MINE!
WARNING: For language and lemon. Oh, and Relena! Beware the Relena! *makes scary noises*
DISCLAIMER: Must I be forced to admit that they aren't mine? Can't you leave me in my dream world?!
SUMMARY: AU! A 'High School' fic. Heero and his friends are quite interested in a new student. Heero a bit more than the others... Cookie fic!
1.
Heero watched as Wufei tightened his lips around the pencil in his mouth, the Chinese boy humming slightly as he worked on a difficult problem, fine black eyebrows drawing together in concentration.
He jerked his eyes back to his own homework. He had to get this done; there was no sense in Wufei-watching, anyway. He'd barely spoken to the other boy yet, and...
Wufei made a pleased noise and the pencil went scratching across his paper. He'd obviously figured out the problem that was stumping him.
Heero allowed himself a moment to admire his crush. Wufei was so smart. Of course, he himself was smart, too... but Wufei was cute when he was smart. Heero's friend Duo often told him that he was scary when he was being clever.
He usually liked being scary, but he wondered if that might be one of the reasons Wufei was so cautious around him. Or maybe, it was just that he was still the 'new guy' and he wasn't sure of his place.
Heero would love to show him exactly what he wanted Wufei's place to be...
Wufei, meanwhile, had moved on to the next problem on his paper. Apparently another tough one, the thoughtful look returned and the eraser wandered back toward Wufei's lips.
Heero watched as those soft, full lips closed over the pencil again, and Wufei's eyebrows resumed their studious frown. It must have been an even harder problem than before...
...because Wufei began to suck lightly on the end of his pencil.
Heero snapped.
Papers and books went flying everywhere as he leapt over the table and tackled the other boy.
***One Month Earlier***
"There's a new guy, today," Duo announced, thumping down into his seat.
"How do you always know that?" Trowa demanded, staring at his friend.
"I'm just good. He's our age. Probably be in most of our classes."
"Hmm..." Quatre sounded interested. "Hey, Heero, maybe he'll be your type."
"Doubtful," Heero snorted, barely glancing up from the laptop he was furiously tapping away on. Most kids spent the half-hour between the bus' arrival and the actual start of school either on the football field's bleachers or in the cafeteria. Popularity decided how high you were allowed to sit when you chose the bleachers; they were always on the very top row.
"Aw, c'mon, Hee-chan. Have a little faith. Odd as it may seem, there's someone out there for everybody, including you." Duo stopped and shivered. "Though the idea of you in love gives me the creeps..."
Quatre and Trowa snickered.
Heero glared. "You're such a dead man, Maxwell."
"You'll only be able to kill me if Zechs lets you," Duo sniffed, turning his nose up.
Heero rolled his eyes at the reference to Duo's older boyfriend. "That pretty blond can't stop me."
"Hey, no taking Zechs' name in vain! He may be blond, and pretty, but he can beat you up!" Duo paused, eyeing his friend. "Well... maybe."
Heero's lips quirked in a small smile. "Baka. At least you admit it."
"Heero!" a plaintive female voice called.
Heero's small smile became a large glare.
All his friends groaned.
The pretty blond girl didn't notice. She hurried up the bleachers and sat down beside her crush, her own light blue eyes wide with love. You could almost see little hearts throbbing in her pupils. She wrapped herself around Heero's arm and sighed. "I missed you."
"Hn," was Heero's eloquent reply. He attempted to shake her off his arm; that had never worked before and it didn't work now. He turned back to his laptop; necessity had taught him to type very quickly with just one hand.
"Relena, don't you have friends to hang out with?" Duo demanded, taking up for Heero. His friend had given up after he found that everything he said to the girl, rejection-wise, she would twist around to suit her own way of thinking. Duo and his other friends hadn't given up trying to help Heero yet, though.
Heero appreciated that, but he was fairly certain it was a lost cause.
Even threatening to gut Relena hadn't driven her away. She had giggled and told him he was 'so cute when he teased.'
