Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Things can Change ❯ Italian, and a spanish wannabe cousin ( Chapter 8 )

Things can Change:

Chapter8: Serena's Cousin comes to town

Serena looked bored glancing around the room. When the teacher walked into the room, Serena stared and wondered what the teacher would do with the extra time at hand. Ms Haruna walked over to her desk sorting through papers and finally after a few minutes looked up and at the class. The teacher blinked in surprise and actually pinched herself. "Serena, you're here on time. To make matter's even more surprising your actually early!" Serena rolled her eyes slightly

"Um yeah I went to sleep real early and couldn't go back to sleep this morning so I decided to come early," she lied. `why am I lying to the teacher? I guess I don't have much of a choice since I don't think the truth would be a good idea. Oh yeah I'm here early because I spent the night at my boyfriends and he made me get up early and go to school, not giving me much of a choice in the matter. So here I am, does that answer your question?' Miss H. was quiet for so long that Serena thought that she had accidentally spoken what she thought out loud. Just as Serena was about to apologize the teacher shook her head and turned around. She started writing on the board and Serena sighed in relief.

Today was going good so far. Serena grabbed her homework out of her backpack seeing as how there was only five minutes left until class started and already the rest of the students were coming in. There were people that glanced at her and whispers coming around. Serena almost giggled at that. `Wow maybe I should be early more often. I can't believe how surprised they are to see me. Oh my! I think Mira almost fainted. I didn't realize that me being early was such a big deal. But I guess seeing as how I'm hardly ever on time I guess I can see why their surprised.'

The final bell rang and Serena smiled. No more talking, no more whispering. The teacher would be angry and well no one wanted Miss H to become angry. "Okay class pass up Friday's homework!" Serena turned around behind her and collected the student's papers that was behind her and placing her own on top of theirs before passing the papers up to the person in front of her. Once the teacher had collected all of the papers she sat on top of her desk and looked at her class. "Alright, today we shall be learning a different language, as for the rest of this week and next." Most of the class groaned and the rest silently applauded.

"Can anyone tell me what language tutto è differente, tutto è cambiato? Is from and what it means?" Serena pondered over the sentence and then blinked in surprise. She actually knew that, she had read it before. Slowly she raised her hand and Miss H stared at her. "Serena?" she took in a deep breath before saying "it's Italian. And it means `everything is different, everything has changed.' I think I read it somewhere." The teacher looked like she was having a heart attack. She had fallen off the desk and was on the ground. All eye's had turned onto Serena and she gulped.

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Serena ran out of the school as fast as she could. All day she had gotten questions of what was wrong with her, or what'd you do with the real Serena? It was in some way nice to have all the attention but after a while it was becoming annoying. Really just because she was way early and knew some Italian doesn't mean everyone should think the world would end soon. Serena yawned and stretched out her arms. She was tired `I'll have to remember to personally thank that jerk, possibly with my fist or possibly with my foot' an evil grin spread on her face and she laughed out loud. She held onto her backpack while putting her hands behind her neck and walking happily.

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When Serena reached home she found her door was unlocked which caused her to jump in surprise. She looked at her driveway and then looked at the door warily, her parents weren't home that was for sure. `If their not home then who is? Oh no what if it's a robber? Oh come on Serena get a grip that's so unlikely and besides if there is remember your Sailor Moon!' This thought seemed to calm her slightly but she was still nervous to say the least. She walked in but saw no one there she thought of going up the stairs but decided to search the downstairs first. She closed the door softly behind her and took off her shoes slowly. She started to tip toe into the kitchen and fell backwards at the sight in front of her.

"¡Hola Serena! ¡bueno verle!" a woman sitting at the table said. Serena sweat dropped and picked herself off the ground "come again?" she asked recognizing the Hola as Spanish but not remembering what it meant. The girl giggled and said "I said `Hello Serena! good to see you!'." Serena smiled lightly and then thought for a second. `okay she's familiar. Probably somewhere between 16-18 maybe 19. Obviously knows me… Red hair, green eyes, seems to be taller than me, awesome clothes. Oh! Could it be? Yes it is!' "Maria!" Serena exclamed.

"Well good to see you recognize me! I looked around for your parents but didn't see them, are they still at work? And I hope you don't mind me letting myself in, I remembered where you guys always kept your spare keys and figured it would be alright." Serena blinked in surprise "No mom, dad, and Sammy are all in China for one of dads buisness trips. It's perfectly alright that you let yourself in, just next time lock the door after yourself, you scared the crap out of me! Not that I'm not happy to see you but I thought you weren't going to be here for a while?" Maria shrugged "My mom was being in one of her moods so I hightailed it out of there as fast as I could. Although I won't be able to stay long, only a day or two really. I have to get back for this concert my friends and I got tickets to go see. Funny things is I don't remember what band it is that we are going to see, but hey that doesn't matter it's going to be awesome most likely!"

