Waking up after a night of sleep filled with Darien in my dreams, I felt incredibly tired.
Slipping out from under the covers of the bed I realized I was late for the practice with him.
Running around the house I put on a white practice suit throwing it on with a pair of baggy denim
pants and a denim jacket I ran out of the house.
Running as fast as I could with my skates over my shoulder I got to the rink and pulled off the
pants and jacket. I pulled my skates onto my feet and noticed that Darien wasn't here yet,
either that or he left. Either way it didn't matter to me, too much.
Going onto the ice I started to warm up feeling awaker than I normally did thanks to the ice.
Skating with one leg out behind me I didn't see Darien come onto the ice wearing a black
practice suit on. Darien skated up behind me and grabbed my waist as I straightened up.
I jumped about six feet into the air and spun around to face him I started to fall. Darien
slammed his arms out and caught me before I slammed into the ice, face first. Feeling grateful
that he caught me I remembered he was the reason I almost fell.
"Darien!" I said smacking him.
"Ow! What did I do besides catch you?!" he said rubbing his shoulder where I hit him.
"You're the reason I nearly fell!" I shouted.
Darien thought for a moment and then I watched as his face formed an "Oh." Feeling bad that I
had smacked him I started chewing on my bottom lip. Noticing that Darien's hands were still on
my waist from when he caught me I spun on my skates into him.
Feeling my heart beat do the same as Darien's, skip a beat, I pulled away from him. I couldn't
be near him when he hated me, not intimatly, which is how he had been holding me. Realizing
that if we were to win the competition we would have to skate intimatly I relaxed a bit, I
would get use to the feeling again, although we wouldn't be showing our true feelings.
Feeling Darien staring at the color of my suit and then staring at my face I felt myself blush
as he came towards me, his dark blue eyes drilling into mine. Mentally kicking myself for
blushing I spun so that he would have his body against my back again. After I kicked myself
again for thinking about how our future was already told to us, and then realizing it wouldn't
happen, he hated me.
After going over the routine we had done the day before, about 600 times, I felt ready to
work on my singles routine. Pushing Darien over to the wall I turned the music I had chosen for
my routine on, and started skating to the song, Oh Starry Night. Feeling Darien's eyes on me
as I skated I did all tricks and things I had come up with for the song and routine.
Still feeling Darien's eyes on me after the fifth time of practicing I skated over to him pushing
the stop button on the cd-player I pushed him out onto the ice. Asking what song he was doing
I started the song and watching as he did his routine to the song, She's Got The Power. Feeling
myself getting the chills from watching him do one of the most complicated a move a guy could
do I hit myself in the arm, really hard.
Watching Darien closely as he skated to the song for the fifth time I stopped the cd-player
going out to him. Chewing on my bottom lip again I stared into his eyes as he panted, trying
hard to breath. Darien raised his eyebrow as he looked at a drop of blood on the ice from my
lip. He looked up at me as though I was insane and I felt my heart break, he really did hate me
except as a friend.
"Darien..." I muttered as he slid his hands about my waist pulling me close.
"Serena...Go away." he said pushing me towards the cd-player.
Whipping around to look at him I saw that his eyes held something that looked like pain. I turned
to the cd-player again and started the song we were to skate to, My Only Love. Darien's head
snapped up and I felt his eyes on me as I skated over to him. I was going to make him skate
with me, it was the only way I felt like nothing had changed between us.
Knowing what I was going to do Darien sighed and let me lead him to the middle of the ice as
our cue in the song played we skated better than we had in a long time. Loving the closeness
I got when I was skating with him I started to drift, still doing the moves as though I were
wide awake. He slid his hands about me, almost exploring, and I lost myself in the moment,
skating with him as though there was no tomorrow he and I became blurs on the ice.
When I finally fell into him after another hour of skating the way we had been I was exhausted.
Darien held me close as he lay on his back on the ice, he didn't really move, he was just as
tired as I was. Resting my head on his chest I remembered that he didn't love me anymore so
I stood up.
"Serena..." I thought I heard Darien moan for me.
I closed my eyes tightly and felt a single tear roll down my cheek. Moaning quietly for Darien
I felt hands on my shoulders. Turning around I saw Lita, and Rei. They had come to the rink
to get me. Then I saw that they were pulling me away from Darien as Ami and Mina kneeled down
by him.
"What are you guys doing?" I asked.
"We're here to make sure that you and Darien get back together. Serena, we know you love him
and we know he loves you. It was so obvious when you two skated yesterday." Rei said and Lita
nodded in agreement.
"He doesn't love me...You know it, I know it, and he knows it!" I said as more tears fell down
my cheeks.
