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The Beach
The sun flashed burningly in Wufei's eyes as he lay on the beach, tanning next to Relena and Hilde. As Areina, Quatre, Trowa and Duo frolicked joyfully with a splash-fight in the water, Heero danced in the shack, flirting with every single guy he liked.
However, Cheng's thoughts were focused on something far more meaningful than all of this nonsense. Sally would come that night, to meet Areina and to see them all again. It would be the first time she would see them all, aside from Wufei himself, ever since the wars had ended. The black-haired youth grinned dreamily at the thought of his gorgeous Sally walking through the door of the apartment, a radiant smile on her perfect face.
He sighed happily, not noticing Areina and the three boys running playfully from the shoreline.
- - -
Relena peered sarcastically over her sunglasses, wondering why the four had stopped their childish little antics to come over and ruin their tanning. "What is it?"
"Aren't you lazy bums going to get up and enjoy yourself?" Areina teased as she giggled heartily. Her white beach-skirt blew in the wind, revealing her long, smooth thighs. The top of her bathing suit shined in the sun, a dark blue streaked with a white stripe in the center. "It's a great day, and the water's fine! Come on, you're wasting your lives out here on the beach!"
Hilde peered at Areina's body, the color of cashews. "Easy to say for someone who has a perfect tan."
Areina shrugged as she ran back into the water with Duo, Quatre and Trowa on her tail. Relena suddenly noticed how small Trowa's and Quatre's bathing suits were: the hot pants were blue and pink, respectively. Relena cringed at the sight of these suits, which revealed practically everything. She dropped the sunglasses over her eyes once more, feeling nausea come over her automatically.
- - -
Heero ran into the water with an unusual smile on his face. What made him so happy?
"Guess what?" Heero called out with a very awkward enthusiasm - especially for him.
"What's got you so perky?" Areina chuckled as she splashed Duo roughly.
"I've got a date," Heero chirped.
All four of the others in the water froze immediately, staring with shock at the young Japanese who wore baggy shorts. "You? A date?" They all exclaimed in chorus.
Heero's serious expression came over his face again at this question. "Is that so hard to believe?"
"Well," Duo commented, suppressing a grin. "It's just that you never have 'dates.' You just bring home any guy you find for a quickie, and the next day usually forget all about him!"
Heero lunged quickly at Duo, only stopped by a unanimous effort from Quatre, Trowa and Areina to hold him back.
"Well, this is more long-term," Heero growled at a teasing Duo. "Seeing as he's coming with us tonight to see Areina perform."
"What?" Areina squeaked nervously. "Yet another audience member that I'll know?" She winced at the thought.
"Get over it," Heero said with a smirk and a roll of his eyes.
- - -
All three of the girls had gone into the room that Areina and Relena shared, leaving the five Gundam pilots alone in the living room. Soon, Heero had gone to weight-lift, and Duo following to spar with him.
Trowa and Quatre sat in a love seat with their arms wrapped around each other's shoulders, while Wufei sat alone on another love seat while reading the newspaper.
"So what do you suppose Areina's coming up with for tonight's performance?" Quatre said to the young man under his arm.
"Whatever it is," Trowa replied with a grin, "it couldn't top last night's performance."
Areina stepped out of her room, followed by Hilde and then Relena. Hilde and Relena seemed to be reviewing something together, mouthing words to each other.
As Quatre spotted Areina once more, his thoughts turned to her once more. He didn't understand: How could someone so gorgeous and sympathetic turn out to be so fierce and vigorous at times? He had never seen something so unique. No one else in the apartment had such a double- personality.
Shaking these thoughts from his head, he heard the doorbell ring. Wufei sprung out of his seat and leapt for the door, twisting the handle with lightning speed.
From the doorway emerged a young woman with shoulder-length, pale- blonde hair and a simple tank top and jeans on her body. She smiled slyly at the sight of her stern Wufei, who eased quickly when he saw her.
"Hey," Sally intoned gently. "Long time no see, eh?"
