A.N: So glad you guys liked my last chapter. I know some of you think the pairing with Andrew and Raye is weird, but I think it works well with the story. I seriously never thought about them being together, and as I wrote the story, I was like," Oh well! It's cute." So if anyone doesn't like the pairing of them, I'm sorry. You can just skip those parts. Though skipping some of those parts, you could lose some information and some foreshadowing of next chapters to come.

Thanks for the reviews!

P.S: I think this story is gonna be long… it's already longer then most people's… but yeah. LOL. I take advice and criticism pretty well, so if you have any, don't be afraid to throw some my way! Thanks

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Chapter 38: The Kiss

It was about 7:00 p.m. when Darien and Serena trotted into Marble Slab, a wonderful ice cream store. Of course Serena loved ice cream. What food did she not like? As they got in line, Darien's phone rang.

He let go of Serena's hand and pulled out his phone. The screen flashed," Rory," acrossed it.

"It's Rory," Darien said, looking at Serena. His voice had a hint of irritation and skepticism in it.

Serena shrugged," Answer it. See what she wants."

Darien gave a sigh, and flipped his phone open, and placed it on his ear.

"Hey, Rory," he greeted, looking down at his feet.

Rory's obnoxiously sweet voice came at the other end of the phone," Hey Darien! I'm sorry to be bothering you. I was wondering if I could have Serena's cell phone number. I thought I could give her a call sometime and we could hang out. Shop or something," she said.

"Oh, sure," Darien said, looking up at Serena with concerned eyes. "Hold on a minute, K?"

"Sure thing."

Darien covered his phone with his hand and whispered quietly to Serena. "She wants to know if she could have your cell phone number. She says she wants to hang out and shop with you sometime."

Serena thought about it for a moment, and then nodded. "I'm fine with that. I want to get to know her anyways," Serena answered, smiling.

Darien raised his eyebrows, and said," Okay then," and he talked into the phone again.

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Rory sat in her room, on her cell phone with Darien. Her plan was going to have to start at some point, and why not now? It was good timing. He was the one that suggested Serena and her becoming friends earlier in the day.

"Hey, Rory?" Darien's manly voice came back on the phone.

"Yeah?" Rory asked.

"She says it's fine. Her number is 201-4849," he told Rory by memory.

Rory quickly jotted the number down on a pad, and smiled to herself. "Thanks Dare. Tell her I'll call her sometime this week. Have fun," and she hung up.

Now, everything was set.

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The two couple at the fair met up at Brett's car at 7:15. Brett and Ami arrived first, Ami still gloating about the portrait that Brett had gotten her. She still couldn't even believe it! Brett took the painting and carefully placed it in the back of his trunk.

How did I get such a great guy? Ami thought to herself as she watched Brett gently handle the painting with care as he put it away. Ami turned her head and looked back at the lights and sound from the fair grounds. This was going to be one memory she would never forget. She tried to take a mental photograph of the fair and savior all the feelings and events that happened here. Everything that happened today, was like something you'd read from a novel. Like it was a book from Nicholas Sparks (Writer of A Walk To Remember and The Notebook, just f.y.i. incase you didn't know)…. But it was happening. And it was happening to her. And she took advantage of every moment of it.

As Ami looked at the fair background, she saw two shadows emerging, coming towards their car. The shadows were linked together. It was, of course, Andrew and Raye.

Ami grinned as they neared the car. She saw that Raye had a huge stuffed animal bear in one of her arms, and Andrew on the other. She was glowing. "Hey guys!" Ami greeted," Had fun?"

"Sure did," Raye smiled and turned to look at Andrew. "But I'm gonna have more fun when we get back, because Mr. Andrew Motoki here, has to kiss Darien," Raye bursted into giggles.

Andrew had obviously forgotten about their awkward bet, because he was not smiling anymore. He was now in a deep frown. Crap, he thought to himself. Why'd I have to make a damn bet? "Yeah," he mumbled at Ami's amused questioning look. "We had this gay bet thing. And she won. Now I have to kiss my best friend. And he's a dude. A very big dude who could mortally kill me if he wants too," Andrew added, trying to weasel his way out of the bet by applying sympathy.

