Chapter 28: Andrew's Two Favorite Customers
"Hey Andrew!" Serena waved over on Darien's arm.
"Hey Serena!" He smiled over as they sat down at the arcade stools. "What's got you looking so chipper?"
"Nothing." She smiled.
Darien laughed, already knowing Serena was purposely trying to stay happy and chipper to spite Andrew's bet. "Did you forget already Andrew?"
"About my bet? No way. There is no way that you guys are going to magically not argue now that your dating. Even the best of couples argue and with you two it seems like its not going to be a hard prediction!"
"Darien and I don't have to argue!" Serena persisted. "There are some things we both agree on just fine!"
"Oh yea," Andrew laughed egging her on. "Like what?"
"Well for one..." She thought to herself. Actually Darien and her were kind of different...He was smart...she well... she struggled with schoolwork. He was brave, she was a cry baby. He was healthy, she loved her sweets.
Darien watched as she struggled. They didn't have a lot in common on the outside, but they did have the Moon Kingdom...explaining that to Andrew was not an option. "Well Serena and I both like flowers."
"Hey that's right!" Serena smiled, recalling her own love for flowers, and now even more so roses.
"Yea, yea okay so one point Serena and Darien, zero Andrew. Still you guys are bound to argue about something sooner or later." Andrew winked at them teasing.
"You know, there is something we have in common that Andrew doesn't know about. " Serena smiled widely.
"Other then roses?" Darien asked.
"Yes. Moons." Serena grinned an all knowing sly grin.
Darien caught her drift. Andrew knew that Darien was Tuxedo Mask, but not that Serena was Sailor Moon...this would definitely get him off their backs but...
"What are you two grinning about? Is there something you need to tell me Darien?" Andrew asked.
"Well..."
"Who's Darien's favorite super hero of all time?" Serena asked, innocently sipping on her shake.
"Well thats easy, last time I checked he had a thing for Sailor Moon."
"But he's dating me now."
"So he's over his thing for Sailor Moon?" Andrew asked.
"Not completely." Serena smiled.
Darien felt the coffee in his mouth almost cause him to choke. Who knew Serena could be so sneaky?
"Well then that would be another thing for you two to argue about." Andrew concluded.
"Of course, I wouldn't be worried, considering I get to see Sailor Moon as much as I want when I want." Darien leaned back in his chair, aiding Serena's hint dropping.
"What? How?" Andrew asked.
"Well he's Tuxedo Mask so it only makes sense..." Serena added with a grin, looking over to Darien.
"You told her?" Andrew asked.
"Of course I did." Darien shrugged playing it off.
"What am I missing here?" Andrew asked.
Darien spotted two round red saucers from the tea cups and grabbed them.
"What are you doing Darien?" Serena asked confused.
"That's what I've been asking..." Andrew added.
"See Serena's odangos?" Darien said.
"Yea?" Andrew added.
"Well here." Darien tool the red plates and placed them in front of her odango's mimicking Sailor Moon's hair pieces.
"You know if your trying to say that they're meatballs your just digging yourself a hole here Darien?" Andrew laughed.
"This is hopeless." Darien sighed.
"Here, let me do something." Serena thought for a minute then grabbed Andrew's pen and a picture from her purse. She wrote something and then gave it to Darien who wrote something too catching on. He folded it and handed it to Andrew.
"Open it after we leave. You still are going to owe us!" Darien smiled.
"We didn't argue once." Serena got up and linked herself onto Darien's arm.
"Fair enough. I loose." Andrew said and waved them off smiling with a sigh.
After they left that night, when his shift was over he opened the photo and almost immediately clued in almost dropping it in awe.
It was a picture of Serena and Darien except Serena had doodled two red dots on her odangos, a tiarra and a moon on her, and a mask, tuxedo hat and rose on Darien. On the bottom it was signed:
"From your two favorite customers, Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask"