Tenshi-Hotaru: Thankyou, and your right, I'm afraid you'll have to wait for more answers, and I'm afraid none will be revealed in this chapter* As always, thanks for your review!
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Chapter 5
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Ami arrived at her apartment with Quatre that day, whom had run out of the burger place to walk her home. She opened the apartment door and heard laughter.
"Ami! Ami's back," cried Joseph.
"Oh, Ami, Quatre. Glad you're back. We decided to follow up dinner with some drinks, come sit down with us," Aiko greeted. Joseph ran to Ami and grabbed her hand, leading her to the couch.. She had taken quite a liking to the little trouble maker. Quatre felt out of place as he stood by the door. Ami grabbed his wrist and made him sit on the couch.
"Relax," she said. Aiko, Lisa, James, Kevin, and Goerge seemed to be having a very loud conversation about politics. Anna sat looking rather bored, and she turned to Ami.
"How old did you say you were dear?"
"17," Ami answered. Anna nodded thoughtfully. She met Ami's eyes for a moment, for the first time.
"You know, most think I'm a silly old fool whom doesn't know what she's talking about, but I do," started Anna quietly.
"No one here thinks that," Ami protested.
"Your eyes Ami. Your eyes give you away. A secret Ami. A dangerous secret," Anna turned to Quatre, "and you keep one as well, young man." Ami and Quatre frowned at Anna.
"Anna," started Ami.
"Don't deny anything my dear. It's not like I know of what you hide. I can only see the guilt in your eyes. Don't worry, secrets do make life interesting, don't they?" Anna said quietly again, only this time she was smiling. She winked at Ami, and turned to to look at the others when Aiko burst out laughing. Joseph was performing a little dance for them, and he was singing along. Ami wanted to say something to Anna, but she was already laughing along with everyone and cheering Joseph on.
"So Quatre, you live around here," Aiko suddenly asked.
"Not too far, wow, look at the time. I better get going," he said, jumping up.
"I'll walk you downstairs," Ami said quickly, also jumping up. They were out the door a split-second later.
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Ami woke up the next day hearing voices. She got dressed and went out to the living room. James, and her mother sat on the couch, while Lisa, Kevin, and Jospeh sat on the other. Goerge was standing next to Anna's chair, looking frustrated. Ami looked at the clock. 7:00.
"Hello everyone. What's wrong? Why are you all here so early? With...a bunch of suitcases," she said, the last part ending in understanding.
"I was evicted Ami. My own stupid mistake. The place I was renting said no kids in the terms of agreement, but I accidently over looked it. But," he turned to look at Aiko," there is no way we're intruding on you for 2 weeks. 2 days was too long to agree to. We're just going to have to stay at a hotel."
"No! They charge an arm and a leg for just one night, and you still have 13 days left before the wedding! Look around you James, the apartment is empty. It's lonely. Having everybody stay over will be fun. Like one really big family," Aiko finished.
"Oh! My dear that is sooo sweet," Anna said, reaching into her purse for a tissue. James looked upset, but then his shoulders sagged.
"Alright, I give up. But I will not have you going out of your way for us. I know you have the next two weeks off, but if you do anything extra you wouldn't normally do, Aiko, I'm going to a hotel. We're not going to over work you for-" Aiko shushed James.
"It's alright, it's alright."
Everyone turned to look at Ami.
"I think having you would be great," Ami lied, putting on a charming smile. Everyone smiled and nodded. Ami led Lisa to her room. She emptied one of her drawers and placed Lisa's things in it. Meanwhile, Joseph, Kevin, and James set up a room for themselves, and James insisted on taking the unfolding bed. Goerge and Anna shared a room. Everyone insisted that they wouldn't intrude on the bride to be. They said Aiko's mother would be staying in her room in a while anyways, and she should enjoy it while it was empty now.
"Thanks for sharing with me Ami," Lisa said.
"It's fine," Ami said as she pulled in the extra inflatable bed. She moved her bed over and put the new one near it. Going to the storage room, she found her old bed frame. Her and Lisa dragged it into the room, and they layed the inflateable bed on it. She got Lisa some sheets and all was set.
"Cool, looks just like a regular bed," Lisa said, jumping on it. For someone who was married and had a kid, it was hard to believe Lisa acted like one sometimes.
"Yes, well you'll be staying here for two weeks and you can't sleep on the floor that long," Ami said. Lisa smiled.
