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"talking"
A World Apart
When Riley woke up the next morning, she realized that she wasn't in her room. She was a little scared, but then she remembered where she was. She laid back on in the bed. If she got up then she would have to deal with everyone's questions and that was something that Riley just wasn't sure that she wanted to do.
She laid there in her bed for about an hour. Then she decided that she needed to go downstairs. Riley got up and walked to the door. When she opened it, she saw a little girl standing at the door.
"Who are you?" The little girl asked.
"Riley."
"Why are momma and poppa talking about you?"
"Because I told Ruka that she could." Riley took a wild guess since she had only told Haruka and Makoto the majority of where she was from. "What is your name?"
"Hotaru."
"That is a pretty name. Are you one of the Senshi?" Riley figured that it would be ok to ask.
Hotaru nodded. "Yep, but poppa says that I won't get my powers for awhile."
"At least you have time to enjoy being a child." It was something that Riley didn't get when she was a child. "So where are Ruka and Michiru?"
Hotaru nodded. "Downstairs in the living room. Do you want me to take you?"
"Yeah, that would be nice."
Hotaru grabbed Riley's hand and led her downstairs to the living room. "Momma, Poppa I found Riley."
"I see that." Haruka said.
"How is Michiru taking it?" Riley asked as she sat down on the couch.
"Well, I'm taking it fairly well." Michiru stated. "I'm just worried about how you are going to adjust to this time. I'm worried about the fact that you can't remember why you are here or your fiancé, but Setsuna went to try and figure things out."
"Oh, ok. Do you think that I will remember?"
"Yep, you will." Hotaru said as she sat down next to Riley.
"Hotaru's right." Haruka said. "It will come back."
"Your subconscious might be suppressing it." Michiru said. "If that is the case, then I'm worried about what it is that happened."
"I wonder what happened." Riley said as she looked down at the t-shirt she was wearing. "You were right about the t-shirt. It is huge and long. I slept fine by the way. I think it is because this is what I'm use to sleeping in."
Michiru smiled. "That's good to hear."
Haruka looked at Riley and said, "I don't know what happened to make you not remember, but maybe if you stop thinking about it for awhile it will come back."
"Maybe." Riley said.
"Ok, then why don't you and Hotaru get ready to go?" Michiru said.
"Could we go out to lunch too?" Hotaru asked.
"Of course." Haruka said. "Why don't you go get dressed?"
"Ok." Hotaru got up and ran up the stairs.
"She seems excited." Riley said. "What am I going to wear? Because I really don't want to wear that dress again. It is so hard to put on."
Michiru laughed. "Hotaru is excited because she knows that is probably going to get something too. As for something to wear, I might have a dress you can wear."
"Ok." Riley said.
"Come on." Michiru got up off the couch, grabbed Riley's hand, and walked to her room. When they got there, Michiru walked over to the closet and took out a baby blue casual halter dress. "Here you go. This should fit you. I bought it and never wore it." Michiru took out the jeans jacket that went with it. "This goes with it. It's probably more casual then you are use too, but you are going to have to deal with it."
Riley shook her head. "No, it's fine. I'm going to go get ready. Excuse me." Riley said before walking back to her room. About an hour later she walked downstairs, ready to go shopping. "I did put the dress on correctly, right?"
Haruka laughed. "Yeah you did."
"Don't laugh at me. I've always had someone to help. So this is going to take getting use to." Riley said as she sat down on the couch.
"Here," Michiru said, "you are going to want to wear the flip flops with it."
"Thanks." Riley said as she put them on.
"Ok, then let's go." Haruka said as she got up and walked to the door.
Riley followed them to the garage to some type of car. "I'm not going."
Haruka sighed. She didn't know why Riley was acting like this. "It isn't going to hurt you. So get in the car."
Riley shook her head.
"Riley, please?" Hotaru asked from the car. "You will be fine. It's fun."
"Why can't we take the one I was in yesterday? Why do we have to keep switching cars?" Riley was upset that no one was taking her seriously.
Haruka walked over to Riley and gave her hug. "I would take Michiru's car, but since all of us are going we can't. It is going to be fine. It's just a different car, but the concept is the same."
Riley slowly nodded. "I'm not going to be able to get use to these things unless I try them."
Haruka nodded. "Just remember you said that. Now go get in the car."
Riley slowly walked over to the car and was cautious about getting in. Once she was in the car, she realized that it wasn't that different. As soon as Haruka was in the car, they left to go to the mall. Riley wondered what was going to happen once they got there.
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