Subjects of My Sanity - Part 6 by Terrasa
Standard disclaimers apply
~Subject: Wufei Chang~-
I didn’t see the boss all of the next two days. Nor did I hear
anything on the news about a dead body being found. Though, I was
only able to actually ‘watch’ the news on the way to school,
when I would pass the electronics store. They always have one of those
small televisions in the display window, sound just barely audible.
There was never anything about Pair on the news though… and
I was getting worried. Some part of me wanted the body to be found
soon. Some part didn’t want the body to be found at all…
whatever happened… it would decide if I were to die or not.
Well, I might die either way.
School was starting to become interesting. Only for one fact…
one incident that had me cringing at first, but turned out to be rather
rewarding.
It was lunch time, and raining. People were complaining because summer
was ending… in my opinion it ended a long time ago. The outdoors
was no longer a possibility, so everyone had to eat in the cafeteria…
making it much more crowded. I was lucky to get there early and get
a table to myself… far away from Treize, the flirt. Well…
I had thought I would be sitting alone, thought I would be lucky…
it wasn’t to be.
Quatre Winner and a girl I recognized as Hilde Schbeiker were standing
in the middle of the cafeteria, looking for somewhere to sit. And
can you believe that there were only about three tables with room
for them in the whole, giant cafeteria? Of course, they had to come
over to mine. I could tell that the blond boy was a little hesitant
as the energetic girl dragged him towards my table… his eyes
were widened slightly. Made me think that he might actually be afraid
of me…. which I didn’t understand. I was the one suppose
to be afraid of him, wasn’t I?
“Hi! Mind if we sit here?” The girl, Hilde, didn’t
wait for my response and plopped herself down across from me, dragging
the nervous Quatre with her.
“S-sorry to intrude.” He mumbled softly, eyes lowering
to the table.
Hilde made a face, obviously confused as to why the atmosphere at
the table suddenly thickened. “Umm…” A smile appeared
on her lips as she looked to me. “So what’s your name?”
I would have scowled at her if not too frozen in nervousness from
the blond across from me.
I managed a mumbled, “Wufei.” Before drawing attention
to my food, trying my best to calm my raging pulse.
I could hear her sigh softly from where she sat across the table.
I think she was become a little agitated with my non cooperation to
her trying to lighten the mood.
“What is up with you two?!” She demanded after another
minute or so of silence. I looked up from my food to see her with
her arms crossed and glaring at Quatre. He seemed to have finally
composed himself and was giving her a light smile in apology.
“Sorry Hil, I’m just a little tired.” He said softly,
biting his bottom lip afterwards.
I was a little shocked… he hadn’t said anything about
my situation for the week we’ve been in school… was he
going to tell someone?
From the looks of him, he seemed really nice… one who probably
wouldn’t enjoy making fun of others. So did that mean that he
wasn’t going to tell anyone about me? Probably not. I shouldn’t
jump to conclusions. If someone knows some dark secret, then it is
bound to get told sooner or later. No one can contain gossip for long.
“So Wufei…” Hilde’s eyes squinted slightly
as if she had just thought of something. “You went to my school
last year didn’t you?” Ugh, she just ‘had’
to bring that up. I think I saw her a couple times before, roaming
the halls and other places. She was one of those… weird people.
And I don’t say that in a mean way… she’s just really
different. You can tell that by her hair of course. Who else but someone
who wants to stand out would choose such a bright color. But, I’m
not complaining… I think weird colored hair is much better than
blond… and blond highlights… the thing almost every girl
wants nowadays. For reasons I will never understand.
“Yes.” I said, fidgeting slightly after my voice came
out sounding a little dull.
“Yeah, I’ve seen you around! You used to be in the kendo
club, huh?!” She seemed proud of herself for remembering that
one. I internally groaned, thinking about kendo always made me depressed…
because I could no longer do that sort of stuff… didn’t
have time for it. I always loved swords. Wanted to do fencing and
everything that had to deal with the arts… but our school only
had the kendo club. I wasn’t complaining much though, I liked
it a lot. I just wish I was able to stay in it… I was kicked
out for missing too many days… it wasn’t my fault though.
“Aa.” Was my only reply.
I think she became irritated with my lack of speaking… and
also the blonds silence, because she gave a long dragged out sigh
before saying, “Well… I have to go talk to Catherine about
our book project.” And then she was gone. Leaving us to think
about her lame excuse to get away. I don’t really blame her,
who would want to sit with me, anyway?
