Chapter #1: Bad Days Get Worse.
AN. NEWLY REVISED!! YAY!!!…okay…just so ya' know…I don't own anything to do with G-Wing…and I'm making no profit…although I do get a perverse joy at putting them all through embarrassing stuff…Aw…the fun of screwing with the lives of characters that can do nothing about it!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH-cough-choke-cough….
The Library was quiet, just as all libraries should be. Small groups of high school students sat here and there enjoying the wonderful opportunity to increase their education. That is, every thing was picture perfect until one blonde student happened to glance up at the time. The silence was broken.
"Oh, Crap!" Relena moaned out loud to herself. The Asian kid beside her looked up sharply. His some of his dark hair had worked its way out of his tight ponytail and his reading glasses had fallen long on hiss nose.
"Relena. Really, this is the library. Keep. It. Down." Wufei said in a tight voice. He quickly shoved his glasses back up and blew the long bangs back out of his eyes.
Relena sighed. 'Why I had to get the guy with the obsessive streak for a partner on this project?' She questioned herself. Wufei really was a nice guy under all his…er…gruff facade. And normally Relena didn't mind working with him, at least she knew with him as a partner they'd both be working hard to achieve an A, but at times like this, she really wished his was less uptight.
Relena looked back over at the object that had caused her to groan in the first place.
"I've got to go now Wufei, Milli wanted to leave early today after his last class. As it is I'm almost 5 minutes late! I'll give you a call about this…ummm…later!" He didn't even glance up at her as she gathered up her piles of books and papers and pens and…other assorted items that no prepared High Schoolers was ever without. And of course she didn't carry a book sack or briefcase. No, Relena was convinced that she didn't need one.
Relena, because she was in such a hurry to some how avoid her brother's wrath, unfortunately wasn't paying attention to where she was headed. Wufei glanced up from his book in time to see Relena come into direct danger of colliding with a boy who seemed to be trying to balance text books and read something in his hand while waling. Wufei tried to warn her, he really did, but it was too late. He had to admit though; it was a truly spectacular crash. Papers and books and pens flew everywhere.
"Oh, crap...." she moaned for the second time in as many minutes. Her backside hurt from the fall. She quickly stood up and looked around, all her papers were now drifting aimlessly all over the library.
'Note to self: Pay attention to Milli and get a bag. This can not happen again.'
Well, standing here talking to herself wasn't getting the stuff picked up. She bent down to start gathering the books closest to her up and didn't notice that the person she had ran into was doing the same thing. She saw stars when their heads smacked together. Again, Relena ended up on her back sided. She let out a yelp of pain and tried to focus on the person causing her so much misery. Her eyes met with a deep sea of Prussian blue.
Only one person has eyes like that...
'Heero Yuy...great...this is my lucky day'"Um, I'm sorry. I wasn't watching where I was going." She said with a gulp. He didn't say a word. Just watched her with those bottomless blue orbs of his.
He'll probably think I'm too dangerous to be near now. But at least he'll be thinking of me.'
Relena nervously started to stack her books when his gaze became too much. In life every girl meets one guy who they know will forever be out of their reach. Heero Yuy was that guy for Relena. She shared over half her classes with him, had since Jr. High, yet she was sure he didn't even know her name.
"Here, I think these are yours." He voice was flat as he handed her an untidy stack of papers. She took them with trembling hands.
"Thanks…" He was already standing and moving deeper into the library. Relena watched him go for as long as she dared then continued her clean up efforts. She certainly didn't notice the extra paper mixed in with her own; neither did she miss the weight of one of her books from the pile she struggled to balance.
Heero Yuy made his way to the back of the library while trying to rub the lump on his forehead. That girl really needed to pay more attention to where she was going. He walked over to the table by the window where a boy wearing a long black trench coat sat.
'Why the teachers haven't caught that idiot is beyond me. That trench is a dead ringer for suspicious activity.'
"Hi buddy! Did you come for any of my special papers?" The boy asked once Heero was close enough to talk to at a whisper.
"No, Duo. You know I don't need to cheat." He sent Duo a glare that would have made anyone else shut up immediately…but not Duo. He was immune to "The Death Glare" because he'd been receiving them since he was 2.
