I was taking my algebra book out of my locker and getting ready for
my first period class when the impossible happened. The crush of my life
and also the most popular guy in school actually came up to talk to me. He
was so stunning! No wonder every girl in school wants him! But flirting
with him also had the consequence of Beryl making your life in school a
living hell. But I didn't care, he was just too gorgeous. He looked down on
me and smiled since my height only reached his chin.
"Hi Usagi. How are you today?" Darien Shield asked, trying to make conversation. I was totally surprised that he knew my name. He might have been irresistibly gorgeous, but I was not delusional. A guy like him would never be interested in a girl like me. He was just probably here to make my life a further torment.
"What do you want?" I asked rudely, putting on one of my coldest faces as Serena La Morte. Apparently it worked, as he got a little nervous.
"Just coming over to apologize from the way Beryl treated you yesterday" he answered nervously. I looked at him and frowned. This little innocent act was not going to fool me.
"I bet you are" I replied with sarcasm. No normal girl in school, especially no outcast, would even dare talk to Darien Shield this way, but I was no ordinary girl or outcast, I was Serena La Morte.
"Well then, I'll see you around" he said before he quickly walked away and was surrounded by all his buddies again. That was very weird. He did not even have a comeback to throw at me. Maybe he really didn't mean to come here to make fun of me. Maybe he even came here to befriend me. 'Yeah right' I thought before I went to my first period, 'and hell froze over too.'
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Darien Shield glanced back one last time at the petite girl before he let his buddies drag him away. There was just something about her that attracted him, but he could never quite figure out what. It's not like he was attracted to her physically. She had short brown hair and chestnut colored eyes and always wore baggy clothing to cover her body up, so he could quite not tell what kind of body she hid under. Her skin was kind of dark too. He was definitely not attracted to her physically. He was more attracted to her personality and behavior. Like the way she just acted a minute ago in his presence. Any other girl in school, especially an outcast, would have completely freaked out in his presence, but she acted totally cool and relaxed. She was not nervous at all. The way she talked to him and behaved had also made Darien very amused but at the same time stunned. No girl would ever dare to talk so rudely to him, no girl. But Usagi was different from all the rest. The ice-cold expression that she wore on her face had simply frozen Darien on the spot and made him more nervous then he ever was in his life. In fact, no girl had made Darien nervous before. It was always he making them nervous, not the other way around! He had gotten so nervous that he had simply forgotten what he was going to say and just walked away without making that much of an impression on the girl that he wanted. Yes, be amazed folks, he wanted her. Usually, when Darien walked away from a girl that he was interested in, he already had her phone number in his pocket and her full attention and interest in him. But this was way different. There was just something very incredible and extraordinary about Usagi Tsukino that attracted Darien Shield, the football star and most popular guy in school, to her and he would not rest until he found out what.
"You OK Dare?" asked Andrew Walking, one of Darien's best buddies's. He hard short blond hair and blue eyes with a well-built body. He was quite an athlete, but not as good as Darien.
"Yeah I'm fine" replied Darien, snapping out of his trance.
"You're not regretting that you broke up with Beryl are you?" he asked.
"Hell no!" quickly replied Darien with certainty.
"Good!" exclaimed Andrew with relief.
"I can tell that you really didn't like her either" said Darien with an amused smirk.
"You kidding! I had to put up with her for the 2 month that you two have been dating and trust me, putting up with her is hard!" cried out Andrew.
"Then we should celebrate your hard work" said an amused Darien, "wanna go out for pizza this lunch? I'm buying."
"Hell ya! I'm definitely there!" replied Andrew with enthusiasm. The two friends joked on as they made their way down the hall with the rest of their buddies all ahead of them by now. But to little of Andrew's knowledge, his best friend still had the thought of Usagi Tsukino trailing in his mind.
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"So she actually talked to you about some of her personal life?" I asked astonishingly.
"Well, not exactly personal. She just told me where she lived and a little about her family" replied Ami shyly. I have been asking about how her tutoring session went with Lita last night, and as it turns out, it went rather well.
"That's personal life!" I exclaimed, "so how did you get it out of her?"
"Well, at first she was really cold and only talked when absolutely necessary. But then, after a while, she relaxed and became more open with me. Then, one thing let to another and before I know it, we were sitting there and chatting away like old friends" explained Ami. I was simply amazed.
