I am still working on my other stories, but this one has been in my head for a while and wanted to get it down while I work on editing my other one. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Sailor Moon. Just the story.

Chapter 1

Serena yawned as she walked down the street heading towards Rei's temple. She was not looking forward to this Senshi meeting. She just wanted to go home and shut herself away from the world for the rest of her life. She knew Rei was going to be angry about the fact that she was late once again because of having detention. But this time it wasn't her fault. She was late because there had been a surprise yoma attack as she was on her way to school. She easily defeated the monster on her own, but it still made her late for school resulting in detention.

She was already hating life and it just seemed that the day was just going to continue to get worse. She just wanted to say to hell with destiny, but she knew that was a choice that she would never get. She knew that her future was set out before her and that one day she would become Neo-Queen Serenity, and that was a duty she didn't look forward to. Especially now that Darien had broken up with her, just the night before when he told her he no longer loved her and didn't want to be held down by destiny.

She felt alone in the world as she began the long trek up the steps to the temple. She could hear the others talking as she reached the top and she could already tell they were talking about her.

"She just won't become a strong leader! She's late again!" Rei stated angrily.

"She had detention again, she isn't being responsible." Lita explained to the group as the two of them had the same classes.

"Well maybe its time to find another leader! Enough is enough, she will never learn." Rei stated firmly. "She can't even accept her destiny and her role as the leader of us. She is the same old cry baby she has always been. I'm just sick of the games."

"Rei, she didn't over sleep, I know that much because I called her at seven am and she was awake and getting ready for a test she was going to take today. There has to be another reason why she was late. She really has been trying hard." Amy spoke up defensively. "She has been getting B's in most of her classes this semester. Her parents are really proud of her."

Serena stood in shock as she listened to the things her friends had to say. She felt lower than she had when Darien broke up with her. Only Amy could see the changes that had come over here in the recent months. Not even Darien had seen them, he still saw her as a klutzy cry baby who always got bad grades. She knew she couldn't go up the rest of the steps, she couldn't face her friends.

She turned and walked back down the stairs and headed to the Arcade in shame.