Here is my second fanfic.  My first one got such good comments that I’m 
scared that this one won’t be as good, so If you hate be gentle with your 
criticism.  Well any way this story takes place in the very beginning of 
Sailor Moon when Serena and Darien act like they hate each other.  They’ve 
known each other for a while by the time the story starts.

Enjoy!!!



AREN’T I GOOD ENOUGH?
By OTRIXI15@aol.com


BEEP BEEP BEEP!
	Oh no I’m late!  Wait a sec.. it’s Saturday!  Serena said relieved.
	'Seven o’clock, wow it’s early!  Well I’m already up.. maybe I should 
just stay awake.   Mom will freak!’ thought Serena.  She went to take a 
shower, and then got dressed in her favorite white skirt and ice blue tank 
top.  Serena walked over to her mirror to put her hair up, and examined 
herself critically. 
	‘Well another fun Saturday, get to spend time with my friends, 
hopefully I won’t make a fool of my self and have another klutz attack’ 
thought Serena sadly. ‘Darien’ her mind screamed.  Serena smiled, she 
honestly didn’t know why she liked him, maybe it was because sometimes he 
looked like a lost soul she wanted to save, he seemed so mysterious, and 
maybe a little because he had to be one the most beautiful people she ever 
met with his coal black hair and dark blue eyes and his smoky voice that 
sent shivers up her spine.  ‘Who am I kidding he always makes fun of me, 
get real Serena I’m just a klutzy, whiny teenager, he probably has beautiful 
women hanging all over him’.  That thought made her mad because Serena never 
judged a person by how they looked and underneath Darien seemed like a kind 
person so he probably wouldn’t judge someone by how they look either. 
'Great, thought Serena he probably has the most perfect women, kind, smart
and beautiful, everything I’m not’.  ‘Just stop dreaming about him, you 
could never have him,’ Serena thought sadly.  But she still thought about 
him and she even smiled at the thought of bumping into him, at least she
could see him and say something to him even if they were fighting.
	After Serena had her extensive lunch she called up her friends and 
made plans to meet them at the park and spend the rest of the day with 
them.  ‘Finally out of this house’ thought Serena happily as she made her 
way to the park.  She was so busy thinking about her plans that she didn’t 
notice one of the tiles on the sidewalk was slightly higher than the others. 
And a second later she was on her butt.  Serena heard men whistling at her 
but she was so disoriented and humiliated that she didn’t notice that her 
already short skirt was all the way up her thighs exposing every inch of 
her long youthful legs.  Then she felt a presence behind her and that 
familiar smoky voice:	“What is this Meatball head, the millionth time 
you’ve tripped” Darien said with laughter in his voice as he came around to 
stand in front of her.
	“Oh shut up Darien, we all can’t be as smooth and sophisticated as 
you,” said Serena sarcastically still on the ground. 
	“Big words Meatball...” then he stopped in mid-sentence as he heard 
a bunch of boys whistle and leer at the sight Serena made.
	Darien looked down at her legs blushed then scowled.  Serena noticed
that Darien was making a funny face and that his dark blue eyes had gone 
almost black, then she followed where his eyes where staring and she blushed
also. ‘Just great’ she thought ‘he gets a perfect view of my scrawny legs,
another thing for him to make fun of me about.’
	“Will you get up Serena,” Darien said in a gruff almost angry voice.
	“No Darien, It’s my dream for every one to stare at me and embarrass
me more,” retorted Serena angrily as she got up.
	“Well have a nice day Meatball Head,” Darien said in a voice that 
sounded relieved as he walked away.
	“Yeah same to you,” Serena muttered angrily.
	‘Why are my feelings always so hot and cold towards him, and why does 
he have to be so damn hot?  There are so many gorgeous guys out there that 
