Chapter 4

Quatre's Doom

(Heero POV)

Duo...Maxwell...I have to get that...freak that fell on top of me in the corridor to fall in love with me? For starters, he's a GUY, second of all he's ugly. I mean look at his glasses and that hat! I wouldn't of known whom he was if he hadn't bumped into me this morning.

I sat still in my seat. I could hear Relena giggling to herself a few seats in front of me. She was going to win, and she knew it. She got that blonde kid who is a little more popular than Duo...There is no way in hell I'm gonna get him to fall in love with me let alone have sex with him. The boy has probably never even heard of sex!

The bell rang through the classroom as Trieze finished off explaining what we had to do in fullest detail so we got everything perfect. Oh why in hell did I sleep with Zechs?!

"Heero you coming?" WuFei asked. I snapped out of my thoughts to see him standing in front of my desk with his bag swung over one shoulder. He had a slight smirk on his face. I could tell he was thinking my whole situation was the most humorous thing he'd be seeing over the next two weeks.

I nodded my head dumbly and slowly got out my seat. Everyone had already gone for their break. I grabbed my bag off the floor and slowly followed Trowa and WuFei out the classroom.

As soon as we had left, a group of 10 girls surrounded us, fussing over me and my break-up with the 'Princess' of Sanc. It's a shame I won't be going for any of them, they are girls after all and I'm straight...110.

"Oh Heero you must be feeling awful!" Sally cried hanging onto my arm.

"Are you feeling OK? Do you want me to help you with your things Heero?" Une, another of Relena's friends asked while fluttering her dark eyelashes.

"Sorry onna's! Heero needs his space at the moment!" WuFei called over the top of the girls "So could you all move your skinny ass's out the way!"

"Hey don't talk to me like that Chang WuFei!" Sally turned to my Chinese friend. "If I weren't so upset over Relena and Heero's break up at the moment I'd kick your ass back to China town!"

"Yes ma'am," WuFei seemed a little set back for a minute before taking a firm grip of my elbow, "We're out of here Yuy." Turning to Trowa he nodded, "Lead the way Barton...You Onna's better not follow us!"

"No of course not, if Heero needs his space then we'll give him some." Another girl replied sweetly.

We all rolled our eyes and turned our backs to the girls. Trowa pushed passed the circle of girls and led us towards the school field. We headed straight for our tree in the left hand corner of the school field in silence. Everyone knows it's our tree, we've even carved our names on it and this time there were a few freshmen sitting around it.

Its weird, everyone knows who I am even if I've never seen them before. The freshmen took one look at me as WuFei explained it was our tree and moved straight away, apologising to me. They almost looked scared.

WuFei snorted as he dropped to the ground and ran a hand over his tight ponytail to see if every strand of his black hair was tied back. I swiped my forehead and dropped my bag to my feet before opening another two buttons on my white shirt. It was a hot day and there seemed to be no clouds in the brilliant blue sky.

Taking my seat next to Trowa, I lend back onto the grass leaning my head on my bag. Closing my eyes to relax I started to think over my currently very bad situation. Suddenly I heard some laughter come from the direction of WuFei. I opened one eye and glared at the Chinese boy who was doubling over in laughter. Hn. At least Trowa had the decency to hold in his laughter until I'm not around to hear it. If WuFei wasn't such a good friend, I'd kick his ass all over this fucking field.

"Omae o Korosu"

"Oh come on you've got to admit the whole situation is humorous!" He chuckled; I scowled and moodily snapped my head in the other direction, crossing my arms over my chest.

"Hn. Shut up"

"Make me."

"WuFei leave it be, Heero's obviously upset over this." Trowa spoke up. I think I like Trowa better than WuFei. Trowa is always the understanding one.

"So would I if I had to fuck the biggest Loser in School!"

"WuFei!" There was silence as the Chinese boy tried to calm down. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of air to calm myself down before I swung at the guy when suddenly he spoke again.

