CHAPTER 4

Usagi stretched under the El Nimo temperatures sky rocketing the late November day. Beside her Mamoru rolled over and fell back asleep upon her long blond hair. She smiled and watched him for a while before reaching out a hand and brushing away a black lock that was irritating his nose.

Their hair was a complete contrast to each other and it was more noticeably pronounced when they laid side by side like that. She leaned over him prepared to return the favor from last time when his lips up turned showing that he was only pretending to be asleep and failing miserably at it. "Your staring at me and while that isn't so bad, your blocking out my sun to do it." He grumbled not opening his eyes yet.

"Not my problem. I thought only girls were conscious about getting a tan."

"Most definitely not true, many guys want one too only girls go out of their way to get one." He cracked his eyes open to give her a teasing look.

She crinkled her nose up and he could only think it was the cutest thing he'd ever seen before. "You're not supposed to be awake." She complained softly.

"That's just too sad, isn't it?" He mocked. "And what pray tell, were you going to do if I wasn't?"

"You'll never find out now." She huffed and pulled away forgetting that he was on her hair. "Ow!" She rubbed her skull where the hair stretched in compliance to the pressure. "Off of my hair!"

He rolled off of it and sat up only to drag her into his arms. "Were you going to do this?" He crushed his lips against hers, stifling her small gasp. "No? This then?" He softened his mouth and toyed with her to get her to respond.

Respond she did. Her hands slid up his shoulders and neck and dug her fingers into the soft luscious black head of hair.

He pulled away for air. "Kami Usako." He growled and his lips returned to her inviting ones.

She pulled away shortly with a come hither look in her eyes. "What Mamo-chan, tired?" She teased.

"You don't know what you do to a man." He caught her and pushed her gently back down towards the blanket covered Earth.

"Quite possibly the same thing you do to all women." She responded.

Mamoru growled and got a possessive look in his stormy blue eyes. "I'd hope not because I'm not a sharing man and you are mine."

Unknown to the romantic couple, they were being spied on by a group of four girls. Twp gossiped and talked about how cute and romantic it was, and joked about not having popcorn to watch their real life movie. One was usually talking about her boyfriend and wanting to compare relationships and take notes on what to do and not to do. Another one would usually protest because it wasn't the right thing to do. But this time the one who usually protested was watching the events with a sharp eye trying to find any problems in her 'friend's' relationship that would cause her to be unfaithful.

For most of the last month she had no inkling as to why Usagi would want to destroy her relationship with the trusting, caring Mamoru. They were truly a match made in heaven by outward appearances.

"That is good because you are mine alone and I'm not about to give you up."

"Excellently noted." His eyes though trained again on the small gash on her forehead. He bent his head and kissed it with tenderness. He wasn't sure when it came about, from where or why and he wanted to know why she got stitches when she swore it was no big deal. He needed to know why she kept it a secret for several days to allow it to heal until she didn't need a bandage, before telling him. He knew it needed a bandage besides the stitches because he was no idiot.

Usagi knew what he was thinking, could see the wheels turning in his mind. She saw his mouth forming words that he never uttered, was almost afraid to utter to hear the truth or more importantly to hear the lie.

Just when things were getting better, her life was going down the tube. "Should we get going?" She asked, looking at the low sun getting closer to the horizon. "It'll be dark soon and temperatures are no doubt going to drop."

He nodded solemnly and pushed off the ground into a standing position without much hassle then lowered his hand towards her to pull her to her feet. Once he did so he started to collect the picnic lunch they had shared a few hours earlier and she collected the blanket and the coats they had brought along in case the temperature decided not to play fair.

They walked back to the car in silence, each lost in their own thoughts.

AN: Eep, I just realized my chapters are getting shorter and shorter. Bare with me I have a timetable set up and I need to work it out somehow.