interstellar5555 | Drip Drip Drop Little April Showers

Who: Usagi Tsukino and OPEN
Where: All over Vista
What: It's a rainy week and Usagi is missing home
When: All week
Warnings: None I can think of

A: Drip Drip Drop Little April Showers

It was raining. It was a surprise shower and the clouds looked like they would be there all week. But surprise or not, it was April, so Usagi always carried her umbrella on her during the month. She let out a sigh as she was walking home, her umbrella over her head. It was a brand new umbrella and it was covered in little rabbits and cats. It was so adorable how could she not purchase it? Besides, it allowed her to have more than one person under it too.

Which seemed to be a good thing, at the moment. As she walking back to her newer home, she saw someone under an awning, clearly stuck and without their own umbrella. She checked her watch. Well, she still had time before anyone else would be home. She headed over to them and offered a smile.

"If you need, I don't mind walking you to the bus stop or to get a cab or something?" She'd even walk them home if they really needed.

B: What Can Compare With Your Beautiful Sound?

Maybe this was a bad idea.

Usagi frowned as she flipped through the song-requests book. It was karaoke night at Brad's Diner and she had come to support the new idea but she had absolutely no confidence in singing. She also had absolutely no idea what half these songs were.

"Uuuugh there's so maaaany," she sighed as she kept glancing. "And half of these are duets," she mumbled. "At this rate I'm not going to be singing until it's over."

C: Drip Drip Drop When the Sky is Cloudy

Why? Why did this ALWAYS happen to her? She groaned and her shoulders visibly slumped forward as she held the umbrella over her head. She knew this was the address, she had the flowers to deliver in her arms, but the security guard was staunchly blocking her path.

"Oh come ooooon," she groaned, showing him the invoice. "It says right here, that I have a delivery for the band from the building manager! I just need to get in, drop it off, and then I'll be on my way!" she whined, growing more frustrated as this was now the third time she showed him the paper work and he had "called to the building manager" to see if they were actually going to let her in.

"I could have been gone by now! I'm not even staying to watch the band I just need to deliver these bouquets!" she stomped her foot, trying to leave before the band even arrived. "Don't you have anything better to do than stop me from delivering bought and paid for flowers!"

D: Your Pretty Music Can Brighten the Day

"EEEEEE!" the sun had made an appearance, finally! She loved rain, certainly, but she was like a sunflower, drawn to the light. Usagi was practically glowing as she spread out her arms and just spun around, letting all the warmth touch her skin as she walked through the park.

"Aaaah," she took a deep breath. The sun was warm but the grass and pavement was wet, the air still heavy but a rainbow bright in the sky. Her eyes were closed in content.

Which was perhaps her mistake as she took another slight spin... and her hand promptly smacked someone.

Her eyes snapped open.

"AAAAAH ARE YOU OKAY!?!" Goodbye good mood, hello panic.

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He just looks to her, a little surprised. Mostly because he's used to normal girls sort of balking at how bad his face is. But she offers and he does need to keep his identity a secret as much as he can. Can't be caught carrying about a stuffed animal.

"I'd really appreciate it, Polpetta" Did he just call her Meatball in Italian. Yes. Yes he did. It's the hair, sorry about that, Usagi. "Let me sit down on a bench for you and you can fix me up."

He starts towards one and seems a bit relieved. "Good. I really don't know what sort of shit girls her age are into, so...I had to guess."

This is a girl who would be covered in scars if her crystal didn't heal her all the time. Your scars aren't all that strange to her. She blinked at "Polpetta," not knowing it meant "meatball." Though she could probably guess, everyone called her a nickname based on her hair.

"My name is Serena Lapin, by the way!" she offered as she took the frog plush and followed him to a bench. Considering Xanxus height and how short Usagi was, even sitting down, it only made them equal heights. "And girls can be into anything and everything, depends on the girl."

"Serena hmm?" He hands over his concealer and sighs. "Not much help there. I guess that means I just have to learn what she likes and doesn't like. But I was hoping a young girl like you would be able to give me some tips, since I have your attention now."

It reminds him that he hasn't introduced himself and for a moment, he wonders if he should. He has a reputation after all. Even if right now he's being perfectly civilized. "Xanxus. But don't say that too loudly. I'm trying to avoid rabid fans right now."

"That's right!" she smiled as she took the concealer. "And well, I say that because I personally like rabbits and cats and moons and I pretty much have an iron stomach and will eat anything. Even my phone has a bunny case, but my cousin Alex she's a huge fan of racing her car, knows how to pilot a helicopter, and then my other cousin Diana wants to be a singer and is a master at any sport she plays. So yes, you are going to have to get to know what she does and doesn't like," she teased as she was applying the concealer for him.

