Sticks tongue out & sighs…I'm bored & tired…but I can't sleep. Whine, whine, whine. Here I go. I don't own Sailor Moon.

"Oh I see! So since it's 0.843 you round it to 0.8 instead of 0.9 because the decimal is under forty-nine!" Raye giggled.

"Exactly." Mamoru smiled, causing Raye to giggle again.

Serena rolled her eyes. She knew Raye knew how to round decimals, but she was just acting dumb to get his attention. It was beginning to annoy her.

Shaking her head, she went back to her homework. Now, she was bad at math & the fact that it was fractions made her want to scream.

"So you would put a 1 under the 2 to make to make it a fraction…" she whispered to herself, biting her pencil. "No, it goes over…right?" she groaned, then quickly covered her mouth.

Mamoru & Raye looked up. "Do you need help?" Mamoru asked.

Serena shook her head. "No, I just think fractions are the worse thing in the world!" she whined, letting her head fall.

Mamoru smiled. "They're not that bad."

Serena looked up, glaring at him. "I beg to differ."

Mamoru laughed. "Well, let's see what we can do…" He scooted closer to her & began to help her.

"…then you just simplify the fraction if possible." Mamoru finished.

Serena nodded, biting her lip. "And 2/18 simplifies to…1/9?" she asked, cautiously.

Mamoru grinned. "Exactly."

"Really?" Serena broke into a grin. "Thank you!" She threw herself at him, hugging him.

Serena smiled, then realized what she was doing. Backing off, she tried to cover her blush. "Sorry for that. Thank you for helping me."

Mamoru was blushing as well. "No problem."

Raye watched this, with interest, until her cell phone rang. The noise made Serena & Mamoru jump.

"Sorry." she mouthed. "Hello?" A pause & Raye sweat dropped. "Hi Grandpa." Another pause. "No, I'm at Serena's." Pause. "Doing math homework." Another pause. "OK, I'll be home soon." Pause. "OK, love ya."

She hung up. "Grandpa was worried."

"Didn't he know you were here?" Serena asked, eyebrow raised.

"Not exactly." Raye grinned.

Serena groaned. "Raye, you loser!"

"Takes one to know one!" she shot back.

"I'll make you eat those words!" Serena began to chase Raye.

"No fair! I'm wearing a dress!" Raye laughed, trying to dodge Serena.

"So am I!" Serena chased her up the stairs.

Mamoru watched them & smiled. "Haven't changed a bit, Serena." He suddenly felt a pain in his chest. Groaning, he doubled over in pain.

"Truce! Truce!" Raye shouted, running down the stairs.

"No way!" Serena said, following her, laughing.

They stopped when they say Mamoru in pain. "Mamoru!" They both exclaimed, running up to him.

"Are you OK? What's wrong?" Serena asked, rubbing his back.

Mamoru tried to say something, but began coughing. Serena felt his forehead. "He's burning up!" She looked up at the worried Raye & said, "Go get some water!"

Raye nodded & ran upstairs to the bathroom (Don't ask me why she didn't just get some water from the sink…) . Serena watched her go, then turned back to Mamoru. "Shh, it's fine. Just keep breathing."

Mamoru tried to answer, but the pain became worse.

"Mamoru, you'll be fine. Don't worry." But even as Serena said these words, she felt tears fill up in her eyes. This is exactly what happened to Darien. He began to cough & was burning up. First they thought it was just a fever, but he became so weak, he had to go to the hospital.

Serena blinked back her tears. 'Get a hold of yourself! You have to remain calm!' the voice inside her head screamed.

"I got some water!" Raye exclaimed, running back. But she tripped on the rug & the bucket went flying!

Serena watched as if in slow motion as the bucket of water came flying at her. She shut her eyes & gasped at the coldness of it.

Opening her eyes, she surveyed the damage; the carpet was pretty much ruined, their homework was ruined & Serena was soaked to the bone.

"Whoops…" Raye bit her lip. "I'll get a towel." She ran off, avoiding Serena's rage.

Serena counted to ten, then turned back to Mamoru. He had calmed down some. "Are you OK?"

