Dear Isabella
Chapter 5 By A Shot of Amber
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Dear Isabella Chapter 5
Serena adjusted her sunglasses on her nose and looked up at the sign in front of her. The Palomino Café, complete with a picture of a running horse on it's sign. Right now Serena felt like wild horses where running through her stomach. She had never been so nervous before.
Self-consciously and with a bit of shakiness in her movements, Serena walked up to the hostess and got a table for two in the outdoor part of the café. She was escorted to a small table near the edge of the crowd and seated with very little ado. " When my dining partner arrives please tell him Ms. Moon is here."
The hostess nodded and handed her a menu before walking off. Serena settled down in her chair and opened the menu. She was going to need a good stiff drink to calm her emotions. Never in her life had she been so nervous. " Would you like to start out with a drink ma'am?"
Serena jumped in her seat. She turned her face towards the waiter who looked as startled has she felt. " I'm sorry I didn't mean to alarm you ma'am!" The waiter apologized while Serena shook her head and managed a smile. " No it's quite alright, I didn't see you there, that's all." Serena turned to her menu and glanced of the wine list. " I'll have a Chardonnay spritzer please."
" Yes ma'am, just a moment please." The waiter turned and walked off while Serena once again settled herself in her seat and glanced over the people sitting around her. Small groups of two or three people chatting and eating. She then turned her eyes towards the hostess who was talking to a tall man dressed in a beige colored suit. Sunglasses hid his eyes, but she knew they would be a deep blue just like his photo. Suddenly the wild horses in her stomach took off in a stampede as the man took off his sunglasses and turned towards her. It was him, it was Darien. He thanked the hostess and walked over towards the table. Serena stood up and removed her own sunglasses.
" MonPrincess?" He asked holding out one hand. " Prince Endymion." She replied taking his hand in her own. His palm was warm and smooth against her own. She shivered slightly at the feeling of his skin touching hers, but warmly returned the handshake.
" I was a little worried that you might not come," Darien replied taking a seat in a chair across from her. " Why do you say that? Wild horses couldn't keep me away." " Well in your email you sounded a little scared. So naturally I wondered if you would truly come." " Well here I am," Serena quipped feeling her ire rising a bit.
At that moment the waiter came back with her drink which he set on a napkin on the glass table. " May I get you anything sir?" The waiter asked turning towards Darien.
" I'll have what she's having," Darien replied pointing to Serena's drink. " Very good." The waiter bowed and walked off while the two stared at each other looking for something to say. Finally Darien broke off the silence. " Your eyes are bluer then I remembered." " And your taller then I thought you would be," Serena replied feeling happiness course through her again. " Some simple complications. We can make it past those." " Of course." Serena took a sip of her drink to cool herself down. " So maybe you can tell me what you ordered so I know what I'll be drinking." Darien sat back in his chair and studied her with his eyes. " It's Chardonnay spritzer." " Wonderful, I love those things!" " Really?" Serena asked suddenly feeling like fate was staring her in the face. " Yes, nothing to strong, yet not to weak."
" Wow!" Serena breathed turning her face away from him. " Your drink sir." The waiter set down the glass on the table and stepped away. " Are you okay?" Darien asked looking down at her turned away face. " Yes, I'm fine!" Serena replied turning back to him and smiling. One of her most dazzling smiles.
Darien looked a little startled for a moment but the look quickly disappeared and he took a sip of his drink. Serena was worried by that look. Did he think she was unattractive? Maybe he was only being nice but he was really thinking about how ugly she was. " Serena?" " Yes?" She asked breaking out of her thoughts.
" I know this sounds kind of strange but I just have to tell you."
He looked scared. He was staring in the amber liquid of his drink instead of at her. His blue eyes looked clouded over. " I just wanted to tell that your even more beautiful in real life then in your picture and that I feel so lucky to be sitting here enjoying lunch with someone as beautiful as you."
Serena blushed, the color creeped into her cheeks making her face looking pleasantly flushed. " Thank you," she replied. " That is just about the nicest thing anyone as ever said to me." Darien smiled and sat back in his chair.
