Author's Note::
Yu guys are awesome!!! Thanks for the reviews it means a lot to me! Well I know that said that I will try to update every week AT LEAST but since I am in summer school yes I know WTF! I might be updating less often but I won't be gone longer than a month, I promise!!!! Last Chapter was random I know, but it will be very important later. So keep it in mind.
Sailor Moon is not of my creation, but the random but sweet plot is.
Chapter Four:: Unexpected Attention
As he drifted off to sleep he didn't notice someone walk into the room and stop mid- stride as they saw such a sight.
The person was startled to see such a sight; they thought that they told the sleeping person to not do anything that could ruin their reputation. But the person remembered how tired they were when they first arrived so they let it go… 'I'll let them sleep for now, I doubt anything bad will happen, I won't mention it to their parents for now,' the person thought. And they continued to walk towards their destination.
Around 8:15 Darien's cell phone began to ring, but it was not a regular ring, but a song instead.
'Sometimes I wanna give up, I wanna give in, I wanna quit the fight; Then I see you baby, and everything's alright everything's alright When I see you smile, I can face the world ooh ooh, you know that I can do anything. When I see you smile, I see a ray of light ooh ooh I see it shining right through the rain. When I see you smile baby when I see you smile at me…'
Darien woke up in time to turn off his alarm before it could play again, though he didn't mind listening to the song, it was one of his favorites. It summed up everything that his best friend made him feel when ever he was having a rough day. Just her smile alone made things better than it really seemed. Serena was one of those people who made her presence known, but not in an arrogant way; when ever she walked into room she lit up the room, her smile made any guy weak in the knees and couldn't turn down any of her requests. Yes, Serena was the 'light of his life,' it seemed so cliché, but that was how she made him feel. After Darien turned off his alarm, he looked down at the sleeping blonde on his lap, his arms were still around her, but he just noticed how their fingers were intertwined, and how she slept with their hands close to her heart, as if she were hugging a teddy bear that she loved so dearly. He almost didn't want to wake his best friend from her slumber, but he knew that if he didn't all hell would break lose, and if he did, she would be angry but not as much. So since it was still early he just sat there on the couch smoothing out her hair and thought of all the reasons why they were best friends and how they first met. He never thought in a million years that he would befriend such a gregarious girl. He had always been the quiet type and never really talked much, not even with his other friends. Sure they talked, but not like he did with Serena. They talked about everything and nothing, and it was perfect. He remembered when he first met her, she was running around like a mad woman trying to get everything perfect, that she quickly but respectfully stopped to talk to him and his dad briefly before running off again. She was wearing something short, but conservative at the same time. But it wasn't her outfit that caught his attention, though it was nice but her smile. As he got lost in his thoughts, he looked at his phone and saw it change to 8:30. He propped himself up enough to be able to bend over her sleeping form and wake her up.
"Sere, wake up, its 8:30" he said.
"Five more minutes," was all he got as a response, though he did get his hand backa s she tried to push him away.
'Hmmm… I wonder if her 'technique' works on her?' he thought. 'Lets try it out, but I hope she won't kill me in the process.' As he thought of what to say for a moment, Serena woke up and saw the thoughtful expression on his face and knew exactly what he was thinking. Quickly she closed her eyes to 'go back to sleep.'
"Hey Serena, is that Justin Timberlake half naked on TV?" he said.
"Nice try best friend, but my technique does not work on me, unless I am actually asleep and not woken up beforehand. 2 points for trying though best friend."
"Thanks best friend, now will you get up so we can get the dance thing over with?"
"Fine, I'll get up, but I call the couch when we are done teaching your lazy butt what we did today."
"Ok, whatever…" Darien said with a smug grin on his face.
For about an half an hour Serena was teaching Darien the second part of the dance that they were going to perform at the debutant ball and then putting it together with the first half then for another hour they practiced the hip hop dance they were going to perform. Serena proceeded to show him the whole routine, well part of what they learned. When she finished, she saw Darien wide eyed like he never saw her dance before.
"Darien? Best friend? Are you ok?" she asked.
"Serena Marie Tsukino, if you think I can do that one eight count and a half, you must be crazy!" he exclaimed after a few more moments of silence.
"John Darien Shields, there is nothing hard about that move! And if I am crazy its because we are best friend and you are driving me nuts! It's not even that difficult" Serena proceeded to demonstrate. "All you do is – slide left, slide right, body roll left, body roll right, pop your chest twice, point down one hand at a time, then drop down with hands on knees, open close & twist, hand out, grab girls hand rise up."
"Exactly! When have you ever seen me drop down low like that or even do a body roll for that matter?"
"It's not that hard come on? Just try it! Please for me?"
"No! I will not humiliate myself in an effort to do that particular move!! The dropping down like its hot is fine, but the roll no!"
Serena had the hardest time trying to keep a straight face after she heard him say 'Drop it like its hot.' When she regained her composure and was certain that she would not laugh she stated, "Fine! If you don't want to practice with just me around, that's fine with me, but you will have to do it IN FRONT of EVERYONE at practice TOMORROW!"
