I've always wanted to do a high school story, and I finally started. Its going to have a lot of drama in it. Probably too much, but hey its high school.

Pairings- If things go well 2x4.

Quatre sighed heavily as he stared at the giant sign that said, "Mobile Suit High School : Failure Is Not An Option" He looked up at the ten or so steps he would have to climb in order to enter his new school.

He looked behind him and found his mom waving goodbye. He waved back as she pulled out of the parking lot. He looked up the stairs again and adjusted his backpack.

This was his chance for a new start. His mom and him who were originally from North Carolina steadily moved south in hope to escape their past. They finally made to Florida where they planned to stay.

Quatre looked down at the paper in his hand which had his schedule printed on.

"Alright first class is in the Leo Building, room 134. Guess I better get going."

The day passed relatively easy for Quatre as made it to his classes. That was of course until it was time for fourth period. Apparently there were two Buildings named Mercury, one A and another B and he just happened to head to the Mercury A building instead of Mercury B.

He panted heavily as he lugged two heavy textbooks in his arms and tried his best to scurry down the hallway. Even though the tardy bell had already rung he still wanted to get to class as soon as possible.

243...245…247 there it was. He quickly turned the doorknob and heading instead, where 27 set of eyes immediately turned towards him and he tried to will away the embarrassment he felt at being the center of attention as he closed the door quietly behind him.

"I'm sorry I'm late."

The teacher scrutinized him as she pushed her glasses up on her nose. "You're not in my class."

Quatre took a step toward. "Um…I'm Quatre Winner I just transferred here."

"Ah yes!" Recognition dawned in her eyes and she motioned him forward. He handed her his crinkly schedule and she nodded in approval.

"Good to see you made it here okay. Everyone is about to split up into pairs in order to work on the new project for the book As We Lay Dying by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that we just finished reading. Have you read it before?" Quatre shook his head. "Well that's okay I'm sure you can catch up. Go take a seat as I finish explaining the outline for the project."

Quatre nodded and headed toward the back where two seats were empty. He sat next to the braided-brunette that seemed to smile at him as he walked by. After the teacher finished explaining the prerequisites the class erupted in chair squeaking and loud chatter as everyone moved around to find a partner. He sighed, being new here meant he had no friends and therefore no one to pair up with.

"Hey you mind if I be your partner?"

Quatre looked up startled at the voice talking to him. He noticed it was the guy with the long braid and he was smiling at him once again.

"Um no…that's okay. I mean you can go pair up with a friend and I can work by myself. Besides I haven't even read the book yet."

The boy smiled even wider. What was he so happy about anyway? "Thats okay the book is not that long I'm sure you can read it in no time. And until then I can give you the gist of the book."

Quatre fidgeted. Did this boy really want to be his partner? Why? He was a new student that transferred a month into the school year. Why would this boy be willing to go out on a limb for him and offer his partnership?

"Hey Duo ya ready to be my partner?" Quatre's attention was directed to a girl with short darkhair.

"Nope, sorry Hil, but I'm going to be his partner."

The girl looked at Quatre and then back at Duo. She crossed her arms and pouted. "Fine me and Jase will do the work without you. We'll get more work done anyway." She turned and walked back to the front of class.

"You should really go work with her."

"Nah, that's okay. Besides then who would you work with?"

Quatre shrugged. He didn't really mind working alone even if it took him longer to accomplish something.

"Name's Duo Maxwell, what's yours?"

Quatre looked at the bright smile that illuminated the heart shaped face and then looked down at the outstretched hand toward him. He took it slowly.

"My name is Quatre Winner. It's very nice to meet you Duo."

"You too. So are you ready to start?"

"As ready as I can be without reading the book I guess."

Duo nudged him slightly. "Ah it's alright its really not that bad as long as we talk about the symbolism of death, family, and love we should ace this thing."

Quatre couldn't help but smile at the easiness that flowed from Duo. He was so happy and easy going and…extremely hot. Quatre quickly ducked his head as he blushed from the sudden intrusion of that thought into his head. He didn't need to go and scare Duo off just because he couldn't keep his hormones under control.

"Are you alright Quatre?"

"Huh? Yeah fine, just a little nervous about this project is all."

"Hey no sweat. We can do this. Now let's look at this list and see what type of presentation we should do."

With five minutes left in the class Duo leaned back in his chair and stretched and Quatre unconsciously watched the way his black shirt rose up to expose some skin. He shook his head and forced himself to stay focused.

