"She did what?!?!" Duo stared at Quatre. It had taken him a half hour to get what had been keeping Quatre so depressed. "But it doesn't sound like something she'd do." Duo pointed out.
"I know and I considered that but then as I thought about it I only kept coming back to that conclusion."
"Quatre, do you really think Usagi-chan would cheat on you?"
"No…"
"So why are you believing such nonsense??"
"You really want to know why?!? Because ever since that pretty boy came here with all his glitz and glamour he had her attention 99.9% of the time!!"
"And the point one percent??"
"Lunch when she's eating and that couldn't even count because she pays no one any mind when it comes to food!!" Quatre felt like ripping something apart. "I waited for so long and did what I could to be able to even have her heart this way and all down the drain by some pop star who she knows pretty well I might add." Quatre didn't notice his other three roommates come in the door. "It would be nice to just smash his face into a window a few times" He thought mildly sadistically. The three boys stopped and looked at each other mildly shocked by the insanity Quatre proved to have. Then he sighed.
"Feel better now?" Duo asked.
"No!" Quatre said just before leaving the house.
"What's wrong with, Winner??" Wufei asked nearly getting caught in anger crossfire.
"Apparently Usagi has fidelity problems." Duo sighed bring looks of confusion to all of their faces.
"Onna never struck me as the type."
"What happened?" Trowa was curious as well as the all-knowing Heero.
"Well, Usagi canceled on their time at the gym saying something about helping a cousin. Quatre went to go change his clothes so he could come home. He heard music coming from the gym and saw Usagi there with that Seiya guy flirting and dancing… he didn't even bother to see whatever else was going on." Duo said.
"That was sloppy." Trowa said.
"Hnn…" Heero grabbed the laptop he had received from Quatre the past Christmas and left the house as well.
*~*~*~
The following day Quatre had done his best to avoid Usagi as well as her 'secret love' Seiya Kou. If he took just one glance at the two he'd probably repeat what he had done to Mamoru a little less than two months ago. It tore him to pieces inside just thinking about them holding each other as closely as they had.
"Quatre are you okay??" Ami asked in slight concern.
"Nothing… why??"
"The bell rang... school's over for the day." She cleaned up the beakers from the Chem. experiment.
"Oh…"
"You sure you okay??"
"Positive…" His voice almost quivered in the end.
"Okay then. Uhmm can you do me a favor and tell Duo that I'm VERY sorry but Usagi has asked a favor of me to do. Something to do with helping her cousin and his friend out, I think." She said as Seiya walked up to the girl, Quatre left hiding his anger as much as possible.
"Ready, Mademoiselle??" He offered his hand making her blush.
"Sure… we just got to go get..."
"No problem Taiki's taking care of that." He said as they all walked out of the room. "But Usagi won't be around to practice her part with you all today. Amara and Michelle came back from tour and took her to go see Aunt Ikuko and Uncle Kenji." He said slowly.
"Does Usagi know you went to the funeral??"
"No… I stayed all the way in the back. I wanted to help the little spore out, but that boy was always there. Holding her trying to get her tears to stop even when it seemed like she wouldn't stop..."
"Sounds to me that you need to be the big brother and not the cousin; you have that protective air when it comes to her." Ami told the dark haired boy.
"I know… and if I'm not careful people will find out about that and I've tried to keep her out of the limelight."
"Look at the people that surround her though... A race Car driver, a Super Model, a Violinist, and dating the world's richest boy." Ami entered the gm where Taiki was already plugging in the radio.
"True… That Duo's a lucky guy. Never have I met someone so insightful and caring." He said making her blush once again.
"So, who's ready for a little bit of dancing and a whole lot of fun?" Mina asked a bit too excitedly. "PLACES EVERYONE!!!" She yelled.
Quatre stared at the bracelet he held in his hands. It was one he had customized for her and for her alone. There was never to be a copy of it. It was a charm bracelet with many charms on it… each of them defining part of her personality and the things he thought to be special about her. There was a sun on it in amber which represented her smiles which sometimes outshined the sun, a rose in a ruby stone because she always loved red roses for as long as he could remember, a key in just gold proving she had the power to unlock any talent in any person, and a moon to prove how her presence always brings comfort much like the light of the moon. He closed his eyes and put the bracelet back in the box and tossed it across his room somewhere not caring where it landed even if he knew the exact place it.
"Usagi…" He looked at the calendar. Seven more days to the day that declares all couples snuggling rights and he'd be avoiding her and the stupid Valentine's Day concert.