I'm so bad I'm tired, too. It's 5 in the afternoon. Maybe I'm old. o_o

I also noticed that a few chapters ago, on Chapter 11: "AN: That's Really What This Is", I never mentioned the site ._. I feel stupid. The site where I made the avatars was Make sure you click "Old Site" or whatever it is, when you get to the "Search" if you even want to look at this.

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"Seiya-kun!" Usagi says.

"Long time, no see, eh?"

"Are the other two here, too? Taiki-kun and Yaten-kun?"

"Yeah, we're all here, Princess is too. It's been too long, and Princess heard that you had come home from somewhere, or whatever, I dunno, but she has something planned and hasn't told us a word more."

"Oh, that's so sweet!" Usagi's voice catches. "It makes me wanna cry!"

"Aw, c'mon, Dumplings! Get a hold of yourself!" Seiya says jokingly.

Usagi wipes her face with one hand and fans it with the other. "Like, ohmigod! This is so totes crazy!" she mocks in a Valley girl voice. (No offense to white people, I'm white too :3)

Seiya laughs, and plays along. "Like, geez, girl! Why can't chu just shu-up!"

They laugh at each other, and mess around some more. Settling down, Seiya asks, "So what brings you to the park on such a lovely day?"

"I've got a date today!" Usagi replies, winking.

"Oh, yeah? Still datin' that one guy?"

"He's not 'that one guy', Seiya-kun. He's everything to me," Usagi says, offended.

Mamoru is standing behind a big tree by their meeting spot holding a bouquet of flowers, fixing his hair and trying to cool the butterflies about to burst out of his stomach. He's about to make his entrance, when he hears someone talking to her.

"Oh, yeah? Still datin' that one guy?" He peeks to see who she's talking to. Kou Seiya! He grits his teeth.

"He's not 'that one guy', Seiya. He's everything to me." Mamoru smirks. Take that! He takes another peek, to see Seiya take her chin in his hand.

"You don't change, do you? I love that about you." Mamoru watches as Seiya tries to pull her face to his. He walks out, trying to be cool.

"Stop it, Seiya-kun!"

"We got a problem here, Kou? Better let her go."

"You." Seiya smirks, opening his hand in surrender. He rests his hands on the back of the bench.

"Mamo-chan!"

"Hey," he says, still playing the cool act, and puts his arm around her shoulder. She relaxes instantly.

Seiya smirks. "No problems here, ain't that right, Beautiful? Anyway, I was just givin' her a little sugar, is all."

A flame of anger licks at Mamoru's cool composure, and he punches Seiya in the face on impulse, giving a satisfying crack as his fist connected with Seiya's nose.

"OW! What the hell?! What's your damn problem?!" Seiya yells.

"Mamo-chan!"

"'No problems here, ain't that right, Beautiful?'" Mamoru quotes, squeezing her shoulder. "'Anyway, I was just givin' him a little sugar, is all.'"

"That's so unlike you! Here, Seiya-kun, lemme take a look!"

"I think he broke it. I think it's broken," he moans. "My nose is broken."

"Yeah, that's what happens when you act like a jerk. Welcome to Earth, alien-girl."

Seiya lifts his head and moves his hands from his bleeding, swelling face. Mamoru smirks, admiring his work. Seiya gives him a mean look, making Mamoru's smirk widen to a grin.

"Aw, it is broken! Hey, quickly get some shaved ice for the poor thing since it was your fault anyway," Usagi tells Mamoru, pouting at him.

"Oh, that's no fun!" He jogs away to the shaved ice stand.

Seiya scoffs, and shakes his head. "Tch. Boys. You never can trust 'em."

Usagi slowly turns her head to look at him, and snorts, dropping his head. Since he was relying on her support, the drop scared him, making him jump back so as to avoid hitting his face on the bench.

"Hey! Hey, wait, where you goin'?!" Usagi is walking away towards Mamoru. "HEY!"

Once she reaches him, she hooks onto his arm and leans into it. "You mad at me?" he asks.

Usagi shakes her head. "Not really."

He looks down at her and catches her eyes. He chuckles. "How come?"

She shrugs. "That was kinda cool. It made me feel really good. Like you were jealous, or something. Jealousy may get annoying, but deep down, it makes a girl feel really special."

Mamoru nods. "Well, don't go hanging out with all kinds of guys just to make me jealous, alright?"

Usagi smiles. "That right there works, too."

"Oh, does it?" he says, and Usagi laughs. Then, they reach Seiya, who's covering his nose on the bench. "Here you are, jerk," Mamoru says, handing him a baggie full of ice and a couple of paper towels.

"If anyone's the jerk, it's you," he mutters in response.

"You're welcome."

"Oh, c'mon, you two! Don't fight!" She grabs Mamoru's hand and pulls him away, calling over her shoulder, "Bye, Seiya! Get that nose taken care of alright?

