Sandra: I thought about being horrible, and I will! This fanfic will be long, but the beginning you will all hate me for!! Hopefully this is the last chapter, if not then theres always the next one!
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*Relena's P.O.V*
A sudden crash woke me up and I looked around my room, I'm back in my bed, nothing has changed…was that all a dream?
I look down, I'm still wearing the same nightwear and I'm not wet…it was a dream…
I look at the clock, it read 4:00, I quickly scrambled up and looked out my window, Duo's not there.
I flopped back on my bed as tears ran down my cheeks once again, it would be too good to be true, Duo wouldn't wait for me, not like my dream…
How can I be so pathetic and dumb into believing Duo would wait for me like that.
This thought just stabbed me right in the heart, and by each and every second, I could feel it twisting and turning, and each and every twist and turn would ache more than the first.
All through the night, I couldn't sleep, the painful aching in my heart and the hurt filled tears streaming down my face stopped me. No matter how tired I was, I couldn't go to sleep, because…
Once I close my eyes, I see Duo smiling warmly at me, and then I would see his cold hatred filled face…
"Relena, its time for school Angel." I jumped at the word Angel, rushing to the door, I opened, but it was only my father…
"Angel, what's the matter? Why are your eyes so red?" He asked me, stroking my tear stained cheeks.
"Nothing, just a nightmare." Yes, a nightmare is what I can call it, it only brought pain and agony once I woke up.
"Alright angel, as long as your alright, get ready for school now." He said as he left, I just turned back to my room and changed into my uniform. But it wasn't the uniform the old me wore, I am wearing the nice me uniform…
"It's time to start a new, no longer will I dwell on the pain that 'he' brought on me, I will be strong, for everybody, for…me…" I say out as I left the bathroom.
Brushing my hair, I kept repeating in my head the same thing I said earlier, no longer will I dwell on the pain that 'he' brought on me, I will be strong, for everybody, for me.
Smiling at my now make up covered face, I had to use quite a lot of powder and eye make up to cover up the fact I have been crying.
*Catherine's P.O.V.*
I ring the doorbell to Relena's house and their butler opened the door, allowing me in, I smile as I entered the kitchen and saw Relena eating breakfast, her dress wise made me smile.
"What's with the reverting to the better you again? Can't stick with one style? Wanna try gypsy next? Or maybe country?" I say, Relena smiled at me and swallowed the rest of her food before saying byes to her parents and left with me, we were walking to school today, and today, Relena seemed different, she seemed more confident and well strong, but troubled.
"So what's up then?" I ask, she sighed and smiled at me saying, "I'm going to start a new life, turn over a new leaf, I'm going to be strong!"
I glomped her, "Our little Relena-chan is all grown up!"
"Come on, or we're going to be late!" She say dragging me, but after, it ended up being a race, me winning of course. She smiled and told me that she's going to the bathroom, I came with her in case she needed backup.
It was really early cause we ran to school, so no girls were inside at the moment, I saw her take out a little bag and a tissue as she wiped away the sweat, which then ended up wiping away the substance on her face, her cheeks were bright red and I KNOW that they are not from all the running, her eye make up smudge, causing her to have to get another tissue and wipe off all her make up…OH my GOD…
"Relena, have you been crying?" I ask as I ran towards her, she put her hand on my mouth and shook her head.
"Catherine, please don't make me talk about it…there are things that happened last night that I want to forget all together, alright?"
I just nodded at her request and she put her hand back down, taking out her face powder and applying it quickly, she took out her eye make up, I took it from her and smiled, "I'll help you with this!"
Once I made her all nice and pretty again, we left the bathroom and headed to our lockers, no one was at Relena's locker and she insisted she'll be alright from here, so I left her.
*Relena's P.O.V.*
Putting my books away and taking out the necessary ones, I shut my locker and was pinned to the locker, looking up I see a boy, seemingly the same age as me maybe slightly older, he had blonde spiked hair, one ear pierced, the schools uniform on like everyone else, and he had a black cross on a silver chain, and he gave me a smile, this kind of glint in his crystal blue eyes.
"Hi, I'm kind of new to this school, started one week ago, my names Solo."
(A/N: I'm sorry if I got practically got EVERY detail of Solo wrong, but some people do say he has blonde hair blue eyes, so I'm not really sure! I don't exactly wanna make up a whole OC! So bare with it! Thanks!!!!)
I smiled shyly at Solo and replied, "I've been here for a little while, my name's Relena."
He smiled and towered over me some more which made me have to look up at him, "Relena, nice name. I think I've heard a few things about you before." He got up and took my hand and started walking, taking me along with him.
"What kind of things have you heard?" I asked.
"Well the things I've heard about a girl called Relena is that she is a bitch, totally ugly, dress sense is really crap, total geek and dork, is hated. Oh and back at home, there was a girl called Relena too, same description." He said and turned to look at me, then he smiled, "I'm sure you can't be the one everyone is talking about, because you are one hell of a bodacious babe." He said, with that comment, I can tell he's a city boy, and from the U.S.A.
"Thanks." I said smiling, I know I can feel my cheeks heat up, and not even the face powder can hide its colour.
"Lets just say that the Relena everyone talks about is dead." I said reminding myself that I will be strong.
Solo looked at me and he must've understood what I meant, because his face turned from confusion to understanding and surprise.
"Who would've thought that a chick like you was HER in the past." He said rounding a corner and stopping outside a classroom.
"Well this is my class, why dot we meet up at break?" He asked, giving me this 100% irresistible smile, if I didn't keep reminding myself that I must be strong and the old me has died, I would've run away and blushed like crazy and tell myself it wasn't for real.
"Sure." I say flashing off what I hoped to be a very sexy smile, and to confirm this, Solo leaned down and gave me a peck on the cheek and whispered in my ear, "Your just drop dead gorgeous you know that?" I blushed and smiled.
"I'll see you at the fountains at break then. See ya later." He said as he gave me another peck and went in, I smiled as I left for my own class, all the while reminding myself that the old me has died and I WILL be strong!
