Know the person you're sleeping with.
Serena stood beside Darien waiting for him to start talking again. She began to feel extremely nervous. She has wanted Darien to open up about his past for so long and now that it is finally happening she was unsure she still wanted to know. Serena began to feel her body freeze over as Darien's lips opened.
" Ok well here is the truth. I have been avoiding it for so long trying to tell myself it was just a bad dream and did not really happen but I know better."
Serena could feel Darien's hurt just by looking into his glazed over eyes. Did she really want him to uncover such a depressing memory from his past?
She began walking closer to him to try and snap him back to reality but he turned his head away from hers and continued his story.
" I had just started my University degree for teaching when I met…. When I met Anne." Darien said fighting back tears.
That's it Serena couldn't put him through so much pain, maybe it was better for him not to uncover this memory to her.
"Darien that's enough, I can't stand seeing you in so much pain just to remember this memory." Serena said grabbing hold of Darien's hand. His eyes changed to a deep passionate blue as he looked down at Serena.
"But I have to Serena, I think talking about it may actually help me get passed it and be able to move on with my life." Darien answered letting go of Serena's arms and walked over to the window in the top right hand corner of the room.
"We actually met in that courtyard next to those rose bushes. We were so young and innocent. I fell hard for her, she was like no one else I had ever met." Serena just starred at him in silence, listening to every word he said.
"We were taking the same course in teaching so we began talking instantly about things we had in common, which turned out to be a lot. After being friends for a year we both decided we wanted more from this friendship and moved it up a step. After that, things just got heated way to quickly, I fell way to hard for this girl and thought she was feeling the same things for me but obviously it wasn't reciprocated. "
'Oh no what did this women do to him?' Serena said feeling his pain when thinking about Seiya.
"Well anyway after about two years of going out I decided to ask Anne to marry me." Darien paused for a moment, feeling like he couldn't go on. Tears began forming in his eyes.
"You don't have to cont…"
"And she said yes. I thought I was the luckiest man on this planet until the second rehearsal night. I found my bride to be and my best friend at the time having sex in my car, while she was still in the wedding dress she was going to wear to hers and my wedding!"
Serena gasped,
'Ok his story beats her one by far.'
"What happened after that?" Serena said walking closer to him.
"I confronted her later that night and she confessed everything. She had said that she was getting cold feet about our wedding and screwed Jadeite because she wanted to know if she still had feelings for me. After she said she felt nothing for him and begged me to forgive her I did. Stupid I know but I loved her so dam much I didn't want to lose her. So I became the third wheel. Unknowing to me at the time, was her little affairs with Jadeite, they had not deceased. I only found this out after I married the tramp." Darien began raising his voice as he hit the wall.
"I ended it immediately once I found out her affairs had not finished. I remember she threatened that if I broke it off she would make the divorce extremely messy and take everything I owned. I didn't know what to do." Darien said closing his eyes to try and hide his pain from Serena. Serena felt so bad for Darien, she had never seen this side of Darien so broken and vulnerable, she began to feel closer to him once more. She felt privileged that he was sharing this information with her.
"But Andrew helped me see straight, I couldn't stay with her on the bases of her threat so I ended it and it was messy just as she promised. The divorce arrangements went for months! But when it was finally through I didn't lose everything but she did get more then she deserved." Darien said with true hatred in his eyes.
Serena did not speak; she had no idea what to say to him. They stood in silence for at least ten minutes until Darien finally spoke. He turned to Serena and said,
"Do you understand now why I reacted the way I did when seeing you and Seiya?" Serena nodded finally understanding.
"I understand, but now you must understand my situation with Seiya, it is not what you think. It is nothing at all like Anne. I would never ever hurt you like she did, understand me?" Serena said grabbing both of his hands hard giving him a strong stare to show her innocence to him. He searched her eyes for a while but saw no sign of lies so nodded.
She began to explain her situation with Seiya again and was thrilled that he actually listened this time.
"So he just broke it off like that at your graduation?" Darien said stunned by the end of her story. She just nodded remembering how hurt she had been from Seiya.
