Love Game

Chapter 1: Next Target

"Love is a game that two can play and both win."

~Eva Gabor


"Are you... breaking up with me?" A lady with long, blue hair and golden-colored eyes spoke despite her attempts to stop sobbing. Her make-up mixed with her eyeliner smudged on her face as she wiped them with her fingers. Her tears and make-up even stained her pink polo uniform and knee-length white skirt.

"Yes, Ceres. I am," replied the man with brown hair and Prussian blue eyes in a monotone voice. He coldly stared at the crying female in front of him and placed his hands in the pockets of his black pants. "We're done." He added as he turned his back on her, heading for the door.

They were standing on the top floor of their school building. It was uncovered, and the setting of the sun can be clearly seen. The mixed hues of orange and purple enveloping the sky indicated the near-end of the day.

"Why? I love you." The woman pleaded.

"Well, I don't. Don't come near me again." That was it. He was out of the door.

"Relena, let's go!" a woman with short, black hair and white complexion called out to her friend outside of the classroom. "You've been overworking again!"

"Coming, Hilde!" replied the much taller golden-haired student to her friend as she hurriedly, but carefully stacked piles of papers on her desk.

"I'll wait for you outside of the building, alright?"

"Okay." Relena replied still glued in arranging her stacks of folders. As soon as she finished neatly arranging her things in the Student Council office, she turned off the lights and locked the door.

After closing the door, she turned to her right when she heard footsteps from the staircase. "Heero Yuy," she whispered to herself when she identified who just came down from the rooftop one floor up from the Student Council office.

The guy named Heero noticed someone staring at him when he came down from the rooftop, and gave his curious batchmate a cold look. Relena Darlian.

He looks pissed. Relena thought to herself as she flinched from Heero's stare. But she didn't let herself be intimated by him. Not of course when he had a not-so-good reputation in their school. Smiling, she walked towards him. "Is someone still there? Were the doors locked properly?" School business.

"None of your business, President. The bitch will lock it when she's over it." Heero gave her one last look before walking down the stairs.

Another break up for him, I guess. Relena thought and followed Heero down up to the school's entrance.

"There you are! Let's go!" Hilde bouncily called out to her friend when Relena walked outside of the building. "Is that Heero?" She asked eyeing the man who came out before Relena. "Why are you with him?"

"I think he and Ceres broke up. Ceres is at the rooftop." Relena replied who was now also looking at Heero walking to his black Porsche. "Poor girl."

"Well, what do you expect from a guy like him? That's like his 30th break up during our whole high school life! We're already in our final year, and he still hasn't changed." Hilde said looking really irritated. "He had almost every pretty girl in school falling for him. Good thing you didn't, Relena. He just toys with them! What a player."

"You know I wouldn't, Hilde, no matter how attractive he is." Relena replied with a slight smile. "Let's go. I asked Pagan to pick us up at the cake shop after. Dorothy also texted me that she's already there."

"Yahoo! We'll treat you today! You need to unwind once in a while." Hilde said as she hugged her friend.


"So you just left her?" asked a man with a long, brown braided hair that reached up to his waist wearing a white polo uniform and black pants. "You really don't know how to respect a girl, Heero." He chuckled as he put his arm on his friend's shoulder.

"Duo, Ceres is not the type of person who should be respected anyway. Everybody knows how... indecent that woman is," a Chinese man beside the guy named Duo replied. He was looking at the coffee shop's menu.

"Come on, Wufei. We know that. But she's really gorgeous you know? Probably the prettiest in St. Gabriel's!" the braided man called Duo retorted.

"Prettier than Relena Darlian?" asked another man who wore the same attire as the others, only that he had platinum blonde hair. He was sitting beside Heero drinking his coffee.

"Got me there, Quatre," replied Duo. "What do you think, Trowa?"

"There, there. Duo, it looks like you haven't gotten used to Heero, yet. Slutty or not, Heero dates them and dumps them afterwards," replied their friend who had short brown hair with spiky styled bangs. And speaking of Relena Darlian, there she is with Miss Schibeker at the other side of the street." He motioned towards the cake shop right across the coffee shop where they usually hang out.

