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She is Me

©2001 by Kei and Princess Lesse

Chapter 4 ~ Times We Face

Written by Princess Lesse

          La Conejita sat in Relena's office, with her legs crossed. She looked Relena straight in the eyes, and said sugar sweetly, "Miss Relena, please forgive any damage that I have caused. I assure you that I won't do it again during school hours."

          Relena, who was blind with rage, didn't really listen to her sentence. All she heard was "I won't do it again."

          "Very well. Heero, what do you have to say for yourself?"

          "Sorry."

          "Is that all?"

          "Apparently!" La Conejita interjected for Heero.

          "You, keep out of this! You shouldn't even try to weasel your way out of this!" Relena said to La Conejita. La Conejita glared daggers at her. "I'm assigning both of you to clean up the campus." Relena looked at the shocked face of the young child standing at her door. "Oh, yes, Hotaru, please come in."

          La Conejita stared at the young girl, an inkling of shock written on her face. "Hi, Hotaru is it? A pleasure to meet you." Hotaru stared at La Conejita, and smiled a very heart-warming smile when she realized that she wasn't teasing her, that she was being sincere.

          "Hello. My full name is Hotaru Tomoe. What is yours?"

          "Just call me Bunny."

          Heero quirked his eyebrows, and he looked at La Conejita like she suddenly developed a second head. This didn't go unnoticed by "Bunny." She looked at Heero, and batted her eyes. Then she put her shades over her eyes once again. "Heero, does something amuse you?" These words were like an electric jolt to Relena.

          "Yes, Heero? DOES something amuse you?"

          "Miss Relena, I think that we should just go to class, you know?" La Conejita suggested. "And, could you spare Hotaru for a day?" Relena looked surprised at the suggestion. "Take that as my debt to you for fighting, Miss Relena. I would just like to learn more of Miss Hotaru."

          Hotaru beamed.

          Relena was a leader of duties, and she would always love Heero, no matter how he took it. But she also knew that she couldn't keep him forever. But he couldn't possibly stand to be with this…this…girl for a day. "Heero, your debt to me can be fulfilled if you go with Hotaru and Bunny here." She looked at the shocked expression on Heero's face. "Very well, would you like to be a tutor then?"

          "I'll go with Bunny and Hotaru, Miss Relena."

          Relena smiled, and gestured for them to leave. "I have important matters to tend to."

          Serena smiled warmly at Quatre, who was still writing her homework for her. "Q, please don't do that. Let me try, the pain is gone now, I promise!"

          Quatre's look told a different story. He remembered when she had suddenly broken her ankle and when her collarbone was cracked. He was standing beside her, taking her to the arcade to celebrate her first 100. He smiled at the memory, but then looked sternly at Serena, remembering the way she fell on him and started to cry. She grieved, because that was the night of the school dance, and he had the privilege of taking the most beautiful girl to the dance.

          "Listen, Serena, let me just take care of you again. It wouldn't hurt, would it?"

          "I suppose not, Quatre. But you know, I was just remembering the time you took care of me; that really touched my heart, Q. Remember when I had broken my ankle and we had the dance that night?"

          Quatre smiled, he was thinking of the exact same thing. "Yeah, why?"

          "Then, I cried because I couldn't go to the dance, but you know what you did? You made a dance for me! We went to your mansion and you danced with me, while you had put on some music. And we danced all night. And you have taken care of me every since, Q. I can never forget that, and I never will."

          Quatre smiled and he handed Serena her pencil. Serena beamed at him, and looked over at Duo and Trowa. Duo had his head propped up on Wufei's bed, snoring and drooling. Trowa was just staring at them, with clouded eyes. This didn't go unnoticed my Quatre.

          "Come on, guys! Let's study, I need to make a 4.0 for this year! Then, everyone will be proud of me!" Quatre smiled at her antics, trying not to let sweet memories fog his mind.

          Hotaru held La Conejita's hand, skipping and whistling all the way. Heero was sulking (yes, sulking) behind them. Hotaru looked behind her and saw that Heero was walking slowly behind them, seemingly contemplating how to kill La Conejita.

          "Hey, Mister Heero! Walk with us!"

          Heero growled and was about to shake his head negatively, but La Conejita said, "Come on, gorgeous, you know you want to walk with us."

          Heero glared at La Conejita, sending promises of death, a cruel death.

          When he finally walked up to them, she leaned over, and said, "We can do it after school hours, lover boy." She laughed at him and asked Hotaru what she knew about the Institution.

          Quatre sat with Serena long after Duo and Trowa left. Serena tried to get them to stay, yet they insisted they must go. Duo yelled good-bye, and Trowa saluted. Quatre sat there, holding Serena as close as he could. "You know, Serena, when we used to do this when we were little?"

          "Yeah?"

          "Well, don't you wish we could stay like this forever?"

          Serena, taking the meaning wrongly, replied, "Of course, Q. I mean, who wouldn't want to be by their best friend forever? You are so silly!"

          Quatre sighed, and Serena, thinking that he was tired, suggested that he go get some sleep. "You know, Q, you probably slept in late because you didn't get any sleep. You should just try to rest. We wouldn't want a tired, Q-man, now would we?"

          "Of course not, Serena! G'night, and see you in the morning." He kissed her cheek and she lightly blushed. She smiled brightly as she watched him walk down the hall to the parking lot. She closed the door and sat on the bed. She closed her eyes as she kept thinking about a boy whom she thought was very cute.

          'Just because I need to make As doesn't mean I can't think about a bf. I already have a best friend, now I need a boyfriend.'

          She heard the opening of the door, and then the slamming of it. "Woman! Did you let Maxwell in here?"

          "Oi, Wufei, could you keep it down? We don't want to wake the others, they might actually think I would do something with you! I don't want that, maybe you do, but hey…I don't go with weak people! Sorry but I'm not your woman. Didn't mean to burst your bubble!"

          Wufei growled and threw a pillow at Serena. "Just keep your damn mouth shut! Just shut it!"

          "Whatever you say, SWEETHEART!"

          "AHHHHH!"

          La Conejita took Hotaru back to the dorms she was staying in. She gave Hotaru a peck on the cheek, and Hotaru hugged her. She said, "Thank you for spending the day with me, Bunny! That means a lot to someone like me!"

          "Think nothing of it, Hota-chan."

          La Conejita turned around after she closed the door, and standing there was Heero, with a ready click. "Don't have a tizzy. I'm gonna make you sorry you forcefully tried to figure out who I am. Oh come on, all you had to do was ask nicely."

          Heero held up his gun and aimed it straight between her eyes. She rolled those silver eyes and said, "If you want to know my name that badly, it's Usagi. Are you happy now? It doesn't take a fool to know they have been beaten."

          Heero narrowed his eyes, walked up to her, and kissed her.