Title: Fourth of July Fireworks Author: Silvery White Rose Rating:PG Disclaimers: I don't own Sailormoon, if I did that would be too cool. But no I don't. Just a fan that writes. First off, I would like to thank everyone again for reading my stories. You guys mean a lot to me by writing me. I just love the email and your comments are way cool. Next, I would like to thank buds: Crimson Red, LJenna, Abbi-chan, Jessi-chan, Crystal-chan. One more big *standing ovation* for Abbi-chan for the editing and being a good bud to me. *clapping and smiles* go out to Christina, and Princess Mandy. I would like to say one more time thanks to the sites that have posted my stories. (Love in the Spring, Moonlight Mirage, Fairytales, Lady Jenna's site) If you readers would like these site addresses email me and I will be glad to send it. Email: silverrose71442@aol.com *********************************************************************** It was a blistering hot day in July.  There was no wind blowing to keep the people protected from the hot weather. The sun was shining brilliantly in the sky, not one cloud in sight.  Serena was on her way to the arcade to meet her friends to plan something for the 4th of July, which was tomorrow.  Serena walked into the arcade and saw Andrew standing behind the counter. She smiled at the sight of him, remembering that he once was her crush, but now he was one of her dearest friends. "Hey Andrew!" called Serena. "Hey Serena, what are you doing today?" Andrew asked the bubbly blond in front of him. "I'm waiting for the girls to see what they want to do for the 4th of July." "Really? Well, we're having a barbecue at the beach. You know, just a little party to celebrate tomorrow. Would you guys like to come?" "Really? I think that would be too cool!" she told him happily jumping up and down. "Whoa, Meatball, what has gotten you so excited?" came a deep voice from behind her. Serena almost jumped out of her skin scared, but suddenly realized who the voice belong to....it was none other than her long time enemy 'Darien Chiba.' "The name is Serena. S-E-R-E-N-A!  Can't you remember that or are you just too brain-dead to remember?" She retorted for being called that awful nickname. "I know your name, but meatball head fits you MUCH better." He replied while pulling on one of her ponytails. She turned around to face him. She could see that he had that amused look in his eyes and that smirk on his sexy lips. 'Wait a minute. Where did that come from?' 'Just get over it, you know he has sexy lips and everything else.' 'No, no.' she scolded herself. 'I will not think of him in that way.' 'Too late you already do.' 'I most certainly do not.' 'Do too.' 'Do not.' Do too.' 'Do not.' 'Then why are you arguing with yourself?' the voice suddenly asked her. She shook her head and was brought out of her thoughts by a hand in front of her face. "Serena, are you okay?" asked her raven haired friend as she walked up to Serena with a group of girls behind her. "Huh?" "Serena. Don't we have things to talk about?" asked a worried looking Mina. "Oh, hi guys.  Yeah, I'm fine lets go and talk." Serena smiled and said as she lead her friends to a both in the back of the arcade. Darien looked at her and noticed she was quite cute when she would smile, it always made her eyes twinkle.  "I can't stay.  I just came by to see, what time is your party at?" Darien asked quickly glancing at Serena one last time. "11 o'clock tomorrow, should be just fine. Make sure you bring your swim suit." Andrew added with a smirk on his face. He was trying to decide if he should tell Darien that Serena was invited to his party. 'No, he'll just have to find out when he gets there. I mean, they just need to spend some time together and then they will realize that they are meant for each other.' Andrew's smirk grew into a very evil looking grin. "What's up with you?" Darien asked knowing the evil look that came to his good friend. "Me? Nothing just thinking about tomorrow, you know. The party and all." Andrew told him. "Okay, I'll see you then. Bye." Darien said as he left. "Bye." Andrew waved. ************Meanwhile with Serena and her friends********************** Serena had just told the girls that they were invited to Andrew's 4th of July beach party.  Now they were all planning what they would wear. "It looks like a shopping trip!" Mina said happily. "Yep, lets get going." Lita added. All the girls nodded and went to say good bye to Andrew. "Andrew. Thanks for inviting us.  We'll see you tomorrow." Serena told him. "So you guys can make it then?" He asked to make sure. "Yep.  We're all headed for the mall to get some things for tomorrow." Mina told him while grinning like a fool.  