Lessions
Previously:
"Here are your tickets, sir. Have a nice flight."
"Thank you." He turned back to Serena. "Just one more thing." He pulled out his phone, pressed some buttons, and turned it off.
"What's going on?" Serena demanded.
"I'm working on keeping you Serena forever."
"What are you talking about?"
He pulled out the tickets and showed the destination to her.
She read the country and gasped before flying into his arms. "I love you." She squealed.
"I love you too. Now let's go. I'll explain everything on the plane." He said before pulling her towards the gate.
Darien handed the tickets to the flight attendant.
"Have a nice flight Mr. and Mrs. Shields." She said before handing the stubs back to Darien.
"Thank you." He said before pulling a confused Serena behind him.
Once the plane had taken off and the two were comfortable, Serena looked to Darien. "Shields? Dare, what's going on?"
"Alright, long story short, everyone was too upset to have you out of their lives again, so we all talked and decided we'd all move so we can be with you."
Serena just stared at him in disbelief. "So they're…?"
"Currently in our destination living in their new houses."
She reached over and hugged him tightly. "I love you. I can't believe they gave up their lives for me."
"They love you so much Sere. They all said they didn't have much else here, so they'd move. They only have each other and you."
"What about Amy's mom?"
"She's over there too."
"And my parents?"
"Them as well. They're just waiting for you."
A tear fell down her cheek. "You guys all did this for me?"
He nodded. "We'd do anything for you. Let me explain a little more. That day when they left, while you were talking to Trista, I had everyone in my room. We talked and I suggested this whole thing. They looked for houses and got their tickets. I suggested they leave that day because they had to sell their houses. They went back home, contacted a realtor, and put their houses on the market. It didn't take long for them to sell. Amy's mother took the money to them a few days ago. Then all we had to do was wait for you to testify and we were out of there. We're not changing our names drastically. Just our last names. Your parents changed theirs to Tsukino, Amy's is Anderson, Lita's is Kento, Mina is playing off as your cousin, so she's a Tsukino too, and Raye and mine are Shields."
"Why did that lady call me Shields though?"
"Raye bought the tickets for us so it wouldn't be traceable from my computer. She just put that name for the name on the ticket." He shrugged. He really didn't know why. No one knew of his plan to propose to Serena other than Ken and possibly Ilene if Ken had informed her.
"Why didn't you guys tell me?" She asked, slightly furious. "Obviously you knew how upset I was!"
He sighed and placed a hand over hers. "I wanted to, I really did. But you would've acted different and Trista would've noted something different about you. It killed me to see you the way you were Sere, but I knew I couldn't say anything. Believe me, I was about to, but you seemed to be a little better after Trista said she'd move me with you, so I figured you could hold out until today."
"You're probably right. I would've been different." She looked back up to him. "So do I have my own house too?"
"That's a question I have for you."
"What's that?"
"How would you feel about moving in with me?"
"What?"
"Do you want to move in with me?"
She flung her arms around his neck. "YES!" She then brought her lips to his. "I love you."
"I love you too." He said before kissing her again.
…
Darien gently nudged the blonde leaning on his shoulder. "Sere."
She remained motionless, but a light snore escaped her slightly parted lips. He chuckled. He gently shook his shoulder. "Sere." He said again.
This time, her mouth closed and her eyes fluttered open slightly. "Wha?"
"We're almost there. We'll be landing in a few minutes." He said lightly.
She sat up and rubbed her eyes. "How long have I been out?"
"Few hours."
"Did you get any sleep?"
"About two hours or so. I usually don't sleep on long trips, even long car rides."
"Oh." She said absently as she yawned again. "You weren't uncomfortable, were you? I didn't mean to fall asleep on you." She blushed.
"It's alright. It was just my shoulder."
"We will begin our decent in about five minutes. Please fasten your seatbelts, raise your snack trays and put your seats in their upright positions." The woman said.
Another voice started speaking. "Nous allons-"
Serena looked to Darien confused about the foreign language.
"We're in France, remember?"
"Oh no, will I have to learn the language?" She panicked.
"Amy thought about that, we're in the area that speaks mostly English. We'll be fine. Though it wouldn't hurt for you to know a few things."
"I know oui oui."
"Yes yes?" He chuckled. "Seulementun oui."
She looked at him wide-eyed. "Huh?"
"I took a little French in high school."
"What did you say though?"
"Only one oui. I can teach you a few things. We'll start out easy. Repeat after me. Je."
"Je." She said with ease.
"M'appelle."
"Maple."
"Try again. M'appelle."
"M'appelle."
"Good. Serena."
"Good. Serena." She smiled.
"Ha-ha. Now put it all together. Je m'appelle Serena."
"Je m'appelle Serena."
"You just said my name is Serena."
"Yay! Je m'appelle Serena."
"Now, try this. J'ai."
"Jay."
"Use the sound from when you said je, just put an 'ay' sound at the end. J'ai."
"J'ai."
"Right. Now vingt-deux."
"Huh?"
"Vingt-deux."
"Vi-ngt-duh."
"Almost. Vingt-deux."
"Vi-ngt-de-ux?"
"Yup. Now say it together. J'ai vingt-deux ans."
"That last word is new."
"You can do it. Stop complaining."
"J'ai vingt-deux ans?"
"Yup."
"What'd I say?"
"Technically, I have twenty-two years. But it's the same as saying, I'm twenty-two. It just is different to the French. The je m'appelle one is technically I am called."
"Weird."
"That's what people who speak French as their first language think about English."
"True."
"One last one before we get there. Je suis."
"Je suis."
"Engagé."
"Engagé?"
"Yup. Je suis engagé."
"Je suis engagé. What's that mean?"
"We have now landed. Thank you for choosing International Air."
"Nous avais-"
"Let's go."
"Wait, you didn't tell me what je suis engagé means yet."
"I'll tell you later." He smiled lightly as he led her off the plane.
A/n: The end was fun to write. There you go. Serena knows the plan. Wasn't exactly sure how to have her handle that, but there it is. The little 'lesson' at the end was a complete spurr of the moment kinda 'let's write that' deal, lol...but hope you liked. I did get to French 4 in high school, but haven't taken a day of French since my sophomore year, and that was two years ago, so this is putting my knowledge to the test. I checked my spelling with online translators, and i knwo thoes aren't always the most realiable, but like i said, i knew how to say 'my name is' and 'i'm blank years old' before writing this, so i knew thoes were right, just had to double check my spelling. As for the last translation, he didn't tell her because it'd ruin the surprise he has for her. But for thoes of you wondering pronunciation (can't spell...it's 2 in the AM...lol) i'll put that below...the best i can at least :D
Seulement (s-ul-mont): only
Un: one
Oui (wee): yes
Je (idk a fenetic...use the j sound in bonjour...idk...sorry): I
M'appelle (ma-pel): Technically...am called
J'ai (same as the beginning of Je-ay): I have
Vingt-deux (Van-duh the duh has like a french accent to it...sorry again, horrible at this): twenty-two.
Ans (more just like awn kinda?): Years
Suis (su-i): am
Engagé (in-gauge-ay): engaged :D
That's why he couldn't tell her...sorry for the bad phenetic spelling...yes, i realise i spelt it differently in the spellings, but I'm spelling it phenetically :D lol...neways, it's hard for me to describe what they sound like, super sorry. There won't be much French in this story because I'm bad at French and don't want to have to refresh my memory a bunch in this story :D
Thanks for reading
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