Author: Serenita Title: The Notebook Rating: PG E-Mail: MoonAngel2133@aol.com Hope you enjoy it! Serena awoke to the sun rising in the horizon and the birds chirping. She yawned and looked at her clock. It proudly showed her that it was 7:00 O'clock. She smiled. She might actually be to school on time. She sat up and saw Luna at the end of her bed asleep. She reached over and scratched behind Luna's ears. She purred happily. She looked at Serena and hopped down to the floor to stretch. Serena walked over to her desk and sat down. She picked up her pen and opened to a page into her notebook. She turned to the middle of it and began to write in it. Dear Journal, It's funny that I can you Journal when you really just are a creative notebook to write my thoughts and dreams down. That's a journal isn't it? He He. You know. I look back on all these pages and I see I have written a lot on Darien. I mean at first I totally hated his guts. I despised him! And now... I think I love him. I have already admitted to you that I like him but... I love him. It's so obvious to me now. Yes he can be cold and mean and cruel. And yes he can be a pompous jerk, but he does it for a reason. He's covering up something, like a painful secret. I can feel it when I am around him. He puts up a layer of ice around his heart and sometimes himself. He is so confusing and yet mysterious at the same time! That drives me crazy and yet makes me attracted to him. He may be cold now, but I know deep down that he's lost and alone and just needs someone to come into his life. I will be the first to break that ice! I will find that compassion, kindness, gentleness, and love that I know is in him! Well it's almost 7:30. Time to get ready for school.  JOY! (Not really) Will write more later! Serena ^_~ She closed the notebook and got dressed for school. She picked it up with her schoolbooks and walked downstairs. "Well, aren't we early?" Her mother said smiling. Serena smiled. She grabbed some toast and started to walk out the door. "Why are you leaving so soon?" Her mother said. "I want to get an early start." Her mother smiled. "Have fun!" "I will." She closed the door. The real reason that she wanted to leave so early was because she wanted to see Darien. She slowly walked down the street to school, eating her toast. She finished and saw people rushing into shops. How could people stand to be up this early? The yawned and continued to walk. "What happened, Meatball head? Have a revelation?" She froze in her tracks. Darien! She clenched her fists tight in anger. She spun around and glared at him. "No, Darien, I just wanted to get to school early." He dropped his mouth open wide and slapped his hand to his forehead and stuck his other hand foreword as if to grab something to support himself. "Oh God! Stop the presses! Serena Tuskino actually wants to be at school ON TIME! " He stopped and laughed. Serena felt tears come to her eyes but she forced the back. "Your so immature, Darien." "Meatball head can say a big word." "Shut up!" "Make me!" She walked up and slapped him across the face. "Does that help?" He held his hand to his cheek. "Darien, I'm...I'm really...I didn't..."He suddenly reached down and grabbed her notebook. Fear rushed through her body. He must have seen it because he smiled and held it high above her head. "Darien, please give that back! I'm sorry I hit you! You just got me really mad! Please give it back!" He smirked. "Why? Something in there you don't want me to see?" "Yes! Now please give it back!" He backed up till he was in the middle of the street. She stood there looking at him hopelessly. She turned and saw a car coming straight at Darien. He started to open the notebook and didn't see it coming. "Darien, LOOK OUT!" She dropped her books and ran for him. He looked up and saw the car and froze. Serena pushed him out of the way with all her strength. He landed on the sidewalk hard. He looked up and saw the car hit her. She flew foreword and hit her head hard on the windshield. The glass broke into a spider web formation on the windshield. She slowly rolled of the front of the car and landed on the pavement. "SERENA!" Darien shouted. He ran to her as fast as he could. The driver got out of the car and started to call 911. She was barely conscious when he reached her. "Serena..." He didn't know what to say. She looked at him. "Are you okay, Darien? You didn't bruise or bump something, did you?" He looked at her in shock. "How can you ask me that? Serena, you are so much more hurt than I am!" "As long as your okay." The ambulance arrived and ran to Serena. They asked him to back away. Soon she was on a stretcher and the ambulance pulled away. He sat on the sidewalk in a daze. Serena had saved his life even after he was an idiot to her! He looked down at the notebook that laid on the sidewalk. He picked it up. He opened it and read through it. The first part said how much she hated him. As he read on he read that she liked him, a lot. He closed the notebook after reading the last entry. Tears were in his eyes. He liked her. She liked him. And he probably just killed her. That compassion that she was talking about that she thought was in him, he knew wasn't there. He knew he had to do something though. He got up and ran to Tokyo Central Hospital. He walked into Serena's room, out of breath. She was lying there with monitors and tubes running from her body. He looked at her. She was breathing fine and her heart rate was normal. He walked over and sat in a chair by her bed. He took her small hand in his callused fingers. "Serena, I know you can hear me. I wanted to tell you something and it's taken so long for me to say this." He took a deep breath. "Serena, I love you. I've loved you since the first day I saw you. I teased you because I didn't know how to react to my feelings. I had never loved anyone the way I do you. It scared me. So I covered it all up. Today I was a major jerk to you and you saved my life. Only you would do something like that for me. I know that for sure. I read your notebook and how much you love me. I love you too. But when you say that I have compassion, kindness, and love deep down, your wrong. I have nothing. Compared to you I am nothing. I am note worthy to see you each morning. And for some ungodly reason I do. So, Serena, I am sorry. So very sorry. I will never tease you again. And you can find someone better to Love. You deserve better." He leaned over and kissed her gently on the cheek. He got up to leave. "But I don't want better." He stopped and turned around to look at her through his tears. She was crying too. "I want you." "You don't. You deserve better. I hurt you today. I...I can't let that happen to you again. I don't want to be like that." "You only did that because you were scared. You told me that, but I care for you and you don't have to worry or be scared anymore." Those words sent him running back to her and hugged her as tight as he could. "Darien, I forgive you. I'm sorry too." "I'm so sorry, Serena. I am so so sorry." He kissed her. They didn't have to say anything else. Their hearts said it all.