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-She looked at the mirror and smiled at her reflection, while she brushed her hair.
'Today is it, I'm finally gonna get to tell Darien I love him. I'll head over to his place after school.'
Serena thought before setting the hair brush back on the dresser.
'I want to look just perfect for him today.'
She smiled again and started putting her hair up in the buns, being ever so careful to have every hair in place.
"there, all done."
Today is gonna be perfect.
"OOHH why does math class have to drudge on so longgggg." Serena moaned leaning forward on her desk.
"B 16X+4.5pz b26 WHAT THE HECK DOES THAT MEAN!" Serena screeched at the writing on the chalkboard.
"Ms. Tsukino!" The teacher shouted back.
"Oops…." Serena mumbled. "Did I say that out loud?"
"After School detention Ms. Tsukino."
"But but, miss shinabu I have to meet a boy!"
"Well miss Tsukino, then you should have thought about that before disrupting my class!" Her teacher snapped back.
The class snickered.
Serena Pouted in her chair and looked out the window.
'Now I have to wait even longer to see him.'
…
'Just 5 more minutes.' Serena thought as she sat in detention.
'then I can go see him.'
She looked at the clock.
4:55.
She sighed.
'Stupid Serena, its your fault your in this situation. You always seem to screw something up.'
She rested her head on her hand and sighed again.
"Why can't I just be a good student like Amy or Raye."
She looked at the clock again.
4:55
'Ugh! Come on,…. Grrr… Maybe I can mentally will the clock to move faster.'
She narrowed her eyes and puckered her lip out as she glared at the clock.
"Constipated miss Tsukino or just trying to entertain yourself?" A male voice said from behind her.
Serena choked a minute and saw her principle walk up beside her desk and then go lean against the teachers desk.
"I um, well. Um, erh. I mean no Sir." Serena blabbed out.
The man sighed.
"What did you do this time miss Tsukino?" The man asked.
Serena looked down.
"Disrupted class Sir."
The man shook his head.
"You know, Your not a bad kid Serena, you just need to tone it down a bit." He said to her earnestly.
She tilted her head up and looked at him.
"And your smart too," He chuckled. "Despite what Miss shinabu might think."
Serena averted her eyes downward and twiddled with her thumbs.
"I don't mean to disagree sir, but I don't think so. I'm always failing a test or goofing up in class, and being sent here."
She looked around the room in reference to detention.
"Serena," He said, commanding her attention.
She looked at him.
"You ARE smart Serena. Just because you don't know all the answers in the book doesn't mean your not a bright young lady. Knowledge isn't base solely on your score on a test Serena. Its what you learn in your everyday experiences that help you grow in knowledge. Others let things that happen to them determine whether or not they are happy, you are always happy, you are smart enough to know that its silly to place such worth on small things. That's called wisdom Miss Tsukino. And you just happen to be a very wise young lady."
She smiled.
"Thanks Mr. Okinowa."
He smiled back. Then he got very serious.
"However miss Tsukino, that does not give you permission to shrug off your test scores. You need to study more."
She chuckled a bit.
"heheh, I know Sir, I'll try harder from now on."
"Good, now Miss Tsukino, you are free to leave."
Serena's eyes widened with joy.
She leaped out of her chair and flung herself at her principal, giving him a huge bear hug.
"Oh, thank you Mr. Okinowa, Thank you!" She squealed., while hugging him.
"Miss-" COUGH "Miss-" cough "Your choking me!" He choked out.
She gasped and jumped back.
"Oh I'm so sorry Mr. Okinowa. I was just so happy that you let me go early you see, cuz the clock was moving SOOO slowly and I thought it would never go faster so I was just so happy that you were letting me go early." She blabbered out.
"Miss gasp Tsukin-gasp-o Gasp I gasp didn't gasp let you gasp. go gasp. early gasp"
Puzzled, Serena just stood there and looked at him
"I don't understand then why-"
"Gasp It's FIVE! gasp" He screamed out in-between breaths.
Serena looked at the clock.
It read 5:01
A look of realization bloomed on her face.
"OOOHH, I see, Well, Thanks anyway Mr. Okinowa. And by the way you should probably get your lungs checked, All that gasping doesn't sound very healthy. BYE!" Serena gleamed, bouncing out of the room.
Mr. Okinowa stayed behind, starring after her.
