Well here it is...chapter number 2! ^___~!
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Title: Maxwell in the Morning
Author: Just go ahead and guess...
Pairings: see to the first page
Disclaimers: see to the first page
Warnings: see to the first page
Now on with the magnificent story!
Betaed my Yume! Thanks so much again chickee!
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"Well I see that you boys know each other pretty well..."
Heero squeaked and pushed Duo away roughly. He scooted off the counter and tried to rearrange himself so that you didn't notice his now raging hard-on due to Duo's ministrations.
He looked up at Stewart and started nervously, "Well...uh...Stewart...um...he...is my uh...um..."
Since Heero was having a hard time talking he turned to Duo, "So exactly what are you to him?"
Duo snorted, "I really don't see how any of this can be any of your business but I'm Heero's husband."
Stewart lifted his slim eyebrows in surprise and shock, "Husband?"
"Husband."
"Weelll," Stewart trailed off as he gave Heero a couple once-overs.
"Just what was so important that you had to come interrupt Mr. Maxwell and I?" Duo asked crossly.
Heero interrupted, "Mr. Yuy."
Stewart glared at Duo before continuing; he never did have patience with people who had attitude problems. "Well I came in to tell Mr. Maxwell that..."
"Mr. Yuy," Heero growled. He hated not being heard and he hated being ignored.
Stewart looked over at Heero briefly then continued, "I came in to tell Mr. Yuy that Frank and Aaron have done a beautiful job rearranging the trays and will also be staying here as waiters. And I know you told me not to touch the centerpiece but I only...pinched a few of the hideous ones off. It looks just short of amazing now."
"That's just fine, Stewart." Heero replied tightly, he was still trying to calm his racing heartbeat. It felt as if he had ran a twenty-mile marathon.
"And another thing," he gestured to Duo, "I was wondering if he was staying?"
"Yes," replied Duo.
"No," replied Heero at the same time. He looked over to Duo and saw that he wasn't even paying attention to him. He was staring straight at Stewart.
"Well...I see you people need a while to discuss this, oh and also, Morticia still hasn't showed up." he turned to Heero.
Heero sighed, "God help me," he said to himself. "Alright, just give Mr. Maxwell and I a couple of moments then I will get back to you about the bartender situation."
Heero watched as Stewart glared at Duo for moments then walk out of the kitchen.
"Duo get out, you can't stay and I won't allow you to stay. You know where the door is so..."
"You need me to tend to the bar. And we both know that." He said looking straight at him, eyes twinkling in amusement.
Heero stubbornly said, "No we don't, I can be the host and tend to the bar. It isn't very hard."
Duo sighed and rolled his eyes. He leaned one of his arms onto the counter.
"Heero you can't be host and be the bartender at the same time. You tried to do it before and it didn't work. You can't be taking drink orders and socialize about the...bird population for all I care, at the same time! It won't work. Baby, just face it, you need me right now."
Heero sighed and knew that he had been beaten in this round. "Fine then, ask Stewart about anything if you need help. Try not to make up your own drinks, please! Just take the orders, make a little chitchat then move on to..."
Duo rolled his eyes once more, "Yeah, yeah. Baby, I know exactly what I'm doing. Just take your sexy butt upstairs and finish getting dressed."
"Fine," he looked Duo up and down, "you aren't even dressed for the party. You knew I was having a party, you probably already even planned to stay, and yet you're still not dressed."
"Come on, Heero. I told you already that I had no idea that you were throwing a party and its okay, I don't mind being the oddity. Besides, I could name times when you preferred me without any clothes on...numerous times." [1] Duo purred.
Heero wet his lips nervously and wrung his hands. "Anything you need, like glasses or fruits are all in the bar. The fruits should be in the left cabinet while the glasses should be in the right," Heero whispered softly. He found that, that was the only way he could make his voice work.
Duo smiled his sexy trademark smile, turned Heero around, and pushed him out the kitchen doors with a smack to his butt while saying, "Go get dressed, honey."
Heero blushed once he was pushed out the swinging doors. He shook his head and hurried up the stairs to do exactly as he was told.
