Disclaimer: Nope, I'm sorry you're mistaken because I still don't own Sailor Moon. Though, a girl can dream.

28 Days of Romance

Day Eighteen

Story Forty-four: Parfait d'Amour part Due

Vocabulary:

Parfait d'Amour: Translated: Perfect love; also a liqueur, purple in color and is flavored with rose petals, vanilla and almonds.

Due: Translated: Two.

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The first time they missed one another.

"Are you eating your carrots?"

Caught off guard Usagi pulled her cell phone away from her ear, staring down at the glowing numbers in disbelief before rolling her azure colored orbs towards the ceiling. "I hate rabbit food," She said rather distastefully into the speaker reveling in the deep, velvet reverberating chuckle that came from the other end.

"How ironic," Mamoru replied, his fingers absently running along the smooth surface of his work desk.

"Shut it," Usagi snapped playfully. "Are you enjoying America?" Her voice softened, "Meet any pretty girls, Asanuma was telling me that all American girls are gorgeous."

An audible snort filtered through the phone's speaker, "Like I've had the chance to notice anything besides the inside of my text books, Usako." He licked his bottom lip, "What are you doing?"

"Lying in bed," Usagi replied, squeezing her pillow closer to her chest with her freehand.

"Sleepy, baby?"

Although she knew that he was unable to see Usagi still nodded out of sheer habit, "Yup."

"I should let you go then," Mamoru's voice box tightened as his tongue ran over the farewell syllables.

Leaning in towards her phone Usagi blew an audible kiss into the speaker, "Good night."

"Oh," A smile pulled at his lips, "Right on the cheek." He chuckled teasingly, "Bye Usako." Pressing the glowing END button he flipped closed his cell phone feeling quite giddy. Standing up he made his way around his dorm room to his mattress, his smooth fingers closing the top of his leather suitcase.

Picturing her shocked, delighted face in his mind's eye colored his features now ecstatic, "Just a couple more hours Usako." He promised before gathering his belongs and heading out the door.

Continents away inside of her quite bedroom in Tokyo, Japan a blonde girl lay in her bed, hugging closely to her chest a round fare ticket to Cambridge.

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The first time he saw her nude form.

He'd absolutely, without a sliver of doubt gone completely mad.

"Tuxedo Kamen-sama!" Sailor Moon cried out when the older boy pushed her into the nook of a vacant alleyway, eyes wild. "What are you-" The unspoken syllables choked, dying a quick death embedded deep within her esophagus.

For Tuxedo Kamen's pristine gloved digits were resting in-between them, on top of her immaculate brooch. Squeezing she was left all aglow in shinny, pink ribbons.

Before syllables of protest could form Usagi felt herself being pulled into his warm embrace, his smooth, plump lips finding themselves on the bruised, swollen skin of her chest. "I should have been faster," He hissed out through a set of clenched teeth, Lady Guilt entrapping him in her gilded cage.

"Tuxedo Kamen-sama," Usagi breathed out, hugging his shaking frame ever closer.

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An: So sleepy. I have so much freakin' work sitting on my desk and one of my accounts is busting at the seams. Ah! Oh, keep me in your prayers; they are doing my evaluation tomorrow to see if either illy should get a raise (yah!) or the boot (no!).

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Secluded Sapphire (Good thing for Mamoru, I personally would have thought that she would have been swayed until she saw Mamoru's crumbling face and then totally gone with him), Flowerypetal (lol), Mangamania (Um, maybe re-read? Because it totally says that Mamoru runs off with her before she can hear what the host says ^.^; so I don't think there should be another to explain that), Midori-kokoro (thank you), Sakanascales876 (You know I went to go look and he does, but I was going for a clown image personally.. I still have go to see that movie), CharmedSerenity3 (foreal.. she'd probably just ask for both, or Mamoru covered in milkshake lol), and Beediddy (I like Chibiusa fine in the manga but in the anime ehhh) thank you for your reviews!

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