Kuso! She had left me alone with Quatre… just great.
The blond boy’s eyes were still lowered, and he was fidgeting
slightly now. I could barely see as his mouth opened and closed a
couple times, as if he was trying to say something. After a couple
minutes of silence he finally spit out, “Were you…”
“Yes.” I cut him off, already predicting what his question
was going to be ahead of time. He probably was confirming if I was
really the one at his house… the one with his father. What he
asked next though, was not what I had in mind.
“Why?” He blurted the word out quickly, then his eyes
widened and he clapped his hands over his mouth in horror of what
he had just asked. “I’m sorry! I shouldn’t be prying!”
He squeaked, looking terrified that I might jump him any second.
I couldn’t help but smirk at his frightened behavior. How wrong
I had been. Just yesterday I was afraid of him, thinking that he could
ruin my life… but in actuality ‘he’ was the one
terrified of me. I could tell just by how nervous he was acting, how
scared he looked at his blunder.
“It’s alright.” I said, eyes finally meeting his.
I tried my best to put on a warm smile, but I wasn’t really
used to smiling and it probably ended up looking like a warped frown.
I was about to speak further, when I was interrupted by a boy literally
diving head first under our table. There was a loud banging sound
and I looked down to see the boy clutching his head.
“Fuck, who put the metal bars under tables?” He complained,
rubbing the back of his head with his palm. That’s when I noticed
the long braid trailing behind him. My eyes widened slightly when
I finally processed that he… the boy… was under our table.
“What are you doing?” The words did not come out of my
mouth, though they were circling around in my head. Quatre had voiced
that question and I noticed that he actually looked amused by this
weird occurrence.
“Shh!” Violet eyes looked up as he pressed his finger
to his lips. “Don’t look at me!” He then commanded.
I wasn’t really up for following directions from this odd person,
so I just resumed my confused stare. “Why?” I asked.
His eyes seemed to scan the cafeteria quickly, then a relieved sigh
escaped his lips. “I think he’s gone.” He stated,
smiling as he pulled himself out from underneath the table. He then
directed his smile to me and Quatre in turn before saying, “Duo
Maxwell! Nice to meet you!” I was already starting to not like
this person, because of the way he spoke, quickly and loudly. Just
what I needed, a headache!
I was about to introduce myself when I noticed the tall newcomer
that was now standing right behind the braided boy. His emerald green
eyes sparkled with amusement and an evil smirk was placed upon his
lips as he looked at Duo.
Ah… so this is who he was running from. “And who’s
that?” I asked, pointing a finger towards the tall boy.
Violet eyes widened and Duo’s head turned slowly around. “Gya!”
He screamed loudly, jumping in his seat as he found a smirking boy
behind him. Duo then brought his head down, to bang on the table a
couple times. “Trowa… stop… Following me!”
He growled between thumps of his head on the hard surface.
The Trowa guy just shrugged his shoulders while taking a seat next
to Duo.
“Umm…” Quatre’s small voice brought me to
look back at him. He was looking between the two newcomers with confusion.
They just looked back expectantly, causing him to blush slightly.
“I’m Quatre.” He ended up blurting out. I couldn’t
help but smirk… for some reason that just sounded funny.
“Nice to meet you Quatre!” Duo chirped before turning
his eyes on me. “And who might this angry fellow be?”
My eyes instinctively rolled up to the ceiling before I answered
with, “Wufei Chang,” in the most irritated voice I could
muster. What was up with me having to introduce myself so much today?
I think this is a record, two times in one sitting!
“This here is none other than the famous silent boy! The one
and only non talking individual of this whole school!” Duo announced,
pointing to the boy next to him. “Trowa Barton… isn’t
it?” His head tilted to the side as he looked to Trowa in question.
The boy just shrugged and pulled out his lunch to start eating, which
made me realize that I hadn’t finished my own lunch, being to
busy with all these new encounters. I only listened half hardily to
the conversation that Duo was trying to make with Quatre. It turned
out to be Quatre who started to ask the major questions though…
like, “Why is Trowa following you?”
“He’s a big brainless idiot with no friends.” Duo
had stated.
I couldn’t help but raise my eyes from my food to see what
Trowa’s reaction was. He was looking at Quatre whose light blue
eyes were widened in confusion. What was even more weird was that
Trowa just nodded his head, admitting everything that the braided
boy had said.
These people were strange.
