At exactly 5:35 Duo arrived at Heero’s house, where he was promptly shown to Heero’s bedroom. Heero was sitting at his desk when Duo came in and motioned for him to sit on the bed. Duo grinned his Duo grin and plopped down, letting his back pack drop to the floor.

“So, lets get started, Heero!”

“Hn.”

“Hn. Isn’t a word in English… is it an Asian word? That reminds me, where are you from, exactly? They told me you were a foreign student but they didn’t tell me where you came from.”

“No. I am from Japan.”

Duo broke out another grin. It was the first time that Heero had volunteered more than one syllable as an answer.

“That’s cool. Why’d you move over here?”

“Mother died. Father lives here in America”

Duo’s grin faltered, “oh, man! I’m sorry I brought it up! Gee, I can sure be an idiot sometimes.”

“It is okay. Father is a good man.”

There was a lull in the conversation after that. Duo didn’t know what to say after he had brought up Heero’s mom. He then took a chance to look around the room. It was rather impersonal and it looked like it might have been a guest room if it weren’t for the laptop situated on the desk or the little robots made out of what looked like an erector set. *That* looked interesting.

“Hey!” Duo all but jumped off the bed rushing for the little robots. “These are awesome! Did you make these?”

Heero looked over to where Duo hovered over his prized creations and smiled. “Yes. I made them. Before school started, I had plenty or hours to build the Gundams.”

“Gundams?”

“Yes, I make models. This is suit 01. This one is the original suit. This one,” he pointed a the bigger of the suits, “is upgrade.”

“These are so cool! Do they have proper names, or are they just ‘Suit 01’ and ‘Suit 01 upgrade?’”

Heero pointed at the smaller one, “Gundam Wing,” then pointed at the bigger one, “Gundam Wing Zero.”

Heero liked to watch Duo, his braid was so beautiful and now he was taking the time to