Wufei's eyebrows nodded at the site of her. "Sadly, yes."
Sally giggled, pulling Wufei into a quick kiss. However, noticing the others behind him, she pulled away just as quickly.
"Hey everyone," Sally greeted them warmly. Her eyes peered around the room, obviously noticing no change in any of them. Her eyes stopped and lingered upon Areina. "And who is this little beauty you haven't mentioned, Cheng?"
Quatre smiled inwardly, knowing that Sally was the only person who got away with calling Wufei by his first name.
"Sally, meet Areina," Wufei said with the uncharacteristic grin that he wore when Sally was around, as he gestured gleefully to a shy-looking Areina.
"Nice name," Sally said with a nod as she shook Areina's hand. She looked Areina over from head to toe, and after a pause, continued. "You straight guys are sure lucky. She's quite a cutie." Areina blushed wildly at this comment. "However, a bit too shy."
"Oh, believe me," Duo guffawed as he walked out of the weight room with Heero, stepping behind the young Canadian. "She's a lot of things, but shy she's not."
"Well, forgive me for interrupting the introductions," Areina said, intercepting the greetings. "But I need four brave boys to come help me out with an act for the show."
"I'll go," Duo and Quatre peeped simultaneously.
Trowa shrugged and nodded, deciding to join because Quatre had. "Why not? Might be fun."
Wufei and Heero stood firmly, neither one willing to help out.
"Oh, come on," Areina said desperately. "I need four or the dancing windows won't be balanced!"
Wufei gulped, nervously squeaking, "Dancing?"
"Go ahead, Cheng," Sally said encouragingly as puppy dog eyes formed upon her face. "For me?" Her arms sneaked around his shoulders as she gave him a pleading look.
Wufei practically melted, and surrendered. "Okay."
"Oh, thank you, Sally," Areina piped with a smile. "I could kiss you!"
Quatre noticed Heero giving everyone but Areina a suspicious look, and recalled his lesbian theory.
Quatre considered it, but shook his head as he followed Areina and the three other boys who had volunteered into the bathroom, since it had a mirror large enough for all of them to see each other.
- - -
After Sally had gotten a good idea of what Areina was like from Cheng, Hilde and Relena, they had all gone to the club where Areina was performing. The other girls and the four boys who had volunteered as dancers dropped away from the group, leaving Sally alone with Heero and his date.
The man Heero had brought had short brown hair and clear blue eyes. He and Heero held hands as the group passed a large sign with a picture of a woman who looked like Marilyn Monroe on it. Under the portrait, the words "Madonna Night" flashed in neon lights.
They stepped into the flashing club to find the stage being set up while crowds danced gleefully to the beat.
Sally smiled at the thought of a feminist Canadian living with the Gundam pilots and their friends. Either Areina would get a quick shot at how stupid it was to try and change the boys, or everyone in the apartment would get a quick shot at how chauvinistic some of the boys really were. War will be waged, Sally contemplated to herself sarcastically as a dry grin wrapped around her face.
The stage lights burned brightly above the crowd, signaling everyone on the floor to stop dancing and look up at the man onstage.
"Ladies and gentlemen," the man shrieked into the microphone. "The Midnight Horizon is proud to present to you, for the second night ever, Ms. Areina Sitshonen!"
Suddenly Areina's face popped from the curtain, and she whispered something in the man's ear before popping back into the curtain just as quickly as she had come out.
"Oh, excuse me," the man said apologetically to the crowd. "That's Areina!"
And with that, the curtain opened, revealing the set of Areina's performance.
- - -
Heero stopped flirting with his date and quickly turned to the stage, anxious to see if Areina could top her last performance.
Upon the stage, all that could be seen in the spotlight was Areina, who had her back turned to the audience and was wearing a blue robe that appeared like the kind one would wear if one was in a church's gospel choir. Tonight her hair was straight, with blonde stripes appearing here and there. Her hand dug in her robe's pocket, and Heero noticed heavenly sounding chime music from the background.
