Sorry it's taken me so long to finish guys!!! (OOPS!) I've been super busy! ( 3

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, or any characters or the lyrics to that awesome Savage Garden song "To the Moon and Back."

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I sat with Lita and Mina in Lita's living room, trying to keep my sides from splitting wide open. Mina wasn't in a very good mood, still, and was giving choppy little sarcastic remarks about the world around her. We tried watching movies but Mina got exasperated by the fact that "...movies today are just SOOO unrealistic!" Like she'd know what they used to be like... She was a riot to watch.

Lita hopped up but I really didn't pay much attention to what she was doing. Until I heard the voice.

"Hey Lita...this is Darien. I'm having some really massive girl problems. Call me when you get in. Thanks!" BEEP!

So, he does probably have a girlfriend. Isn't that my luck? I knew I shouldn't have left him. He just freaked me out, is all.

"Who was that?" I asked innocently.

"Hmm?" Lita asked, "oh that was just a friend from the arcade. I started speaking to the guy because he was good friends with the hot guy that works there."

Andrew, I assumed. Not that I cared.

Mina looked at me curiously. "Serena, where do you live?"

"Oh!" I began to panic. I couldn't tell them I didn't have a home. "I just moved here so I'm not sure of the address but it's the big, 15 story apartment building by Eggz~N~Such." BINGO! I didn't know I could lie so well.

Mina covered her ears. "NO!!! DON'T SAY THE NAME! NOT THAT PLACE!!"

Lita grinned evilly. She tiptoed up to Mina and whispered, "Eggz~N~Such..."

Mina whirled around, indignently and stated calmly, "I hate you."

"Thank You!"

I looked up at the clock above Lita's television. 11:15 p.m. I'd been with these girls all day. I thought Mina was about to drop. She'd been up for almost 24 hours and we'd made her go window shopping. I felt kind of bad about it later.

"Well guys," I said as I stood up, " I hate to leave, but I've got to get home at a relatively decent hour."

Mina groaned, "Already? Aww! Don't go!"

"Gotta go!"

Lita looked at me. "Come back A.S.A,P! Oh yeah! Here's my number!" she said as she picked up a little card and handed it to me.

"A business card for your phone?"

She shrugged, " I'm a busy girl."

As I was walking down her sidewalk I began pondering exactly where I was going to sleep tonight. I mean the dug-out at the baseball field is alright for one night but I really didn't want to make it an every night affair. At least I wouldn't have to make up my bed...

I felt scared as I began to walk down the dark streets. I saw a lot of creepy stuff going on in these streets at night that I'd never thought would have happened in the day time. The people I saw COULDN'T have walked the streets in the daytime. They worked nights and freaked me out.

I walked silently to the ball park and lay down on my bench in the dugout. I hated this. I'd never actually been gone long enough to qualify as a Missing Person.

I have now.

I was drifting off to sleep when I felt warmer. I heard muffled noises around me but as hard as I tried I couldn't open my eyes or wake myself up. Finally I stopped fighting. And drifted into a world where I didn't have to worry anymore...and Darien was mine.

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I woke up in a warm fuzzy bed. Much more comfortable than my dug out escapades. I looked at the floor on the side of the bed and found fuzzy, white carpet. I then noticed I'd seen this room before. It was...

Darien's.

Not that I really minded that I was asleep in his bed. Just kind of freaked out by it. He must have found me and brought me here. I looked up in the open doorway to see him standing there.

"Are you okay?" he whispered softly.

"Yeah." Why was it I could think of such witty remarks around other people but couldn't get more than two words out around him?

"Hey Serena?"

"Yeah?" Oh I wished I would stop doing that! Its driving me bonkers!

"I meant what I said the other day... but if you don't feel the same way, I can be a friend."

I took a deep breath and said what I'd been trying to say all along and couldn't find the words.

"I would fly to the moon and back

if you'll be my baby.

I've bought a ticket to a world

where we belong.

So won't you be my baby?"