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different time period, but now y'all are gonna just hafta try and follow
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I don't own the characters I am using, I simply own my ideas. Please do not get me in trouble for using them, and don't steal my work, I work hard to create this, so it would be most not nice to steal it.
Chapter 2: The Ordeal Behind It All
Rei sat in her room, thinking of what to say to Mamoru when he got back from taking Usagi home. She stood quickly, frustrated with herself. "My gosh! Why do I care so much? Usagi said herself that she was only going for Minako. But Mamoru is another story." She began pacing her small room. There suddenly came the sound of a door being unlocked. Mamoru was home.
Mamoru walked out of his room, making his was past Rei's room towards the kitchen. He reached the pantry and pulled out a bag of chips and walked to the fridge to get the salsa.
Rei came out of her room, looking somewhat sleepy. "Onee-san, Usagi needs to go home so she will get enough sleep for school tomorrow." She yawned and Mamoru smiled.
"Looks like you need sleep, too." He folded the bag of chips up and shut the fridge without getting the salsa. "Is she almost ready?"
"Hai, she has her things together, all she has to do is get on her shoes and leave. I will be ready in two minutes...." Mamoru shook his head.
"I'll take her home, you get to bed." Rei opened her mouth to protest, but Mamoru put a hand up to silence her. He struggled to hide the emotion. She knew he was only putting on the 'I'm a helpful, caring big brother' act because Rei had learned of the date.
Usagi came out of the bathroom carrying her schoolbooks and her purse. "Rei, do you mind if I borrow this?" Usagi pulled a book from the top of her stack. "I think it would help with...some stuff." Usagi was feeling slightly embarrassed, since Mamoru was standing right there, but she couldn't just take the book without asking.
Rei took the book, examined it a minute, gave Usagi a questionable look, but nodded her head, confused as to why Usagi would want to read a romance novel about a girl going out on her first date. Usagi was one of the most desirable girls at the school and she had gone on plenty of dates. Not recently, however. Lately, Usagi had been working harder on her studies, and she hasn't been interested in any guy enough to commit any time at all. At least, that was all Usagi told Rei.
Mamoru got his and Usagi's jackets from the closet and slipped his shoes on, walking out to the hall to wait for Usagi. He had also read the title, "First Date Furies" and was uncertain as to Usagi's excuse.
When she walked of the room, feeling a little embarrassed and showing signs of pinkness, Mamoru knew better than to tease her in any way about the book.
It was a quiet walk to the car. Usagi clung to her books protectively. Mamoru opened the door to his red Corvette for her and she quietly and gracefully slid into the passenger seat. He jogged around to the other side and flopped into the driver's seat. He started up his car and backed out his spot.
"It's for Minako." Mamoru immediately felt disappointed. His thoughts were leaning towards Usagi going on her first date with a guy that she didn't know how to act around because she really liked him, and the other dates she had been on were little crushes or guys she barely even knew. "I want to be able to understand what is going to go through her head. And maybe she should read it, to give her an idea as to what to expect." Mamoru smiled at her, causing her pinkness to change to almost redness. "I just thought you would like to know." Her voice was barely audible.
"You are so sweet, kind, caring, and smart." She looked towards her lap and tightened her grip on her books. "I would never have thought to try and give Minako an idea of what is going to happen, since she is inexperienced and all."
"I just don't want her to leave feeling as though she is the only person in the world that has a bad experience for their first date, and maybe she won't be as nervous." Usagi looked up at Mamoru, only to discover he was looking at her with a sense of pride. Neither could turn away. Mamoru sat at the stop sign for ten minutes before he regained control of his muscles. However, what he did was not exactly a demonstration of self-control.
Usagi wasn't sure how it came to be, the last thing she remembered was her staring into Mamoru's eyes that matched the sky outside the windows, and suddenly her heart was melting and she felt great internal warmth.
Her lips tasted like the sweetest chocolate he had ever tasted. He wasn't sure what gave him the courage to kiss her, but her reaction was exactly what he had hoped for. At least, her reaction up until they broke the kiss answered his prayers.
She couldn't believe it, Rei was going to kill her. She had planned on acting like it was all for Minako, but he had to go and ruin it for her by making more of it. She couldn't stand to be alone in the car with him; she couldn't trust herself around him anymore. So she ran. She forgot about her books, she didn't look back at his concerned face, she didn't think about his self-esteem dropping. All she thought of was getting as far away from the temptation of kissing him again.
