Lights Out Tonight

Summary: (UxM) They were the perfect couple in high school, voted most likely to get married. He chose to walk away while she chose to stay. Now, they both plan to meet again, at a 5 year high school reunion.

Authors Note from Eponine xx: Okay! Newest story for me, a newcomer, but the new story for x Such Great Heights x, A Handful of Rain, and xx Screaming Infidelities. We have all banned together and wrote this story, so I hope that you like it! Enjoy the first part of this!

Disclaimer: We do not own Sailor Moon.

Prologue

(Five Years Earlier)

Location: Soccer field at local high-school.

Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba stood awkwardly together at the soccer field of their school. Neither spoke a word to each other, Usagi tried to turn her attention to anything that was not Mamoru while he looked sharply at her pale face. He cleared his throat and started talking.

"Usako…" He trailed off and she saw him leaning against the fence of the soccer field. She was here to watch him practice, like she always did, and while she watched him practice, she was going to do her home-work. It was a regular things, she did it every week when he had practice. He had never once shown an interest that he didn't want her there, but now it seemed that that was a different story. She cocked her head to the side and waited for him to continue. "Usako, I don't… I don't think that we should see each other anymore."

Her mouth dropped open. This was not happening this could not possibly be happening. She was breathing heavily all of a sudden and she gripped the railing of the bleachers and tried to calm herself down and that he did not mean this. "I – I… Mamo-chan, is it something that I did? What did I do to deserve this?"

"Usako, it's not you… it's me." Usagi gasped at his choice of words. He did not just say that. He couldn't have had said that. She shook her head and tried to look at him clearly, but her tears were blurring her vision. "I… I just don't want to be tied up when I go to look for colleges and you know when we go to different colleges, how's it going to be then?"

Usagi couldn't breathe; she tried to breathe, but only got a mouthful of air that choked her. "But – but I… I thought that we were g-going to t-the same c-college Mamo-chan." She wanted to slap herself and then she would figure it out that it was just a dream and that this was not really happening.

"Usako, you know that would have never happened. I just want to try this… I just don't want to be attached for awhile, is that alright? C'mon Usako, you knew that this was not going to work for the rest of our lives." He mumbled and Usagi looked up from the ground, tears rolling down her face.

"I – I understand Mamoru-san. I mean, yeah sure, you want to have your freedom for awhile. Its fine, it's totally utterly fine. I mean, I really didn't expect us to last forever." She lied through clenched teeth, knowing that she had no other choice but to do whatever he wanted her to do. She belonged to him and when he pushed her away, she would go, when he pulled her back in his arms, she would stay. He was the one who decided to walk away, so she would stay, she would stay until he took it all back. He was her everything and she was willing to push the limits to be with him. Anything to be with him. They had been voted 'most likely to get married'. It was their senior year of high-school and they were suppose to go off together to college. She swallowed the lump in her throat. "Um, wow, I'll just go. I mean you don't really want a klutzy, bawling girl on your soccer field or even watching you. Uh, ugh, I'll just go. 'Bye." She turned on her heels and headed out towards the exit.

"Usako…" He whispered, but she didn't look back. She wouldn't look back. She willed herself not to look back, never look back.

(Present Day)

Location: Minako Aino, Usagi Tsukino, and Rei Hino's apartment.

Minako Aino shuddered and rolled her eyes at her best friend Usagi Tsukino who was carefully making cookies. She rolled the cookie-dough into a ball and then handed it to Minako. Minako pulled a piece off of it and stuffed it into her mouth, despite the protests of Usagi. "That's what you get for being mean to me Miss Tsukino."

"Shuddup." Usagi slurred and rolled the second piece of cookie-dough into a ball. This time, she was smart enough not to give it to Minako who would have only eaten it. If that had gone on, they would have no cookies to eat at all. Usagi stopped what she was doing and reached over the counter while the door was being pushed open. Their third room-mate Rei Hino walked into the apartment, shutting the door with her foot. In her arms were grocery bags and a pile of mail.

Rei stumbled. "Minako, could you help me here please?"

Minako didn't budge, she glanced over at Rei and then sighed before walking over to her and taking the pile of mail from Rei's tired arms. Rei nodded thankfully to her and placed the grocery bags on the counter near Usagi. Usagi took them gratefully and glanced over at Minako who was starring absently at an envelope. "Minako, what are you starring at? You know, if you stare too long at something, you're eyes start to go or something like that."

"Oh my god – do you know what this is?" Minako questioned and held up a yellow-ish envelope between her pointer and middle finger, showing it to Rei who rolled her eyes and Usagi who only shrugged in response. "It's a letter from our old high-school! It's a letter about our five year high school reunion!"

"What?" Rei and Usagi yelled in unison, both hadn't been expecting anything from their old high-school. Usagi shrugged once more, pretending like she didn't care before returning to her cookies, her eyes deceiving her.

"U-s-a-g-i… I know you want to see this." Minako teased and danced over to her best friend. "I know that you have been secretly dying to see Mamoru-kun for the last five years. Well, now's your chance darling, aren't you going to take it?"