Mamoru looked up, face red. "Sure…" he croaked. "Just tired."

Serena stared at him, smiling, tears unshed. "I'm glad."

Mamoru smiled back at her. Then he noticed she was soaked. "What happened?" he asked, eyebrow raised.

"Ask Raye." Serena said, trying to dry her hair off as much as she could.

Mamoru began to laugh. Serena stared at him & began to laugh as well. Raye walked in, towels in hand. She stared at the laughing teen/preteen & looked confused. "What's so funny?"

The two of them looked at her & began to laugh again. Raye nodded slowly. "O…K…you guys are weird." She handed Serena a towel, then turned to Mamoru. "You ok?"

He nodded, wiping his tears. "Sure." He looked over at the homework. "Except your homework is ruined."

Serena stopped drying her hair & groaned. "No…" she walked over & picked up her paper. It dripped & the work was all smudged.

"Great…" She dropped it back on the table & let her head fall.

"It'll be fine. We'll do it really quickly." Mamoru reassured her.

Raye nodded. "Well, let's get to business." She began cleaning up the carpet as Mamoru picked up the ruined homework & tried to salvage as much as he could. Serena continued to towel-dry her hair.

"Hold up." she ran upstairs to change into some clothes. She ran back downstairs in a black tube tank & black pj pants. Her hair was still moist, but mostly dry. It had curled naturally & all her makeup was off.

Mamoru couldn't help but stare at her. Serena walked over & laid out two extra pieces of paper. "Here we go." she smiled.

"OK, let's go." Raye sighed, sitting down to begin writing.

Mamoru got up & walked to the living room. He shook his head. "Dude, she's 11, don't get any ideas…" he said to himself, just organizing an already-organized living room.

After a few minutes of mindless walking, he returned to see the two girls working silently on it.

Raye seemed to be doing great, but Serena was struggling.

Sitting down next to her, he smiled. "Need help?"

She looked up with her sky blue eyes & nodded. "Yeah, these stupid integers are the bane of my existence."

"Do you even know what bane means?" Raye asked, still working.

Serena stuck her tongue out. "Yes. It means annoyance, which also means you." she joked.

Raye smirked at her, but didn't say anything.

Mamoru smiled. "Well, you see you would…"

20 minutes later, Serena was done with her math. She smiled. "Finally." She turned to Mamoru. "Thanks."

Raye had gone home by then. Her Grandpa had called once again, so she had left 10 minutes ago. They offered to walk her, but she said she was fine. It had stopped raining.

Mamoru nodded. "No prob." He looked at the clock & frowned. "What time did you parents say they'd be back."

"8." She put her homework away. She walked back. "Why?"

"Because it's 10 already."

Serena stopped & looked up at the clock. Indeed, it was 10 o'clock.

"I hope nothing happened…" Serena bit her lip in worry.

Mamoru stood by her. "I'm sure they're just busy & will be home soon."

Serena nodded. "Sure." Turning to him, she smiled. "Do you want something to eat?"

Mamoru nodded. "Sure."

"OK." She smiled. "Go in the living room."

Mamoru rolled his eyes. "Yes, honey." He walked out, not seeing Serena's cheeks become even redder.

Mamoru grabbed the remote & turned on the TV. He began flipping channels. Sighing, he left in on the news.

"…coming up tonight, a family of three hurt in car crash. Parents are fine, but the 5-year old son might not be." the news anchor said.

Mamoru didn't seem interested until they showed the picture. He stared at the screen. "Um, Serena? You might want to come out here…" he called.

"What?" she asked, stirring a raw egg & soya sauce in the rice. She looked at him, then at the screen.

Her eyes widened as she dropped the bowl, causing it to break.

Mamoru instantly got up to clean it up & help her, but he noticed Serena was shaking. Letting his gentleman side take over, he took 3 big steps & enveloped her in a hug.

She fell against him, crying, just like the afternoon. She was shaking uncontrollably, so Mamoru brought her to the couch & sat down.

He didn't let go, nor did she want him to. She sobbed & Mamoru just held her to his chest, rocking back & forth, trying to calm her down.

Whoa…if you didn't get it, Serena's family was the family on the news…Please RR!