"I mean Maxwell..." He doubled over laughing again. I hate him. I really hate him. I gave him my best glare, even that didn't shut him up. He wrapped one arm round his stomach as he doubled over, tears streaming down his face. I'll hit him in a minute if he doesn't shut that mouth of his.

"WuFei, if you don't shut up I'll call Sally over to shut you up." The Chinese boy stared at Trowa in shock and terror, while the other glared.

"You wouldn't!" He cried, pure horror showing all over his face. He shivered in his seat.

"I would." Trowa replied with a slight amused grin on his face. Trowa always brought up Sally when he really wanted WuFei to shut up. Last New Year, WuFei and Sally had gotten very drunk and slept together, now the girl acts like his mother. Making sure that if he is ill or has a cold, he has a hanky to wipe his nose on or if anyone is trying to start a fight with him she'd step in and have a go at them, even though she threatens to beat him up herself. The fact is, if Trowa or I said WuFei was doing something wrong to Sally she'd shape him up in no time. WuFei shuddered.

"Sorry Yuy."

"Hn. I sure damn think so." I nodded, satisfied and closed my eyes again to let the warm breeze wash over me.

"I went to a cool club last night." Trowa's soft voice travelled to my ears.

"Oh yea? Which one? I'm sure I've been there before." WuFei replied smugly

"Its over near the dock." Trowa informed, pulling off his white Nike jacket and folding it to one side. "Its in an alleyway in East End Street."

"You went to East End Street?" I enquired opening my eyes to spare Trowa a glance. He blushed slightly. East End Street was known for where all the whores hung out on the corners. Where all the homeless lived on the streets, where gangs hung out and did drugs. The place for the poor.

"Why did you go there?"

"Well..." Trowa's face was turning redder and I could see a smirk forming on WuFei's face "I went with a friend of Catherine's." He finished off very quickly, WuFei shuffled a little bit towards Trowa.

"And...What was the club like? What was it called? Come on clown boy spill it!" He cried. I lifted my head up a little bit to get a better view. Trowa was turning red.

"Ermm...Well we only stayed there for a few minutes," He told us. "The place was packed and full of life, it sure was a nice place to go." I snorted at the comment. No where is nice to go to in the South of the Sanc.

"Anyway" Trowa carried on ignoring my interruption. "We stayed and had a few pints before walking back to my house, that's it."

"That's it!" WuFei copied in a Trowa like voice. "That's it...Trowa by the look on your face I would have thought you'd seen some pornographic show." The only visible eye of Trowa's widened slightly before he shook his head.

"I want to take you both there." He glanced at us both, "There's a show on Saturday night, I want to see what its like. Would you both like to come with me?" There was silence before any of us spoke. South Sanc is horrific however Trowa does have good taste and I suppose if no one caught us there...

"Hn. Sure." I lay back down and closed by eyes as WuFei nodded his head.

"Sure, where and when shall we meet?" He asked.

"Well the both of you can sleep over my house, so we'll meet up Saturday morning as usual." Trowa replied.

"No can do mate you know the rules of the of the English Project – We have to stay at our partners house – no sleep overs" WuFei drawled

"Whatever then I'll drop you off..." I yawned to myself and turned onto my side away from my two best friends who had started a conversation up about clubs. I could faintly hear WuFei telling Trowa about the injustice of things in clubs as I thought about my problem. How the hell was I going to get Maxwell. A Boy. To fall in love with me? I bet he doesn't even know what the word sex means. I drifted off thinking over the possible things I could do.

The next thing I knew, Trowa was shaking me awake, as it was the end of break. We all rushed to our next class quickly which was Science and were in our seats just as the teacher came in. WuFei and Trowa were still going on about different clubs as we walked in.

Relena gave us a smirk as she walked in and sat in front of us. I hate this. It hurts seeing her hate me so much, but I dared not show it on the outside. So far, everyone thought I was taking the break-up quite well. Trowa sat next to me with WuFei on the other table next to ours.

