On the track and off - Chapter 2

Written By Neo Queen Serenity Chiba

Rating - PG - Rating could go up

Genre - Romance

Editor - Only me!

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Hey Guys thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it. Anyway I hope you guys are ready for another chapter of On The Track And Off. Guys I don't own sailormoon nor either this TV Hit Drama in Hong Kong ok. So please don't sue me. Ok I better start the story. Enjoy the story and please R+R

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The next day arrived and after the little fight with Serena and Becky no one said a thing after. Irene was making breakfast. Becky was dressed for work and Elane was getting ready to go to the comic company while Serena was still in her room. Irene had just finished making breakfast and sat at the table with Elane and Becky. Then Serena came out in a white t-shirt, v - neck short sleeve jacket that was a zip up at the front, black flare jeans and a white little backpack. She closed the door from her room and her head was hanging down. She was about to head to the door until her sister spoke up. "Wait, where are you going?" said Becky.

"Going to a friends place, is that alright?" muttered Serena.

"Well, I made my mind up, do you wanna hear it?" said Becky.

What's your answer?" said Serena almost in a whisper.

"I'll let you go to the course" said Becky. Serena's eyes went wide and her head went up like she heard a gun shot. "You what!" said Serena.

"I said I'll let you go. I have already signed the form and I have already sent it. Now you need mum to go with you for a inspection and meeting with other students" smiled Becky. Serena rushed to her sister and hugged her. "Whoa Serena just stay calm here I have food here too remember" said Becky, chuckling. "Thanks Bec, I knew I could always count on you," said Serena. Everyone came to the laughing sisters and hugged them both. "Hey that's what sisters are for, now go to your friends because you're late. You don't want Raye to have another tongue fight do ya?" winked Becky. Serena looked at her watch and panic. "Ok I better go! See ya" said Serena.

"Its good you did that Bec, you should see how much she dreams to be a jockey!" said Elane. Becky smiled and got up. "Well I'd better go now" said Becky and left. Elane left after her and went for work.

That afternoon, Serena and the girls went shopping and brought some clothes for the course. They brought t-shirts, jeans, ¾ pants, socks, shoes, towels, shorts, toiletries, a suitcase and duffel bag. Now the girls shopped until they dropped and now at the food court. They were all happy that everyone could go to the Jockey Club. After the girls finished eating their lunch, they all went home and started packing. Tomorrow was the meeting and inspection but the course starts the next day. Serena pack in one suitcase all her clothes like t-shirts, shorts, ¾ pants, socks, lingerie and her shoes. Then in the duffel bag, her toiletries, hair accessories, CDs, walkman, photos and a few toys. Now she was all set.

The next day arrived and Serena got dress into a pink t-shirt with a bunny in the front and blue flare jeans with white shoes. Her mum was dressed and Serena's luggage was ready. Serena did her daily routine and was now downstairs waiting for a taxi. Then a taxi came and took Serena and Irene to the Hong Kong Jockey Club. They all met the other girls and their parents and were waiting for the bus. Then the bus came pick them up. In about 30 minutes later, they arrived at the campus where the racecourse was and went inside to meet a man about 6 feet and 1 inch tall. "Hello everyone, welcome to the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Here is the campus where everyone will meet everyone and things will get settled. Now would you just follow me and I'll take you to the main room" said the man. Everyone followed and meet the others who were already at the main room. The girls were shocked that there were 6 HOT guys. Then they found a place to sit. Ami next to a boy with brown hair and brown eyes; Lita next to a boys with lighter brown hair and hazel eyes; Raye next to a boy with medium dark brown hair that was short and covered his eyes almost; Luna next to a boy with long white hair and blue eyes; Mina next to a boy with blond hair and green eyes and Serena next to a boy with jet black hair and eyes like a colour of sapphire that you could get lost when staring at him. As soon as Serena sat next to the boy's father. The boys father smiled and said, "Hi, my name is William Chiba, nice to meet you"

"Nice to meet you too, my name is Irene Moon and this is my daughter Serenity" and Irene and Serena smiled. "And this is my son Darien" said William and Darien faced Serena and smiled. As Serena looks at him she just wanted to melt. They both greeted each other and look behind them, Serena could hear her friends introducing each other and smiled.

