[AN: Je m'excuse! Je m'excuse! Pardonne-moi dear readers. For all of you
that have read the first chapter and have been waiting for this one, I am
completely sorry about the wait. And school is no excuse cuz I hardly had
much to do. You can tell by the date down there that this has been on my
computer for a while without making it to FF.Net. All in all, I'm sorry
again for the wait. Bonne Lecture!]
Adonis Is A Jerk
written by Hopeless Cherub
29.09.02
Adonis II
I got home a few minutes later and stood on the front steps for a few mintues. After making a few sick looking faces at the door, I chose the right one and stepped in.
"Ken, honey? Is that you? What are you doing home so early?"
I faked a groan and stumbled into the kitchen. My mother gasped the mintue she saw me.
"Serena! What happened to you. OMG, OMG, OMG. Does your head hurt? What about your tummy? Can you stand straight?"
"A little. Major cramp. Sorta," I answered her rushed questions. I coughed up a bit and then leaned on the door frame.
"Oh gosh! Is it your menstruations." She paused. "ARE YOU PREGNANT?!?!?"
I sighed. "No, mom. I'm still entirely chaste in every possible way."
"Phew. Get upstairs and take a shower. Climb in bed right after. I'll call your school and then I'll be up with a bowl of chicken soup."
She pushed me up the stairs and shut the door to the bathroom. Turning on the the tap, I stripped down and stepped into the tepid water.
"Sere, Lita and Mina told me you went home. I hope you're okay. It seems you've been acting strangely today," Ami stated with concern.
Another one of my friends caring too much today. I sighed and responded, "I'm fine Ames. Nothing to worry about." I then lowered my voice. "And I'm not sick either."
"Oh good. Well, if you're up to it, we're meeting at the arcade at five. Can you fake feeling better too?" She said with a giggle. She had become a lot more lighthearted these days, ever since she got paired up with some Greg guy in chemistry. Maybe a little real life chemistry was going on in the process.
"I'll try to make it. I think I can work something out. You know me."
We said goodbye and I hung up. My mom came in a few minutes later and I snapped out of my recollections of the day.
"You feeling better hon?" Her head was partially inside my room.
"Yeah, a little. The girls were concerned and so they called." I kept the sick look on my face. "Is it okay if I go for a walk. Maybe the fresh air will do me some good?"
It wasn't a lie. Just not the complete truth. Not the same thing according to me.
My mother seemed to be debating with herself. She gave up the struggle and just let me go. "Wear something warm. I know it's not that cold, but you might get sicker than you already are." With that she left.
I giggled at my little act.
Out in the open again, I realised how late in the year it was already. Autumn leaves had started disconnecting themselves from branches and fell to the ground in little piles around the park. I pulled up my baby blue knee-length cardigan to my chin.
If the girls were waiting for me in the arcade, they would surely have shared opinions on my "condition." I'd be in for an interrogation too. 'Exasperating friends I have, huh?' I asked my conscious. No reply. I sighed at my stupidity.
I arrived at the arcade a while later. I had trudged along, all through the park, and was already unfashionably half an hour late. Lita would be a little impatient, Mina would be extremely and paranoidly worried and Ami, well Ami would just sit there quietly, thinking to herself in her own reserved way. Typical, n'est-ce pas?
So I ran in the traditional way, the way they all expected me to enter. I wanted to seem as indifferent about whatever had happened that day as possible.
But no, God had to throw me Adonis on the way [AN: For whoever doesn't understand the whole Adonis thing, Sere compares dark-haired stranger, Darien, to him. And to answer another question . . . This is a Serena/Darien fic. What else am I capable of writing?].
So (after pressing the play button), I ran in and hit HIM. Bang! right in the chest.
Of course, I didn't know it was him, but I did find out a second later.
"Geez Meatball Head, are you blind?"
I snapped away from my blank staring at the scene before me and played along with his words. I got the lost look in my eyes (which was all too easy for me) and looked around me.
"What? Who said that?" I continued looking around.
I heard him groan at my reaction. Internally, I laughed at my so-called quick thinking and ended my little display.
