Title: A Storm to Remember Name: Golden Usagi E-mail: Serena_S_moon99@yahoo.com (tell me what you think ^_^) Hi everyone, here’s Chapter 3, I hope you enjoy it! I’m very excited at everyone’s responses to my story, thanks for enjoying it and telling me what you think it means a lot! I’ll make sure and write the chapters as quickly as I can so you don’t have to wait very long for each on-coming chapter, I hate to wait for the next chapter, and I don’t want to make you have to wait either ^_^ ! I’ll begin my story now, thanks so much for reading. Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, though a creative genius does, so make sure to thank her for the lovers and all the characters in my story, thanks a bunch for allowing me to use them, bye! Chapter 3: Secret’s Revealed….Maybe The first part of the evening was spent in the kitchen getting Serena a cup of water as well as trying to get her to take all the pills the doctor so ~generously~ gave her to take. Darien knew this all must be too much for her, and he wanted to make it as painless as possible, so he came up with an idea. “Hey Serena……..you like ice cream, right,” he said with a devilish smile. “Like it? I *LOVE* it!,” Serena said loudly in a very happy tone. “Well Meatball Head, if you finish all of that medicine in the next two mins, you can have all the ice cream in the Freezer all to yourself, how’s that sound?,” Darien said, knowing quite well it would sound like the best thing in the entire world to her. “How about it Serena?” Before He could even finish his sentence Serena was gulping down pills and water as fast as she possibly could. Serena’s finishing time is, 35.5 seconds! Way to go Serena! Ice cream here she comes! “okay….., WHERE’S THE ICE CREAM!!??” Serena screeched in excitement at her coming sweets. “In the Freezer Serena, enjoy, it’s all yours.” Darien stated simply while he held down his chuckles. ‘Wow, can she eat or what……look at that, she already has half of my three cartons of ice cream served up in her bowl, not only that, but it’s the chocolate, well, at least she has taste……..wow……she’s going to feel sick later…….but doesn’t she look just adorable with that chocolate just slightly around her lips……..mmmm……..chocolate……, Darien……don’t start again……’ Darien scolded himself, but it was too late, he couldn’t take his eyes off of her as she ate her ice cream. Darien shook his head slightly jarring himself out of his thoughts and looked away from Serena then began to survey his own kitchen (as if he hadn’t seen it before….) and finding anything and everything that could slightly keep his attention away from Serena…..and her chocolate covered lips. “So uhh…..Serena…….what do you want to do tonight? Watch movies, play cards, watch some TV, talk….., what do you want to do?” Darien said trying to move his mind away from her soft lips. “Maybe you’d just like to get some sleep, it’s been a long day….” Darien said while looking down at the floor sadly. He didn’t really want her to go to sleep, ‘I want to talk to her, get to know her better…..kiss her lips…..smell her golden angelic threads of hair…..okay Darien, snap out of it, geeze!’ Darien sighed quietly to himself and looked up as Serena finished off her bowl of ice cream….. ‘wow, that was quick, she’d beat me in an eating contest any day, heck, she’d beat anybody!’ “Well, I don’t know Darien, I’m pretty tired, but I’m not ready to go to sleep yet, how about me just talk and play cards, is that alright?” Serena said dying to talk to him alone…..she also wanted to be in his arms again as she had been at the hospital, she loved the way it had felt, she felt energized that way, like she has been electrocuted, but instead of feeling pain, she felt her vains flow with magic, she just couldn’t help wanting the feel that way again. (maybe even feel that way for the rest of her life) “Alright Serena, sounds like a great idea!” Darien stated with a smile. ‘Yes! Now we can be alone, get to know each other…..become friends…..maybe more’ They both thought in unison. But both thought that would only be in their wildest dreams, and they thought they shouldn’t push it, or at least not yet. ~Two Hours Later~ “Darien……I’m so sorry, it must be awful…..not remembering your parents…..and not remembering anything at all before the accident, I’m so sorry, thank you for trusting me enough to tell me.” “Well Serena, thanks for understanding, but I’m strong, and even though I’d like to know who I am for sure, at least I have friends like you to back me up whenever I need someone to understand me.” Darien and Serena had told each other