ONLY LOVE CAN CONQUER HATE
By SailorJane & Anonymous
CHAPTER 4
“Oh Amy!”
Amy opened her eyes to see Raye Hino biting her lip. However, she was no longer on the ship, she was back in the car with her fellow graduates. ‘What the Hell?’ Amy thought to herself. She immediately jerked back and raised her hands as a reflex.
Serena’s laughter soon spattered from behind her. Mina joined her blonde friend in laughing. Amy got a better look to see Raye grinning mischievously at her. She was leaning into the front seat from the back getting her hands on the blue-haired girl. Looking outside the window, they were right by Raye’s temple. Obviously, Raye had just gotten into the car. The priestess laughed and sat in the back, Mina in the middle and Serena to her other end. Mina lightly slapped her black-haired girlfriend on the shoulder. Lita looked at Amy dumbfounded.
“Raye, what was that all about?” Amy turned towards the backseat.
“Well I had to do something,” Raye said smiling, “You were moaning like you were having sex or something.”
Mina put her arm around Raye and joked around, “How could you kiss another woman. I thought I was the only girl for you?”
“Sorry Mina,” Raye played along, “I’m leaving you so that I can be with Amy.”
The two of them laughed and kissed each other. Amy turned her attention back towards the front uncomfortably.
“I gotta admit,” Serena laughed, “That was pretty funny Raye.” The blonde put her hand out for Raye to slap. The raven hair moved her hand in towards Serena’s but purposely missed, causing Mina to laugh and Serena to roll her eyes.
“I didn’t think it was that funny,” Amy said softly.
“Oh come on Amy,” Raye leaned forward towards her friend, “I was just joking around with you. I mean it’s not like it’s the first time we’ve ever made-out or anything.” She immediately sat back in her seat.
Amy’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets upon hearing this. That was a private moment between her and Raye. She was now spilling the beans. Amy wanted to stop Raye from giving away their secret. However, the shocking look on Serena’s face and Lita’s immediate head turn to the back made her realize that the damage was already done. She only hoped that Raye would keep her promise not to disclose her love for Serena.
“Wait what?” Lita said shocked.
“Raye,” Serena held onto the black-hair’s shoulder, “What are you talking about?”
Mina didn’t say anything, not surprisingly. Certainly, Raye had shared every one of her secrets with the red-bow-wearing blonde.
“You remember that cruise Amy and I went on?” Raye asked Serena.
“Yeah I do,” Serena responded with an annoyed tone of voice. She raised her index finger, “I’ve still never forgiven you for not including me on that boat!”
“Serena,” Raye rolled her eyes, “It was one of Jadeite’s traps for stealing energy.”
“Even so,” Serena folded her arms, “You knew I wanted to go and you didn’t include me!”
“So what happened?” Lita interrupted, very interested to hear this story. Very little was known about Amy’s private life, so this was certainly juicy gossip. Amy hid her face in her gloved hands.
“Well,” Raye said aloud, “Long story short, there were no single guys on the Cruise, so Amy and I kinda ended up kissing each other. It was a little awkward at first, but we really had a beautiful make-out session.” She looked over to Mina and put her hand on the blonde’s shoulder, “Of course, we weren’t together at that point.”
“Yeah I know,” Mina shook her head understandably.
Amy sighed in relief. Raye didn’t say anything about her and Serena. She immediately began looking through her phone. As the car sat at a red light, Amy turned to Lita. The brunette was smiling at her. Amy looked away and buried herself in her iphone.
“Soooo,” Serena nudged the priestess, “Did anything else happen while you two were on the cruise?”
“No,” Raye spat back, “I mean the way things were going, we could have. We were gonna dance all night and then probably head back to the room, but Jadeite showed up and the three of us kicked his ass.”
“Oh yeah,” Serena smiled, “I forgot about that.”
As Amy looked through her text-messages, she finally found something to get out of this uncomfortable situation:
“Hey guys,” she said, “Before I forget, there’s an anime convention in town next week. They want us to make an appearance.”
Her statement was followed by groans from her fellow scouts.
“Oh God!” Lita said annoyingly.
“Do we really have to do another one of those things?” Raye asked.
“They said,” Amy put her hands up, “They’d give ten-thousand dollars to the children’s hospital if we agreed.”
Raye raised her hands in acquiescence, “All right.”
