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Unspoken Chemistry
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Alyson Grant
Chapter 2
Saturday was Ryan's party at one of his parent's beach front estates. There was hardly any supervision which always makes for a wild party. So Lita, Mina, Raye, and I got ready for the party at Amy's house. We planned on spending Saturday night there and going home late Sunday evening.
"Most of us don't see that as a option. That looks disgusting." Raye said glancing at the contents of the small expensive jar Amy was offering.
"Don't knock it till you've tried it." She said a little defensively.
"That looks beyond weird." Raye said in a dismissive way as she turned back to her magazine.
"My mother swears by this company." Amy said a little defensively.
"I hate to think about what that says about her." She mumbled under her breath.
"Raye!"
"Kidding! Kidding! I was only kidding! Calm down all right?"
"Your mother really uses that?" I thought of how great Amy's mother looked. Really youthful considering both her age and the fact that she has a very stressful job as a doctor. "Well in that case, I guess I could give it a try. "
"Girls?" suddenly in a causal pants suit and three layers of elegant pearls, Mrs. Anderson walked in "Have you seen my- Oh!" she burst out laughing looking at Amy's, Mina's and Lita's faces, "Yes, I guess you have."
"Sorry Mom. We were just borrowing it." Amy said
"So I see." She said with her eyes filled with mirth and her arms crossed. "You girls don't really need it though."
"Sure we do! We need to primp and exfoliate and all that stuff!" Lita said excitedly.
"Definitely, Mrs. Anderson. We have to look great for tonight!" Mina said.
" I see. Well that's very important indeed. You've all got skin like a baby's bottom though. At my age I'd kill for that . Your only sixteen. Believe me, you really don't need this little secret just yet." She said with her eyes twinkling as she collected her belongings that were spread out on Amy's vanity.
"Bye girls. Do come see me when your all dressed and ready to go. I'll take pictures!" Then she was gone.
I looked at Amy who was already dressed. "You have the coolest mother."
"Hmm if you say so. You aren't the one who has to live with her every day but she's okay. Besides did you hear her? I'll take pictures!" she mimicked. "As if we were freshmen going to our first semiformal."
"Skin like a baby's bottom huh?" Rei said to herself as she raised her arms. "Wonder if Chad's noticed that?"
"Raye oh my god would please for one minute not mention his name?" Lita asked in exparation throwing her arms in the air. "I think I liked it better when he was volunteering to work at your grandfather's shrine and you hated him!"
"To be young and in love is a feeling like no other." Raye said dramatically throwing herself backwards on Amy's bed.
"The only feeling I'm getting right now is sickness." I joked.
Raye grabbed a light blue decorative pillow edged in dark blue embroidery from the bed and threw it at me. I dodged quickly and said "I surrender. I surrender!" She ignored me though and threw another.
"Hey would you watch the nails? Do I look like I'm playing with you? If I mess my nail's up, Raye I swear, that you won't live to see the light of day." I said as I waved them around.
"And would you watch how you treat my pillows?" Amy said crossly watching two more of them fly into the air from her view in the mirror as she put the final touches on her makeup.
"Sure thing Amy. Sorry, I'll let Serena slide this time." Rya smirked at me .
"Ohh I'm so filled with gratitude." I rolled my eyes at her.
"Hey!" Raye said picking up another pillow "Don't make me come over there!"
"Raye Hino, don't even think about touching about another one of my pillows!" Amy said.
"Okay, okay." Then she threw the one in her hand toward me.
Amy gave her a look. Raye held up her hands meekly.
"I believe you said not to touch another pillow." She said in a serious tone.
"That's right."
"I was already touching that one." Raye said solemnly.
"Oh for the love of god." Amy said resignedly.
The party was already in full swing by the time we got there. Everyone knows that you always have to make a fashionably late entrance. Our group is well known in school and we are thought of as popular and well known. We are notoriously known for wild, provocative behavior and the parties that we give. It's almost cliché really when we pass a freshman and they look at us with fear or respect. This is who we are.
"Yeah! Now this is what I call a party!" Raye practically screamed as the music was so loud is was practically making vibration's on the insides of our minds.
We were standing on the top of the stairs where the elegant staircase spread out on either side of the landing. Looking down we saw most of our crew. Amy was dancing with Greg. Mina was dancing with Andrew in a intimate way near the corner of the room. Lita was with her boyfriend Freddy somewhere. Everyone else was just having way to much fun dancing under the strobe light's to be bothered. The atmosphere was just great with the dim light's and all and the pulsating music. The only way I could describe it all was crazy, wild, and fun.
