OMG This chapter has everything!

-Piano playing!

-Plane riding!

-ACTUAL MOVEMENT IN THE STORY! O.O

-BACON!

-Came out faster!

-BACOOOON!

WHAT MORE COULD YOU POSSIBLY WANT?

Laura: A chinchilla.

Claire:...Shut up. Just do the disclaimer.

Laura: Claire doesn't own Sailor Moon or Paramore. Neither do I, or the chicken nugget on my floor would be gone by now.

Claire: O.O Erm...on with the story...

OMG BEFORE I FORGET: THANKS FOR REVIEWING, MINNA!

Okay, let's get this show on da ROAD!

Chapter 7

Mamoru POV

I looked down at the red sparkly camera in my hands. I turned it on, and looked through the pictures.

Beep. Picture of a grinning Usagi and her friends in front of a water fountain. They must have gotten a passerby to do it. It was dated a week earlier.

Beep. Picture of Usagi shoving Rei into the fountain from the previous picture. One of her friends must have taken it. I chuckled lightly, and went to the next picture.

Beep. Picture of Usagi eating(or trying to) a HUGE ice cream cone.

Beep. Picture of Usagi's huge ice cream cone on her face/ head, and her chasing Rei, laughing. Her eyes sparkled with laughter and life.

Beep. Picture of Usagi in a bunny costume(dated from April). She had her face painted like a rabbit's and she was grinning. She looked simply adorable in it.

I clicked through the pictures, searching for the picture Rei wanted me to see. I passed pictures of them at the arcade, the park, the temple, Usagi's house, anywhere they went. Finally, I came to the last one. It made my heart shatter into smaller pieces. It had Usagi, tears streaming from her eyes, and those eyes…those eyes that sparkle with laughter and love and hope and light…those eyes were dead.

Empty.

Dead and empty… because of me.

Usagi POV

When Rei came home, I was done crying. I had wrapped myself up in a blanket, and we were watching The Corpse Bride. "Hey Rei-chan." I greeted her. Rei came over to me and hugged me, and we curled up on the couch. We all watched Victor's Piano Solo, and I whispered, "I want a piano." Rei, who was trying to get some normalcy back into the house, teased me. "Puh-lease, Odango. You can't play the piano to save your life." I glared at her. Minako piped up, "I have a piano!" I turned to her, just as she pulled one out of nowhere. "Tada!" she beamed.

"…"

"..What?"

*Sweatdrop*

I sighed. "Nothing, Minako-chan. Thank you, by the way." She grinned back. "Now play." She instructed. Mako and Ami joined Rei on the couch. I sat on the piano bench, and poised my hands over the porcelain keys.

I cleared my throat. "I'm gonna play The Only Exception." Rei's dark eyebrows lifted. "Do you have the sheet music?" she asked. I shook my head. "I learnt it a while ago." I began to play the first notes, and I decided to sing along.

When I was younger I saw

My daddy cry

And curse at the wind.

He broke his own heart and I watched as he tried to reassemble it.

And my momma swore she would

Never let herself forget.

And that was the day that I promised

I'd never sing of love

If it does not exist.

But darlin' you are the only exception.

You are the only exception.

You are the only exception.

You are the only exception.

I glanced at the girls from the corner of my eye as I continued to play. Rei's jaw was planted firmly on the ground, Makoto and Minako were swaying to the music, and Ami was recording it.

(A/N: I don't feel like writing all the lyrics, so moving on now.)

I played the last chord, and I stood up and bowed. I was bombarded by the girls, save Rei, who was still in shock. I laughed, and yawned. "I'm just…gonna slip into a mini-coma now." I said, curling up on the couch. I set off a chain reaction, Minako, Makoto, Ami, and when Rei snapped out of it, yawned. Minako laid down next to me, and Makoto sacked out on the other sofa. Rei decided to sprawl on the floor with a few pillows and a blanket.

