"Whaaa-? It's morning all ready?" Duo said aloud in a scratchy voice. "I can't believe it! I didn't realize that I had fallen asleep last night!!"
Duo had been waiting for Heero to come and beg for his forgiveness the whole day before. In fact, he didn't even come down to dinner because he wanted Heero to think that Duo was still mad at him. But the other pilot never came to apologize so Duo had waited all night for him to come.
"Well, looks like Heero's never coming to beg for my forgiveness. He's as stubborn as I am!," muttered Duo dryly. "Never mind, if he's not gonna apologize then I'm gonna make the first move or else I'll be stuck here all day without a Valentine's date."
Duo went to the bathroom to take a shower and to brush his teeth. After taking a shower and he was all ready dressed, he went downstairs to have his morning breakfast. Trowa and Quatre were all ready downstairs, cooking everybody's breakfast. Wufei was absent - he had all ready gone to Trieze's place the day before. Heero was also absent.
"Ohayo everybody!" greeted Duo cheerfully as he sat at his usual place and waited for his meal to arrive. "Where's Heero?"
"Ah, ohayo Duo," said Quatre with equal cheerfulness. "Heero's not here - but he left a letter for us. It's there on the table."
Duo wondered where in the world Heero could have went to. He spotted a scrap of paper on the table and grabbed it. He quickly read the message that was written in Heero's small handwriting.
"Whaaat! Heero's away on a secret mission?!" screeched Duo. "And he didn't even tell me about it! Now I have to spend Valentine's Day all by myself!!!"
"Heero didn't tell you about it because he recieved the orders this morning," said Trowa as he placed a plate of bacon and eggs before Duo.
"Why did he have to go away on a mission on Valentine's Day?" whined Duo. "I don't want to spend my Valentine's Day all alone!"
"You can hang out with us," offered Quatre as he put a glass of orange juice in front of Duo, who immediately gulped down the whole thing.
"You're being too kind, but I don't want to ruin your day," said Duo. "I'm sure you guys have some stuff to do together."
"As a matter of fact, we don't," said Trowa. "We're just gonna hang around here and watch some movies."
"Uh, that sounds like fun," said Duo. "If it's really OK with you guys then I'll hang out with you today."
Just then the phone in the hallway rang and Quatre raced towards it to answer it. "Duo! It's for you!" the blonde yelled. Duo went to Quatre and took the reciever from the Arab's hand.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Duo," said a low sexy voice. "Happy Valentine's Day."
"Who is this?"
"A secret admirer," said the voice before hanging up the phone.
Duo stared at the reciever in his hand, wondering if the call had been a joke. He wondered if it was one of the guys he knew cos the voice on the phone definately belonged to a guy.
Next, the doorbell rang and Quatre rushed towards the front door to answer it. Moments later, he was back with a large bouquet of red roses. There were a dozen roses all together.
"From whom are the roses from? If it's from one of your many admirers, I'm going to be very jealous," said Trowa, pretending to get mad.
"Actually, the roses aren't for me," said Quatre with a bewildered look. "They're for Duo."
"For me?" asked Duo as he accepted the bouquet. He inhaled the sweet scent of the flowers, feeling as if he could drown himself in the scent. Suddenly, he noticed a small little card with little pink hearts on the cover that was attached to one of the roses' stem. He opened the card and read what was written on it.
~~ * * * ~~
Dear Duo Maxwell,
Happy Valentine's Day. I'm your secret admirer and I have been in love with you for as long as I can remember. I have always thought about asking you out and today I am asking you out on a dinner date tonight at this restaurant, Chez Paul. I hope that you can come. I'll be waiting for you under the big oak tree in front of the restaurant at 7 p.m.
From a secret admirer.
~~ * * * ~~
"Ooo Duo, you have a secret admirer!" said Quatre as he peered over Duo's shoulder to read the card. "So, will you be meeting her tonight?"
Duo snorted at that. "Are you crazy?" he said incredulously. "I can't possibly go out on a date with someoene I don't even know! Besides it's a blind date. I don't even know what the person looks like - what if he were as fat as a hippo?"
"He?," asked Quatre, raising an eyebrow. "How do you know that it's a he?"
"I think that the person who sent me these roses are the same as the one who called just now," said Duo. "The caller said that he is my secret admirer."
"Ooo, I see," said Quatre, nodding his head vigorously. "So are you going to meet him tonight or not?"
"No, I think I'd rather spend the day with you and Trowa," said Duo wryly.
Duo was having the time of his life, stuffing his face with popcorn as he sat on the plush carpet and watched an exciting movie on the big screen tv with his two friends. NOT!
