Title: Gossip Girl Goes Japan

Authoress: Lady Matrix

Author's Notes: All right! Another chapter! It actually happened! -GASP- ke ke ke...

Any who, I updated "A Broken Promise"... Go check it out and review guys! I crave feedback...

Virus: Can we all say "desperate"?

Well, yes... and for all of you who are familiar with the "Gossip Girl" series, do you remember the interludes in the story where "Gossip Girl" answers e-mails from some people? I'd like to do that just to make this story more like the real thing... so if you guys could send me e-mails, [pretending the characters are real], and then I'd post your e-mails and my replies to them in the story...

Lol. Confusing? Just send me an e-mail @: thepinkmatrix@aol.com if you're interested in participating in this story, and I'll send you back more of an explanation.

Disclaimers apply, as always...

On with the story!

Rei slid into her mahogany seat near the front of the classroom: and she seriously slid. The girl's motion was fluid: just as her personality was slick.

"Ms. Hino, would you please read us the next section of this poem? I'll assume that you were late for class, preparing to recite it for all of us."

Well, actually, she had been outside, planning to head to the local café, but decided not to skip out for today...

The speaker, Ms. Wasabi asked that question testily. Yes, the woman's name was Wasabi and all the female attendees of OA always made a sneering joke about it. In a witty moment, Minako had chided, "No wonder no guys wanna french her. The taste must be as sour as she looks."

Rei smiled politely back, replying with a light-toned answer of, "Yes ma'am." She parted her lips, knowing that once she unleashed her voice, the whole class would be under a dream-like spell. She was well aware of the enchantment her voice could create: she was kind of like a modern day siren: armed with Master card and all. And was she ever proud of flaunting it.

"And ode to thee,

thee of sweet eyes,

eyes that unveiled the joy of heaven;

within thy orbs,

thy very own sky–"

Abruptly the black-haired girl was cut off as the door creaked open. All eyes turned towards the newcomer, all the female hearts beating rapidly within the room, hoping that it was once again one of the enigmatic Mamoru Chiba's visits from the Judichi Academy. He was student council president and was obligated to visit Osaka Academy to inform the female student body about joint trips the two schools planned together.

All hopes dashed aside, they found that is was just a fellow female creature. [insert unanimous, disappointed sighing here...]

Except this newcomer was definitely new to everyone's eyes. She wore her long golden hair in pigtails, two buns placed atop her heads. She had wide, baby-blue eyes that sucked everything in like a vortex. She had a slim frame, and stepped lightly into the roof: almost elf-like. If Rei was queen of the Sirens, this girl was most definitely queen of the elves.

"Ah!" Ms. Wasabi exclaimed brightly, "our new student! We've been expecting you. Please, please: come in."

Rei watched the girl through slitted purple eyes, annoyed that her presence had cut off her solo time. 'Stupid wretch. Who is this bloody new girl, any way? Probably ultra low class. And what's with that hair?! SOMEONE has no idea where the salons are at–" Rei's barrage of mental insults was put to a halt as the girl with the wide blue eyes started chipperly, " Heya! My name's Usagi Tsukino. I just transferred here from Juuban High..."

'Ew. A public schooler.' Rei thought, gagging inwardly. She turned off this Usagi girl's droning voice and turned her mind to greater things... like the annual beginning of school bash she was going to throw while her parents were out of town...

As Usagi made herself better acquainted with the class: "My interests include..." yadda, yadda, yadda... the school bell announcing the end of class and the beginning of lunch sounded off.

Rei gathered her literature book in her arms, sped out the door, her shoes 'click-clacking' wildly as she went. Dear Lord, she really should have sped off to Café De' LuXE. It would have saved her the agony of having to listen to that new girl's ceaseless chatter... sheesh... the girl was like a chatterbox date on helium!

"Yo Rei!"a voice called. Rei spun around from her appointed destination to find her three friends, Minako, Ami, and Makoto beckoning to her.

