--------------------- Rose Petals Destiny Moon PG Chapter One --------------------- Disclaimer: I wouldn’t do this if I owned Sailor Moon. Mary was making apricot jam. She put all the apricots in the pot and stirred them up. Then she remembered she had to add one ounce of lemon juice for every two apricots. How did she figure out how much lemon juice to put in? Answer: .stip eht detnuoc ehS ---------------------- Her young years flew by so fast, faster than she would ever imagine. Now, that school was over for her, her life-long dream will finally be coming true. She'd get to explore the world, maybe find a little hope in her life that she has always wanted. Her first big adventure to this new life was to take a ship to the coast of Africa then back to Japan. She was so excited to be doing something that she wanted to do. When she turned around to bid her family a farewell, she had almost lost her nerve to go. She shook her head lightly as if not to give into missing her life-long dream just to stay with her family. She walked along the deck of the boat running her hand along the finely made steel bars. Waving to her parents and brother as the boat left the dock. A little depressed she turned away from her disappearing family and started to look for her room that she would be staying in for the next couple of months. When she reached room 206, a smile appeared on her face and opened the door. Not watching where she was going she had bumped into her roommate knocking them both down. "I'm sorry, I guess these rooms are a little smaller than I'm used to," She said with a giggle. "The names Serena." "Yeah, well don't choke on it," snorted the girl. "All city girls are the same, everything is smaller than they're used to." Serena's smile quickly faded, "Well it 'was' a pleasure to meet you." The girl looked at Serena with a confused look, "Don't hold your breath." And with that the girl walked out of the room, leaving a somewhat dumbfounded Serena. She shrugged it off and walked over to her side of the room; she could tell it was her side of the room, for the other side was already trashed. After unpacking her things, Serena decided to take a walk alone. She needed to sort through her thoughts, and wondered why someone would be so rude to some one they didn't even know. She went to the front of the ship to watch where they were heading. All she could see was the blue ocean stretching from side to side. "Its beautiful isn't it?" asked a deep voice. "Wha..." Serena gasped as she turned toward the man. "Sorry if I scared you," he smiled. "You just looked a little lonely.” "Its ok. I just wasn't expecting anyone." He smiled again and looked out to the sea. "I love it here. Its so serene." Serena gave a quite giggle in the word her used to describe the scene. "So you've been on this cruise before?" "For 3 years, ever since I graduated." "Really,” Serena stated. “I graduated a week ago. I’ve planned to do this since I was fourteen” “Hey Darien!” came a blonde running towards them. “Mina?!” Darien asked himself as he turned to where the blonde was coming from. “Oh, its so good to see you! I’ve missed you so much over the passed year.” “I’ve missed you too. How’s everything?” “Everything’s great! How about you?” Mina questioned giving Darien a bone crushing hug. “Good for me.” “Hi, my name’s Mina,” she said looking at Serena. “I’m sorry to have interrupted you.” “Its ok, we weren’t in a big conversation anyways.” Serena smiled at the blonde. “I’m Serena.” she informed as they shook hands. “How do you two know each other?” Mina inquired. “We just met actually. He said I looked lonely.” “You were weren’t you?” he asked, putting on his best innocent look. “Yes, a little.” Mina smiled at the two. “Well, we all need to talk to someone every now and then.” “How do you know Darien?” Serena asked Mina. “He’s my twin brother.” (AN:I thought that Mina and Darien should be twins by the fact that Venus is supposedly Earth’s twin ^_^) “I have always wanted a twin.” “I’ve always wanted a sister.” “You both could pull it off if I didn’t know any better.” Darien spoke up. “What do you mean?” Mina looked at her brother with a puzzled look on her face. “You look exactly alike. Long blonde hair, pale blue eyes, though your’s are lighter Mina, and you are the same height.” “I would of never noticed that.” Serena admitted. “Neither would of I.” “Well, I’m pretty much out of it from my long flight from my home town to get to the docks. I think I’m going to sleep until the morning activities.” Serena stated. “I’ll be sure to find you tomorrow, I surely don’t want to be hanging around my roommate all day.” -------- Good - bad?? Like it - didn’t?? At least I’m done with Chapter One! No more worrying about it. Now on to Chapter Two which will take me a while. Please E-mail me and tell me what you think....I LOVE e-mail destiny_moon@sailormoonfan.com luv-hugs-kisses peace -Des-