Hiya! I'm very happy that I finally get to update this story. My life hasn't been on the best of terms lately on so many levels. And it continues to be that way until April 4.

But any ways here is the chapter where we finally get to get all the boys together. But I don't mean Kevin and Heero. They don't come just yet. But just be patient. They will be coming soon.

I changed a few things on the first info page so go and check out what I made differently. Its not a lot but its just a couple lil minor thingies that you might wanna check out. I will add them in where they are needed though.

Well onto the fic . . .

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Title: The Good Life

Author: x1-TaKeN-oVeR

Disclaimers: I don't own a lot just some of the characters

Pairings: Read the first page please! I really don't want to go into it.

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NOW BACK TO SUNNY CALIFORNIA

After everyone finally got to school without anything else going wrong they reluctantly drug their sorry asses to their respected class. Each of them were very lucky because all throughout high school they had someone or another having the same class together except for Kimmi, Meiren, and Tommy who were only in the 11th grade but this year they got to take some senior classes with the others. It was good that way because they each had someone to share the torture of that class with. Everybody would at least see one another once so all in all it wasn't that bad.

ENGLISH

Trowa, Duo and Wufei were all sitting in class paying attention to the teacher, Ms. Crutch. Well if said attention was Duo turning on his CD player listening to Missy Elliot's "Gossip Folks" and turning it up so loud that Wufei was listening to it as well and was tapping his pencil to the beat. And then Trowa, hearing the music also, started writing down the lyrics to the song on the back of his binder. It was a good thing that the classroom was pretty big and they were all sitting in the very back.

They were all so engrossed in . . . paying attention . . . that they didn't know that Ms. Crutch had stopped talking and was now asking for their homework. Ben, the boy ahead of Trowa, turned in his seat and asked, " Hey man, do ya got it?"

Trowa looked up at him like he were crazy and replied, "Hell yea man. Of course I got it I mean just look at me. I'm hot shit! And remember that time that we all went up to that cabin in New York. You remember when we got snowed in and 3 days later when we could get out . . . you saw Quatre limping right? I mean come on . . . of course I got it. He knows I got it. I would show you and all but I'm kind of devoted, ya know?"

Ben laughed hard and shaking his head he said, " No, I'm talking about your homework. 'Ms. Crotch' up there just asked for it."

Blushing with his eyes wide he said, "Oh why didn't you say that. Of course I got that. Man you made me go into all the nasty details about Quatre and I getting freaky. I don't fuck and tell. You know that."

Ben shook his head again, "Whatever man, just give it up."

"What the hell are you on? You feeling kind of horny today or somethin? I thought you and Johnson were together? Well any ways don't bring whatever you have over here man cuz I don't need it. Me and Quatre and just fine and we don't need any drugs to get into the mood . . ."

Shaking his head and blushing deep red he said, " NO! I'm saying give me your homework. Man, you tryin to tell me that I'm feeling horny? Everything I say you take it the wrong way. Now I thought that you and Quatre did the damn thang so that you wouldn't . . ."

Trowa hurriedly cut him off, "Alright man that's enough. Anyways I can't concentrate with you talking so can you please shut the f-"

This time Ben was the one who cut Trowa off, "Just gimme ya damn homework."

Laughing Trowa continued to leaf through his binder searching for his homework. He couldn't find it and he started to panic. He knew that if he didn't have his homework 'Ms. Crotch' would give him a week of detention and he personally had better things to do than to peel gum off of the bottom of the desks. 'Where the hell is it?' He thought. He knew that after he finished his homework it went straight into his binder because if it went anywhere else he would never be able to find it. I mean he's around Duo 24/7 and I think that, that statement speaks for itself. "Oh shit," he muttered to himself. 'Please be somewhere in here,' as he started to look through his binder in desperation.

Wufei had heard Ben tell Trowa to pass up his homework and quickly gave his to Krystal, the girl who sat in front of him. She flashed him a quick wannabe-sexy-grin and turned around to give it to the person in front of herself. Wufei just snorted and rolled his eyes at this. Its like everyone is trying to get with him. And it's also like he and Kaylin aren't even together. 'Whatever,' he just shook it off like he always did. What else can you do?

Wufei turned to Duo and noticed that he was still banging his head to the music. He poked Duo hard in the arm and received one of Duo's many annoyed glares. Duo mouthed a, 'What,' at him.

Wufei rolled his eyes and snatched the earphones off of Duo's ears, pressed the off button and said, "Ms. Crutch is taking up homework now stupid, so unless you wanna be picking up the gum that I stuck under this chair today you had better pass it up."

Duo smiled apologetically at him, "Thanks Wu-man." Duo quickly got out his ever-messy binder and looked through all his papers.

Wufei sighed dramatically, "You know I think that I should just change my name to 'Call me what ever you want,' because no one ever calls me my real name. They always make up something else. And another thing is that I have no idea how you can find anything in there. Why can't you just stop being lazy for once and actually put your papers in the prong . . . things. Ya know, I think that it might just help you with the whole mess problem. I mean come on Duo! The whole binder is just so . . . so . . ."

