AN: Don't panic! I know it has bad grammar and it's an example of horrendous writing, but this was the first edition from two years ago! This was actually my first fanfic ever, so that is why it's been on this site for two years. I decided to redo it, just because it was kind of a good idea. So if you want to see how far I've come in two years, read this chapter, then don't be scared and go ahead to chapter two. I promise it's not anything like this.
I knew that if he
touched me or if I touched him, we would die. That's why I keep
identity a secret. I love him, but I don't want him to die. I can die
that is fine with me, but he can't. When that evil witch did this to
me I could have killed her, but she killed herself. So there is no
way I can break this curse. I am stuck like this forever. I have
searched for a cure, but there is none. Oh well. I will just live my
life. Outcast as a no one. As a face in the crowd. I am not known to
anyone. I have black hair, no odangos one bun on the back of my head
like Pluto. No one cares. They don't have to. I don't even. I am
always around him, just to see him. He doesn't know it though. I am
just another of his maids. I work through the halls. Dusting,
sweeping, washing windows and getting fingerprints off mirrors. No
one notices me. No one.
I was doing my normal thing. When it
happened. I was in the hall cleaning a mirror, he walked by. I kept
my face hidden, but he looked in the mirror. He saw my face. He kept
walking for about two steps. Then he stopped and turned around. The
mirror was clean, so I turned so he only saw my back and left. He
didn't come after me. I guess he just thought he was seeing things.
Oh my Darien. I almost cried, but then I got back to work. That night
I had a dream. Actually, more of a flashback. The witch was chanting
the words. I was right in front of her.
"Until the time
your love may break, his touch your life will take. The touch of love
from him to you, will do more than you want it to." The witch
chanted. We did have proof it would kill us, If you were wondering.
The curse let us touch once. We both became very ill, the witch gave
us the cure for the sickness and warned us. Then she killed herself.
The hag.
It occured to me that the cure would be for us not to
be in love anymore. But that will never happen. I don't think so
anyway. Otherwise he wouldn't look for me. I hear from other maids
that he has had a search team out for the princess since the day she
disappeared. He didn't bother to search his own castle though.
Sometimes when no one is around and the guards aren't at his door. I
go in his room while he is sleeping. He looks like an angel. He has
nightmares though. Once he erupted screaming my name once. It
frightened me. I left his room quickly that time. The generals were
coming to make sure he was alright and I hid in the shadows until
they went in. Then I left.
The second time he caught sight of
me I was very worried. I was walking down the hall and all of a
sudden he appeared. Just right in front of me. I was very startled. I
looked straight into his eyes then and I know he got a good look at
me. I bowed quickly and muttered, "I am sorry, your highness."
I went around him and I know he watched me leave. I think he really
had a suspicion, then. But he really started to take action the next
time.
I had told my self to never let that happen again. One
day though I couldn't help it. My old self came out. I slipped on a
rug and landed flat on my back. He had seen the whole thing and ran
over. "Are you okay, miss?" He asked. There I was, my back
was killing me, and I saw him lean over me. I knew he was going to
try to help me up. His face was gorgeous, I wanted to kiss him badly.
After a second or two of him seeing my face a look of shock came upon
his face. He was feeling the familiarity I was. I stood up quickly,
being careful not to touch him. He reached out to grab my arm and I
quickly pulled away. I ran down the hall in the other direction. He
started after me. I turned left then right. I opened a storage room
and quickly shut the door. He turned the corner to look for me,
didn't see me anywhere, so just turned around and walked away. I came
out of the closet and heard him say. "Put a castle wide search
for a maid. She has long black hair and blue eyes. Now! Don't let
anyone leave the castle."
I was in for it now. There was
no way out. Then I remembered the luna pen. I had to get to my room
without anyone noticing me. I couldn't leave by the hall I came. I
had to go another way. I found out guards were in the other hall. I
felt cold air hit me. I looked up. The vent! I grabbed a chair and
climbed up. I knew the castle well enough I found my room in no time.
I got down from the vent and grabbed my bag with all my moon things
are in. I climbed back to the vent, right as the guards came in my
room. The saw no one was there and left. I got out of the vent. I
decided I would have red eyes and long red hair. "Luna Pen
Disguise!" I called. Then I casually walked out into the hall. I
was safe for now.
He didn't notice me anymore. I always
noticed him. In the halls, at dinner, anywhere else. I missed him
noticing me though. A little at least. He looked a little worn down
though and a little lonely. After they couldn't find the maid he gave
up hope. One night when I was watching him sleep he woke up. I ran
for the attached bathroom. He started cursing. "Serena! Why
don't you just come back? Huh?" I thought he knew who I was but
he didn't. "Serena! Where are you?" He sat down on his bed
and started crying. He was getting very mad at me now. Maybe our love
wouldn't last forever. Maybe.
One day I answered the door and
a messenger from the moon was there. I was a little surprised. "A
gift from the Queen of the Moon for Prince Darien." he said. I
accepted the gift and thanked him. Darien wasn't there at the moment
so I took it to his room. I didn't think any more about it. I figured
my mother was telling him thank you for helping search for me.
The
next day I was cleaning his room and saw the he had opened the
package. It was a mirror and I thought that was very strange. It was
gorgeous though. I finished his room and left. The rest of that day
was normal. I cleaned, ate, and went to bed. It was the next day I
should have been worried about.