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The rest of the night went off without a hitch although he was late to his own party. He found his pants rumpled under the bed and couldn't find his left shoe. So for thirty minutes he had to switch between looking for his long lost shoe and pressing his dress pants.
Once he found his shoe, and finished pressing his pants, he rushed down the stairs hearing doorbell chime several times. 'Please, let Stewart be answering those.'
Heero took a deep breath and walked around the spacious living room, weaving in and out of all conversations that were circulating.
"Well Heero, I see that you finally decided to show up for tonight's party."
"What is that...are those hickeys on your neck?"
"Heero, don't you look gorgeous tonight. Why haven't you worn that to work?" [2a]
"Because then we wouldn't have gotten any work done you retard." [2b]
Heero smiled, like the good host that he was, laughed at all the corny jokes and exchanged a few pleasantries. He walked up to Samantha and saw that she was looking a bit lost at the buffet table.
She noticed him walking up to her and smiled. Samantha was just about the only real friend that he had at the radio station; she wasn't like all the other people who seemed to be more fake than Christina Aguilera's "new" boobs [3].
"Well Heero it seemed that you over did yourself in the food department. I can't seem to pick whether or not I want to put the honey roasted shrimp or the sautéed mushrooms on my plate [4]. I don't think that I will be coming back though because then I would look like a pig...but who gives a rat's ass if I'm eating like a pig or not. They shouldn't be staring at me anyway, I'm a happily married woman!"
Heero couldn't help but laugh at Samantha's antics. Sure, she was a bit loopy sometimes but most of that time she did it on purpose. She made it her "mission" to get him to smile at least three times a day; for some reason she says that he doesn't smile enough...
She finally turned to Heero after finishing off her last shrimp and pinned him with her light emerald green eyes.
"What," Heero asked nervously, "I hate it when you look at me like that."
She set her plate down on the edge of the table and placed her hands on her slender hips. "Don't think that I didn't notice those huge hickeys on your neck and a certain superstar who is also your ex-husband, or is still your husband, is here. I still don't get that part."
Heero blushed and started to look around at anything and everything except for penetrating glare. He knew that he could never lie to her. She was the only person he had been able to confide in about Duo's and his marriage; he had told her many secrets.
Samantha tucked a gold strand behind her ear that loosened from her French twist. "What is he doing here Heero?"
"I honestly don't even know. I was helping out rearranging the buffet table because Stewart insisted that the table was just not big enough but I really didn't see it. And once I did I had to have been staring at it for almost five minutes
straight...well not exactly five minutes but it was a long time. Not really a long time though but..."
"Heero, you're rambling. And stop trying to stall, you're going to tell me this whether you want to or not."
Heero sighed again and ran a hand through his messy locks. "He just appeared out of nowhere Sammy. He wants to talk to me about why I left him."
Samantha frowned, "So what's the problem?"
"It would've been just fine to talk if he had come the next day, or maybe even a week later. Hell, I would've liked to talk to him after two weeks but not after ten months. I'm sure that he just came tonight because he didn't have any interviews to do, or he didn't have any appearances."
Samantha nodded her head in sympathy, "Ah, now I see."
He popped a cucumber sandwich off her plate and said while chewing, "It pissed me off so bad. He just waltzed right in here, started asking questions and demanding answers...he acts like the fucking king of everything. And then Duo and Stewart started to get unpleasant with each other."
"You know how jealous Duo can be, and I bet that Stewart also answered the door."
"He did! It was pretty sweet because Stewart was all of the sudden acting kind of protective over me."
"I think that just about everyone wants to be protective over you."
Heero smiled, "Yeah, I kind of get that feeling a lot. I wonder why that is."
Samantha laughed, "It's because you're so small! You gotta be about...one hundred and ten pounds and you're about 5'4. And that is as tall as your ever gonna get."
Heero blushed, "Excuse me but for your information I weigh one hundred and fifteen pounds! And I'm pushing 5'4 ½!"
Samantha put a hand over her heart, "Oh my goodness Heero! I'm so sorry. I was so far away from the truth."
"Better not make the same mistake again."
They both shared a good laugh and then their eyes, simultaneously, drifted over to Duo who was...bartending.