"Your a very intelligent girl Ami. Thankyou," she said. As funny and silly as Lisa could sound, Ami knew she was also very smart. She would have to be careful around Lisa. Sneaking out in the middle of the night to fight battles would definately make Lisa suspicious.
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3:00 pm. Rei's kick boxing class at the Activity Center-
The hour was passing by quickly, and Wufei had yet to break a sweat as the instructer worked them in their daily routine. He could see Rei glaring at him discretely, hoping he would get tired or mess up. The onna was keeping up as well, infact she was ahead of most of the class.
When the class had ended, Rei approached Wufei.
"Ok, so you made it. That still doesn't make me weak," she said. Everyone was out of the room.
"Yes it does. An onna who can challenge me -I've only met one- is not weak."
"Fine, right here, pig!"
"What?"
"The room is made for this stuff. Let's fight," she said.
"Fine!"
Wufei and Rei engadged in battle, punching and kicking. Rei pinned him to the ground.
"This isn't wrestling onna! Get off!"
Wufei shoved her off and jumped up, kicking her to the ground. Rei stood. That had hurt. She raised her arm, and punched Wufei so hard...that she knocked him out.
"Oh...oops."
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5:30. Duo and Minako at the movies-
'Man she's hot. Too bad she wouldn't see a later showing with me. Oh well,' Duo thought, looking over at Minako who was munching on popcorn and watching the sappy romance movie.
'Maybe she won't notice if I...'Duo's thoughts faded as he boldly brought his arm up and put it around her shoulders. Minako was so into the movie she didn't even look up at him, she just stared unblinkingly at the movie. He sighed and leaned back. The screen got more and more blurry as he watched.
'This movie is so lame.' Duo eventually drifted of to sleep.
One hour later-
Duo woke up with a jump to hear people laughing. He felt his head. There was a bucket of popcorn on his head. Minako stood growling at him.
"You JERK! YOU FELL ASLEEP! While on a date with ME!" She stormed out. Duo looked behind him. There was a guy sitting there with his girlfriend.
"Dude, you still have the bucket of popcorn she put on your head," he pointed out. Duo reached to remove it, and the popcorn all fell on him.
"Uck. Greasy," he said. He blinked. Minako had just stormed out. He jumped up and ran after her. About halfway down the block, he caught up with her.
"Minako! Please, I'm sorry. It's just that the movie, and...and," he stopped. Minako's angry expression had turned into one of amusement. She cracked up.
"You still have popcorn all over your head." He touseled his hair and it fell out.
"I'm sorry," he said.
"Guess I over-reacted. Just- no more late night visits, Ok?"
"It's a deal. I know we failed at the last movie, but there's a comedy starting in a few minutes I think we can both enjoy," he said. Minako smiled.
"I think I can handle one more movie," she said, taking his arm.
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6:00, Makoto and Heero, Burger place-
"So my teacher said that- hey, are you listening to me," shoutd Makoto. Heero paused. He closed his lap top.
"I'm listening," he said. She nodded. They talked for a while more (Makoto talked), and then got bored.
"I know! We can go to the dock! We'll take a canoo out, ok? Ok, let's go!" They were out the door before Heero could object.
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6:00, Stesuna and Trowa. Park-
Setsuna strolled along the side walk with Trowa.
"So you finally got to come here for a reason other than giving us information," he noted.
"Yes. For some reason, I had to."
"Why?"
"Trowa, I am the guardian of time. And yet- there are things even I don't know. I say we enjoy this break." Trowa nodded. The ussually silent pilot suddenly had a lot to say.
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6:05 Usagi and Mamoru, Dinner-
"This is great Mamoru," Usagi said. He nodded. It was a pretty fancy french place. They looked over their menus.
"Usagi, I'll read it for you-" Mamoru was interrupted.
"No, you've spent the last 3 year teaching me french, I can read it," she insisted. The waitress came to take their orders. Not knowing what she was reading, usagi randomly chose a food and said it with a very bad accent. The waitress sweat dropped but nodded. Mamoru ordered as well, and the waitress well.
"I'm having a good time." Usagi reached for her drink, and clumsily knocked it over.
"Oops, I'm sorry," she said, giving a nervous laugh. A waitress came to help clean it up. After she left, they recieved their food. Usagi blinked at her food. It looked pretty good. She cut it and started to eat. She ate some of the greens from on top, and stopped. Her food- it looked like a, a-
"AHHH! I'M EATING TOUNGUE!"