* * * * * * *
Andrew looked down at the note in his hand. He absentmindedly wondered where Serena could really be. The note said she was with Mina but how could she be?
Andrew pressed a button on the answering machine. " Hi Serena this is Mina! I just wanted to know if you were home? Maybe we could get together and do something tonight. Call me back.
"Where is she ?" Andrew asked himself as the answering machine beeped twice then fell silent.
He was answered by the door opening and closing.
Serena set down the bags she was carrying and laid her purse on the table near the door. A happy smile was plastered on her face as she thought about the day she had just had. After lunch they had gone walking for awhile just strolling through town talking. Serena was further convinced that she was falling in love with Darien. Everything about him was perfect. The way he smiled, his blue eyes lighting up when he talked, they way he wrinkled his nose over the thought of Beryl.
" Beryl is nice girl but she was obviously a mistake to marry." " Why do you say that?" Serena asked. " Because whenever I mention kids she wrinkles her nose and says that she positively does not want any. They will get in the way of her life," Darien replied.
Serena laughed and fingered her purse. " My kids can be somewhat annoying but I love them no matter what, they are my proudest accomplishment."
" Serena?"
Serena looked up from her daydream to see Andrew standing in front of her.
" Oh Andrew! Hi! I didn't see you there!" Serena replied brushing some hair out of her eyes.
" Where have you been? You were gone all day."
" I went to lunch with Mina then did some shopping," Serena replied pointing to the bags at her feet. " Oh, did you have a nice time?" Andrew replied. He knew she was lie. The message from Mina hung over his head but he didn't say anything more.
" Yea I did," Serena replied.
" That's good." Andrew reached down to pick up some of the bags on the floor.
" Hey you don't have to do that!" Serena said reaching down to take the bags from him but Andrew just turned away and walked into the kitchen.
" I don't mind," he replied.
Serena watched him disappear into the kitchen while she wondered about his strange mood. He was acting weird, like something was bothering him but he didn't want to talk about it.
Inside the kitchen, Andrew pressed the button to erase the message from Mina.
* * * * * * *
Serena looked in on Brian who was asleep in his bed. One thumb had found its way into his mouth which he sucked slightly. She smiled and closed the door softly so not to wake him.
Inside her bedroom Andrew lay in bed staring at the ceiling. His thoughts were traveling a mile a minute as he went over the day. Where had she been? If she wasn't with Mina then where was she?
" Brian is so cute when he sleeps," Serena sighed as she walked into the room. "I thought he would never get to sleep tonight. He was so wild at dinner." Serena walked into the bathroom to change into her nightgown.
" So how was your day? You said you went shopping with Mina? Did she have anything interesting to say?" Andrew asked sitting up in bed.
" No, not really," Serena called back. " Just the usual, she's unhappily single. Still looking for her life partner, you know stuff like that. " Serena paused to remove her shirt. " We went to that new kitchen store. They have such nice things. I bought a couple new pots but you already saw them." Serena stepped out of the bathroom holding her clothes in a bundle in her arms. " We did talk about the new computer. It seems she wants to get one. She thinks that she can meet someone online. Isn't that funny? Its like she actually thinks there is decent men online." Serena laughed and dropped her clothes into the dirty clothes bin.
" Well you spend a lot of time online. Have you met any decent men?" Andrew asked in a half joking manner.
Serena laughed again as she removed the bobby pins in her hair. " If only. The men I've met online are all dirty and about Tyler's age but I have met some really nice womyn online. Ami is a doctor except she lives in Germany so we can never meet. Then there is Rei Hino though she lives near but about three hours away. She's a Shinto priestess! She lives with her husband, what's his name? Oh yea Yurichro. I would really like to meet her, she's so interesting."
Andrew only half listened to his wife. Whenever she talked like this, in long sentences and in this chatty manner it meant something. Andrew looked at her. She stood near the foot of the bed combing her long hair. She wearing a floaty white nightgown with a panel of lace edging the collar. On her, it was pretty with her bare arms rhythmically moving as she ran the comb through her hair.