"Do you miss him?" Samantha asked quietly.
Heero felt his shoulders droop, "Of course I miss him. He's my husband...er...well I don't know what he is right now but I still...care for him and still love him. He's always been able to make me laugh whenever things got tough for me, just like you."
Samantha blushed softly. "I remember the first time I saw you. It was on TV and you guys were at some awards show. You were standing beside each other and I was like 'aaawww' because you were leaning your head on his arm and he had his arms around your waist. What made it really adorable was when he leaned down and kissed you; you were so small compared to him."
Now it was Heero's turn to blush. He couldn't really recall that time because they had been to a million and one award shows, but he remembered when Duo would do that whether it be in the privacy of their own home or in front of hundreds of cameras.
They each watched, as Duo served many of their women co-workers and of course men co-workers as well. Duo flirted shamelessly with them and they flirted back. One woman offered him a cherry [5] and when he reached for it she drew back and motioned for him to eat it from her hand. He flashed that gorgeous smile of his and plucked the cherry up off the stem. He got applause and many giggles for his action and bowed gracefully from behind the bar.
Duo put on a few more theatrics for his audience. He told jokes, juggled glasses, and anything else that they requested from him. He was now moving freely; he didn't have on the baggy brown sweatshirt. Heero saw that he was wearing one of his favorite shirts. It was a tight, black, muscle shirt that had a V-neck and showed a nice amount of dark, tanned skin. It was a short sleeved shirt so he shouldn't be too hot even though his face started to look a bit shiny and red. Heero also noticed as Jenna, the company's flirt, latched onto Duo's muscular arms and begged him to flex for her. He heard many squeals and yells as he did as requested once more.
Heero resisted the urge to yank the big boobed, bimbo by her fake, bleach blonde hair off of Duo. "Even though I still care for him and wish for him when I'm lonely. I remember the reason for my leaving," Heero said through his gritted teeth.
Samantha nodded. Even she wanted to throttle the thirty year old, even though Jenna tells everyone that she is twenty-four. She never did like her; she always flirted with anyone and everyone with the certain male quality that attracted some women to the opposite sex.
She turned to Heero, "Don't worry Heero, everyone knows that she's just the local tramp."
Heero turned sad eyes to Samantha. "It's not her that I'm worried about. Yeah, I hate to see her all over Duo like that but it isn't really her fault. I mean, it is her fault but Duo could prevent it. He could say something like, 'Jenna get off of me, I'm still committed to Heero,' or something like 'I came here tonight to tell Heero that I love him so take your silicone ta ta's and step.' But he isn't."
Samantha giggled at Heero's choice of words but quickly fell silent. She felt his pain, 'He shouldn't be going through this, he doesn't deserve this. Damn you, Maxwell. If you don't fix this and fix him, so help me...' She didn't want to finish her thought, she knew that she really couldn't do anything but cuss him out, egg his house, and spread dirty rumors about him having a very suspicious rash in his nether region. [6]
She heard the doorbell chime and realized that more people were still arriving.
"Come on Heero, let's just go and answer the door. Forget about him, this is your night to be the best host since Arnold Macaberra's party last Friday."
Heero laughed and followed as she led him to the front door.
Heero and Samantha must've been greeting guests for at least fifteen minutes until Lenny Macomb, their boss and guest of honor, finally made his appearance.
Samantha forced a smile for her boss and enveloped him in, what she hoped was a warm, and friendly hug. "Wow, Lenny! It's about time you showed. I was beginning to seriously think that the man of honor decided not to show."
Lenny Macomb ran a hand threw his newly dyed black hair and smiled a stunning smile. "I would never give up the chance to pig out on free food and to see what Heero had planned for me."
Lenny looked from Samantha to Heero and held out his arms while walking over to Heero. He wrapped his arms around Heero's waist and hugged him tightly. Heero had no choice but to wrap his arms around Lenny's neck and did so loosely. He saw Samantha move behind Lenny and wrapped her hands around her neck, as if choking. Heero tried hard not to laugh and quickly pulled from Lenny's forced embrace.
