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Chocolate Syrup Overdose


Chapter 2 - A Nice Safe Family Environment


10 minutes later.... "One, two, ... buckle my shoe!! Three, four... look at the door!! No, that's not right...," Mamoru said to Usagi, who was sitting at a table with him.


She seemed to have calmed down a bit, but still had a huge grin on her face.


"Is that right?," he asked.


"I think you're supposed to knock on the door," she told him, and then appeared to go into deep thought about the rhyme. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~


At the table beside them, Ami, Minako, Makoto, and Rei were trying to figure out why Mamoru was still hyper.


"Maybe his body can't take the sudden blast of sugar?," Ami said.


She was unnoticed, though, because the other three girls were too far into their own thoughts.


"Or maybe h--," Ami tried to say, but was cut off by Minako.


"Oh no! What if the sugar killed his smart brain cells and he'll be like this forever and never be smart again and have to live on the streets!," she said in a rush.


"Oh, Minako, that's ridiculous! As I was saying --," Ami tried again, but was cut off once more.


"Remind me to never feed Mamoru chocolate again!," Motoki, who had just walked up to the table, said. "Here are your milkshakes! 2 vanillas for Ami and Minako, 1 strawberry for Rei, and 1 chocolate for Makoto."


"Um...is that the same kind of chocolate you gave Mamoru??," Makoto asked with a questionable look on her face.


"Well, yeah. We've only got the one kind!," Motoki said. "I'm suddenly not so thirsty for chocolate... I'll just have a water, thanks," Makoto told him.


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At Mamoru and Usagi's table, it seemed that Usagi was normal again. Mamoru, on the other hand, was still quite over-happy.


"Oh! Barbies!," he half-squeaked as a little girl walked by with her mother. She had a blonde Barbie doll in one hand, and a Ken doll in the other.


"Can I play?," Mamoru asked her in a small voice.


He looked sad when the mother practically dragged the little girl out of the arcade, muttering something like 'yeah, right, a nice safe family environment' and 'what is the world coming to.'


" Usagi, why wouldn't she play with me?," Mamoru asked with a sad voice.


"Don't worry, I'll play with you, Mamoru. Come on, let's go!," Usagi said after a moment.


She couldn't stand to see someone so sad, even though Mamoru usually was mean to her. She kind of liked the change in him. She grabbed his hand, and they walked out of the arcade together, with Usagi's friends staring after them with wide eyes and open mouths.


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Thanks to all of the readers and reviewers of Chapter 1:

kirei*snow*tenshi

Sapphiregirl

Kairan Akiyama

Icy Dragon Claws (thanks for the plot help, too!)

tita-kun(definitely not all. There will be a tie-in very soon, and a possible actual sequel

later)

happygolucky111

Kaylariana(Cute and scary. Precisely what I was going for, so thanks!)