Chapter Three

Duo nearly feel asleep again, but was punched hard in the shoulder by Heero.
"Ah! What the hell was that for, Heero?!"
"You were falling asleep again and this time you were leaning on me. It didn't look all that great. Plus, we are getting ready to leave the gym and look at the school."
"Sorry Heero. OH! We finally get to look at the school?"
"Yes."
"Wohoo!! And than what?"
Quatre spoke up, "Then we are coming back here to meet with peer mentors."
"Peer mentors?"
Wufei turned around and glared at Duo, "If you were listening instead of snoring, maybe you would understand what we are talking about and maybe you would stop asking questions!"
"Eep. Sorry Wufei."
They heard Christina pipe up, "OK, we are heading out know, will this half come over here and the other half go over to where that Sue is waving her hands. Heero, Duo, Quatre, Trowa and Wufei got up and walked over to Christina. Christina started talking again, " We are going to go the Plant Sciene Building first. The other group is going to the Animal Science Building. Now follow me!"
They walked out and headed across the soccer field towards a big green building. Duo looked behind him. He saw the other group heading towards a red building. He looked back in front of him. Wow. We're walking. Well it's better than sitting in that stuffy gym. This, so far, has been an interesting, but boring day.

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Crystal skipped towards the gym with an excited grin on her face. She loved doing stuff like this. She stopped and turned around, well actually twirled around to face her friend who was walking slowly to the gym.
"Hurry up, Kristine!"
"I'm hurrying as fast as I want to hurry!"
Crystal sighed. "Come on!! We gotta get in there so we got a good spot for the poster!"
Kristine stopped. "Hows this for speed?" She smiled and laughed at Crystal's response.
"KRISTINE!!!" She ran directly at Kristine.
"AH!" Kristine jumped out of the way. Crystal walked over to Kristine, laughing. "That wasn't nice, Crystal."
Crystal shrugged, "I know. Can I have the poster?"
"No."
"Please?!"
"NO!"
"I want the poster!"
"Your not going to get it!"
"GIVE ME THE POSTER!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"NEVER!"
"NOW!"
"Fine," Kristine gave in. She knew she wasn't going to win. Crystal took the poster and gleefully bounded towards the gym. She ran up the stairs and disappeared through the double doors into the gym. When Kristine arrived next to her, Crystal was admiring their work.
"It looks great. Good job, Kristine."
"Why are you congratulating me? I only did the border!"
"Exactly! And a poster is nothing with out a border no matter how good everything else looks."
"OK."
The poster background itself was a dark navy blue. Two names, 'Duo Maxwell' and 'Kimberly Alpert', were neatly written in caligraphy in gold pen. There were cute little designs such as roses, stars and moons drawn in silver and gold to fill in space. The border were blue and yellow streamers tapped on and gentle hanging losely down on the sides.
"I can't wait til they come in!"
"Hey Crystal!"
Crystal looked up from the poster, "Who said my name?"
"I DID!"
"JESS!"
"Hey Jess!" Kristine said.
"Hey Kristine. How've you guys been?"
"Pretty good! Just getting to mentor some kids. You?"
"Same. You guys got freshmen?"
"Nope!" Kristine said.
"Juniors!" Crystal piped up.
"Me too," Jess said. "I have a kid named Heero Yuy. Sounds Japanese. I wonder if he's cute!"
"Jess!" Kristine said.
"What!? I'm telling the truth!"
Crystal laughed at the two. She was about to say something but a noisy bunch of new students started walking in and sitting down on the bleachers.
"There's Sue's group. Christina's group should be coming in shortly."
Kristine nodded her head in agreement. It was only a minute later that Christina's group came in and settled down. Bill stood in front of them. The volley ball nets were up, dividing up the new students from the peer mentors. The crowd became quiet as Bill rose his hands.
"Welcome to the Norfolk Aggie. My name is Bill Cannon. Since our normal chorus could not make it today, we have formed a temporary chorus."
He turned to face the peer mentors. "Will the chorus please come to the front."
About 15 to 20 kids got up and head towards him. Duo was searching the crowds for a familiar face, or the only familiar face he knew. He saw her. She was standing in the first group next to another girl, well actually, next to three other girls. He stared excitedly. I hope this is better than those lectures! Bill turned to the crowd again.
"Here is the NCAHS Chorus with a good morning cheer to all of you!" He turned back to the groups. "Ready?" He asked.
"READY!" They screamed back.
"OK!" And with that he pointed to Crystal's group. They yelled out, "GOOD!" Bill pointed to the next group and they yelled out "MORNING!" He pointed to the next group, "NORFOLK!" He finally reached the last group. "AGGIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
This was randomly repeated. Forwards, backwards, mixed, fast and slow. Finally it ended. Heero just looked at Duo with a face that looked as if he was saying, "DEAR GOD! YOUR MULTIPLYING!" Duo laughed at his dear friend's face. Heero quickly gave Duo his death glare and turned his attention back on Bill. The groups had bowed and had started heading back to their spots on the other side of the nets. Duo watched Crystal bound with so much energy it made him think. She has almost as much energy as I do!

Oh no, not two of you?
Shut up Brain!

No.

Yes!

No!

