Chapter 2

Two days later, Restaurant Café "Nevantroni".

Darien Shields was sitting in the restaurant-cafe of his best friend, trying to enjoy his coffee. A blonde man with blue eyes and a huge smile on his face, was trying to sneak behind the Darien and scare him. The ebony – haired man raised an eyebrow and placed down his cup of coffee.

"Don't even try it, Andrew, I know it is you and there is not a chance for you to scare me, so cut it off!" 'so called Andrew' stopped on his tracks.

"Damn, Dare, you are not funny, how did you knew that I was behind you?" Darien turned his head on his friend.

"Andrew, you are trying this every time I am coming here… and besides then you are learning about fighting skills somehow you manage to sense that someone is sneaking behind you." Chuckled Darien.

"Uh, man, I thought that you had stopped the lessons long time ago, you said that you hadn't even time to come to see your best friends on week-days but you still going on this lessons every day …but look what I will say to you I will doing this every time you coming here, so it will be some kind of training for you!"

"I can't imagine why this restaurant is going so well then his owner is total idiot." Said Darien with the fake serious voice.

"You must know that you hurt my feelings, Dare, so anyway that so 'called idiot' has very smart wife and that's why the restaurant going so well." Answered Andrew with mischievous in his eyes.

" By the way, how is Lita?"

"She is great…but for our anniversary she bought me a tie and before I opened the package I promised that I will wearing it always."

"And what wrong with that?"

"Well this tie is not one of my taste….O, my God she is coming here!"

"What?"

"Lita she is coming here, hide me please…oh, man.." Andrew run to the counter and ducked doing something that Darien couldn't see, in the same time a tall brunette approached Darien.

"Hi, Lita!" Lita didn't looked at him

"Where is he?" she asked, Darien looked at her confused.

"Who, Lita?"

"Andrew!" she called her husband, Darien noticed some movements behind the counter, and then behind the counter jerked Andrew.

"Hi, honey-buns, I didn't heard you come in." he moved to kiss her but she refused.

"Lizzie told me that you weren't wearing your tie."

"Don't listen to her she is been acting strange lately, she broke up with her boyfriend…look, I am wearing it now." He pointed on his tie, Darien tried to hold the laugh and it came out as chuckle; before Andrew 'disappeared' he was wearing a dark blue tie, now he was wearing light pink tie with green flowers on it.

"And didn't I told you that Darien bought a house, a whole mansion no less. Tell Lita the big news, Dare."

"Yes, and I am moving in today, all of my things is already there, not if were too many things to move, all that I will need is already in the house… if you could only see the library, I think it is even bigger than the National, and some books…I think they are ancient…." The fellow friend of Andrew Jordan was starting to bubble like a teenage in order to save his friend, but there was no use, Mrs. Jordan was starting to getting annoyed, very annoyed, Andrew seeing this became nervous.

"Dare, stop the bubbling right now, you are not helping." He whispered. Yeah, Lita can be very scary than she is angry, but after all she is still a woman, a very sweet one in the matter of fact. She is a great cook and one of her favourite hobbies is gardening, but she is still a very taught competitor in karate.

"Ok, Drew, I have to go anyway, I must meet the butler and the maids today, so Bye!" he said as he already was near the exit. Then he exited from the restaurant he mumbled "And good luck."

The road to the mansion was very quiet, Darien was thinking that it was a good thing that the mansion was surrounded with thick forest, it was very nice exactly what he needed, away from all the world and all the work he must do in the office, the worst part being a businessman is that you never have a real vacations. And I deserve a good vacations, for how long I was working without vacations, my last vacations were then Drew married and it was only because I the groom's man, it was three years ago…Oh, I forgot about Andrew, it will be good if I called him then I arrive in the mansion, to be sure he is ok…I just wondering if the maids and the butler know something about the girl who died there, I think they should know they were living there for so long. Ah, there is the mansion.

Mansion, "Rose Heaven", 5:15 P.M.

A red sport car stopped in front of the gates of the mansion "Rose Heaven", a tall man with white hair and blue eyes and in uniform of butler stood on the other side of gates, then he noticed the car he opened the gates and motioned to the driver to go to the house.

Darien looked at the man he thought would be probably butler. Then he came to the house the door opened a maid, or rather a very nice woman in her middle forties with long dark blue hair and mahogany eyes, she smiled warmly at him and opened the big doors widely, he came in and noticed that in the room were three others maids and a man. The maid who answered the door was the older so she spoke first.

"My name is Luna Crastvberik, I am the housekeeper and you had probably seen my husband in front of the gates his name is Artemis and he is the butler."

"At your services Mr. Shields."

Darien turned around to see as Artemis entered the hall and bowed slightly, Darien nodded.

"This is Ann Mounder one of the maids and her fiancée Alan Edelwoul he is the driver, and the youngest is my daughter Diana she is helping me with the kitchen."

Luna pointed first on the pair, they had both red hair, but Alan had green eyes and Ann had blue. And the girl no more than sixteen with grey hair and grey eyes, they were more light purple than grey, was the Luna's daughter.

"All the things that were send here are in your room, it is your clothes and some furniture it is all that you wanted to move here, is this right?"

Asked Artemis, Darien looked at him he reminded him a friend he has, same silver hair, but Artemis has blue eyes, Malcolm has silver eyes.

After a great tour around the house Luna was talking about their program.

"…Well the breakfast will be from seven in the morning to whatever hour you want, and supper before seven in the evening."

"Why can I have dinner in eight for example?"

"Well, you can eat whatever time you want but after seven there will be no one who can serve you."

"Why?"

