A/N: well, here's ch. 2^_^ I hope everyone's liking the story so far (
~*~Chapter 2~*~
"Serena, will you get up!" Luna asked Serena.
"Uh. no school Luna. Go away now and let me sleep in peace, will you?"
"If you don't get up right now you'll be sleeping in peace.permanently!" Luna yelled at the top of her lungs. Serena shrieked and fell out of her bed onto the floor.
Serena grumbled and rubbed her head picking herself up.
"Besides," Luna pointed out, "aren't you supposed to meet Lita at the mall today to go shopping?"
"Oh yeah.eh-heh heh. Guess I'd better hurry up and call her. Hope she's still there," she whispered to herself. Ring.ring.ring.beep "Hi, you've reached Kino, Lita's phone number. Please leave a message after the beep and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks!" Beep
"Hi Lita, it's Serena. Well since,"
"Hello? Serena, you still there?" Lita asked breathlessly. Serena sighed in relief.
"Yeah, I'm still here. I'm glad you haven't left yet. I'd hate for you to get to the mall and me not be there and all."
"Well, no, I haven't left yet, I just got out of the shower actually. How `bout you? You almost ready?"
"Well uh.actually I just got out o' bed!"
"Eh.it's 10:30, Serena!" Lita yelled, a sweat drop forming on her head. "Well, just hurry up and get ready and I'll meet you over at your house I guess in about an hour, k?"
"Yeah, I'll be ready by then!" Serena said and hung up the phone.
Beeeeeeeeeppppp "Well.so for much for goodbye," Lita sighed.
Serena rushed out of her room and down the hall to the bathroom. "Ugh. Closed? Hurry up in there Sammy! Other people gotta get in there too ya know!" she said hotly. The door clicked open. Sammy smiled and stuck out his tongue at Serena. He closed the door before Serena could bust in.
"Ow!" Serena yelped as the door slammed on her head. "Ugh! Little brothers," she muttered. "Hurry up, Sammy!" she yelled banging on the door.
"Serena! Stop all that racket!" her mom yelled up the stairs.
"Well tell him to get out of the bathroom! I need to take my shower!"
"Sammy, don't be in there all morning!" Mrs. Tsukino yelled again.
"Sammy, please hurry up! C'mon, I gotta meet Lita in an hour!"
"Oh, alright!" Sammy said irritably walking out the door.
"Thanks, Sammy!" Serena rushed in and turned on the shower.
Dingdong An hour later Lita stood at Serena's front door.
"Oh, hello Lita," Mrs. Tsukino said, stepping aside to let Lita inside. "I'll go get Serena."
"That's alright, you don't have to. If she's in her bedroom I'll just go and get her myself. It's no trouble really," Lita said.
"Well, alright if you're sure. I do have a lot of work left to do." Mrs. Tsukino walked back into the kitchen and started back up on her work. Lita turned and ascended up the staircase.
"Hey Serena, are you ready yet?" Lita asked, knocking on Serena's door.
"Yeah, come on in, Lita," Serena replied.
"Ugh! I'll never understand how in the world you can live in such a pig sty of a room, Serena!" she said looking disgustedly at the dirty clothes piled up on the floor. "How long have they been there? They're starting to mold," Lita teased.
"Haha," Serena said sarcastically. "You sound like Darien. He's always whining that I should be neater." Lita smiled to herself.
"Besides, it could be worse," Serena pointed out. "At least I don't have stuffed animals piled up all over my floor!" she said referring to Mina's room.
"No.I don't think even Mina's mess matches up to this!"
"Whatever," Serena replied. "Well, I'm ready to go," she said pulling on her last sneaker.
"Great! Let's head out!" The two walked down the stairs and headed out the door.
"Bye, mom! I should be back in a few hours!"
"Just be back by dinner and I'm happy," her mom replied sticking her out the kitchen doorway. The two girls walked out the door and headed down the street.
"Hey, after we're finished shopping we can meet Mina and Raye when school ends," Lita said.
"`K, sounds good to me," Serena replied. The two arrived at the mall twenty minutes later. "Oh, I love this store! Let's stop here first!" Serena drug Lita into the store by her arm.
"Ok, ok I'm coming!" Lita said shrugging Serena off her arm.
"Oh, look at this.oh and this too! Oh, look at that! That's way cool!" Serena darted around the room looking at everything in the store.
