A/N: Sorry for the long wait…huge writer's block, and thank you all who gave me ideas. Uru the bitchin' devilrabbi… I'm using your idea to continue on with the story!! Thanks again!!
Disclaimer: Sadly I do not own D.O.T.M. but I do own my character, Ethan (you'll be meeting him in this chapter).
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Serena woke up the next morning with one heck of a headache.
"Ow…" She moaned as she sat up in bed, holding her head.
She eased out of bed so not to make her headache turn into a migraine. She stumbled through the hallway of her house and into the kitchen grabbing two advils and popping them into her mouth.
"Rough night?" A voice asked.
Serena jumped at the voice and saw her brother, Collin, glaring at her from the kitchen doorway.
"Um…yeah." She replied, unsure of the reason why Collin was giving her the death glare.
"You didn't come home until two last night." He said, as he continued to glare at her.
"Yeah sorry about that." Serena apologized quickly, trying to get out of this conversation.
"Where were you?" Collin continued to question.
"I was out with my friends…where else would I be?" Serena said her voice carrying a bit of irritation.
"Serena are you hung over right now?" He accused.
"What?! What are you talking about?" She exclaimed, and then clutched her head. All that screaming hurt her head.
"Well right now all I know is that you came home last night at two in the morning, and you're acting as if you're hung over."
"I am not hung over." Serena snapped then stomped out of the kitchen, and back into her room.
She groaned before lying back down on her bed. I'm not hung over…just last night's music was too loud. Then her thoughts drifted to when Stanton and her left Planet Bang. They sat on the beach talking to each other and just lost track of time, that's the reason why she came home late.
"But I can't say that to Collin either." She grumbled, "Or he'll accuse me of being a prostitute, hooker, whatever." She flailed her arms to add to the effects of her grumbling.
She checked the clock on the nightstand beside her bed, and they read 11:34 a.m. Well it's too late to go back to sleep, maybe I should go out for a walk. Climbing out of her bed once again she walked over to her closet, and pulled out a white t-shirt and black sweatpants. She pulled her hair up into a messy pony and bounded down the stairs.
"Where are you going?" Collin asked, the anger in his voice had not subsided.
"A walk." Serena answered nonchalantly.
She could feel Collin glaring at her retreating figure, and she was almost sure he would say something to stop her, but he didn't. She let out a sigh of relief when she closed the door behind her, and stood there realizing she had no idea where she wanted to go. She considered going to Jimena's at first, but ended up deciding Catty's house was closer.
The sun was out warming every inch of her body, and she loved it. For a Sunday though the street was unusually quiet, there were no people or cars roaming the streets, and it frightened Serena a bit. It's probably the Advil. She thought to herself. Up ahead she could see a guy her age walking down the same sidewalk she was. Out of instinct she looked to see if he was cute. Oh god if Stanton knew…but that thought died as soon as she saw the guy.
He was obviously her age if not older, and had brown straight hockey hair length hair. His eyes were what caught her attention immediately; they were a piercing emerald green color. The guy looked up and stared right into Serena's eyes surprising her, and causing her to trip over her own feet. The ground came hurtling up to her face, but before her face made contact with it she felt strong muscular arms wrap around her waist.
"You okay there?"
Serena winced not from pain, but from knowing whose voice that asked the question.
"Yeah." She responded weakly, as she felt her face flush, "Thanks."
"Yeah no problem." He said flashing a perfect smile.
Serena adjusted her shirt and took a step, ready to get herself as far away as possible.
"Hey, I didn't catch your name." He said boldly.
She sighed knowing if Stanton found out he would surely kill him, "Serena."
"That's a pretty name, mine's Ethan."
Serena smiled politely and began to make her way down the sidewalk.
"Serena!" Ethan called.
She was grateful at first that such a cute guy would notice her and be so nice, but now he was getting on her nerves.
"What do you want?" She snapped.
"Jeez what did I do to you in the past thirty seconds?" He joked.
She rolled her eyes.
"Alright, alright no need to get feisty, I was just wondering if you wanted to take a walk with me?" He asked his eyes dancing.
"I can't I'm meeting my boyfriend." She answered blandly.
"Does your boyfriend know you ogle at hot strangers that walk past you on the sidewalk?"
Serena immediately felt her face flush once again, "Whatever if you have don't have a better pick-up line to use, I'm leaving."
"Okay I'm sorry for being rude I ju-" Ethan was interrupted mid sentence by a deafening roar.
An all-to-familiar black car came speeding down the road, and stopped right beside Serena and Ethan.
"Get in." Serena heard Stanton's voice growl.
She turned to give Ethan one last glance, a warning glance. He seemed to understand, because he didn't say another word to her. Before she slammed the car door it already began speeding down the road.
"Stanton slow down." Serena said quietly as he blew through a stop sign, causing some unwanted hand gestures to be thrown in their direction.
"Who was that?" Stanton snapped.
"He helped me up when I fell." She replied.
She felt a tickling sensation in her brain and immediately closed her mind. Stanton whipped his head around to stare at her.
"Why aren't you letting me into your head?" He asked genuinely confused.
"I prefer it if you would ask first." She spat, "Besides how did you know where to find me."
He gave her one last glare before replying, "I went to your house to find you but you weren't there so I searched your brother's mind."
Serena just nodded in response. The rest of the drive was quiet, and Serena then noticed that she had no idea where they were going.
"Where are we going?"
"I don't know."
"Well there aren't a lot of choices, since we don't want any other followers finding us." She added.
"We'll go to the park."
"We will?" Serena said her tone questioning. Stanton never suggested on going to parks.
"Yeah we will." He whispered.
The rest of the ride was unbearably quiet, and Serena fidgeted uncomfortably in her seat. She kept on glancing at Stanton hoping that was a hint that she wanted him to start talking first, when he continued to look out the windshield she gave up.
She sighed, "Stanton you're mad aren't you?"
No response.
"Stanton please answer." She begged.
He let out a sigh this time running a hand through his hair, "I'm not mad Serena, just frustrated."
"About?"
"About…" He never finished, just letting that sentence hang there.
"Stanton don't tell me you're jealous?!" Serena said in a teasing manor.
"What?! Jealous of him? What gave you-"
But she cut him off by laughing hysterically, and she couldn't stop.
"It's not that funny." He grumbled trying not to smile, but she saw the corners of his mouth twitch.
When she finally stopped laughing she had pools of tears collecting on the edges of her eyes.
"Alright I'll stop." She managed between gasps.
Serena realized that they were already at the park, and oddly there wasn't anyone else out. This puzzled her like it did on the sidewalk. It was such a nice day why wasn't anyone else out?
"Come on." She heard Stanton's voice say. He was standing just outside her door holding a hand out to help her up.
She took his hand and slipped out, but as they made their way through the park their hands stayed entwined.
"I wonder why no one is out today." Serena said.
"Probably have better things to do then walk through the park." Stanton stated plainly.
"Well I for one think it's the perfect day to be out in the sun." She said turning her head and smiling at Stanton.
"Same here." Stanton said his lips curling up into a smile also. He pulled Serena closer to him and gently laid his hands on her hips, while he brought his lips onto hers.
"Should you really be doing that in public?" A familiar voice sneered.
Serena snarled, "Cassandra."
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A/N: Thank you to all who were patient enough to stay with me!! Please don't forget to review!!