Girls Over Flowers episode 4

An Odd Attitude

Previously:

Rei was laughing and talking with Minako when Makoto tapped on her shoulder and gestured behind her. Turning around, her mouth opened in shock. There stood Usagi, except better than she had ever seen her. The white dress that nearly reached the floor seemed to give her an unearthly beauty. She was blushing and looking around. Rei couldn't go anything but stare in wonder, she didn't even feel the plate slip from her grasp and crash to the floor.

Michiru walked over to where Ami stood, also dumbstruck. "Now now, it's unsightly to leave such a pretty girl alone. Ask her to dance." With a push forward, she was propelled across the room. She awkwardly stopped in front of Usagi. They stared at each other, before Ami looked away. The music started up and she she shyly held out her hand.

"Would you like to dance?"

()()()()()

Usagi felt like she was dancing on clouds. Probably because she was on Ami's feet. Ami led her gracefully across the dance floor and Usagi smiled at her.

Rei watched them with a jealous look on her face. Her scowl deepened when she heard Makoto and Minako's comments behind her.

"My, My, Tsukino certainly cleans up nice. Most certainly the work of Michiru."

"I think I will bring her as my date to the next exhibition."

Clenching her jaw, Rei stalked from the ballroom and out to the pool, where she proceeded to have a tantrum.

"ARGH. That stupid, STUPID Odango! And Ami..." Frustrated, she sat on one if the pool chairs.

()()()()

Back in the ballroom, Ami was twirling and dipping Michiru to a complicated looking waltz. Usagi looked on dreamily when the quiet was interrupted.

()()()()()

Rei sulked on a chair when she heard a buzzing sound. Looking over, she saw that a bug had landed on the towel and was making its way towards her. It suddenly jumped towards her and Rei flew out of her seat, screaming with flailing arms. She slipped off the edge and splashed into the pool.

"Help! HELP ME!"

()()()()

A frazzled looking boy ran into the ballroom. "Hino fell in the pool! SOMEONE HELP!"

Ami was across the room in an instant, making a beeline for the pool.

Ami dragged Rei out of the pool, the other girl not moving. Just as she was about to perform CPR, Usagi pushed her out if the way.

"HINO! HINO! Wake up! Come on, you big idiot. Wake up." Tears ran down her cheeks, and she was lowering her mouth the Rei's, whose eyes suddenly popped open. Grinning mischievously, she pulled Usagi down to her and tried to force a kiss.

Usagi immediately pulled away and broke Rei's grip. Rei sat up and and grinned at her. Usagi scowled and raised her hand.

*BAM*

"Ugh, you disgusting ass! How DARE you?" Rei simply continued to grin.

'Blech.' Usagi thought back to the kiss, their lips had actually TOUCHED. She grimaced and brushed harder.

()()()()()

"HA. You see? She LIKES me. She even tried to kiss me." Three S4 members sat beside the bar, sipping drinks.

"You know, it didn't look like she liked you when she slapped you across the face."

"She was just embarrassed to be caught in front of all those people showing affection for me."

Makoto rolled her eyes and looked silently at Minako.

"Moving on from your delusional fantasies, where's Ami?"

Minako lolled her eyes to the ceiling in thought. "I believe she is spending time with Michiru today."

Makoto frowned as she thought about their old friend. "You know, something is off about her this time. She doesn't seem to happy to be here"

Rei agreed with her. "Yeah, but don't you think Ami would have mentioned it? They DO spend just about every waking moment with each other."

()()()()()

"Happy birthday, Michiru." Ami handed her friend a bouquet of flowers.

"Oh, Ami. These are beautiful, I love them." Michiru clutched the bouquet tighter as she thought about the secret she'd been keeping from Ami. 'I want to wait until the party...But finding out then would make her so upset'

"That's not all, I got you this" Ami handed her a sparkling blue box. Which she opened and gasped. Inside was the most beautiful necklace she had ever seen, covered in turquoise diamonds, the violin shaped locket opened to reveal a picture of the two when they were younger. Michiru put a hand to her mouth as tears gathered in the corners of her eyes. 'I thought I would tell her now, but I can't. ' Leaning over, Michiru lightly brushed her lips against Ami's.