Ami cracked a big smile, and tried to suppress her laughter, and in doing so, she snorted. Afterwards, she went into a nonstop laugh. The kind that makes your stomach hurt, makes you tear up, and makes you uncontrollably breathless.

Brett slammed down the trunk of his car, after making completely sure that the painting was secure, and wouldn't be damaged during the ride home. "What's goin on?" he asked as he looked at Ami who was bent over, holding her stomach laughing. Raye too had joined in with her, letting go of Andrew for the time being, but still holding on dearly to her bear, Art.

"Chicks," Andrew blurted out, smiling slightly. "You know how guys think that 'lesbian interaction' is hot? Well, I think they find 'guy homosexual interaction' amusing," Andrew explained.

Brett raised his eyebrow, looking baffled, but amused at the sight of the doubled-over girls. As Brett opened his mouth to ask, Andrew cut in.

"Dude, don't even ask. Or else we'll never get them to stop laughing," he shook his head as he watched Ami and Raye laugh even harder as they looked at him.

Brett just nodded, still confused, but he didn't want to know.

The girls simmered down on their laughing, but then started back up again when they looked at each other, and back up at Andrew.

Brett chuckled, and shook his head at his girlfriend. "Alright you," he said as he gently pushed her towards the passenger seat. "Let's go home."

Ami stopped laughing, but smiled widely as she breathed in raggedly, her vision blurred from tears of laughter. She climbed into the car, and shut the door, snickering from time to time.

"See you in the car," Brett said as he grinned and walked to the drivers seat and got in next to Ami.

Andrew had his hands in his pockets, and he was still awaiting for a very giggled up Raye to stop laughing. His head was tilted to the side as he watched Raye slowly contain herself.

"Oh…" she gasped after her long fits of laughter. "I'm sorry," she mumbled. "I cannot wait," she laughed again and got into the car.

Andrew gave a heavy a sigh, and slowly trudged to the other side of the car. "I'm doomed."

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Serena ordered a banana split Sundae with Darien. They sat at a small table, and ate their side of the ice cream in silence.

I can't help but think Rory's up to something again, Darien thought as he looked at Serena.

Serena picked the cherry off of the whip cream and stuck it in her mouth. Then her gaze went up and looked into Darien's blue eyes. She tilted her head and smiled," Something wrong?"

Darien smiled and shook his head. "No," he lied, spooning up some more ice cream.

"You're lying," Serena said quietly, shoving some more ice cream into her mouth, but not looking at him.

Darien frowned and looked up at her. "No I'm not."

Serena smiled and nodded her head," Yes you are! What's wrong? Just tell me."

Darien swallowed his food and looked back down at his ice cream and picked at it with his spoon. "I think Rory's up to something," answered.

"I think she is too. But we'll find out in time. You never know," she added.

"I guess," Darien mumbled as he finished up his half of the banana split. "I just really want to trust her. She never used to be so conniving. She's changed. A lot."

Serena shrugged her shoulders, and put her spoon down. "She likes you a lot. So that's why she's being like this. We just got to find her another guy or something."

"Yeah…. " Darien thought. "Serena! That's it. We'll find her another guy!"

Serena smiled and shook her head. "What other guy, Darien? The only two I know here, are already taken, or semi-taken."

"I'm sure Mina and Lita can find someone," Darien grinned.

"Mina and Lita…. Yes! We'll invite Rory to one of their parties!" Serena squealed at the thought.

"Looks like a plan," Darien said as he got up and put some tip money on the table. "I'll call them."

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Andrew, Brett, Ami, and Raye arrived to Serena's empty dorm room.

"Oh darn. Looks like Darien's not here. Too bad. I was so looking forwards to kissing him," Andrew said sarcastically as he headed out Ami's door room.

Raye ran after him and grabbed him by his arm. "Oh no you don't mister. You're going to sit here and wait for your one true love," she teased as she drawled him back into the room.

"Damnit. I was so close," Andrew said as he shook his head and followed Raye back into the room.

Brett and Ami smiled at Andrew as they sat on the couch comfortably. "I cannot believe you even took that bet with her," Brett said as he grinned.

"That's what you do when you're desperate," Andrew joked as he shrugged.

