Sere: Hey…Here's another chapter. It's pretty slow right now. But, it will pick up I promise.
Well…without further ado…
Chapter 1
Serena sat in her bed, basking in what little sunshine came through the grimy windows.
She yawned and, stretching, crawled out of the small, dirty bed. She pulled on a pair of holey
baggy jeans and a black turtleneck.
"Serena!" Gabe came running into her room.
"What is it?" Serena asked, instantly alarmed.
"I don't know where Andy is . . . I don't think he came back last night."
"Crap! I'm gonna go look for him. After I find him, I'm beating him senseless."
"Well, hurry. Ms. Foley won't like it if you're not here when she decides to check in on
ya."
"Well . . . there's a problem with that. I'm not coming back."
"You're . . . serious?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Perfectly. I don't want to be here. Who wants to be in an n orphanage in the first place?
But, you add abuse and neglect and it just plain sucks."
"Well, I'm coming with you."
"Gabe, this is something that I need to do on my own. I mean, you can go with me for a
little while, but I've really gotta learn to help myself rather than allow others to protect me."
As Gabe went to interject Serena continued, "Even though I'm perfectly capable of taking
care of myself, you and the other guys insist that I'm some porcelain doll that needs to be
protected from everything. Don't worry so much about me love, I'll be fine."
Serena smiled and gave her best friend a kiss on the cheek. "I'll see ya around though.
That I can promise."
She winked at him and crawled out one of the windows. Gabe watched her leave with
sorrowful green eyes. He would make sure she kept her promise to him. He was also going to
take her lead and get out of the hell hole they had lived in for twelve grueling years.
Serena ran down the street, her silver hair flowing behind her and glittering in the sunlight.
She looked in every direction searching for her friend.
'Where the heck is he?' she asked herself. She became increasingly worried about her
missing friend. They had all gotten into a lot of trouble since being in the orphanage.
She had been the only girl in their little "group" of fourteen people. There were a lot of
people in the orphanage, the building was quite big, but most of the people there didn't like
Serena. They didn't like the guys that she hung out with either. She never figured out why. Ever
since she was there, starting when she was five, none of the people liked her. They teased her
about her unusual hair color and her eyes as well. Her hair wasn't white-silver. Rather, it was to
the point of being almost a true metallic silver. She had the same color among the blue in her eyes.
Lost in her thoughts she didn't see the person turning the corner up ahead, and ran
straight into them.
"Woah," Serena muttered from her position on the ground. "That's one heck of a wake-up
call."
"Can't you watch where you're going?" a male voice asked. She looked up to see a man
with short, but messy raven hair and dark sapphire eyes sitting unceremoniously on the ground.
"Nope . . . haven't quite mastered that skill yet," Serena shrugged. The man was
handsome, didn't look to be too much older than her seventeen years . . . but was obviously
arrogant.
"Well, maybe you should," he replied, standing up and brushing off his black suit. Serena
looked him up and down from his messy black hair, to his shiny black shoes. 'Not bad . . . ' she
thought.
"Don't you think you're in the wrong place?" Serena asked, following suit and standing.
She crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow.
Darien in turn copied her earlier action and looked the petite girl up and down. She was very tiny, and the pants she wore seemed to eat her alive. Even though she had all the right curves, she was obviously underweight, as if she didn't eat much. One could tell that she grew up in the "wrong place." Dirty, worn out clothing and an apparent lack of caring in the way she looked, with her hair tangled and dirt smudged on her cheek. 'Beautiful . . . but what's with her trying to look tough?' the man thought to himself, chuckling inwardly.
"Why would you say that?" he asked in response.
"Well, you're wearing a very nice suit in a very grimy part of town. You obviously have
money with how nice your suit and shoes are, as well as with the arrogant way you hold yourself,
and the cocky look in your eyes, as if everyone around here is beneath you. No one around here
has enough to afford just those shoes. You're in a very bad neighborhood, and only attract
attention to yourself by wearing that. You might as well just say, 'come rob me now.'"
He shrugged. "Most of what you say is right. Maybe I don't belong around here. But, I
actually have some business to do, and you're just delaying it. So, if you'll excuse me," he stepped
around her and continued on his way.
"Jerk," she muttered to herself. She watched him walk away for a minute before
remembering what it was she had to do.
"Andrew," she nearly yelped, and began running once more.
Sere: That's the end of chapter one. Tell me what you think. Once more, I know it's a little slow
right now…but it'll pick up soon. Well, gotta go. Ja! ^-^