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CHAPTER TWO:
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Serena walked down a busy crowded street sidewalk, she had just gotten off from the diner she was now working at. As the October wind blew, a dense fog from the nearby harbor crept everywhere around the city. She was exhausted from a 10 hour shift, all she wanted to was sleep or maybe a warm cup of hot chocolate, oh how good that idea sound to Serena. She could just see the warm liquid, with the bold flavors of creamy chocolate and smooth melted marshmallows dance across her taste buds and slip down her throat into her waiting belly. She would curl up to a good book and relax before taking a hot bath while savoring the drink.
She shivered as the fall winds blew against her skin, sending a discarded newspaper to her feet. She just kicked it away and pulled her long woolly black coat closer and tight to her small frame, Japan never had cold winds like this. As she breathed out she watched her little puff of breath turn into a cloud and quickly disappear. The sidewalks were packed with people and streets were horrible with traffic. The music of busy New York City rang continuously in her ears. She couldn't hear herself think.
It has been four months since she left her home and friends, four months since her heart been shattered. She wasn't a little girl anymore but now a mature woman. She had changed her "meatball" hairstyle to just a plain high ponytail but when she was alone she would put it back, the feeling of the real Serena was always with her old hairstyle, the one she yearned to be again. She told herself that she would never cut her but when she is around people she would just wear it up. And instead of the old school uniform, she dreaded to wear, she wore the newest trends and she even started to some make-up.
She had even changed her personality. She was still kind but now cautious, had fun but worked hard at her work and even was getting good grades. She was more responsible than she had ever been in her whole life. If her friends could see her now, they wouldn't even know her not the person she had become.
Serena signed pushing away those thoughts about her friends, she couldn't think about the past but of her future, her future with-out them. She knew the future was what you made it.
But there was one thing that hadn't change about Serena, her heart was still broken. It broke each time she thought about leaving her home, about her friends and other people. Other people........ oh how she missed him so much. At night, when she was alone in her bed, when she couldn't take the pain no more she would break down and cry and wish for his arms to be around her and protect her from her fears. Every time she saw his face in her mind, instead of a piece of her heart breaking, it would die.
With her head hung down with sorrow and thought, she turned the corner to a small up hilled street. The street was bare except for her, it was so quiet, she could hear he own breathing and the soft song of the wind. But as the wind picked up, she felted her fingertips go numb because of the cold. A small wrinkled piece of paper fall from her coat pocket and was carried off by the roaring wind. As she looked up, she saw it float of the gust of cold.
"OH NO! MY PICTURE!", she cried panicking, quickly she chased it. Through the twists and turns of New York City, Serena didn't care if anyone saw her acting so wildly, she just wanted her picture back. Her hair flowed behind her like a golden ray of light to passer byers. At one point she almost caught it but then the wind picked up again and she was left empty handed but not conquered.
As the wind died down 20 minutes later, the picture had settled down in a spot and Serena stopped in her tracks and tried to catch her breath. She looked at her surroundings, the old cemetery on the quietest part of town. As she took small, slow steps towards the picture, she held her breath. But before she could pick it up another gust of wind picked up the picture and placed it in a new spot, the old oak tree in the center of the cemetery. It laid nuzzled among the oak's fallen orange leaves in the crotch of the old oak. She again left her position and walked towards the picture once again.
She reached the picture, she kneeled and picked it up. She, wide eye and silent, with her mouth open just a bit slowly un-folded the paper. A tingling sensation sweep through-out her body, a numbness but not brought on by the cold but of the past. Her eyes fixated on the pair of midnight blue eyes staring back at her, the smile with so much love and face she missed so much. Darien. His name echoed through her mind. She touched the picture with her fingertips like she was trying to feel his velvet skin again. She closed her eyes, remembering his touch, his smell, his kiss. He would always lean down above her lips, looking into her eyes the hold time, and would careful place a kiss upon her lips and then he would hold her body so tight to his.
She open her eyes again and looked back down at the picture next to the man was a young girl. Her daughter. His daughter. Their daughter. Rini looked so much like her but acted so much like him. Serena missed the little girl sleeping in her bed especially since she hated sleep alone here. She may of complained a lot about Rini but down deep she was her world next Darien. Her face was created from love but now that love gone and she will never born. Serena missed her so much.
