I am SOOO sorry for making you guys wait this long!!!! I just COULD NOT write. I don't know why, but all of a sudden I had NO IDEA where I wanted this story to go. Fortunately as I sat down and forced myself to write, my subconscious decided what it wanted written. So here it is. Kind of short but I hope more will be out VERY soon! Enjoy!!

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My heart was beating more rapidly than I could ever imagine. I swear it was about to beat right out my chest and my nerves were practically jangling. My breath, ragged, was coming in short little rapid puffs. Mamoru, of course, noticed these things. "Usako, you know we really can wait on this."

WHAT?! He tells me I can back out NOW?! When we're this close? Maybe...

I didn't know what to say. I really wasn't sure what to do. I mean, I wanted to and then there again...I didn't want to. My decision was made for me in one word. "Usagi?" I heard my mom call from downstairs. My eyes widened and Mamoru had a look of panic cross his face.

"Uh...Please tell me that's not your mom." he asked, looking a bit on the terrified side.

"Yeah. It is."

Suddenly, the calmness we were speaking in erupted in to sheer chaos and panic. "Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God..." I kept whispering over and over again, while Mamoru was hopping around, as if trying to decide what to do.

I heard my mother's footsteps looming ever nearer my bedroom. "Usa? Honey are you here?" I heard her say mere feet from my closed door.

In one brisk movement I opened my window and shoved Mamoru out of it. "HEY! What the-?!" he cried as he landed in the middle of the tree outside my bedroom window. I drew the curtains so she wouldn't see him just as she opened the door. "Hi honey. Whose car is that outside?"

Oh shit.

"Huh? What car, Mom? I- I don't know what you're talking about." I said casually with a (fake) puzzled expression on my face.

"The car. It's red."

"I have no idea." I said stalling as I realized she was making her way toward the balcony door. If she saw that car again I couldn't pretend she was going nuts.

She stepped forward and I cut her off by jumping in front of her. "Oh Mom! I- uh... don't feel very well!"

She cocked her head as she examined me. "Now that you mention it, you are rather flushed."

"Yeah!" I said a bit too enthusiastically. I don't know if I've mentioned this before or not but, I can not lie. I'm a pathetic liar. "Uh...my throat's a bit sore and I feel kind of feverish."

"Hmm...Do you need to go to the doctor?" she asked.

"No! No! That's not necessary. I just need a bit of rest is all, I believe." I smiled weakly.

"Well, if you say so." she said walking out of my room, completely forgetting about the car. Ha! Bad liar, my foot.

I closed the door behind her and shot up the window looking for Mamoru, only to find him nowhere in sight. I looked at the foot of the tree and he wasn't there either. I assumed he'd climbed down. As I walked on my balcony to check for his car, I saw it was gone. Phew! Home free.

BRING!!! BRING!!

I dashed to the phone and answered cheerily. "Hello?"

I heard a deep chuckle on the other end and immediately recognized it as Mamoru's. "So did you get away with it?"

"Oh my God, yes. But unfortunately, my mother seems to think I've gone round the twist." I answered.

"And...why is that?" he asked cautiously.

"Because I managed to convince her that I had no idea that a shiny red sports-car was sitting in our driveway."