"Is anyone there? Is it Jerk?" Walking towards the booth where my friends were seated, I groped around "blindly", getting away from him.
Although the temptation was strong, I didn't turn around.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?" Mina whispered loudly. Half the people in the arcade had turned around to our direction.
I giggled. "Oh nothing."
"It seems she's met this new guy before," Ami pointed out.
"SERE!!! You know he's an outtie. If Rei catches you talking to them . . ." She pointed to her neck and pretended to slit it while making the weird sound in the process.
"I don't see why you worry so much Mina. It's not like she's here."
"Not like whose here, Serena?" The high pitched voice tainted with mockery and premature evil sounded behind me.
"You." Mina's eyes bulged at my straightforward reply and started banging her forehead on the table, muttering constantly, "She's done for."
"Is that so? And what would happen if I were here?" she asked with an annoying inquisitive tone.
"You mean what happened. It seems that it's against your law to talk to someone labeled 'Out'. And I've been informed that BAD things will happen if I do. Guess what? I did. Is there a sentence for such a HORRID crime?" My voice was dripping with sarcasm at the last line.
Mina started whimpering in protest against what I had just said and intensified her head-banging. Lita could only smile, repressing a giggle. Ami stared at my sudden boldness. They were surely all thinking the same thing: "What happened to the Serena we all use to know?"
Rei didn't seem to be that influenced by what I had just said. She smiled cockily and then gave a small laugh.
"My Serena. The cat sure as hell hasn't got your tongue. But about your sentence. I don't have one. You talk to an outtie, fine. But just out of curiosity, who is this unblessed one?"
I smirked at her question. She had a sentence for me. It really depended on who I had talked to. But, of course, she didn't want anyone to know that.
Glancing at Ami and Lita, I knew they knew what Rei was really asking. Mina was still oblivious to it all, looking up to Rei as if she was a sudden angel, blessing and sparing me from her own rath.
"That new guy. . . " It then dawned on me that I didn't know his name. I laughed at that.
I caught Rei's split-second reaction and frowned. Her eyes had bugged out and she got this worried reaction on her face. It wiped off a second later, replaced by coolness and fake disgust.
"You mean Darien De Lucca? What a joke! YOU talked to HIM. The irony of it all."
I didn't catch the meaning of it. There was no irony . . . I don't think she knew what the word meant.
But I knew his name . . . Darien De Lucca. How dreamy! I slapped myself mentally and then spat mentally at the Jerk's name.
I shrugged and waited for Rei to say something.
"Well," she started snootily, "Good for you. Did you have a nice conversation?"
I felt like shoving it in her face. The fact that I had talked to Darien worried her to no extent. Reason: unknown.
"Yes, I did. Nice guy really. Quite funny," I lied. He was the complete opposite.
"Oh." It was all she could say.
"Aren't you going to do something about it? She's breaking the interaction rule, isn't she?" my dear friend Lita piped in. I could tell she wanted to know what Rei was going to do just as much as I did. She leaned in intently, waiting for an answer. Mina got the whole horrified look on her face and silently nudged her, pleading her to shut up.
"Oh no! What do you expect me to do? Make her an outtie? What do I have to gain?" She plastered a sweet smile on her face.
Before Lita or I could say anything to counter her remark, Mina gasped out her own.
"Rei, you're so kind not to do anything abo--" Lita clamped her hand over Mina's mouth before she could kiss up to Rei any further.
"I think this conversation is over," she added.
Rei shrugged and then left, but not before shooting a glance at me, some kind of twisted hatred brimming at the corners of her eyes.
Our table grew silent as Lita let go of Mina. Ami stayed quiet, but suspiciously annoying with a damned smirk on her mouth.
"Am I really funny, Meatball Head?" a male voice spoke, breaking the silence.
[AN: Guess who? Of course you know. I never mentioned he left. So yeah . . . Anyhoo, third chapter will be up soon, maybe. I know this chapter wasn't much but I'll try to make a lot more progress in the next one. Suggestions in the plot are VERY welcome. I like to know what the readers like. I also try my best to make the whole thing humourous but I don't have the greatest sense of humour myself. I suggest reading 'Operation Mr. Right' if you'd like a good laugh. Thanx to all reviewers. Salut.]
