Eyebrow Girl
by Relena Tribal
Act 1
It was a week before Valentine's Day. Highschoolers in
a large town were beginning preparations for the huge
Valentine's Day dance on Thursday night. These
preparations included buying or fixing up or picking
out the prettiest red-pink-white gown (for girls) And
red-white clothes for the guys, buying or ordering
candy, flowers, cards, jewelery, picking out the
perfect cologne, planning romantic dates for
before/after/or instead of the dance, and let's not
forget, finding a date! Our story begins inside the
school. The last class before children were released
to go home for the weekend.
"Relena..." A teenage girl with honey brown hair and
the beautifulest blue eyes turned around to face the
boy behind her. "Heero!" The Prussian blues eyes
staring back at her from behind moss brown bangs
seemed to glow with an emotion Relena had never seen
before. Suddenly the bell for the last class rang and
the boys eyes looked emotionless again as he turned
and headed off to class. Relena turned to her last
class and bumped into a friend of hers. "Quatre! What
a pleasant suprise...Oh, no! I'm gonna be late!"
Relena cried, kneeling to pick up her books. The blond
boy quickly scooped up Relena's books that she dropped
and then picked up his. "Have you seen Dorothy? I
haven't seen her at all today!" He said, sounding
worried. "No...I haven't seen her since I saw Duo
making faces at her..." Relena answered. "That was
first period." Quatre thanked her and took off down
the hall.
Quatre entered the classroom and bowed. "Gomen nasi
sensei!" He apologized. "I was looking for a friend!"
Seeing the worry in Quatre's eyes the teacher said
"Don't worry about it, just please take a seat." As
Quatre took his seat beside his friends, Trowa and
Heero, and behind Duo, the teacher said "Please behave
while I take these papers to the office to scan." And
he hurried out of the room.
Quatre looked over at Dorothy's empty seat near the
back and on the other side of the room. Duo stretched
himself accross his desk. Quatre put his hand on the
braided boy's shoulder and asked "Duo, what did you
say to Dorothy this morning?" "Me? Aw...nothing...I
just told her that I'd ask her out if I wasn't already
dating someone who didn't have tweezers for eyebrows."
Duo answered. "I don't see the big deal, but she
turned and ran off crying." Quatre sat back.
"Duo...Dorothy is very sensitive about her
eyebrows...Why did you say that to her? Do you TRY to
hurt people's feelings? I mean...like Relena...she's
afraid to wear pink around you for fear you might say
something about it!" He said. Heero wacked Duo on the
back of the head with his notebook. "Hey!" Duo cried.
"I was trying to tell her how pretty she was, except
for her eyebrows!" The unibanged boy, Trowa tapped
Quatre on his shoulder and pointed out the window.
"Dorothy..." Quatre stood up and walked over to the
window. He saw what looked like an angel, platinum
blond hair flowing down to her knees, but the red
school uniform told no lies. Dorothy was walking in
the yard of the school. She dissappeared into the
woods in the back yard. Quatre rushed out of the
classroom, leaving Heero, Trowa, and Duo both blinking
confusidly. He ran out of the school, around the
building, and into the woods. As soon as he hit the
dark, damp treed setting, he heard crying and
hiccupping and sniffling.
Quatre followed the crying until he saw Dorothy,
leaning against a tree, hugging it. She saw Quatre
looking at her, staring, and shoved her face into the
bark of the tree sobbing "Don't look at me! I'm ugly!"
"Surely you can't be saying that over what Duo said
this morning...can you?" Quatre asked, leaning against
a tree in front of Dorothy. Dorothy buried her face
deeper "My eyebrows are ugly! Everyone's been telling
me this all my life! Even my parents tried to fix them
but they grew back worse! Everyone is so mean! They
push me and push me and sometimes they throw things at
me because I'm such an ugly witch!" "You're not a
witch..." Quatre said. "And Duo meant to compliment
you today...Besides...I think...."
"I think you're beautiful..."
Dorothy looked up "You lie!" "Dorothy..." Quatre said,
leaning towards her. "Would I lie to a friend like
you? We've known each other since 3rd grade...I'd
think you'd know me better to lie about my
feelings..." He said. "Oh really, then why didn't you
tell me you thought I was pretty before?" Dorothy
asked. "Because...I guess I was shy..." "Shy,
embarrassed, or lying?" Dorothy insisted to know. "You
were probably just 'shy' because you didn't want to be
seen hanging around an ugly woman like me!" Dorothy
wiped tears from her cobalt blue eyes. "Besides...I
remind Duo of vegitable Lo-Meign..." She sniffled.
Quatre laughed.
"Dorothy...that's one of Duo's favorite foods..."
Quatre said. "And yea, he was teasing you about your
'chopstick' like eyebrows...Hey Dorothy....where have
you been all day?" Quatre asked. "I was...hiding in
the girls bathroom..." Dorothy answered. "Ah...no
wonder I never thought to look there!" Quatre laughed.
"Boy, you had me worried!" "You...were looking for
me?" Dorothy asked. Quatre nodded. "Why?" Dorothy
wondered.
Quatre took Dorothy's hands in his and asked in the
most romantic way "Dorothy Catalina...would you go to
the Valentine's Day dance with me next week?" Dorothy
pulled her hands from Quatre. "You seriously want to
go with me?!" She asked. Quatre answered "Yes" as
sincerely as possible, which was very sincere. Dorothy
smiled.
"Wow! I guess you ARE serious! Okay!"
Quatre checked his watch then asked Dorothy
"So...where were you headed to anyway?" "This is a
shortcut home..." Dorothy answered. "Why don't you
come back to classes?" Quatre asked. "I think someone
owes you an apology..." "Only if..." Dorothy began.
"Only if what?" Quatre asked. "Only if you take my
hand and drag me back..." Dorothy answered, winking at
Quatre. Quatre grinned and took Dorothy's hand in his
and walked back to the building saying "I thought by
dragging you, you'd be a little bit more resisting..."
Dorothy laughed.
Quatre entered the classroom with Dorothy behind him.
Dorothy took her seat without saying a word to the
teacher. "Ms. Catalina, Mr. Winner...Please see me
after class." He said. Dorothy shrunk lower in her
seat.
The bell rang 30 minutes or so later. Everyone except
Dorothy, Quatre, and the teacher stayed behind in the
classroom. The teacher looked at Quatre first. Before
he could speak Dorothy explained "It's not Quatre's
fault...It's mine...I wasn't feeling good so I hid in
the bathroom all day then tried to go home. He was
worried about me and brought me back!" The teacher
blinked and looked back at Quatre, who said nothing,
not wanting to lie, but not wanting Dorothy in
trouble. Finally, after thinking it over, Quatre said
"Dorothy's been dealing with 'bully problems' and she
really was afraid to come to classes today. So I went
to look for her because I was worried..."
The teacher told Dorothy and Quatre they'd have to
stay after to make up the class time they missed.
Quatre didn't need to stay after as long as Dorothy
did, but offered to help teachers she stayed after
for. Other than that, the teacher also told Dorothy
that there was nothing he could do about the 'bully
problems' unless she would go to the office to file a
complaint. Dorothy decided against it saying "It would
only worsen the problem..." "Besides..." Quatre said
"Not all of them really mean it."
to be continued ...