*Duo's P.O.V.*
"Duo, why don't we go on a date today?" Hilde asked me as she clung onto my arm, me having to practically drag her to our class.
Yesterday, I completely wrecked things, I snapped that thin piece of string, once those body guards kicked me out, they threatened to hurt me if they saw me around.
I waited about, of course out of view, but that didn't do any good as when they let the dogs out, and boy, those dogs are VISCIOUS!
Today, I will talk to her, I will make her understand, I will get her back!
As I strolled into the classroom late, I noticed An…no, Relena, I noticed Relena sitting at the back, surrounded by guys, I would go over there I rip off anyone's head if they dared to touch her, but she seemed to be different, she wasn't shying away or blushing like crazy, she was laughing and flirting back…WHAT THE?!?!
"Class settle down, I don't care whether you like it or not, but your essays must be handed in by the end of this lesson, you have a double period before break and I can by all means keep you in during lunch if you don't finish it and hand it in."
I growled, I haven't even started my essay yet. Sitting in some unoccupied seat, I just did my work, eventually the class quietened down and everyone was working, all the while I would turn ever so slightly and look at Relena who would be flashing smiles at any random guy that would give her a nice look.
I will get those guys back later, she is MINE! I growled silently and went back to writing my essay.
As the bell went, I haven't even finished writing my last paragraph, well, I was almost there, but half the class already left, including Relena, with a bunch of guys following her asking her to join them at break, she declined them all, meaning I still had a chance.
Quickly rounding off the essay, I gave it to the teacher and rushed out, Relena no where in sight, then I saw one of the guys that were following her.
"Have you seen Relena?" I ask, they gave me a weird look but then they saw that my eyes have turned into slits so they literally stammered out, "she…he-he-headed to-to the…uh….drinking…fount-fount-fountains…" That's all I needed as I sprint off to the drinking fountains, maybe, she is planning to see me again…to sort things out.
Making a sharp turn at the corner, I ran to the drinking taps and I saw Relena taking a drink from one of them, I was about to stroll over to her when someone came up to her and hugged her from behind.
I growled and was about o go over and throw the guy off her, but she turned around and hugged him, the guys back is facing me, so I can't exactly tell who it was, getting closer so that I can hear what they were saying, I can almost see who the guy was…the guy flashed Relena his 100% irresistible smile, one that I can remember ever so clearly…
"Solo?" I say out the name of my childhood friend as I walked over to them.
"Duo?" Solo said smiling at me.
"What are you doing here?" I ask him, I know I've seen him around the school, but I dismissed it as my imagination, what the hell is Solo doing in our school?
"Oh, I just came about a week ago, I was looking for you, surprisingly it was harder to find you in this place than I thought. Not even in the canteen at lunch, strangely enough, and I've been here a week. You probably didn't recognise me, I decided that curtains don't really suit me anymore, so I thought I give myself a new hairdo. Still, you should've recognised you best friend, but you didn't, Haha. Weird huh."
"Yeah, weird, now what are you doing here?" I ask him again, my eyes just glaring at his hands which were around MY Relena's waist.
"Oh right, I'm here as an exchange student, I figured that you have mentioned this as the school you attend on the phone, and thought I could surprise you, couldn't believe how hard it was to find ya though."
He must've noticed me looking at Relena then Relena then Relena again cause he smiled and said, "Oh yeah, Duo, this is Relena, I'm sure you must've met each other in this school, hopefully not with as much trouble as I had to find ya. If you haven't then you have GOT to remember Relena from back home, this chick is her man, she has totally changed, and sorry man, I got first dibs on her."
I growled and grabbed Relena's arm and dragged her away saying, "excuse us for a moment." and rounded a corner, heading to the schools football stands, they're always empty, unless there was a game.
"Duo, let go of my arm!" I didn't listen to her, I needed to talk to her whether she liked it or not!
"Duo!" I stopped and turned around and pulled her into a bruising kiss. Forcing my tongue into her mouth as she squirmed and tried to push away, I'm not going to let her go!
Breaking the kiss I hugged her, tightly, not letting her go, she soon stopped struggling and just stood there.
"Relena, I'm really sorry." I say, backing away a bit to look at her face, then I noticed that there was a big red patch underneath that white sheet of make up, then there was line of it as a single tear rolled down her cheek, I wiped at the tear with my thumb, wiping awesome make up too, then I wiped off all the face powder and saw her red coloured cheeks and the tear stains still there, new ones joining them.
"Relena, have you been…crying?" I ask her.
"Duo Maxwell, why? Why is it that when I brought up my shields that you rip them back down? Why is it that you find it so fun to just hurt my feelings each and every time you do this? Why is it that you chose to hurt me? Why did you choose me?"
I looked at her pain filled eyes and I could feel guilt and pain rising up within me.
"This morning, I have told myself that I will be strong, and that the old me has died, and the old me would cry, all the time, all the old me ever did was cry over everything, and I was planning to change that, but you just brought the old me back to life!"
I pulled her into a hug, she didn't hug me back nor did she pull away, as she cried into my now soaked shirt.
"You want to know why I chose you Relena Peacecraft?"
She just cried harder, if it meant no, I must've not hard her as I used one hand to hold onto her waist and the other to stroke her soft hair.
"Because I'm madly in love with you."
I felt her body tense a bit and then her crying turned to sobs.
"I've been thinking of the past so much, that my hatred blinded me to see the changed and guilt driven women in front of me. Maybe in the past, if that never happened, maybe things would've been a lot different. The only thought in my head was revenge, so I never properly looked at you. Then I met Angel, sure it sounds very shallow to just think of looks, but because of Angel, I slowly began to change, and eventually, I changed, devoting myself to Angel. But when Angel started to avoid me, it hurt, and to occupy myself from that hurt, I used the hatred I had towards you to keep me from thinking about her."
I sigh and take a deep breath as she slowly started to calm down, sobbing a bit here and there.