"Its good to see you Heero. Thanks again for the whole party thing, it really means a lot."
"Well you better be glad because this took a lot. I'll be expecting some compensation in my next paycheck," he jokingly replied.
He laughed heartily and clapped Heero on the back. He suddenly turned serious and frowned, "Have you thought about my offer yet?"
Heero sighed and fought the urge to roll his eyes. Every time Lenny and he were in yelling distance he would ask if he had considered his offer and Heero always said 'no.' It wasn't that his offer was bad, quite the contrary, it would put him up in the category of 'America's Richest Civilians,' but it was something...or really someone that kept him from easily excepting. It isn't very fair to blame it all on this one person though, another reason that Heero didn't readily except his offer because of another specific problem that he had with Lenny.
"I'm sorry Lenny but I still haven't made my decision. I promise you, though, when I've made my decision you will be the first person to know."
Lenny frowned then smiled, "Of course dear, take as much time as you need, but not too much. I know you'll give me the answer I want." He took Heero's hand in his, kissed it palm up, and then walked away.
Heero looked up to watch him walk away only to find himself looking into two blazing, dark violet orbs. Heero knew then that Duo had watched the exchange between himself and Lenny. Heero smirked inwardly, 'Take that Duo Christopher Maxwell! I can get someone to drool over me too...he may be turning fifty and dyes his hair every other day but that's someone...someone you aren't.'
Samantha didn't see the exchange between Duo and Heero but waited until Lenny was out of earshot before saying, "Yuck!" She grabbed a napkin off of a near by table and began to furiously wipe off Heero's hand. "That nasty son of a bitch. He is old enough to be your dad and he's drooling all over you. Holy shit! I remember that one time when you dropped papers in the office and when you had bent over to pick them up, Mr. Macomb got a boner. Lemme tell ya Heero, that is the last thing I wanted to see in my life time." She shook her head and shuddered in disgust.
Heero blushed furiously, "That was something that you could've kept to yourself."
Samantha looked up from her thorough cleaning of Heero's infected hand and smiled slyly, "You know you like it."
Heero scrunched up his face and Samantha couldn't help but pinch his nose, 'He is just too adorable sometimes,' she said to herself.
"That is so disgusting, seriously. I mean, come on, the guys turning fifty, he could keel over any minute and he's having forbidden thoughts about me!"
Samantha shook her head, "That dude is seriously perved."
Heero smiled slowly, "It is pretty nasty that he thinks of me that way but also kind of flattering." He snatched his hand away when Samantha suddenly started to rub a lot harder than before, "Ouch! Okay I think you got all the cooties off."
Samantha glared at him, "Heero Kenji Yuy I should slap you like the bitch that you are for saying that."
Heero began to laugh out loud.
"That was the nastiest thing that has ever come out of your mouth since I met you, I should take you upstairs right now and wash your mouth out with Scope."
Heero dropped to the ground holding his stomach, if he could laugh any harder, now would be the time that he did. He said between giggles, "Whatever...you...say..." Heero's entire face was now blood red.
Samantha chuckled and helped Heero to his feet, "Come on and get up before you ruin your clothes." She helped him over to another group of people who were talking about the castration of a male elephant. Heero quickly quieted down and try as he might, he couldn't seem to walk away unnoticed, so he faced his fate of having to here just how an elephant gets...castrated.
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Well I feel like stopping this chapter here because I've typed for a long time and I'm eager to send it off to my lovely betaer YUME!
[1] - Duo's talking about Heero likin' him nekkid! :Drools: I think it's safe to say that everyone likes a nekkid Duo-chan.
[2a/b]-This is said in the book.
[3]- I really like Christina Aguilera and everything but it's just amazing to me how one day she has no boobs...and the next she does.
[4]- I have no idea if this is really even a food, I just now thought of it.
[5]- This was in the book and wouldn't you just love for Duo-chan to eat something out of your hand?
[6]- I cant remember where but I heard this off of a movie and I laughed my ass off! GOOD TIMES!
Thank you for all the reviews that you have all given me and I look forward to reading more.
Till next time! Stay safe and use condoms! LOL I have no idea why I put that in there...just ignore my temporary loss of sanity.
