6

Mamoru and Usagi walked down the street. The rain had stopped and now the sun was beginning to come back out. Even though it had only been a couple of days, they had been through a lot. The only reason that they went through it, was for each other. That was the only reason that they did a lot of things. It was hard fro Mamoru to explain to her, but that was the reason that he had broken up with her in the first place a few years back.

"Usagi-chan!"

Usagi and Mamoru stopped and turned around. Minako ran towards them. Her voice seemed to be full of worry.

"Something wrong?" Usagi asked.

Minako reached them and stopped to catch her breath. "I heard," she said. Mamoru and Usagi exchanged looks. They both were unsure of what to think about what she had just said.

"About what?" Mamoru asked turning his head to her.

"I heard about your mom," she said with sympathy in her eyes.

"How did you know?" Usagi asked.

"Luna came over and explained to me why you haven't been answering the phone," she explained.

"Oh," Usagi absently answered as she stared out into space. She really didn't want for the others to know about what was going on, but then again, they were bound to find out sooner or later.

"Hey," Minako said grabbing her shoulders. "I'm on your side! All I want to do is help," she said.

Usagi looked up and smiled. "Really?" she asked.

"Since when wouldn't I when it came to true love?" Minako asked.

Mamoru sighed as he looked off into the distance. He knew that every one would want to help, he just wasn't sure if there could be anything done by anyone to help them. They had to learn to live out on their own now. He could live on his own, but he didn't know if he could support Usagi, or if he could even find a new place for them to live together.

"If you want, my parents are out of town until Wednesday. You can stay at my house for a few days to figure out what you're going to do," Minako offered.

Usagi wanted to do that, but she didn't know whether or not Mamoru was about to accept help from others.

"Okay, just until your parents get back," Mamoru said. Usagi looked up to him with surprise. She had never expected him to accept help from any one right now.

They followed Minako back to her house. The entire time Usagi wondered what they were really about to do. Wouldn't moving in together mean that she would have to marry him? She wasn't even old enough to live on her own let alone get married.

"Here, you two can stay in my parent's room if you want," Minako said.

"Together?" Usagi asked.

Minako looked back at them. "I'm sure that you two will be either too tired or too stressed or both to do anything. Besides, we all know how this turns out," Minako said.

Usagi stared at her as she walked out of the room. Did they really? Did anyone really know what was going to happen? The future is always subject to change. There is never anything that is definite and nothing for sure. "I hope she's right," Usagi said to herself.

Mamoru looked down at her and tried to give her a reassuring smile as he laid his hand on her shoulder. "I know she is," he said.

That night, Usagi sat on the ground as she rested her head on the window sill. The full moon illuminated the black sky. The neighborhood was quiet around her. Suddenly, her eyes started to sparkle like the stars in the sky as they filled with water.

"I'm going apartment hunting tomorrow if you want to come and join me. I think you should, you're going to be living there to," Mamoru said as he walked into the room.

"Alright," she answered with out turning around. Her voice was shaky and the tears were ready to fall, but she couldn't let Mamoru see that. Not right now. The last thing that she wanted him to think was that she was doubting him. In reality, she was doubting herself.

"Usako?" he asked as he slowly made his way over to her. "Something wrong?" he asked kneeling down beside her. Usagi looked up at him. Her tear streaked face caused his heart to brake. "Usako?" he asked once more.

"I'm scared," she said as she faintly shook her head.

"Of what?" he asked.

Usagi turned and stared out the window. "Do you really think that this is going to work?" she asked.

Mamoru, now feeling slightly betrayed, sat back and stared at her. He was awaiting the answer, but he knew that it couldn't be good.

Usagi looked into his eyes. "I love you. I love you more than I ever thought I could love some one, and I hope that you know that I do trust you. It's just…" she said and then looked back out the window.

"Just what?" he asked gently wiping her tears away with his thumb.

Usagi grabbed his hand and lowered her head. "I don't trust me. I mean, I have sacrificed my life for you at times and I know you've done the same for me many times, but I can't put you through what we're about to go through," she said.

"You're not putting me through anything that I'm not ready for," he said.

Usagi looked up at him. "What are we going to do? Just keep moving from one apartment to the next? You know that my parents will find us! What happens if you have to switch jobs? Eventually we'll just have to leave the country! Then what? I'm not old enough to leave the country with out my parents!" Usagi said as if she were getting ready to yell.

Mamoru just sat back and thought about what she had said. There was nothing to say to it.

"Maybe there's just nothing to do now," she said.

"You can't be saying that…" he started.

"Saying what?" she asked looking directly into his eyes. "That it's over?" she asked.

There was a look of pain written all over his face as he looked down.

"Never," she said causing Mamoru to raise his head and look to her with interest. "All that I'm saying is that there's got to be a better way of doing this."

"The only thing that I can think of would be to just wait," he said.

Usagi smiled. "I might go back to my parents and I might humor them by going out with this Hideo guy, but I will never give up on us," she announced.

Usagi and Mamoru exchanged bittersweet smiles. Usagi was going to go back home. She knew that she was going to be forced together with Hideo, but there was no other choice at the moment. She could still sneak around with Mamoru, but it wouldn't be the same. If it was going to do anything, it would test their relationship.