Well, here we go! Chapter 1. REVIEW PLZ!

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The sun was just begining to se on the horizon as the three best friends sat outside the 'Crown Game Centre', eating an early dinner.

Usagi sighed loudly, breathing out through her nose as she balanced a pencil on her upper lip. Reaching over the table to her friend Amy took back her pencil and used it to make a small note in the textbook she was reading.

Makoto was too busy eating to pay any attention toUsagi's bordom.

"I'm bored" Usagi declared for the fifteenth time. No one was paying any attention to her, and that too was boring her. She was bored with feeling bored. "It's friday, I'm hanging out with my bestest best friends and yet your all so boring. Amy is busy studying, even though it's friday and nothing's due til monday and Makoto won't stop eating and I don't undertand how you can do that when your cooking is so much better than Motoki's. After all, he works in a game arcade that sometimes serves burgers and your planning on opening up your own restaurant one day."

Makoto murmured something to the effect of "But Motoki cooks just like my old boyfriend.'

"Don't we all" Usagi sighed "I'm still BORED!"

"You could try comtemplating the matter of the education that we are attempting to receive within the hours of the school day", Amy said, "Exams are three years away and your education should be very imporatnt to you."

"You know" Usagi said with a toss of her hair "sometimes I think the only reason I hang out with you is because your Sailor Mercury. Your very boring Amy all you think about is studying!"

"Don't be mean" Makoto said around her sandwich "I like that Amy helps do my homework."

"Why can't you be more fun?" Usagi said. "God, I wish there was a party or something that I could go to that would be fun for all of us!"

"Hey guys", Rei said, approaching the arcade at a run.

"Your late" Usagi said. "And boring!"

"That's normally my line, Meatball Head." Rei smirked as Usagi fumed. "Anyway, I was busy at Mamoru's apartment. You guys wouldn't believe it, that boy is loaded! It was amazing. He's got ALL of the newest high-tech stuff. A motorbike, a FERRARI-and wow, is his apartment big." The Priestess in training bragged, flicking a sideways glance at Usagi.

"Why would I care what Chiba Mamoru does in his apartment?" Usagi asked. "That creeps just as bad as you, he's always picking on me and he has bad hair!"

"That's your witty comeback?" Rei rolled her eyes, "Well, I think Mamoru's cool, and I've been invited to a party at his place tonight."

"A party?" Usagi's eyes widened with delight. "I want to go to a party!"

"I don't think it's your kind of thing, Usagi. It's a collage party."

"I love collage parties!" Usagi crowed "I saw one on television once and I've always wanted to go. There are always lots of cute boys there and fun-tasting drinks."

Rei and Amy swapped a glance from over Amy's book. Makoto took another huge bite of her banana bread and flicked through the magazine she had been reading.

"Really, Usagi" She said with surprise and delight. "I didn't think you'd go for it. Because you hate Mamoru and all."

"Nah!" Usagi said, waving a hand dismissively. "I'll just stay away from the JERK all night and hang out with his friends. You can take advantage of the party to get closer to him!"

Rei did a little dance of victory. "I'm looking forward tot that", she said, "You know, I really think that Mamoru might be my soulmate. We have so much in common, it would be tragic if someone came between us."

"You should not hasten your relationship with the upperclassman beyond the bounds of good taste." Amy said quietly, putting her book to one side. "however it appears that in order to progress the furtherance of this plot I must accompany you to the party in order to chaperone your activities and ensure that Mamoru's friends do not take advantage of the innocence of my precious acquaintances."

"Really Amy..." Makoto murmured around her banana sunday "How much trouble could we get into at a collage party?"

Half an hour later, the four girls regrouped at the Temple, below the steep stairs (AN: since Usagi's bad knees were playing up and she didn't want to have to go all the way up to the stairs just to climb back down again. Bad knees are like that and if your friends are kind they'll understand but if they don't you should ditch them and get a new group of friends. A big shoutout to Thea and Lachlan for being the best friends ever).

"Wow Usagi you dressed up", Rei said, looking the blonde girl over. The shrine maiden was dressed in her red and white robes, the ones that looked a little like a Jedi's but weren't really.

"We have to look our best for the collage party" Usagi said taking off her coat to reveal her dress in a short grey skirt, soft leather half-boots and a pink blouse. Crescent moon earrings dangled from her lobes.

Makoto was dressed in denin overalls, though she wore a tight green tshirt underneath. Her hair was still up in its custardary ponytail and as always she had her pink rose earrings in.

Amy had been the last to arrive, her bookbag still on her shoulder despite the fact that they were going to a party and not another study session. She was wearing a blue blouse that was slightly out of fashion, but at least she was wearing her contact lenses. Her big blue eyes were very visible and Usagi was sure they would attract the boys and maybe convince Amy not to be so boring.

"Are you sure your going to be able to walk in those shoes, Usagi?" Rei asked with a sneer as she looked at the high heeled sandals that the blonde was wearing.

"I made it this far didn't I?" Usagi said "Even if it was on the bus I was able to stand up most of the way here."

"We'll see how you're feeling when we get there, I guess", Rei sighed softly, "it's only a few miles to Mamoru's house."