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Title: Maxwell in the Morning
Author: Just go ahead and guess...
Pairings: see to the first page
Disclaimers: see to the first page
Warnings: see to the first page
Now on with the magnificent story!
Betaed my Yume! Thanks so much again chickee!
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"Well I see that you boys know each other pretty well..."
Heero squeaked and pushed Duo away roughly. He scooted off the counter and tried to rearrange himself so that you didn't notice his now raging hard-on due to Duo's ministrations.
He looked up at Stewart and started nervously, "Well...uh...Stewart...um...he...is my uh...um..."
Since Heero was having a hard time talking he turned to Duo, "So exactly what are you to him?"
Duo snorted, "I really don't see how any of this can be any of your business but I'm Heero's husband."
Stewart lifted his slim eyebrows in surprise and shock, "Husband?"
"Husband."
"Weelll," Stewart trailed off as he gave Heero a couple once-overs.
"Just what was so important that you had to come interrupt Mr. Maxwell and I?" Duo asked crossly.
Heero interrupted, "Mr. Yuy."
Stewart glared at Duo before continuing; he never did have patience with people who had attitude problems. "Well I came in to tell Mr. Maxwell that..."
"Mr. Yuy," Heero growled. He hated not being heard and he hated being ignored.
Stewart looked over at Heero briefly then continued, "I came in to tell Mr. Yuy that Frank and Aaron have done a beautiful job rearranging the trays and will also be staying here as waiters. And I know you told me not to touch the centerpiece but I only...pinched a few of the hideous ones off. It looks just short of amazing now."
"That's just fine, Stewart." Heero replied tightly, he was still trying to calm his racing heartbeat. It felt as if he had ran a twenty-mile marathon.
"And another thing," he gestured to Duo, "I was wondering if he was staying?"
"Yes," replied Duo.
"No," replied Heero at the same time. He looked over to Duo and saw that he wasn't even paying attention to him. He was staring straight at Stewart.
"Well...I see you people need a while to discuss this, oh and also, Morticia still hasn't showed up." he turned to Heero.
Heero sighed, "God help me," he said to himself. "Alright, just give Mr. Maxwell and I a couple of moments then I will get back to you about the bartender situation."
Heero watched as Stewart glared at Duo for moments then walk out of the kitchen.
"Duo get out, you can't stay and I won't allow you to stay. You know where the door is so..."
"You need me to tend to the bar. And we both know that." He said looking straight at him, eyes twinkling in amusement.
Heero stubbornly said, "No we don't, I can be the host and tend to the bar. It isn't very hard."
Duo sighed and rolled his eyes. He leaned one of his arms onto the counter.
"Heero you can't be host and be the bartender at the same time. You tried to do it before and it didn't work. You can't be taking drink orders and socialize about the...bird population for all I care, at the same time! It won't work. Baby, just face it, you need me right now."
Heero sighed and knew that he had been beaten in this round. "Fine then, ask Stewart about anything if you need help. Try not to make up your own drinks, please! Just take the orders, make a little chitchat then move on to..."
Duo rolled his eyes once more, "Yeah, yeah. Baby, I know exactly what I'm doing. Just take your sexy butt upstairs and finish getting dressed."
"Fine," he looked Duo up and down, "you aren't even dressed for the party. You knew I was having a party, you probably already even planned to stay, and yet you're still not dressed."
"Come on, Heero. I told you already that I had no idea that you were throwing a party and its okay, I don't mind being the oddity. Besides, I could name times when you preferred me without any clothes on...numerous times." [1] Duo purred.
Heero wet his lips nervously and wrung his hands. "Anything you need, like glasses or fruits are all in the bar. The fruits should be in the left cabinet while the glasses should be in the right," Heero whispered softly. He found that, that was the only way he could make his voice work.
Duo smiled his sexy trademark smile, turned Heero around, and pushed him out the kitchen doors with a smack to his butt while saying, "Go get dressed, honey."
Heero blushed once he was pushed out the swinging doors. He shook his head and hurried up the stairs to do exactly as he was told.