"Life is a mystery," Areina sung in a surprisingly soft, melodic tone that inspired Heero almost immediately. The tempo of the music was soft, and Heero sighed at the thought of not being able to dance quickly to Areina's singing.
"Everyone must stand alone," Areina continued smoothly and gently. "I hear you call my name.
"And it feels like home!" Areina sang suddenly loudly and energetically, bringing the music into a new tempo as the lights fell upon the rest of the stage in a blur of yellow. Relena and Hilde were revealed behind Areina, in matching robes and singing the chorus with her like a choir. They moved almost like background singers for a cheap fifties band as Areina turned to face the audience with a joyous grin.
"When you call my name, it's like a little prayer," Areina sang with Relena and Hilde to create a sound that was both heavenly and festive and sent the crowd into a dancing fit. "I'm down on my knees, I want to take you there.
"In the midnight hour," Areina continued, lifting her arms to the light in unison with Relena and Hilde. "I can feel your power," she intoned loudly as she clapped rhythmically with her two background singers. "Just like a prayer, you know I'll take you there."
Areina continued as Relena and Hilde froze quickly. "Like a child you whisper softly to me," Areina chanted into the microphone as she closed her eyes and the music slowed once more. "You're in control just like a child.
"Now I'm dancing!" she resonated as the chorus began again and Relena and Hilde reanimated themselves. They continued with the chorus, and began with the climax of the song.
"Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there," Areina hummed into the microphone, now in a commanding tone. "Just like a muse to me, you are a mystery. Just like a dream, you are not what you seem."
Relena and Hilde began sneaking offstage as she finished. "Just like a prayer, no choice your voice can take me there."
With her last note, the music abruptly stopped and Areina was flooded in darkness once more. After a few seconds, the lights came back on, revealing Areina onstage. Her robe was off, and in its place she now wore a black tank top that fit tightly to her body and had jewels lining its neck. Her pants, however, were the awkward part about her outfit. They were cutoff pants, the kind you could zip the bottom halves off of anytime you liked to make them shorts. One leg was cut off to reveal her leg from the knee down, while the other leg of the pants was entirely intact and covered down to her ankle. She wore the cut off bottom half on her arm like a sleeve, and her high-heeled shoes sparkled red under the light.
"Look around, everywhere you turn is heartache, it's everywhere that you go," Areina's voice echoed loudly and jubilantly throughout the club. "You try everything you can to escape the pain of life that you know."
Areina swayed her hips gently to the song, just enough to be noticed. The beat encouraged Heero to dance, and when Areina moved her hips like this, he could bear it no longer. Grabbing his date's hand, he rushed into the dance crowd.
"When all else fails and you long to be something better than you are today," Areina's voice screamed gorgeously around the club in rhythm with the flashing lights. "I know a place where you can get away. It's called a dance floor, and here's what it's for, so -"
Heero felt a bump behind him, and turned to see Relena and Hilde. They smiled at him before commencing into dancing.
"Come on, Vogue," Areina sang as her hips began to shake and twist seductively. "Let your body move to the music, hey, hey, hey." She danced smoothly on the stage, causing the crowd to scream with applause in response.
"Come on, Vogue. Let your body go with the flow," She hummed as her hand jolted over her head, leaning into the shake of her hips. "You know you can do it.
"Vogue."
- - -
As Relena argued with herself over who was hotter; Heero or his date, she heard the music stop and the lights fade once more. Almost immediately the lights came back on to reveal Areina in the same clothes, only with a black cowboy hat on and her cutoff pants fully reassembled.
Relena jeered at the sudden change of background performers. Duo, Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei stood behind Areina in black leather cowboy pants. They stood in brown boots and only wore open, tight black vests on their shoulders, revealing their bare chests. They wore cowboy hats, and their heads were down so that no one could see their faces. Their hands hung in their pockets, cowboy fashion like Areina's.
"Don't tell me to stop," Areina sang lightly but forcefully at the same time. She stood perfectly still aside from the tapping of her thighs. "Tell the rain not to drop. Tell the wind not to blow, cause you said so.