"Perfect for me. See I can find anything if I want to and I mean its no fun having a normal, organized binder," he finished up for Wufei.

Wufei stared then chuckled, "Maxwell that made absolutely NO sense."

"What do you mean," he said still looking through his papers, "that made perfect sense."

"Yea in Duo language. But in regular people language it just sounded like 'Blah Blah Blah . . . I'm just saying anything I can because I know that the all mighty Chang Wufei is always right."

Duo just laughed and said, "Okay, 'Almighty Wufei,' you got me. I just can't get anything past you. I wanna be just like you but it seems that I will never meet that high quality standard."

Wufei smiled, "Maybe one day," he paused, "but then again maybe you're right."

Duo shook his head then suddenly smiled yelling, "AHA! See I told you I'd find it."

Wufei feigned surprise, " GASP! Have thy eyes deceived me. GASP AGAIN! They haven't. Oh Great Lord. It's a miracle."

Duo ignored him and really tried hard not to laugh as he pulled his homework from the binder. "What the fuck is this?" He then noticed another paper attached to his. But it looked like the same one.

Wufei took it from Duo and looked closely at it and then . . . "WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT?" Trowa had yelled right in his ear.

Wufei winced and replied, "First jump out my ear and second Duo . . . had it." Wufei saw that Trowa was highly pissed. His face was really red and some of his teeth were showing. Those were one of the 2 expressions on Trowa's Pissed Facial Expressions list . . . don't look at me like that, everyone has them. :Pause: Don't they . . .

Trowa was still looking for his homework when he decided to ask Wufei if he had seen it when right in his hands was the homework its' self. Trowa snatched his homework out of Wufei's hands. He then reached over Wufei and pinned his glare on Duo. But all Duo did was smile.

"Wow T-time [1] I'm really sorry I guess I forgot to give it back . . ."

"When did you take it?" Trowa growled at him. Yea! He actually growled at him.

"Well I took it yesterday when we were all at your house and I saw your binder on your desk and remembered that I didn't do my own homework cuz I didn't understand it. So I just took it home cuz I wasn't finished copying it when we all had to leave. I guess I forgot to give it back. I'm . . . "

"I almost had a shit attack because I'm thinking that I had left it at home or something and knowing that I would get a week of detention for it. And your stupid ass took it from me and didn't even give it back. AND TO TOP OFF THE WHOLE ICECREAM SUNDAY YOU DIDN'T EVEN ASK!" Since Wufei was literally in the middle he could do nothing but watch the exchange of words.

Duo started to get a little angry. Sure he did do something wrong and maybe he should get yelled at but when you start name-calling you've just gone too far. "Look man, I said that I was sorry . . ."

"Sorry doesn't cut the butter."

"What kind of crack pot gypsy told you that?"

"Are you trying to diss my sister?"

"No I wasn't but while we are on the subject of your sister . . ."

"Oh don't even go there . . ."

"Don't you tell me what to do."

"Listen dumass . . ."

Wufei had finally had enough of this. He had sunken in his chair to give the other two more room to yell at each other and so that they wouldn't be right in his ear. He finally got tired of it and spoke up, "Come on guys, can we talk about this later. I really don't feel like finding out just how many colors there are in a wad of gum."

Both boys stopped and looked at Wufei. They knew that he was right and they didn't feel like finding out the colors of the rainbow either.

Duo looked to Trowa with a sorrowful look on his face, "Trowa, listen man I am sorry about the whole homework thing but . . ."

"Save it for someone who would actually care Maxwell." Trowa grounded out. He turned around in his seat and kept his head forward for the rest of the bell.

Duo sighed and cursed. He turned around as well and thought, 'Well if Trowa can be an asshole like this then so can I.'

Just about everyone in the classroom, except surprisingly the teacher, had heard the words that passed between Duo and Trowa. Some of them were quite frightened because they all knew that if one of the people from the 'inner circle' had a fight then that should conclude that they are having a bad day. Well when one person from the 'inner circle' was having a bad day then everyone, not just them, were having a bad day.

After passing up homework there wasn't so much as a peep out of the trio that sat in the back, let alone the whole class.

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SILENCE . . .

That was what went through the air during the lunch period. No one wanted to break the serene, albeit thick and troubled, spell that was 'cast' upon the cafeteria for fear of starting others to start talking, and that was always the best thing to happen. Everyone had their eyes on the 'inner circle's' table but namely Duo and Trowa.

The tension was very evident. By the beginning of second period everyone had found out what had transpired between Duo and Trowa. Some people thought that it was just plain stupid that they were fighting over some homework and that Trowa should thank his lucky charm stars that Duo had his homework instead of for a week having the name 'gum boy.'

But others were scared . . . very scared. Everyone knew that Duo could be very forgetful and it always had consequences. Like the time that Duo "borrowed" Quatre's violin to serenade this girl and guy that he liked all in the same night. Well the first time with the girl everything went off without a hitch and she gave him her phone number. But with the guy, we wont say any names: COUGH: Kyle oops where did that come from, it went very well. So well that many things got broken that night namely belts, buttons, bedsprings and Quatre's precious violin. Well needless to say Quatre was pissed and when he found out during lunch he got so mad that he started to throw food at him, well Duo didn't just stand there of course he threw food back at him and that was the first ever food fight-that Quatre had started. That was viscous fight indeed and was in the top 5 greatest food fights.

