DISCLAIMER: We do not own the sailor moon cast. But we do own the bad guy and Darien's parents.

NOTE: This is an alternate universe in the year 2009, they have very advance technology, BUT they wear renaissance (or Victorian or Medieval) clothing. {}authors are speaking. ~*~passage of time /~!~ a swap between pov.
Ch. 1

Never Late

On 2352 Dunsten Road, there was a giant, two-story house. This was where Miss Haruna and her adopted daughter Serena lived. She had adopted her when she was three. Ever since, she had given Serena whatever she wanted. She gave her tutors and horses, along with fencing and horseback riding lessons. Serena had even learned to ice skate.

Serena gave Miss Haruna her German homework before she went to school. "Here mom, all finished!" Grabbing her books, she walked to the door. "Bye mom! I love you! See you after school!" She walked out the door and grabbed her bike.

Though she has her license and a car, a red Corvette actually, she still rode her bike so she didn't contribute to the pollution.

She met her best friends, Mina, Lita, and Amy, in the commons area to chat before school. Heading to her first period class, concert choir, she bumped into someone she had never seen before.

Finding her seat, Serena sat down and wondered who the new girl was. When she saw that the girl was supposed to sit by her, she introduced herself.

"Hello! I'm Serena. And who might you be?"
"Oh.hi. I'm Raye. I just got out of home schooling." ~under her breath~ *yeah, that's it*~

"Oh. That sounds fun. My mother wanted to do the same with me, but I told her I wanted to be with the other kids." Serena said, trying to make conversation.

"That's interesting." Raye tried to get out of the conversation. She gave a sigh of relief when the teacher began speaking, but groaned when she finished. They were assigned to do duets and her partner was Serena.

Serena smiled at her, trying to shrug off the negative vibes coming from Raye.

"Well partner.what song shall we do?" she asked enthusiastically.

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"Ugh! She is just too happy. I'm not going to like her." Raye was complaining to her cousin, Prince Darien.
"She couldn't be that bad." He looked at his watch.
"Oh, I'm sorry, but I have to bail. I'm falling behind in my language classes. I'll see you tomorrow." He went to the door and she waved goodbye before he left.

As the door closed, the phone began to ring. Raye got up and answered it.

"Crow, Raye." The other end answered, to Raye's annoyance, cheerfully.

"Haruna, Serena. Raye, I just called to tell you about the song I thought we could do."

"Oh really! That's nice, but I'm a tad busy right now." she said while picking up her brush. She began to run the brush through her hair slowly.

"But we need to think of a song now so we can start working on it. We only have a week." Serena was getting aggravated from the lack of effort Raye was showing.

Raye was surprised at the fact that Serena had forcefulness behind those words. Serena gained some respect on Raye's scale.

"Okay.we'll decide now. What about.At the Beginning?" Raye asked.

Serena was stunned by Raye's sudden interest for a second. "That's good in all, but one of us would have to be a boy."

Raye sighed, "I am an alto. I can sing the low part."

Serena thought for a second and decided it was a good idea. "Okay.we can do it. When should we start practicing?"

Raye laughed at Serena's enthusiasm. "How about.Wednesday after school?"

"I can rearrange my schedule. Sure, that's fine." Serena smiled. "Well, I have to go. See you later!"

"Bye." Raye said, and hung up the phone.

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In the middle of French class, while everyone else typed their paper Serena looked up the lyrics to the song Reye and she had chosen. When she printed them out her French teacher came up to her handing it to her saying, "This isn't the paper you are supposed to be typing miss Haruna." {now remember folks Miss Haruna adopted Serena at the age of 3 so that is Serena's last name.}

"I know." she dug out the paper she had finished fifteen minutes ago. "Here it is." she handed him the paper and he started to fume when he couldn't find any mistakes.

"Tell me next time before you go doing something other than your assignment." He stomped off in a puff of fury.

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Studying her Spanish, Serena walked through the park on her way home. She had to have a full greeting and several everyday questions prepared to say when she got home. ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~

Walking through the pack Darien looked behind himself to make sure that his guards weren't following him. 'good.I lost them.about time too.'

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Walking with her head deep into her Spanish book, Serena ran in to something big and hard. Figuring it was a person she backed up and said, "Oh I am sorry.Please forgive me for my rudeness."

She looked up as a tall, dark haired, handsome man walked by laughing. He replied almost as if he had forgotten for a second. " It's ok. Just watch were your going next time meat ball head." He walked away with that, leaving a very confused Serena.

Left in a daze for a second she shook her head and walked off thinking how rude that guy was. She then looked at her watch and saw she only had 2 minutes to get home from a 6 minute walk. She was very surprised that she had lost track of time. She has never done this.

She went home as quickly as possible and walked into the house straightening up. "Mama, estoy muy sieto soy tarde." {translation for all you non Spanish talking people "mom I'm sorry I'm late."}

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A/N: This story is a joint story between Deathkat and Vanzangel. We hope you like it and please review. If you have to, then flame us. We will not criticize you for it. Thank you for being patient and reading this. My other story will be updated shortly. I am sorry for the long delay, but Vanzangel will make sure I stay on track for this story AND Demon Fun. Oh and REVIEW!!!