Hey everyone, thanks for the reviews that have been coming in so far. I've
been bogged with homework since day one of second semester. Disclaimers go
as usual, I don't own Gundam Wing or its characters. But, the two OC
characters are mine. Anyhow, hope you all like this. ^^
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Sprinkles of Payback
Aidan quickly ran down the stairs to the sounds of Relena's hysterical laughter. "What's going on?" he pointed towards Relena. She then pointed towards Heero, who was standing at the doorway entrance still with a serious face. "Oh my god." And right then, he burst out with his own laughs. "I never would have guessed that you would get hit with anything."
Heero began to walk towards him and gave him a death glare and grabbed his tie at the same time. Within less than a second, Aidan's face went from red to white, and he began to shake nervously. "Okay, I get the point." he squeaked. Right then, Heero loosened the grip on the tie and Aidan let out a sigh of relief as he was trying to get his breathing back to normal. By this time, the rest of the staff members including Riley, Quatre, and Trowa came down from their respective offices when they heard the period of silence coming from the hallway. In a matter of moments, they all had gathered at the top balcony of the stairs and looked down. Everyone's eyes were filled with shock and disapproval that they had lost their bet except for Trowa, who smiling to himself. But then, a second wave of laughter flooded through the embassy again.
Heero stood there contemplating his next move, while Relena looked on just a few feet away from him. She thought to herself, "Poor Heero, this was all of my fault." He then began to reach towards his back pocket, which was still drenched with the strawberry jam. With that as a hint, everyone immediately stopped their laughing all at once. At that moment, if anyone had dropped a pin in the room, it would echo throughout the entire hallway.
"I'm heading back to my post." He then left the area, warning everyone not to bother him with his cold gaze. After he had left, everyone began to talk about the bet. The clock had struck five.
"It looks like the bet is off now," yelled Relena from the bottom of the staircase and looking towards her group of mutinous staff members. "Oh Quatre, where are you?" He appeared sheepishly before her and gave her a wry smile.
"It looks like you win this time." He came down the stairs and handed her money back. Once that was accomplished, the room cleared out like a herd of cattle, but Relena sternly called everyone back to their places.
"I'm not done here, not just yet. What about my end of the bargain, in which I create some type of punishment for all of you except for Trowa."
Aidan then spoke for the group, "I guess we must have forgot about that part."
"Oh quit it, Aidan, you're the number one person on my list still. Anyhow, the punishment that you all will be receiving is a 20% decrease in your next pay checks!"
"What!?!" cried out mostly everyone in the room.
Aidan then fired back, "You must be joking. 20% decrease in our paychecks, that's enough to pay for some groceries or part of the rents that we have to pay for our apartments/condos."
Riley then reacted, "A 20% pay cut?" She looked through the crowd of people and narrowed her eyesight at her intended target, "There he is that scum." She ran down the stairs and began to attack Aidan at his back. "You told me that I wasn't going to lose this bet and now Ms. Peacecraft is going to cut my paycheck by 20%! Why you?"
"Easy on the hair, Riley!" screamed Aidan, who was trying to protect himself from his secret crush.
While that was going on, Relena looked around as everyone thought that she was serious. She was getting amused at everyone's expense of shock written in their eyes. She thought to herself, "They don't know what they are getting into." More rages of anger filled the room as everyone realized their mistakes in their betting wager. "Can I have everyone's attention again?"
When she made that announcement, the entire group became silent just to hear more bad news coming from her.
"I WAS just joking. You don't have to get all fired up just for one thing. But here's your punishment, as you all know, we have a big event coming up this coming Friday in which we're hosting diplomats. Is everyone still following me?"
Quatre looked on blankly, "You sure about that? I don't recall scheduling anything of the sort on my palm pilot."
"Memos of this were sent to each and one of you during the time of YOUR wagering activity." She then held out the magenta sheet specifying about the diplomat congregation.
Quatre then interrupted her again, "Why couldn't they have gone to Washington D.C. or some other embassy and not this one? Isn't this a little too sudden?"
"Now, now. Memos of this were sent to all of you and I don't think it's scheduled abruptly. Besides they chose our embassy because of our location here in Canada. Anyhow, I want all of you to prepare the east wing for the gala by decorating it, making food preparations, and making arrangements for entertainment, which applies to mostly everyone in this room. Everything should be done by TONIGHT, it's better to be ready than sorry." She then pointed to various staff members on what their tasks should be and after she completed that, she went over to the remaining staff members, "Quatre I want you to create the invitations and guest lists along with Riley. While as for you Aidan."
