Subjects of My Sanity - Part 12 by
Terrasa
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~Subject: Duo Maxwell~
Blue. That color reminds me of Heero.
I was currently sitting in my English class, looking out the window,
eyes up to the sky. It was a really dark and dreary day. The sun barely
could be seen through the gray clouds. It was hard to find the blue,
the light color of the sky. Heh, that almost sounded smart! Anyways,
the reason for me looking out the window wasn’t what you’d
think. I did not find it enjoyable to stare at the same picture outside
that I would be looking at everyday for the rest of the year. The
real reason lies with Hilde, the girl who would not stop staring at
me. Sure, it was good to finally get the attention of someone, but
I did not feel comfortable with her glancing at me every second in
hopes of catching my eye. Of course, if she did catch my eye she would
smile… oh and we wont go into how scary that one was. I felt
like I was watching a toothbrush commercial. Damned if I wasn’t
jealous of her perfectly whitened and aligned teeth!
“Mr. Maxwell! I would suggest you pay attention and keep your
eyes off of Ms. Schbeiker.”
I looked up from where I had been staring at the sidewalk outside.
Eyes wide, I turned them to the teacher, giving her my most confused
look. “Excuse me?” I hadn’t even been looking at
the girl! The teacher probably saw Hilde staring at me and assumed
that I had been returning it! What the hell is up with that?
“Pay attention Duo, or I will have to ask you to leave.”
Her voice was a little lower and not so demanding now. Maybe it was
because I was glaring at her in obvious anger, mouth former a thin
line.
Really, today was turning out to be the pits! And it was Friday!
My most favorite day of the week! Not to mention I was going to be
spending the remaining part of it with my new buds. Though, I would
really have to get a head start out of here in order to track down
Heero before he bolts. I bet he’s sitting in class just thinking
up strategies to get away from me in that head of his.
The wonderful bell rang, ten minutes later, excusing everyone from
class. I made sure to be the first one out, that way I would not get
stuck behind some slow girls in the hallway. Though, there are guys
that walk slow too. Don’t you just hate chatty people! Stopping
to talk when I am in a hurry to find a certain Japanese boy! Gah!
“Move, move! Coming through!” I squeezed my way through
the cracks in the crowd, hanging a left at the first corner to make
a quick stop at my locker. I couldn’t hold back the smirk that
settled on my face as I came around the bend to see none other than
Heero Yuy. He was bent over, digging through the bottom of his locker.
It seemed like he was reorganizing the overly neat stack of books.
“Heero!” I shouted happily, knuckle coming down to rub
against his skull. He jumped slightly at the contact, before glancing
up to me with a scowl. “Just the person I was looking for!”
My grin widened when he got that frightened look on his face, like
he knew I was up to something. Jeez, he didn’t have to act like
hanging out was such a horrible deal!
He stood up from his kneeling position, back to me as he shut the
locker door. But he didn’t turn around to face me, just sort
of stood there, like he was waiting for me to leave. That was when
I noticed that he wasn’t really that much shorter than me. Maybe
the same height, though, I had always thought him to be smaller because
of the way he sits, hunched down in his seat.
“Heero…” I didn’t get to finish my statement
because of the article of clothing that was thrown very rudely in
my face. “Wha…” I stumbled back slightly, catching
the now recognizable sweater as it slid down my arms. My fingers clutched
the fabric, noticing that it was still warm from him wearing it. I
smirked, finally looking up with a snide comment in mind. Though,
that thought was quickly forgotten as I realized there was no one
to say it to
“Fuck.” Of course, Heero just had to be gone.
“Damnit!” I ran down the hallways, a mad dash in the
direction I thought he might have gone. I couldn’t believe I
had fallen for that! Stupid! Even though I was angry at myself for
losing him, it was pretty funny thinking that Heero was the one to
pull that stunt. Who knew he had a daring side to him? I chuckled
at the thought of him running full speed away from me. Too amusing
I tell ya!
I passed Trowa in my light jog. He just quirked an eyebrow at me
as I passed, yelling at him to meet me in the front so we could go
somewhere to hang out. Though, I think he was only able to catch the,
“Front… school… catch… hangout…”
Yeah, I think that was actually what came out of my mouth. The rest
probably just stayed in my head.
I mentally cheered when my body rounded the corner leading outside,
for Heero was spotted walking along the sidewalk about ten feet away.
He must have thought he’d lost me, heh, little did he know!
I slowed my pace, thinking up the best strategy for sneaking up on
him. Well, what would be a better than giving him a taste of his own
medicine?
