Okay! Writer's Block disappeared sooner than I'd thought! I kinda thought of the idea while I was tossing and turning trying to get some sleep because I couldn't figure out what ESPN stood for...still don't have a clue. Anyways...here we go!
40 Guys in 40 Nights
Written by: Moon Sugar
After what seemed like an eternity, my feet began to move, and instinctly they headed for the arcade. I hadn't planned on going there but I couldn't face going home. The only thing I'd do is sit in my room feeling sorry for myself, probably pigging out to try to take my mind off things.
Not that it'd help much in the first place.
I pushed open the door and as luck would have it, Lita, Mina, Amy, and even Raye were at our booth. No one but us ever sat there, probably because they knew we'd throw a fit, and who wants the wrath of Raye coming down on them anyway?
So I sat in my usual spot in between Mina and Amy, facing Raye. She had this awful scowl on her face, worse than it usually is. I thought about asking what was wrong but I didn't have to. She exploded with sheer anger. "Can you believe anyone could do that to me?!" her voice getting shriller with each word. "I mean, it's not like I liked the guy or anything, but NOO!!!!! Chad has to go and get all overprotective anyway. Just because I kissed the guy doesn't necessarily mean that I like him or anything! It was just the stupid bet! Ugh!"
I knew where she was coming from, but I didn't dare comment. I didn't want to have to defend myself from Raye. And besides, when she was angry and started yelling spit flew all over the place and personally I didn't want to have to dodge spit bullets. Mina looked at Raye with comforting eyes. "I'm sure it will all blow over soon. And I even bet Andrew's back at work next week."
"Yeah well, Chad had to pay the hospital bill and for the ambulance they had to call. So that means no dates for me for a while. Just because Chad does something stupid and can't control that awful temper of his, doesn't mean I should have to suffer!" Raye said as she gave her last word extra power by slamming her fist on the table. She's one to talk of an awful temper.
Amy was busy writing something with four different colored pens. The piece of paper she was altering turned out to be our score sheet and the pens were for the color coordination. I was hot pink, Raye was red, Lita was green and Mina was yellow. I was just glad that I got the pink, but thinking that made me feel like I was in second grade, screaming for the pink crayon.
"Serena, do you have any more guys I should write down?" Amy asked not bothering to look up from her paper.
"Yeah. Asanuma..." I sighed heavily.
Lita's eyes blazed with excitement. "You kissed that hottie?!" she squealed. "I envy you. I got Melvin! Eck!"
Mina turned to Lita, "Isn't that an underclassman of Darien's?"
Lita nodded. "Oh yeah! He's the guy Darien and Andrew were telling us about remember Serena?! He's the guy that always copied everything Darien did, and practically kissed the ground Darien walked on."
I did remember. Now anyway. That must have made things sting even more, and if it didn't it certainly didn't help the situation any. I felt even worse. Even lower. Like the green stuff that grows on the inside of public toilets. I could have at least picked someone Darien didn't even know, but I'd picked one of his protégés. Way to go Serena.
"Serena? What's the matter girl? You look like Luna died or something." Lita inquired.
Mina's eyes grew large as dinner plates. "Sh- she didn't did she?!" she whispered hoarsely, her eyes already beginning to brim with tears.
Raye rolled her eyes at Mina. "Oh please Mina! Do you thing she'd look that upset if that old nag died?!" Raye really was in a pathetic mood.
"No. She's good and well." I answered Mina, ignoring Raye. I knew it was all for the best.
Mina exhaled as she fell back into her seat. "Don't EVER scare me like that again!" then she shook her mood and looked at me, quizzically. "What's wrong then Serena?"
"I blew it with Darien!" I exploded, tears bursting from my eyes. "He- he told me he loved me, but he was upset because he thought that I didn't care about him, because he saw me kiss Asanuma, and it's all because of this stupid bet!"
The girls began looking at each other as if trying to decide what to do about this. "Wait!" Mina said in her motherly voice, "I never knew you cared about Darien. I thought you despised each other." Mina had turned into the protector. Matters of the heart is her specialty, after all.
"Well we did! I- I- love him..." I whispered my voice trailing off. My words only caused more tears to spill down my cheeks.
"Oh I think I understand." Lita said quietly. "They were just trying to cover up how much they cared about each other these past few months."
"I loved him the first day I saw him!" I sobbed. I didn't think I could do this. Surely living life wasn't always this bad. If it were I didn't want to live it. "I'm tired of doing this! I'm tired of pretending I feel something I don't! And I'm tired of being something I'm not!" I was on a roll, I couldn't control anything I was saying. All the thoughts and doubts I'd had since I became Sailor Moon, and dared not tell them to my fellow scouts became words. "AND I DON'T WANT TO BE SAILOR MOON ANYMORE! I'm sick of it!"
That simple sentence caused the girls around me to turn pale and jaws fall open. Their eyes were huge and they looked as if they'd just woken up from a nightmare. "Y-you can't be serious..." Mina whispered. "When we're so close to finding the Princess..."
"And I don't care about a stupid Moon Princess, that we've risked our lives for several times and I'm seriously beginning to doubt that she's ever going to show up! If she really cared about us, then she'd help us! She'd reveal herself to us! She'd stop hiding like some phantom! I'm beginning to hate that stupid Princess!" I exploded as I jumped up from my seat, knocking Mina to the floor. I didn't look back. At that point I didn't care. The only thing I wanted was Darien and even I realized that that was impossible.