"So Quatre you have lunch after this class right?"

"Yeah."

"Cool. You can come and sit with me and my friends."

Quatre's eyes widened and then he ducked his head shyly. "No that's okay I wouldn't want to intrude."

Duo rolled his eyes. "Come on dude, you're going to have to find a seat anyway might as well sit with someone you know right."

Quatre nodded slowly. Duo did have a point and he didn't want to seem unfriendly by rejected Duo's offer.

The bell rung signaling the ending of class and Quatre quickly tossed his backpack over his shoulder. He scooped up the other two text books and his newly issued grammer book and As I Lay Dying on his desk and arranged them in his arms.

Duo raised an eyebrow. "You plan to carry those the rest of the day"

"I don't have a choice they haven't issued a locker to me yet and I need to start catching up as soon as possible."

Duo calmly plucked two of the four books from Quatre's arm before he could protest. "We'll just go put this in my locker for now that way you don't have to carry them around. Is that cool with you?"

"That would be really helpful Duo."

"Alright then follow me." Duo smiled and Quatre couldn't help but smile back.

They arrived at Duo's locker in the back of the Mercury building and he quickly did the combination and popped open his locker. He glanced at the pictures and drawings Duo had displayed in his locker as Duo rearranged his items in the locker to make room for the extra books.

Quatre fingered a torn picture from a magazine. "Metallica."

Duo nodded. "Yep caught them in concert once and it was kick ass."

"Really? That sounds cool."

"Yep and it would have been even better if my loser friends decided to go with me, but," He shrugged. "Their loss. Alright you ready to go to lunch." Quatre nodded. "Good….so are you going to buy lunch?"

"No I brought a sandwich and some snacks."

"Cool lets head down to the den first and pick up some drinks and then you can meet my friends."

Quatre tried to calm his anxiety of meeting Duo's friends. They couldn't be bad right? Duo was really nice and pleasing to talk to his friends would be like that as well. At least that's what he hoped.

Duo pulled him to the left and continued walking until there were in the back of the cafeteria.

"Well here we are. The best group of Juniors you're going to meet."

"Oh great Duo has picked up a stray." A Chinese youth with jet black hair tied back into a ponytail spoke.

Duo wrapped his arm around Quatre's shoulder. "This is Quatre guys and he just transferred in."

Quatre swallowed hard as he looked at the other two occupants of the table. Another Asian teen with dark blue eyes and next to him a tall, green-eyed, brunette with half of his hair falling in front of one eye. They didn't exactly portrayfriendliness.

"I'm Wufei. It's very nice to meet you Quatre. You can sit next to me if you like." The Chinese boy scooted over to his right and Quatre tentively sat down beside him placing his drink on the table.

Duo flopped in across from him as the blue-eyed boy spoke. "My name is Heero and this here is my brother Trowa."

"Half brother." Trowa added. "Get it straight."

Quatre nodded slowly. They didn't look alike at all really, but both did seem to be the quiet laid back type. "It's nice to meet you all. Duo said you guys wouldn't mind if I sat here with you."

Trowa shrugged. "Since Duo is blackmailing us and won't let us sit anywhere else, might as well get a new comer here."

Quatre's eyes widened. "Blackmail?"

"Like they would want to sit next to anyone else." Duo responded.

Heero snorted. "I happen to find other things more amusing than you Duo."

"Yeah, well who else knows you have a pink stuffed elephant named Snuggles?"

Heero growled and yanked Duo's braid. "I told you to never speak of that again."

"Ow! Dude not the braid."

Quatre smiled and leaned over towards Heero and whispered loudly. "Its okay I have a green frog named Ribbit."

Trowa groaned loudly. "You shouldn't have said that now Duo will blackmail you too."

Duo stuck his tongue out at Trowa. "I wouldn't do that to Quatre because he actually wants to sit here. Dontcha?"

Quatre nodded. "Yeah, I actually do."

Wufei shook his head and stuffed a chip in his mouth. "Not for long you won't."

Quatre smiled. He actually did enjoy sitting with Duo and his friends. The friendly banter was fun and they all seemed to accept his presence so far. Hopefully it would stay that way.

The bell rung and all gathered their belongings and headed off to class, leaving Duo and Quatre.

"So where are you going to now?"

"Um…math I think."

"Oh well I'm going to my history class. How about you meet me by my locker after school and I can give you your books."

"That sounds like a plan. I'll see you then."

He waved as Duo headed to the back of the cafeteria and he went towards the front. This day was going better then he expected.

