1 Watch Out Meatball Head
Chapter Six
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I let out a gasp of surprise. "Andrew" I repeated. He was standing in front of me, a trickle of blood trailing down his chin.
"Serena ?" his brow wrinkled in confusion. "Did you get your memory back this soon ?" he asked me. I shook my head slowly. He frowned at my answer. "is anyone else around ?" he asked, still frowning. Before I could reply or nod, Ray appeared at my shoulder.
"Hey Andrew ! Serena let him in ! he's a friend don't worry – oh god Andrew ! you're bleeding !." Ray said pushing me aside and letting Andrew in.
He starred at me, looking uncomfortable for some reason. "Ray wait" he said wiping his chin using the sleeve of his white shirt which was already caked with dry blood. "how did you recognize me Serena, if you still haven't got your memory back ?" Ray froze at that point.
She turned around and looked me in the eye. "she recognized you ? Serena do you know who Andrew is ? did you get your memory back ?" she asked.
I starred at her. Letting the words sink in. then I shook my head. For some reason I felt tears trickle down my cheek. 'why was I crying ?' I didn't know.
Ray sighed in exasperation. A look of annoyance crossed her face. She took me in arm and Andrew in the other and dragged us into the living room, muttering something that sounded like 'here she goes again, the crybaby' everyone appeared at the living room, to see what was going on. Ray took charge.
"o.k. guys we got two problems, lets take care of Andrew first and then see about Serena. Amy go get the bandages in the bathroom, Lita go find a cloth and Mina go get a bowl of hot water. We need to clean Andrew up." She turned to us. "You two sit down on the sofa." She said. We both walked up to the sofa and flopped down, without complaining. I closed my eyes and leaned against the sofa trying to clear my mind.
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I didn't know what to think of myself. I'd killed two people in less than a month. I wouldn't be surprised if I went back to my apartment and found the police surrounding it. What I couldn't bare most of all was the guilt – I could've checked on Andrew he might have not even been dead. After all I had only punched him. But the worse bit was that instead of staying there and helping Andrew I had run off. A coward, that's what I was. As I my run slowed into a walk I realized that I was back at the park, I didn't know how long I had been running, or how far I'd run. But I had returned to the exact same spot. I fought the urge to turn and run away again. Instead I walked over to the bridge crossing over the river. I leaned against it and closed my eyes. Letting the remaining heat rays of the sunset seep into my skin.
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when I finally opened my eyes, Amy and Ray had gotten Andrew cleaned up. I sighed, listening to Andrew tell us the story of how his best friend, 'Darien', had hit him unintentionally and then run off.
"Hey wait a second, isn't Darien the guy who saved my life ?" I interrupted.
The girls and Andrew nodded. An uncomfortable silence fell among us.
"So Serena, are you ready to tell us how you recognized Andrew ?" Lita asked. I frowned, I didn't exactly know the answer to that question myself.
"I don't know," I said honestly "when he came in, his name sort of popped out of my mouth. You know – I wasn't exactly thinking it, it just came ……" my voice trailed off. I looked at them hopefully.
"it could be that her subconscious was working, like it does when your not aware of what is taking place. It replaces her mind, and her old loss of memory is unaware that her subconscious is giving her these thoughts, and it quickly snaps back to her awareness. Leaving her confused." Amy said. (A.N. I am desperately trying to sound like Amy here – and I know what I've just written makes absolutely no sense ! but then again, Amy makes no sense at all most of the time !). The girls and Andrew starred at Amy blankly. Amy sighed. "Its all got to do with the way the mind functions – when its at rest and when the subconscious takes over." She tried to explain. We all stared at Amy again. "As soon as Serena saw Andrew, his name must've just popped out of her mouth – automatically. As soon as she said his name, she realized she had no idea who he is." Amy practically yelled in annoyance. A chorus of 'oh's followed that statement. Then a silence settled among us again, but this time it was a comfortable silence. All of us were deep in thought, with our own theories. But my mind was still focused on why 'Darien' had hit Andrew. Our thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the door been unlocked. All our heads turned as my mum entered the living room her arms filled with grocery bags. Her eyes scanned us quickly – as if to check if we were alright – then landed on Andrew. "oh hello Andrew, I didn't know you were going to be coming over." She exclaimed. "oh, I didn't plan on it either, it was sort of last minute." He said looking uneasy.
"Why don't we go out" I said suddenly, sitting up. "you guys can show me where we used to hang out, and maybe we can have some ice cream." The words popped out of my mouth even before I thought them through.
