Soon they were short of breath. Zechs had Noin pinned on the floor. Somewhere along the line he had lost his shirt. There was a knock on the door. Both Zechs and Noin were too weak to get up.

"Come in!" Zechs called out. Relena walked and gasped in horror. Zechs quickly figured out what Relena thought they were doing and got up. He backed away from Noin, more towards Relena.

"She was... Then I... NO! We didn't do anything!" Zechs yelled. Noin and Relena gave Zechs and odd glance. He suddenly turned red, and ran into his bedroom.

Noin got up off the floor and brushed herself off. Relena looked around at the food and Zechs' clothes, that were discarded about the room. She noticed Shadow sneaking into the room. The cat would pounce on and gobble up what his owner had left on the floor. Relena also noticed the guilty look on Noin's face.

"Some thing did happen between the two of you, didn't it?" Relena asked. Noin sigh and sat in a chair. Relena's eyes watched her carefully.

"I made some references to... Zechs... while he was on the phone and he wasn't too happy about it." Noin admitted.

"What were you saying?" Relena asked another question.

"You don't want to know. It was was pretty personal," Noin said quietly. Relena could tell that what ever this was would make excellent black mail against her brother.

"Please, tell me. After all, he is my brother," Relena said, sugar coating her voice. She sat down next to Noin trying to coax the information out of her. At that time Zechs came out of his room. He was now wearing a red soccer jersey and grey sweatpants.

"You really want to know, Relena?" Zechs asked. He didn't sound very happy.

"Please tell me!" Relena almost insane.

"I was on the phone with Clarice and Noin was comparing a certain food to a certain part of me," he said angrily, pointing at his crotch.

"Noodles?" Relena guessed.

"No." Zehcs grumbled

"Rice," she guessed again.

"NO!" Zechs shouted. He threw some pork at Relena. And it hit her, right between the eyes. Noin and Zechs laughed. Relena ran into the bathroom crying. Noin looked around the room, her eyes searching for something.

"Your bags are still out in the car, Noin." Zechs said, knowing what she was looking for, "I'll go get them."

Noin watched Zechs leave. The room was mostly silent. Shadow joined Noin on the couch. He purred softly as she petted him. Relena left the bathroom and stormed into the apartment's spare bedroom. Noin assumed that Relena was staying for the night when she heard the lock click in the door.

A few moments later, Zechs reentered the apartment with Noin's bags slung over his shoulder. He walked toward the spare bedroom but Noin stopped him.

"Zechs, Relena's in there. She locked the door. I think that she's staying here tonight." Noin told him. Zechs' face twisted into a confused expression.

"Why'd she choose tonight?!" Zechs called out.

"Choose tonight for what?" Noin asked, getting up.

"Relena lives with Dorothy, a few blocks away. And when ever Dorothy has 'company' over, Relena comes to stay here." Zechs explained. Noin nodded.

"Why doesn't she stay with a friend, or one of the guys? I'm sure Quatre or Duo would be nice enough to take her in for one night." Noin said.

"No, actually Dorothy is the only thing relatively close to being Relena's friend. As for the Gundam pilots, I don't think any of them like her. Even as a friend. Besides, normally Relena and I go out and spend time as a family," Zechs told her.

"Brother!" Relena called from inside the spare bedroom, "I am sorry for teasing you, and for walking in on you and Miss Noin. And you are out of shampoo!"

"You are forgiven, Relena. And there's another bottle of shampoo under the sink," Zechs said, "Oh, and I'm sorry for throwing food at you."

"You are forgiven, brother. Good night!" Relena called back to him.

"Good night, Relena," Zechs said. He realized he was still holding Noin's bags. "Ummm... What am I going to do with these?"

"Just set them down here. I'll sleep on the couch. It's okay," Noin said. Zechs shook his head.

"No. This room isn't suitable for humans to exist in. I'll share my room with you. It isn't much better than in here, but..." Zechs trailed off, carrying Noin's bags to his room. Noin followed Zechs, preparing herself for the mess he made his room out to be. Dirty clothes littered the floor, mixed with toys Shadow left and some other things just thrown about. Zechs' bed was an unmade pile of blankets and pillows.

"One question, Zechs," Noin laughed, "How do you sleep in that bed?"

"I'm not sure. I must toss a lot in my sleep. Wake me if you get a face full of this," Zechs said, shaking his mane of long blonde hair. They both laughed this time. Zechs smoothed his hair back against his head.

"Well, I guess I'll let you get dressed in private. I'm going to go feed Shadow some cat food. Call me if you need me," Zechs said, leaving the room.

Left alone, Noin quickly changed into her sleep wear. She took advantage of the time with out Zechs in the room by tidying up a little. Noin made the bed and shoved all the laundry into one pile, rather than it being strew about the room. In her efforts to make Zechs' room more habitable, Noin found some thing very surprising. It was a red hardback note book. She lifted the cover and saw scrawlings of words in Zechs' hand writing.

"I guess Zechs is an aspiring writer," she said to herself, setting the book on... well there wasn't much of anywhere to put it so Noin put right back where she had found it.

She heard some one knock on the bedroom door, then heard Zechs' voice, "Lu, you done yet? Can I come in?"

"Come on in. It's your bedroom, after all," she told him. Zechs opened the door, took one look at Noin and nearly passed out.

"Are... ahh... are you... uhhh... dressed?" Zechs asked nervously, trying not to look at Noin. She was only wearing a tank top over her bra and panties.

"Yes, and Zechs, you've seen me like this before." Noin reminded Zechs. He slowly nodded and sat on the bed. Noin sat down on the other side of the bed. There was silence between the two of them. Faintly, in the back ground, music was playing. It was a classical peice that Relena played on her stereo to soothe herself to sleep.

Noin snuck a glance at Zechs across the bed. He sat hugging his legs to his chest and resting his chin on his knees. He looked child-like. Noin pulled herself under the blankets and rolled on to her side with her back to Zechs.

Zechs turned out the light and crawled under the blankets himself. Hours passed in the dark, and Zechs was still awake. Noin had long since fell asleep, leaving Zechs alone. Sleep would just not come to him. He looked over at Noin's sleeping form. Zechs felt something inside him stir. He was inspired. He crawled down to the end of the bed and groped around on the floor, feeling for something. He grabbed his red note book and a pen, and Zechs began to write.