Finally! Here's Chapter Eighteen: Uncertainty. Everyone enjoying the holidays? Good. Oh yeah, sorry for the delay.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE R&R my newest fic: Not Quite "Virtual" Reality. I worked really hard on the first chapter.
"Who is it, Hiiro?" Duo called.
"It's a ghost, Duo." Hiiro replied quietly.
"A ghost? Now I know you're-" Duo had walked in and he, too, froze. Quatre and Trowa weren't far behind.
"Usagi?" Hiiro asked. Usagi gulped and nodded.
"How? What?" Quatre stuttered.
"We thought you were dead!" Duo exclaimed, bridging the five-foot gap between them to hug her tightly. The others followed suit, even Hiiro. (AN: Imagine that! LOL)
They flocked around her and led her into the living room, where they crowded around her on the couch.
"What happened, Usagi?" Duo asked again. Usagi sighed and then took a deep breath.
"Right after you left, four guys came into the apartment and carried me out to a van. They drove us for five hours and then we got on a private carrier and went off into space. They put me in a room with a bed and I fell asleep, I don't know for how long. I woke up when the walls started shaking. After hearing people run past outside the door, I layed on the floor and used my unbroken arm to drag myself across the floor and pick the lock. I tried to get out of the base but the last explosions sent parts of the ceiling down. One slab pinned me to the floor. I screamed, and right before I blacked out I heard two men talking. When I woke up, I was in a house in California in America. Ben and Mike took care of me until I healed up fully and was able to tell them what happened. I lived with them for another month or so until I got the courage to come back. And when I first got here, no one was home, so I figured Wufei would be at the gym." Usagi started to cry.
"He was there, wasn't he?" Quatre asked.
"Yeah, he was there alright." Usagi cried. "Kissing another girl!"
"What?" Trowa asked, dumbfounded.
"He was on the ground making out with this redhead!" she repeated. Then they heard Wufei's key in the lock.
"Guys please don't tell him I'm here. I don't want him to know!" Usagi exclaimed. After exchanging very quick glances the four agreed not to tell Wufei.
"I'll call you later!" she promised. Then Usagi ran over and opened the window. Looking down, she saw that it was only a twenty-five foot drop. She winked at them and jumped out just as Wufei entered the room.
"What's with you people?" Wufei asked, seeing them all staring at the open window.
"Nothing, nothing!" Duo exclaimed, going over to close the window.
Usagi landed gracefully on the ground, putting years of Senshi training to good use. She pulled her bookbag out of her subspace pocket and began walking away from the apartments. Digging through the bag, she pulled out the cell phone that Ben and Mike had given her. Pulling out the antenna, she dialed a number she now knew by heart.
"Mike?"
"Hey Squirt, what's up? Everything going okay?"
"It didn't work out, Mike!" she cried. "He was kissing another girl. I didn't even get to talk to him. He doesn't know I'm alive."
"What?"
"I know, I know."
"No, you don't. The only thing that you talked about while you were recovering was this guy Wufei. He and those other four are the only reason you held on to life. Have you talked to any of them?"
"Yeah, Trowa, Duo, Quatre, and Hiiro know, but I made them promise not to tell Wufei."
"Come on Usagi, you love the guy! Go back and tell him!"
"No! If he loves another girl, I don't want to interfere. I want him to be happy." she trailed off.
"You're walking away from the apartment right now aren't you?"
"Yup. That Sean guy said I could call him anytime. I think I'm going to ask to stay with him for a few days until I figure out what I'm going to do."
"Alright but be careful on your own, okay?"
"Okay. You want me to call you when I get there?"
"You know it."
"Okay, talk to you later Mike!"
"Bye Squirt!"
"Bye tousan!"
"Uuuugh why do you have to call me 'dad'?" he laughed as he hung up.
Usagi sighed and pulled out the piece of paper with Sean's phone number on it. Dialing it, she crossed her fingers.
"Hello?" a husky voice on the other end of the line answered.
"Hi, is this Sean?" Usagi asked.
"Yeah, who's this?"
"It's Usagi, remember?"
"Oh yeah, hey Usagi! What's up?!"
"This is going to sound really weird but can I stay with you for a few days? Things here didn't go quite as well as I had hoped and I need a place to stay."
"Sure, of course. Any friend of Ben and Mike is a friend of mine."
"Thanks a lot, you have no idea how much I appreciate this!"
"No problem. Where are you? You want me to come pick you up?"
"That'd be great. I'll wait for you in front of the school gym, okay?"
"Okay, great! I'll be there in ten minutes!"
"Thanks a bunch. See ya!"
"Later, Usagi!"
