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the second chapter.
Chapter 2
Li walked into her apartment lobby just as the first raindrops began to fall. She pressed the up button on the elevator, and watched as the numbers above lit up and chimed as the elevator passed each floor, and then finally open. Li waited as a tall, dark skinned woman got off, holding hands with a girl with short black hair and deep purple eyes.
"Setsuna, we should visit Michuru and Haruka." The girl said, pulling on the woman's coat. Li must have been staring because the girl noticed and turned to her. Li stared into those deep purple eyes that seemed to be drilling straight into her mind. They seemed to twinkle with thought. "Do you know Michuru and Haruka? Do you know where they're at?"
"I met them today, sitting at the edge of the Delta facing the bay. When we parted ways, they said they were heading home." The tall woman turned to look at her.
"What is your name?" she asked.
"Li Black."
"Li." the woman repeated. She was certainly pretty; tall and skinny. She turned back to the girl. "Hotaru, let's get going before the rain gets worse." The tall woman, Setsuna quickly bowed before turning away, Li managing a quick embarrassed nod. They walked across the lobby, and once outside, opened their umbrellas and headed to the right, towards the Delta Bay. Li turned from watching them and boarded the elevator, pressing the button marked "4."
"I sure have met a lot of people today; they're all so. dark, somehow. Like the outer reaches of space." The doors closed, and Li reached her floor uninterrupted by any stops along the way. Reaching her floor, she exited the elevator and walked to room 319. Her room. Pulling out her key chain of Chii and Ryo-oh-ki from her backpack, she opened the door. Turning on the lights, she stared about her apartment. She had just finished unpacking yesterday, and she wasn't yet used to her new arrangements. The apartment consisted of the living room, bedroom, bathroom and half kitchen. It wasn't the biggest, but it was plenty for a girl attaining living money as an artist and teacher's aid. Thankfully for Li, she had plenty of saved up money to last until her jobs started picking up pace and she was able to attain more money. Tossing her bag at the end of the couch, she grabbed some ice tea from the fridge and turned on the television. The news was playing.
"Tomorrow at approximately 4:00 p.m, there will be a full solar eclipse. It will last until approximately 4:20."
"A solar eclipse? Those aren't very common." She thought, as she flipped through the channels, then finally shutting it off when nothing appealed to her. The door bell rang. It was a client commissioning her to do some artwork. Her first costumer since moving here. As soon as she had made sure her things were safely in her room, she had placed ads in the newspaper and put flyers on bulletin boards advertising her artistic services. Sure it didn't pay well, but it was enough to live comfortably and Li enjoyed doing it. After her client had left, Li decided to finish her homework so she could start working on the banner.
While working on her Earth Space Science homework, Li smiled. The textbook had a picture of a new forming star. Back in Bristol, Li lived in an orphanage. A worker there was like her mother. She would talk to Li about the stars and tell her stories of wishes, astrology, and other fantasies. Of course, Li didn't see any truth in these stories, yet sometimes she would try. She'd often wish on a shooting star hoping for it to come true. It never did. She walked across her room and pulled back the curtain that covered the door leading to the balcony. Maybe she would do some star searching. Outside were two figures, shadowed from the clouds hiding the full moon. All Li could do was stare as the two figures turned and jumped from the balcony. Coming to, she threw open the door and ran to the edge of the balcony. Peering over, she just caught sight of the edge of something disappear into the trees below. From the little moonlight that had lit up what seemed to her to be the impenetrable darkness, she had seen two slim figures in a sort of stylized school uniform. It reminded Li of something from her past.
That uniform. Then it hit her. When Li was younger, she had heard of a school-girl hero dressed in uniform who fought crime. Sailor V. It suddenly became so vivid to Li. She remembered other orphans idolized this masked girl. It was reported how Sailor V had died rescuing innocent civilians, and it seemed that all memories of her had seemed to just fade away. How fickle, it seemed now, that someone so great could be so easily forgotten.
Secretly in her youth, Li wanted to be like Sailor V. She too wanted to be known, be liked. She was always shunned by the other orphans for being different. She wasn't like the other kids. They would play together in the sandbox and sit together at lunch time. Li would sit alone, sketching or reading, tuning into nature and the stars. She loved to be alone at night, lying atop the monkey bars staring into the night sky. She loved the sun's rays too, for even though it was so bright and warm, the sun is too a star. Why was the past so painful? Looking in the dark, stormy sky, she caught sight of an open star.
"I wish. I wish for a peaceful future, where I might find a place . to fit in."
Thanks for reading Chapter 2. Chapter 3 is more interesting, sorry to bore you with Li this whole chapter. Please continue to read. If you liked, and even if you don't this story, please review. Thanks.
