Chapter Thirteen
By: CelestialShadow
To put it simply, she was confused, angry, tired, sad... They had been so close to what she'd been longing for, and were cut short by her friends unjudged entering. Maybe she was over reacting, but she felt like strangling Mina. Fixing her hands around Mina's small neck and just... squeezing until Mina turned blue. Yeah, she was probably over reacting. But as she walked up the cellar steps, Darien's warm hand holding hers and helping her up, she couldn't help but feeling a little bit of anger towards Mina for opening that damn cellar door.
Mina wasn't sure what she'd done, but she didn't like the look she was recieving from Serena as she stepped out of the cellar. It was a cold, loathing look. 'Probably just mad at us for locking them down there,' she decided.
Darien turned around, letting go of Serena's hand, and faced Serena. "Well, I've got some errands to run in town. I guess I'll see you tonight at my apartment, if not sooner. Later everyone!" Darien jogged out of the Arcade. Serena could tell he had something on his mind, but was too deep in her thoughts to comprehend the act he was putting on. Serena turned around and faced everyone.
"I'm going to go for a walk...I'll see you guys tonight - I guess." Serena turned and walked out, her hair swaying behind her as she left.
"That was awkward." Andrew winced, watching Serena's retreating form.
"Why are they so... un-talkative. You'd think they'd be beating us to pulps by now." Raye sighed.
"Yeah." The rest agreed.
"Who knows? They'll get over it though!" Mina suggested brightly.
Serena was staring at the sidewalk as she walked through the park. When she finally looked up from the sidewalk, she found she was at her old favorite bench, but she wasn't the only one there. Darien occupied it. And from what she could tell, he hadn't seen her yet.
Time for a descision, she thought. Turn around, or sit down.
She opted for sitting. Darien looked up, almost surprised to see her sitting there.
"Hey," Serena greeted, sighing somewhat.
"Hey..."
"What're you doing here? I thought you had errands." Serena asked, leaning back, and watching the sun set turn the clouds pink, orange, and blue.
"I came to think. Didn't think you'd come here though."
"If you want me to leave I..."
"No. No. I'm glad your here." Darien interrupted. "Why are you here though?"
That came out wrong. Darien thought. He hadn't meant it to sound like he was interogating her, he just wanted to know if they were there for the same reason.
"I..." Serena stopped. What if she just made a fool out of herself? "Just came to think... I guess. You?"
"Same." Well, it wasn't a complete lie! Darien convinced himself. It wasn't the complete truth, but who tells the whole truth and nothing but the truth now adays? So he was here to think about his feelings towards her, it was still thinking! Its not like she asked what he was thinking about.
"So... what're you thinking about?" Serena asked, glancing over to Darien.
Damn, Darien thought.
"Stuff." He replied. Oh yeah, great answer Dare. He thought with self-disgust. "What about you?"
"Oh... just... life. You know." Serena replied hesitantly.
Not really, Darien thought. But you gave a more descriptive answer then I did, gotta give you that.
The sun was set, but the light still somewhat lit the sky.
"Well, I guess we should be heading back to your place. Wouldn't want to be on the Tokyo streets after dark." Serena said, standing up.
"Yeah." What kind of idiot answers with one word sentences? Me! And I disgust myself with it! Darien thought, getting up also.
Even though they walked side-by-side, neither said a word. Was it fright? Did they no longer trust each other? Were they giving up on their friendship?
"No." Darien spoke softly.
"What?" Serena asked.
Did he say that aloud? He asked himself franticly. Better think of a good reply, genius!!!
"Oh, uh, nothing." If Serena wasn't standing right there, I'd whack my forehead in disgust. Darien thought.
Soon they reached Darien apartment. Darien opened the door, and let her step inside.
"Well, see you tommorrow." Darien said, waving goodnight to her.
"Yeah, see you tomorrow."
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To Be Continued
That took forever to get out, didn't it?! I don't know, maybe my moms right, maybe the computer is frying my creative thoughts o_O... Nahhhhhh! Please review (even if this was kind of... a wierd chapter...). I'm gonna go write some other chapters to other stories now! Tah-tah for now!!! (oooh, babysitting little brothers and having to watch winnie the pooh over and over DOES impare your speech...)
Writing until someone locks me up in a cage and throws away the key,
CelestialShadow
P.S. I'm making a graphics site, which will be up shortly, I'll put the link up someother time!