"gasp that girl is gonna gasp be the end of me gasp"
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Pit-Pat Pit Pat.
Serena's feet pattered as she raced down the steps of her school
She reached the bottom and turned in the direction of Darien's apartment, and then she thought of something.
'What if he's not home?'
H'mmm, now this question would propose a problem. She thought about it a moment, then surmised that at the first pay phone she passed she would just call his apartment and see if he's home.
And if he picked up she would do the only reasonable thing she could do.
Hang up.
Sounded good enough to her.
So off she went in his direction.
She was about a quarter of the way there when she passed a payphone.
She looked at the phone and huffed in a deep breath.
'I guess I have to call.' She decided.
Then she stepped into the glass phone booth.
She didn't bother to shut the door.
And then she dialed.
RIIINGGG RIIIINGG RIIIINGGG!
'Please be home, please be home.' she mentally wished looking at the sky and biting her lip.
Then she heard a click.
"Hello, you've reached the home of Darien Shields, please leave your name and number and I'll be sure to-"
Click.
She hung up.
"oh man…" She pouted leaning against the side of the booth.
She sighed, and looked towards the sky.
"I guess I'll just have to try again tomorrow."
With another sigh she left the booth and began her walk home.
She was feeling down and didn't feel a need to get home in a hurry so she decided to take the long way home and go through the park.
It was just a depressing day for Serena.
She needed to chill.
She decided to stop by the pond that was in the park.
It was so calming and serene there.
She looked at the sky and noticed the sun was starting to set.
"At least it'll be a beautiful sunset."
When Serena arrived at the park, she found an empty bench, and parked herself there in front of the pond. She casually threw her school bag (that resembled a briefcase) next to her.
There were ducks quacking and playing in the water.
Serena sighed.
"I wonder were Darien is."
She said aloud.
She sighed again.
…
After about 15 minutes of sitting on the bench and sighing Serena decided it was time to go.
She sluggishly grabbed her book bag and got up from the bench.
She sighed again.
Then she began her long walk home, with eyes cast downward.
She had only gotten about 20 feet or so away from the bench when she heard a laugh being carried on the wind.
She stopped.
'Wait- I know that laugh.'
She looked up frantically.
And then she spotted who the laugh had come from.
About 30 feet ahead of her stood Darien, smiling and looking at the pond.
Her breath caught.
She wanted to scream for joy and jump in circles, but first things first.
"Ow!"
She slapped herself.
Then she looked up.
He was still there.
She rubbed her eyes with her fists until they watered.
She looked up.
Yep he was still there.
'Good.' She thought. 'Then its not a mirage.'
She smiled.
'Okay now stay calm, and just approach him slowly.'
She breathed out a deep breath and slowly started to approach him.
She didn't want to appear too anxious.
When she had gotten about 5 feet from him and he still hadn't noticed her, She cleared her throat.
"Ahem."
He turned to look at her.
She quickly turned her body to look at the pond.
" Oh Hi Serena." He greeted pleasantly.
She turned back and looked at him
"Oh, Hey, Darien, I didn't see you standing there." She laughed, trying to be inconspicuous.
"Then, why did you clear your throat?" He questioned.
She just said the first thing that came to her mind.
"Flem."
"Ah." He nodded.
"Yeah."
They just looked at each other a minute.
Then they both started at the same time.
"There's something I wanted to-"
Then they both abruptly stopped.
"Oh, um you go first Serena." Darien said.
"No, No, you go." she responded back.
"Well.. Okay." He started. " Its about what happened a few days ago.."
"A few days ago?"
"Yeah… At the party."
"Oh- the party."
"Yeah..um.. I just wanted to say I'm sorry for what I said."
"What do you mean?"
"Well.. You know.. The part about how I love you."
"Oh- That part."
"Yeah, that part.. Look Serena… I'm really sorry, I was totally drunk and didn't know what I was saying. It was all just a big misunderstanding."
Serena felt her heart starting to crack.
"A misunderstanding?"
"Yeah, I feel like a total idiot for it to. I'm really sorry. I hope your not mad at me for acting so stupid. It was just a big mistake."
Crack.
"A mistake?"
Crack.
"Yeah,.. I was just so drunk that I didn't know what I was doing. And to be honest a lot of the night is still a big blur. But look. I know we haven't gotten along much at all, but I'd like that to change. Some of what happened in the bathroom I do remember, and I did mean, like when I asked you about where you go to school and such and we played that silly game. I realized then that you really are a nice kid and you've always been such a good friend to Raye and the girls, so I hoped maybe we could be friends too."