In reality he was stuffing his face with bowls of popcorn as he watched an incredibly mushy and romantic movie on the big screen tv. And he seemed to be the only person who was paying any attention to it - Quatre and Trowa were too absorbed in actinging out thier own live romance drama that they didn't even realize that a movie was playing and that there was somebody else there too witness thier kissy kissy scene.
"This sucks. I should have just stayed in bed," muttered Duo darkly. "Here I am eating nothing but popcorn as I watch a romance movie. I don't even like this kind of movie! And to make matters worse, I'm dateless and those two love-birds are making me feel even worse with their annoying acts of love."
"Oh, Richard... kiss me..." murmured the sexy actress in the movie and a handsome actor leaned his face to hers and they kissed passionately. Duo felt like gagging. He hated romance movies because they had really mushy scenes like this. He couldn't stand seeing other people acting so romantic but of course, he wouldn't mind if it were him and Heero who were doing all those mushy stuff. Anyway, he preferred to watch action movies and comedy and why he ended up watching this movie was all because of those two kissing bozos sitting on the sofa behind him.
"When they asked me to watch a movie with them, I thought it would be some really cool movie - instead it was this!" Duo muttered. "And since they're not watching it, I should just switch it to a different movie but every time I do that, they'll get mad and say that they want to watch it first till the story ends! Even though they're not watching it."
There was a small moan from Quatre and Duo turned his head around. They were still kissing each other - only that they seemed to be doing it more passionately with every passing minute. Duo sat there and stared at them, hoping that they'll get a clue that they were not alone and that Duo was dying of boredom and that was why he was staring at them. But they didn't even seem to realize that he was there, staring at them!
"Why don't you two just get a room?" said Duo loudly in a sarcastic voice but Trowa and Quatre didn't even answer him. They were too busy kissing each other and touching each other.
Duo thought that he was gonna be sick, watching those two. And since they didn't even realize that he was there... who knows if they suddenly had you-know-what on the sofa right before his very eyes? Suddenly Duo saw Trowa untucking Quatre's shirt from his khakis and he slipped a hand under the blonde's shirt.
'Oh my god!' thought Duo, his eyes bulging. 'I am definately NOT gonna stick around to watch what happens next!' And with that Duo fled away from the scene.
In the end, Duo decided that he had nothing better to do and he was so damned bored anyway so he thought about going on that blind date anyway. So by six, he had all ready taken a shower and had shampooed his long hair with his favourite shampoo, the one that smells like green apples.
But.. Duo realized that he didn't have something very fancy and stylish to wear to a restaurant like Chez Paul's. From what he heard from Quatre, Chez Paul was a very expensive five-star restaurant. No way was he going there wearing his priest's outfit or any piece of clothing he had that didn't cost over a thousand bucks! If he did, that would embarrass his date and himself. He had to borrow something from Quatre's exptensive and expensive collection of clothes. And they were both the same size so whatever Quatre had would fit him perfectly.
"Quatre!" Duo yelled as he went out of his room with a towel wrapped around his waist. Quatre didn't answer him so he went around the house searching for the blonde Arab. Finally he found the blonde with Trowa out in the garden, sitting on one of the benches out there.
"Oi Quatre, I've been looking all over for you!" said Duo.
"Why are you out here in nothing but your towel?" asked Trowa, raising an eyebrow at Duo.
Duo ignored him. Instead he turned to Quatre an said, "Q-man! I really need to borrow your clothes - it's for a date."
"Oh, so you have decided to go on that date after all," commented Quatre.
"Yeah well, I thought that it would be better than watching you and Trowa do your make-out sessions," said Duo slyly. His comment made the two other boys blush a deep crimson.
"Uh, why don't we go to my room so you can take a look at my clothes?" said Quatre quickly, changing the subject.
Half an hour later... Duo had all ready found the perfect outfit and was dressed and ready for action.
"So, how do I look?" asked Duo. He twirled himself slowly so that Quatre and Trowa could see him from every angle. "You look great!" commented Quatre as they all walked downstairs.
"Duo, before you go there's a letter I have to to give to you," said Trowa when they reached at the bottom of the stairs. He pulled out a white envelope from the back of his jeans pocket and handed it over to Duo.
"Who's it from?" asked Duo, turning the letter this way and that. It was sealed and there was no writing on the envelope. It was completely blank.
"Ah, just from somebody," answered Trowa vaguely.
"I'll read it later then."
"The limo's ready to take you to the restaurant anytime you're ready," said Quatre. "I'll arrange for it to take you home later in the evening."