Ami turned red and looked to the floor. "You didn't bring much with you this time, is something wrong?"

Michiru put a hand to her lips and shook her head. "Let's not talk about that now... Why don't we go to dinner?"

Ami furrowed her brows at Michiru's behavior, but nodded.

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Usagi wandered around town, thinking. 'Ami is so obviously in love with Michiru...I don't have a chan-'

"Ami! Please listen to me!" Usagi looked up from her musings to see Ami run past her, something wet landing on her cheek. The girl didn't even stop, just kept , who was in high heels, stopped next to Usagi, panting. She soon sank to her knees. "Oh Ami, I didn't want it to turn out this way..."

Usagi was still so confused. "Uh, is something wrong?"

Michiru looked up at her. "I, I seem to have upset Ami. "

"May I ask what happened?" Michiru stood up, brushing her dress off.

"You'll find out soon enough. You ARE coming to the party right? The invitation arrived safely?"

Usagi thought back...

FLASHBACK

"USAGI! Look at this!" Said girl rushed to the door, where her father stood, holding a stunning black dress and a flowered envelope. Taking the envelope, Usagi opened it and read the letter out loud.

"'Dear Tsukino-sama,

You are cordially invited to the celebration of the 23rd birthday of Miss Kaioh Michiru one week from today at 8:00pm.'" She widend her eyes as her father took the note off the dress that had arrived with the invitation.

"This says to wear it to the party... Oh how beautiful! My baby will look stunning."

Her mother also rushed in to stare at the dress. "This will DEFINITELY attract suitors! You must wear it Usa. Make us proud!"

Usagi swear dropped as her patents continued discussing how great she would look and the heirs it would attract. "I guess this mean I can go...?"

()()()()()()

"Haha, yeah it arrived safely. Thank you for the dress, I will wear it when I attend."

Michiru nodded happily. "Ami helped me pick it out... You should have heard her gush about how pretty you would look." Then she got a saddened look on her face. "I-I should go, Ami will be returning to the house soon enough."

()()()()()

The low sweet sound filled the lounge. To anyone else, it would have been beautiful. For Aino Minako, it was starting to grate her nerves. Ami, who sat perched on the couch arm, had been playing the same song for the past two days. Grinding her teeth, she tried to say nothing, but Ami kept playing it, finally she snapped.

"AMI! If you're going to play that shit again, GO OUTSIDE!"

The piece halted so abruptly, Minako suddenly wondered of she had been playing at all in the first place. Ami opened her eyes and her hand moved in a flurry, something wooshed past Mina and hit the wall. Suddenly, it had a broken violin in it, which had she realized had just barely missed her head.

Ami stood from her position on the couch, and in a flat voice said, "Sorry, it won't happen again."

"Clean up this mess, and wasn't that one of your favorites?"

Ami, who had been walking out if the room, turned her head and looked Mina directly in the eye. "Who cares?" Her eyes were dark, so dark she almost couldn't tell they were blue. 'How long has she been like that?'

She grabbed her cellphone and dialed two numbers.

"Guys, we need to talk. Something's seriously wrong."

($()()()

Ami opened the door to the mansion and stepped in. "I'm home." She called softly. Artemis and Luna jumped from their perches and walked towards her arms, wanting to be nuzzled.

"Welcome back, Ami." She looked up to see Michiru, frowned and tried to walk past her. Unfortunately, the violinist grabbed her arm.

"Ami, please. Don't do this, can you see how much you're hurting me?"

Ami yanked her arm from the grip. "Can't you see how much you're hurting ME?" She whirled around and looked Michiru in the eye. "You PROMISED. You said you'd NEVER leave me alone. What happened to that?" Her bottom lip started to tremble as Michiru opened her mouth to retort. But before she could get a word out, Ami ran up the stairs and slammed her bedroom door. Michiru slowly walked up the stairs, and was reminded of the time she had first met Ami.

12 years ago

Michiru stepped out of the luxurious car and looked up at the Hino mansion. 'Although, you really need to come up with a new word to describe it, mansion, even estate, is an understatement.' A butler came and took her bags, showing her to the main room, where the Hinos were waiting

Stepping into the room, she was astounded at the decoration. All of it was so beautiful! And, sitting picture perfect on the couch, were the Hinos and their eldest daughter. Risa stood up and greeted her with a small bow. "Hello Michiru. It's so nice to see you again, I do hope you have a pleasant stay."

