Hello All! Sorry I took so painfully long but I had a lot of University admissions to do, and other important life-maintenance stuff… buuuuuut here's the next chapter!!!

Sorry if it isn't overly exciting… but I swear on Usagi and Mamoru that the next chapter will be much much better. This is one of those leading into the better parts chapters…

Huge Thanks to Aqua Rhapsody for nudging me along ^^ *huggles*

And to all my other reviewers… I would have slacked off if it wasn't for you

Boy Talk

After a couple games of basketball, the pair retreated into the entertainment room of the cabin to sip their glasses of juice, and to plan their next course of action!

"So, what do you want to do now?" Darien asked

"Uh… doesn't really matter"

"… well, we can watch a movie, or play ping pong, table hockey, pool, video-games, you name it"

Usagi stared at him "um... how about we watch some TV… I kind of need to…" here she blushed a deep red, "go out to get more feminine stuff"

 Darien flushed, "oh yea… I kind of forgot about that"

"So, yea…is that all right?"

"Sure… just, um... Won't it be embarrassing, I mean… going out to buy that kind of stuff as a boy…"

"Oh god... I forgot" Usagi commented once again turning red, as she leapt off the couch, and dashed back up to her room

"That was sudden" Darien commented, as she vanished from view, "but…I guess I should go and see what she's up to." with a sigh he heaved himself off the couch, and went upstairs, but at a slower, more leisurely pace.

Down the pale yellow painted hallways, with their scattered portraits of long dead ancestors, up the spiralling staircase, and across the wide foyer, to yet another spiralling staircase he went all the while wondering what could have caused Brand- uh- Usagi to take off at such a rapid pace. Finally, he arrived at her door, listening for a moment to her voice within as she talked to herself,

"Yes! I did bring it! Now, just to put it on, and a tad of this and that, and everything will work out just fine..."

He knocked, calling,

"Usagi, it's me" 

"Just a moment… I'm busy" she called back, scrambling into the bathroom, an article of clothing in hand.

Unsure what to do, Darien waited in the hallway, his eyes studying the features of one of his who knows how many times removed grandfathers, according to the caption beneath the picture a "Harold" Chiba… how he got the name Harold… Darien did not know, as his family was originally from Japan. He shrugged off though as he resumed his pacing, assuming that "Harold" was just an English name he used, seeing as in the past, people weren't quite as open to "non-whites". 

"Usagi… are you all right in there?" he called once 15 minutes had passed. He was getting a tad worried, not to mention bored out of his mind. After all, how much fun is pacing a hallway and random visits into your room? 

"I'm fine… be out in a minute" a voice replied from behind the door.

"Yea... right" the ebony haired man muttered to himself once again going into his room, where he could at least laze around on his bed.

Finally, some time later, when Darien had nearly fallen asleep counting the bumps on his ceiling, he heard the door across the hall open.

"I'm in my room?" he called not bothering to move, until he felt the bed shift as Usagi sat down.

"So… what do you think?" she stated as he sat up before finally looking at her.

Darien promptly stared, his mouth moving up and down like some two-legged goldfish as he tried to make his brain process the sight before him.

Usagi laughed, lightly and stood up. "Well?"

"You look different" was all he could think to say, as he looked at his roommates more feminine attire. She had donned a pair of only slightly baggy jeans, and was wearing a white tank top. Her hair was the same as always, except it now had two bobby pins on one side to hold back her bangs, and she had applied some make-up. All and all she looked rather girlish, especially since she now had breasts, even if her hair was a tad too short for his taste.

Usagi laughed in response to his comment, "well I suppose that's a good thing. I AM trying to look like a girl… reduce the embarrassment for our little errand you know"

"Our errand?" Darien said with a gulp. He had managed to avoid the dreaded "feminine products" thus far, despite having numerous girlfriends, and had kind of planned on avoiding that isle for a while longer.  "Um… do I really have to come along?"

 "Yes… and don't even think of getting out of it… you are after all the one that knows where everything is."

"But… I'm a guy, and there is no way I'm ready to go down that aisle"

"Oh suck it up" Usagi stated, dragging him from the bedroom "if you are really that scared I'll let you wait in the car"

"I'm not scared, just I'm pretty sure you can go down there on your own…"

"Yea, yea, now put on your shoes, and let's gets going"

With Usagi's last comment, Darien sighed knowing that there was no way he could get out of going along, and so finally resigned to his fate, he grabbed his car keys.

