Title: Band Luxuries
By: Happy Noodle Girl
Part: Chapter 4, Revealing
Rated: PG-13

HERE WE GO! AGAIN! WOOOO!!.....

"Oooo. She's fisty. I like that in a girl. It's more fun when they put up a fight, isn't it Jessie?" Derick said once again eyeing her up and down.
"Definatly." Jessie agreed.
"Derick. Get it." Jessie comanded.
As Derick started to walk towards her, Serena prepared herself for the worst. But it never game. She opened her eyes and saw Derick holding her guitar.
'No.' She thought helplessly as she stared at her guitar.
"Don't." She whispered staring at the ground.
"Don't what?" Jessie said.
"Don't do...this?" Derick said as he smashed Serena's guitar to the ground.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!" Serena screamed as she saw her guitar go flying towards the hard cement.

~*~Inside Darien's house~*~

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Darien jumped up from his sitting position at the dinning table. Chad and Andrew looked to him surprised at the sudden scream from outside.
Darien quickly looked out the window next to the table to see Serena strugling with Jessie and Derick. Derick had tried to pick her up but she was screaming and clawing at him. Jessie was just laughing.
Darien roughly pushed the chair he had been sitting in, sending it flying across the kitchen. He sped to the front door before Andrew or Chad could ask him what was going on.
Andrew went to the window to see what his friend did and was horrified.
"Come on! Those two guys from the try-outs are attacking Serena!" He yelled before both he and Chad bolted out the door.

Darien sped towards Serena and the two guys from the try-outs. He ran to Jessie punching him hard in the stomach. Jessie doubled over in pain as Darien started in on him.
Derick turned around from stuggeling with Serena and saw that Jessie was getting attacked. He dropped Serena on the ground roughly and went after Darien. But before he could, both Andrew and Chad jumped on him, preventing him from going anywhere.
Serena slowly lifted her head up from the ground and saw Derick, the one that had been carrying her, run away to his car, get in and drive away. Darien was still fighting with Jessie. Finally she saw her chance. Darien had thrown Jessie to the ground. He was looking up at Darien like a deer caught in headlights. Serena looked at her guitar.
'Jake's guitar.' Was all she thought as she shot up and went running for Jessie.
She pounced on him and started hitting him for all she was worth. She knew she hit his teeth several times becuase she could feel the burning in her knuckles. But she kept going, punching his face over and over again while screaming,
"YOU BASTARD! YOU SMASHED MY FUCKING GUITAR! THAT WAS THE ONLY THING I HAD LEFT OF HIM! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU NO EXCUSE FOR A FUCKING SON-OF-A-BITCH BASTARD!!!!"
Suddenly she felt arms around her waist, pulling her from off of Jessie. She kicked and swung at whatever she could as she was pulled unwillingly from Jessie's bloodied face.
Jessie had tried to cover his face with his arms, but it was no use with Serena. When she had been pulled off him, he got up as quickly as he could considering he was barely conscious, and ran to his car, driving away.
Serena slumbed to the ground in Darien's hold, crying over and over again, cradling her bloodied knuckles,
"It was all I had left of him. Jake. No. Please." She cried into her hands blood dripping from her knuckles down onto her skirt.
Darien moved to her side picking her up in his arms as she continued to cry brokenly into her blood-covered hands. He motioned for Andrew and Chad to pick up what was left of her guitar and shut the trunk.

Darien quickly walked into his empty house and up the stairs to his bedroom. He gently layed the sobbing girl on his queen sized bed, ran into his closet and found an old clean t-shirt. He ran back to Serena, tore long pieces off of it and tied them around Serena's knuckles.

Fifteen minutes later Serena's tears stopped and she lifted her black streaked face up to meet Darien's.
"It was all I had left of him." She said brokenly, her voice choked with fresh tears.
Darien pulled her close and she hugged him hard, starting to cry once again.
This time she stopped crying within a few minutes and looked up to Darien.
"Thank you Darien. I probably owe you my life."
"Hey. Don't worry about it. Now why don't you tell me what happened huh?" He said gently, running his hand soothingly up and down her back.
Serena sniffled a little, rubbed what she could of the black off of her face and started to talk.
"Well after you had gone inside, I opened my trunk to put my guitar in there when I turned around to see Jessie and Derick standing there. They looked so mad." Serena said as she remember the rage she saw on their faces.
"Jessie said,"so you think you're pretty hot huh?" Then Derick said that I was, and to just look at my body, and said wouldn't you love to get you're hands on that? Maybe under that skirt huh?" She mimicked with disgust in her voice. "Then..." She broke off there as fresh tears started to build up. But she pushed them down and continued.
"Then he put his hand under my skirt. I backed away and hit his hand away from me and told him to get his hands off me. He said that I was fisty, and that he liked a girl that put up a fight, that it was more fun when they did. Jessie agreed with him. Then he told Derick to, "Get it." I had closed my eyes expecting him to hit me. But he took my guitar, and he threw it to the ground, smashing it. Then Derick grabbed me and started to take me to his car. I tried to fight him off, I tried so hard, as hard as I could Darien." She finished as silent tears slipped down her cheeks.
"It was all I had left of him Darien. Everything." She whispered into his shoulder.
He gently stroked her hair. Serena pulled back and looked down at her hands that had found their way back into her lap.
"Jake, the bassist in my band that I told you about. We were really close, you'd think we were brother and sister. So were me and the rest of our band. But one night, he was comming home from a party with Sara and our drummer, Ashton. I had been sick that night and told them that I couldn't go. So they went to the party without me. They were all so drunk. Sara was the one at the wheel. They were driving home when a large carrier truck came out of nowhere. Sara swerved to avoid it, but it was too late. They smashed into it. All three of them, dead, instantly upon impact. I lost my three best friends that night. For the longest time I thought that I was meant to be in that car with them. But now I know, they wouldn't have wanted me in that car with them. I still miss them so much though. That's why we moved here. My dad requested a job transfer and this was the only place it could take him. So we packed up our bags and left." Serena finished as she looked at some object over Darien's head.