Michiru bowed back. "Thank you for having me, Hino-Sama." Her parents were going on a business trip and would be away for at least 3 months.

"Please, let me show you to your room. I will introduce you to Rei and the other children after you are settled."

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"Pass it here, Rei!" A young girl with a head of chestnut brown hair ran last Michiru as she was exiting her room. Following her was a soccer ball and two other kids. One with long black hair, the other blonde.

Girl one leapt up and caught it with her chest, and continued running down the hall. Girls two and three struggled to keep up, shoving eachother out of the way. "Mako! Quit running so fast!" They laughed loudly and didn't even notice her standing there. She was about to step out when another pair of foot steps came down the hall. Another girl, with short blue hair walked down, her eyes on a book.

"Why hello..." She looked up at her,and opened her mouth to talk, only to slam it shut and run down the hall. Michiru looked after her, one hand to her mouth as she giggled. 'Well, I guess she's a bit shy.'

XXXXX

These are the children. My daughter, Rei and her friends: Aino Minako, Kino Makoto and...Ami." Michiru recognized the kids as the children of some of the biggest names in Japan, but cocked her head in confusion, whose daughter was Ami, she actually looked a bit familiar...

The kids bowed respectfully. "It's nice to meet all of you, will you be staying the night?"

Rei stepped forward. "No, only Ami and I live here, they'll be staying for the day and going home afterwards."

"Oh? Ms. Hino I wasn't aware you had another child..."

Risa looked down and wrung her hands. "Ami is... Not mine. Her full name is Mizuno Ami." Michiru immediately put her hand to her mouth, remembering all the headlines covering the horrific car accident that had taken away the Mizuno's lives, and the heartbreaking funeral that had followed.

'Hiroshi and Saeko Mizuno killed in car accident'

'Former Prime Minister Seirsn disappears after funeral, leaving behind grief strickeN granddaughter'

'Ami all alone?'

She turned toward the young girl, who was still yet to say a word. Walking a bit closer, she held out her hand. "Hello Ami, it's nice to meet you."

Ami stared at the hand as everyone looked on. Her smaller hand reached slowly out, but she suddenly snapped it back and ran from the room.

"I'm sorry, she is a bit...difficult sometimes."Michiru nodded, but hadn't really been listening. 'What an interesting girl'

Present Day

Ami sat behind her bed, head in knees. 'If that happens, I'll be all alone in this house... I HATE this place.' There was a sudden knock on the door.

"Ami... Don't do this. Open the door, Blue, let's talk."

She walked to the door and stood with her back against it. "I don't WANT to talk to you"

"Do you want to play a song? We can play your favorite."

Ami slid down to the floor, still against the door. "No! Go away!"

Michiru, in a similar position on the other side of the door, could hear the tears in Ami's voice. Finally, she allowed tears to roll down her face as she wondered why she had to make this sort of choice.

()()()()

"She what!?" Makoto stood out of her chair when she heard what had transpired earlier. "Ami takes such good care of all those instruments, why would she be so careless?"

Minako shook her head. "I don't know, her voice was so dead, and her eyes were dark. I don't know guys, it was almost like..."

Rei cut in here. "Like right after the accident? Before Michiru came?"

Minako nodded. "Yeah, but I think something happened between them...Michiru was upset when I tried talking to her on the phone."

Makoto shook her head sadly. "I hope they manage to fix things between them before the party, otherwise things will be really awkward."

Throughout all of this, none of them noticed Usagi standing in the door way , listening in. 'Something's wrong with Ami?'

End Chapter

And so the drama part of this drama starts. Most of the next few chapters will be between Ami and Michiru, because the storyline wasn't as developed as I thought it should be in the original. In fact, most of the next chapter will be a blast from the past! And I went back and edited the last chapter, I can't believe it had all those errors! That's what I get for writing on my iPod I guess.

Also: Does anyone know how to make a decent line break, I have no idea what to do. That shift enter thing won't work.