Moon Diaries

Chapter 1:

My clock alarm goes off. I flipped in my bed and hit the snooze button for the fifth time this morning. That's when I heard my brother Sammy bang on the door and yell "Serena wake up. You are going to be late." It was another school day and if it wasn't for my best friend Molly I would completely despise school. I got dressed into my school uniform and placed my blonde hair into two pigtails. I ran out the front door when my mother tells me "Don't forget your lunch." I rush back in to grab it when mother reminded me not to be late after school. My grandmother is coming for a visit. I rushed back out through the front door, but not before I said good bye to my fat cat Artemis. I ran as fast as I could to school.

Sammy isn't my real brother and my parents are not my biological parents. They raised me since I was an infant. My mother Selena died in a horrible accident and never knew anything about my father. My grandmother Luna is my real grandmother. She is my father's mother. She placed me in the care of the Tsukinos when my mother died. Grandmother would visit me when she could find time in her busy schedule.

I got to school five minutes late and my teacher Haruna was ready to have a cow. She gave me the same lecture every single day about being late. Molly had tried to come by to pick me up for school, but I would just make her late as well. Molly is my best friend since I was little. She always tells me what is on her mind even when I don't agree with what she says. She keeps telling me to forget about Andrew, the hottest and coolest guy in school. I am so in love with him, with his dirty blonde hair, those blue eyes and that beautiful smile of his.

I dreaded today. I had to give a speech, but not any speech, a speech in English. It was a debate and my opponent was Andrew. He was going to talk about why we shouldn't wear school uniforms and wear what we want. His speech went well, but it was my turn to do a speech on why we should keep school uniforms. Raye gave me a snobby smile. I forgot to mention there is an obstacle for me to be with Andrew. Raye is his girlfriend. She is the popular cheerleader that loves to bully me. I got up in front of the classroom. I looked at the class and went blank. I began to laugh hysterically. Everyone stared at me. I stopped laughing and I tried to begin my speech. I looked down at my note cards, but I got nervous. I dropped my note cards and I quickly picked them up, but they weren't in order. I just tried to say a word, but nothing was coming out. Finally Miss Haruna sent me to my seat. On my way back Raye and her friends laughed at me. I can't stand being the clumsy ditz that I am. Molly tried to reassure me it happens to everyone. Yeah really, it would only happen to me.

I got detention once again after school. The clock hit 4:00 and I rushed home quickly to see grandmother. My grandmother was never the patient one and would lecture me about being late. I got home to find a limo in front of the house. I walked in to see my Grandmother sitting down having tea. She had been waiting for me for so time. She didn't say a word to me about being late. She greeted me and told me to sit. Something was wrong. This wasn't my grandmother if she was she be yelling at me right now.

"Grandmother, why are you alright with me being late?"

"Serena, please sit down, I have something to tell you."

"Grandmother you aren't going to tell me you are going to send me to boarding school because of my bad grades, my bad manners and me being clumsy."

"Serena, be serious for once. I have something very important to tell you. Now sit down," She said in a firm voice.

I sat down and stared at her as she softly spoke to me.

"Serena, I have some news to you about yours father."

"My father!"

"He passed away last weekend of a deadly disease."

"My father is dead and I didn't even get a chance to meet him."

"Serena the reason you never met your father was because of who he was. He fell in love with your mother in college and they were married, but your mother couldn't bare the duties that were required from her. She was pregnant with you at the time and she wanted you to have a normal life. So she left your father. She gave birth to you a short while after. Then you know the day she was in the deadly accident. The moment I heard I rushed here to Tokyo and decided it was best if you did have a normal life so I found you this wonderful family. Since your father is gone I find it my obligation and duty to tell you the whole truth about where you come from. You are a Princess of the Moon and I am Queen of the Moon."

"Uh-huh. You are joking. No one can live on the Moon."

"Why would I joke about something like that? We would like people to think that, but it's true. You are the Moon Princess."

"Shut up Grandmother."

"Beg your pardon! Do not tell me to shut up. "

"Lady Luna, shut up here means wow, I can't believe it," Said Amy, her personal assistant.

"I see. Serena your father was next in line for the throne. I am only Queen by marriage only. You are princess by blood. You are next in to take over throne."

"Oh no, No, no, no, no, no. You have the wrong girl."

"You are the only heir of the Moon. I will except the challenge to help you become a princess."

"Grandmother, do you know what you are saying? I am clumsy, I get bad grades and I have bad manners. Why not add a tiara and see what happens. I will bring the Moon to its end. I am no princess!"

"Serena, you will be fine. I think I will leave the rest for another time."

"There is more Grandmother! You must be kidding me. I am a normal teenager or I thought I was. Does my family know this?"

"When I left you with the Tsukinos, I never informed them of who you really her. People here don't know of us yet. I would love to tell you the whole story, but I think you need to get use to the news I just gave you. We can talk about this tomorrow for some tea at my home."

"Yes, Grandmother, but I don't think I'll get use to this. I am hungry now. Mom I think I need ice cream, cake, all the sweet you can find."

"Serena, you will get sick eating all that," Grandma said.

"Grandma, after the news you dropped on me I need food to deal with it all

"You are going to become pumpkin my dear."

"Well Grandma, I can't be a pumpkin and a princess at the same time."

"Very true, decide which one you would like to be."

"Grandmother!"

Grandmother left with Amy and I sat there shocked. How was I to deal with being the Moon Princess? I can't tell my best friend this. She would think I was bonkers. I will just go to bed and pretend none of this happened. Yes, that is what I'll do.