They could tell which one was Mamorus flat by the loud music that deafened all that came into his hallway. There was quite obviously a prty going on, and Usagi felt her heart quicken with excitemnt as she thought of alll the cute young collage students who would be inside. Unlike that jerk Mamoru she was sure that they would appreciate her charms. After all, she'd just recently turned forteen, and in an outfit like the one she was wearing they were sure to take notice of her allure.

As the others hesitated and debated the merits of crashing partys, Usagi stepped up and knocked on the door.

It was opened by Mamoru and she stepped back in suprise a snarl on her lips. "Jerk" Usagi said the word without thinking and Mamoru rolled his eyes at her.

"Good evening to you to Odango Atama" he said looking over her fuming head to the temple girl.

"I'm glad you could make it Reri, even if you did bring the bimbo here."

"I'm not a bimbo you stupid jerk!" From there it turned into a screaming match "Bimbo!"

"Jerk!"

"Bimbo"

"JERK!"

"BIMBO!"

"JERK!"

"Guys can you keep it down?" Andrew said and Usagi flushed in shame and horror and mortification. Andrew was her one true love after all and she couldn't believe that she'd let the jerk trick her into behaving like such a child in front of Andrew. She was drowning in her embarassment.

"Sorry Andrew, Usagi said and she sniffled dramatically wiping her sleeve on her nose. "Well, are you going to come in and join us, or stand out there yelling all night?"

"It's my flat" Mamoru said with an annoyed voice. "Are you going to block the door all night?" Andrew grinned and stepped aside to let Mamoru in.

Rei followed him meekly although she turned around and poked her tongue out at Usagi as she did so. "Try to be more lady like Usagi", she said, "this is a gathering of grown ups after all" Amy and Makoto followed her.

"Ooh, that Rei" Usagi fumed "she thinks she's so grown up just because she has a collage boyfriend. I bet I'll have one by the end of the night."

Seeing that Andrew was still smiling warmly at her, Usagi grinned and bounced into to doorway. She started dancing to the music (AN: "I wanna be a star" from the Sailor Moon soundtrack) as she made her way into Mamoru's loungeroom, where many of his friends were gatherred around and perched on the various sofas, and a few of them were watching the giant wallscreen television that was playing the music and showing lots of pretty swirly images that moved in time with the music. A cute blonde guy who looked a bit like Hayden Christenson got up and came over to dance with her, passing the magazine he had been reading to Rei who thanked him with bow.

After a few minutes the song ended and Usagi (who had decided that the cute boy wasn't really her type since he kept stepping on her toes as she tried to dance with him) decided that she wanted to see what her friends were up to.

"Hey Makoto wanna come dance with me?" Usagi asked as she danced over to the kitchen table. Makoto had a slice of cake in her hand that Usagi recognised as one of Makoto's best cakes that she only made for special occasions and she was surprised to see that none of her friensd were getting up.

"Were all a little bit busy, Usagi", Rei replied as she reached over the table to take a magazine from the stack that Amy had brought to the party, "Did you want to join us?"

"What are you doing?" Usagi asked curiously, leaning over the table to see that her friends were going through travel magazines and cutting out pretty pictures of flowers and fields and the occasional forrest with a pretty temple girl in front of it.

"We are making a gift that will serve as a momento and small kindness for Rita as she journeys abroad to further her education" Amy said without looking up from the article she was reading. "After all, it is not every day that one of our closest confidants and the paramour of your present infatuation departs for Asia to discover the intricacies of the wilderness wildlife."

"Andrew thought it would be a nifty idea for us to make her a scrapbook as a going away present", Rei translated. "He has a bunch of photos of the two of them together on various vacations and we were going to take a few more here tonight of all her friends so that when she goes away she'll have something to remember us by."

"Makoto murmured something around her sushi roll as she passed a gluepot to an intent Mamoru and gestured with her free hand in a circular pattern. She swallowed and said "I heard that Andrew's going to be giving her a different present though. Molly told me that she saw him shopping at her place last night, looking at rings."

"WHAT?" Usagi screamed over the loud music.

"Chill out, moron", Rei said, glad that Andrew was on the other side of the room taking polaroids and couldn't see them, "you knew he was in love with her, of course he's going to marry her someday."

"But I wanted to marry him", Usagi muttered darkly, plotting out all sorts of horrible deaths that she'd be able to inflict on the hussy using her crescent moon want. Thinking of the want made her wonder if Andrew really was Tuxedo Kamen, after all, everyone knew that Tuxedo Kamen was in love with Sailor Moon, and Rita was most definitely not Sailor Moon.

But her love was steadfast, and nothing would shake it.

"Give the guy a break, Odango Atama" Mamoru said and she glared at him"just because his true love isn't you doesn't mean you get to blow a the party we're having for him."

"Some party" she said "there's not even any alcohol."

"Your to young to drink anyway" Mamoru said "why don't you grab some scissors and design a page for the scrapbook? There is a bundle of kids comic books over in the corner, you could probably find something there that appeals to your taste."

"Ooh, your such a jerk" Usagi fumed "I bet you've never even been kissed."

"Not that its any of your business Odango Atama, but of course I've been kissed. I've even kissed back." He smirked and she shot daggers at him.

"Well I bet you don't even know how to kiss properly" Usagi said.

"I do" Mamoru said.

"Prove it" Usagi said, just as a hush fell over the room, and all eyes turned to the two bitter enemies.