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Serena stormed up the train, until she found the compartment her friends were in. She stepped, no, stomped, inside and slammed the door shut behind her.
"Hey Sere, what happened to you? You look like you're about to have a cow. I think your face is turning purple." Raye remarked. "You really should calm down. Your face purple is even worse than it normally looks. Oh, and, by the way, you're late."
"Shut UP, Raye, I don't need this right now. I just had the worst day possible! Oh, I could just scream!" She dumped all her bags on a seat. "I woke up late, didn't eat barely any breakfast, almost missed the train, and I met the most infuriating man on Earth!" Serena was so busy ranting she didn't hear the door slide open behind her (A/N: We all know where this is going…). "Sure, he may look like a god, but looks aren't everything!" Serena threw her hands up in the air and pretended to mimic him. "'Oh, excuse me, miss, but, is this your BRA?'" She imitated a deep voice.
"I swear, he's the most arrogant, stuck- up, self- centered, conceited, vain, presumptuous, pretentious, stuffy, selfish, imperious, overbearing, insolent, haughty, egotistical, narcissistic-" Serena was cut off by a voice behind her.
"Wow, you've sure learned a lot from a five minute meeting."
Serena turned around to meet the icy eyes of the person she least wanted to see.
"I guess dumb blondes aren't as dumb as they're cracked up to be. Nonetheless, pretty big words for such a small, little, girl." Sarcasm dripped from his every word.
Serena took a step toward him. "I may be smaller than you," she said in a low and chilling voice, "But I know how to make people die long and slow deaths."
Involuntarily, Darien took a step back.
The tension between the two was thick enough that you could cut it with a knife. Mina jumped up before any more death threats could be issued.
"Hello, boys! Serena, meet Andrew, Greg, Ken, and Chad! We were talking to them earlier and they went to go find their friend, who is you, right?" Mina said brightly, turning to Darien. He nodded. "What would your name be?" She prompted.
"D-Darien." He stuttered, caught off guard by the girl's brightness.
"Darien, hi! I'm Mina, this one's Raye, that's Lita, bookworm over there is Ami, and I guess you and Serena have met before!" pointing to each girl and ending with a nervous giggle.
Darien glanced at each girl in turn and when his gaze settled on Serena, he pasted on a fake smile and muttered only loud enough for her to hear, "We certainly have, haven't we, my sweet?"
She glared at him with her arms crossed over her chest. "I'm not your sweet anything, so don't you dare think you can take liberty of calling me that."
He raised his eyebrows as if to say, oh really!, but Serena pointedly ignored him as she turned to Mina. "Mina, did you forget something outside?" She almost growled.
"No, Sere, I'm pretty sure I didn't." She blanched at the look on Serena's face. "D-d-did I?" Serena could be awful scary sometimes.
"Yes, Mina, I'm pretty sure you left something outside, let's go see if we can find it." Serena grabbed Mina's arm and began to drag her out of the car.
Darien smiled. Did she think he was dumb? He knew what she was doing. She probably was going to go and tell Mina about what a creepy jerk he was. He faked Mina's cheerfulness as he called out to the departing two girls, "Ooh, ooh, can I come too?"
Serena whirled around and glared at him as she snapped out a firm, "No!"
Serena dragged Mina through four cars before they finally found an empty one. She pulled Mina in and shut the door behind them. "What the hell do you think you're doing, talking to that asshole!" She practically yelled at poor Mina.
"Geez, Serena, you don't have to yell. I was just being nice." Mina whispered, cowering in a corner. "His friend, Andrew, is pretty nice, I thought Dare would be nice too."
"Dare! Oh, so your up to nicknames with that- that- that CREEP! Look, he doesn't deserve being nice to. He's a jerk, a complete jerk!" Serena roared.
"If-if-if-if-if y-y-you s-say so." Mina was almost shaking.
Serena softened at the sight of her poor friend. "I'm sorry, Mina. You know how worked up I get sometimes. People like him just- they just frost my cookies!"
Mina would have laughed if Serena's face hadn't been so mad- looking.
"And Darien's just so arrogant! I've only met him twice and I can already tell he thinks he owns the world. He thinks everyone and anyone should bow down to him and obey his slightest whim. Well, I'm not a bug he can squash under his feet!" Serena was heating up fast. Mina realized she had to calm her down soon or else all hell would break lose.
"Serena! Calm down! You know you're better than him! And you know you've got all us girls backing you up. No matter how much I like Andrew (here she sighed) I'd leave him in a minute if you wanted me to! Remember our motto: One for all and all for one! We're the Princess Court, and we can crush whoever we want to!"
"Thank you, Mina. Now, let's go back and show that Dar- those boys what we're made of!" Serena semi- blushed at her slip.
Mina smiled knowingly as she took Serena arm and walked back to their car, Mina chatting lightly all the while.
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Darien stared out the window. Everyone else was busy doing something. Ami and Greg were talking animatedly about nothing in particular (A/N: Hey, how come whenever Ami and Greg get together, everyone makes them talk about physics?), Lita and Ken were discussing something, Lita wildly gesturing while Ken dodged so he wouldn't get hit. Raye and Chad were talking… well, at least Chad was talking while Raye kept trying to swat him away like a fly, and Mina and Andrew were alternating between talking and smiling at each other. Darien could see the instant attraction all his friends felt for the girls. He sighed. Would he ever meet someone and boom! have no idea what hit him?
Serena was curled up in a corner, reading a book. Darien's eyes lingered a bit on her, before he sighed again and returned to staring out the window, watching pastures and lakes and hills pass. God, I hope we get there soon was his last thought before he drifted off to sleep.
Serena felt eyes on her and glanced up at the sleeping Darien, smiling slightly. He's so cute she thought, before she realized exactly whom it was that she was talking about and the smile dropped off her face.
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"Portsmouth Station, five minutes!" the conductor rapped on their door and called sharply.
Everyone jumped up and gathered their things. In a few minutes time, the train slid into Portsmouth and dropped of the group.
OK, people, I'm leaving it off here, because I have to research up a little for part b, and I want to get this chapter out ASAP. Please review!
~Lady Star