Finally a sob escaped her and more came after, salty tears fell down her face in her grief, sorrow and pain. Silently she hugged her picture to her heart as if she was trying to go back to that time, to them. But she knew she could do that.
"Darien........Rini...., Why did this happen", she whispered between her sobs, finally she stopped her tears and wiped them away from her face with her jacket sleeve. Slowly she stood up and removed the leaves stuck to her pants and jacket and watch them fall to the ground amongst the other colors. Like this graveyard she had to make her heart dead to those in the past. She again looked at the picture and let out a little shallow sob. She brought her small hand to her mouth trying to stop herself from crying.
"Ironic, huh? Here I stand in a cemetery, alone, with my heart and soul dead, this is the prefect place for me", she sobbed to the picture. She looked up to the sky, just staring with her tears still flowing . She, now silent, folded her picture up and placed it back into her pocket with-out even looking at it again. She just stood there in wind, her hair gently blowing against her skin and neck, just collecting herself. As she wiped her last tear, and sniffed, she turned and walked away for the cemetery, and continued her journey home.
As she walked on the cement sidewalk her shoes made tapping noises and when she walked by alleys they cause echoes. Serena looked at the smoggy sky wishing she could see the Japanese blue sky , or the stars again. She shook her head her head, pushing those thoughts away, trying to make herself forget, to stop herself from hurting her heart again.
"Serena!", a faint familiar voice shouted at her. Serena froze, her heart beating faster. That voice, she knew that voice, one of the ones she wished she could hear again. Slowly she turned around to look at the person calling her name, the wind blew her hair in to her eyes as she stared frozen, wide eyes and mouth opened in disbelief.
"Ami.......", she whispered, silence filled the air the air as the blue haired girl ran towards her. As she stood 5 feet a way from her, they both didn't say a word , just staring at each other. Ami's hair blew around her face and her eyes were glitzing with water. Serena stared at her best friend, the fog all around them made this meeting seem like of Serena's many dreams she had but this was not a dream this was real. Serena's tears were flowing faster and faster down her redden cheeks. She sobbed un-controllably now, she wasn't speaking any words just painful cries. She then quickly ran to her friend and into to her a waiting arms. Ami held on to Serena for dear life.
Serena's body tingled with emotions that she had not felt in a very long time, she could hear Ami crying too, into Serena's shoulder. The two friends didn't say anything, Ami just rubbed Serena's back while Serena broke down and cried more and more and more in to Ami's body. Serena fell to her knees and hugged Ami's stomach.
*At a Café*
"Oh Serena how much I have missed you! Since you have been gone I have been searching and searching for you. We all were so worried about you", Ami said, the two now sitting in a booth next a window sipping drinks. Serena watch the now falling rain slide down the window before turning back at her friend. The café was dimly lit and the song, If I was the One by Ruff Endz, played softly in the background, there was only 5 other people in the café next to them.
"I am so happy to see you Amy, there were times I wanted to call you but I knew I couldn't. I have missed you so much. How did you find me? I didn't tell anyone I was leaving except for my parents. They told you didn't they?", Serena asked, silently Ami reach in to her bag and pulled out a little blue compact rectangle, the Mercury computer.
"Actually no, the opposite really. They wouldn't tell us no matter how much we pleaded. Then one night two weeks ago, while sitting in my room reading an idea hit me", she started to explain, "If you had the crystal on you the computer would tell me were to locate you and it worked. I didn't tell the scouts were I was going, just on a vacation. I left 2 days ago and arrived yesterday. This morning I left the hotel and found you working and followed you silently until the right moment to show myself."
Serena was speechless. Ami had found her so easy. She was luck no one else thought of it or someone might of came to get her, maybe Darien. Serena reached down into her pant pocket and pulled out a brooch and open it and the crystal shone so bright. She remember taking it just in case she needed it, but she knew the real reason she took it was because it was part of her old life and next to her picture she wanted to have a little piece to hold on to. This was her true identity. Not the mask she wears everyday.
"Serena...... I saw and heard you at the cemetery. I know you miss him", Ami blurted out, "Serena you need to know what happen that night, we all know that is way you left. Darien found the book".
Serena just sat there staring at her. Her eyes widen and then words escaped her,
"I don't care, I don't want to know Ami." Serena looked back out the window and touch the cold glass and the finger followed a drop on the glass.