"When I found out that you was Angel, not only did I feel guilty, but I felt angry too, it's like all these emotions I have for Angel and how I felt towards you just collided and I was so mixed up. And when you explained to me, I felt only two things. Guilt and Love. The fact that all this time, I have been accusing you of something you didn't do wrong, and hating you because of it, mistreating you and torturing you, is what made me feel so guilty. And the fact that I fell in love with you and that how much you have changed me, only making me think of you, dream of you, talk about you, and love you made me see past all the hatred and made me understand what I should've done a long time ago."
My grip on her tightened as I continued.
"When you didn't see me or speak to me, when I was dragged out and thrown out. I really wanted to stay and wait until you would come out to see me, really, but after being threatened and being chased by the security dogs, I can guarantee I won't be able to do anything if I lost my life. I waited too long and now that I got it, I'm not going to throw it away."
I shifted her position so that I could look her in the eyes, those tear glazed over eyes, not once did I break the eye contact and I said it, "Relena, your in my dreams, your in my head, you're my angel, I can't stop thinking about you, I feel as guilty as guilty can be and I am madly in love with you, so will you be my girl?"
I closed me eyes and took a deep, deep, DEEP breath and then I heard giggling, I opened my eyes and looked at her laugh.
"What's so funny?"
"That was really sweet, but what do you mean by 'your GIRL'?" She said as she poked my chest.
I smiled at her and hugged her, "I'll rephrase that. Would you be my girlfriend?" I asked her, then I heard her giggle some more and then she said, "I dunno, you did do a lot of horrible things to me and Solo seems pretty nice to me but…" She was looking at me, and I couldn't help but growl as she said that, she smiled and tapped my nose.
"you never let me finish! Well, like I said, Solo seemed pretty nice but…"
I looked at her, what did she mean by but?
"But you'll have to do!" she said, I smiled and hugged her picking her up and swinging her around.
"Just cause I said I'll be your girlfriend doesn't mean you get to treat me however you want! I don't want to be treated like a property and I most definitely do NOT want to be treated with low respect and low decency." She said, I smiled and nodded.
"Whatever you say your majesty!" I pulled her into a kiss, a very intense but passionate one.
*Normal P.O.V.*
Around the corner of the football stands, a blonde haired teen stood there smiling cheekily as he turned on his heel, back towards the couple.
"I'd say a job well done. Hope you're happy my friend, my childhood friend, my best friend, my dearest friend Duo Maxwell. Make sure you come to visit my grave one day." As the blonde haired boy disappeared like sand in the wind.
Duo and Relena was over Duo's house and in the living room watching a movie, Duo insisted that the two definitely needed to spend some time together, after lunch, they never saw Solo, they asked the school secretary and she said there is no one in the school by the name Solo. Duo decided the computers were fucked so he decided to search for his buddy tomorrow.
"Alright, that's the end of that film, what do you wanna watch next?" Duo said trying to get off the couch, but Relena held him down, why don't we see what's on Tele?" She said, Duo smiled and picked up the remote, Relena taking it from him and flicking through channels, when they got to the news, it seemed like a very important issue, that Relena insisted the watch.
"Merely one week ago, a plane from the U.S.A. came crashing down into the ocean, just besides Japan." The news reporter said.
"Oh my God, that's terrible." Relena said looking sadly at the screen.
"There were one or two survivors, but many have died in the crash." The reporter added as images of police and ambulances and hospital workers was carrying off dad people on stretchers.
"I feel so sorry for them…they had so much ahead of them but they died." Relena said, Duo nodded, as he watched the video footage of many people being carried off on stretchers, then both him and Relena gasped in shock.
A clip from the footage was of someone being carried off the stretcher, the white cloth on them blown off as the familiar face of Solo appeared on the screen.
Relena's eyes watered and she covered her mouth as she ran to the kitchen to puke.
Duo watched in shock.
*Duo's P.O.V.*
How can that be? Just earlier, Solo was at our school with us… just earlier, Solo was flirting with Relena and I was jealous of him…
Just earlier, Solo was smiling and talking to me…
I watched as Solo's face was still on the screen, but the oddest thing was that he was smiling, yeah, despite his blood covered hair and the cuts and bruises on his face, his torn clothes, he had that smile, the same smile he gave to Relena before I interrupted things. But this smile wasn't as 100% as it usually was, it was more soft and relaxed, almost relieved. But why?
I look at the cross dangling off his neck, and pulled my own one out of my shirt, it was an exact replica of mine.
Soon the reporter came back on the screen. "The reason behind the crash was unknown…" I picked up the remote and switched off the tele, dashing the remote at it whilst I was at it, but missing by an inch.
I closed my eyes and then tears started to run down my face, then I felt another weight on the couch, and I turned to look at Relena, she hugged me and cried also, I stroked her hair and tried to be a strong as possible.
"Its…alright Relena…don't cry…" I managed to choke out.
Then she moved away from me and shook her head, she looked at me.
"Solo told me about your friendship, about how you two grew up together, he told me about him wanting you to be happy before you came over and took me away. I never had the chance to ask him what did he expect by telling me those things. But I guess I understand, but Duo, do you think that the Solo we saw today…"
"I really dunno babes, but I know that I want to go see Solo." I said, she held my hand and nodded at me.
"I would like to come and identify a body from the plane crash." I told the receptionist of the hospital, she told me to go to this room and how to get there. All the way, Relena held onto my hand and told me it's alright, I nodded, each step I take making me more nervous and scared.
When we finally got there, I took a deep breath and I told the doctor the descriptions of the person I'm looking for, after a few dead bodies, well in Relena's case, after the smell of dead bodies, she ran out to the bathroom, I looked at all the pain filled expressions on each and every face until I saw him, Solo.
"Is this him?" The doctor asked, I nodded and the doctor asked me for a few details, I gave them to him.
Solo's face, still smiling like it had been on the news, his cross still there, and then I noticed a something in his shirt pocket, pulling it out, there was a photo of the two of us when we was kids, there was a photo of me on my own, a picture of Solo on his own, and then there was a piece of paper, opening it, I read it, it was a letter.
'Duo,
Keep smiling, your always happy go lucky, hope you and Relena stay in a good relationship, shame, shame, I would've kept her for myself, but looks like you won this match, now we're even, remember all the times we would compete, I was winning you by one, and now that you got Relena, it makes us draw. When you saw me, I was long gone, but you didn't know it yet.
