He makes his way over to the the desk to find the now famous Mr. Weinberg.  A man is standing there and his name tag says it, so Darren says, "Hello, Mr. Weinberg.  I want to thank you for helping me today."  "Why certainly, Mr. Hayes, anything for our honored guests."  "Where can I find the car?"  "It is right outside waiting for you.  Your driver is our Mr.  Barrows."    Darren smiles.  "Thanks, mate!"   Mr. Weinberg bows slightly, but when Darren is walking away, he just shakes his head.  Rock stars.  Sheesh.

He walks outside the hotel.  Still raining.  No matter, he'll be in the car.  He gets in the back with the assistance of Mr. Barrows.  The driver starts driving without asking where they are going, so Darren assumes he knows.  His stomach is full of butterflies.  I haven't felt like this since I was 16, he thinks.   Since I met..........Colby.  That brings back a stab of pain, but it quickly passes and he smiles thinking of he and Colby when they were only teenagers.

The car winds it way through the city until they are now in a suburban area.  If this guy lets me out here, Darren thinks, I would be lost forever.  I better start paying attention.  The car stops and he sees Mr. Barrows getting out and can only assume they are there.  The driver comes around and opens the door for Darren and he steps out.  "Well, thank you.  I won't be needing the car any longer."  "Don't you want me to wait for you, sir?"  "No, no, not necessary.  I'll find my way back."  "Very good sir", and tips his hat at Darren and gets back in the car.  As the car slowly pulls away, Darren is looking around and sees the number on the house.  He looks up at the sky and realizes he SHOULD have brought an umbrella.

He slowly walks up to the house, all the while looking around.  He is now standing there at her door and sees her name on the bell.  He takes a deep breath and rings the bell.  Silence greets him in return.  He rings again.  Nothing.  Oh Jesus, don't say it...........

After all this, there is no one home.  Darren thinks to himself, well the bright spot is some 7 foot man didn't answer the door saying he's her husband and wondering who the fuck I am........

He rings again.  Nothing.  Shit.............

She's not home, I have no umbrella and the car is gone.  He looks around for cover and stands under a small part of the roof jutting out, but he is soaked all the same.  OK, Darren, what now?

Jennifer never quite realized how long this walk was.  I'll have pneumonia tomorrow, she thinks.

Darren decides to wait awhile.  Maybe she's on her way.  Maybe she's out for the night. Maybe she's on VACATION for two weeks.  OK, relax.  But he is cold in the rain, starting to shiver a bit...........

Jennifer stops at the store to pick up a few things including tea, aspirin and a bottle of Brandy.  Just in case.............She leaves the store and has finally made that final turn to her house..................

Poor Darren is standing under this little part of the roof, but he is soaked.  Oh I can see the headlines "Pop star dies of exposure on someone's porch!!!!  Film at 11"  What the hell am I doing?  I must be crazy.  Why am I standing here freezing and soaking wet?  It hit him like a thunderbolt.  You dumb shit, YOU'RE IN LOVE.  You always have been, but just denied it to yourself and everyone else for convenience purposes.  The Great Darren Hayes couldn't admit someone got to him.  So damn stubborn sometimes!  No sane rationally thinking man would be standing in the rain with no umbrella waiting for a woman if he WASN'T in love.............  he decides to sit down and wait some more.............

Jennifer is getting close to her house now and could SWEAR she sees someone sitting on the porch.  Why would someone be sitting on my porch?  In this rain?  Nah.........

But as she gets closer she can see there certainly is someone sitting there and he looks very cold.  But as she gets closer and closer, she thinks.........."NO!!!!!!  CAN'T BE!!!!!!!!!!"

Darren has his head down and doesn't see her coming, but she recognizes him all the same.  She stops dead in her tracks.   What!?!?!  Darren!!!!!!!!!!!???????  Holy shit!!!!  Oh My God!!!!!!!!!!!!!  What is he DOING here?  Heart thumping a mile a minute...................be cool, girl.  BE COOL.

As she starts walking again, she gets closer and he hears something so he raises his head.  She about passes out.  Him sitting there wet, hair stuck to his head, water dripping off his beautiful face, looking like the sexiest most erotic man she has ever seen, but also looking like a little boy at the same time.  GOD!  I have to be cool..............what is he DOING here?????

Darren stands up and thinks "How could I have let this woman go?"

OK.  We're both standing here dripping wet, looking at each other.  Someone has to talk.........

"Darren.........."  "Ahhhh, hi, Jennifer.  How are you?"  "Darren, what are you doing here?"  "Well, I wanted to talk to you."  God, he thinks, that sounds stupid.  "After all this time, Darren?  About what?"  Jennifer is dying - all she wants to do is hug him and tell him she loves him................but all at the same time seeing him has brought it all back and she feels herself getting angry.

"Well, about......about us."  "Oh, is there an "us"?  I wasn't aware of it."  Ouch, Darren thinks, that hurt.  "Well, I have been thinking about you quite a bit."  "Oh really?  Yes, I could tell by all the time we spend together and how my phone rings off the hook."  Wow, Darren thinks, this isn't going to be easy.

"Jennifer, I am so sorry for what happened.  Really I am.  I was going through an awful time and my head was everywhere but where it should have been.  I was going through a terrible time with Colby and my life was in such disarray.  But that doesn't excuse the way I treated you.  I am very sorry."

Jennifer just looked at him.   Why the apology after all this time?  "Well, Darren, why are you here?  Need a dinner partner tonight?"  "Jen, come on, you know how hard this is for me."  "DARREN!!!!  What do you think these last four months have been for ME?  A picnic?""Well, no....I.....I don't know."  "You don't know?  You don't KNOW??  Let me tell you, DARREN!"  Oh shit....Darren thinks......and runs his hand through his hair.