Duo’s hearty laugh filled the silence and I groaned at the
volume of it. “What’s wrong Wu? Have a bad day?”
He asked, looking at me in mock concern.
Did he want to torture me by talking?
“Do you have to be so loud?” I asked, annoyance lining
my voice. It was suppose to make him shut up, but it ended up doing
just the opposite.
“What? Maybe my ears are clogged so that’s why I talk
so loud. You shouldn’t mind me, just like to talk is all. Someone
has to talk enough for this fellow here!” He said, patting the
silent Trowa on the shoulder. I really wanted to mimic his earlier
actions and bang my head on the table.
Quatre and Duo engaged in another discussion, one of which I had
no interest in. I just hurried to finish my lunch and prayed that
the lunch bell would ring soon. I needed to get out of there!
“Hey Tro? You going to follow me to the diner again after school?”
I watched as Trowa shook his head ‘no’ in answer to Duo’s
question. “Aa… well you’ll have to pay for your
own food then! I’ll have your head if you steal another one
of my fries.”
Quatre was looking confused, I must have also looked somewhat puzzled
as to what they were talking about because Duo smiled while poking
Trowa in the forehead. “You can’t listen to anything he
says, he likes to lie a lot.”
Yes… very strange people.
“Hey! Do you guys want to come too?” Duo asked, eyes
boring into me and Quatre in turn. I could see as Quatre brightened
and he nodded his head excitedly.
“Oh! Can I?” He asked, smiling widely at Duo.
Duo just laughed again and looked to me, eyebrow raised in question.
“What about you Wu?”
“Do not call me that. That is not my name.” I said crudely.
“Aw, don’t be like that Wu! I think it sounds cute!”
“My name is not meant to be cute, Maxwell.”
“Hey, if you don’t want me calling you that, then I want
you to call me Duo!”
“Duo.” I said while crossing my arms.
“Wu!”
I growled. “Fine! Then you’re Maxwell!” Quatre
chuckled from across the table and I could see the amused smirk on
Trowa’s face. That’s when I realized just how childish
we must have been acting.
Kisama! I’m really starting to hate that annoying idiot!
“Well? You going to come?” Duo asked again.
“I can’t.” I stated, looking at him in irritation.
I really couldn’t, the boss would probably want me back right
away.
“Sure you can!”
“No.. I can’t.”
“Yes… You can!”
“Maxwell! Will you stop pestering me!?” I yelled angrily.
“Not until you decide to come! It will be fun! And you look
like you need some, ya know?” He smirked, obviously finding
my anger amusing. I, however, was very far from amused. He had no
idea of what he was dealing with by asking me to come. He could very
well be signing my death…
….
The boss would kill me… or beat me…
Pair…
I still couldn’t forget.
Need to find out about Pair…
“Does this… café… have a television?”
I asked hesitantly, seeing as there wasn’t really any way to
get out of this with that braided idiot pestering me. Sure the boss
would be mad if I was late… I don’t think he would kill
me… yet… but it might be a good chance to watch the news.
Good chance to see if I was going to die any time soon… damn,
I have been thinking way too negative lately.
I watched as Duo’s bottom lip was pulled into his mouth and
he chewed on it as he thought. “Umm… I don’t know…
do you remember Trowa?”
Trowa shook his head.
“Well, there you go! I guess there is a television there then.”
Duo said, smiling widely at me. “So I take it you’re going
to come?”
“Yes.” I mumbled bitterly. I kept reminding myself that
I was only going to watch the news… I was not going to have
fun… to hang out with these people like a… normal person
would do.
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~Subject: Heero Yuy~
Shit! That blond girl will be the end of me.
For some reason… she had decided to come up to me today and
talk to me… again.
I don’t understand why.
There was no reason for her to find me interesting. I have done everything
in my power to make myself ‘not’ stick out. So why was
this girl obsessed with me? She even asked me to go out with her right
after introducing herself! Was that normal? If so, I think I have
become afraid of relationships.
It was after school that I found myself running. It was really embarrassing,
I prayed no one was paying attention to me. But, I would rather be
humiliated and ‘looked’ at then have to have another confrontation
with that girl. In my English class she had moved to sit next to me.
The once happily empty desk next to me had turned into a horrible
seat that I wish someone ‘had’ been occupying, so as to
keep that evil girl away from it. That class was ruined for me the
second she invited me to her birthday party.
I have never been so… annoyed.
