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Chapter 7:
Quatre smiled at Trowa as he walked into their lounge area, delighting at the blush that spread across the taller teens face and watching in twisted amusement as the brunette mumbled something about maths and ran out of the room. The others had found it hilarious to discover that Quatre, once he knew what was going on actually wasn't anywhere near as shy as Trowa and had set about joining Quatre in teasing the poor youth.
Even though Quatre now knew why Trowa was behaving so oddly he hadn't had a chance to approach the boy to talk to him about it and was quite happy spending is spare time making Trowa blush.
"Man Quat I never guessed you'd have such a sadistic streak in you." Duo said with a chuckle as he plopped down in the seat next to the blonde in maths. "I don't think I've ever seen Trowa behave quite so much like a 12 year old girl with her first crush"
Quatre laughed, pulling his text books out of his bag and arranging them on his desk.
"Oh there are lots of things you'd never guess about me Duo, but I'm not torturing him for fun I just think he's being so cute!"
As he finished saying this Wufei came and sat in the seat just behind Duo and raised an eyebrow.
"I don't think cute is ever a word I'd use to describe Barton." Was his opinion on the matter. "However I am wondering when you're going to tell him you feel the same."
Quatre made his face perfectly straight before turning to Wufei.
"What makes you think I do feel the same Wufei?" he asked managing to sound completely serious. Duo and Wufei shared a look before turning to the blonde in perfect synchronisation and raising an eyebrow. Quatre grinned at them and shrugged "ok, ok, I do, I just haven't found the time to talk to him yet, he keeps dodging me."
Wufei frowned, and Quatre figured the oriental youth probably thought Trowa's behaviour was anything but honourable, but then again he wondered how many times Wufei had ever had to pursue anyone considering he had two guys all but throwing themselves at him.
Quatre got through most of the day before he noticed the man, he was very good at blending in but Quatre had always been reasonably intuitive and he had felt uncomfortable all day, like there was some invisible person behind him all the time. It was lunch time and Quatre was looking vaguely in the direction of a ground keeper when his eyes caught a good look at the man face. He couldn't help but notice that there was something incredibly familiar about the man, not the kind of familiar you get when you actually meet someone at a friend of a friends party or something like that but the kind of familiar feeling you have when you see the same man at the grocery store every Saturday.
"What's wrong Quatre?" Millardo asked noticing the blonde's peculiar expression.
Quatre screwed up his face in concentration.
"I think I know that guy from somewhere."
The others all turned to look at the man who was doing an incredible job at ignoring them. Duo frowned and shuffled further down his seat for a closer look.
"Actually yeh… he looks kind of familiar to me too." He said tilting his head. "Can't remember where I saw him though."
"I wouldn't think too much of it." Trowa said softly, as though trying not to draw too much attention to himself, which considering his behaviour around Quatre at the moment was probably true. "If he works here you're bound to have seen him a couple of times, not to mention it means he probably lives in the area, so he would go to all the local shops."
Quatre looked at Trowa and smiled. "I guess so." He said going back to his lunch, but he couldn't shake the feeling that something about that man was important.
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Quatre had discovered over the past few weeks of his time at school that a major downside to living with a bunch of teenagers dating each other was that he often found himself locked in his room trying to ignore the sounds of hormonal boys going at it. Currently he was suffering form said situation and was dying of boredom. He would have gone to talk to Trowa but the teen had managed to land himself a detention in his last class…or in other words, he'd taken the fall for one of Duo's numerous pranks. So there he was sitting on his bed drawing, he wasn't quite sure what he was drawing yet, it was sort of just mindless scribble, but it always eventuated in to something. By the time he'd finished he'd realised the drawing was of a man. It looked like the groundskeeper they had seen that morning only he was wearing suit and sunglasses.
"weird…." He said setting the picture down.
"What's weird?" Came a familiar voice form the doorway.
Quatre looked up surprised to find Trowa leaning in the doorframe, he looked a little unsure.
"Hey Trowa, I see you're back from your detention." Quatre said smiling warmly. "What's up? You're not going not run away from me are you?"
Trowa grimaced.
"Wufei told me to suck it up and go and talk to you." He replied scratching the back of his head in embracement.
"Funny I thought Wufei was umm…currently preoccupied…."
Trowa laughed at that and relaxed a little.
"Oh he was getting dragged into his bedroom as we spoke."
Quatre grinned and Trowa began to fidget again.
"Trowa you can come in you know."
Trowa stepped into the room reluctantly and walked over to the bed, sitting down next to Quatre.
