A/N: OMG guys I am so sorry for the delay on this chapter I have finals this week and have been working a ton at my job these past few weeks due to the holiday season. Its been quite hectic but none the less here is the next chapter. Hope you all love it.

Serena's alarm rang through the air bright and early at seven A.M waking her from her sleep. Serena groaned out and hit the alarm off and did a quick stretch before finally rolling out of bed to get ready to babysit for the day. Beryl hadn't quite mentioned how long she would be there for the day so Serena just decided to be prepared and shower and get a good meal in her stomach just in case today would be a long day. She hadn't slept well the night before from the pent up anxiety in her. Something inside her tugged at the feeling and she were almost positive she was just nervous about Beryl again. Serena pushed those feelings aside and grabbed her bath towel and began to trudge her way to the bathroom where she started her morning ritual of brushing her teeth while the water in the shower heated up, finally getting in the shower when the water was steaming her bathroom up, washing her ever long hair, bathing herself, then getting out and drying herself off, and then finally brushing and styling her ever long golden locks. Once her bathroom ritual for the morning was complete she headed back to her room where she began to scan through all of her clothes trying to pick out the perfect outfit she could move comfortably in to keep up with the little one but also screamed I am a responsible not trashy teenage girl. She finally agreed on a pair jeans she could actually move in and a black tank with a pink and black flannel over it. Once satisfied with her outfit she put on some light natural makeup and headed downstairs to an empty kitchen. She then proceeded to pore herself a decent bowel of fruit loops and then sat down in front of the TV and put some cartoons to entertain herself while she enjoyed her breakfast. Once finished with her bowel she cleaned up and turned the TV off and grabbed her bag, the coloring book, and crayons for the little one before leaving.

The walk to Beryl's house was quite far and Serena gave herself an hour just to be sure she would be on time since she did have tendencies to be late or at least in her past has been late on a number of occasions before.

After a while of walking Serena finally approached the address she had been given by Beryl to come to today. Before going up to the door Serena pondered at the look of their home. Their home was modest in size or so it appeared houses can be larger unknowingly. It also screamed modern, instead of bushes, flowers, and a white picket fence the house had white stones instead of grass and two concrete white pillars in front of their walkway with one painted with their house number. Serena also took note that there was only one car parked in their driveway and the car was quite luxurious. It was a black range rover SUV. Everything about the home screamed money.

Finally after some time analyzing Serena took a breath and approached the black painted door and knocked steadily and waited. The door quickly opened and Serena was quite shocked to see no one before her to greet her but quickly look down to notice a pair of bright blue eyes looking up at her. She noticed the dark black hair that fell at the girl's shoulders and pondered where she got the hair color from.

"Mommy the lady is at the door," The little girl yelled.

Serena crouched down to the girl's level and held a hand to her, "Hi I am Serena what's your name?"

"Hotaru," she said shyly and took Serena's hand and shook it.

"Nice to meet you Hotaru, and we are going to have a blast today," Serena smiled and then stood back up when she noticed Beryl approaching the door.

"Oh thank God you're early my plane leaves soon, I left some notes and money on the kitchen table, and my husband won't be back till after dinner time so I hope you don't mind being home till late I am sure he can drive you home tonight though," Beryl said in a rush, "I better leave."

She quickly planted a kiss on Hotaru's head and then took off with her bags to her car and drove off leaving the two be.

Once inside the house Serena headed over to the kitchen table and took a look at Beryl's notes on her daughter.

'Serena,

I left you $10 for food tonight feel free to order whatever $10 can get you. She has no allergies but she is a very picky eater. Don't let her go outside alone and make sure she is in bed by eight if my husband is late getting home.

Thanks again.

Beryl.'
Though her notes weren't too thorough Serena already figured out what they would do today. First she would let Hotaru play inside for a bit, then they would have some lunch, then she would take her to the park for a while hopefully up until dinner, and then that would be there day. However ten dollars didn't give them much for dinner so Serena was beginning to think of what to make for dinner or if she would have to pitch her own money in for dinner.

"Hey Hotaru," Serena called out.

"Yes," Hotaru said as she ran up to Serena.

"I got you something to play with while I am with you today," Serena said while she watched the little girl's smile begin to grow big with anticipation on whatever Serena got her.

Serena then grabbed the coloring book and crayons out of her bag and handed to Hotaru, "Your mom said you loved my little pony and I thought maybe you would like to color them," Serena smiled hoping she did well on the small gift.

"Thank you," Hotaru squealed and jumped up and down in excitement and darted to the chair of the kitchen table where she quickly got up onto the chair and plopped the coloring book onto the surface of the table and began to browse through the pages trying to decide what pony to color in first.

Serena giggled at her excitement glad she did a job well done thus far in the day. She really already loved Beryl's daughter and was happy she was so easy and sweet to watch. It gave her great pleasure knowing her job would be quite easy and not to stressful.

While Hotaru colored away into her new coloring book Serena began to explore the house. Beryl hadn't offered her a tour before she took off so Serena decided she would snoop a bit on her own. She began to explore the downstairs of the house first. She had already seen the living room and kitchen. She headed down a hall that lead to three different doors. The first one she opened appeared to be a linen closet with various towels and blankets in the shelves. She closed the door and then headed to the adjacent door which was covered in pink sticky flowers. Even before entering she knew it was Hotaru's room. She opened the door still curious to see what her room looked like.

