Author's note: I added more to chapter 2 b/c I didn't finished the chapter when I first posted it.
Chapter 2: Junior Year
It was September all over again and soon the school year would begin. Serena, her boys, and Andrew had moved into an apartment building that was down the street from Santa Clara. It was a 4 bedroom and 2 bathroom apartment with a kitchen and a large common that was used as the living room/dining room.
Serena had gotten the master bedroom with her own bathroom. Her boys had gotten another room, while Andrew had another room of his own. While the 4th room was used as the study for both Serena and Andrew and as well as the guestroom if they had any visitors.
Serena was gathering all of her books for her classes that were coming up in the next couple of days. Serena was thinking, 'What am I going to do if I run into Darien? What am I going to tell him? I mean will he even talk to me?' Just as she was thinking all of this she heard, "Mommy…" from 2 little boys tugging at her pants. She looked down smiling at her boys, "Yes, my dears. What is it that you would like?" then looking at the time to realize that it was dinner time. "Are you guys hungry?" she asked.
Geoff and Chris looking at her with huge wide eyes and answered, "Yes."
"Well then, I guess it's time for me to make dinner. Why don't you go ask if Uncle Andy is hungry?" she asked her boys and they ran off to look for their uncle, while Serena still thought, 'How am I to do this? Will he forgive me for not telling him sooner? Will he even want to be apart of their lives?' Once she had gotten her school things together she went to the kitchen and started to prepare their dinner for the night.
Serena had the body of ballet dancer, before she had the twins she had a slender body, one of a dancer. But since the birth of the twins, she had gained more curves in her body. But she still had her long silver blonde locks that came to the middle of her back. She had crystalline blue eyes that had always shown every single emotion that held the truth.
While Serena was making dinner she could hear her boys in the background playing some type of game with Andrew. She had thought, 'Andrew is so good to me, I wouldn't be here without him. I wonder if he talks to Darien about me? Will Darien be as kind as Andrew has? Andrew is such a good friend and uncle to me and the boys. I'm glad that Andrew is here with me.'
Andrew comes over to the kitchen with two little boys all over him, asking Serena, "Are you ready Serena? In just a few days will be starting school and I know that we'll have some classes with Darien since we're all majoring in business."
Serena replied while chopping up some vegetables, "Honestly, I'm ready for the ass load of school work that is ahead of me, but I don't know if I'm ready to see Darien again."
"I can't believe that you're still planning on double majoring of psych and business. Do you know what you are going to do with those degrees after? And seriously don't even worry about Darien, just do your normal thing," said Andrew.
"Andy, you know that I've always planned on double majoring and wanting to do something that will help others and running my own business someday. I just hope that Mina can watch the kids while we're in class for the first couple of days. I still have to make some arrangement about the kids daycare while we're in class," said Serena as she was gathering the food together on the dinner table.
"Sere you know that Mina will watch them while we're in class. You don't have to send Geoff and Chris to daycare. I'm sure that your sister willing to do it while we're in school. Mina loves her newphews," said Andrew while the twins were climbing all over Andrew.
"Yeah I know that Mina would watch the boys, but I know that she's working on her fashion career. I know that she loves the twins to death, but she can't watch them all the time. She's not the type to watch all the twins for more than a couple of hours. Plus they're in their terrible twos," said Serena, "Dinner's ready."
"Boys, go wash your hands," said Andrew as he was pushed the boys to the bathroom, "Mina will be fine. Plus she has her roommate as a back up."
"Andrew as much as I would love to the leave the boys with Mina and Lita all the time, but sometimes the boys can be a little too much for them to handle. Plus I saw a daycare center a couple of blocks around the corner from here," said Serena as she sat down at the table.
"Sere, why don't you just wait and see, maybe Santa Clara has type of daycare center? You know that some of the professors and their families live on campus. I'm sure that there's some type of care on campus, but just let Mina and Lita watch the twins for a week or two and I'll help you look for a daycare thingy," said Andrew and the boys rushed over to the table and Andrew picked up Geoff and set him into his high chair and Serena picked up Chris and put him into his high chair.
"Fine, why don't we look for the campus daycare as we take the boys out for a walk tomorrow?" asked Serena as she placed the boys' food on the high chairs.
The Next Day
"Andy, do you have the boys' stroller ready?" asked Serena as she was getting the twins diaper bag together.
"Yes, Sere it's ready and I already have the boys strapped in," said Andrew as he was finishing strapping Chris in.
Serena and Andrew were walking the boys all over the campus. Serena decided to let the boys run around, as a tall and dark handsome man in background spotted the pair.
He noticed Andrew right away, but he saw someone who looked very familiar but at the same time couldn't tell who it was. For she was wearing green capri gaucho pants with black long sleeve shirt. She was wearing plain black scandals. Her hair was placed in a high ponytail that was gently blowing by the gentle winds. If only he could remember who woman was.
As he walked closer he saw two little boys. One who had hair as dark as him but with eyes that shone like someone he once knew. The 2nd boy had hair as the woman that was with Andrew, but with sapphire blue eyes. Darien heard both of the boys call out, "Unc Andy," for the boys couldn't completely say uncle at that time.
