Heh...hopefully the last chapter didn't bore you all too much -.-;

For those of you that are wondering why Serena and Darien were fighting and then started talking about condoms, I redid the 5th chapter so if you read the first draft, be sure to read the second. If the 5th chapter you have read contained not a word about condoms, then it is the wrong chapter.

-smiles awkwardly-

Well then...ONWARD!

Disclaimer: See...no point in doing this every chapter but just saying...if Darien or even Diamond was mine, I'd've been pregnant about 50 times already! No I'm not that old...still in high school...

Monarchy Under a Complete Jerk

Chapter 7: Diamond

Well, needless to say, I didn't think a blind date would go so well (especially since it was planned by Mina). My first impression of Diamond was that he is a stylish but (somehow) graceful man. And I must say, he has done Sean John shirts and Nike sneakers proud (A/N: another disclaimer there). What a difference compared to Darien and his ugly green jacket...yuck...

It wasn't one of those mushy icky dates where there were roses and teddy bears. Diamond was rather shy but incredibly sweet. After the carnival we drove (laughing rather loudly) back to his house and went for a late afternoon swim. At one point, I thought he ditched me in the pool until I was pulled under the surface by my legs. We had pizza at his house and spent about twenty minutes throwing pepperoni at each other.

And now...here I am...in Ms. H's class, daydreaming. I peeked up from behind the book I was pretending to read and cursed silently when I realized I was too late in snapping back to reality. Ms. H was already standing in front of my desk, her eyes glaring down at me from behind her glasses, ruler tapping like a metronome on my desk.

"Ms. Tsukino. Would you like to tell the class the only way to remove absolutely all of the bacteria from food to keep it from spoiling?"

I glanced down at my book and quickly flipped it around when I realized it was upside down. A can of soup was drawn in the upper right hand of the page on the right.

"Canning?"

Ms. H stared at me for another slow minute, "Well then...can you tell me two foods bacteria help make?"

I thought hard. No really I did. Even if my brain was clinking at one clink per minute, I was thinking hard. My eyes darted down to the page again, hoping for a clue. I made out a pickle and a yellow blob from the page. Well the pickle I can keep but a yellow blob...

"Pickles and...onions?" I squeaked. Well, since onions are so disgusting...I guess they have bacteria.

"Wrong, Ms. Tsukino. I'll see you after school for detention for your lack of attention in class and inability to read a book right side up," the evil lady said, turning her back to walk to the front of the class.

My head dropped to the table in that Serena-like manner. Thunk. Thunk.

Well, now I know not to have too many highs in my life. Because everything just goes downward from there. Insert annoyed sigh. Ms. Haruna seriously needs to get married and have children. In her wrinkled state, it's possible she's already 164 years old. While me? I'm sixteen years young thank you very much.

Well, after an agonizingly boring school day and a rare pass on an English essay, I trudged as slowly as possible into detention. Ms. H was already waiting for me with an old textbook in hand.

"Ms. Tsukino. Good to see you actually remembered to show up. Take out some paper and copy chapter 6 parts a thru k word by word. Then, hopefully, you will be able to tell me a little bit more about bacteria and which direction up is," a slight hint of amusement was glinting across her face and if I had to say so myself, that look was quite ugly on her.

An hour later, I was halfway through part b and was reading all about diseases bacteria cause when I saw a blown up picture on the left of a person who discovered one cure or another. A large French mustache was drawn onto his face with probably a sharpie marker. The thick unibrow and large hoop earrings didn't help making that poor man any more handsome. I caught myself before I snickered and glanced up quickly to make sure Ms. H wasn't paying attention to me.

Big mistake. As soon as I caught Ms. H's eye, she stalked over to me and snatched up the book, narrowing her eyes at the picture of the man.

"I see that you find this man your schoolmate Diamond decorated very amusing. Since that is the case--"

"Um...Ms. Haruna?" I cut in.

"Do not interrupt me when I am talking!"

"Well...it's just that...um...you're holding the book upside down."

Ms. H flushed a horrible shade of crimson and quickly dismissed me. I prayed and thanked the heavens for her little slip imagining that the gods somewhere up there could hear me from behind the massive wall of clouds. Suddenly, I ran right into somebody. Or was it something? Nope, pretty sure it's a person this time. My head snapped down from it's up position to gaze into the most wonderful pair of grey eyes ever. My mental note to apologize to the holder slipped as I noticed it was Diamond.

He laughed lightly, "Hey Serena. I was waving at you before but you obviously didn't notice me."

I felt my face go warm, "I was thanking the heavens for Ms. H's little mistake of letting me out of detention when she was going to punish me more for a french mustache and hoop earrings you drew on a scientist."

He chuckled again. What a beautiful voice.

"I was looking for you at Crown when one of your friends from class told me you had detention with Ms. H, who, by the way, it the bitchiest mess of sag and wrinkles ever."

I giggled furiously at his statement, "She was telling me how to hold a book right-side up when I was caught daydreaming and then she held the book upside-down herself."

"I hope you were daydreaming about me because I don't think anything else would be worth a detention from the devil's spawn."

He was joking but I think he was probably half serious too. Either way, I didn't answer; I would've made a fool of myself stuttering the way I do at the worst possible times.

Minutes later, we were walking to his house to enjoy the afternoon together. I was busy listing the many cakes and icecreams I like and when I hit upon something he had in his house, he would say so. Somewhere along the line, our hands touched and our fingers linked together.

-Darien's POV-

I knew who the pair were. Serena, my slave, and Diamond, an old schoolmate. As soon as I spotted them strolling down the block, I immediately decided that whatever I was doing that day wasn't important anymore. I just had to follow them. This feeling that something was horribly wrong wouldn't go away. Their hands linked. Suddenly, a deep hollow feeling came about me. I didn't bother to pester Serena with the condom packet she sent because I knew I only told her to buy them for me. It was rather amusing opening all the condoms and setting a display on my table. But I digress. As soon as this empty feeling took me over, I knew. I knew I was jealous. Not because there were feelings in me for Serena but because I owned her and she was not here to serve me. Instead, she's running along with some other guy. The condoms and what we would've done with them kept running through my mind the minute I spotted them under my door and you know...a guy can only relieve himself for so long. There was never this desperate need to have sex with a person since ever.

So is the Almighty Chiba a virgin? You bet.

sorry! I know there are those out there waiting to kill me but I havn't gotten much inspiration and I had writers block lyk 5 times during this short chapter. Plus, I'm a procrastinator and the school year has started. Swim team just doesn't make it any better does it?