*Popularity Problems: Chapter 4*
What Letter?
Heero slammed the basketball into the net and held onto the rim for a second before releasing. The game Heero and Trowa were playing was to ten. Heero's slam-dunk made the score 10-6, but who would expect less from the captain of the basketball team. The two seniors were drowning in sweat and had to remove their shirts because of it.
"Good game, Heero, but you couldn't beat me in swimming."
"That's why I'm not on the swim team," he responded in a monotone voice.
"Yeah, that and your basketball coach would kill you." Trowa paused and glanced to his left, "Don't look now, but the president of 'The Heero Yuy Fan Club' is heading our way."
Heero groaned. "Great. I thought today would be a good day, but that hope just went down the drain." 'I wonder what she wants _now_.'
Brooke finally reached them and was as giddy as any schoolgirl would when talking to her crush. "Hey Heero!" She screeched. 'He's finally admitting that he likes me. I knew he would come around.'
Brooke was having problems keeping from staring. 'Oh my, I can't believe _that's_ mine.' Both Trowa and Heero were still shirtless because they were heading for the showers, when she stopped him. Hell, when she first saw them, she nearly swooned.
"Heero, you said you wanted to meet me here in your letter." She said with a goofy smile on her face.
"What letter?" 'I didn't give her any letter.' Heero asked her, him having no idea what she was talking about.
"OH, the letter you left for me on my desk, of course," She continued to blab on at a remarkable rate, "I'm so glad that I made it 'cause I almost didn't get it. Good thing Relena saw it and gave it to me. Otherwise I would've missed you and wouldn't have known you were in love with me. I just knew you liked me. I'm so happy. When do yo--"
'Great, thank you very much, Relena. I'll just have to get back at you later.' Heero sighed and rolled his eyes, which went unnoticed by Brooke as she was daydreaming. 'But, first, I have to deal with Brooke.' This was going to be a long day.
"Lena, did she fall for it." Cathy asked sounding a little too anxious to be up to any good.
"Yeah she did. I saw her going to talk to Heero a few minutes ago. Hey, there's Hilde," Lena responded to Cathy's question.
"Hey, Hilde!" She waved her hand as she called the violet-haired girl over to join them.
Glancing around to see who had called her name, Hilde spotted Rellie and Catherine talking as Relena waved. Changing directions, she headed to the group. "Hey guys, what's up?"
"Nothing much, Hild, Lena just gave little miss Brooke a letter from 'Heero' saying he thinks he loves her." Catherine replied as if that was nothing, but with a sly smile on her face.
"You know, I don't like Brooke and all, but why get her involved?" Hilde asked, feeling a little sorry for the brunette. 'I don't know Relena that well, but she doesn't seem like the kind of person that would use another person for no reason...even if it is little miss popular.'
"You mean you don't know?!" Cathy looked surprised and saw the confused expression on her face. 'I guess we forgot to tell her. Oops. I'll let Lena explain.' She looked at the sandy-blonde, silently commanding her to tell Hilde.
Relena saw this look and decided to tell Hilde since she apparently didn't know what was going on. "I was just killing two birds with one stone. Brooke has been calling me all sorts of things behind my back." Her blood boiled at the mere thought of the President of Heero's fan club and her comments. 'She doesn't even know me. She had no right to say those things about me.'
"Yeah, I was talking to Brooke earlier and she said our Lena," the red-head gestured with her hands to the friend in question, "over here, is a, and I quote, 'Stupid, ugly, bitch.'".
~Study period had just ended and everyone was leaving the classroom. Relena was drenched, Heero was smirking, Trowa was stoic and Brooke was trying to talk to Catherine...
Brooke walked up to the senior girl and started talking about the recent happenings. Brushing back her hair with a cocky look on her face, she started speaking, "Cathy, can you believe that little girl. Who does she think she is? Telling _ME_ to shut up. I was only like telling her about Heero. I mean he is like my guy after all. Look at her," She pointed a finger at the exiting aquamarine eyed girl, "she deserved that water to be poured on her. The nerve of that stupid, ugly bitch, I bet she was just jealous. Heero sure cooled her down and to top it off he defended me," with a dreamy look on her face, she continued, "It's so obvious he likes me. Why wouldn't he, though? I'm smart, beautiful, talent-"
'No wonder she told her to shut up. Doesn't she realize we don't care? I can't believe she called Lena that. I'll have to call Relena and tell her later on today. What an ego: she's smart, beautiful...better shut her up before she becomes more full of herself.' Wearing a forced smiled on her face, Catherine interrupted the girl, "I'm sorry, Brooke," she put as much false sincerity as possible in her words, "but I have to be home really soon." Explaining further, she continued, "I have to help my mom and she wants me home ASAP."