Chapter 2
Li walked into her apartment lobby just as the first raindrops began to fall. She pressed the up button on the elevator, and watched as the numbers above lit up and chimed as the elevator passed each floor, and then finally open. Li waited as a tall, dark skinned woman got off, holding hands with a girl with short black hair and deep purple eyes.
"Setsuna, we should visit Michuru and Haruka." The girl said, pulling on the woman's coat. Li must have been staring because the girl noticed and turned to her. Li stared into those deep purple eyes that seemed to be drilling straight into her mind. They seemed to twinkle with thought. "Do you know Michuru and Haruka? Do you know where they're at?"
"I met them today, sitting at the edge of the Delta facing the bay. When we parted ways, they said they were heading home." The tall woman turned to look at her.
"What is your name?" she asked.
"Li Black."
"Li." the woman repeated. She was certainly pretty; tall and skinny. She turned back to the girl. "Hotaru, let's get going before the rain gets worse." The tall woman, Setsuna quickly bowed before turning away, Li managing a quick embarrassed nod. They walked across the lobby, and once outside, opened their umbrellas and headed to the right, towards the Delta Bay. Li turned from watching them and boarded the elevator, pressing the button marked "4."
"I sure have met a lot of people today; they're all so. dark, somehow. Like the outer reaches of space." The doors closed, and Li reached her floor uninterrupted by any stops along the way. Reaching her floor, she exited the elevator and walked to room 319. Her room. Pulling out her key chain of Chii and Ryo-oh-ki from her backpack, she opened the door. Turning on the lights, she stared about her apartment. She had just finished unpacking yesterday, and she wasn't yet used to her new arrangements. The apartment consisted of the living room, bedroom, bathroom and half kitchen. It wasn't the biggest, but it was plenty for a girl attaining living money as an artist and teacher's aid. Thankfully for Li, she had plenty of saved up money to last until her jobs started picking up pace and she was able to attain more money. Tossing her bag at the end of the couch, she grabbed some ice tea from the fridge and turned on the television. The news was playing.
"Tomorrow at approximately 4:00 p.m, there will be a full solar eclipse. It will last until approximately 4:20."
"A solar eclipse? Those aren't very common." She thought, as she flipped through the channels, then finally shutting it off when nothing appealed to her. The door bell rang. It was a client commissioning her to do some artwork. Her first costumer since moving here. As soon as she had made sure her things were safely in her room, she had placed ads in the newspaper and put flyers on bulletin boards advertising her artistic services. Sure it didn't pay well, but it was enough to live comfortably and Li enjoyed doing it. After her client had left, Li decided to finish her homework so she could start working on the banner.
While working on her Earth Space Science homework, Li smiled. The textbook had a picture of a new forming star. Back in Bristol, Li lived in an orphanage. A worker there was like her mother. She would talk to Li about the stars and tell her stories of wishes, astrology, and other fantasies. Of course, Li didn't see any truth in these stories, yet sometimes she would try. She'd often wish on a shooting star hoping for it to come true. It never did. She walked across her room and pulled back the curtain that covered the door leading to the balcony. Maybe she would do some star searching. Outside were two figures, shadowed from the clouds hiding the full moon. All Li could do was stare as the two figures turned and jumped from the balcony. Coming to, she threw open the door and ran to the edge of the balcony. Peering over, she just caught sight of the edge of something disappear into the trees below. From the little moonlight that had lit up what seemed to her to be the impenetrable darkness, she had seen two slim figures in a sort of stylized school uniform. It reminded Li of something from her past.
That uniform. Then it hit her. When Li was younger, she had heard of a school-girl hero dressed in uniform who fought crime. Sailor V. It suddenly became so vivid to Li. She remembered other orphans idolized this masked girl. It was reported how Sailor V had died rescuing innocent civilians, and it seemed that all memories of her had seemed to just fade away. How fickle, it seemed now, that someone so great could be so easily forgotten.
Secretly in her youth, Li wanted to be like Sailor V. She too wanted to be known, be liked. She was always shunned by the other orphans for being different. She wasn't like the other kids. They would play together in the sandbox and sit together at lunch time. Li would sit alone, sketching or reading, tuning into nature and the stars. She loved to be alone at night, lying atop the monkey bars staring into the night sky. She loved the sun's rays too, for even though it was so bright and warm, the sun is too a star. Why was the past so painful? Looking in the dark, stormy sky, she caught sight of an open star.
"I wish. I wish for a peaceful future, where I might find a place . to fit in."
Thanks for reading Chapter 2. Chapter 3 is more interesting, sorry to bore you with Li this whole chapter. Please continue to read. If you liked, and even if you don't this story, please review. Thanks.