Darien was dumbfounded, he knew she was right, but his pride was to stubborn to admit it.
"Fine, I'll do it here just so you won't embarrass me tomorrow at practice."
"Uh huh, you just want to be able to do it at least so we won't tease you at practice about not being able to do something so simple as a body roll. Well lets get this going so I can go back to sleep."
Darien nodded slowly and they continued to practice the dance for another half hour. When they got to the body roll, he tried to follow Serena's movement. Serena stopped and asked Darien to just do the body roll. He looked at her as if she were crazy but did so.
"Best friend, I feel like an idiot doing that on my own."
"Fine, I'll help you but no funny business ok?"
"Ok, I promise," he stated in a confused tone. Serena stood next to him with her back to him, their bodies were so close that they would be able to hold a magazine between their bodies, she then proceeded to put his hand on her waist and as she did so she felt him tense up.
"Best friend, trust me, just follow my movement relax, don't be so tense. And no funny stuff mister."
"Okay, you swear like I'd pull anything funny…"
Serena proceeded to do the body roll, and she could feel his body follow her movement. 'Oh my god… I swear I have died and gone to heaven, I thought I saw it all, I knew he had a nice body but damn…' she thought to herself. They did the body roll several times more, and then connected the two continuous body rolls together. Serena stepped away, and asked him to do the body roll with out her body to lead him. Darien made a face at her and proceeded to do so.
"Good job best friend. Now let's put it all together."
They did the routine four more times before Serena collapsed on the couch. Darien was still uncomfortable the first time, and then he just gave up and did it with no complaints. The last two times they did it with the music with little problems and complaints.
"Ok. I quit. You know it, you can't forget it, and you better do it tomorrow just like you did it today," she said as she sprawled herself on the couch to take another nap. Darien walked toward her and proceeded to do what he did to her earlier that evening, lifting her head up onto his lap.
"Not again best friend. The door is not open, the heater is on, the door is closed so you can't say that it is cold there!"
"It doesn't have a good view of the television," he commented as he looked down at her with a smug grin.
"Well great, just great, first its cold now it's the television. Any other complaints before I injure you?" she commented sarcastically.
"Well know that you mention it I-" he was cut off with a light blow to his hard chest. "Ouch! And what was that for?"
"I told you I would injure you, but I also forgot that you work out and that that your chest is like a washboard. So it's even."
'Oh we are so far from even mister I think I'm all that,' she thought, but all Serena could do was sigh and just deal with Darien being there, her head on his lap, his arm encircled her small waist, the tingling feeling she got going down her back, the way his other arm was just playing with he hair 'Ok maybe it's not so bad being this close to him" she thought. 'No!! I will not just lay here… he might get the wrong idea, earlier was whatever, the car I just feel over but now… now its not so innocent... I'm going to get up and just sit here… next to him… doing absolutely nothing….ok get up.' Serena argued with herself to get up for another five minutes and when she did she sat on the couch with her knees to her chest and took the remote from Darien and began flipping through the channels.
"Serena, you can lean on my shoulder if you want to be more comfortable," Darien said when he saw that she was leaning back on the couch with her head slouched down in an uncomfortable position that would leave her sore the next day.
"No its ok, Dare, I'm fine, don't worry about me," she commented, knowing that she would say ok if he offered again.
"Sere come on, I've fallen asleep like that before and the next day you'll regret it…"
"No, I'll be fine.." Serena was cut off by Darien when he pulled so that she was leaning on his shoulder. She looked up at him and he gave her the look that said 'I will not deal with a grumpy partner tomorrow.' She sighed and gave up, again. She took the remote that she stole from him and kept channel surfing til she found a show that was worth watching. Darien just sat there watching T.V with her. Neither of them realized that Darien still had his arm around her and that she was no longer on his shoulder but on his chest with her back towards him. They sat like that for the whole show. When it was over they began to talk about what colors to possibly wear to prom.
"How about Pink?" she asked.
"No, Pink is like a pig," he replied.
"Yellow?"
"Yellow is like a lemon."
"Red?"
"Hmmm… Maybe."
"Ok, how about orange?"
"Orange is like… an orange."
"Wow can you be any more original?"
"Of course I can."
"Green?"
"Green is like a tree."
"Purple?"
"Purple is like Barney and I don't like Barney."
"Neither do I, but it will be more like a light purple."
"Light purple is like Taro Boba."
"Great back to the food comparisons."
"Of course"
"Brown?"
"Brown is like Dirt."
"Oh my god, Blue?"
"Yes!"
"Ok at least we have a maybe and a yes. Black?"
"Maybe, but I like blue better."
"I know, you were so happy when I told you that our color for the Debutant ball was blue."
"Of course, blue is the perfect color."
Serena failed to notice that half way through their conversation, she had turned her body so that she could face him and that he was looking down at her, his face merely inches away from her face. "Damn… he has nice lips," she thought to herself. "Yeah right, blue is a nice color but not perfect. I like White better."
"No, white is too easily ruined."
"How about turquoise?"
"I don't want to be like a turtle."
"WT-Fudge does a turtle have to do with turquoise? It's a lighter tint of blue green. Would you rather blue green instead?"