~Later that night~

~Mamoru's apartment~

Usagi is laying on Mamoru's lap, and they're talking, as Mamoru strokes her hair.

"So, he tells me, he's got this gruff voice goin', 'cause you know he has to impress his dad, so he says, 'Chiba-san, you don't belong here!' and- What's wrong?"

Usagi sits up. "Well… There's something that I really need to say, and if I don't say it now, I'll never say it."

Mamoru swallows. This could be very, very bad. "Y-Yeah? What's up?" Had he been talking too much? Was he getting on her nerves? Was she having second thoughts about him?

Usagi takes a deep breath and looks at him. "I love you," she says. "I really do. And while I've been gone…" She almost looks down, but looks back up at him. "While I've been gone, I feel like I've come to… come to… l-love you even more."

Mamoru's eyes widen. Well, this was not what he had expected.

"And… so much that… It's almost… too much. Like I can't contain all of my love for you. It hurts to love you. My heart pounds whenever I even sense you, or think about you." A tear slips down her face, and Mamoru catches it with his thumb, and his hand lingers there on her face. "I don't know what to do."

"What do you wanna do?" he asks, and, as a man, sort of hoping for something, but, as a gentleman, trying to squander that hope.

"I want to… have you take some of the load off. I want to… give myself to you."

Mamoru leans in and presses his lips to hers, pulling her up into bridal-carry, and stands. She wraps her arms around his neck for support, and he takes her back to his room.

~We'll leave the following events to your imagination (^ᴗ^') ~

~Hikawa Shrine~

Rei is lying on her bed texting some friends, Makoto and Minako are playing toss-and-catch with a baseball, Ami is reading Romeo and Juliet, and Haruko is crocheting a black scarf, for Akira when she comes back.

Rei smirks. "Twenty bucks says they do it," she bets.

"Nuh-uh, man. Thirty," Makoto tops.

"If you're gonna bet on good odds, you should get as much as you dare. I say forty," Minako adds.

"Guys, that's wrong. They wouldn't…" Ami trails off when everyone stares at her. "Um. Well."

"No, I agree with Ami-chan," Haruko says. "Usa-chan's not like that. She would feel uncomfortable."

"Well, then you obviously don't know what she's like around Mamoru," Rei laughs. "Geez, it's a surprise they're both still virgins."

"Rei!" Ami scolds. "I don't like where this conversation is going! She's barely out of high school!"

"She still is," Makoto says. "And plus, Juliet's like twelve in your little book there." She eyes Ami's beat-up copy of Romeo and Juliet.

"No! She's…"

"Yeah, how old is she?"

"Thirteen…" Ami mutters.

Makoto laughs. "Their situation is worse than Mamoru and Usagi's. They'll be fine."

"I disagree. It would be immoral for them to do that before marriage," Haruko says.

"No need to be so formal, Haru-chan. We're all friends, here."

"Eh? This is how I always speak. I always speak this way. Ask Usa-chan."

Rei shrugs. "Anyway, Mako, who do you think will start?"

"Mamoru's a pretty romantic guy. I think it'll be him. I'll put a Hamilton on that." (Sorry. I don't know about Yen, but a Hamilton in America is a $10 bill.)

"That's mine, for Usagi-chan, though. 10 bucks," Minako says.

"I'm thinking a Jackson for Usagi. Just 'cause," Rei says. (Jackson=$20)

"But what if it just happens?"

"What do you mean?"

"Like, what if they just start kissing, and one thing leads to another?"

"Okay, I am not talking about this. I'm going to the kitchen where I can read in peace," Ami says, standing.

"I'm coming, too!" Haruko says. "I can't stand it."

Ami smiles. "Alright."

When the door slides shut, Minako smirks. "Now we can talk about whatever we want!"

~At the Starlights' apartment~

"Ow ow ow ow ow ow!"

"Well, if you would hold still, it wouldn't hurt so much!"

Kakyuu is looking at Seiya's nose, trying to do as much as she can to fix it.

"You're pinching it right where he punched me!" Seiya whines.

"Well, maybe you shouldn't have tried to kiss his girlfriend. You're a big girl, the least you can do is have some self-control!"

"Why do you like her, anyway?" Yaten asks.

"Because, she's cute. And nice. And sweet. And kind. And funny. And-"

"Okay, God, just shut up, forget I asked! Yeesh!"

"Alright, Taiki, be a doll and grab me an ice pack, a bottle of water, and the Ibuprofen, 'kay?" Kakyuu requests.

"Sure," Taiki says, walking into the kitchen.

"Marry me, Usako!" Mamoru whispers.

"Yes!"

Rawr. It's not as long, but that's a good ending spot. New chapter starting now! It's going good now, y'all! Stay cool! :3 ~Fairy