"Have you ever seen you dreams float away from your eyes like a gust of wind? Hear your heart break like thunder booming in your ears or watch your life and love fall like rain, fast and unstoppable with the force that just slams down? Have you? Have you ever wish you could wish you could go to sleep and never wake? I have....... but I have shut that door in my life Amy never to open it again, so no don't tell me anything just let me remember the good things", Serena bravely told Amy. Amy just looked at her with eyes of sorrow for all the pain she had to go and what she is going to have to deal with later.
"But Serena...", Amy started to say but Serena hand stopped her lips. All Serena did was shake her head. She then slowly pulled back her hand and placed in Amy's and smiled.
"Amy, tell me about Home... about the others please", Serena asked softly to her. Amy smiled back at her. The rest of the night the two old friends talked about the past, the fight and the fun. Amy would tell Serena about have everyone was. Mina was star volleyball player at her school, Lita got a job cooking as head chef at a restaurant and Raye was becoming more and more like a priestess everyday. She also told her about the her being the top student in their old school. Serena sat there soaking up all the little tidbits of information that she could.
Serena told Amy about her schooling and her good grades, her job and about Chris. She explain that Chris was her best friend but she could never start a relationship with him because he was to much like a big brother. He was there for her for everything.
After a couple of hours, around midnight you could hear to teenage girls giggling and laughing down a quiet street. The were linked arm and arm, talking about all the good times they had.
"Well..hehe..is my...hehe.. Hotel", Amy giggled wiping a tear from laughing so hard from her eye. She smile and hugged Serena. Amy gave Serena her phone number to the hotel room and told her she was not leaving for another day or so. Serena said that she will calling to do something with her. As they hugged one more time, Ami started to walk to the glass doors and Serena down the street when Serena stopped and turned around and shouted.
"Amy when you go home you are not going to tell anyone I am here right?"
Ami waved to Serena and nodded her head. Serena waved back and continued home. The whole walk home all she could think about was all those good times she miss. She was so happy that Amy was here. The night was cold so she decided she would jog the rest of the way home. The house that Serena was staying at was made of brick and the couple she was staying with was Mr. And Mrs. Brownstone. The couple were so nice to her. But she still missed her parents. Serena called them every other weekend after she knew Rini went to bed. Her best friend here and neighbor, Brad was always over helping with homework or hanging out. Brad knew everything about Serena..... well almost everything. He didn't know that she was SailorMoon or about Darien or Rini either. Those things she kept private.
When she reached home, she took out her house key and un-locked the door and let her self in. She had called earlier to tell them she was going to late getting home cause an old friend had come to visit her. So no one was wake when she got home. She quietly removed her shoes and jacket and tipped toed up the stairs to her room. Serena's room was huge and was paint blue, her bed was black iron and had a navy blue comforter and canopy. This is the Brownstone's guest room but now it was hers. Serena's bedroom even had her own bathroom and shower.
"A shower is what I need right now", she said as she leaned up against the door of her room. As she walked to the bath she remove her clothes and put on a housecoat. She took out her ponytail and watch it fall to her ankles. As she look into the large mirror in the bathroom and quickly put her hair back in to her meatball style and smiled.
Herself. Her old self. How good it felt to see that again. But then she took them out and turned on the warm water for the shower. As she stepped in she felt the warm water steam down her back and legs. How relaxing after a emotional day. Serena just stood there letting the water massage her muscles. Splashing water on her face, she let the make-up running off. Serena love have these showers.
When her shower was finish she stepped out and dries herself off and got ready of bed. She brushed her hair and decided to let it air dry. She put on a white tank top and large pajama pants and crawled in to bed.
She had been in about 2 hours when she opened her eyes and sighed. Her bed was so comfortable but no matter how comfortable for some reason she couldn't sleep. She tossed and turn for another hour. 3:30 am her clock read. Serena's problem was she couldn't stop thinking about home and everyone there. She tried to stop thinking about Darien but she couldn't. Serena sat up in bed and ran her fingers through her hair and then crawled out of bed over to her pants hanging over her desk chair. She pulled out a piece of paper and walked over to her dresser and looked in the mirror while grabbing the phone.
"Please be awake", she spoke to herself as she listened to the ringing. She held her breathe. Then there was click and groggy hello. She exhaled and her heart beat faster.
"Amy, I am sorry to wake you but this can't wait until tomorrow...... I want to know what happen that night", Serena said quickly, "And another thing Amy, I want to go home".
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To be continued!