"Oh no! I was still eating that..." a frown appeared on her lips and they began to waver.
"… Usagi," A voice sounded through the young girl's thoughts.
"Hi," she responded still distracted by her spilled icecream. She hardly noticed the stranger who obviously knew her name. 'Wait!' she thought, 'he does know my name.'
She looked up to see a handsome man standing in front of her. Prickles ran up and down her spine and it seemed as if the man was glaring at her. She felt the silver crystal activate, the warmth ran through her yet chilled her to the bone. She noticed the man was still staring at her intently apparently waiting for her response.
"Excuse me but, why do you know my name?"
His glare steadied to an all out hate. Then he blinked and it was gone, the feeling passed and Usagi felt the crystal de-activate.
"I don't," the stranger replied.
"But you just said it..." Usagi looked up completely forgetting about her ice cream.
"Whatever you say miss," The young man looked at her strangely then turned to walk away hurriedly.
Usagi turned to her friend Ami one eyebrow slightly raised.
"Did he not just say my name?" she asked puzzled.
"I don't know, I..." Before Ami could respond she was cut off.
"Usagi! You pig! Did you eat all your ice-cream already?" Rei sounded from behind Ami.
"No! I did not! It's... it's... *whimper* ON THE FLOOR!" Usagi cried as she burst out into tears as Rei started to scold her.
Makoto stared on at the two and rolled her eyes. "Classic" she muttered to herself. You could hear Rei lecturing her about dropping food and how much money she was wasting as Usagi cried on. She turned to Ami,
"I can't believe these two are at it already!" Makoto said with disbelief.
"Whatever do you mean? They haven't quarrelled for," Ami paused to glance at her watch, "all of five minutes, I think that's a record!"
Makoto giggled, Usagi and Rei were known to fight a lot, it was probably for the best. They needed someone to keep their ditzy leader in line. Makoto shook her head and glanced up to see a tall college student walking deliberately towards the group of girls.
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"Hey girls, what are you doing here?" it was Mamoru, Usagi's boyfriend who also happened to be the elusive heartthrob, Tuxedo Mask. Mamoru grinned at the young girl his eyes sparkled. Somehow this klutz girl was able to transform Mamoru every time she saw him. When Usagi was not around Mamoru was a generally gloomy person, not many people knew of this other side to him.
Usagi wiped away her tears as quickly as they had came and she beamed, her bright complexion returning. Her mind tugged for a minute trying to remind her about the man but she instantly forgot it as Mamoru threw her his amazing smile.
"Mamoru!" Usagi moved away from Rei and a huge smile came over her face. She ran over and hugged him. "You know what we did today Mamoru? Me and Ami went shopping and then we found Makoto and Rei," She took a breath just long enough to stick her tongue out at Rei and then returned to inform Mamoru of the day's important happenings."... And then we bought ice-cream but I dropped mine and Rei started yelling at me"
Mamoru chuckled, "Seems like you've had a very busy day Usako!"
"I know, and then when I get home I bet Luna is going to have me do all of my homework and then I'll be late for school again, and..." Usagi continued to fill in Mamoru on what was going to happen in her unfortunate life tomorrow.
Mamoru looked at his princess beaming at her amazing energy. He tuned out most of her words; he just sat smiling at his raving beauty. Usagi's eyes brightened happily at each sentence she practically bounced up and down with each word. Mamoru just continued to smile endlessly and was glad that finally she could act like a normal girl and have peace until the Silver Millennium.
"Then after school we have to have a scout meeting and I'll bet I'll be late and then Rei will be mad..." Usagi droned on.
"Usagi! You're going to kill him with your mundane incessant chattering!" Rei interrupted.
Usagi turned to Rei and they stuck out their tongues at each other childishly.
"Rei, you're wrong! Mamoru loves listening to me." She glanced over at her boyfriend. "Don't you?"
Her pleading eyes begged him to say yes.
"Of course I do!" he enjoyed the way that made Usagi's eyes light up. He chuckled softly again loving her despite her immaturity.
"Come on Usagi we had better be going, you're not going to be able to do your homework at all if you don't come now!" Makoto intervened stating the obvious.
Usagi said a cheerful goodbye to Mamoru and he kissed her goodnight and she tore herself away to follow Makoto and the others.
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"Usagi, don't forget we're meeting at the temple tomorrow. Don't be late like last time, okay?" Rei said when they reached the street for Usagi to leave her.
"I heard you the first out of five times Rei! I'll be there. Believe me Luna won't let me forget," she said as her face lowered obviously remembering 'last time' when she had forgotten.
"Fine, I'm just making sure! I'll see you tomorrow Usagi! See you!" Rei said as she started walking towards the temple.
"Bye!" Usagi stumbled in the front door mumbling something about leaving the lights on next time and went upstairs.
"I'm home Luna!" she called to the cat.
Luna appeared at the foot of the stairs prancing nonchalantly up to Usagi. Then her eyes shone wildly and she jumped suddenly onto Usagi's head. Usagi started wildly running in circles swinging her arms around trying to remove the cat from her head. Usagi screamed loudly.
"Usagi! You're late! Now you'll never get your homework done!" Luna said working viciously to avoid the flailing arms surrounding her.
"But we ran into Mamo-chan and..."
"No 'buts' you must keep up with your schoolwork!"
Usagi still running around the room finally found a bowl of milk on her desk and poured the old sour milk on her head to calm her advisor. Luna jumped of dripping wet and sticky and hissed at Usagi who's eyes were open wide with surprise.
"Get to work now!" Luna commanded starting to lick the milk from her once glossy fur.
Usagi groaned as she got her bag from her bed. All of a sudden she started hopping up and down on one foot as the milk ran down her face on to the claw marks stinging her.
She yelled as she ran desperately trying to find something to relieve her pain. Eventually she ran into the washroom and stuck her head in the sink. She frowned as she washed the milk out and bandaged her head.
A little while later after locking Luna out of the washroom and washing her hair she crept out and sat at her desk setting out her homework. Luna leaped to the desk out of the darkness and informed her she was being supervised._________________________________________________________________
The next morning the alarm rang and Usagi leaped out of bed. Without opening her eyes she rushed around doing all her morning chores. She was heading out the door when she tripped over the front step landing on her head. Usagi groaned and laughter could be heard from her brother Shingo.
"Usagi! It's 5 a.m. look around you!"
Usagi leapt up and brushed herself off calming down and tried to look dignified.
"I knew that, it was a test… to see how fast I could get ready..."
"Sure, sure. Oh well you've woken everyone up in the house so at least we get to enjoy a good breakfast."
"Breakfast?" Usagi's face brightened at the mention of food. "Yum! Move Shingo!"
Usagi leapt back into the house pushing the stunned little brother aside. He rolled his eyes as she pulled off her shoes and hopping on one leg rounding the corner to the kitchen trying to put on a well-worn bunny slipper. Then he smiled slightly.
"Silly Usa" he murmured then shut the door.