Chapter 37 - Damn those questions

(Serena P.O.V.)

I was staring at him at his smug face like a gaping fish. Once again I had the trapped feeling in my stomach that I was experiencing at the grocery store. Then something more astonishing happened before my eyes.

"DARIEN!!" both of my children ahem our children yelled as they ran towards him. Darien crouched down at their height. I sucked in my breath needing a glass of water to relieve my parched throat.

"Hey guys, so am I on time?" he said smiling lovingly at them.

"Yeah, now you can have dessert and Mommy made our favorite chocolate cake," Usagi replying excitedly.

"Yea Mom's a great cook," Mamoru saying with pride.

"Hey you guys, dinner is getting cold let's go eat," I said finally finding my voice. Usagi and Mamoru ran to the table again eager to start their dinner.

"I didn't know you could cook Serena…interesting very interesting," he said coming a little too close.

"People change Darien," I said trying to be nonchalant as possible.

"They certainly do," he said very darkly making me look into his mysterious eyes.

"Mom, Darien c'mon dinner's getting cold," Usagi said her mouth stuffed with food.

"Swallow honey," I said walking over to the dining room, not caring the less if Darien followed or not. But being Darien he followed behind, my back almost touching his chest.

We were all seated, fetching for ourselves. I felt someone's gaze on me and it was none other than Darien. I was more fidgety than any other night.

"So isn't your husband going to join us Serena?" he asked leaving me stop in mid-tracks. I sharply looked up into his eyes but they held no emotion in them.

"Um you see…" I stuttered like a fool his gaze watching my every move. Soon I heard giggles.

"Mama's not married Darien," Usagi said giggling again.

"Usagi, what did I tell you about chewing with your mouth open," I said replying in a sickly sweet voice. Remind me to ground her till she's 70.

"Oh I see," Darien said but I could see the questions that were swarming in his eyes. I couldn't bear to look into those haunting eyes.

"So what have you been doing these past couple of years?" he asked getting to the real point.

"Oh nothing, just popping kids and raising them all alone, when the father has no clue about it. I left everybody behind because of him and as a matter of fact thinking about him countless times during the day," I wanted to cry out bitterly but all it was came out was like:

"You know the usual," I said as the casserole felt like sawdust in my mouth.

"You guys knew each other?" Mamoru asked innocently.

"Yeah, we met when we were looking for roommates and found each other and then became best of friends isn't that right Serena?" he said challenging me to say more but nothing came out of my mouth. I just gave a nod that was a little too forced.

"Cool," he said going back to his dinner.

Soon dinner was finished, relaxing me a bit. The children had really liked Darien, something tingled inside of me.

"You guys go play for a few minutes and I'll clean up okay," I said trying them to get Darien out with them.

"I'll help you," he said it more like a command.

"Sure Mama," they both said and ran to play to god knows where.

After their departure the tension was so thick in the air that it was ready to be cut with a butter knife.

"So how's Beryl? You must have your own children by now," I said trying to make reasonable conversation. I was trying really hard not to break down in front of this man.

"We never got married," he said quietly as soon as I heard those words, not knowingly I dropped the plate that was in my hand. It broke into million of pieces but I didn't hear the sound all I could hear was his words that clung to me like a leech.

WE NEVER GOT MARRIED!! LOOK AT THE FREAKEN IRONY…I left my family and friends and now that I found out that jerk was never married. Damn that man for making me stay almost isolated! But deep down I knew I was relieved and soon was caught with butterflies in my stomach.

"Whoops, sorry clumsy me always dropping things, I'm surprised that I haven't burnt down the house down," I said laughing nervously as I bent down to pick the visible pieces of the plate.

"You didn't scare her off did you?" I asked teasingly, fully glad that wench was out of the window. I dropped the pieces in the garbage.

"Why did you do this Serena?" he asked suddenly.

"I needed out," I said not facing him but was soon was whipped around to face him.

"We thought you were dead Serena," he said hurt evident in his eyes making me gasp.

"Maybe it was for the better," I said finally meeting his gaze.

"Everybody were shattered by hearing the news, you sucked everybody's soul out of them Serena," he said making me squirm in his firm hold.

"I had no other choice Darien," I said feeling helpless as tears formed into my eyes.

"Was it that bad that you had to leave everybody you loved and who loved you back?" he asked.

"Yes," I simply replied.

"What was it?" he asked.

"I fell in love with you Darien," I said as tears slipped down my puffed cheeks.

Hey you guys I hope you guys like this chapter as much as I had fun writing it lol :p I wrote the other 2 chapters I was actually going to make it all one chapter but it turned out to be 10 pages along so I decided to break it down into 3 chapter soo I'll post the next chapter after I get lot of reviews on this one lol I know im mean but still….and also I got an idea about writing another story so I wanted to finish this quickly as possible and possibly a preview for that one later and see if you the viewers would actually like me to continue on with the other story that is still namless. Well cu guys later love ya all and the reviews………………..twinkle eyes. 3