A Painful Past
Chapter 4
Duo and Trowa were on the opposite side of the hanger, heading towards their rooms. Kaylee's scream sent them running. Their running alerted the other pilots, who took off after them. What Duo and Trowa saw, they being the first to arrive on the scene, was quite a sight. Kaylee was rolling on the floor, gasping for air and tears rolling down her face while she laughed. By this time, the other three pilots had gotten there, and no one could understand what was going on. All Kaylee could do was point to the bathroom in between laughs. They all peaked around the bathroom door corner and saw Hilde. But it wasn't any ordinary Hilde. She looked like someone just come back from the dead, despite her dumbstruck look at Kaylee's fit. She had MANY shades of base, powder, eye shadow, and lipstick on her face. Her hair was sticking out in frizzy spikes, each one a different color, such as brown, blond, red, etc. Duo tried hard to keep from laughing, but to no avail. He ended up rolling on the floor next to Kaylee, hooting and hollering, while Kaylee was starting to calm down. Quatre couldn't suppress a small, but polite, giggle. Heero, Wufei, and Trowa even had small smiles/smirks on their faces. Poor Hilde didn't understand why they were laughing at her.
"Guys? What's so funny? I may have had a small mishap with the dryer, but I was just testing out different cosmetics to see what worked best for me." The laughter had almost subsided. "By the way, who's she?" Hilde asked and pointed to Kaylee, who was sitting on the floor wiping her eyes. She stood up and held out her hand.
"My name is Kaylee Love." Hilde shook her hand, eyes widening.
"I'm Hilde Schbeiker. You're who I've heard about?"
"I hope so. It seems every one here know who I am."
"You came with good recommendation." Trowa said.
"Humph!" grumbled Wufei and Heero rolled his eyes. Quatre just glared at them both.
"Then why was I fired?" Kaylee mumbled almost inaudibly. Hilde looked at her funny.
"What was the Kaylee?" Duo asked, getting off the floor.
"Nothing. When is dinner? I'm starving! I need to speak with Dr. J about my supposed work here."
"We pretty much fend for ourselves on food around here." Heero said, speaking his first words to the girl.
"We can order a pizza." Quatre said. "We will have to go pick it up, because we don't want anyone to know our location, but I'm sure Hilde and Kaylee wouldn't mind doing the honors." He looked at them with hopeful eyes. Kaylee smiled.
"Of course not, right Hilde?"
"Nope."
"Well then, it's settled. I go order it." Quatre said. Trowa, Heero, and Wufei followed with Duo trailing a little sadly.
"Why can't I go pick it up?" he whined.
"Because you'll eat it all before you get back, baka." Wufei said. Duo just shrugged, winked at Hilde, and walked away. The two girls giggled and walked into the bathroom.
"Sorry about screaming at you. You just scared the shit out of me!"
"It's no problem. I guess I do look a little scary."
"Here. Let me help you get that out of your hair before we go. Did you say little accident with the hair dryer?"
"You don't want to know..." They giggled again.
"So, are you my roommate?" Kaylee asked as she started scrubbing the color out of Hilde's hair.
"No, I have the room next door. But we have to share the same bathroom."
"That's o.k. Hey, are you and Duo an 'item'? I saw the way he looked at you," Kaylee nudged Hilde with a gleam in her eye. Hilde gave a blush visible through all that make-up. Kaylee laughed.
"Say no more." she said. "All done! Now for your face."
"Wait! Before we wash it off, tell me what you think of this eye shadow, this blush, and that lipstick?" Hilde asked, pointing to the corresponding spots on her face.
"Perfecto!" Kaylee said and kissed her fingertips. The two girls smiled and continued to scrub.