-Bang!
"AH-Oomph!"
Serena Yelped as tripped and collided with the floor.
"Ow." She moaned sitting up on the blue and grey carpeting.
She was still in Darien's apartment building. In fact. She was just down the hall from his apartment.
She had been in such a hurry to get out of there she started running toward the elevator and tripped on her own feet.
She sighed.
"I'm so confused." She mumbled, and then she began to sniffle, trying to fight back the tears.
She leaned forward on her hands.
'I just don't know what to do. I never expected this to happen. I don't even know how I feel about him anymore. Everything was so much easier when he hated me and I hated him. It was easy, not confusing or hard.'
Her eyes scrunched shut as the tears started to pour.
'Why am I acting this way! Just yesterday I hated him… Or did I?'
She wiped her eyes.
'I'm just so confused…'
"Mam?"
Serena Gasped and spun around.
Blue eyes met blue.
"Mam?" A young woman protruded again.
"Oh." Serena's mind seemed to b e having a hard time switching gears.
She jus t looked at the woman a moment.
She really was quite beautiful.
She had On a Light grey Suit jacket and a matching skirt. A Light cream silk top was popping out of the jacket by the bust.
Her hair was a beautiful golden blonde, just a shade darker than Serena's, It was pulled back into a bun, and her eyes were a gorgeous dark blue. Her smile seemed warm and inviting.
Serena guessed her to be about Darien's age. 20..21 maybe.
"Mam?"
Serena's eyes bulged. She had just been sitting there gawking at this woman and hadn't said a word!
"Oh I'm uh uh I'm Fine!"
Serena smiled gleefully chuckling off her embarrassment.
"Might I ask, why are you sitting in the middle of the hall?"
Her words brought Serena to the realization that she still was sitting in the middle of the floor.
"Um."
The woman laughed. Her voice was so quiet and soothing. She seemed so elegant and lady-like.
She reached out her hand.
"Here, Let me help you."
Serena Smiled and took the woman's hand and allowed herself to be hoisted up.
"Thank you."
Serena said polity, as she stood in front of the woman.
The woman smiled.
"Its no trouble. Are you sure your alright?"
"Yeah."
"Well alright, now I'm terribly sorry, I don't mean to be rude but I need to be going."
"Oh no, its fine."
The woman smiled and turned slightly to leave.
"It was a pleasure to meet you miss-?"
"Serena Tsukino."
"Miss Tsukino."
Serena smiled.
The woman then turned and walked down the hall, Serena starred after her for a moment.
'Wow, That woman is so elegant and beautiful, I wonder if I'll be like that when I get older, I sure hope so.'
Serena smiled again and turned to head towards the elevator.
-
"Mmm."
Serena Smiled as the warm sun shone on her face.
It'd been 3 days since she had visited Darien's apartment.
Her cold was gone and she had had time to do a lot of thinking.
She hadn't seen nor spoken to Darien since that day.
Most of what she heard came through Raye or one of the other girls who had bumped into him.
They said that he was really embarrassed about what he had done and that he had just had one too many drinks.
"h'mm" Serena mumbled looking down at the blanket she was sitting on.
The girls had decided to have a picnic in the park since it was such a beautiful day outside.
It being a Saturday, they had off of school, so they thought it'd be fun to have a picnic and hang out.
Serena was glad for it.
It was so relaxing here… and they picked such a beautiful spot to lay the blanket down.
"Serena."
Mina chimed in from behind Serena.
"Yes miss V?" She mused back.
"Raye thought it might be fun to hang out at the Tokyo crystal resort's pool area."
"You mean the Tokyo Crystal resort that has that gigantic pool with the fountains, the umbrella shaded tables, hammocks and the cabana boys that serve you those drinks with the itty bitty umbrellas in them, THAT Tokyo Crystal Resort!"
"No, the other one." Mina bopped Serena on the top of her head. "Of course that one!"
"Ow, All I meant was its like impossible to get in there. You have to have a room, and the rooms cost more than I get in allowance in a year."
"Well." Mina beamed taking a seat next to Serena. "Chad took a part-time job there as the pool boy, So raye sweet talked him into helping us sneak in."
Serena's eyes shone with excitement.
"Well what are we waiting for!"
The girls smiled.
…
"Omigod! Mina!" Raye whispered to her friend, as they walked toward a vacant pool side table. "H.G.G at 10:00!"
Mina's eyes searched about frantically.
"HGG? Raye what does that mean?" Amy questioned.
The girls all sat down at the round glass table.
Raye and mina looked at each other, smiled and chimed in at the same time.
"HOT GORGEOUS GUY!"
Amy blushed and open her Literature book. She began to read
"H'mm. I think I'm gonna go lay down in one of those lawn chairs, Its easier for guys to see me over there."
Ray said getting up and walking towards the chairs that were placed just a few feet to the left of their table.
