Chapter Three: Turning Pegs
Christmas Break...about two months later...
Heero woke to snow again. He was freezing cold as he got out of bed and practically jumped under the harsh steaming spray of the shower. Heero got around to washing his hair after fifteen minutes of sitting under the skin burning spray. Heero's forearms began to throb with the fast change in temperature and that's when he took his cue to wash his hair. As he massaged the foamy substance through his brown hair Heero's mind wandered to Relena like it did every morning. She had run away for a week the last week of November and now she was always being watched by her father and her slutty mom. Relena was starting to make a habit of climbing the vines up to Heero's room and sleeping in a sleeping bag that he hid in his closet when the nights got really bad. And once and a while when Relena would come into his room crying he would let her sleep on his bed, while he took the sleeping bag, and he would hold her hand and dry her tears until she cried herself to sleep.
There was no denying it. After knowing Relena for only a short two months Heero knew he loved her. Heero rinsed his hair as he recalled their last night together, three nights ago---the night after Christmas Eve. Relena had come in with her nose bleeding. Heero had nursed her bleeding nose and bruised cheek so carefully, but it wasn't careful enough to shelter Relena from even more pain. When she had collapsed into his arms he had held her with as much fervency as she did him. Something had passed between them that night, holding each other in his bathroom.
"Hey Sport!"
"Oh my god Dad!" Heero yelped, turning off the water and darting for a towel. "You could knock next time." He snapped, wrapping the towel firmly around his waist.
His father blushed like a four-year-old. "Sorry kid. Hey, I need to head to work. I'm trusting you to hold down the fort or do whatever. Just stay away from drugs, drinking, that sort of thing. And please be home by ten, okay?"
"Okay." Heero answered.
"See ya. Have a nice day."
"Yeah, you too." Heero mumbled, turning towards the mirror to inspect a small cut on his shoulder.
Odin left quickly and Heero just as quickly got dressed, dried his hair with a towel, checked is e-mail, and hurried downstairs. Heero stopped to look at the breakfast his father had laid out for him on the table before he threw it in the trash and headed out the door.
Today would belong to both him and Relena. Heero walked out the front door and locked it just to be sure. He started to walk briskly down the street, pulling his winter jacket closer to his body. In a short walk of five minutes Heero was jogging up Relena's walkway and up onto her porch.
Heero had just raised his hand to ring to the doorbell when the door opened and an unknowing Relena launched straight into Heero. Heero caught Relena and stumbled back a few steps. She was crying hysterically and Heero held Relena as close as he could. She gripped onto his jacket collar and cried into his chest.
A half dressed woman came running out of the door. "That's right bitch, run to that bastard boyfriend of yours!"
"Relena!" a man yelled running out the door.
"Heero..." Relena whispered. "Help me. Please. Help me."
Heero's eyes grew cold and he held Relena tighter.
"Boy, give me my daughter." Steven Dorlian said in a weak voice.
"What the hell do you care?" The woman screamed. "She burnt the frickin breakfast again."
"Susan..."
"Let that boy have his way with her. The bitch might learn something about pain."
Relena screamed, attempting to tune out her step mother.
Heero's hand came up and cupped her head. "Shhh...." He whispered soothingly. "Shhh..." Heero's hand held her head tenderly but firmly, as though to keep any comment from Relena.
"Please, boy, let her back in."
Heero shook his head and started to back off. Relena somehow moved with him. But suddenly she drew away. She looked at her father and then at her step mom, tears running down her face.
"You know, I'd give anything to kill myself. Death is better than this!" She screamed shrilly. She took off past Heero crying. Running out the door in a sweater and jeans, and fortunately a good pair of shoes.
Heero glared at the man. "I hope this haunts you for the rest of your god damned life." He growled before taking off after Relena.
Steven just watched the boy go. For some reason, that day would haunt him until he died. Which was exactly that day when he took a gun to his head.
~*~
"Relena!" Heero yelled in fright as Relena tripped and fell to the ground. He had chased her into the forested area just outside of the neighborhood. She lay there, unmoving except for the shudders of crying.
Heero immediately knelt down to her side and lovingly guided her to his arms. She clung onto him and cried into his shoulder. "She---she had a knife. She kept saying that it'd be nothing compared to what you'd do to me if you got the chance." Relena cried bitterly.
Heero held her tighter. "Relena, I'd never do that to you. Never."
"I---I know." She whispered.
