"You want him! You want him admit it!"

"I do NOT want him!"

"Don't lie to me Hee-chan!"

"Relena. . ."

"Heero. . ."

Heero slammed the phone down into the holder and flopped onto his bed. "why must she constantly bug me? I DON'T LIKE HIM!"

His muttered cursings were drowned out as the phone rattled in its holder, "I'm not listening!"

Three more rings, "nope not giving in."

Two more, "no, not affecting me one bit, well, ok maybe it is a little annoying. . ."

Five more rings, "alright already!" frustrated that once again Relena had won him over he picked up the phone.

"You so want him!"

Heero threw the phone onto his bed and grabbing his jacket left for school.

"Heero! Heero? You better be listening to me Heero! HEERROOO!!!! Oh, hi Dorothy, what? Oh I'm screaming at Heero. Why? He likes Duo."

Heero, halfway down the road groaned at himself and smacked his head, 'I am never EVER going to tell Relena any of my preferences, I just know that in five seconds the whole schools, no wait, towns, going to know I'm gay."

"Trowa! Yo man, what's up?" Heero called across to his best mate Wufei and his slightly taller other friend Trowa.

Wufei struck out a hand telling Trowa to stop and they both waited for Heero, "what's the matter Tro? You look, so, out of it."

Wufei sniggered, "his poor little heart was broken last night."

Wham! Wufei lay out-cold on the pavement.

Leaving the poor Chinese boy out-cold Heero took off at a sprint after Trowa. "Trowa what was that?!"

Trowa turned and frowned, "that is none of your business Heero now get lost and get out of my business!"

Heero fumed, "I will do no such thing till you tell me what's wrong!"

"IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS HEERO GET LOST!" Trowa screeched.

Heero lost it and charged at Trowa dealing him a vicious back-hander which sent the boy flying a good few feet to land at the base of a tall oak tree. "Oh god, Trowa I'm--"

But there were two hands on his shoulders pulling him backwards, "come with me Mr. Yuy."

*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Duo looked over at Quatre sat chewing the top of his pen lid and trying to write at the same time. Very blotchy.

He sighed and turned back to his own test paper ~what is James' secret ambition?~ 'Well its not very secret if the whole bloody class reads it is it?'

~Why did he leave the lights on in the landing?~

He thought for a while before scribbling Burglars. 'Yeah I could see that, a burglar walking past, "I'm not going to rob their house, they're all clustered on the landing."

~No matter how irregular it seems, how does James finally decide to chose?~ He swore, and Ms.Noin looked up sharply.

"Ah heh-heh."

Finally, red-faced and confused totally, wondering which test he had done, he handed the sheet in and left.

"I think that was pretty easy." Quatre remarked as he walked out of the class ahead of Duo.

"Easy? Were we talking the same damn test?"

"No, I believe you were taking English for beginners." Quatre walked off leaving Duo sat, ok stood, but sat sounds so much better, in the middle of the hall in defeat. Jaw hanging about an inch off the floor.

"What the hell just happened?" Duo shook his head and left the building.

"Yo Trowa you seen Hilde?" Duo had searched the whole of the campus, looking for Hilde, and had finally bumped into Trowa.

"Humph." Trowa turned and stalked off.

"Ok what the hell is happening today?" Duo frowned. Why was everyone avoiding him?

"Hilde. . .Hilde. . .I'm. .er. . not a Hilde. . ." Duo's frown deepened and he scanned the yard looking for a familiar blue head. Where the hell was she?! "Ok the next person I see is getting smacked."

Tap, tap, tap on the shoulder.

WHACK

"Oops."

"You hit the teacher! You HIT the TEACHER!"

"Shut up Hilde."

*~*~*~*~*~*

"So what you in for?"

"Grunt."

Duo groaned and began to rest his head on his arms, all these people in detention had no personalities whatsoever. There was the sound of the door opening and he looked up to see another person being tortured.

"Come on Mr. Yuy. You've got detention for the rest of the year like Mr. Maxwell."

"Hn, it was his fault, he provoked m—what did you say?!" Heero did a double take and scanned the room with his Prussian blue eyes before finally resting his gaze on Duo and choking, "no way, no way."

