Hey guys, I didn't update yesterday: gasp: heh…I had science homework Here's the day at the Water Park for ya.

Disclaimer: Naoko Takeuchi owns Sailor Moon and the Sailor Senshi, not me.

Chapter 4.

Water Parks. Oh how I love them. Yes, I love the beach more, but Water Parks have slides, and Wave pools, and those big huge buckets that dump all the water after it's filled to the brim! Yes, I love Water Parks.

"Come on Rei!" Hotaru says excitedly. She's pulling me towards the bathrooms so we can change and I smile at her.

"I'm gonna beat you there!" I say, winking at her. She lets go of my hand and races toward the bathroom. I run after, slowing down a bit so that she can win. We enter the bathroom and pant. She smiles triumphantly at me and says,

"I won."

"Yup, now let's get changed and take over this place!" I exclaim back.

We hurry up and change. Me into my oh-so-hot-if-I-do-say-so-myself bikini and Hotaru into a cute 2 piece purple bathing suit. We grin at each other and run out of the bathroom. We start to floor it towards the super slides, when Haruka steps in front of us.

"Now now girls. You need to wait for Usagi and the others!" She scolds, already in her bathing suit. She has a dark blue bikini top, with the same color blue and white board shorts.

"But Haruka-papa! We are gonna race!" Hotaru pleads. Haruka just rolls her eyes at us.

"You need to talk with Minako…" She scoffs at me. I just huff at her and say in my defense,

"If she wants to talk so bad, she can come to me." Hotaru just looks at me, a hint of sadness in her eyes.

"Don't you get all, 'Go talk to her', on me now Hotaru! You're my lifeline in this!"

"Ok Rei, but I still think you sho"

"Don't say it." I interrupt her. She just nods at me, then smiles.

"Will you please let us go Haruka-papa? We'll meet up with all of you after we go on this slide! PLEASE" Hotaru begs. She puts on her puppy-dog face; I can see Haruka visibly cracking on the inside!

She sighs, and says, "Fiiiine…but come right back so Usagi doesn't think you left her behind!" Hotaru and I yelp with joy, and start to run off towards the water slide!

"I'm gonna beat you to it Hotaru!" I say, running a little faster than I was.

"No you aren't!" Hotaru says, upping my pace a bit.

"I won't let you win!" I say, getting closer to running at full speed.

"If this is what it's gonna come down to, we might as well run at full speed." Hotaru said, grinning like the devils pawn. I grin right back, and run as fast as I can. Hotaru and I, at full speed, look like blurs of red and purple, or, so we've read in the papers. Every once in a while, we like to get a kick out of the newspaper companies, and deliberately race against each other in front of the journalist. It's so much fun! I see the water slide quickly coming into view, so I start to slow down.

"Hotaru! Better slow down now!" I yell in her direction. Would hate to have te girl get a concussion.

"That takes the fun out of it Rei! Live life on the wild side! Oh wait! You don't have a wild side. If you did, you would at least talk with Minako!" she yells back at me. I'm now furious at the girl, and I can not control it. I feel my Mars symbol come into place on my forehead as I gain speed. Shit! Not here! I keep running, hoping and pleading that I don't transform or something right here!

"Rei?" Hotaru questions, trying to keep up with me.

"Take it back." I say, hoping that maybe if she does my symbol will go away.

"No, I was speaking the truth!" She says defensively.

"Take…it…back…Hotaru!" I say angry. I'm starting to get scared for fear of hurting my self or an innocent pedestrian!

"Fine Rei! I take it back! You do live life on the wild side!" She said.

"And…" I urged her on. We are getting way to close to the line for the water slide.

"You don't need to talk to Minako!" She says. I feel my symbol fade away as she says this, relief coming over me.

"Oh thank God…" I whisper as we come to a stop.

"What was with that Rei?" Hotaru asks me.

I just shrug and say, "I really don't know! I just got so angry, even though I didn't want to! I was so angry that I just…ugh I don't' know!" Hotaru just lets it slide, and grabs my hand.

"Come on Rei! I know I'm gonna beat you to the bottom!" She says as we get in the relatively short line. Soon enough, we are both standing at the top of the 5 story water slide.

"Are you just going down for pleasure…" the lifeguard says, "or are you racing."

Hotaru and I look at each other, then smile wickedly at the lifeguard together and say, "Racing."

"All right, we've got a show now! Ok! RACERS…TAKE YOUR MARK,"

We both get into a sprinters position.

"GET SET…"

We look over at each other for a split second, and then look right back in front of us.

"GOOOOOOOOOO!"

We sprint into the water, then slide penguin style down the slide. I look over to see Hotaru keeping up with me.

"YOU ARE GOIN' DOWN REI!"

"NO WAY!" I yell back, laughing a bit.

"HOW ABOUT WE WAGER A BIT ON THIS RACE!" Hotaru yells at me.

"WHAT KIND OF WAGER?" I yell back, it is quite loud, ya know, rushing water and all.

"WINNER GETS TO KISS MINAKO!" She yelled. My eyes narrowed. She will NEVER, EVER, get to kiss Minako!

"YOU'RE ON!" I yell. I pull my arms to my side, gaining a sufficient amount of speed. Only a little bit to go, and Hotaru is WAY behind me. I put my arms back out in front of me. Suddenly, I see a purple zoom past me.

