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Chapter Three - What to think

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Serena looked angrily at them. "No I am not, and not like it's a bad thing anyways."

"Whatever freak. We never asked you to begin with" Lita smirked, her hands on her hips, and her glossed over pink lips pouted in a way she thought was sexy.

'Just just looks like a stupid toad', Serena thought to herself, 'She sure belongs in a pond. That's for sure'.

"But it's not our fault we all know about you and your secret gay life" Raye laughed, evilly. "And like we wouldn't know, everyone in the whole school knows, it shame you haven't been ostracized yet"

She paused in thought. "Oh I forgot. YOU HAVE."

"Shut up. You ugly freak" Serena cut in. "Your as ugly as hell and now why would anyone want to go near you with that bitchy tongue of yours."

"Please guys stop it" A voice cut in and everyone turned to look around to find the source of the voice, it was no other than the high school god, himself Darien Shields, he was uber cool and just screamed hotness and sophistication, no wonder why all the girls were after him.

"We don't have to fight with each other" He continued.

He turned to Serena. "Please accept my apologies, as this was obviously not your fault."

Raye looked at him, gob smacked. "It was her fault really" She fluttered her darkly mascaraed eye lashes at him. "They provoked us"

Darien looked at her strangely.

"I don't care who started it, we don't all have to fight with each other, that's no way to resolve each other's differences." He said and looked over at Lita, who was standing back in the shadows, her face showing the slight signs of guilt.

"Oh Darien" Raye crooned, as a last resort to get him back on her side, but then again he was never on her side and damned if she knew that.

"They called me and Lita gay, it was so upsetting." Raye looked down at the group, in attempt to look sad. "They should be the ones made to apologize"

Darien looked at Raye with an all-knowing look. She tried to save as much dignity as she could as that look he was giving her was currently stripping it all away and making her feel horrible.

The only two people who didn't say anything were Mina and Ken, as they both thought that it was required of them to not do anything, and instead sit back and observe and 'Serena could look after herself, they reasoned unsurely'.

Darien took a step towards Serena, his dark hair gleaming in the soft glow of the light above them. He appeared so angelic as his soft blue eyes looked apologetically at Serena's.

"I'm sorry about this" He told her. "If there is anything that I could do you make it up to all of you" He gestured at Ken and Mina.

Serena glanced at him, unsure of whether he was patronizing her on not. She honestly couldn't tell, maybe he was doing this so they would embarrass them, or maybe Darien would turn back around and declare to the whole student body what losers they are. Not that the 'popular people' hadn't done that before. Even Darien's reputation preceded him as nice, caring and wise, yet Serena couldn't help but look into his eyes for any hint of what he may actually be feeling, but what she didn't know, was what Darien really was like.

So what if his reputation was just really fake?

'He did have the power to do that', Serena reasoned, still looking deep within his eyes.

After no finding anything to support her case, she took a step back.

There was no way that she was going to trust him after what his friends had done to her and her friends so she turned around and got ready to exit.

"No way" She called after her. "Why should I trust you when your one

of them."

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Mina and Ken ran to catch up with her.

"What were you thinking? Ken asked. "You could have just accepted his apology"

Serena turned around to face him. "I'm not sure." She told him. "But there is just one thing that I can't do, and I can't trust him"

Ken sighed. "Trust him, no just agree with him. We don't need anymore trouble now, we have our fair share."

Moving closer to her, he softly touched her cheek, in a reassuring way. "I also care about you; you don't need any of this crap anymore. You are so much better than that"

Mina, who was on the outskirts carefully observing her friends, decided to move in closer to them.

She hugged Serena tightly.

"There is one thing that I don't want for you and that is for you to be unhappy. We will always be there for you" She glanced at Ken quickly to see if he'd protest. "And you are the best friend that a girl can have,"

Serena pulled away from Mina, and smiled softly. "Thank you guys"

She smiled at Ken. "Thank you for being there"

Serena then looked at both of them carefully. "I understand what you mean, but I can take care of myself and that is what I will continue to do."

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AN: Sorry for the long update, it has just been within the past week when I've been able to actually writing something. My writers block had been so bad, my ideas had altogether stopped.

Right now I will be trying to update my stories and hopefully try to complete them. Constructive criticism is very welcome.