are nice and kind, yet I’m attracted to aloof, dark, distant, Darien.  And 
why do I feel so happy now that I’ve talked to him, oh I’m insane’ thought 
Serena as she made her way to the park to meet her friends.
	“Hey girl over here!” yelled Lita.
	“Hi guys,” said Serena happily as she turned around and ran over to 
her friends.
	“So what do you guys wanna do?” asked Mina.
	“How about we go see the new movie Matt Damon is in,” suggested Raye.
	“Matt Damon,” they all sighed and went to the movies.
	The next day Serena called up Raye to make plans with her.  Even 
though they fought a lot they were still best friends.  Serena really 
needed to talk to someone any way, she was feeling really confused and 
depressed about Darien.  She needed to get all her feelings for him off her 
chest because she had never told any one the way she felt about Darien.   
She was starting to feel bottled up since she always told the truth about 
how she felt, much to her dismay.  So Serena made her way to Raye’s 
temple.  As she was walking she saw Darien and couldn’t help smiling.
	“Hey Meatball head, you’re doing pretty well today, I haven’t seen 
you trip once,” Darien remarked smiling.
	Even though that heart stopping smile of his was doing wicked things 
to her insides she still had the presence of mind to think of something 
wicked she could do to him.   So smiling sweetly she replied:
	“Hello Darien, you’re doing well yourself today also.” He was so 
stunned with her words, instead of her ordinary biting remark,  that he 
didn’t notice that she had stuck her foot out.  The next thing he knew he 
was on the ground and Serena was laughing hysterically.  Darien looked up 
at her angrily and she laughed even more, “Oh this is classic I wish I had
my camera” she replied still laughing.
	“Meatball head.. you’re going to wish you were dead,” then with a 
wicked smile he was up, with an arm around her waist and holding her chin 
and looking down into her big blue eyes he whispered “Just wait till 
tomorrow,”  and he walked away.  
	Serena was shaken to the core.  When he had smiled at her she had 
gone blank but when he touched her she had turned to jelly.  She was happy 
she didn’t have to say anything back to him because she had been incapable 
of speech those few moments.  ‘Oh what can I ever do  to get through to him’
she thought ‘oh Serena just stop why would he ever like a dumb girl like 
you’.  After she had gathered her wits she went of to the temple, by this 
time she was just dying to talk to Raye.
	“Hi Raye” yelled Serena, happy to see her friend as she was running 
up the temple steps.
	“Hey Rena,” called Raye happily “What did you want to talk to me 
about,” she inquired.
	“Darien,” said Serena sadly.
	“Darien?” said Raye puzzled “Oh Darien, that hunk you are always 
complaining about, that guy you hate.”
	Serena blushed bright red “Well I don’t exactly hate him...” 
	“Oh my goodness!  You like him don’t you?” then with a wicked smile 
Raye started chanting “Serena loves Darien, Serena loves Darien” over and 
over again.  Raye was acting to totally unlike her self but when her and 
Serena were together they were hyper and wild.  After a while Raye noticed 
Serena wasn’t saying anything and she looked sad.  Usually Serena would be 
yelling at her by now so Raye was worried.  
	“What’s wrong Rena?” asked Raye concerned.
	“Well I like him so much but he doesn’t like me, to him I’m just some 
annoying stupid teenager, I could never be good enough for him,” she 
finished sadly barely above a whisper.
	“Rena don’t say that, you are a wonderful person, caring, kind and 
sweet, and I’ll beat anyone up who says otherwise,” Raye finished hotly 
“And any way you are a knock out, I know tons of guys who would kill to 
date you.”
	“Yeah right Raye, but you’re a good liar,” replied Serena with a 
melancholy smile.
	“Rena I wouldn’t lie to you, but I can see this is 
really affecting you, come inside and I’ll make you some tea and we can 
talk more about this,” Raye said comfortingly.