And now people were just waiting. Some to get out of lunch, some to see what would happen, and some to see who would break it up. They even had bets going around on who would need the ambulance. Many people had their cell phones waiting with 911 already up there and all they had to do was press send.

Meiren couldn't believe her luck. 'Man I can't believe my luck,' she thought. She was sitting between Duo and Trowa. Everyone made her sit there because she was the usual peacemaker, yes her and no not Quatre. She could solve anyone's problems and she knew she had a knack for solving things. But it was a whole different story when it came to Duo, Trowa and when Wufei got into the mix. Whenever they were all pissed at each other all she could do was sit by and see what would happen. She always did try to do something but it just never worked. Whenever you got the three of them into a fight you might as well hide in a bomb shelter with all the necessities. There was no telling when that fight would be over with and it was always deadly. Every quarrel they had ended up in a fistfight and if you did happen to witness it you might think that it was quite hilarious but it was always serious. Most of the time they had to get Solo and Zechs to deal with the three.

So here she sat thinking of a way to cut through the cloud of tension (pretty deep one right there!). She cleared her throat, "Ahem. So um Trowa h-how is Cathy d-doing?"

She cursed herself, 'Dammit now they know that I'm probably really nervous,' she thought then look up at the ceiling, 'oh God why me? I'm good to others. I take care of my plants and I've never run over any squirrels before . . . but I did hit that one rabbit. But I buried it though! And it should always look left and right before crossing the street. Didn't the mommy rabbit ever teach it that? She did in the story with Peter Rabbit and . . .'

"Huh?" She heard him mumble something while she was mentally cursing herself.

"I said that she was fine. You just saw her yesterday," he mumbled again for her.

She was about to answer when Duo spoke up on the other side of her, "She was just asking a question you don't haveta snap at her." He continued eating his wannabe spaghetti.

She mumbled to herself, "Oh shit," and waited for the reply that she knew was coming in 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . .2 . . .

"I honestly don't think that I was talking to you and I wasn't snapping at her I was just telling her," he growled and glared at Duo.

Duo turned to Trowa and fixed him with a glare of his own, "I don't care who you were talking to, I could here you and therefore I answered."

"Oh! So we gotta use big words now to make ourselves look smarter, huh? Hmmm you must've gotten it from somewhere. Lemme think, oh wait maybe it was from MY HOMEWORK THAT YOU STOLE!"

"I didn't steal shit! I took it and I forgot to give it back just chill the fuck out man."

They kept throwing insults back and forth and Meiren . . . poor Meiren . . . was caught in the middle. She had scooted down in her chair to keep them from yelling in her ears.

All of the sudden they jumped up and were dangerously close to each other. "Meiren get over hear now," her big brother finally called, "unless you want to get knocked out today." She hurriedly got up and squeezed in between Kaylin and Wufei so that she was sharing both their seats.

It was awful. No one knew what to do but watch. And a couple of people, on the other side of the Cafeteria, had gone to get some popcorn and place even more bets on the two. Everything was going so fast.

A lot of the girls and boys didn't want anything to happen to their precious Duo, and also secretly to Trowa as well. But if Quatre heard any of that you would be in a lot of trouble. But other people, like their true friends, were actually worried for their safety and were hoping that they would stop their bickering and sit down.

The thought of the school security guards or staff coming in was not a thought that had crossed anyone's mind throughout the whole ordeal. They all knew that the school would mind their own business and pretend like nothing was even happening.

When they were all in the 10th and the others were in the 9th grade Wufei and Kaylin had gotten into a fight. When the school had tried to intervene and put a stop to the fight most of the staff and security guards themselves came out with bloody lips, black eyes and still hadn't stopped the fight. They never tried to intervene again after that and everyone highly doubted that they would try again now.

Everyone was so caught up in their thoughts on who would win that the next thing that they knew was someone yelling food fight.

Food was flying through the air in all directions and Kimmi, Relena, Dorothy, and Meiren all ducked under the table. While Wufei, Quatre, Tommy, and Kaylin all jumped up laughing starting to throw food themselves.

Relena stuck her head out and took a peak at Duo and Trowa to find them guarding each other's backs, high-fiving and having an all around great time. It seemed as if the whole fight was forgotten.

'This happens every time,' she shook her head and laughed but then shot back under the table before she almost got hit in the face with a bowl of coleslaw. "Shit," she cursed while the girls behind her could do nothing but laugh.

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Sorry this chapter took so long but I got a case of the lazyness and the flu. Hope this chapter is to your liking.

The inner circle is the popular people that consist of Duo, Trowa, Meiren, Kimmi, Tommy, Relena, Dorothy, Quatre, Kaylin, and some OC's that I will eventually add as we get into the story or possibly the next chapter.

1- I got this nickname from Bow Wow's movie 'Like Mike.' It just goes perfectly right?

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