After the mess was over, Usagi settled down. She had in her trauma, knocked over the candle stick on the table abd burned the table cloth. A bucket of water had been thrown on the table, drenching her and Mamoru. Instead of being kicked out, her and Mamoru had been moved to a new table since Mamoru knew the owner.
"I'm sorry Mamo-chan."
"It's ok Usako. I think we're fast food people anyways."
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6:15, Park at the dock-
Ami watched as Aiko stepped onto the dock, James following holding her arm. Goerge and Anna followed, as did Kevin, Lisa and Joseph. Ami was about to step on as well. She remembered that they had met Sailor Venus on this dock. She also remembered Usagi telling her that she and Mamoru had been making out on this dock before rini had fallen on her head. The thought made her snicker.
She was about to step on, when something caught her eye. Something black hit one of the posts holding up the dock. It broke. She spun aroun. Behind her stood Noko, the same evil grin on his face.. "No!"
An almost rippling motion hit the boards on the dock throwing them out of place and then back.
Everyone fell onto the planks.
"Everyone! Get off the dock!" Meanwhile, Heero and Makoto were in a canoo near the dock.
"Hey look, everybody's on the dock. Wait, what's going on over there? Heero, row over there!" Heero, whom had been rowing the whole time was getting tired. He grunted as he rowed towards the dock.
"You're so slow! MOVE!" She shoved him ot the other side and took the ore's, moving quickly towards the dock. Heero blinked.
The middle of the dock began to crack, starting from the land area and moving towards the edge. Ami jumped over the breaking part and rammed into everyone, knocking them away from what was breaking. She look down at where she was standing. that was breaking too. Makoto and Heero pulled up next to the dock.
"Jump on! Get off the dock! It's gonna collapse!" Anna, Goerge, Lisa, Kevin, and Joseph hopped down to the canoo.
"Ami! Watch out," screamed Aiko. James grabbed Aiko off the place that was cracking.
"If you put too much weight on it, it'll crack. Ami's so light it's just barely staying up now. Get on the canoo before this area breaks," he instructed. Aiko shook her head. Duo reached up and grabbed her.
"Hey!"
"Ami, get over here," instructed James.
"Get on the boat James, this thing is gonna fall," Ami said.
"Ami, don't make this difficult. I'm not getting on until I see you safe," he said. Ami sighed.
"If I walk over to where you are, this thing will collapse."
"Who cares, get off the dock," he said.
"Fine." She looked behind her. There was a 10 foot gap from where she was standing to shore. She took a step towards the edge.
"Ami, not that way, this way," James said. On the canoo, nobody could see the dock.
"What's going on," asked Aiko. She looked up. "Ami! Get your butt off that piece of crappe now! You too James!"
"Ami's fine," Makoto said, looking up at the dock. She didn't look worried at all, almost intrigued by the situation. Lisa frowned at this.
Ami jumped towards the shore, landing perfectly. Sh turned to look at James. his mouth hung open.
"Get off! It's about to fall!" James nodded and jumped onto the tiny crammed canoo, just as the dock collapsed. Makoto started to row them to the loading dock on the other end.
"We have a lot of weight on this tiny canoo. So if you don't want us to sink, please don't move," Makoto said nervously. Heero grunted.
On shore, Ami looked around. Noko snickered from behind her. She spun around. He dissapeared and re-appeared in front of her.
"Huh?" She was blown about 20 feet away. She stood up.
"Why are you attacking me? I can't fight you back," she said, trying her best to look innocent. Noko laughed at this. With a shake of his head, he dissapeared. Ami shook her head. She stood up and ran to the next loading dowck, where everyone was getting of of the canoo.
"Ami, that was amazing," James said.
"What was," asked Aiko. She still sounded upset.
"That- that," James stopped. He met Ami's eyes briefly.
"Ami jumped from the dock onto the shore. It was an excellent jump," he said, speaking normal now. Ami nodded her head.
"Makoto taught me long jumps. Thank her," Ami lied.
"I just don't understand how the dock could have collapsed like that," James said.
"It's old," Ami said quickly. Aiko checked her watch.
"Ami, I thought you had a date with Quatre," Aiko said. Ami grabbed her mother's hand and looked at the time.
She zoomed off.
