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Key
"?" Mako
"?" Rei
"?" Mina
"?" Usagi
"?" Ami
Prologue
The slight tapping at the door wasn't enough to annoy her. The constant screams outside didn't faze her. The continuous phone call didn't shake her. The TV's buzzing static noise didn't deter her. At first. One could only take so much and the hot welling anger was beginning to overflow in gallons and she began to shake her blonde head and her body began trembling. She knew she was in trouble and had to run away. A beep could be heard and the first message was left on the answer machine,
"Usagi… calm down and come pick up the phone" It was Mina! Her voice was worried and slightly frantic sounding and Serena was slightly comforted that she wasn't in this alone. She slowly approached the phone, cautious not to trip over the mess that had been created in her haste to pack and leave forever. Serena picked up the phone and spoke,
"Hello? Mina?" Her voice was shaky and a tremor was heard that was uncharacteristic the girl was heard. A sigh of relief was heard on the other side.
" Usagi, we were worried that something happened"
" Something did happen, Mina! How could you say that" Sobs were threatening to brake out.
" I didn't mean it like that and you know it. We could never forgive ourselves if something happened to you at this time of crisis or any time as a matter of fact!"
"…."
" Now, usagi-chan, we have to create a plan-"
A silence was all that was heard which caused panic to break out in Mina. And all of a sudden she felt calm again. She shouldn't freak out. She could hear Usagi again. She called out her name. And she responded with more sobbing. Mina continued.
"- first of all, Rei is knocking on your door. Its her, so open up"
" No! I won't let her in! I can't….."
" Why Usagi?"
" She'd scold me…."
" No she wouldn't. Why would you think that?"
" My rooms such a mess and she'd scream at me because of it and I can't bare to hear anyone scream" Another round of sobs broke out.
Mina would have laughed if it was a different time, and maybe twelve years from now she would laugh. But not right now.
" Open the door. Rei is going to take you to her house. Her old one, remember the shrine we use to play in when we were younger?"
" Yeah… I remember."
" So open up for Rei, okay? And take plenty of clothes. It may be awhile before you are able to go out to buy some."
Usagi reluctantly said yes and opened the door. Suddenly flashing sound were heard and she saw a crowd of people were behind right there and panic filled her up again, but suddenly she was pushed back inside, falling on the floor, and the door was promptly locked. Usagi looked up and saw Rei. Her face was red, she was panting and she looked at Usagi. She suddenly smiled and spoke,
"Do you know all the trouble you've given me?" And with that elegant voiced of her she began to speak again,
"Did you hang up on Mina?" Usagi nodded. " Okay, so I'll tell you what we have to do and then later at the shrine I'll scold your silly little butt off for worrying us now… but first some major butt saving is needed. Mako is outside right now, in a car in the corner so we are going to climb down the window pane. Do you think you can do that?"
Usagi took a breath of air, closed her eyes and then looked up. A spark of determination flared in her eyes.
"Okay, but what about my stuff?"
" Ami will take cared of that. She'll enter the hotel dressed up as a room service person and bring a cart. She already has a copy of your key ready by hacking into the system to create a duplicate and hide your stuff there"
Usagi nodded again and rose to place her bags by the door. Suddenly a smile came to her face. Rei noticed and spoke,
"What's up with you now… crying one second and smiling the other?"
"Nothing at all" And she ran to the window to climb down. Rei had a weird feeling in her stomach, but ignored it. She slowly climbed down the rails to realize a camera flash had gone off. She looked down immediately, were was Usagi? But that was immediately disregarded as she notice that she was there… with a camera phone. And Rei realized she was wearing a skirt….
" Usagi wait till I get down, I'll kill you!"
But Usagi only giggled and said to Rei as they got in the car at the corner,
" I can see it now…. The famous actress Rei's underwear shot ! How much do you think people would pay for this on eBay?"
Trust Usagi to do the most random thing and try to make it funny. Rei was gonna kill her.
" Or how about I make up some strange story and show it to your future children! This is the best laugh I've had in years!"
