One Night at Shields

By Strawberry

I Don't Own SM! Or the friends themes!

Chapter 24

In answer to a question yeah Darien knows he Tuxedo mask and the whole situation he just doesn't remember that one night where he found out.

"What's not funny?" Serena asked again

"Uh, Andrew's joke. Not funny man!" Darien said quickly

"Tell us the joke Andrew." Mina said

"I can't, it's just that, it's not funny. I'm uh going to go get Darien some coffee" Andrew said

"You know what I can't wait for?" Mina asked as everyone took a seat, she didn't wait for an answer,

"The winter formal." She said (I don't know if they have it at that age but let's pretend they do)

"Oh." Darien said

"Serena maybe tomorrow you and I can go shopping for dresses and the guys can shop for Tuxedos." Mina suggested

"I'm not going with Darien; I might not even go at all actually." Serena said, Juts then Andrew came in with a cup of coffee and handed it to Darien.

"Why not?!?!" Mina said

Serena smiled and put her hand on her abdomen.

"I don't know, because it's stupid." She said she looked up at Darien; he was looking at a cup of coffee in his hands.

'There's something about him. I just can't get enough of him, he can annoy me to death but I can't help loving him.' She thought

"Do you guy's mind if I go home and lie down?" Serena suddenly asked

"You can lie down in my room." Andrew said, Serena agreed and went to Andrew's doorway.

"Serena?" Darien asked

"Yes?"

"If you want me too, I'll go to the dance with you." Darien said Serena smiled.

"I would like that." She said as she disappeared into Andrew's room, Mina followed her into the room and closevd the door.

"Wow." She said to Serena who was lying down

"Yeah. Hopefully I can find a dress that doesn't make me show." Serena said as she gazed up at the ceiling.

Meanwhile…

"So you're going to take Serena?" Andrew asked

"I guess." Darien said

"Man, no offence but I thought you were over her." Andrew said

"I am. I'm just helping a friend out." Darien said, he put his coffee down

"So when is this thing Anyways?" He asked Andrew

"Uh November 17th." Andrew said, Darien thought for a moment

'Nothing I can remember I have to do.' Darien thought

~*~!~*~!~~*~!~*~!~~*~!~*~!~November 17th~*~!~*~!~~*~!~*~!~~*~!~*~!~

"So I'll meet you there, as soon as work ends." Darien said

"Darien, you sure you want to take me?" Serena asked she clutched the phone

"Serena I'll see you tonight." Darien said as he hung up the phone

Serena walked into the gym with Andrew and Mina, she looked at the decorations, and the theme was winter of course. Fake but beautiful glittering snowflakes were hung around and fake snow everywhere oh and clear white light's the gym was beautiful.

Serena spotted the rest of the scouts standing in a circle talking, Raye wore butterfly brocade gown that had a sensuous "X" back. Complete with built in crinoline, it was a scarlet red, Chad accompanied her with a red cover bun and white Tuxedo.  Lita was there with a boy she met named Ken, she was wearing a Cuff Gown with Shaw in green while Ken had another white Tuxedo with green cover bun. Amy was with Greg, he lived far away but came up for the weekend to escort Amy to the dance, he was wearing a  blue Tuxedo and Amy was wearing a dress with a Shirred back a-line with clear caviar and iced bodice the color was an icy blue. Serena looked over at Mina and Andrew who was right behind her, Mina was wearing a Strapless embroidery rhinestone gown with a matching shawl in watermelon, or an orange/red, Andrew had a plain blank Tuxedo. Serena went to the group and talked for awhile,

~*~*~*~Serena' POV~*~*~*~

after about 10 minutes of waiting for Darien I nervously looked at the door way and saw him enter, he was wearing a black Tuxedo and held a plastic box witch held a corsage made of Rose's and baby's breath, how did Darien know I loved rose's, I could have sworn if he just added a cape, mask and hat he would looked juts like Tuxedo Mask, well actually Darien didn't have the same Tuxedo Design but still.

~*~*~*~Darien's POV~*~*~*~

I looked around the gym for Serena, and then I spotted her, who could miss a knock-out like that? He hair was still in it's meatball but she wore a Halter gown with appliqué on neckline, the big straps went around her neck and it was in black. She looked absolutely gorgeous. I couldn't explain it, she smiled, glad I was there, I walked over to her.

"Hey." Was all I managed to get out

"Hi." She said, then there was an awkward silence, but after a little while we got comfortable with each other, we went over to our table and sat down, we sat with Serena's friends, most of the girl's dates I didn't know, except for Andrew. Eventually everyone had left the table to dance, I asked Serena and she accepted we danced maybe five songs until something struck me, I WAS SUPPOSTED TO MEET KATIE! Oh my god, I was supposed to meet Katie, I wanted to cancel but didn't have a  number to reach her, Serena had gone to go get some punch and I said I'd join her in a second, I looked at my watch, I could make it if I left now so I ran out of the gym.

~*~*~*~Serena' POV~*~*~*~

I walked back from the punch bowl, thing's were going good and I was planning on telling Darien about my true feelings for him, I walked over to were he said he'd be, he wasn't there, I asked a couple of people if they'd seen him and they all said no, finally I asked Andrew and he told me he'd seen him run out of the gym maybe 10 minutes ago and he would have stopped him but he thought I was with him. I felt a warm tear trickle down my face but I didn't want people seeing me cry over Darien then everyone would know and I didn't want pity, I started to walk out of the gym when the scouts came to me asking me what was wrong I really didn't want to tell them but they grabbed my hand so I wouldn't run away, I managed to get free so I ran to the bathroom and locked the door, I looked into the mirror, my eyes were so red and puffy and my mascara was running, I tried to wipe it away but couldn't, all I ended up doing was smearing the mascara, my eyes were so glassy and I couldn't stop the tears I didn't even bother to sit on the couch in the girl's bathroom, I sank to the bathroom floor (gross) and started crying harder, how was I going to go home? I mean sure I could walk but it isn't safe to walk at night especially the quickest way is through the park and I could be attacked. I heard something on the other side of the bathroom door and soon I saw Amy, Lita, Mina and Raye, Lita must have opened the lock with Mina's hair pin or something, they quickly locked the door. And rant to me.

"What's wrong?" Mina asked gently, I sniffled and looked down.

"Maybe she doesn't want to talk about it." Lita said as she hugged me, I cried all over her dress and later felt terrible.

"Serena, did we do something?" Amy asked, I nodded no quickly

"Was it something Darien did?" Raye asked, I nodded yes, so they asked me what he did, I tried to tell them but I couldn't get it out, every time I was going to tell them is started crying even harder, I really couldn't  control myself, you know when your crying so hard you start coughing well it happened to me, the girl's helped me up and took me outside for some air, geez I have the best friends, instead of spending time with there guys they come to comfort me and all my stupid guy problems. They took me to a bench by my school,

"Hey guys just go back in, I'll be fine." I said, they reluctantly agreed and went inside.  I sat on the bench crying when someone handed me a tissue, I looked up hoping to see Darien but it wasn't, it was… JOSH.

TBC, sorry for such a big delay it's juts I've been really into this other story of mine! Srry!