Title:Remember Me Always E-mail:jocof@prodigy.net Name:Amishetu JC Rating:pg Hello my name is Amishetu. This is my second attempt in fanfic writing and I just want to know what you think. Please email me with any responses at Jocof@prodigy.net This story takes place after the sailor stars. I not too familiar with those episodes but because I wanted more freedom to write with the characters, I placed them in that time period. Thanks for listening and happy reading! Sailor Moon 㠱995 Naoko Takeuchi/Kodansha, Toei Animation, DIC, yada, yada, yada. Remember Me Always by: Amishetu Chapter One It was a Sunday evening and Serena's mom and brother went to the store leaving her to help her father pack for his business trip the next day. "How long will you be away?" Serena asked her father as she handed him another pair of socks. "Oh about three and a half weeks." He answered taking the socks from Serena and zipping up his last suitcase. Serena's father worked for a local magazine called the HoTsPoT, as a photographer. The magazine was doing an exclusive issue on the Hawaiian Islands and needed footage to board the story columns. He was finally promoted to chief photographer and was very excited about going to America. "Really? Wow three weeks in absolute paradise! Wicked cool daddy. How about bringing the rest of your family along for the trip?" Serena said picturing herself in a skimpy bikini basking in the sun. "Ha, ha" her father said snapping her out of her dream world." Do you really think that I would let you and your brother to miss three weeks of school, not to mention your chores?" "No, but it was worth a try." Seeing how spirited her father seemed the thought of the mall popped in her head. "Daddy?" "Yes pumpkin?" "Can I go to the mall with Lita and Rei?" here eyes were filled with hope making it even harder for her dad to say no. "Sure, do you have any money on you?" this caught Serena off guard because he usually made her use her own money that she earns from extra chores. "No" she replied still not quite sure of her father's intentions. Then she saw him pull out his wallet and yank two twenties out. Smiling a little he replaced one with a five and handed it to his overjoyed daughter. "Twenty-five!? Thanks daddy." And with that she was out of his room, down the stairs, and out of her house. She didn't want her dad to regret giving her the generous offer and made sure he didn't get a chance to. If he gives her money at all it's never above a ten. After catching her breath she headed over to Rei's temple were she would call Lita and invite her to come with them to the mall. Somewhere in America It was a hot and groggy night in the Lewis household. Io couldn't sleep. Between the constant thought of Linda and the moist, uncomfortable air. Io was never going to get to sleep. He looked over at his sister Ganymede 'She looks so peaceful' he thought to himself. He got quietly out of bed and walked over to his little sister. He reached down and with a soft touch slid her dark red hair away from her face. Io and Ganymede shared a wonderful relationship. They did any and everything together. Even with the age difference of two years, Io being sixteen and Ganymede being fourteen, they were very close. On weekends she would stay in his room and they would watch movies until they were ready for bed, as they did that night. The stairs creaked underneath his feet as he made his way to the kitchen. 'Yummy' he thought as he stared at the half eaten turkey sandwich he made earlier. Just as he reached into the refrigerator his sister startled him by saying "What are you doing up so late?" "Gosh! Gany what's wrong with you? You freaked me out!" "Oh, be quiet you know that I always follow you down here at night." Ganymede said realizing that Io only had midnight snacks when he was upset about something. She took a seat and looked into his emerald eyes as if she were trying to say something, as if she were asking a question. "Alright already. I really miss Linda." He said giving up on trying to hide his feelings from his worried sister. Linda was Io's ex- girlfriend. They broke up after Linda told him that 'things just weren't working out'. "Io, I want you to listen to me for sec. Linda used you. She is an insecure souls feeding on popularity and riches. She is a pitiful beings that only wants male companions for money and to say that she actually has a boyfriend. She wasn't ready for the serious and mature relationship that you wanted and very much deserved, for putting up with her. She still wants to be silly schoolgirl, and that is why you are not with her anymore. She isn't ready for you and