He just sat there, he wasn't sure if he should follow her in the car or on foot. He wasn't sure if she would want him to follow her at all, but he couldn't just let her run two blocks in the dark, not being as kawaii as she was. He definitely didn't trust the guys on this street; they were his friends, he knew what they would do if they saw her running like she was, defenseless. He looked at the books she left in his car and decided he wasn't going to carry all them and pulled away from the stop sign.
Minako held the scissors inches from her hair. To cut it would devastate her mother, Baldy loved Minako's hair. Minako's mother was cursed with female pattern baldness, and she was jealous of Minako's flowing blonde hair that shinned in the sun, glittered under the stars, and swam gracefully through the breeze. She would die if she was to catch Minako in the middle of cutting down from her knees to her shoulders. But Minako needed the change of pace, and she was greatly considered doing it.
But fear stopped her. What would her mother do if she decided to cut off her hair? She would probably beat her, like always. A chuckle escaped Minako's throat. It wasn't a happy or pleased chuckle, but Minako was amused and she knew no other way to express it. A simple thought came to her mind: "My mother would care more about me cutting my hair than my wrists. Might as well go with the one that will keep her happiest."
Without a second thought, Minako quickly ran the blade across her slender wrist with many superficial veins. It didn't take long for the scream to escape her lips and her thoughts disappear.
Usagi heard him coming up behind him, slowly, and she knew she couldn't outrun his car, so she slowed to a stop and waited for him. He couldn't believe it when she had stopped, but his heart sang its rejoices. She walked to the door and opened it, climbing in, but sitting on the very far side of the seat and staring out the window.
"Are you mad at me?" Usagi turned to look at him, ready to go off on him, but as soon as their eyes met, all anger flew out the window and she couldn't think of anything to mad about. "I would understand if you are, but don't cancel out date.."
"Minako needs this date too much, don't worry, I won't back out now." She turned back to the window, pressing herself more upon the door. "Besides, I kind of want to go."
His smile shined in the darkened car. Usagi had expected him to say something, so she again looked at him. His eyes sparkled under the moonlight that filtered a small amount of light on them. Her chest rose and fell in sync with his. So many thoughts were rushing threw each of their heads, yet neither had the will to speak; every ounce of willpower went to stop themselves from repeating their previous action.
"Mamoru-" He turned away.
"Usagi, you are Rei's best friend, I don't really know if there can be something here, between us." He turned his car off and turned on the child- safe locks, preventing Usagi a method of escape. "I won't lie to you, I care for you very much, and you are the only girl I want, but we must think of Rei."
Anger was building inside Usagi. "how dare YOU say this to ME. Who was the one who kissed who? Listen, I have concealed my feelings for you for two years because I have been thinking of Rei-chan!" Usagi's hands flew to cover her mouth, but it was too late, she told him. She revealed the secret she kept, even in a game or truth or dare she wouldn't reveal that, but in her anger, she blurted it out to one of the two people she really cared if they knew.
Mamoru was simply shocked. 'Two years?! Two years, and she couldn't tell me?! Well, this explains why she doesn't date anymore.'
"Usagi, I never knew that you..."
"That was how it was supposed to stay..."
"But, why?"
"Why what? Why would I keep it a secret? To save Rei the problem of having her friend and her brother together." Usagi calmly turned her body to face Mamoru. "I am not willing to sacrifice my friendship with her, not even for you, so, please, promise that you will not only keep this a secret, but you won't try anything at the date that is like that."
Mamoru observed the angel focusing her attention on him. He nodded his head unmindfully. He wasn't actually thinking about what she said, he was too preoccupied seeing her. He didn't just see Tsukino Usagi sitting before him, the way the moonlight reflected off her hair, the way she shone in the light, she looked heaven-sent, more so than usual, that is.
But the moment was short lived. It was interrupted by the screeching of sirens, heading in the direction of Minako's house.
Minako's mother heard a blood-curling scream come from Minako's room, was going to ignore it, but decided there was no use combing her hair in her 'mysterious' fashion at 10 o'clock at night.
