Hey, sorry it took so long! I've been working such odd hours! I'll try to update more, but I can't promise anything!
Chapter 3: The Past and the Future
Serena awoke to the doorbell. She had lain on the couch, physically and mentally drained from her tears and had fallen asleep. She glanced at the clock; she had been asleep for two hours.
The doorbell rang again and Serena dragged herself off the couch. "Coming!" She yelled.
Opening the door, she was just in time to catch her pink-haired daughter in her arms. "Hey, Mommy, guess what Daddy and I did?" The little girl said her arms still around her mother's neck.
"What?" She asked.
"We went to the kid museum. Daddy got put into a huge bubble and I laughed at him," Rini started her tale. "Then he put me into the huge bubble, it was so much fun. Then we went in it together. I wish you could've been there. I got cotton candy, too."
"Wow, sounds like you had fun."
Darien watched the interaction. He knew that Serena was a good mother, but he wished he had paid more attention when they were a whole family.
He knew why Serena had wanted a divorce, but he wished that she had given him a chance to fix what they had. If he had paid attention, he would have seen it, but he was too wrapped up in the case he was working on. If he could've, he would've given the case up, hell he would've quit work for his family. Whether Serena knew it or not, she was still part of his family, and nothing would change that.
Darien had his heart and mind set on getting Serena back. He would do anything and he meant anything.
His thoughts moved to a memory.
Flashback
Darien lay with Serena in his arms. They had been man and wife for three days and had spent all of those days together. As far as he was concerned they would never be apart again.
"Darien?" His name on his beloved's tongue interrupted his thoughts.
"Yeah, beautiful?"
"If I ever get mad enough to leave you, will you try everything to get me back?"
"What kind of question is that? Are you planning on getting mad at me soon?" Darien said teasingly. "You do know if you divorce me, I'm not that rich, right?"
Serena hit Darien's shoulder. "Shut up! I didn't marry you so I could get money by divorcing you. And I'm not planning on leaving you anytime soon, I just want to know that you would do anything to get me back."
"I would climb a mountain, swim an ocean, and go to heaven and hell to get you back." Darien said, seriously. "I never want to lose you. You're my other half, and without you, I couldn't function. So don't leave me, K?"
Serena giggled, "Okay. I love you, Dare."
"I love you, too, Sere." Darien said, watching as Serena's drowsy eyelids lowered.
End of Flashback
Darien gave Rini one last hug, before he left. One of these days, the leaving wouldn't feel so permanent, he promised himself.
Serena breathed a sigh of relief when he left. It wasn't that she didn't want him around; it was that he unnerved her.
Serena wasn't sure if she could take anymore of this, but as long as they had Rini, which would be quite some time, they would have to see each other and act appropriately.
