"Sam!" Duo tapped Sam on the shoulder. "Sam!" He said again. His
mission now was to wake up Sam, who had had a very exhausting day. "At
least I don't havta wake up Aenne..." He trailed off as he continued to
poke Sam. "SAM!" He shouted finally awaking the sleeping pilot.
"What!?" Sam rubbed her eyes, yawning. "What is it Duo?"
"We're here!" He chimed "We're home! Well..you're home!"
"Hooray..I guess.but now we havta find someplace to crash., that the others will also be able to find us." Sam stood in a contemplating stance.
"The base?" Duo asked.
"Too predictable." Which scratched out that though.
"What about.what's her name.the chick with the hair... " Duo said very vaguely.
"CARY!?!"
"Yeh!! That's her name!"
"Duo!" Sam said excitedly.
"Yes?" He answered not sure what Sam was thinking.
"You are the best!!" She grabbed onto Duo's hands and dragged him along to Cary's house.
**********
At Cary's house(Well..Cary's new home in the Sanq Kingdom.)
"Darn it!" Cary ran from her kitchen with her just perfectly microwaved milk for the little kitties she had to baby-sit for. "Stop the insanity!!" She screamed as the kitties began to whine and meow continuously. "The pain!!" She grasped onto her head, trying to ignore to echoing sounds, when suddenly there was a ring at the door. "Coming!" She ran all the way back upstairs and opened the door to see two of her brain buddies.
"Uh, Hi Cary!" Duo said looking at the blonde with orange tipped hair. "Can we hide here for a while?"
"Silly Duo! What are you doing out there in the cold? Come in! Come in!" Cary welcomed him in, leading him over to the couch and sat him down and wrapped a blanket over his shoulders.
"What about me!? What about Sam!?" She moped , walking through the door.
"SAM!! You're back!!" Cary ran over and hugged her buddy. "How was your mission or what ever you did? And where's Heero!?(no love for Aenne..)"
"Well, a lot has happened since then.And it's a very long story." Duo trailed off.
"I have the time and the sugar!" Cary was going to here it one way or another.
"Sugar!?" Duo ears twitched to the sound of what would become hyperness. "We'll tell you.just give me the sugar!!"
"You tell her." Sam said looking at Duo.
"Where is Aenne?" Cary asked as she looked around. Quatre stood; his body was trembling as he tried to stand still in the cold. Cary saw the sad look in his eyes and hugged him softly, as if the slightest pressure would break him. "What happened to Quatre?" She said turning to Sam and Duo who were already lounging on the couch.
"Get the sugar and we'll tell you." Duo said smirking.
"Gosh, I hope nothing bad happened." Cary said walking into the kitchen leaving the pilots to themselves.
"Do you think the Gundams will be hidden well enough?" Sam asked aloud to know one in particular.
"They should be fine." Duo answered, "I hope we can keep a low enough profile."
"Yeah." Sam added as she sunk into the couch, "I'm so tired. I just want to sleep."
Cary burst in with a smile and a pot of coffee and a five pound bag of sugar. "Now you guys can tell me what's happened when I last saw you!"
"Okay." Sam said taking a deep breath. She poured herself a cup of coffee and poured a little bit of sugar in it. "Last we knew of you, Quatre and Trowa took you to the Sanc Kingdom."
"Yes!" Cary shouted, "And you guys never said good-bye!"
"We know that, we had a mission to China."
"China?" Cary asked.
"That was a tough mission." Duo said looking down. "I hated that."
"What happened?" Cary asked.
"That mission I had to self-destruct."
"She used her Gundam to protect Aenne and I." Duo added for Sam, She put herself into a coma.
"You went into a Coma!" Cary shouted, "That's so sad."
"Oh that's wasn't the worst of what happened." Duo added. "The next mission Sam and I stayed on base while Chang, Heero, Quatre, Trowa and Aenne got to have all the fun!"
"Supposedly, Aenne went to Chang's wife's grave." Sam added on.
