A Drop of Water
Chapter Two
Ami stared out the window, eating her breakfast. It was snowing outside. Not really uncommon for this time of year but it was coming down pretty heavy. She smiled though, she loved the snow. She ate a little faster so she could go outside and enjoy it more closely.
Picking up her dishes and placing them in the sink to be done a little later. She peeked out the window one more time before going to get her coat. She saw the mailman walking down the street. This would be good. She'd be able to check her mail and see if she got anything from her friends today and enjoy the snow.
Three of her friends, Minako, Usagi and Makoto, had gone to America for a couple of months. It'd been strange how it had happened that they all could go.
Minako had entered an idol contest and won a free trip to America. She ended up taking with Usagi with her as Makoto was already down in the states promoting her new cookbook. It seemed learning how to make Japanese food was becoming all the rage there. The two blondes had tried to convince Ami she should come as well and they'd even split the airline ticket, but Ami had declined. While it would have been fun she wanted to relax at home during this time off of school. They'd offered to Rei as well but with it being the holiday season the Shrine was bound to be extremely busy.
The girls sent her postcards usually every few days. Now and then she saw them online but with the time difference and life it rarely happened.
Ami put on her light blue winter coat and slipped on a pair of sneakers. She wasn't planning to be outside too long and didn't want to bother putting on the heavy boots. She only wore those when she had to walk for a long time so her feet didn't freeze. She heard a clunk near the door signifying the mail had come.
She went outside and ignored the mailbox at first, she would grab the mail on the way back in. First, she was going to enjoy the snow. She looked around waiting for the mailman to go around the corner of the block, then double checked to make sure no one was looking. That done she jumped into the snow and fell backwards. She made a snow angel and then stopped starring up at the sky, watching the snow float down. She probably looked silly lying there. That was the entire reason she always made sure no one was watching.
It was kind of embarrassing to act that way, especially when most people thought she was proper and quiet. Well she was.. just not always, at least sometimes when she was sure no one was around she would do something a little out of the ordinary for her. Nothing usually big, but it was still a private pleasure she kept to herself.
Her toes started to go numb and she knew it was time to go back in. She didn't really want to, but she couldn't just lie there all day. Someone would come by eventually and that would completely ruin the moment. She pulled the mail from the box. Going inside she started to look through some of it.
Inside, she slipped off her shoes and took a moment to brush the snow off her pants. She looked around wondering if she put the mail on the coffee table if it would get lost or not. There was still unpacked boxes all over the living room.
Four of them had gotten together and bought a house to live in... well sort of. Ami had gotten the money from her mother to buy the house without having to get a mortgage on it and then the four of them paid rent to her mother until the amount borrowed was paid off. Rei would have joined in but she was the only one who was left to take care of the Shrine now, but she promised to visit when she could.
Deciding to be safer and put the mail on the kitchen table instead, she put it there and went to wash the dishes. It was only her today so the dishes took only a few minutes. When she finished she heard a clunk sound from the door. She'd already gotten the mail so it seemed strange that there would be something else placed there.
Curiously she went back to the door to see what that noise had been. She didn't see anyone there, so she checked the mailbox and found a small package. She pulled it out of the mailbox and stared at the name written on the top of it: blueladybug.
She almost dropped it when she saw that her username was on there. Only the senshi had that username. All her classmates had another one... and after what happened last night. Looking down at the snow made it even more puzzling. Her footprints were there, the mailman's footprints were there but there was no third set. There should have been a third set especially after just getting the package. This was really starting to creep her out.
Stepping back inside, Ami closed the door and quickly retrieved her minicomputer. She started an analysis of the package before even opening it. A few moments later information came up on the screen. There didn't seem to be anything dangerous about it. So she opened it slowly.
Inside there was a note and a pendant. The pendant was a blue teardrop hanging off of a silver chain. The note only had one simple sentence on it and Ami read it out loud, "It only takes a drop of water."
There was something very familiar about those words but she couldn't place it. She held up the pendant and looked at it curiously, "It only takes a drop of water." she repeated trying to figure out where she had heard that before. The pendant started to glow and her eyes started to take on a blank look.
"Curiosity killed the cat and now its about to kill the Mercurian," spoke a male voice.
