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CHAPTER 5

The next day

"So, that bad huh?" Andrew bit the inside of his lip. He could not understand Darien, firstly because of his unexpected moves on Serena which Andrew had no idea that he liked her, infact he thought Darien despised her…up until now anyway. Secondly, he could not understand how Darien expected Serena to come running into his arms at his proposition of going out. This was because he had seen the way Darien acted towards Serena in front of his other mates, a complete fool. What a joke Darien seemed now.

"Yeah," was the groaning reply from Darien. He lay his head on his arms which were folded on the bench of the arcade counter. Why was he so stupid? Stupid stupid stupid.

As Darien pondered this Andrew came up with an idea to try and improve the situation.

"Well, don't you have dance classes with her or something? You can talk to her there."

"She pulled out of my class…"

"What? How do you know?"

"Amy told me…I'm pulling out too."

"You spoke to Amy??"

"I needed advice on this situation of mine with Serena and I felt Amy was one of her close friends and I could confide in her about it," Darien replied.

Pause.

"What did she say?" Asked Andrew, annoyed at the fact he was spending his break time at work talking to Darien about his idiocy, leaning on the counter opposite him.

"That I was a complete and utter fool and did not deserve someone like Serena."

"…"

"Oh yeah, and that I should talk to her when I'm not being a jerk, which is unlikely to happen cos apparently I'm an arrogant prick. Then she said she hoped I would jump off a bridge and die."

"…right. Wait… are you sure Amy said all of that?? Amy?"

"Well, not about jumping off a bridge and hoping I would die," he spoke mournfully.

"Well, I gotta say, I've always liked that Amy girl. Quite the charmer actually," Andrew teased, growing amused at Darien's now aggravated facial expression.

"Just, I need your help Andrew. You talk to Serena and seem pretty close to her. Could you…maybe, like uhh…find out where she goes each day for me, like-"

"Dude. You are so fucked up. You want me to find out Serena's everyday whereabouts for you so you can approach her and win her over with your arrogant attitude and vengeful nature and live happily ever after?"

"Well yeah, what else?" Darien cocked an eyebrow and half smiled.

"I'll do it!!"

Meanwhile…back at Serena's house

"And that's what he said, and that's what I told him. Pathetic, I know, right?" replied Amy who lay crossed legged on the carpet of Serena's bedroom, as the blonde lay moping in her bed.

"Thanks Amy," the sulking girl replied with her head buried under her pink fluffy pillow.

"Look, how about for now you try and avoid him, which means not going to the arcade and cutting pathways to school so that you don't have a high chance of bumping into him anymore. After, things will die down and everything will go back to normal and we can forget about this stupid Darien," Amy informed. Yet, she couldn't help feeling guilty for not telling Serena that Darien had called her earlier that morning to talk about Serena. These things are better left unsaid for now, Amy thought. Though one question kept tugging at the back of Amy's head causing her to debate whether or not she should ask her. Then suddenly she spat the question out.

"Do you like him?"

"Hrmm, I wonder what the weather is going to be like today, maybe we can hit the beach, I am in serious need of a tan and-"

"Answer," Amy suddenly cut her off, "you are so crap at trying to discretely avoid the question, Serena."

"I'm sorry Amy. It's just…well, the thing is, I don't know the answer," the teary girl whispered. Amy just nodded.

"Let's just chill and forget about this, okay?"

"Okay."

"Hey, I just realised, the dance is coming closer! I can't wait."

This caused Serena to frown and Amy was only able to realise the topic was not a good one to talk about with her friend too late, as it immediately made Serena more depressed.

"And just so you know, Darien's serious about you," the statement was out of the blue and came as a shock to Serena. This was because Amy's voice turned stern when she said it, causing her to swallow hard at her friend's statement that was spoken with the utmost seriousness.

After Amy had left later that night, Serena kept replaying the events that had happened between her and Darien for the past few days. She kept thinking about Amy's words: Darien's serious about you. What was she talking about anyway? Serena gave up trying to fool herself into believing Darien's actions were meaningless and just a joke. And to make it worse she had feelings for him that she could not deny. She was just scared. Why did he like her? What if they go out and he changes his mind about liking her? She carefully analysed herself in her full-length mirror. She couldn't see what Darien saw in her. She felt ugly and insecure. Lifting a hand towards her face she traced her fingers around her mouth, up her cheek and back down to her lips. Who would even want to kiss her? The fact was that Darien had been the only guy who had kissed her. In the past there had been guys who attempted to but she usually backed off once she realised they were interested in her. Closing her eyes and placing her hand on the place where Darien had kissed her, the blonde flashed back to the incident and could almost feel his hot breath on her. It was almost as if she was tasting him again right there and then in her room, she could almost feel his aroma lingering around her. She grew increasingly hot. Coming back into reality Serena took a close look at herself in the reflection of her mirror once more.

"I'm disgusting," She whispered to her reflection, inches away from it. Yet, in reality she was attractive to the opposite sex and many complemented her about her appearance but somehow she always managed to find her flaws. Having talked herself into another depression and now feeling unattractive Serena burst into tears and collapsed onto her bed. She felt alone in the world, and lay there in the dark, tears drenching her pillow. She began to drift off to sleep when she heard a noise coming from her computer, which stood, on her desk next to her squeaky bedroom door. Walking over to it she realised she had forgot that she was still signed into to msn messenger and that she had a message waiting for her. Rubbing her eyes in an attempt to wake herself up, drowsily, Serena looked at the flashing orange rectangle at the corner of her computer screen. It was Andrew.

Never give out your password or credit card number in an instant message conversation.

Andrew

Hey hey

- princess serena

Hey Andrew!

Andrew

How r u?

- princess serena

Good thnx and u?

Andrew

Same same 

- princess serena

cool

Andrew

Yeah..so wats been happenin with u these days?

- princess serena

Not much…same old same old, and u?

Andrew

Yeah me 2, not much.

- princess serena

So….

Andrew

What u got planned this weekend?

- princess serena

I dunno…who plans :p

Andrew

Haha true true

- princess serena

Might hang out at the mall

Andrew

Haha shoulda guessed :p

- princess serena

haha

Andrew

Hey sry, sumthing has just come up, I g2g now  ttyl hun.

"Darien? Looks like you'll be hitting the mall this weekend," Andrew grinned at his dark haired friend, his pearly white teeth all exposed in triumph.

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Yay, another chapter down. Yeah, I know, I hate me too. In advanced please don't kill me.

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