"If you wanted to kiss her, you could have just asked her," Ami said as she looked at Raye who was sitting on the floor.

Andrew grinned," Have you looked at her! If she didn't want me to kiss her, all she had to do was lay a sucker punch on me and I'd be down. I didn't want to risk it," he joked as he sat down on the bottom bunk.

Raye punched him on his leg, yelling,"Hey!" but smiling nonetheless.

"Ouch!" Andrew wailed, rubbing the sore spot on his leg. "See what I mean?"

Ami laughed and shook her head at the couple. Just then, the door opened, and in walked Serena and Darien.

"Hey guys!" Serena greeted, all smiles. "Did you guys have fun at the movies?"

"We didn't go watch the movie," Brett answered, waving at them. "We went to an Art Festival instead."

"Ohh," Serena replied. "Aww that sounds cute."

Darien walked in and took off his jacket and set it on a chair. "Hi everyone," he said smiling at all of his friends.

Andrew got up from the bunk bed and headed towards Darien. "I might as well get this over with," he said out lout, shaking his head.

Raye and Ami's eyes locked on Andrew's figure as he walked over towards Darien, who stood there, oblivious to what was about to happen to him.

Raye started to giggle, and Serena looked at her, raising a questioning eyebrow up at her.

Ami grinned at Serena and pointed to Darien. Serena frowned and looked over to Darien.

Andrew stood next to Darien. "Hey bro. How you doing?" he said nonchalantly.

"Fine," Darien said, looking a little confused as he noticed that everyone's eyes were on him and Andrew.

"Darien… I've been wanting to tell you something for a long time now, but I just didn't know how," Andrew started, a hint of a smile playing on his lips. Andrew thought that since he had to kiss Darien, why not make it funny?

Darien turned and looked at Andrew and frowned. "What's that?"

"I love you, Darien," Andrew answered, his face looking completely serious.

Darien looked startled and backed away a little. "Drew… what are you up to?"

Serena watched and her face immediately broke out into a grin. The look on Darien's face was just too funny! He looked scared and completely confused.

Andrew took two steps closer to Darien, trapping Darien to a wall. Darien's face was now in utter terror.

"Look man… I don't know what you're up to, but don't think I'm not gonna hurt y-"

Before Darien knew what was happening, Andrew grabbed Darien by the face, and pulled his face to his own, kissing Darien.

Darien's eyes widened in horror as Andrew kept a strong hold on Darien's head. Instinctively, Darien shoved Andrew away.

Everyone in the room cracked up laughing, the girls rolling around on the floor.

Andrew gained back his balance, and stood up straight, smiling. "You have such soft lips," he joked even further.

"Wh-what was that?" Darien said in rage.

"That was a kiss, Dare," Andrew answered, grinning. "And let me tell you. I felt it. The chemistry between us."

Darien looked at the girls and Brett who was trying not to laugh.

Raye controlled her laughter enough to say," It was a bet. He had to kiss you."

Darien looked from Raye, to Andrew, speechless.

"What? You didn't seriously think I WANTED to kiss you, did you?" Andrew said, chuckling.

Darien shook his head and walked over to the bed and sat down. "My best friend just kissed me…. On my lips," he said out loud, only causing everyone to laugh even harder.

Serena crawled over to Darien, giggling uncontrollably. "Aww," she said in between gasps of air. "I'm jealous," she teased.

"So tell me, Darien. Am I a good kisser?" Andrew badgered.

Darien grinned, and shook his head some more. "I don't even want to think about it. But you can rest assured, Drew, that I'm gonna get you back for that."

Andrew's smiling face, immediately fell at Darien's words. "Aww… come on Darien! Take a joke! It's not like I wanted to kiss you! It was a bet! It's not my fault!"

"Nope! You were stupid enough to take that bet, so I'm gonna get you back for that. It's only a matter of time, buddy," Darien said as he wrapped his arm around Serena's waist.

"Man…" Andrew said, looking down at the ground.

Raye smiled and walked over to Andrew, grabbing his hand. "I'll make it up to you."

Andrew raised up his eyes to look into hers. "Oh yeah? You're gonna somehow stop Darien from killing me in my sleep?"

Raye giggled and shook her head. She stepped in front of him, and kissed him.