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"Ne Mamo-chan." Usagi began, sitting on the sofa next to her boyfriend, cuddling into his side.

Currently the two were in Mamoru's apartment spending some quality time together. Lately the two of them have been busy with school projects, Mamoru with his college term paper and Usagi with her senior year culture festival. They would meet up at the Crown Arcade for a few minutes a day before their schedules would interfere. Or spend nights talking to each other on the phone, before Usagi's father would be suspicious and start asking questions on who she was talking to so late at night.

"Yes Usako?" Mamoru replied, using the special name only he calls her by. Putting his newspaper aside and shifting his attention to the petite blonde at his side, he wrapped his strong arms around her, nose nuzzling into her loose golden locks. A light scent of vanilla and roses wafted to his senses. He loved how she smelled like sunshine, even seemed to radiate it every time he looked at her, despite being a descendent of the moon kingdom.

"Well…" Usagi started, but seemed hesitant to continue on. Staring at her hands, fingers entwined together, she just shook her head, deciding not to finish what she was going to say.

"What is it? What's on your mind?" Mamoru nudged on, kissing her on her temple.

"Well" she started again. "It's about the culture festival…at my school."

"Mm hmm. It's this Sunday right? I finished my term paper so I'll be going with the guys to support you and the girls." Mamoru replied happily. He had been worried about not being able to attend because of all the assigned school work taking up so much of his time.

"YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO!" Usagi exclaimed. Her fingers had stopped fidgeting and were now gripped tightly to her shirt, her head continued to face down.

"What?" startled by the sudden outburst and shocked, Mamoru could only stare down at Usagi with a confused expression. Usagi had been talking non-stop about the culture festival and how excited she was about it every chance she could for the past few weeks. She had mentioned several times how she couldn't wait to have me try the foods she and her classmates were going to serve in their café.

Letting go of Usagi, he shifted on the couch to face her, tilting her head up in the process to read her expression.

"Are you worried that I don't have the time to go Usako? I've finished all my assignments and don't expect any projects for the next couple of weeks." Mamoru reasoned.

"It's okay Mamo-chan." A bright smile and determined expression suddenly appearing on Usagi's face. "I want you to have that day for yourself. You've been working so hard lately, that you should just stay home and rest." With that she gave him a quick kiss on the lips and got up and walked to the kitchen, expecting him to follow through with what she wants and ending the discussion on the topic.

All Mamoru could do was stare off after her, stunned into silence. Something was wrong. For Usako to change her mind like that, especially with all her previous excitement, there was more to this than just a simple "I want you to rest". No, it was obvious it had something to do with the culture festival and not wanting him to go to it.

Curiosity got the best of him and Usagi clearly didn't want to discuss more on the matter, so he'll just have to find the answer some other way. Grabbing his cellphone, he got up off the couch and walked out to the balcony, hoping to make a phone call out of Usagi's earshot.

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To be continued…

Okay, first chapter finished! I'm hoping to have a few more chapters before I end this story.