My school nurse is probably the only adult in my school I would spend time with on the weekends. She's a lovely blonde with blue eyes. (And by lovely I mean what any other boy means...I mean she had nice boobies, and a cute little ass.) She is kind and caring, in her mid-twenties...and gives you medicine when you need it the most. Her name is Sally Po, and she is my school nurse.

She is also a sarcastic asshole, which is why she is my friend. You know...kindred spirits and whatnot.

Anyway.

The look Sally gave me when I opened the clinic door was priceless. Thinking back on it, that was probably because I had a black eye, looked pissed off, and was about to puke.

The kind and loving look on Sally's face was sort of a mixed look of happiness, confusion, and what should be pity, but didn't come out too well. Then she laughed. At me. For like five minutes. It was a mean laugh that sang a song of "Duo...you are a moron..."

A song I have been getting used to for the past sixteen years.

That's it. I have no friends. I refuse to be friends with school nurses who laugh at me, and little rich boys who dare the boy I like to do stupid things. Although...

I still have Hilde. Hilde and I will be the best of friends. Hilde is my only friend from now on. I will get a tattoo that says 'Hilde and Duo are forever the best of friends' on my ass. Hilde and I will own a bar together, and Hilde and I will travel together as street performers. The school nurse and the rich little blond boy who likes theatre will wish they were nice to me when they see what wonderful friends Hilde and I are, and then we'll set them on fire.

"Aw ha ha...You dumb-assed little shit. What the hell happened to you?" were the first words out of her mouth. Heh. Lovely language for a school nurse. I doubt that's how she greets everyone who walks into the clinic. Just me. She saves that special asshole-ery for me, and me alone.

Much like Heero saves his special 'no kiss for you'-ery for me and me alone.

"Nuuh...pain killers Sally...Please kill my pain...I don't feel good, and my face is all bruised up," I muttered, then she smiled a creepy smile at me. Sometimes Sally scares me. I knew what she wanted me to say. She wanted me to say "My face hurts Sally..." so that she should have said "Oh, well, it's killing me..." but I didn't. I was too clever for her...or feeling too sick to care. I don't remember which.

"Yeah... yeah..." she said as she moved things around in the medicine cabinet next to her desk. "Just sit down," she barked...so I sat.

"First...I want to get a look at that eye though. Duo...Duo...Duo...what have you been doing..?" Sally asked. She then got up really close to my face, which made me nervous. Not so much because I had a giant bruise there that hurt, but because I have a lot of blackheads that I don't want her, or anyone else, to see up close. I was also beginning to feel very much like throwing up all over the place, and I didn't want it to land on her. Or maybe I did, she was laughing at me.

Yeah. I did want to puke all over her. And just about everyone else that I had seen that day.

"Well...Sally, I might have fallen down the stairs." I got a chuckle out of that one. Fine. Go ahead and laugh at my misfortune. I hope she falls down the stairs later. Then who will be laughing? Probably her because she laughs at everything.

"Oh, Duo...you are the only kid at this school...that I have ever had to treat because they've fallen down the stairs..." stated Sally, as she poked at my bruise.

"I doubt I'm the only person who falls down the stairs, though. There are stairs all over the world, and plenty of people to trip on them," I replied. She then snorted at me.

Stupid Sally.

"Go ahead and laugh Sally. It's all fun and games until you fall down the stairs..."

"Yeah yeah...just sit tight, Duo. I'm going to go grab some aspirin; I have some other stuff to do, so...yeah. You just sit back and relax."

Nuh. Sally then left me there to go perform her...nursely duties. Whatever those are. ('Go get more Q-tips Nurse Po...') Sally is probably just wandering around the halls now. Being Sally. "Hi, I'm Sally Po, I wander around while children in my care suffer...blah blah blah."

Stupid Sally. My fucking face hurt and I wanted to puke. How hard is it for a person to understand that? And she's a nurse. She of all people should know that when a patient isn't feeling well, you should hurry your ass up and make them better. Then she can have her stupid little clinic back to herself, and I can go on my miserable way.

Ten minutes later the door opened. Slowly. Very slowly. Like a cheetah opening a door...only backwards. Kind of.

Finally, I remember thinking, 'Sally is back to give me Tylenol, and poke at my poor beautiful little broken face. Now I can go back to Ceramics and sit around and throw clay at things, and listen to my headphones, and try to block this horrible week from my fragile little psyche.'

"Took long enough..." I said, as I walked up to help Sally with the door. What the hell is it that a school nurse could possibly be doing that is taking this long?

And now for taking so long, I am mad at Sally, too. I bet she locked herself in her car or something stupid like that...because actually...she's stupid like that.

The person behind the door wasn't Sally. The person behind the door, was, because of my wonderful good luck...Heero. Lovely. His face looked a little whiter than usual. Good. I hope he's sick. I hoped he caught pneumonia and was dying.

"Oh," I said, and moved away from the door. Heero smiled weakly at me, and wandered in.

I walked back to my cot and sat down. Didn't ask him what was wrong, didn't ask him why he was here, didn't offer him a seat on the cot or anything, didn't even look at him. Strike that. Couldn't even look at him. There is a huge difference there, I suppose.

I couldn't bring my eyes up to level with him. I tried to, but it just felt so incredibly painful. Like something was horribly wrong inside of me, and the contents of my chest cavity seemed to be twisting and moving very uncomfortably. And I knew, that if I looked at him, it would have given him that much more power, and made the pain that much stronger. Better to leave him alone, I thought. Better to leave him alone, and let the pain subside. Better to let him sit there, and not look at him, then to do anything about how I was feeling, because it would hurt me.

"Duo...I...uh...Where's the nurse?" He was trying to start a conversation. Trying. He looked nervous as hell, his pretty cobalt blue eyes darting back and forth, like he was on drugs... which made sense what with how he was stuck in a clinic, with the boy who is in love with him who he doesn't like back.

I almost felt like telling him to calm down, but then what do I care? He made me cry after all. He made me sad and angry, and he doesn't deserve my kindness.

"Is....is Sally here, Duo?" He tried to start up a conversation again, which I would have found extremely cute seeing as how he doesn't talk much, (I think I've mentioned that) had I been in a good mood. Had I been in a good mood I would have read it as some gesture of love, and kindness towards me.

However, I was not in a good mood. Partly because I didn't feel well, but mostly because of him.

Stupid-assed little shit. I would have kissed me if I were him. I mean...he's on a break. Relena probably wouldn't have even found out about it, and we were playing truth or dare, so it's not like he would have just been randomly kissing people.

"Go fuck yourself, Heero." I muttered to him, and then turned over on my side, and started to stare at the wall.

Then he kissed me.

He pulled me up from the cot by the shoulders and kissed me. Just for a second, and then he let me sit back down. My mouth was half-open when he did it, and I didn't have my eyes closed, so it must have been one hell of a weird kiss on his side.

"Whoa Dude...Heero...what the hell?"