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Chapter Three: In The Blue Breakfast Room

Usagi's phone was ringing insistently in her ear. She moaned, and felt blindly along her night stand for the phone. Finding it, she dropped it once and then picked it up.

"Moshi moshi." She mumbled groggily, opening her eyes in search of her clock. The red numbers shouted out the six and the two zeros and Usagi mentally cursed the baka whom had called her so early on a Sunday morning.

"Good morning, Miss Tsukino. This is Mr. Hind down at the front desk. I forgot to tell you about Sunday brunch. We have it for all of the residents down in the blue breakfast room at 10:45. You are invited and we all sincerely hope that you will come. It is a chance for all of the residents to get to know each other."

Usagi winced at his overly awake voice. "What time?" She asked, stealing another glance at her clock.

"10:45."

She was silent for a moment, contemplating. She didn't know anyone at all, but maybe if she went, she would meet some of her neighbors. "I'll be there. Is this formal?"

"No, no. This is casual but most of the tenants wear nicer clothes. I'll have them set a place for you. So glad you can make it." With those cheerful parting words he hung up and Usagi fell back into bed with a groan. Why did he have to call so damn early?

She had stayed up nearly all night working on her painting and it was almost complete. A few finishing touches and she would be done.

Usagi sighed and rolled over onto her side, staring out the double French doors at the lightening sky and the continual blue of the ocean. Her balcony had beautiful flowers in pretty potters, with vines artfully spilling over.

Her mind inadvertently wandered to thoughts of Seiya. Was Minako right about them moving back to Tokyo? Usagi wondered if he still remembered her. How could he not? She had been his best friend and he had promised to come back for her one day…he had probably forgotten about the promise but his words were still fresh in her mind. It was wrong, she knew, to think about another man instead of Mamoru but he was away at a seminar for his medical classes and wouldn't be back for another couple of days. It gave her time to paint and then hide anything that would give her away for being The T.U. She knew that if Mamoru ever found out that she was the one who had painted the paintings that were selling for million, he would be furious.

She winced when she remembered his words about the famous, mysterious painter.

//Flashback//

"Usagi—have you seen this?" He showed her the art magazine he was holding, pointing the picture of the painting by the infamous T.U. The painting was called "Desire". It was of a woman, naked on bed of stars, reaching up to her lover, who was kneeling beside, clothed in nothing but color. Their faces, like all of those in T.U.'s paintings were blurred but the physical desire was evident in the hard lines of his body and the soft, yielding curves of hers. They looked as if they were bound together by heaven and though they were not touching, the longing and yearning was there, binding them intimately and the viewer could feel the desire just looking.

Usagi looked at her own work and nodded. "Hai…"She hesitated. "Don't you think it's beautiful? The way they long for each other…it's as if their souls are melting together."

Mamoru threw her a disgusted look, anger building in his eyes. "I think it's revolting. Who ever painted this is dense and utterly sordid. It's revolting really. I mean, what decent person would paint something like that?" He had tossed the magazine into the garbage, and then turned to Usagi, anger still flaring in his eyes.

She had stumbled back when he had raised his hand, but she hadn't moved quickly enough. The thrown hand had landed across her mouth, and she tasted the tin of blood on her tongue.

//End Flashback//

Usagi quickly pushed away the memories and got out of bed, quickly getting into the shower.

Ten minutes later, and smelling of delicate femininity, Usagi was standing in her walk-in closet, wondering what she was supposed to wear that was casual but still nice enough. Chances were she would pick the wrong thing no matter what and look completely out of place.

She sighed and finally decided on a white, spaghetti strap summer dress that clung to her figure and fell just above her knees. It was light and airy but still nice enough to wear to lunch. A pair of white, strappy sandals and a matching white scarf completed the ensemble. She brushed her hair and blow-dried it, until it hung in a straight, silky curtain to her waist. Then she pushed a white bobby pin to hold back the sides and applied a light sheen of lip gloss.

Studying herself critically in the mirror, Usagi decided that she looked pretty enough for brunch.

Walking out onto her balcony, Usagi rested against the railing, and watched the sun kiss the sky good morning. It was so lovely, the air was already warm and there was a slight salty, breeze coming in off the sea.

She passed the time sitting outside under the rising sun reading articles in the various art magazines about herself. Usagi found it half amusing that nobody could figure out who the mysterious artist was, but, many of the newspapers speculated, she was probably living in the States.

The other half of Usagi found nothing amusing at all about her situation. None of her friends knew about her and her artwork, although all of them had mentioned T.U. and her paintings at one point or another. The only person who knew exactly who T.U. was, was Ikuko but that was because she had been the one to help Usagi send the first painting, called "Barriers" shipped to the United States, where it was now on exhibit in the New York Art Gallery.  All of the money from the selling of the painting had gone promptly into three different bank accounts. The first was located in the States, the second was in Tokyo, and the third was in Switzerland. Now, any money Usagi got from her paintings was divided up between the three banks. She knew that her money now exceeded a million but she had been unwilling to find out by how much.

Usagi stood up and went inside, startled to see that it was already 10:45. She would probably end up being late for brunch. Wonderful, she thought and walked out to the elevator.

Usagi waited impatiently for the elevator doors to open. She had no idea where the Blue Breakfast Room was but chances were by the time she found it they would have already begun to eat.

Barely waiting for the doors to fully open, Usagi got out and walked into the lobby. Mr. Hind was behind his desk and his face crinkled up into a smile when he saw her approaching.

"Ah! Miss Tsukino. Wonderful you could make it. Allow me to escort you to the Blue Room."

He offered his arm, which Usagi gratefully accepted. They made their way across the open lobby to a hall on the right. There were doors to the left and the right and Mr. Hind led her to the fourth one on the left. He opened it and Usagi was surprised to see a marble staircase descending. Voices traveled up to her from the open door way down below, and Usagi followed Mr. Hind's lead down the stairs.

At the bottom of the stairs he turned right and they passed through a pair of double French doors into a large, airy room painted a powder blue. French windows extended from the marble floor to the tapered ceiling and the room had a decided tropical feel to it. There were potted palm trees and a little pond full of Koi fish.

Tables were spread out and people Usagi had never seen before were seated at them, talking animatedly among themselves, laughing and sipping tea.

Usagi's eyes were drifting over the people's faces when her eyes collided with a pair of familiar blue ones which were frozen in shock on hers.

"Usa?" A stunned voice choked out from across the room.

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