YES!

NOOO!

YES!

Bill started to speak again.
"OK, the people behind me are peer mentors. Each mentor or a pair of mentors has a poster with one of your names on it. When you find your name, you found your peer mentor. You are going to be put in the hands of these fine students and we trust them. You will meet with them once again, later in the school year. when I tell you to you may get up and try and find your name." He turned around to see if the peer mentors were ready. They were. He turned back to the new students. "Go ahead," he said and the crowd down poured from the bleachers.
"Looks like a title wave!" Crystal exclaimed.
"We're all gonna die!" Jess and Kristine screamed. The three broke down in laughter.
Quatre found his name. Luckily the girl was paired up with some one and that person picked Trowa. At least I'm not alone. He thought as Trowa and him started talking to the girls. Wufei was lefted by himself with a interesting young girl.

The girl bounded up to him, "You must be Wufei! My name is Tina..." The girl started talking endlessly. Wufei glared at Heero. I'm going to kill you, Yuy! Heero grinned and turned away, continuing to walk with Duo.
"HEY DUO! Over here!" Duo saw Crystal waving her hands.
"Hey Crystal." Heero walked up beside him, not bothering to look around and read any of the posters. Duo looked at him. "This is my good friend Heero Yuy. He got us into this school!" Duo grinned.
"So your Heero!" Jess exclaimed. He turned and stared at her. She wimpered. "Er... well, um... you see, I'm your peer mentor! Jessica Tennant!"
She tried to say excitedly and extended her hand. He took it and shook it. God he is cute! I wonder if he has a girlfriend? Why is he glaring at me like that? Well, he is gonna be one interesting character! Duo looked at Heero and noticed something actually sparkle in his eyes. Eh! What's up with Heero! Why is he staring at Jess like that? Oh my god! Has it finally happened? Has Heero fallen in love!? As if Heero could read Duo mind he glared at him with his 'death glare'.
"So, what are we going to do?" Duo asked, trying to start a conversation.
"Well, we got to wait for one more person. Kristine's student hasn't shown up yet."
"Oh."
A girl walked towards the group. Crystal blinked as she recognized the young girl. "KIM! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!?"
Kim started to chuckle, "I got accepted in! I'm going to school here now!"
"COOL!" Crystal ran and hugged Kim. They were best friends from Braintree. They released themselves from the hug and started talking again.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I wanted to surprise you."
"How come I didn't see you on the bus?"
"My dad drove me in."
"Oh, this is so cool!"
The three peer mentors took their students out to the pond to talk. There wasn't much left of school so they waited for the bell to ring. They wanted to be the first ones on the bus home. Heero talked to Jess more than Duo ever saw the boy talk. He stared in shock as Heero laughed at something Jess said. Heero? Laughing? Eh! Something is seriously wrong with him! The buses were lining up and soon the bell wrung.
"Well, talk to you tomorrow Jess!" Crystal yelled as Jess got up.
"Yup! Bye guys!" She waved.
"Bye!" Everyone chorused in.
"Bye Jess," Heero said. Duo stared in shock again. Heero looked at him.
"What are you staring at, baka!"
"Er... nothing Heero!"
"Bye Kristine!"
"Bye Crystal! Bye Kim! Bye guys!" She yelled as she walked off.
"Bye!" Was all you heard from the tiny group.
"Well, we probably should head to our bus," Crystal said and she lead the way. They climbed onto the bus and three sat down.
"Hey George!"
"Hi Crystal. How was your day?"
"Tiring, yours?"
"Fine."
"That's good. Well I'm going to go sit down. Talk to ya later, George!"
"OK Crystal."
Crystal sat down next to Kim and started talking about anything and everything. She saw a cute boy with blonde hair go by the bus. "Oh! He's cute!" She pointed out to Kim. She soon heard Duo screaming out the window.
"Hey Quatre! Trowa! Over here!"
The blonde boy and another boy that was slightly taller than the blonde came on the bus. They sat in the seat in front of Duo and Heero. Crystal tried not to stare. Soon another boy came on the bus. He looked chinese. He sat in the seat across from Duo and Heero. The bus started moving as the final bell rang. Crystal drifted into her own world.
"Hey Crystal!" Crystal was jolted back into reality. Duo was calling her name.
"Yeah?"
"I want you to meet my other friends. This is Quatre," he pointed to the blonde boy. Quatre waved.
"This is Trowa," he pointed to the brown haired boy that was sitting next to Quatre. Trowa smiled at her.
"And that is Wufei, who is behind you."
Wufei had dark hair and dark eyes. He made a slight nod in Crystal's direction.
"Guys, this is Crystal and that is Kim."
Kim waved sheepishly to the guys. Crystal merely said hi. The conversation stopped there. Duo talked to the other guys about his day and they shared their stories. Kim and Crystal put on their CD players. The guys stop came up.
"BYE CRYSTAL!" Duo screamed, scaring Crystal.
"Bye Duo." He's gonna be annoying! She thought. "Bye guys," she said as the guys got off. Crystal's stop was next. She packed up her things and got ready to get off.
"See you tomorrow Kim!"
"All righty!"
Crystal got off the bus and crossed the street. She started her long journey home.