Duo wasn't one to let people push him around either, "I am not spending a whole hour every day after school with him!"

Trieze Kushranada, the teacher looking after them for this particular detention stood and grabbing Heero's collar half pulled him-half dragged him kicking and spiting to the seat next to Duo.

Heero sat down and closed his eyes, leaning against the wall but pointing his body towards Duo.

"Hey, Yuy what you in for?"

Heero's eyelids flicked but did not open, "well, Maxwell, I punched my best friend," he sighed, "what about you?"

"Punched the teacher."

Heero spluttered and opened his eyes, "which one?"

Duo settled into his seat more comfortably, shocked by the almost civilised conversation they were having and an incy-teeny bit amazed that Heero's voice sounded so soft.

"Well. . ."

"Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Yuy I would like to remind you that talking in detention is prohibited!" Barked Trieze, but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't hide the amazement that cloaked his voice. They were talking! Maybe he didn't need to expel them after all!

Heero closed his eyes and Duo began to try and sort of the jumble of thoughts in his mind.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Come on Trowa!" Hilde tugged and tugged and tugged on the taller boys arm, "come watch us practice!"

"Hilde! Hilde! Fine just let go of my arm!" Trowa tugged his arm free and both teens proceeded to walk towards the field where the cheerleaders were getting ready to practice.

Three boys were sat around a chemical experiment on the grass, two girls obviously little sisters were cartwheeling and giggling furiously, and about 4 others were just lounging around.

"QUATRE!" Hilde broke off at a run and hugged the startled platinum blonde guy sat on the floor, "you came!"

Trowa sighed and turned to leave, he couldn't face Quatre, not now.

"Oh no you don't!" Hilde grabbed his arm and pulled him into a sitting position next to Quatre, "I don't care what Duo did but you two have been avoiding each other and I want to know why!"

Both boys blushed and looked the other way.

Hilde giggled, "oh, I see it now. . ."

"Oh no you don't! See Duo told Trowa I like him," Quatre glanced at the boy next to him who was looking as impassive as ever, "which I don't and we kind of fell out."

Trowa's heart shattered, he was foolish to believe Quatre would ever like him. He smiled crookedly and lay back on the grass with his eyes closed.

Hilde seemed to think they were friends again and flounced off to do a three-tier pyramid.

"Hey Rel!" Hilde thumped the blonde-y haired girl on the back, "what's up?"

"You," grumbled Relena as she shrugged Hilde off her shoulders, "what've you been eating?"

"Uh, nothing," Hilde grinned and sat down on the floor with a slight thump, her skirt fanning out around her, Relena did likewise.

"And one, and two and three and up!" Sally Po, the schools girls dance teacher and cheerleader teacher-thingy (so I don't come from America and have no idea what half of these things are) began teaching the JV squad.

Hilde giggled to herself, "where's cockroach brow?"

"Her names Dorothy, Hilde."

"Yeah but cockroach brow-hey, is that was I think it is?" Hilde pointed to the classroom where Heero and Duo were talking.

"Er, Hilde, have we entered the twilight zone?"

Suddenly both boys stopped talking and both girls looked annoyed.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Yuy move your leg its in my way!" growled Duo out of the side of his mouth.

"Hn."

"Why do you do that?" Duo slammed his fists quietly on the table in frustration.

"What is it now Maxwell?"

"That hn thing, like what is up with that? You sound like a freakin cow!" Heero raised and eyebrow but said no more.

"Hn."

"I swear if you do that ONE more time I will--" Duo kicked Heero in the side of the leg.

"Baka!" Heero kicked him back.

"MR YUY AND MR MAXWELL WOULD YOU PLEASE REFRAIN FROM FIGHTING IN DETENTION!"

Heero smirked and leaned against the wall one more, Duo fuming at his side, but still not able to shake the feeling when Heero had kicked him.

*~*~*~*~*~*

That night five people went to bed with very jumbled thoughts.

"I wish I had the chance to get to know him better."

"I think there's more to him than there seems."

"I saw that mask slip, I want to know what's behind it."

"I wonder what will happen next. . ."

"ALL FOUR OF THEM ARE GODAMN HOPELESS!"

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Thanks people, I love feedback, sorry there was no chatroom scenes, more later, much much more!"

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