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--The phone rang..-- "Yes?" Wufei picked up the phone in hurry, he wore nothing but the damp towel that hung loosely around his slim hips. He was waiting by the phone since last night and he still hadn't slept. "Wufei, I found him. He was at the bar downtown. I tried to drag him back but he only yelled at me.. Wufei, are you listening?" Quatre asked at the end of the line. "Yes.. Winner.." Wufei tried to hide his concern and anger but it seemed like it wasn't work with Quatre. "The bartender told me that he was drunk since that day.. but he hadn't talked much, only cried." Quatre knew exactly what he was doing, he knew that his Chinese friend had feelings for Duo but Wufei wouldn't do anything about that. In the other words, he couldn't.. "What about Yuy?" Wufei asked, he brushed back his wet hair with a free hand but stopped in the middle when he thought about the Japanese former pilot.. Damn him.. "I don't know. I already told him about Duo but he didn't seem to care." Quatre was a bit angry too, Duo was his close friend and he always cheerful.. but now, he was just a kid who wanted to drink himself to death. Wufei clutched the phone receiver tightly. 'Fuck you, Yuy.' "Give me the address, I'll go talk to him." Wufei left his private apartment in his black shiny Harley, looking for the right address that Quatre gave him. Downtown was crowded with people no matter day or night. That's why he hated it.. too much people. He looked around, it was still early in the evening but everyone here seemed to have start drinking, laughing and dancing.. looked like they drink in order to forget their pain and maybe this is the only way to break free from their everyday stress. But Duo had no stress to release, he had only pain.. It was happened 2 weeks ago that Heero left Duo for Relena.. Who knew what that bastard had on his mind. Duo and Heero, they always had been together.. they loved each other? That should be. During the war, they never had a problem expressing their feelings in front of the others. After that, Heero moved to Relena's place. No one dared to ask about this, but they knew one thing for sure.. Duo was hurting.. and that was too much for Wufei. He found the place and parked his Harley nearby. He pushed the door open, it was dark inside. Red and yellow lights reflected on the glasses and bottles. He looked around but couldn't find Duo, so he headed to the bartender. "Excuse me. Have you seen an American with a long braid? He's around my age." "Oh, you mean that boy? He's over there.. poor him.." The bartender point at the darkest corner and said, "He only drinks and doesn't go anywhere else. I wonder what he has been through." Wufei headed over to that direction and saw a chestnut braid hanging over the back of the large chair. His right hand hanging down on one side. Wufei walked around until he could see Duo's face.. the lovely face held no emotion with blank violet eyes and tears streaming down.. He couldn't believe his eyes. That this broken figure was Duo, the one who always laugh and smile.. "Duo." He called out lightly, unaware of using Duo's first name.. He always called him 'Duo' in his thoughts. Slowly Duo's eyes focused on him, he adjusted his position slightly and in the same time, he wiped away the track of tears on his cheeks. "Wufei.." "Maxwell, why are you doing this?" "Doing.. what.?" Duo was still hung over and he reached for another glass of whiskey. Wufei caught his hand and said, "Drinking like shit." "It's not.. your business.. let go!" He freed his hand from Wufei's grip, but Wufei caught it again and this time he brought their faces closer, "Duo, you have to stop this." "Stop? Stop what? What do you know about me, huh?!" Duo's hoarse laugh and those words made him scream in his mind 'I know everything about you! Damn it! Just stop crying for him and loving him for God's sake!' "Let's go home." He was about to stand up but Duo resisted.. "No.." His voice was trembling.. he started to cry again. "Listen, you can't stay here and drink forever! Let's go!" "No! I said No! Wufei.. I .. I have no home! I don't want to be at that house anymore! It hurt! Do you understand?!" Duo was yelling and other customers were staring at them.. but that didn't seem to register in their minds.. one didn't care for anything in the world except the boy who left