Hey ppelz!
Happy Valentines Day!! Even though I don't really celebrate Valentines Day I thought I'd be nice and give you all that did a nice and hopefully long enough present. I hope you all like it!!
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"Girls, do you want me to run into town for some food, or is Lita willing to make do and fix us something to eat?" Serena asks as she pokes her head into the den where everybody is spread out talking and listening to the sound system in the room.
"Gee thanks Sere for the obvious hint." Lita tells her as she stands up from her seat in the huge overstuffed beanbag chair with a cheetah print.
"Thank you Lits, if you need any other ingredients you can just call the local grocer and they will send whatever you need." Serena told her as she plopped down on the hanging chair that is white with see-through walls on all three sides.
"Serena, if you don't mind me asking. How can you afford this place?" Ms. Morlang asks in a blunt manner from her spot on the black leather couch across from her.
"Mother!" Raye stated in a horrified voice, "You shouldn't ask people about their affairs!" she tells her with her hand slightly covering her mouth.
"Don't worry about it." Serena tells Raye as she waves it away with her hand and then she turns to where she's in Ms. Morlang's view.
"I actually inherited this place from parent's when they died, but I don't really get to come here as often as I'd like. My parent's had bought this place as a tax right off of some kind years before I was born and Sammy here was ever thought of. They let it get into such a mess that when I was finally of age and had the money to come and actually take care of it, that it took me roughly 2 or 3 years to get it into livable conditions." Serena tells her with a smile after she stopped talking.
"Really. So how much, if you don't mind me asking, does it take for you to take care of this place?" Ms. Morlang asks with her face showing a look of indifference and her tone giving away her curiosity.
"Not at all. Per a year it costs about..." "It costs about $25,000 a year to keep this place in live able conditions." Amy tells them as she piped up from her spot at the window seat where she's busy reading a book as thick as a concrete brick.
"So what kind of work do you do to afford the much money?" Ms. Morlang asks as she starts to stare out a pair of French windows that has the sheer burgundy drapes pulled back and the doors opened to let in the Mediterranean sea breeze and sunshine.
"Well, I do a lot of races and my parent's left me and Sammy a lot of money so, I guess you could say we've got our means." Serena tells her with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Serena, where's Luna, Artemis and Diana at?" Mina asks as walks into the room wearing a yellow bikini with a halter top that has a low v-neck and low cut bottoms that ties on either side with strings.
"Um...I think Hotaru and Trista are taking care of them until one of us goes and picks them up." Serena tells her as she lies back in the chair as she slightly twirls it around with her foot that's on the hardwood floor.
"Okay, well I guess I'm gonna go and get them then." Mina replies with a smile as she goes back upstairs.
"Serena, who's Luna, Artemis, and Diana?" Raye asks in confusion as she looks up at the young woman who looks to be in complete bliss.
"Oh, those are my 3 cats that I found living in this house the very first time I came to visit this place." Serena replies with a small lazy smile on her face.
"Serena, I'm going to go and take a walk on the beach for a little bit. Would anybody else like to come with me?" Amy tells them as she stands up and starts to head up the stairs.
"If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to come." Raye tells her, as she stands up from her place in the overstuffed armchair.
"Raye, if she starts rambling on about non-sense dealing with medicine or some other ungraspable topic just tell her to shut up." Serena tells her as she stays put in her twirling hanging chair with a little bit of mirth on her face.
"Oh shut-up Sere!" Amy tells her in a mock scowl as she fakes stomping up the stairs.
"Um-hum" Serena replies as she fishes the remote to the stereo out of her chair and changes the music to her favorite singer, Dido.
"What is this music Serena?" Ms. Morlang asks as her voice penetrates Serena's blissful dream world.
"The singer is called Dido and this is her first CD called "No Angel." She is a semi-popular singer in the U.S., but she is originally from somewhere in Europe." Serena answers in her blissful tone.
"Interesting" Ms. Morlang comments.
^Darien's POV^
Darien finally lands at the Dorval International in Quebec, Canada and after having to wait for what seemed to be an eternity to get his luggage and then having to get a rental car from nearby.
Tired and exhausted, he drives by the directions he printed off the Internet last night to get to the hotel that he made reservations at.
He gets a valet to park the rental car and walks into the beautifully decorated mansion turned hotel, but Darien doesn't really register what is all around him and goes right up to the front desk.