I looked down at the blue sweater dangling from my hand, plan forming
already inside my wicked mind. Of course, I didn’t even think
to consider that he would lash out at me like I had seen him do. Nope,
I really am an under planner.
I pulled the blue cloth over his head from behind and let out a loud
chuckle as he froze up, maybe gone into frightened mode or something.
Of course, the next second later I found myself staring rather dizzily
at the gray sky. Yes, it seems in two seconds flat he had managed
to extract the garment off of his head and successfully trip me backwards.
So, I landed on my back… hard. Ow, I was going to be feeling
that one a long time after.
“Ugh… Heero… I was only… uh… damn.
My back hurts.” My voice was a little shaky as I produced that
miserable attempt at a sentence. At least I still managed to smile
as Heero peered over my fallen form, eyes seemingly wider than usual.
After a couple more seconds I realized that he was just going to keep
standing there, “Oy, Heero? Care to help me up?”
His head shook slightly, as if to wake himself up from wherever his
mind had wandered off to. Surprisingly, he did help me up, long fingers
extending out, grasped nicely against my own.
Want to know a little secret? Well… I felt a little disappointed
when he let go of my hand. Seeing as I was up on my feet now, I guess
there was no point in him hanging on to it. But… but…
“Duo!” Quatre’s voice brought me out of my own
mental walloping. “Are you alright?” I smiled at him as
he came over towards us. But, he didn’t pay too much attention
to me, his light blue eyes were narrowed slightly at Heero. I guess,
because he was the one who had thrown me to the ground. But ya know,
it was my fault really. I’ve got to learn not to startle the
poor boy! Maybe then will he actually be nicer to me! Yes, yes…
the little elves in my brain were already coming up with theories.
Trowa came up right after Quatre, looking… well… you
guessed it, amused. I swear, he is one odd kid.
The four of us stood on the side walk, in a little circle, staring
at each other. Yeah… this was weird, but for some reason I felt
that something was off. No, it wasn’t the fact that we weren’t
talking, that was a normality with us. So… what was it? After
a few minutes of more mental beatings, I finally figured it out.
“Wufei!” I grinned, feeling proud of myself for noticing
the absence of Wufei so quickly. Well, my self praising only went
on for another second as I realized that the absence of Wufei was
actually a ‘bad’ thing.
“Shit! Where’d Wu run off to now?” I looked to
Quatre and Trowa, hoping they would know where the slippery Chinese
boy had gone. Trowa only shrugged, causing me to frown in disappointment.
“Umm… I think I saw him heading… that-a-way.”
Quatre mumbled against the finger on his mouth. It seems he had a
habit of chewing on his nails. His other hand was pointing in the
direction of the forest, or the back of the school, which ever one
works. But the forest sounded cooler then the boring back of the school.
It wasn’t just trees though, I think they had a football field
off to the side… somewhere. I wouldn’t know, haven’t
really gotten the chance to explore it yet.
Of course, now that I knew where Wufei might be, I wasn’t going
to let him slip away if I had to. My mouth formed a wicked grin as
I latched onto the startled Heero’s hand. Why pass up an opportunity
to hold his hand when it came up so wonderfully?
He stuttered some curses as I pulled, or yanked him along the school
halls, attempting a jog, which was the fastest I could manage with
Heero struggling behind me. I wasn’t in any hurry to let him
go though… who knows, he might try to ditch me again! I couldn’t
have that happening, now could I?
Trowa and Quatre seemed to take the hint and were following behind
us. Though, a good distance behind us, seeing as I was probably drawing
some embarrassing attention. Heh, I love it when people look at me
weird. It makes me feel all warm and tingly inside, ya know?
I stopped abruptly as we came out the back door of the school. Heero
stumbling into me from behind, snorting something like ‘idiot’
as I looked around. No one in sight. Damn.
“Hmm… maybe he went into the woods.” Quatre seemed
to appear behind me without me noticing, almost startling me. He was
scanning the surroundings, fingernail coming up to his mouth to be
chewed on once again. I held back the chuckle that wanted to escape,
because there was something much more important to be dealing with.
I needed to find Wufei! How dare he try to avoid our Friday!
I marched towards the woods… well, if you would even call them
that. There was a big gate, easily scaleable, blocking people from
entering the thick trees behind it. I hesitated as I reached it, not
because I thought I couldn’t make it over, but because of what
would happen when I ‘did‘ make it to the other side. I
wasn’t a big fan of getting lost in the woods… really…
and I definitely was not a big fan of nature. No, no. Little bunnies
can be pretty scary when they jump out, mad dash to get away from
you but succeed only in scaring the hell out of ya!
