Author's Note: Please don't blame me, I wrote half of this at three in the morning listening to LunaRock and half during history class Tuesday. Will is very prominent because I Wanna Hold Your Hand kept replaying … ^_- Remakes, they just do something to me.
Chapter Three – Serena Tenor
"Where are we going?" Lily asked the cat, her arms were wrapped tightly around her, a thin yellow-gold sweater and a dark blue skirt, they are obviously not the clothes you wear lurking in a strange dark street somewhere Lily thought.
The cat didn't answer for a while, it kept its slow steady gait and looked ahead with its unearthly yellow eyes.
"Where are we going?" Lily repeated, perhaps she only had imagined the cat had spoken before, maybe she was crazy and—
"Somewhere."
"Apollo!" the girl exclaimed, didn't she deserve a certain right to an answer, she was the one taken from the only place she ever knew by some inexplicable force she was the one who just received new that she was a—
"There are more girls in your situation, a lot more. You are thinking selfishly, stop it. I'll tell you where you are going if you quit whining." Lily was stunned; the cat read minds as well?
"Yes" the cat said without turning his head.
"Well, since I'm some big super-heroine can't I just jap us wherever we are going?" Lily asked.
"Being a scout does not mean you can do whatever you want. It simply lets you do whatever is necessary to help people other than you."
"Civic virtue huh?" Lily muttered. Apollo cocked his head in a funny way and looked to Lily. Lily sighed, "So you don't know everything. We are learning about the constitution in History right now, 'civic virtue' means to put the common welfare above your own."
"You are smart, Lily, that's a good quality." Apollo retorted.
"Dumb Red-Head." Lily muttered with a smile on her face, whether or not she admitted it straight away she had always liked Will, and it had been a dream-come-reality when Will asked her to a date, Lily then drifted into one of her ever so famous daydreams, this time she was enjoying a nice movie-like kiss with will on a moonlit night in a garden.
The delicious bubble popped when Apollo cheerfully meowed and announced, "Were here!"
Lily scowled at him. "Were where?"
"Serena is absent minded but mind me she has a nice heart, Luna is always telling me—"
"What—Serena? Luna? What?" Lily asked bemused by the cat's incessant chatter.
The cat turned around, "this is Serena Tenor's house, her parents are expecting an exchange student, and here you are!"
"But who is Serena?"
"A girl just like you. She is Sailor Moon."
Lily couldn't even answer, it was too rapid to even think they turned their heads, there was commotion behind the door, two suitcases appeared in Lily's hands and Apollo disappeared before the door was opened.
"Who is it?"
"I'm …" Lily said, unsure of herself.
"Ah! Lily O'Donnell! The exchange student! So early though … six o'clock, we weren't expecting you until six in the evening, come right in, we will have to get Serena up to meet you!"
Lily was terribly confused, how in hell do these people know my name she thought, most of all she wanted to know where her unlikely companion went, she was answered soon enough, when she realized that Apollo hadn't gone away, he had merely (by some way or another) made himself invisible.
"I'm right here Lily." The cat whispered as the strange man and woman rushed her around speaking fast.
Lily hadn't even had a word when she was shoved into the kitchen where a sleepy looking girl with blonde hair and pink pajamas stood getting a can of soda out of the refrigerator.
"Serena, what a surprise to see you up this early, I'm glad. This is the new exchange student, Lily O'Donnell, perhaps you could show her to your room since you said you would share it." The hands of who Lily had assumed to be Serena's mother were clamped on her shoulders in a death grip, her areas around the woman's fingers began to pulse from the lack of blood circulation and Lily was sure she would have two twin bruises on her shoulders by the next day. Lily was relieved when the woman actually let her step up.
"Hullo, so you will be my roommate!" Serena said her face widening into a big smile, her blue eyes sparkling, she then immediately lost that tired look and dragged Lily upstairs to her room. Even if Serena wasn't fond of the dawning hours it was true that such an event as an exchange student could wake anyone out of morning syndrome in a snap.
"How wonderful! Another girl in the house! Are you smart? I'm not very—" Serena stopped as Apollo appeared out of thin air.
"Serena, is that you? Luna has told me so much about you!" the cat exclaimed. "I am Apollo, and this is Sailor Sun."
Author's Note: How'd ya like that, I sure seem to like cliffies don't I? R/R and I will continue a little sooner than last time (Mondays … ergh) - Gin
