Confronting the Girls…Pt

Confronting the Girls…Pt. Two

"Serena, wake up." Darien said quietly.

"Five more minutes." She grumbled turning over.

"Come on. We've got to get ready for school."

"Then I'm definitely sleeping in."

"Not if I do this." He said pulling the covers from off her and opening the blinds.

She groaned. "You're so mean."

"I know. Come on, I've already made breakfast. You just need to get dressed, we'll eat, and then we can leave."

"You're still not giving me a good reason to go to school. I have four people I'm not to fond of attending that school." She said getting up.

"Yah, well you have to go. You're not going to drop out of school."

"I know, I know. Where's my clothes?"
"Hung 'em up."

"I missed everything last night, didn't I?"

"Yah. We got most everything put away."

"I'm sorry I didn't help."

"It's okay. Now come on or we'll be late."

"Okay."

…

"SERENA!" Four voices called.

"No, not yet." She mumbled.

"You have to face them sooner or later."

"I guess your right." She said closing her locker as the four girls approached.

"Serena, we're sorry." Amy said.

"We overreacted last night." Raye added.

"But we truly are sorry. When we put two and two together about…TM, we just got worried. You know we never knew anything about him and truly thought he was an enemy."

"And Luna said that you were living there, so we freaked."

"That still doesn't excuse you treating Darien that way Raye."

"I know, and I'm sorry to you Darien. I just was…well there's no excuse, but I'm sorry."

"It's fine."

"So what do you say Serena, give us another chance? We really are sorry."

"Sure. It's fine."

"Great."
"Why were you guys so insistent on getting me out of there though? I mean, you know that he saved me the one time. If he was an enemy, he would've let me be hit by that car."

"You know, I never thought about that."

"You know Darien, ever since you two started dating; you seem more persistent to get them crystals."

Serena looked at the time. "I'll see you guys later. I'm in the other building and I need to get going."
"See you." The girls said.

"See you later love."

"Bye girls. Bye Dare." She quickly kissed Darien and left.

"Anyway, why have you been so persistent to get the crystals?"

"Because the Silver Crystal is the only thing that can ultimately protect the Princess."
"What Princess?"
"The Moon Princess."

"W-what?" Amy asked in disbelief.
"The Moon Princess."
"Do you know who she is?" Mina asked.

"I didn't at first, but while she was in the coma, I had a dream and her face was finally revealed."

"What are you saying?"
"Serena is the Moon Princess. Why do you need to know?"
"We've known she's the Princess for a long time, we just didn't tell her because she wouldn't approve of us risking our lives to protect her identity. She knows we're protecting the Princess, so we didn't want to tell her who that is. To her knowledge, we don't know who she is."

"Darien, please keep it from her. We don't want her knowing."

"Okay, I guess I understand. She would kill us."

…DING…DING…

"See you later Darien." Three voices called before walking away.

"One quick question." Amy said. "Do you know an Endymion?"
"Who?"

"Never mind. See you later." She said before joining the others.

"Sure." He shook his head. "Girls." He said before walking towards his first hour class.

0.o

"Hey Dare."

Darien turned around. "Hey Sere."
"You've been busy today."
"I know, I'm sorry."
"No need to be sorry. You aren't doing it on purpose…and you're supposed to help the others…not just me."

Yah, I guess. So how are you?"
"Ready for the day to end."

"Hey, at least it's seminar. All you have to do is sit there and pretend to study."

"Yah. Oh, I'll be busy for a little while after school."

"Why's that?"
"Well I went and talked to her today. She's trained in that kind of stuff, and she even has a degree in…what was it? Ah, I don't remember, but she's a certified counselor. She said I can talk to her if I have any questions. She'd like to meet with me today after school."

"What all does she know?"

"I just went up to her today and asked if I could get information for aids for teen pregnancies. She asked why, and I just told her that I got pregnant."

"Okay, well then that's fine. You want me to come with you?"
"I think it'd be best. I think she assumes you're out of the picture."

"Okay, so you have information too?"

"Not yet. She said just come in after school if I wasn't busy." She said as they walked into the room. "I said I wasn't. Just planning on going home." She saw Andrew. "Hey Andy."

"Hey Rena. How are you doing?"
"Okay. You?"

"Fine."

"That's good."
"Hey Andrew, can you come here a minute?" A female student asked.

"Sure." He called back. "See you guys later."

"See ya."

"So I've got a great plan."
"What's that?"
"I'm gonna surprise my parents by acing all my classes…well the best I can at least."

"That'd be great."
"Yah, but I'll need your help."
"I'm glad to help. And you can show up at study buddies too."