him, and the other one cared for nothing but the boy in front of him. "Maxwell.." Wufei drew the shivering body close to his.. He soothed the chestnut hair and hugged him tight. Duo didn't deny Wufei's touch, he didn't want to do anything but cry like a lost child. "Do you even understand..?" His voice faded to small sob and passed out in Wufei's embrace. "Yes.. Duo, I always understood." He whispered to no one, he said it just to remind himself.. that feeling; the hurt.. he understood too well.. Next morning Duo woke up in the strange place. It was quite a neat room that completely different from his, 'Where am I?' He tried to sit up and found a Chinese textbook beside him. On the far wall, there was a couple of swords hung for the display. 'Wufei?' He fully regained his consciousness and thought about yesterday.. 'Wufei was there.. Did I say something silly in front of him?' Abruptly the door swung open, showing Wufei with the bowl of water and a towel. "Maxwell, I'm sorry. I didn't know you're awake." "That's all right, this is your home anyway." He sat up but the room started spinning and he slumped back against the pillow. "Maxwell!" Wufei cried out and rushed beside him. "I'm ok." Duo waved his hand and continued, "But I look stupid, ne?" Wufei didn't reply, he knew that Duo needed someone to talk with and he was more than willing to let it be him. "Wufei.. Have you ever really loved someone?" Duo's eyes were closed, he didn't know that the question he was asking caused so much impact on Wufei. Yes, it pierced to his heart.. loving someone so much but for Wufei in this situation, revealing it wouldn't help anything. Duo didn't expect any answer from Wufei so he continued, "I love him, Wufei. I love him, but look at what he had done.. He left me for that queen!" He laughed and cried like a mad man, and after the sadness had won, turned to Wufei. "I meant nothing to him.. God.. Heero.." Wufei moved to sat on the bed beside him and brushed the chestnut lock from Duo's beautiful face that twisted from anger and pain. He said, "You're wrong, I don't think there'll be anyone who would dare to leave you." Wufei let those words slipped from his mouth, he said it flatly like he said it thousands of times a day. Duo gave a small smile at Wufei's unfamilier words, "Really? What make you think that?" Wufei wiped the tears from those precious violet jewels but he didn't answer. "Hungry?", He changed topic. Duo blinked twice and then nodded "Yes, please." After the breakfast, Duo seemed to lighten up a bit. He looked at Wufei while he was gathering up his plate from the table. "What are you looking at?" "I wonder how Heero would feel if he sees us together." Duo was grinning at his idea, but it wasn't funny at all for Wufei. "What do you mean?" Wufei tried not to think of the image that idea brought up. "I was just thinking, if I have a new boyfriend.. Will he be jealous?" "That's not a good idea. You're making it worse." Wufei's heart was racing.. did Duo mean what he just said? Duo sighed and looked down to the carpet, "There's nothing worse than how it is now.." "Maxwell.." "Hey, Wufei. So, in regards to that idea. er.. Can you help me?" "Help what?" "Be my boyfriend." Duo said with his trademark broad smile. 'Oh God.' Wufei was stunned. Did Duo know something about him? Did he really know? "Come on, just pretending to be my lover wouldn't make your popularity among those Preventers girls drop much." It was like falling from the sky to the depth of Mariana trench.. it was just.. a performance..?! Wufei adjust his suddenly pale expression to normal one. His throat went dry but he managed to kept on the conversation. "Maxwell.. it's not like I don't want to help, but lying isn't a good thing.. What will Yuy feel if he found out?" "That's it! That's what I wanted to know.. please Wufei, help me just this one time." How could anyone refuse with Duo's watery eyes on him and begging something of him.. He sighed, he was defeated.. but.. "Just give me more time, Maxwell." "That's mean you're going to help?!" Only his unstable answer could make Duo happy like this? Wufei wanted to do everything if it gave Duo pleasure. "No, it's not like th.." "Yahoo! Wufei! Thanks so much!" Duo jumped on him and hugged him happily.. It was the hardest day of Wufei's life. Duo stayed at Wufei's apartment for a couple of days after that, like he said.. he