everything they could think of during their game of poker, they couldn’t remember knowing anyone who understood so well everything in each other’s lives. Not only that, but they felt drawn to tell each other every detail of their lives, to the point in which they had met. Now Darien had just told Serena his deepest secret and saddest tale, he had been orphaned at 6 and lived in an orphanage all of his life. The only other person he had told was Andrew, because he knew his best friend could keep any secret and was always there to lend an ear. For some reason though, it felt so different when he told Serena his story. Andrew had pitied when Darien had first told him, but then Darien talked to him and Andrew understood that Darien needed no pity and they went back to the way friends should be. With Serena, she felt no pity for him, only sadness at his loss, she only seemed to want to comfort him, and she did. Darien was just on the verge of tears when Serena threw herself into his arms and began crying into his shirt. “Thank you for trusting me and calling me a good friend, that means so much to me, I know is must have been so hard living the way you did, I don’t think anyone like you should have to go through something like that” Darien was surprised in the least as he looked down at the weeping pile of Serena in his arms. A single tear fell down his cheek as she looked at her crying for him, and because she had made him feel so much caring at that moment. He couldn’t even remember a time he had ever felt that way. He pulled her back and looked into her innocent white face and smiled to her wiping away a few of her tears. “Thank you Serena, that means so much,” Then he leaned forward and kissed her forehead then smiled down on the little angel he held in his arms. They both looked at the way the must certainty looked and slowly pulled away from each others arms not wanting to, but both assumed it was best that way. The both felt a little saddened as they pulled apart. They both blushed then continued their card game with only a little more conversation here and there. ~Half an Hour later…~ “Full house Darien, beat that!” Serena shouted at him in triumph. “Man Serena, you’re really good at this, you win again.” Darien said making sure he didn’t show the 4 of a kind he had held and quickly placed them back on the deck and began to shuffle with a smirk crossing his face. “Boy Darien, you must not be very good at this, either that or you are being beaten by the great Serena!” Serena stated in proudly. “Yeah……it must be because you’re so good Serena…..” Darien smiled and continued to shuffle the cards holding down the laughter that was building up inside of him. “You know Darien, I think I’d like *another* bowl of ice cream (her third, geeze, she can sure eat ^_^) and I was wondering if you’d like some while I’m up???” Serena offered. “Sure, that’s be great meatball head,” Darien replied. Serena turned and glared at Darien, but not with the usual fire behind her eyes, she just didn’t seem to hate him and despise him as much as she used to. He had been so nice to her, and she just couldn’t bare being angry with him for very long anymore. Darien noticed the change and smiled to her. She realized her actions had been noticed and she quickly turned away to go into the kitchen and get the ice cream she had offered him. ‘She’s not getting away that easily, I saw that usual spark of anger missing in her eyes, I think she might not hate me quite so much…….could there be hope for me, god I hope so….but…..only one way to find out…..’ Darien immediately jumped up out of his seat and followed her into the kitchen and found her looking the opposite direction from him filling up two bowls with ice cream…though one…..was considerably more filled then the other. He smiled slightly, then began to think quickly what exactly he had come in the room to say…..though he couldn’t help but look her over slowly as she stood on her tippy toes and leaning over the ice cream canister with her tongue slightly sticking out the side of her mouth as she concentrated on scraping the last of the ice cream out of the canister. He stared at her in awe……she was just so adorable…he smiled at her with his stare deepening as he began to almost look inside her. She turned around with both ice cream bowls in hand and was shocked at the way Darien was looking at her and yet so surprised he was standing right behind her and she hadn’t noticed it. ‘How long has he been *standing* there?!’ Serena thought to herself in surprise, so surprised was she that she dropped both bowls of ice cream on the floor. They came down with a crash causing the bowls to break to pieces and ice cream to splash all over the floor and against some of Darien’s lower cupboards. “Oh my god Darien, I’m soooo SORRY!” Serena said as tears began to fall down her cheeks in small rivers and then fell to knees gathering together small pieces of shape glass and scooping up ice cream with her hands. “No no…..Serena, it’s alright, it’s not your fault, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to frighten you” Darien said ash she watched Serena frantically try to clean up the ice cream and glass mess. Just as he finished his sentence a same gasp escaped Serena’s lip. She held her hand close to her and began focused her own attention to her now bleeding finger. She looked at her bleeding finger still crying and Darien only looked at her with love and a little worry. He helped her up and led her to the sink where he helped her clean up her finger and her hands, which were still covered in chocolate. She looked up at him, her lip still quivering from her slowly ceasing tears and spoke…. “I’m sorry Darien, I didn’t mean to break your bowls…I’m such a klutz,” at this Serena began to cry a little harder again and Darien simply rubbed his finger along her jaw line smiling to her. “It’s all right Serena, I don’t mind at all, you aren’t a klutz, I just shouldn’t sneak up on you like that,” he said with a wink. Serena smiled slightly happy that he wasn’t mad at her then winced slightly as more pain surged from her bleeding finger. The blood was still coming and it had been a slightly deep cut. Maybe not deep enough to have to seek any kind of medical treatment of a doctor such as before, but deep enough to cause her some pain. “Aww, Serena, are you okay, that’s quite a cut there you have, here let me take a look at it..” Darien said as he took her hand in his and began to look over her finger slightly. Serena blushed slightly as he held her hand though she wasn’t exactly sure why. She smiled as he held her hand so gently as to not hurt her. He cleaned away the little bit of blood that had began to run again from her wound, then lead her to a medicine cabinet he had just above the sink. He reached in and pulled out a small tin of Band-Aids and wrapped her finger carefully and leaned down to kiss her finger gently. “There you are, all better,” He said smiling to her. Serena blushed again and began to realize just how much she cared for “the creep” Darien. He was so different now. She nodded slightly to herself that he must have always been this way, she just hadn’t been patient enough to see it or he had been purposely hiding it from her, but why? “Thank you….Darien,” She smiled through her blush. She paused for a moment, why had he been looking at her in such a way in the first place, and what kind of look was it exactly? Did she see…… the caring, the feeling….the love she had thought she had seen in his eyes. No. That couldn’t have been what she saw, she must just be thinking strange things, she couldn’t have seen that. She looked back up to him, and thought to herself. ‘I just have to know why he’s acting this way…..what was that look, was it love…….could he care for me, at least slightly *like* me? I just have to know…..because…..I think…..I think…..I’m in falling in love with him….and even more then that, I may already be in love…’ She looked down at the ground at her last thought and felt Darien’s eyes burning into her….. “Serena……are you okay? You’ve become quiet all of a sudden, and no offence, but that just isn’t like you, are you alright, I mean really, are you okay?” Serena looked up with worry, confusion, and a little pain. ‘I hope he cares, but I have to know, but I just have to ask, at least……why was he standing there, could it have simply been for the ice cream……I don’t know, I have to ask’ She thought to herself desperately. “Serena, is there something you need to tell me…..or ask me?” He asked in true confusion and curiosity. The both looked into each others eyes, and both knew that they had to tell each other what was going on in both of their minds, but most of all, what was going on in both of their hearts. To be continued…… ******************************************************** Hello everyone once again, this is Golden Usagi! Please tell me what you think of my story at I hope you like my story, I’m writing as fast as I can, I’m trying to get all the chapters to you quickly so you can know what happens sooner. (I hate waiting for the next chapter in anticipation too ^_^) Hope you liked this chapter and the cliffhanger too, thanks for reading, Ja ne!