XXXXXX Scene change. 1st person view XXXXXX
The car was quite and stuffy to me as soon as I stopped laughing and Rei was ignoring me. I couldn't blame her either, I was so stupid. I just wanted to laugh to take my mind off the situation. I looked over at Rei. She truly was beautiful. Her long black hair cascaded behind her back and a dignified air followed her wherever she went. Much more so than me. I looked at my nails. They were glossy, showing that a manicure had recently applied to it. My hands were soft. My face was thin. My body had no umph to it. I was so skinny but I couldn't really eat. Everyone found it shocking, how could I not be hungry. It was killing me. I wasn't as beautiful as I was 5 years ago.
I was now 24 and you wouldn't believe it. Everyone in the group was beautiful and here I was. But the car ride had been short and I was sort of thankful for it. Mako was driving the car and I hadn't even said hi, but it was okay. When she was driving I learned that any type of distraction was a no-no. As soon as we all got into the temple I hugged her as hard as I could. Mako smiled and the told me that as soon as everyone got here we would catch up and decide what to do. I smiled, as smile that didn't quite reach my eyes but I don't think they noticed it. Rei seemed to have gotten over her anger and I quickly apologized.
" Don't worry about it Usagi, I have plenty of blackmail for you too"
I was shocked but then retaliated into a raspberry fight with her. Mako was cooking she had told me and I remembered how good her cooking was. To die for, I could always have eaten her food. I
I decided to walk around the shrine, vaguely wondering where Mina was. She was a blonde like me too and an actor like Rei. They normally did movies together. She could have been my twin at one time. She was also a model. Mako was a chef. Ami was also a doctor. They had all achieved their dreams. So had I. Had I really…?
I suddenly found myself in the kitchen, my stomach growled. Loudly. And I blushed. Badly. Mako turned around and smiled brightly.
" Hungry, huh? Well I would give you some snacks but…" And then I shocked myself but saying this,
"But Mako-chan can't I please have some" I whined slightly and I hadn't done that in years. I wasn't allowed to. Mako seemed surprised too but smiled and gave me some cookies. And then a loud noise and squealing voices told me that Mina was there. I later found out that Ami had arrived too. I went to hug them all. It had been awhile since we all met together.
XXXXXXXX 3rd P.O.V XXXXXXX
" So what are we going to do to hide from the press?" was the first question
"Send me away of course" A silence came about the group and all of a sudden they all screamed no.
" You're not going to go by your self!" said Ami
"We're going to always protect you" replied Rei
" Remember, we promised to when we were younger?" said Mako
" And so we're going to leave with you!" ended Mina
Usagi was shocked and immediately protested saying that they all had lives and that they didn't even know where they were going.
" A little childhood promise shouldn't destroy your lives!" she reasoned
" We could tell when we became friends you were going to be troublesome…."
" It isn't a problem! I've been meaning to relax for awhile"
" We haven't spent time as a group for awhile"
" You'd do the same for us" reasoned Mako
" But we haven't even decided where we're going to go until this dies down…"
"Actually, doesn't Rei have a cute friend in the states that has some private property? Wanna call in a favor?"
Rei seemed to be caught off guard and began to blush and nodded but spoke up
" I don't want to intrude and he's very private and-"
" Blah, Blah, Blah. He doesn't have to know why we're going. Just make something up"
" Oh, ok but we need to get our passports and I'll forge a fake one for Usagi so no one will know she's leaving"
Everyone was shocked at what she said and so the room was quite but Usagi felt warm inside, knowing that she had great friends who would always be there for her. She ate eating Mako's huge meal after hearing excuse for making it so big,
" I was so excited I made too much!"
And making fun of Ami for abusing her brain power as they called it.
She later went to sleep happy that her friends were there.Her bags were packed and prepared for the trip to the United States the next day so of course, Usagi reasoned, she needed rest. Her friends however stayed up and soon they asked Rei,
" Whats the guy's name?!"
And Rei shyly responded,
"Mamoru Chiba"
(A/N)
So this is my first chapter. If you like it please review. No flames please. Now, I'm really bad about updating since I'm not always near the computer( live in diffrent places) but now that I have a lab top I might be able to write in there. I'll answer almost any ?s about the story, if it doesn't give away to much of the story and thank you for reading.