"Usagi-Chan, you up yet?" Rei said knocking on her friend's door lightly. "Usagi?" She said when she got no answer, opening the door to find the room empty.
"Oh, Rei she already left this morning" Usagi's mom said stepping off the stairs with a basket of clothes at her hip. "Something seems to be bothering her...I wish she'd tell me..." she said mumbling off to herself- her face falling into a frown.
"Oh, don't worry about it. Everything will be fine again in due time Mrs. Tsukino" Rei said, trying to lift her own face into a smile. The worried mother lifted her lips in a half-hearted smile, until she moved and let her pass.
"Where on earth could she be?" Rei said to herself, pulling out her communicator as she left the Tsukino house.
Usagi sat with her hands folded in her lap; the ocean view right in front of her. The soft wind lifted and danced with the loose strands of her golden hair, as the leaves above her played in shadows on her face.
What went wrong? She asked herself over and over- time and time again, though still never receiving a good enough response. It had been at least a week since the incident at the club, and the only thing she thought about was everything seemed to be going wrong.
Everything must be my fault, someway or another. She mused softly staring at the lapping water. Was I too much of a baby when he left? So much that he made his mind up about us before even getting back? That must have been it.
"What do I do now?" She said aloud, looking up at the sky to find an answer. Alas, there was no sign of the moon, and it was too sunny for the stars. She was left to think this out on her own.
Behind her the small beach-side shops started settling in for the sunset, music from a radio lifted and carried over the breeze to Usagi's ears; playing out just how she felt, in a song she had never heard before.
"...There were times
I would sit all alone with the rain outside.
Many times.
I would pray that my letters would reach your heart.
With words that travel over the seas,
Thoughts that bring you nearer to me.
I'm missing you I have to say.
That these tears inside wont go away..."
"Usagi Tsukino?" Her sorrow filled thoughts burst as a mans voice entered her ears. Looking up she blocked the stream of sun that moved in front of her vision.
"Mmn?" she mumbled still trying to see the shadow that loomed over her. The shadow broke into two forms, finally blocking enough of the sun that she saw their faces.
There standing right in front of her were the two college friends of Mamoru. "We wanted to talk to you..."
Anger surged through her, a feeling so strong she had never felt before. Getting mad would only make them happy. She thought to herself as she tried to force her lungs to take a breath and calm down. She closed her eyes and lifted her chin in defiance.
"I have nothing to say to either of you," she said, her voice coming out dripped with ice and uncaring.
"But..."
"If you'll excuse me," She said rising as elegantly as she ever had, she walked straight through the two. Not looking back and not caring. It was time she stopped feeling sorry for herself- it obviously wasn't helping anyone.
"I've cared so much about what you thought. He expects me to act like a baby- that's what I'm best at is it? Not anymore. You want an Ice Queen Mamoru, you have one."
Usagi walked until the last bits of the sad song died in her footsteps.
-----Man I didn't realize how long it's been since I updated! Sorry guys! I'm thinking maybe two more chapters left...then maybe a sequel..what do you guys think?
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