"Oh no, here it comes." He began to have sweat drops on his forehead, while at the same time he began to fidget with his tie.
"I want you to make 50 COPIES of this report." She handed him 60 pages, in which Aidan noticed that it was back to back. "Have fun now, I need it by TONIGHT. If you don't complete your task, you will be FIRED. Understood?"
He then contested her statement, "But this is going to take me over two days to complete."
"Stop your whining. You might as well get a jump on it."
Aidan then obliged, "Yes ma'am."
*****
Back at the bakery, Duo and Wufei were busy cleaning up the strawberry jam and flour mess.
"So what are we going to do about his cake?" asked Duo who was still mourning over his beloved chef's hat.
"We could hand deliver it to the address that a." Wufei then ran over to the stack of order forms that seem to keep piling on his desk. After going through an endless stack of white, he finally managed to find the one with Duo's scribblish handwriting on it. "Ahh, here we are. It's made out to a Heero Yuy."
"Well then that sounds interesting, I now have a name to my hat murder." called Duo from the floor. He was trying to scrub the sticky strawberry jam away.
"I guess so. But he told me to put 'Happy Birthday Relena!' on it."
Duo looked up from the floor, "Maybe its for his girlfriend. Did you ever think of that? Or wait a minute, I forgot that you're Mr. Punctual and that you have NO love life?"
"Don't you dare start with me again! As for my love life, I'm already seeing someone." glared Wufei.
"And who is that again?"
"None of your business!"
"Let me guess," Duo began to scratch at the left side of his head. "It's that supplier of ours down a street from us. The one who has brown hair that is older than you, if I'm correct."
Wufei became agitated, "I have a pot of chocolate sauce just waiting for you. It would be a shame to dirty the floor again after your three hours of scrubbing."
"You wouldn't!" exclaimed Duo.
"I would." He then was about to begin to lift the brass pot of chocolate sauce. Right then, Duo came careening over to Wufei's side and Wufei noticed Duo's response of the "NOOOO!" "Gotch ya again, Maxwell."
"Wanna think again, Chang." Underneath Duo's red stained cooking apron, concealed the red boxing glove and once Duo released it, Wufei had no way escaping from it. In a matter of seconds, Wufei fell to the floor. Right then a shower of chocolate spilled over Wufei. "Now this is what I call SWEET revenge." chimed Duo.
Wufei wiped a layer of chocolate from his eyes, "Why you sneaky scamp!" He tried to get up, but fell down again on the chocolaty floor.
"I think we're even for now. It looks like you might need the mop and bucket more than I do." He then handed him the items, and when Wufei looked into the bucket, it was filled with red grimy water. "You better mop it up before the chocolate hardens on this cold floor. Otherwise, you might need to get down on your hands and knees with some type of cookie cutter and create chocolate shapes." Duo then winked at him and headed towards the stock room to prepare for Relena's birthday cake that would be baked some time tomorrow. "All righty then, let's begin with the flour."
*****
The clock had now struck seven and everyone was still busy with their duties in the east wing, while Aidan was still in the copy room. "Ms. Peacecraft, printer #2 just got jammed."
"You need to get a move on it, Aidan because you'll never finish in time."
"This is going to drive me crazy. AAAHHH!" He was pulling on his tie leaving behind black smudge marks.
As the printer problem progressed, Relena decided to check on her remaining so-called slaves. She headed towards the main dining area of the east wing and once she walked in, the dining area was transformed into a spectacular ballroom. She was in awe in how the staff members completely transformed the area within a matter of two hours. The layers of dusts vanished and everything was spick and span. She could even her reflection on the windows that needed to be washed before.
While Relena was still admiring the ballroom, Riley and Quatre came in with the invitations and the guest lists.
"Here it is, Ms. Peacecraft. All of the names and honored guests are here. It took us a while since the database needed to be updated, but we finished."
"Thank you." She was concealing something within her smile.
"Ms. Peacecraft is everything all right?"
"Yes. Could you tell Aidan to come down from the copy room?"
"All right then." After excusing herself from Relena and Quatre, Riley walked up towards the copy room and saw Aidan fervently making multiple copies of the 60-page report through a small crack in the door. She giggled to herself, "This is very amusing." She knocked on the door twice.
