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Second Best

Chapter 2

He looked into the two aquamarine eyes and stared. His entire body froze as the bushed began to rustle. Suddenly, a little boy, about the age of three, ran up to Heero, and saw the bushes. A mischievous smile spread over his face. The little boy then tackled the bush, leaves blowing everywhere. Heero stood up, his hand still messaging his shoulder. The bushed continue to rustle wildly, and suddenly, a little girl with two blonde pigtails sprung out, the little boy close behind.

They sped off down the path as Heero sat back down, relief washing over his body. He glanced at his watch and noted that it was still pretty early. He gritted his teeth as his muscles felt even worse than before, but he had to get home. He grabbed his books and slowly began to walk back home. He trudged along the path, making his way slowly down the isolated area. There, in front of him, was a guard, standing in his navy uniform.

"Good afternoon. Can I please check your I.D?" the guard asked.

"Yea, hold on," Heero said, trying to conceal his wince when he reached inside his pockets for his card. He fumbled around until he felt a laminated item..

"Here," Heero said.

The guard scanned it with a device that radiated a red light. He then handed it back and spoke. "Everything seems to be in order. Have a nice day, Mr. Yuy."

Heero continued walking along until he came upon a phone booth…with someone inside. It was the girl who had kicked him in the shoulder! She was one the phone, obviously talking with someone. His eyes widened as he tried to quicken his pace over towards the booth. The girl still wore all black, but now she had a tan trench coat over it. The collar wasn't tucked back, but instead raised up higher to conceal most of her lower face. Heero leaned against the phone booth and waited for her to get off the phone. He peered from the corner of his eye and saw that she was about to hang up.

She opened the door to the booth and Heero walked in front of her.

"Oh shit, it's you again!" she said as she tried to make a break for it.

Heero immediately tackled her to the ground…yet again. She managed to free her top half but Heero struggled to keep her in place. She twisted her body and began to kick and punch at him. Heero winced in pain as she kicked him in the stomach and on his shoulder. He was losing…

She broke free and scrambled to her feet. He tried to get up, standing on all fours. His shoulder was probably dislocated now, and maybe, he was internally bleeding. He could feel the vile rising in his throat. She had stopped running, but instead, stood meters away, watching him in pain. He collapsed onto the ground, guilt washing over her. She slowly walked over to him with a medium sized stick. She stood a safe distance away from him and gently poked at him, to see if he was alive. He winced a bit and became completely unconscious.

She crouched down and slowly tried to shake him awake. He wouldn't open his eyes. She cursed at herself and looked up. The sun had disappeared behind a blanket of gray clouds.

"Great…" she muttered. Being the "some what" kind hearted person that she was, she tried to hoist the boy up upon her back. He was pretty heavy, but better to live with a little weight than to live with the guilt of having left some unconscious guy in a middle of a storm. She hauled him down for a few minutes before turning into the dense woods. Lightning illuminated the dark sky. Miles into the dense woods, she finally found a rather large house with two stories. She knocked on the door and it slowly cracked open.

"Relena! Where were you? We were all so worried!" the blonde boy spoke worriedly, "and what are you carrying?!"

"Just let me in already!" she hissed, "He's heavier than he looks!"

She walked in as rain began to pour furiously. She laid the boy onto the couch, where many more people gathered around him.

"Who is he?" a girl asked.

"I don't know," Relena responded, pulling a blanket over his body.

"Is he a first born?"

Relena shrugged. She didn't know. The blonde boy walked over to Relena and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"I hope you know what you're doing," he spoke quietly. "If he finds out that we're not firsts, he might reveal our location."

Relena nodded and whispered back, "Don't worry, Quatre. I'll take care of it."

She got up and walked into her bedroom that she shared with three other people to change. Relena grabbed a loosed sweater and tossed it over. She stretched her arms before walking back downstairs. It was still pretty early in the day but she was exhausted from hauling that lug back. She plopped onto her bed and quickly feel asleep…

~ Hours later ~

Relena got up, only to see her room filled with sleeping bodies. She looked at her clock, which read a quarter to twelve. She must have really dosed off. She slowly tip-toed through the room and down the stairs, and into the kitchen. She opened the refrigerator to see if there was any food.

"What pigs…"she mumbled as she saw nothing but some mustard, milk, and pickles.

"I saved you some leftovers," a voice spoke from behind.

She spun around and sighed. "You scared the hell out of me, Quatre."

"Sorry. The leftovers are in the back of the pantry. I figured you'd be getting hungry soon so I saved you some."

"Thanks. What is it?" she asked while digging through the pantry.

"Some fried rice and vegetables."

"Extra soy sauce?"

"Just for you," he joked.

Relena ate her cold rice slowly as she talked to Quatre about the guy lying on the couch.

"I don't want to see you getting hurt, Relena. You're like a sister to me," he said softly.

"Yea, along with the other twenty seven of them."

"Twenty eight, " he corrected. "Just promise me that when he wakes up, you'll throw him back out. Okay?"

She nodded.

"By the way, how did you come across him?"

Relena gulped her rice down, and started explaining about the school.

"YOU WHAT?!?!" he hissed. I thought we'd agreed to never to in public unless you had to!"

"I got curious…"

"SWEAR to me that you'll never do that again!"

She nodded and swallowed down her veggies. Quatre told her goodnight and left her downstairs by herself. Relena walked to the boy, who was now soundly asleep, and stared at him. He wasn't bad looking…She brushed away a loose strand on his face and watched him intake every breath. Regretfully, she got up and went back to bed. A new day was just around the corner…

Well, how was it? Still confusing? Don't worry, all will be explained soon! Please r/r! NO flamers!!! :D