At the mention of Relena Darlian's name, their batchmate that he had seen before leaving the school, Heero looked outside of the coffee shop's huge window. He narrowed his eyes when he saw Relena Darlian enter a cake shop with one of their batchmates Hilde Shibeker. As the two girls entered the shop, he saw another batchmate of theirs with long, blonde platinum blonde hair and long eyebrows. That must be Dorothy Catalonia.

Heero watched the two girls embrace the girl named Dorothy Catalonia, one of the richest and brightest students in their school. He watched as the girls all sat down and only shifted his glance back to his friends when the girl named Relena seemed to feel that someone was watching them and looked at his direction.

"What do you guys know about Relena Darlian?" he asked his friends.

"New target?" the guy named Trowa asked. "She's our SC President."

Heero shook his head. "I already know that. What else?"

"Well, she's the daughter of the Vice Foreign Minister. She's from the other class, so we're not really close with her. But she's really popular in school. She's beautiful, rich, intelligent, and nice to others. So basically everybody likes her. And I heard that you rarely see her without a smile on her face," Duo replied as he glanced at the females at the other side of the street. "Don't tell me you're targeting her next. She's got issues."

Issues? "What kind?" Heero asked. Now he's interested. Making all the girls fall in love with him wasn't a challenge to Heero Yuy. He was well-aware that girls were interested in him, not only for his good looks and cold demeanour that the females think of as sexy, but also for his wealth. Hearing of Relena Darlian being a difficult person to deal with sparked an interest in him.

It was man named Quatre who answered. "I heard from other students that Miss Darlian has rejected every guy on campus. She has boy allergies. Probably a man-hater if you want to be blunt."

"Might be a lesbian, if you ask me," Duo remarked as he took a sip of his coffee.

"Who knows? She's only been around girls and has not let other guys court her. But I don't think so," Trowa replied."Heero?" He glanced at his friend who seemed to have regained a good mood.

"I'm interested," Heero smirked. "A girl who looks nice on the outside but is actually a slut inside. I'm interested."

Their Chinese friend named Wufei crossed his arms. "So you're going to prove everybody wrong about her being nice? What if she really isn't?"

"She is. And I'll prove it. I hate women like her. She fools everyone with her fake smiles. Man-hater? I don't think so." A confident Heero replied as he glanced at the golden-haired female across the street who was laughing with probably a joke cracked by her friend Hilde. "Watch, she'll be mine soon."


"Relena, what's wrong?" Hilde asked her friend as she noticed Relena feel uncomfortable and kept glancing outside the shop.

"Nothing. It's just that... them," Relena motioned towards the coffee shop on the other side of the street. Five of their male batchmates were clearly seen behind the huge glass window. They were seated by the round couch beside the door entrance.

"Oh my, Duo Maxwell!" Hilde exclaimed who now had her eyes glued to the shop opposite of them. "How long have they been there?"

"Just when we arrived here, I've already noticed them. Why? And what's with Duo?" Relena asked.

"Nothing, he's just... cute," Hilde shyly remarked as she took a bite of her strawberry short cake. Beside her, Dorothy Catalonia smirked.

"I'm guessing you have a crush on Mr. Maxwell over there. Why do we know this only now?" Dorothy leaned towards her friend.

"I just find him cute. And he's really cool when he's riding his motorbike. I heard his family's business is all about bikes. But it's not more than that! How about you? You don't like any of those fearsome five?"

"Well if I were to choose among those five fine-looking gentlemen, I would say Quatre will do," Dorothy glanced at the other shop.

"The foreign student from the Middle East?" Relena asked.

"Yes. Heard he's wealthy over there, and he's the more outgoing of the five. Next to Duo Maxwell, of course." Dorothy replied. "That guy Trowa Barton is also my type. You should see him perform on stage. He's one hot theatre actor. Because of him, the theatre club's always getting female members. But he's too hot stuff for me. As for Mr. Chang over there, he only cares about his karate club and I don't know much about him except for being in a well-off family. Well you know 'em Chinese, they love businesses."

"They're from the other class, right? How do you know those stuff?" Relena was thinking if she had spent all of her years in high school confined in the Student Council office and solely focused on academics, and other extracurricular activities.

"Because, my dear, we are normal students who take in the pleasure of knowing something juicy about our school mates. You've been too busy in school. And honestly, who wouldn't know those five hot guys? They're our batchmates, Relena. Every girl in school drools over them! Especially Heero Yuy!" Dorothy said.