"That's so sad!" Cary said covering her mouth with one hand. "I didn't know he lost his wife."
"Later on that mission, we lost Trowa for the first time." Duo added.
"Where is Trowa now?" Cary asked with concern.
"We don't know." Duo added, "He-" He stopped short on seeing a tear form on the corner of Quatre's eye.
"Aenne got back to the base, and for a month, we all just kinda rested, until we heard the colonies denounce the Gundams."
After that Sam went on with the story telling, "Aenne, Duo and I went back into space to find Heero. He didn't come back with Aenne on her mission; he stayed behind on a base in Space called Barge. We eventually got arrested. We did find Heero."
"We had to share a cell with him for what seems like a long, long time." Duo said continuing on while Sam took sips from her coffee. "We also found Trowa on Barge. He had disguised himself as a soldier of Oz. We also met the creators of the Gundams there too. They took our Gundams and are upgrading them."
"One day, Duo and I escaped." Sam said altering the ending of the story. "Aenne was left on Barge with Heero. We assume she is still there, but we can't go back and save her just yet."
"Okay." Cary said trying to take everything in. "How did you end up with Quatre?"
"We caught up with him in space." Sam added trying not to reopen any old wounds.
"We came here, hoping we could rest for a while." Duo added cheerfully.
"Sure you can!" Cary shouted, "for as long as you need too. But I have to go to school. Hey! You can enroll in the school!"
"What school?" Sam asked raising an eyebrow.
********
Aenne looked up at the canopy around her, not caring that she was in the middle of the jungle, not knowing what day it was, she was just happy to be home, on the Earth. She was just happy to be home on the Earth, one step closer to Sam and Duo. For the first time in a long time, she knew where she was and exactly what she was going to do. Her mission now was simple: find Sam and Duo, then take a shower. In fact it would be a nice long shower with wonderful Pantene Pro-V and then some nice conditioner (doesn't matter what kind, dear god I just wanted some conditioner!!..uh..), which would of course be followed by a pink bubble bath! (ya know, the colorful bubble bathy stuff) "Yes, yes a nice bubble bath will do nicely." She turned her thoughts into words. "With the pinkness! And the bubbles!! Ooh! Ooh! Bubbles!!"
"Ooh, ooh bubbles?" Chang cocked an eyebrow, mocking her.
"Yes bubbles!!" Aenne protested back defensively. "I feel icky! I haven't showered for I don't know how long and I haven't had a decent meal forever! Ick!" Normally Aenne would have not cared and muttered to herself, but they were in a hot sticky jungle and she felt like she was going to pass out right then and there.
"Women.." Chang muttered to himself.
********
Sam and Duo awoke the next morning to the horrid resonating ringing from Cary's alarm clock. "Ah! Turn it off! Off I say!!" Duo shouted as he threw a pillow at Cary's head to wake her up so she could shut the clock off.
"Mmmmm." Cary mumbled, just turning over. "Not now.."
"Argh! Do I havta do everything myself?" Sam hastily got up, throwing the blankets off of her. She grumbily stumbled over to Cary's dresser and unplugged the clock. "There!" Since Sam was hopelessly awake, she moseyed her way into the kitchen and started a nice fresh cup o' Joe! And Duo and Cary drifted off into dreamland once again. Two hours and ten cups of coffee later, Sam decided it was time to get them up. She was extremely bored, totally bored, insane singing little songs about the imaginary coffee thieves swimming in her coffee bored! Sam rummaged around Cary's new house until she found, oddly enough, another bullhorn. She switched it on and let the fun commence. "TOP OF THE MORNIN' TO YA ALL!!" Her voice instantly woke the sleeping beauties.
"I'm awake!" Duo got up, holding his head. "Ehhhh.." He rubbed his eyes looking out the window. "What time is it?"
"It's 8:45." Sam responded.
"8:45!?!" Cary shot out of bed. "8:45!?! School started forty-five minutes ago!!!! Hurry both of you!! We're gonna be late!!"