"That is so very good!" I commented, "Now she will actually be more friendly and maybe even join us for lunch."
"Well your in luck!" grinned Ami, "She will be joining us shortly."
"What!" I exclaimed, "how did you get her to do that?"
"Well, since she got to know me better and me her, I suggested for her to join us for lunch and maybe get to know you better too, so we could all be friends in the end. Amazingly enough, she didn't decline. She said that she enjoyed talking to someone about her personal life for a change and hoped that you would be just as enjoyable to talk to" said Ami smiling.
"Wow! That's a big change for her!" I said with disbelieve.
"I know! I'm really glad that she is opening up and I hope that we three will all become great friends in the end" replied a happy Ami.
"Me too!" I commented, "so, when is she coming?"
"Right now" replied Ami as she pointed to a tall brunette walking towards us. Lita had brown hair tied in a high ponytail and dangerously fierce looking green eyes. She was very athletic but did not even bother to try out for any school sports teams. She was just way too distant from people, just like Serena La Morte.
"Hi Usagi!" she smiled down on me.
"Hi" I said uncertainly. There was an awkward silence that was finally broken by Ami.
"Why don't you sit down with us?" asked Ami politely as she motioned for a spot on the grass below the big oak tree, our usual eating place. Lita sat down and smiled politely before she opened her lunch box to reveal a plate full of goodies. I stared at them with longing.
"Want one?" she asked with a smile. From that moment on I knew that her and me will become great friends.
"Sure" I replied and took one out of her plate. Before long, we were all chatting away under the big oak like old friends.
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Seiya took a big bite out of his sandwich and looked out of the window in his office in Washington. It was night time and he was working late again. 'Thank God I am not married' he thought ' or the wife will be furious with me.' He took a big sip out of his cold coffee and began to think toward his case again. It has been 3 weeks since their last big success on capturing one of the La Morte's bases in Paris. But lately something going on was not right. The La Femmes have completely stopped all their criminal activities for no reason at all, but the La Mortes were still going. This was definitely odd behavior. He definitely did not think that the La Femmes have been defeated by the La Mortes or else he would have known about it already. The La Morte's would be celebrating by now with an all out crime wash all over the world. It was definitely not that. This odd behavior by the La Femmes has been going on for more than a week now. Usually they would find a crime related to the La Femmes in less than two days.
'The La Femmes are definitely planing something no good' he thought, ' and I refuse to rest until I find out just what!' With that last trail of thought, Seiya Kou quickly took another bite of his sandwich and went back to work. Determination was blazing in his eyes.
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Diamond slowly took another sip of his blood red wine as he looked out the huge glass wall of his elegant apartment at top of his company building. He overlooked the city of New York with amusement. It was night time, and the light display was simply stunning. He had just finished listening to his CEO report on all the latest boring happenings of his company. It was doing fine and even slowly expanding more in India. But this was not what pleased him, but what pleased him was his latest triumph over the La Morte clan. Well, soon to be triumph. He just needed more information and more time to develop his plan. At least he was way close to conquering the La Mortes than he was two weeks ago.
You see, he had a liable source in the La Morte clan. His source was one of the top members of the La Morte family and would soon get promoted to headquarters if he passed the final test of loyalty, which Diamond doubted. Diamond's plan was to get as much information out of the guy before his big test and eliminate him at the day of the test. Of course, the guy didn't know. He thought that he was being loyal to the La Femmes by playing spy on them on the La Mortes. Diamond was disgusted by these kind of men. He saw them as scum. He knew that this man could easily turn around and betray them as he did the La Mortes for a handsome sum of money. When it comes to it, he could even use it as black mail to get to the top and cease Diamond's position. Diamond would let this happen over his dead body. Diamond knew that these kind of people could never be trusted and that they should be used very carefully. You should get as much information out of them as you can and eliminate them quickly afterwards before they realize what's going on. But he could not murder the man just yet. He still had some valuable information as the ones he had given out about a week ago.