The lesson started, so I deciding to keep my mind off things I concentrated on what the teacher was saying. The whole first 30 minutes of the lesson consisted off the teacher going over what type of rocks there were. Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic. Simple. It was pretty boring; we did all this last year.

"Right kids do as much as you can on these sheets by filling in the missing words." I glanced down at my sheet as it was handed to me. All the questions seemed simple enough.

Suddenly a piece of paper fluttered down onto my question sheet. Looking up, I caught Relena's gaze for a second before she turned around again. The whole classroom filled up with chatter as everyone started their work. Glancing out of the corner of my eye I made sure Trowa and WuFei weren't looking at the note. Luckily, the two of them had continued with their conversation about clubs in Sanc. Opening the note, I scanned down the small letter in side and scowled. Written in pink was...

Dear Heero,
Lets change the bet to the first who can lay there chosen partner, I'm sure you'd love to have sex with Choir Geek Duo Maxwell, after all he is a guy. I know how you prefer men.

Relena XXXX

Quickly scribbling something down and I chucked it back. It bounced off her back and onto the floor. Quickly turning around, she picked the note up off the floor and began to read it.

Relena,

Stop messing with me, the bet sticks as it is.

Heero

The note came floating back down onto my table a few minutes later with a new message written underneath mine in neat hand writing.

Dear Heero,

I just thought it would be more of a challenge but, whatever, I'll do whatever you want. After all this is your entire fault. I will win you Heero no matter what. Then the sad little truth about your little romp with Millardo will come out. Then guess what your rep will be ruined forever.

Love Relena XXXX

My fault!? How many times did you cheat on me, remember your rep will be ruined if that got out.

Heero

Dear Heero

Yes but my darling Ex- boyfriend I didn't sleep with a load of girls. Do you know there is not one gay guy in this school. Not One! Have fun trying to get Maxwell to fall in love with you and good luck because you are going to need all the luck you can get.

Relena XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

I snarled and stuffed the note into my trouser pocket intending to throw it away later, it needed to be destroyed. I could hear a giggle from Relena as she whispered to Dorothy. I snarled again and went back to my work intending to get through the lesson without any more messages or disruptions from Relena Peacecraft.

(Duo POV)

I'm a nervous wreck. It's 3:30pm and school's just finished. We were told at the end of English that our partner would be around our house at 6:00pm. So I have 2 ½ hours to go to Quatre's and tell him the bad news about him working with Relena, before rushing home and getting my room and the guest room cleaned up as much as possible. I still can't believe this is happening.

I jogged as fast as I could down Quatre's street towards his house. Of course his has to be the biggest house in all of Sanc. All the houses down the street where Quatre lives are massive, but Quatre's house is the biggest...I think unless Relena's is a little bigger after all her father is the soon to be King of the Sanc after the election... Also I think Heero lives somewhere down here.

I stopped outside a large white house and opened their large golden gates. If I hadn't of asked Quatre if they were real gold I wouldn't have known they where fake. The gates where just painted in this shiny paint, which seemed to fool a load of people to believe it was real gold. I rang the doorbell and took a step back. The faint sound of some classical music played by a piano and a violin, wafted though a nearby open window and into the gardens. I could tell it was Quatre playing one of the instruments. He has a certain style.

Sometimes when he comes around to the church, which isn't that often. As his father doesn't like me anyway he plays the violin while I play the church organ. We do this to calm ourselves down. It helps a lot. Actually, I think I might have a go when I get back to the church.

Did I tell you I play the organ for the church on Sundays; I'm actually quiet good at it. It also helps me to make up songs to sing and dance to at my club. Yep that's right, I write my own songs and everyone says I'm pretty good. I guess I won't be having much practice since Heero's going to be around for a whole month. Damn. How am I going to hide my secret identity from him? He'll want to know my past...

"Master Duo, how may I help you?" A deep voice brought me from my sudden terror. Shit. I feel like crying or running away and never returning. I tilted my head up to meet the gaze of the tallest man I've ever met. Rashid, Quatre's butler/bodyguard. The guy's pretty cool and helps me sneak in to see Quatre when his dads around.