"Mmhm," she hummed as she swayed to these last two syllables. Her face was perfectly straight as she continued. However, she began to move, chopping her thigh to the beat with two fingers.
"Tell the sun not to shine, not to get up this time, no, no. Let it fall by the way, but don't leave me where I lay down."
Areina continued to sway to the symphonic orchestra music that followed. All at once, the four boys behind her began to move, stepping to the left and right. "Tell me love isn't true it's just something that we do," Areina continued alone. Then, her and the four boys began into a complex series of foot cross-covers and twirls as her voice continued. "Tell me everything I'm not but, please don't tell me to stop." They swayed on these last six words.
"Tell the bed not to lay, like a open mouth of a grave, yeah," Areina began again as she took off her hat and rolled it from one shoulder to the other. "Not to stare up at me." Wufei then walked up next to Areina like a cowboy and bent down to kneel on his knees as she turned to face him. She placed her cowboy hat on his and rotated his head with each word. "Like a calf down on its knees." Upon the word knees, Areina pushed Wufei's head back sharply, causing him to fall on his back.
The chorus began once more, while Areina and the three boys who remained standing grabbed their hats and twirled them in their hands. Next, they placed the hats back on their heads and began some intricate cowboy footwork. The finished the chorus by swinging their hands over their heads in particular western fashion.
"Don't you ever," Areina began as Duo waltzed over to her, trying to look buff and macho. "Please don't, please don't," Areina sung as she and Duo rubbed their upper halves together suggestively to the beat, just before Areina placed her hat on Duo's chest and pushed him to the ground. "Please don't tell me to stop."
Quatre and Trowa both stepped to Areina's sides and mimicked her footwork. "Don't you," she began as Quatre placed his hand around her right shoulder. "Ever," she continued as Trowa placed his hand on her left hip. "Don't ever tell me to stop," she sang as she took each of their hats off and pushed them both down from the front.
The music halted, followed by a pause and then a loud scream of approval from the ecstatic audience.
The Beach
The sun flashed burningly in Wufei's eyes as he lay on the beach, tanning next to Relena and Hilde. As Areina, Quatre, Trowa and Duo frolicked joyfully with a splash-fight in the water, Heero danced in the shack, flirting with every single guy he liked.
However, Cheng's thoughts were focused on something far more meaningful than all of this nonsense. Sally would come that night, to meet Areina and to see them all again. It would be the first time she would see them all, aside from Wufei himself, ever since the wars had ended. The black-haired youth grinned dreamily at the thought of his gorgeous Sally walking through the door of the apartment, a radiant smile on her perfect face.
He sighed happily, not noticing Areina and the three boys running playfully from the shoreline.
- - -
Relena peered sarcastically over her sunglasses, wondering why the four had stopped their childish little antics to come over and ruin their tanning. "What is it?"
"Aren't you lazy bums going to get up and enjoy yourself?" Areina teased as she giggled heartily. Her white beach-skirt blew in the wind, revealing her long, smooth thighs. The top of her bathing suit shined in the sun, a dark blue streaked with a white stripe in the center. "It's a great day, and the water's fine! Come on, you're wasting your lives out here on the beach!"
Hilde peered at Areina's body, the color of cashews. "Easy to say for someone who has a perfect tan."
Areina shrugged as she ran back into the water with Duo, Quatre and Trowa on her tail. Relena suddenly noticed how small Trowa's and Quatre's bathing suits were: the hot pants were blue and pink, respectively. Relena cringed at the sight of these suits, which revealed practically everything. She dropped the sunglasses over her eyes once more, feeling nausea come over her automatically.
- - -
Heero ran into the water with an unusual smile on his face. What made him so happy?
"Guess what?" Heero called out with a very awkward enthusiasm - especially for him.
"What's got you so perky?" Areina chuckled as she splashed Duo roughly.
"I've got a date," Heero chirped.
All four of the others in the water froze immediately, staring with shock at the young Japanese who wore baggy shorts. "You? A date?" They all exclaimed in chorus.
