Till Someone Comes Along Chapter 18. Don't own SM or SLY. Don't own The Sound Of Music. Please R&R. Hope no one's offended by her song...

A/N: I got bored in coming back from lunch one day, and suddenly, this song popped into my head. It was a whim, so I ignored it. Well, in English 11, you tend to get bored, so I wrote it down. It became and instant hit with my classmates - most weren't even reading this. I hope no one is offended, and I didn't mean to mock 'The Sound Of Music'. It's fun to think up parodies... If you like it, let me know, because I have another parody I'm planning on using, and I want to make sure people are okay with them. So please, if you're a SOM fan, please don't chew me out. It's just a whim, and nothing more.

"Okay, is everyone ready? We'll be on in five minutes!" Mamoru cried out.

Setsuna clapped a hand on my shoulder. "You better be out there."

I smiled nervously. I looked shakily at myself in the mirror. Suddenly, and pair of hands seized my shoulders, and threw me out on the stage.

"But-I'm not-no!" I cried.

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I shot out of bed, panicked. The filming was this afternoon. I didn't need to be panicked just yet.

My first reaction was to call Minako. My hand was almost on the receiver, until I quickly pulled away. I wasn't just going to talk to her. Not after what she did. I was still sore over the fact that she had betrayed my trust. Best friends don't tell the world who you're with. I sighed and grabbed Inu-chan's leash. I wondered, as I stood up and stretched, if it would fit my neck. Cause everyone's going to be tugging on it.

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I sat in my chair in the office, staring at my laptop screen, thinking about the filming that was taking place that afternoon. I was supposed to be writing a request letter to some author named...Naoko Takeuchi, I think. But I didn't want to. I couldn't focus. I didn't want to do anything. I wanted to fly somewhere - far away - until a knock at my door brought me back to the cruel world of reality.

"Hey, Setsuna's asking you to see all the people up for Motoki's position." said Mitsuke.

"Usagi! First applicant!" cried Shinozaki, one of the guys down in PR.

"Send them in!" I called back. "Why me?" I asked Mitsuke.

She shrugged. "I'm just the secretary." She walked outside, beckoning the first applicant in. She was a tall girl, looking rather nervous as she stepped into my office. She had a long brown ponytail, held up by a green hair-tie with two little green balls decorating it. She also had big, green, expressive eyes, which made me think I'd seen her somewhere before...

"Name?" I asked, pulling out a sheet of paper.

"Makoto Kino," the girl said shyly.

She looked so familiar. Her voice sounded familiar, too...

"Can you say the word asshole?" I asked her.

"What?"

"Say it. Like you did in the elevator."

"You mean, to that guy who was bugging you?"

"Yes!" I cried.

She smiled. "He was one."

"One what?"

"Asshole."

"Oh. Yeah! He is one no matter where he goes. You've got the job."

She looked surprised. "Really?"

"Yeah! Do you think I'll give this job to just anyone?" I said. "MITSUKE! Get rid of all the rest, please!"

Mitsuke looked surprised, but relieved. "That was fast."

"Hey, this one's got potential." I said, looking at Makoto. She smiled, and Mitsuke guided our new worker to her new office.

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"You ready?" Makoto asked me as the make-up ladies attacked me with their powder poofs, brushes and lipsticks again.

I coughed. "No."

"You're going to have to be, soon."

"I know," I said as the make-up ladies finally dispersed. An aura of powder still surrounded me. "To tell the truth, I never wanted to do this. I was blackmailed."

"Well, maybe there's a way you can do it, but still not do it," Makoto said.

A lightbulb sprang above my head. "Yeah...YEAH!"

"Uh-oh."

"Makoto! YOU should call in the show! You, and everyone else...you can monopolize the line! That way, I...BRILLIANT!" I jumped out of my chair, hugged Makoto, and ran to the wing.

"Now, we have a new segment of the show. Dr. Anne Marie Mason, or Usagi Tsukino, has decided to answer your questions about love on the show. Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my extreme pleasure to welcome Miss Usagi Tsukino!" Setsuna said a few moments later.

A lot of applause met my ears as I walked out onto the stage, and sat in the chair across from Setsuna. A big fake smile was plastered on my face. "Hello, Setsuna!"