"Hey Rashid is Q around? I've got some important news," I asked politely. Rashid smiled slightly and nodded. He moved to one side as a signal for me to enter the mansion. I quickly entered and waited as Rashid closed the door behind him.

"I'll just go and get him for you." With that he bowed and left through one of the many doors in Quatre's hall. The hall of Quatre's house is massive. Every month or so, his father holds balls and parties in the hall. This is because there is a lot of space for couple to dance round the room without bumping into each other. I believe Quatre has told me Relena and Heero often attend them, but he always keeps out of their way. Quatre once asked me to attend to one of these parties with him...But his father didn't like it saying that a Dirty Southy wasn't aloud near their house. Yeah the rich and famous in the North of the Sanc hate the people in the South. That's probably why I'm so badly picked on at school. I'm one of a few who are from the South of the Sanc who attends to a North Sanc school. I think they felt guilty to turn away an orphan. Anyway Q's seems to think that if he hangs round with a poor orphan like me, he'd get into a bad crowd. Bastard – Sorry Father. I'd love to be able to dance around Quatre's hall and show off my talent.

The room itself reminded me of the ball out of 'Cinderella'. The walls are painted such a brilliant white that I thought the first time I entered the hall I'd have to wear sunglasses. On each side of the room, there are three pink and cream marble pillars and in the middle is a large staircase, which splits into two at the top and leads up to a gallery landing. The ceiling of the hall has been painted exactly like the ceiling in the Sistine chapel painted by Michael Angelo. I remember Quatre telling me about it once that it took over a year to be painted and by 50 men. I could only guess that it cost a very substantial amount of money, but then again that amount of money to the Winner's is nothing. The floor is the same as the pillars. The tiles are swirls of pink and cream and are amazing to look at.

"Duo!" There was a call from the door Rashid had left through. I turned and put on a large grin as Quatre came running up to me dressed in a pair of designer white trousers and a designer pink shirt, probably 'Ted Baker'. When we go out into town Quatre always takes his time looking at the 'Ted Baker' clothes. The assistants in the shop don't like me going in there. I can see the looks they give me when I enter with Quatre. The first time I entered, they asked me to leave. It reminded me of a film I saw at Quatre's once called 'Pretty Woman'.

It was the most horrible feeling in the world; I'm just like everyone else so why couldn't I stay in their shop? Can remember feeling tears in my eyes as I turned and ran. Like I always do. Quatre threatened to sue their company and make sure the assistants never worked in their whole miserable lives again if they ever said anything like that to me again. I only returned to the shop once more before I couldn't take it. Now I always wait outside or in the McDonald's nearby as Quatre shops in there. I don't buy anything though so normally I end up getting chucked out of McDonald's too and standing outside the 'Ted Baker' shop waiting for Q. Embarrassing, I know.

Quatre stopped in front of me and gave me the biggest bear hug I've had in my whole life. I hope I haven't crinkled his shirt.

"Ah Q I need to breathe!" I choked out; he instantly let go and stepped back. A blush covering most of his face making him look rather cute. He ran a hand through his gelled down blonde hair. He usual doesn't have it gelled down, it's only when he has it first cut. Which was probably today.

"Duo have you been rolling in...Coke?" He asked suddenly, it was my turn to blush. I'd smelt of it all day and I had to go to the boys to wash my sticky face. My shirt was just as sticky but there is nothing I can do about that until the next time I get my clothes washed, which is on Sunday night. I'm actually quite lucky, many of my clothes are donated to the church and they're too big for the other children. I'm the oldest kid still living at the church. Well I'm not a kid any more.

"No...I just had an accident on the way to school today." I murmured fiddling with the end of my granny jumper sleeve. "I've had a really bad day today Q." Quatre seemed to understand and took me by the elbow as he led me towards the stairs.

