Usagi walked up to her locker at the clinic and began putting her purse and coat inside, when her boss walked over to her, "Usagi?"

"Yes?"

"I'm really pleased at how well you're doing here. You're picking up on things very quickly and even the grumpiest patients are happier when you're around. So I've decided to bump you up a few levels. I'd like for you to sit in with June today during a sessions with one of her new patients. They're fairly new so there's not much to learn about the history. Just sit in, watch, listen, and take notes. You don't have to do anything besides that. It's just to get you more familiar with how we operate around here. So when you're finished here go find June, she's excepting you."

Usagi was left staring into the distance not knowing whether to believe what she just heard. She'd only been there for three weeks and all ready they have her sitting on a case. She reached into her purse and dialled her cell phone. Damon should be on his study break right now, she hoped.

"What's up?" Damon answered his phone.

"Um…. I uh….. err…"

"Is everything okay, Hun?"

"Yeah, it's just…. Well, my boss just told me that she wants me to sit in on a session today. Not a detox. Just a regular counselling session, you know where the patient talks about how they got where they are and stuff."

"Usagi, you not forming proper sentences."

"Shut up! You know what I mean."

"I do. I'm just confused as to why you're panicking."

"Well, I don't know if I'm ready for that yet!"

"If your boss thinks you are, I'm pretty sure she's right. It'll be okay, you'll do great."

"Well, I'm not actually DOING anything. Just listening and taking notes. But still…."

"I wouldn't worry about it, just think of it as a cadaver, even if you mess up no one's life is at stake."

"Yeah, thanks for the analogy." With that she hung up, closed her locker and set off to find June.

Usagi walked into the private room behind June and sat down in the chair offered to her. She took out her notebook and pen and got herself ready to listen in on the session. Though when she looked up she got the shock of a life time; the session she was to sit in on, was Mamoru's. Could her life get any worse than it was now? She had tried so hard to get him out of her life and now he was weaselling his way back. Didn't he ever give up?

So now here she was having to listen to his damn sap story of why is life is so miserable and why he had turned to his addiction and why he was here in rehab and how he felt about all of it.

"Ok, Mamoru. I'm June I will be your councillor. So today what were going to do is; I want you tell me about yourself and why you do the things you do. I'm only hear to listen. I'm not judging you or thinking negatively about you. So why don't you go ahead and start."

Mamoru nodded. He felt it hard to talk about those things with Usagi in the room. He had given permission to have an intern sit in and listen but he hadn't realized it would be her. He almost regretted giving the go-ahead now. "Well," he took a deep breath, "I've been alone most of my life. My parents died when I was young and I have no brothers or sisters," June nodded and wrote something down on her pad of paper, "I grew up in an orphanage and when I turned 16 I was expected to move out and find my own place. After high school I went to college to study to become a doctor. In my second year of college I met a young girl who I found very intolerable. We were at each other's throats every time we saw each other. But as the year went on we became friends and soon she was my girlfriend," Usagi rolled her eyes, "We fell in love and were together for 5 years. But I found the pressures of school to be to great, and over heard some fellow students talking about how they eased the pressure. I was reluctant at first but then decided to give it a try. And I guess that's how and why I got here."

"That's the only reason?" Usagi couldn't help but ask.

"Usagi," June motioned for her to be quite.

"I'm sorry it just seems like he's leaving something out. How are we supposed to help him if we don't know the whole story."

June turned back to Mamoru, "Mmmm. She does make an excellent point."

Mamoru couldn't help but send a glare Usagi's way. What did she think she was doing?

"Well, ummm. One night I almost O.D'ed and my girlfriend came in and found me passed out on my bed. I woke up in the hospital. That's when she gave me two choices the drug or her. I think I hated her then. I mean, how could she make me make such a difficult decision. But with her help I almost got over it."

"Almost?" June inquired.

