"Catherine," a voice called from out side the practice tent. "Quatre."

Catherine stopped throwing knives and looked were the voice was coming from, and Quatre stepped away from the board where the knives embedded themselves.

"Trowa?!" Catherine squealed running from the tent. Quatre jogged after her.

Catherine threw her arms around her brother. "How are you?"

"Good, you?" Trowa asked.

"Great."

"Hey, how was your trip?" Quatre asked.

"It was very relaxing. How did you guys get along," Trowa said eyeing his sister. He wanted to see if his sister thought of Quatre as a friend, or if it was just Quatre.

"Who? Quatre and I," Catherine said walking over to Quatre and placing an arm around his shoulders. "It was shaky at first, but we’re friends now."

"Good, now let’s go out to celebrate."

***

"Alright, I guess I’ll see you tomorrow." The blonde woman on the screen vanishes as Quatre closed the videophone. He got up from Trowa’s desk and went to find his best friend and tell him the news.

He found Trowa at the lion’s cage. "Hey Trowa. I just talked to my sister and they are having problems at the Winner Corporation, so I have to go home tomorrow," Quatre said.

"Oh. Well, I guess you have to do what you have to do. Just answer one question for me," Trowa said. He continued when Quatre nodded his head, "do you really like Catherine?"

Quatre blushed a little, then nodded.

"Why don’t you tell her? I know she likes you." Trowa said matter-a-factly.

"I don’t know," Quatre said.

"Well, just go and tell her that you’re leaving and see how she reacts to it," Trowa advised.

"Alright. I’ll talk to you later," Quatre walked away to look for Catherine.

He spotted the woman walking near the forest, which was in back of the circus area. Quatre jogged to catch up with her. "Cathy," he called to her.

She stopped walking so Quatre could catch up. "Hey Quatre!"

"Cathy, I have to talk to you," Quatre said as he caught up with her.

"Yes, Quatre."

"Well, I just talked to my sisters and apparently there is a problem with the Winner Corp. So I have to leave no later than tomorrow.

Catherine’s smile disappeared, but she forced the smile to return. Her blue eyes looked sad and this tore at Quatre’s heart.

"You know, your eyes give you away," Quatre said as he stepped closer to Catherine. "Will you miss me?"

"I thought you said my eyes give me away?"

"They do, but I want to hear you say it."

Catherine looked up at Quatre as she said, "yes Quatre, I’ll miss you."

Quatre took another step forward and said, "Catherine do you know what."

"What?"

"I think I really like you," Quatre said so quietly that Catherine had to strain to hear him, even though they were so close.

"Really?" Catherine said with her face lighting up. Then she quickly calmed down, "I mean, I like you too."

Quatre responded to her by brushing her lips with his. When Catherine didn’t respond negatively, he placed his lips firmly on hers. Catherine put her arms around his neck and Quatre put his hands on her back. The kiss intensified and they pulled each other closer. Together they tried to calm the raging storm of passion that broke out between them. When they finally broke both were wordless and out of breath.

Catherine laid her head on Quatre’s chest. "I will miss you so much."

Quatre lifted her head up. He was shocked to find tears threatening to fall in her eyes. "Oh Cathy, I will miss you too. Will you do me the honor of being my date for the up coming Preventor’s ball? You could come up with Trowa. Relena lives on Earth and she has offered her home to all of us."

"Sure."

Quatre kissed her lightly then took her hand and walked to the trailer so he could pack.

"Cathy, you ready yet?" Trowa called to her room.

She came out of her room with her suitcase, "Ready."

Trowa and Catherine packed their car and headed to the shuttle dock. Dorothy, Trowa girlfriend, was going to meet them on the shuttle to Earth. Relena asked them to come two days early so they could shop for dresses together. Catherine was excited; she hadn’t seen Relena or Sally before and she couldn’t wait to see Hilde again. Of course, she couldn’t wait to sees the man she loves.

The flight went by faster than Catherine thought it would. Dorothy and her caught up on what was happening in their lives, since they last talked two weeks ago. Surprisingly, Dorothy Catalonia and Catherine were best friends. Dorothy had fought with Quatre at the end of the war, and she stabbed him with her fencing sword. Dorothy changed her war loving ways ever since she started dating Trowa. Catherine and Dorothy have been close friends since then.

When the shuttle landed on Earth, Quatre was waiting for them. As soon as Catherine saw him she dropped her bags and ran up to Quatre. He grabbed her and spun her around in a circle, and when he put her down he gave her a quick kiss.

