Ok! I finally got Chapter 1 out!! Tho * sniff * I only got one e-mail * sniff * oh well! Anyways a big thankyou to Vo1 for editing this for me! And also I'd like to say hanx to DQ for letting me use her name in the prologue (THERE! Ya happy now! (lol) )Also thanx to Schmian for reading thins and giving me his opinion even tho he doesn't like sm. Thanks also to Marsi, Miz and the other guyz *sniff * dunno where I'd b without u! Well here it is-chapter 1!
Standard Disclaimer-I don't own it!! It's not fair!! WWWAAAAAAHHHHH!! * ahem *
Hello
By Moonie1
Chapter 1
Here she was, on plane, towards what was to be her home for the next four years at least.... Wait.... she, SERENA was on a plane...
A loud scream was heard from the back of the plane, even in the depths of the cockpit.
Serena had never flown before and was slightly...VERY nervous. However, she was soon calmed down by a flight attendant who reassured her and a kind passenger sitting next to her offered Serena a sleeping pill which she graciously accepted, not realising that it was a joint effort to shut her up with little or no concern for her well-being. The wonder of innocence.
She woke up to the sound of the loud speaker informing the passengers of the upcoming landing at Tokyo airport, Japan. Serena momentarily forgot where she was and turned to look out the window, and screamed
A calm, collected, and severely ostracized Serena Tsukino stepped out of the airport with her suitcases in one hand and a piece of paper with the address of the university in the other. She flagged down a sky cap (they're the guys who hail you cabs and check your bags.) who helped her hail a taxi.
The university was rather large, and had it not been for the hundreds of people heading in the same direction as she, even with the signs she would have most definitely got lost. Once at reception, Serena asked in the best Japanese she could muster from a "Speech on Tape" program she had bought at Borders, where she was meant to go for house placements. Her stomach began to get a clenching feeling of regret for coming to a foreign university alone, however all this vanished when she was introduced to an orientation leader. Her head began to swim as she looked into his midnight blue eyes. He was so good looking she was a bit intimidated.... because a guy like that would never talk to her, but the strange thing was he didn't seem to have the arrogant air that you would expect. Serena looked at him with wide eyes that were a bit glazed over. He looked at Serena and in Japanese asked:
"Are you ok?"
Serena, being so engulfed by his features, didn't seem to hear him and therefore was stuck, speechless.
[Damn me for being so easily distracted grrr] she grumbled in her head.
She was then surprised to here him then say to her in perfect English:
"Umm excuse me...are you lost?"
She looked at him, amazed.
"You speak English!!"
He chuckled.
[Oh.my.god! He even has a sexy chuckle! Why me!] She thought.
"How very observant of you."
[Oh great! Now he thinks I'm just a ditz!]
"So you gonna say anything else or shall I leave you?"
"Umm...no no sorry, you're the orientation guy aren't you ...err..."
She stopped, realising she didn't know his name
"It's Mamoru"
"Right...Mamoru" she laughed nervously. [God...Mamoru...what a great name...]
She managed to stop herself before she started drooling-no; [drooling was not good for first impressions must keep self control must keep self control] She chanted in her head.
"What was that?"
She looked up, startled at the amused look on his face
"Err...nothing" [must keep thoughts to myself and NOT speak them out loud!!!]
She cleared her throat and tried to gain back some of her dignity by getting back to the subject at hand.
"So how do I get to this friggin' place then?" she asked. Today was just not her day.
He chuckled at her again.
"Ok, go down this hall, turn left down that hall, second right, go down that hall again, second left, third right then the fifth room on the left.... got that"
Serena just stared at him open mouthed, placed her suitcase back on the ground, sat on it and placed her head in her hands
"Why me?" She implored to no one in particular
"Why was I sent to a university with a campus like a maze!" and in her head she added [and why did you have to make me look like a fool in front of this gorgeous Adonis]
"Ugh, life is just sooo not fair"
This time he laughed-not chuckled- full out laughed. It was a deep resonating sound that made Serena wonder why she was blessed just to have run into him.... destiny perhaps (an: ^_^)
"How about I just walk you there."
"Would you...oh thank you so much!"
"No problem"
So off they went to the housing placement reception-at last!
As they entered the crowded reception, Serena was just about to thank Mamoru for his help when a girl who quite honestly reminded Serena of the school slut back home, sidled up to Mamoru and started talking in an obviously faked sexy voice to Mamoru, of course in Japanese. Serena picked up a few words that she really did not want to hear. They obviously knew each other quite well, and Serena, not wanting to make a fool of herself and seem like the third party, walked away with defeated look on her face.
[What were you thinking Serena?! Did you think he would just fall for you on the spot! That girl was obviously his girlfriend. Stupid stupid!] She mentally berated herself until she got to the back of the queue, and then resigned to thinking about how her day could get any worse.
She didn't see Mamoru pry himself away from the girl and try to search her out. Alas, the room was so crowded there was no way he would ever find her unless by some miracle
[Maybe you'll bump into her in the hall sometime. I'm sure that you'll meet...CRAP! I didn't get her name! Damn Melissa for being her sluttish self, why can't she just get the idea! If it weren't for her I'd know the name of that absolutely gorgeous.... ok calm down! You just met the girl for god's sake!] Mamoru continued to berate himself till he saw that one of his best friends was also being harassed by the nightmare known as Melissa.
