The Class Act by kattia_rose
Discaimer: I do not own Sailormoon or any of the original characters
Spoilers: tones and tones too many to name
Notes: all author's notes occur throughout the fic
The Class Act: Chapter 1
Serena tore down the side walk, "Oh no, I'm late for school
AGAIN!!" She passed by a dark haired jogger. She looked over her shoulder
at him. He was familiar... 'Darien?' She faced forward, not wanting to trip
and embarrass herself even more in front of him. She picked up the pace as
tears burned behind her eyes. She turned the corner and *Wham*
'I don't remember there being a brick wall here' she
thought, tiny dark haired joggers running circles around her head.
"Gosh, I'm SO sorry," said the wall. " I didn't see you,
are you OK?" Serena looked up and her eyes bulged. She was staring into
eyes the colour of gold. They didn't have the depth Darien's did or the
incredible colour, but this guy's eyes, it was almost as if she could read
his mind. In this case, the eyes really WERE the window to the soul.
'Darien's eyes aren't as intense as this' she found herself thinking.
"Yes, I'm fine," she responded. 'He isn't from around here.
I would have noticed somebody this gorgeous' She looked him up and down.
'Nice' He began picking up her scattered books. She observed from her
position on the ground. 'Pecks of iron, abs of steel' he turned and bent to
pick up another book. Her jaw dropped: 'Buns of bronze. Darien isn't like
this, he's strong but not rippling!' she felt a shiver run up her spine.
"I am SO,SO sorry I guess I wasn't looking where I was going
are you sure you're ok? Here let me help you.." he held out his hand.
"Uh, yeah, I'm fine." his bicep bulged as he pulled her to her
feet. He handed her back her books and smiled a smile of incredible pearly
whites. Serena went weak in the knees, he caught her and looked at her with
concern. "I just uh... um..." she looked for an acceptable excuse
"Can I carry your books?"
Darien saw Serena fly past him and stopped when she looked
back but started when he saw the collision. His heart once again met his
throat. His heart lurched for, like the1000 000 time since he met the
wonderful, blonde, bubbles of happiness, when saw the way she looked at
him.... That ...GUY!!!
'Serena, did I ever make your knees weaken like that?' A
number of emotions ran through his body as she handed him her books without
a second thought and strolled out of sight around the corner.
Serena arrived at school in time for 2nd period. Ms H. was
mad and gave Serena detention, but Serena barely noticed: she was thinking
of the new guy she just met. She found out his name was Scott, and he
wasn't from around here... from Canada. It turns out his mom's from the
Juuban district and they just moved back. He's attending college in the
area, same as Darien, though Serena hadn't realized it.
"He plays rugby (Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know rugby is not
a Japanese sport but I don't care, I LOVE rugby. I play it myself. Oh , for
those who have never watched a rugby game, it's like soccer and football
except there's more running and less gear. And they were really short
shorts. So you see why I'm using it.) and he has a scholarship. He is sooo
gorgeous, and sweet, and fit, and he carried my books and did I mention
gorgeous?" Serena filled her friends in about the morning's events to
gaping Amy, Lita and Mina during lunch. "He wants to get together again.
I'm meeting him at the arcade after school, I'm gonna show him around
town..." she noticed the looks she was getting from her friends. "Wha..?"
"Uh.... Serena..." Lita said. "What about Darien?"
"Darien?" Serena repeated, she hadn't thought of him since Scott
offered to walk her to school. "He doesn't love me anymore remember?" she
was angry at the painful reminder of her 'lost' love.
"You can't believe that, can you?" Mina asked horrified "You love
him, you can't just let him slip though your fingers!" she slammed her fist
down on the lunch table dramatically. Lita and Amy sweatdroped as the
entire cafeteria looked in their direction.
"Very poetic, Mina" Serena said rather coldly, her good mood had
vanished. 'Why did they have to bring Darien up?'
'Because, they have a right to' stated that little annoying
voice in her head. 'You're supposed to be together forever.'
'He dumped me, remember?'
'How could I forget.'
'Shut up, both of you?' another voice put in. 'Scott is
gorgeous, he's nicer than Darien was. He's also in better shape. So
what's the problem?'
'He's not Darien' The first little annoying voice said.
'We know!!'
"Serena, Serena are you ok?" Lita, Amy and Mina looked at
her questioningly.
Serena headed for the arcade right after detention. She was
actually on time. Serena spotted him immediately.
"Scott" she called to him. He waved her over. Andrew came
to take their order. Serena didn't notice the questioning look he gave
her, she was too involved in the animated conversation with her new found
hottie.
Sailormoon, followed by the sailorscouts, leapt from roof
top to roof top, chasing after a new monster. The youma didn't have a
chance, Sailormoon easily dusted the creature. She also noticed Tuxedo
Mask's presence though he hadn't pronounced it.
"Sailormoon" he called from his hiding place. "Well done."
"Darien..." Sailormoon whispered, a fresh pain stabbed at
her heart He hated her, yet he still came, even when she didn't need him.
His reason: "To keep them from winning" A pretty good reason at that.
The next few days were calm and quiet. Renee didn't get
into trouble, the Mega moon stayed out of the scouts hair. Serena barely
thought about Darien, she was too busy having fun with Scott. She enjoyed
that bit. Darien had hurt her so badly and until Scott came around, it was
all Serena could do to keep from drowning in her tears.
But now she had Scott, who had become a good friend. They
went everywhere together. Serena needed this, she didn't have many good
guy friends. Andrew was a friend of Darien's and an old crush of Serena's
and recently she had been avoiding him to keep from bumping into Darien.
Melvin was Molly's boyfriend and the other boys she new were her friends'
boyfriends.
Scott would pick her up after school if he could, they
spent countless hours just talking and playing video games at the arcade.
She went to his Rugby games and met his parents. They went for walks in
the park and rides in the rowboats. They also went partying and he was a
great dancer. Darien had never taken her dancing in this lifetime.