Serena smiled at her friends antics.
"I don't think raye needs to be sprawled out on a lawn chair for guys to notice her." Lita commented, referring to raye's bright red string bikini.
"Well, you certainly didn't try to 'Cover up.' either Lita." Mina pointed out looking at her friends dark green two piece halter style bathing suit which obviously showed off her larger chest.
"Alright miss push-up." Lita retorted back.
Mina looked down at her bright yellow bikini with the push up built in bra.
All the girls started to laugh.
"There is nothing wrong with a one piece." Amy piped in. Since she had on dark blue one piece that had white striped on the sides.
"That's right." Serena said agreeing. She too had on a one piece, it was light pink and had very thin straps.
It had a round circle cut into it near the top of the bathing suit, revealing a small bit of cleavage. The circle was held together by two strings at the top that were tied into a small bow.
"Yes Amy that's true," Mina started. " But at least Serena actually OWNS a two piece."
The girls all started to laugh again.
It was just harmless joking. All in good fun.
And it was fun. All the girls laughed at each other and themselves. Nobody took themselves too seriously.
"Hey, why don't we get some drinks?" Mina suggested.
The girls nodded.
"Now where's that cabana boy…" Mina pondered looking around for the man in orange. Then she spotted him, about 20 feet away serving another table that was on a different side of the pool.
"Oh foo, he's over there." Mina pouted.
Lita turned to look.
"Hey Serena look, isn't that Darien over there at that table?"
"what?" Serena questioned turning to look.
She froze, it IS Darien.
And.. He's dressed in a suit, and he's sitting with a older man who's also dressed in a suit.
'It must be a business lunch.' She thought.
Suddenly he glanced up, There eyes met.
He smiled slightly.
She blushed, and smiled back.
He blushed.
Then he quickly turned his attention back to the older gentleman who seemed to be rambling on about something or other.
Serena turned back and looked down at the table.
Then a waiter placed a pink colored drink in front of her in a pretty champagne glass.
She looked down at the drink and smiled.
Over these past few days she had done a lot of thinking.
A lot of soul searching, digging into her feelings, about how she felt, why she felt it, and what she was going to do about it.
Finally she came to a conclusion.
She loves him.
And the first chance she gets she's going to tell him.
But best of all, He loves her back. All that nonsense about him being drunk. Was just a cover-up that he tolled the girls. She knew the real reason why he was so upset. She knew how he had really felt. He tolled her himself. He loved her, and she loved him too. She just had to tell him.
'Should I tell him now?' She wondered.
She stood up and turned towards his direction.
She looked at him, He seemed to be chatting with the man he was with.
She quickly sat back down.
'No, I can't tell him now. He's having a business lunch. I could completely ruin it for him. No, I have to wait till he's alone. Then I'll tell him.'
"Sereeeennnaaaa!" Mina chimed in her ear. "There's a certain cabana boy who's checking you out at 12:00."
Serena peered up, to see a tall brown eyed, dirty blonde boy smiling at her from across the way. She blushed and looked down at the table. Then a thought struck her.
'Oh no! what if Darien saw that.'
Her head quickly snapped around to look at Darien.
He was gone.
The older gentleman was still there but Darien had disappeared.
'Maybe he went to the bathroom, good thing too. I wouldn't want him to get the wrong idea.'
She breathed out a long breath of relief.
Serena looked up at smiled at her friends who were laughing and carrying on.
'Everything is gonna be just fine.'
-
Smack!
His briefcase hit the table.
He swat the paper cup off the table and pounded his fists on the table.
"Da.met!"
His eyes scrunched shut.
"I completely blew that meeting."
He sighed, and walked over to his recliner and plopped in.
"Why did that Da..m Cabana boy have to look at her like that. Oh I could've just mangled his little face and oh!" Darien crumpled a piece of spare paper that was sitting on his end table.
He sighed.
"Who am I kidding."
Then he looked up at the ceiling.
"She's never gonna go for me. I just need to give it up and move on."
A little voice was playing at the back of his mind.
'Well how can you give up on the one you love?'
Darien looked straight ahead and answered out loud to himself.
"I have no choice."
-
Serena paced back and forth in her room.
"Darien I-"
She grunted.
"Darien we-"
She huffed.
"You see I- GRRRRR!"
She screamed in frustration.
"HOW AM I EVER GONNA TELL HIM IF I CAN"T EVEN GET THE WORDS RIGHT! AAAGHHH!"
She plopped on her bed.
"Hmph."
Tomorrow was the day she was going to tell him. Tomorrow was Monday, she would go to school and then she would go over to his place and tell him that she loves him too.
"Serena just chill," she tolled herself. "You'll get it out when the time is right. All you have to say is three little words. Just three words."
She breathed out a long breath.
"Tomorrow is going to be perfect Serena. Just perfect."
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