The next day Tsukino Usagi approached Happy Kids nursery school, she had been running a little late so she arrived at precisely 3:18pm, just as the children were being released a few minutes early. She clutched the picture Rei had given her the previous day and scanned the faces of the children, unaware of the couple that approached her. "Excuse me miss. Are you Tsukino Usagi?" A red headed woman with short wavy hair and large brown eyes tapped her on the shoulder, a small boy clutched to her clothed leg as the blond turned to her, a little jumpy. "Oh my, Yes I am. I'm sorry you startled me for a moment there" She looked down at the boy and her babbling stopped as she squatted to his level and smiled. "Hey, You must be Harley huh?" He peeked his head around the woman's leg and nodded . "Hi, I'm Usagi. A friend of your Auntie Rei, what's say we go have some fun huh?" He nodded, hesitant for a while before moving around the woman with a broadway accent and standing infront of the blond, arms raised in gesture for a hug which he was given.
Naru watched, amazed as she watched one of her shiest students open up quickly to the woman, wanting the stranger to pick him up. It had taken him two weeks to even say more than hi and buy to her but here was this women getting him to smile and indicate he wanted a hug. The blond scooped him up and twirled him around gaining loud giggles to erupt which turned into the two of them laughing as she positioned him on her hip. "You're a friend of his aunt, Correct?" Naru looked at Usagi who slowly turned her attention to her, while bouncing the small boy on her hip and watching him from the corner of her eye "Yeah, one of her best. Erm I'm sorry but you didn't tell me who you were". The red head blushed and covered her face for a moment "Oh I'm so sorry. I'm Haruna Naru, Harley's teacher. His father told me that you would be picking him up" Usagi nodded and tapped the small boy on the nose before turning back to Naru "Well, It was nice meeting you, Naru but we better go, so good bye". She smiled happily and turned to leave, Harley waving over her shoulder to his teacher as they walked away. "Bye, Usagi. See you tomorrow Harley"
On their way to the store to pick up some groceries the two chatted away and Usagi was sure that he was a talkative boy although she was completely wrong on this assumption because he was usually very secretive and shy, ever since his mother had walked out on him and his father four years ago. During their conversation she discovered that he liked Chocolate, the colour red, her hair, bunnies, cats and puppies, cola and ice-cream.
They entered the small store, grabbed a trolley and began their trip down the aisles. They picked up ice-cream, chocolate, spaghetti, bread, tomato and basil sauce, mushrooms, chicken, two bottles of cola, some digestive biscuits, strawberries, cream and finally milk. Harley ran down the aisle and picked up one of the glass bottles as Usagi dropped the cream into the basket which she had set on the floor while reaching the desired object off the shelf. There was a crash which was followed by a splashing noise and she turned to see that Harley had dropped the bottle and was now stood in a puddle of glass and milk. "Don't move" She called over to him but it was too late, he had jumped towards her and slipped on a small milk splatter, falling towards a large piece of glass. She gasped and dived forwards landing unceremoniously on the shard and cushioning his fall.
Two shop assistants ran up and helped them up, one trying to lead Harley who refused to do anything unless Usagi was the one to ask or demand it. One of them occupied him by letting him ring through objects on the till while the other one helped her sort out her cut. She had a shallow gash, two inches long on her left arm just below her elbow. They tied a cloth around her upper arm and waited a few minutes for the bleeding to slow, applying pressure to the wound. Next she bit onto a piece of plastic while she used a needle and thread to stitch it up. She wiped it clean then was given to painkillers to take, telling the first aider that she would be fine and there was no need to worry, adding "I won't sue if it gets infected either so don't worry about a thing, I'm just being me". She walked back into the store and collected Harley, happily exiting when the cashier said that the items were free due to her injury.