"Hello, Usagi," She looked a little worried.

"Hello listeners and watchers!" I said, waving at the audience. I looked at the teleprompter. "The first call is from Miaka. Hello, Miaka!"

"Hi, Dr. Mason?"

"Please, call me Usagi," I said, batting my eyes at Setsuna. She gave me a strange sort of grimace.

My body language translation: For blackmailing me, I'm going to make your life miserable.

Her body language translation: Are you drunk?

"Okay, Usagi. Um...after 25 years of marriage, I think that my husband is cheating on me because of a midlife crisis. What should I-"

"Dump the bastard, Miaka. Dump him. NEXT!" I cried.

Setsuna's mouth hit the floor.

"Hey, you know? This is fun!" I said.

So I wouldn't upset anyone, Makoto was the only one working the phones, having our co-workers call on the show. Makoto (the smart girl she is, I KNEW she would be hired!) made sure that no one called. She was our personal operator.

"Hello, Naomi!" I said, staring at the teleprompter again. "Go ahead, I'm listening," I said, imitating 'Frasier'

Setsuna groaned.

"Hello, Usagi. My boyfriend wants children, and I don't. Should I-"

"Yes, Naomi. Dump the bastard. Just dump it. NEXT!"

"All God's children, all God's children, all God's children..." Setsuna was muttering. I think it was the only thing to stop her from strangling me.

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As I walked back to my office, another eruption of applause met my ears.

"That was so funny!" Mitsuke said.

"Thanks, Naomi," I said. She laughed.

"Brilliant!" Shinozaki said. "The press is going to go haywire over this."

"You should have seen Setsuna's face!" Makoto cried.

I spotted Mamoru looking at me, leaning against a back wall. I couldn't stop staring at him, and he couldn't keep his eyes off of me. I shivered.

I was being congratulated by everyone, but it all fell silent as Setsuna came into the lobby.

"You all think that was funny?" she snapped.

"Setsuna, don't get mad!" I said. "After all, it was-"

"YOU'RE FIRED!" she yelled at me.

Everyone was silent, looking at me. Most looked worried. All I did was smile. "At least I won't have you BLACKMAILING me anymore." I turned to go pack up my office. I had been waiting for this day.

"Setsuna, when Usagi came on, your ratings were at an all time high! They got even higher when she answered each question!" Shinozaki said.

Setsuna's eyes got wide. I wanted to hurt him for saying that. "Wh-what?"

"Your audience nearly tripled!"

Setsuna looked like an idiot. She had just fired her star act! I was laughing. I didn't care anymore. I wanted to move out, and this was the perfect way - I went out with a bang.

At least, I thought so, until Setsuna burst open the door, panting heavily. She grabbed me by my collar and lifted me off the floor.

"You...will...come...back..." she panted, looking demonic.

I was about three inches off of the floor, and in no place to argue. If I had argued, I probably would have been found dead on the sidewalk. I could see the headline: 'Cow Girl Slaughtered'. "O-okay..." I said timidly.

"Good," she growled, then dropped me. I fell with a bang onto the floor.

Damn. I thought I could go to Paris.

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Seiya and I sat across from Mamoru and Minako in-guess where-the karaoke bar I went to with Motoki. It was very silent between the four of us - none of us wanted to break the ice.

Mamoru cleared his throat. "So, you're Usagi's friend."

Seiya nodded. "I'm Seiya Kou. Nice to meet you-"

"Mamoru. Usagi's roommate," Mamoru said. "This is Minako."

Seiya nodded to Minako. "Nice to meet you, Minako."

Minako was shooting wary looks at me, while I avoided her gaze. Suddenly, as I was sitting, minding my own business, Mamoru pulled my arm and pushed me to the stage.

"NO! MAMORU! YOU ASSHOLE!" I cried. The spotlight came on as I stood there, squinting into it's harsh glare.

"What song do you want?" the guy asked.

"I don't give a sh-" Suddenly, 'My Favorite Things' from The Sound of Music came on. Everything that had been bugging me was bubbling inside. I was great at ad-libbing, so why not do it with song?