"NO!" I yell. She reaches the bottom of the slide, and does a victory dance. I reach the bottom and glare at Hotaru.

"Oh that's it!" I yell at her. She looks up at me puzzled, and I tackle her into the water.

"You are such a sore loser Rei! You act like you guys were staking life and death!" I look up to see all of the girls standing there, staring at us.

"Um…" I utter out.

"As a matter of fact…we did wager something!" Hotaru says, jumping with joy.

"What wager could make Rei that angry for losing?" Makoto asked.

"Does this have something to do with…" Haruka shrugs her shoulders toward Minako with out her noticing.

"Why yes! It most certainly does! The bet was this. Winner gets to kiss Minako."

Minako's head snapped up at hearing this. Everybody started laughing but Minako and me.

Minako cracked a vicious smile though, then said, "Well come get your reward Hotaru!" Hotaru just smiled and pranced over to Minako. Minako leaned down a bit and kissed Hotaru on the cheek. I felt myself growl in spite of myself.

"I'm hungry!" Usagi blurts out.

"But…We just ate at Denny's!" Ami says.

"But now I wanna hot dog!" Usagi begs. Haruka sighs, giving into our starving princess.

"Ok Usagi. Come on everybody! We're going to get Usagi her hotdog!" I get out of the pool that surrounds the waterslide and walk at the back of our pack. I see Minako stop and wait till I reached her to start walking again. She pushes me up against a brick wall, the others keep on walking.

"What the hell?" I exclaim. Her hands are tightly gripped on my arms.

"What the hell yourself! What is wrong with you?" She asks venom in her voice.

"Absolutely nothing!" I yell back at her. I push her off of me and run to catch up with the group.

"Where's Minako?" Michiru asks me as I reach them.

"I don't know." I say coldly, and order my self a hot dog. I hear Minako's feet pad up to the back of the group.

"Where were ya Minako?" Usagi asks, stuffing her face with hot dog.

"No where." She says voice full of venom.

"So, what are we gonna hit next? The wave pool?" Haruka asks, trying to ease the tension that we can feel in the air.

"Sounds good to me Haruka!" Makoto exclaims. "I love the wave pool!"

"Yeah!" Ami says, blushing once everyone turns to look at her. I just smirk.

We head over to the wave pool, and all get in. About 30 minutes into it, I can no longer see Usagi.

"Ami!" I yell towards her, she, Makoto, Haruka, and Hotaru are all in the part of the pool where the biggest waves are.

"What?" she yells back.

"Where's Usagi?" I yell, starting to get very worried.

Ami looks around. Then her facial expression changes to one of extreme worry.
"USAGI!" She yells, hoping the blonde will respond. We hear no response.

"DAMN IT USAGI!" I yell as I go underwater. The water stings my eyes because of the chlorine, but I keep them open anyway, trying to find Usagi. I look left and right, but still can't see her. Then, I see her, eyes closed and mouths slightly open, just laying at the bottom of the pool. I resurface, running out of breath. I yell over to Ami and Michiru, who are the best swimmers saying, "SHE'S ON THE BOTTOM!" Then I take a huge breath and dive. I open my eyes again, not caring about the pain, and swim as fast as I can towards her. I reach her, and put my arms around her waist. I swim my fastest and hardest towards the surface. We reach the air, while I start swimming towards the side of the pool. Ami and Michiru are close to me as I get out and lay Usagi in the grass. I put my ear near her mouth. Oh God…

"SHE'S NOT BREATHING!" I yell, motioning one of the lifeguards to get over here as fast as he can. He starts running, but gets a distress call over towards the water slide and runs in the opposite direction.

"DAMN IT!" I yell angrily. I put my hands on her stomach and push it in several times. I listen for a heart beat, then put my lips to hers and blow air into them. I mutter a quick thank you prayer that they taught us CPR in school, and then repeat the process. Usagi starts to cough up water, and takes a deep intake of breath, opening her eyes. I feel tears streaking my checks.

"Oh thank God…Usagi…" I whisper, crying.

"What….What happened?" She asks, wiping a tear from my cheek. I look around and see that all of the senshi are gathered around in a circle.

"N-nothing happened Usagi." I say, and then quickly add, "But we're going to leave now." Everybody nods and heads toward the bathroom. As we start to enter the van, Usagi stops me and gives me a hug. A real hug, like the one she gave to Mamoru once we all came back after the battle with Galaxia.

"I don't know what happened Rei…but I know you're the one who saved me, so thank you…so much." She whispers. I feel awestruck. It has been quite a while since anyone has truly thanked me for something.

"I'd give my life for you Princess." I say, not knowing what else to say. Out of the corner of my eye I see a flash of blonde, but it's gone once I look up. I smile at Usagi then say, "Now let's get going…I need some sleep!" Usagi just nods at me and we head into the van.

"Hey Rei?" Michiru asks me once we're on the road.

"Yeah Michiru?" I respond.

"What really happened between you and Minako at the Water Park?"

I sigh. I knew this question was coming. "It's nothing Michiru, now if you don't mind, I'm gonna catch some Z's." She just nods at me, and walks to the "cockpit" where Haruka is driving. I grab a pillow and blanket and hit the floor. She's not going to want to sleep with me tonight…I thought solemnly…and it's all my fault too.

OK, that was the end of Chapter 4! Hope you guys enjoyed it!