"OK then, I'm all set and ready to go on that date!" said Duo cheerfully. "I guess I'll be going right now. Now you two, have fun doing what you guys like to do!" Duo teased before he skipped out of the house leaving a very red-faced Trowa and Quatre...
The limo dropped Duo off right under a big oak tree right in front of Chez Paul - the location where he was supposed to meet his date. But there was nobody else under that tree but him.
'Oh well, I'll just read that letter Trowa gave me to pass the time then,' he thought.
~~ * * * ~~
Love is...
A stroll in the park
Under the moonlit sky
Stolen kisses in the dark
An eternal flame that never dies.
Happy Valentine's Day, my Duo. I'm sorry I wasn't able to share this day with you especially when I knew how much this day means to you. And I'm sorry that we argued, it was my fault and I hope that you can find it in your heart to forgive me. Ai shiteru, Duo.
Yours always,
Heero Yuy.
~~ * * * ~~
'Heero really does care about me,' thought Duo, a warm feeling settling deep in his heart. 'He remembered that today was Valentine's Day and he understands how much it really means to me. And all along I thought that he went away on a mission was because he wanted to avoid me - because he didn't love me anymore.' He had been wrong about his own lover. Heero wasn't the person with a stony heart the braided boy had thought him to be.
Suddenly Duo remembered that he was still waiting for his date to show up. "It would mean betraying Heero if I go on with the blind date," thought Duo aloud. "I will not betray Heero and the love that we have for each other. I'm gonna cancel this date."
But then Duo realized that he couldn't possibly just walk away without telling his date first that he was canceling the date. He would have wait for his date to arrive so that he could tell his blind date he was not going through the date. It would hurt his date's feelings but that was what he had to do - and he had to tell his date that he all ready had somebody else.
So Duo had to stand there, right under the big oak tree right in front of the fancy-schmancy restaurant as he waited for his date to arrive. He waited and waited and waited but still nobody came up to him to tell him that he was Duo's date for the night.
Duo felt his patience withering and he felt like a total doofus standing there waiting for a person he didn't even know while couples walked pass him to get to the restaurant, giving him funny looks. The minutes passed by and more and more stars were appearing in the darkening sky like miniature light bulbs.
"Huh. What a bore it is, standing here like some sort of moron or a person who looks like he's been stood up by his date," sighed Duo. "Since I have nothing better to do, I'll just count the stars until my date arrives."
The braided pilot was so absorbed in counting the stars that he didn't even hear or notice somebody walk quietly towards him. The person walked up behind Duo and covered both Duo's eyes with his hands.
"Hey!" Duo cried out in surprise. His hands automatically reached up to pull away the hands that were covering his vision. "Who's that playing a joke on me?!"
"Guess who?" whispered the person in a sexy voice in Duo's ear.
Duo gasped and quickly whirled around.
"Heero!" Duo cried out joyfully, flunging his arms around the other boy. "It's you! Oh, I'm so happy to meet you - but what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be away on a mission?"
"My mission is to be your date for tonight."
Duo was struck dumb for a few seconds. "You were the one who was supposed to meet me on this blind date? You were the one who sent me all those flowers and stuff and pretended to be my secret admirer?" asked Duo, the truth finally dawning on him.
Heero nodded his head. "Hai, it was me all along. Are you mad at me?"
"Noooo, well maybe just a little bit," admitted Duo. Then he flashed a smile at the other boy. "But I won't be mad at you cos I'm terribly hungry and I need to eat now and I need you to keep me company! So, come on, Heero!" Duo tugged on Heero's arm and the two boys walked into the restaurant, their fingers laced together.
In the shadow of a huge tree, two people watched Heero and Duo walk into the restaurant. They had been there for quite a long time and had seen the whole exchange between Heero and Duo.
"Yokatta ne, Trowa. I'm so glad that everything worked out between those two," said Quatre, resting his head against Trowa's chest.
"I'm happy for them, too," said Trowa, stroking the pretty blonde's soft hair. "It was a very good thing your plan worked."
There was a silence as the two boys just sat there on the grass, enjoying each other's presence and as they enjoyed the spectacular sight of the stars twinkling brightly against a dark sky.
"Ne, Trowa?"
"Yes, angel?"
"Let's go home. Valentine's Day still isn't over yet. There are still plenty of things we could do…" said Quatre with a sweet, meaningful smile.
The two boys went home and they had a very romantic night together...
This fic is finally completed! Yay!! At least this multipart fic is finished - I think I would die if I had another unfinished fic in my hands! And there are just so many fics I still haven't continued or completed!! So, how did minna-san like this fic? Do you like it? Hm... tell me what you thought about it, OK? Ja!