Then for the first time Andrew begin to wonder. He had never really thought about it but what if she was having an affair? Didn't other men find her attractive? Andrew looked at her again, I mean really looked at her then he laughed.
Serena stopped talking and looked at her husband who seemed to be in some happy little world of his own. " What did I say something funny?" Serena asked.
" No its nothing," Andrew replied shaking his head. " I was just thinking of something else." He laughed again then sighed.
" What were you thinking about?" Serena asked. She set down the hairbrush on the dresser table top and walked over to her side of the bed.
" Nothing really except I had something in else in mind also. You know its been a long time since we went on a vacation."
" What do you mean? We were just planning our summer one. Serena replied as she climbed into bed next to him.
" Yea but we need one now. We could take the kids and get away from here. Maybe go to the beach or see your priestess friend. Just something that would get us away from here."
" Oh Andrew I don't know. The kids are in school right now and I would hate to take them out just to go on vacation."
" Then we'll just go, just the two of us. Or we can wait till Christmas break, its coming up you know," Andrew replied.
" But we always spend Christmas with my family!" Serena cried out sounding shocked.
" Alright then never mind, it was just a suggestion." Andrew fluffed his pillow and laid down in the bed his back to Serena.
" Oh Andrew I'm sorry," Serena cooed moving closer to him. " I think your vacation idea is wonderful. Why don't we talk about it some more tomorrow. Right now I'm to tired to think." She kissed his ear then laid down on her side of the bed and turned off the light.
Andrew listened to her move around under the covers then she settled down. For a long time he listened to her breathing until she was asleep then he turned around and looked down at her. She was still beautiful, at least to him she was. He absentmindedly wondered if someone else thought she was beautiful.
Andrew smiled and shook his head. Serena would never do anything to beak apart the family. She was not like that. Andrew brushed a kiss on her forehead then curled himself up under the covers and went to sleep. He still hoped that maybe they could take a vacation. He knew he that he needed one.
Please read and review or send all comments, questions, suggestions, and flames to Saphrians_Water_Reflection@hotmail.com. Thank you.
Chapter 5 By A Shot of Amber
Please remember to read and review or send all comments, questions, suggestions, and flames to Saphrians_Water_Reflection@hotmail.com. Thank you!
Dear Isabella Chapter 5
Serena adjusted her sunglasses on her nose and looked up at the sign in front of her. The Palomino Café, complete with a picture of a running horse on it's sign. Right now Serena felt like wild horses where running through her stomach. She had never been so nervous before.
Self-consciously and with a bit of shakiness in her movements, Serena walked up to the hostess and got a table for two in the outdoor part of the café. She was escorted to a small table near the edge of the crowd and seated with very little ado. " When my dining partner arrives please tell him Ms. Moon is here."
The hostess nodded and handed her a menu before walking off. Serena settled down in her chair and opened the menu. She was going to need a good stiff drink to calm her emotions. Never in her life had she been so nervous. " Would you like to start out with a drink ma'am?"
Serena jumped in her seat. She turned her face towards the waiter who looked as startled has she felt. " I'm sorry I didn't mean to alarm you ma'am!" The waiter apologized while Serena shook her head and managed a smile. " No it's quite alright, I didn't see you there, that's all." Serena turned to her menu and glanced of the wine list. " I'll have a Chardonnay spritzer please."
" Yes ma'am, just a moment please." The waiter turned and walked off while Serena once again settled herself in her seat and glanced over the people sitting around her. Small groups of two or three people chatting and eating. She then turned her eyes towards the hostess who was talking to a tall man dressed in a beige colored suit. Sunglasses hid his eyes, but she knew they would be a deep blue just like his photo. Suddenly the wild horses in her stomach took off in a stampede as the man took off his sunglasses and turned towards her. It was him, it was Darien. He thanked the hostess and walked over towards the table. Serena stood up and removed her own sunglasses.
" MonPrincess?" He asked holding out one hand. " Prince Endymion." She replied taking his hand in her own. His palm was warm and smooth against her own. She shivered slightly at the feeling of his skin touching hers, but warmly returned the handshake.