"Hey you two. Welcome to the party!" Ryan suddenly appeared.
"Hey Ryan!" Raye said.
"Hi Ryan." I nodded at him, "Great party."
"Thanks." He said to me "Do you want to dance?"
"Sure."
I told Raye I would see her see her later. Ryan turned around as we were walking down the
staircase and said, "Raye I must say, you look great tonight."
I almost died laughing at the look on Chad's face. He took a possessive hold of her waist as if to prove exactly who the alpha male was. Men!
As we were walking down the stairs I asked Ryan in a flirtatious tone, "So… going to say anything about me?"
"Aww it's nothing you don't already know." He said giving me a look that swept from head to toe.
"I wouldn't be to sure about that. Tell me anyway." I said leaning in dangeriously close then moving away, flirting with him
"Serena" he rested his hands on my hips as we moved to the center of the dance floor. "You know you look fantastic."
"Maybe." I said resting my head on his shoulder for a second. "But it never hurts to be told."
"Serena your too much."
"Yeah?" I gave him a smoldering look.
"Yeah." He looked at me in such a way that it was almost funny. Not that I would dare laugh.
After a few dances we started dancing with other people. I probably danced with most of the guys there. That's the fun part of going to parties without a date. You aren't obligated to dance with only one person . But pretty soon I got tired of dancing and walked off the dance floor to get some soda. I took a cup with me and decided to walk down to the beach for a little quiet. Well as much quiet as I could get with the music escaping through the house.
It took a while to make it out the front door because people kept on asking me to dance but when I eventually made it out. Sometimes popularity and being in the 'in crowd' can have a annoying tag to it. I was just sitting down on this large black rock near the edge of the water looking at the calming scenic view when I heard footsteps. I looked to my right and there he was.
"Hi Meatballhead." He said sitting down next to me.
I glanced at him and thought to myself this one question. Why did he have to come and ruin this for me? What's his deal? I just really didn't feel like dealing with Darien right now. I just wanted to be alone. Or share this with someone I cared about which obviously wasn't going to happen anytime soon. I put my head in my hands and sighed.
"What did you say to me?" I asked wearily.
"I said Hi Meatballhead." He repeated himself. The very nerve of this guy never ceases to astound me.
"I realize that in the grand scheme of things brains alluded you completely, but do you have to make it so painfully obvious?"
"Gee I didn't realize you cared so much." He put one hand to his heart.
"I don't. Don't get it twisted."
"Why Serena I would never." He reached out and touched a tendril of my hair that was flying in the light breeze.
"Whatever." I muttered looking down at my nails for a second. A perfect French manicure is what I saw. To bad it couldn't distract me from him or his touch that was now drifting slowly down my bare arm no matter how much I tried.
We started walking along the shoreline. Farther and further away from the party we walked in silence. For some reason Darien was quiet also and I wondered what he could be thinking of . The music was becoming lower and lower until it was almost like a distant memory. I couldn't help but notice that in profile he looked almost surreally handsome in the moonlight. Then after a few minutes he broke the silence.
"I mean I know you want me but do you have to be so obvious about it?" Darien asked me in a joking tone.
"That's not even funny. How dare you!" I said in outrage as I started to feel my cheeks getting warmer at the what I once thought was a direct insult. Now however I couldn't help wondering if it was the slightest of truths. I mean it's insulting to think that I could possibly have any interest in this conniving, annoying, cocky male who thinks he is just such the God. Perhaps if I were honest with myself …
"Just telling the truth." He said with a smile, staring straight ahead and then toward the water.
"I think it's the other way around." I said glaring at him
"If you say so." He returned my glare with a blatant stare that was neither flirtatious, serious, or in a joking manner. It was carefully veiling whatever was going on in his mind.
"I'm getting really annoyed. So if you don't get out of my face in less than a second you will get slapped." I said with my eyes flashing and hands balled up into tiny fists. I was tired, annoyed, and my limit's were just about to end. God he makes me so angry sometimes! I think I'll just punch him instead. So he'll get what her really deserves. I raised my arm to do just that, but in mid swing his reflexes really proved true. He caught it and then smoothly said:
"Oh too bad. I was really hoping for a kiss instead."
"Good luck getting one!" I said genuinely surprised by his words and not knowing if he was serious or just joking. I was to busy trying to pull free from his strong grasp with unsuccessful results to think about it too much about it that very second.
"Serena. I think you should know that I always get what I want." He said softly looking deep into my eyes.
