Hey guys! New chapter! Sorry this is taking so long, I'm really busy studying for these stupid tests. So hopefully I can keep up with updating this! Yeah! Ok well, PLEASE R&R and try to put in something productive, like what I can do to make this story better. But I love to get your compliments too! ^_^

Disclaimer: I don't own GW or any of the products or characters, but I do own Kala and Lin and Rio!

Duo stared out the window, watching the bleak scenery of the colony fly past. His eyes moved slowly around the bus, studying the people around him. An old lady sitting to the left of him and a couple seats up was continuously staring at him, with an odd vacant look on her face. He stared back at her, their eyes locked until Duo shuddered and turned away. She was pretty creepy. (AN: This happened to me! Well not these exact circumstances but pretty much! So I had to put it in!)

He missed Kala already. Maybe I shouldn't have run off. I didn't even explain to her. He closed his eyes, blocking out the world. If only they had had more money, like Kala's parents they would still be alive. It's still too…painful. To talk about them, to think about them, to imagine their faces, even for someone to mention them. Kala hadn't known this, though and he shouldn't have done this to her. He wondered if she was worried, if she was still out there, looking for him. He leaned his head against the cool glass of the window. None of that mattered now. He was going to the earth, to fight, to be a mobile suit pilot.

"Kala! You have to do something besides sleep and lay around!" Lin said as she walked around Kala's living room, cleaning up. "How can you live like this? Looka t all the garbage!"

Kala lay, slumped on the couch, flipping through the TV Guide. "I can't do anything. I need to find Duo. He was here for such a short time, but I need him." Fresh tears slipped down her cheeks and she rubbed her eyes, willing them to stop. She was amazed that she had any tears left in her body, with all the crying she had done these past few days.

Lin sat down on the couch beside her. "I'm sure you'll find him. How far can he have gone?"

Duo stepped off the bus, looking up at the huge space shuttle before him. He had never ridden in one before. He had never left this colony in his whole life.

"Big, idn' it?" a voice said from his shoulder.

He looked over to see another boy about his age, his blond hair spiked crazily all over his head. The boy's clothes looked almost as filthy as his own.

"Yeah it is." Duo replied.

"You goin' ta earth?" the boy asked, turning to face Duo.

"Yeah."

"Gon' be a soldier for OZ, huh?"

"Yeah."

"Same here. Mebbe we'll be in the same trainin' facility."

"Maybe." The two started walking toward the ramp leading up to door of the shuttle.

"What's yer name?"

"Duo."

"Tha's an odd name. Mine's Rio." Duo walked down the aisle, flopping down into a vacant seat and hoping that this guy would shut up and go find a seat far away from him. He tuned out Rio's happy babbling and looked out the circular window as the shuttle started off out of the colony.