Sarah emerged slowly out of her room, she was wearing a smooth red satin,kneelength dress which was made in such a way that it showed most of her back. Her parents outside the door looking approvingly.
"You look wonderful, dear" said her mother, her father nodded.
"Come on, the limo's waiting" Paul said as he ushered Sarah out of the house.
"I hope Darien won't hurt her tonight" Sarah's father whispered as he looked through the window and saw Sarah's limo drive off.
"No, that's not we should be worrying about" Her mother murmured. Her husband turned to face her.
"what?"
"Serena" She said her eyes never leaving the window.
Sarah arrived at her school hall, she took a deep breath and pushed the door open. She was greeted with a loud cheer.
"SARAH!" Everything else was a blur, all she saw was a girl running over to her and, nearly knocking her over, gave her a big hug.
"Ellie" she gasped "hi" she managed
Ellie and the girls finally let her go. Her eyes studied Sarah closely. Gosh, she looks so preety
"My gosh, you've grown" She said with pride. Let's hope Serena and Darien don't come. "Sarah, come on. Everyone wants to meet you again" She dragged Sarah to theback of the hall. Ellie whipped out a camera "PICTURES ANYONE?" Sarah was immediately surrounded by her school friends.
Darien was watching close by, he clenched his fist when he saw Sapphire striding up to Sarah and put him arm around her waist. Sarah felt uncomfortable, but she was not going show it. She pecked him on the cheek as the camera flashed. Sapphire pulled her to the dance floor as song played up, much to the dissappointment of the other young men. He grabbed her her hand in his and put his other hand on her waist.
Serena arrived in a short black skirt, she scowled as she saw Darien watching Sarah dance. Darien was very close to going to Sapphire and punching himwhen he saw that Sapphire's hand slowly moving down from Sarah's waist. Lower. Lower-
"Hello, Darien" Serena said seductively. Darien turned his head slowly towards Serena
"oh..uh..hi"
"Long time no see" Serena said paying no attention to his urgent glances at Sarah
"uh..ya..ya, um...listen i need to go to the toilet" Darien quickly walked to the restrooms.
He was splashing water on his face when he heard some men walk in.
"-yeah, Sarah has come far from back then" Darien bent his head down so that they couldn't see his face.
"Who was that guy who cheated on her?"
"That bastard, Darien"
"Oh ya, that idiot. I wonder why he did that. I bet he regrets it now, she's one of the sexiest, richest, single girls on the "market", Sapphire is hitting on to her right now, you know?"
"Oh man, i thought i was going to ask her out, oh well, better luck next time. You know that she's actually shooting some shots in-"
Darien couldn't take it anymore. He quietly slipped out of the toilets, his eyes scanned the hall, Serena was flirting with a guy in the corner. Sarah was still dancing with Sapphire. Darien focused on Sapphire's hand which was on top of Sarah's bum, she quickly moved his hand back up again. Sapphire smirked as his hand stroked her back intimately. Sarah's smile never left it's place as she spun away from him and walked to Ellie.
"I need to get out of here" She whispered urgently to Ellie
"Why, it looked like you were having fun" Ellie teased. Sarah whacked her playfully on the back.
"I'm serious"
"ok, ok, jeez" Ellie led Sarah out of the hall.
"I know a cafe, close by, you wanna go have a cup of coffee" Ellie suggested "It's actually Andrew's old parlour"
"Really?" Sarah said, surprised that Andrew would actually sell his parlour.. Ellie nodded sadly he went off to get a job at the hospital"
"What? You're not serious, my god i'd never think..."Sarah trailed off.
"Right well are we going to get coffee or not, i'm freezing" Ellie grabbed her friend's wrist and ran with her in tow.
"So" Said Sarah as she stirred her cup of hot chocolate, watching the two pink marshmallows bob up and down "Andrew's doing medicine?"
"uh huh" Ellie said as she drunk her latte. Sarah raised the cup to her lips
"I'd never think that Andrew would do that, i thought he wanted to continue the parlour business" She commented as she started sipping the warm chocolate milk
"Nah, he made much more in doctoring, besides he's happy because Darien's in the same hospital- SARAH ARE YOU OK?" Ellie looked wide-eyed across the table at her friend who was coughing on her drink
"WHAT THE HELL, DARIEN'S A FRIGGIN' DOCTOR, GOD HELP ME." Sarah screamed despite the curious on-lookers. Sarah started cursing under her breath. Ellie only heard parts of her on-going throng of words "sleazy bastard...son of a...how dare he do..."
"Sarah, didn't you know that Darien was a doctor? He's the head of the hospital and the most respected bachelor in town." Ellie said after Sarah's tantrum had subsided.
"No, i've been too busy these days to read newspapers"
"That busy eh?"
"yup, but earning a hell of a lot" Sarah put down the cup, smiling at how far she'd come from that fateful day 10 years ago...
"But Sarah haven't you thought about, you know...starting a family" Ellie prodded
"Hell no. I'm not that kind of model that fucks with every single hot guy in town." Sarah defended herself.
"You haven't thought of going back to Darien?" Ellie braced herself, scared that she might have just crossed the line for Sarah. With immense difficulty, Sarah remained calm.
"I would rather burn in hell, than go back to that self-serving, cheating bastard" Sarah's face was expressionless
"you know that Darien broke up with Serena as soon as you left? He's still a bachelor today, he hasn't been dating at all and i'm pretty sure that he hasn't had sex with anyone since the incident " Ellie was obviously trying to make Sarah like Darien again. It Ellie's opinion, Darien deserved a second chance, he was young...he was foolish.
"look it's getting late, i have to get some sleep, i have a photoshoot at our old school tomorrow."
"Really? I'm a teacher there y'know"
"That's wonderful, i'll see you there then" Sarah got up and paid the bill. She waved to Ellie one last time and stepped out of the store.
Ellie sipped her latte, smiling inwardly. tomorrow the students will be getting an vaccination, and who better do it then Darien himself.