I chewed on my bottom lip while contemplating what to do. Even though
I was lost in thought, I did manage to notice how Heero had extracted
himself from my grip and was slowly, quietly sneaking away.
“Don’t even think about it Heero!” I smirked, turning
to him just as his shoulders slumped in defeat. He didn’t stop
glaring at me as I searched the surroundings again, mind still trying
to decide whether or not to chance going into the woods.
Well, I never figured out ‘that’ answer. I didn’t
need to, for I spotted some movement on the roof, bringing me out
of my troubled thoughts.
Black shadowy figure, climbing up the stairs. Yup, that was definitely
our Wufei. I quietly motioned for the others to look where I had spotted
him. Quatre opened his mouth, eyes wide, wanting to ask something,
but I raised my hand to stop him. I couldn’t stop the smirk
that appeared on my lips just then, well, I never really was good
at holding back my glee when a mischievous plan came to mind.
I motioned for them to follow me as I hopped the rickety fence, blocking
off the stairs. Quatre was the only one who actually had a problem
climbing over, he ended up toppling backwards after landing, only
to be saved by Trowa. The silent boy had very quickly moved behind
the blond, hand snapping out to ensure he didn’t fall, and possibly
bang his head on the wooden fence. That wouldn’t have been good,
not only for the fact that Quatre would be hurt, but I wouldn’t
want Wufei to hear us… no… I was up for a sneak attack!
We made it up the stairs, quietly as possible, though, I was having
a hard time not bursting out laughing. It was too funny, watching
Quatre, Trowa and Heero. They were all following me, quietly, in sneak
mode. Ah it was great. I felt like a kid again, playing hide and seek,
running from the person that was ‘it’. Though, we were
actually the ‘it’, I guess.
The stairs came to an end, a door the only thing now standing in
our path. Wufei must have gone in there. We just stood there for a
minute, Heero and Quatre looking to me, silently asking what we were
suppose to do now. I think Heero looked more along the lines of irritated,
where as Quatre seemed to be enjoying this as much as I was.
My hand came up to scratch the back of my skull, a habit that occurred
sometimes when I was in deep thought. For a second I felt a little
nervous, I mean… I wasn’t all that one hundred percent
sure it was actually Wufei we were following. You know how embarrassing
it would be if we actually barged in on a teacher up here?
The old door suddenly opened, loudly, startling me from my thoughts
and caused me to take a step back, right into Heero. He would have
been fine if not for me stepping on his foot, causing him to tumble
backwards, along with me… right on top of him. Yeah, I felt
like a big klutz right then.
I got up, rubbing my sore bum, only to realize that it was silent.
Really silent. I looked up just in time to see the shock on Wufei’s
face. He was standing in the doorway, frozen, almost looking…
frightened. I guess it was a little scary to walk out and find us,
the… uh… scary people, standing there staring at him.
The shock quickly disappeared into Wufei’s usual angry scowl
and I felt a little relieved. I know, I shouldn’t have liked
the fact that he was mad. But, angry people I could deal with, shocked
gapping fish people was a whole unfamiliar territory.
“What the hell…” Wufei’s fists were clenched
tightly, breath coming out quickly.
Seeing as no one else was quick to talk, I figured it was left up
to me… again. “Uh… hey Wu!” Yeah, that was
a pretty lame thing to say. But I guess it was better than, “Oh,
don’t mind us, we were only trying to sneak up on you, maybe
drag you away and torture you with our so called ‘hanging out’
against your will.” Did I just say that out loud? Hmm…
I think I am actually feeling a bit of guilt now…. wait…
no, that is just hunger.
Wufei made an odd growling noise between his teeth and surprisingly,
I backed up a step. Was I starting to sweat now? Yeah, probably.
“What do you want Maxwell?” You see how he does that?
He doesn’t address all of us, just me! How fair is that?! I
get blamed for everything!
“Eh…” The funny thing was, for once, I could not
think of something to say. Yeah, I just stood there with my mouth
half open, making some weird stuttering sounds as I tried to find
my voice. After another glare from Wufei, and a couple more attempts
to speak, I finally managed to spit out, “So what’s up?”
Give me another point under the retarded comebacks category.
I pushed past him, feeling a little more confident after seeing him
roll his eyes at me. Yeah, he was now back to being annoyed. I liked
annoyed, annoyed was good.
Trying to get past him may have not been the best idea, for he launched
at me with a loud, “NO!”