"They make a cute couple," Dorothy commented.

"Yeah, its about time they got together," Trowa said eyeing the couple.

Quatre and Catherine walked up to the other couple hand-in-hand. "Hey guys," Quatre said.

"Hey," Trowa said.

"Hello," Dorothy commented.

"Are you guys ready? If you are I will take you to Relena’s," Quatre said. He led them to his rental car.

When they turned the corner and Relena’s house came into view, Catherine was in shock. She never saw such a huge house. After overcoming the shock, she saw a young woman standing outside. She had honey blonde hair and blue eyes that had a slight tint of green.

"That’s Relena," Quatre said, turning off the car. They all piled out of the car.

"Hello," Relena Peacecraft said. She gave everyone a hug and then led them into her house.

Inside Catherine was introduced to everyone. Sally Po, a young woman with light brown hair, gave her a warm hug. Heero Yuy, Relena’s Japanese boyfriend, nodded his head. Sally’s Chinese boyfriend, Chang Wufei responded the same way. Duo and Hilde both gave her a hug.

Dorothy and Catherine were led to the area that all the girls would be staying. Catherine’s room was absolutely gorgeous. Her bed had a canopy that went with the color scheme of sea green. There was a note on her pillow. It asked Catherine to join the girls for a shopping spree for the upcoming ball, compliments of Relena.

Catherine grabbed her purse and headed to find the others. She met Sally on her way down. "You gonna come with us?" Sally asked. She was finishing braiding her hair in pigtails as she walked down the hallway.

"Yeah, I wouldn’t miss it."

"Good. I believe we are the last ones."

"Hey guys wait up," Dorothy called. She jogged down the hallway. Her long blond ponytail was swaying behind her.

"I guess I was wrong. We aren’t the last ones," Sally said.

The three met Relena and Hilde down in the living room. All of them went to the local mall. Relena led them into a shop dedicated to dresses.

"Here Hilde, look at this dress," Relena said. She handed Hilde a blood red dress.

"I’ll go and try it on." Hilde went into the nearest dressing room.

"Cathy how does this look?" Dorothy asked. She had a long pale yellow gown, which was form fitting from her small waist up. The top was designed like a halter top with a large heart cut out in to middle of the top, revealing just enough. The bottom flowed freely to the floor.

"Trowa will love it!"

"Great. I’ve found my dress."

Hilde emerged from her dressing room in the dark red dress Relena gave her. It clung provocatively to all of her body. The top was low cut and was held up by thin straps that crossed in the back.

"That’s perfect Hilde. Try it with these shoes." Relena tossed Hilde a box. Inside was a pair of heeled matching red sandals. When Hilde put them on she grew a few inches.

"Great, now maybe I won’t stain my neck looking up at Duo."

"All right Sally let’s get you and Catherine a dress," Relena said. "What color do you want Sally?"

"I have no idea. What do you think?"

"Try this." Relena handed Sally a dark lavender dress. "How about you Cathy?’

"I don’t care."

"Okay, here." Catherine took the black dress and went into the dressing room.

"What about you Relena?" Dorothy asked.

"I don’t know."

"I think light blue is your color." Hilde said looking through the racks.

"Here, what about this one?" Dorothy handed a light blue dress to Relena.

"I’ll try it."

Sally came out of the dressing room in her dark lavender dress. The top had a slight shimmer to it. It was a strapless straight neckline, showing a lot of skin. The bottom was loose with a black overlay exposing only the lavender material in the middle.

"Oh Wufei would love that," Hilde said.

Sally blushed then said, "That’s a good thing. Thanks." She went back into the dressing room to get out of the dress.

Catherine waltzed out in her tight black dress. The dress had a very small "v" line connected to spaghetti straps. There was a slit that stopped above mid thigh on each side of the dress. When she walked her tan legs were exposed.

"I like, and I know Quatre will like it. Unfortunately, in that Trowa may not let you go," Dorothy said giggling.

"Oh really," Catherine said. Her eyes sparkled with mischief.

Relena came out looking beautiful. The top of the light blue gown covered only one shoulder. It went straight down to the floor with one slit on the left side. This slit stopped at about her mid thigh.

"Whoa, Princess Relena looking sexy," Hilde said to an embarrassed Relena.

"Hilde," Relena hissed. She then smiled. "You think Heero will like it?"

"Definitely."

After everyone was dressed in their original clothes, Relena surprised them all by buying their dresses. Everyone, but Hilde went to find matching shoes. They left the store anxious for the ball.