Serena sat in her room leaning against her pillow with food spread all over her bed that her friends had brought. Rei and Amy were sitting on the bed, while Mina and Lita were sitting on the floor. Rei had brought Chocolate cupcakes, her favourite flavour, knowing that Serena loved sweet foods. Amy brought some homemade peanut butter cookies, "for in between snacks". Mina had brought a small, heart shaped lemon pound cake, and Lita had given Serena some random sweets like lollipops, caramels, gob stoppers, sprinkles, and other random finger foods. Serena was stuffing her face, chocolate smeared on her cheek, sprinkles in her hair, and cookie crumbs on her lap. The 5 girls were chatting away, talking about today's school and yesterdays events.

"That creature was just so UGLY!" laughed Lita.

"I shfawt I vash a gonnor fer shur!" muffled Serena, bits of cake falling from her mouth.

"Ew, Serena, didn't anyone tell you to close your mouth while you eat?" said Rei, grossed out.

"-and did you see Serena's face? I thought she was going to wet herself!" laughed Mina.

Everyone in the room laughed, the cats, the girls, all except for Serena. She took a gulp, finishing her cake, and frowned.

"If you were in my position, I think you would have just as scared!"

"We're just teasing, Serena!" said Amy, giggling.

"Oh, don't be a sour face!" sighed Luna, eying a cupcake, and then swinging her head at it, taking a fresh bite. A knock came from the other side of Serena's door.

"Girls? Are you in there? I brought some glasses of milk!" said Serena's mom.

"Come in!" laughed the girls, as the door opened. Serena's mom came in, walking backwards from pushing open the door.

"What a mess in here!" She exclaimed. "Well, It's no worse then your brothers, I suppose. Well, here's your drinks, now don't spill it!"

"Yes, mother!" sighed Serena, shooing her mother out.

"You know, Serena, we better start cleaning up." Said Amy. "I have a study date soon, and I can't be late!"

"Oh no! That reminds me! I have a date with Darien in 20 minutes!" cried out Serena. "What am I going to do?"

"We can help you clean up." Said Rei.

"Yeah, we'd be glad to!" said Lita.

"As long as I get to see Darien." Laughed Mina.

"You know Darien's mine!" exclaimed Serena.

"I don't know, he seems pretty interested in Mina." Laughed Rei.

Serena chased Mina around, her head shaking in anger, while the girls just laughed.

"We better get started," sighed Amy.


Darien was walking towards Serena's house, which was just around the corner. He knew he should be there by now, but knowing Serena, she was probably sleeping. Darien shook his head and chuckled.

"Why do I even like her?"

"There's just something about her," he argued to himself. "As if, we were meant to be together. I feel like I've known her before. As if we've had a past relationship. Our souls were together, and met again in the real life."

"Who are you kidding? You already know!" he told himself. "Queen Serenity…that terrible battle… everything lost on the moon. Queen Serenity sent us to be reborn into the future…"

Darien shook his head. He smiled to himself. Serena was special… in more than one way. He reached Serena's doorstep and took a deep breath. Taking a step forward, he rang the bell.


"Whew! We're done!" sighed Amy. "But now I've gotta run! Bye everybody!"

"See yeah Amy!" said Rei. "Hey, Serena, Lita and I've got to go help my grandpa with the Temple. He's getting old, and we need to do the spring-cleaning. See you around, ok? Say hi to Darien for me!"

"I uh… gotta go too Serena. Good luck with your date." Said Mina, walking out.


Mina turned from closing the front door, and bumped into Darien.

"Oh, hey Darien."

"Hey Mina." Said Darien. "Um, is Serena ready?"

"Yeah, she is."

"Wow, she's actually ready for once!

"Ha, I guess so. Well, see yeah around. Have fun!"

Mina headed off down the street, and Darien rang the bell.


"Serena! The door!" screamed Serena's little brother, Sammy.

"Oh my gosh! Is it time already?" cried Serena. "Darien's here!"

Serena rushed down the stairs, he brother spotting her at the bottom. He smirked to himself and stuck his foot out. Serena, being the clutz she was, tripped over her brother's foot and landed right by the door. She quickly got up and faced Darien, who was standing in the doorway, shocked.

"Oh, um… hey Darien!" She smiled.

"Hi, Serena."

"So, ready to go?"

"Yeah, and I'm surprised you are too."

Serena laughed and hooked her arm in his.

