'fridayfridayfridayfriday...' *grin*

"Class... CLASS!! Your attention please," Ms H began, losing what passed for her patience - not that she didn't expect this kind of thing on a friday morning. "Class, we have a new student," *SILENCE* Overwhelmed by the sudden drop in decibels, Ms H sweatdropped... a reaction usually reserved for a certain Tsukinos test results. "This is Diamondo, a foreign exchange student from... er... Sector 289?"
"It's in Europe"
"Oh I see... Class, please welcome Diamondo Sergi and help him find his way about th school." Ms H wasn't a big one for introductory speeches so she let the students begin their interogation.
Minako: "Hey diamondo-kun, do you have a girlfriend?"
Makoto: "He looks just like my old boyfriend...*sigh*"
Rei: "Do you think he's rich?"
Amy: *What an unusual hair colour, perhaps he has kidney problems?* She made a mental note to find out Diamondos medical history.
Serena: zzzz... well if she had been awake she might have wondered why the gaijin looked so familiar... or maybe what Rei was doing in her homeroom since she didn't even go to this school.
Minako: "Hey! Diamondo-chan, aren't you a bit old for this class?"
Diamando sweatdropped at the insensitive question.
"uh... well my japanese isn't so good so i'm staying back a year until i get the hang of it"
"oh okay ^_^"
Rei & Makoto: *an older man *sigh**
Amy: *he's dedicated to his studies... even accepting the humiliation of a setback to improve his japanese *sigh**
Minako: *he's male and single! banzai!!*
Serena: zzzzzz.....
"Psst! Hey Serena!" minako wasn't above boasting about the new class acquisition and she knew this one called for a major gossip session. "SERENA. WAKE UP!"
"Huh? Oh wha.." Serena woke groggily, picked up her books off the table and started to walk out the room. Unfortunately there seemed to be some grey-haired guy blocking the door. They looked at each other confused for a moment.
"Tsukino! Class isn't over yet! Return to your seat!"
"What? Why'd you wake my Minako, Ms H says class isn't over yet..." She shrugged and return to her seat half dazed under the penitent glare of Ms H.
"Err... okay Diamondo,you can take the seat next to Mizuno-san for now." Not really having any idea who Mizuno-san was, Diamando walked in the direction ms. H pointed until he found an empty desk and sat at it. It also happened to have a wierd blonde with pulsating red hearts for eyes on one side and another blonde directly in front, the one that had almost walked through him just moments ago. Except now she was asleep. If someone had pointed it out to him, he would have been suprised that he hadn't noticed that her hair was done exactly the same way as the girl he was looking for.

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"YAY!! WEEKEND!!! I am so outta here!!" cheered serena when the final bell woke her from her sleep. Funny how she seemed to be able to sleep through anything yet the very first sound of that bell and she was wide awake. 'maybe its the frequency?' mused amy.
"er... Serena? don't you have detention?"
Serena froze mid step. "Aw minako, why'd you have to bring that up...? You too?"
"Nope! I actually managed to do everything right this week!"
"WHAAAAT?!?!? TRAITOR!!!"
Serena trudged wearily back to class, slamming her bag on tehh desk and sulking. Several whole seconds ticked by on the wall clock before she recognised someone else was waiting for Ms. H as well, he looked oddly familiar (but then everyone in her class looked familiar... she just never spent enough time awake around most of them to remember their names). "Hey! Whatcha in for... Er... and who are you anyway?"
*sweatdrop* (at this rate Diamondo was convinced he'd be dehydrated before he got out.. school was much tougher than he thought).
"Diamondo Sergi? This is my first day, we're in the same homeroom...?"
"The H gave you detention on the first day? Way harsh..."
"Uhm... actually I'm just waiting for some books."
"Ohh... heh"
*tick tick tick*
"Uhm... do you think she'll be much longer?"
"Ms H? shes probably chatting up Mr K in the Faculty Lounge... she's always late" *but I'M the one that gets the detention* thought Serena. "Do you have to be somewhere? I can get 'em for you and bring them to your place later if you want.. i'm here all afternoon anyway."
'Place? I don't *have* a place yet', thought Diamando. Having had his powerbase completely destroyed was pretty tough on a malevolent off-worlder, ultimately he'd decided to throw in the towel. 342 volumes of manga later he'd decided he's best place to hide out would be as a 20th century earth student, according to his soource, everyone would be completely oblivious to a slightly different high school student. As long as he avoided relationships with the opposite (or same) sex he'd be just fine. And being able to produce perfect diamonds at the snap of his fingures covered his financial problems as well.
"Okay, sure" he finally consented, but my place is pretty far from here, how about i meet you at the crown arcade?" (he'd heard several students mention it so he figured it must be close).
"Meetcha at 5 then, oh, and could ya give this to a friend of mine?"