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The rest of the night went off without a hitch although he was late to his own party. He found his pants rumpled under the bed and couldn't find his left shoe. So for thirty minutes he had to switch between looking for his long lost shoe and pressing his dress pants.
Once he found his shoe, and finished pressing his pants, he rushed down the stairs hearing doorbell chime several times. 'Please, let Stewart be answering those.'
Heero took a deep breath and walked around the spacious living room, weaving in and out of all conversations that were circulating.
"Well Heero, I see that you finally decided to show up for tonight's party."
"What is that...are those hickeys on your neck?"
"Heero, don't you look gorgeous tonight. Why haven't you worn that to work?" [2a]
"Because then we wouldn't have gotten any work done you retard." [2b]
Heero smiled, like the good host that he was, laughed at all the corny jokes and exchanged a few pleasantries. He walked up to Samantha and saw that she was looking a bit lost at the buffet table.
She noticed him walking up to her and smiled. Samantha was just about the only real friend that he had at the radio station; she wasn't like all the other people who seemed to be more fake than Christina Aguilera's "new" boobs [3].
"Well Heero it seemed that you over did yourself in the food department. I can't seem to pick whether or not I want to put the honey roasted shrimp or the sautéed mushrooms on my plate [4]. I don't think that I will be coming back though because then I would look like a pig...but who gives a rat's ass if I'm eating like a pig or not. They shouldn't be staring at me anyway, I'm a happily married woman!"
Heero couldn't help but laugh at Samantha's antics. Sure, she was a bit loopy sometimes but most of that time she did it on purpose. She made it her "mission" to get him to smile at least three times a day; for some reason she says that he doesn't smile enough...
She finally turned to Heero after finishing off her last shrimp and pinned him with her light emerald green eyes.
"What," Heero asked nervously, "I hate it when you look at me like that."
She set her plate down on the edge of the table and placed her hands on her slender hips. "Don't think that I didn't notice those huge hickeys on your neck and a certain superstar who is also your ex-husband, or is still your husband, is here. I still don't get that part."
Heero blushed and started to look around at anything and everything except for penetrating glare. He knew that he could never lie to her. She was the only person he had been able to confide in about Duo's and his marriage; he had told her many secrets.
Samantha tucked a gold strand behind her ear that loosened from her French twist. "What is he doing here Heero?"
"I honestly don't even know. I was helping out rearranging the buffet table because Stewart insisted that the table was just not big enough but I really didn't see it. And once I did I had to have been staring at it for almost five minutes
straight...well not exactly five minutes but it was a long time. Not really a long time though but..."
"Heero, you're rambling. And stop trying to stall, you're going to tell me this whether you want to or not."
Heero sighed again and ran a hand through his messy locks. "He just appeared out of nowhere Sammy. He wants to talk to me about why I left him."
Samantha frowned, "So what's the problem?"
"It would've been just fine to talk if he had come the next day, or maybe even a week later. Hell, I would've liked to talk to him after two weeks but not after ten months. I'm sure that he just came tonight because he didn't have any interviews to do, or he didn't have any appearances."
Samantha nodded her head in sympathy, "Ah, now I see."
He popped a cucumber sandwich off her plate and said while chewing, "It pissed me off so bad. He just waltzed right in here, started asking questions and demanding answers...he acts like the fucking king of everything. And then Duo and Stewart started to get unpleasant with each other."
"You know how jealous Duo can be, and I bet that Stewart also answered the door."
"He did! It was pretty sweet because Stewart was all of the sudden acting kind of protective over me."
"I think that just about everyone wants to be protective over you."
Heero smiled, "Yeah, I kind of get that feeling a lot. I wonder why that is."
Samantha laughed, "It's because you're so small! You gotta be about...one hundred and ten pounds and you're about 5'4. And that is as tall as your ever gonna get."
Heero blushed, "Excuse me but for your information I weigh one hundred and fifteen pounds! And I'm pushing 5'4 ½!"
Samantha put a hand over her heart, "Oh my goodness Heero! I'm so sorry. I was so far away from the truth."
"Better not make the same mistake again."
They both shared a good laugh and then their eyes, simultaneously, drifted over to Duo who was...bartending.
