"Because all of it, you, the
main leaders, have to remember people that peace is something that needs
to be conquered every day by each one of us," Relena ended her speech at
the 4th Peace Conference. She was very much applauded and left the main
room after receiving some compliment.
She entered another room
and went to the large window, sunbeams washing her face. After a long conference
circuit in all universe, she was finally back in Earth.
"I almost forgot how good
is to be at home..." muttered to herself, turning around to find a black
suited man.
"Miss Darlian, your car is
waiting downstairs," he said, and she left the building.
Heero was again at the place
where he destroyed his Gundam. He caught some earth in his hands and left
the wind takes it away. Suddenly, his thoughts were interrupted by an annoying
sound.
"Heero Yui," he answered
the cell phone.
"Hi, man, it's me, Duo,"
"Hi, Duo, what's up?" Heero
asked standing up and walking away.
"Nothing at all," said Duo,
"it's just you've disappeared. I think it's been a month anyone talks with
you... You don't call us, don't answer our messages..."
"I think I don't have any
to talk about," he mumbled.
"Do you go to the Relena's..."
was asking Duo when Heero hung up.
At home, Relena opened the
shower and let the steam fill the bathroom. She undressed and went into
the stall. The water was almost boiling, burning her skin as she liked.
Very hot baths were her ultimate pleasure after a hard day, although she
knew it was terrible for her skin.
She left the water run by
her nude body and as long as it occurred her tough shell melted away. After
two or three minutes there wasn't anything more of the successful diplomat
Relena Darlian, there was just a fragile woman who was sensitive and not
sensible. She started to cry, sobbing desperately.
"Why?" she asked to herself,
"Why I'm not happy?"
Heero was wandering around
at the Spring Park when he saw Wufei.
"I didn't know you liked
places like these," joked Heero.
"So did I," said Wufei.
"What are you doing here?"
asked Heero.
"I ask you the same. I spoke
with Duo this morning and he said you hung up him,"
"He don't know how to keep
his mouth shut," he mumbled, smiling after it, "I just didn't want to hear
his blab"
"Duo also said you were strange...
Well, more than usual," giggled Wufei.
"Strange is you!" cried Heero,
"I've never saw you giggling, Wufei."
"Chang!" a woman's voice
called and the two guys turned around to see Sally. "I bought our juices...
Heero? What are you doing here? Have you planned to meet here?"
"No, it's just coincidence,"
marked Wufei.
"Now I understand why you
are strange..." muttered Heero.
"Can you give us a moment,
Sally?" Wufei asked, and she left.
After Heero stop kidding
with the relationship between Wufei and Sally, Wufei made a serious face.
"Why are you pretending,
Heero?" he said.
"What do you mean?"
"You know... I see you're
not happy... You're really strange, man. Even when you are joking, something
says you're not having fun."
Heero said nothing, just
stared to the ground.
"I know how you feel... lost..."
Wufei said with a smooth voice.
"But seem you've found a
life..." mumbled Heero.
A huge cloud floated, covering
the sun and bathing everything with gray tones. The wind cried for a moment.
"Heero, I understand you
feel lost without battles, even after fighting so much for peace. You have
to find again the meaning of life."
"I don't have anyone in this
world..." he said, "The fact is that's no meaning at all."
"You know it's a lie," concluded
Wufei, "Look for it in your heart and you'll see the truth."
Then he went away, leaving
Heero alone with his own feelings and thoughts.
"The meaning of life..."
he whispered and sat on the grass.
At night in Relena's house,
she was giving her birthday party and was dazzling beautiful in a long
crimson dress. His jewelry was magnificent too, but nothing could darken
his beauty. The most important people of the Alliance were there, as tough
her friends.
"Hi, Relena, happy birthday!"
cried Quatre as he arrived with Dorothy.
"Thanks," she said smiling
sweetly, "Do you know if he's coming?"
"Well," started Quatre a
little embarrassed, "I don't know. Duo talked with him this morning, but
he didn't have time to ask 'cause Heero hung up on him."
"But are you sure he received
you invitation, Relena?" asked Dorothy looking the sadness in her friend's
face.
"I think he did but, anyway,
he knows he doesn't need a formal invitation," she said leaving the pair.
Quatre tried to go after her, but Dorothy told him Relena would prefer
to be alone for a moment.
Relena went to the balcony
and felt the breeze in her face. It was a chill autumn breeze and she thought
that was a perfect moment to be embraced. Memories of Heero danced in her
confused mind, pleading to become more than memories, to become truth.
Suddenly, she decided to go back to her party and try having a nice time.
As fast as she entered the
salon, a handsome guy asked her a dance. She accepted and as they danced,
she discovered he was a member of a L1 colony's very important family.
"I was looking for you but
you seemed to have disappeared," he said in a attractive voice.
"I was at the balcony," Relena
answered smiling as much as she could, trying to pretend she was happy.
They stopped dancing and
he brought drinks for them. Relena was staring blankly and didn't see he
had arrived.
"Are you feeling good, Miss
Darlian?" he asked.
"Oh, yes," she said looking
at him, "very good..."
Heero was in his apartment,
lying in the bed, lights off. He closed his eyes but everything he could
remember was stained with blood and he felt himself empty.
"Meaning of life..." he mumbled,
"Is there something like this for me?"
Turning in bed, his eyes
fixed at a magazine that was lying in the floor. Relena was in the cover.
"Or am I just not seeing
what is in my front?" he thought.
Relena was dancing again with
Gregory, the man she met. He was talking with her about a lot of subjects,
but she still seemed apathetic. Gregory was a great dancer, as so Relena,
and they was the most beautiful pair in the salon. A waltz started and
they were so synchronized that the other pairs formed a circle around them.
Breaking the magic, a man invaded that "isolated area" for the two dancers.
"Would you dance with me
now?" he asked, touching Relena's shoulder.
She turned with surprise
and thought she was going to faint when she saw Heero's face. She embraced
him passionately with tears falling in her cheeks and kissed him with pure
love, letting everyone there astonished.
"You're the meaning of my
life, Relena," Heero said looking at her eyes.
"And finally I'll be happy,"
she muttered, "with you..."
They kissed again sealing
the new life that was just beginning.
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