From Arizona to California
By: Starvilles
Chapter: 6
Genre: Romance/ Comedy/ Alternate Reality (-0- Yesh it's an alternate)
Email: C_genome@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.guided.cjb.net
November 24 2002
AN: *opens the creaky door into the fan-fiction world* It's been ages...I wonder if anyone is still reading this? I got an email a few days ago, that's right an email not a flame =D and it was about how I should continue this, my friend has also been urging me to finish, lol. Thank you guys for the emails and reviews! Keep them coming! Hehehehehe. My email box is quite empty and I do reply back to all my emails.
I'm pretty known for short chapters, *cringes* I'm sorry. I have started another fan-fiction called "Oaks Gleam" Check it out, please! Its one of those ones where I actually know the ending, lol. I have it all planned out. This one is coming into perspective still, I changed a lot.
Alright well I'll stop with the notes and start the story, write me you guys! ^__^ OOh and happy holidays!
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimers apply.
"I lived my life in winter...and then you brought the spring" – Randall Wallace/ Pearl Harbor
--From Arizona to California--
Serena sat her bags down and looked at the apartment. She smiled inside, taking off her shoes at the door to be courteous.
"I know it's not much." Darien laughed slightly putting his hand behind his head.
(AN: sweat drop moment)
Serena smiled at him, "It's awesome."
The carpet brushed against her feet as she walked over to the couch and sat down, patting the cushions for its softness and leaning back.
The apartment was one of a typical twenty year old male. Motorcycle magazines lined the coffee tables, shirts littered the couch and coffee mugs and dishes flooded the sink.
Serena smiled as she observed the apartment. "This is quite cozy." She murmured still looking around the place. Darien shrugged, kicking off his shoes and sitting next to her on the couch.
The area was completely non-stressful and her mind started drifting off into a comfort zone. "I hope you don't mind if..." She began, being cut off by a yawn "fall asleep on your couch." She murmured, her head dropping softly on his shoulder. He smiled as he watched her head off into a peaceful slumber, he brushed her hair softly from her face and didn't blame her for being tired as she had, had a busy day with her job and all the other events. He smiled again.
Serena awoke to a dark room and looked around confused unsure to where she was, she glanced around the room and found red digits blazing 9:15PM and noticed her bags on the floor.
Then it dawned on her that this must've been the room Darien put her in, she stretched lazily and got out of the bed, the soft blue sheets grazing softly over her finger.
'I wonder where Darien is now..?' she thought to herself blushing after she realized she had thought him so early in her awakening.
She stopped on her way to the closed door and stood still, 'blushing?!' she asked herself, shaking her head in disbelief. She placed her hand on the surprisingly cold door knob, counter to her warm hands and turned the knob slowly, trying not to make too much noise.
She padded down the unfamiliar hallway, passing what she guessed as Darien's room, (the only other room she had noticed besides the bathroom of course) the sound of television getting louder.
She looked over to Darien on the couch, when she had reached there and chuckled behind his back 'couch potato' she thought silently. As she walked closer she noticed something in his hands and tried to sneak up on him, unfortunately doing a bad job for as she moved closer his eyes jolted up to meet hers. "Serena!" he almost stuttered placing the book quickly behind his back.
She looked at him awkwardly, her brows scrunching up in confusion.
"And what exactly is that behind your back?" She asked, looking over him to see.
"Nothing." Darien replied, but Serena knew it was too big of a lie.
She stepped back and sighed exasperated. "Need a tissue you hentai?"
Darien blanked out for a second before getting it, "No! Of course not! Its...it's not like that."
"Then what is it?"
"Nothing."
"Ahhg! I feel like I'm talking to a child here!"
"Is that an insult?"
She jumped on him, trying to get the book from behind him.
"What are you doing!?" Darien asked incredulously, as Serena's hands moved over him.
"Trying to get the--" Serena started, licking her lips in frustration, as she felt something. " –book!" she yelled triumphantly as she yanked it out from behind him.
Darien looked down and then back at her.
"Happy?"
Serena sat down beside him, smiling at him as she flipped through the pages. "A photo album…of you, me and Jake when we were younger…" She said in awe as she went down memory lane. She giggled lightly at a picture of Jake's face in a pie as her younger self wiped her hands on her plaid blue dress...which she noted she hated by the way but her mother had made her wear it. "I never thought I'd see this again." She looked up at him.
Darien shrugged. Not feeling as silly as he had earlier, as he watched how happy she had gotten watching the pictures.
"Why did you try to hide this?" She asked, still smiling and looking down at the photos.
"Well...I don't know, I just thought you'd think it was strange," he shrugged. "that I'm still looking back on the past and not on the future as I use to say a lot."
"I don't blame you for looking back on the past...these were some of the greatest memories I ever had." She said earnestly, smiling up at him and turning the page.
The rest of the night was spent laughing and sharing memories, of the past. Though not forgetting the future...since the future would shape what happened over the next few years. Serena smiled the most she had in a very long time, and Darien laughed the most he had in a long time. These memories were really ones to be treasured. But in time Darien and Serena would make even happier memories...eventually.
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That is all for now, heh. Told you short. I broke my promise when I said it'd be really long. Seems like I just can't write long ones ^^;;
Hope you all enjoyed, and I'll work on the next chapter shortly! Otherwise though keep the emails and reviews rolling!
