Chapter 2

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Serena had opened the door of her house to let Darien in, but he stayed 
outside. He had been contemplating what he could say all night, but his 
mind was blank, he simply couldn't come up with the words to say the 
right thing.

"Serena, I can't explain.....just......here," he nervously handed her a 
gold-colored star locket, gave a little smile, and quickly left.

Serena watched him walk away, then stared at the locket in her hand. 
They had passed it back and forth to each other many times; it was the 
symbol of their eternal love for each other after all, but this time was 
different. There was no anniversary or romantic words to go along with 
it, so in her mind there was only one thing Serena thought it could 
mean. She threw it on the table, and ran up to her room where she 
flopped down on her bed and after a long bout of wailing fits, cried 
herself to sleep.

Darien spent the rest of the evening waiting to hear the doorbell, or 
perhaps the phone, followed by an excited screech and giant hug from 
Serena, but it never came. He couldn't come up with any logical 
conclusion, except one.
 
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They bumped into each other, (literally) as usual, turning the corner in 
the morning; Darien helped Serena up and smiled at her, hoping that what 
he had thought was wrong, but she never even made eye contact, and 
continued on. Darien left, and Serena turned back and stared for a 
moment at the place he had been standing, then sighed as she  went her 
separate way. They never said a word to each other after that.

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 It was a star locket, their star locket.
 
"You- You kept it?" he asked.

"Well, yeah, why wouldn't I? It's the only thing I had left to remind me 
of you."

"Why would you want a keepsake if you were just going to ignore me?" he 
was confused.

"You had been so cranky and mean and pensive when you gave it to me; I 
thought it meant that you wanted to break up, so of course I would want 
a memento."

"First of all, I didn't mean to act like that, I was just nervous. 
Second, How on EARTH could you think it meant I wanted to break up!" 

"I know she's a bit of an airhead, but this is ridiculous!" he thought.

"Well, you just handed it to me without an explanation, and," Serena 
started. "Wait. Why would you be nervous?"

"Well it's OBVIOUS.......Unless......You never opened the locket, did 
you?"

"Open it?"

"Well that explains it. Oh my god, all of this........torture we've been 
through these past years could have been prevented," he said under his 
breath.

"WHAT are you talking about?"
 
"Serena look," he flipped the top up, and on top of the dome that spun 
the crescent moon around and played their song, was resting a gold band 
with a rather nice size diamond on it.

"Oh......Darien. I-I never knew. I thought that-"

"I guess it was the only thing you could think if you never opened it."

Serena was speechless. Never in a million years had she thought she was 
carrying an engagement ring from him around with her for five years.

"Things could have been so different, Darien. Why'd you have to be so 
nervous about giving it to me? I mean it's not like I would say no. I 
loved you so much."

Darien smiled, "Does that still stand?"

"What?"

"Do you still love me?"

She looked at him longingly, "I never stopped."

"Then let's do this again the right way."

Serena stared and blinked confusidly.(AN:Is that a word? Oh, well.)
 
"Serena, I have never stopped thinking of you. I have spent every night 
since you left, dreaming of being in your arms again. We made a mistake 
years ago, but it is not too late to fix it. I'm so glad we found this 
out before it would be." He took the ring out of the locket, got down on 
one knee and took her hand, "Serena Tsukino, will you marry me?"

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