Time Heals- Chapter 7

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For about two months, Ami and Makoto had been hanging out. Sometimes Duo would come with Ami, and sometimes not. But this night, everyone was getting together. That is, the boys, Ami, and Makoto.

Makoto had been hesitant about joining the party, which was for Duo's birthday. Duo had told her not to worry about it, but she still felt like she was treading on broken glass when it came to Ami and her new friends.

"Mako-chan!" Ami shouted in a near panicked voice. "What am I going to wear!?!?"

Makoto looked at the blue haired woman in surprise. 'When does Ami worry about what to wear? Then again, when has Ami ever fallen for a guy?' Grinning at Ami's predicament, she went in to help her friend.

"Here, Ami" Makoto shouted from her pile of Ami's clothes. She held up a Royal blue scoop neck shirt with long sleeves. "This and a pair of black slacks would work wonders!"

Ami glanced at Makoto and grinned. 'That would work. Nice enough to be special, yet casual enough to make it seem like I'm not trying hard! Perfect!' "That'll work! Thanks Mako-chan!" Ami told her while grabbing the shirt out Mako's hand.

Ami glanced at herself in the mirror. The clothes DID look great on her. Muttering a 'Thank you' to Setsuna for giving her the credit card she used to buy the shirt with, Ami flew out of the bathroom where she had changed her clothes.

Makoto whistled. 'Ami must want to look good for this guy. Wonder if he feels the same?' Thinking back to her encounters with Duo, she nodded to herself. 'Yep, he likes her.'

While Makoto was scheming on how to get Ami and Duo together, Ami was wrapping her present to Duo. She had gotten him a movie poster of one of the old movies from her time that he adored. 'I hope he likes this.' Worry began to crease her brow. 'I really hope he does!'

A few minutes before the party was supposed to start, Ami and Makoto left Ami's apartment to head over to Duo's. As they neared they could hear the music.

The music was blaring loudly inside Duo's apartment, but not loudly enough that the neighbors complained. The party had started by the time Ami and Makoto had gotten there.

When Ami had entered the room, Duo had immediately gone over and said 'Hello.' A polite nod of his head to Makoto said with out words, that she was welcome there.

Makoto sighed. She had thought that she wasn't really wanted there. From the early impression she had gotten from Duo, he was steamed about how she had treated Ami. But as the saying goes, Forgive and forget.

It was only the second time Makoto had seen Ami's other friends. And it was the first she had gotten to speak to them.

None of them really said much, but Heero said not a word. He merely nodded his head. Quatre smiled and actually spoke. He had said 'Hello' and 'What a pleasure to meet one of Ami's friends.' Trowa kind of nodded and waved a bit. Wufei ignored her.

'Gee...' Makoto mused. 'Duo must be the personable person in the group....no wonder why Ami likes him! But still, green eyes over there is pretty cute!' Makoto's eyes drifted over to Trowa, sizing him up.

Ami, after being asked to dance by Duo, had looked over towards Makoto to see if she was alright. Smiling, she noticed that she was sizing up Trowa. And unknown to Makoto, Trowa was doing the same.

Leaning over to whisper in Duo's ear, she told him what she saw.

Duo looked over at his friends. Yep. Both green eyed people were sizing each other up. And from the looks in their eyes, they liked what they saw.

"Should we try and play matchmaker?" Duo asked Ami.

Ami's answer was to grin at him and nodded. 'This should be fun!'

After her dance with Duo, Ami sided up towards Makoto. "Trowa's pretty cute isn't he?"

Makoto looked shocked. She didn't think that anyone noticed that she had been staring at him. Blushing, she shot back, "What about Duo? I thought that you thought he was cute!"

It was Ami's turn to blush. "Duo is unbelievably cute, but I'm pulling a Minako on you and trying to set you up. You should go ask him out. He's just shy."

The even and 'I am very wise' tone of voice that Ami was using, almost got Makoto to go ask said guy out.

On the other side of the room, Duo was having almost the same conversation with Trowa.

"Mako-chan's pretty cute isn't she?"

Trowa, with a light tinge of a blush on his cheeks, nodded. "What about Ami?" he asked back.

"Oh, Ami's the cutest, but I plan on asking her out before she leaves tonight, so that means she's taken. But her pretty friend there isn't! She's just a little un-nerved right now. Doesn't want to mess up her friendship with Ami again. You should go ask her out!"

Duo's playful voice got a "Maybe" from Trowa.

The party lasted a few more hours, but the Music was cut off at ten. The hours after that, they played a few games at Duo's insistence, and watched a movie.

By two A.M, everyone was setting out for home. Heero, Wufei and Quatre left almost immediately. All three had jobs the same day.

Duo, owning the junk yard, closed it saying that that was his birthday present to himself. Neither he, nor Ami had to work.

As Makoto was leaving, as she had to work that day as well, Trowa spoke to her for the first time during the party. He asked to walk her home. After accepting, they both left.

"Awww....How sweet!" Both Ami and Duo mouthed to each other.

Ami was leaving just as Makoto and Trowa disappeared from her sight. But before she made it out the door fully, Duo called her.

"Hey Ami!"

She turned back. "Yes Duo?"

"I wanted to say think you for the Poster. Do you know how long I was looking for that thing?"

Ami nodded. "That's why I got it silly!"

