This story takes place during the Doom Tree series. I feel it was important to the development of the relationship between Serena and Darien. It is based on the anime Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi, all rights are preserved.

Deserving Applause:

I have to do a community service project for school. I signed up for what seemed the most interesting project left: to help the local theater put on a play. Trouble is, not many others have volunteered to do it. I think people are feeling the effects of the monster attacks, the whole city is on edge.

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I can't believe it! The girls that came out to be on the cast argued over the parts so much, they quit. Now what am I going to do?

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I'm saved. The kids at the arcade heard about the play, and offered to help. The play we're doing is "Snow White". I hope there isn't an argument about the roles. Mina has acted before, maybe I'll put her in the lead.

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The girls worked out a deal among themselves. Ann will play Snow White, Serena is the Witch Queen, and I will be the Prince, of course. A minor role, but impressive, that suits me fine. I can do that and still direct. Besides, the only other choice was Melvin the dweeb.

It's become "Snow White in the Woods", with the others in animal costumes. There is still this jealousy thing going on between Serena and Ann. The other girls let Ann have the lead because she's new and 'she needs self- confidence'. I don't know what that girl's problem is, but it isn't self- confidence. I had to kiss her during rehearsal, and she acted like she wanted to make out! No wonder Serena was steamed. It does add a realistic note to her acting the Witch Queen, which really is the best part of the play.

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(Opening Performance: Murphy's Law: if anything can go wrong, it will.)

I wonder what I did in a former life to deserve this. I've been working my butt off to get the show together: cast, crew, props, sets, etc. Finally it's time for the performance and when the curtain went up, there's this clown on stage. Ann started to go forward yelling at it, when I realized it was one of those monster things. I ran to her, pushing her out of the way just as it blasted the set. I must've gotten knocked out because the next thing I knew, I'm waking up to a kiss from Sailor Moon and the audience is cheering. Apparently the Sailor Scouts showed up and attacked that monster. The audience thought it was part of the show and loved it! I'm glad the Scouts got the applause, they deserve it. One good thing, there won't be a repeat performance. The set is destroyed and the cast has quit. I refused to go to the hospital again. I know the danger signs for concussion and there are five girls who want to be my nurse. On second thought, maybe I should go to Andrew's.