Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ An American Boy in Tokyo ❯ The Date of a Lifetime ( Chapter 6 )

I dreamt about the ceremony again that night, I had fallen asleep at the table. When I woke up, it was because the door had squeaked. I turned around to see who was there, and jumped back when I saw Mina, tripping over the chair and falling to the floor.

"Are you okay?" She ran over and helped me back up to my feet. I rubbed the back of my head and nodded.

"Yeah, I'm fine, why are you here so early?"

"Alex, it's three in the afternoon, I came by to apologize for the way I acted last night, it was very rude of me." She said.

"Don't worry about it." I said. "I'd expected to get my butt kicked when the night afterwards came up in the conversation." I lit a cigarette and sat back down.

"Well, I do have one question for you." She said. "Was that the real you we were seeing last night, or was it some kind of act?"

"No, Mina, you saw the pictures, you saw the rings, I don't have money to blow like that on props." I said.

"Well, I have to go to work now, but we'll be by again tonight, Darien wants to thank you for taking such good care of his pregnant and terminally ill wife."

"She's terminally ill?!?!?" I asked standing up. Mina laughed.

"No, but with the way he's treating her, since she got pregnant, you'd think she was." We both laughed a little bit. "Well anyways, see you later."

"Later it is." I replied. She left and shut the door. After checking the clock, I got my clothes together and took a shower, then I got dressed and headed downstairs cleaning up the little bit of a mess that had been made the night before. I then sat down and started playing some video games and just anything I could do to kill some time. Finally, I decided to go out and actually get something to eat. I went to the same café that I did last time, and sat in the same booth. Conveniently, the same waitress came out to take my order.

"Feeling better today?" She asked. I smiled.

"Yes, thanks, I'm sorry about that."

"It's okay, what can I get you?"

"The biggest cheeseburger you have, an order of fries, and a large Dr. Pepper." She jotted down the order and went back to get it. I ate quietly and quickly. After I was finished, I stepped outside and looked around, it was exactly the same as it was in the cartoon. I smiled and shook my head in disbelief and checked my watch, it was seven thirty. I finally got back in the car and went home. Not even ten minutes after I got there, the girls pulled up into the driveway with another car behind them. When Darien came in, I shook his hand.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Darien." I said.

"The pleasure's all mine." He said nodding. "So you hosted a tear jerker in here last night?" He looked around. "Where's the debris?" He asked.

"Darien, it didn't get that bad!" Serena said. Then she glanced at Mina and smiled. "Well, not for most of us."

"Hey, Alex, I wanted to ask you about something." Amy said. "You said that our entire lives are scripted, right?"

"Yeah, that's right."

"What effect might your arrival here have on that script?"

"It could be completely docile." I replied. "I mean, we've been talking for what, this makes the second day?" I asked. She nodded. "And only half of the first one was spent in a somewhat comfortable environment. So I would imagine that there aren't any effects to be felt, at least not yet." I said. She nodded.

"But there could be?"

"This is uncharted territory for me, Amy, anything could happen." I sighed and chuckled. "I'm just glad I didn't get here until after everything was done."

"Why's that?"

"Because, had I gotten here while the Negaverse was still attacking, they might have tried to capture me and take my knowledge for themselves, that would have been disaster." I said. They nodded.

"Definitely." Artemus agreed.

"So anyways, back to the conversation before, is there anything else that you may have forgotten?" Lita asked.

"Nope, not a thing." I said. Then I stopped and went through a mental checklist. "Yeah, everything's there, why?"

"Um, Alex, could I talk to you for a minute?" Mina said. I stopped.

"That depends, is the conversation to render me unconscious?" I asked. "I'm sure the first impression I left yesterday was rather colorful."

"I don't know, but I wanted to talk to you in private."

"I'm dead." I sighed shaking my head.

"Huh? How do you figure?" Darien asked.

"Well there's only two possible things that could happen as a result of wanting to speak in private. I'll either die because she chokes the life out of me, or from a massive heart attack." I said. Then I followed Mina downstairs to my bedroom again. "Um, sorry to be so rude, guys, there's some left over pizza and drinks in the fridge, make yourselves at home." I said.

"Thanks, I'm starved." Darien said heading to the fridge. "Hey, Alex, why's there beer in here, you're not old enough to drink."

"That was my dad's Darien, have at it if you want one." I replied.

"Well, maybe just one." He replied. I then shut the door and turned to Mina.

"So, um, what's up?" I said, shoving my hands in my pockets.

"Well, uh, I was just wondering if there was someone you left behind where you came from." Mina replied sitting down in a chair and watching me intently.

"Not really, no." I shook my head. "Never had time for the opposite sex, I was always inventing things for my dad to market, that's what paid for most of this stuff." I said glancing around the room.

"So, has there ever been a girl in your life?"

"Nope, well, there was this one girl in my freshman year of highschool. I had a crush on her, but I was the class nerd and she was a cheer leader." I said. "Nothing ever came of it, except me getting my butt kicked every now and again by her jock boyfriend."

"That's horrible." Mina said. "So the girls where you came from kind of discouraged you, didn't they?"