Duo opened his coat and rummaged around in one of it's many inside pockets until he found what he wanted. He held out a long sheet of paper that looked to be a print out of test scores.
"Well, as of your last trig. test you've fallen 2 points of a percent. No good buddy, not good at all." Duo waved the paper right under his nose. Heero felt his anger growing. Did this idiot know nothing about privacy? He was already having a bad day, and breathing in the same oxygen as Duo was making it worse.
"Let me see that!" He snatched at the paper. Duo pulled it away quickly and shoved it back into his coat.
"Nope" He smugly told his friend. He knew Heero was very close to beating him up right now, but his friend was so easy to tease that Duo couldn't help himself.
"Duo" Okay that tone meant Heero was at the line that Duo didn't want him to cross.
"Boys, stop fighting. Heero you never pay any attention to me anymore. And what were you doing with that girl." The blonde girl who the boys had been ignoring up until now moved closer to Heero and draped her arm around his chest. Duo almost gagged at her whining tone. What ever his friend saw in her was definitely lost on him. He disliked Dorothy Catalonia with a passion.
"…don't know" Heero mumbled. Ignoring the hand that reached up to stroked the side of his face.
"Her names Relena, and you've shared most of your classes with her since 7th grade." Duo felt it was his job to inform his friend in his apparent lapse of memory.
"Well I don't like her. I've never liked her in fact. She's such a little miss prissy." Dorothy sniffed and tried to move closer to Heero. He shrugged her off and sent her a glare. She knew he was against public displays of affection.
"Coming from the Empress of the Drama queens." Duo murmured under his breath. Dorothy calling anyone a Miss Prissy was like the pot calling the kettle black.
"I heard that! Heero make his stop." Dorothy whined again.
"…" Heero signed and left the table. He had witnessed these fights before. Those two would never know he was gone.
"Heero make your girl go away. She's getting on my nerves." Dorothy and Duo engaged in a battle of glaring menacingly at one another.
"Heero, why do you have to give such an uncouth ruffian the time of day?" Hate practically dripped off her tongue.
"Who are you calling uncouth?" Duo narrowed his eyes a bit.
"Why you of course!"
"Heero!….Hey where'd he go?" Duo broke eye contact to look around for his absent friend.
"Dude, he left a while ago." A near by student looked up to answer Duo's question.
"You drove him away!" Dorothy pointed an accusing fingerer at the boy nest to her.
"Me? You started it with your comment about Relena!"
"No…"
"YES…"
Relena hurried to her brother's class all the while trying to gather her wits more firmly about herself.
'I know I ran into him…but I don't think he was paying attention to were he was going either! He didn't have to be so rude! Erg…he makes me so mad…and he doesn't even know I'm alive…imagine how mad he'd make me if he just knew my name? Or talked to me at all?…' She let her thoughts fade out when she realized were they were going.
'It's just a stupid crush…why want it go away? Come on Rellie, you have more important things to think about…like convincing Milli that he can't be mad at you because…because…I'm his little sister…and I can make big puppy eyes?…I have to come up with a better solution to my problems than that…'
Relena stepped in the door and saw that her brother was indeed waiting for her. He gave her an impatient smile and started to gather his coat and briefcase.
"Your late, Relena." Milliardo Peacecraft, her beloved brother, taught literature at Cinq High. He was known for his twill sports coat with the leather patches and the pipe he always carried around in the class, although he didn't smoke it.
"Sorry, Millie. I ran into someone, and picking up my books took a minute." She told him by way of explaining and then held her breath.
"Well, as long as you're not injured. Now we must go or we'll be late. " He motioned for her to follow him out the door. Relena sighed in relief. No lecture on promptness tonight! Her brother obviously had other things on his mind for which she was grateful.
Relena looked over the load of homework she had as Milli drove them to the small house the called home a few blocks for the school. Tonight, Milliardo was going out with some of his old high school friends and Relena was going to baby-sit their five-year-old daughter. There was no way she could get all of her work done before the weekend started.
'Like this day could get better.' She thought as she followed her brother into the house.
AN: Because LACH has been going on for a year…and to celebrate those almost 200 reviews…I'm going back and making this story so much better…I hope you all enjoy these changes.
Revised: 2/26/03
