11. Until We Meet Again
"So you two are really the people in this painting?" Andrew said.
Serena smiled. "Yep! Can't you tell?" She gleamed at the poster version of Peggy Jones' finished painting.
"I can. It looks a lot like you too. I guess you can model too Serena!" Andrew said.
"See I told you dweeb." She stuck her tongue out in Darien's direction.
"So what Meatball head? It was only one painting." Darien said. He really should credit her; even he realized that she was pretty good looking last night…when she wasn't klutzing out. He laughed to himself.
"Well you can tell it's you too Darien." Andrew said. "What are people going to think when you two are in a painting together?"
"…you know I never thought about it that way…" Serena said. "I just wanted it so I could remember MY modeling days."
"You know, Serena you do look a lot like Peggy Jones' other identity Lana Lanai." Andrew said flipping through the flyer for the art exhibit. "Don't you think so Darien?"
He looked at the pictures. If she took her hair out of those Meatballs she probably would. For some reason it reminded him of someone else…Sailor Moon. She looked more like a princess.
"Kind of… he said. Maybe the blonde hair, but Lana looks way prettier."
No way would he let Serena take advantage and know he thought he was pretty. It would get to her head.
"Hey Darien, didn't you buy one of Lan…I mean Peggy Jones' paintings?"
"You did?" Serena asked. "Oh was it the one… Until We Meet Againwith the star locket?" She remembered that one, and the way he had a cow when he saw it at Peggy's house. Then she thought of something. The star locket Tuxedo Mask gave me! Maybe by giving it to her, Tuxedo Mask meant it in the same way that it did in the painting! It really was a beautiful locket.
"No, not that one. There was another one that struck me." Darien said, remembering himself how the star locket in the painting was eerily like the star locket he gave to Sailor Moon the other night. He knew that the star locket once belonged to the Moon Princess in his dreams. For some reason this Peggy Jones liked to illustrate things that eerily reminded him of the mysterious princess.
"And it was an original, not just a poster copy." Andrew added.
"It took all my allowance to get that poster, how did you afford that?" Serena said wide eyed.
"I earn my living." He shrugged.
Serena thought for a moment. Darien did have nice clothes…minus that ugly pea green jacket. A nice car…and she'd swear she'd seen him on a motorcycle. He owned his own apartment, and he always bought a coffee at the arcade. Maybe he was doing pretty well with money?
"Which one was it then Dare?" Andrew asked.
He reluctantly leaned over to a large shopping bag and pulled out the painting that had caused him to stop in the first place. It was a couple, the man in a tuxedo and the woman with blonde hair and a yellow bow on her chest. Serena remembered looking at that one and thinking the guy in it looked awfully familiar.
"Why this one Darien?" Serena asked curious of his choice.
"I'm not sure. Something about the girl in it really struck me." He shrugged. He had a sneaking suspicion that it looked like the Moon Princess in his dreams.
"She is really beautiful." Andrew admitted admiring the painting as well.
"Funny…I thought the guy in it looked…familiar almost…" She said before she could stop herself. She remembered stopping to look at this one with Melvin and Molly. She thought he kind of reminded her of Tuxedo Mask, as he was masked, but there was something more too it she couldn't put her finger on.
This caused Darien to do a double take from the painting to Serena. So she thought she knew the guy in it? That was strange. I mean the girl was kind of wearing her hair similar to Serena's, minus the meatball odangos.
No way, it must have been a coincidence…it must have…