She always had a crush on him and just wished he would feel the same. "Andrew, is there anything you want us to bring?" Asked Lita. "Yeah, Andrew. Lita makes an awesome potato salad and a great chocolate cake." Serena chimed in with drool starting to form on her mouth as she thought of Lita's delicious food. "Are sure it wouldn't be any trouble?" Andrew asked the brunette.  He remembered Serena bragging about her friend's cooking. "Nope, no problem. I would love to do it." She told him with a smile. "Cool." "Okay, since that is settled. Can we go now? I do have to get back to the temple soon." Raye stated getting really annoyed that they hadn't left yet. "Yes, and I still need to read at least 5 chapters a week if I want to be ahead when school starts back up." She told them. Sweatdrops appeared on all of their foreheads. "It starts at 11, I'll see you then." Andrew waved to the girls as they started to leave. "Bye." was the last thing the girls said as they left the arcade. **********Later that evening******************************************* Serena was up in her room thinking about how her day went. First, she had gone to the arcade to talk to Andrew and meet her friends. Andrew invited her and her friends to his beach party.  Then her strange feelings about Darien. And topping it off, spending the entire day with the girls looking for new bathing suits. Serena had wondered if Darien would be at Andrew's party.  She knew he would and started to think about how she could handle herself. She decided that she would just ignore him and not let him put her in that strange mood again. 'This is Andrew's party and I won't ruin it for him.' she thought.  She looked at her clock and noticed it was 10:30, and decided to turn in for the evening. As she drifted of to sleep she began dreaming contentedly about a certain dark haired guy. ***********Next day at the beach*************************************** Andrew had arrived with a few of his friends pulling up besides his car.  Greg, Ken, and Chad all got out of Ken's car and walked up to Andrew.  Then a black convertible pulled up along the other side of Andrew's car and out steps Darien.  They all gather around Andrew's car and try to decide what to do. "Well, first we need to find a place to set up." Andrew said to his friends as he looked around the beach.  His eyes land a little ways away down on the beach.  He saw a group of girls near a picnic table and grill.  They looked as if they were waving at them. All of the guys looked to see where Andrew was staring so adamantly.  What they saw were 5 gorgeous girls on the beach waving and giggling amongst themselves. They all started to walk slowly to the group. As they came closer Andrew realized it was Serena and her group.  His jaw nearly hit the ground at what he saw.  Andrew looked around and noticed that ALL the guys were doing the same thing. Andrew smiled, waved to them, and began to speak loudly enough for the group of girls to hear what he was saying. ***********Serena and her friends************************************** "I'm glad we decided to get here a little early being that it's the 4th of July and all." Serena told her friends as she laid out the very large blanket near the picnic table. "Yes, I know. We probably wouldn't have found a place to set up this party." Amy spoke. "Yeah, I mean look at how crowded it is now." Raye piped in. "Well, I guess we're lucky then." Mina exclaimed happy that they had found a good spot. "You guys, the others should be here soon." Amy stated looking at her watch to check the time. "I think that's them over there in the parking lot." Lita told them. "Where?" they all asked. "Over there." she said as she pointed to the guys. All the girls looked over to where she was pointing.  They saw Andrew, Darien, Greg, Chad, and Ken at the parking lot walking slowly onto the sand. They seemed to be looking for a spot in the crowd. The girls began to wave to them. It looked like they had seen them and started walking over to the girls.  It suddenly looked like realization sunk in and the guys stared and waved back.  Andrew began speaking loudly so they could hear what he was saying as them came closer. ***********group gathering together************************************ "Hey girls!" Andrew yelled so they could hear him. Darien had just stood there with a dumbstruck look on his face. He didn't know what to think.  Did Andrew invite them? He must have if he didn't look surprised to see them there.  'I can't believe that is the klutz, whining, spoil brat, sexy, meatball.' 'WHAT!' 'I can't believe I just called my meatball head sexy.' 