The man had told Diamond some valuable information on the mysterious La Morte clan leader. Serena La Morte she was called and she was only 17 years old. This had surprised Diamond significantly. Apparently, the girl always wore a heavy disguise when out in public and only a very selected and loyal few of the La Morte members have seen her true look. It was rumored that she was simply stunningly gorgeous and Diamond ached to see this for himself. The man had also told Diamond that most of the time she commands the La Mortes from an intercom that is held by the commanders. He had not had a chance to personally interact with her but could recognize a little of her voice from the instructions that she gave out over the intercom. Her instructions and plans were simply brilliant. That much Diamond had to admit. She was currently lying low in a public high school and was attending as one of the seniors there. But just where the high school was, the man still yet had to find out. This was the only information left from the man that Diamond needed before he could eliminate the man and Diamond's patience was growing rather thin.
"Mr. Kaffro?" asked his maid. She was a plump woman with a rather chubby face. She was a foreign Italian and spoke rather accented English.
"Yes?" responded Diamond to his fake name, Nicholas Kaffro.
"Vice President Dusevic is on the phone wishing to speak to you " she answered nervously as she handed Diamond the cordless phone. Diamond waited as the plump woman quickly left before he answered.
"How are you brother?" he asked in a warm tone.
"Just fine thank you" replied a warm tone on the other end too.
"What brings you to make this phone call?" asked a curious Diamond.
"This phone line is safe from all ease droppers right?" he asked carefully.
"Of course Sapphire" replied Diamond.
"Good" sighed Sapphire, "I just finished speaking to Seiya Kou today."
"Who?" asked Diamond.
"You know, the head of the investigation department of the FBI?" explained Sapphire.
"Oh yes, him" replied Diamond with realization. He did not like Seiya Kou, he was too nousy. He was like an annoying little fly that Diamond will enjoy squashing after the whole thing with the La Mortes has been taken care of.
"Well, I talked to him today. It seems like he is onto us Diamond. What do we do?" asked Sapphire a little nervously. Although he was the Vice President of United States, he still took orders from his older brother. As you might have known already, he had a fixed election planned by Diamond.
"Let him suspect all he wants, but he is not going to find out anything. Trust me" answered Diamond with certainty. This seemed to relax Sapphire a little.
"Thanks Diamond, I know I can always trust you on these kinds of things" replied Sapphire warmly on the other end.
"No problem" replied Diamond with an amused grin as he pictured all the pieces of his plan finally coming together.
"I will get you La Morte" he whispered to no one in particular.
"Hi Usagi. How are you today?" Darien Shield asked, trying to make conversation. I was totally surprised that he knew my name. He might have been irresistibly gorgeous, but I was not delusional. A guy like him would never be interested in a girl like me. He was just probably here to make my life a further torment.
"What do you want?" I asked rudely, putting on one of my coldest faces as Serena La Morte. Apparently it worked, as he got a little nervous.
"Just coming over to apologize from the way Beryl treated you yesterday" he answered nervously. I looked at him and frowned. This little innocent act was not going to fool me.
"I bet you are" I replied with sarcasm. No normal girl in school, especially no outcast, would even dare talk to Darien Shield this way, but I was no ordinary girl or outcast, I was Serena La Morte.
"Well then, I'll see you around" he said before he quickly walked away and was surrounded by all his buddies again. That was very weird. He did not even have a comeback to throw at me. Maybe he really didn't mean to come here to make fun of me. Maybe he even came here to befriend me. 'Yeah right' I thought before I went to my first period, 'and hell froze over too.'
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Darien Shield glanced back one last time at the petite girl before he let his buddies drag him away. There was just something about her that attracted him, but he could never quite figure out what. It's not like he was attracted to her physically. She had short brown hair and chestnut colored eyes and always wore baggy clothing to cover her body up, so he could quite not tell what kind of body she hid under. Her skin was kind of dark too. He was definitely not attracted to her physically. He was more attracted to her personality and behavior. Like the way she just acted a minute ago in his presence. Any other girl in school, especially an outcast, would have completely freaked out in his presence, but she acted totally cool and relaxed. She was not nervous at all. The way she talked to him and behaved had also made Darien very amused but at the same time stunned. No girl would ever dare to talk so rudely to him, no girl. But Usagi was different from all the rest. The ice-cold expression that she wore on her face had simply frozen Darien on the spot and made him more nervous then he ever was in his life. In fact, no girl had made Darien nervous before. It was always he making them nervous, not the other way around! He had gotten so nervous that he had simply forgotten what he was going to say and just walked away without making that much of an impression on the girl that he wanted. Yes, be amazed folks, he wanted her. Usually, when Darien walked away from a girl that he was interested in, he already had her phone number in his pocket and her full attention and interest in him. But this was way different. There was just something very incredible and extraordinary about Usagi Tsukino that attracted Darien Shield, the football star and most popular guy in school, to her and he would not rest until he found out what.