"Let's head for Café De'LuXE," the tall, brown-haired girl murmured, her glance mainly focused on Haruna, who seemed to be patrolling the cafeteria that day.

"Thought you'd never say those magical words!" Rei said through a clenched jaw. She threw her literature book on the ground, dropping it as if it were last week's cashmere sweater. She knew another nameless student would find it, return it to her, and thank Rei that she had dropped it in the first place: just so they had the opportunity to converse.

Ami caught that certain gleam in Rei's eye and asked, "It's good to be on top, isn't it?"

Rei laughed and exclaimed, "Heck yeah."

***At the Laid-Back Café De'LuXE***

"Ha! Did'ya hear the latest?!" Minako chattered ceaselessly with a flip of her wrist, "that Freshman actually asked Motoki out when we were having a full blown make out session! Does that slut think she's better than me or something? What do you think she's smoking, huh?"

"Biatch... most definitely... " Makoto commented, sipping at her Diet Pepsi.

"But of course," Ami added, sarcasm unhidden, "your tongue was too deep down his throat for him to answer, right?"

Minako smirked, following the game. "Of course."

Rei's lip-glossed lips formed a grin. "Good girl."

The four shared a genuine laugh session. When apart from school, where they masqueraded as perfect students, and apart from the extravagant social lives each led, they were really like ordinary teenaged girls, all willing to giggle at some immature joke.

But, of course... having everything anyone could want was just as fun.

"Hey girls."

The girls stopped their chuckling at the sound of the strong, masculine voice. They looked up from their scattered beverages, to find a group of four teenaged boys.

All suave looking: playful grins playing at their faces. These were the boys all sane girls at Osaka Academy [and beyond] had their eyes on. Intellects, looks, charms: the whole package. The type of boys all on the student council. Naturally, their girlfriends would be just as 'perfect' as they were.

"Laughing at Ken's small penis size again, are we?" Motoki joked, receiving a punch in the shoulder for another one of his big mouth assumptions.

Makoto shot Motoki a semi-annoyed glare, but the upward tipped corners of her lips gave away her amusement. "Oh shut up, Motoki. The boy's taller than me," Makoto slung her arms around Ken's neck, pressing her body weight against him, which the young man supported readily, "besides, you know what they say about tall guys... " she finished with a wink.

As Minako and Ami joined with their two significant others, Rei sauntered over to Mamoru, whose tall form was leaning against the wall, a primary sultry smile on her face. "Hey Mamoru. What's been up lately?"

The black-haired man swivelled his eyesight so that he was staring at the young woman's face. He had always thought that Rei was pretty and all... but he never had a thing for her, like she had for him. Instead, he always considered her one of his close friends. Sure, he had his kicks here and there, [he was actually quite infamous for that], but Rei had been coming on strong lately. Now she was close enough for Mamoru's nostrils to be attacked by her Chanel perfume... she was leaning towards his face now, ready to retrieve that kiss form Mamoru that she had always craved...

'What's one kiss?' Mamoru thought, with a roll of his shoulders.

"Ms. Rei! Ms. Rei!"

It all happened so quickly.

One minute Rei was closing in for the kill.

The next she was drenched in Café De'LuXE's famous fat-free latte.

She could feel the warm brown liquid seeping through her OA school uniform. And she was sure of it... behind her the blending of artificial preservatives had stopped. The noisy sipping of coffee had ceased.

Her eyes already sent to 'stun', Rei whipped around, the raven feathers that were her hair soaked like the fur of a drowned rat. There she found the person she would surely torment for as long as she lived.

Rei's victim had wide, sky-blue eyes. The girl's lips mouthed the words, "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry" over and over again.

The local "Queen" didn't stop to reassure the girl that the accident had been forgiven. Instead, she dashed to the bathroom, calculating how long it would take to get her caprine sweater back from the dry cleaners. In between the time configurations, there lay a single, resounding thought: "I'll get you back, Tsukino: you and your frickin' goody two shoes ways!"

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