Title: Rainy Day Man Authors: Auston, and Jade E-mail addys: Auston - DmacIn@Neptune.on.ca Jade - tnag@lightspeed.bc.ca Hey minna! This is Jade this time... Austons notes are at the bottom, but all I really wanted to say this time 'round is that I'm sorry I haven't been working on any of my stories, and I'll try to get them done soon... this is another romance story between Serena and Darien, and it's rate pg 13 for a few scenes that are a little more graphic than some of you may be used to. :) Enjoy the story! See ya! The Rainy Man - By Auston and Jade ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It seemed like rain. I knew it was. The water rushed down the windows as fast as I could say 'water', and the bed seemed like it was spinning around and around... no, on second thought, things weren't really that confined. It seemed like the whole world was spinning around and around... in circles, never ending... but that must've just been my head. Or for all I knew the world really was spinning in circles.... who knew. My noise was stuffed and I could feel the runny liquid ooze out as I sniffed and wiped the sleeve of my nightgown across my face. I didn't really care about that right now... All I cared about was my parents. My poor parents..... it must have been hard for them, breaking up like that after so many years.... could it possibly have been as dreadful for them as it was for me? I can't really understand why they broke up.... the question keeps entering my mind, again and again, unbidden, And I honestly have no answer... I don't think I even want to know the answer. They were so happy before.. I could tell just by the way they treated each other. The same way I treated everything else, family or not... with a friendly attitude that sometimes betrayed deeper emotions, although they never confessed how much they loved each other while I was present in the room, I know the feelings ran deep...... so why did this happen then? How could I not catch the signs of separation? Of despair? Was it my fathers fault? My mothers? Or mine...? Maybe it was my brothers fault; he always caused them trouble, but then again, so did I with my grades and careless behavior... but they didn't seem to care about that. My friends were the ones who cared enough about me to save me from another year with Miss. Haruna.... I figured why bother to study when I had my whole life planned out ahead of me already? Why try when I don't get to choose? I'd become a queen one day anyway.... so what difference did intelligence make? Who I date, who I see, who I love.... it's all mapped out before me, set in stone or granite... I cannot change it, even if I wanted to, because this is the way things are... some people would say that the future is not set in stone.. but for me, it is... how could it not be, when destiny pushes me to do what I must? And destiny, I have found, is far stronger than anyone I have ever had the chance of meeting before..... This is all so unfair! I even don't see Molly or Melvin around anymore. I miss them with all my heart... but my new found friends are really good to me and Darien, my Darien... sometimes I sit here, and just wonder, you know, what it would be like to dare to date someone else.... Someone who doesn't have to marry me. A relationship that doesn't have to last. Someone who wasn't forced into it... someone whom I was not tied to with iron bars. I am so confused with my parents and my feelings for Darien right now... they confuse me, my feelings, my thoughts, my heart... I feel like a lost little kitten, roaming around a closed in ally with no one to ask for some help or advise, and no where left to run and hide.... If I told Darien or anyone else what I thought...... I don't know how Darien would react, but I know what the scouts would think.... boy do I.. First they would tell me that we have to be together because if we don't Renny would never be born, then they'd tell me that I was only confused - And yes, I was confused as Hell! - and that this would all pass. Next they'd say that this is my destiny and I have to stick with it through thick and thin, and the list goes on and on..... and I would have no defense to my name. Because despite what I wish, and hope to be, this is the way of things... this is my destiny, and I am as trapped in it as a mouse in a cage. Firmly caught... and I am never getting out. My crying stilled and I wasn't heaving so hard anymore because my sobs are dry... without cause. I cuddle my little teddy bear close to me, the one I have had almost since birth, trying to stop the feeling of despair in my stomach reel up inside me. I hiccup and I hear movement, a sound by the window of my room. As I turn, half dully, half fearfully, I see a man in black, standing in the wind in a red lined cape and a tuxedo, staying in the shadows ever as the moon lights his face. His eyes are covered with a mask, disguising their deep blue depths from me. Eyes as blue, or perhaps even bluer than my own.... I know who it is... my man, Tuxedo Mask.. I always thought that the name was a little silly - not that mine's much better - I even teased him about it a few times, and asked him once why he choose that name... he'd laughed it off and told me it seemed like a good name at the time... I wonder if my teasing comments changed his mind. Why couldn't he name him Mr. Rose or Top-hat or black-hat.. Something like that.... hmm.. then again, those names aren't a whole lot better either.. I suppose Tuxedo Mask is a fine enough name for him when you get down to it. But then, the name doesn't really count anyway. I stare up at him silently, my face puffy and red from my crying and sobs. He smiles at me, his oh-so-cute smile, and jumps into my room before I know what is going on. Before I could protest or even utter a sound, he had he swept me off my feet - or bed since I wasn't standing - and carried me outside to the cold night air. Cold... I suppose it's another work of fate that the night should be cold instead of warm. Why should it be warm when I'm so frozen up inside? He gently puts me down on the grass as his feet touch the ground. It feels cool, the air in circling me around my legs. I have to stop my nightgown from flowing up so I don't expose my undergarments to the world. Normally I would blush at this point in time... now I simply stare off into space. "Serena..... I brought you out here because I know you have been having some thoughts about our relationship and I know that you feel........ trapped." I am shocked, to say the least. Gasping, I covered my mouth with my right hand and tried desperately not look too surprised. Why should I be surprised? If anyone could tell that something was bothering me, it would be him. That link we share... I have this feeling it deals with a lot more than just feelings of danger and the like. But then, maybe it doesn't... He could always read me like an open book, even in the early years of our relationship, when we didn't really care for each other. (that's the understatement of the year!) But still... it was almost.... unnerving that he could read me so well. * * * * * * * * Darien could see the look in Serena's eyes and began again. "I just want you to know that I love you Serena... you.. Sure you may be a little.. lets say off centered at times, and you get bad grades..." Darien coughed silently at the look Serena gave him and continued. "But I love your charm with people.. your happy face.. you're so open and caring I could never, never be like that with you or anyone else Serena.. never..." "But you are CARING Darien. If you weren't you wouldn't have bothered to talk to me about how I feel; you wouldn't care. You would ignore my unhappiness and pretend that everything is alright with you and me and everything else... I love you for it Darien... for your caring and warmth... but I wish that I could have some time to date other people.. to do the teenager things and to live like everyone else. Even to date someone my own age. I know the age matter thing never came up in our conversations Darien, but wouldn't you rather be dating someone who has the same interests as you do? Has a more.... developed body?" Darien looked at Serena full force, stripping her naked with his glance that swiftly began to burn her in its intensity. Grabbing a hold of her shoulders he began to shake her roughly. He was silent listening all the time she was speaking and wanting desperately for her to finish so that he could knock some sense into her........ now he had the chance. He could feel himself burning with jealousy at her words, and he nearly growled as he spoke again. "Serena if you even try to date other men, or boys, I will strangle them alive...and you! I swear Serena, you can be such a big goose sometimes! A more developed body my foot! I like yours two times more then any developed female I see at the university that I go too!" Darien shouted, all the while shaking so hard he was making her head spin. Now she was *sure* the world must be spinning.... Serena almost smiled at his intensity. Darien never really showed his feelings for her, or for anyone for that matter, but when he did he showed them with everything that he had, and that was another that she loved about him. "Darien stop it, stop shaking me...." She said trying to make him stop so she could catch her breath before she became dizzy... she could feel it settling in already. He did so but only to kiss her on the lips. She felt his lips forcing hers to open, forcing them gently, but firmly to part beneath his.... And then she felt a rough.... something... slip inside her mouth... something which she guessed was his tongue enter her warmth even as she tried to get her thoughts in order. He was brushing it along her teeth, searching her mouth and finding her tongue, playing games with her lips, her mouth, her warmth... teasing her... His hands slipped underneath her nightgown, sliding up her skin....... "Darien, please...." She whimpered, trying to make him stop. He was moving too fast. Moving, moving, but she wanted him to.... oh god she wanted him too... but she was still too damn young for him to even try to do anything but kiss her. So she made him stop, though it pained her to do so. She wasn't ready for the consequences that would come with this night. Darien stopped immediately as her voice penetrated the fog that had begun to envelope his mind... he was partly out of his Tuxedo mask outfit. His shirt off, his cape off.... god, what could he have been thinking? Better yet, had he been thinking at all? He looked at her, laying there, his hands still beneath the gown, stilled in their movement, but still there.... he tore his gaze away and quickly jerked his hands from where they had been. "Sorry Serena... Oh god I am so sorry.... I don't know what came over me, I ..." She stopped him by placing her little finger to his lips. Still slightly shaky, he grabbed ahold of her hand and kissed the knuckles softly. "You drive me crazy, you know that? Don't let me catch you with other men Serena... or I swear I'll kill them.. or you!" He said, only half joking, and they embraced one more time before returning Serena to her bed. That night, Serena slept peacefully for the first time in a long time. _____________________________________________________________________ Gosh! That came almost close to a hentai I think! Didn't it?? I tried to keep it as clean as I possibly could maybe I could have made it cleaner but... Any ways write me at starlighttower@Hotmail.com and my homepage address is http://www.neptune.on.ca/~dmacin please go there and sign my guestbook! I will also love to here from you! See yeah Auston (and Jade!)