"See we aren't so different after all, we have both been hurt by people we loved dearly. But I don't want to lose you too because I care for you." Serena said kissing him softly on his lips.
" I don't want to lose you either, but lets just take it a little slower this time round. I want to get to know you better how about I take you on a date." Serena laughed at this they had slept together at least three times yet have not gone on a first date. Darien picked this up too and began to laugh as he wrapped his arms around Serena and gave her a long, tight hug.
After finding out that Mina was the one that caught Ami and Greg kissing, Ami ran out of Greg's room in search for Mina but could not find her anywhere. After searching for at least three hours she gave up and just waited in their dorm for her to come there.
Mina had run to Leo's coffee shop and just collapsed into one of the plastic chairs out the front and waited for a waiter. She couldn't believe what she had seen but she had to trust in her sight. She placed her head in her hands. How could she be so stupid? Of course those two liked each other it was obvious there was chemistry between them.
'Guess I just didn't notice. Or didn't want to notice.' Mina thought as she sighed loudly.
"Wow someone seems down in the dumps." A smooth male voice said standing beside her. Mina startled, jumped in her seat.
"Oh wow I am sorry didn't mean to startle you." He said scratching the back of his head letting out a chuckle.
"No no it's cool, my mind was planets away." Mina said looking up to the waiter. She gave him a confused stare, she thought she knew all the waiters who worked here, and she came by frequently enough.
"My name is Andrew, I am knew here." Andrew said taking out a pad from his apron.
"Hi my name is Mina." Mina said in a sad tone. Usually she would have jumped to the opportunity of flirting with this hunk and getting his number but she just didn't want to. She was sick of all that.
"What can I get you Mina?" Andrew said admiring her long golden hair.
"A chocolate milkshake. Actually better make it a double choc." She said putting down the menu and collapsing in her hands again. Andrew stared in confusion; he wondered how someone so beautiful could be so sad.
After about ten minutes Andrew returned with her double choc milkshake.
"Here you go." Andrew said placing it carefully on the table. Mina lifted her head from her hands to reach for her purse.
"How much do I owe you?" Mina said looking through her purse.
Andrew starred in confusion she was showing not even the slightest interest in him, was he that ugly? No no of course not, she must have a boyfriend. Yes a boyfriend that must be it Andrew thought.
"No charge." Andrew said, hoping for a little eye contact, it worked.
"Excuse me?" Mina said looking up at Andrew confused.
"It's on the house." He said smiling and gave her a wink with his left eye and walked back inside the shop. Mina was shocked; she got something for free without using her 'assets'. (Flirting, showing skin, smiling, showing cleavage, etc.)
'Hmm strange.' Mina thought as she got stuck into her double choc milkshake.
Once Mina had finished her milkshake she got up out of her chair and picked up her bag, which was hanging on the chair beside her. Someone from inside noticed she was getting up to leave. He grabbed a cloth and a bottle of cleaning spray and headed outside.
"I hope you enjoyed the milkshake." Andrew said to the back of Mina. She stopped and turned around.
"Yes thank you very much, it was very kind of you giving it to me for free." Mina said smiling at him, she gave him a bow and turned around ready to walk off.
"I hope I see you around here some time soon." Andrew said not wanting to give up on this blonde beauty. She just waved back and kept walking, she was stunned. Someone was showing her interest and she was only being herself she hadn't even began her flirting games and her makeup was terrible in this light.
'Odd.' She thought. Though he was very attractive Mina had had enough of boys for one day, they always seem to like someone else who doesn't even flirt with them.
Then suddenly a light switch on within Mina.
'Maybe guys like girls to be themselves. They could be intimidated by those who flirt hardcore with them, it may scare them.' She thought with memories of the past to support this.
'Interesting.' She thought as she walked down the street back to the University.
Hey guys sorry it took me awhile to update, I was on a youth camp for a week. So when I got back I quickly wrote you guys another chapter, so I apologize for grammar and spelling problems.
I hope you liked the chapter and I promise the next chapter will not take as long to update.
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