'Not again. Where the hell did 'my' come from?' 'You have to admit it she is sexy. I mean, look at her now.'   Darien looked at Serena more closely now that they were only a few feet away. She was wearing a white string bikini with pink little roses on it. She had a white string which tied around her neck and one that tied around on her back. The bottoms were also white with roses on them. It had tiny pink bows on either side of her hips. She had a soft, creamy complexion and long sensual legs that seemed to go on forever. He  noticed her flat stomach and tiny waist. She was very shapely. He had also noticed that her hair wasn't up in it's normal 'meatball' style. Instead half of her hair was pulled up into a claw with the rest flowing over her back and shoulders. The hair that was in the clip looked like was flowing over the top down into a type of a ponytail over her back. 'All in all she is definitely beautiful.' He thought to himself. 'No, this can't be. This is meatball head the one I always verbally abuse.' 'She is beautiful. You said it yourself.' Darien sighed in defeat.  "Hey Andrew." Serena called to her friend as they finally reached the area. "Serena, what are you guys doing here so early?" "Well, the girls and I discussed it last night. We decided since it was the 4th of July today that we better get here early if we wanted a good place for this." Serena told him with Mina and Raye nodding in agreement. Lita was busy setting everything out on the picnic table while Amy sat on a beach chair with her nose in a book glancing at the group of guys that had finally arrived. "Well, that is great of you girls to do that. If you hadn't we might not have found a place for this barbecue." Andrew smiled, relieved that they actually had a place for this party. He looked around and noticed that all the girls were very beautiful. He also looked around and noticed that all the guys were looking at the girls. Each one of them had their eyes on a particular one. Ken was helping Lita set up while gazing at her from the corner of his eye. She was wearing an emerald green tank top bikini with matching green bottoms that tied to each side. Greg had sat down next to Amy and began talking to her about the book she was reading. Amy wore a high cut navy blue one piece that tied from the front to the back. Andrew also noticed Mina come over to him offering to help with setting up the grill. She was wearing a yellow bikini with white trim.  It was a spaghetti strap style top and matching bottoms also with white trim around the edges. All of sudden he realized that she was actually very beautiful. 'How come I never noticed before?' He asked himself silently. He actually enjoyed being around her. Andrew looked up to find Raye yelling at Chad for some unknown reason.  However, he did notice the look Chad had been giving her the whole time. 'Is that love I see?'  He looked at Raye and noticed she was wearing a scarlet red strapless bikini with black trim around the edges and the bottoms were made the same way. Andrew then turned his attention to his best friend whom seemed not to be able to take his eyes from Serena. Andrew looked at her shocked. 'This is not the Serena I know.' Andrew thought realizing why Darien was staring at her. 'She is definitely stunning. I wonder if Darien really does have feelings for Serena.' he thought. 'Well, spending the whole day together should help them out.' **************2 hours later******************************************** It has been 2 hours since they had arrived at the beach.  Everyone had finally arrived and the party seemed to finally be going strong. Darien however, isn't having that great of time. Sure he wasn't a big party person, but the fact is that Serena has completely ignored him and didn't fight back when he insulted her. This was finally starting to tick him off.  It also didn't help that pretty much all of the guys were hovering around her and drooling. 'Look at the way the guys are gawking over my meatball head,' he though angrily. 'Wait a second! Why do I care? Did I just say my meatball head again?' 'Yes, you care and wish she was yours.' 'No, I don't. She is just a whinny, crybaby, sexy, beautiful, loving girl.' 'Would you stop that?' 'Nope, not until you admit that you like the girl,' the voice told him. 'I do not.' 'Yes, you do.' 'Do not' 'Yes, you do and that is final!''I am not going to win, am I?' 'No, you're not.' The voice told him. Darien sighed, the damned annoying voice was right. Now, if he could just get her attention. Then an idea hit him hard. 