"I'll tell you how my four months have been.  I felt like I DREAMED you.  We spend the night together, we make love (she's starting to cry), you tell me you lovvvvvve me, we share all our thoughts (sniff, sniff) and then you woooooon't talk to me and offer me money like I'm a whore you picked up........."  Tears are running down her face mixed with the rain - but it feels so damn good after having all this inside for so long.

"THAT'S how I feel, Darren.  Oh, I know you're a big star and probably go through girls like people go through tissues, but I am NOT ONE OF YOUR GROUPIES!!!!!!" (sniff, sniff)

Darren is quite shook up.  No one has ever talked to him like this.  "Jennifer, please listen to me....."  "NO!!!!!  It's too late......YOU'RE too late.........did you just remember you slept with me four months ago???????  Fuck you, Darren.  FUCK YOU"  Jennifer is letting it all out now - crying very hard and sobbing.

She half punches/half pushes him in the chest.  "I LOVED YOU, DARREN!!!!!!!!!!!!  Does that MEAN anything to you????????"  She turns to walk away..............

Darren lunges for her and grabs he by both shoulders and spins her around.  "Listen to me.......now wait a minute...."

"LOVED ME??????  YOU LOVED ME??????  What the hell does that mean?  You don't love me now???  You loved me for one night?  Maybe I'm the one who should be angry.  Did you sleep with me because I am Darren Hayes of Savage Garden or because I am Darren??

I came all the way here from New York to see you.  Do you think I would do that if I DIDN'T love YOU?  I realized that I loved you from the first moment I saw you from the stage.  I was just too stupid or blind to see it.   Jennifer.........."

She could swear he is starting to cry, but maybe it's the rain..........

"NO DARREN!!  No.  no.  I can never forget what you did.  Never.  Did you love ME for one night?  Now I see what you mean by "THIS Side of Me".  Which side is this?  How many are there anyway?"

"Jennifer.....I love you, really.  You are the most amazing woman I have ever met.  I was a fool to let you go.  I need you to be with me......."  He IS crying..........

"Jennifer, pleassse don't do this........I know you are hurt, but God, I want you and love you and would never treat you that way again.  I was so fucked up in my head with everything going on.  I wasn't myself.  I need you,  I need you to share my life with me.......Pleasssse, Jen.....think, think."

She just stares at him.  The rain pouring down both their faces.  "I cannot believe you flew all the way here after four damn months and think you can wave your hand and I will come running.  For someone who claims to be in love, you sure pushed it aside for a long time.  You expect me to believe that?"

Darren just looks at her and then puts his head down.  You fool, Hayes.  You think you can just waltz back into her life and say a few "I'm sorry's" and everything will be OK.

"Look, Jennifer, I am sorry I bothered you.  This was a really daft idea.  I don't know what I was thinking.  You're right.  You're right."  All the emotion finally gets to him.  "I undertand, really.  but I do love you."  Damn that Daniel........I'm going to KILL him.

Jennifer is touched by his outpouring of emotion.  He has his head down and is crying.  SHIT!  I can't just leave him standing here like this.  Then he looks up and says as if he read her mind,  "Jen, pleassse, please.............Don't leave me standing here like this, talk to me."

Suddenly, lyrics from "Mine" go through her head......

He is standing here bearing his soul to me crying and I am considering walking away.........

He drops his hands from her arms and just lets them drop.  He runs his hand through his hair, has the other on his hip and turns and walks in a circle.  "I can stand here trying to convince you that I love you. And I do,  I really do.  I have thought about you every day since then."  A little crack in his voice again..........

Jennifer slowly walks over to him and puts her hand on his chest.  "Darren........?"   He looks up and looks at her, his eyes are a little red and he waits............and says shakily,

"Look, I know I was a shit and it was awful what I did.  But, like I said, I was all over the place.  I have sorted through many things in my life now and made peace with most of it."  No one said anything.  The only sound was the rain and Darren's chattering teeth.

It was all Jennifer could do not to put her arms around him and just stand there.  He looked so beautiful standing there.  Those enchanting blue eyes, that mouth, the water dripping off his face.  God, how much she loved him....................

After looking at her for what seemed like forever, he put his hands on both sides of her head and just looked into her eyes.  He leaned down so his face was very close to hers, looked right into her eyes and whispered in that Truly Madly Deeply voice, "I love you........."  and kissed her so softly and gently she thought she would melt.  He immediately ended the kiss, not wanting to push his luck.  To his surprise, Jennifer put her arms around his neck.  She then leaned forward and placed a kiss on his lips.  His lips parted and his tongue played on the surface of her mouth and slipped in between her lips.   She kissed him with all the pent up desire and love she had for him since she saw him last..........When this first long kiss ended, it was followed by a series of small kisses and Jennifer breathlessly saying through tears, ......"Oh Darren, I hate you for what you did."   And Darren  - "Jen, God, I have been such a fool.  You should hate me.  You really should"  Still kissing each other.  "I do.  I do.  I hate you so much."  "I know  I know."

"Jennifer?"

More kisses.

"Yes?"

Kisses and giggles.

"I love you"

"Um,  I love you Darren.  But I still hate you."

"I know, you should hate me, I'm just such an awful nasty, person."

Kisses, giggles, laughter.

"I don't forgive you, you know."

"I know.  You shouldn't"  More kisses.  "Pretend I'm someone else, baybay."

Laughter mixed with kisses........

They walk toward Jennifer's house, arms around each other, soaking wet, giggling and trading kisses all the way there...................

"Ever been to Australia??"