Next Day After School

	Serena was walking home looking at her test grade.  ‘A seventy’ she 
thought ‘better but still not good, but taking my work more seriously is 
starting to pay off, oh but I wanted better than a seventy, well I will 
just have to try harder next time’ and she crumpled up the paper and threw 
it behind her.
	“Hey Meatball Head watch where you throw things I’m not a dumpsite 
you know” said Darien in that mocking tone of his.
	“Could have fooled me,” retorted Serena.
	“You’re getting better Serena, you might actually hurt my feelings 
one day,” Darien said laughingly, “Oh you got a seventy on your paper, at 
least you didn’t fail but you could do better Meatball head,” Serena 
whirled around angrily at that, “Hey calm down I didn’t mean that to be 
bad, any way I just wanted to give you this,” Darien winked and handed 
Serena a rose and walked away.
	Serena was stunned but she finally got back to the real world.  She 
held up the rose to her nose and smelled it.  ‘Wonderful’ she thought.  
Then something was tickling her nose and she swiped it away.  It was an ant 
then she looked at the rose, the petals in the middle had been picked away 
and then it had been filled with ants.
	“Darien!!!” Serena Screeched.  And somewhere out there Darien was 
laughing.

	The same day at Darien’s apartment.

	‘Well this day wasn’t so bad, the look on Serena’s face, oh I’ll 
never forget it, it was so cute’ he thought happily.  Then as he was going 
through his apartment he noticed there was a box at the door.  It was 
unmarked, he brought it to the table and opened it up.  The box was filled 
with pictures of his parents and some of him as a baby.  Darien had never 
seen pictures of his parents and he could remember them vaguely because 
they had died when he was so young.  Feelings of loneliness flooded back to 
him, days at the orphanage, suffering the taunting remarks of the children 
there, having to take many jobs at a time so he could make his way.  Tears 
threatened to spill over but he clamped them down.  He never cried and he 
wasn’t about to but staying in the apartment wasn’t helping any so he got 
his jacket and headed to the park to think.

Same day at Serena’s house.