"Excuse me miss." Darien asks the receptionist who's a tall willowy figure in front of him with dark brown hair pulled into a loose bun.
"Yes, how can I help you sir?" the receptionist asks in her fake and practiced voice.
"I have reservations here. Under the name Darien Spiron." He replied in a tired voice as he rubbed his eyes.
"You're in room 408 and here's your room key. Just call if you need ANYTHING and we do wake up calls until 10:30 a.m." the receptionist tells him as she hands him his room key with a rectangular piece of thick material with dark colors and images that Darien just did not want to look at just then. "Thank you and will do." Darien replies absentmindedly as he picks up his two suitcases and walks into the elevator.
'I better call Raye and stepmother dearest to make sure they are okay. I wonder what they have finally decided to do for Christmas?' he asks himself as he walks out and looked bleary-eyed at the room numbers until he came across number 408. He spent about ten minutes staring at the room number and another ten figuring out how you operate the hotel key. By the time that he got into the room, Darien plopped himself on the bed and took off his shoes and took the laptop case off from around his neck. He watched as it fell from his neck onto the floor (luckily it did not break) before he finally collapsed onto the bed and fell into a blissful slumber.
Darien is forced out of his very much needed sleep from the phone ringing, he fumbles around for the phone all the while he is cursing fluently in different languages until he picked up the receiver.
"Hello?" he says into the receiver in a sleepy tone.
"Oh, I'm sorry if I woke you Mr. Spiron but a message has been left here for you and it was said to be delivered to you immediately." An annoyingly perky voice told him.
"Okay, and what might this message say?" he asks as he sat up and rubbed his eyes with his free hand.
"Well a Mr. Kaplow says to tell you that due to unforeseen circumstances he has to reschedule your meetings for sometime after the holidays and hopefully it does not inconvenience you too much." The same person told him. He was beginning to get a headache just hearing her voice and just wanted to end the conversation all ready.
"Thank you." He tells her and then hangs up. Checking to see what time it is and sees that it is 1:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
'Damn! Well I guess I better call and tell Raye and Naoko that I'm coming home after all for Christmas.' Darien thought as he took out his cell and pushed a button.
After waiting for it to ring for awhile and nobody answered, he hung-up and dialed another number.
"Hello," came a deep sleep filled gruff voice.
"Hey Nick, do you know where Raye and Naoko are?" Darien asks his partner and best friend.
"Umm...yea. Raye called me yesterday to invite me to come with her and your step-mother for Christmas down in the Balearic Islands." Nick told him as a yawn was heard over the line.
"Really? Why are they going to the Balearic Islands?" Darien asked in confusion.
"I asked the same thing and she told me that Serena and her friends invited them to go since you were not going to be home for Christmas." Nick tells him in a little more of an awake voice. "Oh, are you going?" Darien asks.
"I told her I'll call tomorrow or actually later on today and tell her." Nick tells him in a carefree tone.
"Okay, I guess I'll talk to you later." Darien tells him and then hung up.
Darien pushed another number after he and Nick hung up.
"Hello?" asks a rather sleepy Raye in a sleepy hatred voice.
"Hello beautiful sister of mine." Darien tells her in a mock voice.
"What do you want Darien?" Raye asks as he hears sheets ruffling.
"I just wanted to tell you that my business meetings have been canceled until after the holidays so I thought that I would come home and we could have a family holiday with you, Naoko and me." Darien tells her as he sat up against the dark cherry headboard.
"Well, um...Darien. We won't really be able to do that since Mother and I are not really at our house or country for that matter." Raye told him as Darien began to grin.
"I know, I called up Nick when I did not get any answer at the house." He told me. "Do you want me to come and join you or not?" he asked as he turned on the bedside light.
"Of course. Let me know when you're going to come and I'll be there to meet you with one of the other girls." Raye told him in an excited voice.
"Okay, I'll try and get a flight as soon as the sun comes out." Darien tells her as he looked around his hotel room for the time being.
"Great! It's only a five and a half hour time zone change so it shouldn't really take all that long to get here if you get a non-stop flight." Raye informed him just as he got up from the bed and walked over to the balcony and saw the night sky with what few stars can be seen from the city lights.
"I'll call you and tell you my flight information later." Darien told her and then hung up the phone as he opened the small French doors to let in the winter breeze of the river of Lac Saint-Louise which was almost in direct view of his room.
"This should certainly be an interesting Christmas." He mutters to himself as he watched the hustle and bustle still going on below him this late at night.