"I would say, those girls are you're friends?" questioned Darien.

"Yes, and I would say that the boys are your friends too?" said Serena and Darien nodded. Then a man in a pair of business pants and a dark blue t - shirt with blond hair and brown eyes came in. "Good morning everyone, I hope you met everyone. Now I would explain the rules and consequences," said the man. The man told everybody that rules and consequences and now he was about to finish. "Well that's all I have to say, anyone have any questions?" said the man. Serena raised her hand up and the man saw her.

"Are we allow to bring mobile phones?" said Serena.

"No you're not allowed because it will distract the horses. There will be a phone in the kitchen where you will be all staying at" said the man.

"Just one phone in the kitchen, geesh that means we never get any privacy" said Serena.

"Yes that right. If you bring a mobile phone, we come and take it away from you and you won't be using your mobile again. You only get 3 chances. Once those chances are used, you get kicked out off campus. Understand?" said the man.

"Ok, now I have an instructor for you new trainers and will be taken your new room and a tour will be held and you'll be taught what to do while your parents have morning tea with all the other staff," said the man. Everyone followed the instructor to his or her rooms. The bathroom was in one area and the toilet was next to it. Now the instructor was telling everyone where their rooms were.

"Darien Chiba and Andrew Cheng, in room 10B. Greg Chen and Chad Yuen in room 10C. Ken Light and Artemis Yi in room 10D. Now the girls. Serenity Moon and Mina Moon in 10A. Ami Lam and Raye Wan in 9E. Lita Lin and Luna Xiao in 9D" said the instructor. Everyone went to his or her rooms and Serena and Mina went to look at theirs. Serena was looking for a phone line while Irene and Mina's mum just came to look around their room. Then the instructor came in and told Mina she can move to Lita and Luna's room since they had a spare bed. Mina nodded and went to room 9D. Serena's mum was looking around until Serena started complaining.

"There is no phone line!" whined Serena.

"Serena, you should know that you can't bring mobile phones here!" said Irene. Serena rolled her eye. Then a knock was heard at the door. It was the instructor. "Are you ready? We're going for a tour while your mum meets the staff" said the instructor.

"Yes I'm ready" said Serena and followed the other new trainers but she stuck with her friends all the way. They went around the campus, into the stables where the horses were and learnt how to take care of a horse. The tour finished and they farewell their parents. That night, Serena went for a shower and changed into her PJs and went to sleep ready for her next day of training to go.

The next day arrived and everyone woke up at 4.00am, did their normal routines and now was waiting outside waiting for their teacher to come. Then he arrived. He was broad shouldered, solid build, about 6 foot and 2 inches tall. He was wearing a white t- shirt that went to mid thigh and black tights with black boots, he was wearing tan sunglasses as well. Everyone saw him and stood in single file. "Everyone I hope you had refreshing start because not we are taking a look at the training we are going to do and then the horse. Just call me either 'sir' or Josh ok" said Josh. Everyone nodded and Josh had a good look at everyone in front of him. There were 12 people standing in a single file now started to number them in random order. He looked at the clipboard and said the names.

"Serenity Moon" said Josh.

"Yes sir, just call me Serena sir," said Serena.

"Well Serena, I'll number you number 1" said Josh. Serena nodded.

"Andrew Cheng, you're 2"

"Ami Lam, 3"

"Darien Chiba, 4"

"Lita Lin, 5"

"Raye Wan, 6"

"Luna Xiao, 7"

"Artemis Yi, 8"

"Greg Chen, 9"

"Chad Yuen, 10"

"Mina Moon, 11"

"Ken Light, 12" Everyone nodded. "Right, now I want you guys to do 50 push ups now" shouted Josh. Everyone nodded and started doing 50 push-ups. Once that was done, they had to run around the campus 4 times, every time when Serena stop, they'd stop but when they see Josh they quickly continued their run. Next was leaning on the wall pretending to be sitting down. This gave Serena a klutz attack. Her legs were shaking and she couldn't hold it any longer, so she made herself fall to the ground. Then everyone did the same thing then the next 10 seconds Josh came to check on them. Serena saw him and quickly lean on the wall again so did everyone. They had to do this for 5 minutes then they had to take care of the horses. Everyone was placed into pairs of 6 groups and co-operated and did every horse; they groom, cleaned their litter, feed them food and took them to walks etc.