“You should tell that cruise story to everyone there,” Mina chuckled.
“Let’s not and say we did,” Raye said, putting Amy’s mind to ease.
“God I hate those conventions,” Lita said concentrating on the road, “All those annoying boys, and sometimes girls, fawning over us, screaming at us, or trying to get us to read their fanfics.”
“Oh my God!” Raye said aloud, “I hate those things!”
“Oh come on,” Mina smiled, “They’re not all that bad.”
“Seriously,” the priestess replied, “How boring and insipid must these people’s lives be that they spend it writing Sailor Moon fan fiction?”
“Oh that’s not fair, they’re just having fun.”
“They’re just wasting their time is what they’re doing!”
Amy turned around towards the back, as the two argued, to catch a glimpse of her love. Serena turned her head away from Raye and Mina. She looked at the bluenette and smiled. Amy simply smiled back.
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CHAPTER 5
“Did you ever read this one story?” Mina asked Raye as the five of them walked away from the car.
The five of them parked on a busy street in Shinjuku walking towards the grad-party. They were all dressed differently, having removed their graduation gowns. Raye was wearing a red sleeveless shirt over a white tank top with skinny blue jeans and black shoes. Mina was wearing a black t-shirt with white shorts and long white high-heeled boots. Both of them walked together holding hands. Serena was next to Raye, dressed similar with a pink t-shirt and jeans. Amy held hands with Serena, she was dressed up in a light blue dress with her white gloves still on and white heels. Lita stood at the end also in a green t-shirt and jeans. She wanted to hold onto Amy’s’ hand, but hesitated.
“You know I don’t read that crap,” Raye snorted.
“It was called Absence,” Mina continued, “It was like this epic action story, lots of angst. It was cool.”
“You actually read this thing? What in God’s name possessed you to do that?”
“Well,” Mina said playfully, “I found out it was a Yuri story.”
“What’s Yuri?” Raye asked, she didn’t know anything about Fanfiction terminology.
“Lesbian love.”
Serena and Amy were surprised to hear of this, but then they were reminded that Raye and Mina were a couple.
“Really?” Raye looked to her girlfriend somewhat intrigued, “Now that sounds like something I could read. Was it about Uranus and Neptune?”
“No actually,” Mina answered, “In the story you fall in love with Serena.”
Raye and Serena both immediately stopped and simultaneously yelled, “What?” The two of them looked to each other confused as could be. Lita and Amy, who by now had lost Serena’s hand, were slightly frightened that the two of them were going to get into a very heated argument. Fortunately, the two rivals began laughing like hyenas. Serena bent over shedding tears from laughter. Raye put her hand on the girl’s shoulder.
“Yeah right,” Raye laughed, “Like I would ever fall in love with Serena!”
“Yeah,” Serena stood up, “What she said.”
With a smile, Raye put her arm around the blonde and walked with her down the street, “Hey,” she said, “Happy Graduation Meatball Head. I guess you proved me and everybody else wrong.”
“Well thank you my love,” Serena joked around. She reached her lips out and gave the priestess a kiss on the cheek.
“Hey,” Raye smiled, “Watch it, my girlfriend is standing right over there.” She looked towards Mina who locked arms with her. The three friends laughed. “Of course,” Raye looked back to Serena, “You do realize you only made it through high school with Amy’s help?”
As Serena argued with the priestess, Amy felt someone grab her gloved hand. The larger, stronger hand belonged to Lita naturally. Amy looked at Lita as they followed the trio.
“You never told me about you and Raye,” Lita said.
Amy stuttered a little not sure how to answer her friend, “It-it was supposed to be our secret. I don’t know why she told everyone.”
“So nothing ever came out of it?” Lita asked.
Amy thought about the question, and her situation with Raye from way back. She decided to answer with a simple, “No.”
“Aw,” Lita said, “That’s too bad. I mean it’s great that Raye found Mina, but did you ever love someone else?”
Once again, not wanting to talk about Serena, Amy answered, “No.”
“That’s so sad.” Lita could see Amy was uncomfortable talking about this, but she wanted to press-on: “How come you never told me? I thought we were best friends?”
Lita could feel Amy’s hand trembling a little. She began to interlace her fingers with the brainiac, “I-I guess I was scared what you would all think of me.”
