Opposites Attract

Chick-a-tee-in-ur-fface

Disclaimer: I do not own SM.

AN: Hey!!! I hope everyone had a Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I know I did. I am extremely sorry for the lateness of this chapter. It was my first year at uni and I was busy keeping up with social and academic engagements. You have to forgive me too because I sort of lost the thread of this story and I couldn't remember what the game was, I hope it's alright so let me know what you think.

Chapter Four: Saturday Afternoon

Amy's POV

What am I going to do? I must have been staring out the window for some time pondering this question. And I still haven't got an answer. I couldn't possibly tell Serena, she'd get hurt. Yet, if I don't she'll be even more hurt, so either way…I don't know anymore. My head was beginning to hurt.

"Are we almost there?" I asked softly.

"Ah! So you decided to join us huh?" A soft voice purred. Mina turned around from her seat in the front to look at me and winked. "We thought maybe your mind had been abducted by aliens leaving your body helpless on the back seat."

"Yeah! Lucky for you too. If it hadn't been for us you would have been a goner." Lita smiled, her eyes twinkling with laughter. "Some mysterious supernatural being wanted your body and not just to experiment on either."

I blushed wishing they would stop teasing, but I guess telepathy doesn't really work on my friends.

"He was absolutely gorgeous! I wanted to jump him."

"Lita, you would jump anyone with legs." Mina smirked. "And maybe not even that."

"That's harsh Mina, considering you're the one stringing along…how many was it? I lost count."

Raye who had been listening from her seat behind the wheel laughed. "She has a point Mina." Checking the rear view mirror, Raye saw that the blue commodore was still following them. "Looks like the boys aren't dumb enough to get lost."

"How could they miss their turn? There are signs everywhere."

"Yeah but, you know how it is. Boys will be boys. They need to follow their directory."

"Even if it's out of date? That just shows how stupid they really are."

"Don't know what their problem is with asking for directions anyway."

"At least we saw them. They could've been stuck there for hours."

"Would've been good for them."

I sighed, glad for the distraction the boys offered my friends. Out of everyone in the group I was always the plain one. I knew without being vain that I was pretty, but I didn't feel like that around my friends. They shined while I didn't. I was just plain Amy. The smart one! My friends didn't know that it sometimes hurt when they talk about boys. I had told them that I didn't want a boyfriend because they were too much of a distraction. But none the less, I did feel lonely sometimes.

We drove past a sign. Only another two hours, then we'll be at the beach. I tuned out of the conversation and stared at the scenery.

Serena's POV

I must have been mad…that's it. I must have been. Why on earth would I do that? Damn it Serena you are just asking for trouble. The game. I haven't played it in years let alone with someone like Darien. Ohhh!

I walked around the small cramped space of the storage room biting my lower lip thinking this plan through. I was angry, that was why I did it. Now can I go through with it with Darien? That would mean doing something I vowed I would never do again. Gosh, not after Melvin. But Darien is not like Melvin and it may not even work. I shook my head. It will have to work.

I heard a loud clang and second's later murmurings of frustration. He was still trying to fix that damned radio. Mustering up enough resolve I stiffened my back and headed towards the basin which was in direct view of where Darien was sitting. Time to work this game in my favour.

With lithe graceful movements I grabbed a hand towel on the way making enough noise to attract his attentions. Humming a tune my mother had taught me when I was a child I took the barrettes out of my hair letting them flow loosely down my back. Then I pulled it back out of my face and pinned it up high on my head. I felt a little tingle go down my neck and I felt a shiver of what...excitement? I knew exactly when he started to stare at me and I took advantage of it. I wet the towel and throwing my head back, I arched my back and let it drip down my chest, feeling droplets go down my cleavage.

"Mmmm…that feels nice." I murmured but loud enough for him to hear it. I guided the towel around my neck and across my chest with slow sensuous movements, letting my straps fall down my shoulders my dress barely hanging on by the slight tightness around my chest.