"Well we are not living in the mansion, every one here has their own house outside the mansion, everyday we are leaving after sun set and coming back in the morning, it is the rules that had the last owner, but if you want you can change that."

"No it is fine with me. You are probably used to sleep in your own house."

"Yes, and it is not that far away from here it is about fifteen minutes with the car. And if you need anything you can call us whatever time you want, our phone number is in the main room near the phone, do not be ashamed if you need anything even in 3 in the morning, ok?"

"Sure, Mrs. Crastvberik, I hope that I will not need anything in that hour."

"Please Mr. Shields call me Luna."

"Ok, Luna, but don't call Mr. Shields, because I fell like I am fifty years old, and I am only twenty four, call me Darien, please."

"Fine, well Darien do you want something to eat because it is already six, and we will leave in an hour."

"Yes, I would love to, but can I first make a telephone call."

"Well, do whatever you want it is your home after all…ah, and I forgot if you get lost and if we are still here you can use the communication system it is in every room, it is very simple in use so I am sure I don't need to explain how to use it. And if we are not here use electronic map, it is shows where are you and how to go in the room you want, it is too in every room in this house. Cause this house is like labyrinth then I first came here to work I was lost many times, but thanks to the maps I always could find my way." Luna giggled, "Well, today is my special, spaghetti with meatballs, so make your call and come to the Dining room."

"That's my favourite, well I will go to make that call."

"Sure. See you later."

"Hey, Andrew, so what's up with Lita and you? Did you make it?"

"Hell sure I made it, can you call me later?"

"Are you ok, you sound out of breathe."

"I am busy now, can you call later?"

"No, I want to know what is happening there, where are you?"

"I am home."

"What are you doing?"

From the other line Darien heard some thumbs and then, a giggle.

"Hi, Darien! Can Andrew call you later, we are in the middle of something right now."

"Hey, Lita, what is he doing now?"

"He is receiving his punishment, right now!"

"What?"

Darien didn't received any answer but a beeping signalizing that the connection broke. Well, I am glad that Andrew is more than ok, now.

After the dinner, Luna and Artemis with their daughter said good night and leaved Darien alone with Alan and Ann. Ann went to made the bed and clear up in Darien's room, Alan stayed with Darien to accompany him.

"So, Alan you was working for the last owner for a long time?"

"Yes, my father was working for Tsukino's, then he passed away, Mr. Tsukino gave me the job, but truly they didn't needed a driver, I was only taking care of the cars, the only one who was using my services was Mrs. Tsukino, she was a bitchy lady, I think the only normal in this house was Ms. Tsukino."

"Why, do you say this about Mrs. Tsukino?"

"Well, Beryl Tsukino, I prefer Beryl Merrill cause she didn't deserved to call herself Tsukino, all of Tsukinos was kind people, she on the other way married Bryan for his money, anyway, she was cheating on him everybody knew it, well not everybody, Mr. Tsukino didn't knew, he is living in his own world, he is good man but blind with love…"

"Honey, come on I will be late for the appointment." Yelled Ann from the hallway, Alan got up from the leather couch he was sitting and bowed slightly to Darien.

"Well, it was nice to meet you, I and Ann will arrive at seven a.m. Good night."

"Good night, Alan, it was nice to meet you too."

Outside Alan and Ann made their way to Alan's car.

"The new boss, is very nice guy."

"Yes, he is. But nobody is better than Serenity, I miss her, Alan."

"We all miss her, Ann."

The pair got in the car and drive out from the mansion.

Mansion, "Rose Heaven", 3:00 A.M.

Darien was trying to get some sleep, but he couldn't, for him it was always a problem to sleep in new places. The room he got was the most big bedroom in the house, it was as big as his old apartment, well he never cared about size but how comfortable was it, well now he was feeling everything but cosy. His room was on second floor, with big balcony with view of the rose garden in front of the house; the room could be separated on three parts. The first was the living room, with red velvet couches and big screen TV and video system. The second part was the main bedroom, a king-sized bed and two bed tables and nothing more. The third part was the dressing room, there was all his suitcases and of course his own bathroom, with shower, sauna and Jacuzzi.

The thing Darien didn't liked was that it was too much red as colour, sure it was a good colour, he has a car of that color, but in this room it was too much, sheets of red silk, bed tables and furniture in living room from mahogany wood. With three words. Too much red.

In order to sleep Darien was counting Two hundred fifty two, two hundred fifty three, two hundred fifty four… thump was heard from downstairs ignore it Dar, two hundred…what was it?...oh, man, I will start again…one, two, three, four… more thumps were heard from downstairs Damn now I must go to see what was that.

Darien got up and exited from his bedroom, on the way downstairs he took an electronic map. So, now, if I go left I will enter the main living room…if I go right I will end up in the Fireplace room? Ok…in front of me kitchen, behind me the hall to enter Library, and the guest rooms. From where I heard the thumps? Kitchen? Well I will go to check the kitchen and take something to drink. He opened the door to the kitchen and trying to find the lights he bumped into something or rather someone, that someone was knocked out on the floor, finding the lights, he turned them on. On the floor before him was sitting a petite girl with very long silver hair and the most beautiful blue eyes Darien had ever seen, she was wearing a white sundress which was showing exactly the right curves on her body. She made a small squeak then the lights turned on, Darien looked at her with shocked expression.

"Who in the hell, are you!"

"Ughe…A very bad sleeper?"

To be continued…

So, do you like it? Hate it! Or may be you love it? So please review, give me some ideas, tell me the grammar mistakes, any threats? Anyway, review, and forgive me for not updating for so long time. Well, thanks for reading the story, see you later.

Kisses,

Hugs,

Lots of love,

Truly yours,

Darkness and Light.