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Chapter 1: A Male and Female Shall Come Together
A normally bubbly, vivacious blonde plunked herself onto the seat, resting her head on her arms exhaling out an exaggerated sigh. 'When had high school become so long and tedious? Oh right, from the very first moment I walked into my first elementary class', she thought glumly.
"What's up Serena?" Andrew asked his regular customer.
Serena Tsukino let out a low groan but managed to raise her head upwards to look at Andrew. Over the last four or so years, since Serena first started coming to the video arcade, Andrew was more to Serena than just the guy who worked at the arcade, he had become a friend. His sandy blond hair flopped boyishly into his eyes as he meticulously wiped up and down the counter that Serena was currently resting on.
"School," She moaned out.
"Double chocolate milkshake, extra chocolate, extra cherry?" Andrew tempted with a teasing smile on his face.
"Please," her mouth was already watering at the thought of her decadent treat. Then reality sunk in that after this milkshake she would have to go home and start on the pile of homework she had been neglecting for the past week. Her head hit the counter with a large thump. "Oww,"
"Meatball head you know that is unhygienic right?" A familiar deep voice commented from her side.
"Shut it Jerk. I'm not in the mood to trade insults and for the last time my name is Serena!" She all but screamed at the insufferable jerk that had tormented her existence for the last several years.
Serena scrutinized her tormentor with the severity of a thundercloud. She resentfully acknowledged that Darien Shields oozed the 'tall, dark and mysterious' persona to a fine 'T'. He was exactly the man mothers warned their children about. A man who although possessed extremely good looks, also possessed the lack of ability to allow any woman to penetrate the ice barrier he had erected around his heart after the death of his parents when he was a child. Yet, somehow, and Serena thought of this with a certain amount of pride, she was the only girl who could always get under his skin and drive him absolutely crazy.
Darien shrugged in reaction to Serena's indignant screech, barely hiding his infamous smirk that always seemed to threaten on emerging on his face whenever he was around the petite girl. "Coffee please, Andrew."
Serena huffed and dropped her head back down on the table letting her long hair fly and then settle softly around her like a halo.
Darien glanced over at Serena and he had to struggle to remind himself to breathe again. With her wild blonde streams of hair fanned out around her head she never looked so angelic or so young.
"So childish," Darien muttered under his breath.
Serena snapped her head back and turned around to face Darien eye to eye. "I'm childish? I'm not the one going around tormenting seventeen year old girls!"
"I don't go around tormenting seventeen year old girls!" He retorted, his voice dipping lower he added "just you."
Serena looked at Darien sharply like she didn't quite catch his last comment. Luckily Andrew divinely intervened. "One milkshake for you and a black coffee for you. Now chill out you two." He said peacefully placing the drinks in front of the respective people.
Serena thanked him with a bright smile and then eagerly dug into her drink with unrestrained gusto. She slurped loudly at her milkshake causing Darien cringe with every loud exaggerated gulp before he finally explode, "Will you stop slurping your milkshake Meatball head!"
"Oh yes, my great master. I'll bow down and let you tell me how to drink my milkshake."
"Sarcasm will get you nowhere."
"Being a jackass will get you less than nowhere."
Darien snorted and sort of leered at Serena. "At least I'm not an immature brat like you. Can't keep your feet flat on the floor, can't keep decent grades up… By the way how do you plan on graduating with such abysmal grades like yours?"
His words ringing true she sucked in a sharp breath, 'come on Serena. He has said meaner stuff then this. Keep it together now. Don't let him see. Don't let him see.'
"I don't need this right now okay, Jerk?"
"For the last time my name is Darien," He drawled out, intentionally mocking her.
Serena looked around the deserted arcade and tried hurriedly to blink away the tears already forming. "I'll see you later Andrew," She mumbled throwing down some money before rushing out of the arcade.
Once she had left Andrew turned to Darien and whacked him on the shoulder with his tea towel, "For Pete's sake can't you be nice to her for one day? She's in her final year of high school man. She's already going through a lot of pressure. Don't you remember how it was like?"
Remorse instantly hit. It always happened; he would say the one thing that he never meant to say at the exact moment when he should never say it. Guilt and remorse inevitably followed.
"Be grateful you are naturally smart with an innate desire to be a doctor. Serena doesn't know what she wants to do, or what direction to pursue and you're not making it anymore easier for her. She may not be smart like you Darien, but she is loyal, passionate and just about the greatest friend anyone could have. So just leave Serena alone," Andrew scolded his best friend. Once he finished his tirade he retrieved his cloth and started cleaning the counter where Serena's head had just been.
"Ok, ok." Darien agreed mainly to pacify his friend.
When Andrew wondered off to serve another customer, Darien couldn't help but think about the adorable infuriating high schooler. There was no denying that all those attributes Andrew had vehemently defended in her were accurate. Yet, there was strong attraction to make Serena angry. To see her shake with barely contained fury and watch her eyes blaze fire at him. He couldn't recall such an adorable sight on any other person. It was too bad that she was so immature or he was sure that she would have made the perfect conquest. 'Yeah right. Maybe in another life,' Darien thought ruefully to himself before he forcibly made his mind focus on other things that didn't involve an infuriating beautiful milkshake-slurping teenager.
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