Pulling a stool near me I placed a leg on the stool slowly folded back the length of my skirt showing a little bit of my thigh at a time. Then I let the towel drip water down my bared thigh before guiding the towel down to my calves and back again bending down enough for a clear view of cleavage before getting up again. I felt flushed, the anticipation sending slight tremors through my body.

I caught him staring at me. His eyes were a darker shade of blue they were almost black which sent shivers down my spine but he didn't turn around embarrassed at being caught. Well. Instead I smiled at him, casting my eyes down demurely and turned around. But I had caught him tighten his jaws. His back was stiff. I mentally shrugged; maybe I did get to him. But that was just the beginning.

Darien's POV

What the hell! Serena must be out of her mind. One minute she's yelling at me, next thing I know she's teasing me. Was this it? Her game. To seduce me witless before crushing me? No, she wasn't that kind of person. She's mad, absolutely mad. Oh! I groaned inwardly. I was so hard it hurt. Damn her impudence, walking in here just like some damned goddess Diana and having a bath right in front of me. She didn't even have the curtesy to tell me not to turn around. I shifted around uncomfortably. Maybe she didn't actually strip all off her clothes of but she did leave everything to the imagination…which wasn't very hard.

When she first walked in here I had thought she was looking for something to do or eat. But when I turned around she was just letting her hair out. Those long gorgeous golden tresses fell to her tiny waist emphasized but the nice fitting dress she wore. And her derriere, so beautifully curved. Then she had piled it up high on her head and I saw the graceful lines of her neck. I swallowed hard, holding tightly on to the radio in case I dropped it. I watched her intently, following the graceful movements of her hand watching as she arched her back showing off the perfect profile of her body and feeling my mouth go dry as droplets of water dripped down into her cleavage.

"Mmmm…that feels nice." She murmured, her voice sounding a little husky. I had almost dropped the radio. Her straps had fallen off and her dress was just holding on…damn! I gulped. I wasn't going to lose my control, not to some little whim. But damn she made it difficult. And then she went and revealed those long slender legs of hers, slowly teasing me until I couldn't breathe. I couldn't take my eyes of her. When she caught me staring she didn't look embarrassed. She smiled. Then she walked out of the room as if nothing had happened. As if she couldn't feel the sexual tension in the atmosphere. Something big was going to happen. I could feel it. I shook my head clear. I needed a shower. A cold one.

I left the radio where I had been sitting and headed towards the back door of the store room. Who knows why Andrew had a toilet in his storage room but I thank him his idiocy for it. By the time I had reached the door, any evidence of my reaction to Serena's little display had settled and without any witnesses. So what was the little scamp up to? A game. A game with no rules. And if that was just the beginning…A sly smile curved the corner of my lips. Alright Miss thinks-she's-all-that, I'll play your game. If this is your game. And we'll see who comes up on top.

Just then I heard a noise outside the door. "What the hell?" I said running into the storage room. I stopped dead in my tracks. Serena was standing in the middle of the room, her hair flowing down freely and a look of mischief on her face. The radio was on the floor sitting up right where I left it, softly playing some tune from a radio FM station. She held out her hands.

"Dance with me Darien." She asked softly. I couldn't believe it.

"How…" I couldn't bring myself to finish he sentence. I was dumbfounded. I had spent the better part of today and yesterday trying to work that radio and the minute I turn my back Serena, a slip of a girl had managed to get it to play. What a blow to my ego that was.

Serena pretending ignorance asked, "How what Darien?"

"How did you get it to work?" I managed to mumble.

"Oh, you mean the radio. I found some new batteries on one of the shelves and thought you might need them. But you weren't here so I changed them myself. Dance with me, I like this song."

Batteries! All it needed was new batteries. I couldn't move. My mouth wanted to drop to the floor. Something so simple. Why didn't I think of that? Serena came up and took my hands. She put one on her waist and held the other firmly in her right hand. So we danced.

Serena's POV

I wish I had a camera. It was a Kodak moment for sure when I saw his face the minute he barged out of the bathroom. His stunned expression when he saw the radio working and how his inflated chest drooped when I told him all he needed were fresh batteries. I laughed softly to myself.