"Blue green is like the ocean and it's dirty."
"Oh my gad! You know what, I'll just wear blue, but it's my choice of what blue and kind of dress style, and your coming with me to see what dress looks better and no complaints!!."
"Yay!" he stated giving her the smile that he did not know melted her heart.
She looked up at him, with their faces only centimeters away from each other.
"No complaints when we go to the mall?"
"None what so ever as long as its blue I'm happy."
"And I get to go shopping before we go dress hunting and you will hold my bag(s) while I try on clothes"
"Do I have to?"
"Yes. And why are you so stuck on me wearing blue for prom?"
"Ok…I'll hold the bags. And blue, because it matches your eyes, and I have a suit already with a blue polo."
"That's why!! You little punk! Why not something that will make my eyes stand out?"
"Well how about a silvery dress with a lot of blue?"
"Eh…. Ok, if I can find one."
Serena and Darien continued to talk at a very close proximity and it drove Serena's heart wild. His face was close enough to just kiss, but she didn't, though God knew how badly she wanted to. After their debate on prom, Serena continued to lean on Darien as she watched Yo Momma on MTV while Darien played with an etch- a- sketch. People would pass through the living room glance at them, oblivious to their presence.
"Sere, this is really hard."
"What is?"
"Trying to make a perfect curve on this thing"
"Well keep trying."
"I am but its so hard."
"Well if it's hard quit. There is no point in your complaining once you quit."
"I won't quit. I'm working on a masterpiece."
"Ok, show me when you are done."
"Ok."
As they conversed neither one of them looked at each other, they were so connected to each other that they didn't need to look at each other as they spoke of odd matters. They continued to sit together, comfortably, in silence. Well at least until Darien excitedly exclaimed, "I'm finished with my masterpiece!"
"Let me see." Serena said. Hey this is pretty cute! I'm so proud of my best friend. You know what? I'll take a picture of this so you can have it forever!" It was a picture of a Serena took out her cellular phone which had a camera on it and took a picture of it. "Now, when it gets erased, you still have the memory of it," she said as she handed him her cell phone.
"Wow, I'm such an artist. I deserve lunch!" he exclaimed with a smug grin.
"Ha-Ha Darien. I'm not that easy to manipulate. I'd rather buy you your own Etch-a-Sketch."
"Really best friend, I want a blue one!"
"Ok I'll get you a blue one. Now shut up! I'm trying to watch T.V."
They sat in silence, Serena still leaning on Darien, and he was still playing with the etch a sketch, they stayed like that for about ten minutes when Serena got up to get food. She walked away telling Darien that she wants her spot back when she gets back. When she arrived in the kitchen, Aunt Trista was sitting in their drinking a cup of coffee with some of her boarders.
"Serena, make sure you finish school first before you get a boyfriend," Aunt Trista said as Serena was getting a plate of a little bit of everything.
"I know Auntie. I don't have a boyfriend, and two I have no time for one."
"Hmmm there is no one you would give the time of day to?"
"Hmmm, there is this one guy, but he doesn't know, but either way I'm leaving him at the end of this year."
"What do you mean leaving him?"
"Well, I'm graduating and he is only a junior, but we are the same age, he just go held back in elementary school, I met him back in sophomore year, he likes me, a lot, I like him too, but I don't know if I like him enough to be in a relationship with him."
"Oh, well, no boys until you finish school ok?"
"Ok Auntie."
She left the kitchen with her plate and made her way back to the couch. When she got back Darien got up and left to the bathroom. Next thing she knew as she was curling up on the couch with her plate her uncle came in.
"Hey, Serena"
"Oh hey Uncle Reggie, what's up?"
"Not much; long time not see. How are you?"
"I know! It's been like what 3 months since we last saw each other? Where is my souvenir from the Philippines? I'm good, almost done with school, in like 4 months"
"You got me. Isn't that enough? So, no boy friend yet?"
"No uncle, no boyfriend yet, I have no time for one."
"Ah, ok. I'll see you later."
"Ok, bye uncle."
As her uncle walked away, she didn't notice the skeptical look on his face, probably because she started to eat her plate. A few minutes later Darien came back, and settled himself on the couch next to her, and helped himself to her plate. He smiled at her as he ate one her strawberries. They continued to eat until they finished her plate; when they finished, Darien took the plate to the kitchen to throw away, and Serena, laid down on the couch as she channel surfed. As Darien came back, Rini and Hotaru came down stairs to just hang out.
"Hey kids, you guys tried of the munchkins?" Darien asked.
"Yeah… they got a little violent play Mario," replied Rini. "So what are you 'adults' doing?"
"Not much, just Darien stealing my couch, food, sanity. You know the usual," commented Serena.
Ring. Ring.
Hotaru looked at her phone and answered it. She left for the Garage, which was like a living room and never came back… Rini looked at her sister and Darien and asked, "Are you two dating?" just as Serena was swallowing a cherry and Darien was taking a swig of his soda.
"WHAT?!?" they exclaimed in surprise and terror if anyone heard.
"I said, Are you two hormone driven teenage adults dating?" she repeated.
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