At last Relena pulled away from Heero and looked at him. Both of them were kneeling in an inch of snow. Relena's freezing hand shakily reached out and caressed his cheek, almost in wonder.
"I know." She repeated. Her hand slipped down onto his neck to gently touch a piece of hair on the nape of his neck.
Heero's hot breath brushed against her face and he shuddered at her touch. "Relena." He nearly groaned in an almost inaudible voice.
Her teary eyes met his almost in question.
It was Heero's turn to reach out to her. He gently took her chin in his hand and led her closer to him. His lips were inches from hers and all it took was the image of Relena crying in his arms to close the distance between them. Her lips were wet and shaking against his. Heero's heart twisted painfully and he hesitantly bit on her lower lip, almost trying to coax her out of her state of being.
Relena gasped slightly and opened her mouth. Heero's open mouth sealed against hers and he timidly slid his tongue into her mouth. The instant Relena's tongue caressed his Heero moaned and drew Relena flush against his body. The snow continued to fall around them but two remain kissing in the forested area, the snow melting into their clothes.
Heero was able to breathe while kissing her but he was feeling so breathless he had to pull away.
Relena's hand came up to her lips. "Heero..."
"I'm...I'm so sorry."
"No. No." Relena protested pressing a finger against her lips. "Thank you. You don't know what that has done to me."
Heero waited for her to go on.
"I love you Heero. That's all I wanted was for you to hold and kiss me. I feel...loved."
Heero smiled gently at her. "I'm glad you feel the same. Now come on, let's get you back to my house, into some warm clothes and I'll get you some hot breakfast."
Relena took his outstretched hand that he offered and she stood up. Relena instantly let go of Heero's hand but he had other thoughts. His arm protectively slid around her shoulders and held her close as they walked. Relena's arm slid timidly around his waist before she comfortably let her head fall against his shoulder as they walked out of the forest and back into the neighborhood.
~*~
"Thank you." Relena whispered as Heero put down a steaming bowl of soup in front of her.
"I want you to eat it all." Heero murmured in her ear.
Relena couldn't help but laugh. "I will, I will. I'm sure it's wonderful."
Heero sat down across from her, at his own bowl of soup and began to silently drink and eat it down.
"Thank you Heero, for...helping me back there."
"I told you Relena, I love you. I'd do anything for you."
Relena looked up at him. "Like kiss me?" She laughed.
"Well, yeah, but I think you already know that for yourself."
Relena blushed. "Yes I do."
Heero finished up his soup and walked to the sink and began to clean the bowl. Relena was right beside him handing him the other bowl and picking up the cleaning rag.
"Are you feeling any better?" Heero asked turning off the sink.
"Much." Relena sighed happily. "You really can turn my world upside down Heero."
Heero lovingly tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "Hey, I'm only returning the favor. Now come on, it's snowing like hell out there, you like Minority Report?"
"Tom Cruise, are you kidding me? Of course!" Relena laughed.
Heero swooped down and picked Relena up into his arms. She squealed with shock and then broke into peals of laughter.
The entire situation was almost unbelievable Heero thought to himself. One moment Relena was saying she wanted to die and the next, she was laughing and joking again.
*But* Heero thought. *That's how she has to get by. Day by day, moment by moment with the family she lives in.........*
But all that mattered to Heero was that Relena was tucked nicely into his arms with a blanket around both of them.
The two of them sat at the foot of the couch, in each other's arms, watching the movie for two and a half hours before the credits on the DVD starting rolling and Heero turned the TV off. He looked over at Relena. "What do you feel like doing?"
Relena sighed. "I'd say sleep but since we're together...I don't know."
Heero smiled down at her. "You do look sleepy. Come here."
Heero grabbed two pillows, and pulled Relena down the floor, the blanket still wrapped around both of them. Heero lay down on his back and Relena carefully laid her head onto his chest. Heero's arms protectively wrapped around Relena's waist and almost in an instant the girl was asleep in his arms. And sooner or later the rhythmic sounds of Relena's breathing lulled Heero into the most refreshing sleep he had ever known.
~*~
Heero woke up to the sound of the phone. He quickly but gently moved Relena off of his chest and ran to the phone.
"Hello?"
"Is this Odin Yuy?" a man asked.
"No, this is his son, Heero Yuy."
"Mr. Yuy I am led to believe that you have a Miss Relena Dorlian in your possession."
"Who is this?" Heero demanded.