"Oh no, Ms. Peacecraft is back again and I'm not even finished. Just one minute, please." He then barricaded the door with three boxes of Xerox paper.
"What's going on in there?" she whispered to herself out in the hallway, as sounds of boxes being moved were heard from within. Riley then continued to knock until the sound of the Xerox machines drove her crazy. After standing out in the hallway for nearly ten minutes, she yelled, "Aidan let me in." and she continued to pound on the door as if she was a maniac.
Aidan then muttered, "I'm toast, for sure."
"This is child's play. All right, Riley time to barge in." After grabbing the hold of the knob and using all of her weight to force the door to open, Aidan became alarmed at the sight before him. The door shook violently for a minute before it subsided.
"I wonder if I should open it and let Ms. Peacecraft yell at me vehemently. That would be the end of me." He then loosened his tie and walked over towards the door, more pounding was heard but then subsided again. With a quick move, he carefully removed the maze of boxes that he arranged and unlocked the door. Once everything was done, he went back to his copier and began to print, acting all innocent like as if nothing had happened.
"All right, here it goes." Riley moved a few steps back and rammed into the door, causing her to run full force into the room and tripping over the entrance.
Right then, Aidan turned from his stack of copies and shock was etched in his brown eyes. He looked at the person who had fallen onto the floor. "Oh my gosh, I'm SOOO sorry Riley, honestly. I thought you were Ms. Peacecraft."
"Yeah, right." He then helped her back on her feet, while she tried to readjust her rimless glasses. As he did, one of Riley's business suit buttons popped off from the top near her neckline. "Look what you made me do." She went over to pick the renegade button and yelled in his face, "Now they're going to think that we had."
But before she could finish her sentence, Aidan cut her off, "Now don't go ballistic on me." He looked towards her and saw a fire in her eyes and right then at that moment, something ran through him.
"Don't go 'ballistic!' What am I going to do then?"
He walked over to her and stood right before for a second. Her eyes cast a spell over him and on impulse, he kissed her right there in the copy room.
She pulled away from him and slapped him across his face, "What on earth were you thinking?"
"I don't know, but here's a solution to one of your problems." He held out his hand, revealing a small metallic paper clip.
"Very funny. I don't know who are Aidan. Ms. Peacecraft told me to get you because we're having another meeting, right now at this VERY instant! And at the very same time, you knock me over when I was trying to barge in and kiss me all in one day. How typical of you!" She left abruptly and right when Aidan was going to apologize again, Riley slammed the door in his face. Outside in the hallway, she heard a thump, "I think that's going to leave a mark for a while or maybe indefinitely. I wonder how long I should keep this game up of playing hard to get, oh well." She then headed back towards the dining hall, where everyone was waiting for them.
Inside the room, Aidan was dazed for quite some time until he finally came to his senses. He rubbed his lower part of the jaw and noticed that it was slightly bleeding. "This is going to be great. She sure is feisty, but that won't stop me from loving her." He went back on his feet and collected the papers that Riley ran over as she headed out the room just a couple of minutes ago. Right at that moment, he came across the small metallic paper clip that he tried to offer to Riley as a makeshift button.
*****
Relena looked toward the staircase, where Riley was walking down from, "Where's Aidan?" She noticed that Riley had a little smirk on her face.
"He's a little tied up right now. The printer chewed him up." she said sarcastically.
"Aren't you being a little harsh, Riley?"
"No, I'm just getting my revenge that's all." With her final saying, the group noticed that her black business suit was disorganized and wrinkled. As conservative as she was, everyone knew that Riley dressed casually and modestly. But they noticed that her top torso area was showing, revealing her pale skin. This led the entire group into having their own thoughts about the couple. Riley noticed that everyone gave her a questioning look, since everyone knew that Aidan liked Riley. She then spoke up in a criticizing tone, "For everyone that needs to know, we didn't have sex."
"Sure," replied a staff member who was standing at the staircase with his hand massaging his chin.
"Whatever you say, Aidan."
"How did you know?" shocked was filled in his voice.
"Never mind." She then shoved him away once he approached her.
"Can I have everyone's attention, please? You probably all hate me right now. Right?" A wave of murmurs and groans filled the hall. "I have a confession to make. This was all of a hoax, I'm sorry to say." She looked towards her staff and noticed that their eyes will filled with anger.
