New Beginnings
Chapter 1
By: Serena Chibi
Date: March 10, 2011
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Serena, Darien, Ray, Mina, Lita, Andrew, or any other characters from the Sailor Moon franchise. These characters are Naoko Takeuchi's and I am using them only for personal enjoyment, no profits here. Anyway, hope you enjoy the story, I'll decide if I continue on it based upon the reviews.
Walking through the front doors of the large building, Serena toys nervously with her hair. She watches her blue haired friend walk ahead of her into the building and follows slowly behind her.
"Let's go, Serena! We can't be late for this meeting!" Amy yells back at her from the doorway.
"Correction, Amy. YOU can't be late for this meeting, I don't even work here, remember?" Serena replies, while moving faster to catch up to her.
"Don't work here yet, Serena. Yet, but you will." Amy states as she slaps Serena's hand away from her hair lightly. "Stop playing with your hair, and follow me."
"Fine, let's just get this over with, 'cause I'm hungry", Serena whines from beside her.
Nice to know some things never change. Amy thinks to herself as she leads her blonde haired friend into the meeting room.
Serena sits in a chair next to Amy and start playing with her long hair in her lap while Amy gives her presentation to the ten other employees and her boss. As the meeting comes to an end and people start to leave, Serena looks up to find Amy talking to a man… No, a god. His jet black hair was slightly ruffled, falling just above his eyes… Those eyes that are the deepest blue she's ever seen. Before she knows it, Amy is dragging her over to the man.
"Serena, meet my boss, Darien"
"It's nice to meet you, Serena." Darien states while extending a hand to her.
Serena freezes up and Amy nudges her arm, snapping her out of her trance. Serena then grabs Darien's hand lightly. Looking up at him briefly to introduce herself, Serena diverts her eyes to the ground.
Ducking back into her vision, Darien says, "So, I hear you need a job? Amy here has mentioned you to me many times before and seems to want you to work here. The only job I have open for now is in our marketing department, as head of our creative advertising. How well do you draw or design things?"
"I'm okay at drawing, and thank you for the job offer, I greatly appreciate it." Serena pulls her eyes from the ground to look at him.
"How soon can you start?" he asks Serena. Sure, he didn't really know this girl or her requirements for this job but something felt right about hiring her as soon as he could.
"Um, tomorrow? I'll be in first thing in the morning… That is, if you actually want me to work for you?" She asks quietly. She felt as if this were some kind of charity case or something, and wanted to make sure he actually wanted to hire her.
Soon enough, Amy and Serena are headed home in Amy's little four-door hybrid.
"Ooh, stop here!" Serena shouts from the passenger seat, causing Amy to jump. Amy pulls the car into the McDonald's Drive-Thru. Serena orders two ranch BLT sandwiches with crispy/fried chicken, a large fry and large coke. Amy starts poking fun at Serena, "Geeze, that's a lot of food, Serena! You would think that you're eating for two!"
"Well, I'm just hungry is all; I missed breakfast this morning, now I'm starved!" Serena replies as she turns to look out the car window.
Mina, Lita, and Ray had all been hanging out this morning while Serena and Amy were at the meeting, so they all agreed to meet up at Serena and Amy's apartment afterwards. Upon arriving at their apartment, Serena hurriedly cleans up her mess of clothes and food from the living room. Even though she had a room, it was just much easier to sleep on the couch when she was jobless, that way she didn't have to move from the TV. Since it had been a few weeks since she quit her last job, the living room was quite the mess. As she finished up vacuuming the room, the rest of the girls arrived.
The girls all gather in the living room to eat and Serena chooses to sit upon the nicely carpeted floor, placing her food on the low table in front of her. Everyone is enjoying their food until Serena starts to eat her own. She quickly devours everything, from the two sandwiches to the last of her fries. She's takes the final bite of her sandwich when she notices the other girls watching her.
"Umm… what's up, you guys? Whatcha staring at?" she questions.
"A hippo or giant pig of some kind," Ray replies, snidely. At this comment, Serena's eyes start to water and immediately Mina yells at Ray, "That was a little harsh, Ray".
Next was Lita "Yea, what's wrong with you?" and Amy "Oh, Serena, don't cry. Ray was just being her usual mean self" as she places an arm around her shoulders. Serena brushes off the touch and makes a sprint for the bathroom. Quickly closing and locking the door behind her.
Curling up on the floor next to the bathtub and toilet, she clutches at her stomach. A few tears streaming down her face still, Serena lurches the contents of her stomach into the porcelain savior before her.
All the girls gather around the door, knocking lightly. "Serena, she didn't mean it! Come out!" Mina yells from the hallway. They hear the toilet flush and water running, then the door opens to reveal a slightly paler Serena.
"I'm just gonna go and lay down, Girls. I suddenly don't feel too well." She says.
"Probably because all your food is finally hitting-" Ray starts but stops abruptly as Mina elbows her side.
"That's alright, go lay down. We'll just hang with Amy for a bit; give us a holler if you need anything" Lita tells Serena while guiding her to the bedroom.
Serena walks into her room and slowly approaches the waterbed. She mindlessly flops down onto the bed and relaxes into the slow waves of movement.