Title: WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
Disclaimer: I don't own anything about Sailor Moon
Authors Notes: For those of you who have read 'Adventures of a Lady', you'll recognize how this story is laid out. This is basically the opposite of that story. Instead of going into the past, she's going into the future. I hope you like it as much as you liked my last one. Comments are extremely appreciated.
Serena smiled at her friends as she walked up to them. They all smiled back at her, happy as always to see her. She made her way to them, stepping around all the chairs the stuck out from the tables.
"Hey Guys!" She called out before tripping.
The girls all laughed at her, unable to hold it in. She was just too cute for her own good sometimes.
She got up quickly, dusting herself off. Her face was red as she sat down, and she wouldn't meet anyone's eye. It made Lita snicker and Amy smile.
"I can't help it okay, my mind still thinks I'm really short."
"You're not that tall," Raye said.
"Yeah, but I'm growing," Serena argued.
"Soon you'll be as tall as me," Lita said sitting up. She had grown as well. She now was much taller then them all. Serena smiled at her friends. They sat all around her, all four of them, and they were amazing. She watched them laugh and tease one another, and she couldn't help but feel like the luckiest person alive.
But it didn't take long for the happiness to get pushed aside by pure anger.
"Hey Meatball head."
Serena seethed in her seat at the deep voice that plagued her. She didn't turn around or acknowledge him in any way; she just looked at her friends who were all watching her with amused looks. They never seemed to stand up for her in situations like this.
"What's with the cold shoulder?" Darien asked as he swung a chair around and sat across from her. He had that disgustingly charming smile and her friends all seemed to think he was great.
Serena just turned away pointedly. He laughed.
"Come on Serena, be nice," Raye said after a moment.
She just stayed silent.
"It's find," Darien said with amusement lacing his every word. "If she doesn't want to talk to me that's fine. I'm having a get together this Friday at my apartment and I wanted to make sure you were all invited."
"What's it for?" Lita asked obviously excited.
"Well, I'm graduating on Friday."
"Congratulations!" Mina said loudly.
"Wow, you finished really quickly," Amy said, obviously impress.
"Of course we'll be there," Raye said.
Darien looked at Serena who was still not looking at him, and he smiled lightly. The other girls all caught his look.
"Well I hope you can all make it," he said smiling.
"Thanks Darien, we'll see you then," Mina said as he got up and left.
The four girls all looked at Serena.
"You could have been nicer," Amy said.
"Yeah, he was just inviting us to a party."
Serena just crossed her arms.
"All he had to do was not call me meatball head and I would have talked to him."
"You really don't like him, do you?" Raye asked.
"I really don't," she said pointedly. "I know you guys all really like him and that's fine, but he has never been anything but awful to me. And now it's been so long that I really can't imagine being able to forgive all the name calling and making fun of."
The girls all looked at one another disappointed.
"Will you go to the party?" Amy asked.
"We'll see," Serena said sighing.
"Well, let's talk about today then," Lita said. "There's a big sale at the mall and I'm sure we'd all be up for new clothes!"
The girls all cheered in agreement and excitedly ran out the doors.
Serena walked home with a smile on her face. She swung the few shopping bags she got back and forth and looked happily into the sun. Today was perfect. She loved spending time with her friends, even if Darien did insist on talking to her. They had had the perfect day in the mall, and she had even bought a new outfit for the party on Friday.
"You're late," Serena heard her father said as she walked through the front door.
"No I'm not," she said fondly.
"You weren't with any boys, were you?" He demanded.
"No daddy, I was with the girls."
"Good," he nodded his heard curtly. Then he smiled and hugged her. "Did you have fun with your friends?"
Serena smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, we went to the mall and tried on all sorts of outfits."
Serena babbled on to her father about her day. He just smiled and listened to her.
Serena lay in her bed looking up at the stars through her window. It was a beautiful clear night. She rubbed her stomach, swollen from over eating at dinner. Her new clothes lay scattered all over the floor and her cat Luna lay curled up and sleeping at her feet. She smiled again at how peaceful her life was. She wished it could stay like this forever.
