6:00 P.M.

Darien's first day of school was over for the day, but he still felt bad about ditching Serena. She did say that he needed to make more friends than just her. That was the main reason that he moved away with his parents. All he wanted was Serena and no one else in this universe.

'Why do I always want Serena to come back, and to be back into my arms to hold her until no end,' he thought with shock.

Ring ring ring

He picked up his cell phone, "Hello."

"Darien, is Serena with you?" Rei asked.

"No, why do you ask? How did you get my cell number?"

"That is not the problem on how I got your number. She has gone missing! We tried her cell phone, checked all of her usual places, and we thought that she might have been with you."

He thought for a second of one place that she might be, "Rei, give me at least a couple of hours to find her. I might know where she is."

"Ok. Good luck finding her," he hung up.

'Please let her to be where I think she is at,' he thought desperately.

8:30 P.M.

Darien reached the park that was at the other side of town, and suspecting that she would be here. It was their favorite place to play at when they were kids. The fountain always light up at night, the sandbox that they first met, and the clubhouse that their families built.

'She has to be here somewhere,' he looked around and saw a light, 'Wait that light must from the clubhouse. Maybe she's there.'

He ran into the forest as his life depended on it to go find her. The bond that they had was more than they could have imagined. They were inseparable when they were together. Darien didn't want to lose that bond that they had. He didn't know what he would do if he would have lost Serena.

Darien finally reached to the clubhouse and grabbed a rock to bang on the wall of the structure. He threw it and made a loud noise.

"Serena, are you there? If you can hear me can you open the door? We need to talk," there was no response.

"Sere, what's wrong? You have been avoiding me ever since drama class. Is there something that you are not telling me?"

She opened the door and pulled out her hand, "Come on in? Give me your hand so I can help you in."

He was helped into the little room, observed the place, and trying to cheer her up, "Wow, I can't believe this place is still up I thought your family would take it down by now."

Serena sat on the couch and threw a tennis ball at the wall, "Yeah, it lasted longer than I thought," she said with a monotone voice, "So how was your day with the all powerful Samantha?"

"Sere, what is the matter with you? You've been acting strange ever since Drama class ended this morning. I've never seen you this way since your mother's death."

"There are things that are need to be said, there some others that not will not be heard, and this subject is the one that will not be heard," she stopped the ball.

"I have to know what is going on with you," there was a pause; "I'm worried about you. I'm worried that I'm going to lose my best friend. I'm not going to lose the only thing that I have left from my childhood."

"Well, you know Samantha. She is sort of my rival since middle school. Trying every way to out do what I do, and being better than me. I know why she is doing that, but she always have to pick on me. Picking on me, stealing my stuff, lying, backstabbing, ridiculing me, calling me names, and always trying to get me into trouble," she picked up the ball once more, and got up, "The most important one of all is stealing my life as we know it."

Serena threw the ball so hard that it went through the wall. She was feeling rage, anger, fury, hatred, viciousness, sadness, and depression. She fell on her knees and started to cry harder than she has ever done before. Wanting to kill Samantha for what she has done over the years, but she would never do that in her entire life. Serena would never be as heartless as her father was. Darien walked over to Serena, and wrapped his arms around her to ease the pain.

"It's alright Serena. Everything is going to be ok," he responds softly.

"No, it won't be alright! She will be traveling like a stalker and track me down until I kill myself. She won't stop until her job is done. Samantha is the hunter going after her prey, and I'm the one she's after," with deep depression.

"Meatball head, don't think like that. We'll think of something to get at her for what she did all those years ago," she nodded in agreement, "Come on the others are worried sick about you being missing."

"Yeah, it's getting late anyways. We have school in the morning, and I have to finish my homework for drama class."

"Do you need help with it?"

"No, I'll be ok with it. I've got it under control. Besides I can't ruin the surprise for the whole class. Even if it means not telling one of my classmates," she jumped out of the clubhouse.

Darien leaped out of the structure. They walked out of the wilderness, and into the open space of the park. Looking up at the evening sky, and seeing all the calmness of the sound in the surroundings. Serena soaked up the peace as if it was the very last moment of time.