The most popular boy
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Disclaimer: I don't own them. *sniffle*
Warnings: Shonen ai, tiny bit o' angst, I'm not sure what else yet.
C&C: Yes please. I'm kinda new at this writing bit, so let me know if I should spend any more time on it.
A/N: Thank you to all my lovely reviewers!! You guys really make a girl feel at home here at FFN ^.^ If any of you can think up any suggestions as to where my story goes (not just this one, this goes for all my stories), let me know!! I love you guys! *sniffle* Your feedback is what makes this story keep going.
Archive: I'll let you put it up wherever you beautiful little hearts desire, just let me know first, kay?
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The Friday of the Homecoming dance was quiet. The voting had taken place on Wednesday and the "late ballot" was cast on Thursday, but Friday, however, was quiet. As the norm dictates, most girls had taken the day off to get themselves prettied up for the dance tonight. Among these girls, were the nominees for Queen. Only Meiran was the only one not have taken the day off to indulge in making herself glamorous. So, when Lunch hour came, the cafeteria was pretty much empty and the boys had a rare chance to see each other during school hours.
Duo waved frantically as he saw Wufei enter the cafeteria, "HEY WU! OVER HERE!!"
Wufei scowled at the misuse of his name, but thought it pointless to try and correct Duo from across the room. He made his way to the nearly full round table and pulled up a chair. Seated, were Quatre, Trowa, Heero, Meiran, and (of course) Duo. He sat himself stiffly next to Meiran, putting an arm gently at the backrest of her chair, making sure not to touch *her,* otherwise, he'd get yelled at.
"I was just thinking what a nice quiet day it was without so many chattering onnas, but then I walk in here and you just had to ruin it," Wufei sighed.
He was promptly smacked on the back of the head by Meiran.
"I didn't mean you!! You don't chatter, you just bite and hiss-never mind," Wufei ran his last three words together and braced himself for impact.
Meiran smacked him again. "That's right, 'never mind'! If anyone here is hiss-y, it's *you.*"
"Yes dear."
That got a roar of laughter from the entire table, mostly from Duo's side.
"Wu! She's got you *so* whipped!"
"Shut up, idiot."
Quatre was trying to stifle a giggle while Trowa just stared at his food. Heero looked amused, but tried to keep a straight face.
"You'd be *whipped* too if you had a girlfriend."
"HEY!" Meiran looked offended, but Wufei placed a hand on hers and continued to speak.
"You just don't understand that making her happy holds a little more weight than my being right."
"Aw... that was sweet," Quatre looked tearful, he was such a sap.
Meiran looked smug.
"So, why aren't you out getting ready for prom, Meiran?" Heero asked.
"Me? Waste a school day just to get ready for some silly dance? No, thank you. I don't need any *professionals* messing with my hair and make-up. I'm perfectly capable of doing that on my own."
"I wonder why Duo's not out getting his hair done," Trowa thought out loud, and promptly caught a balled-up napkin to the face. "Not, cool, man."
Everyone joined in laughter this time around.
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That evening, it was decided that they would all arrive at Quatre's house and from there, they'd take one of the two Winner limos to the dance (it made more sense to buy two limos considering all the sisters Quatre had) . It would look good for the whole court to arrive together, well, the whole court minus Relena. She said that as the homecoming queen, she should ride *separately* from the court but was unable to get Duo to come with her.
The boys were all ready and waiting there as the girls bean showing up. All the guys wore tuxedos; Wufei's had a mandarin cut to the jacket, as did Heero's, only just slightly varied, Quatre's had a classic look to his, with the silk bow-tie, cumber bun, and gray vest, and Trowa's had sleek Italian lines to it with a cravat as an accent.
The girls, though had a little more variation in their dresses. Hilde had on a very classic black Audrey Hepburn-style dress with black satin gloves, and her hair pinned down with little rhinestone accents here and there. Noin had on a mossy green gown, off the shoulder, with sleek lines and a watery-like material that flowed nicely when she moved. Meiran was the last to arrive and she wore a stunning red embroidered kimono dress with a keyhole cut out above her bosom and at her back, between the shoulder blades. Her hair was pinned up with a pair of black chopsticks that had red beaded jewels hanging from cords at the top of them. At her shoulder, was the head of a dragon, whose body spanned the back of her dress, and tail finished off at the bottom front of her dress. The slits on both sides of the dress accentuated her long legs, which ended in black felt shoes, with little red accents along the border.