^Raye's POV^
After being awakened by Darien calling her on her cell phone she was up and could not get back to sleep.
'Well, I might as well go ahead and get dressed' she told herself as she lifted herself out of her surprisingly soft bed.
Raye walks over to her bedroom closet, which is really like a smaller room where clothes are hung up all around her. She walked over to where she hung her clothes.
She picked out a red bathing suit that had a low v-neck line and a cover that ties on her upper left thigh.
Wandering back into her bedroom she just goes into the extremely modern looking bathroom that makes you feel that you are actually in heaven.
'Well, I wonder how Serena is going to take the news of Darien coming for Christmas. She just has not really been the same towards him since that night he left her apartment pissed as hell and she had a nervous breakdown. I know mother will be delighted to have him here and I can't wait to have Nick here!' Raye mused to herself in sheer delight at the very thought of Nick.
Walking into her bedroom after spending a good hour and half in blissful silence save for her thoughts is making her feel like she is drifting off into the Land of Clouds. She slipped on a pair of red jelly sandals and walked down the mahogany stairs that led to the kitchen. As she started to walk to the sitting room that has a mammoth porch, she heard music coming from the kitchen. She walked closer and began to understand the lyrics.
'Watch your back because the next man is comin' And you don't know if the next man is dumbin' Survival of the fittest what it is I got yo back, you got my back and that's the biz Blood is rushing through my veins I got the power, channel the energy And with my strength I will devour Sickening thoughts are running through my head That's when I realize I'm glad I'm not dead'
'What kind person would want to listen to music like that? That...that kind of music is just-is just...it puts a nasty taste in my mouth.' Raye thought to herself as she backed away.
'PRE-CHORUS: Corruption and abuse, the salesman of our blood For the public's craving, existence in the dark
CHORUS: It's in our nature to destroy ourselves It's in our nature to kill ourselves It's in our nature to kill each other It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill
It was a dream and then it hit me, reality struck And now my life is all shifty and it all moves fast Close to buck 50 and we all stand strong In respect to the family in the times of our insanity And through the words of profanity I describe our dysfunctional family Blood brothers keep it real to the end'
'This music is just pure and simple DISTRUBING!!!' Raye yells to herself as she walked into the brightly-lit kitchen that would be cheery if not for the blood thumping, heart racing survival music shattering the peaceful sight.
That's when she turns to see Lita moving her head to the music and lip- singing the words as she stirs something on the spotlessly clean stove.
'Deeper to the thoughts that you think, not a trend
PRE-CHORUS: Corruption and abuse, the salesman of our blood For the public's craving, existence in the dark
CHORUS: It's in our nature to destroy ourselves It's in our nature to kill ourselves It's in our nature to kill each other It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill
PRE-CHORUS: Corruption and abuse, the salesman of our blood For the public's craving, existence in the dark
CHORUS: It's in our nature to destroy ourselves It's in our nature to kill ourselves It's in our nature to kill each other It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill' (1)
'I'm afraid to disturb her now, I mean would she lash out at me or...what?' Raye thought to herself as she watched Lita at the stove. Just then the song changed to something else.
'When we were young the future was so bright The old neighborhood was so alive And every kid on the whole damn street Was gonna make it big and not be beat
Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn The kids are grown up but their lives are worn How can one little street Swallow so many lives' (2)
'Damn! The beats and all are better but is she like in a slump or something because the lyrics are not much better!' Raye told herself as she made up her mind to walk in and see what is up.
"Umm...Lita?" Raye asks instead saying like she has actually intended.
"Yea, Raye." Lita replies in her usual happy tone as if it was totally unaffected by the music.
"Are you okay?" Raye asks with worry leaking out a little in her words.
"Yup, I'm fine. What do you want for breakfast?" Lita asks as she flashes Raye a smile.
"I'm not really hungry. Let Serena know whenever she gets up to come and get me from the porch." Raye told her as she turned back around to leave the kitchen to retrieve her cell phone that she accidentally left upstairs.
"How come?" Lita asks with curiosity.
"I need to ask her if it'll be okay if Darien comes." Raye tells Lita over her shoulder and leaves the kitchen altogether and heads back upstairs quickly.
Raye hurriedly grabbed her small cell phone and then rushed back downstairs and out into the gorgeous sunshine of the Mediterranean.
