by TerraLuna
Any questions, email me! My address is ravenwing@antisocial.com . Have fun!
Chapter Two The first week of school went by quickly for Bunny. She was greatly looking forward to her coming sleepover scheduled on Friday. It promised to be a blast- Lita, Mina, Raye, Amy, Tara, and herself all at Amy's huge house- it would be awesome. Although Bunny and her four friends tended to be closed up in their own little clique, they were all perfectly willing to let Tara in. Why, they didn't know.
On Tuesday, Bunny got a call from Darien, who had been touring the US.
"Darien!" Bunny cried. "Oh, I missed you! How was America!"
"Oh, it was amazing," responded her lover on the other line. "So many places to see! Bunny, how about I see you tomorrow. I'll meet you on campus at four, okay?"
"Sure," smiled Bunny, who had visited Darien's college many times before, and had become a regular visitor. "Oh, I can't wait! You gotta tell me all about it!"
"Right, I'll see you then," Darien said. "I love you."
"I love you too," responded Bunny. "Hey, I think you picked up a bit of an accent in the States!"
The next day, Bunny drove onto the campus with Avril Lavigne blaring on the stereo. When she caught sight of Darien, she drove up and leaped out of the car to throw her arms around him and kiss him passionately. When they broke apart, Bunny was crying.
"Hey, stop that," Darien said gently, wiping her eye with his finger. "What's wrong?"
"Darien, I've missed you so much, is all. It was so lonley over here." Bunny sobbed. Darien smiled softly.
"Well, I'm here now," he said quietly. "It's okay."
The two walked around the school for a while talking, and Bunny realized that she was happier than she had ever been when Darien was gone.
On Thursday night, Bunny sat doing her math when she heard a knock at the door. She opened it, expecting to meet her mother. Instead, on the other side of the threshold stood a tall girl with pigtails identical to Bunny's, with the exception that they were bright pink. Her eyes burned a curious shade of scarlet, and her expression was fiery and determined. She was dressed in an black medieval-type shirt with sleeves that hung low from her creamy arms and tight pink flares with orange flames erupting from the bottom. She put the last touch on the outfit with jet black knee-high boots.
Bunny took one look at her before clutching the girl in her arms. "Rini!" she cried. "Rini! You're back! You've grown so much..." Rini returned the hug , screaming equally loud.
"Bunny, it's so good to see you! I'm so glad to be back, this is so cool, wow..." After the two had calmed down, Bunny sat her daughter down and demanded an explanation.
"Well," Rini said thoughtfully, playing with her hair with two dainty fingers. "They agreed to let me return because I've undergone the training so I can be a scout too! A real one, like you guys! But they said I was different. Since I was the princess, they said I shouldn't be a regular scout. Actually," she said, blushing, "I kinda asked Mama to talk them out of making me regular scout, cuz, you know, I didn't really want to. It's kinda weird, you know..."
Bunny watched her daughter in fascination. She was a true teenager! Bunny remembered the pudgy little girl she knew from before. Now, she sat and looked at a near mirror-image: over-cheerful expression, playing absentmidedly with her hair... Bunny couldn't believe it.
"So instead of a scout, they called me a princess warrior, so I get to wear this gorgeous dress and I get this scepter and EVERYTHING! it's so cool! And on my sixteenth birthday, I went to the ball with the dress, and seven guys asked me out! SEVEN!" Bunny grinned. Despite their complicated relationship, it was almost like talking to one of her friends. It is just something I'll have to get used to, Bunny decided.
On Friday, the seven girls (Rini had joined in on the occasion, posing as Bunny's sister returned from a trip) lay splayed on the floor of Amy's room, each doing various activities. Lita and Rini were quizzing Tara from one of those cheap quiz books, Raye was the only one watching the movie playing on the big-screen TV, and Amy was making popcorn in the kitchen while Bunny and Mina gorged on the already-made popcorn.
As the night wore on, the girls settled down to set up sleeping bags on the ground for a night of hilarios anecdotes and ghost stories. Tara felt like a true part of the group, and Rini felt like she had never left. Eventually, they all dozed off. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, one would wake up, then wake someone else up, and soon everyone was awake again. If Amy's mother got annoyed, she kept quiet.
They were all awake at four when a setting full moon made its appearance in the dawn-tinted sky through the window. Bunny stopped talking and diverted her attention to it. Within seconds, each and every girl was staring at the moon. If someone had walked in to the total silence, they would have thought that the girls were all quite insane. However, as the moon disappeared behind a tall pine, the talking soon rose again and they all seemed quite sane, were it not for the fact that they were talking calmly at four in the morning.
At eleven, the girls all bid each other good bye and left Amy's house. Rini and Bunny started home while Mina decided to take a bus to the mall.
"Do you want to come?" she asked.
"Nah, we gotta head home," Rini responded. "But we'll see ya later!"
"K, Peace!" grinned Mina as they turned opposite directions.
When Bunny and Rini got home, they had lunch and did each other's nails while watching a movie. Bunny's mind, however, was not on the movie nor her daughter's nails. She reflected on how wonderful it was to have her whole family home. She hoped to go out for dinner that night with her future husband and future daughter. Suddenly, she was jerked out of her thoughts by the phone's shrill ringing. She ran to answer it, blowing hastily on her drying fingers.
"Bunny? That you?" said an upset voice on the other line.
"Yeah, 's me," responded Bunny, pushing Diana out of her way to sit down. "Mina?"
"No time for chat," said Mina hurriedly. "Bunny, I just saw Darien! Did you know he was home?"
"Yeah, he called Tuesday," responded Bunny. "But-"
"No time," she interrupted. "Listen. I just saw him with Tara."
"Oh cool, they met!" smiled Bunny.
"Shut up for a second!" interrupted Mina again, finally losing patience. "I saw them hugging in a restaurant! Real close-like. Like they're going out!"
Bunny was silent for a second. No. Darien would not cheat on her. It was impossible! Mina was always reliable, but Bunny found this bit of information a little too much. "No." she said promptly. "You're wrong. He... he wouldn't."
"I'm so sorry, Bunny, but you should have seen it. There was no mistaking it." Her voice had a sort of finality to it, which angered Bunny.
"I don't care. You're wrong. You're wrong!" With that, she slammed down the phone and ran to her room where she collapsed on her bed in tears.