Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon characters. I own Emily and Daniel, maybe more.

Background Info: Hotaru is Sailor Saturn. She's in seventh grade attending middle school and Serena and gang is attending eighth grade at the same school.

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Walking down the halls of Minoru High, Emily talked with her best friend, Hotaru. They were talking about the volunteer work they would be doing for the 'Minoru Volunteer Community'.

The Minoru Volunteer Community would volunteer to work after school for three hours in a specific category, of that the volunteer's choice.

Emily was telling Hotaru that she would be doing library service today, shelving books and helping others finding the book others wanted. Hotaru was doing volunteer work at the grocery store, back to back from the library. They were both very happy about the results of the choosing.

Emily was just saying, "Too bad I'm one year too young to do the scanning, you know when they scan the barcode of the book and it goes into your account? I really wanted to do that but they said, 'Nope, too bad. You are one year too-"

Just then, Daniel, a very athletic guy, ran up to Emily and tapped her on the shoulder. "Emily, did I forget my pencil at art? I had to borrow one during math, English, and Cooking, but I couldn't find it and I knew I had it in art, and you sat next to me so I'm asking you."

He sighed. "Having no classes with you between breaks 2 and 3 really doesn't pay off. That cost me three detentions!" Some middle schools have schedules like this:

8 AM: School Starts/ Homeroom [Emily: Phys. Ed] (Hotaru: Phys. Ed)

9 AM: Class 2 [Emily: Cooking] (Hotaru: Cooking)

10 AM: 5 min. break #1

10:05 AM: Class 3 [Emily: Math] (Hotaru: Math)

11 AM: Class 4 [Emily: Art] (Hotaru: Japanese)

12 PM: 15 min. break #2

12:15 PM: Class 5 [Emily: English] (Hotaru: Sewing)

1:15 PM: Class 6 [Emily: Computers] (Hotaru: Sculpting)

2:15 PM: Class 7 [Emily: Choir] (Hotaru: Choir)

3:15 PM: 15 min break #3

3:30 PM: Class 8 [Emily: Japanese] (Hotaru: Japanese)

4:30 PM: Class 9 [Emily: Leadership] (Hotaru: English)

5:30 PM: School Ends

Hotaru stared at them blankly, wondering what in the world he was talking about. Emily blushed as Daniel's friends came to watch.

"Um." Emily unbuckled her rectangular school bag. She took out her pencil pouch, a light baby blue one with a bunnies and a fabulous picture of Sailor Saturn. She then unzipped it and took out his pencil.

She smiled and said, "You'd better carry extras next time, because the next time you forget I'm keeping that red pencil of yours!" He flushed a deep red turned around.

"And you'd better say thanks too!" Daniel flushed an even deeper shade of red and mumbled a quiet thank you.

Hotaru just stared. The boys left and Hotaru asked, "What's with the pencil?"

And to this Emily replied, "I sit next to him during art."

Hotaru now understood. In art, the tables were arranged in 5 columns. (look at the drawing below and think that each small circle is a desk, the big circle is the teacher)

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Emily and Daniel sat at one table together, the farthest right-hand table farthest away from the teacher. They chattered all through art, looking up once in a while to look at the teaching.

Emily's darkest secret, the secret she would never tell Hotaru, was that she liked Daniel. She thought of Daniel as a sweet, charming, cute, and athletic boy. She once told Hotaru this and Hotaru disagreed to all but athletic at once. Sometimes during art she would poke Daniel's shoulder and ask him, "Who do you like?" He'd always say, "I never considered." Emily was disappointed.