"Me? Late? Never! Oh wait! My coin purse!" gasped Serena.

"I knew it was too good to be true." Sighed Darien, looking upwards for help.

"Be right back!" called Serena. She dashed up the stairs and the sounds of slamming drawers could be heard. At one moment, the sound of a cats screech pierced the noise.
"Oops, sorry Luna!" came a voice, only to be Serena's. She soon came stumbling down the stairs, back at Darien's side, whom was laughing quietly.

"Ready now?" He asked.

"Ready."

"Ok, let's go. Andrew's waiting for us."

"He is? Why?" Serena asked.

"I uh… have a little something." Blushed Darien.

"Oooh, a surprise… for ME!" cried Serena excitedly.

"Yeah," laughed Darien, "For you."


Mina walked, not looking where she was going, and thinking about Andrew. She never really noticed him, but he just seemed so nice.

"I guess I was just too caught up with Darien." Thought Mina.

Andrew was just so nice to everyone, doing favours for people, and always there for you to talk to. Mina had only started to notice Andrew a few weeks ago, but he crept into her mind more and more.

"Hey Mina!" came a voice.

Mina lifted her head and noticed she happened to walk right into her thoughts.

"Oh, hey Andrew!"

"Take a seat, Mina. I saw you yesterday afternoon."

"You…you did? Where?"

"Oh, you and the girls were leaving the school. What were you doing there?" asked Andrew.

"Oh, that. We were just fighting an evil youma."

"What? What's a youma?" asked Andrew.

"It's a monster, really." Mina answered.

Mina snapped her head up.

"Ohmigosh!" she thought. "I just let that slip!"

"Ha! That's funny Mina. You're really creative and funny!" laughed Andrew.

"Yeah, ha, um… funny." chuckled Mina, sighing in relief.

"So, will there be anything today?" said Andrew, wiping a cup off.

"Um, yeah. Anything will do. Just don't hurt my wallet."

"Don't worry, it's on the house."

"Thanks, Andrew." Smiled Mina.

"No problem."

Mina continued to look at the bar table she was sitting at. She twisted quietly back and fourth on her stool, thinking about Andrew. She blushed slightly, since Andrew was right in front of her, and she felt like he could read her thoughts.

"So, where's all your friends?" asked Andrew.

"Oh, well Amy has to study, Lita and Rei went to help Rei's grandpa, and Serena's gone on a date with Darien."

"What about you? Don't you have something planned." Asked Andrew.

"Nope," replied Mina. "Just sitting here."

"Well, let's hope this cheers you up." Said Andrew, who had left the other side of the bar and came around to sit next to Mina. He held out a vanilla milkshake with 2 straws.

"I want some too, though." He laughed.

Mina laughed along with him. "Sure."

The 2 leaned in and sipped. Suddenly, bubbles popped in the shake. Mina shot up, frightened by the sudden movement in her food. Andrew chuckled.

"Sorry. I like to make bubbles in my milkshakes."

That's ok." Said Mina, leaning back in. She sucked the smooth vanilla flavour through the straw, and slowly lifted it out of the glass. She aimed the straw at Andrew, who looked up at Mina.

"Mina, no, please no!" He cried, holding his hands out to stop Mina from getting closer. Mina laughed, and accidentally let some milkshake shoot at Andrew's apron.

"Mina! My apron!"

"Oops! I'm so sorry Andrew!'

"No you're not," smirked Andrew. "It's time for payback."

"Payback?" questioned Mina.

"Yeah, payback."

Andrew loaded his straw, and aimed it at Mina.

"Ah!" screamed Mina, running. Andrew gave one quick, strong blow of air and sent the drink flying directly at Mina.

"EW!" came a shrill voice, only belonging to Mina. "Andrew! I'm going to kill you! My shirt! My good shirt!"

Mina attacked Andrew, who wasn't expecting a hard push. Mina shoved him to the ground, just as some elder folks opened the door. The couple just stared at the 2 teenagers on the floor, staring dumbly back at them. The couple quickly turned around and shuffled themselves to another store. Mina looked at Andrew as if to say sorry. Andrew just burst out laughing.

"You know, we're in a…different position." He said.

Mina quickly sprang up, dusting herself off. Andrew held her shoulder.

"None of this leaves the arcade, got it?"

"Got it." Laughed Mina.

Give me the strength to carry on

With all our love we can't go wrong

Only together we face the fight

Nothing can stand against our might

(Carry On- Sailor Moon)