" I was a little worried that you might not come," Darien replied taking a seat in a chair across from her. " Why do you say that? Wild horses couldn't keep me away." " Well in your email you sounded a little scared. So naturally I wondered if you would truly come." " Well here I am," Serena quipped feeling her ire rising a bit.
At that moment the waiter came back with her drink which he set on a napkin on the glass table. " May I get you anything sir?" The waiter asked turning towards Darien.
" I'll have what she's having," Darien replied pointing to Serena's drink. " Very good." The waiter bowed and walked off while the two stared at each other looking for something to say. Finally Darien broke off the silence. " Your eyes are bluer then I remembered." " And your taller then I thought you would be," Serena replied feeling happiness course through her again. " Some simple complications. We can make it past those." " Of course." Serena took a sip of her drink to cool herself down. " So maybe you can tell me what you ordered so I know what I'll be drinking." Darien sat back in his chair and studied her with his eyes. " It's Chardonnay spritzer." " Wonderful, I love those things!" " Really?" Serena asked suddenly feeling like fate was staring her in the face. " Yes, nothing to strong, yet not to weak."
" Wow!" Serena breathed turning her face away from him. " Your drink sir." The waiter set down the glass on the table and stepped away. " Are you okay?" Darien asked looking down at her turned away face. " Yes, I'm fine!" Serena replied turning back to him and smiling. One of her most dazzling smiles.
Darien looked a little startled for a moment but the look quickly disappeared and he took a sip of his drink. Serena was worried by that look. Did he think she was unattractive? Maybe he was only being nice but he was really thinking about how ugly she was. " Serena?" " Yes?" She asked breaking out of her thoughts.
" I know this sounds kind of strange but I just have to tell you."
He looked scared. He was staring in the amber liquid of his drink instead of at her. His blue eyes looked clouded over. " I just wanted to tell that your even more beautiful in real life then in your picture and that I feel so lucky to be sitting here enjoying lunch with someone as beautiful as you."
Serena blushed, the color creeped into her cheeks making her face looking pleasantly flushed. " Thank you," she replied. " That is just about the nicest thing anyone as ever said to me." Darien smiled and sat back in his chair.
* * * * * * *
Andrew looked down at the note in his hand. He absentmindedly wondered where Serena could really be. The note said she was with Mina but how could she be?
Andrew pressed a button on the answering machine. " Hi Serena this is Mina! I just wanted to know if you were home? Maybe we could get together and do something tonight. Call me back.
"Where is she ?" Andrew asked himself as the answering machine beeped twice then fell silent.
He was answered by the door opening and closing.
Serena set down the bags she was carrying and laid her purse on the table near the door. A happy smile was plastered on her face as she thought about the day she had just had. After lunch they had gone walking for awhile just strolling through town talking. Serena was further convinced that she was falling in love with Darien. Everything about him was perfect. The way he smiled, his blue eyes lighting up when he talked, they way he wrinkled his nose over the thought of Beryl.
" Beryl is nice girl but she was obviously a mistake to marry." " Why do you say that?" Serena asked. " Because whenever I mention kids she wrinkles her nose and says that she positively does not want any. They will get in the way of her life," Darien replied.
Serena laughed and fingered her purse. " My kids can be somewhat annoying but I love them no matter what, they are my proudest accomplishment."
" Serena?"
Serena looked up from her daydream to see Andrew standing in front of her.
" Oh Andrew! Hi! I didn't see you there!" Serena replied brushing some hair out of her eyes.
" Where have you been? You were gone all day."
" I went to lunch with Mina then did some shopping," Serena replied pointing to the bags at her feet. " Oh, did you have a nice time?" Andrew replied. He knew she was lie. The message from Mina hung over his head but he didn't say anything more.
" Yea I did," Serena replied.
" That's good." Andrew reached down to pick up some of the bags on the floor.
" Hey you don't have to do that!" Serena said reaching down to take the bags from him but Andrew just turned away and walked into the kitchen.
" I don't mind," he replied.
Serena watched him disappear into the kitchen while she wondered about his strange mood. He was acting weird, like something was bothering him but he didn't want to talk about it.
Inside the kitchen, Andrew pressed the button to erase the message from Mina.