"Do you miss him?" Samantha asked quietly.
Heero felt his shoulders droop, "Of course I miss him. He's my husband...er...well I don't know what he is right now but I still...care for him and still love him. He's always been able to make me laugh whenever things got tough for me, just like you."
Samantha blushed softly. "I remember the first time I saw you. It was on TV and you guys were at some awards show. You were standing beside each other and I was like 'aaawww' because you were leaning your head on his arm and he had his arms around your waist. What made it really adorable was when he leaned down and kissed you; you were so small compared to him."
Now it was Heero's turn to blush. He couldn't really recall that time because they had been to a million and one award shows, but he remembered when Duo would do that whether it be in the privacy of their own home or in front of hundreds of cameras.
They each watched, as Duo served many of their women co-workers and of course men co-workers as well. Duo flirted shamelessly with them and they flirted back. One woman offered him a cherry [5] and when he reached for it she drew back and motioned for him to eat it from her hand. He flashed that gorgeous smile of his and plucked the cherry up off the stem. He got applause and many giggles for his action and bowed gracefully from behind the bar.
Duo put on a few more theatrics for his audience. He told jokes, juggled glasses, and anything else that they requested from him. He was now moving freely; he didn't have on the baggy brown sweatshirt. Heero saw that he was wearing one of his favorite shirts. It was a tight, black, muscle shirt that had a V-neck and showed a nice amount of dark, tanned skin. It was a short sleeved shirt so he shouldn't be too hot even though his face started to look a bit shiny and red. Heero also noticed as Jenna, the company's flirt, latched onto Duo's muscular arms and begged him to flex for her. He heard many squeals and yells as he did as requested once more.
Heero resisted the urge to yank the big boobed, bimbo by her fake, bleach blonde hair off of Duo. "Even though I still care for him and wish for him when I'm lonely. I remember the reason for my leaving," Heero said through his gritted teeth.
Samantha nodded. Even she wanted to throttle the thirty year old, even though Jenna tells everyone that she is twenty-four. She never did like her; she always flirted with anyone and everyone with the certain male quality that attracted some women to the opposite sex.
She turned to Heero, "Don't worry Heero, everyone knows that she's just the local tramp."
Heero turned sad eyes to Samantha. "It's not her that I'm worried about. Yeah, I hate to see her all over Duo like that but it isn't really her fault. I mean, it is her fault but Duo could prevent it. He could say something like, 'Jenna get off of me, I'm still committed to Heero,' or something like 'I came here tonight to tell Heero that I love him so take your silicone ta ta's and step.' But he isn't."
Samantha giggled at Heero's choice of words but quickly fell silent. She felt his pain, 'He shouldn't be going through this, he doesn't deserve this. Damn you, Maxwell. If you don't fix this and fix him, so help me...' She didn't want to finish her thought, she knew that she really couldn't do anything but cuss him out, egg his house, and spread dirty rumors about him having a very suspicious rash in his nether region. [6]
She heard the doorbell chime and realized that more people were still arriving.
"Come on Heero, let's just go and answer the door. Forget about him, this is your night to be the best host since Arnold Macaberra's party last Friday."
Heero laughed and followed as she led him to the front door.
Heero and Samantha must've been greeting guests for at least fifteen minutes until Lenny Macomb, their boss and guest of honor, finally made his appearance.
Samantha forced a smile for her boss and enveloped him in, what she hoped was a warm, and friendly hug. "Wow, Lenny! It's about time you showed. I was beginning to seriously think that the man of honor decided not to show."
Lenny Macomb ran a hand threw his newly dyed black hair and smiled a stunning smile. "I would never give up the chance to pig out on free food and to see what Heero had planned for me."
Lenny looked from Samantha to Heero and held out his arms while walking over to Heero. He wrapped his arms around Heero's waist and hugged him tightly. Heero had no choice but to wrap his arms around Lenny's neck and did so loosely. He saw Samantha move behind Lenny and wrapped her hands around her neck, as if choking. Heero tried hard not to laugh and quickly pulled from Lenny's forced embrace.
"Its good to see you Heero. Thanks again for the whole party thing, it really means a lot."