^Serena's POV^
Walking out of the haven of her bathroom she looks up from her rough treatment of her hair to see a midnight black cat with a white crescent moon birthmark on its forehead lying on her bed all stretched out as if she owned it.
Smiling, "Hello Luna, I'm so happy to see you again." She croons at her as she sits down next to the black cat and begins to pet the cats' stomach for a few minutes. A big, pure white cat with a black mark jumped onto the bed as well and nudged her hand onto his head.
Laughing, "Okay, okay Artemis. I won't forget you." Serena tells the tomcat as she started to stroke the top of his head in between the ears.
After spending a few more minutes playing with the two adult cats. Serena got up from the king size bed and put on a pair of baby pink Valor pants with an "S" in white rhinestones, and a white spaghetti strap tank top. The tank top had a picture of a little girl doing puppy dog eyes and a slight evil smirk as she held a pink lollipop. She slipped on her white flip-flops and headed downstairs for something to eat before she did her yoga.
Serena walked into the kitchen and was blasted with 'Down with the Sickness' from Papa Roach. Scanning the large expanse of the kitchen, she sees Lita moving to the heavy beat and flipping an omelet loaded with green peppers, ham, onion, and two cheeses. She gently tapped Lita on the shoulder and was taken by surprise.
Lita jumped so high up Serena thought that she would bump her head on the low pot rack.
"Damn Sere! Give a girl some warning before you go and scare the living day lights out of her!" Lita scolded her as she placed one hand over her pounding heart and the other still above her head grasping a spatchula
"Sorry girl, but I'm wandering what's up with the music?" Serena asks as she eyed the goldening omelet in the frying pan.
"Oh, just in the mood for a change of music. That's all plus it's good for you to change your daily life a bit also." Lita told her with a shrug as she turned around and took it out of the pan and put it onto a platter with other omelets.
"Okay, whatever you say Lita." Serena tells her as she smiles at her and grabs the omelet that Lita just put on the platter. She began to munch on it as she began to head out towards the beach, but was halted by Lita.
"Oh Sere!" Lita calls out from the kitchen just as Serena steps out of the front door.
"Yea?" Serena calls back with her mouth full.
"You need to go and talk to Raye before you head off." Lita tells her as she broke an egg into the still sizzling pan.
"Gotcha, where is she?" Serena yells back as she shoves the last of the delicious omelet into her mouth.
"On the patio out back!" Lita yells back as she puts some diced up red peppers into the bubbling egg.
"Okay, see ya later." Serena yells back going over to the French doors and walked out into the ocean breeze.
^Raye's POV^
Raye hangs up her phone after being on it for 2 straight hours talking to Darien. She puts the device onto the glass table beside her and stretched out just as she heard stifled footsteps on the wooden deck.
"Hey Raye! Lita said you wanted to talk to me?" Serena says to Raye happily.
"Hey Serena! Yea, umm...there has been a slight change in Darien's schedule and umm...well, I was wondering if he could come here for Christmas." Raye asked her uncertainly as she looked at the perky blonde in front of her who was trying her best to shield her face from the sun.
"Oh really?" Serena replies with a slight razor edge now in her voice that makes Raye sit up and look at her.
"Yea, is that a problem? If so then I can call Darien to get a plan transfer as soon as he can." Raye told her as she flipped open her phone.
"What do you mean by a plan transfer?" Serena asks her as she keeps the same razor edge in her voice and folded her arms.
"Well Darien called me from Canada last night to tell me that his client he was going to meet with told him that all meetings were cancelled until after the New Year and Darien was going to leave the hotel after he got some more sleep. He'll be arriving here in about four hours give or take an extra hour or so our time." Raye explained as she looked at her watch.
"Alright, when so you need to meet Darien at the airport?" Serena asks as she started to massage her temples.
"He said he would call when he touches down at the airport." Raye tells her in a slightly guarded tone.
"Okay, let me know when he calls so someone can go and pick him up." Serena told her as she unfolded her arms and walked down the steps that lead to the private beach.
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I hope this doesn't constitute as a cliffy! If so then well, it's a cliffy and you're all gonna have to live with it. Let me know if their's any certain one's you want to make an appearance any time soon. I'm still really iffy on who I wanna pair everyone else up with and I really wanna start bringing more fire action in soon, sooo that means EVERYONE needs to send me their opinions.
1 – the song's by Papa Roach and it's called 'Blood Brothers'
2- the song's by Offspring and it's called The Kids Aren't Alright.
REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even flames are accepted with a greedy smile!!!!
Happy Valentines Day!! Even though I don't really celebrate Valentines Day I thought I'd be nice and give you all that did a nice and hopefully long enough present. I hope you all like it!!
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"Girls, do you want me to run into town for some food, or is Lita willing to make do and fix us something to eat?" Serena asks as she pokes her head into the den where everybody is spread out talking and listening to the sound system in the room.
"Gee thanks Sere for the obvious hint." Lita tells her as she stands up from her seat in the huge overstuffed beanbag chair with a cheetah print.
"Thank you Lits, if you need any other ingredients you can just call the local grocer and they will send whatever you need." Serena told her as she plopped down on the hanging chair that is white with see-through walls on all three sides.
"Serena, if you don't mind me asking. How can you afford this place?" Ms. Morlang asks in a blunt manner from her spot on the black leather couch across from her.
"Mother!" Raye stated in a horrified voice, "You shouldn't ask people about their affairs!" she tells her with her hand slightly covering her mouth.
"Don't worry about it." Serena tells Raye as she waves it away with her hand and then she turns to where she's in Ms. Morlang's view.
"I actually inherited this place from parent's when they died, but I don't really get to come here as often as I'd like. My parent's had bought this place as a tax right off of some kind years before I was born and Sammy here was ever thought of. They let it get into such a mess that when I was finally of age and had the money to come and actually take care of it, that it took me roughly 2 or 3 years to get it into livable conditions." Serena tells her with a smile after she stopped talking.
"Really. So how much, if you don't mind me asking, does it take for you to take care of this place?" Ms. Morlang asks with her face showing a look of indifference and her tone giving away her curiosity.
"Not at all. Per a year it costs about..." "It costs about $25,000 a year to keep this place in live able conditions." Amy tells them as she piped up from her spot at the window seat where she's busy reading a book as thick as a concrete brick.
"So what kind of work do you do to afford the much money?" Ms. Morlang asks as she starts to stare out a pair of French windows that has the sheer burgundy drapes pulled back and the doors opened to let in the Mediterranean sea breeze and sunshine.
"Well, I do a lot of races and my parent's left me and Sammy a lot of money so, I guess you could say we've got our means." Serena tells her with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Serena, where's Luna, Artemis and Diana at?" Mina asks as walks into the room wearing a yellow bikini with a halter top that has a low v-neck and low cut bottoms that ties on either side with strings.
"Um...I think Hotaru and Trista are taking care of them until one of us goes and picks them up." Serena tells her as she lies back in the chair as she slightly twirls it around with her foot that's on the hardwood floor.
"Okay, well I guess I'm gonna go and get them then." Mina replies with a smile as she goes back upstairs.
"Serena, who's Luna, Artemis, and Diana?" Raye asks in confusion as she looks up at the young woman who looks to be in complete bliss.
"Oh, those are my 3 cats that I found living in this house the very first time I came to visit this place." Serena replies with a small lazy smile on her face.
"Serena, I'm going to go and take a walk on the beach for a little bit. Would anybody else like to come with me?" Amy tells them as she stands up and starts to head up the stairs.
"If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to come." Raye tells her, as she stands up from her place in the overstuffed armchair.
"Raye, if she starts rambling on about non-sense dealing with medicine or some other ungraspable topic just tell her to shut up." Serena tells her as she stays put in her twirling hanging chair with a little bit of mirth on her face.
"Oh shut-up Sere!" Amy tells her in a mock scowl as she fakes stomping up the stairs.
"Um-hum" Serena replies as she fishes the remote to the stereo out of her chair and changes the music to her favorite singer, Dido.
"What is this music Serena?" Ms. Morlang asks as her voice penetrates Serena's blissful dream world.
"The singer is called Dido and this is her first CD called "No Angel." She is a semi-popular singer in the U.S., but she is originally from somewhere in Europe." Serena answers in her blissful tone.
"Interesting" Ms. Morlang comments.
^Darien's POV^
Darien finally lands at the Dorval International in Quebec, Canada and after having to wait for what seemed to be an eternity to get his luggage and then having to get a rental car from nearby.
Tired and exhausted, he drives by the directions he printed off the Internet last night to get to the hotel that he made reservations at.
He gets a valet to park the rental car and walks into the beautifully decorated mansion turned hotel, but Darien doesn't really register what is all around him and goes right up to the front desk.