Heero's serious expression came over his face again at this question. "Is that so hard to believe?"
"Well," Duo commented, suppressing a grin. "It's just that you never have 'dates.' You just bring home any guy you find for a quickie, and the next day usually forget all about him!"
Heero lunged quickly at Duo, only stopped by a unanimous effort from Quatre, Trowa and Areina to hold him back.
"Well, this is more long-term," Heero growled at a teasing Duo. "Seeing as he's coming with us tonight to see Areina perform."
"What?" Areina squeaked nervously. "Yet another audience member that I'll know?" She winced at the thought.
"Get over it," Heero said with a smirk and a roll of his eyes.
- - -
All three of the girls had gone into the room that Areina and Relena shared, leaving the five Gundam pilots alone in the living room. Soon, Heero had gone to weight-lift, and Duo following to spar with him.
Trowa and Quatre sat in a love seat with their arms wrapped around each other's shoulders, while Wufei sat alone on another love seat while reading the newspaper.
"So what do you suppose Areina's coming up with for tonight's performance?" Quatre said to the young man under his arm.
"Whatever it is," Trowa replied with a grin, "it couldn't top last night's performance."
Areina stepped out of her room, followed by Hilde and then Relena. Hilde and Relena seemed to be reviewing something together, mouthing words to each other.
As Quatre spotted Areina once more, his thoughts turned to her once more. He didn't understand: How could someone so gorgeous and sympathetic turn out to be so fierce and vigorous at times? He had never seen something so unique. No one else in the apartment had such a double- personality.
Shaking these thoughts from his head, he heard the doorbell ring. Wufei sprung out of his seat and leapt for the door, twisting the handle with lightning speed.
From the doorway emerged a young woman with shoulder-length, pale- blonde hair and a simple tank top and jeans on her body. She smiled slyly at the sight of her stern Wufei, who eased quickly when he saw her.
"Hey," Sally intoned gently. "Long time no see, eh?"
Wufei's eyebrows nodded at the site of her. "Sadly, yes."
Sally giggled, pulling Wufei into a quick kiss. However, noticing the others behind him, she pulled away just as quickly.
"Hey everyone," Sally greeted them warmly. Her eyes peered around the room, obviously noticing no change in any of them. Her eyes stopped and lingered upon Areina. "And who is this little beauty you haven't mentioned, Cheng?"
Quatre smiled inwardly, knowing that Sally was the only person who got away with calling Wufei by his first name.
"Sally, meet Areina," Wufei said with the uncharacteristic grin that he wore when Sally was around, as he gestured gleefully to a shy-looking Areina.
"Nice name," Sally said with a nod as she shook Areina's hand. She looked Areina over from head to toe, and after a pause, continued. "You straight guys are sure lucky. She's quite a cutie." Areina blushed wildly at this comment. "However, a bit too shy."
"Oh, believe me," Duo guffawed as he walked out of the weight room with Heero, stepping behind the young Canadian. "She's a lot of things, but shy she's not."
"Well, forgive me for interrupting the introductions," Areina said, intercepting the greetings. "But I need four brave boys to come help me out with an act for the show."
"I'll go," Duo and Quatre peeped simultaneously.
Trowa shrugged and nodded, deciding to join because Quatre had. "Why not? Might be fun."
Wufei and Heero stood firmly, neither one willing to help out.
"Oh, come on," Areina said desperately. "I need four or the dancing windows won't be balanced!"
Wufei gulped, nervously squeaking, "Dancing?"
"Go ahead, Cheng," Sally said encouragingly as puppy dog eyes formed upon her face. "For me?" Her arms sneaked around his shoulders as she gave him a pleading look.
Wufei practically melted, and surrendered. "Okay."
"Oh, thank you, Sally," Areina piped with a smile. "I could kiss you!"
Quatre noticed Heero giving everyone but Areina a suspicious look, and recalled his lesbian theory.