When she reached her one and only child's room, she dropped her jaw in amazement. 'The little cry baby has guts after all.' She slowly made her way over to Minako and put her hand over her mouth, to test if she was breathing or not. To her dismay, she was still alive. "You little bitch, can't you do anything right? Don't you know they can tell how long you lay here? Don't you know I will get in trouble if I don't at least try to help you? Especially since you made me come in here. Domo Arigatou Museme- sama!" She slowly walked over to Minako's bed and picked up her phone, dialed for an ambulance and put on her most 'worried mother' voice she could muster, which was very convincing.
Usagi had a bad feeling the second she heard the sirens, but when the ambulance and police car turned down the street that branched off her own, Minako's street, the sinking feeling increased drastically. "Go to Minako's house, hakuyu." Mamoru didn't question her, he turned on the car and sped off.
When the paramedics were tending to Minako, her mother was forcing fake tears to role down her cheeks. One of the police officers that had come was trying to quiet her sobs to not avail.
When Usagi and Mamoru ran in the open door, however, her sobs immediately stopped. "Usagi-chan." She suddenly remembered the act she was putting and let out a wondrous yelp. "Oh, it's just terrible! What has caused her to do this?! Usagi, you have to know!" She threw herself at Usagi, shaking both of them with her act.
Usagi was not going to confront her, yet, instead, she shoved her towards the cop and ran into the bedroom where Minako lay, bleeding to death. The officer that stood just inside her door grabbed Usagi's shoulders and stopped her from proceeding into the scene of the attempted suicide.
"Young lady, there is nothing to see here.."
"Bull crap! That is my best friend, and, unless you want trouble, I suggest getting the heck out of my way!" He was young and an obvious amateur, so he stepped aside and let her threw.
Minako was already loaded on the stretcher and was being wheeled to the ambulance, so Usagi didn't get a chance to see about her condition, but she opted to have Mamoru take her to the hospital, and from there call her parents.
She ran after the paramedics and grabbed Mamoru's wrist as she ran past him. Unsurprisingly, Minako rode by herself in the ambulance, her mother "had some things to take care of" before she could come up to see her "baby".
When Mamoru arrived at the hospital, he simply dropped Usagi and headed home to Rei, he felt she should be here for Usagi and Minako.
A.N.~ Well, I hope you enjoyed it. I am not real sure if anyone is actually reading this, but I'll write anyway. The next chapter should be up in the next month. My rule is either one month or four reviews after I post, I post the next chapter. Tootles!
I don't own the characters I am using, I simply own my ideas. Please do not get me in trouble for using them, and don't steal my work, I work hard to create this, so it would be most not nice to steal it.
Chapter 2: The Ordeal Behind It All
Rei sat in her room, thinking of what to say to Mamoru when he got back from taking Usagi home. She stood quickly, frustrated with herself. "My gosh! Why do I care so much? Usagi said herself that she was only going for Minako. But Mamoru is another story." She began pacing her small room. There suddenly came the sound of a door being unlocked. Mamoru was home.
Mamoru walked out of his room, making his was past Rei's room towards the kitchen. He reached the pantry and pulled out a bag of chips and walked to the fridge to get the salsa.
Rei came out of her room, looking somewhat sleepy. "Onee-san, Usagi needs to go home so she will get enough sleep for school tomorrow." She yawned and Mamoru smiled.
"Looks like you need sleep, too." He folded the bag of chips up and shut the fridge without getting the salsa. "Is she almost ready?"
"Hai, she has her things together, all she has to do is get on her shoes and leave. I will be ready in two minutes...." Mamoru shook his head.
"I'll take her home, you get to bed." Rei opened her mouth to protest, but Mamoru put a hand up to silence her. He struggled to hide the emotion. She knew he was only putting on the 'I'm a helpful, caring big brother' act because Rei had learned of the date.
Usagi came out of the bathroom carrying her schoolbooks and her purse. "Rei, do you mind if I borrow this?" Usagi pulled a book from the top of her stack. "I think it would help with...some stuff." Usagi was feeling slightly embarrassed, since Mamoru was standing right there, but she couldn't just take the book without asking.
Rei took the book, examined it a minute, gave Usagi a questionable look, but nodded her head, confused as to why Usagi would want to read a romance novel about a girl going out on her first date. Usagi was one of the most desirable girls at the school and she had gone on plenty of dates. Not recently, however. Lately, Usagi had been working harder on her studies, and she hasn't been interested in any guy enough to commit any time at all. At least, that was all Usagi told Rei.
Mamoru got his and Usagi's jackets from the closet and slipped his shoes on, walking out to the hall to wait for Usagi. He had also read the title, "First Date Furies" and was uncertain as to Usagi's excuse.