"oh I don't think that's a very good idea, you still need to rest Serena and anyway, its almost dinner time and ice cream before dinner is never a good idea, it'll spoil your appetite." My mum said, knowingly.
"o.k. well may be we could go after dinner." I said. My mum shook her head, unconvinced. "it'll be too cold and dark, dear. We wouldn't want you to be sick so soon after you came home from hospital." She replied. "tomorrow then ?" I asked desperately. She shook her head again. "Not yet Serena, after a few days maybe I'll think about it. Now girls, would one of you mind giving me a hand with these groceries." She said Disappearing into the kitchen. Ray got up and followed her. I slumped back into the sofa, defeated. At this rate I wasn't going to be leaving the house until I was thirty. Nor was I going to be getting my memory back. I had to find a way to go out – with out my parents or friends. I just had to. But how could I possibly make it happen ? there was only one answer to that question – I had to sneak out. That was the only answer to my problems, then I could somehow look around and maybe even find out something about the 'Darien' guy. Maybe.
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(A.n. I bet you thought I was going to end this chapter here ! nope, I'm gonna keep writing !)
*********************************Serena***********************
At night in Serena's house. (her friends have left, promising to come and visit the next day. Her parents are sound asleep in their room, thinking that there daughter was asleep in hers . . . they couldn't be more wrong !)
I quickly looked up at my black Luna-look-alike alarm clock, it read 2:14. Time to set my plan into action. I crept out from under my bed covers and slipped my pajamas off. The night before I had prepared the clothes I was going to wear for my little 'late night' outing – black jeans, black shirt, and black boots. I slipped into those clothes and examined myself in my mirror, I looked o.k. but I was faced with one problem. My hair. I frowned, what could I do to keep it out of the way ? I couldn't cut it off, that would be a bit too drastic even for me. I quickly pulled my hair up and piled it on top o my head. Now I needed something to cover it, something like a . . . . baseball cap ! unfortunately I didn't own any baseball caps ! but I knew who did. I slipped out of my room and tiptoed across the hallway to Sammy's room, luckily his door was ajar. I pushed it open, and crawled in. I frowned when I saw the mess his room was in, 'I wouldn't be able to find a car hidden in here !' I thought looking at the piles of clothed and dirty socks and dishes. 'if I was Sammy, where would I keep my baseball caps ?' I wandered. I made my way across the room, looking around for a hint of a baseball cap. Suddenly something caught my foot and I fell flat on my face.
'Thud'
I tried hard not to yell out in pain, but that was hard when you had a pointy toy sticking up on to your stomach. I groaned and rolled over onto my back. Holding my breath I waited for Sammy or my parents o get up, and discover me. Nothing. I sighed in relief, looks like they hadn't heard me after all. Still lying on my back I reached down to see what tripped me up. I clapped my hands over my mouth to keep from laughing, I had tripped over a baseball cap ! a black baseball cap ! suddenly I felt like I was acting a part in a James Bond movie. After I secured the cap over my hair , I slipped out of Sammy's room and into my own. Then I opened my back pack to check the stuff I had prepared to take, a flash light, map, a jumper, a spare set of keys to the house, black gloves, a bottle of mineral water, a digital alarm clock watch (Serena's p.o.v. which I borrowed from Sammy !) a newspaper (with Dariens picture in it) and a tiny portable first aid kit. I set the alarm clock watch just before five, I couldn't risk getting caught. I arranged the pillows on my bed so it still looked as thought i was asleep on it. I slipped my gloves and opened my bedroom window, and peered out. There was a tree next to my bedroom so it would be easy for me to slip out without jumping out of the window itself and breaking my neck. I easily slipped from the frame of my window into the tree and closed the window. Now the tricky bit was actually getting down from the tree. 'I can do this' I thought as I wrapped my arms around the tree trunk. I slid one foot to a branch below, then the other and stood up still holding onto the trunk, ' this is easy' I thought as I repeated my strategy over and over. I looked down, I was pretty close to the ground, I was about six feet high up. I looked down again – something was wrong. My eyes widened when I realized what was wrong, there were no branches left !! I'd have to jump six feet down ! 'I can do this. I can do this' I muttered over and over as I slid from the branch and wrapped both my legs around the trunk. Suddenly I lost my grip and I was sliding down the trunk.
'THUD BUMP' I let out a little squeak as my butt bounced on the grass.
"ohh.. my day has to get better than this" I murmured as I rubbed my butt.