Mamoru nodded, "Yes. I had missed an exam when I was high or getting better, I can't remember which. My professor allowed me another chance to take it. I passed, but barely. My girlfriend (who never got a decent grade in her life, mind you) made a big deal about it and told me I could've done better."

"Do you think you could have?" June asked gently.

"If I wasn't in the condition I was in. I took the exam about a week after going cold turkey. I was detoxing. I couldn't think straight, I couldn't breathe properly. My hands were shaking. But I did pass it. Anyway, the pressure of her getting into my business like that and the pressure of every one expecting me to be prefect, made me want to get high one more time. So I did and of course she walked in on me using. She broke up with me right then and there. Ever since she walked out I got worse. My best friend tried helping me but it never worked. One day I read about this place and decided it would be good for me to come here."

"Why all the way over here?" Usagi asked, "Why not some place closer to home?"

"Well, my girlfriend had come here to get away for a bit," Mamoru swallowed, "I was hoping that she would see that I was serious this time and hoped to get her back."

"And do you think that's a good idea?" June asked, "You have to understand that she most likely feels inadequate and very hurt by your actions. It might not be enough to show her that you're seeking help. Once she sees that you've completed your stay here and have been sober for quite sometime, then maybe she would consider starting a relationship with you again."

"How long is 'quite sometime'?" Mamoru asked.

"A year or two. I know it seems like a long time but you have to ask yourself; 'Is she worth the wait?' "

Mamoru nodded, "Yes, I think----- I know she is" He looked directly at Usagi when he said this. Usagi only rolled her eyes and looked down at her lap.

"Okay, well that's all we have time for today. Mamoru what I want you to do sometime today is write an essay about where you see yourself going if you stay high and where you'd like to see yourself going after your days here. And don't just write about getting your girlfriend back. Write about school, a job and your future and all that it entails."

Usagi stayed in the back for the rest of the day. She told her boss she wasn't feeling to well and that she would just like to organize files and get the group session hand-outs ready. She tried desperately to take her mind off what she liked to refer to as 'the longest half an hour of her life'. How would she tell Damon? She knew she couldn't keep Mamoru being here a secret. Besides, he may be able to give her some advice. But still, how would she tell him?

"Usagi?" Another intern softly got her attention, "Your boyfriend's here to pick you up."

Usagi smiled, "Okay. Thank you."

Usagi walked swiftly down the foyer never taking her eyes off of Damon, who was in a conversation with the receptionist. She couldn't wait to get home and just relax with Damon beside her. Suddenly someone stepped in her path, she looked up and came face to face to Mamoru.

"Crap! Not now! Not here!" She thought as she mentally shooed Mamoru away. To no avail.

"Listen," He said in Japanese, "I meant what I said in there."

"Which part? The part where you said you hate me?"

Mamoru sighed, "No, I mean about you being worth the wait."

"Well, you're going to be waiting a long time."

"Usagi don't say that. Look I know I messed up but I'm going to get better and I'll prove it to you."

"I told you, it's too late for that. After you get sober you best start looking for someone else because I won't be around."

"Usagi just think about it."

"I have." Both of them were so involved in conversation with each that neither noticed Damon walk up beside them.

"Well, please think some more. For our sake. I can't do this without you….."

"Excuse me," Damon interrupted. He didn't like the way this mystery man was looking at HIS fiancé. Usagi was almost mortified to see Damon standing there, but thankful at the same time for putting an end to this. Damon looked at Usagi, "You ready to go?"

Usagi looked to Mamoru and then back at Damon, "Yeah." She then started to walk away with Damon. After a few feet Damon stopped her and kissed her sweetly complaining that he hadn't gotten a kiss today. Usagi could feel Mamoru's eyes following them all the way outside. She couldn't bear to turn around and see the look of heart break on his face. It would've made her want to run over to him, hug him, tell him that she was sorry and that she would never leave him again…….. and she almost did.

AN: Well, there's part errrr... hell i don't even know what chapter this is. lol oh well, here it is! hope you enjoyed.