~ A Sequel to A Sequel to Three Reasons to Stay Sober ~ By Aislin Oriel

Heero nodded to confirm her suspicions. "Oh. Really?" she raised one sceptical eyebrow. "I know what you're thinking." "What then?" "You think I'm lying because I never show my affection towards you." "That's not true." she argued. "Yes it is. Sorry that you had to find out this way." Heero sighed. "What, how you feel about me?" "That and while I was-" "Lying?" "Drunk." he finished, slightly annoyed. "I'm joking. I believe you. But now that you mention it, why don't you ever show your affection towards me?" she quizzed. "Well . . . um . . ." Heero was surprisingly caught off guard by her comment. "I'll leave you to think about that Heero. See ya." she slid the door open and began her departure. However, before she could successfully escape, she felt his hand grip her arm and he swung her back around to face him. "Relena . . ." he whispered firmly, moving closer to her. She stared speechlessly, awaiting a further action. Heero moved closer still and looked about to kiss her when he instead whispered in her ear, "I can't show affection to you because then I'd come off as a creep like Duo." Heero said and released her from his grasp. Relena looked at him like he was the weirdest person in the universe. "That, love, was the worst excuse I've ever heard." "Oh really? How many have you heard?" "Hey stop being a smartass. You creep." she smiled, awaiting his reaction. "Sorry. I'm new to being a creep." Heero turned away to look out at the garden. "Heero." she called for his attention. "Yeah?" he asked absent-mindedly, not bothering to turn and look at her. "Why do you have to do this? Why won't you look at me?" And it was frankly driving her into annoyed oblivion. "I get to do what I want now." he answered simply. "Then so do I." Relena reasoned and pulled him to her in a forceful kiss. Heero drew back, "Who's being the creep now?" "I guess that's me." she admitted. Heero resumed the kiss he had broke away from. Relena's lips curved into a smile beneath his, and her shoulders started shaking as a result of her silent laughter. "What?" Heero asked, kind of muffled against her lips. This gave room for her soft laughter to leak out. Heero pulled back self-consiously, looking confused and slightly offended. "Sorry, it's just that I'm, well, nervous and that tickled." Relena explained, calming down from the chuckles. Her face gradually turned to a less rosy colour, save her cheeks. "The kiss?" Heero asked. "No, the kiss was - really nice - it was what you were doing." she corrected. "Oh, this?" Heero resumed tracing his hand up and down her back. "Yes . . ." Relena almost squeeked and started chuckling again, "That tickles . . ." "Well, then let's try something else . . ." Heero mused and ran his one hand up into her hair and cupped her chin with the other hand. "How about this?" Heero asked her, looking into her eyes so seriously that it was sweet. "This is good." she smiled at him. "No laughing?" "Why, are you uncomfortable with that?" Relena teased. "I am more comfortable without it." he admitted with a sincere scrunch of his nose. "We'll change that one day . . . maybe . . ." she trailed off and awaited the contact of a kiss. Instead she was rewarded with him hugging her and mumbling something undeniably uncharacteristic of him. It was something along the lines of, "Do you know how much I love you?" "No, but I don't want you to tell me," she smirked into his shoulder before adding, "All I know is that you love me and that's good enough." "Then you don't want to hear my speech?" he'd just made it up out of pure spontaneity and in his spur-of-the-moment opinion, it was pretty good. "Heero," she repremanded, "I'd appritiate it if you'd be quick to learn that a woman would like you to show her how much you really care about her. Words fall meaningless in comparison." "But you always get everything your way." Heero pointed out. "Now you're getting it." she congratulated. ~*~ "Hey Wufei, where were you earlier?" Duo questioned. He hadn't been able to find him, thus his quest had been incomplete. "Ug," Wufei snorted, as if remembering something he'd rather not of. And his following words reflected just that, "I saw Heero with the Minister on the patio and . . (mumble, mumble, mumble)." "Huh, what was that? They were talking?" Duo strained to hear. "No, they were (mumble, mumble, mumble)." "They were yelling? Fishing? They-" "KISSING you idiot! They were KISSING!" Wufei's hairline receeded another inch with each and every word. "Wo-o-ow, now you mean to tell me that YOU were WATCHING Heero and RELENA makeout on the patio? Geeze, I thought you didn't like that kinda stuff." Duo poked at Wufei. "I don't-" "HEY! Wait a minute there! Heero and Relena were makingout in broad daylight on the patio?!" Duo threw his hands up in surprise. "Of course they were you fool, it's not like they're vampires who can only come out at night." Wufei reasoned. "Well yeah, but hey! This is good news! I've gotta go find Quatre and Trowa and tell them what happened!" Duo said and almost ran off before asking, "Hey, do you know where they are?" "Not like I care, but I heard them saying something about going to a bar. And Heero was with them too." Wufei shrugged. "What!? They went without me!? I've gotta go catch up! C'ya Wufei!" Duo hollered and waved before skittering off out the door. "Some people just have no life . . ." Wufei sighed to himself and went back to polishing his rock collection.

To be continued . . . ?

AN: Yay! A new twist on old clichés and the classic lines. There's always a garden, (or a balcony, but this is humour - not hentai!). How bout it? Well, I think the sequel thing is getting a little over done so I dunno if I should continue or not. Drop me a line & tell me what I should do. Reviews are the highpoint of my day! ^-^ ~Aislin