Hi everyone!

Thank you so much for all your reviews! I couldn't have continued without you. I've received a lot of reviews concerning "Rivals" and I know that it has been a long time but I'm working on it! I promise you that chapter 7 is on its way. I'll probably update sometime during the weekend, I hope.

I got the inspiration for the fic from my own school actually. We often have dialogues when we have English and this week we are going to write a dialogue with "equality" as the theme. I, the dreamer that I am, thought that it would be cute with a fic about Usagi and Mamoru.

Well, enjoy and don't forget to drop me a line when you've finished!

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or any of the characters.

The dialogue

Prologue

Usagi sat with her friends discussing the latest gossip and blatantly ignored the group of boys sitting next to her, or at least the "leader". She was good friends with the guys in the group but, unfortunately, the leader was her archenemy.

They argued and fought every day and had been doing that for the last twelve years. They met through their parents, who were good friends, at the age of three and all prospects of a friendship had been ruined when he had called her "Odango Atama". Despite her young age she had felt deeply insulted for she was very fond of her hair. She had retaliated and thus the rival ship had begun. Even now at the age of 15 they still argued although no one could understand why.

All the girls liked him and all the guys liked her. Usagi sighed. She had to admit, although unwillingly, that she could understand why. He was kind of cute with that black hair and blue eyes and he could be charming when he wanted to.

Usagi heard the girls behind her sigh as he smiled at them and she couldn't help but scoff. 'Okay, he is okay looking but his personality! Ugh! And his ego!' Usagi thought and couldn't help but laugh. It was only then that she noticed how quiet it was. The teacher had apparently appeared without her knowing it. 'Woops,' she thought as all the students looked at her in amusement.

She laughed carefully and once again she ignored the person who was sitting next to her. "Just typical that the teacher had to place us two together," she thought.

The teacher cast her one more glance before starting her lesson. As soon as the class had assumed its usual bored pose her enemy leaned over. "Laughing for yourself again, Odango Atama? You're really losing it," he said and couldn't help but smirk when he saw Usagi's glare.

The lesson continued on pretty dull and all the students sighed with relief when the bell rang. They only had a 5 minutes' break before the English class started. Usagi had an eerie sense of dome when the teacher entered the classroom although she didn't know why.

She actually enjoyed the English classes contrary to all belief and excelled in it.

"Ms Tsukino! Did you hear what I just said?" the teacher asked, not harshly, but rather kindly because she liked Usagi. Their English teacher was rather young and all the students liked her. She didn't wait for Usagi to answer since she knew that Usagi hadn't heard. "I was telling everyone that your assignment for this week is to pair up two and two and write a dialogue," she continued and thus spared Usagi the shame of coming up with some lame excuse about why she hadn't heard or guessing what the teacher had said.

Usagi smiled brightly at the mention of her favorite task. Her happiness was somewhat clouded when the teacher informed them that she would select partners for them but that didn't bother Usagi all too much.

Her name was the first to be called and the entire class listened attentively since everyone liked working with her. The teacher, knowing this, paused dramatically and Usagi gulped nervously when she noticed the mischievous glint in her teacher's eyes. Her teacher, known as Ms Stacy, was a sweet and kind person but she was also famous for gossiping and meddling in other people's businesses.

When Ms Stacy said the name of her partner the whole class just stared at her in shock before immediately turning their gazes to Usagi. As for our dearest Usagi, she just stared at her teacher as if she had just grown two extra heads. She couldn't believe it!

As if reading her thoughts Ms Stacy smiled. "Don't look so shocked Ms Tsukino. Don't you want to work with Mr. Chiba?"

The words echoed in Usagi's head. She was going to work with Mamoru Chiba, her archenemy.

And that concludes the prologue. I know that it was ridiculously short but I promise that the next chapters will be longer.

I'll be publishing new stories and new chapters soon so stay tuned!

Tell me what you think about this beginning, in other words: Review, review and review!

Till next time then!

Cathy Daine