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"You're lucky you bumped into me meatball head," Where did I get that from? Wait, it's distracting her. Come on Darien, keep it up! "…You almost made friends with the pavement." Smooth Darien. Good way to become her friend.

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?" That pompous jerk! I should kick him in the balls. DAMN I can't he's Ray's Boyfriend! Come on girl, just grin and bare it. You don't need Ray on your bad side.

"Come on meatball head, I'll escort you to Ray's." Darien said with a smirk. She's cute when she gets angry. Oh no not again! Darien come on this is RAY'S FRIEND!

"No way! I think I can get there by myself!" Serena retorted, wiping that smug smile off his face. Ha ha ha! Victory is mine.

"Suit yourself, meatball head." Darien said, replacing his smirk with a frown. Now I've gone and made her mad. Errr! Darien glanced at his watch to see it was 7:53. Shit! I'm gonna be late. "Later!" he shouted as her ran down the road.

"Ahhh! I'm going to be late!" Serena screamed. I'll just have to catch up with Darien so if I'm late with him I won't have to take all the heat from Ray. Smiling, she started running down the road to get even with Darien.

Even though Darien was about 300 yards ahead of Serena, it didn't take her that long to catch up. Man he's slower then I thought. Well, most people are slower than me since I am a fast runner.

Darien glanced to his left to see a blonde goddess right next to him running. How? I left her back there a while ago. She must be fast or I'm getting slow. I'm not going to loose to her… Ray's temple is 200 yards away. Might as well sprint it out.

Serena noticed she was closing in on Ray's temple and Darien was picking up the speed. I'll have to turn it up a notch then. Her strides began to shorten and her steps became faster, letting her travel as fast as a rabbit.

Both were struggling to be at the front with 50 yards to go. It was a mystery who would win. The last five yards Darien pushed his limit as he looked to his left to see no one there. He turned his head forward to see Serena already there.

Damn! I lost. He looked at his watch, reading 7:59. At least I'm not late.

Panting both laid on the front porch as the scouts came to the front door. "They're here!" pointed out Lita. "You two barely made it. Good thing too. Ray would have been boiling if you were a second late. I think she started this morning." Lita giggled.

"Thanks for the update Lita." Serena said between breaths.

"What did you two do, have a race?" Mina inquired. Serena shook her head yes, as her breathing slowed.

Ray pushed open the door shouting, "Lets go for a 2 mile warm up jog." Sighing, Serena stood up and made her way into the pack as they started. How cruel. Darien followed behind.

The scouts continued on with their day training. Luna was surprised. Even though Serena seemed lazy when she heard the word "work," she was putting forth a lot of effort out there and was actually performing really well.

After the session, Darien made up an excuse to give to Ray, since he didn't feel like going to the movies. Happy that she bought it, he left to go home and rest.

With that happening, Ray invited everyone to sleep over. They talked about everything and filled Serena in on what she missed the past 3 months when the scouts first started.

At midnight the only two left awake out of the five were Serena and Ray. I guess I was wrong about Serena. Stupid intuition. She's nice, and has a way of making you feel better.

"Wow I'm surprised your parents were ok with all of us staying over." Serena commented. Although her and Ray weren't the best of friends, Serena didn't want to sit in silence.

"Well actually… my parents died when I was younger. I just live with my grandfather now." Ray said with sorrow in her voice.

"Oh… I'm sorry to have brought it up." Serena said, feeling terrible.

"It's okay it happened when I was four so I don't really remember them... It doesn't hurt as much as it could of." They both fell silent.

"So… who's the hottie who works for your grandfather?" Serena said to break the silence and change the topic. "I saw him working out in the back earlier, with his shirt off!"

"Serena! No way! You can't possibly be talking about Chad. He's the most annoying person on Earth. And… and… he…uh…is so weird?"

"Does Ray have a CRUSH on Chad? Ray and Chad sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-NG. First she dumps Darien then goes with Chad then it's marriage…"

"OH! I'll get you meatball head." Ray ran across the room chasing after Serena, while throwing pillows at Serena. After dodging most of the pillows, and only having a few bruises, she called Ray for a truce.

"Ok, ok! Enough!" Serena giggled, "Ray, how about a treaty? No throwing pillows at me and I won't tell anyone you think Chad's hot."

"Fine!" Ray agreed while shaking her hand. "Hey! Wait a minute, who said I thought Chad was hot?"

Though their conversation was small, they had bonded well and had fun. They were starting to have the best friendship among the group. Even though Ray knew the others longer, there was something different about Serena. She enjoyed her company even though something inside told her not to.

After more hours of talking, the two decided to go to sleep. In the morning, all the scouts awoke at the same time at the sound of a loud crash outside. Lita leapt up and ran out the door.

Then next second they heard Lita scream "Jupiter Power!"

All the scouts did the same. Following her outside.

"Mercury Power!"

"Mars Power!"

"Venus Power!"

"Moon Power!"

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AN: Hey thanks for Reading. Next chapter there will be a cliffhanger at the end not a really big one, but a medium one. If there is such a thing. But to find out you'll have to stay tuned. Please Read and Review.

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