~*~*~Last Time~*~*~
Their next pair was not as outgoing as Brock and Maria and were in fact best friends, which gave Hotaru some idea of music for them. They both harmonized very well unlike a few of the others. Hotaru and Heero then spent the next few days working on a haunting melody for the younger girl Brittany and a bright harmony for Alicia. The end result was something even they couldn't fathom.
~*~*~Now~*~*~
Brittany: Life is sometimes terrible
Alicia: Life is sometimes grand
Brittany: Life is sometimes so worthless
Alicia: Life is sometimes so priceless
Brittany: Life sometimes seems like it'll never end
Alicia: And yet we still go on
Both: Life is what we make it for us
Life is how we take the universe for our own
Life is ours to make what we'll do with it
Brittany: Life sometimes causes pain and hurt
Alicia: Life sometimes brings so much joy and love
Brittany: Life can be so sad
Alicia: Life can be so full of bliss
Brittany: Life sometimes ends
Alicia: Life sometimes begins
Both: Life is Life
Life is Death
Life is what you make it
This is what the class heard on a stormy Tuesday afternoon when Alicia and Brittany sang their song. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that besides Hotaru and Heero these were the best. As usual Heero and Hotaru got their applause at the end of the duet and they then sat back down to meet two more people waiting to have their own song written for them. There was a line of people waiting when Hotaru took her seat, they all looked anxious, wondering if their songs were going to be as good as the others that they had heard. Hotaru however, went up to Mr. S's desk and had a quiet conversation with him before taking her seat yet again. It was not until several minutes after she had sat down that Mr. S stood up and made the announcement that for two weeks there would be no more songs written, due to the fact that neither Hotaru nor Heero had gotten any sleep within the past few weeks. As soon as he was finished Mr. S sat down and Hotaru and Heero got their stuff and left the room. Heero walked ahead of Hotaru until they reached the front of the building and then they began to walk side by side.
"You know, all of your lyrics are rather depressing." Heero stated matter-of-factly. Hotaru looked at him puzzled.
"Yeah, so what?" she asked, taken aback at the non-approving tone in his voice.
"I was just wondering when you're going to write some stuff that will make people cry out of joy, instead of sadness."
"I will write happy-go-lucky songs when I can cry out of joy instead of sadness." She told him, stopping to look at him.
"Why are you sad?" he asked, abruptly changing the subject.
"Because life isn't good. I mean, no offense but I miss Aaron a lot. Plus, I feel left out when I'm hanging out with you and the rest of the guys." Heero gave her a strange look before shrugging and walking to the car. Their ride towards home was silent with the exception of Hotaru's Walkman blaring her haunting music out of the headphones that were on her head. Heero kept taking glances at her while he thought she wasn't looking and it was during one of these glances that the semi-truck that was going down the opposite side of the road swerved to miss another car and hit theirs. Heero tried to swerve out of the way but was unsuccessful and only made the semi hit Hotaru's side more. All that he saw before blacking out was Hotaru's face covered in blood and her Walkman hanging limp in her hands.
~*~Several Days Later~*~
Heero opened his eyes groggily and looked around the stark white room. He tried to sit up and it was only then that he noticed that he was hooked up to several machines that were making bleeping noises at him. He reached with his right arm and took out the needles that were stuck in it, which only caused the machines to bleep their warnings of death at him more. Heero looked around and saw a pair of pants and a shirt lying on a chair, he put them on and took his hospital gown off and opened the door to his room, only to be stopped by two orderlies and a nurse that looked as if she had been there when the hospital had been built. One of the orderlies had a wheelchair with them and made him sit down in it while the other proceeded to turn the still bleeping machines off. The nurse came up to him and stuck him with a syringe that was full of a medicine that made his head spin. Throughout this whole ordeal Heero had been asking one question over and over again: "Where's Hotaru?" It was only after the nurse gave him the medicine that she answered his question.
"She's in the ICU Mr. Yuy. Apparently she got the worst of that semi." Here the nurse gave a cackling laugh that made Heero's head spin even more.