They drove into the small town in silence each lost in their own thoughts until Darien pulled up in front of the local Shoppers Drug Mart.

"Well, are you coming, or staying?" Usagi questioned as she slid out of the car.

Darien just stared at her with a 'what do you think?' look, before leaning back in his seat and turning on the radio.

The blonde sighed, and sent him a heart-wrenching look. "Darien, at least come into the store with me. I mean, I don't know where anything is, nor do I know anyone here… you wouldn't want me to be harassed would you?" she commented turning off the radio as she glanced out the window to where a group of young men were standing, eyes clearly watching them.

"Hey! I was listening to that" the ebony haired man commented, as he looked at her

"Please, please, please!" the blonde begged adorably until he was forced to give in.

"Fine, but you owe me BIG time, and there is no way in hell that I am going down the isle."

"Whatever just get your butt in the store."

After Darien had climbed out of the car, and locked it the duo crossed the parking lot towards the front door of the store, but before they could enter a voice called out from behind them,

"Hey Darien, I see you found yourself a new girl."

Darien paused, head jerking around to see who had addressed him.

"Hi Bradley" he stated calmly smiling at his childhood friend.

"You know these people?" Usagi asked quietly as Bradley walked towards them.

"Yea, since I was a kid." He told her.

"Oh, well… I guess I'll go in and get my stuff" she trailed off about to walk inside, but before she could get any further Darien placed a hand on her arm.

"Just wait a few minutes and I'll come with you." he told her, inwardly cursing his courteous tendencies, i.e. his ability to pass up this opportunity to avoid embarrassment.

"Darien, long time no see" Brad commented as he and Darien shook hands.

"How have you been?" the raven haired man asked

"Oh pretty good, Meg and I've hooked up since you left"

"Oh.. That's cool" he commented smiling at his ex, a tall raven-haired girl with unusual emerald eyes.

"So, who's the chick?" commented a blonde haired guy.

"This? This is my room mate's sister, Usagi"

"Oh, and the room mate is?" questioned another girl in the group eyes darting around as if he would pop out from under the picnic table

"He's sleeping right now" Usagi replied before Darien could answer, "I think he's getting the flu, and I forced him to rest"

"Aw, how sweet of you" the blonde stated plopping down on aforementioned table.

Usagi shrugged, "well, I'd rather he didn't get sick after all" she commented before turning her attention back towards the conversation between her roommate and his friend.

After fifteen minutes, Usagi was beginning to get more than a little bored, and more than a little worried.

It had been a couple hours, and well… everyone knows what happens if you don't change your protection, and so reluctantly she tapped his arm.

"Darien… do you think we could finish the shopping and head back, I'm feeling a bit tired and I want to check on Brandon"

"Oh.. Yea, sure" he stated, as his friend looked on, wondering just what the deal was between the two.

"I guess you better be going, but talk to you later?" Brad stated as his friends all stood up from where they had been waiting.

"Yea, I'll give you a call"

"Great, see ya"

The group walked off, leaving Usagi and Darien to enter the store on their own. 

Once inside Darien quickly lead her towards where the isle was, and pointed keeping his gaze averted from the glaring labels declaring,

Tampax ultra thing, Maxi super protection, three in one care before he became, in his opinion, scarred for life.

"Baby" she whispered as she left him to amuse himself while she found what she needed.

They emerged ten minutes later, Usagi chattering on about the great deals the store had in the forms of feminine protection she had purchased in a successful attempt to freak her roommate out. He had after all been horrid in the store. (at least in her opinion) flirting like mad with the women in the make-up department, saying that he'd introduce them to his room-mate, and thoughtlessly agreeing to double date sometime.

"You are so dead when we get back. I cant' believe that you actually agreed to double date!"

"Aw, come down Brandon, just because I took her number doesn't mean that I'm going to go through with it." Darien informed her with a devilish smile as he parked the car in the driveway.

Usagi just stared after him, "why don't I believe him?" she asked the garage

As Darien's wicked laughter continued, he had in fact agreed, what he would not tell his roommate was that they were meeting up with them that very night at the town's most popular nightspot for young people… i.e. the lakeshore.

Hahaaha take that Brandon for all the times you have seen me naked, it will be a little bit of payback…

Of course if he had thought about it some more, he may have realized just what a bad idea this would be. Hot roommate, and sexy clothing… trust me, they are not exactly the best things for maintaining mental purity. 

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Sorry, about the blandness of the chapter and the long wait. I had to decide which direction to take the story, but with some help from Aqua Rhapsody, all is wondrous!

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