Title: Opposites Attract

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Chapter Two: Friday Night

Serena's POV

"This is not happening. This is not happening." I said repeatedly under my breath. "Andrew will come around soon, hear me knocking and open the door. Then I can go see my friends and won't have to stand your incessant teasing."

"Give it up already Hayes. You're giving me a head ache." Darien said sitting with his head against the far wall. "And besides, it's useless. Andrew closed the arcade early today."

"What! Why?" I screamed facing him.

"He's going with a couple friends to see the Eminem concert on Sunday. He won't be back until Monday afternoon."

"But who's going to run the place while he's gone?"

"No one. He's not comfortable entrusting his arcade to anyone, even for a weekend." I watched Darien run his good hand through his raven locks.

"What about you? Someone should be missing you and your mother would send out a search party the second she finds you gone." I didn't miss the sarcasm in his tone even if what he said was a little bit of the truth.

"No." I said sadly shaking my head. What mess did I get myself into this time? "My friend's thinks I'm spending the weekend with Seiya…" at the mention of his name Darien grimaced. "And Seiya thinks I went with my friends on a road trip. We were going to spend the whole weekend at the Coast."

"How did that happen?" he asked a puzzled expression on his face.

"It's a long story. Don't ask." I told him. I crossed my arms together feeling a light chill run down my spine.

"At least we won't go hungry." I said trying to lighten the mood. Darien snorted at me before resting back and closing his eyes. I watched him for a few minutes thinking he had gone to sleep.

He was a stark contrast next to Seiya. His dark raven hair fell messily over his face covering a good portion of his midnight blue eyes. His black shirt clung to his body showing his ripples of well-toned chest. His black leather jacket gave him personality sitting on his shoulders quite well. He had on a pair of faded jeans and a rather nice pair of nike shoes.

He was a total mystery to me. No known parents, no known background, just that he lived at a rundown old building at the 'cheap' side of town. What he did for a living was beyond me. I don't even think Shields is his last name.

I took a look around the storage room. My new home until someone finds us. It wasn't really that small but it was crammed with stock that it took up a lot of space. It was pretty much like walking down at least two aisles at the supermarket. I found an empty space a little way from Darien and made myself comfortable. It was going to be a long night.

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Darien's POV

In all the plans I had made for this weekend, this was not one of it. Getting locked in the storage room by myself was all right. I could handle that. But getting locked with Serena…oh god. That was a nightmare.

I leaned my head against the wall cursing my stupidity, Andrew's words repeating itself in my mind. Be there in a sec, I'm having problems with the storage room door…storage room door… I sighed at least it could have been worse. I peeped through my lidded eyes seeing Serena staring at me and groaned. Correction, it already is worse. I opened my eyes and saw her walking around the room hugging her arms to herself before settling between the boxes of chocolate syrup and coffee beans.

She was wearing a baby blue spaghetti strapped sleeveless dress that hugged at her bodice and stopped just above her knees. My eyes had lingered down her long slender creamy legs past her perfectly curved ankles to see that she was wearing some white sandals. Her long honey blonde hair was pinned to the sides with moon clips and was wearing a matching necklace. Her ears had star studs.

I couldn't see her eyes because they were closed but all in all, she looked quite good. Then again, she was a 'lady' in training. An about to be married 'lady' in training. So I suppose she had the means and the will to look good at what ever cost.

If she had been any other person, perhaps someone I could tolerate, being locked up would have been a good opportunity to get to know her better. But she was Serena Hayes. Daughter of the highly influential Mr. Ken Hayes and esteemed Mrs. Ilene Hayes. If they knew I was locked alone with their oh so perfect daughter they would no doubt have me thrown in jail. I just laughed at the irony of it all.

"Why are you laughing? You can't possibly think that the situation we are in is at all amusing." Serena's sharp voice asked.

I turned my gaze at her and was staring at an annoyed pair of crystal blue eyes.

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Andrew's POV

            I'm sure I left the storage room door open. But I have been busy all day. I probably did close it and forgot I did. That made sense. I had just finished clearing the tables and wiping down the games with twenty-five minutes to spare. I dropped the cleaning cloth in its place and turned to leave when I heard laughing. Well I could have sworn I heard laughing but the arcade was empty. I shrugged. Probably my imagination. Oh, and I got to remember to get the door fixed when I get back.

            "Yo, ready Drew." Someone from behind me called out.

            "Yeah, just a sec. I have to put the alarm system on." I punched in the code and hopped into the empty passenger seat.

            "We're going to pick up Ken. Oh, and is Dare coming or what?"

            "Nah, he says he has a lot of things to catch up on." I replied. "Man you should have seen him today. He was about ready to kill Seiya."

            Chad raised a brow at me inquiringly. "The hot shot singer?"

            "The one and only. Phew…the tension between those two could have electrified anyone within a ten-foot radius. He broke one f my mugs and was bleeding all over the place yet he didn't seem to have felt a thing."

            "Sounds like Dare." Chad said putting the indicator on and taking a left turn. I leaned my head back and closed my eyes trying to relax. "You know he's going to marry Serena?"