He saw the boys run and jump all over Andrew as he heard the woman say, "Chris, Geoff don't be so rough with Uncle Andrew." At that moment Darien knew who the woman was, 'It's SERENA! Those can't be her's!'
Just to prove Darien wrong, the little boys climbed down from Andrew and ran over to Serena calling her, "Mommy!" with the hugest smiles on the faces and Serena bent down with her arms wide open as her little ones ran into her arms, giving them a big bear hug.
It has been a little more than two years since Darien and Serena were together. The original reason why the broke up because Serena soon became over jealous at every girl that would enter into Darien's life, being afraid that she would lose him. Darien just couldn't take the jealousy anymore, he felt that Serena should have had more trust in him, but she tried really hard, but still her jealousy would get the better of her.
Darien couldn't believe that Serena had two kids already. But the real question to him was who were the boys' father? When he saw Andrew walking on campus, he was going to ask him about his classes for the trimester, but then he saw Serena, he once love of his life.
Darien had very much regretted breaking up with Serena. It wasn't like he hadn't tried to get back together with her, but he would say that he wanted to be with her, but he couldn't. So, because of his answer Serena had turned around and forever left him, even though he knew that she was hiding something from him.
Serena had Chris and Geoff at each hip carrying them while making silly jokes with them, but she heard someone call out Andrew's names and turned around and saw that it was Darien.
Someone that Serena was desperately trying to run from. But she knew that she would one day have to run into him, but why day of all days. 'Oh no! I don't want Darien to be here now! Now he has seen the boys. I don't want him asking about the boys' father, not quite yet. I wanted to slowly introduced the boys into his life slowly. This is great start of things…' her thoughts get interrupted by Darien.
"Hey Serena, it's been a long time since we last talked," said Darien who was confused, 'When did Serena have kids? Wait… WHY DIDN'T ANDREW TELL ME! I'm certainly going to kill Andrew when I talk to him alone,' thought Darien as he noticed how beautiful Serena looked. 'Since she has kids, I'm sure she is married,' as Darien tried to look for a wedding ring, but he couldn't tell because he couldn't see her left hand.
"Hi Darien," said Serena with the twins on each hip and then Geoff started to pull on Serena's hair. "Geoff, please let go of Mommy's hair. It's not nice to pull on my hair like that. Sorry Darien, I'm just a little busy. Andrew I'll see you back at the apartment," said Serena as she headed for the stroller to put the twins in.
"Okay Sere, I'll see you at the apartment later," said Andrew as he was saying good bye to the twins.
"Darien, it was nice to see you again. Maybe we'll run into each other another time," said Serena as she head off the administrations office.
"Bye Serena," said Darien as he watched Serena leave with the twins. Then Darien turns to Andrew, "Drew… when did this happen! Those boys can't be Serena's! Did she adopt some kids? What the hell! Plus I thought that you would tell me something that was as big as this! I mean Serena has kids!"
"Darien, don't be so angry. I'm sorry that I didn't tell you. I guess that it slipped my mind," said Andrew as he and Darien walked over to a bench and sat down to talk.
"IT SLIPPED YOUR MIND! How the hell can that just SLIP your mind! I would have to say that's big news!" explained a very upset Darien.
"Darien, I'm sorry dude, but seriously why should this matter to you? I mean you're the one who broke up with Serena when you started here," said Andrew.
"Yeah I know, but that still didn't mean that I didn't care or didn't want to be apart of her life," replied a hurt Darien, 'Serena is the one I want to be with, but how can Andrew not tell me something like this?' "Andrew, all those times we hung out, I did ask you how she was doing. I would think that by me asking questions like that would tell you that I still care for her," said Darien who seemed more sad about the whole situation between him and Serena.
"Alright man, it's my bad that I didn't notice how you felt when you asked the questions about Sere, but still you're the one who broke up with her and she had to move on with her life without you. She was really hurt by you leaving her. You definitely proved to her right about her one fear. The one fear that she never wanted to face and she did," said Andrew while he was remembering the times Serena had gone through since the break up. 'Poor Serena, it was really hard for her. She had to tell her parents that she was pregnant and they were ready to kick her out when they heard, but they didn't. She had to go through the pregnancy by herself, even though everybody did what they could to help her, but it wasn't the same if Darien could have been there,' thought Andrew.
"Drew, you knew that I had to break up with her. She was getting so… kinda just scary that I didn't know how or what she would react when I was hanging out with other people. It made me really uncomfortable, but that's not the point. I really want to know if the two little boys that I saw are Serena's?" asked Darien.
'How do I tell Darien that she was pregnant while she was still with him and that the boys are his but without revealing that!' thought Andrew as he said, "Yes, Darien. The twins are Serena's. Let's just say that she went through a tough time but at the same time those little boys have been the best thing for Serena. Please Dare, let's not talk about how it happened, just understand that it just happened. And she is still going through a hard enough time by being a full time student and mother. So please be gentle with her. Don't hurt her again."