Quatre considered it, but shook his head as he followed Areina and the three other boys who had volunteered into the bathroom, since it had a mirror large enough for all of them to see each other.
- - -
After Sally had gotten a good idea of what Areina was like from Cheng, Hilde and Relena, they had all gone to the club where Areina was performing. The other girls and the four boys who had volunteered as dancers dropped away from the group, leaving Sally alone with Heero and his date.
The man Heero had brought had short brown hair and clear blue eyes. He and Heero held hands as the group passed a large sign with a picture of a woman who looked like Marilyn Monroe on it. Under the portrait, the words "Madonna Night" flashed in neon lights.
They stepped into the flashing club to find the stage being set up while crowds danced gleefully to the beat.
Sally smiled at the thought of a feminist Canadian living with the Gundam pilots and their friends. Either Areina would get a quick shot at how stupid it was to try and change the boys, or everyone in the apartment would get a quick shot at how chauvinistic some of the boys really were. War will be waged, Sally contemplated to herself sarcastically as a dry grin wrapped around her face.
The stage lights burned brightly above the crowd, signaling everyone on the floor to stop dancing and look up at the man onstage.
"Ladies and gentlemen," the man shrieked into the microphone. "The Midnight Horizon is proud to present to you, for the second night ever, Ms. Areina Sitshonen!"
Suddenly Areina's face popped from the curtain, and she whispered something in the man's ear before popping back into the curtain just as quickly as she had come out.
"Oh, excuse me," the man said apologetically to the crowd. "That's Areina!"
And with that, the curtain opened, revealing the set of Areina's performance.
- - -
Heero stopped flirting with his date and quickly turned to the stage, anxious to see if Areina could top her last performance.
Upon the stage, all that could be seen in the spotlight was Areina, who had her back turned to the audience and was wearing a blue robe that appeared like the kind one would wear if one was in a church's gospel choir. Tonight her hair was straight, with blonde stripes appearing here and there. Her hand dug in her robe's pocket, and Heero noticed heavenly sounding chime music from the background.
"Life is a mystery," Areina sung in a surprisingly soft, melodic tone that inspired Heero almost immediately. The tempo of the music was soft, and Heero sighed at the thought of not being able to dance quickly to Areina's singing.
"Everyone must stand alone," Areina continued smoothly and gently. "I hear you call my name.
"And it feels like home!" Areina sang suddenly loudly and energetically, bringing the music into a new tempo as the lights fell upon the rest of the stage in a blur of yellow. Relena and Hilde were revealed behind Areina, in matching robes and singing the chorus with her like a choir. They moved almost like background singers for a cheap fifties band as Areina turned to face the audience with a joyous grin.
"When you call my name, it's like a little prayer," Areina sang with Relena and Hilde to create a sound that was both heavenly and festive and sent the crowd into a dancing fit. "I'm down on my knees, I want to take you there.
"In the midnight hour," Areina continued, lifting her arms to the light in unison with Relena and Hilde. "I can feel your power," she intoned loudly as she clapped rhythmically with her two background singers. "Just like a prayer, you know I'll take you there."
Areina continued as Relena and Hilde froze quickly. "Like a child you whisper softly to me," Areina chanted into the microphone as she closed her eyes and the music slowed once more. "You're in control just like a child.
"Now I'm dancing!" she resonated as the chorus began again and Relena and Hilde reanimated themselves. They continued with the chorus, and began with the climax of the song.
"Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there," Areina hummed into the microphone, now in a commanding tone. "Just like a muse to me, you are a mystery. Just like a dream, you are not what you seem."
Relena and Hilde began sneaking offstage as she finished. "Just like a prayer, no choice your voice can take me there."
With her last note, the music abruptly stopped and Areina was flooded in darkness once more. After a few seconds, the lights came back on, revealing Areina onstage. Her robe was off, and in its place she now wore a black tank top that fit tightly to her body and had jewels lining its neck. Her pants, however, were the awkward part about her outfit. They were cutoff pants, the kind you could zip the bottom halves off of anytime you liked to make them shorts. One leg was cut off to reveal her leg from the knee down, while the other leg of the pants was entirely intact and covered down to her ankle. She wore the cut off bottom half on her arm like a sleeve, and her high-heeled shoes sparkled red under the light.
