"Everyone! I've decided..." Usagi started, interrupting the loud chatter of her best friends. They were in Rei's room, all around the table- just like old times, musing over magazines and music.

She waited until all attention was on her, "I'm going to start acting my age. I know, I know. It doesn't seem like I'll ever grow up, but I'm starting, and I really mean it!" She waited until the skepticism cleared their faces and went on. "In fact I enrolled myself into the Community College, I'm going to start taking some summer classes. I've decided to think about my own career. I can't depend on being queen when..." a small hitch caught her throat, but she shook it off and went on, "Minako you have your stardom, Rei you have your fashion and being a priestess, Makoto your the best cook in Japan, and Ami you've already settled on being a doctor. So I decided it is just about time I picked something." She finished with a self-satisfied smile on her face.

"Wow Usagi..." Rei said, eyes wide. Luna sat next to her with her small cat jaw dropped.

"That's great!" Makoto and Minako said in unison, laughing to themselves.

"I'm so proud of you! What have you decided to be?" Ami said, leaning in on her elbows.

"Well..." She started and they all leaned in closer, "I haven't really thought yet!" She said laughing as they all sweat-dropped. "Though somewhere in between Business and Writing!" She said holding out her hands. "It's not that big of a gap...is it?"

Two days later Usagi walked down the streets of Tokyo, looking in the different shops- her hands already full of bags. Luna strolled along at her feet wearing a pretty pink ribbon on her neck. "Usagi you really think you need all those new clothes for college?"

She turned to look down at her companion with a smirk on her face, "Hey, what can I say? When I start shopping, I can't stop!" she laughed a bit as the cat shook her head in dismay.

Just as she was about to add another comment about buying the ribbon, a voice rang out- startled. "Usa-ko!" Like a piece of ice sliding down her back- time stood still for the young woman. Just like in slow motion, she turned her attention back in front of her- and there just a few paces away... was her once-upon-a-time prince. Once again, she couldn't breath.

It was as if he too was in the shock of his life, this time with no alcohol to cloud his conscience and vision. He took a step forward, walking as if some invisible force held him back. He looked awful- his hair in disarray, facial hair growing a bit, and his clothes all wrinkled up. "Usagi...I..." He said with a gulp.

Shaking her head slightly, she cleared her throat from all the emotion she had felt. I'm a new person; I can't let what he did affect me. She looked back up to him and as cold as ice she began to speak. "Mamoru... I don't wish to argue with you, nor bring up anything that has happened."

He looked relieved, standing a bit straighter. He took a few more steps toward her- that is until she held her hand up to him. Confused he stopped and began to really listen to her for the first time- as an adult.

"Mamoru, I have nothing to say to you... I thought you had surely ruined everything I had ever wished for... all my hopes and dreams for the future." She said, a bit of emotion crept back into her voice and he started to interrupt, "No! Let me finish" I'm going to do this...I need to do this. "After everything, I have thought for hours on end that I would never recover... but it occurred to me, you didn't for once think of my benefit when you did whatever it is that you did, that's why we're here at this turning point aren't we? So, I thought and decided... I'm moving on... Without you." She stated, harshly.

Just as if he had been smacked, his entire body flinched, though she couldn't see- his eyes slowly filled with tears that clouded the vision of his princess.

"I don't know what the future holds for us anymore Mamoru, I wish I did. I don't know if we will be King and Queen one day... But that day isn't today. I don't see it in the near future either, though that could change, I have to do what I feel right now. That is to live my life for me. I've made changes already- though you can't see. I'm even starting school!" She said and smiled a bit. "Mamoru, I don't want to hate you..." The word tripped out of her mouth before she could think, though after a second- she knew she was right. "I don't. I don't want to think about what you did everyday forever- so I'm putting it aside...and moving on." She started walking toward him, standing beside him now- though not looking at him, just straight ahead. "Maybe we'll meet again and have a chance to start over..." She said softly and started walking, and not looking back.

"Usagi, I'm very impressed and proud of how you acted today, running into Mamoru-san..." Luna said sitting next to her long time friend. The wind shifting softly as they stood on the small balcony of her room.

Usagi didn't say anything then, but just smiled and looked up to the moon- that finally shone as brightly as it ever had. Moment passed where they sat in silence, surely thinking of all the times that had passed sitting just like this.

"No matter what obstacles come my way, I'll pull through them. This time with my head held high, becoming the adult I was born to be. So, from this day on..."

The moon began to expand, as she talked- into a full moon instead of it's half.

"I'll spread my Silver Wings, and aim for my Golden Dreams."

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So Usagi is growing up and thinking for herself, first and foremost. I know alot of you were hoping for some dramatic piece once they met, but I've decided to leave this just the way it is, and start a new story- with Usagi starting out in college... But there is a slight twist, which will thorw these two at each other again and again. Truley dramatic scenes will be displayed then.

So in other words...this part of the story is finished. Once I have the next one up, I will update this one with a new chapter, just giving a preview and the link to the new story, instead of having you all wait and searching for it :)

Once again, I appreciate all the comments I have received making this story, and I hope you will follow me into the continuation, but if not- I want to thank you once again for being there and making it a truely wonderful experience with my first fanfic!

-Kaley