"You OK Dare?" asked Andrew Walking, one of Darien's best buddies's. He hard short blond hair and blue eyes with a well-built body. He was quite an athlete, but not as good as Darien.
"Yeah I'm fine" replied Darien, snapping out of his trance.
"You're not regretting that you broke up with Beryl are you?" he asked.
"Hell no!" quickly replied Darien with certainty.
"Good!" exclaimed Andrew with relief.
"I can tell that you really didn't like her either" said Darien with an amused smirk.
"You kidding! I had to put up with her for the 2 month that you two have been dating and trust me, putting up with her is hard!" cried out Andrew.
"Then we should celebrate your hard work" said an amused Darien, "wanna go out for pizza this lunch? I'm buying."
"Hell ya! I'm definitely there!" replied Andrew with enthusiasm. The two friends joked on as they made their way down the hall with the rest of their buddies all ahead of them by now. But to little of Andrew's knowledge, his best friend still had the thought of Usagi Tsukino trailing in his mind.
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"So she actually talked to you about some of her personal life?" I asked astonishingly.
"Well, not exactly personal. She just told me where she lived and a little about her family" replied Ami shyly. I have been asking about how her tutoring session went with Lita last night, and as it turns out, it went rather well.
"That's personal life!" I exclaimed, "so how did you get it out of her?"
"Well, at first she was really cold and only talked when absolutely necessary. But then, after a while, she relaxed and became more open with me. Then, one thing let to another and before I know it, we were sitting there and chatting away like old friends" explained Ami. I was simply amazed.
"That is so very good!" I commented, "Now she will actually be more friendly and maybe even join us for lunch."
"Well your in luck!" grinned Ami, "She will be joining us shortly."
"What!" I exclaimed, "how did you get her to do that?"
"Well, since she got to know me better and me her, I suggested for her to join us for lunch and maybe get to know you better too, so we could all be friends in the end. Amazingly enough, she didn't decline. She said that she enjoyed talking to someone about her personal life for a change and hoped that you would be just as enjoyable to talk to" said Ami smiling.
"Wow! That's a big change for her!" I said with disbelieve.
"I know! I'm really glad that she is opening up and I hope that we three will all become great friends in the end" replied a happy Ami.
"Me too!" I commented, "so, when is she coming?"
"Right now" replied Ami as she pointed to a tall brunette walking towards us. Lita had brown hair tied in a high ponytail and dangerously fierce looking green eyes. She was very athletic but did not even bother to try out for any school sports teams. She was just way too distant from people, just like Serena La Morte.
"Hi Usagi!" she smiled down on me.
"Hi" I said uncertainly. There was an awkward silence that was finally broken by Ami.
"Why don't you sit down with us?" asked Ami politely as she motioned for a spot on the grass below the big oak tree, our usual eating place. Lita sat down and smiled politely before she opened her lunch box to reveal a plate full of goodies. I stared at them with longing.
"Want one?" she asked with a smile. From that moment on I knew that her and me will become great friends.
"Sure" I replied and took one out of her plate. Before long, we were all chatting away under the big oak like old friends.
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Seiya took a big bite out of his sandwich and looked out of the window in his office in Washington. It was night time and he was working late again. 'Thank God I am not married' he thought ' or the wife will be furious with me.' He took a big sip out of his cold coffee and began to think toward his case again. It has been 3 weeks since their last big success on capturing one of the La Morte's bases in Paris. But lately something going on was not right. The La Femmes have completely stopped all their criminal activities for no reason at all, but the La Mortes were still going. This was definitely odd behavior. He definitely did not think that the La Femmes have been defeated by the La Mortes or else he would have known about it already. The La Morte's would be celebrating by now with an all out crime wash all over the world. It was definitely not that. This odd behavior by the La Femmes has been going on for more than a week now. Usually they would find a crime related to the La Femmes in less than two days.