That afternoon, they continued training but this time, it was part of an exam. They had to pass the entire course to become a jockey. Before the practice started Serena quickly ran to her room and used her mobile phone (AN: naughty Serena). She obviously rang Seiya's phone because that night before today arrived she sneak out and met Seiya somewhere. She rang Seiya and Seiya answered the call. "Hello Seiya Chan speaking" said Seiya.

"Hey Seiya, it's me Serena. These next 3 weeks I don't want you to bother me due to I have an exam. I must pass this test and if I don't I would fail the whole course so don't bother me unless I call you" said Serena.

"Ok then, see ya," said Seiya. A knock was heard at the door and it was Josh. 'Uh oh, I'm busted' thought Serena. Josh saw the mobile phone and extended his hand out. "Give me the phone," said Josh. Serena was terrified. So she handed it to him. Josh placed it in his office told her to meet the other. As she arrived their first practice course, it was like an obstacle course. Surely everyone passed that, then it was riding a horse with no saddle. Everyone tired but failed and Serena was the only one that passed. There were 2 more courses, everyone claimed it and now it was the hardest part of the course. The course that everyone look though it was easy but when they tired it, it was going to be a long day. This course had a long rope attach between 2 trees about 9 metres apart. Then all they had to do was climb up in one end and hand walk to the other end, it was like going on the monkey bars. Everyone tried but attempted to fail. So they all gave up and went for a shower, had dinner and light were out. This test continued on the next 2 weeks until the 3rd last day of the last week. While everyone was sleeping, Serena got up and went to the course that she could not pass, Hoping that no one follows her, she went to the field where the course was held. She took a deep breath and climbed up and did the hand walk. She was half way there then she fell to the ground. She did this 2 more times. On her 3rd time, Darien saw here and decided to climb up the other side and join her. She noticed and she stayed where she was hanging on.

"What are you doing' here, I thought that you were asleep Darien" said Serena

"Well I was, but I couldn't sleep, so I decided to go for a walk until I saw you I decided to join you" said Darien while still hanging in the air. Then Serena fell to the ground. She saw blood on her palms and they were raw. Darien came down and landed on his butt then got up to take a look at Serena's hands. He was shock that the way Serena's palms could get red so fast.

"C'mon, you go back to your room while I get something for your hands." Said Darien, helping the blonde up. She nodded and headed to her room. Darien came back with bandages and antiseptic to kill the germs. Darien got a bowl of water and washed Serena's hand carefully. She was pretty much in pain but that really didn't mattered, what really was in her mind was passing the test otherwise she was dead. Especially from Becky otherwise she chuck a fit! After both hands were bandages, Darien cleaned the mess on the desk and helped Serena. She went to her bed and lied down. Darien pulled the covers up to her neck. "Good night Serena" said Darien and closed the door. Serena fell asleep.

The next 2 days Serena continued her training for the exam. All the other courses except the rope part passed and now tomorrow were the big day. As the final day arrived, everyone had done all the courses and now it was the rope part. Everyone had pass through now it was Serena's go. She climbed up and did the walk. She was almost there and her hands were bleeding. Then a few more steps she made it. She climbed down. She was so surprised that she made it.

"Well I made it" said Serena and shrugged her shoulders. Everyone came and rushed to Serena. Darien picked her up and everyone did too and threw her up in the air. They did this a couple of times and then they celebrated. Serena and her friends passed the jockey exam so did the boys. Now they were taking horse lessons. The next day, Serena was going home. She walked to the front gates of the campus and saw Seiya and another girl with him. (AN: god I hate Seiya) Serena wasn't impressed and decided to go to Mina's place. Seiya saw her but he didn't care.