"But Cary..we don't go to school anymore, we haven't been since we became pilots." Sam tried to explain, not wanting to go back to the dreaded place of grades and evil teachers.
"School?" Duo whined. "But I just got up."
"Tough!! Get ready NOW!!" Cary wandered off, in search of clean clothes.
"Duo." Sam looked at him. "Get dressed."
"Fine, fine. I guess we should keep Cary company." He said while he slipped on his pants and shirt (cause Duo wears boxers to bed!). "I mean we visited your old school, how bad can it possibly be?"
"Very very bad."
Cary rushed back into the room, struggling to get a sweater on while a slice of toast hung from her teeth. "Lesh go!"
********
"Ughhhh.." Aenne complained as she continued to drag her feet through the harsh terrain of jungle. "How long have we been walking?"
"18 hours." Chang replied bluntly.
"Can we take a break now?"
"No."
"NO!?" Aenne shouted. "What do you mean no!? I swear my feet fell off like three hours ago. Just a small nap, teeny tiny?"
"We should keep walking." Mr. Heero finally spoke since they landed.
"Incompetent fools." Aenne grumbled. They trio continued to walk for a few minutes before they actually came to a clearing. The trees cut back to a wondrous beach, with sparkling blue water and golden sand. Aenne's eye's lit up once she saw the most prodigious sight. "We made it!! We made it!!" She ran to the sand and dove into it, happy to see something besides trees (even though she loved the trees). The girl picked up handfuls of sand and threw them up into the sky, laughing.
Suddenly she felt very light head. "Hey you guys." She said stumbling backwards, supporting her head with her hands. "I don feel to goo-" Aenne fainted as she collapsed onto the sandy beach.
********
Cary's car pulled up to the new school, just in time for break. "Everyone out." Cary commanded as she scurried across the street. "Don't worry you guys the school's co-ed so Duo doesn't havta dress in drag."
"Danmit!" Sam snapped her fingers. "But I wanted to see that!"
Duo glared at her. "Ha ha ha..not funny."
"You know you wanted to!"
"Nu-uh!!"
"Duo wants to dress in drag!!!" Sam shouted upon entering the school, causing the passerby's to stare at them. "Uhh."
"Cary why were you late?" A random psychotic teacher approached the trio. "You know tardiness is against school policy. You better have a good excuse or you will go to detention!(eep! It's a scary school)"
"Well, ya see. as I was going to school this morning, I found these poor helpless orphans on the side of the road."
"Hey we are not helpless!" Duo protested. "I'll have you know once- " Duo was cut off by Sam's hand covering his mouth.
"Anyway, being the kind person I am, I could never leave them to starve and die all alone! So I brought them home fixed them up and decided to bring them here.for an education of course." Cary smiled hoping that the teacher would believe her.
"If I find out your lying, there will be hell to pay! Now get to class!"
"Yes ma'am." Cary walked off, rolling her eyes. "Stupid teachers."
"Hey are all the teachers that mean?" Duo asked.
"No. She's some friend of the Peacecraft's and has a major stick up her butt!"
********
Chang supported Aenne in his arms as he waved in front of her face with his had. As he looked down on her tired body, he couldn't help but notice her serene beauty. He brushed a stand of her long blond hair off her face causing her to stir slightly. Her eyes fluttered open, peering into Chang's deep brown eyes.
"I'm sorry." Aenne strained to say. "I just need rest."
"Shh." Chang whispered as he began to rock Aenne back and forth, "Just sleep."
Feeling Chang's warmth, Aenne slowly closed her eyes again. In that moment, she felt something stir within her. For the first time, she understood exactly what Chang felt for her.
********
"Come on, I'll take to Peacecraft's office, then I have to get to class," Cary said taking a deep breath. "Man! I forgot to do my homework."
"I'm sorry." Sam said remembering her school days. "It's our fault, we kept you awake."
"No, I didn't want to do it anyways. It was a dumb assignment." Cary said leading the way through the hallways.
