The Days of Our Lives

Serena x Darien

P.S. Sorry that I haven't been able to right for awhile. I have been very busy and I hurt my hand so it hurts to type or write too much. I will try to update as much as I can as soon as possible.

15Stella15

Chapter 8: Darien's Day Out

The couple woke up the next morning to the alarm clock blaring at them. "Oh shoot. I totally forgot that I have to work today," Serena said as she let out a big yawn.

"I am sorry that I kept you up all night Sere. I should have asked you if you had to work the next morning. It is totally my fault and I will take responsibility for it. Do you want me to call you in sick or something like that?"

"No I totally started it anyways. I better get to work. I will be back around seven tonight. I have long hours for awhile. It is only Alexa and me working today so it will probably be very busy. In other words, I will have to be there from opening to closing. I am so sorry that I have to work so much. I wish I never got pregnant by that sick bastard. I am sorry that I am PMS-ing at you too. I am not in a good mood at all."

"That is ok Sere. I know that you aren't trying to be crabby. I will do anything that you ask me to do for you. Like I said a million times, I love you. I am sure that you never get tired of hearing it though. I know that I never do. I love to know that you love me back. Have a good day at work Sere. I love you more than anything else in the world."

"Love you too Dare. I am so happy that you are mine and no one else's," Serena said as she gave Darien a long passionate kiss.

Serena quickly walked down to the lobby and got in to the nearest taxi that she saw. She was on her way to another long day at work.

~BACK IN THE HOTEL SUITE~

Darien picked up his cell phone and the phone book that was sitting in the drawer of the night stand. He flipped through the pages and found the section of the phone book that was set apart just for the mall. He skimmed through all of the mall entries and found what he was looking for. He dialed the number in to his cell phone and quickly called.

"Hello. This is Alexa, manager of Fort Lauderdale's Victoria's Secret. How may I help you?

"Hello. This is Darien Shields and I am Serena Tsukino's boyfriend. I was calling to ask if you would be able to do a huge favor for me."

"It depends. What would your favor be asking of me?"

"I kind of have an engagement ring for Serena and I wanted to find a creative way to give it to her. I wanted to come by and by her some of the things that she likes from there because I was supposed to do it the day that she got raped. Do you think that you could tell me when her break is and make sure that she is out of the area when I come in? I want it to be a total surprise and if she sees me that would totally ruin my plan."

"Sure. Let me check what time she is on break. It changes every day depending on who is working and how many people there are on shift during break."

"All right. I will wait if you need to look it up."

"All right then…her break is from twelve until twelve thirty or so. The only problem is, is that she never uses her full amount for break. I could ask her to get me something from the food court on the other side of the mall. That should take at least fifteen minutes for her to get there. Do you think that would be enough time? Maybe I could even give her a longer break. I do not think that she would accept it though because she has been working so hard. She refuses to take off more time than she has to most of the time."

"Yeah that will work. It is especially important that Serena does not know that I am leaving the hotel room because I am still supposed to be healing up my leg from the accident. She would kill me if she figured out that I was stupid and did not listen. I can give you my cell phone number so I will know exactly when she leaves. I really do not want her to see me. I want to keep it a secret so it is a surprise. I want to give her the ring on the day that I start my job because we are going clubbing that night."

"That sounds awesome. I have to go because she is just entering the mall. Talk to you later. Bye."

"See you later. Thank you so much Alexa."

~AT VICTORIA'S SECRET~

"Good morning Alexa. Who was that?," Serena asked as she quickly walked in to the store eager to earn more money for high school.

"Good morning to you too. That was just a customer asking when we open up for the day and when we close. They wanted to come in and needed to plan it out."

"Oh ok. I will go and open the doors to the store then."

"Hey just wait I have to ask you a question."

"Ok. What would that question be then?"

"I was wondering if you would take a longer break today."

"Why? You know that I do not like to take longer breaks then I have to."

"Well I wanted you to eat a good lunch and then I wanted to know if you could walk to my favorite restaurant and bring me back some food. I do not like the idea of you staying here alone after what happened to you. I would really appreciate it if you could."