When she walked of the room, feeling a little embarrassed and showing signs of pinkness, Mamoru knew better than to tease her in any way about the book.
It was a quiet walk to the car. Usagi clung to her books protectively. Mamoru opened the door to his red Corvette for her and she quietly and gracefully slid into the passenger seat. He jogged around to the other side and flopped into the driver's seat. He started up his car and backed out his spot.
"It's for Minako." Mamoru immediately felt disappointed. His thoughts were leaning towards Usagi going on her first date with a guy that she didn't know how to act around because she really liked him, and the other dates she had been on were little crushes or guys she barely even knew. "I want to be able to understand what is going to go through her head. And maybe she should read it, to give her an idea as to what to expect." Mamoru smiled at her, causing her pinkness to change to almost redness. "I just thought you would like to know." Her voice was barely audible.
"You are so sweet, kind, caring, and smart." She looked towards her lap and tightened her grip on her books. "I would never have thought to try and give Minako an idea of what is going to happen, since she is inexperienced and all."
"I just don't want her to leave feeling as though she is the only person in the world that has a bad experience for their first date, and maybe she won't be as nervous." Usagi looked up at Mamoru, only to discover he was looking at her with a sense of pride. Neither could turn away. Mamoru sat at the stop sign for ten minutes before he regained control of his muscles. However, what he did was not exactly a demonstration of self-control.
Usagi wasn't sure how it came to be, the last thing she remembered was her staring into Mamoru's eyes that matched the sky outside the windows, and suddenly her heart was melting and she felt great internal warmth.
Her lips tasted like the sweetest chocolate he had ever tasted. He wasn't sure what gave him the courage to kiss her, but her reaction was exactly what he had hoped for. At least, her reaction up until they broke the kiss answered his prayers.
She couldn't believe it, Rei was going to kill her. She had planned on acting like it was all for Minako, but he had to go and ruin it for her by making more of it. She couldn't stand to be alone in the car with him; she couldn't trust herself around him anymore. So she ran. She forgot about her books, she didn't look back at his concerned face, she didn't think about his self-esteem dropping. All she thought of was getting as far away from the temptation of kissing him again.
He just sat there, he wasn't sure if he should follow her in the car or on foot. He wasn't sure if she would want him to follow her at all, but he couldn't just let her run two blocks in the dark, not being as kawaii as she was. He definitely didn't trust the guys on this street; they were his friends, he knew what they would do if they saw her running like she was, defenseless. He looked at the books she left in his car and decided he wasn't going to carry all them and pulled away from the stop sign.
Minako held the scissors inches from her hair. To cut it would devastate her mother, Baldy loved Minako's hair. Minako's mother was cursed with female pattern baldness, and she was jealous of Minako's flowing blonde hair that shinned in the sun, glittered under the stars, and swam gracefully through the breeze. She would die if she was to catch Minako in the middle of cutting down from her knees to her shoulders. But Minako needed the change of pace, and she was greatly considered doing it.
But fear stopped her. What would her mother do if she decided to cut off her hair? She would probably beat her, like always. A chuckle escaped Minako's throat. It wasn't a happy or pleased chuckle, but Minako was amused and she knew no other way to express it. A simple thought came to her mind: "My mother would care more about me cutting my hair than my wrists. Might as well go with the one that will keep her happiest."
Without a second thought, Minako quickly ran the blade across her slender wrist with many superficial veins. It didn't take long for the scream to escape her lips and her thoughts disappear.
Usagi heard him coming up behind him, slowly, and she knew she couldn't outrun his car, so she slowed to a stop and waited for him. He couldn't believe it when she had stopped, but his heart sang its rejoices. She walked to the door and opened it, climbing in, but sitting on the very far side of the seat and staring out the window.
"Are you mad at me?" Usagi turned to look at him, ready to go off on him, but as soon as their eyes met, all anger flew out the window and she couldn't think of anything to mad about. "I would understand if you are, but don't cancel out date.."
"Minako needs this date too much, don't worry, I won't back out now." She turned back to the window, pressing herself more upon the door. "Besides, I kind of want to go."
His smile shined in the darkened car. Usagi had expected him to say something, so she again looked at him. His eyes sparkled under the moonlight that filtered a small amount of light on them. Her chest rose and fell in sync with his. So many thoughts were rushing threw each of their heads, yet neither had the will to speak; every ounce of willpower went to stop themselves from repeating their previous action.