"Look around, everywhere you turn is heartache, it's everywhere that you go," Areina's voice echoed loudly and jubilantly throughout the club. "You try everything you can to escape the pain of life that you know."
Areina swayed her hips gently to the song, just enough to be noticed. The beat encouraged Heero to dance, and when Areina moved her hips like this, he could bear it no longer. Grabbing his date's hand, he rushed into the dance crowd.
"When all else fails and you long to be something better than you are today," Areina's voice screamed gorgeously around the club in rhythm with the flashing lights. "I know a place where you can get away. It's called a dance floor, and here's what it's for, so -"
Heero felt a bump behind him, and turned to see Relena and Hilde. They smiled at him before commencing into dancing.
"Come on, Vogue," Areina sang as her hips began to shake and twist seductively. "Let your body move to the music, hey, hey, hey." She danced smoothly on the stage, causing the crowd to scream with applause in response.
"Come on, Vogue. Let your body go with the flow," She hummed as her hand jolted over her head, leaning into the shake of her hips. "You know you can do it.
"Vogue."
- - -
As Relena argued with herself over who was hotter; Heero or his date, she heard the music stop and the lights fade once more. Almost immediately the lights came back on to reveal Areina in the same clothes, only with a black cowboy hat on and her cutoff pants fully reassembled.
Relena jeered at the sudden change of background performers. Duo, Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei stood behind Areina in black leather cowboy pants. They stood in brown boots and only wore open, tight black vests on their shoulders, revealing their bare chests. They wore cowboy hats, and their heads were down so that no one could see their faces. Their hands hung in their pockets, cowboy fashion like Areina's.
"Don't tell me to stop," Areina sang lightly but forcefully at the same time. She stood perfectly still aside from the tapping of her thighs. "Tell the rain not to drop. Tell the wind not to blow, cause you said so.
"Mmhm," she hummed as she swayed to these last two syllables. Her face was perfectly straight as she continued. However, she began to move, chopping her thigh to the beat with two fingers.
"Tell the sun not to shine, not to get up this time, no, no. Let it fall by the way, but don't leave me where I lay down."
Areina continued to sway to the symphonic orchestra music that followed. All at once, the four boys behind her began to move, stepping to the left and right. "Tell me love isn't true it's just something that we do," Areina continued alone. Then, her and the four boys began into a complex series of foot cross-covers and twirls as her voice continued. "Tell me everything I'm not but, please don't tell me to stop." They swayed on these last six words.
"Tell the bed not to lay, like a open mouth of a grave, yeah," Areina began again as she took off her hat and rolled it from one shoulder to the other. "Not to stare up at me." Wufei then walked up next to Areina like a cowboy and bent down to kneel on his knees as she turned to face him. She placed her cowboy hat on his and rotated his head with each word. "Like a calf down on its knees." Upon the word knees, Areina pushed Wufei's head back sharply, causing him to fall on his back.
The chorus began once more, while Areina and the three boys who remained standing grabbed their hats and twirled them in their hands. Next, they placed the hats back on their heads and began some intricate cowboy footwork. The finished the chorus by swinging their hands over their heads in particular western fashion.
"Don't you ever," Areina began as Duo waltzed over to her, trying to look buff and macho. "Please don't, please don't," Areina sung as she and Duo rubbed their upper halves together suggestively to the beat, just before Areina placed her hat on Duo's chest and pushed him to the ground. "Please don't tell me to stop."
Quatre and Trowa both stepped to Areina's sides and mimicked her footwork. "Don't you," she began as Quatre placed his hand around her right shoulder. "Ever," she continued as Trowa placed his hand on her left hip. "Don't ever tell me to stop," she sang as she took each of their hats off and pushed them both down from the front.
The music halted, followed by a pause and then a loud scream of approval from the ecstatic audience.