Usagi smiled a little as she sat on the bottom of the steps leading up to the gym. She looked at a picture she kept of Wufei sleeping. He was on his back with his arms folded under his head. He was shirtless and the picture showed his from waist-up.
Wufei only stayed at the apartment for five minutes before he headed back to the gym. He walked up the steps at the back of the gym and went around to the front just in time to see Usagi stand up and call out to a boy in a small red car.
"Sean!" she cried.
"Usagi?" Wufei whispered. "Usagi!" he called. She didn't hear him but continued to place a duffel bag in the trunk and climb in the passenger seat. He rushed down the steps only to see her drive away.
"So Usagi, what happened?" Sean asked as they pulled into the parking lot of another apartment complex just off campus. As they parked and walked up to the apartment, Usagi proceeded to explain everything from when she began to stay with them when she was blind up to the present. It took about ten minutes.
"I can tell that you're one of those people who's very trusting, even to people you just met. After all that I would have never told someone I just met all of that." Sean said when she was done. He unlocked the door to his apartment and they went in.
"I just think that believing the best of everyone saves so much trouble. Maybe you wonder how I could still believe that after everything OZ did, and honestly I don't know."
Sean led her around the apartment, giving her a tour. The layout was almost exactly the same as the pilot's, except the bedroom had only one bed and a larger desk.
"Ummm, the couch folds out or you can have to bed and I'll sleep on the couch." Sean said.
"No that's okay, I'll take the couch. I don't want to impose on you too much. And thanks again for letting me stay with you." she replied.
"Like I said before, it's no problem. I'm gonna go get some dinner cooking."
"Okay, great." Usagi replied. She pulled out her picture of Wufei again and stared at it, unblinking, until Sean came back in and looked over her shoulder.
"That's not him, is it?" he demanded, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Yes, this is Wufei." she replied.
"This guy was at the gym when I picked you up. He was at the top of the steps. He came racing down as you got in the car and was yelling something."
"What? Are you sure?" she asked.
"Positive." he returned.
Wufei watched the car drive away. He memorized the liscence plate number and then took off back to the apartment. It occured to him along the way that the others might already know, and that made him mad.
Wufei stormed into the apartment.
"Did you know?" he demanded, shoving Trowa in the shoulder.
"What?" Trowa asked.
"Did you know that she was alive?!" Wufei demanded again. Trowa was silent.
Aka: Drumroll please!
Silence. Tumbleweed. Little anime birdies.
Aka: *Looks around*
Aka: They must still be asleep.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE R&R my newest fic: Not Quite "Virtual" Reality. I worked really hard on the first chapter.
"Who is it, Hiiro?" Duo called.
"It's a ghost, Duo." Hiiro replied quietly.
"A ghost? Now I know you're-" Duo had walked in and he, too, froze. Quatre and Trowa weren't far behind.
"Usagi?" Hiiro asked. Usagi gulped and nodded.
"How? What?" Quatre stuttered.
"We thought you were dead!" Duo exclaimed, bridging the five-foot gap between them to hug her tightly. The others followed suit, even Hiiro. (AN: Imagine that! LOL)
They flocked around her and led her into the living room, where they crowded around her on the couch.
"What happened, Usagi?" Duo asked again. Usagi sighed and then took a deep breath.
"Right after you left, four guys came into the apartment and carried me out to a van. They drove us for five hours and then we got on a private carrier and went off into space. They put me in a room with a bed and I fell asleep, I don't know for how long. I woke up when the walls started shaking. After hearing people run past outside the door, I layed on the floor and used my unbroken arm to drag myself across the floor and pick the lock. I tried to get out of the base but the last explosions sent parts of the ceiling down. One slab pinned me to the floor. I screamed, and right before I blacked out I heard two men talking. When I woke up, I was in a house in California in America. Ben and Mike took care of me until I healed up fully and was able to tell them what happened. I lived with them for another month or so until I got the courage to come back. And when I first got here, no one was home, so I figured Wufei would be at the gym." Usagi started to cry.
"He was there, wasn't he?" Quatre asked.
"Yeah, he was there alright." Usagi cried. "Kissing another girl!"
"What?" Trowa asked, dumbfounded.
"He was on the ground making out with this redhead!" she repeated. Then they heard Wufei's key in the lock.
"Guys please don't tell him I'm here. I don't want him to know!" Usagi exclaimed. After exchanging very quick glances the four agreed not to tell Wufei.
"I'll call you later!" she promised. Then Usagi ran over and opened the window. Looking down, she saw that it was only a twenty-five foot drop. She winked at them and jumped out just as Wufei entered the room.
"What's with you people?" Wufei asked, seeing them all staring at the open window.
"Nothing, nothing!" Duo exclaimed, going over to close the window.