didn't want to go home. There was no one there but the bitter sweet memories painted the whole place. None of them mentioned going back even to gather Duo's belonging, instead of that, they went shopping together. "Hey, Wufei! How about this shirt?" He grabbed the bright yellow Hawaii shirt and pinned it to Wufei. He had a disgusted look on his face and took a step back, letting it fall on the floor. Duo laughed very hard at Wufei's attitude.. "What's so funny, Maxwell?" "I.. I just didn't think that you would.. would hate it that much" Duo still laughing after they left it to the angry death-glare girl at the booth. "By the way, why don't you called me 'Duo'?" "I never did." He said plainly but actually, he lied. "But it would be so strange if.." Duo took Wufei's arm and leaned his head on Wufei's shoulder, "..one lover called his beloved by his last name.." Wufei's jaw dropped, he could feel his body was tensing at Duo's touch.. but somehow he wished he could controll his heart rate like Heero. Duo didn't notice Wufei's tension. He just smiled sweety and asked him, "Now, call me Duo." "You know, we could talke about this later." "Now." Duo insisted. Wufei sighed and tried not to blush. He took a deep breath and said "Duo." "So, now I'm gonna called you 'Fei', ok?" "What?!" "Hey, there's Chinese Restuarant over there." Duo said and dragged him off in that direction. Duo chose a table far from the exit and as they walked by, they passed the VIP room. On its doorframe hung a bead curtain, so his eyes caught sight of 2 VIP clients inside; the Queen of the World and her fience.. Heero Yuy.. Duo was froze, he stopped right there in front of the doorframe, Wufei who walked behind him followed his eyes and his anger rose, he knew what Duo would feel right now so he chose to suppress his anger. "Forget them, Duo." And Wufei grabbed Duo's wrist. Instead of complying, Duo pulled Wufei in with him. "Hi! I didn't expect to meet you two here." Duo said with his fake smile, inside, he was ready to slap this bitch.. hard.. Heero was a bit surpised to see Duo here but the thing that amazed him even more was.. Wufei.. He spoke up, "I didn't know that you like 'Chinese' food, Duo." Heero stressed the word 'Chinese' precisely at the same time he shot the death glare at Wufei. Duo felt like his plan was starting to work, then he went on, "It may be because I never tried it before." He smiled teasingly and stepped closer to Wufei, "Beside, I'm getting tired of 'Japanese'." Wufei felt very uneasy in the situation but he couldn't do anything. "Why don't you two have a seat?" The girl that everyone seemed to have forgotten spoke up. Drawing all the boys' attention, she smiled brightly. "Oh, yeah. We'd love to, right.. Fei?" Duo turned to his 'boyfriend' and got a faint smile in reply. When they all seated, Relena asked "How often do you have Chinese food, Duo? I assumed that was regular for Wufei.", She would never know the thoughts that arose from that simple question. "Oh, I just started recently and I found that 'Chinese' food is far more better, compared to 'Japanese'." "Really? How?" She still asked innocently.. In the meantime, Heero only stared at Wufei.. he didn't like it at all when he knew that his old 'favorite toy' was being played with by the others. "I think it's more healthier to eat well-steamed food rather than raw food, it's not good for yourstomach." He took a sip of hot tea and went on, "And, for me.. 'Chinese' is hotter.." Now Duo was staring seductively at Heero whose knuckles turned white with anger. "What do you mean, hotter?" Relena asked. "Mmm, nothing, I mean most of 'Japanese' food are cold and tasteless (*)" The waiter stepped beside the table and asked, "What would you like to order, sir?" Duo waved his hand in protest, "Never mind," and he turned to whisper at Wufei's ear. "Just nod, Fei." Wufei didn't understand but he complied anyway. "Ok, please excuse us Relena. I forgot that we have something very important to do, and I can't wait any longer." Duo and Wufei walked out, their hands were holding and Duo was smiling.. Only anger was left in the air and in Heero's mind.
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Kai: This start to serious ^^' ^^' I'm begging all of you for comment.. good or bad throw them at me ::watery eyes:: Edited by : MonMon
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