Sweet Sixteen and a Half

Chapter 15

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~~~~Serena's POV~~~~

As we headed back upstairs, I hung back a little bit and waited for Mina. 

"Mina, can I talk to you for a sec?" I whispered, grabbing her arm.

"Sure Sere, what's on your mind?" Mina asked.

Taking a deep breath, I started "Mina, are you feeling okay, you haven't been acting yourself recently."  I said worriedly.

"What do you mean?" she asked confused.

"I mean, what you did just back there, how hyper you are, what's going on?" I asked.

"Oh that" Mina replied like it was no big deal.

"Ah, yea, that." I repeated.  "What's going on?"

She stopped walking and looked at me.

"Well….Sere, you know how I always want to be an actress?" Mina asked.

"Yea"

"Well, I mean, this is like an acting role to me" she explained.  "I mean, come on, no one knows who I am, I can be crazy and wild, and no one will know it's me.  That's why it's so fun.  Sure, I would never do this stuff in real life, but now, now I have an excuse to.  Do you understand?" she asked.

I smiled at her and nodded.  I knew exactly what she meant.  "Yea Mina, I understand.  Just, keep it down a little bit"

She smiled.  "Sure Sere, I can do that, but now….."  She trailed off and ran ahead. 

"Last one up is a rotten egg!"

********Upstairs*******

"Okay everyone, now it's my turn" Mina grinned evilly.  "Okay, Sarah, truth or dare?" Mina asked.

"WHAT?!?!?" I screamed.

"Umm, I don't see anyone else here by the name of Sarah" Mina stated smugly.

"Yea, I don't see anyone by that name either" I muttered contemptuously under my breath.

"What was that?" Mina asked curiously.

"Nothing, nothing" I replied sweetly.

"Well, if you don't want to share about what you just said, why don't you share with us what you're going to do" Mina stated.

"Okay fine, truth" I replied.  I didn't feel like a dare, and I mean, how bad could you get on a truth.

"Why were you and Darien so late coming up?" Mina asked evilly.  "And remember, you must tell the truth."

I felt myself go pale.  She had to have asked that.   I looked nervously at Darien who too didn't look so good.

"Why don't you give me a dare instead?" I suggested uneasily. 

"I don't think so" Mina haughtily.  "Truth is truth and you can't go back on it"

"Please?" I begged, giving Mina my sweetest puppy dog face I could make.

"Hey, what exactly did you do?" Lita asked curiously.

"Yea" Raye repeated.  "If it was nothing, why don't you just spit it out already?"

I looked again to Darien but he gave me no sign as to what I should do. 

"Fine, I'll tell you" I stated boldly.  "On our way up from the race, we decided to take the elevator.  Well as we were going up, Darien slipped and must have hit the emergency stop button because the elevator came to sudden stop.  It took us a while to actually figure out what happened and by the time we did, you were all up here and that's the end of that story" I concluded, very relieved.  I mean, it wasn't a complete lie.

"I don't think that's all that happened" Mina sang sweetly.

"What do you mean?" I asked.  Worry took over.  She wouldn't know, would she?

"How come your lips are swollen?" she demanded.

"I don't know what you're…"

"Hey, her lips are swollen!" Lita exclaimed.  Shooting daggers at Lita, my eyes yet again rested on Mina.

"And why do you have a hickey on your neck?" Mina continued.

'Kuso' I cursed in my mind.  I didn't have one, did I?  Kuso.

"Okay girl, spill" Raye demanded.

"It's nothing, I just…."

"Were making out with Darien like a moose in mating season!" Mina exclaimed.

"Moose in mating season?" Amy repeated, speaking for the first time in a half hour.

"Yes" Mina repeated.  "A moose in mating season"

I felt my cheeks grow red.  Oh crap!  I couldn't blush, they'd know, oh crap!  They'd know!

"Hey, are you blushing?" Zoisite asked.

Crap, he noticed.

"Darien actually did kiss you?" Kunzite gaped wide mouthed.

I glanced away quickly.  Yea, that was a great way to prove nothing happened…even if it did.

"Oh my gosh" Amy gaped.  I groaned inwardly.  Why couldn't Darien keep his hormones under control?

"Darien, we need to talk, now" Nephrite growled as he got up with the rest of the guys following.

"We'll be right back" Kunzite said darkly.  Turning sharply, they made their way towards the kitchen.

Looking back at the girls, I all saw their sympathetic eyes.

"Sere, I don't know what…"

"Save it Raye" I muttered.

"We're so sorry" Mina muttered.  "You didn't have to tell us you know."  I glared evilly at her, causing her to gulp.

"Just forget about it" I muttered, lowering my eyes.  Now all I had to do was keep this up and not let them figure out Darien knew who I really was.

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

"Darien how could you!" Zoisite shouted as we reached the kitchen.

"What'd I do?" I cried in defense.

"What did you do?  What did you do?" Kunzite screamed in rage.  "I'll tell you what you did!  You betrayed your princess by kissing Sarah, that's what you did!"

"I didn't do anything…."

"Don't deny it" Jedite growled.  "Even I wouldn't do anything that stupid"

I glared at him evilly, yet he did not back down like he usually did.  Fire sparked in his eyes.  Looking around, I found that was true for all of them.

"Look guys, I didn't do anything!" I cried.

"Really, let me guess, she was the one who just happened to put a hickey on her neck to, hmm?" Nephrite asked.

"Look!  Nothing bad happened!!! I didn't cheat on Sere!" I screamed.

"Then what did you do?  Were you kissing Serena in there?" Zoisite rumbled.

"As a matter of fact I was" I replied smugly.  Realizing what I said, my eyes grew wide.  "I….I didn't mean that" I stuttered.  All eyes were on me.

"You mean….that is Serena?" Nephrite asked.

"No, of course not!" I cried in her defense.

"It is her!" Jedite realized.  "And the girls, they must be our girlfriends!"

"You're kidding, right?" Nephrite asked, looking at me.  I shook my head.  "Oh my gosh, it is them"

"Look I would have told you guys sooner, but I just found out and…."

"Why did they deceive us?" Nephrite demanded.

"Well, why did we leave without them on the trip?" Kunzite asked.  We all looked at him.  "That's what happened, isn't it Dare, they found out we were coming here and followed."

"Not exactly" I said.  I started to explain the entire thing to them about wanting to go somewhere warm, to all the pranks, to the disguises and flirting.

"I don't blame them" Zoisite said in the end.  "We should have never done anything like that."

"I agree" Nephrite nodded.  "We deserved it."

"But what are we going to do now?" Jedite asked.

---------Okay everybody!!! Sorry this is kinda another short one, but I have evil teachers at school who LOVE to give out homework and give us big tests and won't tell us about them until the day before!!! GRR!!!!  Okay, well anyways, thanks to all who reviewed *.~ and hopefully the whole explanation in the beginning of the chapter will explain why Mina was acting like a lunatic.  PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!