On Friday, Rini and her friends arrived at the dance in Hawaiian wear. Rini wore a white shirt with pink flowers, a short pink sarong with white flowers over jeans, a white and pink leigh, and pink and white sunglasses as a headband. She had decided to let her very long hair down over her shoulders. Kodi wore yellow, orange, and white, Momoko wore green and white, Sarah wore blue and white, Alison wore red and white, and Hotaru wore purple and white. They looked around, and to their delight, there was blow-up laser tag, a blow-up bungee game, a blow-up slide, and a blow-up platform with two guys fighting, trying to hit each other off two pillars with padded broomsticks. "Wow, this is awesome!" They agreed, and started for the door, which lead outside to the latter two games. "Hey, this is great and all, but where are our boys?" Kodi asked, and was answered when a yellow rose was brought up in front of her face, and her boyfriend Kevin kissed her on the cheek. All of the girls blushed when their boyfriends did the same, giving them roses in the colors of their outfits, Rini, because she and Elios weren't going out, blushed when he whispered in her ear; "Maiden, turn around." And he handed her a pink rose, which made her blush plenty more. "Aww, you guys have really outdone yourselves!"

Sarah said, and glanced back at Rini and Elios, who weren't really paying attention. "Thanks Elios, that was thoughtful." Rini said, and he smiled. "I knew you'd like it." Sarah started to get irritated; "Hello lovebirds! I was talking!" They jumped at least ten feet away from each other and blushed to the roots of their hair. "Now come on, I'm gonna hit the rafters of that thing with my head, and I'll even put ten dollars on it!" They all laughed at the comment he made about the slide. "I'll say you can." Rini said, still laughing, and Elios agreed too, but the rest said they were against him. He quickly took Rini by the arm; "I will need two people to come up with me, so who's my other volunteer?" Elios agreed to go as well, and they followed him up the slide.

"Rini, stay in this corner, and Elios go to that corner! You bounce, you'll suffer the consequences!" Kevin ordered, and she slapped him. "I'm the leader of the scouts, remember! You can at least be respectful!" Playfully, he slapped her back, but it was a bit hard, so she pushed him backward down the slide, making him get plastic burn on his feet, which were bare. Kodi glared back at Rini, but she was also being playful, so Rini stuck out her tongue. Looking over her shoulder at Elios, she saw him chuckling quietly. "Okay, I'm done, you can stop laughing." He only shook his head and walked over to the other corner, with Kevin catching up to him, and nudging him out of the way to get to the middle. Then, he started jumping, and gained enough momentum that when he launched himself forward, this time with the protective sack securely under him, and hit the rafters dead on, causing him to fall on his back and slide down backward again. "Ouch!" Rini laughed, and glanced at Elios, who was looking at her, and blushed.

In the darkening sky, stars were appearing, and that made Rini sigh. "Want to go first Elios?" He shrugged and jumped down, landing just barely before the end. Rini jumped up a few times and then tried to dive as Elios and Kevin had, but instead landed face first and rolled down the slide, crashing pretty hard into Elios and Kevin at the end. A resounding "Oof!" Was heard from the three. Kevin got up, and Kodi rushed over to him to ask him if he was okay. Next, Elios sat up, as Rini had more or less ended her crazy ride on top of him. Her arms were around his neck, and she was lying with her head against his chest, and her lower body on his lap and then going off to the side. "Are you all right Rini?" He asked softly, and she opened her eyes to see him looking down at her with concern. "The whole bottom half of my face feels like a bunch of needle have been pressed into it, but other then that, yeah, I'm fine, and you?"

"I'll live." He laughed, and then stood, amazingly without making her let go. 'Boy is he strong!' She thought, and was glad that her blush wasn't visible because of the surrounding darkness.

"I think maybe we should do something else." Elios said, still holding onto Rini. "Hey guys, I think you can let go of each other now." Their eyes flew wide yet again, and they again jumped away from each other at Daniel's (Sarah's boyfriend) comment. Next, they went to the platform, where some kids had just finished sparring with the broomsticks. Alison and Rini ran up, took their helmets, and jumped atop the pillars. "Hey, if we jump, does it count as a loss?" The college student presiding over the game shrugged. Elios watched with some amazement as his maiden spun with incredible grace and tried to trip her opponent. Alison jumped up, and took a swing at Rini's head, but she ducked and rammed the end of the sparring tool into Alison's stomach. "Eep!" The girl tumbled face first into Rini, and knocked her over the edge of the platform, but Elios caught her before she fell, and pushed her back up so that she could continue. Obviously the girls' strength might be too great to play this game without using enough force to push each other off the platform. "Okay, this one might not be such a great idea either." Said Alison's boyfriend Jaime.

The girls begrudgingly nodded, and ran to the bungee area. They all played the game, and ended up with obvious results; Rini was in second place with eight wins, and Hotaru was right after her with seven. All twelve of the teens were trying to catch their breaths. "Well, I guess that Alison and Cody are the losers, and Elios is the winner." Naturally, he had won, and as he looked at Rini, she saw that he was looking at him, but then she blushed and turned away. He was starting to believe that she didn't really like making eye contact, but he could not be sure that she didn't maybe like him a little, as he had only caught her blushing when he looked at her, not when other people did. After that the girls looked at their boyfriends and Elios, and grinned. "Time for laser tag!" They all groaned, but Cody more than the others did.