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I had to admit when Andrew first showed me my apartment, it had taken me by surprise. I had expected to live in a house with a great family, who were worried about me. But I think one of the hardest thing in my entire life was learning for the second time in my life that my parents had died in a car crash when i was six. That had just made me realize that I had nothing worth living for, no family or relatives and from today no friends. That's why I got up in the middle of the night to go for a walk in the park. To think. Obviously I hadn't told Andrew lots of things about my life. So when I lost my memory I lost a lot – I lost little memories that meant a lot for me, memories of my parents, my mums perfume and what she was like. Its like I was reborn but to live the exact same life. The walk didn't clear my or make me fell any better, so I stopped and sat on a bench facing the lake. Waiting . . . . . . and waiting . . . . for something to come back. But nothing came.
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after I managed to fall my butt again, things started getting better. I even managed to find an open ice cream cart ! after getting my ice cream, I walked around town, the street lights were the only lights on, most of the shops were closed except for a few late – open café's. I didn't want to be seen hanging around empty streets all alone, specially by drunken men, so I walked in shadows. As I walked my thoughts changed. For some reason it was really important for me to find out who was the guy who saved my life. So far all I knew about him was that his name was 'Darien'. I hadn't had time to ask any of my friends, because of all that's happened between Andrew and Darien. I stopped suddenly realizing that I had been walking for sometime and I didn't know where I was. I was at the entrance of a park. I knew better than go to a park alone in the middle of the night – but before I knew it I was walking through the entrance of the park. I frowned, knowing that what I was doing wasn't a very good idea. I walked into a little clearing, it was dark but the silvery moon lit up the lake. I sighed in surprise.
In the corner of my eye I noticed a sudden movement, but before I could move an inch, I felt a sudden force push me back, tripping me over. I yelped in surprise as my attacker tumbled down on top of me . . .
*~*~*~* I'm gonna stop now !!!! you'll have to wait and find out if Serena's o.k. (but I guess if Serena died there wouldn't be a plot … right ??) !!! but if you got any comments about how my story is – or how I could improve it write to crescentmoon_bunny@yahoo.co.uk I welcome all comments ! (when I said I welcome all comments I don't exactly want you to insult my fic . . . . you wouldn't right ??)
Chapter Six
*****************************Serena***************************
I let out a gasp of surprise. "Andrew" I repeated. He was standing in front of me, a trickle of blood trailing down his chin.
"Serena ?" his brow wrinkled in confusion. "Did you get your memory back this soon ?" he asked me. I shook my head slowly. He frowned at my answer. "is anyone else around ?" he asked, still frowning. Before I could reply or nod, Ray appeared at my shoulder.
"Hey Andrew ! Serena let him in ! he's a friend don't worry – oh god Andrew ! you're bleeding !." Ray said pushing me aside and letting Andrew in.
He starred at me, looking uncomfortable for some reason. "Ray wait" he said wiping his chin using the sleeve of his white shirt which was already caked with dry blood. "how did you recognize me Serena, if you still haven't got your memory back ?" Ray froze at that point.
She turned around and looked me in the eye. "she recognized you ? Serena do you know who Andrew is ? did you get your memory back ?" she asked.
I starred at her. Letting the words sink in. then I shook my head. For some reason I felt tears trickle down my cheek. 'why was I crying ?' I didn't know.
Ray sighed in exasperation. A look of annoyance crossed her face. She took me in arm and Andrew in the other and dragged us into the living room, muttering something that sounded like 'here she goes again, the crybaby' everyone appeared at the living room, to see what was going on. Ray took charge.
"o.k. guys we got two problems, lets take care of Andrew first and then see about Serena. Amy go get the bandages in the bathroom, Lita go find a cloth and Mina go get a bowl of hot water. We need to clean Andrew up." She turned to us. "You two sit down on the sofa." She said. We both walked up to the sofa and flopped down, without complaining. I closed my eyes and leaned against the sofa trying to clear my mind.
******************************Darien**************************
I didn't know what to think of myself. I'd killed two people in less than a month. I wouldn't be surprised if I went back to my apartment and found the police surrounding it. What I couldn't bare most of all was the guilt – I could've checked on Andrew he might have not even been dead. After all I had only punched him. But the worse bit was that instead of staying there and helping Andrew I had run off. A coward, that's what I was. As I my run slowed into a walk I realized that I was back at the park, I didn't know how long I had been running, or how far I'd run. But I had returned to the exact same spot. I fought the urge to turn and run away again. Instead I walked over to the bridge crossing over the river. I leaned against it and closed my eyes. Letting the remaining heat rays of the sunset seep into my skin.