you don't have time to wait because you don't need her or her immature ways." They sat staring for a long time. Ganymede always had a way with words when it came to helping others, as specially her brother. "Why didn't I see it sooner so I could have avoided it?" "Oh don't beat yourself up over it. It's not your fault. Along with Linda's childish ways she also has very stunning body and beautiful face. Frankly, you didn't notice what she was doing to your wallet until it was already done." "Thanks, Gany. How in the world dose such a young girl know so much?" "I watch a lot of TV." Ganymede said still leaving her brother's question unanswered." Now can we please go back to bed?" "Sure." They finished the turkey sandwich in silence and then proceeded to Io's room. After some time had passed Io broke the silence that had seized his room. "Gany, do you think that Lydia and I were like that? I mean was she using me too?" he asked a little scared at the thought of his question. "Here we go," she said under her breath, "The pain that Linda caused is blinding you. Lydia was sweet and caring and would never use you. You guys were so close that at some times, I even thought Lydia could have become my sister-in-law. I mean, she loved you as much as you did her and nothing will change that." Her comment about Lydia becoming her sister made Io laugh, even though that was not her intention she also laughed. "Thanks Gany. I almost forgot how tight she and I were." Lydia and Io had been going out for a full year and she was the first girl who didn't want Io for his money. Unfortunately, when her parents were killed in a car accident, she moved to Texas to live with her grandparents. Io was left broken hearted and alone. He never saw or heard from her again. After Ganymede felt that her brother had cleared his mind of his love life, she spoke again. "Hey, I heard about this cool, three week, Japan/America/Europe exchange student program. I thought since mom and dad probably wouldn't want us to have any guest to look after? then maybe we could go there. I have already talked to them and they agreed, as long as you went with me. So would do you think?" Io couldn't refuse. He could hear the anxiousness in her voice. "Sure thing, Gany." "Yes!" "On one condition? you go to sleep." "Okay, I can tell when my commentaries are not wanted. Goodnight, and Io don't worry. You deserve somebody, anybody better then Linda!" Ganymede stated reassuringly. "Thank you and Goodnight Gany." Back in Tokyo "Rei, that shirt would really look good with those purple shoes you were going to get. Personally, I think you should buy it." Lita said truthfully as she examined the shirt Rei had just tried on. "Thank you Lita. I think I'm going to buy it." "Hey, why didn't you ask me what I thought of it. Your so mean." Seeing that Serena would start her ear piercing cries she quickly said, "Alright, alright. What do you think Serena?" "I think you should buy it, but not because of what Lita said. It's because it's so bright it will call the attention away from your ugly face!" Both Serena and Lita broke into laughter as an annoyed Rei returned to the dressing room to relieve her self of the "bright" shirt. The three girls did some last minute bargain searching before they left the mall. Seeing the three girls struggle with all the bags and boxes they had would bring laughter to anyone who saw them. Serena had at least five square boxes of doughnuts and pastries blocking her view (which resulted in her running into things), Rei had five loaded shopping bags in each hand, and Lita whom had the most had three boxes under one arm and the other was holding seven bags filled with clothes from the various stores they had visited. They left the mall and made their way to a bus stop. When the bus arrived they had to take the very back seats so they could have some where to put their bags. "Hey do you guys want to get off at the school and visit Amy?" The bus stop closest to Amy's house was the school's bus stop. "Yeah sure. Maybe she'll give me ride to my house which is 6 miles away from your school!" shouted an annoyed Rei. "Sorry Rei I forgot. Lita how about you, you don't live that far away from Amy's house do you?" "Nope. I'll go with you." The bus stopped in front of Juban high school. Lita and Serena said good bye to Rei and were off to see Amy. "Hey Lita look at this." Serena motioned towards a flyer on a side door of the high school. It read: Europe/ America/Japan Three week Exchange Student Program America Europe Japan Virginia France Tokyo N. Carolina Germany Tokyo "Wow . You see that! Teenagers from America and Europe are