Darien was sitting in the cafe with his friend Andrew. He had just finished school and decided to move back from the States. This was their regular thing, once a week. He sipped on his coffee as Andrew tried to cut his bagel.

"Dude calm down, it is just a bagel!"

"Shut up dude these crappy knives they give us, I will never get through this thing." Andrew started to get frustrated.

"Then just rip it apart!" Mina said walking up from behind and rubbing his shoulders.

"It is not the same!" He threw the knife down."What are you doing here anyways."

"I am here with Ray! We needed to go shopping."

"Hey Andrew!" Ray said from behind her.

"Shopping what else is new!" He sighed. Looked over to Darien. "Girls you remember Darien?"

"Of course we do!" Ray said with a smile. "Don't worry we don't hate you anymore." She winked.

Mina laughed. "Oh my god Ray. Just ignore her Darien. It is nice to see you again. How long have you been back?"

"It's fine Mina." Darien said with his usual grin. "I have been back for a little over a month."

"Aww and your BFF didn't throw you a welcome back party?" Mina made a sad face and looked at Andrew.

"Trust me, I wanted too. Killjoy wasn't having it."

"Yup somethings never change." He shrugged and sipped his coffee. He was starting to feel like the old days again. All that was missing was Lita, Amy and Serena.

'Serena' He thought to himself.

"A good friend would have just thrown one anyways. That's what we're doing!" Ray squealed. She was so excited. But the excitement slowly faded from her face when she looked over to Mina and realized she may have opened pandora's box.

"Oh yeah? For who? Am I invited?" Andrew asked.

"Of course you can come Andrew. And Dare if you're free...c-come too!" Mina said awkwardly.

"Cool when is it?" Darien asked.

"Saturday. Starts at 7." Ray informed him.

"It is invite only because we want it to be a surprise and you know how rumors flow in our town."Mina let out an awkward chuckle.

"You got it! And who is coming back exactly?" Andrew asked. He knew Lita was still in town and Amy was just a few cities over.

"Ummm..." Mina said scratching her head. She looked at Ray.

He looked at the girls and the way they looked at each other. Andrew thought long and hard on who it could have been. And when he finally realized who it was his face went pale. He looked at Darien, who was just sipping on his coffee.

"Who is it?" Darien asked because this was getting too weird for him.

"Serena." Andrew answered for the girls.

Darien froze mid sip. He didn't put the cup down he just looked up at Andrew. Then he looked over the girls.

"Yeah, it's Serena." Ray said refusing to make eye contact with Darien. "Just like you Darien, she is done with school and her dad really needs her help here, so she took a job out here, and moving in with me..."

"Well that is great to hear. The whole gang is back together!" Andrew said trying to be excited and make the situation less awkward.

The girls just stood there, and the guys just looked at their coffees. Nobody said a word.

"Well...as fun as this is...we have so much to do between now and then. So Ray let's move." Mina said nudging her to leave.

"Yup, let's! It was nice seeing you guys." Ray said as she walked away.

Mina followed behind. She stopped, looked at Darien. "Dare, if it is too awkward for you to come. We get it. But it would be fun to have us all back together. For old time sake. Have a good day guys."

Andrew watched as the girls left. He let out a sigh.

"So...are we going together?" Andrew asked.

Darien was still in his trance. He remembered the last time he saw her. At the bakery. He remembered her eyes. Her smile. Her smell. Her soft laugh. He remembered everything. Even the way he felt when she left and never really said goodbye to him. It was a really bad time in his life. He almost lost himself. Had it not been for Andrew, he would have lost everything. Even though he felt he already did when she left.

"Dare...Earth to Dare...?" Andrew snapped his fingers.

"Huh?"

"Dude, you good, please don't go back down that black hole again?"

"Yeah, dude I am fine. And yeah we will go together." Darien said taking a big gulp of his coffee.

As the two girls walked out of the coffee shop the took one more glance at the table.

"Who would have guess after moving thousands of miles away from each other, they would be back here again, at the same time." Mina shook her head.

"Mina did I just mess something up?" Ray asked feeling really guilty.

"I am not sure. Maybe we should run this by the girls when we get to the party store." Mina questioned.

The two linked arms and continued to walk. Of the girls they were the closest to Serena and they remembered the day she left. They remembered how hurt she was, but they knew she was in a better state of mind now. The convinced themselves it will all be okay.

"You did what!?"Lita yelled.

"Lita calm down." Amy said trying to defuse the situation."And you are sure it was him."

"No Aimes it was Prince Charles pretending to be him!" Mina said sarcastically.

"Of course it was him!" Ray yelling as she picked up some plastic plates.

"So we are asking you two what do we do now?!" Mina asked.

"There is nothing left we can do. You already invited him." Lita explained.

"And guys for all we know, they will be able to be civil adults. So much time has passed." Amy tried to reason.

"I guess..." Ray said.