Confused Heart
   by Marj

Notes:
	gomen - I'm sorry
	ojii-san - grandfather

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Disclaimers: The characters of Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon were created 
by Naoko Takeuchi-san, its copyright owned by Toei Animation, Kodansha, 
Nakayoshi, Sterling Animation Inc., and many other companies scattered 
throughout the world.  Meaning, I cannot claim the characters as my 
own, and am mearly borrowing them.  The character Andy Spencer is mine, 
though.  So please don't sue, as I don't earn anything from this other 
than the satisfaction of making a story.



Chapter Five:  Roses Are Red . . . Violets Are Blue . . .


	A dozen roses will eventually wilt and the thought that
      	comes with it will eventually die

	But a poem spoken by a sincere soul shall live
      	and will surpass through the unfriendly tides
           		of time . . .

	And so I repeat a prose that for so long has been used . . .

      Roses are red,
      	Violets are blue . . .
                  I love you.
            		Will you love me, too?


                                        Andy


Usagi read and reread the same poem over and over again.  Every line 
she read carefully, every meaning of every word her mind slowly tried 
to understand, and yet her heart refused to believe.

She folded the card and leaned forward on her bed.  Turning her head 
slightly around, she saw the dozens of roses arranged beautifully by 
her mother in a big vase.  She suddenly became dizzy.  What was she 
going to do?

"But . . . but I have a boyfriend!" she had said earlier that morning, 
when she found the flowers and the poem lying on her desk.

"I don't care.  Love doesn't stop anybody from going after someone."

"But I can't!  I just can't!"

"It doesn't matter.  I'll continue to court you.  Everybody has a way 
to somebody's heart, everybody has a chance to be loved.  And only when 
I truly think it's hopeless will I stop.  Only when *I* think it's 
hopeless."

She had turned to her friends, but they all looked at her helplessly.  
Then, when they were heading home, Minako, Sailorvenus, the Senshi of 
Love, actually approved his words that love could not be stopped.  And 
the others even confirmed it!

 Usagi thought, frowning deeply.  

She turned around and laid on her back.  

Usagi sighed in frustration.  She stood up and picked up the picture of 
Mamoru and her that rested on her desk.  "Mamo-chan, please come 
home!" she pleaded.  "Please . . ."

*****

"Okay, Mako-chan.  Try solving this problem.  It really isn't difficult 
. . ." Ami said, handing Makoto her math book after explaining a few 
equations and pointing out the problem with her ballpoint pen.

Makoto looked at her problem and read it carefully, question marks 
flying around her head.  Ami, oblivious to her confused look, smiled 
and turned to Minako.  "Now, Minako-chan, proving is like this . . ."

Usagi watched as Ami discussed another math topic with Minako in her 
"teacher" mood.  She tapped her pen on her book, waiting for them to 
finish so that she could start studying with Ami.  She hated not doing 
anything - it usually led her mind to think about her problems with 
Andy.

"Hey, Usagi, are you okay?"

Usagi turned her attention to Rei, who was leaning on the table and 
looking at her with a pen balanced on the bridge between her nose and 
mouth.  "I'm fine," Usagi said weakly.

"You don't look so good, Odango Atama."

Usagi burned up.  "Rei, do you mind???"

"Gomen.  Really, Usagi.  What's wrong?"

Usagi sighed.  "It's about Andy.  You've heard about him, right?"

Rei rolled her eyes.  "Makoto and Minako kept pestering me with phone 
calls last night just to tell me about that!"  She turned serious 
again.  "What do you plan to do about him?"

"That's what I'm worrying about.  I have no idea.  Earlier this 
morning, I repeated to him that I already have a boyfriend, and he 
still says he doesn't care, and he'll still go after me with everything 
he's got!!  He's so persistent!!!"

Makoto - who just couldn't resist eavesdropping - looked up from her 
unsolved math problem.  "Reminds you of someone you know, eh, Rei?"  
she said teasingly.

Rei blushed as a vision of Yuuichirou entered her mind.  "Yeah.  But 
anyway, Usagi, you should at least be happy that he shows his affection 
for you.  It's better than hiding it, you know."

Now, Makoto turned to Ami, who was still talking.  "Now, that reminds 
you of someone you know, eh, Ami?"

Ami stopped talking and turned bright red.  Then she started talking so 
fast Minako couldn't keep up with her.

Makoto's smile widened, Rei and Usagi sweatdropped, and Minako's face 
became even more confused than before.  Sighing, Usagi turned back to 
Rei.  "What can I do?  How do I make him go away?"

Rei raised an eyebrow.  "What are you asking me for?"

"Well . . . it's just that you're *sooo* good at chasing people away 
sometimes . . ."

"IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE AN INSULT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!"

Rei stood over her, eyes flashing, huge burning flames behind her.  
Usagi - who at that moment looked similar to a small insect in a corner 
- was covered with sweatdrops, holding up her hands and crossing them 
over and over again.

"No, no, no!!!  You don't understand!!!  I didn't mean it that way!!!" 
Usagi cried.

Her friend sat back down on her pillow with a huff, arms crossed over 
her chest.  "You had better not have!" Rei warned.

Ami looked at them, her face still flushed from Makoto's earlier 
comment.  "Could the two of you please tone it down?  Minako-chan is 
trying to study here."

 Minako 
fumed, sulking as she stared at her now almost unintelligible math 
book.  She glared at Makoto.   her eyes sent.

Her friend just looked at her innocently.

"So, you were saying?" Rei asked in a softer voice.

"About Andy . . .  What should I do?  What if he asks me out on a date 
or something?"  Usagi asked.

Rei pointed her pen at her.  "You already *went* on a *date* with him, 
Usagi."

"How many times do I have to tell you . . ." Usagi started angrily 
until Ami and Minako hushed her.  "How many times do I have to tell you 
that taking him around Tokyo was *not* a date?!?" she whispered.

"So you say.  But I don't think so!"

Makoto just couldn't keep out of the discussion again.  "Speaking of 
dates, how was *your* date with Yuuichirou two weeks ago?" she asked.

Rei's shoulders hunched, and Minako winced.

"She went on a *date* with Yuuichirou last week?!" Usagi asked, 
intrigued, as she hadn't been around when Minako had spread the news to 
the others.

"You mean you didn't know?" Makoto asked.  "Oh, right, you weren't 
there when *somebody* related the info to us!"

The raven-haired girl slowly turned towards the blond-haired one hiding 
behind her math book.  "It was *you*, wasn't it?!  I knew I saw you in 
that restaurant!!  You told them, didn't you?!!"

"Hey, it wasn't my fault that my family decided to eat out for a 
change!!!" Minako defended herself.  Blood rushed to her face, and she 
gave Makoto another look.  

"You still told them!!" Rei pointed out.

"Hey, did I promise you that I wouldn't tell anybody?  I don't seem to 
recall even speaking to you about it!"

"But she didn't tell me!"  Usagi whined.  "What happened?!  When?  
Where?"  Rei glared at Usagi while she rambled on.  "It must have been 
so romantic . . . Rei's first date with Yuuichirou . . ."
 
"YOU WENT ON A DATE WITH WHO?!?" a voice outside Rei's room shouted.  
The door roughly slid open, revealing a small, bald old man wearing a 
blue and white robe.

"O - o - ojii-san!!" Rei stammered.

"Uh-oh . . ." Usagi and Minako clamped their mouths with their hands.

Rei's grandfather stomped on the wooden floor of Rei's room and stood 
face to face with his granddaughter.  "Tell me I haven't heard right.  
Tell me I haven't heard right!!!" he demanded.

"But . . . but . . ." Rei turned red with embarrassment and rage.  
"Were you eavesdropping on us?!"

"No, I was just walking by!"

"Are you sure?"

"Don't you trust your ojii-san that much?!?"

Rei turned her head away.  "Aw, come on, Ojii-san!"

Her grandfather pointed a finger at her.  "Don't try to change the 
subject, either!  Were you, or were you not out on a date with 
Yuuichirou?"

"Did I hear someone call my name?"  A young man with long shaggy brown 
hair and deep blue eyes entered, carrying a tray of cookies.

 Usagi thought as Rei's 
grandfather started to chase him around the yard in front of Rei's 
room, carrying a broom that he found leaning nearby.  

Kumada Yuuichirou was shouting "What'd I do?!  What'd I do?!" while the 
cookies in his tray flew with every swipe of the old man's broom.  Rei 
had decided that she was fed up with all of the nonsense.  "Stop this 
at once!!"

The two men she was living with paused in mid-run, their heads turned 
towards her.

Rei took a deep breath.  "Ojii-san, stop it!  You're being rude to 
Yuuichirou!  Yuuichirou, don't you dare think that I've forgiven you 
for that stunt you played on me!!  I can't believe I let myself be 
fooled!  Imagine, telling me that my friends were waiting for me in a 
classy restaurant instead of Crown Parlor the day I was supposed to 
meet them!"

Usagi put on a thoughtful look.  "Oh, so *that* was the reason why Rei 
didn't arrive that other day.  I thought that she and Minako played 
hooky with us back then!"

Minako glared at her.  "I told you, I did *not* play hooky!  I was 
eating lunch with my family!"

The attention reverted back to Rei, who had been scolding the two men 
in front of her.  She extended her arm and pointed her finger away from 
her room after she ran out of words to say.  "Now, if you guys don't 
mind, take this someplace else!!  We are trying to study!!"  She then 
grabbed the door to her room and slid it shut.

Usagi, Ami, Makoto and Minako were all staring at her.  "What are you 
all looking at?" she demanded.  Suddenly, the four of them had 
something very interesting to do.

Minutes later, Makoto broke the silence by snickering.  Minako - who 
was still stuck with Ami - finally had enough.  "Okay, girl!!  All of 
us have suffered because of you!  It's payback time!!!"  She reached 
behind her, swiped one of Rei's pillows from her bed, and threw it 
squarely at Makoto's laughing face.

"Spoil-sport!" Makoto said, throwing it back.  Ami tried to stop the 
inevitable, but was accidentally pelted by the incoming pillow.

Soon, Rei's room was filled with laughter as the five girls engaged in 
a pillow fight, four of them pitted against one common enemy, punishing 
her for her misdeeds.

The problem about Andy was forgotten.  For now.

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