okay.please keep in mind that this is my first fic and I'm not used to all the html

things!!!!!!!! So just bear with me.

21 year old Serena Tsukino stepped out of the cab that had brought her from the

airport and took a long look around at her surroundings. She was officially in Tokyo. A

chance for new beginnings, and to make a new image of herself. Also, a place to forget

about her life in the States. The cab driver had dropped her off at a hotel in the heart of

Tokyo. Serena would be staying there while she looked at apartments to rent.

Serena went inside the hotel and quickly registered herself. The bellboy took her

luggage up to her room for her and she took a walk around the city. People kept staring

at her while she walked along the sidewalk. She guessed that they weren't used to seeing

a Japanese girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. Truth was, even though Serena didn't

look Japanese, she was. Or at least she's half. Her mother is Japanese, whereas her

father is white.

Father, Serena winced as she thought of him. She would never forgive him for

what he had done to her. The memories all came flooding back but she quickly pushed

them aside. It's over, she told herself, I am far away from him and will never see him

again or that jerk Josh.

Serena looked in front of her and saw what seemed to be a mixture of a café and

an arcade. The Crown Arcade. She decided to go inside and have a drink. She sat at a

booth facing the window and waitress for a waiter to come. A waitress did finally come.

"Hi, I'm Lizzie," the waitress said, "Can I take your order?"

"Sure, I'll just have a large chocolate milkshake please."

"Okay, I'll be right back," Lizzie replied.

While she waited for her order to come, Serena sat deep in thought. She mind

took "I had a great time Josh", Serena said. "Yeah, me too", he replied. They kissed and

then she went inside her house and closed the door behind her. "Where have you been

young lady?" came the drunken voice of her father. "Out", she replied.

"Really? With that little boyfriend of yours?" Serena nodded. "Well, cut that

crap out!" Her father suddenly turned angry. "I do not need my daughter to have the

reputation of being a slut! What do you think my friends and colleagues will think of me,

huh?" Serena kept silent. This had happened before. She knew what was coming next

so there was no point in trying to calm him down. There, now there was no stopping him.

He-

"Excuse me, miss?" the waitress Lizzie had come back with her order. Serena

quickly tired to rub away the tears that had found their way into her eyes but it was no

use, Lizzie had already seen them. "Are you okay?" she asked. Serena said that she was

fine. Lizzie then left.

"Hey bro, "Lizzie called to her brother Andrew, who was also the manager of the

Arcade.

"Hey," he replied.

"There's a girl there who seems upset about something. Maybe you could go see

what's wrong. Cause you know, it's not very good for business to have someone crying

in here. People might think its cause of the service or something like that."

"Sure," Andrew said and went to talk to the upset customer.