Wufei began to hyperventilate.
"Ladies! You all look absolutely *stunning*!" Duo gushed and went to hug each of them.
"Maxwell, get off," Noin railed, "you're ruining my dress!"
Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei gave the girls their court corsages, made with white roses and sivler ribbons and stuff, but Meiran's was just slightly different, in that Wufei had had them add red to it because he knew it was her favorite color.
The three boys led the girls to the limo with Duo and Heero following. Neither boy had gotten a date, Duo saying that it wouldn't be fair to the girls, since he really didn't want to lead any of them on, and Heero because he as gay, but no one knew that for a fact yet.
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The ballroom was beautifully decorated and the dance was well on it's way when they got there. They all took turns dancing or sitting or just hovering by the punch bar, but all in all, they were having fun.
At least they were until Relena arrived and honed in on Duo, by the punch bowl, shoveling down chips and finger sandwiches, next to a very amused looking Heero.
Duo stopped mid-bite as Relena made her way to him and latched on to his arm.
"Hey Duo, baby," she purred. "I knew you wouldn't let me down."
"Hi, Lena."
"Relena," Heero greeted, but was completely ignored.
Relena pulled herself into Duo's personal space, running a hand down his chest, "Will you dance with me, Duo? Please? I know you said you don't like dances but will *one* dance *really* hurt?"
Duo, being the gentleman that he is, couldn't turn her down again so he nodded and led her to the dance floor. Heero, meanwhile had to content himself watching the crowd. Even being here for a few months hadn't made Heero any other friends other than Duo and the people he came here with tonight, so he sat by himself watching as Duo danced with the blonde cheerleader.
Heero took the time to notice that her dress was very pink and very clingy. He felt like being sick when she all but threw herself at Duo on the dance floor.
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Duo danced with Relena to some song he vaguely remembered hearing on the radio once. It was fairly upbeat and the people around them were trying to freak dance without being caught by the chaperones. He was quickly caught off guard when Relena pressed herself against him, moved his hand from her waist to her backside, lifted her leg a little so she just about straddled his thigh, and put her one hand behind his neck, letting the other roam his chest.
"Lena! What do you think you're doing?" He tried putting some distance between them, but Relena had a tight grip.
"Come on, baby, stop playing. I know you want me, lets go out to my limo and get to know each other better." She pressed her body flush to his, rolling her hips slightly, "What do you say, Duo?"
Duo promptly disentangled himself from her invading limbs, "No, Relena. Please stop harassing me."
He left the dance floor and took a seat next to Heero.
"Sorry, Hee-man, I didn't mean to leave you hanging like that."
"Not a problem. You were being a gentleman and accepted a lady's request for a dance."
"Yeah, then I left because she's *no* lady."
"Point taken."
Just then, Relena came to where Duo and Heero were sitting an slapped Heero hard across the cheek, "You little chink fag! I know what you're doing, and I won't let you turn *MY* Duo into a queer like you. Bad enough that my own brother is a fucking man-whore for that Treize guy, I won't let you're kind mess up anyone else!"
Relena then turned around and made her way to the other side of the ballroom, leaving a very stunned, very pale Heero in her wake. He didn't have to turn around to see that all his friends had come back to stand close to him, the dance floor by now was empty as they were making room to announce the homecoming king and queen.
Heero couldn't take it any more and just stalked out of the room. His friends would have followed, but by the time he had regained control of his body, they had all already been called up to the center of the ballroom. The king and queen were about to be announced.
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Duo hugged Meiran as the tiara was placed on her head and led her to the dance floor to dance the required song for the king and queen. Keeping her at a very respectable distance from himself (he didn't want to face Wufei's wrath, nor Meiran's for that matter) he leaned in a little to whisper in Mei's ear.
"I swear I can't stand that bitch, Relena. She was so cruel. What would make her lash out at Heero?"
Meiran sighed, "Are you really that blind, Duo?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Heero. He likes you."