Through the next 3 days Serena caught up with all the things she used to do then she to go back to campus, she decided to make her busy, she went to her horse she was to look after, groomed him, fed him and cleaned his litter. Then Seiya came in. He was holding a big Pooh Bear and decided to cheer her up. "Hey Serena" said Seiya. She didn't answer just ignore him. He sighed. "Look, if you are upset about what happened the last 4 days ago, please forgive me," said Seiya. She ignored him again. "I even gave you a present," said Seiya. She turned and around smiled. "Thanks, I think I have to forgive you then don't I?" said Serena and took the Pooh Bear from his arms. They went out of the Serena's little area and head for the door. On the other side of the door, Darien came in with a bunch of roses, he saw Serena with Seiya and was disappointed. He shook his head and sighed, dropped the roses and headed back to his room.

Serena came back, put her Pooh Bear on her bed and went to Darien's room. Andrew was gone with Mina for jockey training and all the others went for lunch or either still not back.

A knock was heard at Darien's room. "Come in" said a depressed Darien.

"Hey Dare, what ya doin?" (Serena) (AN: ok a sere and dare conversation guys)

"Nothing"

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, it's just that I'm nervous about the jockey training" he lied.

"OOOkkkk. Do you want to go for a run to calm your nerves down?" she knew he lied but let it go. "Uh...... sure" said Darien. He got up and took a towel with him and wrapped it around his neck. They both started running for a while then head for the shade under the tree. "Whew, good run?" said Serena. "Yeah, you could say that" he chuckled. "So you wanna head back then" said Serena

"Yeah sure" said Darien

"Ok, race ya?" said Serena

"You bet!" said Darien and started running. Serena chased after him and arrived first in the cafeteria.

The next day, Serena went to the kitchen where her friends and the boys were. "Good morning guys" said Serena.

"Hey Serena" said the boys and her friends.

"Hey give that back Andrew!" shouted Darien after Andrew snatched a photo from Darien's hands. Andrew gave it back and Darien received it, then Serena snatched it from him. It was photos of Seiya and the same girl she saw the other day. "Who's that Darien?" said Serena pointing at the girl in the picture. "Oh her. She's Connie Poon, she's Seiya's girlfriend" said Ken.

"How long have they been going out?" said Serena. Darien felt guilty. "Oh about 3 years" said Chad. Serena felt upset and left to her room. Darien chased after her and tired to cheer her up.

That afternoon, Serena rang Seiya and told him to meet her at the park. 10 minutes later, Seiya arrived and thought it was urgent. "What's wrong, you know when to call except when I'm training with a horse!" said Seiya.

"Well, can you care to tell me who is this girlfriend of yours Seiya!" said Serena and showed him the picture. "Look Serena, I don't know what you're playing, but yes she is my girlfriend. Obviously we have been going out for 3 years, she is just my old girlfriend but she wanted me back," said Seiya and left. Serena was really upset and went rushed back to her room. Darien came into her room to check if she was all right. "Hey Sere, you're ok?"

"Yeah, I'm alright" smiled Serena

"No, you're not, tell me what's wrong" said Darien with concern. "Nothing, it's really none of your business anyway" said Serena, looking away for him. "Fine, but if you want help, come and see me ok?" said Darien and left.

The next day, Serena did her daily routines and saw Seiya with his girlfriend. In the afternoon, she saw them again and saw Connie staring at her. "What are you looking at girl?" said Connie. Serena was so angry she picked up a rock in the far side of her and smash the window that Connie was in. Then she ran away.

"What's this all about? Number 1?" said Josh. Serena didn't answered. "Well if you are not going to tell me please let me know your problems. Horse Jockey training is in your spare time. Right now I want you to run around the campus" said Josh and Serena nodded and left for the punishment. About 1½ hour later Josh saw Serena still running. "Number 1, you can stop now" said Josh. Serena ignore him and continued. The next round, Josh started chasing after her to stop, and then she stopped. "What's wrong with you?" said Josh.

"Sir, ever heard that I've been heartbroken and I wanna die!" said Serena.

"You wanna die, well let me take you to the hospital and show you how close to dying is!" said Josh and went to his Mercedes Benz E Class. Serena followed Josh and hopped in the passenger side. Buckled her seat belt and Josh drove off.

---- Oh finally I have finished this chapter. Sorry about the delay guys, I have been very busy with my baby and the company as well. Well I have typed enough. Wait until the next chapter and find out who was close to dying. Please R+R.

19th December 2002 (but revised and edited on 03 May 2004)

Neo Queen Serenity Chiba

serenity4darien@hotmail.com