Usagi fumed and then slinked away from her two friends. "No… I mean, no I can't go. I don't want to go; I haven't been secretly dying to see him. He was the one who broke up with me Minako. I'm probably busy that week-end anyways. I-I…" She trailed off, unable to finish the rest of her sentence. Minako placed a hand on her best friends shoulder.

"Usagi, you don't mean that, of course you're going to come… aren't you?"

Usagi shrugged Minako's hand off of her shoulder. "I dunno – I mean, of course I want to go… but it hurts too much Minako."

"I know what you mean Usagi, but please, just for us? It'll be fun, I swear."

"You don't know that." Usagi pointed out and pulled her apron off of her and folded it neatly onto the counter. She sighed and leaned against it, Rei and Minako's eyes boring into her. She rolled her eyes and Minako propped herself up on the counter in front of her. "I don't think I'm ready to face him again."

"It'll be fun Usa, I promise." Minako pleaded.

"I-I… I just have to think about it, that's all. When is it?"

"Two weeks from Saturday. I'm sure that it'll be a lot of fun and we'll see our other friends again! I do always wonder whatever happened to Makato, Ami, and Naru… we were always so close in school and then… POOF! We stopped being friends after high-school. Don't you think that is weird?"

Rei nodded. "Of course I do, but we just drifted. You know Minako, not everybody is like us. They're not all as close as we were in high-school and college. Good thing that we went to the same college." Rei joked and Minako rolled her eyes in annoyance.

She turned to Usagi. "Well just think about it Usa, I'm sure that you'll come to your senses sooner or later." She started to get up and Usagi placed a hand on her shoulder, pushing her back down against the chair.

"All right… I'll come…" Usagi trailed off and then smiled slightly. "I mean it'll be fun and all, I would really like to see Makato, Ami, and Naru again… maybe even Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna. But you owe me big time for this." She said and jabbed a finger into Minako's shoulder as the woman laughed together. 'What did I just get myself in too?' Usagi mused to herself silently.

(Present Day)

Location: Mamoru Chiba's office.

Mamoru Chiba sat at his desk with his head bowed and his eyes focused on the flimsy piece of paper in front of him. He couldn't believe that it had been five years since he had seen her. The last time that he had seen her, though, hadn't been very pleasant to remember. The last time he had seen her, she was crying her eyes out under the bleachers, her whole heart splayed before her. He wanted to go to her, but he was too much of a coward to take back what he had broken. From then on to the graduation, she hadn't even looked at him, once. She had been busy fighting off Seiya Kou who had wanted to go out with her. Mamoru had given up trying to apologize to her and decided to go out with another girl named Beryl. It wasn't that they were really going out; they were just usually hooking up over the weekends. With Usagi, he had been a gentleman and never pushed her to do anything. With Beryl, she pushed him to do things. Mamoru was abruptly interrupted on his thoughts when his best friend Motoki Furuhata walked into the room. Mamoru's head shot up and he stared at his best friend.

"God Mamoru, don't you ever turn or your lights or pull up the shades? It's like walking into hell when I come into here." Motoki grunted and walked over to the light-switch and switched it on before walking over to the windows and pulling the shades up.

"Motoki," Mamoru changed the subject. "Did you get the invite to our five year high-school reunion?"

"Of course, it's not like I wouldn't get it. You're going, aren't you?" Motoki sat down in a seat in front of Mamoru's desk. Mamoru shrugged and looked back at the letter that lay in the center of his desk. "C'mon Mamoru, I know that you want to go, I mean, you can't just avoid Usagi forever."

Mamoru glared. "Who said I was avoiding her?"

"Nobody, I just thought that that was what you were doing."

"Well it's not."

"I see that now."

"I don't know if I'll go, I mean I do have to get time off of work and everything… I don't know if I should go either, I mean seeing her again will just bring back every pain that I tried to push away." Mamoru broke off his sentence and shrugged, his eyes laying on the invitation. He really did dread seeing her again; she was probably married by now, not even thinking about him or anything that happened during high-school. She probably was happy while his life was a living hell without her.

Motoki half-smiled. "Think of it this way, you get to see Beryl again."

Mamoru groaned. "Don't remind me that is one of the reasons why I don't want to go to this silly high-school reunion thing. I don't really want to face Beryl ever again. She's probably going to rub her perfect life in my face and tell me how much I missed when I dumped her." Motoki laughed at his comment.

"I seriously don't think that that is what she's going to do Mamoru."

"You never know!" Mamoru said defensively and Motoki shrugged.

"Just come, you can avoid Usagi all you want there, it's not like you're obligated to talk to her or anything. It'll be fun and it's nice to see what everybody has been doing since high-school. We'll get to see Kunzite and everybody else." Motoki stood up from his chair and walked towards the door. "So are you going to come or not?"

Mamoru gave up and pushed the invitation to the side before looking up at his best friend. "All right, I'll come…" Mamoru trailed off. 'What the hell am I doing?!' His head was screaming at him. 'What did I just get myself in too?'

End of Prologue

Ending Note: So I hoped that you liked it! Next chapter's note will be by x Such Great Heights x, alright! Thanks for reading!

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