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Claimer: I do own Julie and Megumi =)

All But Forgotten

Chapter 1: The Anthem of the New Beginning

"Please?"

"No."

"Pretty please?"

"I said no, Megumi."

"…Not even with a cherry on top?"

"Damn it, I said no!" Julie finally snapped and threw her wrench at her brunette friend's head. Luckily the girl had fast enough reflexes to dodge out of the way. The wrench clattered to the floor as the two girls glared at each other.

"See. That's why we need to go. You always get moody if it's been too long." Megumi said as she picked herself up off the floor and dusted off her green jacket.

Julie closed her eyes as she closed the hood of the Barracuda she was working on. The idiots who owned the classic car completely shot the transmission. Julie leaned against the car as she looked at Megumi.

"Fine. We'll go. But not for long, it's a school night and I have a history test tomorrow." Julie said as she hoisted herself up and walked to the door of the shop.

Megumi squealed happily and hugged Julie as tightly as possible, which slightly lifted her up since Julie was a good couple of inches shorter than Megumi. "Thank you!" She paused for a second before dropping Julie and pinching her nose shut.

"Uh…Julie you smell like motor oil…maybe you should clean up a bit first."

"I'll do it at home. Come on, we'll take my car since you walked here." Julie said, she then turned to look for the manager of the auto shop. "Jer, where are you?"

"Down here Jewels, I heard everything, go on ahead. It's not like I can fire you anyway." Jer chuckled from under a mini-van.

"You only wish. But since it's my grandfather's garage I doubt that'll happen." Julie laughed as well.

Jer rolled out on his creeper to meet Julie's eyes, a cheery twinkle was in his brown ones as his greased and grimed face cracked a grin. "Go have fun kiddo, Megumi's right, you do get moody."

Julie scoffed and threw the red rag that she used to get the grease off her hands at Jer's face. "Whatever, let's go Megumi. Later Jer," then she called out louder, "Later guys!"

A chorus of farewells followed Julie out the door from her coworkers.

When Julie and Megumi reached her grandparent's house there was a note on the kitchen counter.

"What's it say?" Megumi asked and sat on the counter top and bit into an apple.

Julie scanned over the note before crumpling it up and throwing it away. "That my grandparents are going to be in Europe for business for a few weeks."

Again. Julie thought sadly. They were always gone. For the past three months Julie has lived with her grandparents that she thought never existed. When her last foster parents got a phone call from the agency that Julie had living relatives that wanted to take her in, Julie was ecstatic. She was going to have a family again. But when she came to Japan it was not what she expected.

Turns out that her grandparents were very wealthy investors and her grandfather owned a chain of auto repair shops throughout Japan. Needless to say they were always busy. Julie saw her mother's parents for about the first week she moved in. They were kind and helped her get settled in and sorted out with school and all that jazz. But after that first week Julie would only see them for days at a time before they took off again. It was lonely at times but Julie constantly reminded herself that it was better than her foster families.

"Again?" Megumi looked surprised. "They're gone a lot. Aren't old people supposed to be retired by now?"

"Guess my grandparents didn't get that memo. Whatever." Julie shrugged her shoulders, "I'm going to go get ready. I'll be back down in a bit, don't burn the kitchen down."

"Oh come on! That was one time!"

"Well doesn't someone clean up nicely." Megumi wolf whistled as Julie walked into the living room.

Julie had let her long black-blue hair fall down her back and her bangs swept to the side to show her smoldering blue (almost amethyst) eyes. She was dressed in blue jeans that hugged her wide hips and a white with red and gold flowers tube shirt that clung to her larger than average breasts and flat stomach. She got her body build from her American father's side of the family, at least that's what she guessed since her mother's build wasn't as shapely.

Now Megumi's body build looked like how the majority of Japan's female body's should. She was thin with just enough hips and breast to show she had hit puberty. Her brown hair and eyes were also the stereotypical color. Yet Megumi had an interesting face that made her looks stunning instead of plain. Julie had to guess it was her high cheekbones and tan skin.

"Let's go." Megumi grinned as she and Julie walked out of the house.

They walked to the club since it was only a few blocks away from Julie's house. The girls chitchatted about this and that as they went. A few cat calls were made but the girls either ignored them or flipped the offending males the bird.

They stopped at a building that looked like it had been unused for years, with the graffiti on the brick walls and black painted windows. But the sound and vibration of bass was pumping from it and there was a line of people leading around the block. Julie and Megumi walled right past the line and up to the front door where a large burly man was standing in the way.

He smiled when he saw the two girls and opened the door, allowing the loud music to blast them. "Welcome back ladies."

"Thanks Genku." Julie and Megumi said and walked past him into the large building.

The moment she walked in Julie was completely enveloped. This is what Julie loved. The flashing lights, the booming bass that made her chest vibrate with each pulse, the music so loud she couldn't hear herself think, the heat from so many bodies moving and gyrating against each other in a tight space, all of it.

Megumi was right; Julie did get moody if she didn't relive her stressed out mind. And this is exactly how Julie did it. Something about the dancing calmed whatever it was inside of Julie that threatened to burst. It was a need, a craving, something that has driven her insane since she could remember. A longing.

Nothing seemed to completely fill that longing void Julie had inside of her but dancing sure came close to it. Without a moment's pause Julie threw herself into the crowd and let the music control her.

"That was"-hic-"so much fun." Megumi slurred.

"Yeah, but maybe next time you shouldn't accept so many drinks from over aged, perverted men. You can't hold your liquor worth a shit." Julie said as she helped Megumi walk back to Julie's house. No way was she going back to her own home, Megumi's mom would throw a fit if she saw her drunk.

"Say…how is it"-hic-"that you can drink so"-hic-"much and not seem the least bit buzzed?" Megumi asked and giggled again.

"High tolerance?" Julie laughed but stopped short as she felt a cold chill go up her spine. She stopped walking and scanned the area with her eyes.

"What'd's"-hic-" the matter, Juuulie…" Megumi slumped against Julie and giggled again.

"Nothing. Just thought I saw something. Come on, it's late, who knows what creeps are around here right now." Julie said, and quickened her pass.

"What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?" ~Friedrich Nietzsche

I know this chapter was freaking short but take faith that it is more a teaser than an actual chapter. I am going to try and start a new thing with my stories, I'm going to try a weekly update. I plan on doing it on Saturadays. So come back to this story every Saturday to see the new chapter. If it's not up then come back next Saturday and there will more than likely be two chapters up. I'm going to try and make these updates people! Have faith in me!

-love mucho, blue