* * * * * * *
Serena looked in on Brian who was asleep in his bed. One thumb had found its way into his mouth which he sucked slightly. She smiled and closed the door softly so not to wake him.
Inside her bedroom Andrew lay in bed staring at the ceiling. His thoughts were traveling a mile a minute as he went over the day. Where had she been? If she wasn't with Mina then where was she?
" Brian is so cute when he sleeps," Serena sighed as she walked into the room. "I thought he would never get to sleep tonight. He was so wild at dinner." Serena walked into the bathroom to change into her nightgown.
" So how was your day? You said you went shopping with Mina? Did she have anything interesting to say?" Andrew asked sitting up in bed.
" No, not really," Serena called back. " Just the usual, she's unhappily single. Still looking for her life partner, you know stuff like that. " Serena paused to remove her shirt. " We went to that new kitchen store. They have such nice things. I bought a couple new pots but you already saw them." Serena stepped out of the bathroom holding her clothes in a bundle in her arms. " We did talk about the new computer. It seems she wants to get one. She thinks that she can meet someone online. Isn't that funny? Its like she actually thinks there is decent men online." Serena laughed and dropped her clothes into the dirty clothes bin.
" Well you spend a lot of time online. Have you met any decent men?" Andrew asked in a half joking manner.
Serena laughed again as she removed the bobby pins in her hair. " If only. The men I've met online are all dirty and about Tyler's age but I have met some really nice womyn online. Ami is a doctor except she lives in Germany so we can never meet. Then there is Rei Hino though she lives near but about three hours away. She's a Shinto priestess! She lives with her husband, what's his name? Oh yea Yurichro. I would really like to meet her, she's so interesting."
Andrew only half listened to his wife. Whenever she talked like this, in long sentences and in this chatty manner it meant something. Andrew looked at her. She stood near the foot of the bed combing her long hair. She wearing a floaty white nightgown with a panel of lace edging the collar. On her, it was pretty with her bare arms rhythmically moving as she ran the comb through her hair.
Then for the first time Andrew begin to wonder. He had never really thought about it but what if she was having an affair? Didn't other men find her attractive? Andrew looked at her again, I mean really looked at her then he laughed.
Serena stopped talking and looked at her husband who seemed to be in some happy little world of his own. " What did I say something funny?" Serena asked.
" No its nothing," Andrew replied shaking his head. " I was just thinking of something else." He laughed again then sighed.
" What were you thinking about?" Serena asked. She set down the hairbrush on the dresser table top and walked over to her side of the bed.
" Nothing really except I had something in else in mind also. You know its been a long time since we went on a vacation."
" What do you mean? We were just planning our summer one. Serena replied as she climbed into bed next to him.
" Yea but we need one now. We could take the kids and get away from here. Maybe go to the beach or see your priestess friend. Just something that would get us away from here."
" Oh Andrew I don't know. The kids are in school right now and I would hate to take them out just to go on vacation."
" Then we'll just go, just the two of us. Or we can wait till Christmas break, its coming up you know," Andrew replied.
" But we always spend Christmas with my family!" Serena cried out sounding shocked.
" Alright then never mind, it was just a suggestion." Andrew fluffed his pillow and laid down in the bed his back to Serena.
" Oh Andrew I'm sorry," Serena cooed moving closer to him. " I think your vacation idea is wonderful. Why don't we talk about it some more tomorrow. Right now I'm to tired to think." She kissed his ear then laid down on her side of the bed and turned off the light.
Andrew listened to her move around under the covers then she settled down. For a long time he listened to her breathing until she was asleep then he turned around and looked down at her. She was still beautiful, at least to him she was. He absentmindedly wondered if someone else thought she was beautiful.
Andrew smiled and shook his head. Serena would never do anything to beak apart the family. She was not like that. Andrew brushed a kiss on her forehead then curled himself up under the covers and went to sleep. He still hoped that maybe they could take a vacation. He knew he that he needed one.
Please read and review or send all comments, questions, suggestions, and flames to Saphrians_Water_Reflection@hotmail.com. Thank you.