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(I know i'm going backwards in time)
3:15, still in room of Rei Kick Boxing class-
Rei was hurriedly trying to revive Wufei. She slapped his cheek a few times. Nothing seemed to be working. She opened the door and peeked outside to the hall. Deserted. This was the last class for today. Grabbing Wufei, she proceeded to drag him out into the hall. She was about to turn a corner when she saw someone approaching. She opened a broom closet and threw Wufei inside. She heard a grunt. She closed it and stood in front of it as her instructer walked by.
"Good job today in class Hino. By the way, where's that other guy you brought with you?"
"Um...he's in the restroom. Well, I better get going," rei said. Her instructer nodded.
"Me too," she walked away. Rei looked around, and when she was sure the coast was clear, she grabbed Wufei and dragged him out of the closet. She made it to the end of the hall, Wufei starting to wake up. Reaching for the heavy doors, she opened it up, just as Wufei came to.
"Onna! What the hell!" He startled her, and Rei let go of the door. It swung back and hit Wufei in the head. He was knocked out again.
"Oops again. I'm starting to get as clumsy as Usagi. There will be a lovely bump there in the morning," Rei said to herself. Wufei came to a bit after that.
"ONNA! TWICE!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! It was an accident! Well, the second one anyways! Besides, now you know that I'm not weak!" Wufei blinked at her.
"Maybe your not AS weak as I first thought," he said, the words coming out as if they were bitter tasting.
"That's good enough for me. Wanna go get a burger or something," asked Rei. Wufei shrugged.
"Whatever Onna. i am getting hungry."
"I have a name, dope," Rei said as they walked outside together.
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Ami had quickly gotten dressed, and had been done by the time Quatre arrived at her door. She was wearing a long black skirt and a deep blue halter top. Her black purse carried her wand, communicater, and the little fortune she had recieved. On her finger was her healing ring. Ami was a little skeptical as to why she had it with her, but it some how intrigued her and made her want to figure it out.
"Ready," he asked, taking her arm.
"Yes."
"I have a taxi waiting downstairs fr us. We don't have to walk everywhere," he said. She nodded.
"Well, I have a lot to tell you, but we can't talk in front of the taxi driver. You can however, try to figure this out for me," she said, handing him the fortune as she closed the door.
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Ok, i'll finish Ami and Quatre's date in the next chapter.
Kaiya: Thanks for your review!
Shadow Fox2: Thankyou for reviewing!
Chapter 5
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Ami arrived at her apartment with Quatre that day, whom had run out of the burger place to walk her home. She opened the apartment door and heard laughter.
"Ami! Ami's back," cried Joseph.
"Oh, Ami, Quatre. Glad you're back. We decided to follow up dinner with some drinks, come sit down with us," Aiko greeted. Joseph ran to Ami and grabbed her hand, leading her to the couch.. She had taken quite a liking to the little trouble maker. Quatre felt out of place as he stood by the door. Ami grabbed his wrist and made him sit on the couch.
"Relax," she said. Aiko, Lisa, James, Kevin, and Goerge seemed to be having a very loud conversation about politics. Anna sat looking rather bored, and she turned to Ami.
"How old did you say you were dear?"
"17," Ami answered. Anna nodded thoughtfully. She met Ami's eyes for a moment, for the first time.
"You know, most think I'm a silly old fool whom doesn't know what she's talking about, but I do," started Anna quietly.
"No one here thinks that," Ami protested.
"Your eyes Ami. Your eyes give you away. A secret Ami. A dangerous secret," Anna turned to Quatre, "and you keep one as well, young man." Ami and Quatre frowned at Anna.
"Anna," started Ami.
"Don't deny anything my dear. It's not like I know of what you hide. I can only see the guilt in your eyes. Don't worry, secrets do make life interesting, don't they?" Anna said quietly again, only this time she was smiling. She winked at Ami, and turned to to look at the others when Aiko burst out laughing. Joseph was performing a little dance for them, and he was singing along. Ami wanted to say something to Anna, but she was already laughing along with everyone and cheering Joseph on.
"So Quatre, you live around here," Aiko suddenly asked.
"Not too far, wow, look at the time. I better get going," he said, jumping up.
"I'll walk you downstairs," Ami said quickly, also jumping up. They were out the door a split-second later.
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Ami woke up the next day hearing voices. She got dressed and went out to the living room. James, and her mother sat on the couch, while Lisa, Kevin, and Jospeh sat on the other. Goerge was standing next to Anna's chair, looking frustrated. Ami looked at the clock. 7:00.
