Chapter 3. Swaying a Girls Heart.

Out With the Girls.

Andrew pulls his arm away from Darien and decides not to even answer his question. He quickly goes over to Serena who had been watching them from afar. Andrew takes back his apron and returns to his work.

Serena walks up to Darien and puts her hands on her waist. Darien looks up at her and wonders why she is looking at him in that way.

"What?" asks Darien.

"What did you do?" asks Serena.

"We were talking and…"

"You are quite the hopeless case." Serena puts her hand on her head and nods her head.

"I am not. He is." Darien glares at Andrew.

Serena sits back down in the booth and looks out the window. She sees some girls from her school with shopping bags and she knew they had to have gone shopping for their prom dresses. Serena sighs and pulls her eyes away from the window.

Darien could see what Serena was looking at and realized that her expression changed from being annoyed with him because of him and Andrew's fight, to sad. Andrew sent some other waiter to give Serena and Darien's milk shakes.

"Thanks," says Serena as starts on her milk shake.

Darien looks at Andrew who is still glaring at him. He avoids his gaze and looks over at Serena. Darien realizes that she is a very pretty girl and he had no idea why he never ever noticed. He guesses he was too busy being Mr. Popular to notice her. Darien then gets an idea. It was more just to spite Andrew for not answering his question.

"Serena," says Darien leaning in. Her eyes diverted from her shake to his eyes as she continues to sip her milk shake.

'He's got nice eyes. I never really noticed since he always has those sunglasses on. What's his deal with that?' Serena says this in her mind.

"Do you want to go to the prom with me?"

Serena's eyes widen and she spits out her milk shake, which hits Darien on his face. She starts to cough and breath heavily.

Andrew quickly makes his way to the booth to see what was the matter. He looks at Serena who couldn't get a word out cause she is choking on her milk shake. Andrew then looks at Darien who is trying to clean himself from the milk shake Serena spit at him. He sees Darien smiling and not minding that he just got spit on him.

"Serena are you okay?" asks Andrew.

Serena nods her head and tries to breath as best as she can. She coughs a little and gets her breathing under control.

"What happen?" asks Andrew shooting the question directly to Darien.

"I want to pay the check," says Darien as he pulls his wallet out. He places a ten dollar bill on the table then gets up. "She just needs some fresh air. See ya, Andrew." Darien takes Serena away from Andrew and out of the Crown not even letting Serena answer Andrews question.

Once the two were outside, Darien starts to laugh hysterically. Serena had no idea why. She then laughs with him as they walk down the street.

"I'm sorry I spit at you," says Serena feeling really embarrassed. "I didn't mean to. You caught me by surprise with…"

"Yeah, it was my fault," says Darien with his head down. He looks up at her. "I didn't expect that kind of response but I'm never going to forget it."

Serena blushes and smiles. She starts to fidget with her fingers and looks down at them as they continue to walk.

"You probably have a date already, right?"

Serena's eyes shot up and looks at him. She shyly nods her head no and Darien is surprise by it.

"You don't have to answer it right away."

"Okay," says Serena. The two remain quiet for a while. They arrive back at the school and walk up to his bike. Serena pulls away from him and the bike.

"Can I walk you home?"

"Sure."

Darien hands Serena his helmet for her to hold as he walks Serena and his bike a block to where she lives.

"Thanks for the milk shake."

"Anytime."

"I'll try to keep in my mouth next time."

"Good idea." Darien takes his helmet from her hands and puts it on. He gets on his bike and revs it up. Serena steps on the side walk and watches him ride away.

Serena walks into her house then closes the door. She then screams. Her mother comes running into the room where Serena is.

"Serena, honey what's wrong?" asks her mom thinking her daughter was seriously hurt.

"I just got ask to prom," says Serena with the biggest smile ever. She quickly runs upstairs and gets ready to e-mail her friends about it. They all instant message back saying 'WHAT!'

Serena then types 'We need to got to the mall tomorrow. I need help finding the best prom dress.' She then puts like twenty smiley faces after her message. Serena throws herself on her bed and her pet cat, Luna, purrs next to her.

"Luna I've died and gone to heaven," says Serena. She always love talking to her cat Luna. Sometimes she feels like she can answer her back even though she knows she can't really talk. "Darien ask me to the prom. Can you believe it. Senior year is going to be good."

The next day, the girls head to the mall for some serious shopping. Serena is so thrilled to be shopping for a prom dress. She was thinking of not going at all and stay home with her cat Luna, but now she had a date.

"I still find it kind of strange for Darien to ask you to the prom," says Lita. "He did just break up with his girlfriend."

"It does sound kind of strange that Darien would even talk you," says Raye. "Then alone take you out for milk shakes and ask you to the prom."

"Something is not right," says Mina. "It's not like there is something wrong with you, Serena, but why would he suddenly have an interest in you?"

"Stop it you guys," says Serena. "Okay, so he always made fun of me and called me meatball head but he's different now and has realize that I'm…"

"You're what?" asks Amy curious to hear what Serena is about to say.

"I'm…you guys are just jealous cause he didn't ask you."

"Serena I'm totally over my crush on him," says Raye. "You can have him all to yourself."

"We're getting off topic here," says Amy. "We came here to help Serena's pick a prom dress."

"Okay, so lets shop," says Lita.

The girls begin their shopping spree. They enter about four stores and Serena didn't like any of the dresses in them. Three hours later they were at their 11th store and Serena is trying on one of the dresses.

Meanwhile at the park, Darien and his jock friends were playing some football. The sun was scorching on their already tanned physiques and sweat was dripping from their brows. Andrew was there but he didn't want to be. They didn't have another player who'd join their game, which they played every Saturday afternoon.

"You're still not going to talk to me," says Darien to Andrew for the third time. Andrew just looks away. The only reason he was at Darien's side was because he was on his team. "Listen I'll let her down easy. I'll tell her it's me with the problem."

"That's the only true thing you'll say to her," says Andrew. "You just don't get it."

"Get what? I know you wouldn't have mind if I'd pick someone else. Why are you so hooked up on Serena?"

"Because she's a nice girl who deserves respect, not some idiot football player like you."

"So you do have feelings for her?" Darien gives Andrew a grin.

Andrew rolls his eyes then he caught the football. He throws it hard at Darien and he is pushed aback. Andrew just walks away from the field. Diamond and Rubeus come over to Darien.

"What's the matter with him?" asks Rubeus.

Darien breathing heavily looks up at them then turnsto look at Andrew walking out of the field. He shakes his head still thinking why Andrew is so interested in Serena.

AN: I'm a little hurt that I didn't get much reviews for chapter two. I hope Chapter 3 is more to your liking. Please review, it inspirse me.