"And what do you want?" I said flirtaciouly. I was held in a gaze I just couldn't break I shivered slightly.
Practically trapped with no way out. I thought I might as well calm down and use the moment to my benefit. Maybe I'll toy with him some more like I did last week…
"This." Then her stepped closer to me and before I knew what was going on he brushed the most gentle of kisses across my lips.
It felt like…oh I don't know. Whoa! I was so taken by surprise. The entire moment was really soft if that makes any sense. It wasn't really like a urgent moment of passion but softer, gentler, and even better. I just had to get hold of my senses though. His lips are so soft though which are pulling me under this power. It was like being pulled under a tidal wave with the rush and the feelings of surprise and the shock. It was almost a feeling of subcoming to unconscious. This was Darien! I mean he and I would never be the answer to a equation. It just didn't play out.
My eyes flew open from their original hazy state. I took a step back and said shakily, "What do you think your doing?"
"Sorry. I just-" Suddenly his whole demeanor changed into a confident playboy into the actions of insecurity. He had this unsure look in his eyes of an about to start stammering out of nervousness child. I saw it in his eyes.
"Don't you ever do that again." I interrupted him willing myself to stay in place and not to take another step back. I had to hold my ground and not show him how I really felt. That maybe I wanted to do that again. That's how much I was affected.
"Are you sure about that? he asked with a teasing grin taking a step closer to me.
"Yes!" I tried really hard not to notice how close we were yet again. Almost as close as before. Dangerous really.
Are you afraid of me?" As quickly as his attitude had changed before it was once again back to normal. I saw it in his eyes and out of defensiveness I reacted the only way I could. By playing his game as he did.
"Hardly!" I said with a smile of scorn.
"Just making sure. Then I'll talk to you later then." He said giving me this really cute smile as if he were about to leave.
"Don't count on it!" I said silently admonishing myself for my wayward thoughts about his smile and then without a backwards glance I left him standing there against a background of still blue water that were as deep in color as his eyes. Only the remembrance of the touch and feel of my lips on his made me blush. It was like fire on the stone and ice I was trying to be. I touched my lower lip curiously as if it weren't my own and for the first time since we kissed I wondered what was going on between the two of us. If he knew, it was his own private secret because I sure didn't have a clue of what to think about the latest development between Darien and I.
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Unspoken Chemistry
by
Alyson Grant
Chapter 2
Saturday was Ryan's party at one of his parent's beach front estates. There was hardly any supervision which always makes for a wild party. So Lita, Mina, Raye, and I got ready for the party at Amy's house. We planned on spending Saturday night there and going home late Sunday evening.
"Most of us don't see that as a option. That looks disgusting." Raye said glancing at the contents of the small expensive jar Amy was offering.
"Don't knock it till you've tried it." She said a little defensively.
"That looks beyond weird." Raye said in a dismissive way as she turned back to her magazine.
"My mother swears by this company." Amy said a little defensively.
"I hate to think about what that says about her." She mumbled under her breath.
"Raye!"
"Kidding! Kidding! I was only kidding! Calm down all right?"
"Your mother really uses that?" I thought of how great Amy's mother looked. Really youthful considering both her age and the fact that she has a very stressful job as a doctor. "Well in that case, I guess I could give it a try. "
"Girls?" suddenly in a causal pants suit and three layers of elegant pearls, Mrs. Anderson walked in "Have you seen my- Oh!" she burst out laughing looking at Amy's, Mina's and Lita's faces, "Yes, I guess you have."
"Sorry Mom. We were just borrowing it." Amy said
"So I see." She said with her eyes filled with mirth and her arms crossed. "You girls don't really need it though."
"Sure we do! We need to primp and exfoliate and all that stuff!" Lita said excitedly.
"Definitely, Mrs. Anderson. We have to look great for tonight!" Mina said.
" I see. Well that's very important indeed. You've all got skin like a baby's bottom though. At my age I'd kill for that . Your only sixteen. Believe me, you really don't need this little secret just yet." She said with her eyes twinkling as she collected her belongings that were spread out on Amy's vanity.
"Bye girls. Do come see me when your all dressed and ready to go. I'll take pictures!" Then she was gone.
I looked at Amy who was already dressed. "You have the coolest mother."
"Hmm if you say so. You aren't the one who has to live with her every day but she's okay. Besides did you hear her? I'll take pictures!" she mimicked. "As if we were freshmen going to our first semiformal."
"Skin like a baby's bottom huh?" Rei said to herself as she raised her arms. "Wonder if Chad's noticed that?"