"We get to go to school in a castle!" Duo said looking around here. "Maybe we could just board here."
"Yeah, it would go better with our little story." Sam said smiling.
"Here's her office." Cary said stopping. "I have to warn you, she's really scary. She promotes pacifism, so no violence. Don't even bring up the topic." Cary softly knocked on the door.
"Yes come in." A voice called through. "Hello." Cary said sticking her head in.
"Ah, yes, Cary Stussi, Come on in." the voice repeated.
"I have some new students here that need to enroll in classes." Cary said pointing to Sam and Duo.
"Well, we will have to begin with your names. I'm Relena Peacecraft."
"Sam Lukowski."
"Duo Maxwell."
"And what brings you here to my school?" Relena asked somberly.
"The hopes of pacifists society." Sam said before Duo could open his mouth.
"I'm glad you see things that way, Sam." Relena said looking in her eyes,
"And you Duo."
"The same." he said simply.
"We follow basic rules here," Relena continued, "You are to act with dignity becoming of someone to truly wants to advocate peace."
"Sounds simple enough." Duo said smiling.
"Yeah." Sam replied. "We start class today?"
"Yes, but first, I'm going to ask Miss Cary to show you around." Relena looking at Cary,
"Would you be so kind as to welcome them to their new school?"
"No problem." Cary responded quickly. With everything all said and done, Relena sat back down in her chair, behind her desk, making the encounter so impersonal. They left quickly, being sure not to make too much noise.
"So what do you think?" Cary asked after a breath.
"I don't like her." Sam said plainly.
"Why?" Duo asked raising an eyebrow.
"She's a wuss." Sam said sternly. "She didn't even shake my hand."
"Okay." Duo said looking at Sam funny, "So Cary, let the tour begin."
********
"You can't rest forever woman!" Chang said loudly.
"Just one more minute." Aenne said rolling over.
"We have to go now." Chang said repeating his stern voice.
"No, we have to rest for one more minute." Aenne said annoyed. "I'm sleepy." With that, she rolled over and was fast asleep slightly snoring.
"Aenne ..." Chang lightly whispered, "You are such a pain."
"What!?" Sam rubbed her eyes, yawning. "What is it Duo?"
"We're here!" He chimed "We're home! Well..you're home!"
"Hooray..I guess.but now we havta find someplace to crash., that the others will also be able to find us." Sam stood in a contemplating stance.
"The base?" Duo asked.
"Too predictable." Which scratched out that though.
"What about.what's her name.the chick with the hair... " Duo said very vaguely.
"CARY!?!"
"Yeh!! That's her name!"
"Duo!" Sam said excitedly.
"Yes?" He answered not sure what Sam was thinking.
"You are the best!!" She grabbed onto Duo's hands and dragged him along to Cary's house.
**********
At Cary's house(Well..Cary's new home in the Sanq Kingdom.)
"Darn it!" Cary ran from her kitchen with her just perfectly microwaved milk for the little kitties she had to baby-sit for. "Stop the insanity!!" She screamed as the kitties began to whine and meow continuously. "The pain!!" She grasped onto her head, trying to ignore to echoing sounds, when suddenly there was a ring at the door. "Coming!" She ran all the way back upstairs and opened the door to see two of her brain buddies.
"Uh, Hi Cary!" Duo said looking at the blonde with orange tipped hair. "Can we hide here for a while?"
"Silly Duo! What are you doing out there in the cold? Come in! Come in!" Cary welcomed him in, leading him over to the couch and sat him down and wrapped a blanket over his shoulders.
"What about me!? What about Sam!?" She moped , walking through the door.
"SAM!! You're back!!" Cary ran over and hugged her buddy. "How was your mission or what ever you did? And where's Heero!?(no love for Aenne..)"
"Well, a lot has happened since then.And it's a very long story." Duo trailed off.
"I have the time and the sugar!" Cary was going to here it one way or another.