"What you made us do this for nothing?" cried out the fifteen year-old boy, who was covered in dust.
"Yep. Sorry about all of the headaches and frustration I caused. It's for your own good for betting."
"Then what about the food arrangements and the entertainment. Should I scrub those off the lists?" cried out another angry staff member, who made various phone calls to fulfill Relena's demands.
"You might as well call them back and say that it was all a mistake. Or you can use them in one of your parties. You never know when you're going to need them again."
With that response, the staff member threw the papers in the air along with his hands in frustration. "I might as well quit and move back to the states, where I can find a decent job."
"I should have known something was fishy." replied Quatre, who was cracking his knuckles from too much typing.
Relena looked towards Aidan, whose face was just completely appalled. "What's the matter, Aidan? Feeling stressed out?"
His face became red for a brief moment, " 'Feeling stressed?' I'm furious; I thought you wanted those reports by TONIGHT. I could've been home by now sitting in front of my TV watching hockey."
Riley then came over to him, "Well, it looks like you worked for nothing. See you around, copy boy." She was holding her shirt at the top trying to conceal her neckline.
Aidan looked at her as she headed out of the room in dismay, his heart was crushed for now. The pain from Riley's door incident was still felt throughout his chin. He whispered underneath his breath, "I really blew it this time. I'm such a stupid jerk. How am I going to make this up to Riley?" His eyes then gazed towards to Relena who was giving out her last final orders of the night.
"You're all dismissed." Mumbles and discontent filled the room as everyone was heading out to go back to their homes. Within a matter of minutes, the room cleared out, leaving only Relena just to herself. "It's a shame that no one will use this room for a long time. It looks so grand right now." She headed out and turned off the lights.
She walked through an endless row of hallways that were filled with various oil paintings of the Canadian landscape depicting lakes and open fields. After admiring them for a couple of minutes to de-stress herself, she then headed back to her office. She noticed that Heero wasn't standing at his usual post, but she didn't care. Right then she turned towards her office and when she opened it, she found Heero there in the dark.
"Heero?" she whispered.
TBC
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How was that for chapter 8? Hopefully I answered some of your questions about the locations and all, I don't want to give too much away, not just yet. Anyhow, more madness and craziness is about to start again! Just wait and see, promise! Please review, your comments are always appreciated, and thanks. ^-^ Ciao for now.
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Sprinkles of Payback
Aidan quickly ran down the stairs to the sounds of Relena's hysterical laughter. "What's going on?" he pointed towards Relena. She then pointed towards Heero, who was standing at the doorway entrance still with a serious face. "Oh my god." And right then, he burst out with his own laughs. "I never would have guessed that you would get hit with anything."
Heero began to walk towards him and gave him a death glare and grabbed his tie at the same time. Within less than a second, Aidan's face went from red to white, and he began to shake nervously. "Okay, I get the point." he squeaked. Right then, Heero loosened the grip on the tie and Aidan let out a sigh of relief as he was trying to get his breathing back to normal. By this time, the rest of the staff members including Riley, Quatre, and Trowa came down from their respective offices when they heard the period of silence coming from the hallway. In a matter of moments, they all had gathered at the top balcony of the stairs and looked down. Everyone's eyes were filled with shock and disapproval that they had lost their bet except for Trowa, who smiling to himself. But then, a second wave of laughter flooded through the embassy again.
Heero stood there contemplating his next move, while Relena looked on just a few feet away from him. She thought to herself, "Poor Heero, this was all of my fault." He then began to reach towards his back pocket, which was still drenched with the strawberry jam. With that as a hint, everyone immediately stopped their laughing all at once. At that moment, if anyone had dropped a pin in the room, it would echo throughout the entire hallway.
"I'm heading back to my post." He then left the area, warning everyone not to bother him with his cold gaze. After he had left, everyone began to talk about the bet. The clock had struck five.
"It looks like the bet is off now," yelled Relena from the bottom of the staircase and looking towards her group of mutinous staff members. "Oh Quatre, where are you?" He appeared sheepishly before her and gave her a wry smile.
"It looks like you win this time." He came down the stairs and handed her money back. Once that was accomplished, the room cleared out like a herd of cattle, but Relena sternly called everyone back to their places.
"I'm not done here, not just yet. What about my end of the bargain, in which I create some type of punishment for all of you except for Trowa."
Aidan then spoke for the group, "I guess we must have forgot about that part."