"Dance with me, I like this song." It was a called Since you went Away but I couldn't remember who the artist were. It was one of the songs I liked when I was still a little girl.

He didn't move so I walked towards him and lead him into a slow dance. When my fingers touched his I felt a little tingling, I wanted to pull away but I held on to him instead. I put his right hand on my waist and kept his left in my hand. I moved and he moved with me. It felt so right being in his arms, like I belonged there. I had unconsciously moved in closer to Darien and I could smell his muskiness. Eventually he had taken over leading me into the dance, twirling me at appropriate moments. I was lost in the music that I forgot we were in a storage room.

Darien started to trace small circles with his fingers on the small of my back. His face had come down close to mine, his breathing tickling my ear. My heart started to flutter. The room started to feel small. I was so close to him now our chests were almost touching. His heat emanated through his clothing dampening the front of my dress. I leaned my head back a little to look at him, his eyes were a deep blue with an emotion I didn't recognize. My lips were parted and my eyelids heavy. I felt a hot flush in my belly, a tightening I never felt before a little lower. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted him to kiss me. He might have read my mind because his eyes went a shade darker and his head was coming ever so close. His male scent teasing my senses. Our lips almost touched, I could feel his breathing on my mouth. I just needed to move my head a little bit to the right. Then I would be kissing Darien Shields.

The music stopped, and a loud dj was talking about something. His loud voice was like a splash of cold water. I started and pulled back, shame coloured my cheeks. "I…I don't know what came over me." I murmured not looking at him. I turned and ran to the other side of the storage room. I was so humiliated. What was I doing? I told myself it was only part of the game. Only part of the game. Then why did I feel the way I felt right now. I couldn't possibly have wanted to kiss Darien. I hate him. I hate him. He was a womaniser of the worst kind. I hate him.

Darien's POV

I stood unmoving. What had gotten into me? I almost allowed myself to kiss her. Her of all people. And she had wanted it to. He was well experienced to know when a girl wanted to be kissed. No, he was making a mess of things. He had to stop this nonsense. But he could still feel her in his arms. Could still smell her and damned he still wanted to kiss her. He let his hand run through his hair. The air was still thick with tension. This has got to stop, one way or the other. But he didn't like to think about it. He slid into the corner and closed his eyes letting the music calm his emotions, his thoughts. He let his mind wander to the last time he had seen Anne.

"You did what?" Anne had screeched. She didn't want to believe him, not after everything she had put into this plan.

"I ran away. I had to. You want to marry me don't you?" I asked a little uncertainly this time. She was angry. Angrier than she had ever been before. "They wouldn't let me marry you, so I had to. I want to spend the rest of my life with you."

Anne laughed. "You fool. You think I would marry you now. Now that you are a penniless nobody."

"But I thought…"

"You thought wrong. I only wanted to marry you for your money. But you had to go and ruin everything and get disinherited didn't you. No Darien, I don't want to marry a penniless nobody. Without your father's name, you are nothing to me."

I was stunned. I couldn't believe it. My mother had been right. She tried to tell me that Anne was only after my money, but I wouldn't listen to her. And now, now I had lost everything I had loved. My home, my life and Anne.

"Goodbye Darien. Be a dear and call me, when you get back in their good graces will you." Anne lifted her suitcase and packed all her belongings in it as fast as she could, packing all the expensive jewellery I had bought for her as well in her small reticule. Then she walked out of my life without a second glance.

I had fisted my hands together, my mouth set in a grim line. That's what happens when you let yourself fall in love I reminded myself. Don't ever fall into that trap. I opened my eyes and sighed and looked around the room bleakly. But could I ever live without being loved. Can I bear to be alone with nothing to gain and no one to be there for me? I shook the depressing thoughts out of my head. Perhaps I should ask them to forgive me? No. Anne was not the only displeasing thing I did. And now I can't even fix that up because it's too late. I looked at the direction that Serena had walked off and hidden herself. It was too late to fix it.

AN: So what did you think? R&R. Let me know. Oh and characters are depicted as normal people so there are no magic. Sorry!