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^Darien's POV^ *God, she looks so gorgeous!!!!! I wonder of she'll except me for what I am?!*

He walks up to her very quietly, which for him is easy, since it comes natural to him. He puts his hand on her shoulder and watches as she turns around with a glaze look in her eyes.

"Hey" he says looking down at her. "Oh.Hey" she says as the glaze look in her eyes disappear to show what she was truly feeling.

*Her eyes look so innocent yet seem to tell you that she has seen many things. I've never seen so much depth in all of my Centuries of being alive in someone so young.*

^Serena's POV^ "Oh.Hey" she says as she comes out of her blissful thoughts and come back down to reality. "How are you?" she asks trying to strike-up a conversation between them. "I'm fine" he says back to her in his sexy voice.

*I wonder if he uses that voice on purpose or not realizing how he sounds! He sounds so sexy and seductive.*

"That's good to know." She says smiling up at him

^Darien's POV^ *I wonder what she's thinking as he looks at her.*

He hears her ask him how his doing.

*I've never been asked that. Nobodies even worried how I've been, well except by my mother, but that was so long ago. Why do I have this stirring of feelings in me? I've never felt this before. I wonder if she's causing it to happen?* (This all flew through his at one time. It's just one of many things his able to do for him being who he is.)

"I'm fine" he replies with a slight smile on his face. "That's good to know." She says smiling up to him.

*She has such a gorgeous smile, and yet seems so innocence. Just like the rest of her, but there's still that glint in her eyes that tells you that she's seen more and been through enough to not make her as innocence as she appears. Is that possible?*

He smiles at her. "I'm glade you've met me here." He tells her trying to break the ice.

"Why's that?" she asks with genuine curiosity in her voice. "Well, for one you were upset last night and seemed distressed and you're very beautiful." He says trying to think of something to tell her so she would stay. "You think I'm beautiful?" she asks startled.

^Serena's POV^ *I can tell his trying to break the ice, but why did he won't me to meet him here? Why did I come here again? He has a gorgeous smile, I wonder if he has a girlfriend. Wait! What am I thinking, of course he probably does and I just got out a relationship!*

"I'm glade you've met me here." She hears him telling her in still his sexy voice. "Why's that?" she asks wondering why. "Well, for one you were upset last night and seem distressed and you're also very beautiful." She hears hearing a little bit of pleading in his sexy, seductive voice.

*Wait, he thinks I'm beautiful and his still concerned why I was crying last night?! This is defiantly something different from a guy.*

"You think I'm beautiful?" she asks before she can stop herself.

*I'm so stupid. Why did I have to ask that? Why? Why!*

She hears him laughing in a husky, but still sexy voice. "Yes, I think you're beautiful, but why were you crying last night?" he asks with concern evident in his voice.

*God, why won't he let up on last night? That's a memory I would like to forget about, but of course there always has to be somebody that makes me relieve one of my more painful ones.*

"Do you really want to know?" she asks not really wanting to, but if he wont let up she might as well just to get him to shut-up about it.

"If you don't mind telling me." She hears him say to her. She turns her head so they could be eye-to-eye.

*His eyes are so beautiful, but filled with so much pain, heartache, and sadness. They have so much depth to them, as if he seen so much, that not even a human should see.*

"I'll tell you. The reason why I was crying last night was because I saw my boyfriend of 2 ½ with his tongue down my ultimate enemy at work and in life throat and groping her like there was no tomorrow. What makes it even worst is that he has the nerve to call me today and act all innocent like nothing happened last night. God, I can't stand Beryl Whistery!" she says with a sigh of relief. "I'm sorry for being such a bother. My personal life shouldn't have made you worry so much." She tells him with a slight blush evident on her cheeks.

^Darien's POV^ *She seems reluctant. I wonder what could have been so horrible?*

"Do you really want to know?" he hears her ask with a bit of annoyance in her voice. "If you want to." He tells her.

