Author: Shadow

Disclaimer: I, Shadow, do hereby state that Sailor Moon, sadly, belongs to Naoko only!

Summary: Serena Winston is fresh out of high school and on her way to the Pittsburgh Institute of Art. With a chance to start anew, will she find a chance to fall in love, even if he's her professor?

WOW! This is so much different then my normal. It won't be sci-fi related at all! Read my other stories too!!! And if it sounds bad, its because I'm trying to stray from blood, guts and Goths. I've gotten comments on the Goth part…so this is for you!

Book One: Memoirs Of The Broken Hearted

Chapter One: My Name Is Serena Winston

With hair the color of marigolds and eyes, such a pure color of blue, I would run through the fields of wildflowers that my small town was known for, laughing and swinging my arms with my white picnic dress billowing in the wind.

I was always such a happy child even though I didn't come from the richest family. My friends, Rei, Amy, Mina and Lita and me were from the "other side of the rail road tracks."

We all grew up together, banded as one against the people in my small-minded town as we entered the rocky roads of our perilous teen years beginning in middle school.

Lita Woods, who is a year older than I, developed first. She was always lovely, with a tall, long body frame, emerald green eyes that held such intelligence and as she entered middle school, she grew breasts the seemed to have kept growing. Large, full and perky. I was so jealous.

Then Mina Hart, who was a year younger then me, began to develop. She hit puberty earlier then any of us. She grew about five inches from four foot ten to five foot three, but all her baby fat disappeared and she gained amazing curves that mixed in with her waist length platinum blonde hair and cornflower blue eyes making her look like a juvenile Aphrodite. She was definitely tempting jailbait.

Then to all of our amazements, Amy Rains hit puberty third. However, she kept her shy, quietness, which conflicted with her rounded, breasts, hourglass frame, hair so black it reflected the midnight blue sky as highlights and her matching blue eyes that held warmth and the intelligence that she was very well known for. If she became less shy, she would be a man killer.

To my dismay, I was the last to hit puberty. Rei Barn hit it in the seventh grade. She had always been boney and awkward with purple eyes that held her fiery temper. But as that time came her body matched her gorgeous eyes and her waist length black hair that reflected her red, fiery soul. She gained awesome curves and breasts a bit larger then Amy's.

All Four of my friends looked like women while I continued to look chubby and awkward and my seventh and eighth grade years were hell. But, as I hit high school with dread that I would never grow, puberty hit me hard.

I went from four foot five to five foot six, my baby fat disappeared but I still looked soft, but feminine. My dark blonde hair began to look like spun gold and my bright blue eyes looked like diamonds. My flat chest became large and full; nothing to a D almost over night, and my curves grew to match my breasts.

That may seem shallow, but when you spend your life with the nicknames that we suffered, it was cool to have the body of Playboy Bunny. I mean, Amy suffered nerd jokes, I suffered the cruelest of fat jokes and Lita got the tall gangly jokes because she is the tallest of us all. Mina got it worst though…she got the slut cracks…but you know what they say, "No Pain No Gain." But with the jokes we had to endure to this point plus our periods…it seems very unfair!

When I was a sophomore in high school and Mina joined us, we became a threat to every other girl in the school, and the targets of the cheerleaders, the bane of my existence.

We would dress somewhere between the popular kids and the rejects. We belonged to no one singular group and definitely avoided the jocks and preps. With band t-shirts and blue jeans, we were neutral, but, unlike Sweden, we weren't left alone, especially when Rei became the date to the senior prom king our sophomore year, and Mina, the homecoming king's steady her freshman year.

And well me? I was the prom queen or senior year. Moreover, as I sit here in the back seat of my mom's minivan with all of them around me heading off to our adventures in college, (well...except for Mina, she is only a senior this year, and Lita would be a sophomore in college this year.) I think, "Damn! What a ride! But, fuck, I sure am glad it's over!"