Author's note: Hey, everyone, guess what? I'm BACK! I'm not stuck anymore. I know it's been ages, and I'm sorry, but I'm back. The holidays have done wonders for me, and right now I'm listening to the cassette tape filled with melodic music being fed to me through my headphones as I type this. It's really stimulating me (not that way, ya perverts!), and ya know something ironic? This cassette, which I picked up at this second-hand store I was browsing, is called "Drawing Down the Moon" (no, not in the Wicca-sense, everyone), and I'm back to working on this story about the moon queen. I've finally figured out what to do, but I gotta apologize, people… this story is not gonna be that long. But, hopefully, you'll still like it. Oh, and one more thing… if it seems I'm skipping a lot of time, ya gotta remember, this is her memories… not every single part is gonna be important.

Title: Memories

Author: Sere G If you write, put 'Fanfic'

in the subject, please. This will prevent it from being sorted into the junk.

Fandom: Sailor Moon

Chapter: Four – Sweetness on the Beach

4 years later…

The two friends, Rini and Rhys, were growing up. Since Rini's thirteenth birthday, she had started insisting on being called Serena instead of Rini, since Rini was such a baby name.

Serena had for the past year or so found herself noticing Rhys more and more, and she was starting to find herself more nervous around him, always trying to keep herself from blushing and such. Rhys, now sixteen, looked much different than he had as a boy. He now stood about six feet tall, towering over Serena, who was 5'4'. His treks through the forest had given him a nicely toned body and deeply tanned skin, against which his deep blue eyes and platinum hair stood out magnificently. He'd lost most of his baby fat to reveal a nicely shaped, slightly pointed face, and his once short hair was now pulled back with a leather cord in a ponytail to hang to the middle of his back, but a few bits of it always escaped to cutely frame his face.

And his eyes… oh, Serena could just fall into his eyes and drown forever in those oceans of blue. More often then not, she found herself having to embarrassedly ask him to repeat himself when he spoke, she'd been so distracted by his eyes.

Serena wasn't aware of it, but she wasn't the only one feeling this way. Over the past year or so, since the princess had begun to fill out and look more like the young woman she now was instead of a child, her beauty had been noticed by many in the land. It was talked of clear throughout the solar system of how beautiful the moon princess was… of her long beautiful tresses which were like moonlight made solid, of her big, shimmering amethyst-like eyes, so full of innocence, of her milky skin, which would, true to her Lunarian heritage, never tan no matter how long she was out in the sun, of her narrow waist, long legs, and other…ahem… endowments. The Lunarian Queen was besieged by letters from male nobility across the galaxy, both young and old, begging to be allowed to court her daughter.

But no one, no one at all, was noticing Serena's beauty more than Rhys. He had always known she was beautiful, ever since he'd first found her unconscious, bruised and battered as she lay in the mud. He'd loved her for what felt like forever, but this newly blossoming side of her now caused the poor guy to feel often nervous around her… She was just so perfect, and he was just so… so… unworthy.

Currently, the two were sitting beside each other on the beach, both without shoes, feeling the white sand between their toes as the warm waves lapped gently at their feet.

Warm water… Serena thought idly. It is so different from our oceans on the moon… the water there is never warm… the moon is never warm… it is always so cold there.

"Coin for your thoughts, Rin."

"Huh?" She looked up, startled out of her thoughts, to find those oceans of blue gazing at her. She looked away again quickly, blushing slightly. "Oh… I was just thinking about how much I like this world. There is no seasons on the moon, really… it is always cold there, you know?"

He grinned slightly. "No, Serena, I do not know. In case you forgot, I have never been to the moon." When she blushed again, embarrassed at the mistake she'd made, Rhys chuckled, blushing a bit himself. "Why so embarrassed? It is no big deal."

Serena shrugged. "It is not that… it is just that… oh, I do not know…" she looked out across the ocean and noticed how close the sun was to the horizon line. "Oh no! It is so late… I must return to Leah… I must get back to the castle! Oh, I hope Mother is not angry…" She rose to her feet quickly but gracefully, and started to leave.

"Serena, please wait!"

"Huh?" she turned around and, before she knew it, she found herself with Rhys's lips pressed to her own in a tender but passionate kiss. Without her even thinking, her hands found their way up to his hair and threaded themselves into it as the kiss deepened.

A moment later, when they separated, Rhys saw that Serena's amethyst-colored eyes were wide with shock, something like fear, and… something else? Without a word, the princess turned and fled the beach.

QS: covering her face, embarrassed Okay, I admit it… I'm really, REALLY bad at kissing, lovey dovey scenes like these. I think I did really REALLY crappy.

SG: Yep. You're right. You did really crappy. laughs evilly

QS: glares You know, you're such a BLEEP! Anyway, sorry for doing so crappy on this, everyone. Also, make sure you all don't get confused… this Serena is not the Sailor Moon Serena, it is young Queen Serenity.