In that moment her heart shattered.
She felt numb.
"Oh… friends..yeah.. Sure, Darien.. We can be friends."
She murmured, starring at him blankly.
Her face seemed void of any expression.
He smiled at her.
"Good, I'm glad."
She gave a weak smile back, out of reflex.
Still…Maybe there was still hope.. He hadn't mentioned anything about her coming to his apartment the next Day.
"Darien."
"H'mm?"
"What about what you said the next day."
"Huh? The next day? What are you talking about Serena?"
'He doesn't remember.'
"Oh heh. Its Nothing. I just got confused for a second there" She chuckled, trying to laugh it off.
"Heh, okay -Oh Serena, I almost forgot, what did you want to tell me?"
She looked up at him, and starred deep into his eyes.
'Should I tell him? Is there still a chance? Could me and him still-'
Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a woman's giggle.
Serena looked confused.
'Now where did that come from?' She wondered.
Her thoughts were soon answered as she saw a taller blonde woman walking towards them.
'Hey,' Serena thought. 'That's that woman from the hallway that was nice to me.'
Serena and the woman locked eyes, Serena smiled.
'She must be coming over to say hi.'
Serena watched as the woman got closer and closer until the woman was a mere 2 feet behind Darien.
Serena was rather dumbstruck, when the woman, turned her gaze from her to Darien.
'Huh? Why would she look at Darien? She doesn't even know Darien.' Serena thought to herself, confused.
Suddenly the woman reached out for Darien's arm.
Serena watched in horror as the woman latched herself onto his arm.
"Darien," She said looking at him. "I didn't know you two knew each other."
Darien looked at her dumfounded.
"Huh? What do you mean? You know Serena?" He asked the woman.
"Well," The woman started, looking back at Serena and smiling. "We just sort of ran into each other the other day."
"Oh-" Darien responded.
"Um.." Serena finally spoke up. "Darien, who is she, and how do you know her."
The woman spoke up before Darien could.
"Oh I'm so sorry," She said, letting go of Darien's arm, and extending her hand towards Serena. "I'm Kikyo Hiroshimo. I suppose I never got to introduce myself yesterday, I'm terribly sorry about that, Oop! I'm interrupting, sorry." she apologized, giving Darien a chance to respond.
"Heh yeah, You see, me and Kikyo, have been friends since college. We were both in the same Advanced business class and we just kinda hit it off. We both seemed to have the same goal, Both of us wanted to get ahead and finish school early so we could get started right away on our careers. So we jumped on the fast track, and got school over with quickly, and we would help each other study and stuff so it wasn't as rough on us. However, After we graduated with our degrees, we went our Separate ways. She wanted to travel and work abroad, and I wanted to work locally. We didn't get to see each other very much, with both of our schedule's being so full. But she just came down a few days ago to surprise me. And as it turns out she might be coming back for good this time."
Serena just listened to him ramble on, the words sinking in slowly.
"That's..great." Serena said, after he was finished.
She smiled weakly.
"Well," Kikyo Interjected. "Now that you've completely bored the poor girl with that long drawn out story Darien. I'm really rather thirsty and there's this lovely little café down the street that serves the most delicious iced teas. And Miss Tsukino, we would love it if you would join us." The woman smiled sweetly.
"Call me Serena, and um I'd love to but I really need to be going." Serena said, smiling, and backing away slowly.
"Are you sure?" She asked, with her smile fading.
"Yeah," Serena responded. "I'm sure."
"Well it was a pleasure to see you again, Serena." Kikyo said.
"You too, Um, Bye."
With that , Serena turned on her heels and began to walk away.
"Bye Serena!" Darien called after her.
She just nodded.
She wasn't sure if he could see her nodding or not since she was facing the opposite direction, but she didn't care.
She just needed to get out of there FAST.
OHHHHHHH! Gosh! this is a long chapter. sheesh. Hour after hour typeing away on the keyboard whew. I made this story in one sitting. Took hours. I'm tired. Thirsty. And my eyes are bugging out... I only finished it like... maybe...10...15 minutes ago. and now i'm uploading it. I'm doing it for YOU! My beautiful fans.YOU!... I Love you all! goodnight,
-Sugar