	“Bye mom I’m going out for a walk” called Serena.
	“Okay but be back before eleven,” yelled down her mother.
	“Ma it’s only six, I’ll probably be back way before then,” and Serena 
was out the door. 
	‘Wow it’s beautiful out today, maybe I’ll see Darien’ thought Serena 
‘Who am I kidding I want to see Darien, oh why can’t I just get over him’.
 	“Because you love him” a quiet voice in her head said. 
	“No that’s crazy,” muttered Serena under her breath.
	Then she saw a tall figure moving out in the back of the park.  ‘It’s 
Darien, I want to go up to him, but what will I say, oh hi I have the 
biggest crush on you, do mind If I stare at you for a while.  That will go 
over well.  Maybe I can yell at him for the rose prank, at least it’s 
something to say, well here goes,’ thought Serena.  She walked over to him 
quietly and was about to yell at him when she saw the look of raw pain on 
his face.
	“Darien?” said Serena uncertainly.
	“What Serena,” Darien replied in a strained voice.
	“What’s wrong, is there anything I can do to help?” Said Serena 
quietly.
	“You can go away,” Darien said gruffly he was on the verge of tears 
and he didn’t want Serena to see them.
	Serena inhaled sharply and was about to turn away but then she 
stopped she couldn’t bear to see him in pain so out of raw courage she 
wrapped her arms around Darien and whispered:
	“I won’t let you go through this alone.”
	“Let go of me,” Darien said in a stone cold voice he was on the verge 
of surrendering to her warm embrace, her soothing voice and her 
intoxicating smell.
	“No I don’t leave people who are hurting to suffer on their own,” 
replied Serena quietly.
	“I don’t want your pity,” he said gruffly.
	“Darien I don’t pity you at all, your one of the most assured people 
I know,” replied Serena.
	“Then you don’t know me very well, please let go” his voice raw now.
	“No,” said Serena firmly and buried her head in his chest.
	Darien remembered all the times he had seen Serena helping out her 
friends when they were down.  And one time in particular a little boy had 
been lost and crying for his mother and Serena had hugged him and stayed 
with him and bought him and ice-cream.  Darien couldn’t think of too many 
people who would stay with a boy while he cried straight for an hour.  Such 
an intense longing went through Darien, he couldn’t stand it anymore, he 
broke down and wrapped his arms tight around her.
	“It’s okay Darien I’m here for you.  Usually, when I’m upset, I have 
to tell people about it.. get it off my chest, because when I bottle it up 
inside me I end up exploding.  But you don’t have to tell me what’s wrong,
just know that I’m here if you want to talk about it.
	“I don’t know where to begin” Darien said in a quiet voice.
	“Just say whatever comes to you, I’m not grading you here” said 
Serena with a sad smile.
	So Darien poured out his heart to her.  He told her about his parents 
death, being at the brutal orphanage, the numerous straining jobs, and most 
of all the utter loneliness of his life.  By this time tears where coming 
out of Darien’s eyes and he dropped to his knees and cried silently into 
Serena’s chest.  He held on to her tightly wanting to get her happiness and 
joy of life into his body.  She made him feel so secure and cared for, her 
skin was so soft and warm and her sweet scent called to him.  An intense 
mad urge swept through him and he was powerless to stop it. He had always 
tried to deny the powerful attraction he felt towards Serena but it was 
near impossible.  His aching lips encountered her warm neck and as he 
kissed his way up it he could feel the breath storming through Serena’s 
body.  He soon found her lips, and they were soft and sweet, and after a 
moment he couldn’t take it, he needed more and he crushed her to his body 
and he was kissing her with brutal force plunging his tongue into her sweet 
mouth.  He ran his hands all over her young lithe body, she was driving him 
insane and he didn’t care.  He could hear himself groaning with need, he 
wanted to possess her, he wanted to control her, he wanted to... “NO” his 
mind screamed  “you can’t do this, this is Meatball head we are talking 
about here, are you crazy!!” but his body didn’t give a damn that it was 
Meatball head.  Finally he gathered enough will power, forced her away from 
him, and muttered:
 	“Sorry this shouldn’t of happened,” he replied gruffly.
	Serena was incredibly hurt; she had been in heaven but she beared
	“Of course you’re right, this is crazy,”  she said in a falsely happy 
voice.
	“Right I mean you’re Meatball head,” said Darien with an equally false
smile and walked off with a sense that everything was wrong.
	The next day after school while Serena was walking home she stopped 
in the arcade.  But with her great luck the person she didn’t want to deal 
with was there.
	“Hi Serena,” called Andrew.
	“Hey,” said Serena in a sad voice.  Andrew gave her a strange look 
and was about to comment.  When Darien said:
	“Hey Andrew, oh hi Meatball Head, didn’t see you there,” said Darien 
with a smile that didn’t touch his eyes.
	“Yeah whatever Darien, have a nice day Andrew,” replied Serena with a 
travesty of a smile of her own.  Darien gave her a weird look,  and Serena 
could have sworn she had seen concern but she turned around and left before
she could analyze it.
	‘How does he do it, how can he act like nothing happened, how can he 
just turn of like that, Serena what are you saying he never had feelings 
for you in the first place remember, your just a loser Meatball head to 
him.’  Serena was so busy thinking that she didn’t notice the boy in front 
of her and she crashed right into him. 
	“Oh I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to I just wasn’t looking,” said 
Serena worriedly.
	“ I know, don’t worry about it Serena,” he said with a smile.
	“Oh Tim, I didn’t know it was you,” Serena said shocked, she had just
run into one of the hottest guys at her school.
	“Hey it’s okay really, but ironically I was looking for you, do you 
want to go to the movies with me,” he said with a smile.
	“Sure,” was all Serena could manage to say, Tim actually wanted to go
out with her. 
	“Okay then, I’ll pick you up at eight, bye Serena,” said Tim warmly.


	Serena had been waiting for an hour for Tim but it didn’t look like 
he was going to show.  ‘Well this has been the greatest week of my life, 
first Darien now Tim,’ Serena thought sarcastically.  She had hoped this 
date would take her mind off  Darien, ‘well at least for a few minutes 
anyway.’  She went up to her room slammed the door and went to bed.