"Boyfriends who run off to sleep with my best friend, keeping it completely hidden 'till the end, boys who use girls like ATM machines, these are a few of my least favorite things! Boys who change their names so they can get laid, cowbells and cameras and trips to LA, making such noises so I scream out 'PLEASE!', these are a few of my least favorite things! When the cell rings, those darn cowbells, and those nightmares, these things keep running 'round and around in my head, 'till I'm crazy and moo's what I said!" I belted. Then came the music break.

"Is she drunk?" Seiya said.

Mamoru shook his head, amazed at me.

Key change. "Cabinets with condoms stocked up to the brim, screwing and fucking until the world's grim, this, sadly, is my life's whole tragedy, I'm lucky I don't have a STD. When he was fired, to me he admitted, that when he screwed me, he really had kidded, he wanted to fuck girls in the big city, these are a few of my least favorite things! Best friends who seem, the betray me, and are such a pain, cause they tell everybody around who I'm with, it's really driving me insane! So warn everybody that this cow is mad, trust me, to her, you better not be bad, being screwed in the way I don't need, these are a few of my least favorite things! McDonalds to eat and marshmallows in cocoa, music to sing to and good anime shows, things that I love but can't get as it seems, these are a few of my favorite things, but roses have thorns, sting and hurt more, like this life I've had, so I'm bitching to you to let everything go, and now I don't feel-so bad!"

I finished with a huge sigh of relief, and walked haughtily off the stage. There was a big round of applause as I walked back to my seat. Seiya, Mamoru and Minako stared at me, slack-jawed.

"What happened to 'raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens?'" Minako asked.

I smiled sweetly, crossed my legs, and stared at the stage, watching the next act.

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Seiya walked me down the street, just to talk things out, since we hadn't done so in a long time.

"Is everything okay?" he asked. "Maybe I shouldn't ask that after tonight's performance."

I looked into his eyes. He seemed to want to understand me. So, I spilled out everything. Well, almost everything. I didn't mention anymore, except him threatening me to come tonight. I talked about blackmail, Minako, Setsuna, Makoto, Motoki, and more.

He nodded, and laughed in the appropriate places. He asked questions that were appropriate to the topic. He was actually a real gentleman. Something I'd only seen in romantic movies.

"So, have you tried talking to these people?" he asked.

I laughed. "I don't care where Motoki went, Setsuna wouldn't listen, and Makoto is the only bright spot in the office."

"I meant Mamoru and Minako. I mean, yeah, Minako did a wrong thing, but have you ever considered why she did it?"

I stared at him. "Do you think I hurt her by yelling all that time?"

"She wanted to talk to you tonight, and you wouldn't let her. I know you didn't want to hurt her. But I can't ignore the fact that she hurt you too. And Mamoru-"

"Yeah, but I didn't want Minako telling Mamoru all my private stuff."

"Do you think she told him because he's your roommate, and he can keep a close eye on you? She's probably worried about you. I don't think she wants another Motoki incident."

"I know, but-"

"And he knew a lot of stuff about you anyway, I mean, he lives with you. He has to know. And it sounds as if she told him only who you're with, and nothing more. It's probably like a big brother/little sister situation."

There was a strange pang in my heart when he uttered that last line. "Yeah," I said cautiously.

We walked back to my apartment building, and we stood outside in the night air.

"Well," I said uncomfortably.

"Um, Usagi? Can I see you again, or is this a bad time?" he asked me timidly.

Freeze time. Did I want to see him? He was a really nice guy that girls would kill for. But...Mamoru was still around. How did I feel about him? Was there anything left?

He demanded me to come. The feelings were finalized, unless he wanted to win my heart. I was over him, and I was with Seiya now.

"Yes, Seiya. You can see me again," I said. "I would love it."

And I was telling the truth.

He smiled and said, "I'm glad."

"Me too," I said.

He squeezed my hand, and turned to walk away. It was time for me to be brave for once. So, I decided to be daring.

"Seiya! Wait!" I cried. He turned. I ran up to him on the sidewalk, and I kissed him. I kissed him.

I didn't know Mamoru was watching.

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The next chapter, Usagi must make a final decision: Seiya or Mamoru? You'll see! That's the only hint I'm giving. There are only a few chapters left. See ya!

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