Don't let this put you down, I'll always be watching over you. Remember that.
Your best friend forever,
Solo'
My eyes watered…Solo…
The doctor lead me out of the room, I pocketed the few items and then saw Relena come back over to me, I hugged her as more tears flowed down my face.
"It's alright baby, be strong, for me, for everybody, for Solo." Relena said to me, and I will, I will be strong, if Relena can do it, I can too.
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*Normal P.O.V.*
2 weeks later, a funeral was being held for the people who died in the plane crash, Duo and Relena attended the funeral, many people around them wept and wailed, many just cried silently to themselves, but Relena didn't cry, she was being strong for Duo and for herself. Whereas for Duo, he didn't cry, but behind his black lenses, you can see all the pain, hurt, anger and many negative emotions swirl within them, his eyes glazed over with tears, but he didn't let them flow, he had to be strong, for Relena, for himself, and for Solo. He knows that Solo is up there watching over him, and he will never leave him.
"Thank you Solo, thank you for making things right between Duo and I." Relena said as she placed a bunch of roses on the floor. She stepped back to Duo's side and smiled at him, giving his hand a reassuring squeeze, Duo nodded and walked up.
"Thank you Solo, ever since the beginning, you was here for me, and right until the end of your life, you still came back for me, you helped me a lot throughout my life, I'll never forget you, and I am really glad you have you as a friend Solo. You're the bestest friend I can ever have and nothing will change it, I'll be strong, for Relena and myself and for you! I know your always watching over me Solo buddy." Duo say as he placed the bunch of flowers down, attached to the bunch of flowers was a photo, a photo of Duo and Solo in a loving, brotherly embrace.
"You ok Duo?" Relena asked him as they walked off down the street. Duo nodded as he squeezed her hand reassuringly.
"What Solo did for us, we should remember and cherish forever, no matter how rough things get, we'll get through this, or Solo's work would all be gone to waste." He said in a light tone, smiling at his lover.
"Well, at least Solo didn't go without getting one last kiss." Relena smiled cheekily as Duo rose an eyebrow at her.
"What? He had me up against the wall. How can I not? He IS good looking." She said and right after that, Duo pulled her into a deep kiss.
"At least he went away happy. I'll forgive you for that." Duo said, Relena smiled as they continued to walk.
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Ever since Duo and Relena have been dating, sure Heero felt betrayed that his best friend would take the girl that he liked, but in the end, he understood, he'd gotten over it quick and somehow, found Catherine quite an attractive person. But Catherine for one was having a hard time getting away from Heero because she thinks he's been acting 'Weird', but none the less he was kinda cute, but it didn't stop her from running.
Trowa and Quatre are dating, it freaked the group out at first, but then they were cool with it, after all they believed that Quatre was a little to feminine.
Wufei is going out with a girl called Sally, she moved from China to study in Japan and at first, the two were at each others throats, but then after a little accident in science which ended up with Sally accidentally being cut by a scalpel because Wufei freaked a bit at the explosion their experiment made, ended up with Wufei taking Sally to the first aid room and God knows what happened in there.
Hilde at the start would be throwing Relena horrible deadly stares, then eventually, she got over Duo and she started going after other boys, but because they didn't fit her the way she wanted, she accidentally started to experiment her taste in lovers and with a bit of alcohol…a lot of alcohol, she eventually started to date a girl from an all girls school, the girl known as Dorothy.
*Relena's P.O.V.*
I sipped the rest of my orange juice when I heard a long line of beeping, I got up and ran to the door and saw Duo's car, him poking his head out of the window with his shades on, I smiled and slipped on my school shoes.
"Mom, Duo's here, I'm going now!" I yelled as I ran out of the house and towards my boyfriends car, he got a new car, it was sweet, it's a sports car, with tinted windows, the car being black with a silver design on it.
It has almost been two months since we start dating, and each and every day gets better and better.
"Good morning." I said as I approached he car, giving my boyfriend a kiss as he got out and opened the door for me, once in, he shut the door and got back in and we kissed a bit more and intensely, one of his hands ran up my skirt and traced lines around my inner thigh, his other hand starting to unbutton my shirt buttons, I grabbed both of his hands and smiled at him.
"Later Duo! We're going to start school, and I do NOT want to look like I just woke up from bed this morning." I said, knowing my horny boyfriend, he's gotten me into the school closets at least 5 times since we started dating, and each time, he would always try a new move, and it always pleasures me to the full extent, I know it's bad to be doing these kind of things at this age, we're not even married, but hey, it doesn't stop us from doing so, I think partly the reason Duo got tinted windows is so that he can have a little fun in the car, not that we have so far, but knowing Duo, it won't be long.
"Fine." He said stealing a quick kiss and driving to school.
"But you do know that when we're at school, you are NOT going to get away from me that easily, even if it means having to bang you in the damn classroom." He said smirking, I smiled and leaned over to his ear and said, "Don't worry, I got a few new moves I wanna show you anyway." I kissed his ear and brushed one hand over his little friend below, getting a reaction I expected I laughed a bit and sat back down properly.
This is my life with Duo Maxwell, and I'm hoping that it'll last forever, and I know that Solo's watching over us, and I'm sure that a friend of Duo's would also think like Duo. So yes, he probably watches over us when we really didn't need him too, even when it's supposed to be just the two of us, somehow there always seemed to be a third presence.
"Relena."
"Yeah Duo?"
"Aishiteru."
"Aishiteru too koibito." I said in reply as Duo pulled up at the school parking spot and gave me a deep passionate kiss.
At the moment, I have no worries, no need to worry, as long as Duo's here with me, then I'm happy.
Duo, my Duo, my baby, my devil, my koibito…
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OWARI
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Sandra: That's it! I'm done! And I'm kinda proud! Sorry the beginning was so horrible, but hey, everything worked out! Hehe!
Solo, I know, I probably got everything wrong, but Solo played the honourable part here!!! Even if it was very short part!