God bless 3
By: Starvilles
Chapter: 6
Genre: Romance/ Comedy/ Alternate Reality (-0- Yesh it's an alternate)
Email: C_genome@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.guided.cjb.net
November 24 2002
AN: *opens the creaky door into the fan-fiction world* It's been ages...I wonder if anyone is still reading this? I got an email a few days ago, that's right an email not a flame =D and it was about how I should continue this, my friend has also been urging me to finish, lol. Thank you guys for the emails and reviews! Keep them coming! Hehehehehe. My email box is quite empty and I do reply back to all my emails.
I'm pretty known for short chapters, *cringes* I'm sorry. I have started another fan-fiction called "Oaks Gleam" Check it out, please! Its one of those ones where I actually know the ending, lol. I have it all planned out. This one is coming into perspective still, I changed a lot.
Alright well I'll stop with the notes and start the story, write me you guys! ^__^ OOh and happy holidays!
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimers apply.
"I lived my life in winter...and then you brought the spring" – Randall Wallace/ Pearl Harbor
--From Arizona to California--
Serena sat her bags down and looked at the apartment. She smiled inside, taking off her shoes at the door to be courteous.
"I know it's not much." Darien laughed slightly putting his hand behind his head.
(AN: sweat drop moment)
Serena smiled at him, "It's awesome."
The carpet brushed against her feet as she walked over to the couch and sat down, patting the cushions for its softness and leaning back.
The apartment was one of a typical twenty year old male. Motorcycle magazines lined the coffee tables, shirts littered the couch and coffee mugs and dishes flooded the sink.
Serena smiled as she observed the apartment. "This is quite cozy." She murmured still looking around the place. Darien shrugged, kicking off his shoes and sitting next to her on the couch.
The area was completely non-stressful and her mind started drifting off into a comfort zone. "I hope you don't mind if..." She began, being cut off by a yawn "fall asleep on your couch." She murmured, her head dropping softly on his shoulder. He smiled as he watched her head off into a peaceful slumber, he brushed her hair softly from her face and didn't blame her for being tired as she had, had a busy day with her job and all the other events. He smiled again.
Serena awoke to a dark room and looked around confused unsure to where she was, she glanced around the room and found red digits blazing 9:15PM and noticed her bags on the floor.
Then it dawned on her that this must've been the room Darien put her in, she stretched lazily and got out of the bed, the soft blue sheets grazing softly over her finger.
'I wonder where Darien is now..?' she thought to herself blushing after she realized she had thought him so early in her awakening.
She stopped on her way to the closed door and stood still, 'blushing?!' she asked herself, shaking her head in disbelief. She placed her hand on the surprisingly cold door knob, counter to her warm hands and turned the knob slowly, trying not to make too much noise.
She padded down the unfamiliar hallway, passing what she guessed as Darien's room, (the only other room she had noticed besides the bathroom of course) the sound of television getting louder.
She looked over to Darien on the couch, when she had reached there and chuckled behind his back 'couch potato' she thought silently. As she walked closer she noticed something in his hands and tried to sneak up on him, unfortunately doing a bad job for as she moved closer his eyes jolted up to meet hers. "Serena!" he almost stuttered placing the book quickly behind his back.
She looked at him awkwardly, her brows scrunching up in confusion.
"And what exactly is that behind your back?" She asked, looking over him to see.
"Nothing." Darien replied, but Serena knew it was too big of a lie.
She stepped back and sighed exasperated. "Need a tissue you hentai?"
Darien blanked out for a second before getting it, "No! Of course not! Its...it's not like that."
"Then what is it?"
"Nothing."
"Ahhg! I feel like I'm talking to a child here!"
"Is that an insult?"
She jumped on him, trying to get the book from behind him.
"What are you doing!?" Darien asked incredulously, as Serena's hands moved over him.
"Trying to get the--" Serena started, licking her lips in frustration, as she felt something. " –book!" she yelled triumphantly as she yanked it out from behind him.
Darien looked down and then back at her.
"Happy?"
Serena sat down beside him, smiling at him as she flipped through the pages. "A photo album…of you, me and Jake when we were younger…" She said in awe as she went down memory lane. She giggled lightly at a picture of Jake's face in a pie as her younger self wiped her hands on her plaid blue dress...which she noted she hated by the way but her mother had made her wear it. "I never thought I'd see this again." She looked up at him.
Darien shrugged. Not feeling as silly as he had earlier, as he watched how happy she had gotten watching the pictures.
"Why did you try to hide this?" She asked, still smiling and looking down at the photos.
"Well...I don't know, I just thought you'd think it was strange," he shrugged. "that I'm still looking back on the past and not on the future as I use to say a lot."
"I don't blame you for looking back on the past...these were some of the greatest memories I ever had." She said earnestly, smiling up at him and turning the page.
The rest of the night was spent laughing and sharing memories, of the past. Though not forgetting the future...since the future would shape what happened over the next few years. Serena smiled the most she had in a very long time, and Darien laughed the most he had in a long time. These memories were really ones to be treasured. But in time Darien and Serena would make even happier memories...eventually.
----
That is all for now, heh. Told you short. I broke my promise when I said it'd be really long. Seems like I just can't write long ones ^^;;
Hope you all enjoyed, and I'll work on the next chapter shortly! Otherwise though keep the emails and reviews rolling!
God bless 3