"Sure I will be able to do that for you. If you tell me right before I go on my break I will get what you want."

"All right thank you so much Serena. You can go and open the doors now. There is a line forming because of our sales today. I will probably have to call somebody else to come and help us. It looks like it is going to be a really busy day today."

"Ok. Be right back then."

'That was really close' Alexa thought to herself.

Serena opened the doors and the crowd quickly poured in to the recently empty store. Alexa and Serena walked around the store answering any question that the people threw at them. The day was quickly moving on because they never had to sit around and do nothing. There was always someone asking them questions and making sure that they stayed busy up until lunch time. It finally started to slow down a little bit as it got closer to lunch time seeing that everybody was probably getting hungry after a long day of shopping.

~BACK AT THE HOTEL SUITE~

Darien saw the time and he started to get ready to go in to the mall. He slipped on a pair of black jeans and a tight black T-shirt that showed off his muscles. He walked out of the room and down to the lobby as he grabbed a really quick and late breakfast. After he finished his breakfast, he went to get in to the nearest taxi so he could head for the mall.

"Good morning," Darien said as he slipped in to the taxi. "Can I get a ride to the Fort Lauderdale mall please."

"Of course. I will get you there as quick as I can," the man answered kindly to Darien as he started for the mall.

~BACK AT VICTORIA'S SECRET~

Serena was getting ready to go to her break. "What did you want me to get you and from what restaurant? I will write it down quick before I head out for my break."

"All right. It is actually on the other side of the mall. I will right it down quick if you want to change into different clothes before you go and eat."

"Ok. I will go and change quickly then. I am so hungry right now. I need to get food in to me as fast as humanly possible," Serena answered as she quickly changed in to the outfit she wore before she arrived to work. She came out and grabbed Alexa's order. She looked over it and tried to think of where the restaurant was in the mall.

"Will that be ok then? I have my cell phone if you can't figure it out. I will see you later. Thanks again Serena," Alexa quickly said as she picked up the phone and quickly typed in Darien's cell phone number.

"Hello," Darien answered the phone immediately as it started to ring at him.

"Hey Darien, This is Alexa. Serena just left to go and get her and me some lunch. I picked a restaurant from the other side of the mall and she accepted the offer for a longer break so the sooner you get in here, the better and more time you will have."

"Ok. I will be in there in less than a minute because the taxi that I am taking just pulled up to the mall. See you in a few."

"All right. Bye."

~A FEW MINUTES LATER~

Darien quickly made his way in to the mall and shyly walked in to Victoria's Secret. He found Alexa immediately who greeted him in an excited voice. "Hey I am Alexa as you probably know. I am so excited that I finally get to meet you. Serena has told me so much about you. She never really stops talking about you. She is lucky to have a boyfriend slash fiancé like you. You are a brave man Darien and you are cute also."

"Thanks. I am glad to meet you too. Serena also tells me a lot about you. She says that you are her first friend that actually lives here in Florida."

"Yeah I am glad to have her around. She is an awesome person and her personality always lights up my day. Yeah I do not have to have a job really because I am a millionaire because my father owns this company so I think that we should go on a trip to Disney World some day soon. It would be nice to go before Serena starts showing. I know that you guys do not have much money so I would be willing to pay for you two."

"That would be a lot of fun actually. Would you seriously pay for both Serena and I too."

"Of course I would. You are the first person besides Serena who does not use me because I have a lot of money. When are you off of house arrest for healing your leg?"

"I am allowed to do stuff like that this weekend actually if that would work. You would have to ask Serena though and act like you have not met me because otherwise she would get suspicious. You can't tell her that we met because then she would probably figure out that I am doing something."

"All right I promise. Now, let's find what you were looking for. Since you are the only person here right now, it will be way easier to help you. What did you want to get her now? It is on me. Like I said before, it is no big deal to help you out a little bit. You can get as much stuff as you want."

"Thank you so much once again. I was going to get her some panties and bras for sure. Then I was thinking about getting her some make up and perfume."

