Can I Keep You?
Part 5
Relena sighed, and shifted the weight of her backpack to her
other shoulder, before she actually took a look around her surroundings.
If she thought San Diego was cool, then the word "cool" here was ironic. Relena shivered a bit, drawing her windbreaker closer to her body, as she turned up a notch on her walk to a past pace. She passed many quaint houses, with many US flags fluttering in the light breeze.
A loud //bring// from behind her made Relena jump in surprise and turn to see a girl on a bike hurtling at top speed at Relena. She jumped onto the grass as the girl passed — Relena got a good look at her.
She had long, blonde-platinum hair, with chilly gray eyes and weird looking eyebrows. She wore a red vest over a blue tee and beige khakis.
"Watch it, you road-hog!" she had yelled at Relena. Relena stared after her, and dimly noted, I hope not all people are like this here… it may be hell.
"Sorry!" A voice said, breaking into Relena's thoughts. She looked up to see a young teen, her age, on a mountain bike. He had blond hair and king aqua-green eyes. "She's mad on a bike — hey, Dorothy, wait up!" He then sped away.
Relena smiled back at him, and then holsted her bag up to her right shoulder and started to school with a new feeling — maybe she wouldn't be that lonely anymore.
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Heero grunted from where he was behind a tree, watching Relena as she walked up to the school. It was an old, liver-red building that Heero had gone to school in.
But how do I know that? Heero thought, a doubt of uncertainly creeping into his thought. He brushed it aside, and returned to his task, watching this "Relena" and making sure she had a good first day — any way he could. He wouldn't dare to upset his Uncles, actually, they had done some weird things to him in the past…
Shaking his head, he now noticed Relena had gone inside the school and the bell rang. Heero grinned. Time for the fun. At this, he chuckled evilly. (Dear Lord… O.o)
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Relena made it to her first class before her teacher did. Only a few students were in their seats. Taking one in the back, she watched students come into the class one by one and glance at her as she buried herself in her book.
It was only when the teacher came did the class settle down; it had grown quite loud since Dorothy and her blond friend came into the class, when Relena groaned inwardly.
"Settle down, settle down," her teacher yelled, as the students righted themselves and sat forward. "We have just received a new student, could 'Peacecraft, Relena' come forward please?"
Relena blushed lightly and stood, backing away from her desk before moving to the front of the class. Dorothy sat in the first row, smiling smugly at Relena.
"Peacecraft?" She purred. The class broke into giggles; Relena was sure only a few were laughing because Dorothy was popular. Two people weren't laughing; Relena didn't notice them before, but they were also in the back, sitting closely together and staring sympathetically at Relena.
"Actually, it's Rellie," Relena said. "It's my nickname."
"Woah Nelly! Here comes Rellie the horsy!" Dorothy laughed again, and she got more giggles and snorts.
The teacher sent a warning finger to her, but only when she quieted down, did the teacher turn to Relena and ask, "so, Relena, where are you from?"
"San Diego, New York, Detroit… I moved around a lot," Relena shrugged. She looked up form the floor and blinked. Heero stood, semi-transparent at the back of the classroom, behind the two students who weren't laughing.
He brought up a finger in a silent salute before going transparent, and Relena glanced down again, only to stiffle a laugh as she noted all the shoes of the students were entwined with their laces.
"Anything else?"
"Um… Friendly Maine looks like a…uh… friendly place… er, so far…" Relena trailed off, and there was a fake snore coming from the back.
"You can sit down now, Relena. Well, on some bad news, the asparagus in the gym is taking longer to remove, so the Halloween dance is going to be moved… a couple of months later…" the teacher smiled sadly, and Dorothy shot up her hand. "Ms. Catalonia?"
Dorothy smiled smugly again, and rose from her seat elegantly. "As you all know, my parents own the second largest" — she shot a glance at the blond here — "house in many miles, and we have much room for a Hallowe'en party there!"
A few girls, who were Dorothy's supporters (a bushy brown-hair girl, a girl with a coil of sandy-brown hair, and a shorter one with pink-red hair), all clapped, while a few people drawled, "yeah… Dorothy… go, it's your birthday…"
Dorothy smiled again and sat down.
"Hey, Rellie, like — where do you live?" the girl in the back, who didn't laugh with the others or clap, asked loudly.
All heads turned back to Relena, who was sinking slowly in her seat.