            "You said what?" Chad shouted looking at me as if my nose had grown longer.

            'Yep, I heard the girls talking about it and saw the ring myself on her finger. A nice piece of rock too." I opened my eyes to peep at him. His expression still hadn't changed.

            "Wow! And she's only what seventeen."

            "Nineteen." I corrected him. I rested my head back again and let the silence envelope me. Chad was quiet too. Probably thinking how someone like Serena could marry someone like Seiya.

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Serena's POV

            I couldn't for the life of me see how the situation we were in was at all humorous. He must have some twisted way of thinking. I stared at him quite annoyed until we made eye contact and I felt my breath caught in my throat. I had never noticed it before but he had the deepest blue eyes I had ever seen. They were so intense I felt myself drowning in his blue orbs. I looked away quickly before I completely lost myself and hid my face from his view. I could feel my cheeks burning as the blush deepened with embarrassment.

            "I was laughing at the irony of the situation." I heard the smooth male tenor of his voice, but it didn't have its usual sarcasm.

            After I was certain the colour on my face had returned to normal I chanced to look at him. He was staring at me intently, "I was just thinking about your…lover boy's reaction if he found out you were locked in a room with…the likes of me. Not to mention your parents."

            I grimaced at the truth of his words. What would they think? Oh god, the impropriety of it all. And Seiya? He would certainly be furious…maybe furious enough to call off the wedding if he thought that I had betrayed him. I wouldn't blame him, it is only a natural reaction to think like that after learning I had spent a whole weekend with Darien and quite alone…unsupervised…it was just unheard of. He may even think that I lied to him about the road trip with my friends and had set this thing up. I groaned loudly and hid my face in my hands.

            "You don't have to worry about impropriety." I heard him saying, as if he had just read my mind. "I wouldn't touch you if my life depended on it."

            I snapped my head up and gasped. "And what is that suppose to mean?" I said with enough vehemence to get a startled look in his face, which he quickly covered up. "I'm not good enough for you am I?"

            "It means exactly what it means." He retorted, his eyes narrowing slightly. "I may be a lot of things but I am not one to cohort with your kind. Just because I have to put up with you while we're stuck in here doesn't mean I have to like you. As soon as that door is opened I'm out of here and I'll be forgetting this ever happened."

            I didn't know why his words would upset me so much. I couldn't understand it. In fact I should have been glad that he wouldn't try anything on me while we were stuck here and yet…yet there was a sense of something I couldn't quite determine. My heart felt heavier but I didn't say a word in case I betrayed my own thoughts.

            "Good." I uttered keeping my gaze on the floor, "Keep your filthy self away from me. Try anything funny and I'll have a restraining order on you so fast you wouldn't know what hit you."

            I didn't see the expression on his face when I had said this as my gaze was still on the floor, which with every minute I was finding quite interesting. I felt ashamed as soon as the words had come out of my mouth. But I won't apologize. I won't. Suddenly the room had gone eerily quiet. Too quiet. I looked up to see what Darien was getting up too. He was gone!

            "Darien!" Oh god, I thought the door was locked. How did he get out? "Darien!" I was starting to feel kind of edgy. The emptiness in the room was quite disconcerting. I hated the feeling of being alone.

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Darien's POV

            I was fighting the urge not to lunge and strangle the life out of her…the ingrate. Here I was trying to be nice, telling her at least she wouldn't have to worry about her damned propriety and she goes and insult me. I kept my hands firmly by my side clenching and unclenching them, my knuckles turning white.

            I had never hit a lady before, and I wasn't going to start now. Who does she think she is? The snotty airhead is going to drive me insane knowing what blondes are like. I sighed and pushed myself on to my feet. I started to pace the floor walking around just looking out for something. I didn't know exactly what I was looking for but it was something. Then I saw it, sticking out like a sore thumb amongst the stock of food. A portable radio! Yes, at least it would keep me entertained and maybe I won't have to listen to her whining all the time.

            I grabbed for the radio and started fiddling with some buttons, which I found difficult having only one good hand. Damn! It didn't work. I looked around the place for some tools and spied a screwdriver. Walking deliberately towards it I started to unscrew the nuts on the bottom of the radio and took a look inside. I started fiddling with some wires and tried to turn it on again. Damn! Still nothing. I was concentrating so hard at what I was doing that I practically jumped from my shoes when I felt a hand on my shoulder. Serena!

            "Why did you ignore me Darien?" I heard her say whimpering slightly. "I thought you had gone and left me here by myself."

            I was shocked. I didn't know how to reply. She really didn't like being alone. I saw the look of sadness in the mists of her eyes. Her large innocent blue pools seemed to slice through my very soul sending shivers down my spine. I felt the need to pull her into my arms and keep her there where I know she would be safe. I quenched that need like it was a cockroach flattened by the sole of my shoes.

