AN: Here it is, the newest chapter of FCBC! Hope you like it!
Fate Can Be Cruel
Chapter 3: And the pranks begin...
"You need more blush darling, you look quite faint," a graying haired woman says to me as she gives me last minute touch ups before I go on the air. I roll my eyes. The reason I look so "faint" is because she put about a pound of the white powder on my face.
"Estelle..." I whine. I'm already quite nervous and now I have to deal with looking like a ghost?!
"I was just messing with you honey," Estelle says smiling. "You know I'd never put that much makeup on your face. Heaven knows you don't need it." Estelle says taking a cloth and wiping half of the makeup off. Adding only a dab of blush now, Estelle says "All done."
I look into the mirror and manage a half hearted smile. "Another excellent job Estelle."
"There's no need to be nervous darling. You and...what's his name...Darien will get along just great and everything will be alright."
I swear that woman knows me better than my own mother. She automatically knows how I'm feeling and why I'm feeling it every time. I stand up and hug Estelle.
Speaking of my mother...I have to tell her about Jordan and I breaking up. She was kind of expecting to hear wedding bells soon. I know I'll get another lecture, I can just hear my mother now, "Serena your twenty-two years old, why by the time I was your age I had already married and had you. I want grandchildren and from the looks of things I won't ever have any!"
Serena sighed and made her way to the filming area. 'She'll just have to get over it...eventually. It's not like it's my fault that I can't seem to find the right guy.'
"Come on everybody! Were on in 1 minute!" Chad, the producer of the morning show yells.
My eyes flicker over Chad. I've never noticed it before but he's kind of cute. The way his deep chocolate hair covers his chocolate eyes and his well chiseled features. 'He kind of reminds me of a rock star.' I think absent-mindedly. I know Jordan and I only broke up this morning but why shouldn't I start looking again this soon, after all he's the one who broke up with me.
Chad catches my gaze on him and smiles. 'Oh what should I do! Should I turn away or what?!' I think frantically. 'Wait! Why am I so nervous? I have nothing to nervous about. I should just smile back.' I think so I smile back. 'At least he's noticed me.' I think.
I flip of my golden tresses, and they fall back in place but seem to hold more volumn. I turn only to see Darien smiling as if he has learned some big secret. I roll my baby blues 'So what if he knows I like Chad. Big deal.'
I walk over to my place and take out my seat, and sit down, just as Chad says "And were on."
'This chair feels funny.' I think as I position myself differently, crossing my legs and leaning back to lessen the discomfort.
"Good morning Phoneix, Arizona. I am Serena Tskunio and this is my new partner Darien Shields." I say jesturing to Darien, who flashes a smile.
"Today, there was," *CRACK* "Aghh!!!" I cry as the bottom of my chair falls through and I'm folded in half with my legs up in the air, giving my audience a pretty good view. Good for them, horribly embarassing for me. 'Dang! I knew I should have opted for the hip-huggers instead of this stupid skirt!' I silently fume.
"Cut to a comercial break!" Chad yells.
The rest of the crew hurries over to me and pulls me out while one stands back and whistles. "Hey Serena nice-"
"Knock it off Ken!" I yell, interupting his comment, my face turning to crimson. With the help of Chad and Greg, I finally manage to get up and standing. "What is wrong with my chair?!" I cry, backing away from it.
"Looks like somebody tampered with it." Darien said stating the obvious.
"I know that." I explain patiently. "But why would someone do such a thing to me."
"Maybe it's just a defective chair." Greg suggests.
"It could be but I have a feeling that someone did this to me purposely, but right now that doesn't matter. What matters is how am I supposed to show my face on national television?" I cry as I sit on the desk.
"Awww...come on Serena, things like this happen all the time. Just make a joke of it and everything will be alright." Chad says putting his arm around me, for comfort.
*sniffle* "I suppose..." I say trailing off, to have Chad comfort me some more.
"Trust me Sere, it'll work." Chad says with a reassuring squeeze.
"I trust you." I say, flashing him one of my dazzling smiles. "Maybe we could talk later and you could give me some pointers on how to deal with these kinds of situations." I innocently suggest, batting my lashes once for effect.
"Sure." Chad replies, returning my smile.
~~~~~~~Darien~~~~~~~
I watched with glee as Serena fell through her chair. I guess being forced to take shop had it's payoffs after all. The shocked look on her face was priceless but I did not expect to see her play her innocent act to get with Chad afterwards. That was just icing on the cake.
'That girl has no dignity does she? Throwing herself at Chad in front of everyone, although I may have been the only one who caught onto her act. I know for sure that he didn't catch on because he 'made a date with her' which I highly doubt that he knew he made. Lucky guy.'
'Wait! Did I just say lucky guy?! I bang my head against the table in my dressing room. 'I meant poor sap. Yeah that's what I meant!'
'Anyway...Serena did help me out with my plan. I had a few more "small" pranks planned out already for her but for the grand finale I had no idea what to do; now I do.
All I have to say is "You don't mess with Darien Shields!"
~~~~~~~~~~ AN: I promise to try to have more Darien and Serena interaction in the next chapter and for the person who said I wasn't going to finish Be Mine, I am, I got loaded down with a lot of things to do and I just got a bit of writers block before but now the chapter is over half finished so you should see it soon. One more thing, Review!