"Can I help you?" the saleslady asked coming over.
"No thank you, just looking," Serena said.
"Alright, come get me if you change your mind," the saleslady replied. The two girls checked all the stores and were in the middle of eating when Lita glanced down at her watch.
"Ugh! Serena, if we're gonna meet the girls after school we'd better get going, huh?" Lita asked.
"Oh! But Lita! These cheese fries are really good!" Serena whined.
"Serena!" Lita said laughing. Serena sighed and got up her chair.
"But the cheese fries Lita!" Serena cried looking at Lita with pitiful eyes. She sighed and then looked back at the cheese fries longingly.
"Oh, ok! Just take them with, Serena! My God!" Lita said shaking her head.
"Yay!" Serena cried out in joy. She picked up the fries and started munching on them happily as they walked out the door.
"You're pathetic, you know that right Serena?" Serena looked up with her mouth full and smiled, nodding her head. She swallowed her fries.
"Of course, I am, Lita" she said jokingly. She looked down. There were a little less than half left. "I'm feeling nice," she said and smiled. "I'll give the rest of these to Mina, since I know she loves them so much. Besides, she deserves them after having to put up with school while we were having fun at the mall." She looked down at them again. "Can you hold these 'til we get there?" Serena asked.
"Why?" Lita asked.
"Because I'm afraid I'll eat them all before we get there," Serena said laughing.
"Yeah, sure," Lita said laughing. "But we're going to be there in a few minutes anyway, ya know."
"Yeah, I know, but you know me! They'd be gone by then definitely!" Serena reasoned.
"True," Lita said.
Five later found the two at Grassvalley Jr. High waiting for Mina. Serena stood up on the bench as the bell rang to look for Mina through the flow of students streaming out the front doors. She spotted the familiar red bow. "Hey Mina, over here!" Serena waved enthusiastically. Mina looked over just as Serena went toppling over the edge of the bench. "Ow!" Serena started crying, holding her elbow.
"Are you ok?" Mina asked running over, trying to suppress her laughter. "Let me see."
Serena looked up at Mina and held her elbow tighter. "No way, you'll hurt it!" She brought her elbow even closer, protectively.
*Sigh* "Serena, I'm not going to hurt it. I won't even touch it, `k? Just look."
"You promise?" Mina nodded and sighed again. "Well.ok." Serena held out her elbow and closed her eyes tightly. "Well, how bad is it?" Serena asked, tears streaming down her face.
Mina sighed again. "Serena, it's only red, there's not even a scratch!" Serena looked down in surprise.
"Really?" she sniffled. Mina smiled.
"Really." Serena looked over at Lita and then remembered.
"Oh, yeah, I almost forgot! I brought you some cheese fries!" She took the fries out of Lita's hand and gave them over to Mina.
"Oh, wow, for me? Cool, thanks Serena!" Mina said taking the box of fries. Just as she was about to dig in she looked over at Serena. Mina smiled and held out the box. "Come on, I'll share!"
"Yay! I was hoping you'd say that!" Serena grabbed a fry and stuffed it in her mouth.
"Come on you guys, we'd better hurry up if we're gonna get to T*A* on time," Lita said. The two looked up as they finished off the fries. A big sweat drop formed on Lita's head. "You guys finished those already?"
"Yup, sure did!" Serena said smiling. "Come on, I thought we had to hurry," Serena said starting off. Mina and Lita ran over to catch up and they all started off towards T*A*. As they were walking up the street they heard the bell ring.
"Hurry up, let's get there before she leaves!" Mina yelled sprinting up the road. Lita followed while Serena tried desperately to keep up.
"Come on you guys, wait up, I'm not that fast!" Serena whined. Lita looked back and then over at Mina.
"You go on ahead, Mina. I'll stay here with Serena and you can just bring Raye back here."
"Alright," Mina said and sprinted down the street as fast as she could so she could catch up with Raye.
Lita went over and stood by Serena who was panting heavily from the run. "You know, you should really work on your endurance and running skills," Lita advised. Serena kept panting and looked up at her friend.
"Yeah, well ya know some people are runners and." she gasped another breath of air, "some aren't." She stood up having caught her breath finally. "I'm one of those who aren't." Lita sighed.
"Ok, Serena, if that's your motto go ahead and stick with it."