"Oh quit it, Aidan, you're the number one person on my list still. Anyhow, the punishment that you all will be receiving is a 20% decrease in your next pay checks!"
"What!?!" cried out mostly everyone in the room.
Aidan then fired back, "You must be joking. 20% decrease in our paychecks, that's enough to pay for some groceries or part of the rents that we have to pay for our apartments/condos."
Riley then reacted, "A 20% pay cut?" She looked through the crowd of people and narrowed her eyesight at her intended target, "There he is that scum." She ran down the stairs and began to attack Aidan at his back. "You told me that I wasn't going to lose this bet and now Ms. Peacecraft is going to cut my paycheck by 20%! Why you?"
"Easy on the hair, Riley!" screamed Aidan, who was trying to protect himself from his secret crush.
While that was going on, Relena looked around as everyone thought that she was serious. She was getting amused at everyone's expense of shock written in their eyes. She thought to herself, "They don't know what they are getting into." More rages of anger filled the room as everyone realized their mistakes in their betting wager. "Can I have everyone's attention again?"
When she made that announcement, the entire group became silent just to hear more bad news coming from her.
"I WAS just joking. You don't have to get all fired up just for one thing. But here's your punishment, as you all know, we have a big event coming up this coming Friday in which we're hosting diplomats. Is everyone still following me?"
Quatre looked on blankly, "You sure about that? I don't recall scheduling anything of the sort on my palm pilot."
"Memos of this were sent to each and one of you during the time of YOUR wagering activity." She then held out the magenta sheet specifying about the diplomat congregation.
Quatre then interrupted her again, "Why couldn't they have gone to Washington D.C. or some other embassy and not this one? Isn't this a little too sudden?"
"Now, now. Memos of this were sent to all of you and I don't think it's scheduled abruptly. Besides they chose our embassy because of our location here in Canada. Anyhow, I want all of you to prepare the east wing for the gala by decorating it, making food preparations, and making arrangements for entertainment, which applies to mostly everyone in this room. Everything should be done by TONIGHT, it's better to be ready than sorry." She then pointed to various staff members on what their tasks should be and after she completed that, she went over to the remaining staff members, "Quatre I want you to create the invitations and guest lists along with Riley. While as for you Aidan."
"Oh no, here it comes." He began to have sweat drops on his forehead, while at the same time he began to fidget with his tie.
"I want you to make 50 COPIES of this report." She handed him 60 pages, in which Aidan noticed that it was back to back. "Have fun now, I need it by TONIGHT. If you don't complete your task, you will be FIRED. Understood?"
He then contested her statement, "But this is going to take me over two days to complete."
"Stop your whining. You might as well get a jump on it."
Aidan then obliged, "Yes ma'am."
*****
Back at the bakery, Duo and Wufei were busy cleaning up the strawberry jam and flour mess.
"So what are we going to do about his cake?" asked Duo who was still mourning over his beloved chef's hat.
"We could hand deliver it to the address that a." Wufei then ran over to the stack of order forms that seem to keep piling on his desk. After going through an endless stack of white, he finally managed to find the one with Duo's scribblish handwriting on it. "Ahh, here we are. It's made out to a Heero Yuy."
"Well then that sounds interesting, I now have a name to my hat murder." called Duo from the floor. He was trying to scrub the sticky strawberry jam away.
"I guess so. But he told me to put 'Happy Birthday Relena!' on it."
Duo looked up from the floor, "Maybe its for his girlfriend. Did you ever think of that? Or wait a minute, I forgot that you're Mr. Punctual and that you have NO love life?"
"Don't you dare start with me again! As for my love life, I'm already seeing someone." glared Wufei.
"And who is that again?"
"None of your business!"
"Let me guess," Duo began to scratch at the left side of his head. "It's that supplier of ours down a street from us. The one who has brown hair that is older than you, if I'm correct."
Wufei became agitated, "I have a pot of chocolate sauce just waiting for you. It would be a shame to dirty the floor again after your three hours of scrubbing."
"You wouldn't!" exclaimed Duo.
"I would." He then was about to begin to lift the brass pot of chocolate sauce. Right then, Duo came careening over to Wufei's side and Wufei noticed Duo's response of the "NOOOO!" "Gotch ya again, Maxwell."
