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Tsuki no Hime

Celestial Maiden Ceres

Chapter Two

I hated school. Everything about it made me want to blow chunks. "Detention...two hours!" I grumbled into to soft darkness of my bedroom. It was completely normal for me to talk to myself. Sometimes I'd swear Selene was in my room, hearing out my problems. The thought of her presence made me feel slightly better, but it wasn't quite the same as real companionship.

No sooner had the thought crossed my mind did I hear a light rapping at my window. I scrambled out of bed, a knowing smile crawling across my face as I lifted the blinds of the window in question. "Mamoru?"

Sure enough, he was looking at me from the other side of the glass. I lifted my window to allow him entry before crawling back in my bed. He closed the glass frame after him and followed before plopping down on the foot of my bed.

"What's up?" I asked him. "Anything interesting?" I grinned. This was our thing. Most every night since I was four he'd sneak into my room to talk. It had become a way of life for me. Our more serious conversations were held down at the spring that ran a short distance from his house and mine. This was where we discussed his parents for the first time.

"I just...couldn't sleep." he said with caution. "Well, actually I was sleeping fine but I had that dream again." I knew all about this dream. It haunted Mamoru on occasion and the main topic of interest was his parents. The scary part of it is however, after he dreams of his parents he dreams of me as a princess. I'd never told him I was Lunarian and I was a bit nervous that maybe his unconscious state was trying to tell him that I was. And there was no way he could know otherwise. The only people who know of the existence of Lunarians are the Lunarian Royals and the Terran Royal Family.

"Did I die again?" I asked in worry. I had a sinking feeling he had a sixth sense for prediction.

He nodded. "Yeah..." was his barely audible reply. "And you had this..." he paused as a look of confusion washed his face entirely. "crescent moon on your forehead, and it...kinda glowed."

Now, you can imagine the turmoil that existed within my head as these words pushed their way hauntingly from Mamoru's mouth. The fear and denial, the foreboding feeling of death and the hope that it wasn't true began hovering over my head. "That's weird." I commented to keep my part of the conversation up. "Have you ever dreamt that moon before?"

He looked as if he was trying to stretch his memory to immeasurable lengths. "Actually now that you mention it, you lived on the moon." His expression changed to thoughtful. "Do you think the moon could have some kind of a symbolic meaning in these dreams?"

Ha! If only he knew, but I'd decided against that many years ago for obvious reasons. What if he was Terran royalty or just thought I was a raving lunatic. (A.N. Get it? LUNAtic? okay fine. My feeble attempt at humor) "Maybe. Anything else interesting occur today?" Yeah, I was being nosy. But you have every right to nose into your best friend's life.

"No not really." he grinned. " I just snuck into some cute girl's window, accidentally waking her up." I couldn't help but giggle. It was entirely too sweet not to giggle or blush at.

"Well, you should be ashamed of yourself." I grinned a playful smile. "The nerve of sneaking into some refined lady's bedroom. People will think you're becoming a playboy Mamoru." I was quite gracious for the darkness that concealed my blushing cheeks. It was ridiculous at how long I'd know Mamoru and he STILL makes me blush. He's always had a tendency to make me do crazy things. He makes my heart turn kartwheels and gets my head dizzy. I knew it well that I cared for him and it scared me. I shouldn't be doing this and my existence told me its wrongness. The miniscule problem was that my Mamo-chan

...was Terran.