"Excuse me miss." Darien asks the receptionist who's a tall willowy figure in front of him with dark brown hair pulled into a loose bun.
"Yes, how can I help you sir?" the receptionist asks in her fake and practiced voice.
"I have reservations here. Under the name Darien Spiron." He replied in a tired voice as he rubbed his eyes.
"You're in room 408 and here's your room key. Just call if you need ANYTHING and we do wake up calls until 10:30 a.m." the receptionist tells him as she hands him his room key with a rectangular piece of thick material with dark colors and images that Darien just did not want to look at just then. "Thank you and will do." Darien replies absentmindedly as he picks up his two suitcases and walks into the elevator.
'I better call Raye and stepmother dearest to make sure they are okay. I wonder what they have finally decided to do for Christmas?' he asks himself as he walks out and looked bleary-eyed at the room numbers until he came across number 408. He spent about ten minutes staring at the room number and another ten figuring out how you operate the hotel key. By the time that he got into the room, Darien plopped himself on the bed and took off his shoes and took the laptop case off from around his neck. He watched as it fell from his neck onto the floor (luckily it did not break) before he finally collapsed onto the bed and fell into a blissful slumber.
Darien is forced out of his very much needed sleep from the phone ringing, he fumbles around for the phone all the while he is cursing fluently in different languages until he picked up the receiver.
"Hello?" he says into the receiver in a sleepy tone.
"Oh, I'm sorry if I woke you Mr. Spiron but a message has been left here for you and it was said to be delivered to you immediately." An annoyingly perky voice told him.
"Okay, and what might this message say?" he asks as he sat up and rubbed his eyes with his free hand.
"Well a Mr. Kaplow says to tell you that due to unforeseen circumstances he has to reschedule your meetings for sometime after the holidays and hopefully it does not inconvenience you too much." The same person told him. He was beginning to get a headache just hearing her voice and just wanted to end the conversation all ready.
"Thank you." He tells her and then hangs up. Checking to see what time it is and sees that it is 1:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
'Damn! Well I guess I better call and tell Raye and Naoko that I'm coming home after all for Christmas.' Darien thought as he took out his cell and pushed a button.
After waiting for it to ring for awhile and nobody answered, he hung-up and dialed another number.
"Hello," came a deep sleep filled gruff voice.
"Hey Nick, do you know where Raye and Naoko are?" Darien asks his partner and best friend.
"Umm...yea. Raye called me yesterday to invite me to come with her and your step-mother for Christmas down in the Balearic Islands." Nick told him as a yawn was heard over the line.
"Really? Why are they going to the Balearic Islands?" Darien asked in confusion.
"I asked the same thing and she told me that Serena and her friends invited them to go since you were not going to be home for Christmas." Nick tells him in a little more of an awake voice. "Oh, are you going?" Darien asks.
"I told her I'll call tomorrow or actually later on today and tell her." Nick tells him in a carefree tone.
"Okay, I guess I'll talk to you later." Darien tells him and then hung up.
Darien pushed another number after he and Nick hung up.
"Hello?" asks a rather sleepy Raye in a sleepy hatred voice.
"Hello beautiful sister of mine." Darien tells her in a mock voice.
"What do you want Darien?" Raye asks as he hears sheets ruffling.
"I just wanted to tell you that my business meetings have been canceled until after the holidays so I thought that I would come home and we could have a family holiday with you, Naoko and me." Darien tells her as he sat up against the dark cherry headboard.
"Well, um...Darien. We won't really be able to do that since Mother and I are not really at our house or country for that matter." Raye told him as Darien began to grin.
"I know, I called up Nick when I did not get any answer at the house." He told me. "Do you want me to come and join you or not?" he asked as he turned on the bedside light.
"Of course. Let me know when you're going to come and I'll be there to meet you with one of the other girls." Raye told him in an excited voice.
"Okay, I'll try and get a flight as soon as the sun comes out." Darien tells her as he looked around his hotel room for the time being.
"Great! It's only a five and a half hour time zone change so it shouldn't really take all that long to get here if you get a non-stop flight." Raye informed him just as he got up from the bed and walked over to the balcony and saw the night sky with what few stars can be seen from the city lights.
"I'll call you and tell you my flight information later." Darien told her and then hung up the phone as he opened the small French doors to let in the winter breeze of the river of Lac Saint-Louise which was almost in direct view of his room.
"This should certainly be an interesting Christmas." He mutters to himself as he watched the hustle and bustle still going on below him this late at night.