"This is the police, Miss Dorlian's father has just been found dead in their basement. He apparently shot himself. We request Relena's presence immediately."
"We'll be right over." Heero agreed before slamming the receiver down.
"Relena..." Heero said in an urgent voice, trying to jar Relena from her sleep.
"Hm?" she asked opening her eyes.
"Lena, get up. The police just called. They said your dad shot himself."
Relena jumped up. "Daddy? Is he okay?"
"They said he's dead."
Relena's face paled and she grabbed her shoes in a hurry, with Heero right at her side.
"I'll get the car." Heero started.
"No, that'll take too long." Relena gasped, taking hold of Heero's hand. The couple sprinted out the door and down a block to Relena's house where at least seven police cars were parked. Yellow tape blocked off the house but Relena paid it now heed and yanked Heero into the house and down to the basement.
A policeman turned to face the young couple. "Miss Dorlian? Mr. Yuy?"
The two nodded. The policeman pulled out a notepad.
"Now Miss Dorlian, I need to make this fast and I need you to be honest. What do you think your father's motives for death were?"
Relena bit her lip and squeezed Heero's hand in desperation. Heero squeezed her hand back in a reassuring manner.
"Well, Dad always got upset when Susan used to yell at me. And today, well, Susan got mad at me because I burned the bacon and the toast. I didn't mean to! But she started yelling at me and she advanced upon me with a knife...she said things about Heero and I got so upset I started to run out the door. I ran right into Heero and she started to curse at me, or continued rather. My dad came out and tried to stop my mom and tried to get Heero to let me go. Well my step mom wouldn't and I fled and Heero chased after me."
"Thank you Miss Dorlian for your honest answer. For that you will be spared the appearance of a courthouse meeting."
"Courthouse?" Relena gasped.
"Your father, he wrote a note as to why he was killing himself...he stated almost everything you did. Therefore, you will be dismissed from the case. Your step-mother, however had some very interesting excuses that gives us all the more reason to charge her for second-degree murder of your father. Do you have another guardian you can stay with? At least for a little while?"
"No, but Heero has a spare room at his house."
"Would you mind taking responsibility for her, Mr. Yuy?"
"Of course not." Heero replied quickly.
"Then I'll let you go Miss Dorlian. I will call Mr. Yuy's house when the funeral is arranged."
A single tear slipped from Relena's eye. "Thank you." She whispered. "Heero?"
"Yeah?" He asked.
"Can we go now?" She whispered.
Heero tenderly kissed her forehead. "We're leaving right now." He whispered in return. He took her hand and the walked out of the house and back down the block. The entire time Relena was silent and slightly trembling.
The couple walked in the door and Relena finally broke down. She cried and cried and cried. She cursed god, she cursed her life, she cursed anything she could until she was so drained she couldn't even continue to stand.
"Relena, please, listen to me." Heero said, shaking her shoulders. "This wasn't your fault. It wasn't."
Relena looked up at him through wet eyes, for the second time that day.
"It wasn't your fault." Heero repeated. "Now come on, let's get your face cleaned up and we'll sit down and relax."
Relena just nodded dumbly as Heero led her into the bathroom. He cleaned her face like had with the bloody nose and then walked her back into the living room. He sat down on the couch and Relena sat on his lap, the blanket wrapped around both of them again. Heero coaxed Relena's head onto his shoulder as she curled up in his lap.
"Try to go back to sleep."
"I can't." Relena whispered.
Heero stroked her hair. "Then just sit there and pretend to sleep."
Relena didn't have the energy to laugh or even smile, nor did she have the emotion. So she just obeyed orders.
"Life is like turning pegs." Heero said after a long time. He gave a short harsh laugh. "It's almost impossible to turn them and it's even less likely that you'll get them to stay where you want them. And just like any instrument, you always have to turn the pegs. Always."
Relena nodded.
"But no matter how much those pegs slip Relena, I'll always love you."
"Just like peg dope." Relena whispered. "Or chalk."
"Exactly." Heero replied kissing the top of her head. "Exactly."
~*~ well?????????? Oh jeez, I hope that went well. I was...am in a really depressed mood b/c my boyfriend that I've been dating for two years and he decided that we should call it "quits" for a few months...so basically we've broken up and I'm really depressed. BUT, I hope that you enjoyed the chapter. Please, please, please, review. I need support in every way possible right now (. And I'd appreciate you guys' comments on how you liked (or disliked) this chapter...thanks.