"Serena, if he doesn't love you why did he save you last night?" Lita asked.
"I don't know, because its his destiny? I don't know. We were born to marry eachother...And
it won't happen now because we found out..." I said.
"Knowing has nothing to do with this. Serena, your going to be 18 in the next three monthes,
your going to have to accept it then, Darien and you are meant to be with eachother, your meant
to be lovers. Your meant to marry eachother, now shut up and when you two win the competition
you will know." Rei said.
Shaking my head I unlaced my skates and put on my pants and jacket. Looking up as Darien came
over I shook my head again and took off quickly. I couldn't look into the face of the man I
loved that didn't love me anymore.
~*~
A week after training for the competition alone and with Darien I felt incredibly hollow without
him meaning how it felt when we skated. The night before the competition came and I was out with
the girls and Darien for dinner. I had gotten into over three fights with Darien and only one
with Rei as we ate the pizza.
Just picking at my slice of pizza I felt all the scouts and Darien staring at me as though I was
sick. Looking up I saw worry in the girls' eyes and anger in Darien's. Taking a bit of the
pizza to get the worry out of the girls I felt odd.
"Darien, you want to tell me WHY your staring at me?!" I asked him after I had eaten the pizza.
"Starving yourself right before the competition isn't a good idea Serena! I don't want you to
pass out on the ice in the middle of your routine." he said.
"Oh really? Since when do you care?! Since tonight?! Or are you just acting?!" I shouted
as I stood up to leave. "Darien, you told me you hated me when we broke up! And now your here
acting worried about me!? I don't think so! Sorry girls for ruining the evening, but I can't
stand to be by the man that hates me!" I shouted leaving.
On my way home I saw Darien zip past me on his motorcycle. Assuming he was just going to his
house I was surprised to see him on my doorstep as I came around the cornor to my house. Stopping
I quickly went to my window and climbed up the tree outside it and into my room.
I went to sleep that night feeling very bad about leaving Darien on my doorstep, but knowing he
was just going to yell at me if I had gone up to him I fell asleep a bit easily.
~*~
The next morning I couldn't help but be pumped for the competition, the guys division was first
so I decided to go and watch. Wearing my single's suit with baggy jeans and a denim jacket and
with my skates over my shoulder I said bye to my dad and went to the rink where the competition
was to take place. Finding my mom and Sammi in the stands I went up to them sitting down.
"Serena, I thought you and Darien had a fight last night?" my mom asked.
"I didn't come to see him, I came to await the girls division. And how did you know I had a
fight with Darien, mom?" I asked.
"Oh, didn't you see the roses on the kitchen table? He brought them over this morning for you
and told me about the fight over a cup of coffee." she said.
"He what?"
"Brought you roses, he said he was really sorry about making you hate him...But he said he still
loved you no matter what you did..." Sammi spoke up.
"He what?!"
"Said he loved you. Yeesh do you need a hearing aid sis?"
"Shut up runt, Darien's up next." I said pointing to the ice.
As Darien came out onto the ice my mom stood up and waved to him. He looked over and smiled at
her and Sammi, the look on his face turned to complete shock when he saw me smiling at him. He
relaxed and started skating better than before for his routine.
When he was done the judges came out onto the ice to say that it was the female's division.
Running down to the ice I slammed into Darien knocking him back a bit. Smiling at him I kissed
his cheek and zipped down onto the spot where the rest of the competitors awaited. Pulling off
my jeans and jacket I finally remembered where I had gotten the jacket, Darien had given it to
me for my 17th birthday.
Smiling I awaited my turn to go onto the ice.
~*~
She kissed me on the cheek! I couldn't get the fact that after slamming into me Serena had
kissed my cheek! That meant she had to of forgiven me and didn't hate me!
Going up to where Serena had been sitting I sat down next to Sammi and his mom. I ruffled Sammi's
hair as he pointed to the light pink lipstick mark on my cheek where Serena had kissed me. Feeling
myself blush as Serena and Sammi's mom looked at the mark.
"So dear, did you two make up?" she asked.
"More like made out." Sammi said getting his hair ruffled again.
"Yes we made up ma'am, but no we didn't make up Sammi. I can't wait to see her skate...she's
great at skating, I know she'll win." I said.
"Thats funny, she was muttering how she had a feeling she was going to fall flat on her face,
although that would be hilarious for the meatball brain to do." Sammi said.
"Hey, leave your sister alone Sammi." I said watching as Serena went out onto the ice, she was
the last to compete for this division.