Ok, so he didn’t want me to go into his little… secret
cave. Now I was really curious. Since Wufei was too busy trying to
keep me at bay, he failed to notice my evil minion sneak past him
and enter the forbidden Chinese territory. Yes, Trowa had skillfully
teleported into the… umm… it looked like a storage room
from what I could see of it.
“Barton! Damnit…” Wufei finally gave up his attempt
to keep us away. I bet he thought of us as little parasites, digging
and digging under his skin!
I moved past the defeated Wufei, smirk plastered on my face, chuckling
as I saw his fists clench again. But what I saw inside had me freeze
up, smirk replaced by a frown.
“Wu?” I looked to him, eyes probably showing my confusion.
“What’s all this?” My hand extended, fingers pointing
to the tattered blankets on the floor. The blankets arranged so as
to look like a bed. One would think that someone has been sleeping
here… and it wasn’t hard to figure out who exactly that
person was. The same person was now standing there, just outside the
dark storage looking room, eyes downcast, hiding from us.
“Wufei? Are you staying up here?” That was Quatre’s
voice, which held its usual calmness, the tone coming from a relaxed
person. I don’t know how Quatre can mange to sound so…
fine, in a situation like this.
“Have you been ‘living’ here?” I asked, finding
my voice to be nothing compared to my blond friends. It sounded a
little shaky, maybe from my unease.
Wufei‘s head finally shot up, eyes boring into me. “Get
out.” He said, voice devoid of all emotion.
Fuck, he was definitely more than just the average ‘angry’
right now.
I gulped, quickly following his directions and high tailing it out
the door. Trowa followed me, looking with interest to Wufei. I was
a little surprised that Trowa didn’t actually look amused for
once, maybe because he realized the full meaning of this situation.
Wufei had been staying up here, at the school. This meant that he
had been having problems… with family? If he had any. Had he
been here long? Why? So many questions were bubbling in my mind. I
really wanted to ask… but for once, I felt like I should not
pry into his business. He hadn’t wanted us to find out about
this… I felt like a jerk for following him… for demanding
such things from him.
Fucking hell! I wish I wasn’t such a screw up!
Yeah, and there I go complaining about myself when the situation
at hand is far more important.
All five of us just stood there on top of the staircase for awhile,
Heero closest to the stairs, as if ready to split if anything were
to break out. I tried to find my voice, but I still couldn’t
think of what to say without it coming out rude… without making
Wufei even more mad at me.
“Go.” The simple command, one word that had my heart
pounding loudly in my chest. Wufei pointed his hand, shaking with
suppressed anger, towards the stairs, gesture demanding us to leave.
And we did. Trowa and Quatre followed behind me and Heero down the
roof stairs. I knew Wufei wasn’t going to come with us, even
without looking back to check and make sure.
None of us spoke as we walked out of the school grounds. They all
just silently followed me as I made my way towards the diner. Heero
didn’t even attempt to run away once. I directed them all to
the booth farthest from the door, my favorite spot. They sat stiffly,
all eyes downcast except for Trowa, who was looking at me, as if he
knew I was about to say something.
“Let’s bring Wufei some food!” Yeah, real smart
that one was, but it might turn out to be a good idea! I mean, if
Wufei was really living alone up there, then he must not be eating
much. It was pretty obvious by the way he appeared, way too thin for
someone his age.
Quatre and Heero were looking at me like I had just sprouted horns
or something. I just grinned in response, picking up the menu to see
what I could get the cook to put in a doggy bag.
“Duo… that doesn’t really seem to be wise…”
Quatre started, smiling apologetically at me.
“Why not?”
Heero snorted.
“You think it’s funny Heero?” I asked, poking him
in the forehead lightly.
“Hn.” He moved further away from me, as if to ensure
that I would not be able to reach him to poke him again. “You
really are an idiot.”
“Hey! It’s a good idea! Besides, we need ‘something’
to apologize with. You know… peace offering sort a thing?”
“You want to apologize?” Quatre was looking at me weird
again. Maybe he didn’t expect me to be one to say I was sorry,
I was wrong… shouldn’t have been so pushy, shouldn’t
have done this… and a lot of other things that I managed to
screw up.
Truthfully, I was a little afraid that Wufei would be really pissed
off at me…. the permanent kind.
“Yeah.” I looked down, finding my hands to be really
interesting at that moment. My mind kept playing the scene of Wufei’s
face, the shock… and embarrassment he must have been feeling.
Emotions are an odd thing… emotions shouldn’t be played
with… especially with someone like Wufei… who hangs onto
his pride. I really overdid it big time today.
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TBC
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