She drifted off to sleep completely content. She knew she would dream only good dreams.
The next morning Serena woke to the harsh sound of her alarm clock. She groggily turned around and turned it off cursing herself for turning it on during summer vacation. What had she been thinking?
Serena pulled her covers up to her shoulders.
Something seemed wrong.
Slowly Serena sat up in bed and rubbed her eyes, trying to get the sleep out of them. She felt like she had had the worst sleep of her whole life. That didn't make any sense. Her bed was comfortable and it was summer. She never slept badly.
She looked around her room. It seemed slightly grey to her, like it was covered in dust. She should probably clean it before her mother yelled at her.
It smelled different. Serena looked down at her bed.
She was startled to find that she was sleeping in a larger bed then hers, and the covers were dark purple. That seemed strange. Why had her parents changed her bed while she slept.
She pulled on her house coat that was lying of the floor and stood up.
It didn't fit.
Serena looked at herself in the mirror in amazement. The fluffy pink robe stopped short of her wrists and didn't even go to her knees. Her reflection seemed so tall. She was awake in a second and looking at herself seriously.
She looked older. She was much taller than the day before and she felt different. And then there were her breasts.
Serena had always wondered if she would ever grow breasts, but this answered that question. The seemed strange to her, sticking out from her chest. They were not that big, but they were a good size. She felt really naked suddenly, like she was showing to much skin. She quickly pulled on a sweater that was lying across a chair and sat down on it.
Serena looked around her in confusion. This was by far the strangest dream she'd ever had. She looked around her room again to see that it wasn't covered in dust, it was simply faded. The bright pinks and whites that she had loved so much had never been re-done. She had simply put things over them.
There was a pile of papers sitting on her desk and she picked them up. They looked like bills. But she didn't pay any bills. One was for a cell phone and the other was for a credit card. They were both in her name. She wasn't old enough to have a credit card.
She heard a phone ring somewhere, and looked around frantically for it. She found a cell phone in a purse by the door.
"Hello?" She asked. Her voice sounded strange to her, and she coughed.
"Serena? What's going on?"
It was Darien. She knew that voice anywhere.
"Ah, why are you calling me?" She asked.
Darien paused.
"Is this a bad time?"
"Yeah, it is."
"Okay, then just call me later."
She hung up the phone, to confused to say goodbye. She didn't mean to be mean to him, but she didn't know what to do. Why would Darien call her on the cell phone she had never had before last night.
She quickly got read, brushing her hair. It was shorter than it had been before, so after a brief panic she realized she couldn't put it up in her buns. She just left it down. She rushed out the door, noting briefly that nobody seemed to be home.
She found her way to the arcade in record time, but everything on the way there seemed different. The park at the end of her street was now an apartment building, and there were different shops in some of the windows. But the arcade was still there.
Seeing Raye and Lita there sent a wave of relief through her. She quickly went up to their table and sat down.
"You guys will not believe the day I'm having so far."
They two girls looked at her.
Serena noted right away that they looked older. Lita was very tall, and she had her brown hair pulled up showing her brown eyes with make-up around them, and Raye looked like she had come straight out of a magazine. But what shocked her more than that, was the look they were giving her.
"What, what happened?" She asked.
Raye and Lita looked at each other.
"Did you want something?" Raye asked.
"No, I just wanted to talk."
"You haven't talked to us in years Serena, why would you want to talk now."
Serena was shocked.
"Years?"
"Yeah Serena, years. Have you lost your mind or something? We haven't talked to you in years because you decided not to be our friend. So you can imagine our surprise right now," Raye said.
Serena couldn't help but be confused. She tried desperately to work things out in her head, but she couldn't seem to do it. She was aware of the two girls staring at her.
"Look Serena, maybe you should just leave," Lita said.
Serena got up slowly and walked out of the arcade. This wasn't right.
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