As Serena took the ice she looked up to where we sat. She waved to her mom, stuck her tongue
out at her brother, and smiled at me. She took her starting position.
Watching Serena skate in her pink and white suit made me feel like I was watching an angel
glide across the ice. She didn't mess up once, and she made the whole audience quiet. The
sound of my heart pounding on my chest as she did a tricky move was probably heard over all
the music.
Finishing her routine her chest heaving up and down her arms in the air, smiling from ear to
ear, Serena looked beautiful. I ran down to the changing rooms and changed out of my blue and
white suit and into my all black suit. Serena took off to the changing rooms putting on her
white suit with the pink glitter.
~*~
Coming out of the changing rooms I went over to Darien kissing him on the cheek again. Staring
deep into eyes I felt his hands on my hips as he pulled me close to him. Looking down longingly
at his lips I felt them against my own and we were kissing when I heard the scouts.
I pulled away at their shouts of "ALL RIGHT!" Blushing when I saw them right behind Darien I
buried my face into his chest. Darien's face was buried into my hair and I could feel the heat
coming off of it due to his blush.
"Looks like we got our prince and princess back together girls!" Lita and Mina said at the same
time.
"Yea, good thing we did it." Ami said.
"They were going to die soon if they didn't use our help to get them back together!" Rei said.
"Oh ye of little faith!" I said.
"For your information, we did it on our own." Darien finished and the scouts laughed.
"Yea right!" they all said at the same time.
"Shut up." I said.
"Alright, alright...We'll let you two be alone." Lita said pushing the others away and to the
stands where they sat with my mom and Sammi.
"Thank god. Oh, and thank you for the roses, although I haven't seen them yet..." I said.
"No problem, I do love you though." Darien said.
"I love you too...and we're up." I said going out onto the ice.
Skating like our lives depended on it. Darien and I were the best pair to skate that day, in
my personal opinion. The way we skated that day was from the heart and soul and it was so
much better than all the times we had just merely practiced.
Finishing our skating my mouth on Darien's as we kissed I heard everyone cheering us. Pulling
away from Darien I used my eyes and pointed to the audience, he looked over and smiled.
"Looks like we did it." he said.
"No, what we did is more than just an it. Darien, we just showed our love to the whole audience,
well, for the most part." I said as he pulled me to my feet.
"Well, the whole thing isn't over with yet," he said.
We stayed out on the ice as all the other skaters came out with the judges.
Slipping out from under the covers of the bed I realized I was late for the practice with him.
Running around the house I put on a white practice suit throwing it on with a pair of baggy denim
pants and a denim jacket I ran out of the house.
Running as fast as I could with my skates over my shoulder I got to the rink and pulled off the
pants and jacket. I pulled my skates onto my feet and noticed that Darien wasn't here yet,
either that or he left. Either way it didn't matter to me, too much.
Going onto the ice I started to warm up feeling awaker than I normally did thanks to the ice.
Skating with one leg out behind me I didn't see Darien come onto the ice wearing a black
practice suit on. Darien skated up behind me and grabbed my waist as I straightened up.
I jumped about six feet into the air and spun around to face him I started to fall. Darien
slammed his arms out and caught me before I slammed into the ice, face first. Feeling grateful
that he caught me I remembered he was the reason I almost fell.
"Darien!" I said smacking him.
"Ow! What did I do besides catch you?!" he said rubbing his shoulder where I hit him.
"You're the reason I nearly fell!" I shouted.
Darien thought for a moment and then I watched as his face formed an "Oh." Feeling bad that I
had smacked him I started chewing on my bottom lip. Noticing that Darien's hands were still on
my waist from when he caught me I spun on my skates into him.
Feeling my heart beat do the same as Darien's, skip a beat, I pulled away from him. I couldn't
be near him when he hated me, not intimatly, which is how he had been holding me. Realizing
that if we were to win the competition we would have to skate intimatly I relaxed a bit, I
would get use to the feeling again, although we wouldn't be showing our true feelings.
Feeling Darien staring at the color of my suit and then staring at my face I felt myself blush
as he came towards me, his dark blue eyes drilling into mine. Mentally kicking myself for
blushing I spun so that he would have his body against my back again. After I kicked myself
again for thinking about how our future was already told to us, and then realizing it wouldn't
happen, he hated me.
After going over the routine we had done the day before, about 600 times, I felt ready to
work on my singles routine. Pushing Darien over to the wall I turned the music I had chosen for
my routine on, and started skating to the song, Oh Starry Night. Feeling Darien's eyes on me
as I skated I did all tricks and things I had come up with for the song and routine.
