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CHAPTER 2

It had been three weeks since Serena's accident. I tried to see her or even talk to her as much as I could. But she was never home and I never had the chance. I gave up all hope of trying to ever see this angel again.

You may be thinking, uh don't you live in the same apartment building as her? Shouldn't you be seeing her all the time? Well the truth was that Serena and Mina were always out doing who knows what.

I started working at the same job Andrew did. It was a local café and it paid okay. It was literally my rent money. Andrew and I became best friends since I had no one to really hang out with.

One day while I was working, I saw the beautiful angel again. But she was not alone; she was with some older man who wore a black crisp suit. I instantly thought this was her dad, or even an attorney.

I took this chance to "make my move".

"Hey! What can I do for you?" I asked looking at Serena. I was hoping she would remember me but she was staring at her menu.

"Um…can I just have a cappuccino?" She said while staring at her menu.

"Sure, and what would you like?" I asked the man. I noticed that he had streaks of gray hair.

"UHH…Cappuccino…Young Chap!" He had a distinctively British accent.

"Okay…" I was still waiting for her to recognize me.

"Aren't you Serena?" I boldly asked.

She finally looked up; I could tell she was having a hard time placing me.

"I'm Darien…" (Awkward pause) "The guy who helped you when you kinda broke your ankle…"

"OHH!" she finally said.

"Yeah…"

"Darling, when did you break your ankle?" This man said.

"Like a month ago…" I said "But don't worry I took care of your daughter, sir."

They both looked at me with shock and confusion. Either they weren't related or I had said something wrong.

"This isn't my father…" Serena said. I could see she was embarrassed.

"This is my…uh…" She continued….

"Friend…I'm her old friend" He answered for her.

"Yes Old Friend…." She said with a smile.

"Oh…well I will go get your cappuccinos…"

As I left I could hear her giggling and felt like such a loser. When I came back with their Cappuccinos, I saw his hand on her knee. I was definitely not fine with this. I sat the dinks down, they abruptly got up.

"We aren't going to need those, mate." He said to me as they walked through the door.

I never felt so…jealous and confused. I knew they weren't just "friends" but this just didn't make sense. You see then, I was still naïve.

I was about to throw the drinks away when Serena came back.

"Hi" she said

"Hey…Did you forget something…?"

"No…I just wanted to tell you thank you for helping me"

"No problem"

"Well, Mina and I wanted to invite you and Andrew for dinner at our place tonight. If you're free that is."

"Yeah, definitely"

"Great! Be there at 8:00" She gave me a hug and smiled while she waved goodbye. As she left, I noticed she left in a limo with that guy.

Present Day

"You use to hate the smell of smoke. When did you start smoking?" I asked her as she lit one of her cigarettes.

"Oh ever since I was in Paris…"

"Oh…I didn't know that…"

"Yeah there is a lot you don't know"

"That's NOT my fault, and you know that" My voice rose a little more then I had intended.

She closed her eyes and took another puff. She opened them and shook her head.

"Let's not start. It's been six years…please…Let's just have a nice dinner…"

I took another sip from my drink.

"When have we ever had a nice dinner?" I asked her

She chuckled lightly. Do you really not think of the past?

"I think of it every passing day"

I was nervous. I was a wreck. I had changed three times. Should I be casual? Should I be formal? Not that formal?

I finally decide on just jeans a t-shirt. Andrew sat on the couch with a beer.

"Andy…aren't you gonna get ready?" I asked

"I am ready…"

"Okay…"

"You know I have lived here for one year and a half. And they never invited me for dinner."

"Well that's because you are not as cute as I am" I stroke a pose and he just threw a pillow at me.

"Let's get going"

I knocked on the door but nobody came. I looked at Andrew.

He just shrugged and said "Hey maybe they forgot".

I knocked again.

"HOLD ON! WE'RE COMING!"

"Hey Andy…Do you smell something?"

"Oh GOD! Yeah I Do"

It smelt as if there was a fire going on in there.

Mina finally opened the door. Her dace was half smeared in black her blonde hair was in a messy bun. Her red shorts were really short and her shirt had one huge hole in the shoulder.

She coughed.

"Um…Hi…We are a…well come on in…"

We hesitantly walked in.

We saw Serena running around with just a white robe on…trying to open a window. There was a cloud of gray smoke.

"What the hell happened?"

Mina and Serena both looked at each other and sat together exhaustedly on their torn up blue couch.

"Well….we tried to make dinner, and it kinda got burnt."

Mina was almost in tears.

"Well…uh…why don't you guys change and we'll clean up" I offered

There eyes became huge and their smiles became even bigger.

They rushed off to get changed.

I turned around to see Andrew staring straight at me.

"Yeah…YOU are going to clean this mess… NOT me!"

"Yeah right"

After cleaning, the girls came out looking as lovely as usual. They were only wearing jeans and a t-shirt. Andrew and I were still in amazed. We decided to order pizza.

Everything went smoothly from there. We ate pizza, drank beer, and flirted outrageously. We all became good friends that night. We talked about everything. Embarrassing stories came up and saddening stories also.

From then on we became a small group. We did everything together.

For a while it seemed this time, this happiness would stay forever. We seemed to know everything about each other, but the truth was that Andrew and I didn't really know those two girls. And we weren't prepared for what was coming.

In fact, no one was prepared.

Present

"Finally a table!" I said, happy that I finally had something to break the ice.

"Yeah," she responded.

"I didn't mean to snap at you Serena" I finally said.

"I know…"

"It's just that…this is what you wanted…"

"How can you dare say that?" Her eyes slanted at me.

"What do you mean? You were the one who stopped talking to me!"

"It's not that simple YOU know that"

"I thought I did"

The host led us to our seats. We sat down and I ordered a glass of scotch.

Nothing was said. We both had much on our minds, but we didn't know what to say.

"Are you still with him?" I asked

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