OK BYE EVERYONE! REMEMBER TO REVIEW FOR A SEQUEL!!!!
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*Relena's P.O.V*
A sudden crash woke me up and I looked around my room, I'm back in my bed, nothing has changed…was that all a dream?
I look down, I'm still wearing the same nightwear and I'm not wet…it was a dream…
I look at the clock, it read 4:00, I quickly scrambled up and looked out my window, Duo's not there.
I flopped back on my bed as tears ran down my cheeks once again, it would be too good to be true, Duo wouldn't wait for me, not like my dream…
How can I be so pathetic and dumb into believing Duo would wait for me like that.
This thought just stabbed me right in the heart, and by each and every second, I could feel it twisting and turning, and each and every twist and turn would ache more than the first.
All through the night, I couldn't sleep, the painful aching in my heart and the hurt filled tears streaming down my face stopped me. No matter how tired I was, I couldn't go to sleep, because…
Once I close my eyes, I see Duo smiling warmly at me, and then I would see his cold hatred filled face…
"Relena, its time for school Angel." I jumped at the word Angel, rushing to the door, I opened, but it was only my father…
"Angel, what's the matter? Why are your eyes so red?" He asked me, stroking my tear stained cheeks.
"Nothing, just a nightmare." Yes, a nightmare is what I can call it, it only brought pain and agony once I woke up.
"Alright angel, as long as your alright, get ready for school now." He said as he left, I just turned back to my room and changed into my uniform. But it wasn't the uniform the old me wore, I am wearing the nice me uniform…
"It's time to start a new, no longer will I dwell on the pain that 'he' brought on me, I will be strong, for everybody, for…me…" I say out as I left the bathroom.
Brushing my hair, I kept repeating in my head the same thing I said earlier, no longer will I dwell on the pain that 'he' brought on me, I will be strong, for everybody, for me.
Smiling at my now make up covered face, I had to use quite a lot of powder and eye make up to cover up the fact I have been crying.
*Catherine's P.O.V.*
I ring the doorbell to Relena's house and their butler opened the door, allowing me in, I smile as I entered the kitchen and saw Relena eating breakfast, her dress wise made me smile.
"What's with the reverting to the better you again? Can't stick with one style? Wanna try gypsy next? Or maybe country?" I say, Relena smiled at me and swallowed the rest of her food before saying byes to her parents and left with me, we were walking to school today, and today, Relena seemed different, she seemed more confident and well strong, but troubled.
"So what's up then?" I ask, she sighed and smiled at me saying, "I'm going to start a new life, turn over a new leaf, I'm going to be strong!"
I glomped her, "Our little Relena-chan is all grown up!"
"Come on, or we're going to be late!" She say dragging me, but after, it ended up being a race, me winning of course. She smiled and told me that she's going to the bathroom, I came with her in case she needed backup.
It was really early cause we ran to school, so no girls were inside at the moment, I saw her take out a little bag and a tissue as she wiped away the sweat, which then ended up wiping away the substance on her face, her cheeks were bright red and I KNOW that they are not from all the running, her eye make up smudge, causing her to have to get another tissue and wipe off all her make up…OH my GOD…
"Relena, have you been crying?" I ask as I ran towards her, she put her hand on my mouth and shook her head.
"Catherine, please don't make me talk about it…there are things that happened last night that I want to forget all together, alright?"
I just nodded at her request and she put her hand back down, taking out her face powder and applying it quickly, she took out her eye make up, I took it from her and smiled, "I'll help you with this!"
Once I made her all nice and pretty again, we left the bathroom and headed to our lockers, no one was at Relena's locker and she insisted she'll be alright from here, so I left her.
*Relena's P.O.V.*
Putting my books away and taking out the necessary ones, I shut my locker and was pinned to the locker, looking up I see a boy, seemingly the same age as me maybe slightly older, he had blonde spiked hair, one ear pierced, the schools uniform on like everyone else, and he had a black cross on a silver chain, and he gave me a smile, this kind of glint in his crystal blue eyes.
"Hi, I'm kind of new to this school, started one week ago, my names Solo."
(A/N: I'm sorry if I got practically got EVERY detail of Solo wrong, but some people do say he has blonde hair blue eyes, so I'm not really sure! I don't exactly wanna make up a whole OC! So bare with it! Thanks!!!!)
I smiled shyly at Solo and replied, "I've been here for a little while, my name's Relena."
He smiled and towered over me some more which made me have to look up at him, "Relena, nice name. I think I've heard a few things about you before." He got up and took my hand and started walking, taking me along with him.
"What kind of things have you heard?" I asked.
"Well the things I've heard about a girl called Relena is that she is a bitch, totally ugly, dress sense is really crap, total geek and dork, is hated. Oh and back at home, there was a girl called Relena too, same description." He said and turned to look at me, then he smiled, "I'm sure you can't be the one everyone is talking about, because you are one hell of a bodacious babe." He said, with that comment, I can tell he's a city boy, and from the U.S.A.
"Thanks." I said smiling, I know I can feel my cheeks heat up, and not even the face powder can hide its colour.
"Lets just say that the Relena everyone talks about is dead." I said reminding myself that I will be strong.
Solo looked at me and he must've understood what I meant, because his face turned from confusion to understanding and surprise.
"Who would've thought that a chick like you was HER in the past." He said rounding a corner and stopping outside a classroom.
"Well this is my class, why dot we meet up at break?" He asked, giving me this 100% irresistible smile, if I didn't keep reminding myself that I must be strong and the old me has died, I would've run away and blushed like crazy and tell myself it wasn't for real.
"Sure." I say flashing off what I hoped to be a very sexy smile, and to confirm this, Solo leaned down and gave me a peck on the cheek and whispered in my ear, "Your just drop dead gorgeous you know that?" I blushed and smiled.
"I'll see you at the fountains at break then. See ya later." He said as he gave me another peck and went in, I smiled as I left for my own class, all the while reminding myself that the old me has died and I WILL be strong!
*Duo's P.O.V.*
"Duo, why don't we go on a date today?" Hilde asked me as she clung onto my arm, me having to practically drag her to our class.
