A/N 2.0: Okay, well, after some thought, I edited this chapter. All I did was take out the make-out scene. Maybe it was a little too much for PG-13. Or maybe I should just make this story "R". Let me know what you guys think. Also, REALLY, REALLY, thank you everyone who reviewed. Escpecially Alicia Blade, because your stories got me into Sailor Moon fanfiction. Hope you guys like this chapter.
Serena peeked in to Mr. Parker's room though the glass on the door. She smiled when she saw Darien looking worriedly at the piece of paper in front of him. Then she softly knocked on the door and walked in. "Excuse me, Mr. Parker, but could I steal Darien away for a minute?" she asked with her sweetest smile.
Mr. Parker looked stern at her. "I'm sorry, Miss Turner. Mr. Shields is taking a test." Serena's face fell slightly. "You know I don't just allow my students to leave the classroom anyway."
Serena got a little teary-eyed. "I…understand, Mr. Parker. It's just that we are in charge of the Homecoming committee and-and we've had no time to get together to plan!" she cried dramatically. Mr. Parker rolled his eyes and offered her a tissue, which she quickly accepted.
"Mr. Shields, you can finish later…" Mr. Parker said hesitantly. Darien bit back his grin as Serena grabbed his teacher into hug. Darien walked over to the door and opened it for Serena and waved good-bye to his classmates.
Serena and Darien walked silently through the halls of Juban High. Then out of the blue, Serena pushed Darien into a closet. They wasted no time as their mouth found each other. Serena welcomed Darien's tongue in her mouth and put her own into his. After a while of this, they broke for air. "I might fail that test, and I'll blame it on you, Meatball Head," he breathed. She rolled her eyes.
"This is so much better when you don't talk." Then she grabbed him by his T-shirt collar and dragged him back to her.
When they were both satisfied for the moment, they broke apart, heaving. They smiled at each other and then began to straighten themselves up. As Serena put her hair back up, Darien found the combs they left in here and gave her hers and fixed his own. "Why must you take my hair down all the time?" she asked, nonchalantly as she adjusted her bra.
"I like it down," Darien smiled. Serena showed him a quirked eyebrow. "It feels nice," he said, blushing. She smiled at him and giggled.
"We really do need to work on Homecoming week stuff," she said with a frown. They were the most likely kids to do the job, so they went ahead and volunteered.
"So, meet back here during lunch?" he asked with a smirk.
"No, we should sit with our friends for once."
Suddenly Darien's voice was different, colder. "Whatever, bitch."
Serena rolled her eyes. "Whatever, bastard."
"Oh my God, Serena, where were you last night?" her best fiend Mina demanded as she was bunched up against her. Their small lunch table had at least five people too many and someone was absent today. Serena, Darien, Mina, Andrew, Elizabeth, Kevin, Zelda, Nick, and Jed. Even though Elizabeth was a freshman, she was accepted into their little "clique." The guys and Zelda were all juniors, and Serena and Mina were sophomores.
Serena smiled at Mina. "Sorry, girl, I had a late night."
"Late night of what, Meatball Head? You having some naughty fun with the principal?" Darien asked with a wicked grin. Everyone else at the table began to blow bubbles in their half-pints of milk, trying to ignore the coming fight.
"Ew! You are such a perv, jerk!" Serena squealed while glaring at the handsome young man sitting across from her. She noticed a red mark on his neck and remembered that she made it earlier.
"Oh, come on. You know you want to get with Miss Meioh." Darien so enjoyed their little fights, it kept up appearances. They couldn't let anyone know what they did during each other's free periods. It would not only ruin their reputations, it would be embarrassing to be caught with the Meatball Head. She is hot, he thought, checking her out, but she's a little…childish to date. As he thought this, she was sticking her tongue out at him.
"Just because you tried to get into her pants and she refused you…" Serena trailed off for a second and then thought of something else," like every other girl in school."
Andrew saw Darien's temporary lapse of insults a good time to barge in with, "Hey, does anyone know what's up with that new girl, Ami Mizuno?"
Ami Mizuno, Serena thought. I remember that name for some reason. Why?
"Yeah, she was in our AP Chemistry class wasn't she?" Kevin interjected.
"Yeah, she's only a sophomore, but she's taking an AP class," Andrew marveled at the fact.
"I bet it makes you feel inadequate, doesn't it?" Zelda quipped with a self-satisfied smile. "She's new, too. I bet she did better on her first day than you guys did after a month."
Then it hit Serena like a monster downtown with a wrecking ball. (She winced at the memory.) She was supposed to be showing Ami around! Serena leapt from her seat, feeling bad. "Settle down, Meatball. I'm sue Andy and Kev won't kill themselves from embarrassment," Zelda continued to laugh.
Serena rolled her eyes. "A few things, guys. A) Zelda, stop laughing like an idiot." Zelda shut up and frowned. "B) Don't call me Meatball Head!" Darien smirked. "That includes you, Shields!" Darien also frowned. "C) Does anyone know where Ami is?" Serena looked around at her friends. "Come on! Speak up!"
Nick hesitantly provided, "I'm pretty sure I saw her over near the soda machines when we came in—" Before he could finish, Serena was gone like a bullet.
Serena scanned the cafeteria as she ran over to the drink machines. Finally her eyes landed on a small blue-haired girl sitting on the ground. She had a Psychology book open in her lap and had eyeglasses hovering on the edge of her nose a she read. Serena was going to say something, but Ami stopped her. "Am I in your way, miss? I would be happy to move if I am." Ami's voice sounded distant, but intelligent; and her eyes never left the book.
Her voice was so soft; it took Serena a while to understand. "Oh, no! You're not in the way. I came over here to apologize." This bought Ami's eyes up.