[Hehe trust Jay to get himself cornered]
By the time Serena got to the front of the queue she had decided to just forget about...HA! She had forgotten his name! YAY!
[Mamoru...] her mind graciously reminded her
"grr damn you, you stupid brain! How is it you can remember his name but not anything else that's important" she muttered to herself. She was called out of her muttering by someone talking her in Japanese...the receptionist:
"Excuse me miss, papers please"
Serena handed her papers over, happy that she would soon be able to get to her room and just collapse. However those thoughts were soon shattered. Serena, who thought the day could not get any worse, heard the receptionist say:
"Oh dear...I'm sorry miss, there seems to be a problem..."
To say that Serena was a little pissed off would be the biggest understatement of the century. She was ready to kill! She had been told that there had been a miss-calculation of the amount of students wanting accommodation this year and she was one of the ones who had been missed out. They however had managed to find some temporary housing until accommodation had been sorted Serena had therefore thought her problem had been solved but no, not for her. The place they were expected to live in for a while was a shit-heap. Serena walked into the room she was expected to stay in and promptly collapsed into a fit of tears. She knew she would be homesick but this whole situation just made it worse. The fact her day was rather nightmare-ish didn't stop her from hearing her stomach grumble-something which she had ignored since she had got off the plane. She remembered she had a pack-lunch her mother had packed her and went to her travel bag. She pulled out the box, which contained the lunch, but with it an envelope fell out which had obviously been stuffed in, in a hurry.
While she ate her homemade sandwich, she opened up the mysterious envelope and immediately recognised the writing as her younger brothers.
"What's the little squirt up to now?" she asked smiling to herself.
The card was simple with a picture of a cat on it, Serena's favourite animal. A picture fell out of the card. Serena looked at the photo and let out a squeal of delight followed by a fit of giggles. The picture was of her before she had her hair cut, and she was wearing them in those infamous meatballs. On the back of the photo was scrawled;
To my sister,
Meatball Head-I'll miss you
Love Sammy
Serena felt tears spring to her eyes
"The little brat * sniff * I'm gonna miss him too"
She finished her pack lunch and without bothering to unpack, promptly fell asleep. The stressful day having caught up with her, all she could hope for was a better day tomorrow and hey! Maybe she would meet the guy again!
Well.....* complete silence * oh maaaaaan no fair! Oh well IF anyone IS reading this...please e-mail me! Tho if ya gonna flame-don't coz I'll cry...I will!! Ok well thankies for reading if ya did ^_^ bye for now!
Moonie1
Siggyj10@aol.com
Standard Disclaimer-I don't own it!! It's not fair!! WWWAAAAAAHHHHH!! * ahem *
Hello
By Moonie1
Chapter 1
Here she was, on plane, towards what was to be her home for the next four years at least.... Wait.... she, SERENA was on a plane...
A loud scream was heard from the back of the plane, even in the depths of the cockpit.
Serena had never flown before and was slightly...VERY nervous. However, she was soon calmed down by a flight attendant who reassured her and a kind passenger sitting next to her offered Serena a sleeping pill which she graciously accepted, not realising that it was a joint effort to shut her up with little or no concern for her well-being. The wonder of innocence.
She woke up to the sound of the loud speaker informing the passengers of the upcoming landing at Tokyo airport, Japan. Serena momentarily forgot where she was and turned to look out the window, and screamed
A calm, collected, and severely ostracized Serena Tsukino stepped out of the airport with her suitcases in one hand and a piece of paper with the address of the university in the other. She flagged down a sky cap (they're the guys who hail you cabs and check your bags.) who helped her hail a taxi.
The university was rather large, and had it not been for the hundreds of people heading in the same direction as she, even with the signs she would have most definitely got lost. Once at reception, Serena asked in the best Japanese she could muster from a "Speech on Tape" program she had bought at Borders, where she was meant to go for house placements. Her stomach began to get a clenching feeling of regret for coming to a foreign university alone, however all this vanished when she was introduced to an orientation leader. Her head began to swim as she looked into his midnight blue eyes. He was so good looking she was a bit intimidated.... because a guy like that would never talk to her, but the strange thing was he didn't seem to have the arrogant air that you would expect. Serena looked at him with wide eyes that were a bit glazed over. He looked at Serena and in Japanese asked:
"Are you ok?"
Serena, being so engulfed by his features, didn't seem to hear him and therefore was stuck, speechless.
[Damn me for being so easily distracted grrr] she grumbled in her head.
She was then surprised to here him then say to her in perfect English:
"Umm excuse me...are you lost?"
She looked at him, amazed.
"You speak English!!"
He chuckled.
[Oh.my.god! He even has a sexy chuckle! Why me!] She thought.
"How very observant of you."
[Oh great! Now he thinks I'm just a ditz!]
"So you gonna say anything else or shall I leave you?"
