Serena fumed and ranted at the Cherry shrine and even Rei didn't speak for a while. Then Mina cautiously spoke.
"Serena… Don't you think you've thought of enough ways to kill Darien?"
Serena turned her fury onto the next victim, though a little lessened.
"No way! There has to be infinite ways!"
Rei laughed. Mina slyly looked at the others and started her cornering.
"Don't you think Darien is handsome?"
Serena scowled but her face turned a little pinker.
"No! He's so cruel! He's a jerk, coward, and everything despicable!"
Lita decided to join seeing that Mina was getting somewhere and would win.
"Not even his dark blue eyes?"
"Or his ebony hair?"
Between the two of them, Mina and Lita did very well. Serena frantically tried to find help. Spotting Ami she called out forlornly.
" He's nothing like you say he is… right Ami?"
Ami nervously stuttered and was saved by the telephone ringing.
"Hello? Oh… Andrew… Hold on."
She handed the phone to Mina. Mina took the phone giving the relieved Serena a look that said 'I'm not finished.'
"Hello? … What about Serena? … Oh… Okay! Bye!"
She hung up and at once continued her pounce full scale.
"You like him don't you?"
Serena laughed nervously.
"I don't know what you're talking about. Andrew? He's nice, but he has Rita."
Mina poked her in the forehead.
"No dum-dum. Darien. You like Darien. You l-uh-v Darien."
Serena sweated now.
"Uh… No I don't! I mean uh… Why would I like him?"
Lita and Rei nudged each other and at the same time spoke.
"Fess up girl!"
They plopped her in the middle of the wooden floor and made a circle around her. Even Ami joined. Serena gulped and then sighed.
"Oh well… I might as well get it over with… IlikeDarienalotbuthedoesn'tlikemebackandwon'tlikemebackbecauseI'mtooyoungforhimandhewantsamatureladyandnotapatheticclumsygirlPlushehatesmeandIobligehimandhatehimback."
"Say that slower." Mina commanded.
Serena took a deep breath.
"I like Darien a lot but he doesn't like me back and won't like me back because I'm too young for him and he wants a mature lady and not a pathetic clumsy girl. Plus he hates me so I oblige him and hate him back."
"So you think he's handsome." Lita prodded.
"Yeah I do…"
Rei grinned.
"Okay Ami. You can stop it now."
Ami sheepishly brought a tape recorder to Serena's horror and her wail could be heard all the way to the arcade.
"What!"