*I don't want to push her into anything she doesn't want to do. I had better go slowly, I don't want to ruin anything that I could have with this goddess looking angel.*

She tells him she'd tell him and goes tells him her story of last night. When she tells him what she caught her ex-boyfriend doing and to her enemy it made him want to rush over to where ever this guy lived and ripe his throat out.

*Why am I feeling this way for a mere mortal? There's something more to her and I need to figure out what it is. I'm treating and acting around her as if she's someone special to me.*

^Serena's POV^

She gets up from the cold, hard, stone bench and stretches out all of the craps she got from setting still for such a long time.

"Do you want to go for a walk?" she asks looking at him. "Sure" he answers her swiftly getting up.
Later, they find themselves standing side-by-side in a gazebo on the edge of some woods and surrounding the gazebo are acres of all kinds of roses.

Serena stands with her hands in her jacket pockets and once again, gazing up at the moonless night sky. "Why do you always look up at the sky?" came a Darien's sexy, husky voice in her ear, causing shivers to run down her spin and she shivered in her jacket also without realizing it.

Darien seeing this takes off his heavy black coat and drapes it over her shoulders, which she tugs closer and smells in his scent.

*Ummm, he smells earthy and like dew drops.*

"Uh.Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't hear you." She said meekly as she continued to look up at the sky. "Why do you always look up at the sky?" he asked again in her ear. "Oh, I don't know really. Ever since I was a little girl I would always look up at the sky and think it to be a huge black blanket of chaos with little lights of hope glistening." She told him with passion. "I like that thought." He said as he slips his arms around her extremely small waist.

*Ummm, she smells like strawberries and vanilla.* He thinks to him self, as he smells her hair.

"Really?" she asks surprised to feel his arms around her and that he liked what she had always thought to be a childish thought. "Yea" he said with a grin. "I'm glade you think so." She said smiling as she fell against his hard chest lightly.

She looked down at her watch and noticed that it was 5:45. "Oh my!" she gasped realizing how late it had gotten. "What's wrong?" he asks looking down at her. "It's almost 6:00 in the morning and I still have to get up for work at 7:00," she said sighing lightly to her self. "Where do you work?" he asks curious. "SII" she responded. "What's that?" he asked thinking it sounds familiar, but can't quit put his finger on where his heard it. "Shields International Incorporation." She said with a wry sigh. "Oh," he said before it hit him, "I own that company" he said with a chuckle. "You do?! Then you'd be Darien Shields!" she said startled from her reverie. "In the flesh" he said grinning. "Oh my" she said not knowing what else to say. "What's so astonishing?" he asked amused and laughing slightly. "Nothing, I just didn't know that you were Darien Shields." She said breathlessly. "What's so horrible about begin Darien Shields?" he asked amused at her reaction. "I've just heard that he, you were very mean and ruthless." She said with blush starting to taint he cheeks. "I can be, but that's business and you need to be how you said it, 'very mean and ruthless', but enough about that." He said with a grin on his perfectly chiseled face. ~Blushing madly now~ "Okay, I better be getting home, or my roommate will begin to worry if I'm not there when she wakes up which is literally when the sun comes up." Serena tells him. "Well, I guess I better be taking you home then." He says to her as he begins to lead her down the gazebo stairs. "Okay" she says to him, still snuggled into his coat as she lets him lead her.
After a brisk walk, they find themselves in front of Serena's apartment door. "I'd invite you in, but it's late or early being the time." Serena says as she unlocks the door as quietly as she can. "It's okay" he says watching her. "I'll see you later." She says stepping into the threshold. "Okay." He says as he begins to walk away back down the stairs of her apartment complex. "How about I give you my number and we can meet up sometime." She says to him, not wanting this to be the last time they see each other. "Sure." He says smiling at her. "Here" she tells him as she hurriedly jots own her 7 digit number and hands the paper to him. "I get off at 5:00 today" she says smiling at him.

"SERENA!!!!! IS THAT YOU?!?!" came the voice of and obvious woman inside. "Coming Raye" Serena shouted back and then smiled weakly and closed the door, ready to face Raye's wrath.

Hey, that's all for now. I hope you all like this story so far. Review please!!!!!!! ~_*