"Of course he does, I like him too, we're best friends, remember?"
"No, I think he *really* likes you."
Duo's breath hitched.
"Does it bother you?"
"N-no. Of course not."
"Maybe we should talk to Heero. We all know he's gay, or at least, we had some hint of it from the way he acts towards you when we're in our little group. He should at least know that we won't throw him out like Zech's friends abandoned him when he came out."
"Yeah, you're right."
"Aren't I always?"
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The next day brought the Homecoming game. Duo played his best and the crowd adored him. Heero meanwhile, found a seat by himself at the top of the bleachers, away from anyone.
"This seat taken?" a familiar voice asked.
"No."
"Heero, right?"
Heero looked up to see the guy called Zechs sit next to him, another older, well dressed man sitting on Zech's other side.
"Yes."
"I heard about Relena's little outbreak at the dance, I know the feeling."
"Hn."
"Oh, how rude of me, this is my partner, Treize. Treize, this is Heero."
They nodded to each other in acknowledgement.
"You know, they won't alienate you from their group," Zechs continued talking even if it appeared as if Heero were ignoring him. "My friends were another story, then when that group offered to take me in, I was so resentful, I ended up alienating *myself.* It didn't matter though, I like my solitude. And no one tries to pick fights with me any more. *You* on the other hand, I advise you to be careful. With Relena on your case, I have to warn you that she won't make your life any easier."
Not another word was said after that. At least not until roaring laughter erupted when Relena was accidentally tackled into the mud by some guys chasing after the football. Being a cheerleader isn't *all* glamour and glitz.
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You like? I hope so!! One question. Is my fic *really* like all other school fics? O.O
Darrk Katt: I was in color guard too and I'm damn proud of it! (GO MEI!) And yes, I admit, I'm also an AP ditz. *blush*
Karen: You got your "Relena annoys Duo" scene you wanted.
Cilver klaw: All the gundam sketches already had names; Heero created and named them. The other boys just picked the ones they liked.
Thank you to my reviewers who voted: Shinigami88220, Karen, Chibis Unleashed, and Solo's Ghost.
The votes:
Duo: 2, Wufei: 2, Quatre: 1, Trowa: 0
Meiran: 3, Relena: 1, Hilde: 1, Noin: 0
The tie between Duo and Wufei was settled with a coin toss. Duo won, but Wufei gets to keep the queen for the rest of the evening.
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Disclaimer: I don't own them. *sniffle*
Warnings: Shonen ai, tiny bit o' angst, I'm not sure what else yet.
C&C: Yes please. I'm kinda new at this writing bit, so let me know if I should spend any more time on it.
A/N: Thank you to all my lovely reviewers!! You guys really make a girl feel at home here at FFN ^.^ If any of you can think up any suggestions as to where my story goes (not just this one, this goes for all my stories), let me know!! I love you guys! *sniffle* Your feedback is what makes this story keep going.
Archive: I'll let you put it up wherever you beautiful little hearts desire, just let me know first, kay?
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The Friday of the Homecoming dance was quiet. The voting had taken place on Wednesday and the "late ballot" was cast on Thursday, but Friday, however, was quiet. As the norm dictates, most girls had taken the day off to get themselves prettied up for the dance tonight. Among these girls, were the nominees for Queen. Only Meiran was the only one not have taken the day off to indulge in making herself glamorous. So, when Lunch hour came, the cafeteria was pretty much empty and the boys had a rare chance to see each other during school hours.
Duo waved frantically as he saw Wufei enter the cafeteria, "HEY WU! OVER HERE!!"
Wufei scowled at the misuse of his name, but thought it pointless to try and correct Duo from across the room. He made his way to the nearly full round table and pulled up a chair. Seated, were Quatre, Trowa, Heero, Meiran, and (of course) Duo. He sat himself stiffly next to Meiran, putting an arm gently at the backrest of her chair, making sure not to touch *her,* otherwise, he'd get yelled at.
"I was just thinking what a nice quiet day it was without so many chattering onnas, but then I walk in here and you just had to ruin it," Wufei sighed.
He was promptly smacked on the back of the head by Meiran.