Ami chose to sleep in the recliner, feet curled beneath her. "Night, minna." I mumbled as I drifted off to a land of bunnies, candy, and candy bunnies. "Night, Usa-chan." Echoed around the room. I fell asleep, and used Minako's side as a pillow, a blanket over the both of us.

The next morning.

I woke up, and stretched, accidently hitting Minako in the face, waking her up. "Ack!" She hit my back, and I hit her with a couch pillow, which resulted in us having a pillow fight and waking everyone up. "Mother of…will you two knock it off at this ungodly hour?" Rei yelled. I looked at the clock.

"Rei-chan, it's 1:30." I said with a roll of the eyes. I tossed my pillow on Rei's face. She just layed there. A few minutes later, she started snoring. Minako and I fell back, one leg up in the air anime-style. However, we fell on Makoto. She shoved us off, laughing. "I'm gettin' dressed." I said, trotting up the stairs to my room. I decided to do something fun to start the day. I got dressed in my favorite pajamas: A silver silk shirt, and matching short-shorts.

I slipped on some light pink slippers that looked like ballet shoes, and walked downstairs, where Makoto and Minako were sitting on a screaming Rei. Ami was, again, reading as chaos surrounded her. "Get dressed!" I ordered. Rei scoffed. "You're in P.J.'s. I hardly call that dressed."

I grinned. "We're going to have fun." My grin turned into a wicked smile, and Rei was curious. "What kind of-" "I'll tell you when you're in your P.J.'s." I cut her off. Rei grumbled, but complied. She shoved the girls off, grabbed her bag, and went upstairs. She came back in with a red tank top and black sleep pants. She decided to wear a pair of my slippers, my light purple ones I got a year ago.

I pointed, and Minako went next. She came out in a yellow shirt with a green hearts on it, along with orange short-shorts. She sported yellow flip-flops. Makoto went next, and she came out in a deep green racer back tank, with brown yoga pants on. She decided to flaunt her rose-colored toenails, meaning her feet were bare.

Ami, who went in and came out in a flash, and had donned a blue long-sleeved shirt that went down to her hips, with swirly designs. She also had had on some loose fitting ice blue pajama pants. Her feet were covered in…Einstein socks. "Ami-chan…" Makoto shook her head. "What?" she shrugged.

I suggested the arcade for brekkie, and we piled in the car. "What's the point of being pajamas?" Ami asked as she buckled up. I shrugged. "I don't really know. Meh. Maybe something'll happen down there." I started the car, and drove down the familiar path to the Crown. We paraded in, and Motoki shook his head. "Do I want to know?"

"I don't even know." I admitted. "Nice, Usa-chan." He laughed, and asked what we wanted for breakfast. "I'll have the…Usa&Mamo Delight!" I looked at Motoki angrily. He lifted his hands up. "I made that when you went out! It's a 'perfect blend of sweet and bitter chocolate in a giant pancake, covered in chocolate ice cream, with a bunny on it in whipped cream.'" He smiled sadly at me. "He had me make it for your birthday, remember?" I nodded. "I meant, why do you still have it up?" He pointed to the register.

"You guys made me good business, when you were fighting and going out." I flicked my bangs out of my eyes, and tightened my ponytail. I simply did not feel like spending half an hour on my signature meatball style that morning. "Okay, Motoki-onii." I sighed, and plopped down on a stool. The girls sat down on the other stools surrounding me. "I'll have two chocolate chip pancakes with O.J., please." Motoki scribbled it down. "Sausage, ham, or bacon?"

"BACOOONNN!"

He laughed and shook his head. "Why did I bother asking. Girls, same thing?" Everyone but Ami nodded. "I'll have a fruit salad." I shook my head. "Healthy things…bleck. Bacon is life, Ami-chan." Ami shrugged. Minutes later, he placed the food down, and we began to devour it.

"Om nom nom…"

"Minako-chan, shut up!"

"No, Rei-chan! Om nom no-"

SMACK.

"NOOO MAH BACON!"