Christmas Break...about two months later...
Heero woke to snow again. He was freezing cold as he got out of bed and practically jumped under the harsh steaming spray of the shower. Heero got around to washing his hair after fifteen minutes of sitting under the skin burning spray. Heero's forearms began to throb with the fast change in temperature and that's when he took his cue to wash his hair. As he massaged the foamy substance through his brown hair Heero's mind wandered to Relena like it did every morning. She had run away for a week the last week of November and now she was always being watched by her father and her slutty mom. Relena was starting to make a habit of climbing the vines up to Heero's room and sleeping in a sleeping bag that he hid in his closet when the nights got really bad. And once and a while when Relena would come into his room crying he would let her sleep on his bed, while he took the sleeping bag, and he would hold her hand and dry her tears until she cried herself to sleep.
There was no denying it. After knowing Relena for only a short two months Heero knew he loved her. Heero rinsed his hair as he recalled their last night together, three nights ago---the night after Christmas Eve. Relena had come in with her nose bleeding. Heero had nursed her bleeding nose and bruised cheek so carefully, but it wasn't careful enough to shelter Relena from even more pain. When she had collapsed into his arms he had held her with as much fervency as she did him. Something had passed between them that night, holding each other in his bathroom.
"Hey Sport!"
"Oh my god Dad!" Heero yelped, turning off the water and darting for a towel. "You could knock next time." He snapped, wrapping the towel firmly around his waist.
His father blushed like a four-year-old. "Sorry kid. Hey, I need to head to work. I'm trusting you to hold down the fort or do whatever. Just stay away from drugs, drinking, that sort of thing. And please be home by ten, okay?"
"Okay." Heero answered.
"See ya. Have a nice day."
"Yeah, you too." Heero mumbled, turning towards the mirror to inspect a small cut on his shoulder.
Odin left quickly and Heero just as quickly got dressed, dried his hair with a towel, checked is e-mail, and hurried downstairs. Heero stopped to look at the breakfast his father had laid out for him on the table before he threw it in the trash and headed out the door.
Today would belong to both him and Relena. Heero walked out the front door and locked it just to be sure. He started to walk briskly down the street, pulling his winter jacket closer to his body. In a short walk of five minutes Heero was jogging up Relena's walkway and up onto her porch.
Heero had just raised his hand to ring to the doorbell when the door opened and an unknowing Relena launched straight into Heero. Heero caught Relena and stumbled back a few steps. She was crying hysterically and Heero held Relena as close as he could. She gripped onto his jacket collar and cried into his chest.
A half dressed woman came running out of the door. "That's right bitch, run to that bastard boyfriend of yours!"
"Relena!" a man yelled running out the door.
"Heero..." Relena whispered. "Help me. Please. Help me."
Heero's eyes grew cold and he held Relena tighter.
"Boy, give me my daughter." Steven Dorlian said in a weak voice.
"What the hell do you care?" The woman screamed. "She burnt the frickin breakfast again."
"Susan..."
"Let that boy have his way with her. The bitch might learn something about pain."
Relena screamed, attempting to tune out her step mother.
Heero's hand came up and cupped her head. "Shhh...." He whispered soothingly. "Shhh..." Heero's hand held her head tenderly but firmly, as though to keep any comment from Relena.
"Please, boy, let her back in."
Heero shook his head and started to back off. Relena somehow moved with him. But suddenly she drew away. She looked at her father and then at her step mom, tears running down her face.
"You know, I'd give anything to kill myself. Death is better than this!" She screamed shrilly. She took off past Heero crying. Running out the door in a sweater and jeans, and fortunately a good pair of shoes.
Heero glared at the man. "I hope this haunts you for the rest of your god damned life." He growled before taking off after Relena.
Steven just watched the boy go. For some reason, that day would haunt him until he died. Which was exactly that day when he took a gun to his head.
~*~
"Relena!" Heero yelled in fright as Relena tripped and fell to the ground. He had chased her into the forested area just outside of the neighborhood. She lay there, unmoving except for the shudders of crying.
Heero immediately knelt down to her side and lovingly guided her to his arms. She clung onto him and cried into his shoulder. "She---she had a knife. She kept saying that it'd be nothing compared to what you'd do to me if you got the chance." Relena cried bitterly.
Heero held her tighter. "Relena, I'd never do that to you. Never."
"I---I know." She whispered.