Yesterday, I completely wrecked things, I snapped that thin piece of string, once those body guards kicked me out, they threatened to hurt me if they saw me around.
I waited about, of course out of view, but that didn't do any good as when they let the dogs out, and boy, those dogs are VISCIOUS!
Today, I will talk to her, I will make her understand, I will get her back!
As I strolled into the classroom late, I noticed An…no, Relena, I noticed Relena sitting at the back, surrounded by guys, I would go over there I rip off anyone's head if they dared to touch her, but she seemed to be different, she wasn't shying away or blushing like crazy, she was laughing and flirting back…WHAT THE?!?!
"Class settle down, I don't care whether you like it or not, but your essays must be handed in by the end of this lesson, you have a double period before break and I can by all means keep you in during lunch if you don't finish it and hand it in."
I growled, I haven't even started my essay yet. Sitting in some unoccupied seat, I just did my work, eventually the class quietened down and everyone was working, all the while I would turn ever so slightly and look at Relena who would be flashing smiles at any random guy that would give her a nice look.
I will get those guys back later, she is MINE! I growled silently and went back to writing my essay.
As the bell went, I haven't even finished writing my last paragraph, well, I was almost there, but half the class already left, including Relena, with a bunch of guys following her asking her to join them at break, she declined them all, meaning I still had a chance.
Quickly rounding off the essay, I gave it to the teacher and rushed out, Relena no where in sight, then I saw one of the guys that were following her.
"Have you seen Relena?" I ask, they gave me a weird look but then they saw that my eyes have turned into slits so they literally stammered out, "she…he-he-headed to-to the…uh….drinking…fount-fount-fountains…" That's all I needed as I sprint off to the drinking fountains, maybe, she is planning to see me again…to sort things out.
Making a sharp turn at the corner, I ran to the drinking taps and I saw Relena taking a drink from one of them, I was about to stroll over to her when someone came up to her and hugged her from behind.
I growled and was about o go over and throw the guy off her, but she turned around and hugged him, the guys back is facing me, so I can't exactly tell who it was, getting closer so that I can hear what they were saying, I can almost see who the guy was…the guy flashed Relena his 100% irresistible smile, one that I can remember ever so clearly…
"Solo?" I say out the name of my childhood friend as I walked over to them.
"Duo?" Solo said smiling at me.
"What are you doing here?" I ask him, I know I've seen him around the school, but I dismissed it as my imagination, what the hell is Solo doing in our school?
"Oh, I just came about a week ago, I was looking for you, surprisingly it was harder to find you in this place than I thought. Not even in the canteen at lunch, strangely enough, and I've been here a week. You probably didn't recognise me, I decided that curtains don't really suit me anymore, so I thought I give myself a new hairdo. Still, you should've recognised you best friend, but you didn't, Haha. Weird huh."
"Yeah, weird, now what are you doing here?" I ask him again, my eyes just glaring at his hands which were around MY Relena's waist.
"Oh right, I'm here as an exchange student, I figured that you have mentioned this as the school you attend on the phone, and thought I could surprise you, couldn't believe how hard it was to find ya though."
He must've noticed me looking at Relena then Relena then Relena again cause he smiled and said, "Oh yeah, Duo, this is Relena, I'm sure you must've met each other in this school, hopefully not with as much trouble as I had to find ya. If you haven't then you have GOT to remember Relena from back home, this chick is her man, she has totally changed, and sorry man, I got first dibs on her."
I growled and grabbed Relena's arm and dragged her away saying, "excuse us for a moment." and rounded a corner, heading to the schools football stands, they're always empty, unless there was a game.
"Duo, let go of my arm!" I didn't listen to her, I needed to talk to her whether she liked it or not!
"Duo!" I stopped and turned around and pulled her into a bruising kiss. Forcing my tongue into her mouth as she squirmed and tried to push away, I'm not going to let her go!
Breaking the kiss I hugged her, tightly, not letting her go, she soon stopped struggling and just stood there.
"Relena, I'm really sorry." I say, backing away a bit to look at her face, then I noticed that there was a big red patch underneath that white sheet of make up, then there was line of it as a single tear rolled down her cheek, I wiped at the tear with my thumb, wiping awesome make up too, then I wiped off all the face powder and saw her red coloured cheeks and the tear stains still there, new ones joining them.
"Relena, have you been…crying?" I ask her.
"Duo Maxwell, why? Why is it that when I brought up my shields that you rip them back down? Why is it that you find it so fun to just hurt my feelings each and every time you do this? Why is it that you chose to hurt me? Why did you choose me?"
I looked at her pain filled eyes and I could feel guilt and pain rising up within me.
"This morning, I have told myself that I will be strong, and that the old me has died, and the old me would cry, all the time, all the old me ever did was cry over everything, and I was planning to change that, but you just brought the old me back to life!"
I pulled her into a hug, she didn't hug me back nor did she pull away, as she cried into my now soaked shirt.
"You want to know why I chose you Relena Peacecraft?"
She just cried harder, if it meant no, I must've not hard her as I used one hand to hold onto her waist and the other to stroke her soft hair.
"Because I'm madly in love with you."
I felt her body tense a bit and then her crying turned to sobs.
"I've been thinking of the past so much, that my hatred blinded me to see the changed and guilt driven women in front of me. Maybe in the past, if that never happened, maybe things would've been a lot different. The only thought in my head was revenge, so I never properly looked at you. Then I met Angel, sure it sounds very shallow to just think of looks, but because of Angel, I slowly began to change, and eventually, I changed, devoting myself to Angel. But when Angel started to avoid me, it hurt, and to occupy myself from that hurt, I used the hatred I had towards you to keep me from thinking about her."
I sigh and take a deep breath as she slowly started to calm down, sobbing a bit here and there.
"When I found out that you was Angel, not only did I feel guilty, but I felt angry too, it's like all these emotions I have for Angel and how I felt towards you just collided and I was so mixed up. And when you explained to me, I felt only two things. Guilt and Love. The fact that all this time, I have been accusing you of something you didn't do wrong, and hating you because of it, mistreating you and torturing you, is what made me feel so guilty. And the fact that I fell in love with you and that how much you have changed me, only making me think of you, dream of you, talk about you, and love you made me see past all the hatred and made me understand what I should've done a long time ago."