'yes' was the last thought before he started to run over to his meatball head. ***************Over where Serena was********************************** "Hey guys....." was all Serena could say to her friends as she was lifted in the air by 2 very strong, and warm arms and raced to the water. She turned herself to face none other than Darien. She began to yell out with a struggle. "Darien, what are you doing? Put me down this instant!" She yelled at him while he ran with her to the water. "You haven't been properly introduced to the water yet." He said and smiled at her. "No, you wouldn't." "I wouldn't, would I?" He laughed at the way she was looking at him. That cute little pout crossing the beautifully pink lips of hers. "Darien..." this time she said pleading. As she was looking at him a wave came up and hit her leg causing her to wrap her legs around his waist and her arms wrapped around his neck. Now they were eye to eye, just staring deeply at each other.  The force pulling them together closer and closer.  They were starting to feel each others' breathe on their faces. Closer, closer and almost there...... "Hey, Serena, Darien. The food is ready. Come and eat." Andrew called to them smiling at seeing them almost kiss. They both blush at being caught.  Darien had to do something to ease the tension and everything else he was feeling so he decided on the one thing he could do. He dove into the water taking Serena in with him. The next thing you could see was Darien come up by himself and Serena came up next to him sputtering up the water and her hair all over her face. They looked at each other and laughed.  Then they both went to eat. After that little thing in the water, they ended up spending the rest of the day together in each others company. ***************30 minutes till Fireworks******************************* Darien took a look at his watch to see what time it was '8:30' he thought, and turned to see where Serena was. She was sitting on the blanket with her friends. He walked up to her. "Serena, would like to take a walk before the fireworks start?" Darien asked and took a hold of her hand to help her stand. She smiled and nodded 'yes'. Darien then went to grab a blanket off the picnic table. He came back and took Serena's hand and they walked off towards the rocks. Every one of their friends smiled at their friends as they left together. It looked like everyone had someone to watch the fireworks with. Serena and Darien walked together enjoying each others' company in a pleasant silence.  They got to the rocks. Darien helped Serena up onto one of them and they sat down waiting for the fireworks to begin. "Darien, why are you all of a sudden being nice and sweet to me?" Serena asked him while leaning her head on his left shoulder. "I'm not quite sure. All I know is that I don't want to be your enemy. I want us to start over." He told her as he laid his head on top of hers. "I'd like to start over." It was nine o'clock and the fireworks began. Serena sat in awe of the site and Darien sat in awe of the beautiful angel in his arms. Serena laughed and clapped at all the beautiful fireworks. She was pointing out the ones she like the best to Darien. Darien smiled and laughed with her. "It's amazing," Serena said still looking at the show of lights. "Yes, it truly is." Darien said looking at Serena all the while. "What?" she questioned as she turned to face him. Their eyes locked and they stared into each other's soul. Ever so slowly they inched closer and closer. They could feel the heat of their breathe on each other's face. He could smell her sweet perfume and she, his intoxicating cologne. Closer and closer until they could feel each others warm lips filling their being. The kiss was slow and gentle. It became more passionate as the heat grew between them.  He slowly urged her lips with his tongue to open. She opened up willingly and felt his tongue start to explore her mouth. Their tongues played with each other very slowly savoring everything they were feeling. She could feel his hands on her back pulling her closer to him trying to be closer than they were. Her arms wrapped around his neck playing with his silky black hair. Finally, they slowly parted for the lack of air. They both sighed and looked at each other. They sat there cuddled together watching the rest of the fireworks. 'FIREWORKS, WOW!' They thought with a smile crossing each others face. ~The End~ *********************************************************************** Okay people, what do you think for my first holiday fic? Did you like it or was it just bad? I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Email me!!!!!! I love to hear from you. Come on is anyone out there reading my stuff still!!!!!^^^*blushes*^^