At last Relena pulled away from Heero and looked at him. Both of them were kneeling in an inch of snow. Relena's freezing hand shakily reached out and caressed his cheek, almost in wonder.
"I know." She repeated. Her hand slipped down onto his neck to gently touch a piece of hair on the nape of his neck.
Heero's hot breath brushed against her face and he shuddered at her touch. "Relena." He nearly groaned in an almost inaudible voice.
Her teary eyes met his almost in question.
It was Heero's turn to reach out to her. He gently took her chin in his hand and led her closer to him. His lips were inches from hers and all it took was the image of Relena crying in his arms to close the distance between them. Her lips were wet and shaking against his. Heero's heart twisted painfully and he hesitantly bit on her lower lip, almost trying to coax her out of her state of being.
Relena gasped slightly and opened her mouth. Heero's open mouth sealed against hers and he timidly slid his tongue into her mouth. The instant Relena's tongue caressed his Heero moaned and drew Relena flush against his body. The snow continued to fall around them but two remain kissing in the forested area, the snow melting into their clothes.
Heero was able to breathe while kissing her but he was feeling so breathless he had to pull away.
Relena's hand came up to her lips. "Heero..."
"I'm...I'm so sorry."
"No. No." Relena protested pressing a finger against her lips. "Thank you. You don't know what that has done to me."
Heero waited for her to go on.
"I love you Heero. That's all I wanted was for you to hold and kiss me. I feel...loved."
Heero smiled gently at her. "I'm glad you feel the same. Now come on, let's get you back to my house, into some warm clothes and I'll get you some hot breakfast."
Relena took his outstretched hand that he offered and she stood up. Relena instantly let go of Heero's hand but he had other thoughts. His arm protectively slid around her shoulders and held her close as they walked. Relena's arm slid timidly around his waist before she comfortably let her head fall against his shoulder as they walked out of the forest and back into the neighborhood.
~*~
"Thank you." Relena whispered as Heero put down a steaming bowl of soup in front of her.
"I want you to eat it all." Heero murmured in her ear.
Relena couldn't help but laugh. "I will, I will. I'm sure it's wonderful."
Heero sat down across from her, at his own bowl of soup and began to silently drink and eat it down.
"Thank you Heero, for...helping me back there."
"I told you Relena, I love you. I'd do anything for you."
Relena looked up at him. "Like kiss me?" She laughed.
"Well, yeah, but I think you already know that for yourself."
Relena blushed. "Yes I do."
Heero finished up his soup and walked to the sink and began to clean the bowl. Relena was right beside him handing him the other bowl and picking up the cleaning rag.
"Are you feeling any better?" Heero asked turning off the sink.
"Much." Relena sighed happily. "You really can turn my world upside down Heero."
Heero lovingly tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "Hey, I'm only returning the favor. Now come on, it's snowing like hell out there, you like Minority Report?"
"Tom Cruise, are you kidding me? Of course!" Relena laughed.
Heero swooped down and picked Relena up into his arms. She squealed with shock and then broke into peals of laughter.
The entire situation was almost unbelievable Heero thought to himself. One moment Relena was saying she wanted to die and the next, she was laughing and joking again.
*But* Heero thought. *That's how she has to get by. Day by day, moment by moment with the family she lives in.........*
But all that mattered to Heero was that Relena was tucked nicely into his arms with a blanket around both of them.
The two of them sat at the foot of the couch, in each other's arms, watching the movie for two and a half hours before the credits on the DVD starting rolling and Heero turned the TV off. He looked over at Relena. "What do you feel like doing?"
Relena sighed. "I'd say sleep but since we're together...I don't know."
Heero smiled down at her. "You do look sleepy. Come here."
Heero grabbed two pillows, and pulled Relena down the floor, the blanket still wrapped around both of them. Heero lay down on his back and Relena carefully laid her head onto his chest. Heero's arms protectively wrapped around Relena's waist and almost in an instant the girl was asleep in his arms. And sooner or later the rhythmic sounds of Relena's breathing lulled Heero into the most refreshing sleep he had ever known.
~*~
Heero woke up to the sound of the phone. He quickly but gently moved Relena off of his chest and ran to the phone.
"Hello?"
"Is this Odin Yuy?" a man asked.
"No, this is his son, Heero Yuy."
"Mr. Yuy I am led to believe that you have a Miss Relena Dorlian in your possession."
"Who is this?" Heero demanded.