Still feeling Darien's eyes on me after the fifth time of practicing I skated over to him pushing
the stop button on the cd-player I pushed him out onto the ice. Asking what song he was doing
I started the song and watching as he did his routine to the song, She's Got The Power. Feeling
myself getting the chills from watching him do one of the most complicated a move a guy could
do I hit myself in the arm, really hard.
Watching Darien closely as he skated to the song for the fifth time I stopped the cd-player
going out to him. Chewing on my bottom lip again I stared into his eyes as he panted, trying
hard to breath. Darien raised his eyebrow as he looked at a drop of blood on the ice from my
lip. He looked up at me as though I was insane and I felt my heart break, he really did hate me
except as a friend.
"Darien..." I muttered as he slid his hands about my waist pulling me close.
"Serena...Go away." he said pushing me towards the cd-player.
Whipping around to look at him I saw that his eyes held something that looked like pain. I turned
to the cd-player again and started the song we were to skate to, My Only Love. Darien's head
snapped up and I felt his eyes on me as I skated over to him. I was going to make him skate
with me, it was the only way I felt like nothing had changed between us.
Knowing what I was going to do Darien sighed and let me lead him to the middle of the ice as
our cue in the song played we skated better than we had in a long time. Loving the closeness
I got when I was skating with him I started to drift, still doing the moves as though I were
wide awake. He slid his hands about me, almost exploring, and I lost myself in the moment,
skating with him as though there was no tomorrow he and I became blurs on the ice.
When I finally fell into him after another hour of skating the way we had been I was exhausted.
Darien held me close as he lay on his back on the ice, he didn't really move, he was just as
tired as I was. Resting my head on his chest I remembered that he didn't love me anymore so
I stood up.
"Serena..." I thought I heard Darien moan for me.
I closed my eyes tightly and felt a single tear roll down my cheek. Moaning quietly for Darien
I felt hands on my shoulders. Turning around I saw Lita, and Rei. They had come to the rink
to get me. Then I saw that they were pulling me away from Darien as Ami and Mina kneeled down
by him.
"What are you guys doing?" I asked.
"We're here to make sure that you and Darien get back together. Serena, we know you love him
and we know he loves you. It was so obvious when you two skated yesterday." Rei said and Lita
nodded in agreement.
"He doesn't love me...You know it, I know it, and he knows it!" I said as more tears fell down
my cheeks.
"Serena, if he doesn't love you why did he save you last night?" Lita asked.
"I don't know, because its his destiny? I don't know. We were born to marry eachother...And
it won't happen now because we found out..." I said.
"Knowing has nothing to do with this. Serena, your going to be 18 in the next three monthes,
your going to have to accept it then, Darien and you are meant to be with eachother, your meant
to be lovers. Your meant to marry eachother, now shut up and when you two win the competition
you will know." Rei said.
Shaking my head I unlaced my skates and put on my pants and jacket. Looking up as Darien came
over I shook my head again and took off quickly. I couldn't look into the face of the man I
loved that didn't love me anymore.
~*~
A week after training for the competition alone and with Darien I felt incredibly hollow without
him meaning how it felt when we skated. The night before the competition came and I was out with
the girls and Darien for dinner. I had gotten into over three fights with Darien and only one
with Rei as we ate the pizza.
Just picking at my slice of pizza I felt all the scouts and Darien staring at me as though I was
sick. Looking up I saw worry in the girls' eyes and anger in Darien's. Taking a bit of the
pizza to get the worry out of the girls I felt odd.
"Darien, you want to tell me WHY your staring at me?!" I asked him after I had eaten the pizza.
"Starving yourself right before the competition isn't a good idea Serena! I don't want you to
pass out on the ice in the middle of your routine." he said.
"Oh really? Since when do you care?! Since tonight?! Or are you just acting?!" I shouted
as I stood up to leave. "Darien, you told me you hated me when we broke up! And now your here
acting worried about me!? I don't think so! Sorry girls for ruining the evening, but I can't
stand to be by the man that hates me!" I shouted leaving.
On my way home I saw Darien zip past me on his motorcycle. Assuming he was just going to his
house I was surprised to see him on my doorstep as I came around the cornor to my house. Stopping
I quickly went to my window and climbed up the tree outside it and into my room.
I went to sleep that night feeling very bad about leaving Darien on my doorstep, but knowing he
was just going to yell at me if I had gone up to him I fell asleep a bit easily.
~*~
The next morning I couldn't help but be pumped for the competition, the guys division was first
so I decided to go and watch. Wearing my single's suit with baggy jeans and a denim jacket and
with my skates over my shoulder I said bye to my dad and went to the rink where the competition
was to take place. Finding my mom and Sammi in the stands I went up to them sitting down.