"All right. We will start with perfume and make up then," Alexa said as she walked over to a huge counter in the middle of the store. It was filled with all different kinds of mascara, eye liner, eye shadows, and lip sticks. "I think that these would be good colors of eye shadow and lip stick for her," she said as she held up a rose colored lip stick and a lilac eye shadow. She then reached for a couple tubes of very black eye liner and mascara. "I think that these would also look very good on her don't you think?"

"Yeah I do not want you to go to overboard and spend so much of your money though," Darien said as he stared at what she had picked out so far.

"Like I said before Darien, I want to help you out. I am sure that you spent enough for your ring anyways. I know that you don't have the most money right now. You have a lot to deal with right now. Now let's pick out some perfume and lotion. There are samplers out that you can smell. Pick out three or four different scents that you like because those are on sale buy three get one free."

"All right I kind of like this one right here," Darien said as he found the lotion that went with it.

"Oh yeah. That is Sweet Pea. A lot of people enjoy that scent. A few more popular scents are peach, grape, and apple. Try those ones out."

Darien smelled each one as he said, "I really like all three of these. I think I will get these three scents for her too. Now the fun part, shopping for her panties."

"Yeah what size is she for bras. We will find those first. Those are also on sale for buy three get one free."

"Ok. I picked a good day to come. I am thinking that I will only get her four of these because I already have so much. She is a 36C by the way."

"All right I will show you where the bras are then. I will go and find her some cute panties. Do you want just four of those too?"

"Yeah I do not think that she will need anymore than that. I will meet you over there as soon as I am done picking out her bras."

"Ok. I might be over in the clothing part too. You get a free tote bag because you are easily spending over one hundred dollars today. She will love what you are doing for her though. I can guarantee that."

"I know that she will love it too," Darien said as he picked up four different bras. He picked a lacy pink bra with purple hearts on it, one that was white with multi-colored polka dots, a plain black lacy bra, and a lacy, metallic silver bra with metallic gold designs all over it. 'I picked out all of the bras that I think she would like," Darien said as he walked over to Alexa in the panties section of the store.

"Ok I will let you pick out some matching panties now. They have matching panties in the drawers and the number on each of them is the size that is in there. We carry all of the matches for those in boy shorts, hipsters, and thongs. There are a couple really cute outfits that I am going to get for her too. They are in orange, pink, and purple so I will add all three of those to your bag. Then I will give you two of the free tote bags in different styles since you spent so much here. So I will start ringing all of these up and you can bring what you are getting now up as soon as you are done."

"All right Serena should be back any minute so I will hurry up and pick them out then," Darien said as he found all of the matching panties with two lacy hipsters and two lacy boy shorts. He grabbed a couple night gowns too because those were bye one get one free too. "I am all done. I am very grateful to you right now. You are buying me so much. I feel bad letting you pay for all of this."

"I do not care. We have to hurry Serena will be back in less than five minutes already. I will gift wrap them for you quickly and then I will give you a couple big bags to put all of your stuff in and then you should bring them to the front desk of your hotel and ask them to put them in their office for you."

"All right thanks again. I am grateful that you spent over two hundred and fifty dollars just for me. I have to go I can see her now. See you this weekend then. Bye."

"Bye you have a nice day now."

~ONE MINUTE LATER SERENA ENTERS THE STORE~

Serena walked in to Victoria's Secret as she handed Alexa her food from A&W. "Thank you so much Serena. I love A&W. I haven't had this restaurant since I was a little girl. I have a question to ask you by the way. Would you like to go to Disney World this weekend? I would be willing to let your boyfriend tag along. I think it would be a great time for me to meet him and it would give you two a chance to become closer also."

"Yeah that would be great. That might work for this weekend if Darien feels better because the doctor is going to finally let him out of house arrest."

"All right I will plan for this weekend then and we will stay at a hotel there for a night because it is a fairly long drive to get there. I will pay for all of it since I am a millionaire though. I will find people to cover our shifts for a few days then. Make sure you bring extra clothes and a bikini then."

"All right I will talk to Darien about it then and I will let you know tonight."

Thanks for reading Chapter eight of Days of our Lives.

I really appreciate everyone reading my story.

I will update as soon as possible

Yours truly,

15Stella15