Usagi landed gracefully on the ground, putting years of Senshi training to good use. She pulled her bookbag out of her subspace pocket and began walking away from the apartments. Digging through the bag, she pulled out the cell phone that Ben and Mike had given her. Pulling out the antenna, she dialed a number she now knew by heart.
"Mike?"
"Hey Squirt, what's up? Everything going okay?"
"It didn't work out, Mike!" she cried. "He was kissing another girl. I didn't even get to talk to him. He doesn't know I'm alive."
"What?"
"I know, I know."
"No, you don't. The only thing that you talked about while you were recovering was this guy Wufei. He and those other four are the only reason you held on to life. Have you talked to any of them?"
"Yeah, Trowa, Duo, Quatre, and Hiiro know, but I made them promise not to tell Wufei."
"Come on Usagi, you love the guy! Go back and tell him!"
"No! If he loves another girl, I don't want to interfere. I want him to be happy." she trailed off.
"You're walking away from the apartment right now aren't you?"
"Yup. That Sean guy said I could call him anytime. I think I'm going to ask to stay with him for a few days until I figure out what I'm going to do."
"Alright but be careful on your own, okay?"
"Okay. You want me to call you when I get there?"
"You know it."
"Okay, talk to you later Mike!"
"Bye Squirt!"
"Bye tousan!"
"Uuuugh why do you have to call me 'dad'?" he laughed as he hung up.
Usagi sighed and pulled out the piece of paper with Sean's phone number on it. Dialing it, she crossed her fingers.
"Hello?" a husky voice on the other end of the line answered.
"Hi, is this Sean?" Usagi asked.
"Yeah, who's this?"
"It's Usagi, remember?"
"Oh yeah, hey Usagi! What's up?!"
"This is going to sound really weird but can I stay with you for a few days? Things here didn't go quite as well as I had hoped and I need a place to stay."
"Sure, of course. Any friend of Ben and Mike is a friend of mine."
"Thanks a lot, you have no idea how much I appreciate this!"
"No problem. Where are you? You want me to come pick you up?"
"That'd be great. I'll wait for you in front of the school gym, okay?"
"Okay, great! I'll be there in ten minutes!"
"Thanks a bunch. See ya!"
"Later, Usagi!"
Usagi smiled a little as she sat on the bottom of the steps leading up to the gym. She looked at a picture she kept of Wufei sleeping. He was on his back with his arms folded under his head. He was shirtless and the picture showed his from waist-up.
Wufei only stayed at the apartment for five minutes before he headed back to the gym. He walked up the steps at the back of the gym and went around to the front just in time to see Usagi stand up and call out to a boy in a small red car.
"Sean!" she cried.
"Usagi?" Wufei whispered. "Usagi!" he called. She didn't hear him but continued to place a duffel bag in the trunk and climb in the passenger seat. He rushed down the steps only to see her drive away.
"So Usagi, what happened?" Sean asked as they pulled into the parking lot of another apartment complex just off campus. As they parked and walked up to the apartment, Usagi proceeded to explain everything from when she began to stay with them when she was blind up to the present. It took about ten minutes.
"I can tell that you're one of those people who's very trusting, even to people you just met. After all that I would have never told someone I just met all of that." Sean said when she was done. He unlocked the door to his apartment and they went in.
"I just think that believing the best of everyone saves so much trouble. Maybe you wonder how I could still believe that after everything OZ did, and honestly I don't know."
Sean led her around the apartment, giving her a tour. The layout was almost exactly the same as the pilot's, except the bedroom had only one bed and a larger desk.
"Ummm, the couch folds out or you can have to bed and I'll sleep on the couch." Sean said.
"No that's okay, I'll take the couch. I don't want to impose on you too much. And thanks again for letting me stay with you." she replied.
"Like I said before, it's no problem. I'm gonna go get some dinner cooking."
"Okay, great." Usagi replied. She pulled out her picture of Wufei again and stared at it, unblinking, until Sean came back in and looked over her shoulder.
"That's not him, is it?" he demanded, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Yes, this is Wufei." she replied.
"This guy was at the gym when I picked you up. He was at the top of the steps. He came racing down as you got in the car and was yelling something."
"What? Are you sure?" she asked.
"Positive." he returned.
Wufei watched the car drive away. He memorized the liscence plate number and then took off back to the apartment. It occured to him along the way that the others might already know, and that made him mad.
Wufei stormed into the apartment.
"Did you know?" he demanded, shoving Trowa in the shoulder.
"What?" Trowa asked.
"Did you know that she was alive?!" Wufei demanded again. Trowa was silent.
Aka: Drumroll please!
Silence. Tumbleweed. Little anime birdies.
Aka: *Looks around*
Aka: They must still be asleep.