"Hello everyone. What's wrong? Why are you all here so early? With...a bunch of suitcases," she said, the last part ending in understanding.
"I was evicted Ami. My own stupid mistake. The place I was renting said no kids in the terms of agreement, but I accidently over looked it. But," he turned to look at Aiko," there is no way we're intruding on you for 2 weeks. 2 days was too long to agree to. We're just going to have to stay at a hotel."
"No! They charge an arm and a leg for just one night, and you still have 13 days left before the wedding! Look around you James, the apartment is empty. It's lonely. Having everybody stay over will be fun. Like one really big family," Aiko finished.
"Oh! My dear that is sooo sweet," Anna said, reaching into her purse for a tissue. James looked upset, but then his shoulders sagged.
"Alright, I give up. But I will not have you going out of your way for us. I know you have the next two weeks off, but if you do anything extra you wouldn't normally do, Aiko, I'm going to a hotel. We're not going to over work you for-" Aiko shushed James.
"It's alright, it's alright."
Everyone turned to look at Ami.
"I think having you would be great," Ami lied, putting on a charming smile. Everyone smiled and nodded. Ami led Lisa to her room. She emptied one of her drawers and placed Lisa's things in it. Meanwhile, Joseph, Kevin, and James set up a room for themselves, and James insisted on taking the unfolding bed. Goerge and Anna shared a room. Everyone insisted that they wouldn't intrude on the bride to be. They said Aiko's mother would be staying in her room in a while anyways, and she should enjoy it while it was empty now.
"Thanks for sharing with me Ami," Lisa said.
"It's fine," Ami said as she pulled in the extra inflatable bed. She moved her bed over and put the new one near it. Going to the storage room, she found her old bed frame. Her and Lisa dragged it into the room, and they layed the inflateable bed on it. She got Lisa some sheets and all was set.
"Cool, looks just like a regular bed," Lisa said, jumping on it. For someone who was married and had a kid, it was hard to believe Lisa acted like one sometimes.
"Yes, well you'll be staying here for two weeks and you can't sleep on the floor that long," Ami said. Lisa smiled.
"Your a very intelligent girl Ami. Thankyou," she said. As funny and silly as Lisa could sound, Ami knew she was also very smart. She would have to be careful around Lisa. Sneaking out in the middle of the night to fight battles would definately make Lisa suspicious.
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3:00 pm. Rei's kick boxing class at the Activity Center-
The hour was passing by quickly, and Wufei had yet to break a sweat as the instructer worked them in their daily routine. He could see Rei glaring at him discretely, hoping he would get tired or mess up. The onna was keeping up as well, infact she was ahead of most of the class.
When the class had ended, Rei approached Wufei.
"Ok, so you made it. That still doesn't make me weak," she said. Everyone was out of the room.
"Yes it does. An onna who can challenge me -I've only met one- is not weak."
"Fine, right here, pig!"
"What?"
"The room is made for this stuff. Let's fight," she said.
"Fine!"
Wufei and Rei engadged in battle, punching and kicking. Rei pinned him to the ground.
"This isn't wrestling onna! Get off!"
Wufei shoved her off and jumped up, kicking her to the ground. Rei stood. That had hurt. She raised her arm, and punched Wufei so hard...that she knocked him out.
"Oh...oops."
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5:30. Duo and Minako at the movies-
'Man she's hot. Too bad she wouldn't see a later showing with me. Oh well,' Duo thought, looking over at Minako who was munching on popcorn and watching the sappy romance movie.
'Maybe she won't notice if I...'Duo's thoughts faded as he boldly brought his arm up and put it around her shoulders. Minako was so into the movie she didn't even look up at him, she just stared unblinkingly at the movie. He sighed and leaned back. The screen got more and more blurry as he watched.
'This movie is so lame.' Duo eventually drifted of to sleep.
One hour later-
Duo woke up with a jump to hear people laughing. He felt his head. There was a bucket of popcorn on his head. Minako stood growling at him.
"You JERK! YOU FELL ASLEEP! While on a date with ME!" She stormed out. Duo looked behind him. There was a guy sitting there with his girlfriend.
"Dude, you still have the bucket of popcorn she put on your head," he pointed out. Duo reached to remove it, and the popcorn all fell on him.
"Uck. Greasy," he said. He blinked. Minako had just stormed out. He jumped up and ran after her. About halfway down the block, he caught up with her.
