OOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo!!!! I like this chapter, I'm really on a role with this thing, though I still haven't hit the actual story yet, I really like what I have so far! So I really hope you enjoy reading this as much as I'm enjoying writing it. So here it is, chapter one!!

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~*Eight years later*~ {1999}

Quatre walked up the stairs to his room, his backpack slung over his shoulder. The first day of school was always a living hell. It wasn't that Quatre didn't do well in school either, that was far from the case. In fact Quatre was one of the, if not the, top student at his school. That was part of what made school so hard, all the kids thought of him only as a teacher's pet, that he got his grades only because he was nice to the teachers or, worse, the kids thought he paid off the teachers to get such good grades. And so, Quatre found himself always trying to prove that he was worth the grades he got, that he wasn't paying anyone off to get good grades. So Quatre had become a bit of a nerd, using all his free time to study, not because he wanted to, but because he had such a hard time making friends that didn't only hang out with him because he was smart and rich (1).  At least he had Duo; Quatre knew that he could always depend on his ghostly friend for help and support when he needed it.  Duo could always lend an ear when needed and Quatre didn't have to worry about anyone finding out his deepest secrets because Duo couldn't talk to anyone else.

Quatre was suddenly struck by how lonely Duo must be. Quatre knew that he was lonely too, but at least he had the comfort of knowing that he had other people to talk to when he needed it. Duo must be so lonely, even more so before Quatre had moved into the big house. Duo had even told Quatre that he had had no one to talk to after he died until Quatre came along. Quatre's gloomy thought were quickly banished from his mind as he entered his room. Sitting at small fold out card table was Duo, and on top of the card table was a house of cards out of a bad episode of the Brady Bunch. Duo's back was to Quatre and he was carefully placing another card on top of the house. Quatre was still at a loss as far as exactly what Duo's physical limitations were, but he didn't really care, as this opportunity was just too good to be passed up.

Carefully sneaking into the room Quatre crept up behind Duo, taking great care not to make a sound. When he was about two feet away from Duo he quietly lifted his hands up around his mouth and shouted in a very loud voice, "BOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!"  Duo was surprised, to say the least. Quatre's shout had come right in the middle of his putting down another card for the house and he had been so surprised that he had tumbled forward into the house, causing enough movement in the air around himself that the house of cards quite quickly collapsed.

Behind Duo Quatre was clutching his side and laughing hysterically at the site of his ghostly friend surrounded by falling cards; Duo, however, would not stand this for a moment and quickly righted himself to float over the helplessly giggling Quatre. "Damn it Q, I think you have this whole 'Ghost' 'Human' thing backwards. You see, the ghost is supposed to sneak up on the HUMAN and scare the HUMAN into falling over their precious house of cards that they've been working on sense the time school started that morning!" Duo then put his hands on his hips and pouted at Quatre, causing the young boy to drop into another fit of giggles.

Finally composing himself slightly Quatre looked up at Duo, realizing that he was actually catching up in height to the ghost, though it was hard to tell with the ghost floating above him like that. "I'm sorry Duo, it's just that you were such easy prey, sitting there building a house of cards for goodness sakes. Where'd you learn to build with cards like that anyway, I've never seen someone make a house that big!"

"And for a damned good reason too! That stupid thing took me all fucking DAY!" Duo sighed, shaking his head. "But yeah, being a ghost does have its advantages. I mean, I don't have to breath so I don't really have to worry about my breath knocking it over, and my…whatever I'm made of isn't very solid so even if I tap it a bit it won't knock it down. It's great for when I'm bored!" Duo smiled at the younger boy 'sitting' down on the bed. "So anyway how was school? I know how much you LOVE the first day." Duo smiled more brightly now, knowing that school was a unique type of punishment for the blond boy.

