It was another brand new day. I quickly got out of
bed to go shower, change into my gymnastics uniform, put my hair in a high
ponytail and then had Hotaru help braid my hair. I grabbed my water bottle,
towel, and put on my light jacket and headed out the door. Small morning
breezes would blow by once and awhile and Hotaru and I hurried to our classes.
Once inside the gym there were already a few girls practicing. I walked over to
Ms. Noin and caught sight of Trowa who was expressionless when his eyes met
mine.
"Good morning Riona, how is your
ankle?" Ms. Noin asked me. I looked down at it and shifted my weight to my
other leg.
"I should be fine once I warm up." I
replied and Ms. Noin nodded in agreement. I put my stuff down and began
stretching, especially flexing with my ankle. Trowa began walking towards me,
and afraid he was going to ask anything about snooping around Duo's room last
night I quickly finished stretching and walked away to the balance beam. There
I began flexing a little more and applied some chalk to my hands. I climbed on
top of the balance beam and began an old routine. I could tell Ms. Noin and
Trowa were watching me and I tried not to notice. The routine was quite simple
but some moves were a little more difficult. I felt a bit unsteady on the
dismount that was edging closer. I had to do a back-handspring and then do a
double flip off the balance beam. I managed the back-handspring and the double
flip but the landing was a little unstable. It took me a step or two before I
stood for my salute. Ms. Noin walked over to me.
"Are you alright?" she asked.
"Yeah, my ankle's okay. It's just my
dismount was a little rusty." I answered. I worked on my routines I was going
to do in the competition. One in each event, the balance beam, floor exercise,
uneven bars, and vault. The balance beam being my best and uneven bars my
worst. For the rest of practice I worked extra hard on my routines and on each
one I managed to complete each one flawlessly a couple of times and then class
was over. I went to the locker room and changed back into my uniform and then
headed out to my next class.
On my way out I caught sight of
Trowa and again I tried to avoid his eyes and expressionless face. His face
showed that he probably knew what Hotaru and I was doing the other night. I was
about to walk out of the gym when he caught up to me.
"Forgot something?" he asked,
holding up a familiar jacket. It was the one I wore the other night while I was
snooping around Duo's dorm.
"Oh…I'll be taking that!" I said and
tried to pull my jacket from his grip but he held on tight. "Trowa let go of my
jacket!" I added in annoyance and he let go.
"Why are you looking at me like
that?" I asked.
"Are you hiding anything from me?"
he asked and I could feel my expression drain out of my face.
"Whatever I know is no business of
yours. And besides, why should you care!" I shouted and stormed out of the gym.
Outside Hotaru was already waiting for me.
"I think they know." I said to her.
"I think Trowa, Duo, Wufei, and all their other little buddies know that we
were snooping around Duo's room the other night." I added and Hotaru nodded.
"I noticed from the way Wufei was
looking at me today in class." She signed and I mentioned the same about Trowa.
"I think we should go check out the rest of the guys' dorms to see if
there's any other useful information we can get. Besides, we have to make sure
we have enough evidence to prove what they're doing." Hotaru added and I
agreed. We both decided to skip our classes to go searching. First up was
Quatre's room. This time the both of us would go in since the guys would be
busy being in class anyways. We stealthily unlocked the door and the two of us stepped inside. His room was one of
the tidiest I had ever seen, and also to mention he was a guy!
"Whoa, is this guy like a house
decorator or something? He really keeps his dorm extra neat!" I exclaimed,
because personally I wasn't one of the most tidiest people in the world. But
compared to Duo's room, I was tidy. Hotaru ignored what I had been blabbering
about and began searching the room. I ended up finding nothing and Hotaru found
a couple of floppy disks. We quickly got out of his room and then went to
lunch.
" So do we have enough? I mean,
sneaking into other people's things kinda bugs me." I said to Hotaru and
she nodded.
"We should search the rest of
the guys' rooms. We don't have enough evidence yet." Hotaru signed (I
sweat drop and fall over anime style). We finished eating and when we were sure
the guys were already in their classes, this time we were going to sneak into
Trowa's room. Again, Hotaru and I both went in. She unlocked the door and we
stepped inside. Just like Quatre's room it was very organized too. He didn't
have as much stuff as the others. While I did all the scoping Hotaru did all
the searching. I went around his dorm touching things, looking at pictures. One
of which he was in a circus outfit with his sister Catherine. Then I felt a tap
on my shoulder, it was Hotaru.
"Okay I'm done, lets go."
she signed and we left. We went back to our dorm and Hotaru looked at the
disks. We ordered pizza for dinner and then we did our homework. Again, Hotaru
stayed up into the wee hours reading the information she had found.
" Hey, I forgot to tell you. Tomorrow
I have extra fencing practice, so here's the plan. Tomorrow morning we'll wake
up early and we'll go into Wufei's room since he does some morning meditation
or whatever. And then we'll do Heero's room right after that okay?" Hotaru
signed. I was laying in bed and I was really tired.
"Yeah whatever." I replied
and drifted off to sleep.