
"Oh I got it. You think she's a lesbian?" Chad asked laying his hand on his bestfriend's shoulder comfortingly.
"NO!"Darien yelled at his friend, glaring at him.
"You mean like she's too good for ya Dare?" Andrew asked.
"Yeah. Exactly Andy." Darien agreed with his bestfriend.
"Well dude. If she makes it in the band, you can get to know her, and maybe you won't feel so nervous around her. Plus you can totally tell she likes you, I mean, why else would she tell Beryl off? She was buggin' ya so Serena got jealous and decided to step in. What more is there to tell?" Chad said as they walked out of the store.
"She was just helping me out. It was obvious I didn't like the way Beryl was all over me. She was just being a good friend." Darien explained.
"Sure she was man. She's got the hots for you Dare." Andrew said smiling.
Darien just rolled his eyes and kept on walking.
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Ok, I think I'm gunna go day by day on these chapters. I might skip a day or so between chapters because nothing special will be going on that day. So yeah. Don't forget to review! Thanx. bye :)
-Happy Noodle Girl