****************************Serena****************************
when I finally opened my eyes, Amy and Ray had gotten Andrew cleaned up. I sighed, listening to Andrew tell us the story of how his best friend, 'Darien', had hit him unintentionally and then run off.
"Hey wait a second, isn't Darien the guy who saved my life ?" I interrupted.
The girls and Andrew nodded. An uncomfortable silence fell among us.
"So Serena, are you ready to tell us how you recognized Andrew ?" Lita asked. I frowned, I didn't exactly know the answer to that question myself.
"I don't know," I said honestly "when he came in, his name sort of popped out of my mouth. You know – I wasn't exactly thinking it, it just came ……" my voice trailed off. I looked at them hopefully.
"it could be that her subconscious was working, like it does when your not aware of what is taking place. It replaces her mind, and her old loss of memory is unaware that her subconscious is giving her these thoughts, and it quickly snaps back to her awareness. Leaving her confused." Amy said. (A.N. I am desperately trying to sound like Amy here – and I know what I've just written makes absolutely no sense ! but then again, Amy makes no sense at all most of the time !). The girls and Andrew starred at Amy blankly. Amy sighed. "Its all got to do with the way the mind functions – when its at rest and when the subconscious takes over." She tried to explain. We all stared at Amy again. "As soon as Serena saw Andrew, his name must've just popped out of her mouth – automatically. As soon as she said his name, she realized she had no idea who he is." Amy practically yelled in annoyance. A chorus of 'oh's followed that statement. Then a silence settled among us again, but this time it was a comfortable silence. All of us were deep in thought, with our own theories. But my mind was still focused on why 'Darien' had hit Andrew. Our thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the door been unlocked. All our heads turned as my mum entered the living room her arms filled with grocery bags. Her eyes scanned us quickly – as if to check if we were alright – then landed on Andrew. "oh hello Andrew, I didn't know you were going to be coming over." She exclaimed. "oh, I didn't plan on it either, it was sort of last minute." He said looking uneasy.
"Why don't we go out" I said suddenly, sitting up. "you guys can show me where we used to hang out, and maybe we can have some ice cream." The words popped out of my mouth even before I thought them through.
"oh I don't think that's a very good idea, you still need to rest Serena and anyway, its almost dinner time and ice cream before dinner is never a good idea, it'll spoil your appetite." My mum said, knowingly.
"o.k. well may be we could go after dinner." I said. My mum shook her head, unconvinced. "it'll be too cold and dark, dear. We wouldn't want you to be sick so soon after you came home from hospital." She replied. "tomorrow then ?" I asked desperately. She shook her head again. "Not yet Serena, after a few days maybe I'll think about it. Now girls, would one of you mind giving me a hand with these groceries." She said Disappearing into the kitchen. Ray got up and followed her. I slumped back into the sofa, defeated. At this rate I wasn't going to be leaving the house until I was thirty. Nor was I going to be getting my memory back. I had to find a way to go out – with out my parents or friends. I just had to. But how could I possibly make it happen ? there was only one answer to that question – I had to sneak out. That was the only answer to my problems, then I could somehow look around and maybe even find out something about the 'Darien' guy. Maybe.
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(A.n. I bet you thought I was going to end this chapter here ! nope, I'm gonna keep writing !)
*********************************Serena***********************
At night in Serena's house. (her friends have left, promising to come and visit the next day. Her parents are sound asleep in their room, thinking that there daughter was asleep in hers . . . they couldn't be more wrong !)
I quickly looked up at my black Luna-look-alike alarm clock, it read 2:14. Time to set my plan into action. I crept out from under my bed covers and slipped my pajamas off. The night before I had prepared the clothes I was going to wear for my little 'late night' outing – black jeans, black shirt, and black boots. I slipped into those clothes and examined myself in my mirror, I looked o.k. but I was faced with one problem. My hair. I frowned, what could I do to keep it out of the way ? I couldn't cut it off, that would be a bit too drastic even for me. I quickly pulled my hair up and piled it on top o my head. Now I needed something to cover it, something like a . . . . baseball cap ! unfortunately I didn't own any baseball caps ! but I knew who did. I slipped out of my room and tiptoed across the hallway to Sammy's room, luckily his door was ajar. I pushed it open, and crawled in. I frowned when I saw the mess his room was in, 'I wouldn't be able to find a car hidden in here !' I thought looking at the piles of clothed and dirty socks and dishes. 'if I was Sammy, where would I keep my baseball caps ?' I wandered. I made my way across the room, looking around for a hint of a baseball cap. Suddenly something caught my foot and I fell flat on my face.