Looking sheepish, Duo grinned. "There was one think I wanted to ask though."

"Yes?" Ami asked.

Duo took a deep breath of air in preparation. "You doing anything tomorrow evening?"

Shaking her head 'no', she looked at him quizzically. What was he going to ask?

"Well then," he began, seeming to have lost some of his courage. He finished with a squeaky sounding "Would you like to go to dinner with me tomorrow night?"

Ami was shocked. 'He's asking me out? Does he like me?' She didn't' realize that she had fallen silent until Duo's face had fallen.

"I understand if you don't want to..."

He was cut off mid sentence by Ami almost shouting "Yes! I'd love to go!"

Duo's face brightened. "You will!?! YES!" He began to bounce up and down in his joy.

Ami grinned at his antics, how she loved them. She even laughed as he picked her up and spun her around.

"Good night Duo, or as it would be, Good morning..." Ami said in good bye.

"Bye Ames! I'll see you at six!" Duo told her as she retreated back to her apartment.

"I got a date tonight!" the both of them thought as they hopped into bed.

Later that day, Ami got a phone call from Makoto. By the tone of her voice, Ami could tell that Makoto was jumping for joy.

"Mako-chan? What happened?"

"Ames! I got great news!" Makoto happily told her.

"Well...?" Ami inquired.

"Trowa asked me to dinner tonight after his show at the circus! I didn't even know he worked at a circus! Those are really fun you know!"

Ami smiled at the phone as Makoto rambled on and on. 'Looks like we both got dates tonight.'

As the afternoon wore on, Ami was glad that Duo had closed the junk yard. She probably would have been blushing the entire day away.

And she was really tired from the party. Barring Makoto's call earlier that day, Ami slept almost till 3 PM.

Thankfully, for the evening, Ami had the perfect outfit in mind.

She remembered Duo's distaste of fancy restaurants, she smiled. 'One more thing in common' she thought to herself.

After her shower, Ami pulled out a nice pair of blue jeans that were black in color. With that she added a deep green, plain long sleeved shirt.

A black choker adorned with a sliver snowflake dangle, the same one given to her by Duo for her first birthday in this time. Her black and blue watch was the last thing Ami put on.

The doorbell rang startling Ami for a second.

Duo was exactly on time for the date.

Duo was wearing his customary black outfit. "Black matches everything" he had once told Ami when she commentated on his wardrobe color scheme.

For some reason he seemed nervous.

Gracefully, Ami stepped out of her apartment and locked the door behind her. "Shall we?" she asked.

Duo grinned. "We shall! Dinner and Ice Skating sound good?"

Ami smiled happily. "Sounds perfect!"

When they arrived at the restaurant of Duo's choice, it really wasn't a fancy one. And for that Ami was grateful. The place was called 'Double 'T' Diner.'

Duo commented. "This place has awesome burgers and killer shakes!"

Ami grinned. 'Lightening Rose' is nice, but a little on the fancy side, and it had one down fall. "Lightening Rose' didn't serve Milkshakes, one of Ami's favorites.

Dinner was over too soon for Ami's tastes. But they had been there for about two hours already. Ami found that despite working with him, she enjoyed just talking with him too.

They talked about a lot of stuff. More on what her time was like, what youmas were like. They talked about his life a bit, since it was still slightly painful for him.

But Ami did learn something new. She hadn't known that Duo was an orphan. Ami was grateful for her parents. True, she never saw her father, and rarely her mom, but she knew them. Duo had no clue.

Getting off the topic, they had decided that it was time to go skating. Duo claimed that he was an expert, and Ami knew she was good.

After they had gotten their skates and were on the ice, it became apparent that Duo wasn't very good.

"Alright, I admit, I'm not good at this...I down right stink!" He had added the last part as he fell flat on his bum for the fifth time.

"Would you like some help there Duo?" Ami called, a smirk on her face.

"As long as I don't freeze my butt off, then I'd be glad of the help!" Duo replied in a gallant tone of voice.

Giggling, Ami pulled him to his feet. "Damn girl!" Duo commented. "Why are all girls good at this thing?"

Ami stifled another giggle. "We have a good sense of balance! That's why! Now take my hand and skate with me! I won't let you fall!"

"That should be my line" Duo muttered good naturedly.

Ami grinned as she helped him up. "It takes practice that's all."

"Hey, Duo?" Ami asked, looking past him at another couple on the ice.

"Yeah?"

"Look at who else is here!" Ami voiced, amused. She pointed behind Duo.

Turning, he grinned widely.

There on the ice was Makoto and Trowa.

Makoto was skating as if she had lived her whole life on the ice, and Trowa was almost as good, only slowing on curves.

Duo laughed. "Man! He's giving me a bad rep, skating that good!"

"Should we interrupt or no?" Ami asked.

"Nah" Duo told her. "It's much more fun to spy!"

"You are incorrigible!" Ami told him mockingly aghast.

Duo only smirked in return. "You know it!"

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Alright people. Here's an extra long chapter from me to you! Reason being: If I don't update by the 28th of March, then I won't be updating for about a week. I'll be out of town all next week. ^-^' Sorry folks. But all good things will come to those who wait. And Minako will be in the next chapter! So, review and I will try and work myself to near death. No review, no new chapters! I want 4 of them this time!! Nyaa! =P

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