"Sugar!?" Duo ears twitched to the sound of what would become hyperness. "We'll tell you.just give me the sugar!!"
"You tell her." Sam said looking at Duo.
"Where is Aenne?" Cary asked as she looked around. Quatre stood; his body was trembling as he tried to stand still in the cold. Cary saw the sad look in his eyes and hugged him softly, as if the slightest pressure would break him. "What happened to Quatre?" She said turning to Sam and Duo who were already lounging on the couch.
"Get the sugar and we'll tell you." Duo said smirking.
"Gosh, I hope nothing bad happened." Cary said walking into the kitchen leaving the pilots to themselves.
"Do you think the Gundams will be hidden well enough?" Sam asked aloud to know one in particular.
"They should be fine." Duo answered, "I hope we can keep a low enough profile."
"Yeah." Sam added as she sunk into the couch, "I'm so tired. I just want to sleep."
Cary burst in with a smile and a pot of coffee and a five pound bag of sugar. "Now you guys can tell me what's happened when I last saw you!"
"Okay." Sam said taking a deep breath. She poured herself a cup of coffee and poured a little bit of sugar in it. "Last we knew of you, Quatre and Trowa took you to the Sanc Kingdom."
"Yes!" Cary shouted, "And you guys never said good-bye!"
"We know that, we had a mission to China."
"China?" Cary asked.
"That was a tough mission." Duo said looking down. "I hated that."
"What happened?" Cary asked.
"That mission I had to self-destruct."
"She used her Gundam to protect Aenne and I." Duo added for Sam, She put herself into a coma.
"You went into a Coma!" Cary shouted, "That's so sad."
"Oh that's wasn't the worst of what happened." Duo added. "The next mission Sam and I stayed on base while Chang, Heero, Quatre, Trowa and Aenne got to have all the fun!"
"Supposedly, Aenne went to Chang's wife's grave." Sam added on.
"That's so sad!" Cary said covering her mouth with one hand. "I didn't know he lost his wife."
"Later on that mission, we lost Trowa for the first time." Duo added.
"Where is Trowa now?" Cary asked with concern.
"We don't know." Duo added, "He-" He stopped short on seeing a tear form on the corner of Quatre's eye.
"Aenne got back to the base, and for a month, we all just kinda rested, until we heard the colonies denounce the Gundams."
After that Sam went on with the story telling, "Aenne, Duo and I went back into space to find Heero. He didn't come back with Aenne on her mission; he stayed behind on a base in Space called Barge. We eventually got arrested. We did find Heero."
"We had to share a cell with him for what seems like a long, long time." Duo said continuing on while Sam took sips from her coffee. "We also found Trowa on Barge. He had disguised himself as a soldier of Oz. We also met the creators of the Gundams there too. They took our Gundams and are upgrading them."
"One day, Duo and I escaped." Sam said altering the ending of the story. "Aenne was left on Barge with Heero. We assume she is still there, but we can't go back and save her just yet."
"Okay." Cary said trying to take everything in. "How did you end up with Quatre?"
"We caught up with him in space." Sam added trying not to reopen any old wounds.
"We came here, hoping we could rest for a while." Duo added cheerfully.
"Sure you can!" Cary shouted, "for as long as you need too. But I have to go to school. Hey! You can enroll in the school!"
"What school?" Sam asked raising an eyebrow.
********
Aenne looked up at the canopy around her, not caring that she was in the middle of the jungle, not knowing what day it was, she was just happy to be home, on the Earth. She was just happy to be home on the Earth, one step closer to Sam and Duo. For the first time in a long time, she knew where she was and exactly what she was going to do. Her mission now was simple: find Sam and Duo, then take a shower. In fact it would be a nice long shower with wonderful Pantene Pro-V and then some nice conditioner (doesn't matter what kind, dear god I just wanted some conditioner!!..uh..), which would of course be followed by a pink bubble bath! (ya know, the colorful bubble bathy stuff) "Yes, yes a nice bubble bath will do nicely." She turned her thoughts into words. "With the pinkness! And the bubbles!! Ooh! Ooh! Bubbles!!"