Her room was decorated in pale pink and lavender. Her floor was covered in various toys of my little ponies and barbies. She had a smaller kids bed that reminded Serena of a little princess bed with the veil around it. She giggled at how much Hotaru reminded Serena of her younger self and then closed the door to her room and headed towards the last door in the hall. She opened the door to what seemed to be a guest bathroom due to how clean it was. It was practically spotless. Serena took a mental note of where the bathroom was for future needs and closed the door and began to head back out to the living room where the stairs were to upper level of the home. She quickly checked on Hotaru noting she was still quite busy coloring before heading up the stairs. Upstairs only had two doors. Serena went through the first door and noticed they had a guest bedroom that was decorated in white and tan coloring which was very bland but perfect for any guest. Not exactly how Serena planned to ever decorate a room in her house one day. She then turned and headed to the last room in the house. There were double doors to this room which made Serena know it was the master bedroom.

She knew in a sense Beryl wouldn't appreciate her snooping through her room but Serena was always a curious one. She couldn't help herself. She entered through the doors and noticed how gorgeous everything was. The bed was decorated with red satin sheets and plush black comforter with the fluffiest black pillows spread across the bed that just called Serena to nap on it. She stepped closer towards the bed noticing how sleek it looked with not one wrinkle making Serena ponder if Beryl and her husband actually slept in here. Serena then noticed a TV on a stand across from the bed with a stack of DVDs. Serena began to look through the titles and groaned at how boring they all were. Not one was good it was like those sappy old people movies that the whole purpose was to make you cry. After shuffling through the DVDs she made her way to the vanity in the room which had to be Beryl's due to the perfumes laid ever so neatly on it.

Again Serena just couldn't help herself and picked up one of the bottles that just called to her. It read moonlight and almost looked unused. She spritzed some on her wrist and brought it to her nose to smell the enchanting smell of roses and amber. She groaned at the smell and how good it smelt and spritzed a little more on her neck and put it back down on the vanity. She then made her way over to the bathroom attached the bedroom and pondered at how clean it was also in here.

'Do they have a maid? How do people keep a house this clean when they work so much?' Serena thought to herself. She then made her way over to one of the closets attached to the room and noted it was the husband's closet. The closet varied in different satin button up shirts in almost every color and then some other types of casual men's ware. Serena felt the need to reach out and touch one of the shirts and smiled to herself hoping one day her own husband would have good taste like Beryl's husband did. Serena then left the closet and waltzed over towards the remaining closet that had to be Beryl's. She opened the door and completely gasped. It was like a girl heaven in there. Varied designer shoes lay across the floor neatly. Serena had been to young and cheap to ever have such nice things but didn't mean she couldn't appreciate them. She never saw the things as practical though and couldn't even believe Beryl had so many pairs it was like being in the store. She then took a look at the clothing the woman possessed and was shocked to see so many tight outfits. Almost disappointed though she imagined something much more formal due to the imagery the house was giving her of what kind of person Beryl was beside to the cold witch feeling Serena got from her.

"Serena why are you in mommy's closet?" Hotaru asked from behind.

Serena froze feeling her heart stop thinking for some reason it wasn't Hotaru who had caught her snooping.

"Oh sorry Hotaru I just get curious like a cat," Serena giggled patting the girl's head.

"Well I won't tell mommy she gets mad at curious cats."

"It'll be our secret," Serena smiled.

"I came to ask you can we go to the park?" Hotaru asked with a big smile.

"I don't see why not," Serena shrugged after looking down at her phone at the time noting it was only five and she had some time before she had to feed her.

The two put their shoes on and headed down the closest park to Hotaru's house. The two had played a varied amount of games that included hide and seek, tag, who could swing the highest, and rolling down the grassy hills at the park. After all the games they had played the sky had turned dark and it was already seven thirty.

"Hey kiddo lets go get some dinner," Serena said and then began to walk with the girl towards a diner nearby.

Once inside the diner the two sat at a table and began to order. Serena ordered a grilled cheese with tomatoes and Hotaru ordered some mac and cheese. The two were similar in the fact they were tornados when it came to food. Both laughed at each other's eating habits. Once both finished their meals Serena payed their bill and began to take Hotaru home thinking by now her father had to be home and slightly worried. Once inside the home Serena noticed no one was home.

She noticed the time was already eight thirty and gasped noticing she was slightly late on Hotaru's bed time, "Hotaru go get changed and get to bed it's past your bed time," Serena said ushering the girl to her room.

"But I am not tired," Hotaru stomped her feet.

"Yes but you will be here soon," Serena said sternly.

"I don't want to go to bed," She whined.

"Well just go get changed and maybe I'll let you watch some my little pony in your room till you fall asleep," Serena smiled.

"Deal," Hotaru shouted and darted off to her room to go change.

After a few short minutes Hotaru yelled out, "I am ready for bed!"

Serena headed into her room and noticed Hotaru didn't lie and was in fact in her pajamas in her bed waiting for Serena to put my little pony on.

"A deal is a deal but please do try to sleep," She said as she turned on Hotaru's TV on to my little pony before turning off her lights and leaving her room.

Serena then yawned herself and made her way out to the living room and turned on the TV to distract herself while she waited for Hotaru's dad to return home. He sure was late though.

Another hour had passed and Serena got up real quick to check on Hotaru and noticed she was fast asleep in her bed while her TV still played her show. She turned her TV off and quietly left the room and shut the door behind her. Once out of her room she made her way back out to the living room where she heard the front doors lock turn and the door open.

"Hey sorry I am so late," a very familiar voice said.

Serena quickly turned around to see whose voice that belonged to.

"Darien?" She gasped.

A/N: Aren't I just cruel? Haha more soon I promise. Please review.