Adonis Is A Jerk
written by Hopeless Cherub
29.09.02
Adonis II
I got home a few minutes later and stood on the front steps for a few mintues. After making a few sick looking faces at the door, I chose the right one and stepped in.
"Ken, honey? Is that you? What are you doing home so early?"
I faked a groan and stumbled into the kitchen. My mother gasped the mintue she saw me.
"Serena! What happened to you. OMG, OMG, OMG. Does your head hurt? What about your tummy? Can you stand straight?"
"A little. Major cramp. Sorta," I answered her rushed questions. I coughed up a bit and then leaned on the door frame.
"Oh gosh! Is it your menstruations." She paused. "ARE YOU PREGNANT?!?!?"
I sighed. "No, mom. I'm still entirely chaste in every possible way."
"Phew. Get upstairs and take a shower. Climb in bed right after. I'll call your school and then I'll be up with a bowl of chicken soup."
She pushed me up the stairs and shut the door to the bathroom. Turning on the the tap, I stripped down and stepped into the tepid water.
"Sere, Lita and Mina told me you went home. I hope you're okay. It seems you've been acting strangely today," Ami stated with concern.
Another one of my friends caring too much today. I sighed and responded, "I'm fine Ames. Nothing to worry about." I then lowered my voice. "And I'm not sick either."
"Oh good. Well, if you're up to it, we're meeting at the arcade at five. Can you fake feeling better too?" She said with a giggle. She had become a lot more lighthearted these days, ever since she got paired up with some Greg guy in chemistry. Maybe a little real life chemistry was going on in the process.
"I'll try to make it. I think I can work something out. You know me."
We said goodbye and I hung up. My mom came in a few minutes later and I snapped out of my recollections of the day.
"You feeling better hon?" Her head was partially inside my room.
"Yeah, a little. The girls were concerned and so they called." I kept the sick look on my face. "Is it okay if I go for a walk. Maybe the fresh air will do me some good?"
It wasn't a lie. Just not the complete truth. Not the same thing according to me.
My mother seemed to be debating with herself. She gave up the struggle and just let me go. "Wear something warm. I know it's not that cold, but you might get sicker than you already are." With that she left.
I giggled at my little act.
Out in the open again, I realised how late in the year it was already. Autumn leaves had started disconnecting themselves from branches and fell to the ground in little piles around the park. I pulled up my baby blue knee-length cardigan to my chin.
If the girls were waiting for me in the arcade, they would surely have shared opinions on my "condition." I'd be in for an interrogation too. 'Exasperating friends I have, huh?' I asked my conscious. No reply. I sighed at my stupidity.
I arrived at the arcade a while later. I had trudged along, all through the park, and was already unfashionably half an hour late. Lita would be a little impatient, Mina would be extremely and paranoidly worried and Ami, well Ami would just sit there quietly, thinking to herself in her own reserved way. Typical, n'est-ce pas?
So I ran in the traditional way, the way they all expected me to enter. I wanted to seem as indifferent about whatever had happened that day as possible.
But no, God had to throw me Adonis on the way [AN: For whoever doesn't understand the whole Adonis thing, Sere compares dark-haired stranger, Darien, to him. And to answer another question . . . This is a Serena/Darien fic. What else am I capable of writing?].
So (after pressing the play button), I ran in and hit HIM. Bang! right in the chest.
Of course, I didn't know it was him, but I did find out a second later.
"Geez Meatball Head, are you blind?"
I snapped away from my blank staring at the scene before me and played along with his words. I got the lost look in my eyes (which was all too easy for me) and looked around me.
"What? Who said that?" I continued looking around.
I heard him groan at my reaction. Internally, I laughed at my so-called quick thinking and ended my little display.
"Is anyone there? Is it Jerk?" Walking towards the booth where my friends were seated, I groped around "blindly", getting away from him.