"Ooh, ooh bubbles?" Chang cocked an eyebrow, mocking her.
"Yes bubbles!!" Aenne protested back defensively. "I feel icky! I haven't showered for I don't know how long and I haven't had a decent meal forever! Ick!" Normally Aenne would have not cared and muttered to herself, but they were in a hot sticky jungle and she felt like she was going to pass out right then and there.
"Women.." Chang muttered to himself.
********
Sam and Duo awoke the next morning to the horrid resonating ringing from Cary's alarm clock. "Ah! Turn it off! Off I say!!" Duo shouted as he threw a pillow at Cary's head to wake her up so she could shut the clock off.
"Mmmmm." Cary mumbled, just turning over. "Not now.."
"Argh! Do I havta do everything myself?" Sam hastily got up, throwing the blankets off of her. She grumbily stumbled over to Cary's dresser and unplugged the clock. "There!" Since Sam was hopelessly awake, she moseyed her way into the kitchen and started a nice fresh cup o' Joe! And Duo and Cary drifted off into dreamland once again. Two hours and ten cups of coffee later, Sam decided it was time to get them up. She was extremely bored, totally bored, insane singing little songs about the imaginary coffee thieves swimming in her coffee bored! Sam rummaged around Cary's new house until she found, oddly enough, another bullhorn. She switched it on and let the fun commence. "TOP OF THE MORNIN' TO YA ALL!!" Her voice instantly woke the sleeping beauties.
"I'm awake!" Duo got up, holding his head. "Ehhhh.." He rubbed his eyes looking out the window. "What time is it?"
"It's 8:45." Sam responded.
"8:45!?!" Cary shot out of bed. "8:45!?! School started forty-five minutes ago!!!! Hurry both of you!! We're gonna be late!!"
"But Cary..we don't go to school anymore, we haven't been since we became pilots." Sam tried to explain, not wanting to go back to the dreaded place of grades and evil teachers.
"School?" Duo whined. "But I just got up."
"Tough!! Get ready NOW!!" Cary wandered off, in search of clean clothes.
"Duo." Sam looked at him. "Get dressed."
"Fine, fine. I guess we should keep Cary company." He said while he slipped on his pants and shirt (cause Duo wears boxers to bed!). "I mean we visited your old school, how bad can it possibly be?"
"Very very bad."
Cary rushed back into the room, struggling to get a sweater on while a slice of toast hung from her teeth. "Lesh go!"
********
"Ughhhh.." Aenne complained as she continued to drag her feet through the harsh terrain of jungle. "How long have we been walking?"
"18 hours." Chang replied bluntly.
"Can we take a break now?"
"No."
"NO!?" Aenne shouted. "What do you mean no!? I swear my feet fell off like three hours ago. Just a small nap, teeny tiny?"
"We should keep walking." Mr. Heero finally spoke since they landed.
"Incompetent fools." Aenne grumbled. They trio continued to walk for a few minutes before they actually came to a clearing. The trees cut back to a wondrous beach, with sparkling blue water and golden sand. Aenne's eye's lit up once she saw the most prodigious sight. "We made it!! We made it!!" She ran to the sand and dove into it, happy to see something besides trees (even though she loved the trees). The girl picked up handfuls of sand and threw them up into the sky, laughing.
Suddenly she felt very light head. "Hey you guys." She said stumbling backwards, supporting her head with her hands. "I don feel to goo-" Aenne fainted as she collapsed onto the sandy beach.
********
Cary's car pulled up to the new school, just in time for break. "Everyone out." Cary commanded as she scurried across the street. "Don't worry you guys the school's co-ed so Duo doesn't havta dress in drag."
"Danmit!" Sam snapped her fingers. "But I wanted to see that!"
Duo glared at her. "Ha ha ha..not funny."
"You know you wanted to!"
"Nu-uh!!"