coming right here to Tokyo! Cool, I'm signing up tomorrow at school!" "Looks interesting. Maybe I will too." "Of course you are. I'm not doing this alone." She grabbed one of the may flyers about the program and shoved it into her pocket. "Maybe Amy will want to get in on this." Since Lita had no free hands, Serena knocked on Amy's door. "Hello Ms. Mizuno" both girls said. "Looks like you two just got back from the mall. Well Amy's up stairs I think she is just about finished with her home work. You can leave your bags at the door." "Ok, thank you." The girls said in unison. "Knock ,Knock. Hello Amy, are you in there?" Serena asked from outside Amy's room. "Of course I am come in Serena." "What you-a no say-a hi to-a me? Lita said in her best Italian accent. "Whoa Lita I didn't know you were here come on in! So what brings you to my humble abode?" "Oh my gosh, Amy! Me and Lita and Rei went shopping and got tons of new clothes. Since we have this one week break before second semester, we thought we should get some new outfits for the rest of the school dances. What you been up to?" "As if we don't already now." Lita said as she looked at Amy's desk. It was filled with thick books. "Actually you two would be surprised. I just got off the phone with Greg." "What!!??" Both girls screamed in delight and curiosity. "He called me up about in hour ago. He said he would be in town for a couple of weeks." "That is so totally cool, so are you guy going out now?" Serena asked with a devilish grin. "Well?" Amy said blushing "Come on spill the beans!" Lita said trying to keep from falling of the chair she was sitting on. She was literally at the edge of her seat. "Well.. he told me how he felt about me, and well I sort of?um? laughed in his face. "YOU DID WHAT!!!!!" Both girls screamed causing Lita to fall of her chair. "Wait! Wait! I can explain. I only laughed because I was really embarrassed. There I was shy old Amy talking to shy old Greg and he had enough courage to tell me that he liked me and I couldn't bring myself to say the same. When I finally stopped laughing I explained to him how I felt and we kind of have a date planed the second day that he gets here." Relieved, Lita and Serena calmed down. "Whew. Now that my heart is beating correctly, look at this." Serena handed her friend the folded flyer about the exchange program. "Wow this could be a great experience. So where do you guys want to go Europe or America!" "Oh no you don't missy. We don't want to leave Tokyo. We want to be hosts. Besides what would poor little Greg do if you stood him up?" "Oh yeah. I didn't realize that this thing started the week Greg will get here." "Oh shoot! It's 9:00! My dad is so posed to leave for the air port in one hour and he promised to take us out to dinner before he leaves they are probably waiting for me!" "Where is he going ?" Lita and Amy asked following Serena down the stairs. "You know that magazine he works at? Well they finally promoted him and he gets to go to America for a couple of weeks to shoot some footage of the Hawaiian Islands." "Wow" "Trey cool Serena but don't you think you should call and just have your family pick you up here. It would be a lot faster and you could wear one of the outfits you bought." "Yeah, you can change in my room." "Oh wow thanks Amy. You too Lita." "Well I gots to go home. Bye Amy. Bye Serena. See you tomorrow at school." And with that Lita was out the door. *Bring, Bring* "Good Evening, Tsukino Residents." "Hi mom, this is Serena." "Good heavens honey where are you?" "Sorry mom, I am at Amy's house Lita and I walked here after the mall. I lost track of time and?" "Alright, Alright. Calm down we're coming to get you. Did you buy something nice that you can wear to dinner because I don't think we'll have enough time to bring you home to change?" "As a matter of fact I did. I'll be waiting. Bye mom." Mrs. Tsukino couldn't even say bye before Serena put down the phone. The Tsukinos pulled up to Amy's house seven minutes latter. Serena's dad was wearing a black tuxedo and her mother was wearing a long sleeved dark red velvet dress that came below her ankles. Much to his dismay, Sammy was wearing a white short sleeved dress-shirt and tan khakis. When she finally decided on what to wear, Serena put on black flares, a white dress-shirt, and a zip up blue plaid vest. Her hair, for once, was not in her usual style of to pig-tails. It was done up like Lita's only it came down just below her knees. Once Serena was in the car she told her parents about the Exchange program. "Well? I don't know, um.. honey?" "Father I think this could be a good learning experience