At the mention of his name, she doesn't respond one way or another as she fixes his cheek. She told Luci once that she would judge someone herself upon meeting them, and she had only just now met Xanxus. She smiled wide.

"Well, you're in luck, no rabid fans here, just a rabbit one."

He stays still for her. This is weird as hell, honestly. He's not used to letting anyone not Luci helping him. He feels like once upon a time he had a team of people he could rely on. He remembers them all by sight, but names still escape him.

"Sounds like I got a lot of work ahead of me. But I think it'll be worth it." He shrugs a little and then reaches out to pat her on the head. "I don't have carrots for you to reply you for this, but is there some singer you really like. I can try to get you an autograph."

"Just as well, I hate carrots," one too many rabbit jokes had caused that, in fact. At the mention of the autograph she grinned.

"You don't need to get me anything or give me anything. It was my fault for causing you to have your makeup ruined. Although, if you'd say hi to Luci for me, that would make my day!" She even had a cellphone now too! "Alright," she pulled away and held up the compact's mirror to Xanxus.

"How'd I do?"

"Say hi to Luci?" He wild grin. "You know Luci?" Well well, any friend of his frontwoman is a friend of his. More so because she's gone and spent time in fixing his face.

He looks at his reflection and nods. "You did a great job. You'd do great as a makeup artist. But I mean it. Let me at least do something for you. You like...pizza or something? Maybe it'll give me practice for when I meet my own little girl."

"I do! We met at the Fairy Trials audition! She's great and we even went and got sushi burritos together, which I had never had but those are amazing! Have you gotten them before?" The way to Usagi's heart was most definitely her stomach.

"Thank you, and pizza sounds great! I love all food... well, carrots being the exception of course, but I wasn't kidding about being able to eat anything."

Lord, this kid is cute. He can see why Luci would have gotten sushi burritos with her. Though he makes a sour face. "No, I never had. Because you want to know a secret." he leans a little close to her. "I hate fish. I think it's super nasty."

He then stands and picks up that massive frog. "Pizza it is then. I know just the place. I'll make sure they don't put any carrots on your pie." He's going to happily lead her to the place with the closest authentic pizza he can find. It's a real shame because Xanxus misses real pizza.

She leans in like he's about to share an incredibly important secret with her and grins when he tells her about not liking fish.

"Well, I won't tell a soul, and I'll make sure that there aren't any anchovies on it, either!" she smiled bright. "And that's great, what's the place called? Maybe I know it."

"You, Polpetta are a goddess." Anyone who will avoid anchovies is a friend of his. "And the place is just up there. You see the little checkered outdoor patio area. That's the open air part of Bocca Felice ." the Italian rolls perfectly off his tongue and he stops before the little restaurant.

"That means "happy mouth" where I'm originally from." He's remembered he's from Italy long ago but it still works with his fake ass backstory. "And I can tell you from experience that it's not false advertising."

In fact, it looks like the waitresses all know him because they're setting up the best table in the patio for them.

"How did you know?" she laughed, winking. "Well! If it's going to be as good as you say it is, I'm definitely going to have a happy mouth!" she grinned. "What is your original language? Italian, right? That sounded like Italian."

She prayed that it was still called Italian in this place.

She gives several "thank yous" to the staff who, despite glaring, still give her respect as waitresses. Usagi is kind enough to keep holding the stuffed frog so Xanxus' doesn't have to worry about his image.

"Well, I'll have to tell my cousins about this place, we're always looking for good restaurants."

"That's right. You're pretty smart, kid. It's Italian. I was born there and lived there for a while." He can't remember how or why he left though. There's a huge gap between his real memories of Italy and those memories of the life he was supposed to have here.

He's a little grateful to her because she has kept hold the frog. He might never live it down if she hadn't. As it was, there might be rumors about him hitting on young teen girls on top of everything else he supposedly does. Well, so be it.

"I'm sure your cousins will really like it. Now, they do have a menu, but I can tell you right now that you really want to have their pizza."

"Oh wow! That's amazing! I'd love to go to Italy! I want to travel the whole world," since she was eventually going to be queen of it, she should honestly know all about it. "Whiiich I guess you'll be getting to do soon since they just announced that world tour, yeah?" she offered with a smile.

"Alright, so besides no anchovies on the pizza, what should I have on it? I won't say no to any ingredient except carrots." Not that she'd ever seen carrots on a pizza but still.

Drip Drip Drop Little April Showers

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