"I didn't mean you!! You don't chatter, you just bite and hiss-never mind," Wufei ran his last three words together and braced himself for impact.
Meiran smacked him again. "That's right, 'never mind'! If anyone here is hiss-y, it's *you.*"
"Yes dear."
That got a roar of laughter from the entire table, mostly from Duo's side.
"Wu! She's got you *so* whipped!"
"Shut up, idiot."
Quatre was trying to stifle a giggle while Trowa just stared at his food. Heero looked amused, but tried to keep a straight face.
"You'd be *whipped* too if you had a girlfriend."
"HEY!" Meiran looked offended, but Wufei placed a hand on hers and continued to speak.
"You just don't understand that making her happy holds a little more weight than my being right."
"Aw... that was sweet," Quatre looked tearful, he was such a sap.
Meiran looked smug.
"So, why aren't you out getting ready for prom, Meiran?" Heero asked.
"Me? Waste a school day just to get ready for some silly dance? No, thank you. I don't need any *professionals* messing with my hair and make-up. I'm perfectly capable of doing that on my own."
"I wonder why Duo's not out getting his hair done," Trowa thought out loud, and promptly caught a balled-up napkin to the face. "Not, cool, man."
Everyone joined in laughter this time around.
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That evening, it was decided that they would all arrive at Quatre's house and from there, they'd take one of the two Winner limos to the dance (it made more sense to buy two limos considering all the sisters Quatre had) . It would look good for the whole court to arrive together, well, the whole court minus Relena. She said that as the homecoming queen, she should ride *separately* from the court but was unable to get Duo to come with her.
The boys were all ready and waiting there as the girls bean showing up. All the guys wore tuxedos; Wufei's had a mandarin cut to the jacket, as did Heero's, only just slightly varied, Quatre's had a classic look to his, with the silk bow-tie, cumber bun, and gray vest, and Trowa's had sleek Italian lines to it with a cravat as an accent.
The girls, though had a little more variation in their dresses. Hilde had on a very classic black Audrey Hepburn-style dress with black satin gloves, and her hair pinned down with little rhinestone accents here and there. Noin had on a mossy green gown, off the shoulder, with sleek lines and a watery-like material that flowed nicely when she moved. Meiran was the last to arrive and she wore a stunning red embroidered kimono dress with a keyhole cut out above her bosom and at her back, between the shoulder blades. Her hair was pinned up with a pair of black chopsticks that had red beaded jewels hanging from cords at the top of them. At her shoulder, was the head of a dragon, whose body spanned the back of her dress, and tail finished off at the bottom front of her dress. The slits on both sides of the dress accentuated her long legs, which ended in black felt shoes, with little red accents along the border.
Wufei began to hyperventilate.
"Ladies! You all look absolutely *stunning*!" Duo gushed and went to hug each of them.
"Maxwell, get off," Noin railed, "you're ruining my dress!"
Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei gave the girls their court corsages, made with white roses and sivler ribbons and stuff, but Meiran's was just slightly different, in that Wufei had had them add red to it because he knew it was her favorite color.
The three boys led the girls to the limo with Duo and Heero following. Neither boy had gotten a date, Duo saying that it wouldn't be fair to the girls, since he really didn't want to lead any of them on, and Heero because he as gay, but no one knew that for a fact yet.
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The ballroom was beautifully decorated and the dance was well on it's way when they got there. They all took turns dancing or sitting or just hovering by the punch bar, but all in all, they were having fun.
At least they were until Relena arrived and honed in on Duo, by the punch bowl, shoveling down chips and finger sandwiches, next to a very amused looking Heero.
Duo stopped mid-bite as Relena made her way to him and latched on to his arm.
"Hey Duo, baby," she purred. "I knew you wouldn't let me down."
"Hi, Lena."
"Relena," Heero greeted, but was completely ignored.
Relena pulled herself into Duo's personal space, running a hand down his chest, "Will you dance with me, Duo? Please? I know you said you don't like dances but will *one* dance *really* hurt?"
Duo, being the gentleman that he is, couldn't turn her down again so he nodded and led her to the dance floor. Heero, meanwhile had to content himself watching the crowd. Even being here for a few months hadn't made Heero any other friends other than Duo and the people he came here with tonight, so he sat by himself watching as Duo danced with the blonde cheerleader.