"Of course I have friends!" Relena said, turning a little to wave to those same friends, who were huddled together further down the bleachers, giggling as they watched their leader.
All eight of them waved back eagerly.
"Then why don't you sit with them?" Quatre hinted.
"And leave poor Heero all alone?" Relena looked horrified.
"Um, excuse me, princess, but he has three friends sitting with him. Last time I checked, that wasn't exactly 'alone'." Duo growled.
"Oh, you don't count!" she replied airily, dismissing them with a wave of her hand. "Heero needs to be loved, you know! and I'm the one who loves him!"
Heero growled. "Get away from me," he said, shoving at her, "I don't need you to 'love' me. Go find some other guy."
"Oh, Heero," Relena said sadly, big blue eyes filling with tears. "I know you're just afraid of being hurt, but I'll never hurt you! I'll never leave you all alone!"
Heero groaned.
Duo and the others couldn't help but snicker.
Heero gave serious thought to throwing his laptop at them, but then he'd have to buy another one. And it had taken too long to get all his games and programs on this one...
"Hey," Duo was distracted from their daily soap opera. "That must be the new guy. Cute!"
Heero looked up, not really interested - until he saw the boy who had walked onto the field.
Then he stared.
Cute was an understatement. Heero had never seen anyone so beautiful in his life.
The boy was Chinese - he was fairly certain of that - all golden-skin and dark, tilted eyes. He had long black hair scraped back into a tight ponytail, and his black T-shirt was embroidered with a red and gold dragon. His hands were shoved in the pockets of loose, wide-legged jeans, but Heero could see black wrist-braces on his arms.
Interesting... did the boy know martial arts?
...'cause Heero would love to 'spar' with him...
"Duo Maxwell! You shouldn't go around saying boys are cute; people with think you're gay!" Relena reprimanded the braided boy.
Duo stared at her. "I am gay, Relena. I'm dating your cousin!"
"Zechs isn't gay!" Relena gasped, "he's just your friend, and I know it! You've got to stop saying things like that, dumber people might believe you!"
Duo put his face in his hands, giving up for now.
Heero was still watching the new boy.
The dark eyes swept over the crowd on the bleachers - half of whom were watching him, in return - without really settling on anyone. Then he moved to the bottom bleacher, sat down, and put headphones on.
Heero finally pried his eyes away from the boy, to find that all his friends were staring at him.
And they were grinning.
"Getting a little faith, after all, Hee-chan?" Duo asked slyly.
"I have seen the light," was the solemn reply.
Wufei sighed softly.
He hated new schools.
This was the third one he'd been to this year.
Of course, he'd been promised that this was the last one...
...he'd just wait and see about that.
It would be nice if it was true - if he got to stay with Aunt Li. He liked her.
And it would be nice not to be the 'new kid' anymore.
Nice not to be shuffled around from relative to relative.
Nice to know why this kid with the braid was grinning at him.
He pulled off the headphones and lifted a questioning eyebrow.
"Duo," was the response, along with an outstretched hand.
"Wufei," he replied warily, stretching his own hand out slowly.
"Cool - c'mon!" and within a second, his hand was snatched, he was yanked to his feet, and Duo was pulling him up the bleachers at top speed. Wufei stumbled along behind him, keeping on his feet through sheer luck. They reached the top few bleachers and Duo stopped so suddenly that Wufei very nearly slammed into his back.
"Okay!" the boy said cheerfully, giving Wufei's hand another yank until the boy was standing on the bleacher beside him. "That's Trowa, that's Quatre, and that's Heero! I'm Duo - oh, wait, I told you that! Guys, this is Wufei." He then turned back to his captive. "You can sit with us!" and with that, he pushed the stunned boy down beside of one of the others.
It was no accident that the other was Heero.
"Hello," Quatre said, smiling at the boy, who looked rather stunned. "You'll have to forgive Duo. He's very impulsive. So, you're Wufei? That's Chinese, right?"