"Umm...no no sorry, you're the orientation guy aren't you ...err..."
She stopped, realising she didn't know his name
"It's Mamoru"
"Right...Mamoru" she laughed nervously. [God...Mamoru...what a great name...]
She managed to stop herself before she started drooling-no; [drooling was not good for first impressions must keep self control must keep self control] She chanted in her head.
"What was that?"
She looked up, startled at the amused look on his face
"Err...nothing" [must keep thoughts to myself and NOT speak them out loud!!!]
She cleared her throat and tried to gain back some of her dignity by getting back to the subject at hand.
"So how do I get to this friggin' place then?" she asked. Today was just not her day.
He chuckled at her again.
"Ok, go down this hall, turn left down that hall, second right, go down that hall again, second left, third right then the fifth room on the left.... got that"
Serena just stared at him open mouthed, placed her suitcase back on the ground, sat on it and placed her head in her hands
"Why me?" She implored to no one in particular
"Why was I sent to a university with a campus like a maze!" and in her head she added [and why did you have to make me look like a fool in front of this gorgeous Adonis]
"Ugh, life is just sooo not fair"
This time he laughed-not chuckled- full out laughed. It was a deep resonating sound that made Serena wonder why she was blessed just to have run into him.... destiny perhaps (an: ^_^)
"How about I just walk you there."
"Would you...oh thank you so much!"
"No problem"
So off they went to the housing placement reception-at last!
As they entered the crowded reception, Serena was just about to thank Mamoru for his help when a girl who quite honestly reminded Serena of the school slut back home, sidled up to Mamoru and started talking in an obviously faked sexy voice to Mamoru, of course in Japanese. Serena picked up a few words that she really did not want to hear. They obviously knew each other quite well, and Serena, not wanting to make a fool of herself and seem like the third party, walked away with defeated look on her face.
[What were you thinking Serena?! Did you think he would just fall for you on the spot! That girl was obviously his girlfriend. Stupid stupid!] She mentally berated herself until she got to the back of the queue, and then resigned to thinking about how her day could get any worse.
She didn't see Mamoru pry himself away from the girl and try to search her out. Alas, the room was so crowded there was no way he would ever find her unless by some miracle
[Maybe you'll bump into her in the hall sometime. I'm sure that you'll meet...CRAP! I didn't get her name! Damn Melissa for being her sluttish self, why can't she just get the idea! If it weren't for her I'd know the name of that absolutely gorgeous.... ok calm down! You just met the girl for god's sake!] Mamoru continued to berate himself till he saw that one of his best friends was also being harassed by the nightmare known as Melissa.
[Hehe trust Jay to get himself cornered]
By the time Serena got to the front of the queue she had decided to just forget about...HA! She had forgotten his name! YAY!
[Mamoru...] her mind graciously reminded her
"grr damn you, you stupid brain! How is it you can remember his name but not anything else that's important" she muttered to herself. She was called out of her muttering by someone talking her in Japanese...the receptionist:
"Excuse me miss, papers please"
Serena handed her papers over, happy that she would soon be able to get to her room and just collapse. However those thoughts were soon shattered. Serena, who thought the day could not get any worse, heard the receptionist say:
"Oh dear...I'm sorry miss, there seems to be a problem..."
To say that Serena was a little pissed off would be the biggest understatement of the century. She was ready to kill! She had been told that there had been a miss-calculation of the amount of students wanting accommodation this year and she was one of the ones who had been missed out. They however had managed to find some temporary housing until accommodation had been sorted Serena had therefore thought her problem had been solved but no, not for her. The place they were expected to live in for a while was a shit-heap. Serena walked into the room she was expected to stay in and promptly collapsed into a fit of tears. She knew she would be homesick but this whole situation just made it worse. The fact her day was rather nightmare-ish didn't stop her from hearing her stomach grumble-something which she had ignored since she had got off the plane. She remembered she had a pack-lunch her mother had packed her and went to her travel bag. She pulled out the box, which contained the lunch, but with it an envelope fell out which had obviously been stuffed in, in a hurry.
While she ate her homemade sandwich, she opened up the mysterious envelope and immediately recognised the writing as her younger brothers.
"What's the little squirt up to now?" she asked smiling to herself.
The card was simple with a picture of a cat on it, Serena's favourite animal. A picture fell out of the card. Serena looked at the photo and let out a squeal of delight followed by a fit of giggles. The picture was of her before she had her hair cut, and she was wearing them in those infamous meatballs. On the back of the photo was scrawled;
To my sister,
Meatball Head-I'll miss you
Love Sammy
Serena felt tears spring to her eyes
"The little brat * sniff * I'm gonna miss him too"
She finished her pack lunch and without bothering to unpack, promptly fell asleep. The stressful day having caught up with her, all she could hope for was a better day tomorrow and hey! Maybe she would meet the guy again!
Well.....* complete silence * oh maaaaaan no fair! Oh well IF anyone IS reading this...please e-mail me! Tho if ya gonna flame-don't coz I'll cry...I will!! Ok well thankies for reading if ya did ^_^ bye for now!
Moonie1
Siggyj10@aol.com