"Hmph. I will!" Serena said. Lita looked over and laughed.
"Don't take it so seriously! I'm just joking with you Serena!" Serena looked over and laughed too.
"Now who's the one taking it to seriously! I'm just joking too ya know!" Serena said still laughing. Mina and Raye came running over.
"`K, we're back," Mina said. Serena looked at them in awe.
"Geez, they're not even breathing hard or breaking a sweat! How do you do that?!" Mina laughed.
"Easy Meatball Head, we're in shape," Raye said teasingly.
"Why do you always have to call me that!" Serena whined.
"Because it always works to get your goat," Amy said. All the scouts looked over in surprise.
"What.how'd you get here Amy?" Lita asked. Amy laughed.
"How could anyone miss these two when they're fighting? I was walking close by when I heard them and came on over," Amy said smiling. Lita and Mina laughed while Serena and Raye were blushing.
"Hey, how about some ice cream?" Serena asked enthusiastically. Lita sighed.
"Again! You just ate Serena!" Lita said. Serena looked over at her incredulously.
"Yeah, a whole hour ago!" she said. Lita shook her head.
"I don't know how you stay so skinny!" Lita said still shaking her head while it rested in her hand. Serena shrugged and started off.
"Come on, let's go! I wanna go get that ice cream!" She took off running down the street. Lita and Mina looked at each other and laughed.
"NOW she can run!" they said together. Everyone ran as fast as they could to catch her. They arrived at the Crown Arcade Center. Serena was at a booth happily eating her ice cream.
"Thanks for waiting," Raye said sarcastically. Serena looked up from her sundae.
"Hey I got you all something!" Serena said defending herself. For the first time the girls noticed the other sundaes on the table. They all at down at the table.
"Wow, thanks Serena!" Lita said. She grabbed the change out of her pocket and handed it to Serena. The others did the same and handed the money for the sundaes over to Serena. They all sat there and finished their ice cream. Serena looked up at the clock on the wall and gasped.]
"Uh oh! Gotta go you guys! Mom said she wanted me back by dinner!" Serena got up and rushed out the door waving hurriedly. "See ya tomorrow!" Everyone sighed as they watched their friend leave and run down the street, skidding at the corner.
~*~Chapter 2~*~
"Serena, will you get up!" Luna asked Serena.
"Uh. no school Luna. Go away now and let me sleep in peace, will you?"
"If you don't get up right now you'll be sleeping in peace.permanently!" Luna yelled at the top of her lungs. Serena shrieked and fell out of her bed onto the floor.
Serena grumbled and rubbed her head picking herself up.
"Besides," Luna pointed out, "aren't you supposed to meet Lita at the mall today to go shopping?"
"Oh yeah.eh-heh heh. Guess I'd better hurry up and call her. Hope she's still there," she whispered to herself. Ring.ring.ring.beep "Hi, you've reached Kino, Lita's phone number. Please leave a message after the beep and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks!" Beep
"Hi Lita, it's Serena. Well since,"
"Hello? Serena, you still there?" Lita asked breathlessly. Serena sighed in relief.
"Yeah, I'm still here. I'm glad you haven't left yet. I'd hate for you to get to the mall and me not be there and all."
"Well, no, I haven't left yet, I just got out of the shower actually. How `bout you? You almost ready?"
"Well uh.actually I just got out o' bed!"
"Eh.it's 10:30, Serena!" Lita yelled, a sweat drop forming on her head. "Well, just hurry up and get ready and I'll meet you over at your house I guess in about an hour, k?"
"Yeah, I'll be ready by then!" Serena said and hung up the phone.
Beeeeeeeeeppppp "Well.so for much for goodbye," Lita sighed.
Serena rushed out of her room and down the hall to the bathroom. "Ugh. Closed? Hurry up in there Sammy! Other people gotta get in there too ya know!" she said hotly. The door clicked open. Sammy smiled and stuck out his tongue at Serena. He closed the door before Serena could bust in.
"Ow!" Serena yelped as the door slammed on her head. "Ugh! Little brothers," she muttered. "Hurry up, Sammy!" she yelled banging on the door.
"Serena! Stop all that racket!" her mom yelled up the stairs.
"Well tell him to get out of the bathroom! I need to take my shower!"
"Sammy, don't be in there all morning!" Mrs. Tsukino yelled again.