Minako fell to the floor, and picked up the poor, poor piece of super special awesome meat. I stood up. "Rei no baka! You went too far." I held Minako until she stopped grieving over the bacon. Rei looked really sorry. "Gomen nasai, Minako-chan. Here." She held a piece of her bacon out as a peace offering, which Minako gladly took. "Yummay!" She ate it, and sat back down on her stool. Motoki stood at the counter, laughing his ass off at our antics.

"Guys…it's just bacon!" he gasped between chuckles.

All heads in the place whipped towards him. "What did you just say?" Makoto said in a low, dangerous voice. Motoki gulped. "You did NOT just say that!" She tackled him to the ground. "AHHH!" He yelled as she punched his stomach. "Gomen! Gomen! I take it back!" Makoto jumped off as soon as he said that. "Now get us a plate towering with bacon." Rei ordered. Motoki scampered off to the kitchen to do just that. "He's lucky he didn't get killed. No one says that about my bacon." Makoto sat down, grumbling and took a bite out of her bacon, like it was his throat.

I cleared my throat. Now was the time to tell them what I didn't tell them before. "Guys, I'm leaving in a week." CLATTER. "NANI?" they yelled simultaneously. "I'm leaving in-" "No don't say it again!" Minako begged me. I smiled sadly at them "I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier. Promise me that we'll spend all the time I have left as Tsukino Usagi together, okay?"

They all nodded furiously. When Motoki came out with our bacon, I called to him, "Put it on my tab!" I took the bacon plate, and we got back in my car. We drove home, and got actually dressed. I placed the bacon gingerly on the counter, and bounded upstairs to my room to get dressed. Rei and the girls followed. We dug our clothes out, and I put on a pair of my favorite jeans. They are worn, and felt like a second skin to me. I paired those with a thin chain-link belt, and a V-neck long-sleeved blue shirt. I slid my favorite socks on, my pink ones decorated with Hershey's kisses.

Ami put on her favorite skirt, which ended at her knee. She also had on a powder-blue blouse on, and she left her feet bare. "I have flats downstairs." She explained. Makoto slid on some dark green jeans, and a brown, rose embellished scoop neck top. She still kept her feet bare. Rei had on a pair of black leggings and a red shirt-dress.

Minako had on her sparkly yellow sweater and light blue skinny jeans on. I pulled my hair down, and speed tied it up into it's normal style, which took me 15 minutes. Minako and Rei played Yu-Gi-Oh! while they waited, Ami was reading(again) and Makoto laid on my bed, her feet dangling off it. As soon as we left, it seemed like, during the week, we were never home. We were having the time of our lives, and I wished for it to never end.

Alas, Sunday came.

I had already packed during the scarce moments we were home, along with telling my parents, who could care less, so I took my luggage, letter, passport and ticket, and money with me. Haruka and the Outers drove us there, and as I stood in the terminal, all of them, even the stony Setsuna, were crying.

"Bye, Usa-chan. I love you." Rei hugged me, and her tears fell into my hair. "I love you too, Pyro. Hey, remember your dare, okay?" Rei wiped her tears away, and nodded, smiling half-heartedly. They all hugged me, and as Hotaru and the girls hugged me one last time, the woman broadcasted over the speaker, "Flight 987 Tokyo to Osaka boarding now." I sobbed hysterically inwardly, but simply cried on the outside.

"Bye, minna! Visit me soon!" I called over my shoulder as I went through the security check. I boarded my plane, and waved goodbye to the place that was my home, my shelter, and, at the same time, my hell.

I fell asleep, tears still drifting past my closed eyes.

"Passengers, please buckle your seat belts, we will be landing soon." I awoke to the booming voice of the captain. I had slept the whole time! I checked my reflection in my compact. At first, I didn't know who was there. I then remembered I transformed into Tohru before boarding.

My eyes were puffy, and hair frizzy. I pulled the brush that connected to it out, and yanked it through my brown locks. I put it away, and when we landed, I put on a brave face and walked out towards my future.

Well, I hope you liked this! This one is a bit more serious chapter, I hope. Let me know how it went! Critiques and help are gladly taken. No flames please though. Thanks!