"This is the police, Miss Dorlian's father has just been found dead in their basement. He apparently shot himself. We request Relena's presence immediately."
"We'll be right over." Heero agreed before slamming the receiver down.
"Relena..." Heero said in an urgent voice, trying to jar Relena from her sleep.
"Hm?" she asked opening her eyes.
"Lena, get up. The police just called. They said your dad shot himself."
Relena jumped up. "Daddy? Is he okay?"
"They said he's dead."
Relena's face paled and she grabbed her shoes in a hurry, with Heero right at her side.
"I'll get the car." Heero started.
"No, that'll take too long." Relena gasped, taking hold of Heero's hand. The couple sprinted out the door and down a block to Relena's house where at least seven police cars were parked. Yellow tape blocked off the house but Relena paid it now heed and yanked Heero into the house and down to the basement.
A policeman turned to face the young couple. "Miss Dorlian? Mr. Yuy?"
The two nodded. The policeman pulled out a notepad.
"Now Miss Dorlian, I need to make this fast and I need you to be honest. What do you think your father's motives for death were?"
Relena bit her lip and squeezed Heero's hand in desperation. Heero squeezed her hand back in a reassuring manner.
"Well, Dad always got upset when Susan used to yell at me. And today, well, Susan got mad at me because I burned the bacon and the toast. I didn't mean to! But she started yelling at me and she advanced upon me with a knife...she said things about Heero and I got so upset I started to run out the door. I ran right into Heero and she started to curse at me, or continued rather. My dad came out and tried to stop my mom and tried to get Heero to let me go. Well my step mom wouldn't and I fled and Heero chased after me."
"Thank you Miss Dorlian for your honest answer. For that you will be spared the appearance of a courthouse meeting."
"Courthouse?" Relena gasped.
"Your father, he wrote a note as to why he was killing himself...he stated almost everything you did. Therefore, you will be dismissed from the case. Your step-mother, however had some very interesting excuses that gives us all the more reason to charge her for second-degree murder of your father. Do you have another guardian you can stay with? At least for a little while?"
"No, but Heero has a spare room at his house."
"Would you mind taking responsibility for her, Mr. Yuy?"
"Of course not." Heero replied quickly.
"Then I'll let you go Miss Dorlian. I will call Mr. Yuy's house when the funeral is arranged."
A single tear slipped from Relena's eye. "Thank you." She whispered. "Heero?"
"Yeah?" He asked.
"Can we go now?" She whispered.
Heero tenderly kissed her forehead. "We're leaving right now." He whispered in return. He took her hand and the walked out of the house and back down the block. The entire time Relena was silent and slightly trembling.
The couple walked in the door and Relena finally broke down. She cried and cried and cried. She cursed god, she cursed her life, she cursed anything she could until she was so drained she couldn't even continue to stand.
"Relena, please, listen to me." Heero said, shaking her shoulders. "This wasn't your fault. It wasn't."
Relena looked up at him through wet eyes, for the second time that day.
"It wasn't your fault." Heero repeated. "Now come on, let's get your face cleaned up and we'll sit down and relax."
Relena just nodded dumbly as Heero led her into the bathroom. He cleaned her face like had with the bloody nose and then walked her back into the living room. He sat down on the couch and Relena sat on his lap, the blanket wrapped around both of them again. Heero coaxed Relena's head onto his shoulder as she curled up in his lap.
"Try to go back to sleep."
"I can't." Relena whispered.
Heero stroked her hair. "Then just sit there and pretend to sleep."
Relena didn't have the energy to laugh or even smile, nor did she have the emotion. So she just obeyed orders.
"Life is like turning pegs." Heero said after a long time. He gave a short harsh laugh. "It's almost impossible to turn them and it's even less likely that you'll get them to stay where you want them. And just like any instrument, you always have to turn the pegs. Always."
Relena nodded.
"But no matter how much those pegs slip Relena, I'll always love you."
"Just like peg dope." Relena whispered. "Or chalk."
"Exactly." Heero replied kissing the top of her head. "Exactly."
~*~ well?????????? Oh jeez, I hope that went well. I was...am in a really depressed mood b/c my boyfriend that I've been dating for two years and he decided that we should call it "quits" for a few months...so basically we've broken up and I'm really depressed. BUT, I hope that you enjoyed the chapter. Please, please, please, review. I need support in every way possible right now (. And I'd appreciate you guys' comments on how you liked (or disliked) this chapter...thanks.