Chapter Three:

Chapter Three: A Timeless Memory?

The girls were all in Minako's room, including Rei who had come after dinner because of her singing lessons.

Serena lay across Minako's bed staring at the ceiling. She sighed softly.

"You know Mina-chan..... I feel like tonight I'm gonna meet him." Serena said in a dreamy voice.

"Him who?" Minako asked as she stood in front of her mirror putting on eye shadow.

"Him! The one... My destined... My soul mate!" Serena said getting all starry eyed. "I just know I'll find him to night!"

Ami laughed. "If you don't fall asleep before then."

Serena blinked.

"You look like you're tired. You should quit staying up so late reading comics." Ami said, her worry some grown up side talking.

"Oh zip it Ami-chan! To night we par-tay!" Rei said with a big grin as she flopped down on the bed next to Serena.

"Minako nodded. "I'm sure Serena-chan will find her soul mate at the dance. Rei-chan will dance till she drops! Mako-chan will flirt with every guy at the dace, which will all look like her old boyfriends. And Ami-chan will stay ever so sensible." Minako said summing up the entire dance.

Makoto laughed. "That about sums the night up."

Serena closed her eyes. She drifted off into a dreamy world in her imagination. Dreaming away about the guy who already owned her heart....

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Gohan put on extra deodorant. He wore clean clothes. He combed his hair (A.N. though it still looked the same as always ^-^) He even dawned a tie, a cartoon one, but a tie none the less.

He took such care that night, because he had feeling. A very strange one, one telling him tonight was a special night. The night he had been waiting for his entire life.

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"Not just once" both Serena and Gohan said at the same time, though neither of them knew the other had said it.

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"What?" Minako replied.

Serena rubbed her eyes. "I don't know. It just popped into my mind. And escaped from my lips before I could even think."
"This is probably the deepest thing Serena-chan has ever said." Rei noted.

Ami nodded. "I must agree with Rei-chan on this one."

Serena laughed.

Something about the origin of 'not just once' tugged at the back of her mind. Or maybe it wasn't her mind. But her heart. Something from long ago. A timeless memory buried deep in her soul.


Thank you to the fallowing reviewers: Infinite_Tenshi, Candy, Blue Rhapsody, Galexz, Eternalmoonprincess, adb, SPEDs, Ame, Anime Princess, and braves66boy