Another Life

By Angel

Chapter 2

A.N. Some of you have commented about the lack of sailormoon in this story. Well that's cause this is AU the sailor scouts sadly do not make appearances in this fic. The characters personalities and so forth have been changed to suit me. This is how I want to write them for this story, not because I don't like the original characters but because they don't flow well with my ideas. I have started work on a Sailormoon fic but again the characters have been changed to suit the story line. But that story won't be released for a while as its still in the beginning stages and I still have two stories in progress to finish. I hope you all like the small changes I have made to Another Life in my ever obsessive need to improve, even with out Sailormoon and the sailor scouts.

Enjoy

"What are you doing here?" Serena asked a blushing Darien as she approached where he was standing at the school gates. He had not meant to be seen spying, he had wanted to wait till she was away from the girls to speak with her privately, but it had been like her eyes had been drawn to his the moment he saw her there sitting on the grass.

"Well...ummm. ." He trailed off looking down at his shoes. He found himself in need of an alibi so as not to embarrass himself. After a moments thought he decided just to do as he had come here to do. He asked her out, badly. "Iwasawonderingifmaybeyouwouldlike togooutwithme?" He unfortunately stammered it out so quickly while tripping over his own tongue he was so nervous not even he understood what he said.

Serena just stood there staring at him in amusement. She was completely bewildered as to what Darien had just said but still found it funny and incredibly cute; she had never seen him so nervous, blushing and stuttering like a shy little kid. It was incredibly appealing, but so not like Darien.

Darien noticing her smile relaxed a bit took a deep breath and tried again. "I was wondering, Serena, if you would like to go out with me?'' He smiled not nearly as nervous now that it had been said.

Serena was shocked so much her smile slipped causing Darien another nervous moment. She had always hoped this day would come, dreamed about it a million times, but now it was truly happening she was sorely tempted to pinch herself to make sure she was not still dreaming, but refrained in favor of answering the now sweating Darien. "I would love to." She said smiling a heart stopping smile that had Darien holding his breath.

"Great!" he chocked out. "Great, ummm I guess I will just pick you up tonight around seven then." he said with a big smile on his face, as he began to walk backwards down the sidewalk not yet ready to take his eyes off her.

Serena just stood there watching his retreating figure a dreamy smile on her face in till she remembered the plans she had already made with the girls for that evening. Her smile faded into a frown, as she chased down the block after him. "I can not go out tonight." She said catching Darien's attention causing him to spin around to face her. "I have plans tonight with the girls." Serena said flatly.

Darien just smiled though he was disappointed. "Tomorrow night then, same time?" he asked. When she nodded and her smile was once again firmly in place he waved and walked away.

He could not believe his luck. He finally had a date with Serena. He whistled cheerfully to himself on his walk back to school.

Serena could not believe it. Darien had just asked her out. Smiling at his back as he rounded a corner she turned back to her friends and her forgotten lunch.

Unknown to both Serena and Darien their conversation had been witnessed by two very annoyed red heads. "Unbelievable! This is not even happening! I will not allow it!" screamed the enraged female red head. "After everything I have done to get Darien to notice me, that little tramp walks right in and spoils everything!" she yelled as she paced back and forth before her three lackeys sitting along the wall farthest from the school but closets to the gate for easy escapes.

As she paced her already very revealing clothes fluttered around with her movements showing off more than what was appropriate for school, but she paid no notice and continued her march annoying the only other red head of the group.

Rolling his eyes the tall boy sighed and glared at his twin with identical amber eyes. "Chill out Beryl." He stated irritably from where he stood leaning against the wall a few feet off so as not to be seen as part of the group of girls. He looked at Beryl, exasperation written on his face. "I can not believe the fool you make of your self over that guy. Though it's not like you had a chance anyway." he stated calmly knowing it would further annoy her.

Beryl sent him a piercing death glare that would have made any other person flinch, before walking over to stand in front of him. "What do you know Rubius. I would have got him if that little blonde bimbo had not shown up" she yelled angrily.

Rubius rolled his eyes at her again. "How, he has barely even noticed you exist. You should get it through your head that he is not interested." he said as he stood up to walk back to class as the bell rang signaling the end of lunch.

The girl's left sitting along the wall all stared at the fuming Beryl. "I will not lose to her." she said clenching her fists "And if I have to cheat to win I will." Beryl stated with an evil sneer on her face. "And I will make little miss blonde bimbo's life miserable as well till she goes back to where ever she came from." She vowed.

