#-##-Chapter eight-##-# The eighth confession

enticer: "Shut up." Motoki said unhelpfully.

When Mamoru and Usagi got married, it was in February of that year. They both decided on a wedding in the mountains. They were touring the mountains when they found a little town sitting in the middle of a mountainside and near it was a hot spring and the ocean at the bottom. They agreed on it instantly and started to plan it quickly.

On the day of the wedding Mamoru was getting nervous and he looked to his best man and the others. He turned instead to Jadeite. "What if I'm making a mistake? What if we're really not meant to be? We've broken up so many times, do I really want to deal with all the legal ramifications if it doesn't work out this time?"

"Shut up." Motoki said unhelpfully.

Mamoru turned his eyes to the man. "Why?"

"Because if you and Usagi don't work out I'll eat my hat." He growled. "All you have to do is say the words, and then take Usagi to bed and everything will work itself out. You've fought this hard and long for it, so take the opportunity."

"Yeah man, Usagi's a babe." Jadeite stated. "She'd be an easy bedmate to get addicted to."

"This coming from the man who eloped this year. Jadeite, stop thinking about sex."

"Why not, I'm the only one of us that gets to do it and enjoys it immensely." Jadeite said truthfully. They had been the only ones to do it before marriage too but nobody commented on that one.

Malachite shook his head. "Mamoru, you love her, she loves you. Nobody's wishing this marriage doesn't last." Mamoru was going to say something but Malachite cut him off. "No, not even her parents, or Kameko and Chika they both know that this is meant to be that's why they fought against it so hard, to see if they could change fate."

"They inadvertently helped." Mamoru laughed in agreement. "They got rid of all the girls that I sort of liked and they often thought they were in love with me and would stay with me forever."

"See, fate." Nephrite pushed.

"Yes, of course, you're right." Mamoru finally relaxed. "Besides, as Jadeite said, she's a babe."

Although Usagi was also having cold feet she wasn't acting the same way Mamoru was. "I can't marry him!" Usagi wailed. "He's stupid, a nasty ogre, he's untruthful and how can I believe even things he's written they've all been set up to get me to fall in love with him and it's all been a horrible joke!" She was twitching around and her skirt was constantly being plucked at.

Her friends were trying to calm her, they'd never seen her act like this but they couldn't get near her, as she was surprisingly good at dodging them in a wedding dress. "I told you we shouldn't have let her buy something so light and plain." Makoto commented wryly.

"I think we should get Haruka in here." Ami commented as well running out of ides.

Minako brightened and shouted. "USAGI!" Usagi stopped moving. "Good girl, now stay calm, you don't want to ruin your make-up, it took me hours to do it in the first place."

Rei rolled her eyes; of course Minako was only concerned with the insularity things. "Ok, everybody get out of here." She declared once Usagi started up her fidgeting again. They looked at her curious. "We will be fine, or rather she won't hurt me." Rei's gaze transferred to Usagi accidentally knocking over a vase. "Leave." Her voice gentled.

All the girls filed out with one last look at Usagi. "Usa-chan." Rei's voice remained calm. "Come here and sit down before you hurt yourself." Usagi sat down in the plushy seat that Rei was gesturing to. Usagi was reacting to Rei's calmness the way Rei had expected her to, Usagi's attitude had only been a duplicate of the one she had shown after taking Mamoru away from Rei. Rei had been calm at that time too, but alone and knew Usagi wouldn't have responded with the other three girls in the room.

Usagi looked up at Rei still toying with her dress. "What's really bothering you?" Rei asked placing her hand over Usagi's to stop it.

Usagi swallowed then looked away. "It isn't because you don't trust him not to have lied to you yet, you told me the other day that you trusted him the most now then ever before."

"Right." Usagi nodded as well.

"So then what's got you riled up now?" Rei's eyes had light dawning in them as she surveyed Usagi. "It isn't because you think he'll leave you eventually is it? A type of lapse back into habits?"

"No." Usagi hiccupped. "He loves me too much to do that, and even if he does he'll return to me." Usagi looked whirled around the room before finally landing on Rei's concerned eyes.

"Tell me then what it is that you're fearing." Rei soothed gently.

"What if he hurts me? What if tonight I'm not what he wanted and I'm not good enough for him, in bed?" Usagi's voice was a pained whisper and Rei frowned.

She had never thought of this fear, not even in her own wedding because Jadeite and she had participated in it before then. If they had waited, would they have been compatible in bed? Worse yet, would she have feared it as Usagi does?

Rei placed her arms around Usagi and drew her to her. Usagi returned the hug tightly. "It'll be all right Usa-chan." Rei soothed. "How does it feel when you kiss Mamoru, is it passionate, more than intoxicating and pulls you to him no matter what you can't think of anything but the kiss?" Usagi nodded against her bare shoulder. "Is it light years better then anything you shared with Motoki?" There was the small nod again. "Do you love Mamoru?"

Usagi lifted her head and looked at Rei. "Yes, I do." It was the one thing she knew for sure.

"Do you trust him?" Rei prodded.

Usagi nodded but Rei felt she needed to say it out loud so she asked again. "Yes, I do." Usagi finally answered vocally.

"Then trust him to love you, trust him to find exactly what he wants for in you, I've seen him look at you. Anything you share will be the most wonderful thing he's ever had before, the only thing he's had before. But no matter if he had had several relationships before then, then you'd still have been the best."

Usagi calmed down completely and smiled at Rei. "You know those men are probably soothing down Mamoru right now, but it isn't about love making, those men are too arrogant to care about that."

Rei laughed. "You're back." She smiled and helped Usagi stand up and smooth down all the wrinkles. "Should I let the girls back in now?"

"Sure, and Rei, thanks, you're the best maid of honor a girl could ask for." Usagi offered a huge smile.

"Of course, that's why you chose me." She winked back at her friend before letting the other girls come back who had their ears to the door. But they hadn't heard anything.