            Up close she was something else…almost surreal. My throat felt parched and my eyes kept falling down to linger on her slightly pouting lips. So full…so sensuous. I looked down at the radio pieces in my hand trying to clear my thoughts. What was I thinking? I think I'm already having effects of insanity.

            "Darien, I know we have our differences but I'm willing to call a truce until we get out of here. I- I don't like being alone." She admitted.

            I stared at her pleading face, her trembling hand still on my shoulder and nodded. "Truce then."

            I saw the relief wash through and her face brighten. She flashed me one of her smiles…not her brilliant one I saw her give Seiya earlier but a sincere one. My heart had quickened a bit when she smiled at me like that and all of a sudden I was wishing she would smile at me like she would smile at Seiya. I felt myself wanting to make her happy, to see her smile and her eyes light up in excitement. To know her.

            Wait! There I was going again. What was she doing to me? I had to be careful around her in case I got infatuated with her. I couldn't afford that…not now.

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Mina's POV

            "Whooo! Yeah! This is going to be so much fun." I said glancing back at the girls from the passenger seat of Raye's red convertible. My long blonde hair flew around my shoulders as the wind whipped past us. "It's a shame Serena couldn't come with us."

            I noticed Amy blush and pretended not to hear me while she watched the scenery whiz pass us. I couldn't read the expression of her eyes because they were hidden behind her sunglasses.

Lita looked up at me through her sunglasses. "Yeah!"

            "She misses out on getting a tan." Raye said not taking her eyes of the road, the scarf keeping her long raven locks in place. "I suppose when one gets married they don't get the liberties most single women have."

            I smiled in understanding of Raye's 'wise words'. "Still it would be nice to have a boyfriend to hold you and love you and make you feel safe."

            "Yeah!" Lita replied dreamily, before leaning her head back on the seat to tan her face. I just smiled at her knowingly. It wasn't like Lita just to give one-word answers so she must have been thinking about something.

            "I wonder where she is?" I said my brow knitting together. "I tried calling her before we left but she didn't pick up her extension."

            "Maybe she was with Seiya." Raye said.

            "I would have preferred it if she came and said good bye to us first. She's going to see Seiya all weekend." I sighed and thought that Lita had a great a idea and leaned my head back on the headrest. "I wonder what she's doing now." I murmured closing my eyes to rest a bit.

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Serena's POV

            I was sitting in one of he empty spaces turning the ring around my finger absentmindedly when I sneezed. I smiled, one of my friends was probably thinking about me. My mind heard the sounds of waves crashing to the beach and the sound of laughter ringing through the air. The feeling of sadness and being alone crept up my spine making me shiver. I felt someone hands brushing my shoulder and the weight of a jacket wrapped around me.

            "Here, you can wear this to keep yourself warm." He said. My heart quickened a beat. He was so close. His eyes were a dark mesmerising blue set in his finely sculpted face. "It's getting dark now, and it'll probably get colder."

            "What about you?" I stammered getting my senses back together. "Won't you get cold?"

            He shrugged his broad shoulders and went back to working his 'little project' trying to get the radio to work. I watched him fascinated. His muscles tensed could be clearly seen through his tight fitting shirt. He looked so focused on what he was doing. My eyes lingered on his lips, which was set in a firm line and travelled down his body once more taking a more appreciative look. I looked up and saw he was looking at me with a knowing look and I blushed looking away quickly. Damnit! I am an engaged person. Get your act together Serena.

            "You hungry?" The voice startled me and Darien was standing a few feet in front of me holding out a can of coke and what looked like a sandwich.

            "It's not much but there isn't anything in here I can use to warm the hotdogs."

            "No this is fine." I said holding out my hand. Just then my stomach grumbled out loud as if it knew it was time to eat. I blushed profusely. "Thank you." I murmured not looking at him.

            I took a swig of my coke and a huge bite of the fairy bread sandwich Darien had so kindly made me. I hadn't realised I was so hungry. I went to take another bite when I felt Darien's eyes bore into me.

            "Slow down Hayes, you'll choke yourself." He said.

            I gobbled down the piece lodged in my throat and took a swig of my coke ignoring him. "Why don't you just call me Serena instead of every other name you seemed to have conjured up."

            Darien just stared at me for a long moment not saying anything, making me feel uncomfortable. He didn't reply but took a swig of his coke. "I don't think your devoted sorry excuse of an ass would like me even mentioning your name. He would think I would be tainting your name."

            "Darien, don't." I said putting my sandwich down, my appetite completely diminished. "You can call me what ever you want just don't bring my boyfriend into this."

            "Don't you mean your fiancé?" he muttered, his nose flaring. "And I did not bring him into this. He brought it on himself when he called me white trash."

            The room had gone so quiet you could slice it with a blunt butter knife.

AN: Well??? What did ya think??? I know, same ol' same ol'. By the way…a warning that chapter three might not be up for a while. I'm coming into the last few weeks of term where all the teachers deem it fit to pile our assessments and tests and exams so it all coincides. Probably testing us mentally to which of us can pass without having a mental breakdown…ooh, I'm blabbering. Well, you know the drill. R & R !!