Next day at school, lunch time.

	Serena had spotted Tim talking to his friends and was about to go up 
to him but she stopped when she heard her name and then laughter accompanied
by it.  Serena ran up to the tree closest to them and hid behind it.

	“Yeah I had a hot date last night, you can say I was a very LUCKY 
man,” replied Tim smugly.
	“What are you going to tell Serena,” asked his friend.
	“Oh I’ll tell her my little brother was sick and I had to watch him, 
that girl believes anything, she’s so gullible it’s funny,” said Tim 
laughing.
	“Are you ever going to ask her out again,” asked his friend.
	“Of course, wouldn’t want that prime piece of female flesh to get 
away.. and like I said she so gullible I could probably get her to do 
anything with me maybe even get lucky again, It’s like taking candy from a 
baby,” Tim said with confidence.
	Serena had seldom been so angry in her life, she was ready to tear 
Tim apart, a feeling she wasn’t used to.  Serena had never hit anyone in 
her life but she would give anything to smack Tim.  Tim had spotted her and 
came up to her.
	“Hey beautiful, sorry about last night....,” he was cut of in 
midsentence and he looked at her eyes they were furious and he had a sudden 
sick feeling in his stomach.   The next thing he knew there was a peach 
blur and an intense pain in his left eye and he was on the ground.	
	“Don’t you ever come near me again you sad excuse for a human being, 
and if I ever hear that you have gone near any of my friends you can rest 
assured that a black eye is just the beginning,” replied Serena furiously 
and stormed away. 
	Serena was having such a bad day she went to the nurses office and 
told them she wasn’t feeling well.  She needed to go home and unwind, get 
away from it all and be alone, and she was starting to feel bad about Tim.
‘Maybe I should apologize, or maybe not, oh I don’t know anything anymore,’ 
thought Serena desperately.    ‘Now I get to sit in my empty room and think 
about Darien for the rest of the time, another torture session,’ she 
thought dejectedly.

	After wallowing in her misery for a couple hours she decided she had 
to get out of the house, ‘maybe I’ll go to Raye’s, get my mind off things 
for a bit,’ so she grabbed her coat and headed out.  As she cut through the 
park to get to the temple she saw Darien, ‘Oh no not him, I couldn’t take 
it right now.’
	“Hey Meatball head, trip lately,” Darien said mockingly.
	“How do you do it Darien, I don’t understand,” bye this time Serena 
was so angry and having just such a bad day that she couldn’t hide her 
feelings anymore.
	“Do what,” his face losing that mocking mask to be replaced with one 
of irritation.
	“Stuff your self inside and let no one in, how can you be so mean and 
insensitive when all you are is a scared lonely little boy on the inside,” 
retorted Serena angrily.
	“Serena stop it,” said Darien getting angry himself.
	“Personally I don’t know how you do it, how do shut people out the 
way you do, I need to have love and share things with people, If you 
continue the way you do you’re going to be alone all your life!” Serena was 
yelling now she was so sad and upset that Darien didn’t share the same 
feelings she had for him.
	“Love who needs love, love doesn’t exist, and why would I want it any 
way, look what it does to you, you’re a whiny, dumb, klutzy, dependent 
little girl,” replied Darien furiously.
	Serena went as white as death, and whispered “I’m sorry Darien, so 
sorry,” and she ran away.
	“Oh God what have I done, Serena wait!!!” but it was to late Serena
had speeded away.
	Darien hadn’t seen Serena for two days, and he was feeling so 
depressed and ashamed of the things he said to her. All she had done was 
tell him the truth. He never realized how much he depended on her voice, 
her happiness, her joy for life.  He missed seeing her beautiful blue eyes 
shine with laughter as she walked down the street, or her silky golden hair 
shine like platinum in the sunlight, or her animated face break into the 
most beautiful smiles he had ever seen.  And secretly he missed her soft 
kisses, how her small frame fit so perfectly in his, and how she drove him 
insane where ever her hands touched him.  Some how Serena saw right through 
him, those soul reading eyes of hers stripped him naked.  She filled the 
empty void inside him.  ‘But now she’ll never forgive me, I always ruin 
everything, I had to push her and push her away, and now I’ll never have 
her. ’  Darien spent the day wandering aimlessly thinking about Serena.


