1 Chapter 15
It was another brand new day. I quickly got out of bed to go shower, change into my gymnastics uniform, put my hair in a high ponytail and then had Hotaru help braid my hair. I grabbed my water bottle, towel, and put on my light jacket and headed out the door. Small morning breezes would blow by once and awhile and Hotaru and I hurried to our classes. Once inside the gym there were already a few girls practicing. I walked over to Ms. Noin and caught sight of Trowa who was expressionless when his eyes met mine.
"Good morning Riona, how is your ankle?" Ms. Noin asked me. I looked down at it and shifted my weight to my other leg.
"I should be fine once I warm up." I replied and Ms. Noin nodded in agreement. I put my stuff down and began stretching, especially flexing with my ankle. Trowa began walking towards me, and afraid he was going to ask anything about snooping around Duo's room last night I quickly finished stretching and walked away to the balance beam. There I began flexing a little more and applied some chalk to my hands. I climbed on top of the balance beam and began an old routine. I could tell Ms. Noin and Trowa were watching me and I tried not to notice. The routine was quite simple but some moves were a little more difficult. I felt a bit unsteady on the dismount that was edging closer. I had to do a back-handspring and then do a double flip off the balance beam. I managed the back-handspring and the double flip but the landing was a little unstable. It took me a step or two before I stood for my salute. Ms. Noin walked over to me.
"Are you alright?" she asked.
"Yeah, my ankle's okay. It's just my dismount was a little rusty." I answered. I worked on my routines I was going to do in the competition. One in each event, the balance beam, floor exercise, uneven bars, and vault. The balance beam being my best and uneven bars my worst. For the rest of practice I worked extra hard on my routines and on each one I managed to complete each one flawlessly a couple of times and then class was over. I went to the locker room and changed back into my uniform and then headed out to my next class.
On my way out I caught sight of Trowa and again I tried to avoid his eyes and expressionless face. His face showed that he probably knew what Hotaru and I was doing the other night. I was about to walk out of the gym when he caught up to me.
"Forgot something?" he asked, holding up a familiar jacket. It was the one I wore the other night while I was snooping around Duo's dorm.
"Oh…I'll be taking that!" I said and tried to pull my jacket from his grip but he held on tight. "Trowa let go of my jacket!" I added in annoyance and he let go.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked.
"Are you hiding anything from me?" he asked and I could feel my expression drain out of my face.
"Whatever I know is no business of yours. And besides, why should you care!" I shouted and stormed out of the gym. Outside Hotaru was already waiting for me.
"I think they know." I said to her. "I think Trowa, Duo, Wufei, and all their other little buddies know that we were snooping around Duo's room the other night." I added and Hotaru nodded.
"I noticed from the way Wufei was looking at me today in class." She signed and I mentioned the same about Trowa. "I think we should go check out the rest of the guys' dorms to see if there's any other useful information we can get. Besides, we have to make sure we have enough evidence to prove what they're doing." Hotaru added and I agreed. We both decided to skip our classes to go searching. First up was Quatre's room. This time the both of us would go in since the guys would be busy being in class anyways. We stealthily unlocked the door and the two of us stepped inside. His room was one of the tidiest I had ever seen, and also to mention he was a guy!
"Whoa, is this guy like a house decorator or something? He really keeps his dorm extra neat!" I exclaimed, because personally I wasn't one of the most tidiest people in the world. But compared to Duo's room, I was tidy. Hotaru ignored what I had been blabbering about and began searching the room. I ended up finding nothing and Hotaru found a couple of floppy disks. We quickly got out of his room and then went to lunch.
" So do we have enough? I mean, sneaking into other people's things kinda bugs me." I said to Hotaru and she nodded.
"We should search the rest of the guys' rooms. We don't have enough evidence yet." Hotaru signed (I sweat drop and fall over anime style). We finished eating and when we were sure the guys were already in their classes, this time we were going to sneak into Trowa's room. Again, Hotaru and I both went in. She unlocked the door and we stepped inside. Just like Quatre's room it was very organized too. He didn't have as much stuff as the others. While I did all the scoping Hotaru did all the searching. I went around his dorm touching things, looking at pictures. One of which he was in a circus outfit with his sister Catherine. Then I felt a tap on my shoulder, it was Hotaru.
"Okay I'm done, lets go." she signed and we left. We went back to our dorm and Hotaru looked at the disks. We ordered pizza for dinner and then we did our homework. Again, Hotaru stayed up into the wee hours reading the information she had found.
" Hey, I forgot to tell you. Tomorrow I have extra fencing practice, so here's the plan. Tomorrow morning we'll wake up early and we'll go into Wufei's room since he does some morning meditation or whatever. And then we'll do Heero's room right after that okay?" Hotaru signed. I was laying in bed and I was really tired.
"Yeah whatever." I replied and drifted off to sleep.