"Minako! Please, I'm sorry. It's just that the movie, and...and," he stopped. Minako's angry expression had turned into one of amusement. She cracked up.
"You still have popcorn all over your head." He touseled his hair and it fell out.
"I'm sorry," he said.
"Guess I over-reacted. Just- no more late night visits, Ok?"
"It's a deal. I know we failed at the last movie, but there's a comedy starting in a few minutes I think we can both enjoy," he said. Minako smiled.
"I think I can handle one more movie," she said, taking his arm.
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6:00, Makoto and Heero, Burger place-
"So my teacher said that- hey, are you listening to me," shoutd Makoto. Heero paused. He closed his lap top.
"I'm listening," he said. She nodded. They talked for a while more (Makoto talked), and then got bored.
"I know! We can go to the dock! We'll take a canoo out, ok? Ok, let's go!" They were out the door before Heero could object.
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6:00, Stesuna and Trowa. Park-
Setsuna strolled along the side walk with Trowa.
"So you finally got to come here for a reason other than giving us information," he noted.
"Yes. For some reason, I had to."
"Why?"
"Trowa, I am the guardian of time. And yet- there are things even I don't know. I say we enjoy this break." Trowa nodded. The ussually silent pilot suddenly had a lot to say.
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6:05 Usagi and Mamoru, Dinner-
"This is great Mamoru," Usagi said. He nodded. It was a pretty fancy french place. They looked over their menus.
"Usagi, I'll read it for you-" Mamoru was interrupted.
"No, you've spent the last 3 year teaching me french, I can read it," she insisted. The waitress came to take their orders. Not knowing what she was reading, usagi randomly chose a food and said it with a very bad accent. The waitress sweat dropped but nodded. Mamoru ordered as well, and the waitress well.
"I'm having a good time." Usagi reached for her drink, and clumsily knocked it over.
"Oops, I'm sorry," she said, giving a nervous laugh. A waitress came to help clean it up. After she left, they recieved their food. Usagi blinked at her food. It looked pretty good. She cut it and started to eat. She ate some of the greens from on top, and stopped. Her food- it looked like a, a-
"AHHH! I'M EATING TOUNGUE!"
After the mess was over, Usagi settled down. She had in her trauma, knocked over the candle stick on the table abd burned the table cloth. A bucket of water had been thrown on the table, drenching her and Mamoru. Instead of being kicked out, her and Mamoru had been moved to a new table since Mamoru knew the owner.
"I'm sorry Mamo-chan."
"It's ok Usako. I think we're fast food people anyways."
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6:15, Park at the dock-
Ami watched as Aiko stepped onto the dock, James following holding her arm. Goerge and Anna followed, as did Kevin, Lisa and Joseph. Ami was about to step on as well. She remembered that they had met Sailor Venus on this dock. She also remembered Usagi telling her that she and Mamoru had been making out on this dock before rini had fallen on her head. The thought made her snicker.
She was about to step on, when something caught her eye. Something black hit one of the posts holding up the dock. It broke. She spun aroun. Behind her stood Noko, the same evil grin on his face.. "No!"
An almost rippling motion hit the boards on the dock throwing them out of place and then back.
Everyone fell onto the planks.
"Everyone! Get off the dock!" Meanwhile, Heero and Makoto were in a canoo near the dock.
"Hey look, everybody's on the dock. Wait, what's going on over there? Heero, row over there!" Heero, whom had been rowing the whole time was getting tired. He grunted as he rowed towards the dock.
"You're so slow! MOVE!" She shoved him ot the other side and took the ore's, moving quickly towards the dock. Heero blinked.
The middle of the dock began to crack, starting from the land area and moving towards the edge. Ami jumped over the breaking part and rammed into everyone, knocking them away from what was breaking. She look down at where she was standing. that was breaking too. Makoto and Heero pulled up next to the dock.
"Jump on! Get off the dock! It's gonna collapse!" Anna, Goerge, Lisa, Kevin, and Joseph hopped down to the canoo.
"Ami! Watch out," screamed Aiko. James grabbed Aiko off the place that was cracking.
"If you put too much weight on it, it'll crack. Ami's so light it's just barely staying up now. Get on the canoo before this area breaks," he instructed. Aiko shook her head. Duo reached up and grabbed her.
"Hey!"
"Ami, get over here," instructed James.