After fifth period Quatre took his schedule out and looked it over. He had History next, not his greatest subject. He kept walking looking for room 127 when he heard someone call his name.

"Quatre!"

He paused and looked around he was about to continue walking when he saw a mob of chocolate brown hair heading his way.

He smiled. "Hey Heero."

Heero nodded in greeting. "Where you going?"

"History with Mr. Heeder."

"Really? That's where I'm going."

Quatre let out a sigh or relief that he would have someone he knew in that class. Heero directed the way and within minutes there were in class.

"You can come sit next to me."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah he doesn't have assigned seats so we can sit wherever we like."

Quatre checked in with the teacher who assigned him yet another text book and he took his sat next to Heero.

"History really isn't my best subject. Do you find this class hard?"

Hero shrugged. "History is actually one of my best subjects, but I think he does a good job of teaching it. And if you need help with anything you can always ask me."

Quatre smiled and nodded. "Thank you that will help a lot."

"No problem."

The teacher dismissed them and Heero and Quatre headed out side by side.

"So where are you going now?"

"I'm supposed to meet Duo by his locker."

"Do you know where that is?"

"Uh….somewhere in the Mercury Building"

"How about I just take you there?"

Quatre smiled sheepishly. "That would help. I really don't remember exactly where it is."

Heero started to head off in the right direction. "No problem I wouldn't want you getting lost."

"So Heero?"

"Hn?"

"How exactly are you and Trowa brothers? You two don't look much alike." Quatre suddenly flushed red. "Sorry I didn't mean to be rude."

"No that's fine, we get that a lot. Actually our father was sort of a whore and he got two chicks pregnant at the same time."

Quatre nodded slowly. "Ok. Well that explains why you guys are the same age, but how come you guys aren't in the same classes?"

Heero smirked "Apparently I'm smarter than him."

"Really?"

"Its not something I like to brag about." He broke into a grin. "Except when I'm around him."

Duo leaned against his locker. Quatre should have been there by now. He smacked his forehead. What if Quatre forgot where his locker was? Stupid Duo.

"Anyway particular reason you are beating yourself up?"

Duo looked up at the sound of Heero's voice and smiled in relief as he saw Quatre standing besides him.

"Hey I was beginning to think you wouldn't come."

"Sorry I kind of forgot where it was, so Heero helped me out."

Duo smiled. "Good thing you found Heero then."

"We actually have history class together."

"Really?" Duo leaned over to Quatre. "You need to make sure you sit next to him during test. He's an ace at history."

Heero rolled his eyes. "I don't condone cheating Duo. Anyway I'm going to meet Trowa. I'll see you two tomorrow."

"Bye Heero thanks a lot for your help."

Heero turned around waved. "Don't mention it."

Duo looked down at the history book in Quatre's hand. "I see you got more books."

Quatre sighed. "Unfortunately, yes."

"You don't plan to take all these books home do you? That's a lot to handle."

"Yeah I guess you're right. I think I'll just take my Math and Psychology book. That is if you don't mind keeping my other book in your locker."

"Of course not Quatre. Here I'll give you my combination so you can come and get the other books without me being here okay."

Quatre smiled gratefully. "Thank you so much Duo."

He shrugged. "No problem." He closed his locker and made sure it was locked. "So how are you getting home?"

"The bus. What about you?"

"I drive."

Quatre's eyes lit up. "Really?"

Duo nodded. "Yep it took me three tries, but I finally got it. Come on I'll walk you to the bus loop."

"Well here you go Quatre. You should get on your bus before it's too late."

"Right."

"I'll see you tomorrow, Quatre."

"Duo?"

"Huh?"

"Um…thank you for being nice to me and helping me out today. I really appreciate it."

Duo gave a cheeky grin. "Hey that's what friends are for right? I'll catch you later."

Duo turned and started walking back to towards the front of the school. Quatre watched him go smiling. Duo considered him a friend. Maybe fitting in at Mobile Suit High wouldn't be so hard after all.

Quatre started walking and passed all the yellow buses till he was leaving the sanctuary of the school. Though he told Duo that he rode the bus, he didn't tell him what kind of bus. To tell the truth he was slightly embarrassed about the whole public transportation thing. He rearranged his books around as he headed for the bus stop. Overall the first day of school for him wasn't so bad, now only if the rest of the school year could go so well.

Yeah the first chapter. I know it's hard to realize if you're going to like a fic or not by just the first chapter so I hope to have the next up after I work on The Dare.