"What do you mean?!" cried Rini. Tears now rolled down her soft delicate cheeks as she got off Serena's bed and backed away from her. "You can't do this to me" she chocked. "This is my life and I want to live. You can't take this way from me! My real mommy and daddy would never do this to me. They actually LOVE me Serena. Do you even understand the meaning of LOVE? You're meant to be my future mother, my guardian and my friend. People like that don't do things like this to the people that they care about. Do you even care about me at all Serena?"

A feeling of dead weight sunk deep into Serena's stomach as her future daughter yelled at her. "I never though it could feel this bad" she thought to herself. "Not only have I hurt myself by doing this but I've also hurt a little girl, and not just any little girl but my little girl. I've hurt Rini"

"You should be ashamed of yourself" Rini cried a she ran out of Serena's room and out of the house, her sobs loud enough to be heard through Serena's open bedroom window.

"Tell me it's not true" Rini cried as soon as Darien opened his apartment door. Darien quietly scooped the weeping child into his arms and carried her inside. It hurt him to see her like this. Rini was a bright child. He knew that she would figure out as soon as Serena told her about their break up, that her future life would be at stake.

"She can't do this Darien!" Rini cried. "You're meant to be together forever. My own mommy and daddy told me so! They told me so Darien so it must be true, it has to be true. Please just talk to her and make her see that she's being a stupid Meatball Head. Please Darien"

The child in his arms was distraught; he could feel her tears against her neck and the wet patch that they had left on his jacket. He hugged her tightly, his own tears flowing freely now. He walked into the living room and sat Rini down on the couch, sitting next to her, holding her close to comfort her.

"Sometimes" he said quietly, trying to make sure she didn't hear him choke back his tears or hear the sadness in his voice. "Sometimes things just don't work out between two people and they need space. Sometimes during that time that they're alone they learn that they still love that other person and want to be with them for the rest of their lives and sometimes…". He couldn't help it now. The tears were flowing and he knew that Rini had noticed. He clasped his free hand to his eyes, trying to cover his shame from the little girl next to him.

"I don't want not to be born" Rini said, sobbing more like her mother now.

Darien's heart broken even more as his future daughter spoke these words to him. How could Serena, his one and only love and Rini's future mother, do this to them? Was she that selfish?

"No" Darien thought to himself. "She would have only ever have done this if she had a reason. She's a kind hearted person."

"Darien you have to help me!" cried Rini who was jerking back tears. She tugged at his arm. "You have to go talk to her and tell her how stupid she's being. If you don't I wont be born"

Darien pulled his arm away from the little girl and laid his back against the couch. "I'm sorry Rini." He said hoping she wouldn't hate him for this. "But I can't help you"

Rini started crying louder now as she got to her feet and left his sight much like her mother had done to him that very same afternoon.

Back at Raye's temple, all the girls sensed that there was something wrong with Serena.

"What's the matter what you Meatball Head" teases Raye, being the first of the girls to risk enough courage to ask her sad blond headed friend what was bothering her and making her so blue.

"Stop it Raye" said Amy, trying to be practical. "Your teasing won't fix this situation or encourage Serena to talk to us"

"Yeah c'mon Serena talk to us. If you do I promise I'll go a make you a big batch of brownies straight away" Lita bribed.

"Pfft" said Mina. "If Serena's sad then there's only one thing left to do…and that's to go shopping!"

The four girls began to squabble about whose idea was better and most likely the one to make Serena talk. They forgot about Serena even being in the room as she backed her way into a corner and rested her head on her knee, silently crying.