"Raye oh my god would please for one minute not mention his name?" Lita asked in exparation throwing her arms in the air. "I think I liked it better when he was volunteering to work at your grandfather's shrine and you hated him!"
"To be young and in love is a feeling like no other." Raye said dramatically throwing herself backwards on Amy's bed.
"The only feeling I'm getting right now is sickness." I joked.
Raye grabbed a light blue decorative pillow edged in dark blue embroidery from the bed and threw it at me. I dodged quickly and said "I surrender. I surrender!" She ignored me though and threw another.
"Hey would you watch the nails? Do I look like I'm playing with you? If I mess my nail's up, Raye I swear, that you won't live to see the light of day." I said as I waved them around.
"And would you watch how you treat my pillows?" Amy said crossly watching two more of them fly into the air from her view in the mirror as she put the final touches on her makeup.
"Sure thing Amy. Sorry, I'll let Serena slide this time." Rya smirked at me .
"Ohh I'm so filled with gratitude." I rolled my eyes at her.
"Hey!" Raye said picking up another pillow "Don't make me come over there!"
"Raye Hino, don't even think about touching about another one of my pillows!" Amy said.
"Okay, okay." Then she threw the one in her hand toward me.
Amy gave her a look. Raye held up her hands meekly.
"I believe you said not to touch another pillow." She said in a serious tone.
"That's right."
"I was already touching that one." Raye said solemnly.
"Oh for the love of god." Amy said resignedly.
The party was already in full swing by the time we got there. Everyone knows that you always have to make a fashionably late entrance. Our group is well known in school and we are thought of as popular and well known. We are notoriously known for wild, provocative behavior and the parties that we give. It's almost cliché really when we pass a freshman and they look at us with fear or respect. This is who we are.
"Yeah! Now this is what I call a party!" Raye practically screamed as the music was so loud is was practically making vibration's on the insides of our minds.
We were standing on the top of the stairs where the elegant staircase spread out on either side of the landing. Looking down we saw most of our crew. Amy was dancing with Greg. Mina was dancing with Andrew in a intimate way near the corner of the room. Lita was with her boyfriend Freddy somewhere. Everyone else was just having way to much fun dancing under the strobe light's to be bothered. The atmosphere was just great with the dim light's and all and the pulsating music. The only way I could describe it all was crazy, wild, and fun.
"Hey you two. Welcome to the party!" Ryan suddenly appeared.
"Hey Ryan!" Raye said.
"Hi Ryan." I nodded at him, "Great party."
"Thanks." He said to me "Do you want to dance?"
"Sure."
I told Raye I would see her see her later. Ryan turned around as we were walking down the
staircase and said, "Raye I must say, you look great tonight."
I almost died laughing at the look on Chad's face. He took a possessive hold of her waist as if to prove exactly who the alpha male was. Men!
As we were walking down the stairs I asked Ryan in a flirtatious tone, "So… going to say anything about me?"
"Aww it's nothing you don't already know." He said giving me a look that swept from head to toe.
"I wouldn't be to sure about that. Tell me anyway." I said leaning in dangeriously close then moving away, flirting with him
"Serena" he rested his hands on my hips as we moved to the center of the dance floor. "You know you look fantastic."
"Maybe." I said resting my head on his shoulder for a second. "But it never hurts to be told."
"Serena your too much."
"Yeah?" I gave him a smoldering look.
"Yeah." He looked at me in such a way that it was almost funny. Not that I would dare laugh.
After a few dances we started dancing with other people. I probably danced with most of the guys there. That's the fun part of going to parties without a date. You aren't obligated to dance with only one person . But pretty soon I got tired of dancing and walked off the dance floor to get some soda. I took a cup with me and decided to walk down to the beach for a little quiet. Well as much quiet as I could get with the music escaping through the house.
It took a while to make it out the front door because people kept on asking me to dance but when I eventually made it out. Sometimes popularity and being in the 'in crowd' can have a annoying tag to it. I was just sitting down on this large black rock near the edge of the water looking at the calming scenic view when I heard footsteps. I looked to my right and there he was.
"Hi Meatballhead." He said sitting down next to me.
I glanced at him and thought to myself this one question. Why did he have to come and ruin this for me? What's his deal? I just really didn't feel like dealing with Darien right now. I just wanted to be alone. Or share this with someone I cared about which obviously wasn't going to happen anytime soon. I put my head in my hands and sighed.
"What did you say to me?" I asked wearily.
"I said Hi Meatballhead." He repeated himself. The very nerve of this guy never ceases to astound me.