'The La Femmes are definitely planing something no good' he thought, ' and I refuse to rest until I find out just what!' With that last trail of thought, Seiya Kou quickly took another bite of his sandwich and went back to work. Determination was blazing in his eyes.
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Diamond slowly took another sip of his blood red wine as he looked out the huge glass wall of his elegant apartment at top of his company building. He overlooked the city of New York with amusement. It was night time, and the light display was simply stunning. He had just finished listening to his CEO report on all the latest boring happenings of his company. It was doing fine and even slowly expanding more in India. But this was not what pleased him, but what pleased him was his latest triumph over the La Morte clan. Well, soon to be triumph. He just needed more information and more time to develop his plan. At least he was way close to conquering the La Mortes than he was two weeks ago.
You see, he had a liable source in the La Morte clan. His source was one of the top members of the La Morte family and would soon get promoted to headquarters if he passed the final test of loyalty, which Diamond doubted. Diamond's plan was to get as much information out of the guy before his big test and eliminate him at the day of the test. Of course, the guy didn't know. He thought that he was being loyal to the La Femmes by playing spy on them on the La Mortes. Diamond was disgusted by these kind of men. He saw them as scum. He knew that this man could easily turn around and betray them as he did the La Mortes for a handsome sum of money. When it comes to it, he could even use it as black mail to get to the top and cease Diamond's position. Diamond would let this happen over his dead body. Diamond knew that these kind of people could never be trusted and that they should be used very carefully. You should get as much information out of them as you can and eliminate them quickly afterwards before they realize what's going on. But he could not murder the man just yet. He still had some valuable information as the ones he had given out about a week ago.
The man had told Diamond some valuable information on the mysterious La Morte clan leader. Serena La Morte she was called and she was only 17 years old. This had surprised Diamond significantly. Apparently, the girl always wore a heavy disguise when out in public and only a very selected and loyal few of the La Morte members have seen her true look. It was rumored that she was simply stunningly gorgeous and Diamond ached to see this for himself. The man had also told Diamond that most of the time she commands the La Mortes from an intercom that is held by the commanders. He had not had a chance to personally interact with her but could recognize a little of her voice from the instructions that she gave out over the intercom. Her instructions and plans were simply brilliant. That much Diamond had to admit. She was currently lying low in a public high school and was attending as one of the seniors there. But just where the high school was, the man still yet had to find out. This was the only information left from the man that Diamond needed before he could eliminate the man and Diamond's patience was growing rather thin.
"Mr. Kaffro?" asked his maid. She was a plump woman with a rather chubby face. She was a foreign Italian and spoke rather accented English.
"Yes?" responded Diamond to his fake name, Nicholas Kaffro.
"Vice President Dusevic is on the phone wishing to speak to you " she answered nervously as she handed Diamond the cordless phone. Diamond waited as the plump woman quickly left before he answered.
"How are you brother?" he asked in a warm tone.
"Just fine thank you" replied a warm tone on the other end too.
"What brings you to make this phone call?" asked a curious Diamond.
"This phone line is safe from all ease droppers right?" he asked carefully.
"Of course Sapphire" replied Diamond.
"Good" sighed Sapphire, "I just finished speaking to Seiya Kou today."
"Who?" asked Diamond.
"You know, the head of the investigation department of the FBI?" explained Sapphire.
"Oh yes, him" replied Diamond with realization. He did not like Seiya Kou, he was too nousy. He was like an annoying little fly that Diamond will enjoy squashing after the whole thing with the La Mortes has been taken care of.
"Well, I talked to him today. It seems like he is onto us Diamond. What do we do?" asked Sapphire a little nervously. Although he was the Vice President of United States, he still took orders from his older brother. As you might have known already, he had a fixed election planned by Diamond.
"Let him suspect all he wants, but he is not going to find out anything. Trust me" answered Diamond with certainty. This seemed to relax Sapphire a little.
"Thanks Diamond, I know I can always trust you on these kinds of things" replied Sapphire warmly on the other end.
"No problem" replied Diamond with an amused grin as he pictured all the pieces of his plan finally coming together.
"I will get you La Morte" he whispered to no one in particular.