I was cleaning the mirror in
the hall that had been replaced by the mirror the queen gave him. I
didn't look at the reflection, I just cleaned it. I looked at the
inscription at the bottom. It said "Know who you are". I
was kinda weirded out by that. Then I looked at the reflection. I
screamed. It was me in the mirror. I mean me, me. I had blonde hair
blue eyes and I was me! I COULD HAVE DIED!!! That was just like my
mother send him a magic mirror. I wonder what he saw. After a second
of shock I started cleaning it again. It had my fingerprints on it,
so I had to. Then he walked by. He looked at me. I tried to get out
of the view of the mirror, but he saw the princess in the mirror. His
eyes grew wide with shock.
"Grab her!" He yelled as
soon as he saw me beginning to run. The generals took after me and I
ran faster than I had ever run before. Down the halls and to the left
then the right. I couldn't shake them. I ran into the bathroom and
locked the door. It was time to give up seeing him. At least for a
while. I went out the window and didn't look back.
Well 3
weeks later Darien needed someone to run his schedule for him and be
his secretary. I applied and got the job. I would work very close to
him, but he wouldn't touch me hopefully. I made my eyes light blue
almost white and light brown hair. I looked very good, it was one of
my best disguises.
Everything was going good, I got to laugh
with him, talk with him, and almost pretend everything was normal.
Then one day the greatest thing in the world happened. Or so I
thought. We were alone in his room and it was just
beautiful.
"Usako. I wanted to tell you something."
He said to me. "I-I-I like you. A lot. Actually I love you."
He said this blushing. I was shocked. He didn't love me-the
princess-anymore!
"What about the princess?" I asked
him.
He sat down at this. "I don't love her anymore. If
she really loved me, she would be here right now! I hate her! I hate
her for torturing me and I hate her for not caring! I have left her
in the past now! I love you now!" Then I realized that our love
had broken. I think because he wasn't technically in love with me. I
did something I hadn't done in a long, long time. I kissed him. It
was long and beautiful. I loved him. And you know what I didn't die.
I didn't even hurt!
"Darien do you really hate the
princess?"
"Yes."
"Then....I guess
I have some bad news." I grabbed my bag and ran to the hall
mirror. He looked in the mirror at me. He saw the princess standing
there. He took a step back. I got out the luna pen and changed into
myself. He looked at me for a long time. I guess he didn't know what
to do.
"Darien you don't understand why I was gone. I
mean actually I wasn't gone. That black-haired maid, the red-haired
maid, and your secretary. I used the Luna pen. I couldn't touch you
or we would die. You remember that old witch that cured of us of that
disease? She put a curse on me. If we touched we would die. We can
touch now because you fell in love with someone else. Not me."
"I
don't know Serena. I just don't know. Why didn't you just tell me? We
could have at least talked then!"
"You know we would
have wanted to do more than that! You know it! I always did! I knew
with you always there you would too!"
"Maybe. I
don't know. I don't love you anymore, not after that! I don't want to
see you! Not anymore!" He yelled then he walked off.
"Darien.."
I whispered and broke out in tears. I ran off towards the door of the
house. I ran into the generals.
"Princess! What are you
doing here? Does the Prince know you are here?"
"Yes.
I have always been here. As his maids and secretary. Just please
point me towards a way to the moon!"
6 months later I am
on the moon and I have been in bed for the last month. I am sick with
depression. I wonder how Darien is. I think about him all the time. I
have lost a lot of weight, but I am sick. Mother told me we are going
to the Earth. To visit but, I doubt she can get me out of bed.
Okay,
she got me out of bed and we are on Earth. We are about to go to the
palace. I am going to be forced to see him again. I guess it won't be
bad for me, but it will be for him. Here we go.
"Hello
Darien!" my mother says like a cue to me.
"Hello."
I say. He kissed my mother's hand he doesn't even bother to look at
me. I ignore him too. But I still look at him with longing eyes.
"It
is nice to see you Serenity. I am glad you came. I wanted to tell you
how much I loved that mirror you sent me. It revealed so much."
He said the last line looking at me. He said it in an angry
tone.
"Darien. I must tell you how glad I am to be here.
The Earth is so beautiful." My mother said this. She had
something up her sleeve. I could tell. Then her communicator went
off. "Oh I must take this." She walked off leaving us
alone.
"Well," I said, "How are
you?"
"Fine."
"Good. Good."
"Yeah
whatever." He said. He really didn't want me there I could tell.
I didn't really want to be there either, but I didn't really have a
choice. Then my mother came back.
"Darien, I think you
two should wait for me in your bedroom. I will be there in a
sec."
"Sure." Why his bedroom? What was my
mother up to? We went to his bedroom. After we walked in I sat on his
bed. Then the doors slammed shut and I heard a key.
"What?"
I ran to the door and tried to open it. "Mother!" I ran to
the windows they were locked too. Great. Stuck with him. He might
kill me!
"Great stuck with you." He said
coldly.
"Listen, Darien. I didn't want to leave you. Why
do you think that I stayed around the castle? To torture you? Don't
you think I would have told you if I could? Why do you think I have
been in bed for the last month? Because I'm lazy?" The last part
slipped out. I didn't want him to know that.
"Well... I
just... You left me alone for so long! And when I kept seeing you!
The eyes in the hall when you tripped, when you came in at night and
watched me, when you suddenly appeared in the mirror! I thought I was
going crazy!"
"Wait! You knew I was watching you at
night? How did you know?"
"Serena, when I woke up
that once I thought I was dreaming you. That's why I
yelled."
"Darien. I love you."
"I
love you too." Then we kissed. It was great. My mother let us
out of the room. The rest of the visit was great. Well, you know the
rest of the story.
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