The whole class, of course, had to find it interesting and their
business. Their little ears could probably hear everything she was
saying to me. Since she was talking so loud… was it on purpose?
Probably!
I wanted to get out of there… but then that would create a
perfect excuse for those evil gossipers to talk about me, talk behind
my back… that would be bad. So, I had to wait until the nice
bell rang before leaving… in a hurry.
Quickly moving along the sidewalk, I looked behind me. So far, no
pink colored girl anywhere in site. I was almost relieved… until
I heard the shrill, “Have you seen Heero anywhere?”
My head snapped around and I noticed that one Relena Peacecraft was
talking to some anonymous girl… and looking for me. Just great.
“Heero? Uh… I don’t know anyone by that name.”
The random girl answered. Of course she didn’t know who I was!
That was the point!
“Oh, well he has…” I didn’t wait around to
listen to how I would be described, this was probably my only chance
at getting a head start out of there. For the first time in a long
while, the orphanage was actually looking rather appealing.
I turned quickly around, starting to make my way through the crowd
of people walking outside the school gates, when I heard the dreaded
words.
“Oh! Is that who you were talking about?” The same anonymous
girls voice asked, loudly enough for me to hear and cause my pulse
to quicken.
Shit! I really hate these people.
Not turning back around, I ran as fast as I could… which wasn’t
very fast since it was freezing outside and my limbs were starting
to get numb.
“Heero!” I heard Relena yell from behind me. That’s
when I turned around… which was a big mistake. The annoying
blond was only twenty or so feet away from me. It didn’t seem
like she had quite spotted me yet, though. As I spun back around,
I ended up running into someone hard. Knocking me to the ground along
with whomever I had hit.
Shit, not good.
“Fuck! Why the hell do I always get run over…. YOU!”
Violet eyes widened, then the person stared at me angrily. “You’re
the jerk who bumped into me before! And you did it again!” The
loud braided boy, I recognized from the cafeteria incident, accused.
Getting up to wipe himself off, the glare never left his face. I didn’t
really have time for apologies, but I knew that there wasn’t
really anyway to get away without one.
“Sorr…” I started.
“Heero!” Shit, shit, shit. Yup, definitely no time for
apologies.
My eyes widened and I jumped behind someone, a boy who happened to
be standing right beside the braided boy. He was tall enough to maybe
shield my body from unwanted viewers. Emerald green eyes looked back
at me, confused, as to why I was clinging to him.
I probably looked scared.
Yes, I think I did look scared.
“Trowa! Hide me!” I pleaded, grabbing onto the back of
the boys shirt. I had finally recognized him as the boy from the orphanage
I was at.
“Er… from what?” I could hear the braided boy ask,
looking at me weird.
“Probably from her.” A blond boy suddenly spoke up, drawing
my attention to him as he pointed in the direction of Relena. I hadn’t
really seen him there… or the Chinese boy… shit! All these
people had watched me in this weird moment.
But… to my surprise, as Relena finally made her way over, the
four boys just kind of scooted over to where I was, standing in front
of me… making it impossible for her to see me.
“Have you seen Heero?” I could hear Relena ask politely.
I didn’t dare move my eyes to peer over the tall Trowa’s
shoulder, too afraid that I would be spotted.
“Eh? Who’s Heero?” I recognized the braided boy’s
loud voice, sounding slightly amused.
“Oh! I’m ever so sorry.” She said quickly. “My
boyfriend! He had stunningly beautiful dark blue eyes, magnificently
styled brown hair… he must spend a lot of time on it. I wonder
if he goes to a salon? It’s probably to impress me, of course.
Oh, and he’s pretty shy…”
I wish I could have mustered up the courage to scream… I think
it would have made me feel better.
At first I thought that anything would be better than ‘her’
finding me… but this was just too humiliating.
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TBC
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Author's note: A Subject is that
which is placed under the control, authority, dominion, or influence
of something else. Kind of like a king and his subjects blah
blah blah, though in this story there is no king, just evil
parents and other people. So why I call each of the five pilots a
subject is because they are under the control of
someone, something else. For example, Quatre is under the control
of his father, Wufei his boss, Duo his parents… With Heero and
Trowa it is a little different. Trowa is controlled by his past, kinda…
since he doesn’t talk because of what happened and won’t
talk until he can put his past behind him sorta thing. Heero is just
the opposite, controlled by his future. Yes, it may not make sense,
it may make sense… I just think I think too much!
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