Very sorry this chapter is very late. Blame Drama and various other school assessments and formal planning and tonnes of procrastination on my behalf. No further excuses. On with the show

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Title: Mystery Girl
Author: Crystal Saturn
Rated: PG 13
Chapter: 13- All in Preparation.

"Hey Dar, so do you have it all planned out for tomorrow?"

"Sure do!" Gotta love how Andrew always asks the most appropriate question at the right time.

"Nervous dude?" Greg rocked back in his chair.

"Not at all." I flashed a winning grin to all who were in the den. (Andrew's garage room)

"Ohh sure you're not. You're terrified that this whole thing will backfire on you and you'll end up in a worse position than you already are in with Serena!" Isn't Ken the greatest? Doesn't he just make you want to hug him?

"Settle petal. Here… have one of these."

"Fortune cookie?" I looked up at Andrew rather perplexed. "I haven't seen these in ages!"

"Yeah well the arcade stocked up on too many and so I'm stuck eating them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Take as many as you want, heck, take them all! PLEASE TAKE THEM ALL!" Andrew gripped onto my sleeve desperately.

"You're a strange little man." Greg laughed.

"How do you open these things?" Ken looked at the little cookie strangely. I couldn't resist and leaned over, taking Ken's cookie and smacking it against his brick head.

"That's how pro's do it" Andrew smirked. "So what's your paper say Greg?"

"Wait… there's paper in these things?" Greg reached over for a napkin and began to spit out bits of cookie and globs of message."

"Mine says 'This insert has a protective coating.' Hmm… I wonder that that means…"

"Turn it over Ken." Is this guy dumb or what! I love watching him though, he's just so dopey but some of the things he says…

"Everyone is a genius. It's just that some people are too stupid to realize it." Ken read out the small slip of paper.

"What about yours Daz?" Andrew nodded towards the slip of paper within my fingers.

"Opportunity will soon knock. When it does, answer the door!"

"Oh! That sounds promising!" Greg winked mischievously. What more could I do but just sit and smile.

Clatter, smack, bang!

Alright so I seemed rather composed earlier, but as a matter of fact, I'm anything but composed. It's 3am in the morning and I doubt I'll be getting any sleep tonight. At all. I've been busy checking that everything is all in place for Serena's Valentine surprise and preparing and making sure it all goes to plan. It better, or I think I'll die from a stroke and severe lack of sleepage. Yes I know that's not a word. No I'm not a freak.

Balloons… check.
Letters… check.
Confetti… check.
Plush toys… check.
Chocolates… check.

Mind you, my bank account is now at an all time low. This plan better work, if it doesn't… I'll blame Andrew! I now have 82cents in my bank account so I think it's safe to say I've been sucked dry thanks to Valentine's Day. Damn those Hallmark people and anyone else that specializes in leeching money from poor men like us on special occasions. It's all a scam to rip men off to make a considerable profit. I know their secret, yet with this plan, I'm positive I've just helped all the C.E.O's of all those specialty stores save up for their big retirement cruise in the Caribbean.

Perfume… check.
Cards… check
Candy Hearts… Check
Roses… check
Jewellery… check

I don't know how I'm going to get this all over to the school without her noticing. My room looks like a… well…let's just say it looks very red.

ring ring

What the? Who in the world would call me at 3am?

"Harlooow?"

"Darien I have no idea what you are doing over there at such an ungodly hour but I can hear you fumbling with things all the way over here…" Ohhh her voice is as sweet as the dew in the morning. As heavenly as an angel in flight. As gentle as the- "Darien are you listening to me! GET TO BED!"

Dial Tone

She just hung up on me… How rude.

Beep Beep Beep!

"Blasted new alarm clock!" I muttered to myself and looked up at the time flashing on the black box.

Oh crap.

I didn't hear it go off the first time and now I'm running late, an hour late. I swear I set the time for 6am! Why did I have to kick my other alarm clock? You know, for some reason, I think this is going to be another bad day. Don't ask me how I know. It's just a hunch.

I made my way to my balcony and pushed the curtains aside. To my shock horror, Serena was already out of bed. This made it much harder to smuggle all her presents into my car without her noticing. Oh lordy lordy lord. I've never really been a religious guy but right then I contemplated getting down on my hands and knees and praying to every deity out there to try and get some sort of cosmic assistance today. I knew I'd need it. So anyway, I galloped down the stairs and made my way into the kitchen where I grabbed an apple, the dozen roses and wow… the view from my house was always the best in the world. Serena, the most beautiful wonder of this world. Merely metres away from me, her eyes closed, dancing around her kitchen, singing and making breakfast. Yep, I'm positive I can wake up to that every morning.

So there I am, standing at the bottom of my stairs watching the blonde beauty before me when hey! What else would she do at that exact moment? Turn around and catch me staring at her with my mouth wide open. I blinked while she blushed, smiled and turned away. Caught red handed holding her roses. Busted! I freaked and ran the rest of the way to the car to start loading all the Valentines goodies. Oh yeah… how smart is that? Running away from the scene of the crime. Nothing suss!

I packed everything into the back of my car and as much as I could into my boot to avoid too many suspicious gazes. Now I had everything planned out and written down in my notebook. I hopped into my car and headed off to school, determined not to let anything stand in the way of making Serena's day the most wonderful day of her life… so far.

Ok.. that's it kids. To make up for my lack of chapter last week, I've just finished writing another chapter and I'll post straight after this one ok? Ok!

Crystal Saturn