Chapter 2: The Girls
The following day,
"Hi guys!"
Five lovely heads turned around as young Darien walked towards the group of beautiful women all sitting around a low table at the patio in front of Cherry Hills temple. Any member of the male species would have felt like he had gone to heaven in the presence of these women, but to Darien, they're his family.
"Darien!" Sere, who was looking utterly wretched in front of her Advanced Math book, immediately jumped out of her seat and ran towards the young man.
As she threw herself at Darien, the latter dropped his stuff to the ground to envelop his girlfriend in a tight embrace, twirling her around before setting her in front of him. Darien gave Serena a kiss on the tip of her nose before leaning his forehead against hers.
Darien loved doing this to Sere, he could just stay like this for a long, long time.
"Hey Darien!"
Darien looked up and waved to the girls who had just greeted him. He looped his right arm around Serena and with his left one, carried his stuff and walked towards the girls.
"You know, Darien, if you decided to stop by and distract Serena to insensibility, the least you could do is distract US as well," joked Lita.
"Yeah, you ought to bring some guys from time to time. I could go for a medical trainee or a nurse too, or even one of the patients may not be bad," Mina giggled.
Rae just looked at Mina mockingly, "A little desperate aren't we?"
Mina grinned, "Just keeping my options open, dahling. Just keeping them open."
Rae rolled her eyes upward and Ami gave a small laugh behind the book she's reading.
Darien looked at the girls and gave them a mysterious smile, "Well, I DO have something for you girls."
"YOU DO?!"
Suddenly, all four lovely, sophisticated girls stood up and rushed towards Darien like a pack of hungry wolves.
The young lad sweatdropped when he found himself being crowded by eager girls who suddenly looked scary if not gorgeous.
"Aww, Darien, how sweet...GIMME!!!"
"Oh, is it something to eat? Wait, maybe, some new york cheesecake?"
"I could make that you know. What is it Darien?"
"Hurry up!"
Darien laughed and gave something to each girl except Serena, who just stood back and looked at her friends with a smile.
Darien called her up last night and talked to her about his idea and what happened the day before. Serena was so touched by Darien, and that made him endearing to her even more. True, her friends indeed deserve even the smallest joys in life.
"Oh my!"
"...Oh..."
"Aww, how sweet."
"Looks definitely like my old boyfriend."
In the girls' arms were stuffed toys.
Rae just glared intensely at her doll of short blond hair and blue eyes.
"Ah, ...gee, thanks Darien, that was...er, really nice."
And when she looked at the doll again, noticed something unusual about its face.
Sheesh, do they really have to make them with tons of rouge on their faces?
Rae walked back to her seat and put the doll on the table, and as she sat down, continued with her studies, ignoring the doll who was sitting adorably on top of the table.
"Ohh, he's soooo cute! I love it! Thanks Darien." Lita hugged her doll of long curly brown-hair, and nuzzled its soft face with her nose. Lita again looked at the doll,
"Oh my, they have rosy cheeks! What a cute doll!!!"
"Eeekkk!"
Everyone suddenly looked at Mina, who after looking at her doll of long silver hair, shrieked and rushed back to her backpack and started rummaging through it.
"What's wrong Mina?" Serena asked the blonde who was frantically searching for something in her bag.
Mina merely muttered, "Oh for goodness' sakes, where the heck is it?...There! Yes, I found it!"
Mina turned back to the worried group and with her hands raised, showed -
"...a red ribbon?!" Everyone looked confused.
Mina just gave a weird look of longing in her eyes and went to her doll, turning her back to the others. After awhile, she faced everyone again and gave a wicked smile.
Everyone fell out of their seats when they saw what the princess of love did.
In the doll's hair, the red ribbon is tied in a half-ponytail while Mina kept on hugging it from behind.
"Mina! W-what...you...hahaha!" Suddenly everyone burst into laughter at the girl's antics.
"What?" Mina questioned the gang who were laughing uproariously.
Lita was gasping as she tried talking to young blonde, "Mins, ...hahaha...you, can't...hahaha," Lita gave up to the bouts of laughter overcoming her.
Ami who was having trouble controlling herself as well spoke,
"But Mina...chuckle...the dolls are anatomically speaking, of the male species."
"What?" Mina gave them all a puzzled look and turned her doll's face towards her to see indeed, other than the long silver hair, that the features of the said doll were indeed of a boy, or a man for that matter. And if only she looked a bit more closely, the doll's eyebrows were somehow puckered in an angry scowl.
Mina just gave a shrug, "Whatever,...it still looks cute! Now we have the same hairstyle! Hah," Mina suddenly gave a very wicked look, "wait till you see my other dolls' clothes, you're going to be soooo cute in them!"
Mina hugged the doll to her face and brushed her nose against the doll's small button nose affectionately.
Darien just laughed at Mina, and in doing so, saw Ami approaching him.
"Thank you so much Darien." Ami looked up to Darien and gave him a dazzling grateful smile.
"It was a pleasure, Ami." Darien gave a gentle smile to the shy girl.
Ami turned and went back to her seat to continue reading her book, the doll with the long blond hair placed in her lap between her and the hardbound. The blue-haired girl unconsciously brushed her chin at the top of the doll's face.
Darien smiled at the group when suddenly he was yanked forward by a pair of small hands clutching his collar.
He found himself very near Serena's beautiful face with a teary smile.
"Thank you..." Serena whispered.
Darien just stared into her eyes and wrapped his arms around the small form.
"Anything for you, sweetheart." Darien leaned down and gave Serena a gentle kiss on the lips.
The rest of the group was oblivious to the couple as each of them was so intent in their own little world. . .together with their new dolls.
