Enemies, or? - Part 4 by
Maaya
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apply
The next day, Hilde and Duo
were rather tired. Well, you could actually take the 'rather' away since
they had a hard time to stand straight. Duo was glad that he wasn't
about to play basket against Heero today.
After going through the hell of eating breakfast in the Maxwell-house,
the two friends went outside, Duo carrying his schoolbag, and Hilde
a wallet, and they saw Quatre waiting for them by the gate. The blonde
boy grinned as he saw his friends red eyes and sleepy faces, but he
didn't say anything. He knew how grumpy they could be in the morning.
Personal experience.
After walking a while in an uncharacteristic silence, Hilde parted from
the group to buy some things, and then go to her uncle to talk about
business. It almost made Duo surprised, he had forgotten that she would
go to England soon, and she wouldn't go to school this week.
School. That was another thought, which made him feel sick. To sit together
with Heero wasn't something he enjoyed, even though it was quite fun
to tease him. To be teased, however, was something he did NOT enjoy.
Behind him, Quatre babbled on about an 'absolutely gorgeous guy' he
had met while walking home yesterday. That managed to catch Duo's attention;
Quatre usually didn't seem interested in girls or boys! The girls seemed
to gather around his blonde friend though, and the interest he was getting
seemed to make him uncomfortable. Not to mention the scary Catalonia-girl
who had her eyes set on the rich boy. "What's that guys name?"
"Huh?" Quatre stopped in mid rant and looked up into his friend's big
violet eyes, the confusion written clearly in his pale face. "Who?"
Duo rolled his eyes with a defeated sigh "Quatre, your skull is almost
as thick as Heero's! I'm talking about the stunning guy you met, of
course!" He ruffled his blonde friend's hair in a teasing gesture that
was meant to be similar to how Solo used to do on him. It was that kind
of gesture that showed how much older and experienced the one who used
it was.
Needless to say, Quatre hated it., and he held his answer until his
annoying friend stopped. "I actually don't know his name."
Duo's chin hit the ground in surprise as he stared at his slightly smaller
friend." You met this gorgeous guy, and you didn't even ask about his
name? Jeez.." Defeated, he picked his chin up again.
Quatre felt his face grow red. "It wasn't like that! I mean.." he stopped
and seemed to search in his brain after a way to explain, "I mean, I
just forgot about it! I asked about where he lived though!"
Duo's eyebrows rose. "Well, that's an improvement. Where does this amazing
guy live then?" he asked, curious.
"At the circus" Quatre shrugged.
"What circus? I didn't even know there was a circus in town!"
"Me neither. I'll ask people in school if they know something"
"You seem.. determined to get him" Duo smirked. The thought about Quatre
being the 'seme' [1] in a relationship almost made him laugh. Quatre
was too sweet and polite for that.
Quatre's already scarlet face managed to grow even redder "Not determined,
just curios!"
"Yeah, yeah"
They walked in silence for a while, before Quatre stopped in track and
turned to face Duo, who stopped in surprise when his friend did. The
shorthaired one of the two spoke "What about you?"
Duo pointed his thumb at himself "Me? What..?"
A devilish grin appeared in Quatre's face, and Duo gulped. A devilish
Quatre could be outright dangerous, not to
"Shouldn't you have a girl or boyfriend by now?" Quatre asked with that
scary grin still plastered on his face.
Now, it was Duo's turn to blush. "What do you mean?" he squeaked, as
his face got an interesting crimson colour. He wondered if his braid
was red too, because it certainly felt that way!
"Well.." Quatre pretended to think for a while before continuing, "You
haven't had one for ages. Who can you find attractive?"
"There are a lot of attractive people out there!"
"But you're not in love with anyone?"
"No!" Duo shouted, right before he walked into two breasts that belonged
to someone slightly smaller than him. He fell backwards with a thump
as he landed on the asphalt, and he yelped as he felt his palms collided
with the ground and started bleeding.
Dazed, he looked up to see whom he had bumped into.
Silence. Then "Just great."
In front of him, also laying on her butt was Relena Peacecraft. Around
the pink-clad girl lay hundreds of things splattered on the ground,
and all of them seemed to belong to her. Lipsticks, lip gloss, eyeliners,
books, packets with pink bubblegum and for some reason a change of pink
underwear.
Now, Duo really wanted to just stand up and go away, ignoring the annoying,
but popular girl, but he knew he couldn't. Around Relena stood the most
of her many female friends and if he didn't help their self-proclaimed
leader, they would gossip about it for months. That would, needless
to say, destroy Duo Maxwell's reputation and popularity.
The braided boy quickly jumped up, "I'm sorry, ojou-san, I didn't see
ya' there!"
Relena seemed to suddenly realize that she sat on the bare ground, with
all her things spread around her, but instead of collecting her things
like a normal person would, she stood up and looked at her things with
visible distress.
Duo rolled his eyes as he wondered if she knew how childish she was,
before he bent down to pick everything up "I'll help you, ojou-san!"
he said with forced cheer.
Quatre, who was torn between laughing and helping his friend as he saw
the scene, had a hard time deciding what to actually do. Finally, his
helpful part of the brain made him help Duo.
Relena waited, with a bored expression on her face. When the boys stood
up again, their hands full with various things, she held out her bags
for them to dump everything in. They went through that procedure a couple
of times before they were finally finished. "Thank you" she smiled politely
before walking away with her friends in tow. Duo suspected that she
was looking for Heero. Foolish girl.
Both boys stared after her a moment, before Quatre happened to glance
on his watch. The blonde boy jumped in surprise as he saw how much it
was. "Duo! It's past nine! We're gonna be late!"
"Shit!" Both boys took off running towards the school. Unfortunately,
they didn't come far, because once again, Duo felt himself crashing
into someone.
It was getting rather old.
The only difference was that this time, the person was slightly bigger
than he was, and the chest was flat and muscular.
This time, they had both been running, fast, and since the other person
seemed to be stronger and heavier than Duo, the violet-eyes boy fell
backwards for a second time, but this time with another body over his.
Both of them lay still for a moment as they tried to catch their breaths.
That was, until they realized that they actually laid on each other
and became curious about whom the other person was.
Duo opened his eyes (which he had closed during the fall) only to stare
into confuse, Prussian ones. For a second, they stared at each other,
before Duo tried to get up. Unfortunately, Heero was still dazed and
didn't move, so without actually knowing it, he pinned the other boy
to the hard asphalt. When Duo's struggle increased, he finally seemed
to wake up and he rolled over, allowing the other boy to get up. He
noted that the braided boy's body seemed rather abused by now, but he
couldn't know that Duo had ran into another one only minutes ago.
"Watch were ya are going!" The braided boy snapped as he stood up and
dusted himself off. He frowned as he saw some dark spots on his blue
jeans, and after a moment he realized that it was blood from his abused
palms. "Shit!"
Heero looked at him, angry "What Maxwell? Were you referring to your
lousy brain?"
Duo growled, "Shut up, Yuy! I'm late and I have to hurry! I don't have
time to argue with you!"
"Well, being late isn't all that for you, is it, Maxwell?"
"What did you say?!"
"You heard me, Maxwell!" Heero spat out the name as if it tasted bad.
Quatre, who had watched everything with a worried expression on his
face, decided to haul his friend away from Yuy and to the class instead.
As they rounded the corner, Duo whispered into Quatre's ear "Laugh and
you're dead!"
Quatre laughed.
*******
TBC..
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[1] y´know,
the dominant one?
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