Drunken Monkeys

(A/N: Hi, I'm Kari. This is my solo story. It's a lovely little Gundam fan fic that I really hope you will like. I don't own GW but I do own the original characters in this story. Duo was adopted into the Maxwell family when he was 2, he has an older sister and a younger one, and they are from NYC! The title of the story is the name of their band. They just moved from NYC to LA and are starting school. Enjoy.)

Chapter One: School Bites

Duo Maxwell, Dannie Maxwell, and Heidi Maxwell strode to the office window, ready to start the first day at the new school. Duo and his older sister Dannie were juniors, and their little sister Heidi was to be placed in the sophomore class.

"Duo," Heidi mumbled in a small voice. "People are looking at me funny." Her English accent made her seem younger that she was, and between her siblings she seemed younger still.

"Well, you had to dye your hair blue, violet, and red, even though you knew we were moving before our concert," Dannie informed her little sis. Dannie had just turned seventeen before the move from New York City to Los Angeles, and knew that her fourteen-year-old sister wasn't taking the move well at all.

"Heidi, you will be fine. Trust me. And we can recruit new members for the band. I promise that Drunken Monkeys won't die. I won't let it happen," Duo insisted. The Drunken Monkeys had been their band in New York and Heidi had been the drummer. Unlike his sisters, he was accent free, having been adopted when he was little and not picking up the English accent.

"Okay," Heidi whispered, tugging at the safety-pinned hem of her pink tank top. She tightened the knot that kept her plaid flannel shirt around her hips and fingered one of the six chains that hung from her belt loops. A set of drumsticks kept her long hair from her face while another pair of sticks stuck out from one of the cargo pockets of her baggy black jeans.

"Hello, may I help you?" A woman in her sixties was at the office window, looking at the siblings.

"Yeah. We just transferred from NYC and we need our schedules," Dannie explained, her voice light.

"Names?"

"Dannie Maxwell, Duo Maxwell, and Heidi Maxwell," was Dannie's prompt response.

"Ah," the woman said, pushing her bifocals up the bridge of her nose. "Here we are." She passed Dannie a stack of forms. "Have your parents fill out all the colored papers, you fill out all of the white ones, and your schedules are there on top. If you would like, you may go to the auditorium and fill out what you can, and then you may go down the hall, to the library, ask for Mrs. Delson, and she will show you to your classes."

"Thank you very much," replied Dannie politely, speaking for her siblings.

Duo and Heidi smiled at the old woman and looked behind them to see the auditorium. With Dannie leading them, they found seats in the back row, hoping not to disturb the class that was in session in the farther forward seats.

"Okay, Duo. You can rant now," Dannie whispered. She knew that Duo wouldn't be able to hold his ranting nature at bay for much longer anyway.

"Thank God," Duo's words gushed. "They call this a school? Where are all the students roaming the halls? This must be a prep academy right? God, I'm going to die. If the entire city is like this, I don't think that we will be able to find new band members. I say we just fly Melissa and Trowa out here and be done with it."

Heidi smiled at her big brother's words. She knew the real reason that Duo wanted Melissa and Trowa here. Melissa Baxter and Trowa Barton were the two people that completed Drunken Monkeys, and Duo loved both of them to death. Mel and Tro had been two of Duo, Dannie, and her own best friends. It made Heidi giggle that it took this long for Duo to bring up the idea of flying them here to LA.

"Duo, we will find band mates. I know we will. LA is NYC's sister city. There has to be punkies here," Dannie explained.

Duo smiled. He knew that they would find band mates. It was just his way to rant before he actually accepted what was going to happen. "Okay, okay. We can put up flyers tomorrow. Let me see my schedule."

Dannie passed the piece of paper to him, took her own, and gave Heidi hers.

Before Heidi looked at her schedule, she told Duo something that she just remembered. "Oh, yeah. About Trowa; he's transferring here so he can be with his dad."

Duo looked sharply at the fourteen-year-old. "How long have you known about this?"

Heidi shrank into her chair. "Since the day we left NYC. Tro told me right before we left. He told me not to tell until we got here."

"We got here three days ago! When were you planning to tell me?" Duo huffed.

"Um. I was gonna let it be a surprise."

"When is he going to be at school?" Dannie asked, strangely calm.

"I think next week. He wasn't transferring until we left. He didn't want to leave at the same time we did. Said it would have been too hard on Mel," replied Heidi. Duo was beginning to scare her as he glared.

"I understand," Duo decided, his expression softening. "It would have been too hard on Mel to loose so many people at the same time."

"Okay. Well, I'll fill out our stuff, seeing as there isn't that much and you two look over your schedules." Dannie said, already writing on the white sheets of paper.

Looking at his schedule, Duo saw nothing out of the ordinary, just a lot of computer classes. Just how he liked it. He glanced at Heidi's schedule, violet eyes taking in her classes. The lists were identical.

"Heidi? How in hell did you get all the same classes as me?" He asked, voice a little bit shaky.

Heidi read the scrawl along the right side of the page. 'Sorry, but here all the classes you chose were full. We had to bump you up to junior classes. Sorry for the inconvenience. Your parents have been informed and consented to your change to the junior class.' Heidi's head spun. People were going to think she was a freaky genius or something. She didn't want that. She already had enough problems being a sophomore at the age of fourteen.

"Heidi?" Duo asked again, seeing his younger sister's eyes shifting constantly along with the color going light and dark and light again. It made him nervous; something bad happened when the color of her eyes changed rapidly like that.

"They bumped me up a grade. Again. Mom and Dad even allowed them to," Heidi whispered. Her voice held no emotion.

Dannie caught the lack of emotion in her sister's voice and the slightly scared look in Duo's eyes. "Heidi, honey. It's okay. I won't let anything happen to you and neither will Duo. Don't worry about it. No one will think that you are a freaky genius like they did when you were bumped to sophomore back in NYC."

Heidi's eyes dropped back to the normal pale blue green and stopped shifting uncontrollably. "Alright. Are you done with our forms? So we can get to class. Mine and Duo's first is a computer class. I need electronics right now to take my mind off of the grade change."

Duo and Dannie looked at each other over Heidi. They both knew that Heidi was upset and her need for electronics proved it.

"Yeah, I'm done. Let's turn this stuff in to the office and get to the library," Dannie spoke quietly and stood, adjusting her bag on her shoulders and pushing her younger sibs out of the isle.

Yup, chapter one, complete. Poor Heidi and Duo. Well, I guess that this is it until next time. I'll update when I can.

Ja ne.

Kari