"Oh Serena. I'm sorry." Darien sympathized.
"It's ok. I feel a lot better now."
"That's good." He said.
"Well, we better get your hands cleaned up. You did a pretty nasty job on that guy Jessie. I was amazed."
Serena smiled weakely.

Darien walked into the bathroom and grabbed the first aid kit from under the sink and brought it back into the bedroom. He laid it down on the bed and opened it, pulling out cleaner, disinfectant, Neosporin, bandages, and tape. He gently began to clean Serena's cuts.
"Ouch." Serena hissed as the disinfectant stung.
"Oh come on, baby. That didn't hurt." He said laughing.
"Yes it did!" Serena yelled back at him.
Darien just chuckled at her.
"Well you only have a bunch of small cuts. You should be able to take the bandages off by Tuesday." He said as he taped a white bandage over each hand.
"Hey Serena?" Darien said as she started to get off the bed and walk to the bathroom to clean up.
"Yeah?" She asked over the sound of running water.
"Do you want a ride to school on Monday?" He asked her as she splashed water on her face, washing her make-up off.
Serena dried her face off with a near by towel, wiping the excess black off.
"Sure Darien. That would be nice. I don't even know where the school is. But you'll have to give me a ride home too since I won't have a ride home otherwise."
"Well, how bout I bring you over to my house. That's where band practice will be." Serena froze after she heard Darien say this.
"You mean? I'm in? I got the spot?" Serena asked her eyes going wide from shock.
Darien nodded.
"Yay!" Serena yelled as she took a flying leap into Darien's arms.
Serena suddenly let her arms fall limp, realizing something.
"Are you giving me the spot out of pity?" She asked him, eyes searching.
"No way Serena. I mean true, there is no way I'd have either of those two idiots in our band, and true you are the only other one that tried out..." Serena looked down at her shoes nervously, afraid of his reasoning.
"But you're really good on that guitar. We had already decided half way through your song that you were going to fill the spot. The other guys just weren't good enough, and they didn't seem to love it s much as you Serena." Darien said as he laid his hands gently on her hips.
Serena noticed this and allowed a small smile to play across her lips. She liked the way Darien's hands felt on her. She felt safe in his arms, esspecially after he had saved her from those two assholes.
"So are you feeling well enough to come back down stairs?"
Serena shook her head in agreement as they walked down-stairs.

Serena walked into the kitchen and saw what was left of her guitar on the kitchen table in pieces. She slowly walked over to it. Andrew and Chad were standing off to the side drinking sodas.
She gently picked up the neck of her guitar which was ripped from the body, and looked it over.
'There's no way I can fix this, or anybody else. It's destroyed.' She thought solemly to herself. She looked at the body of her guitar, seeing that it was in two pieces. Then she noticed the silver knobs on the table next to the ruins. She looked back over to the neck of the guitar and noticed that the tuning knobs had flown off when they hit the cement. Serena gently laid the pieces back on the table and looked up to stare at the wall briefly as she collected herself.
"Well I guess I better be getting home, my parents will be wondering what's taking so long. Although, I'm not quite sure how I'm going to keep this from them." She said as she leaned against the white table.
She shrugged her shoulders, turned around and began stacking the remains of her guitar up and carrying it out to her white Carolla.

She laid the pieces in her trunk then turned around to say good-bye to her new band mates.
"I don't know how to thank you guys. You've really helped me out. I know we aren't very close now, but I'm sure over time we will be." She said as she walked around to the driver's seat and got in, shutting the door.
She waved at the guys and then sped off.

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Sooooooooooo...How was that? Very dramatic right? Maybe I went a little overboard you think? Well tell me! Review! Pretty pleeeeaaassse? Ok I'm gunna go start on chapter 5 now. See ya later!

-Happy Noodle Girl