RIVALS – Chapter 9
Author: Umali
Thanks guys for patiently waiting for chapters…Im
SO SORRY!
*** Café Mellenia***
"Okay guys, do any of you have any leads on this
girl? Asked Darien
to his assistants eating lunch at their favorite
café.
"No… it seems that were at a dead end" said Nathan
before taking a
bite out of his hamburger.
"We cant find any clue that would indicate her
name" said Zen
"How about you Rei, anything from Mr. Kina's
assistants?" asked Darien
"Nothing they've all been to caught up in Serena's
arrival" said a smiling Rei.
"Yeah we all are" said a smiling Michael who was
grinning at Darien.
"Michael were doing business here" he said trying
to hide a blush.
"Do I see a blush on Mr. Chiba's face" said Rei in
utter surprise. No
has ever made the great Darien blush before…
"Well Ill be, that is a blush" said Michael as the
others start to laugh but
was quickly over powered by the loud familiar
voices.
"Hey look it's the Tsukino group" said Zen. They
turned to look and
found Ami, Molly, Mina and Jayson laughing waiting
to be seated.
"Boy, they look happy" said Micheal as they all
watched as Joshua
directed them to their table.
"Hey Lita" said the four sitting and laughing as
they review the menu.
"Hey guy's, whats with the smiley faces?" asked
Lita as Andrew came
up behind her.
"Hey Andrew!"
"Nice to see you all again, how long has it been?"
said Andrew sarcastically.
"Why Andrew, its been so…so…long. I think 10
hours and 15 seconds"
said Mina laughing loudly being followed by the
rest of them.
"Andrew do you not like seeing us…hmmm…?" said
Molly with a questioning
look.
"I think he's trying to tell us something?" said
Ami laughing
"Okay Lita, have you been serving our customers
your Happy Cake again"
said Andrew to his laughing friends. Then
realizes Lita too was laughing
"Not you too?" he said staring at his finance.
"Im sorry honey, but its contagious" she said
laughing with them.
Andrew notices that they were starting to have an
audience and hushed them all.
"Guy's your creating a scene" said Andrew smiling
at all the curious
"What happened to you guys anyways, well what
happened to make you
guys laugh so hard?" he said looking at Jayson who
was at lease trying to
control his laughter.
"It's Serena….." he said trying to hold it in "she
told us this one joke" he ended finally giving up
to the laughter inside.
"What joke?" asked Lita curiously..
"The one with a nun who had three…three…kids" said
Mina before they all started laughing.
"That doesn't make sense, a nun cant have kids"
said Andrew
"We know that, but you have to listen to the whole
joke" said Molly grinning.
"Why are they laughing so hard?" asked Zen
"Man, they've gone mad" said Nathan
"Look Lita's staring to laugh too" said Michael
"Hey what is she doing here?" asked Nathan finally
noticing her presence as well as the many men
around the room. The group turned to look at the
smiling beauty walking casually towards her
laughing grinning.
"Okay what about Serena?" she said giving them all
questioning looks
"Serena, what the heck did you do to these
people?" asked Andrew "They cant stop laughing".
"Okay guys, stop it your creating a scene" said
Serena giving them all looks, which caused all of
them to stop.
"Hey Serena, how did you do that?" asked Andrew
and Lita noticing Serena's power "We've been
trying to get them to stop while you were gone and
we havent been succesful"
"Oh it was nothing, I just sent them something
telepathically" she said sarcastically as she
looked over to the group. They were turning red
from trying to hold their laughter in then she
notices that Jayson and Mina were taking a sip of
their drinks. "So Andrew, Lita have you heard the
joke about the nun with three kids?" asked Serena
as Jayson and Mina laughingly spewed out their
drinks and the group went into an uproar of
laughter.
"I give up" said Andrew as he too couldn't help
but laugh"
"What the hell is going on over their?" asked
Nathan
"They can't stop laughing" said Zen as they still
held their gaze over the group on the table. They
tried to listen and can only laugh as Mina and
Jayson ejected their drink to one another.
"Oh my gods, whats come over Mina and Jayson?"
asked Michael holding in his laughter.
"I don't know, but I don't think Mr. Kina would
like to see his assistants clothing dressed in
soda" said a laughing Darien.