"Serena, I thought you and Darien had a fight last night?" my mom asked.
"I didn't come to see him, I came to await the girls division. And how did you know I had a
fight with Darien, mom?" I asked.
"Oh, didn't you see the roses on the kitchen table? He brought them over this morning for you
and told me about the fight over a cup of coffee." she said.
"He what?"
"Brought you roses, he said he was really sorry about making you hate him...But he said he still
loved you no matter what you did..." Sammi spoke up.
"He what?!"
"Said he loved you. Yeesh do you need a hearing aid sis?"
"Shut up runt, Darien's up next." I said pointing to the ice.
As Darien came out onto the ice my mom stood up and waved to him. He looked over and smiled at
her and Sammi, the look on his face turned to complete shock when he saw me smiling at him. He
relaxed and started skating better than before for his routine.
When he was done the judges came out onto the ice to say that it was the female's division.
Running down to the ice I slammed into Darien knocking him back a bit. Smiling at him I kissed
his cheek and zipped down onto the spot where the rest of the competitors awaited. Pulling off
my jeans and jacket I finally remembered where I had gotten the jacket, Darien had given it to
me for my 17th birthday.
Smiling I awaited my turn to go onto the ice.
~*~
She kissed me on the cheek! I couldn't get the fact that after slamming into me Serena had
kissed my cheek! That meant she had to of forgiven me and didn't hate me!
Going up to where Serena had been sitting I sat down next to Sammi and his mom. I ruffled Sammi's
hair as he pointed to the light pink lipstick mark on my cheek where Serena had kissed me. Feeling
myself blush as Serena and Sammi's mom looked at the mark.
"So dear, did you two make up?" she asked.
"More like made out." Sammi said getting his hair ruffled again.
"Yes we made up ma'am, but no we didn't make up Sammi. I can't wait to see her skate...she's
great at skating, I know she'll win." I said.
"Thats funny, she was muttering how she had a feeling she was going to fall flat on her face,
although that would be hilarious for the meatball brain to do." Sammi said.
"Hey, leave your sister alone Sammi." I said watching as Serena went out onto the ice, she was
the last to compete for this division.
As Serena took the ice she looked up to where we sat. She waved to her mom, stuck her tongue
out at her brother, and smiled at me. She took her starting position.
Watching Serena skate in her pink and white suit made me feel like I was watching an angel
glide across the ice. She didn't mess up once, and she made the whole audience quiet. The
sound of my heart pounding on my chest as she did a tricky move was probably heard over all
the music.
Finishing her routine her chest heaving up and down her arms in the air, smiling from ear to
ear, Serena looked beautiful. I ran down to the changing rooms and changed out of my blue and
white suit and into my all black suit. Serena took off to the changing rooms putting on her
white suit with the pink glitter.
~*~
Coming out of the changing rooms I went over to Darien kissing him on the cheek again. Staring
deep into eyes I felt his hands on my hips as he pulled me close to him. Looking down longingly
at his lips I felt them against my own and we were kissing when I heard the scouts.
I pulled away at their shouts of "ALL RIGHT!" Blushing when I saw them right behind Darien I
buried my face into his chest. Darien's face was buried into my hair and I could feel the heat
coming off of it due to his blush.
"Looks like we got our prince and princess back together girls!" Lita and Mina said at the same
time.
"Yea, good thing we did it." Ami said.
"They were going to die soon if they didn't use our help to get them back together!" Rei said.
"Oh ye of little faith!" I said.
"For your information, we did it on our own." Darien finished and the scouts laughed.
"Yea right!" they all said at the same time.
"Shut up." I said.
"Alright, alright...We'll let you two be alone." Lita said pushing the others away and to the
stands where they sat with my mom and Sammi.
"Thank god. Oh, and thank you for the roses, although I haven't seen them yet..." I said.
"No problem, I do love you though." Darien said.
"I love you too...and we're up." I said going out onto the ice.
Skating like our lives depended on it. Darien and I were the best pair to skate that day, in
my personal opinion. The way we skated that day was from the heart and soul and it was so
much better than all the times we had just merely practiced.
Finishing our skating my mouth on Darien's as we kissed I heard everyone cheering us. Pulling
away from Darien I used my eyes and pointed to the audience, he looked over and smiled.
"Looks like we did it." he said.
"No, what we did is more than just an it. Darien, we just showed our love to the whole audience,
well, for the most part." I said as he pulled me to my feet.
"Well, the whole thing isn't over with yet," he said.
We stayed out on the ice as all the other skaters came out with the judges.
