Music filled the air of the grand ball room. It was crowded with people
of all types. Upstairs at the end of the hall was Serena's room.
"Perfect!" she said in a high-pitched voice.
She had just finished getting ready. Walking over to the full length
mirror she twirled around. She was wearing a silky white slip on dress with
spagetti straps. Her hair was done up on curls with curls of hair on her side
bangs. It took her a long time to fix her hair, since she had such hair long
enough to reach her back entirely. On her neck was a diamond heart necklace,
on her wrist was a diamond bracelet, on her middle finger was a diamond ring.
Her diamond earrings were lying perfectly on her ears. Thinking back about
the little accident in the halls just made her mad. She had on pink lipstick.
Her face didn't really need and blush since she already has rosy cheeks.
Serena as quite satisfied with the results.
She exited the room and headed for the stairs when she bumped into the
man again. Sheilds, Darien Shields was his name.
"Looks like we meet again..." the man started. He look down to her in
awed. She was completely dazzling with pure white colors, she looked like a
goddess.
'What the hell are you thinking Darien?!' he thought to himself."... you
look gorgeous."
"Thank you." she looked up to him. He was very handsome. With jet black
hair, deep blue eyes ,broad shoulders. He was dressed in a tuxedo, but the
way he it looked on him seem as if he was made espeacially for him.
"Shall we?" he reached out his arm to her.
'No thank you' she thought,'Why are you you so rude Serena? You weren't
like this before.' "I'd love to." she took his arm gladly. They made their
way down the grand stair case, and walked toward the entrance.
As they entered the grand ball room, the whole room gave Darien and
Serena their full attention.Serena caught the eye off all the single men.
Darien got his attenttion from the females.
"Serena!" a voice called out.
"Hey Darien!" another called out.
They parted and went their separate ways.
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Serena went greeted her friends. They looked at her every feature and was
envious of her.
"You look stunning Serena." Amy complimented.
"Thank you, You're not bad your self."
Amy was wearing a light blue dress. Lita was wearing a green which shown her
long legs. Mina was wearing a orange top and skirt. Rei was wearing a red
dess.
"You two look so great together just a second ago, why'd you come to us?"
Lita asked curiously.
"Yes, and you two got everyone jealous." Mina added.
"I don't even know him. And of course I don't like him.!" she snapped.
They all looked at her in disbelief. "Well I don't." They all laughed . Rei
put an arm around Serena's shoulder.
"Now name something about that man that is so bad."
"He's so rude and..."
"And what he's so handsome, simply breath taking, incredibly tall,
rich,talented,so lovable?'' Rei finished. They all looked at her. She just
blushed. The whole group burstout laughing.
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On the other side of the the room a group of men look at the group of
laughing women.
"Wonder what they're laughing about." question Andrew."So Darien, how's
it going. How'd ya do it?"
"Do what?" Darien asked with a confused look.
"Don't give me all that crap. Spill it, how'd you get her?"
"Who is her?'' taking a sip of his wine.
"Don't play dumb, Serena that's who." Andrew laughed at his friends as he
almost spitted out his wine.
"What the hell are you talking about?!"
"Damn Darien, keep it down won't you. We're wondering why all of a sudden
we're seeing you walk in with Miss.
Beautiiful-but-I-reject-everyone-Mathews. We just wanted to know how you did
it."Jared filled him in.(Jared's a friends of all of them from college.)
"I won't be caught dead with her."
"Then explain just what happen just then."
"We keep bumping into each other...literally."
"Well people are gonna think she's not available that's all."
"You make it seem as if she's not attractive."
"Are you admitting that now? She turns everyone down. She'll never fall
for you though."
"You sure about that?I can get anybody I want."
"You want to bet?"
"Yeah, I'll bet you one million dollars I can get her by the end of this
summer."
"What do you guys think?''
"Hey, we're not in this ,this is strictly between you too, we're out...
right?" Chad said. All except Darien and Jared nodded their heads.
"Alright. You have untill the end of this summer, and the time
starts....Now." Jared said.
Darien just stood there looking at Serena with a smirk on his face.
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Lita looked over Serena's head and saw that Darien was never taking his
eyes off Serena. She tap Serena on the shouders "Mr. Rude there has been
looking at you the whole time. Why don't you see for yourself?" She turned
around and saw a tall handsome Darien walking her way.
"See you later guys." He walked on. When he reached her he held out his
hand to her.
"Would you care to dance?"
"I'd love to." He led her to the dance floor and wrap his arms around her
waste.She put her arms on his strong shoulders.
"You never told me your name, but I pick it up that's it was Serena
Mathews. That name sounds very familiar." He told her.
" Well Darien Shields sounds familiar too. I'm the owner of D.M.A.C.
Association. And you're the boss of Shields Inc. I heard."
"Well, I'd really like to check it out sometime. Would that be alright?"
" Sure."
" Great. Would you like to go to the garden?."
" I'd loved to." the music stop . Darien took her hand and led her out
the door to the garden. The summer breeze was warm and cool. They walked
around the rose gardens
"What do you like to do in the summer time?" He asked
"Well I don't do much but I always visit my rose garden . Other then that
I go to the beach a lot. I like the cool air the ocean currents drop off. I
go there to do some of my artwork. I draw in my free time."
" You draw! I'd love to see your artwork sometime."
"Sure. I'm sorry for bumping into you a few times, I was in kind of a
hurry."
" Oh..No problem I know you didn't intend to. Anyways I was hoping you
wouldn't stay mad at me the whole summer." he told her. Serena looked up and
gazed at the man. He look down to her in confusion. " Something wrong?"
"Oh no nothing's wrong it's just that...when I first met you I thought
you were rude, but you turned out different.That's all."
"Well, I didn't mean to, I hope you'll forgive me for yelling."
"Only if you forgive me." she laughed. He looked down at her .She
shivered a little. He slided off his jacket and placed it over her shoulders
and put and arm around her shoulders. They walked on and sat down in the
gazebo. A couple of minutes later Darien found out that Serena fell a sleep
in his arms. She smiled and kissed her forehead.
"Goodnight , my angel." Then he rested his head on .
Inside the room Lita saw Serena and Darien in the gazebo. She just smiled
and happy that her friend found someone. Behind her came up Mina, Rei and
Amy. They looked at Lita and folowed her gaze and saw what she seen. They
just smiled and went back to the dance floor and danced with their partners.
Jared was making his way through the crowd to see where Darien had gone
off to, when he found his goal. He was very suprised at what he saw.
"Damn Darien, you son of a gun."and went back to the dance 'How does he
do that?' he thought to himself. ' It's not over yet.'
When the Host and Hostess said good-bye to their guest .
Rei,Amy,Mina,Lita,Chad,Greg,Andrew,Ken,and Jared went o the family room and
talked.
"Did any of you see Serena and Darien today? " Andrew asked. They all
smiled and looked toward the door to the garden.
Outside in the gazebo Serena woke up to see she was in Darien's arms. He
looked like a helpless child. She wonder if she should wake up, because that
might wake him up so she just closed her eyes again.
To be continued...
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