----Always return to me----

--Prelude--

"Mamoru honey, it's Chika." A petite brunette began speaking into her cellular phone. "I'm just calling to touch bases with you, my trip out of town ended earlier than expected, so I was hoping our time could coincide this week." She finished. "Well, I've got to go, I hate being one of those people who speak on their phone during lunch, talk to you later honey, good bye." She clicked off the phone with a single click and slid her cell back into her tight jeans' pocket.

She had just picked up her fork about to eat a piece of nice juicy steak, when the seat opposite of hers was sudden occupied. She looked up to be confronted by a medium sized black haired woman. "Excuse me." The woman apologized airily.

The brunette stared at the black haired woman for a moment before taking a bite of her steak, and chewed to give her time to think. "May I help you?" Chika finally got out.

"Yes, sorry, did I hear you correctly, that you know Chiba Mamoru?" The black haired woman questioned, looking her straight in the eyes.

"Who are you?" Chika demanded.

"I'm sorry, my name is Kameko, I used to date Mamoru, but did I hear correctly, that you know him?" Kameko hesitated before looking Chika in the eyes again. "Are you dating Mamoru to be more precise?"

"I don't see where that is any of your business, since you are no longer dating him, he obviously doesn't want you in his life any more." Chika stated stiffly, the conversation on her part firmly closed.

"You're right of course." Kameko brushed off that in a hurry. "But I'm just trying to save you some heartache in the long run. Where you aren't correct about however just because Mamoru stops dating a girl doesn't mean that she's out of his life, in fact some just get closer."

"Than when they were dating?" Chika questioned, only a faint interest in what was being said because it would be helpful in her explanation to Mamoru about pestering old girlfriends.

"Yes, some get to share in more secrets than the casual girlfriend gets, because they become best friends after breaking up with him." She toyed with her black hair, waiting for some type of reply from the woman.

"You're telling me what exactly?" Chika looked down at her plate and suddenly it didn't look so appetizing, the meat no longer looked juicy. Instead it looked like a clump of cooked brown crap and the potatoes just as good.

"Don't you know about Usagi and Mamoru? Geez, I mean Mamoru and Usagi, she just always ends up coming first." Kameko answered unhelpfully.

"What?" Was Chika's intelligent reply, this black haired girl was making no sense.

"Usagi and Mamoru, didn't you know that she always comes first in his life? That no matter what happens, he always goes back to her?" Kameko explained quickly as if telling one of the most important secrets in the world and it was an urgent need to tell Chiko this now of all times.

"So they're friends, so what, I saw her once from a distance, she seemed friendly enough." Chika brushed off her intruder's misplaced concern.

"They're not just 'friends'" Kameko hissed, and noticing her voice had gotten higher and was causing a scene, lowered it once again. "They are the creation of evil themselves. Every time Mamoru has a girlfriend, he breaks up with her just to go back into Usagi's waiting arms."

"You can't be serious, not every time, if that is even true." Chika waved it away, her meal became tempting once again, and as she raised the succulent morsels to her mouth, she glanced at the angering woman across from her.

"It's true whether you believe or not. Usagi stole Mamoru away from her best friend, and once it didn't work out they went their separate ways. Mamoru onto another girl, and Usagi took up with a guy. Usagi broke with said guy, and decided she was bored and broke Mamoru up his girlfriend by planting stories in her head. Beryl I believe her name was. They weren't even dating for long, I think it was a month at the most." Kameko vented. "Every time sense then, its been close to the same story, if it wasn't Usagi breaking up the relationships, then it was Mamoru and heading directly for her comfort."

"How can I believe this is even close to the truth?" Chika denied Kameko's claim.

"If you don't believe me, list Mamoru's girlfriends for me." Kameko countered.

"Well we haven't really discussed past relationships yet, we're still kind of settling into the relationship, but I know he won't leave me for Usagi, I saw her from a distance, she's a blond little thing, and he likes his women darker."

"I thought the same thing myself, but he ended up breaking up with me not long after I had gotten together with him, and went straight back to Usagi." Kameko stood up with a flourish grace.

"Yeah, well isn't she dating that up and coming architect?" Chika hedged, still not quite wanting to believe the fantastic tale falling in front of her.

"That's never stopped them before. He's just another bump on the road, I bet he's gone by now." Kameko shrugged her fair shoulders; the black hair was a veil around her. "I'm just telling you to watch out or it will happen to you too."

After Kameko left her table, Chika tried to eat the rest of her meal and not let her words get to her, but after she had placed the steak in her mouth, the feeling of cold dead weight settled in her and it wasn't entirely from the now too cold to eat steak either. She had to discover if the words were true. She too rose from the table outside the café, paid for her meal and left.

Kameko watched her go, with a satisfied smirk residing on her face, things just got interesting again.