	It was night time in the park and kind of chilly, thought Darien, 
wishing he had brought his coat.  He heard screams in the far end of the 
park.
	“Stop it please, don’t do this, oh please someone help me,” cried a 
familiar voice.
	“Shut up sugar, no one can hear you, just relax,” replied a dark deep
voice.
	Darien came closer and realized that it was Serena.  ‘Oh shit, If any
thing happens to her...’ Darien thought anxiety-ridden.  Darien found a big 
man on top of Serena and went bezerk.  
	“Get the fuck off her,” yelled Darien furiously.  The big man turned 
around and said:
	“Don’t you have places to be pretty boy, just leave us alone were 
doing just fine,” unfortunately the man he didn’t notice the insane gleam 
that had entered Darien’s eyes.  He was bodily picked up and then about of 
a million kicks and punches came his way, he was down in a matter of 
minutes but he managed to run away before Darien could get in any more 
punches.  Serena was curled up in a  tight ball her clothes torn all over
the place, and sobs were racking her petite frame.
	“Oh, Serena,” Darien whispered, he was at a complete loss for words, 
if he hadn’t been there, what would of happened to Serena, waves of 
murderous thoughts and hate spread through his body, he still wanted to 
kill that man he wanted him to die for even daring to touch Serena.  
Darien went over to Serena’s shaking form and enfolded her in his arms.  
She tried to get out of his grasp he thought with a stab of pain, ‘Well why 
should she want your comfort after you said all those idiotic untrue things
to her, you hurt her bad with those words and you know it, you probably 
killed the only chance of love you ever had, oh who am I kidding she never 
loved me, no one loves me, I’m just an asshole to her,’ but he still held 
her in his arms, he had to, he wanted to keep her safe, he wanted to 
squeeze her tight so she would never remember this again.
	“Serena did he, did he...,” he asked his voice raw with pain.
	Serena responded by curling up ever tighter, “I’ll fucking kill him 
If I ever find him, I’ll kill him!!,” Darien yelled furiously.
	“No Darien, he’s too big, he didn’t do that he only t...t..touched me,
It was just really s...scary” Serena broke of with a sob.
	“I’m so sorry Serena, so sorry,” he felt so hopeless, he just wanted 
to take her pain and make it his, he felt furious that he couldn’t stop 
this in time.  He was so angry that he couldn’t stop his next words:
	“Serena what the hell were you thinking coming out here so late,” he
yelled angrily at her.
	Serena wrenched away form him her heart breaking, “Well since I’m so 
stupid I  don’t have the sense to know when to be out, and since I’m so 
klutzy and dumb I guess I deserved for this to happen to me just like 
everything else bad happens to me,  like being to dumb to realize the scum 
of the earth Tim when I saw him that he was using me for sex, or being to 
whiny and stupid and not pretty enough to deserve you, I’m not good enough 
and I can except that, and I also have to accept the fact that I love you 
more than anything but you don’t love me back, God only knows why I seem to 
love you, and he only knows why I seem to be attracted to people who hate 
me,” Serena screamed and ran off.
	Darien was stunned that she thought so low of herself, she was one of 
the most wonderful people he knew.  But what stunned him the most was that 
she loved him.  But he sobered when he remembered that look of pain on her 
face, ‘I’m going to have to open up to her and tell her how I feel, and I’m
going to have to make her realize that all those things she said about her
self are untrue, yeah what a big help you are, you’re the one who was to 
stupid to realize you’ve always loved her, no you had to be an idiot and be 
scared of the heaven that Serena offered to you, you had to be an idiot and 
rip her heart out, oh but I’ll make it up to you Serena, even if I have to 
spend the rest of my life doing it, and I’ll prove to you that you are much 
more than good enough for me, maybe I’m the one who’s not good enough for 
you.’
	 The next day Darien had gone to Serena’s house to look for her, but 