Wufei nodded silently, trying to ignore the boy beside him. He hadn't gotten much more than one quick look, the way Duo was yanking him around, but that look had been enough to tell him two things - first, the boy was gorgeous.
Second, he was taken.
Duo might not have introduced the pretty little blond girl, but the possessive way she was wrapped around the blue-eyed boy's arm didn't leave any questions about his dating status.
"Where are you from?" Quatre was still smiling at him.
Wufei didn't answer at first - he was trying to pick which place to name. Saying he was from 'all over the place' always got him more questions than he wanted to answer. He finally replied with the name of the small town he'd been in last, and blinked when the others stared at him. "What?"
"Nothing... you have a nice voice, that's all." Duo was grinning at him maniacally.
"Duo!" the blond girl spoke up for the first time, and Wufei winced. Her voice sounded perfectly normal, yet it grated on his nerves like fingernails on a chalkboard. "You shouldn't say things like that, I told you! He'll think you're a homosexual!"
Duo rolled his eyes. "Relena, go sit with your friends! I've told you every day for the past year that I am, and you still don't believe me! I'm getting tired of trying!"
"I will not go sit with my friends, and you can't fool me, Duo Maxwell! Everyone knows you're always joking! I won't be the one who falls for every lie you tell!"
Duo's grin abruptly vanished. "I don't lie. I may joke and play pranks, but I never lie..." the boy was so angry he was visibly shaking. His friends were already bracing themselves to catch him before he attacked the girl.
Relena never knew how close she had come to being strangled - she was saved when arms wrapped themselves around Duo from behind. "What's going on?"
"Zechs!" Duo's mood flipped from murderous to thrilled. "I thought you only had a half-day today!"
"I do," the tall blond replied, sitting down and tugging Duo down to sit on the bleacher in front of him, between his knees. "I volunteered for lab assistant in chemistry. Extra credit."
Wufei watched them with interest. So, Duo Maxwell liked boys... and his friends didn't seem to mind. Neither did the other students; no one was pointing or staring or looking disgusted. Well, except for the blond girl, Relena.
Maybe he'd like this school, after all.
He blinked when Quatre moved closer to Trowa and the taller boy put his arm around his shoulders.
Well, that explained why they didn't mind Duo.
What surprised him was that their straight friend - what was his name? oh, yeah, Heero - didn't seem to mind. His girlfriend was obviously upset, whining at the boy named Zechs, but the brown-haired boy was just focused in on his laptop, ignoring everybody.
Wufei took the opportunity to study him out of the corner of his eye - the boy might be straight, but that didn't mean he couldn't admire something that gorgeous when he saw it, did it?
As long as he didn't get caught...
Heero tried his best to keep his focus on the flickering screen in front of him, and not turn and jump the boy sitting beside him.
Damn Duo anyway, for purposefully making him sit there! Heero was more than glad that his friend, who had never met a stranger in his young life, had gone and retrieved his new crush, but couldn't he have sat him beside Quatre? at least until they knew if he was interested in guys or not?! This was going to drive him crazy!
The boy even smelled good, like something rich and sinfully sweet. Like cinnamon and vanilla.
A lot different from the sickly floral fragrance of Relena's perfume...
Heero tried shaking her off his arm again and grimaced when her grip threatened to cut off the blood supply to his hand. He was lifting his other hand to push her away when the first bell rang.
"Oh, I have to go! Goodbye, Heero, darling!" she aimed a kiss at him and he ducked, leaving her kissing air.
His friends snickered.
"Oh, Heero - you're so shy!" she twittered, then ran lightly down the bleachers to join her giggling friends.
Heero's friends kept snickering. He just closed his laptop and started banging his head against the lid.
Zechs stood and pulled Duo up - it was a signal for the others that they needed to get going, too. All of them started down the bleachers.
Duo made absolutely sure that Wufei was coming along.