"Wanna think again, Chang." Underneath Duo's red stained cooking apron, concealed the red boxing glove and once Duo released it, Wufei had no way escaping from it. In a matter of seconds, Wufei fell to the floor. Right then a shower of chocolate spilled over Wufei. "Now this is what I call SWEET revenge." chimed Duo.
Wufei wiped a layer of chocolate from his eyes, "Why you sneaky scamp!" He tried to get up, but fell down again on the chocolaty floor.
"I think we're even for now. It looks like you might need the mop and bucket more than I do." He then handed him the items, and when Wufei looked into the bucket, it was filled with red grimy water. "You better mop it up before the chocolate hardens on this cold floor. Otherwise, you might need to get down on your hands and knees with some type of cookie cutter and create chocolate shapes." Duo then winked at him and headed towards the stock room to prepare for Relena's birthday cake that would be baked some time tomorrow. "All righty then, let's begin with the flour."
*****
The clock had now struck seven and everyone was still busy with their duties in the east wing, while Aidan was still in the copy room. "Ms. Peacecraft, printer #2 just got jammed."
"You need to get a move on it, Aidan because you'll never finish in time."
"This is going to drive me crazy. AAAHHH!" He was pulling on his tie leaving behind black smudge marks.
As the printer problem progressed, Relena decided to check on her remaining so-called slaves. She headed towards the main dining area of the east wing and once she walked in, the dining area was transformed into a spectacular ballroom. She was in awe in how the staff members completely transformed the area within a matter of two hours. The layers of dusts vanished and everything was spick and span. She could even her reflection on the windows that needed to be washed before.
While Relena was still admiring the ballroom, Riley and Quatre came in with the invitations and the guest lists.
"Here it is, Ms. Peacecraft. All of the names and honored guests are here. It took us a while since the database needed to be updated, but we finished."
"Thank you." She was concealing something within her smile.
"Ms. Peacecraft is everything all right?"
"Yes. Could you tell Aidan to come down from the copy room?"
"All right then." After excusing herself from Relena and Quatre, Riley walked up towards the copy room and saw Aidan fervently making multiple copies of the 60-page report through a small crack in the door. She giggled to herself, "This is very amusing." She knocked on the door twice.
"Oh no, Ms. Peacecraft is back again and I'm not even finished. Just one minute, please." He then barricaded the door with three boxes of Xerox paper.
"What's going on in there?" she whispered to herself out in the hallway, as sounds of boxes being moved were heard from within. Riley then continued to knock until the sound of the Xerox machines drove her crazy. After standing out in the hallway for nearly ten minutes, she yelled, "Aidan let me in." and she continued to pound on the door as if she was a maniac.
Aidan then muttered, "I'm toast, for sure."
"This is child's play. All right, Riley time to barge in." After grabbing the hold of the knob and using all of her weight to force the door to open, Aidan became alarmed at the sight before him. The door shook violently for a minute before it subsided.
"I wonder if I should open it and let Ms. Peacecraft yell at me vehemently. That would be the end of me." He then loosened his tie and walked over towards the door, more pounding was heard but then subsided again. With a quick move, he carefully removed the maze of boxes that he arranged and unlocked the door. Once everything was done, he went back to his copier and began to print, acting all innocent like as if nothing had happened.
"All right, here it goes." Riley moved a few steps back and rammed into the door, causing her to run full force into the room and tripping over the entrance.
Right then, Aidan turned from his stack of copies and shock was etched in his brown eyes. He looked at the person who had fallen onto the floor. "Oh my gosh, I'm SOOO sorry Riley, honestly. I thought you were Ms. Peacecraft."
"Yeah, right." He then helped her back on her feet, while she tried to readjust her rimless glasses. As he did, one of Riley's business suit buttons popped off from the top near her neckline. "Look what you made me do." She went over to pick the renegade button and yelled in his face, "Now they're going to think that we had."
But before she could finish her sentence, Aidan cut her off, "Now don't go ballistic on me." He looked towards her and saw a fire in her eyes and right then at that moment, something ran through him.
"Don't go 'ballistic!' What am I going to do then?"
He walked over to her and stood right before for a second. Her eyes cast a spell over him and on impulse, he kissed her right there in the copy room.
She pulled away from him and slapped him across his face, "What on earth were you thinking?"
"I don't know, but here's a solution to one of your problems." He held out his hand, revealing a small metallic paper clip.