`Enthusiastic as always. Also forgetful, maybe that's a trait that's in my family? Oh I hope not, I'd hate to see what my children are going to be like.' Serena smiled even though her cousin was way to hyped about something that it even freaked her out. "Well I guess we'll have to use our time wisely, some cousinly bounding time is much overdue!" Maria said. Serena smiled and agreed. "Wow I'm surprised you still have that same hairstyle Serena, don't you ever get tired of it?" Serena shrugged "I'm used to it, besides my hair is to long to do anything else with it." Maria moved forward and smiled "Well if you cut it then you could do a lot with it. Oh I know! Let's do a makeover for you! Please!"

"Um I don't think that's such a good idea Maria. I mean my parent's would freak and well who knows how everyone else would react." Maria rolled her eyes "Aren't you tired of doing the same things over and over? The same hairstyle, the same routine, the same things over and over. This is a time for change! I mean if you don't change something now then just think the same things happening over and over for the rest of your life never doing anything new and never knowing what could have been. This is the stage in your life where your supposed to live a little and try new things. You have the rest of your life to get into a habit. Aren't you even curious as to how you could look?"

`She's not going to give up until I give in. Damn, well I guess she does make a pretty good point. Whatever she does can always be fixed over time and well I'm already starting to shock my friends in classmates, doing stuff like sleeping with Darien. Maybe it really is time for some changes in my appearance since there obviously is in the stuff I do and everything.' Serena smiled at Maria "Okay makeover time!" "¡impresionante!" Maria grabbed Serena's arm and dragged her out the door. "Okay first your hair, then your clothes, oh! So many things that we can do! Your makeup also!" Maria was excited and happy but scaring even Serena. At this point Serena would just let things happen and go with the flow.

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Serena walked out of the hair salon looking different. For one her hair was cut to her waist. With much persistance from Maria and to Serena's dismay her hair was also dyed brown. And not stopping there Maria had, had Serena get highlights. Serena now had red, blonde, and lighter brown highlights. When Serena's mom see's her she would probally die of shock. Serena was also looking different because she was sulking about how if her mother lived she would so kill her. Maria grabbed Serena's hand and they were off to the mall.

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Serena nearly fell over with the clothes that she was carrying in shopping bags. She had already been to at least ten stores, 4 that were jewelry and accisories. Two that was makeup and the rest clothing stores. "Can we please go home?" Serena pleaded in her new outfit. She had black pants with pockets that seemed endless, a black shirt that had ripped sleves. Maria had practically forced Serena to put on the black wrist band. Serena was afraid with what Maria had in mind to do with her makeup. Probally either make her look goth or evil. Or maybe both? "Oh fine! Party pooper! I guess we'll finish another day."

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Maria had stayed until Wednesday and then had left. Two more days had passed and then you come to present day Friday, one week after Serena's parents had left, two hours after school, and the beginning of their fall break. Serena being the coward that she was, every time she was on her way to school had used the disguise pen to make her look like her ordinary self. When her cousin was still staying at her house she had taken the disguise off when she got far enough from school. For the last two days though she had left it on a little longer, for trips to the arcade. She knew she would have to quit using it and had resolved that this would be the last time that she did use it for hiding her new appearance. Besides she could always say she did it over break as a sort of spur of the moment thing.

Serena had taken off her disguise not to long ago and was now sitting in her room staring at everything. She had her old clothes still in her closet along with some of the new ones she had gotten with her cousin. The rest of her new clothes either layed in the shopping bags or thrown somewhere. Maria hadn't just gotten Gothic looking clothes but also stylish, and stuff to wear almost anywhere. She had even gotten some formal outfits for Serena. Things really were changing fast and spiraling almost out of control. Although even with everything changing, so far Serena kind of liked it. Maria had been right with her new hair she could do so many new styles it was amazing. Plus the different colors in her hair went with almost any color of clothes.

It was going to be boring if she stayed here any longer and she was already missing Darien. She hadn't talked to him since Monday morning before school had started. Well that wasn't exactly true, she had seen him for a few minutes every now and then. But always one of them was too busy or Serena made herself busy. She didn't want him discovering her using the pen. She sighed and got out of bed. She needed to see Darien and she needed him now.

