Understanding Hurt

Chapter 6: The Truth Is Out

Seiya looked up when he heard Serena walk into the kitchen. "Breakfast is on the counter." He turned around started walking to the front door.

"Seiya wait!" She called after him. He turned around. "What?"

She looked down. "I'm sorry, I really am. It's just...just been really hard, and your my brother, and I love you. I know half of the time I act like I could care less about but that's not true. I'm sorry." Tears start to fill her eyes as she said this.

"Ser...I love you too. I understand what your going through, but you can't beat yourself up over it, or anybody else. Just let it go."

"I try to but it's so hard. I killed my best friend! I killed my friendship with Raye. Your the only person who still talks to me after what happened." Tears are now running down her cheeks.

Seiya walked over to her and pulled her into a big hug. "I'll always be here for you and you know that."

Serena was standing at her locker happy that Seiya was back in her life. Darien slides up next to her. "You know, I was thinking. I've been to your house, but you haven't been to mine." He smiled.

"Yeah, and your point is?"

"My point is, your going to my house...after school."

"Why don't-"

"What? You scared?"

"What? Of course not!"

"Great! I'll meet you here after school." He smiled and walked off to class. She sighed and slammed her locker shut and headed to her class.

Serena followed Darien to his room. "So this is your room?" She stopped in the doorway and looked around.

"Yep." He said as he walked over to his computer, and pulled the chair out and sat down.

"Nice." She said as she threw her bag onto his bed and sat down next to it pulling out her diary. He watched her as she flipped to an empty page and wrote..

Dear Diary,

Well I worked things out with Seiya. I'm so happy. I can't stand it when we fight. As of right now I'm sitting her, on Darien's bed. I was scared to come here at first because of his brother Andrew, he knows everything that happened. I mean he has to, the look he gave me the other day. I'm just afraid to know what Darien is going to do whe...

"Your whole life is in that thing, isn't it?" He asked interrupted her writting.

She looked up from her diary. "You have no idea."

"Why don't you tell me about your life. I mean we don't know much about each other."

She closed her diary and laid it next to her. "No, I don't want to talk about it. What about you? What's your life been like?"

"Oh come on, how bad can it? There has to be something exciting about it." He said ignoring her questions.

"Darien!" She yelled starting to get annoyed. "I said I don't want to talk about it!"

He was shocked at the anger she suddenly had towards him. "How can we be friends if we don't know anything about each other?"

She stood up grabbing her bag. "I didn't pick to be your friend! You're the one who talked to me first!" She walked out of his running down the stairs.

"Serena! Wait!" He yelled chasing after her. Andrew heard Darien call after Serena.

Serena was crying as she heard Darien running after her. Andrew saw Serena run by him crying. "And don't come back!" He said in a mean tone. She heard what Andrew said and ran out the door and down the street to her house.

"Why did you say that?" Darien asked mad hearing what Andrew said.

"What do you mean why did I say that? Don't you know?"

"Know what?"

"About what happened with Serena." He paused. "She killed her best friend."

Darien was shocked at the news. "What? Serena would never do that!"

"She did. She was drunk and was driving the car on the way home from the party, and crashed the car. Raye, her other friend, was with her but lived, but Mina she didn't."