"Usagi?" They'd walked three blocks in silence and were only a block away when he spoke up. "Are you ok?" She nodded with a large grin gave his small hand a squeeze, "I'll be fine". After some contemplation a smile spread over his small lips as he came up with a conclusion 'I'll get daddy to look at her when he gets in' "Sorry". She looked down at him startled "What for?". His deep blue eyes raised up to meet her light blue eyes and he replied with "For hurting you" which was brushed off with a "Like I said, I'm fine so don't worry about it. It was an accident and it was either me or you and I didn't want my new friend to get hurt now did I?" His eyes widened at her statement and his grin spread larger. "Now how about some Ice-cream?" With that the two raced off to the nearby ice-cream store and got a scoop of ice-cream each. Harley got toffee fudge while Usagi got cookie dough, both had chocolate sauce and chocolate sprinkles on top.
She opened the door and kicked her shoes off, while Harley did the same before running over to the couch and flopping down. It was a quarter to five and his father wouldn't be home for over 5 hours. She shrugged off her jacket and hung it up putting the groceries on the kitchen counter before helping Harley take his own off. She let him watch TV for a while, in which time she popped the chicken in the oven and took out the strawberries, biscuits, cream, and butter from the fridge. "Hey, Harley! Wanna come help me make dessert?" she didn't hear a reply but she took the scampering of feet, turning off of the TV and a smiling face beside her as 'Yes'. They picked out a CD and put it in the player before washing their hands.
American Idiot blasted out from the living room as they danced around, mixing broken biscuits with the sugar and butter then pushing it to the bottom of a dish and popping it in the fridge. Next she took out a can of cherries in fruit juice and pulled out a quick set gel, allowing Harley to mix them together while she rinsed the strawberries off and pulled off the small leaves. She added a sprinkling of sugar and he continued to stir as she pulled out the biscuit base and adding some drops of vanilla essence to it before dropping some strawberries and cherries into the fruit gel and pouring it on to the base. That was then popped into the fridge and they began to chop up the fruit, popping some into each other's mouth occasionally.
After about twenty minutes they took out the dessert which was now set nicely and decorated it with spray cream and fruit. The smiled happily at their product before carefully placing it in the fridge. She glanced at the clock and saw that the chicken was almost done so she quickly grabbed a pan, put in some water which she boiled for a while then put in some spaghetti. She laid out two plates and a plastic container, unscrewed the lid of the sauce and grabbed a pen and paper on which she scribbled :
'Mamoru,
some left overs of my special Spaghetti and chicken in tomato and basil sauce, should last about
two or three days. I didn't know if you'd have chance to eat so....
Hope you like it
Usagi'
She found a lid for the container and set the table for two. A hiss alerted her that the spaghetti was done so she quickly turned off the stove, drained the remaining water and served the spaghetti into three portions, a large portion for Mamoru, one slight smaller for her self and another smaller one for Harley. She put some sauce into the now empty pan, turned the stove back on and pulled the chicken out of the oven, setting it on a cooling tray as to not burn the counter top. She carved it up into small chunks and popped it in with the sauce which was now simmering. She took the pan off the stove, switched it off and stirred the contents together before pouring them onto the spaghetti portions. She popped the lid on the container and popped it in the fridge with the note on top then placed the plates on the table and grabbed the bottles of coke she had bought earlier.
A few bites into the meal Harley looked up and smiled, his pudgey little face was covered in sauce and his ebony hair was ruffled "Me and daddy like spaghetti". She giggled, slightly relieved that he maybe would like it before remembering this was good practice, "Daddy and me like spaghetti is the proper way to say it" She stuck out her tongue and closed her eyes, Harley returning the gesture and giggling, which caused her to laugh out louder and the pair of them to soon be in hysterics.
They finished eating half an hour later and when Usagi looked up it was 7:15p, Mamoru would be due home in 2 hours and 45 minutes. She sighed, hoping time would slow down because she was having fun but unfortunately she didn't get her wish. Harley got changed for bed and was rewarded with a piece of desert with chocolate sauce generously squirted over the top, in which Usagi joined him. Then they washed the dishes and cleared the table which took them 45 minutes in total due to a small water fight in which Usagi klutzed out and ended up soaking wet while Harley was dry as a bone.
