Chapter 10 The Forgotten Pasts

I came out of the hospital dragging my feet to the opposite way of where Darien's car was parked. I didn't want to go to back to the apartment just yet, everything reminded me of Diamond. Heck I was holding his favorite jacket. I heard footsteps behind me. I turned around and it was Darien walking towards me. He's done more than enough to help me out and I didn't even say at least a Thank you. Maybe I should.

"Thanks," I smiled slowly up to him when he reached me.

"For what?" he asked nonchalantly.

"For tonight," I said and remembering everything that happened tonight as tears stated foaming around my eyes.

"It was nothing Serena, anybody could've done what I did," he said running his hands through this hair. I saw we

were in a different surrounding, there was a bench near a little pond. Suddenly I felt so weak.

"Can we sit there?" I asked him pointing at the direction where the bench was located.

"Sure," he said.

I sat down on the cold bench, still clutching on to the jacket. I started to smooth out the wrinkles when I felt something hard. It was in the left side of the jacket. I pulled it out slowly. It was a small blue velvet box. I slowly opened the box and was shocked by what was inside it. It was a beautiful encrusted diamond ring with a golden band and on the band it was written: TO MY ONLY LOVE SERENA. The tears were now flowing freely from my eyes now. Why did fate had to play cruel tricks on me again and again wasn't one enough? Darien's hand was on my shoulder. I quickly shit the box hoping the bad memories would go away too. I was going to be engaged tonight but like they say nothing lasts forever.

"Did you ever loose someone close to you?" I asked wondering out loud.

"Well I…" the way he said it, it was like he was taken aback from my question.

"I'm sorry I shouldn't have asked that," I said and standing up hastily from the bench. As I started to walk away I felt Darien's grip on my wrist, I turned around and saw Darien smiling.

"It's okay I don't mind," he said. I said down on the bench where I was first seated.

"So…" I said urging him to go on.

"My sister died in a car wreck along with her husband a couple of years ago, my family and I didn't take the news well but after Maya came into out lives everything was better and we went back to our daily lives," he said and going back himself to the past and remembering all the memories.

"Who's Maya?" I asked softly.

"My niece, Hannah's little daughter she was only one when her parents passed away but after that I've devoted my life to her even though I go on business trips I call her everyday if she's alright, she's only six but she's smarter than her actual age," he said and sighed heavily.

"Poor kid, I know what it feels like to have no parents," I said also going into a trance.

"How?" he said wondering out loud.

"I was a survivor of a plane crash and my brother, we were brought to an orphanage at least Maya was lucky to have loved ones when we only had each other," I sighed.

"Well anyways I was to then and my brother six years old," I said and continuing. "I met 4 more girls with different situations soon the years went by ma and the girls and of course my big brother our savior were inseparable but sometimes I wonder what my parents would've been like if the crash didn't happened but someday I want to find out my past like where I come from."

"Wow, you've been gone through lot's of painful times," he said at last.

"Yea, fate tricked me again and taken another someone that I loved," I laughed bitterly.

"Maybe it worked out for the best I guess," he said.

"Yea maybe I'm just cursed, whoever I'm going to love is going to go away," I said and standing up again.

"You want to go not?" I asked hopefully not wanting to discuss this topic.

"Yea sure," he said shrugging it off. After we walked a few minutes Darien spoke up again:

"Serena, someday you'll find someone you love as much as you loved Diamond you just have to wait," and said nothing else.

Maybe, just maybe Darien was right but I didn't say anything. I just walked into the night and hoping for the best.

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