Later that night at Cherry Hill Temple, where Rei lived, it had taken some time and doing to drag out all of the sound equipment and miscellaneous articles they needed to reform their band but they were finally done setting up and Serena was passing out copies of sheet music she had wrote to each girl and they moved to their places at their instruments.

Rei was on the lead guitar. It was a metallic red acoustic that all the girls had pitched in to buy for her birthday the year before Serena had left for the USA.

Lita was on a set of emerald green drums.

Mina was on a bright orange bass guitar.

And last Ami took a seat at her light blue electric piano.

Mina concentrated on the papers in her hand for a moment trying to string the notes together in her head, smiling when she was done she looked up at Serena. "Wow Serena these tunes sound great." She complimented.

Serena smiled back while taking her place at the microphone. "Thanks, Mina. Everyone know their parts?" Serena asked. When everyone nodded she signaled for Lita to count off.

"One. Two. One, Two, Three, Four!" Everyone started playing and Serena waited for her cue to sing. When she heard it she began.

As the last line faded all the girls cheered. Smiling and giving each other high fives.

"Wow that was great!" Lita cheered smiling at Serena.

Ami was laughing as she came up to Serena. "I agree, and Serena you have changed. You went from shy nobody to hot rock star." Ami cheerfully told Serena giving her a high-five.

Serena just looked at Rei her brows quirked questioningly. "Well Rei what do you think? Is my new song good or what?" She asked.

Rei just rolled her eyes. "What do you think Meatball-head! It was great!" Rei smiled. "I just can not believe you got up and sang let alone wrote this song, when did you get so dark?" She questioned. But Serena just smirked and shrugged. "Right. Anyway I think that after we practice more we should enter into the contest." Rei stated matter of factly while everyone else just stared at her confused.

"What are you talking about, Rei? What contest?" Ami asked.

Rei pulled a flyer out of her pocket. "I found this on the way home from school yesterday. The radio station is having a contest to find a new band. The winner gets a two year contract with the radio station and they get to release an album." She said holding the flyer out for them to see.

Lita took the flyer read it then handed it to Mina before looking back at Rei with a stern expression "And when were you planning to tell us about this?" She asked crossing her arms in front of her chest.

Rei smiled and shrugged not at all intimidated. "I wanted to make sure the Meatball-head could pull it off first." She smiled pointedly at Serena. "I did not want to get everyone's hopes up if she could not pull it off."

Serena stuck her tongue out at Rei. "Thanks for the vote of confidence Pyro." Serena stated.

"We are going to be famous!" Mina said with a dreamy look in her eyes obviously missing the entire conversation. No doubt she was already picturing herself with all the trappings and trimmings of the famous musician.

Rei rolled her eyes at Mina. "We have to win first." Rei stated.

Mina looked at Rei and smiled. "Yeah but how can we lose? Serena's song is great. The music's great. How could we not win?" Mina asked everyone.

"Over confidence is how." Rei glared. "Sure we sounded good for a first try, but there are going to be a lot of bands there who could be better so we need to practice. We should meet here everyday after school right up to the day of the contest to practice." She stated already planning how long it would take to set up and break down each day leaving time for school work and dinner.

"No!" a startled Serena jumped up.

Surprised the girls all turned to the wide eyed girl. "And why not?" Rei glared at Serena.

Serena just scratched the back of her head and blushed. "Well you see I kind of have a date tomorrow night." She said looking up she stared into the shocked eyes of her friends. "But every following night I will be here, unless I get asked out again, but I promise to try to make it every day. Promise." She said crossing her heart with two fingers.

Shocked the girls reacted all at once, firing questions and compliments at her

"You have a date?" Ami asked shocked.

"How have you got a date? You only got back in town two days ago and you already have a date?" came from an incredulous Rei.

"Way to go Serena!" Lita winked at her. "Lost your shyness now the guys are all over you."

"So who is the lucky guy?" Mina asked, putting her arm across Serena's shoulders.

Serena blushed again. "Darien Chiba."

This is a new record for me, but then I had a lot of inspiration. Thanks everyone for the great reviews encouragements and kudos. They are really appreciated. Well hope you all like this chapter and continue to review. Now I am going to go work on three.

C ya

Angel

Ps. Check out my other story Immortal beloved. Thanks.