Quatre sighed sitting down on the bed next to Duo. "It was like it always is Duo, the teachers all love me, I get bored out of my mind in class because it's all so easy and then all the kids pretend that they like me but I wouldn't consider a single one of them my friend. Well, except maybe some of the girls but you know how they are…" Quatre sighed again, wishing that his only friend was a bit more solid, so he could hug him and just cry on his shoulder. But Quatre knew that that was a selfish thought, he couldn't change the fact that Duo was dead, and if Duo wasn't dead Quatre probably never would have even met him. Though he was pretty sure that Duo would have done anything to get his life back. Quatre then remembered something out of the ordinary that had happened in homeroom, and he knew Duo would want to know anything out of the ordinary. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot, my homeroom teacher told us that we're getting a transfer student, she told us all the regular garbage about being nice and considerate etcetera, etcetera." Quatre rolled his eyes, expressing his doubts about anyone in his class being nice. "Apparently we're getting him because we're the only home room that has any room left… I can't WAIT for someone else to smile at me falsely." Quatre grumbled, running a hand through his hair to express the frustration he felt at his current situation.

"Man Quat, you're SUCH a pessimist! Maybe this new person will come and you'll get along great and you'll become fast friends! And then you'll eat lunch together and talk about things and you'll finally have a friend who doesn't posses the fantastic ability to walk through walls." Duo let his hand brush through Quatre's cheek, causing the other boy to look up.

Duo looked so sad, as if he had already lost Quatre to the stranger that was arriving tomorrow. Oh, Quatre wanted to throw his arms around the ghost, wanted to tell him that no one could replace the spot that Duo held in Quatre's heart. But all that came out was an inadequate, "Oh Duo…"

Then Duo was all smiles again, dancing up towards the ceiling. "Come on Quatre! I've been bored here by myself all day; lets do something!"

Quatre smiled up at his friend, forgetting the sadness he had seen in those eyes. It just wasn't in Duo's nature to look sad, and Quatre much preferred this happy bouncing Duo to the one that had been sitting on the bed only moments before. Smiling again Quatre said, "Of course we can do something fun Duo! Just as soon as I finish my homework!" Duo groaned and Quatre laughed. Duo did not like schoolwork; he said that there was absolutely nothing that he wanted learn that a school could teach him.  It wasn't that he didn't like learning, far from it. Duo managed to read as much as he could, that is when he could… Sometimes Duo wasn't quite as solid, his hands would slip through things some days, and others days he could pick thing up no matter how heavy they were. Quatre was pretty sure at had something do with the moon or…something, but he wasn't sure what.

Sighing Quatre sat down at his desk, he might as well get this over with as soon as he could so he could go and do something 'fun' with Duo. And knowing Duo, something 'fun' would involve a slightly mean sense of humor and the very big advantage of being invisible to most eyes. Tonight, Quatre was definitely going to have fun.

The Next morning Quatre groggily got up for school, rubbing his eyes to get the sleep out of them. Duo and he had stayed out WAY to late last night, but it had definitely been worth. Rolling out of bed Quatre made his way to the bathroom to take a shower. Carefully stripping out of his clothes he stepped into the blissfully warm water, just letting the water run of his body for a bit before actually washing himself. Taking the shampoo he carefully washed his hair, being sure to rinse AND repeat, always repeat, never forget to repeat. Duo had told him that once, but he could quite remember when.

Stepping out of the shower Quatre dried himself off before pulling on his clothes that he had left waiting for him on the counter. Tightening his tie Quatre sighed, Stupid Privet School with its stupid school uniform. Quatre always felt so…confined in his school uniform, it offered such a total lack of freedom that he sometimes wondered how he could take it at all. If the uniform wasn't bad enough the school colors were worse, taking the meaning of tacky to a whole new level. Whoever had come up with the school colors should have been taken out and shot, that's how bad they were.

What were the colors you ask? This horrible, putrid, disgusting bright orange; and if that wasn't bad enough by itself they had to go and put it alongside another horrible color, that horrible ugly army green color. Neither of these colors were that bad by themselves, but when put together they created the most unpleasant image. And then, after the horrible insult of giving his school such horrid colors some GENIOUS out there had decided that it would be a good show of school spirit to make there gym FLOORS be that color. The gym tiles were that horrible green and the line of the basketball court were orange. One of the girls Quatre knew had once joked around that they went to the only school where you had to worry about your dress clashing with the floor (2). At least the school uniforms weren't those colors, the ties were but that was it, everything else on the uniform was blue.