"Well you better be glad because this took a lot. I'll be expecting some compensation in my next paycheck," he jokingly replied.
He laughed heartily and clapped Heero on the back. He suddenly turned serious and frowned, "Have you thought about my offer yet?"
Heero sighed and fought the urge to roll his eyes. Every time Lenny and he were in yelling distance he would ask if he had considered his offer and Heero always said 'no.' It wasn't that his offer was bad, quite the contrary, it would put him up in the category of 'America's Richest Civilians,' but it was something...or really someone that kept him from easily excepting. It isn't very fair to blame it all on this one person though, another reason that Heero didn't readily except his offer because of another specific problem that he had with Lenny.
"I'm sorry Lenny but I still haven't made my decision. I promise you, though, when I've made my decision you will be the first person to know."
Lenny frowned then smiled, "Of course dear, take as much time as you need, but not too much. I know you'll give me the answer I want." He took Heero's hand in his, kissed it palm up, and then walked away.
Heero looked up to watch him walk away only to find himself looking into two blazing, dark violet orbs. Heero knew then that Duo had watched the exchange between himself and Lenny. Heero smirked inwardly, 'Take that Duo Christopher Maxwell! I can get someone to drool over me too...he may be turning fifty and dyes his hair every other day but that's someone...someone you aren't.'
Samantha didn't see the exchange between Duo and Heero but waited until Lenny was out of earshot before saying, "Yuck!" She grabbed a napkin off of a near by table and began to furiously wipe off Heero's hand. "That nasty son of a bitch. He is old enough to be your dad and he's drooling all over you. Holy shit! I remember that one time when you dropped papers in the office and when you had bent over to pick them up, Mr. Macomb got a boner. Lemme tell ya Heero, that is the last thing I wanted to see in my life time." She shook her head and shuddered in disgust.
Heero blushed furiously, "That was something that you could've kept to yourself."
Samantha looked up from her thorough cleaning of Heero's infected hand and smiled slyly, "You know you like it."
Heero scrunched up his face and Samantha couldn't help but pinch his nose, 'He is just too adorable sometimes,' she said to herself.
"That is so disgusting, seriously. I mean, come on, the guys turning fifty, he could keel over any minute and he's having forbidden thoughts about me!"
Samantha shook her head, "That dude is seriously perved."
Heero smiled slowly, "It is pretty nasty that he thinks of me that way but also kind of flattering." He snatched his hand away when Samantha suddenly started to rub a lot harder than before, "Ouch! Okay I think you got all the cooties off."
Samantha glared at him, "Heero Kenji Yuy I should slap you like the bitch that you are for saying that."
Heero began to laugh out loud.
"That was the nastiest thing that has ever come out of your mouth since I met you, I should take you upstairs right now and wash your mouth out with Scope."
Heero dropped to the ground holding his stomach, if he could laugh any harder, now would be the time that he did. He said between giggles, "Whatever...you...say..." Heero's entire face was now blood red.
Samantha chuckled and helped Heero to his feet, "Come on and get up before you ruin your clothes." She helped him over to another group of people who were talking about the castration of a male elephant. Heero quickly quieted down and try as he might, he couldn't seem to walk away unnoticed, so he faced his fate of having to here just how an elephant gets...castrated.
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Well I feel like stopping this chapter here because I've typed for a long time and I'm eager to send it off to my lovely betaer YUME!
[1] - Duo's talking about Heero likin' him nekkid! :Drools: I think it's safe to say that everyone likes a nekkid Duo-chan.
[2a/b]-This is said in the book.
[3]- I really like Christina Aguilera and everything but it's just amazing to me how one day she has no boobs...and the next she does.
[4]- I have no idea if this is really even a food, I just now thought of it.
[5]- This was in the book and wouldn't you just love for Duo-chan to eat something out of your hand?
[6]- I cant remember where but I heard this off of a movie and I laughed my ass off! GOOD TIMES!
Thank you for all the reviews that you have all given me and I look forward to reading more.
Till next time! Stay safe and use condoms! LOL I have no idea why I put that in there...just ignore my temporary loss of sanity.