She persuaded him to brush his teeth and then they sat down to watch one of Harleys favourite shows and Usagi's.... Sailor V. For the next half an hour Harley showed Usagi pictures oh himself and his parents allowing her to see his mother, although most of the images of his father where blurred so you could only see a tanned looking blare with a medium sized black blur on top of it. His mother apparently was called Anne, with reddish brown hair that fell to her shoulders and judging green eyes. She was pretty, Usagi had to admit but there was something about the look of her she didn't like. There was an arrogance in her eyes that she couldn't place and eventually decided she didn't want to.
At ten past nine Usagi took Harley to rinse with Mouth wash before putting him to bed and reading him a chapter of the book his father was currently reading him, called Lost Dog. It was about a dog that got lost and into an accident escaping with amnesia. Some children found it and took him home where he stayed however they soon realised he got things confused with the opposite and if you told him not to fetch he'd go fetch where as "Fetch" would have him doing nothing. His previous owner came but because he didn't know about the dogs condition the dog refused to come to him so he left the dog to be happy with the family.
Once finished Usagi put the book on the bedside table and smiled down at Harley, bending over to give him a kiss on the forehead, "Ok?" She asked, her head tilted to the side and her hands on her knees. He nodded up to her, sniffling a little. "Aww, Are you upset because I have to go?" He nodded and she stretched her arm out to ruffle his hair, placing it back on her knee when she was done. "I'll come see you again sweetie. And if I forget, which I won't you can ask Auntie Rei and she'll drag me over. K?" He nodded wiping his tears away and stretching out his arms for a hug. She leant forwards and gave him one, her legs bending then straightening causing her rear to dance up and down a little as she placed a kiss on the side of his head and pulled away, placing her hands back on her knees, legs still moving in their little dance thing.
Harley giggled and Usagi cocked her head at him, wondering what was tickling him now. "What's so funny, huh?" She looked at the hand pointed up past her shoulder and spun around with a gasp. Of course fate would have it that not only was this embarrassing enough as it was but she had to trip over her feet and land on her butt, causing her to become more humiliated.
Find out what the playful little tyke was laughing at in the next chapter. So that was chapter two, I'm currently rewriting some of the later ones because they pretty much suck. Anywho I'm a little dissapointed because my Makato and Freddie story hasn't had ONE review yet, oh woe is me lol. Nah i'm not that fussed about it, was only a little depressive spare of the moment thing I did. I got a little bit of bad news last night though after posting it up. My great uncle Barry died and my cousin who lost one of her twin's about two months ago miscarried the second and she's devastated because she's been trying for a baby for years and keeps miscarrying.
Thanks for the previous reviews, you guys are all great. And for those who like to hear about Baka, he was worried about little ole me today because when he made one of his little remarks I snapped and told him I wasn't int eh mood for it, something I always say when I'm not happy. So he spent ten minutes following me to our next class asking me what was bugging "His... buddy" Friends are better then nothing right? Oh and haha he got a glare from our UBER scary science teacher after making a little britain joke and scribbling 'Forget Norway" on it and placing it next to thet picture of norway on the small map of acid rain areas. Ans Baka's had a haircut, laughed till he cried when Jay read the words "Waste chemical dumping..dumping.. HAHAHA"(Jay has a thing about poo so it was just really.. pathetic.
Then Baka went through my mobile/cell phone messages and then sent one of my best friends a txt message. And he shouted at me to "Shut up".. someone go find Motoki, Makato and Rei and get them to beat him for me please... anywho I'm rabbiting on hehe. Hope you liked this one again and thanks to my fans namely Klo-chan, Krys and moonprincess... and everyone else.. those are the only three I can remember that have reviewed any of my other stories and hehe I believe moonprincess reviews nearly every chapter of everystory
