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Title: Mystery Girl
Author: Crystal Saturn
Rated: PG 13
Chapter: 15- Brownie Point Stealer pt.2

"Jerk… ass wipe… poo-poo head…" I mumbled to myself while I stalked towards my locker, spun my combination and swiftly opened the door.

"I know it's you." My locker door seemed to be talking to me. I turned and faced it, looking at it strangely and wondered how it did it. After a brief moment, I decided I was clearly insane, gathered my books for next class and closed my locker door. Unfortunately, I found myself faced with ugliness itself. Lucas.

"Did you actually think I wouldn't know?" He leaned in closer to me.

"Dude, you've gotta stay away from the garlic bread at lunch, or at least carry around some mints." I walked past him and down the hall. It was at that point where he grabbed me by the shoulder, turned me around and slammed his fist into my cheek. To this day, I don't regret a thing I said. I stumbled back and regained my balance on the lockers.

"Look, I don't know what you're talking about."

"Yeah you're just jealous that I have Serena all to myself and you don't. She doesn't want you, she wants me. I own her now and I can do whatever I want with her… and her body."

Slam!

I pushed him into the side of another locker. I held him up against it by the shirt with my left hand, and with my right, I repeatedly struck his abdomen with my fist. No one says that about my girl. No one uses her like that. He was scum and he deserved to die.

"I won't let you touch her and I won't let you talk about her like that" I pounded his gut with my fist.

"You can't stop me." He struggled and managed to push me off him. "She's my bitch now and there's nothing you can do about it." That was it. He was asking for an ass whooping. He was going to die. I stormed towards him, blazing with anger, ready to beat the crap out of him when he stuck his foot out and kicked my leg, forcing me to the ground. By now a small crowd was building up in the corridor.

"Bastard." I muttered and swiped at his legs, sending him crashing to the ground where I continued to aim for his face.

"Darien!" I could hear Andrew's voice through the crowd of faces as he made his way towards me.

"Lucas!" Serena's shriek soon followed.

"Darien, man! Darien, chill!" Andrew managed to pull me away from Lucas with the assistance of the Deputy Principal.

Oh boy.

"Lucas! Lucas are you alright? Darien what the hell were you thinking? Lucas are you ok? Darien! What's going on? What were you trying to do? Kill him?" Serena rushed to Lucas' side and tended to his cuts and bruises.

"Yeah… something like that." I muttered under my breath.

"How could you Darien?" Tears began to well up in Serena's beautiful blue eyes and at that moment, I knew I had gone too far.

"But he was-"

"I can't believe this. I never thought you were like this Darien."

"He said-"

"I don't care! Don't ever speak to me again Darien Chiba! I hate you!" She fought back tears as she helped Lucas up onto his feet and walked him to the nurses' office. "Come on Luc… Oh… you poor thing…"

"Serena I- Serena! It wasn't me it was-" but it was too late for an explanation now. She was gone, and with her… she took my heart, stabbed it, shredded it, ran over it with a 32 wheel semi-trailer and threw it in the local waste disposal facility.

"As for you Mr. Chiba, come with me."

Uh oh…

"Suspended for 2 weeks huh?" Greg handed me a soda.

"Yeah…" I slumped back in the couch

"What happened?"

"He was just saying stuff about Sere, ya know? And I got worked up and… I don't know. I just blew up."

"Harsh… Two weeks." Andrew picked up his Play Station console. "So have you spoken to Chad lately?"

"No. Not since he tried to screw up my chance with Rena. I haven't seen him since."

"You should talk to him. I'm sure he's sorry about what he's done."

"I know. I will… once he comes out of hiding. Anyway guys, I'm off" I sighed, putting my soda down and standing up.

"Where to?" Ken asked.

"The beach. I need to think about things."

"Will you be ok?" Andrew stood up, offering to come.

"I'll be fine. I just need to assess some things in my life." And with that, I left. It had been a while since I last went to the beach, but I figured I really needed to now. I needed to escape the mess that was my life. So many problems. So many things I wished I could do over again. My life was so messed up since I moved here. I didn't notice just how much damage Serena was causing me. How did I fall in love with her? Everything I did was for her. All I ever wanted was for her to like me, maybe even love me, but Lucas was right. It wasn't me she wanted. It was him. That's how it had always been, that's how it will always be. I realized it was time for me to face the facts. It was time for me to move on.

I hope you liked that. Don't worry, Darien won't give up just yet, so stay tuned!

Crystal Saturn