Chapter 5
minus 99 days
Wufei woke up with a feeling that he was hungry. Hungry and tired, but he could not both eat and sleep, so he decided to get up. He walked to the bathroom and stepped to the scale. He thought it was girlish thing to do, but he could not stop himself. Oh shit, he had gained weight a pound more since last time. Never mind that Sally said it was a good thing, he felt like an elephant. He looked himself at the mirror. A tired eyed boy with a greasy hair. He looked the full image and almost sniffed at the sight: A skinny boy with a ridiculously huge stomach in a laughable Hello Kitty pyjama top which hung in his knees. Okay , he told himself, get a grip! I'm not going to weep, I'm not going to look at that mirror ever again, I change and go to the breakfast.
The others had finished their breakfast a time ago when Duo got worried. Wufei had come to eat every morning, although he was usually late. But not this late. He went upstairs and knocked on Wufei's door.
"Wufei? Are you awake? Is something matter?"
When he heard no answer, he tried the handle. Locked. "Wufei, you know that we agreed that you don't lock your door anymore."
"Wufei?"
He knew the agreement had actually been pressured, with the other boys and Sally agreeing that Wufei should not lock himself anywhere anymore, just in case something would happen while he had locked himself in. Wufei had been strongly against this, but at the end the others just pushed through. After that no-one, even Heero had the guts to nag him about still once in a while locking the bathroom door.
Duo sat on the floor.
"Come on Wufei, open the door, it's just me."
He put an ear to the door and heard muffled sniffs.Oh boy, Wufei was in the emotional mood again. This could take time. He was surprised when the door opened only a moment later. Duo followed Wufei to the room and sat next to him on the bed. Wufei looked so kawaiji in that night shirt on, but he could not tease him about that in a moment like this.
At last Wufei got a hold of himself and wiped his face.
"I don't fit my fucking trousers anymore, damn it! Before I had just loosened them, took the belt of, but now... oh, fuck! I have not a single clothe which would fit me but this awful shirt", he said tugging the sleeve of his night shirt. It was a miracle that he had found it at all. It was a christmas present from Duo and he had then tossed the ugly too big shirt deep in his closet hoping he would never see it again. And now it was the only thing that fitted him...
"Oh come on, it's not so bad. We just go and buy you some new clothes! The cabin fever is getting on all of us, it's time to go to the town and do some shopping!"
"You go. I stay here."
"What, in your room? No way! Now come downstairs to eat, if I remember right, there is still some apple-and cinnamon pancakes left."
This time he pushed the right button.
"Oh, alright".
They arrived to the kitchen together. The other boys had stayed there to make sure Wufei was okay. The were surprised, though, when Wufei appeared in only his night shirt and a bath rope on. Every morning since the rescue he had come downstairs clothed and neat.
Duo decided that the shopping trip was in order, liked the others or not. He put on his "happy face", as he secretly called it, and told his plans to go to town and buy new clothes for Wufei. Wufei was still depressed.
"You go."
"Why? We certainly find you something to put on. Uh.. Trowa?"
" I think I have something that would fit..."
Wufei was NOT happy. "Duo, have you noticed that I am a man?!? I can't go!
People can't see me!"
No, you don't want the people to see you, Duo thought.
"That doesn't matter, Wufei! People see what they want to see! They will not see a pregnant boy, they see a pregnant girl."
"I don't want to be a girl!"
Now Duo was loosing patience. Wufei was being childish.
"Tough! Live with it! If you don't come, we will buy you only dresses, pink dresses."
Wufei shut up. Duo didn't lie, he probably would do just that. He frowned.
"Okay. But I am a rather boyish girl, or what"?
Nobody dared to argue about that one. But Duo had got his good mood back in a second.
"Just trust me, I can make you as believable girl as a real thing! Come on!"
He dragged Wufei back upstairs. First he ushered Wufei into the shower while he searched Trowas room for something that would fit. All he could find were grey old sweatpants and a sweatshirt, but they had to do.
Duo bounced in Wufei's room and stopped suddenly. The bathroom door was open and he could see Wufei standing in front of the mirror brushing his hair. The bath rope had been forgotten somewhere and Wufei had attempted to wrap a towel around himself with a little success. Duo hadn't actually seen his bare stomach before. It was huge and probably looked bigger than it was because obviously Wufei had lost weight everywhere else. For a second Duo thought war-children with too thin limbs and swollen stomach.
"Hey..."
Wufei jerked and wrapped the towel tighter around him.
"I got you clothes. Put them on so we can do something to that macho face of yours."
Wufei snorted, took the clothes and slammed the door closed. Wufei knew that the macho stint was a joke, but still he had liked it, somebody making observation of him being a man and not a woman.
When Wufei came out, Duo was already waiting.
"Now sit down."
Wufei sat but jumped right up when he saw what Duo had in his hands.
"Mascara!? No way I�m letting you turn me a some kind of a drag queen!"
Duo pushed him back to the chair.
"Relax, it's just this and nothing more. Did you not know that "Less is more"? And how else we are gonna make you look like a girl?"
"Oh. Okay..." Wufei was having problems on sitting still when something hovered so close to his eyes.
