fallen-night: yes, another short chapter and i'm sorry about it. but i can promise you that it'll get

funnier in later chapters. there's also another thing i wanna to apologise for is the grammar mistake i've

made *if you, dear readers, have spotted one*. please note that another new story will be up soon, and so

will be the next chapter, that's a promise to all the readers out there. =) by the way, everone *i hope*

will know what '@~/~' means by now, and therefore there is no need to remind you all everytime i work on

the chapter. oh, and before i'll get on to the story, please comments and criticms are fine by me. =)

ok, now on with the chapter...

The yell gave Darien to stomp over, he wasn't sure if it was because of the yelling or because of his shoes

which were just happened to be there, and also had resulted for the crash from the kitchen, which the

children could hear the footstep rushing down by now.

There were many different expressions after an endlessly explanation. Serena was blushing, the mothers were

laughing and Darien, well... just said he was annoyed. However, that wasn't the end of the little incident.

Serena couldn't believe her ears. She, after all, had apologised to Darien, and was that what she'd got?

"A shorty"? Even more flush, Serena stomped into her room and complaint silently, it was her mistake after

all. What Serena didn't realised was that... Darien heard them all.

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Working on her worst subject, Serena was frustrated because she couldn't solve her mathematics question for

the last twenty minutes. It was one of the miscellanous questions, prove that if a triangle has its three

angles in Arithmetic Progression then the middle sized angle must be 60, that she was stuck on. *author

note: can anyone do this? =) i have this question in my book... but have no answer T_T*

Hestitating whom to ask, Serena knew her mother was hopeless on Maths, and Aunt Gaia? She wasn't sure, but

DEFINITELY not Darien! Making her final decision, Serena walked out from her room... but the person she

wanted to ask was nowhere to find. Not in the living area, nor in the kitchen, she wasn't at the garden

either! Getting worrier minutes by minutes, Serena walked to her mother, who was lying on the crouch

reading a novel.

"Mum..."

"What is it, dear?" Her mother saw her daughter's nervousness as well as the exercise book her daughter had

held tightly. Understood what her daughter wanted, she grabbed the book and... "Serena, you know I can't do

Maths! Why do you give it to me?"

"I'm not! I just want to ask you where Aunt Gaia went, but before I could, you've grab it already." 'It's

not my fault...' Serena ended silently.

"She has gone out to buy some magazines." Her mother replied, after sighing. "Why don't you ask Darien?

He's good at Maths too. If I'm correct, he must have been inherited from his mother..."

Back to her room, the word 'it does no harm to you if you ask him' was still echoing in Serena's mind.

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Darien finally finished his homework, and oh boy, he was exhausted! He took a glance at his watch, how

could he not for he had been working on ever since he came back from school, and now the sun had set.

Similiar to Serena but not quite, Darien walked out his room and asked AuntSerenity, his mother's friend,

his mother's whereabouts. He wasn't really concentrated when he received his answer, and thought his mother

must had met some old friends of hers was the cause his mother was out there and yet still hadn't return.

However his expression soon changed from thoughtful to terrified, which went noticed by Aunt Serenity and

knowing the reason why she reassured Darien that his mother would come back home very soon.

"Oh" was the only thing he could replied, and when Darien was just about to walk back to his bedroom, Aunt

Serenity called for him.