Finally Quatre ventured out of the Bathroom, heading downstairs for a quick breakfast before grabbing his backpack and heading out the door to get into the back of his car, telling his chauffeur to take him to school.

Sitting in the car Quatre began to think about his and Duo's exploits the night before. They really had stayed out much too late, and Quatre was feeling somewhat drowsy now, but, He'd be damned if actually SEEING a cow jump over the moon wasn't one of the funniest things he'd seen in his life to date. Duo had actually taken Quatre out to a farm nearby and had made the animals act out the entire old nursery rhyme. It made Quatre giggle just thinking about thinking about it.  For the finishing touch Duo had thrown a dish and a spoon out into the darkness, saying merrily while he did. "And the dish ran away with the spoon. But then the spoon found out that the Dish was cheating on her so she filed for divorce, and the dish didn't have foresight enough to have a prenup, so the spoon took everything he had and the dish ended up losing the house and little butter knife all in the process!" Duo had then wailed dramatically, showing his pain at the loss the poor, poor dish had suffered.

The car pulled up to school, and Quatre sighed as he got out of the car grabbing his backpack. He really did not want to be there, and it was already feeling like a long day and he hadn't even entered the building. Going to his homeroom Quatre sat down, waiting for the bell to signal the start of the day. The teacher came into the room moments before the bell rang at which point in time all the rest of the student came flooding into the class, taking there seats. Leaving, as usual, the empty seat next to Quatre. Quatre then remembered that that seat wouldn't stay empty for long, the new student was coming today, and that seat would most defiantly be filled, as it was the only one left in the class.  Quatre put his head on his desk sighing, he had worked so damn hard to keep that seat empty too, it wasn't that he didn't like people, he just didn't like the type of people that went to his school. The door opened and Quatre was forced to look up, he'd have to see the new student eventually so might as well just get it over with.

What Quatre saw totally through him back, standing in the doorway was what had to be one of the most beautiful creatures he'd seen in his entire life. He had light brown hair that feel over his face, covering one eye, one beautiful deep emerald eye. He was so tall, and well built and, and…just gorgeous (3). Though Quatre thought that gorgeous was an inadequate to describe the beauty standing before him. Quatre suddenly realized that his mouth was slightly agape and he closed it with a snap. It would not do him any good if the other students saw him staring at the new student.

Quatre was suddenly jerked back to reality as he heard the teacher say, "You can sit by Mr. Winner Trowa. Quatre, could you raise your hand so that Mr. Barton knows where to go?"

Quatre shaking-ly raised his hand and he saw the tall boy, Trowa wasn't it? Make his way over to the empty seat. Putting his hand down when he knew Trowa was headed in the right direction Quatre shivered, this was not what he had expected in the new transfer student. Trowa quickly sat down in the empty desk, looking over at Quatre, as if appraising him. Finally, after an agonizingly long wait, for Quatre at least, Trowa put out his hand. "Hi, I'm Trowa Barton." He said this still where that stoic expression he had worn since he entered the room.

But Quatre didn't care, firmly grasping the other boys hand Quatre let himself smile. "Hello, I'm Quatre Winner, and it's a pleasure to meet you." And it truly was a pleasure. Perhaps, Quatre suddenly thought, Duo's going to be right this time… 

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1: And pretty damned good looking too.

2:Ok, I normally wouldn't do this but this is based on my own school, are colors aren't THAT bad but it's pretty close.

3: Good god, did anyone not see THAT one coming…*looks around * thought not.

DONE! ^^ I'm really liking this, it took my forever to write but I DID it! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^^ I up-ed the rating to R for later content, just being careful. REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^^ I'm putting another ten review limit thingy on this, if I don't get ten reviews I won't continue, got it? So everyone review….or else……..