My grip on her tightened as I continued.
"When you didn't see me or speak to me, when I was dragged out and thrown out. I really wanted to stay and wait until you would come out to see me, really, but after being threatened and being chased by the security dogs, I can guarantee I won't be able to do anything if I lost my life. I waited too long and now that I got it, I'm not going to throw it away."
I shifted her position so that I could look her in the eyes, those tear glazed over eyes, not once did I break the eye contact and I said it, "Relena, your in my dreams, your in my head, you're my angel, I can't stop thinking about you, I feel as guilty as guilty can be and I am madly in love with you, so will you be my girl?"
I closed me eyes and took a deep, deep, DEEP breath and then I heard giggling, I opened my eyes and looked at her laugh.
"What's so funny?"
"That was really sweet, but what do you mean by 'your GIRL'?" She said as she poked my chest.
I smiled at her and hugged her, "I'll rephrase that. Would you be my girlfriend?" I asked her, then I heard her giggle some more and then she said, "I dunno, you did do a lot of horrible things to me and Solo seems pretty nice to me but…" She was looking at me, and I couldn't help but growl as she said that, she smiled and tapped my nose.
"you never let me finish! Well, like I said, Solo seemed pretty nice but…"
I looked at her, what did she mean by but?
"But you'll have to do!" she said, I smiled and hugged her picking her up and swinging her around.
"Just cause I said I'll be your girlfriend doesn't mean you get to treat me however you want! I don't want to be treated like a property and I most definitely do NOT want to be treated with low respect and low decency." She said, I smiled and nodded.
"Whatever you say your majesty!" I pulled her into a kiss, a very intense but passionate one.
*Normal P.O.V.*
Around the corner of the football stands, a blonde haired teen stood there smiling cheekily as he turned on his heel, back towards the couple.
"I'd say a job well done. Hope you're happy my friend, my childhood friend, my best friend, my dearest friend Duo Maxwell. Make sure you come to visit my grave one day." As the blonde haired boy disappeared like sand in the wind.
Duo and Relena was over Duo's house and in the living room watching a movie, Duo insisted that the two definitely needed to spend some time together, after lunch, they never saw Solo, they asked the school secretary and she said there is no one in the school by the name Solo. Duo decided the computers were fucked so he decided to search for his buddy tomorrow.
"Alright, that's the end of that film, what do you wanna watch next?" Duo said trying to get off the couch, but Relena held him down, why don't we see what's on Tele?" She said, Duo smiled and picked up the remote, Relena taking it from him and flicking through channels, when they got to the news, it seemed like a very important issue, that Relena insisted the watch.
"Merely one week ago, a plane from the U.S.A. came crashing down into the ocean, just besides Japan." The news reporter said.
"Oh my God, that's terrible." Relena said looking sadly at the screen.
"There were one or two survivors, but many have died in the crash." The reporter added as images of police and ambulances and hospital workers was carrying off dad people on stretchers.
"I feel so sorry for them…they had so much ahead of them but they died." Relena said, Duo nodded, as he watched the video footage of many people being carried off on stretchers, then both him and Relena gasped in shock.
A clip from the footage was of someone being carried off the stretcher, the white cloth on them blown off as the familiar face of Solo appeared on the screen.
Relena's eyes watered and she covered her mouth as she ran to the kitchen to puke.
Duo watched in shock.
*Duo's P.O.V.*
How can that be? Just earlier, Solo was at our school with us… just earlier, Solo was flirting with Relena and I was jealous of him…
Just earlier, Solo was smiling and talking to me…
I watched as Solo's face was still on the screen, but the oddest thing was that he was smiling, yeah, despite his blood covered hair and the cuts and bruises on his face, his torn clothes, he had that smile, the same smile he gave to Relena before I interrupted things. But this smile wasn't as 100% as it usually was, it was more soft and relaxed, almost relieved. But why?
I look at the cross dangling off his neck, and pulled my own one out of my shirt, it was an exact replica of mine.
Soon the reporter came back on the screen. "The reason behind the crash was unknown…" I picked up the remote and switched off the tele, dashing the remote at it whilst I was at it, but missing by an inch.
I closed my eyes and then tears started to run down my face, then I felt another weight on the couch, and I turned to look at Relena, she hugged me and cried also, I stroked her hair and tried to be a strong as possible.
"Its…alright Relena…don't cry…" I managed to choke out.
Then she moved away from me and shook her head, she looked at me.
"Solo told me about your friendship, about how you two grew up together, he told me about him wanting you to be happy before you came over and took me away. I never had the chance to ask him what did he expect by telling me those things. But I guess I understand, but Duo, do you think that the Solo we saw today…"
"I really dunno babes, but I know that I want to go see Solo." I said, she held my hand and nodded at me.
"I would like to come and identify a body from the plane crash." I told the receptionist of the hospital, she told me to go to this room and how to get there. All the way, Relena held onto my hand and told me it's alright, I nodded, each step I take making me more nervous and scared.
When we finally got there, I took a deep breath and I told the doctor the descriptions of the person I'm looking for, after a few dead bodies, well in Relena's case, after the smell of dead bodies, she ran out to the bathroom, I looked at all the pain filled expressions on each and every face until I saw him, Solo.
"Is this him?" The doctor asked, I nodded and the doctor asked me for a few details, I gave them to him.
Solo's face, still smiling like it had been on the news, his cross still there, and then I noticed a something in his shirt pocket, pulling it out, there was a photo of the two of us when we was kids, there was a photo of me on my own, a picture of Solo on his own, and then there was a piece of paper, opening it, I read it, it was a letter.
'Duo,
Keep smiling, your always happy go lucky, hope you and Relena stay in a good relationship, shame, shame, I would've kept her for myself, but looks like you won this match, now we're even, remember all the times we would compete, I was winning you by one, and now that you got Relena, it makes us draw. When you saw me, I was long gone, but you didn't know it yet.
