I love this moment to the moon and back.

Ami has no friends. Enter Usagi. Happy Usagi, with her group and her smile and her joking about her terrible grades.

Ami notices. But she’s unreadable.

I love that she’s unreadable. People comment that she seems cold, and Crystal makes those words not be empty. That is a stone cold face right there. Entirely emotionless. But inside? Ami’s feeling everything. Desire and envy and sadness and more.

She can’t show it.

Seconds before this we see her barely react to people talking behind her back. She’s learned to hide the pain, because nothing’s worse than people seeing you cry over their comments. 

Then the second Usagi pays her any attention, she’s as warm and sweet as humanly possible, because she doesn’t have to be so closed off.