"Duo wants to dress in drag!!!" Sam shouted upon entering the school, causing the passerby's to stare at them. "Uhh."
"Cary why were you late?" A random psychotic teacher approached the trio. "You know tardiness is against school policy. You better have a good excuse or you will go to detention!(eep! It's a scary school)"
"Well, ya see. as I was going to school this morning, I found these poor helpless orphans on the side of the road."
"Hey we are not helpless!" Duo protested. "I'll have you know once- " Duo was cut off by Sam's hand covering his mouth.
"Anyway, being the kind person I am, I could never leave them to starve and die all alone! So I brought them home fixed them up and decided to bring them here.for an education of course." Cary smiled hoping that the teacher would believe her.
"If I find out your lying, there will be hell to pay! Now get to class!"
"Yes ma'am." Cary walked off, rolling her eyes. "Stupid teachers."
"Hey are all the teachers that mean?" Duo asked.
"No. She's some friend of the Peacecraft's and has a major stick up her butt!"
********
Chang supported Aenne in his arms as he waved in front of her face with his had. As he looked down on her tired body, he couldn't help but notice her serene beauty. He brushed a stand of her long blond hair off her face causing her to stir slightly. Her eyes fluttered open, peering into Chang's deep brown eyes.
"I'm sorry." Aenne strained to say. "I just need rest."
"Shh." Chang whispered as he began to rock Aenne back and forth, "Just sleep."
Feeling Chang's warmth, Aenne slowly closed her eyes again. In that moment, she felt something stir within her. For the first time, she understood exactly what Chang felt for her.
********
"Come on, I'll take to Peacecraft's office, then I have to get to class," Cary said taking a deep breath. "Man! I forgot to do my homework."
"I'm sorry." Sam said remembering her school days. "It's our fault, we kept you awake."
"No, I didn't want to do it anyways. It was a dumb assignment." Cary said leading the way through the hallways.
"We get to go to school in a castle!" Duo said looking around here. "Maybe we could just board here."
"Yeah, it would go better with our little story." Sam said smiling.
"Here's her office." Cary said stopping. "I have to warn you, she's really scary. She promotes pacifism, so no violence. Don't even bring up the topic." Cary softly knocked on the door.
"Yes come in." A voice called through. "Hello." Cary said sticking her head in.
"Ah, yes, Cary Stussi, Come on in." the voice repeated.
"I have some new students here that need to enroll in classes." Cary said pointing to Sam and Duo.
"Well, we will have to begin with your names. I'm Relena Peacecraft."
"Sam Lukowski."
"Duo Maxwell."
"And what brings you here to my school?" Relena asked somberly.
"The hopes of pacifists society." Sam said before Duo could open his mouth.
"I'm glad you see things that way, Sam." Relena said looking in her eyes,
"And you Duo."
"The same." he said simply.
"We follow basic rules here," Relena continued, "You are to act with dignity becoming of someone to truly wants to advocate peace."
"Sounds simple enough." Duo said smiling.
"Yeah." Sam replied. "We start class today?"
"Yes, but first, I'm going to ask Miss Cary to show you around." Relena looking at Cary,
"Would you be so kind as to welcome them to their new school?"
"No problem." Cary responded quickly. With everything all said and done, Relena sat back down in her chair, behind her desk, making the encounter so impersonal. They left quickly, being sure not to make too much noise.
"So what do you think?" Cary asked after a breath.
"I don't like her." Sam said plainly.
"Why?" Duo asked raising an eyebrow.
"She's a wuss." Sam said sternly. "She didn't even shake my hand."
"Okay." Duo said looking at Sam funny, "So Cary, let the tour begin."
********
"You can't rest forever woman!" Chang said loudly.
"Just one more minute." Aenne said rolling over.
"We have to go now." Chang said repeating his stern voice.
"No, we have to rest for one more minute." Aenne said annoyed. "I'm sleepy." With that, she rolled over and was fast asleep slightly snoring.
"Aenne ..." Chang lightly whispered, "You are such a pain."