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Palpitations of the Heart
by Miyoko (BabySnowAngel) and Rin-chan

Chapter Three

Heero woke up the next morning and ate waffles and oreos for breakfast. Duo was slowly rubbing off on her; she was obtaining Duo's eating habits. Duo woke up an hour later to find all his precious oreos gone. Let's just say he was not happy.

"Heero, where the hell are my oreos?!?" Duo yelled.

"Ehehehehehe..." Heero just laughed. "It wasn't me!! Relena did it!! I have to go now... ehehehehe bye!" Heero got up and left the building. Duo was left staring at the door and the empty bag of oreos!

Heero walked along laughing insanely. Sugar highs can do weird things to people, and Heero Yuy is no exception. Of course, because of her laughing spree, she didn't notice the pink limo pull up beside her.

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRROOOOOOOOOO-KOI!" Relena screeched, hanging halfway out the window. Heero visibly cringed. 'NOOOOOO!!!!' she thought, panicked.

"Heero, I've been looking all over for you!!! You are my soul mate!!! Now that I have found you I know we are destined to be together. It is written in the stars. It's fate!!" Relena said as her eyes got all dreamy. Meanwhile Heero had taken the opportunity to escape the she-devil.

Heero found a nice alley with a pay phone. She dialed the familiar number. A minute later she heard Duo's voice, "Yeah?!"

"Hi, Duo! It's me!" Heero said sugar-high free. Relena had scared it out of her.

"Heather! How are you?! I missed you last night. It was a lonely night without you," Duo said.

"Well, my night wasn't much better. I have a stalker now."

"What?!?!" Duo said startled.

"Yeah, I know. I'm not too thrilled about it either. I'm considering moving to another country."

"You can't do that!! I'd miss you way too much!"

"Well, you haven't met my stalker. She is definitely possessed by the devil."

"Whoa...wait a second! She?! You're being stalked by a woman?!"

"Sad but true." Heero heard a scary screeching noise. "Oh shit! She's coming! Hold on!" Heero ducked down behind a dumpster.

"KOIBITO!!!!! Where are yoooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuu?! My little love muffin, come here!!! My pink limo is very roomy and soundproof!!!" Heero winced, 'I think I'm going to go deaf!' Luckily the Thing left relatively quickly and Heero was able to resume her conversation with Duo.

"Was that it?!" Duo asked.

"Unfortunately yes. The Thing is very very scary," Heero replied. "Hey, do you want to get together tonight? I'm off work, and I've missed you."

"Sure, I'll pick you up at seven. I've never seen your dorm," Duo said.

"No! No. I'll meet you there. My dorm is extremely messy and my roommate is sick and it's not pretty." 'That probably wasn't the best thing to say to him, all things considered,' Heero thought to herself.

"Do you want Japanese or Italian?" Duo asked.

"There's a festival at a shrine nearby. Let's go there." Hearing another screech from the Thing known as Relena, Heero said, "I have to go. Bye!" She then hung up the phone. Duo stared at the phone in slight confusion before hanging it up as well.

Later that night Heero packed a bag and set off for the library. She was actually heading to the festival, but Duo didn't need to know that. She changed into a white kimono decorated with sakura blossoms. Heero put her hair up and tucked a sakura blossom behind her ear. She stood off to the side waiting for Duo to come.

A minute Duo came walking over wearing a blue shirt and black pants and a smile on his face.

"Hey, beautiful!" Duo said.

"Hey, handsome!" she replied. They walked off hand and hand.

Out of nowhere they saw a boy with silvery white hair and white dog ears wearing a strange red outfit. He was chasing after a girl wearing a school uniform. She turned and screamed "OSUWARI!" at him, causing the dog boy to slam into the ground.

"Kagome..." he growled. Duo and "Heather" watched the scene in confusion, then quickly walked in the opposite direction. Of course, after walking in that direction, they discovered that weirdos were all over the place at this festival. A brown haired boy ran away from a girl with bluish gray hair.

"Have a child with me Kyosuke!" the girl yelled.

"RUNA! NO! YOU'RE MY SISTER! GET AWAY FROM ME!" the boy replied, a panicked expression on his face. "Heather" and Duo blinked once then twice.

"So what have you been doing lately? I haven't talked to you since that one night," Duo asked.

"School and work have kept me really busy. I barely have anytime to do anything other then that. I tried calling a couple times but you were never there. I left messages with Heero. Did he give them to you?" "Heather" replied.