“Amy,” Lita chuckled, “I never thought ill of Raye and Mina when they came out of the closet. Nor did I feel that way about Amara and Michelle. If you’re a lesbian, I think that’s great.”
Amy looked to her friend and smiled. Lita was always good to her. But then Lita’s tone seemed to change quickly:
“In fact,” Lita said solemnly, “I’ve been harboring my own secret.”
Amy stared at her friend in curiosity. What was it? Unfortunately, before the brunette could say anything, the five of them finally came to the after-party. A few familiar faces were standing outside on the corner, including Molly, Melvin and several of the Inners’ friends. Melvin looked very sad, and Molly was consoling him. Why weren’t they inside partying?
“Hey Molly,” Serena asked her friend, “What are you doing out here?”
“Ask him,” Molly pointed to the man at the door. It was a fellow student, a popular student named Tucker.
All five of the students went up to him, Serena in front. “Hey Tucker,” she asked, “What’s going on?”
“It’s a hundred bucks to get in,” he said snobbishly.
“What?” Mina snorted, “Says who?”
“Says me,” he said.
Two more students from the in-crowd came to the door, a guy and a girl. They guy shook his palms and said in a raspy voice, “TUCKER!”
Tucker responded in the exact same way only saying, “NICKY!”
Nicky and his girl went right in without any problems.
“Hey what the hell?” Serena whined.
“Hey look,” Tucker said, “Serena if you wanna come in that’s cool, but your friends, genius-girl, the transvestite, and the two dykes gotta pay.”
“Hey, fuck you asshole!” Raye advanced on the man, but Mina held her back, “Wanna have a dyke beat your face all over the wall?” Mina pulled the angry girl back and calmed her down.
“Of course,” he said staring to put his hands on Serena’s body, “If you really want them to come in, we can work out a deal-“
Amy immediately slapped Tucker’s hand and grabbed onto her princess. Tucker held his hand in pain but soon smiled upon seeing Amy and Serena together:
“Oh wow,” he laughed, “Genius-girl is your lezbo girlfriend?”
“Hey Tucker,” Lita said towering over the short man, “You just graduated from high-school right? Don’t you want to live to graduate from college?”
“If you touch me,” Tucker automatically responded. He was shaking in fear, “I’m gonna tell the principal on you!”
“We already graduated you douchebag!”
“Lita,” Amy held onto her tall friend, “Forget it, let’s just go.”
The five of them walked away from the club.
“Yeah,” Tucker said trying to act tough, “That’s right keep walking.”
Lita turned around, but Amy’s hands stopped her from doing anything. Serena walked away easily, Mina was still holding onto Raye. As they walked to the street corner, Serena looked at all her friends standing outside, depressed that they were not popular enough to be invited in, and not having enough money to get in.
“Oh I should be used to this by now,” Melvin said rubbing his large glasses, “I was born a geek, I’ll die a geek.”
“Stop it,” Molly said holding onto him, “You’re a good guy Melvin, you don’t want to be like them. Besides, in about ten years, you’re going to be their supervisor.”
“Hey!” Serena said aloud, “Why don’t we just have our own grad party?”
The four other scouts along with all the unpopular kids looked to Serena.
“Where?” Molly asked.
“Why don’t we have it at the Temple?” Mina looked to Raye.
Raye thought about the idea for a second, “I guess we could, I’m sure grandpa wouldn’t mind.”
“Great!” Serena jumped up and down, “We can stop at the supermarket and pick up some snacks and beer!”
“Serena,” Amy said, “You know we can’t get any alcohol.”
“I betcha Amara could get some for us,” Serena pulled out her cell-phone.
“You got a PA at the place right?” Mina asked Raye.
“Yeah,” Raye looked very angry.
As the rest of them prepared for their own party, Mina consoled her girlfriend. “What’s the matter baby?” She wrapped her arms around the raven-haired girl’s waist.
“Nothing,” Raye said.
“You’re not thinking about what that guy said are you?” Mina gave her girlfriend a kiss and continued, “He’s an asshole, fuck him!”
“I know,” Raye returned a kiss to her girlfriend, “Besides I don’t care what he says, or anybody says about us. I meant what I said Mina, I am not ashamed to stand on the highest building and shout for the whole world to hear, ‘I love Minako Aino!’”
“And I love Raye Hino,” Mina smiled and the two kissed passionately for all around to see.