"Sammy, please hurry up! C'mon, I gotta meet Lita in an hour!"
"Oh, alright!" Sammy said irritably walking out the door.
"Thanks, Sammy!" Serena rushed in and turned on the shower.
Dingdong An hour later Lita stood at Serena's front door.
"Oh, hello Lita," Mrs. Tsukino said, stepping aside to let Lita inside. "I'll go get Serena."
"That's alright, you don't have to. If she's in her bedroom I'll just go and get her myself. It's no trouble really," Lita said.
"Well, alright if you're sure. I do have a lot of work left to do." Mrs. Tsukino walked back into the kitchen and started back up on her work. Lita turned and ascended up the staircase.
"Hey Serena, are you ready yet?" Lita asked, knocking on Serena's door.
"Yeah, come on in, Lita," Serena replied.
"Ugh! I'll never understand how in the world you can live in such a pig sty of a room, Serena!" she said looking disgustedly at the dirty clothes piled up on the floor. "How long have they been there? They're starting to mold," Lita teased.
"Haha," Serena said sarcastically. "You sound like Darien. He's always whining that I should be neater." Lita smiled to herself.
"Besides, it could be worse," Serena pointed out. "At least I don't have stuffed animals piled up all over my floor!" she said referring to Mina's room.
"No.I don't think even Mina's mess matches up to this!"
"Whatever," Serena replied. "Well, I'm ready to go," she said pulling on her last sneaker.
"Great! Let's head out!" The two walked down the stairs and headed out the door.
"Bye, mom! I should be back in a few hours!"
"Just be back by dinner and I'm happy," her mom replied sticking her out the kitchen doorway. The two girls walked out the door and headed down the street.
"Hey, after we're finished shopping we can meet Mina and Raye when school ends," Lita said.
"`K, sounds good to me," Serena replied. The two arrived at the mall twenty minutes later. "Oh, I love this store! Let's stop here first!" Serena drug Lita into the store by her arm.
"Ok, ok I'm coming!" Lita said shrugging Serena off her arm.
"Oh, look at this.oh and this too! Oh, look at that! That's way cool!" Serena darted around the room looking at everything in the store.
"Can I help you?" the saleslady asked coming over.
"No thank you, just looking," Serena said.
"Alright, come get me if you change your mind," the saleslady replied. The two girls checked all the stores and were in the middle of eating when Lita glanced down at her watch.
"Ugh! Serena, if we're gonna meet the girls after school we'd better get going, huh?" Lita asked.
"Oh! But Lita! These cheese fries are really good!" Serena whined.
"Serena!" Lita said laughing. Serena sighed and got up her chair.
"But the cheese fries Lita!" Serena cried looking at Lita with pitiful eyes. She sighed and then looked back at the cheese fries longingly.
"Oh, ok! Just take them with, Serena! My God!" Lita said shaking her head.
"Yay!" Serena cried out in joy. She picked up the fries and started munching on them happily as they walked out the door.
"You're pathetic, you know that right Serena?" Serena looked up with her mouth full and smiled, nodding her head. She swallowed her fries.
"Of course, I am, Lita" she said jokingly. She looked down. There were a little less than half left. "I'm feeling nice," she said and smiled. "I'll give the rest of these to Mina, since I know she loves them so much. Besides, she deserves them after having to put up with school while we were having fun at the mall." She looked down at them again. "Can you hold these 'til we get there?" Serena asked.
"Why?" Lita asked.
"Because I'm afraid I'll eat them all before we get there," Serena said laughing.
"Yeah, sure," Lita said laughing. "But we're going to be there in a few minutes anyway, ya know."
"Yeah, I know, but you know me! They'd be gone by then definitely!" Serena reasoned.
"True," Lita said.
Five later found the two at Grassvalley Jr. High waiting for Mina. Serena stood up on the bench as the bell rang to look for Mina through the flow of students streaming out the front doors. She spotted the familiar red bow. "Hey Mina, over here!" Serena waved enthusiastically. Mina looked over just as Serena went toppling over the edge of the bench. "Ow!" Serena started crying, holding her elbow.
"Are you ok?" Mina asked running over, trying to suppress her laughter. "Let me see."
Serena looked up at Mina and held her elbow tighter. "No way, you'll hurt it!" She brought her elbow even closer, protectively.