"Yeah, oh well, I'm not around for them anymore, they'll be sorry someday. My only regret now is that I can't go back to make them sorry." I chuckled, after a few moments of silence I shook my head. "Nah, that's just a bunch of talk." I corrected myself. "Um, Mina, can I ask you a favor?"

"Sure." she replied.

"Can you please get to he point, because if this is going where I think it's going, correction, where I hope it's going, I'm going to need a few minutes afterwards to recover." I said, nervously lighting another cigarette and opening the window so as not to smoke her out.

"Well, um, I just wanted to ask you, if maybe you wanted to go see a movie with me or something?" She asked. I nodded and continued looking out the window.

"So, um, what kind of movie would this be?" I asked glancing at the cherry on the end of the cigarette before taking another hit and continuing to stare out the window.

"Well, I don't know, I figured that we'd go see what was playing and decide there." She replied. I nodded again.

"And what kind of `outing' would this be?" I asked. "A group of friends, a business trip, what?"

"Actually, I thought we might take them home first before we went to see it." She said. "I mean, if that's okay with you."

"Okay, I'm gonna stop beating around the bush, because your answers aren't helping me any here." I said smiling. "Are you asking me for a date?"

"Um, yeah." She replied quietly. I nodded slowly and returned my gaze to the window, smoking the cigarette down.

"I'd love to." I replied, forcing the real reaction I wanted to have down.

"Really? That's great, okay, um, I'll go upstairs and wait for you."

"I'll just need a minute." I replied flipping the cigarette out the window and closing. She went upstairs and closed the door. As soon as it clicked, I jumped onto the bed and pulled the pillow up around my face screaming as loudly as possible into it, so as not to alert them upstairs. After a few minutes had passed, and I was sure that I was finished, I walked upstairs and joined them.

"Wow, so you two are a couple now?" Darien asked. I held up a hand.

"Can we please change the subject?" I asked. "I really don't have the energy to muffle another scream like that." They smiled and shook their heads.

"Well, um, it's been nice meeting you, Alex, but we should be going, Serena needs her rest." He said winking at me. "Anyone need a ride home?" Everyone agreed except Mina, and they left.

"Well, that wasn't very discrete." I said. Mina laughed.

"So, um, do you have any more sketched or anything?" She asked, desperately trying to come up with a conversation topic. I nodded and got out my portfolio. We spent a few hours talking about the pictures, which led to another conversation, which led to another one. Before we knew it, it was almost midnight.

"Oh man, it's late, thank god I don't have class tomorrow."

"Class?" I asked. She nodded.

"Oh, yeah, I'm going to a community college just in town." She said. "That's why I don't start work until the afternoon." She said. "Speaking of which, we'll have to get you set up with a job too." She said. I shook my head slightly.

"Not necessary." I said. "I have a bank account that gets five grand deposited into it every month." I said.

"Huh?" She asked.

"Royalties on a few inventions I own the patents to." I shrugged.

"Well, does that still work here?"

"What are you talking about, some of them are still in use here." I said. "Do you remember those backpacks that opened on the side?" I asked. She nodded.

"Yeah, they were like lockers."

"That's the one." I smiled. "I came up with the proto type for those things in like two hours." I said. "After leasing the patent, which my dad takes sixty percent of the royalties, and I get forty, I had received six thousand dollars. For two hours work." I laughed. "I was only fifteen when I came up with that thing, I don't know of any job short of professional athletics that earns that much money for two hours worth of work." Mina smiled.

"But the bank account still exists here?" She asks.

"Yup, I tried my ATM card today, what's even funnier though, is that it must have taken me a year to get here." I said. "The bank account has sixty thousand dollars in it, with some change because of interest and all that." I shrugged.

"Wow, you're amazing, you know that?" She asked. "Charming, Imaginative, and rich to boot." She shook her head. I laughed.

"I'm not rich, just overly blessed." I said. She laughed.

"Yeah, I guess so." She looked at her watch again. "I should be getting home, my mom's gonna tan my hide." She said. "Give me a ride?" She asked.

"Sure thing." I replied. I got up and grabbed my jacket, then I pulled another one out of the closet for her. We kept talking about this and that on the drive to her place. Finally I pulled up into her driveway and stopped the car. I quickly got out and ran around the car opening the door for her before she had a chance.

"Wow, thank you." She said. "I guess chivalry isn't dead after all."

"No, just fatally wounded." I replied smiling. I walked her up to the front door. "Well then, I guess I'll see you later." I said.

"Yeah, I'll call you tomorrow." She looked at her watch, it was just after midnight. "Or, later today anyway." We both stood there for a minute. "I had a great time tonight, Alex, I'm sorry we didn't go the movie like I said."

"Oh, that's okay, Mina, I'm more of a stay at home type guy anyway." I said. She took my hands in hers and kissed me on the cheek quickly.

"Goodnight, Alex." She smiled and turned around walking in.

"Um, goodnight, Mina." I replied. I then backed away off the porch and went back to the car as she closed the door. I sat there in the dirveway for a couple of minutes before starting the engine and drving back home.