for Serena. Of course you can be a host dear." "YES! I promise I'll fix up the guest room. And I'll try extra hard to get up early so we can walk to school together and I'll do my chores and I'll.." "Alright already , Serena. They already said yes. Gees." "Shove it quizziod or I'll rearrange your face!" "SERENA, if you don't stop fighting with your brother I'll drop you off at home and you'll say goodbye to your father right here!" "Sorry mom." Serena would have started an argument about how Sammy started it but she did not want to risk her chance of dinning at a gourmet restaurant. It was 9:50 when Serena and her family arrived at the airport. They said their good-byes and went home. Serena was about to go to her room when her mother called her from downstairs. "Yes mom?" "Well, um? this is kind of hard to say. Oh, oh well, here it goes. You can't fix up the guest room for the exchange student." "What! Then where is the person going to sleep. Your not counseling out on me are you mommy?" she hoped if she added the word 'mommy' instead of 'mom' she would have a better chance of still being a host. "Oh no of course not. I just put your father's old stuff in that room and well I don't think we would have anywhere else to put it." She said blushing a little since she was always so clean and organized. "Oh mom, is that it? The person can stay in my room. Don't you worry. I'll get Sammy to help me bring down the roll-away from the attic and I'll get some extra sheets from the closet. I guess I could clean out some of my closet space and vwoala! " "Oh thank goodness. If it didn't work out I was going to make you move into the attic." Mrs. Tsukino laughed but Serena was a little upset with the fact that her mom would make her sleep in the spider filled attic. "He, he. Very funny." "I'm just kidding. Now you go to bed you've got school tomorrow." "Ok, good night mom." "Goodnight, and oh Serena?" "Yes mom." "What day will you be picking the student up at the airport?" "Well the flyer just said what week it would start and for how many. So I'm not really sure." "Ok, well find out for me tomorrow. Night" "Night mom." Some Where in France "S'il vous plait?" (please) Callisto pleaded with her mother to let her and her sister Europa go to Tokyo for a three week exchange student program. "Don't think that because you asked me in french that I will let you go!" Callisto was origonally from America. She was one of the people who surrvived a plane crash two years before. She lost her parents and was adopted by the Malvaux family. She never wanted to learn french but picked up the launguage anyway. She only spoke it when she wanted her parents to give her something. "Can't you go to America instead. Europa has not been there and you will be able to show her things ?" "No mama. I want to go to JAPAN! I don't want to go back to that awful place. I hate that country! I lost everything I had because an _ American _ made plane crashed. I don't to ever see ithat country again!" Europa, who had been listening to the heated argument between her mother and younger sister dicided that it was time to cut in. She wanted to help settle things before Callisto went into another tantrum about the plane crash that had left her parentless. "Callisto," she said in a sincere tone, "We love you and we won't make you go back to that country if you don't want to." Europa embraced her sister to keep her from crying or yelling. "Europa don't you go and?" "Mama, your not going to make here go somewhere that she will be unhappy are you?" This outraged Mrs. Malvaux. Since Callisto had moved in Europa had always taken the her side when she and Mrs. Malvaux got into a fight, which happened alot. Callisto liked Mr. Malvaux more then Mrs. Malvaux because Callisto thought that she was trying to replace her mother. Mr. Malvaux had always seemed more like an older brother than a father to her and she liked that. "Non.(no) Je ne suis pas (I am not). Callisto you and Europa will leave in five days for Tokyo, Japan. Just tell you father, Europa, because I wash my hands of this whole sittuation!" and with that she stormed out of the kitchen. " Merci beaucoup ma soeur!" (thankyou very much my sister) "Your welcome Calli. Any time. Now lets go shopping for some new clothes for our trip to Tokyo! ok?" "But how will we know the weather in Tokyo?" "I will look it up in my reference books and on the internet if that doesn't work." "Oh yeah I forgot you had the whole Leon Library in your room!" " Oh stop it! I only have the reference section!" The two girls laughed all the way back to their rooms. comments jocof@prodigy.net Amishetu JC