her mother had told him she was at the park.  So he ran as fast as he could 
to the park, his courage to do this was slowly diminishing.  He almost 
missed her because she had her hair down, she was under the tree where they 
had met for the first time, he had thought she was the most beautiful girl 
he had ever seen when he had first laid eyes on her but he was to stupefied 
to say anything good and he had ended up making fun of her hair style.  She 
looked even more beautiful now, a miniature goddess with her long golden 
hair rippling down like a waterfall.  But he couldn’t see her eyes and he 
realized she was asleep.  She looked like an seraph.  He went up to her and 
he couldn’t resist kissing her sweet pink lips.  He realized she was 
kissing him back and he wrapped his arms around her.  Suddenly her glorious 
blue eyes opened.
	“Oh my God, I’m not dreaming,” she said stunned.
	“No it’s not a dream it’s heaven,” Darien said huskily.
	“I don’t understand,” Serena said confused.
	“I know I’ll explain in a moment but let me just...,” and Darien was 
kissing her again, he didn’t want to let her go now that he had her, he was 
afraid she wouldn’t want him after she fully realized who he was.
	“D...Darien I...,” Serena said worriedly.
	“Shush, I, Serena, I don’t know how to tell you this, I’ve never been 
good at expressing my feelings, I’ve been hiding them from every one for 
all my life,  too afraid to let any one in, afraid of rejection.  I don’t 
know how to explain the joy and happiness that you have brought into my 
life.  I always watched you, you had so much life and exuberance, you had 
friends and a loving family, and at first I was envious of you, you had the 
things I always wanted but after awhile it was hard to hate you.  I found 
my self trying to catch glimpses of you, trying to see you all the time.  
And when you threw that paper at me for the first time I was so happy I 
finally had the chance to talk to you, even if it was making fun of you, I 
did anything to see you.  All the feeling you inspired in me was confusing 
and scary, you frightened me, I didn’t want to love you, I didn’t want to 
risk rejection, so I shut you out, but at least I still got to see you, at 
least you talked to me, I liked getting you angry at me, at least it showed 
you had some feelings towards me.  Remember that day you fell and you had 
that short skirt on, my mind went blank all I could see were your beautiful 
shapely legs, I wanted to kill the men who were whistling and leering at 
you, I wanted to cover you up and hide you so no one could see you but me.  
And the day you comforted me, I had never felt so loved so secure, most 
people would have left me but you stayed, you stayed, before you were in my 
life it was empty it was colorless, I was empty.”
	“But those things you said to me,” Serena said still confused.
	“Serena don’t you understand, those were lies, I was just scared, no 
one had ever read me so well, you see through the mask, you see to me, and 
it was frightening, I always had depended on myself and it scared me that I 
might not be able to live with out you, so I got mad and said those stupid 
things, you have to forgive me Serena, please because now I admit it I 
don’t want to live without you I don’t want to be alone,” said Darien 
quietly.
	Serena was stunned she had never even thought that Darien could like 
her let alone love her.  She was shocked silent, Darien took her silence 
the wrong way.
	“It’s okay, I understand If you don’t want me anymore, I’ve ruined 
everything like I always do, I mean why would you want me I’m always such
an asshole towards you, don’t worry Serena I won’t bother you anymore,” and 
as Darien turned around she saw a tear roll down his cheek.
	“No Darien wait, I  was just overwhelmed,” Serena ran up to him and 
hugged him. Darien lowered his head to her shoulder and let the tears come
out, “I love you more than any thing and I won’t let you leave me,” cried 
Serena happily.
	“I love you too, so much, never doubt it, I love you Serena, so much 
it hurts,” and his lips found her mouth and he felt like he had died and 
gone to heaven.