"Get on the boat James, this thing is gonna fall," Ami said.
"Ami, don't make this difficult. I'm not getting on until I see you safe," he said. Ami sighed.
"If I walk over to where you are, this thing will collapse."
"Who cares, get off the dock," he said.
"Fine." She looked behind her. There was a 10 foot gap from where she was standing to shore. She took a step towards the edge.
"Ami, not that way, this way," James said. On the canoo, nobody could see the dock.
"What's going on," asked Aiko. She looked up. "Ami! Get your butt off that piece of crappe now! You too James!"
"Ami's fine," Makoto said, looking up at the dock. She didn't look worried at all, almost intrigued by the situation. Lisa frowned at this.
Ami jumped towards the shore, landing perfectly. Sh turned to look at James. his mouth hung open.
"Get off! It's about to fall!" James nodded and jumped onto the tiny crammed canoo, just as the dock collapsed. Makoto started to row them to the loading dock on the other end.
"We have a lot of weight on this tiny canoo. So if you don't want us to sink, please don't move," Makoto said nervously. Heero grunted.
On shore, Ami looked around. Noko snickered from behind her. She spun around. He dissapeared and re-appeared in front of her.
"Huh?" She was blown about 20 feet away. She stood up.
"Why are you attacking me? I can't fight you back," she said, trying her best to look innocent. Noko laughed at this. With a shake of his head, he dissapeared. Ami shook her head. She stood up and ran to the next loading dowck, where everyone was getting of of the canoo.
"Ami, that was amazing," James said.
"What was," asked Aiko. She still sounded upset.
"That- that," James stopped. He met Ami's eyes briefly.
"Ami jumped from the dock onto the shore. It was an excellent jump," he said, speaking normal now. Ami nodded her head.
"Makoto taught me long jumps. Thank her," Ami lied.
"I just don't understand how the dock could have collapsed like that," James said.
"It's old," Ami said quickly. Aiko checked her watch.
"Ami, I thought you had a date with Quatre," Aiko said. Ami grabbed her mother's hand and looked at the time.
She zoomed off.
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(I know i'm going backwards in time)
3:15, still in room of Rei Kick Boxing class-
Rei was hurriedly trying to revive Wufei. She slapped his cheek a few times. Nothing seemed to be working. She opened the door and peeked outside to the hall. Deserted. This was the last class for today. Grabbing Wufei, she proceeded to drag him out into the hall. She was about to turn a corner when she saw someone approaching. She opened a broom closet and threw Wufei inside. She heard a grunt. She closed it and stood in front of it as her instructer walked by.
"Good job today in class Hino. By the way, where's that other guy you brought with you?"
"Um...he's in the restroom. Well, I better get going," rei said. Her instructer nodded.
"Me too," she walked away. Rei looked around, and when she was sure the coast was clear, she grabbed Wufei and dragged him out of the closet. She made it to the end of the hall, Wufei starting to wake up. Reaching for the heavy doors, she opened it up, just as Wufei came to.
"Onna! What the hell!" He startled her, and Rei let go of the door. It swung back and hit Wufei in the head. He was knocked out again.
"Oops again. I'm starting to get as clumsy as Usagi. There will be a lovely bump there in the morning," Rei said to herself. Wufei came to a bit after that.
"ONNA! TWICE!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! It was an accident! Well, the second one anyways! Besides, now you know that I'm not weak!" Wufei blinked at her.
"Maybe your not AS weak as I first thought," he said, the words coming out as if they were bitter tasting.
"That's good enough for me. Wanna go get a burger or something," asked Rei. Wufei shrugged.
"Whatever Onna. i am getting hungry."
"I have a name, dope," Rei said as they walked outside together.
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Ami had quickly gotten dressed, and had been done by the time Quatre arrived at her door. She was wearing a long black skirt and a deep blue halter top. Her black purse carried her wand, communicater, and the little fortune she had recieved. On her finger was her healing ring. Ami was a little skeptical as to why she had it with her, but it some how intrigued her and made her want to figure it out.
"Ready," he asked, taking her arm.
"Yes."
"I have a taxi waiting downstairs fr us. We don't have to walk everywhere," he said. She nodded.
"Well, I have a lot to tell you, but we can't talk in front of the taxi driver. You can however, try to figure this out for me," she said, handing him the fortune as she closed the door.
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Ok, i'll finish Ami and Quatre's date in the next chapter.