*Sigh* "Serena, I'm not going to hurt it. I won't even touch it, `k? Just look."
"You promise?" Mina nodded and sighed again. "Well.ok." Serena held out her elbow and closed her eyes tightly. "Well, how bad is it?" Serena asked, tears streaming down her face.
Mina sighed again. "Serena, it's only red, there's not even a scratch!" Serena looked down in surprise.
"Really?" she sniffled. Mina smiled.
"Really." Serena looked over at Lita and then remembered.
"Oh, yeah, I almost forgot! I brought you some cheese fries!" She took the fries out of Lita's hand and gave them over to Mina.
"Oh, wow, for me? Cool, thanks Serena!" Mina said taking the box of fries. Just as she was about to dig in she looked over at Serena. Mina smiled and held out the box. "Come on, I'll share!"
"Yay! I was hoping you'd say that!" Serena grabbed a fry and stuffed it in her mouth.
"Come on you guys, we'd better hurry up if we're gonna get to T*A* on time," Lita said. The two looked up as they finished off the fries. A big sweat drop formed on Lita's head. "You guys finished those already?"
"Yup, sure did!" Serena said smiling. "Come on, I thought we had to hurry," Serena said starting off. Mina and Lita ran over to catch up and they all started off towards T*A*. As they were walking up the street they heard the bell ring.
"Hurry up, let's get there before she leaves!" Mina yelled sprinting up the road. Lita followed while Serena tried desperately to keep up.
"Come on you guys, wait up, I'm not that fast!" Serena whined. Lita looked back and then over at Mina.
"You go on ahead, Mina. I'll stay here with Serena and you can just bring Raye back here."
"Alright," Mina said and sprinted down the street as fast as she could so she could catch up with Raye.
Lita went over and stood by Serena who was panting heavily from the run. "You know, you should really work on your endurance and running skills," Lita advised. Serena kept panting and looked up at her friend.
"Yeah, well ya know some people are runners and." she gasped another breath of air, "some aren't." She stood up having caught her breath finally. "I'm one of those who aren't." Lita sighed.
"Ok, Serena, if that's your motto go ahead and stick with it."
"Hmph. I will!" Serena said. Lita looked over and laughed.
"Don't take it so seriously! I'm just joking with you Serena!" Serena looked over and laughed too.
"Now who's the one taking it to seriously! I'm just joking too ya know!" Serena said still laughing. Mina and Raye came running over.
"`K, we're back," Mina said. Serena looked at them in awe.
"Geez, they're not even breathing hard or breaking a sweat! How do you do that?!" Mina laughed.
"Easy Meatball Head, we're in shape," Raye said teasingly.
"Why do you always have to call me that!" Serena whined.
"Because it always works to get your goat," Amy said. All the scouts looked over in surprise.
"What.how'd you get here Amy?" Lita asked. Amy laughed.
"How could anyone miss these two when they're fighting? I was walking close by when I heard them and came on over," Amy said smiling. Lita and Mina laughed while Serena and Raye were blushing.
"Hey, how about some ice cream?" Serena asked enthusiastically. Lita sighed.
"Again! You just ate Serena!" Lita said. Serena looked over at her incredulously.
"Yeah, a whole hour ago!" she said. Lita shook her head.
"I don't know how you stay so skinny!" Lita said still shaking her head while it rested in her hand. Serena shrugged and started off.
"Come on, let's go! I wanna go get that ice cream!" She took off running down the street. Lita and Mina looked at each other and laughed.
"NOW she can run!" they said together. Everyone ran as fast as they could to catch her. They arrived at the Crown Arcade Center. Serena was at a booth happily eating her ice cream.
"Thanks for waiting," Raye said sarcastically. Serena looked up from her sundae.
"Hey I got you all something!" Serena said defending herself. For the first time the girls noticed the other sundaes on the table. They all at down at the table.
"Wow, thanks Serena!" Lita said. She grabbed the change out of her pocket and handed it to Serena. The others did the same and handed the money for the sundaes over to Serena. They all sat there and finished their ice cream. Serena looked up at the clock on the wall and gasped.]
"Uh oh! Gotta go you guys! Mom said she wanted me back by dinner!" Serena got up and rushed out the door waving hurriedly. "See ya tomorrow!" Everyone sighed as they watched their friend leave and run down the street, skidding at the corner.