"Ummm Quat listen, I'm sorry about the other day…you know If I made you uncomfortable or something…."
Quatre smiled and shuffled over to Trowa linking their arms and looking up at the older boy.
"You didn't make me uncomfortable Trowa, I must admit when I thought you liked Riley, I may have been a little jealous."
"So you do like Riley." Trowa sated, his shoulders slumping in rejection.
Quatre giggled and mocked sighed "Trowa you dope I don't like Riley as anymore then a friend, though you know there is this guy I'd be interested in getting to know a little better. He goes to this school."
Trowa looked confused; he hadn't noticed Quatre talking excessively to anyone in particular.
"Who?"
"Well, he's quite tall and good at gymnastics…" Trowa started to go through all the guys on his gym team in his head… "And he has ridiculous hair…but you know it suits him." …well that narrowed it down. "And he has these amazing green eyes." Trowa's brain suddenly clicked and he new he was going red.
"Oh…" he said lamely
Quatre laughed, even though he was blushing too
"So what do you recon, there are some good movies out at the moment, you think he'd want to see one with me?" The blonde asked staring down at his hands.
Trowa couldn't help the slightly triumphant grin that slipped on to his face.
"I'll tell this guy of yours to pick you up at 6pm Friday." He said tilting the blondes face up to look at him, Quatre grinned and flicked to end of his companions nose.
"It's a date." The blonde stood up and stretched, completely oblivious, as always to the effect the display had on Trowa "You wanna go get something for dinner tonight, I was thinking home made pizza's…We can by the bases though…. Trowa?"
Trowa blinked and looked away from the blondes hips and up at his face, Quatre raised and eyebrow.
"See something you like?" Quatre teased and Trowa gave him a predatory grin, making the blonde go red.
"Oh I think I may have seen a few things." Quatre went redder.
"Geeze your confidence levels are bipolar aren't they Trowa." Quatre joked, pulling the brunette up from the bed. Trowa slung an arm over Quatre's shoulder as they walked out and laughed.
"I know, I'm always shy until I actually know it's a mutual thing." He said a little embarrassed.
"Oh I see." Said Quatre "And once you know it's a 'mutual thing' then you're confident enough to may crude passes and leer at poor innocent little me." He followed the statement with a pout and batted his eyes, making Trowa laugh again.
"For as long as you'll let me Quatre." He said, completely serious for a moment.
Quatre smiled.
"Oh goody." Quatre said giving Trowa his very best 'come hither' look, making the brunette cough in surprise and blush.
"Some one as down right innocent looking as you shouldn't be able to make those looks Quatre Winner." He said as they headed for the door.
Quatre laughed and grabbed his wallet.
It was just as they walked out the door that Trowa realised something.
"I don't really have ridiculous hair do I?"
Quatre cracked up.
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By the time the two returned from the shops it had been a few hours and they figured there dorm mates would be finished with their um…. Physical activities, although Trowa had made a comment at some point that Duo and Heero's record to date suggested that they may still be… preoccupied.
Quatre stuck his key in the door to unlock it, but when he went to turn the handle he realised he'd locked it instead.
"That's odd." He said frowning as he stuck his key back in the door."
"What is?" asked Trowa leaning over his shoulder.
"I could have sworn we locked this door."
This time Trowa frowned.
"We did." He said "Maybe one of the others went out, I hope they didn't go to buy food, we didn't leave them a note or anything."
Quatre shrugged as they entered the dorm, he looked around and instantly knew something was off.
"What's wrong?" Asked Trowa noticing the blonde's strange expression.
"I don't know yet…" Quatre replied vaguely as he walked cautiously into his room, the first thing he noticed was an empty space where he was absolutely positive his sketch book had been before he left, and in it's place was another note book. "Trowa…"
He called out; staring at the book like it was going to bite him.
Trowa walked into the room
"What's up?"
"That's not mine." Quatre said flatly pointing at the book. "And my sketch book is missing."
Trowa pulled a face "Why would someone take your sketch book?" He asked curiously as he picked the notebook up. It was a plane note book with a black leather binding and a tiny little gold symbol in the corner. "What's this?" Trowa said tracing a finger over the symbol." Trowa looked up when Quatre didn't reply, Quatre was staring wide eyed and pale as a ghost at the symbol. "Quatre? What's the matter?"
"Th…that symbol was one the name band I was wearing when I woke up on the side of the highway all those years ago…."
The tow of them looked at each other and Trowa opened the book.
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