Period 3: Math
Theme 6: Tangent
Words: 340
Author: Lillie Bell
"Mamoruuuu," Minako whined. He shrugged out of her grasp.
"No way, Minako."
"But Usagi says you have a lovely voice!"
"Yeah, in the shower."
"Oh, come on!" The blonde stomped her foot. The other girls looked a little embarrassed about the scene the two were making in the middle of the street.
Usagi stepped out of the perfume shop Mamoru had refused to go in with her. Mostly because she had a habit of test-spraying him instead of those nice little strips of paper they provided.
"What's going on?" She asked, slipping a small box into her purse. Mamoru groaned, not wanting to know the damage to his pocketbook. They'd already been shopping for clothes today and had had to drop the bags off in the car.
Minako latched onto Usagi, her common partner in crime. "See, there's this production I'm involved in, but our main male role skipped out on us. We need a stand-in ASAP because the understudy has the flu. The under-understudy and the main male were in a relationship, so of course he wants nothing to do with it because his heart is broken from such a betrayal."
"It sounds horrible, but I'm not interested."
"You did that play with Ann," Usagi reminded with an edge in her voice.
Mamoru put up his hands. "One: I didn't know better. Two: it wasn't a musical."
"Oh? A musical?" she turned back to Minako who was grinning sheepishly.
"I hope that doesn't change your determination?"
"On the contrary," Usagi straightened her back and trained her gaze on Mamoru. He knew he was screwed. "I love musicals. And Mamo-chan has such a lovely voice."
"That's what I told him!"
A strangled noise came from the back of Mamoru's throat. "Usako—"
"I don't know what you're so scared of. Seiya would do a musical without thinking twice."
Mamoru fought against himself for about half a second. His hands clenched as his reluctance and male ego battled for superiority. Then, Usagi leant towards him.
"And… he'd do it in spandex."