"Um, okay," Brooke ended the conversation as Catherine walked away from her locker after grabbing the books she needed for that night. Brooke had followed her all the way over to the other girl's locker and finally moved to her own at the other end of the hall as the red-head's retreating figure left the building, after glancing back and seeing Brooke still there. ~
"You sure she wasn't describing herself when she called Rellie that?" Hilde asked, jokingly, now that she knew what was up.
"Well, she could have been," Cathy replied, scratching her head and looking thoughtful for a moment.
"Sounds like Brooke to me." Relena said, barely able to hide her mirth.
Seems that none of them could though and they all burst out laughing; they didn't even try to hold them back after that.
After they finally stopped their laughing, Cathy pointed, "Look, Brooke just finished talking to Mr. Dumb Jock."
"Ooooh, she looks pissed. Rellie, you better watch out." Hilde was still choking back her laughs.
"For Brooke or Heero?" Relena asked trying to catch her breath after all that laughing.
Cathy and Hilde looked at each other then glanced back at Brooke and the retreating Heero. "Both," they chimed.
"Thanks, I'll take your advice or I just might end up getting my haired pulled out by Brooke or trash-canned by Heero. I've gotta go. Byyye."
"Byyyeeee, Rellie. Be sure to call us if that does happen; so we can watch." Hilde winked at her.
"Sure thing, Hild, will do." Relena walked away.
"Bye Lena. C'mon Hilde, we have to get you up to date with everything." They walked off together.
Heero and Trowa entered the locker room. They picked up their change of clothes and a couple towels.
"So, why didn't you just tell her you didn't write the letter?" 'It would've been easier on Heero, if he did. What was he thinking?'
"I want to deal with Relena myself. Anyways, this might kill off my group a little." 'If it does, I'd almost want to thank her. Almost'
"Well if you wanted to get back at her you could have just told them the letter was meant for Relena."
He laughed, "The only person I could think of that was in study period would have to be Cathy."
"You don't want to do that; Cathy would murder you and then do it again." Trowa laughed at the mental image of his sister finding out
"That's why I said it was an old letter for somebody else and had dropped it. Could you imagine the look on your sister's face if I said it was for her and she found out?" Heero almost shivered at that thought; Catherine could be scary when she was angry.
"I'll talk to Relena after school." Heero finished the conversation and went to his next class.
Trowa looked around for his girlfriend. 'Now, where is she?' Spotting the junior sitting on a bench, he approached her. She was almost a half-foot shorter than himself with nearly platinum blonde waist-length, slightly wavy hair and light-blue eyes. The blonde's looks were quite nice, not as beautiful, but still rather pretty. The captain of the swimming team began to close the distance between them. The young girl didn't seem to have noticed, perhaps that was because his footsteps were so light, but most likely because she was so deep into the book she was skimming over.
Wrapping his arms around her shoulders, Trowa spoke after she had turned to face him. "The Canterbury Tales. I remember that from last year, English?" Trowa asked.
She sighed, holding the book in her hand, using her finger to keep her place, and answered, "Yeah, I have a test next period," she continued dreadfully, "Normally I wouldn't even pick up the book, but I heard this test was a real killer."
"It was," he changed the subject, "Have you heard about the new girl, Relena?"
"Yeah, she's in a couple of my classes," wrapping her arms around Trowa's neck while still holding her book, Midii finished her sentence, "seems nice enough. Why is Yuy buggin', then?" 'Poor girl.'
"Don't know, Heero's kinda weird sometimes, anyway I think the pressure of his fan club is getting to him." Trowa gave a half-smile.
"Well you, Mister Captain of the swimming team, 4.3 GPA, tall, dark, and handsome, hanging with him doesn't help anyway." The soon-to-be 17-year-old gave Trowa a small peck on the lips.
"I'm not one of the reasons he has so many groupie-wanna-bes. Those girls could care less who _I_ am," he replied with the most innocent smile he could possibly use.
At this, she had to laugh, "Sure, you're just a regular Nanashi. Now go, shoo; I have to study," she finished, giving him another small kiss. Turning around to sit on the bench once again, Midii opened up the book in her hand to the place her finger had marked when she saw Trowa walk away. 'Yeah right, Trowa Barton, you just a no-name haha, but at least you're my no-name.' With a small smile to herself, she went back to 'The Canterbury Tales' and groaned contemplating her test next period.
A/N: I'm sorry this took forever to get out. When I was writing it my dog died and I had a million tests and 5 2-hour final exams. I did finish this in mid-November, but left it on a disk at a friends house a few hundred miles away and didn't get it until now.
On aside note, sorry if you wanted to be informed of this update and didn't get an e-mail from me because a few (around 20) of my GW e-mails got erased when my host changed ownership and my address-book was wiped out, also.