"So Hilde what do you think of him?" Dorothy placed her elbow on the table and leaned her cheek on her hand as she glanced once more at the boys on the other side. She can see the braided guy called Duo punch Heero on the arm, while Quatre was laughing. The more silent type Trowa and Wufei just displayed small smiles.

"I don't know. Out of those five, Heero's the most notorious. I mean, he has dated more than a dozen girls before, and he dumped them all. Plus, if you think Wufei is anti-social, then what more of Heero? I heard he used to be a nice kid, but he and his dad had a falling out that's why he became that... cold. I'm not really sure." Hilde narrated as she glanced at the braided man she had a crush on. "It's a waste that he can't stick with one girl. He's got really good looks."

"He has a rotten personality, so his looks are not really a waste," Relena said with disgust. "People like him do not respect a girl's feelings."

"Right," Hilde agreed. "But you better watch your back Relena. He dates the prettiest girls in school. I mean, he just broke up with Ceres. He might date another. And well, yeah, you get the picture..."

"I have a busy school life. He wouldn't want to date me. And I myself won't fall for him," Relena replied as she took a bite of her chocolate cake, hiding her nervousness of the possibility of being pursued by someone like Heero Yuy.

"You can never tell, dear. Heero Yuy always gets what he wants," Dorothy smirked.


The following day, Relena arrived in school just like she usually did. Clutching her books with her left arm, while holding her light brown shoulder bag in place with the other arm, she walked to the entrance of St. Gabriel. As she was about to enter the building, she noticed a shiny black car already parked at the parking lot. That's Heero's. He's early. I'm usually the first person who arrives in school, Relena thought. Never mind.

Relena walked up the stairs to the Student Council office. With one floor left, she fished in her bag for the office key not looking at her footing. Frustrated that she cannot find her key, the SC president dug some more in her bag. And that's when she tripped at the final step of the stairs.

Relena lost her balance and dropped her books. She closed her eyes expecting to hit the cold floor, but instead she felt warm arms wrap around her to catch her fall.

"You alright?" Relena opened her eyes at the sound of the voice. It was deep. It was enticing. It belonged to someone she knew, but not too well. She pulled away slightly to look at her savior's face.

A look of surprise was evident on her features as her cerulean eyes met Prussian blue ones. His eyes. She stared at her rescuer's Prussian eyes that reflected a deep, but mysterious aura. She felt drawn. She found herself lost in his gaze, but reality dawned on her when she came back to her senses. "Heero Yuy?"

Heero smiled at the mention of his name. "You can call me, Heero. Pleased to meet you formally, President. You're Relena Darlian, right?"

Relena tried to catch her breath when she realized that his face was just centimetres away, and their arms were still wrapped around each other. "Yes," she replied.

Heero helped Relena regain her balance, holding her waist with both of his hands. He gently pulled away from her to pick up the fallen books. "Here," he said as he handed Relena her things.

"Thank you," Relena replied, giving him a smile.

You better watch your back, Relena. Suddenly Relena remembered her friend Hilde's words from last night. Quickly realizing that there were no other students yet in their school except the two of them, Relena tried to hide her nervousness.

She gave Heero a nod and walked passed him to unlock the door of the SC office.

Doing her best to remain composed, Relena refrained from trembling too much as she slid the key into the door knob.

"You look tense, President. Something wrong?" She felt Heero's presence behind her. It was that voice again. That deep, sensual, voice that sent shivers run throughout Relena's body.

Relena tried to find her voice and avoided to stutter. "I'm fine." As she placed her hand on the door knob to turn it, a warm, calloused hand wrapped around hers.

The Student Council president froze at the contact as Heero pressed himself behind her. "What is it, Heero?" She found it hard to breathe as she felt him get close to her. His breath tickled her neck, which only tensed her even more.

Heero took pleasure in teasing his new target as he felt Relena's body tense up with their close contact. He put his free hand on her shoulder, and leaned closer to whisper on her ear, "Date me, Relena."


Author's Note: How was it? :) This is my first attempt to write a full length Gundam Wing fanfic, since my first attempt for GW ever was a one-shot. So I want to know what you guys think of this one. Originally, I had a different plot in mind (still a HeeroxRelena). However, I want to start out with something simple like a high school setting to get a hang of GW writing. :)

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