"Mamoru-" He turned away.
"Usagi, you are Rei's best friend, I don't really know if there can be something here, between us." He turned his car off and turned on the child- safe locks, preventing Usagi a method of escape. "I won't lie to you, I care for you very much, and you are the only girl I want, but we must think of Rei."
Anger was building inside Usagi. "how dare YOU say this to ME. Who was the one who kissed who? Listen, I have concealed my feelings for you for two years because I have been thinking of Rei-chan!" Usagi's hands flew to cover her mouth, but it was too late, she told him. She revealed the secret she kept, even in a game or truth or dare she wouldn't reveal that, but in her anger, she blurted it out to one of the two people she really cared if they knew.
Mamoru was simply shocked. 'Two years?! Two years, and she couldn't tell me?! Well, this explains why she doesn't date anymore.'
"Usagi, I never knew that you..."
"That was how it was supposed to stay..."
"But, why?"
"Why what? Why would I keep it a secret? To save Rei the problem of having her friend and her brother together." Usagi calmly turned her body to face Mamoru. "I am not willing to sacrifice my friendship with her, not even for you, so, please, promise that you will not only keep this a secret, but you won't try anything at the date that is like that."
Mamoru observed the angel focusing her attention on him. He nodded his head unmindfully. He wasn't actually thinking about what she said, he was too preoccupied seeing her. He didn't just see Tsukino Usagi sitting before him, the way the moonlight reflected off her hair, the way she shone in the light, she looked heaven-sent, more so than usual, that is.
But the moment was short lived. It was interrupted by the screeching of sirens, heading in the direction of Minako's house.
Minako's mother heard a blood-curling scream come from Minako's room, was going to ignore it, but decided there was no use combing her hair in her 'mysterious' fashion at 10 o'clock at night.
When she reached her one and only child's room, she dropped her jaw in amazement. 'The little cry baby has guts after all.' She slowly made her way over to Minako and put her hand over her mouth, to test if she was breathing or not. To her dismay, she was still alive. "You little bitch, can't you do anything right? Don't you know they can tell how long you lay here? Don't you know I will get in trouble if I don't at least try to help you? Especially since you made me come in here. Domo Arigatou Museme- sama!" She slowly walked over to Minako's bed and picked up her phone, dialed for an ambulance and put on her most 'worried mother' voice she could muster, which was very convincing.
Usagi had a bad feeling the second she heard the sirens, but when the ambulance and police car turned down the street that branched off her own, Minako's street, the sinking feeling increased drastically. "Go to Minako's house, hakuyu." Mamoru didn't question her, he turned on the car and sped off.
When the paramedics were tending to Minako, her mother was forcing fake tears to role down her cheeks. One of the police officers that had come was trying to quiet her sobs to not avail.
When Usagi and Mamoru ran in the open door, however, her sobs immediately stopped. "Usagi-chan." She suddenly remembered the act she was putting and let out a wondrous yelp. "Oh, it's just terrible! What has caused her to do this?! Usagi, you have to know!" She threw herself at Usagi, shaking both of them with her act.
Usagi was not going to confront her, yet, instead, she shoved her towards the cop and ran into the bedroom where Minako lay, bleeding to death. The officer that stood just inside her door grabbed Usagi's shoulders and stopped her from proceeding into the scene of the attempted suicide.
"Young lady, there is nothing to see here.."
"Bull crap! That is my best friend, and, unless you want trouble, I suggest getting the heck out of my way!" He was young and an obvious amateur, so he stepped aside and let her threw.
Minako was already loaded on the stretcher and was being wheeled to the ambulance, so Usagi didn't get a chance to see about her condition, but she opted to have Mamoru take her to the hospital, and from there call her parents.
She ran after the paramedics and grabbed Mamoru's wrist as she ran past him. Unsurprisingly, Minako rode by herself in the ambulance, her mother "had some things to take care of" before she could come up to see her "baby".
When Mamoru arrived at the hospital, he simply dropped Usagi and headed home to Rei, he felt she should be here for Usagi and Minako.
A.N.~ Well, I hope you enjoyed it. I am not real sure if anyone is actually reading this, but I'll write anyway. The next chapter should be up in the next month. My rule is either one month or four reviews after I post, I post the next chapter. Tootles!