"We'll talk about this upstairs." He glanced towards where Rashid was standing by the door, "I'm sorry I wasn't at school today Duo." He sighed.

"It's OK, I just asked for extra homework from the teachers to do at lunch time in the library." I answered making me think how sad life has gotten. I don't have any other people to hang out with so I just bury myself in a load of work. I saw a brief sad look on Quatre's face before the blonde turned to me with a smile.

"Anyway how you feeling Quatre?" I asked pushing my glasses further up my nose as we reached the top of the stairs. From the top, there is an enormous drop to the marble tiles below and at the moment we're at level with the large chandelier, which needed a flame-thrower to be lit up. I've seen it lit up once when I was just leaving Quatre's room before his father's party. Well actually, I was being escorted out; I told you his father didn't like me.

"I'm feeling just fine, I had a cold a couple of days ago but I think I've totally recovered now. My father insisted that I took the day off to get myself back to 100." He smiled. "Rashid told me you had some important news to tell me."

"Yes, I hope I didn't interrupt anything I heard you playing from the doorstep."

"Oh no, I was just practising for fun." He smiled. "Anyhow, what's the news about?"

"It's about our new English project," We turned down a long corridor leading to Quatre's room.

"Oh yes" Quatre opened a large oak door to his room and we both entered. I've always loved Quatre's room. Its walls have been painted a light blue while its floor and ceiling are black. When I last came over, Quatre had bought some glow in the dark stars and I'd slept over without anyone knowing, to have a look at them.

Quatre plonked himself down on his large four-poster bed before turning to me. Light shimmered into the room from a large window over the other side of the room from the door.

"So?" It was Quatre's voice, which brought me out of my thoughts. I turned to close the door before jumping on the bed next to him.

"I'm afraid its bad news Q." I sighed; it's very bad news. Working with Relena Peacecraft and letting her stay in your house would drive me to suicide. "You're working with Relena on our new project and she'll be arriving at your house in about half an hour."

Quatre seemed to be in shock for a couple of seconds before he shook his head and gave out a bright smile.

"I'm sure I can cope with Relena staying at my house for..." He turned to me. "How long, and what's the project about?"

"I think she might be explaining that to you." I replied as I lay my head back on his soft pillows, "She's going to be staying with you for a month Q." There was another pause; I took a quick glance at Quatre to see that his face had paled. Poor guy, I suppose Relena's about the worst partner you can have on this project. I bet she'll be bugging Quatre all the way through it, "You alright Q?"

"Oh!" Quatre shook himself from his thoughts and turned to me. "Yes...Yes I'm fine, I just feel slightly faint."

"Crap!" I jumped off his bed and let him lay down for a few minutes before glancing at my watch, which I'd been given by Sister Helen for my last birthday. There is a story behind it but I'll tell you about it later and besides I need to get going in a minute or so.

"So are you going to tell me why your day was so rubbish?" He asked from the bed. I nodded silently. I didn't really want to tell Quatre about all the embarrassment I'd been through today, but he is my best friend and we always tell each other everything. His face had a frown on it all the way through and by the time I'd finished telling him that I'd bumped into Heero he pulled me into his arms and hugged me hard again.

"It's alright Duo, it'll be over and forgotten in a few days," He said pulling a little away from me. I sat on the side of his bed with my head bowed.

"There is another thing." I sighed, "I have to work with him for this new English project." I gulped, "I don't know what to do Quatre, I feel so embarrassed and scared at the same time. He's supposed to be around the church by 6 and it's..." I looked down at my watch again to see it was 4. Shit.

"Q I need to go!" I cried jumping up from my place on the bed. Quatre also glancing at his watch nodded.

"Yes I'll see you later Duo." He called as I ran towards his bedroom door. I waved goodbye as I exited and ran down the stairs and out of the house. I needed to get home and get everything tidy before My Prince, I mean Heero, came. Also I had to tell the children to behave, which they probably won't. I doubt if there's going to be time to calm down my nerves by playing the church organ before he gets there.

TBC...