"I realize that in the grand scheme of things brains alluded you completely, but do you have to make it so painfully obvious?"
"Gee I didn't realize you cared so much." He put one hand to his heart.
"I don't. Don't get it twisted."
"Why Serena I would never." He reached out and touched a tendril of my hair that was flying in the light breeze.
"Whatever." I muttered looking down at my nails for a second. A perfect French manicure is what I saw. To bad it couldn't distract me from him or his touch that was now drifting slowly down my bare arm no matter how much I tried.
We started walking along the shoreline. Farther and further away from the party we walked in silence. For some reason Darien was quiet also and I wondered what he could be thinking of . The music was becoming lower and lower until it was almost like a distant memory. I couldn't help but notice that in profile he looked almost surreally handsome in the moonlight. Then after a few minutes he broke the silence.
"I mean I know you want me but do you have to be so obvious about it?" Darien asked me in a joking tone.
"That's not even funny. How dare you!" I said in outrage as I started to feel my cheeks getting warmer at the what I once thought was a direct insult. Now however I couldn't help wondering if it was the slightest of truths. I mean it's insulting to think that I could possibly have any interest in this conniving, annoying, cocky male who thinks he is just such the God. Perhaps if I were honest with myself …
"Just telling the truth." He said with a smile, staring straight ahead and then toward the water.
"I think it's the other way around." I said glaring at him
"If you say so." He returned my glare with a blatant stare that was neither flirtatious, serious, or in a joking manner. It was carefully veiling whatever was going on in his mind.
"I'm getting really annoyed. So if you don't get out of my face in less than a second you will get slapped." I said with my eyes flashing and hands balled up into tiny fists. I was tired, annoyed, and my limit's were just about to end. God he makes me so angry sometimes! I think I'll just punch him instead. So he'll get what her really deserves. I raised my arm to do just that, but in mid swing his reflexes really proved true. He caught it and then smoothly said:
"Oh too bad. I was really hoping for a kiss instead."
"Good luck getting one!" I said genuinely surprised by his words and not knowing if he was serious or just joking. I was to busy trying to pull free from his strong grasp with unsuccessful results to think about it too much about it that very second.
"Serena. I think you should know that I always get what I want." He said softly looking deep into my eyes.
"And what do you want?" I said flirtaciouly. I was held in a gaze I just couldn't break I shivered slightly.
Practically trapped with no way out. I thought I might as well calm down and use the moment to my benefit. Maybe I'll toy with him some more like I did last week…
"This." Then her stepped closer to me and before I knew what was going on he brushed the most gentle of kisses across my lips.
It felt like…oh I don't know. Whoa! I was so taken by surprise. The entire moment was really soft if that makes any sense. It wasn't really like a urgent moment of passion but softer, gentler, and even better. I just had to get hold of my senses though. His lips are so soft though which are pulling me under this power. It was like being pulled under a tidal wave with the rush and the feelings of surprise and the shock. It was almost a feeling of subcoming to unconscious. This was Darien! I mean he and I would never be the answer to a equation. It just didn't play out.
My eyes flew open from their original hazy state. I took a step back and said shakily, "What do you think your doing?"
"Sorry. I just-" Suddenly his whole demeanor changed into a confident playboy into the actions of insecurity. He had this unsure look in his eyes of an about to start stammering out of nervousness child. I saw it in his eyes.
"Don't you ever do that again." I interrupted him willing myself to stay in place and not to take another step back. I had to hold my ground and not show him how I really felt. That maybe I wanted to do that again. That's how much I was affected.
"Are you sure about that? he asked with a teasing grin taking a step closer to me.
"Yes!" I tried really hard not to notice how close we were yet again. Almost as close as before. Dangerous really.
Are you afraid of me?" As quickly as his attitude had changed before it was once again back to normal. I saw it in his eyes and out of defensiveness I reacted the only way I could. By playing his game as he did.
"Hardly!" I said with a smile of scorn.
"Just making sure. Then I'll talk to you later then." He said giving me this really cute smile as if he were about to leave.
"Don't count on it!" I said silently admonishing myself for my wayward thoughts about his smile and then without a backwards glance I left him standing there against a background of still blue water that were as deep in color as his eyes. Only the remembrance of the touch and feel of my lips on his made me blush. It was like fire on the stone and ice I was trying to be. I touched my lower lip curiously as if it weren't my own and for the first time since we kissed I wondered what was going on between the two of us. If he knew, it was his own private secret because I sure didn't have a clue of what to think about the latest development between Darien and I.