Don't let this put you down, I'll always be watching over you. Remember that.
Your best friend forever,
Solo'
My eyes watered…Solo…
The doctor lead me out of the room, I pocketed the few items and then saw Relena come back over to me, I hugged her as more tears flowed down my face.
"It's alright baby, be strong, for me, for everybody, for Solo." Relena said to me, and I will, I will be strong, if Relena can do it, I can too.
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*Normal P.O.V.*
2 weeks later, a funeral was being held for the people who died in the plane crash, Duo and Relena attended the funeral, many people around them wept and wailed, many just cried silently to themselves, but Relena didn't cry, she was being strong for Duo and for herself. Whereas for Duo, he didn't cry, but behind his black lenses, you can see all the pain, hurt, anger and many negative emotions swirl within them, his eyes glazed over with tears, but he didn't let them flow, he had to be strong, for Relena, for himself, and for Solo. He knows that Solo is up there watching over him, and he will never leave him.
"Thank you Solo, thank you for making things right between Duo and I." Relena said as she placed a bunch of roses on the floor. She stepped back to Duo's side and smiled at him, giving his hand a reassuring squeeze, Duo nodded and walked up.
"Thank you Solo, ever since the beginning, you was here for me, and right until the end of your life, you still came back for me, you helped me a lot throughout my life, I'll never forget you, and I am really glad you have you as a friend Solo. You're the bestest friend I can ever have and nothing will change it, I'll be strong, for Relena and myself and for you! I know your always watching over me Solo buddy." Duo say as he placed the bunch of flowers down, attached to the bunch of flowers was a photo, a photo of Duo and Solo in a loving, brotherly embrace.
"You ok Duo?" Relena asked him as they walked off down the street. Duo nodded as he squeezed her hand reassuringly.
"What Solo did for us, we should remember and cherish forever, no matter how rough things get, we'll get through this, or Solo's work would all be gone to waste." He said in a light tone, smiling at his lover.
"Well, at least Solo didn't go without getting one last kiss." Relena smiled cheekily as Duo rose an eyebrow at her.
"What? He had me up against the wall. How can I not? He IS good looking." She said and right after that, Duo pulled her into a deep kiss.
"At least he went away happy. I'll forgive you for that." Duo said, Relena smiled as they continued to walk.
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Ever since Duo and Relena have been dating, sure Heero felt betrayed that his best friend would take the girl that he liked, but in the end, he understood, he'd gotten over it quick and somehow, found Catherine quite an attractive person. But Catherine for one was having a hard time getting away from Heero because she thinks he's been acting 'Weird', but none the less he was kinda cute, but it didn't stop her from running.
Trowa and Quatre are dating, it freaked the group out at first, but then they were cool with it, after all they believed that Quatre was a little to feminine.
Wufei is going out with a girl called Sally, she moved from China to study in Japan and at first, the two were at each others throats, but then after a little accident in science which ended up with Sally accidentally being cut by a scalpel because Wufei freaked a bit at the explosion their experiment made, ended up with Wufei taking Sally to the first aid room and God knows what happened in there.
Hilde at the start would be throwing Relena horrible deadly stares, then eventually, she got over Duo and she started going after other boys, but because they didn't fit her the way she wanted, she accidentally started to experiment her taste in lovers and with a bit of alcohol…a lot of alcohol, she eventually started to date a girl from an all girls school, the girl known as Dorothy.
*Relena's P.O.V.*
I sipped the rest of my orange juice when I heard a long line of beeping, I got up and ran to the door and saw Duo's car, him poking his head out of the window with his shades on, I smiled and slipped on my school shoes.
"Mom, Duo's here, I'm going now!" I yelled as I ran out of the house and towards my boyfriends car, he got a new car, it was sweet, it's a sports car, with tinted windows, the car being black with a silver design on it.
It has almost been two months since we start dating, and each and every day gets better and better.
"Good morning." I said as I approached he car, giving my boyfriend a kiss as he got out and opened the door for me, once in, he shut the door and got back in and we kissed a bit more and intensely, one of his hands ran up my skirt and traced lines around my inner thigh, his other hand starting to unbutton my shirt buttons, I grabbed both of his hands and smiled at him.
"Later Duo! We're going to start school, and I do NOT want to look like I just woke up from bed this morning." I said, knowing my horny boyfriend, he's gotten me into the school closets at least 5 times since we started dating, and each time, he would always try a new move, and it always pleasures me to the full extent, I know it's bad to be doing these kind of things at this age, we're not even married, but hey, it doesn't stop us from doing so, I think partly the reason Duo got tinted windows is so that he can have a little fun in the car, not that we have so far, but knowing Duo, it won't be long.
"Fine." He said stealing a quick kiss and driving to school.
"But you do know that when we're at school, you are NOT going to get away from me that easily, even if it means having to bang you in the damn classroom." He said smirking, I smiled and leaned over to his ear and said, "Don't worry, I got a few new moves I wanna show you anyway." I kissed his ear and brushed one hand over his little friend below, getting a reaction I expected I laughed a bit and sat back down properly.
This is my life with Duo Maxwell, and I'm hoping that it'll last forever, and I know that Solo's watching over us, and I'm sure that a friend of Duo's would also think like Duo. So yes, he probably watches over us when we really didn't need him too, even when it's supposed to be just the two of us, somehow there always seemed to be a third presence.
"Relena."
"Yeah Duo?"
"Aishiteru."
"Aishiteru too koibito." I said in reply as Duo pulled up at the school parking spot and gave me a deep passionate kiss.
At the moment, I have no worries, no need to worry, as long as Duo's here with me, then I'm happy.
Duo, my Duo, my baby, my devil, my koibito…
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OWARI
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Sandra: That's it! I'm done! And I'm kinda proud! Sorry the beginning was so horrible, but hey, everything worked out! Hehe!
Solo, I know, I probably got everything wrong, but Solo played the honourable part here!!! Even if it was very short part!
OK BYE EVERYONE! REMEMBER TO REVIEW FOR A SEQUEL!!!!