Oh, this is great, Duo thought. He had long lashes to start with, and with macara he was a real cutie! Flash those slashes, baby! Oops, better not to say that out loud....
"Hey Duo", Wufei said. He was almost afraid to ask.
"Just where did you got that mascara, anyhow?"
Duo was keeping himself busy.
"I stole it. I kind of thouhgt that this day would come so I thought better be prepared for it. "
With makeup in his lashes Wufei looked indeed more feminine, but needed something more.
"Wufei, where you keep your hair bands?"
Duo took four of them and with ease parted Wufei's hair in four sections, braiding them so that one braid hung in both sides of his face and the other two behind them. Definitely better. But yet something more was needed.
"Wufei, you still had those white silk scarves?"
"Yes, why? And they are not scarves they are for cleaning my knives. Hey! What are you doing?!"
Duo had taken one of the scarfs and now ripped it to four ribbons. He unbraided the ends of the braids and braided them again with the ribbons. In the ends he made a small bows. This was great! He dragged Wufei in front of a mirror.
Wufei could not believe his eyes. A different person, a girl, looked back to him in the mirror. Could he be transfered to look like a girl that easily? He hadn't time to think more because Duo was already dragging him down stars for others to see him.
Quatre was looking both Trowa and Heero.
"You know, Wufei hasn't said anything about what he will do later when the..."
They all knew what he meant. When the baby was born. That had not been discussed at all.
"I think that- " Quatre stopped when he noticed that his audience were not listening him anymore. He looked at the same direction, to the stairs, and his mouth opened. Down the stairs stepped Duo with a black haired girl with a grey clothes and white ribbons. She was lovely.
Wufei blushed."What are you staring at! It's just me, and I don't even look like a girl! ..That much..."
Duo grinned. If that was the reaction of his friends, Wufei would definitely pass as a girl, alright.
"Okay, lets go and get this trip over with!"
Chapter 6
minus 99 days
Sharon heard the familiar Ding Dong-sound at the door and plastered a smile on her face. Okay, time to make the big sell of the day. Her moods dropped when she saw the shoppers but the practised smile lasted. Well, that was an interesting group. First she saw a pair of teenaged boys, a blond one and one with a long braid. She would like to have a braid like that too, she thought. Third came in a pretty little teenaged girl who was obviously pregnant. Oh, the potential customer. After her came two more boys, who backed the girl up like she was going to turn around and flee at any minute. She went to the girl.
"Hi my name is Sharon how can I help you?"
The girl looked like she wanted to be anywhere else but here. She couldn't understand why.
"She needs new clothes, the ones that fit him -her."
That was the braided one who had taken the role of a dedicated shopper.
Sharon didn't argue with him. She was here to sell, after all, and let's face it, she thought, the black haired girl's clothes were awful. She was really pretty in a tom-boyish way, but she sported a awful grey sweatshirt and baggy pants.
"As you can see, we have really lovely new dresses there-"
The girl interrupted her.
"No dresses. Just trousers and shirts. Black or white ones. And as simple as possible."
"Okay, then it would be simplest that you go to the dressing room and I bring the clothes to you. You size is 6?" She had just experienced the ultimate impossibility: a pregnant girl who hated shopping. She couldn't wait to tell the others.
They were the weirdest bunch of customers she had ever had. The girl didn't came out from the dressing room once. The boys managed to look like they were in a really wrong place and that they owned the damn shop at the same time. She could not guess who was the father, if any of them. The braided boy was the one who brought clothes to the girl and dug his head between the curtains to look how it was going, just to get a litanny of curses for his efforts. Still he looted around the shop and "oohed " and "aahed" to every garment he saw, including lingerie. Now he was taking out of the shelf a bright orange dress with yellow flowers in it. True, the girl would look lovely in it with her black hair and dark eyes, but somehow she doubted that she would choose it.
The blond boy was the only one who even looked at the baby clothes in the other end of the shop. That was strange, usually men and women both were faschinated about baby clothes, but in this time, only one of them even looked at them, a longing smile in his face. In the other hand the tall skinny boy with a weird hairdo could be the father, as some fathers looked as lost and dumbfouded as he a long after they were told the "happy news". The most potential father was although the last boy with the brown hair and blue eyes. It wasn't like he actually did anything to hint that but he was constantly watching the girl like he were somehow responsible for her safety. She was familiar with the new fathers tendency to be overprotective.
In the end they bought four pairs of black trousers and six shirts, black and white, as well as two maternity belts, which she had convinced the girl to try on. When she came out of the dressing room Sharon tried to pry her to buy some baby stuff and more lingerie but was rewarded with a glare which could freeze a volcano. All the clothes were paid by the blond boy. They left talking about eating and McDonald's and KFC and the braided boy was teasing the girl, something about how tastes changed when you were pregnant, getting smacked on the cheek by the "Potential-Father"-guy.
Sharon went back to the counter. The youngsters today, and still getting younger.Maybe there was a some kind of perverted group deal between them.. Probably not. Almost certainly that was only a bunch of kids were the girl had got herself knocked up and was too stupid to get an abortion. She stopped her thoughts right there. Just how cynical you could be? She wished the pretty girl best of luck.