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Diamondo cautiosly approached the arcade about an hour later, having met a realator and aquired an appartment not far from here (ironically enough in the same apartment building as Darien... or maybe not considering the owners complete lack of morals when it came to renting to minors and not asking questions about where their finances came from... or even about their parents or why they might chose to occassionally leap from their windows wearing tuxedos and the like...). He took out the folded piece of paper Serena had scrawled a note on, and while his japanese was bad, he knew enough to tell the kanji was messy. There were three stick figures labelled ami-chan, makoto-chan and minako-chan circled with 'give to one of them' written next to it, on the other side there was a picture of an evil looking dark haired girl with 'not her' written next to it.
Diamando made his way to the distinctive blonde, thankfully sans heart shaped eyes this time, maybe because she hadn't spotted him yet. " er.. Minako-chan?"
Minako was fluster for a moment to be called 'chan' by someone she'd only met breifly, but took it to mean mayb ehe really liked her or something.... instantly the hearts reapeared.
"Yes Di-chan?"
"Uhm... Serena asked me to give you this..." Di-chan? He passe dover the note which was immediately snatched away by the person who could only be 'not-her', he grimaced inwardly at his own mistake as she read aloud, " Hey minna! Gonna be late, please look after Di-chan. Lotsa Love Sere! xox *bunny-picture*.
'Di-chan?' *twitch*
"I SHOULDA KNOWN THAT MEATBALL HEAD COULDN'T GET HERE ON TIME... figures." Muttered rei. "She didn't even say what time she'd get here."
"Uhm, she said she'd meet me about 5."
"Three hour detention." snickered Minako.
"Like on a date?!?!?" demanded Makoto, visions of herself and Diamando in western style wedding attire flying out of her head.
"No. No. not exactly..." Well at least he didn't think so. He patted his pocket to make sure he'd remembered his wallet... just in case he told himself... afte rall she was kinda cute and she WAS doing him a faour... maybe he could just buy her some ice cream or something as thanks.
"THIS guy has a date with Serena?" demanded Darien glaring at the younger-appearing boy. "Are you sure you're entirely sane?"
"Hey darien, rack off!" Demanded Makoto rising in her seat, Diamondo just watched in a detached kind of amusement as the girls drove off the intruder.
"Huh. He looked kind of familiar, who is he?"
"Him? Oh he's just Serenas Ex. Don't worry about him."
"Isn't he a bit old for her?" Hah. That was a good one, comng from him. But then immortals were allowed to question the way of mortals.. it was like a hobby tech thing.
Multiple sweatdrops later Minako and Makoto dragged Diamondo over to the games, leaving amy to pretend to study while Rei raved about... well... everything, and Darien to fume at the counter over a cup of java.

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"Oh man, I had no idea books were so heavy!" announced Serena dumping the books at the Amy-Rei occupied booth. "Thats becaus eyou never read any." Commented Rei off-handedly.
"Hey Di-chan! Got Your books here!!" 'Di-chan?' that name seemed to be sticking, but Diamondo wasn't about to correct them, he was kinda getting used to it... in a passive kinda way.
'She's just delivering his books.' Sighed Darien who'd been prepared to declare his undying love (again) in order to drive away the interloper. the threat over he started to pack away his own things.
"Thanks Serena, you're a life saver! Can I get you a drink or anything?"
"He might as well just hand over his wallet!" Snickered Minako mere seconds efore she'd registered she should be jealous, "Heeeey!! ! Wait a minute..." After all she'd just invested the last hour teaching Diamando to play the Sailor V game,,, time that she could have spent... well.. er... playing the sailor V game, and he hadn't offered her a drink.
"Minako? Makoto? Amy?" Out of deference to his earlier mistake he didn't ask the forth girl (that and he didn't actually know her as anything other than 'not-her'). He also knew she would probably just interpret it as an oversight since he didn't know her elike the others in his class so it wasn't a complete insult.
EARTH FOOD JUST TASTED SO DARN GOOD!!!!! O.K. so maybe it wasn't as efficient as just sucking someones energy out, but Diamondo LIKED ice-cream! He was on his fifth pafait, usagi was on her sixth. The other girls just looked horrified as their companions inhaled ice cream. By the time it came to order again he was on a first name basis with the somewhat shocked andrew. He looked from Serena to Diamondo to serena... 'these guys just have to be related..." he thought to himself.
"Oh man! Sorry Diamondo, minna, i really gotta go" Serena announced around a mouthful of icecream while glancing at the wall clock. "My Parents will kill me if I'm late again." She paused just long enough to gulp the rest of the dessert before grabbing her bag and making for the exit, shortly followed by makoto, amy and rei, with similar reasons. Minako sat opposite Diamando as he finished his sundae, her eyes mere slits. Diamando gulped nervously, and went and payed, feeling Minas eyes follow him across the room. He looked at Andrew with pleading eyes. Andrew took the situation in immediatly. "Theres a window in the mens room he whispered conspiratorially."

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"Andrew, I think theres something wrong with Di-chan... he's been in the mens room for over an hour already!"

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End of Chapter and tommorrows saturday (in the fic) off to the mall with molly