"Very funny. I don't know who are Aidan. Ms. Peacecraft told me to get you because we're having another meeting, right now at this VERY instant! And at the very same time, you knock me over when I was trying to barge in and kiss me all in one day. How typical of you!" She left abruptly and right when Aidan was going to apologize again, Riley slammed the door in his face. Outside in the hallway, she heard a thump, "I think that's going to leave a mark for a while or maybe indefinitely. I wonder how long I should keep this game up of playing hard to get, oh well." She then headed back towards the dining hall, where everyone was waiting for them.
Inside the room, Aidan was dazed for quite some time until he finally came to his senses. He rubbed his lower part of the jaw and noticed that it was slightly bleeding. "This is going to be great. She sure is feisty, but that won't stop me from loving her." He went back on his feet and collected the papers that Riley ran over as she headed out the room just a couple of minutes ago. Right at that moment, he came across the small metallic paper clip that he tried to offer to Riley as a makeshift button.
*****
Relena looked toward the staircase, where Riley was walking down from, "Where's Aidan?" She noticed that Riley had a little smirk on her face.
"He's a little tied up right now. The printer chewed him up." she said sarcastically.
"Aren't you being a little harsh, Riley?"
"No, I'm just getting my revenge that's all." With her final saying, the group noticed that her black business suit was disorganized and wrinkled. As conservative as she was, everyone knew that Riley dressed casually and modestly. But they noticed that her top torso area was showing, revealing her pale skin. This led the entire group into having their own thoughts about the couple. Riley noticed that everyone gave her a questioning look, since everyone knew that Aidan liked Riley. She then spoke up in a criticizing tone, "For everyone that needs to know, we didn't have sex."
"Sure," replied a staff member who was standing at the staircase with his hand massaging his chin.
"Whatever you say, Aidan."
"How did you know?" shocked was filled in his voice.
"Never mind." She then shoved him away once he approached her.
"Can I have everyone's attention, please? You probably all hate me right now. Right?" A wave of murmurs and groans filled the hall. "I have a confession to make. This was all of a hoax, I'm sorry to say." She looked towards her staff and noticed that their eyes will filled with anger.
"What you made us do this for nothing?" cried out the fifteen year-old boy, who was covered in dust.
"Yep. Sorry about all of the headaches and frustration I caused. It's for your own good for betting."
"Then what about the food arrangements and the entertainment. Should I scrub those off the lists?" cried out another angry staff member, who made various phone calls to fulfill Relena's demands.
"You might as well call them back and say that it was all a mistake. Or you can use them in one of your parties. You never know when you're going to need them again."
With that response, the staff member threw the papers in the air along with his hands in frustration. "I might as well quit and move back to the states, where I can find a decent job."
"I should have known something was fishy." replied Quatre, who was cracking his knuckles from too much typing.
Relena looked towards Aidan, whose face was just completely appalled. "What's the matter, Aidan? Feeling stressed out?"
His face became red for a brief moment, " 'Feeling stressed?' I'm furious; I thought you wanted those reports by TONIGHT. I could've been home by now sitting in front of my TV watching hockey."
Riley then came over to him, "Well, it looks like you worked for nothing. See you around, copy boy." She was holding her shirt at the top trying to conceal her neckline.
Aidan looked at her as she headed out of the room in dismay, his heart was crushed for now. The pain from Riley's door incident was still felt throughout his chin. He whispered underneath his breath, "I really blew it this time. I'm such a stupid jerk. How am I going to make this up to Riley?" His eyes then gazed towards to Relena who was giving out her last final orders of the night.
"You're all dismissed." Mumbles and discontent filled the room as everyone was heading out to go back to their homes. Within a matter of minutes, the room cleared out, leaving only Relena just to herself. "It's a shame that no one will use this room for a long time. It looks so grand right now." She headed out and turned off the lights.
She walked through an endless row of hallways that were filled with various oil paintings of the Canadian landscape depicting lakes and open fields. After admiring them for a couple of minutes to de-stress herself, she then headed back to her office. She noticed that Heero wasn't standing at his usual post, but she didn't care. Right then she turned towards her office and when she opened it, she found Heero there in the dark.
"Heero?" she whispered.
TBC
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How was that for chapter 8? Hopefully I answered some of your questions about the locations and all, I don't want to give too much away, not just yet. Anyhow, more madness and craziness is about to start again! Just wait and see, promise! Please review, your comments are always appreciated, and thanks. ^-^ Ciao for now.