'Thud'
I tried hard not to yell out in pain, but that was hard when you had a pointy toy sticking up on to your stomach. I groaned and rolled over onto my back. Holding my breath I waited for Sammy or my parents o get up, and discover me. Nothing. I sighed in relief, looks like they hadn't heard me after all. Still lying on my back I reached down to see what tripped me up. I clapped my hands over my mouth to keep from laughing, I had tripped over a baseball cap ! a black baseball cap ! suddenly I felt like I was acting a part in a James Bond movie. After I secured the cap over my hair , I slipped out of Sammy's room and into my own. Then I opened my back pack to check the stuff I had prepared to take, a flash light, map, a jumper, a spare set of keys to the house, black gloves, a bottle of mineral water, a digital alarm clock watch (Serena's p.o.v. which I borrowed from Sammy !) a newspaper (with Dariens picture in it) and a tiny portable first aid kit. I set the alarm clock watch just before five, I couldn't risk getting caught. I arranged the pillows on my bed so it still looked as thought i was asleep on it. I slipped my gloves and opened my bedroom window, and peered out. There was a tree next to my bedroom so it would be easy for me to slip out without jumping out of the window itself and breaking my neck. I easily slipped from the frame of my window into the tree and closed the window. Now the tricky bit was actually getting down from the tree. 'I can do this' I thought as I wrapped my arms around the tree trunk. I slid one foot to a branch below, then the other and stood up still holding onto the trunk, ' this is easy' I thought as I repeated my strategy over and over. I looked down, I was pretty close to the ground, I was about six feet high up. I looked down again – something was wrong. My eyes widened when I realized what was wrong, there were no branches left !! I'd have to jump six feet down ! 'I can do this. I can do this' I muttered over and over as I slid from the branch and wrapped both my legs around the trunk. Suddenly I lost my grip and I was sliding down the trunk.
'THUD BUMP' I let out a little squeak as my butt bounced on the grass.
"ohh.. my day has to get better than this" I murmured as I rubbed my butt.
*******************************Darien*************************
I had to admit when Andrew first showed me my apartment, it had taken me by surprise. I had expected to live in a house with a great family, who were worried about me. But I think one of the hardest thing in my entire life was learning for the second time in my life that my parents had died in a car crash when i was six. That had just made me realize that I had nothing worth living for, no family or relatives and from today no friends. That's why I got up in the middle of the night to go for a walk in the park. To think. Obviously I hadn't told Andrew lots of things about my life. So when I lost my memory I lost a lot – I lost little memories that meant a lot for me, memories of my parents, my mums perfume and what she was like. Its like I was reborn but to live the exact same life. The walk didn't clear my or make me fell any better, so I stopped and sat on a bench facing the lake. Waiting . . . . . . and waiting . . . . for something to come back. But nothing came.
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after I managed to fall my butt again, things started getting better. I even managed to find an open ice cream cart ! after getting my ice cream, I walked around town, the street lights were the only lights on, most of the shops were closed except for a few late – open café's. I didn't want to be seen hanging around empty streets all alone, specially by drunken men, so I walked in shadows. As I walked my thoughts changed. For some reason it was really important for me to find out who was the guy who saved my life. So far all I knew about him was that his name was 'Darien'. I hadn't had time to ask any of my friends, because of all that's happened between Andrew and Darien. I stopped suddenly realizing that I had been walking for sometime and I didn't know where I was. I was at the entrance of a park. I knew better than go to a park alone in the middle of the night – but before I knew it I was walking through the entrance of the park. I frowned, knowing that what I was doing wasn't a very good idea. I walked into a little clearing, it was dark but the silvery moon lit up the lake. I sighed in surprise.
In the corner of my eye I noticed a sudden movement, but before I could move an inch, I felt a sudden force push me back, tripping me over. I yelped in surprise as my attacker tumbled down on top of me . . .
*~*~*~* I'm gonna stop now !!!! you'll have to wait and find out if Serena's o.k. (but I guess if Serena died there wouldn't be a plot … right ??) !!! but if you got any comments about how my story is – or how I could improve it write to crescentmoon_bunny@yahoo.co.uk I welcome all comments ! (when I said I welcome all comments I don't exactly want you to insult my fic . . . . you wouldn't right ??)