^Raye's POV^
After being awakened by Darien calling her on her cell phone she was up and could not get back to sleep.
'Well, I might as well go ahead and get dressed' she told herself as she lifted herself out of her surprisingly soft bed.
Raye walks over to her bedroom closet, which is really like a smaller room where clothes are hung up all around her. She walked over to where she hung her clothes.
She picked out a red bathing suit that had a low v-neck line and a cover that ties on her upper left thigh.
Wandering back into her bedroom she just goes into the extremely modern looking bathroom that makes you feel that you are actually in heaven.
'Well, I wonder how Serena is going to take the news of Darien coming for Christmas. She just has not really been the same towards him since that night he left her apartment pissed as hell and she had a nervous breakdown. I know mother will be delighted to have him here and I can't wait to have Nick here!' Raye mused to herself in sheer delight at the very thought of Nick.
Walking into her bedroom after spending a good hour and half in blissful silence save for her thoughts is making her feel like she is drifting off into the Land of Clouds. She slipped on a pair of red jelly sandals and walked down the mahogany stairs that led to the kitchen. As she started to walk to the sitting room that has a mammoth porch, she heard music coming from the kitchen. She walked closer and began to understand the lyrics.
'Watch your back because the next man is comin' And you don't know if the next man is dumbin' Survival of the fittest what it is I got yo back, you got my back and that's the biz Blood is rushing through my veins I got the power, channel the energy And with my strength I will devour Sickening thoughts are running through my head That's when I realize I'm glad I'm not dead'
'What kind person would want to listen to music like that? That...that kind of music is just-is just...it puts a nasty taste in my mouth.' Raye thought to herself as she backed away.
'PRE-CHORUS: Corruption and abuse, the salesman of our blood For the public's craving, existence in the dark
CHORUS: It's in our nature to destroy ourselves It's in our nature to kill ourselves It's in our nature to kill each other It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill
It was a dream and then it hit me, reality struck And now my life is all shifty and it all moves fast Close to buck 50 and we all stand strong In respect to the family in the times of our insanity And through the words of profanity I describe our dysfunctional family Blood brothers keep it real to the end'
'This music is just pure and simple DISTRUBING!!!' Raye yells to herself as she walked into the brightly-lit kitchen that would be cheery if not for the blood thumping, heart racing survival music shattering the peaceful sight.
That's when she turns to see Lita moving her head to the music and lip- singing the words as she stirs something on the spotlessly clean stove.
'Deeper to the thoughts that you think, not a trend
PRE-CHORUS: Corruption and abuse, the salesman of our blood For the public's craving, existence in the dark
CHORUS: It's in our nature to destroy ourselves It's in our nature to kill ourselves It's in our nature to kill each other It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill
PRE-CHORUS: Corruption and abuse, the salesman of our blood For the public's craving, existence in the dark
CHORUS: It's in our nature to destroy ourselves It's in our nature to kill ourselves It's in our nature to kill each other It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill' (1)
'I'm afraid to disturb her now, I mean would she lash out at me or...what?' Raye thought to herself as she watched Lita at the stove. Just then the song changed to something else.
'When we were young the future was so bright The old neighborhood was so alive And every kid on the whole damn street Was gonna make it big and not be beat
Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn The kids are grown up but their lives are worn How can one little street Swallow so many lives' (2)
'Damn! The beats and all are better but is she like in a slump or something because the lyrics are not much better!' Raye told herself as she made up her mind to walk in and see what is up.
"Umm...Lita?" Raye asks instead saying like she has actually intended.
"Yea, Raye." Lita replies in her usual happy tone as if it was totally unaffected by the music.
"Are you okay?" Raye asks with worry leaking out a little in her words.
"Yup, I'm fine. What do you want for breakfast?" Lita asks as she flashes Raye a smile.
"I'm not really hungry. Let Serena know whenever she gets up to come and get me from the porch." Raye told her as she turned back around to leave the kitchen to retrieve her cell phone that she accidentally left upstairs.
"How come?" Lita asks with curiosity.
"I need to ask her if it'll be okay if Darien comes." Raye tells Lita over her shoulder and leaves the kitchen altogether and heads back upstairs quickly.
Raye hurriedly grabbed her small cell phone and then rushed back downstairs and out into the gorgeous sunshine of the Mediterranean.