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Serena had just exited the elevator and was walking towards Darien's apartment door. She had left her disguise off and slipped into a pair of blue jeans, wearing a black belt with a couple of chains dangling from it, a red top with graffiti on it. She had grabbed a black jacket that Maria had gotten her and well she felt weird. She was curious as to what Darien would think of the new her. Would he like her? Or even worse hate her? Maybe he wouldn't even believe it was her. Serena stopped, finding herself at the edge of a corner of a wall. If she leaned forward slightly she would be able to see Darien's apartment without being seen.

She didn't know why, maybe her nervousness about him seeing her or just plain stupidity but she leaned forward wanting to just look at his door for reassurance before continuing on her way to go see him. She had just caught sight of his door and realized that he was standing in the doorway with someone in front of him. She couldn't make out the shape clearly so she moved forward a little and gasped. There in front of her stood Rae and Darien. Rae was saying something to Darien that she couldn't hear and Darien was just listening to her. At that moment Rae leaned forward seeming to surprise Darien and kiss him.

`NO! You BITCH!' Tears welled up in Serena's eyes as she couldn't help but stare at them in horror. ` Come on Darien! Push her away! Don't do this to me! Please don't!' He didn't push her away, but he didn't kiss Rae back either. Him not pushing her away was enough for Serena though. `H-He must have some feelings for her. He probally loves her and is in shock that she kissed him. If I stay here longer then I'll see for myself that he'll get over his shock and kiss her back. I don't want to see that. How could he do this to me? He said he loved me. But now, he's with her. Darien you bastard I hate you!' and with that last thought Serena ran away tears flowing from her eyes. She ran in no particular direction she just wanted to get as far away from the two as she could.

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Ange: Whoo! Finished! ^_^. Amazing two chapter's in one month! Can you believe it? Oh much more exciting! Finally some Drama. Or at least I think it's a lot better than the last chapter. This time I didn't rush as much but I did finish it within probally around 5-6 hours which for me is a short amount of time. Seeing as how I like to think about stuff. This time I had already had an idea as to what I wanted to happen so I didn't think much on what I was doing and just started typing away. From going over all my ideas and stuff for this story I finally decided on what season to make this seeing as how I had never really said before. I decided to make it fall since well it's fall right now. The fall break thing was a random idea, sorta, and helped me to get rid of this problem that I would have in the future. So glad I'm on fall break myself or I never would of thought of the idea.

Shana: Kind of shorter chapter, kind of not. Shorter than some of the chapters that's been done before, but it does have more action and drama to it. From everything that the author has taken into her plot there might be 5 or less chapters left. Although with the way things work in the author's mind there might be more. She can become inspired or do something and go even further than she thought with the story. Stay tuned to find out. Who knows how the next chapter is going to turn out. Although I will let you in on the fact that Jedite is going to make an appearance. Not going to give the plot away but he could possibly be one of the main villians of the chapter or a few more. -whistles-

Ange: Shana stop telling them some of the idea's that's been in my head! Well at least you didn't tell them what I have in store, just that I'm working on stuff with him. ^_^;; I kind of like Jedite and when I finish this story which is a Sere/Dare I'm planning on making a pretty much AU of a Jedite/Serena. Although the details haven't been worked out on that story I do have a plot, but I'm not going to even type it until I finish this story. If I type something out I always forget about it or put all my other stories on hold and focus my attention on my new idea until something else pops into my head. I hope everyone liked this story and I hope to have more feedback on this chapter than some of the previous. Even though I didn't spend much time typing this I did somewhat plan this out before and think it might be one of the best chapters so far. Although that's just my opinion and someone else probably thinks it's the worst. I changed the rating to PG-13 only because I was told more than once that it wasn't R rated material. If I get too many reviews saying it should be R then I'll change it back. But I think at the most this probally is a PG-13 that's probably on the edge.

I've been working on this story and eventually I'm going to have to work on my site. Although there's not much I can do with it for now there's some editing I have to do. -sigh- hey people if you write fanfiction and want it put on a website, or even original fiction please check out my website. I need some contents added to the site. It's practically bare! If any of you saints write stories but have your story published on fanfiction.net please send me the fanfiction.net address for it instead of as an attachment in an email. That way I can save room on my site for when or if people ever start sending me fanfics. If you don't have it on fanfiction.net or don't want to link it to FF then just do the normal rules on my site. Well I really don't think you actually want to hear my pleading for fanfics for my site so I'll stop and just say this. If you have extra time and are bored maybe you could check out my website. Well till next time. Oh and just so you know who knows when the next chapter could be out? I like the plot in my head, but it's all a matter of time and if I get new ideas. Hopefully the next chapter will be out soon. You should find yourselves privledged that I posted two chapters in one month and for that matter within I think 12 or 13 days of the last update. ^_^ well R&R