It was another brand new day. I quickly got out of bed to go shower, change into my gymnastics uniform, put my hair in a high ponytail and then had Hotaru help braid my hair. I grabbed my water bottle, towel, and put on my light jacket and headed out the door. Small morning breezes would blow by once and awhile and Hotaru and I hurried to our classes. Once inside the gym there were already a few girls practicing. I walked over to Ms. Noin and caught sight of Trowa who was expressionless when his eyes met mine.
"Good morning Riona, how is your ankle?" Ms. Noin asked me. I looked down at it and shifted my weight to my other leg.
"I should be fine once I warm up." I replied and Ms. Noin nodded in agreement. I put my stuff down and began stretching, especially flexing with my ankle. Trowa began walking towards me, and afraid he was going to ask anything about snooping around Duo's room last night I quickly finished stretching and walked away to the balance beam. There I began flexing a little more and applied some chalk to my hands. I climbed on top of the balance beam and began an old routine. I could tell Ms. Noin and Trowa were watching me and I tried not to notice. The routine was quite simple but some moves were a little more difficult. I felt a bit unsteady on the dismount that was edging closer. I had to do a back-handspring and then do a double flip off the balance beam. I managed the back-handspring and the double flip but the landing was a little unstable. It took me a step or two before I stood for my salute. Ms. Noin walked over to me.
"Are you alright?" she asked.
"Yeah, my ankle's okay. It's just my dismount was a little rusty." I answered. I worked on my routines I was going to do in the competition. One in each event, the balance beam, floor exercise, uneven bars, and vault. The balance beam being my best and uneven bars my worst. For the rest of practice I worked extra hard on my routines and on each one I managed to complete each one flawlessly a couple of times and then class was over. I went to the locker room and changed back into my uniform and then headed out to my next class.
On my way out I caught sight of Trowa and again I tried to avoid his eyes and expressionless face. His face showed that he probably knew what Hotaru and I was doing the other night. I was about to walk out of the gym when he caught up to me.
"Forgot something?" he asked, holding up a familiar jacket. It was the one I wore the other night while I was snooping around Duo's dorm.
"Oh…I'll be taking that!" I said and tried to pull my jacket from his grip but he held on tight. "Trowa let go of my jacket!" I added in annoyance and he let go.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked.
"Are you hiding anything from me?" he asked and I could feel my expression drain out of my face.
"Whatever I know is no business of yours. And besides, why should you care!" I shouted and stormed out of the gym. Outside Hotaru was already waiting for me.
"I think they know." I said to her. "I think Trowa, Duo, Wufei, and all their other little buddies know that we were snooping around Duo's room the other night." I added and Hotaru nodded.
"I noticed from the way Wufei was looking at me today in class." She signed and I mentioned the same about Trowa. "I think we should go check out the rest of the guys' dorms to see if there's any other useful information we can get. Besides, we have to make sure we have enough evidence to prove what they're doing." Hotaru added and I agreed. We both decided to skip our classes to go searching. First up was Quatre's room. This time the both of us would go in since the guys would be busy being in class anyways. We stealthily unlocked the door and the two of us stepped inside. His room was one of the tidiest I had ever seen, and also to mention he was a guy!
"Whoa, is this guy like a house decorator or something? He really keeps his dorm extra neat!" I exclaimed, because personally I wasn't one of the most tidiest people in the world. But compared to Duo's room, I was tidy. Hotaru ignored what I had been blabbering about and began searching the room. I ended up finding nothing and Hotaru found a couple of floppy disks. We quickly got out of his room and then went to lunch.
" So do we have enough? I mean, sneaking into other people's things kinda bugs me." I said to Hotaru and she nodded.
"We should search the rest of the guys' rooms. We don't have enough evidence yet." Hotaru signed (I sweat drop and fall over anime style). We finished eating and when we were sure the guys were already in their classes, this time we were going to sneak into Trowa's room. Again, Hotaru and I both went in. She unlocked the door and we stepped inside. Just like Quatre's room it was very organized too. He didn't have as much stuff as the others. While I did all the scoping Hotaru did all the searching. I went around his dorm touching things, looking at pictures. One of which he was in a circus outfit with his sister Catherine. Then I felt a tap on my shoulder, it was Hotaru.
"Okay I'm done, lets go." she signed and we left. We went back to our dorm and Hotaru looked at the disks. We ordered pizza for dinner and then we did our homework. Again, Hotaru stayed up into the wee hours reading the information she had found.
" Hey, I forgot to tell you. Tomorrow I have extra fencing practice, so here's the plan. Tomorrow morning we'll wake up early and we'll go into Wufei's room since he does some morning meditation or whatever. And then we'll do Heero's room right after that okay?" Hotaru signed. I was laying in bed and I was really tired.
"Yeah whatever." I replied and drifted off to sleep.