"The woods?" Dorothy asked loudly, smiling again.
While everyone was laughing, Relena thought she should correct them, so she called loudly over them. "No… Yuy Estate."
The laughter instantly stopped. Everyone leaned in their seats to look at her. "You actually live there?" The boy with the long braid asked her. He was sitting next to the blue-hair girl who asked the other question.
"Yeah… so you've heard of it," Relena smiled a bit.
"Hey, Mr. Jameston, this girl here has the wickedest, creepiest, house in all of Friendly, and we're out of a chillin' place to crash for the party, right? So why not crash at Relena's?"
The girl nodded vigorously. "Like, yeah! Relena here has da bomb of a home, and it would rock to jam there!"
"Duo, Hilde…!" Dorothy jumped up from her seat and turned to face the class. "I thought we decided to 'jam' at my house for Hallowe'en!"
"How about a vote?" Mr. Jameston suggested. "Dorothy's?"
Dorothy raised her hand, and only her friends (who Relena later learned to as Catherine, Sally, and Mariemaia) raised their hands.
"Yuy Estate?" Mr. Jameston called.
All hands but four went up.
//Brrrrriiinnnng//
"Class dismissed!" Mr. Jameston called over the shuffle of books. As each student got up, they all fell flat on their face but Hilde, Duo, and Relena. They walked out of the class with Mr. Jameston without a scratch on them.
As they left, Relena turned to face Duo and Hilde. "Thanks, I'm really at your debt to having the party at my place…it means a lot."
"No problem, but we've already been there!" Hilde piped up. She was a petite girl, a few inches shorter than Relena, and Relena (she knew horribly to herself) was short.
"No, really — what?" Relena stopped and blinked at Hilde's words. "You've been in my house?" Now she sounded scared.
"If you mean the ghosts, we knew about them," Duo whispered. "How 'bout it? Are they cool or what?"
"Heero tied their shoes together," Relena said suddenly, more to herself than her new friends. "Heero; the ghost! I saw him at the back of the classroom behind you two and…"
Hilde and Duo were grinning, and Relena blushed as she realized she had trailed off. Duo placed one arm around Relena's shoulders and Hilde placed hers around the other side.
"Relena, I think this is the beginning of a beaut-i-ful relationship," Duo grinned.
Relena groaned. "Great, a Casablanca fan… I'm in for a whole bunch of Humphry Bogart, aren't I?"
"I had to put up with it since fifth grade. Enjoy, Rellie," Hilde nodded glumly.
"Here's looking at you, kids," Duo grinned, and steered them down the hallway.
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Heero watched from a safe distance as Relena began talking to the two, who he realized after a few seconds were the ones who were arguing over a photograph a long time ago.
How long had it been? Heero wondered, and then sighed. It was no use; his memory was gone and he wouldn't get it back…
Yet a glimmer of hope rested with this girl. Why did he feel different around her? Was it because he hadn't seen a girl in nearly a hundred years? Or was there something special about her?
Shaking off this feeling, he turned and walked away, knowing full-well
that Relena was now in safe hands of Duo Maxwell and Hilde Shiebaker.
The why did he feel like something was missing?
AN: Hiya! Another treat for yeh out there! Casablanca fan here too —
"Here's looking at you kid," and "I think is the beginning of a beautiful
friendship (not relationship)", is not owned by me, Humphry Bogart says
those lines (Here's looking at you kid 5 times!) in the movie Casablanca.
OH! And just for you, Oracle At Delphi, stay sharp for the next
chapter! Relena does some "investigating" just to who these Uncles are
and what is Heero doing still in this world…
hehehe… also, Delphi, don't worry about my homework, okay? I
have March break now and only two projects to work on, so it won't be too
hard to get at least part 6 up before I have to go back to school. And
in the rate that I write, seven and eight may be up too!
PS: For any of you who are wondering what asparagus is, no, it's not
the veggie, but it's also (I think that's how it' spelled; I kinda forgot
about it...) a type of pink fluff that is toxic when the insulation of
a wall is not done properly. This happened in my cafeteria at my school,
and we couldn't eat in there for three days -- we had to buy the food outside
it and it was sooo cramped!! Okie... now, you see that little box that
could either be green, blue, purple, and black? you sign your name, write
a comment, and hit 'Submit!', okay? : )