Ja!
Fate Can Be Cruel
Chapter 3: And the pranks begin...
"You need more blush darling, you look quite faint," a graying haired woman says to me as she gives me last minute touch ups before I go on the air. I roll my eyes. The reason I look so "faint" is because she put about a pound of the white powder on my face.
"Estelle..." I whine. I'm already quite nervous and now I have to deal with looking like a ghost?!
"I was just messing with you honey," Estelle says smiling. "You know I'd never put that much makeup on your face. Heaven knows you don't need it." Estelle says taking a cloth and wiping half of the makeup off. Adding only a dab of blush now, Estelle says "All done."
I look into the mirror and manage a half hearted smile. "Another excellent job Estelle."
"There's no need to be nervous darling. You and...what's his name...Darien will get along just great and everything will be alright."
I swear that woman knows me better than my own mother. She automatically knows how I'm feeling and why I'm feeling it every time. I stand up and hug Estelle.
Speaking of my mother...I have to tell her about Jordan and I breaking up. She was kind of expecting to hear wedding bells soon. I know I'll get another lecture, I can just hear my mother now, "Serena your twenty-two years old, why by the time I was your age I had already married and had you. I want grandchildren and from the looks of things I won't ever have any!"
Serena sighed and made her way to the filming area. 'She'll just have to get over it...eventually. It's not like it's my fault that I can't seem to find the right guy.'
"Come on everybody! Were on in 1 minute!" Chad, the producer of the morning show yells.
My eyes flicker over Chad. I've never noticed it before but he's kind of cute. The way his deep chocolate hair covers his chocolate eyes and his well chiseled features. 'He kind of reminds me of a rock star.' I think absent-mindedly. I know Jordan and I only broke up this morning but why shouldn't I start looking again this soon, after all he's the one who broke up with me.
Chad catches my gaze on him and smiles. 'Oh what should I do! Should I turn away or what?!' I think frantically. 'Wait! Why am I so nervous? I have nothing to nervous about. I should just smile back.' I think so I smile back. 'At least he's noticed me.' I think.
I flip of my golden tresses, and they fall back in place but seem to hold more volumn. I turn only to see Darien smiling as if he has learned some big secret. I roll my baby blues 'So what if he knows I like Chad. Big deal.'
I walk over to my place and take out my seat, and sit down, just as Chad says "And were on."
'This chair feels funny.' I think as I position myself differently, crossing my legs and leaning back to lessen the discomfort.
"Good morning Phoneix, Arizona. I am Serena Tskunio and this is my new partner Darien Shields." I say jesturing to Darien, who flashes a smile.
"Today, there was," *CRACK* "Aghh!!!" I cry as the bottom of my chair falls through and I'm folded in half with my legs up in the air, giving my audience a pretty good view. Good for them, horribly embarassing for me. 'Dang! I knew I should have opted for the hip-huggers instead of this stupid skirt!' I silently fume.
"Cut to a comercial break!" Chad yells.
The rest of the crew hurries over to me and pulls me out while one stands back and whistles. "Hey Serena nice-"
"Knock it off Ken!" I yell, interupting his comment, my face turning to crimson. With the help of Chad and Greg, I finally manage to get up and standing. "What is wrong with my chair?!" I cry, backing away from it.
"Looks like somebody tampered with it." Darien said stating the obvious.
"I know that." I explain patiently. "But why would someone do such a thing to me."
"Maybe it's just a defective chair." Greg suggests.
"It could be but I have a feeling that someone did this to me purposely, but right now that doesn't matter. What matters is how am I supposed to show my face on national television?" I cry as I sit on the desk.
"Awww...come on Serena, things like this happen all the time. Just make a joke of it and everything will be alright." Chad says putting his arm around me, for comfort.
*sniffle* "I suppose..." I say trailing off, to have Chad comfort me some more.
"Trust me Sere, it'll work." Chad says with a reassuring squeeze.
"I trust you." I say, flashing him one of my dazzling smiles. "Maybe we could talk later and you could give me some pointers on how to deal with these kinds of situations." I innocently suggest, batting my lashes once for effect.
"Sure." Chad replies, returning my smile.
~~~~~~~Darien~~~~~~~
I watched with glee as Serena fell through her chair. I guess being forced to take shop had it's payoffs after all. The shocked look on her face was priceless but I did not expect to see her play her innocent act to get with Chad afterwards. That was just icing on the cake.
'That girl has no dignity does she? Throwing herself at Chad in front of everyone, although I may have been the only one who caught onto her act. I know for sure that he didn't catch on because he 'made a date with her' which I highly doubt that he knew he made. Lucky guy.'
'Wait! Did I just say lucky guy?! I bang my head against the table in my dressing room. 'I meant poor sap. Yeah that's what I meant!'
'Anyway...Serena did help me out with my plan. I had a few more "small" pranks planned out already for her but for the grand finale I had no idea what to do; now I do.
All I have to say is "You don't mess with Darien Shields!"
~~~~~~~~~~ AN: I promise to try to have more Darien and Serena interaction in the next chapter and for the person who said I wasn't going to finish Be Mine, I am, I got loaded down with a lot of things to do and I just got a bit of writers block before but now the chapter is over half finished so you should see it soon. One more thing, Review!
Ja!