"Especially since they all seem to be wearing
white" said Rei trying to hold her laughter in
"Yeah, he went to work yesterday after the coffee
incident" said Zen. The group laughed as they
thought about yesterday's coffee incident. They
too was now laughing very hard and grabbed the
attention of many including the Tsukino group.
"SERENA" said Mina
"WHAT?"
'Why did you have to go on telling him while we're
drinking?" asked Mina as she wiped her mouth and
suit "look at me, Ive got soda stains all over"
"What about me? This is like total de ja vu from
yesterday" said Jayson as they heard laughter from
the other side of the room. They all glanced the
other way-taking note that the Chiba group was
watching them.
"Michael don you dare laugh at me" said Mina
loudly
"Jayson honey do you have a problem drinking?"
asked Rei sarcastically "do we need to get you a
sippy cup?"
"Hey come now," said Andrew still laughing "you
guys over their mind you own business". Once the
laughter died down they all held their stomachs
for the still lingering feeling.
"So I take it that they know" said Lita to Serena
"yes… yes they do know" she smiled
"and with all the work that she gave us this
morning the bill goes to her" said Mina
"Oh Serena, congratulations" said Lita hugging her
friend "Im proud of you"
"thanks Lita"
"Congratulations Serena" said Andrew giving Serena
a hug himself "I've only known you in a day, but
it seems like forever" he said, releasing her but
kept his arm draped over her shoulder "Well you
know, with Lita talking about you so much and all,
I can almost say you're my best friend too "
Andrew ended as he can feel someone's piercing
gaze upon him. He turned and found Darien staring
at him with envy and a bit jealous. He released
Serena completely and stood next to his fiancé.
Not understand why he was so jealous over Andrews
friendly hug all Darien could do was stare harshly
towards his best friend.
"Thanks Andrew" said Serena winking at Lita and
mouthing the words 'good catch' as they turned
towards Mina… who's stomach was growling
furiously.
"CAN WE GET SOME SERVICE HERE? Or Im going to
start complaining to management" said the hungry
girl.
"Go ahead and see if you'll get another free meal
again" said a smiling Lita while Mina stuck her
tongue out.
"Okay KIDS!" said Andrew "we will not have any of
that here" he said while waving to a young man
"and you, what would you like?" asked Lita to
Serena.
"Chinese Chicken salad please" said Serena with a
smile
"Coming right up!"said Lita as she disappeared
through the kitchen door.
"Excuse me ladies" he said smiling at them, and
before Jayson could make his remark " AND
gentleman, you seem to be taking too much of my
time" he said sarcastically and walking away
towards the Chiba group.
Darien still held a gaze over what was going on
with the group. He couldn't help but stare with
jealousy over his best friend and the angel he
barely knew. 'Drew I swear' he thought to himself
quietly while drowning his jealousy on cold glass
of water.
"hey Andrew?" said the group
"hi guys, how's lunch?"
"Lunch as usual is great" said Nathan
"Andrew, what was going on there?" Michael asked
curiously
"Oh with them laughing hard, well Serena told a
joke and the just couldn't get it out of their
system"
"and about that hug with Serena?" asked Darien
boldly wanting answers
"Dare, that was a simple hug congratulating her on
her promotion as Tsu…" said Andrew cutting himself
off and biting his lips as the same time.
"As what?" asked Darien demandingly
"as….." staggered Andrew "Come on Darien, I cant.
I promised Lita remember" he said a little
frustrated.
"You know Andrew, if you werent my best friend I
would of lost my patience with you a long time
ago" said Darien in a some what serious tone.
"Dare, don't worry you'll find out soon enough"
said Andrew
END of Chapter 9….
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***********Sorry ya'all for the long absence… I
know I know..Ive done it before..well things
happen
And life is hectic!… but atlease I got this out
now…
Thanks to you who have emailed and told me to keep
going. I though for a minute that no-one really
cared if I finished the story or not anymore and I
was actually debating if I should or shouldn't.
Thanks to Sara and Takako..they persuaded me to
keep going and there friendly emails were very
helpful. So please keep the emails going and let
me know how it is.
And I don't mind ideas… Let me know if you have
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