"Ami-chan! Don't go!"
"Why shouldn't she pursue her dreams?"
"Because....because she's the smart one of the group! Without her-"
"-You wouldn't be able to think at all. Come on, Usagi-chan! Don't be so wasteful!"
"Learn to think for yourself!"
"Stop slouching off and be more attentive!"
"If you paid more attention and applied your brain better, you wouldn't have these problems!"
"Why does Ami-chan hang out with an idiot like you?"
"Idiot like me, huh...?"
Usagi walked down the street, her shoulders slumped and her face set with an annoyed glare. Her arms swung from front to back, her left hand carrying her schoolbag.
"Hmph." Usagi started walking across the street. "Well, it takes an idiot to know an idiot, right? Well, at least that's the reasoning. But ever since Ami-chan nearly left Japan to study abroad...I've been thinking. A lot. And it occurs to me...it occurs to me that perhaps everyone was right."
She paused in the middle of the street. She looked up attentively to the sky, tapping her finger to her chin. So absorbed in her thinking she was that she noticed nothing around her, least of all any cars that may have been driving at her.
"They made fun of me at school today - said I wasn't of the same caliber to be with Ami-chan because my brains were the size of an ink blot." Usagi stared up towards the clouds. "Well, it certainly gives me some thought. I mean, just a few weeks ago....Mamo-chan broke up with me....."
"USAGI!"
Usagi barely had time to turn around when she was suddenly hit in the back. The force sent her flying to the curb, and she gave a startled yelp as a large weight pressed on her. She shut her eyes, trying to alleviate the pain that shot through her back from the impact.
"HEY!" She opened her eyes and saw a red car fly by, its driver shaking his fist. "Idiot! Watch the road!"
"Urrgh..." Usagi glared at the speeding car as it drove off. "Me an idiot! Look in your rearview mirror to see who the real idiot is!!"
"Usagi-chan...."
The muffled voice brought Usagi's attention back to her lap. In it was a blue-haired girl, her dress slightly dirtied, smiling tightly at Usagi.
"O-oooh!!" Usagi began to laugh. "Oooh, Ami-chan!"