"How do you know about those?"
"One of the girls said something about it once."

"Well that's our name for those certain things we do every week."
"Okay then…well maybe you could get some more help from Amy."
"Trying to avoid helping me?"

"No, I mean, I am more then willing to help you, but I think you should spend a lot of time with the girls too. I don't want to pull you away from your friends."
"I know. I'll ask them if they'll help."

He gave her a short kiss. "Good. Now get ready, the bell is about to ring."
"Meet at your locker for lunch?"
"Sure."
"What about after school? Where should we meet."
"Well it's in the other building…just meet me at my locker. It's closer to the classroom."

"K love."
…DING…DING…

"Come on, let's go."
"Sure."

0.o

"Hey Rena!"

"Hey girls."
"What cha doin'?" Mina asked.

"Nothing. Why?"
"You wanna come to the Crown with us?"
"Sure…wait, I can't."
"Why not?"
"Dare and I are meeting with my Child Development teacher. She's going to help us with my pregnancy."

"You told her?"
"Well I wanted to know some more information on support groups. I mean, I wanna talk to people who are or have been in my position. I'm not getting the support from home, and none of you have experienced a pregnancy before, so I just asked her if she had any information on any support groups, and she said that she can talk with me about it after class. She's a certified counselor and she specifies in pregnant teens."

"That's great that you're getting the proper support. You're being so responsible about this whole thing."
"I'm trying. I learned that I need to be more mature. I'll be a mother in nine months. I'll have a little one looking up to me for the next so many years."

"That's great Serena." Raye said.

"We're really proud of you." Lita added.

"Thanks guys."

"Hey Sere. Hey girls." Darien called.

"Hey Darien." All greeted at once.

"We should get going Sere."
"Yah, I'll meet up with you guys after we're done. I have to get the exact schedule from Andy anyways."
"Schedule?"
"Oh, I got a job there."

"Great! Discount food!"
"Not for you. But for me." She smirked.

"Whatever, we'll see you later."

"See ya."

The two quickly walked to the other building. They quietly walked into the preschool room.

"Mrs. Goble?"

"Serena? I'm in the classroom."

Serena led the way and appeared in the door.
"Hello Serena. How are you?"
"I'm okay."
"That's good. Well come, sit."
She nodded and walked in and Darien followed.

"Who's this?"
"Oh, Mrs. Goble, this is Darien. Dare, this is Mrs. Goble my child development teacher."

"Nice to meet you."
"You too." She said shaking his hand. "Why – not to be rude – are you here?"
"Oh, he's my boyfriend and my child's daddy."

"And you're behind Serena on this?"
"100 percent."

"That's good to hear. Not many teenage fathers are like that."
"I'm not like many teenage boys."

"Well then. Serena, what is your situation?"
"Well I went on the pill a little over a month ago, then about a week ago or so, we had sex, and I got pregnant. We were going to tell my parents together, but my mom wasn't home, so I told Darien to wait in the car and had a conversation with my father who then guessed about my pregnancy. He then proceeded to say he has no daughter and kicked me out of the house."

"Oh my. Where are you living?"
"With Darien. I have no other place to live."

She nodded. "Go on."
"Well then yesterday the girls found out, and they yelled at me and him, then we made up this morning."

She looked to Darien. "And how do your parents feel about this? With her living with you and you becoming a father so young?"

"They have passed away."
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize."
"It's fine."
"What about financials?"
"Well I have just got a job at that café, The Crown."

"And I've been working at a hospital as a desk assistant."

"Other then that, we don't have much. My parents are loaded, but they're not going to be willing to help anytime soon."

"I'm sure they'll come around. You are their daughter, and no matter what, they love you. They probably just didn't know how to handle the fact that you're so young and pregnant. A lot of parents are that way."
"My dad is ten times worse."
"Okay, what about prenatal care?"
"We haven't set anything up yet." Darien said.
"How about I set up an appointment with my husband for you."
"Your husband?"
"He's a doctor that is specialized in pregnancies and all that prenatal care stuff. I don't know the term, but he can help you."
"We can't afford anything more then what we need."
"Well I can talk to him. He might be able to do it for cheaper or even free."
"We don't want to ask too much." Darien said.

"I'd feel bad if he did it for free."
"Well he has a program for teenage mothers that reduces the cost a bit, but seeing your circumstances, I think he could do something."

"That'd be great."
"And I'd like to meet with you two at least once a week. That way I can keep up with how everything's going with you two."

"Thank you so much." Serena said shaking her hand.

"Of course."

"We'll see you soon." Darien said as they walked out.