"Why would you apologize? All you've done was interrupt my reading, and it was already loud in here anyway," Ami smiled sweetly and cocked her head to the side.
"Well, you see, uh, this morning, I was kind of supposed to be your 'buddy' (Serena made quotations with her fingers.) and show you around. But I got to school late and completely spaced. I am so, so, so sorry!" Serena got down on her knees and bowed before Ami.
"It's okay, Serena. I barely got to school in time myself and I had classes all morning, so it's really okay," Ami explained, standing up and helping Serena up too.
"I still feel bad. How about I show you around now, and then you can come over to my house for dinner?" Serena suggested warmly, grabbing Ami's arm and leading her out of the cafeteria.
"Oh, no. I wouldn't want to impose—" Ami began, and Serena cut her off.
"Its not problem. Besides, once you smell my mom's cooking, you won't want to leave!" The two girls laughed and Serena showed Ami all of the high points of Juban High School.
Serena impatiently tapped her pencil on her Geometry book and zoned out. Her teacher was droning on and on and on and on and, oh I wonder what Mama's making for dinner tonight. I hope she makes some lemon pie for afterwards. Ami seems like a really nice person. And she seems like a lemon pie person. Then, Serena's mind filled with images of Ami walking around in a lemon pie suit. Luckily, a faint beeping tore Serena out of her daydream before she ate a whining Ami.
As discreetly as possible, Serena bulled out her pink, bunny shaped beeper. She read the numbers and recognized it as one of Luna's codes. It was either 'bring me home a fish filet' or 'there's a monster in the electronic wing.' Serena knew that only one of the codes would get her out of Geometry. "Mrs. Woods, can I have the pass?" she asked politely. The teacher distractedly agreed and Serena left the room. With the bathroom pass and brooch in her purse, she headed off towards the electronic wing.
When she arrived, Serena peeked through all of the doors to check for signs of danger. Most of the classrooms were safe, but the students were all passed out against their computers. Then Serena saw Luna running towards her. "Luna, you saved me! I thought I was going to die! School is so boring!"
Luna rolled her eyes. "Honestly, Serena! Now I've located the monster! It's at the end of the hallway. Transform and then you can take care of it!"
Serena nodded and bought out he brooch. "MOON PRISM POWER!" There was a flurry of pink lights and ribbons, and then Sailor Moon was standing in the hall. Then she started running down the hall towards the monster. "You know, I am grateful for the excuse to skip class, but do I really have to fight the monster?" Sailor Moon whined and screeched to a halt at the last door. She looked in the room and saw a really ugly monster tying to force Ami to look at the computer screen.
"Hey, you messed up freak!" The monster looked up from Ami to watch the new nuisance. "How dare you save me from Geometry and then try to hurt my fiends!" Luna face-vaulted and Ami sweat-dropped.
"That's not how it goes!" Luna growled.
"For love and justice, I will punish you in the name of the moon!" Sailor Moon finished, taking her regular stance. "Happy now Luna?" she mumbled.
"I don't care!" the beast shouted and threw Ami to the ground. Then she lifted up her arms and the mice disconnected from the computers and went flying at Sailor Moon. The only way she was safe was to jump from leg to leg, making it look like she was dancing. "Now's no time to be dancing, Moon brat!"
"Why does everyone call me that?" Sailor Moon cried in desperation as she continued to jump. As Sailor Moon was trying to not be hit, and the monster was reveling in it, Ami was making her way to the side of the room. There she found a meter stick that the teacher had. She picked it up and threw it straight at the monster.
The monster's right arm turned into a scythe and she cut the stick in two. Ami froze and in an instant, the monster had Ami by the throat with her left hand and was threatening her with her scythe-hand. "Now then, little bitch, if you give me all your energy, I'll kill you quickly," the monster offered.
Ami spit in the monster's face and a blue symbol appeared on her forehead. "You can go to hell, BITCH!" Ami retorted and the monster smacked her across the room. Luna raced to Ami while Sailor Moon, er, distracted the monster. She was running around throwing CD's at her.
"Ami, are you okay?" Luna asked.
Ami was quiet and then coughed. "You talked," she spoke simply. Luna cocked her head. "You're a cat, you shouldn't talk."
Luna chuckled. "I probably shouldn't do this either," Luna said, flipping in the air, making a pen with the symbol of Mercury on it. "This is your own power stick. Raise it to the air and say 'Mercury Power' whenever you're in danger."
Ami seemed to be lost in the glow of her new pen. "Like now?" she asked, with a smile. Then she raised her Mercury pen high into the air and shouted, "MERCURY POWER!" Sailor Moon and the monster (we'll call her Scythec for fun, eh?) were distracted by the blue glow coming from the corner. When the lights subsided, Sailor Mercury stood there. "This is a place for learning, and by the power of Mercury, I will not allow you to desecrate it!"
"Another one?" Sythec questioned in disgust.
"Another one?" Sailor Moon questioned in surprise.
"Mercury (cough) Bubbles (cough) Blast," Luna whispered inconspicuously.
Sailor Moon sweat-dropped at her "guardian." But Mercury understood. "MERCUY BUBBLES…BLAST!" she commanded and mist filled the room. "Now, Sailor Moon!"
"Eh? What? Who said that!" Sailor Moon's voice could be heard. Then Serena remembered her surroundings. "Right. Uh, MOON TIARA MAGIC!" The monster turned to dust and the mist dissipated. Then Sailor Moon pranced over to where Sailor Mercury was. "Hey, Ami, high-five! We did great!" Ami and Luna were both looked annoyed. "What? Hey! Hey, guys! What did I do?" Ami and Luna walked away. "Guys?"