Chapter one: Heero Gets a Roommate
"But Mooooooooooom!!! I don't wanna go to this school!" Usagi pouted as she and her mother unloaded her luggage from the car. "THIS SUCKS!"
"Oh Usagi!" Her mom said, patting her on the head like the child she was, "It's going to be OK. You'll like it here! I'm sure of it!" Usagi glared at her mother. Why did she have to do this to her? Was it really her fault she got F's in school? Did her mother really think that sending her off to a boarding school was really going to help?
Smiling, Usagi's mom climbed back into the car, leaving Usagi in front of the giant school administration building. Peeking her head out the window, Mother left Usagi with some final words.
"Now honey, be good! And try and pass all the classes, huh?" Usagi's mom said that last sentence with a subliminal threat.
Usagi made a face at her mother as she drove off. "NOW WHAT!" Usagi cried out loud, throwing her fists in the hair, her long yellow pigtails sticking straight up.
"Ahem." Huh? Who was that?
Usagi spun around, only to be face-to-face with a boy.
"What do yoooooou want?" She asked smartly, digging her finger into his chest.
Automatically, the boy whipped out a gun and pointed it right between Usagi's eyes. "Who are you?" he questioned in a threatening monotone (is that even possible? A threatening monotone?).
"EEEEeeeeeek!!!" Usagi stepped backwards then tripped over her caboodle. "OooFFfff!" Feet up, Usagi landed in the middle of all her stuff.
Heero suppressed a chuckle as he watched the girl fumble in the middle of all her junk. And my my, what a large number of suitcases, boxes, and backpacks she had! That was going to be annoying taking up to their room. Heero let out a long mental sigh. Why did he have to be stuck with this girl as his roommate? When he found out from Duo who had heard from Wufei who was told By Quatre who had been talking to Relena that there was a new student and they were going to be placed with him, he no idea they were going to be a girl. Looked like something got lost in the translation. Oh Well. At least he managed to scare her a bit. Maybe this way, she wouldn't bother him too much. He already had Relena to deal with…
Leaning over her as she thrashed in the middle of all her suitcases, he said, "You're the new girl, right? Seeing as you ignored my question…"
"Yah so!" she barked up at him from her position on the ground, "What's it to you, punk?"
Heero was taken aback. A girl had never been that forthright to him before. Sure, poking him the ribs was a bit weird, but cackling at him? What was this girl? Duo's female clone?
Heero gave her his death glare. "Well, I'm Yuy Heero, your new roommate."
"WHAAAAT?!" Usagi scrambled to her feet, then got right up in his face. Heero didn't even wince. "What do you mean, you're my new roommate? I'm a friggin GIRL! I don't belong in a room with..a…a..boy!!"
"We have co-ed dorms."
Usagi stepped back. "Yah, I know that. But in the same room, even?" Heero shrugged then went over to her luggage and starting picking a few things up.
"You might want to help me bring all your crap up to our room so we'll make it to dinner."
A new light went off in Usagi's face. "FOOD? Did you say food?" After running over to Heero, Usagi started flinging backpacks over her shoulder and picking up suitcases with amazing motivation. "Which way to the dorm?" she asked, jumping up and down, "I'm STARVING!!"
Letting off a HUGE mental sigh, Heero led her away to the dorms.
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Leaving her load of luggage outside the door, Usagi ran into her new room with vigor.
Usagi surveyed her the dorm with astonishment. It was so….big. A full kitchen, a full bathroom, two queen sized beds inside of one bedroom, an extremely comfy couch placed in front of a rather large television set in a den, a balcony, and…was that a laptop sitting on the kitchen counter?
Usagi went over to the laptop, and as she extended her fingers to press a key, it violently slammed shut. Shocked, she looked up to see Heero giving her a death glare.
"Don't ever touch that. Ever." Usagi nodded her head in fear. 'Wow,' she thought as she watched Heero pick the computer up and take it into the bedroom, 'He's really scary!' Usagi shuddered. 'I wonder what his story is?' Suddenly curious, Usagi followed Heero into the bedroom.
Heero was sitting on his bed with the computer in his lap, open, his fingers typing. "You can put all of your stuff in here." Without even looking up, and then pointed to a dresser and closet on the other side of the room, his other hand still typing. "Those are empty and for your use. I suggest you bring in the rest of your luggage and hurry up. We have 10 minutes until dinner, and it's a 5-minute walk. "
With those words, Usagi zoomed out of the bedroom and into the hallway, picked up her things and raced back inside. Heero looked up from his screen watched her charades with mild interest. 'This girl is rather entertaining.' His coldness then kicked in. 'She'll probably get annoying.'
Panting due to lack of air, Usagi looked up at her roomy with large hungry eyes. "Can we leave now? All my stuff is in here!" She waved her arms vigorously at a huge pile of suitcases, backpacks, and boxes.
Heero almost smiled, but quickly stopped himself. "Yeah, I guess so." Heero put the laptop off to the side, got up, and casually walked out the door, the puffing girl at his heels.
As they walked down the sidewalk to the cafeteria, Usagi observed Heero closely. As he walked, he gave off an odd confidence and a general disinterest to everything around him. His face rarely showed any emotion; it was always cold. And when he spoke to her, his tone hardly changed pace. To her, he was her ultimate opposite. But there was something about his eyes…the way his dark brown hair fell infront of those cold Prussian blue wonders, that made her shiver and wonder, was there anything behind his apathetic passionless façade?
Walking down the sidewalk with Usagi gave Heero a strange, unfamiliar feeling. He could sense her staring at his back, analyzing him; but that wasn't made him inwardly shiver. What made him shudder were these weird sensations he felt in his chest as he thought about her. What do you call these things? Heero thought. Emotions?
authors notes
Look Guys! I started a new fic! I wanted to start one that had Usagi and Heero acting more in character..in my other fic, "In a World Where Pain is Real", they act semi out of sync with their true characterizations. BUT...I'm sure Heero and Usagi are going to warm up to each other in this fic too, ne?
Side notes: Usagi and Heero are juniors in high school, and this is in the middle of the year. Therefore, it's January. Also, the rest of the GW gang will be featured, as well as…some of the inner senshi. I haven't decided exactly who yet, but definitely Rei and Minako!
HEHEHE!! Tell me what you guys think of this. I really prize your opinions.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM WELCOMED AND VERY ENCOURAGED!