DISCOVERINGS The class was crowded and noisy, and even though someone was talking to her, she was somewhere else, though her mind still couldn't figure out where. "...and so, what do you think?" Minako opened her mouth realizing she didn't have any idea what he was talking about, and could only mumble "huhh?" "what do you think about going to the movies tomorrow, you know, is Friday, and we can go anywhere else after that, it doesn't matter if it gets late" 'He is cute' she thought... 'for a picture, but not for a date, and definitely not for me'. "No, I have plans, sorry" she said, and he walked away, like someone that got caught on the bus without a ticket and sees the guard coming for him. "I thought that you liked him, you said he was cute the other day, are you ok Mina?" Ami could notice that something was bothering her blonde friend. "Yes, I've just been feeling an emptiness in those dates that I'm not even interested in, I don't know why I go sometimes, I'm gonna give myself a break this weekend. Don't worry, must be a teenage thing Ami, think I'll go shopping or something..." "Ok, you can stop at my house any time if you want, though you know I'll be studying", after saying that she decided not to ask Mina any more questions. 'I know what you mean' she thought, 'I'm not too interested in any dates either, but my reasons are probably different. I'm in love with Mako-chan, and I'm terrified to talk about it, so I hide behind my books and put my energies on my future career...if it wasn't for that...I would explode.' "Come on Ami, give yourself a break too, let the books cool down this weekend, you're gonna burn them if you don't put them on the bookshelf once in a while" Makoto gave a big smile to her and sat on her desk taking the book from Ami's hands, whose face was turning red with a growing blush. "I'll make a nice dinner tomorrow night, do you all wanna come?" Usagi was lost in her own thoughts for a moment, and then she said "As much as I hate to turn one of your meals down, I have a date with Darien tomorrow, and I promised him we would be alone, I guess we need that, he's a college guy, you know, and he'll get tired of all this hunging around together all the time" "fantasize about someone is one thing, but reality is different, I guess that it surprises us in a good way sometimes..." and with a sad look in her eyes Mina added "...or it disappoints us others..." The bell cut through the moment like a knife, and suddenly everybody was moving, picking up books, bags, and pushing each other to the hallway. Chibi Usa ran towards the senshi group and started blabbing about her new teacher, and her classmates, and Hotaru, and with her energy broke the worried glances the girls were giving to Mina, that suddenly cheared up like she always used to, in part not to worry her friends with something she herself couldn't explain. On the way home, she decided to go for a walk, she needed to be alone for a while, and didn't want to give any explanations. Her mom could be too nosy sometimes, and she wanted to avoid conflicts this time. The street had a thin cover of ice, probably from the night before, and only a few patches of snow here and there. The wind burnt with a cold touch in her face and her legs regret the short skirt of the school uniform; closing her jacket in a tight embrace she felt deeply lonely for the first time. Her eyes were focused on her steps, carefully dodging the ice patches the winter placed randomly during the night, and as she couldn't see someone coming in front of her, she bumped into Setsuna Meioh with enough force to drop both of them clumsily on the floor. Setsuna fell over melted snow, and her skirt was soaked and rapidly freezing on her back. Even though in other circumstances she would have died of embarrassment, this took her by surprise, and she couldn't help it and laughed, but her laughter soon fade away when she saw the girl in front of her crying. Her formal self came back for a moment "Are you alright? ..." But for some reason the vision of Minako sitting in the snow, shedding tears with a soundless sorrow, pushed a needle in her heart, and she got up on her knees and hold her.
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