^Serena's POV^
Walking out of the haven of her bathroom she looks up from her rough treatment of her hair to see a midnight black cat with a white crescent moon birthmark on its forehead lying on her bed all stretched out as if she owned it.
Smiling, "Hello Luna, I'm so happy to see you again." She croons at her as she sits down next to the black cat and begins to pet the cats' stomach for a few minutes. A big, pure white cat with a black mark jumped onto the bed as well and nudged her hand onto his head.
Laughing, "Okay, okay Artemis. I won't forget you." Serena tells the tomcat as she started to stroke the top of his head in between the ears.
After spending a few more minutes playing with the two adult cats. Serena got up from the king size bed and put on a pair of baby pink Valor pants with an "S" in white rhinestones, and a white spaghetti strap tank top. The tank top had a picture of a little girl doing puppy dog eyes and a slight evil smirk as she held a pink lollipop. She slipped on her white flip-flops and headed downstairs for something to eat before she did her yoga.
Serena walked into the kitchen and was blasted with 'Down with the Sickness' from Papa Roach. Scanning the large expanse of the kitchen, she sees Lita moving to the heavy beat and flipping an omelet loaded with green peppers, ham, onion, and two cheeses. She gently tapped Lita on the shoulder and was taken by surprise.
Lita jumped so high up Serena thought that she would bump her head on the low pot rack.
"Damn Sere! Give a girl some warning before you go and scare the living day lights out of her!" Lita scolded her as she placed one hand over her pounding heart and the other still above her head grasping a spatchula
"Sorry girl, but I'm wandering what's up with the music?" Serena asks as she eyed the goldening omelet in the frying pan.
"Oh, just in the mood for a change of music. That's all plus it's good for you to change your daily life a bit also." Lita told her with a shrug as she turned around and took it out of the pan and put it onto a platter with other omelets.
"Okay, whatever you say Lita." Serena tells her as she smiles at her and grabs the omelet that Lita just put on the platter. She began to munch on it as she began to head out towards the beach, but was halted by Lita.
"Oh Sere!" Lita calls out from the kitchen just as Serena steps out of the front door.
"Yea?" Serena calls back with her mouth full.
"You need to go and talk to Raye before you head off." Lita tells her as she broke an egg into the still sizzling pan.
"Gotcha, where is she?" Serena yells back as she shoves the last of the delicious omelet into her mouth.
"On the patio out back!" Lita yells back as she puts some diced up red peppers into the bubbling egg.
"Okay, see ya later." Serena yells back going over to the French doors and walked out into the ocean breeze.
^Raye's POV^
Raye hangs up her phone after being on it for 2 straight hours talking to Darien. She puts the device onto the glass table beside her and stretched out just as she heard stifled footsteps on the wooden deck.
"Hey Raye! Lita said you wanted to talk to me?" Serena says to Raye happily.
"Hey Serena! Yea, umm...there has been a slight change in Darien's schedule and umm...well, I was wondering if he could come here for Christmas." Raye asked her uncertainly as she looked at the perky blonde in front of her who was trying her best to shield her face from the sun.
"Oh really?" Serena replies with a slight razor edge now in her voice that makes Raye sit up and look at her.
"Yea, is that a problem? If so then I can call Darien to get a plan transfer as soon as he can." Raye told her as she flipped open her phone.
"What do you mean by a plan transfer?" Serena asks her as she keeps the same razor edge in her voice and folded her arms.
"Well Darien called me from Canada last night to tell me that his client he was going to meet with told him that all meetings were cancelled until after the New Year and Darien was going to leave the hotel after he got some more sleep. He'll be arriving here in about four hours give or take an extra hour or so our time." Raye explained as she looked at her watch.
"Alright, when so you need to meet Darien at the airport?" Serena asks as she started to massage her temples.
"He said he would call when he touches down at the airport." Raye tells her in a slightly guarded tone.
"Okay, let me know when he calls so someone can go and pick him up." Serena told her as she unfolded her arms and walked down the steps that lead to the private beach.
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I hope this doesn't constitute as a cliffy! If so then well, it's a cliffy and you're all gonna have to live with it. Let me know if their's any certain one's you want to make an appearance any time soon. I'm still really iffy on who I wanna pair everyone else up with and I really wanna start bringing more fire action in soon, sooo that means EVERYONE needs to send me their opinions.
1 – the song's by Papa Roach and it's called 'Blood Brothers'
2- the song's by Offspring and it's called The Kids Aren't Alright.
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