Although the temptation was strong, I didn't turn around.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?" Mina whispered loudly. Half the people in the arcade had turned around to our direction.
I giggled. "Oh nothing."
"It seems she's met this new guy before," Ami pointed out.
"SERE!!! You know he's an outtie. If Rei catches you talking to them . . ." She pointed to her neck and pretended to slit it while making the weird sound in the process.
"I don't see why you worry so much Mina. It's not like she's here."
"Not like whose here, Serena?" The high pitched voice tainted with mockery and premature evil sounded behind me.
"You." Mina's eyes bulged at my straightforward reply and started banging her forehead on the table, muttering constantly, "She's done for."
"Is that so? And what would happen if I were here?" she asked with an annoying inquisitive tone.
"You mean what happened. It seems that it's against your law to talk to someone labeled 'Out'. And I've been informed that BAD things will happen if I do. Guess what? I did. Is there a sentence for such a HORRID crime?" My voice was dripping with sarcasm at the last line.
Mina started whimpering in protest against what I had just said and intensified her head-banging. Lita could only smile, repressing a giggle. Ami stared at my sudden boldness. They were surely all thinking the same thing: "What happened to the Serena we all use to know?"
Rei didn't seem to be that influenced by what I had just said. She smiled cockily and then gave a small laugh.
"My Serena. The cat sure as hell hasn't got your tongue. But about your sentence. I don't have one. You talk to an outtie, fine. But just out of curiosity, who is this unblessed one?"
I smirked at her question. She had a sentence for me. It really depended on who I had talked to. But, of course, she didn't want anyone to know that.
Glancing at Ami and Lita, I knew they knew what Rei was really asking. Mina was still oblivious to it all, looking up to Rei as if she was a sudden angel, blessing and sparing me from her own rath.
"That new guy. . . " It then dawned on me that I didn't know his name. I laughed at that.
I caught Rei's split-second reaction and frowned. Her eyes had bugged out and she got this worried reaction on her face. It wiped off a second later, replaced by coolness and fake disgust.
"You mean Darien De Lucca? What a joke! YOU talked to HIM. The irony of it all."
I didn't catch the meaning of it. There was no irony . . . I don't think she knew what the word meant.
But I knew his name . . . Darien De Lucca. How dreamy! I slapped myself mentally and then spat mentally at the Jerk's name.
I shrugged and waited for Rei to say something.
"Well," she started snootily, "Good for you. Did you have a nice conversation?"
I felt like shoving it in her face. The fact that I had talked to Darien worried her to no extent. Reason: unknown.
"Yes, I did. Nice guy really. Quite funny," I lied. He was the complete opposite.
"Oh." It was all she could say.
"Aren't you going to do something about it? She's breaking the interaction rule, isn't she?" my dear friend Lita piped in. I could tell she wanted to know what Rei was going to do just as much as I did. She leaned in intently, waiting for an answer. Mina got the whole horrified look on her face and silently nudged her, pleading her to shut up.
"Oh no! What do you expect me to do? Make her an outtie? What do I have to gain?" She plastered a sweet smile on her face.
Before Lita or I could say anything to counter her remark, Mina gasped out her own.
"Rei, you're so kind not to do anything abo--" Lita clamped her hand over Mina's mouth before she could kiss up to Rei any further.
"I think this conversation is over," she added.
Rei shrugged and then left, but not before shooting a glance at me, some kind of twisted hatred brimming at the corners of her eyes.
Our table grew silent as Lita let go of Mina. Ami stayed quiet, but suspiciously annoying with a damned smirk on her mouth.
"Am I really funny, Meatball Head?" a male voice spoke, breaking the silence.
[AN: Guess who? Of course you know. I never mentioned he left. So yeah . . . Anyhoo, third chapter will be up soon, maybe. I know this chapter wasn't much but I'll try to make a lot more progress in the next one. Suggestions in the plot are VERY welcome. I like to know what the readers like. I also try my best to make the whole thing humourous but I don't have the greatest sense of humour myself. I suggest reading 'Operation Mr. Right' if you'd like a good laugh. Thanx to all reviewers. Salut.]