After three games of laser tag, they all settled down and ate pizza and had drinks. All the girls went on a 'bathroom break', and started talking. "Rini, what the hell! You and Elios so totally like each other!" Momoko said, and all the girls nodded. "No, we're just friends."

"Bull!" Hotaru said, and they were all surprised that their quiet friend said something to that degree. "Damn girl, you finally said something to someone besides Tom!" Hotaru blushed at Sarah's comment, Tom was not there tonight, but he had popped in to give Hotaru a rose, and then whispered in her ear that he had to go. "You may just be friends, but I don't think that's how you want it to stay." Rini blushed, and then they heard someone talking outside and slipped into the stalls. "I think I like that new guy Elios!" That made Rini's blood boil! "Then go talk to him! I'm sure he will feel the same way."

"He'd better not!" Rini said aloud, and the two girls stopped talking. "That sounded distinctly like Rini Tsukino!" Rini held her breath, and the girls said; "Come on, let's leave Michelle, it sounds like someone doesn't want you around their crush, I bet she's outside, let's go teach her a lesson about who the guys belong to!"

"Right behind you Lana." She knew that it had to be Michelle, the school slut, but she couldn't say for certain because their voices were muffled. All six of the Sailor Soldiers jumped out of their stalls. "Rini, give us an honest answer, do you like Elios?"

"I um... I love him." She managed, and their eyes went wide. "You love him?" Nodding, she felt herself get queasy, but then they all hugged her, and everything went back to normal, or almost.

They went outside, careful to avoid Michelle, and walked into the dance. "Tell him!" They told her, and shoved her towards Elios. A new song started called "Why Not?" And the lyrics were almost ironically like her thoughts at the moment:

"You think you're going nowhere

When you're walking down the street

You're acting like you just don't care

When life can be so sweet

Why you wanna be like that

Cause if there's nothing new

You're not fooling no one

You're not even fooling you

So walk a little slower

and open up your eyes

Sometimes it's so hard to see

the good things passing by

There may never be a sign

No flashing neon light

Telling you to make your move

Or when the time is right

(So) Why not

Take a crazy chance

Why not

Do a crazy dance

If you lose the moment

you might lose a lot

So why not

Why not

(Why not take a crazy chance

why not take a crazy chance)."

She hesitated and looked back at her friends, who were dancing to the music, but noticed her glancing back and urged her forward. The guys walked over and started dancing with their girlfriends, but Elios stayed behind with his back turned to her.

"You always dress in yellow

when you wanna dress in gold

Instead of listening to your heart

You do just what you're told

You keep waiting where you are

What you'll never know

Let's just get into your car

And Go baby Go

(So) Why not

Take a crazy chance

Why not

Do a crazy dance

If you lose the moment

You might lose a lot

So why not

why not."

Elios turned towards her as she neared him. He started walking towards her, holding a soda and smiling sweetly.

"Ohh

I might be the one for you

Ohh yeah

Maybe yes, maybe no

Ohh

It could be the thing to do

What I'm saying is

You gotta let me know."

She could almost hear her friends telling her to keep going, to tell him that she loved him, but all of a sudden, she saw Michelle coming towards Elios, and saw her reach out to grab and talk to him, and she wanted to show him that she loved him.

"You'll never get to heaven

Or even to L.A.

If you don't believe there's a way

Why not

Take a star from the sky

Why not

Spread your wings and fly

It might take a little

Or it might take a lot

So why not

why not



(So) Why not

Take a crazy chance

Why not

Do a crazy dance

If you lose a moment

You might lose a lot

So why not

Why not?"

(c)C. Midnight and M. Gerrard

Michelle started to turn Elios, and he glanced at her with friendliness, but Rini spun him back around, grabbed his shirt, pulled herself up to his height, and kissed him!

Elios was so surprised that he didn't react for almost ten seconds, but then he was kissing her back, and it felt so right. The song ended, and he put down his soda on the counter, and put his arms around her. Slowly he pulled away, but his hold on her remained intact. "Rini!" The girl who had wanted to talk to him shrieked, and stomped off in anger, and Elios saw Rini blush and hide her face from everyone's and anyone's view. Gently, he lifted her chin with his finger and kissed her softly. "So I guess this means that I wasn't wrong to kiss you? And that I'm not wrong to say that... I love you?" She asked, and he smiled softly. "Definitely not, because I've loved you for seven years." He pulled her up and gave her one last kiss before putting her down, and walking back to the other sailors and their personal guards. "Well it's about time! The suspense was killing us!" Kodi said, making the new couple blush, and causing the rest of the group to laugh.

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A/N: More of the dance in the next chapter, but for now, I'm leaving it here, although the first four parts will probably be posted at the same time. For those of you who have read or are reading my other stories, especially "Caught in a Triangle", I am not abandoning them, I just had to focus on something else for awhile. My update schedule got a bit hectic, and no one said I couldn't wait a week or two to post again!