"Nope, he didn't. I'm going to have a little talk with him," Duo replied. "Has your stalker been bugging you much? Because I could easily get rid of her."

"She's been um... interesting. It's been an odd experience to say the least." They looked over at one of the booths and saw Meiran in a red Chinese outfit holding hands with Wufei who was blushing and of course wearing that white outfit of his. The couple walked up to them.

"Hey, Heero! Duo!" Meiran said before she even thought about it. Heero glared at Meiran and a shocked look appeared on her face. "Oh shit," she mumbled.

"Wait, I thought your brother's name was Heero," Wufei said confused. Duo looked back and forth between "Heather" and Meiran suspiciously.

"Well, it's just that they look so much alike you know," Meiran said making a quick recovery.

"How do you know them?" Wufei asked curiously.

"They're my cousins of course," she said whacking Wufei behind the head. "I told you that when they both transferred here." Wufei glared at her.

"Don't hit me you weak onna!" Wufei said angrily.

"Who are you calling weak?!?!" Meiran asked, eyes narrowed.

"Hey guys!" Quatre exclaimed, his girlfriend Stephanie on his arm.

"Hey," everyone replied.

"Hey, Heather, can I talk to you for a moment?" Quatre asked turning towards "Heather."

"Uh... sure," Heero replied. The two walked off a few feet from the others.

"You don't really have a twin brother do you?!" Quatre asked.

"What do you mean? Of course I do! You go to school with him," Heero replied nervously.

"You're lying. I have 29 sisters. I think I know a girl when I meet one, and Heero is not a guy," Quatre said smugly.

"We...we..." Heero looked around frantically. "WE WERE SWITCHED AT BIRTH!" she cried. Quatre looked at her confused.

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"I don't know. It sounded good at the time though," Heero replied shrugging. She sat down on a nearby bench wearily. "Fine. So, you've figured it out. What do you want to know?"

"Well..." Quatre trailed off, deep in thought. "For starters, why is your twin sister disguised as a boy?" Heero looked at him confused.

"My... twin?" She blinked, then her eyes widened. "You didn't... Quatre, I don't have a twin. I am Heero!"

"What?!" Quatre exclaimed, his eyes widening. "Why do you disguise yourself as a guy?"

"Do you think I want to?" Heero snapped. "I didn't choose to do this!"

"You don't have to get all mad about it," Quatre stated.

"It's all my dad's fault. I was supposed to be a boy. According to him, I AM a boy," Heero said sighing.

"That's horrible! How could someone do that?! Does anyone else know?"

"Meiran. Only because she is my cousin.

"You have to keep this to yourself," Heero said.

"Okay."

"I mean it, Quatre."

"So do I."

The two walked back to the group. Heero slid her arm into Duo's and cuddled up next to him. Quatre put his arm around his girlfriend and smiled at her.

Duo bent down near Heero's ear and asked, "Hey, are you ok?" before kissing her temple. Heero nodded her head in the positive.

"Hey! Look! You can play that game and win a piranha!" Duo exclaimed before dragging Heero over to the booth. "Hey, Heather, want a piranha?"

"Uh, sure," Heather replied hesitantly. Duo then commenced to purchase three rings for three chances to land one of the rings in the glass bowl with the piranha. The first one went too far. The second was an inch short. The third one went in.

Duo jumped up into the air and gave a yell. He then proceeded to pick Heero up and spin her around.

"I won! I won a piranha!" he exclaimed. The others looked on in amusement.

"Hey, Duo?" Quatre said.

"Yeah, Q-man?" Duo replied setting Heero down. Heero stumbled slightly from her dizziness.

"Where are you going to keep the piranha?"

"That's a good question," Duo replied getting a semi-serious face on. "I'm sure I could find someplace to put it in my dorm."

"And what is Heero going to say when he finds out?" Quatre asked sending a look Heero's way.

"He won't mind at all! Will he Heather?!" Duo exclaimed.

"Of course he wouldn't mind," Heero said unenthusiastically with a slight cringe. Meanwhile the vendor was trying to figure out how he was going to give the young man his piranha. No one was supposed to actually win. It was supposedly rigged. The vendor finally managed the get the piranha into a metal box and proceeded to hand it to Duo.

"Here's your piranha, young man. What are you going to name him?" the vendor asked.

"Fluffy of course!" Duo exclaimed while accepting his prize piranha. Heero looked on with a sweatdrop.

'That thing is going to live in the same dorm I sleep in?!' Heero thought to herself.

AN: DUN DUN DUN!!! What will happen next?! Review and find out!