Heero took the time to notice that her dress was very pink and very clingy. He felt like being sick when she all but threw herself at Duo on the dance floor.
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Duo danced with Relena to some song he vaguely remembered hearing on the radio once. It was fairly upbeat and the people around them were trying to freak dance without being caught by the chaperones. He was quickly caught off guard when Relena pressed herself against him, moved his hand from her waist to her backside, lifted her leg a little so she just about straddled his thigh, and put her one hand behind his neck, letting the other roam his chest.
"Lena! What do you think you're doing?" He tried putting some distance between them, but Relena had a tight grip.
"Come on, baby, stop playing. I know you want me, lets go out to my limo and get to know each other better." She pressed her body flush to his, rolling her hips slightly, "What do you say, Duo?"
Duo promptly disentangled himself from her invading limbs, "No, Relena. Please stop harassing me."
He left the dance floor and took a seat next to Heero.
"Sorry, Hee-man, I didn't mean to leave you hanging like that."
"Not a problem. You were being a gentleman and accepted a lady's request for a dance."
"Yeah, then I left because she's *no* lady."
"Point taken."
Just then, Relena came to where Duo and Heero were sitting an slapped Heero hard across the cheek, "You little chink fag! I know what you're doing, and I won't let you turn *MY* Duo into a queer like you. Bad enough that my own brother is a fucking man-whore for that Treize guy, I won't let you're kind mess up anyone else!"
Relena then turned around and made her way to the other side of the ballroom, leaving a very stunned, very pale Heero in her wake. He didn't have to turn around to see that all his friends had come back to stand close to him, the dance floor by now was empty as they were making room to announce the homecoming king and queen.
Heero couldn't take it any more and just stalked out of the room. His friends would have followed, but by the time he had regained control of his body, they had all already been called up to the center of the ballroom. The king and queen were about to be announced.
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Duo hugged Meiran as the tiara was placed on her head and led her to the dance floor to dance the required song for the king and queen. Keeping her at a very respectable distance from himself (he didn't want to face Wufei's wrath, nor Meiran's for that matter) he leaned in a little to whisper in Mei's ear.
"I swear I can't stand that bitch, Relena. She was so cruel. What would make her lash out at Heero?"
Meiran sighed, "Are you really that blind, Duo?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Heero. He likes you."
"Of course he does, I like him too, we're best friends, remember?"
"No, I think he *really* likes you."
Duo's breath hitched.
"Does it bother you?"
"N-no. Of course not."
"Maybe we should talk to Heero. We all know he's gay, or at least, we had some hint of it from the way he acts towards you when we're in our little group. He should at least know that we won't throw him out like Zech's friends abandoned him when he came out."
"Yeah, you're right."
"Aren't I always?"
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The next day brought the Homecoming game. Duo played his best and the crowd adored him. Heero meanwhile, found a seat by himself at the top of the bleachers, away from anyone.
"This seat taken?" a familiar voice asked.
"No."
"Heero, right?"
Heero looked up to see the guy called Zechs sit next to him, another older, well dressed man sitting on Zech's other side.
"Yes."
"I heard about Relena's little outbreak at the dance, I know the feeling."
"Hn."
"Oh, how rude of me, this is my partner, Treize. Treize, this is Heero."
They nodded to each other in acknowledgement.
"You know, they won't alienate you from their group," Zechs continued talking even if it appeared as if Heero were ignoring him. "My friends were another story, then when that group offered to take me in, I was so resentful, I ended up alienating *myself.* It didn't matter though, I like my solitude. And no one tries to pick fights with me any more. *You* on the other hand, I advise you to be careful. With Relena on your case, I have to warn you that she won't make your life any easier."
Not another word was said after that. At least not until roaring laughter erupted when Relena was accidentally tackled into the mud by some guys chasing after the football. Being a cheerleader isn't *all* glamour and glitz.
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You like? I hope so!! One question. Is my fic *really* like all other school fics? O.O
Darrk Katt: I was in color guard too and I'm damn proud of it! (GO MEI!) And yes, I admit, I'm also an AP ditz. *blush*
Karen: You got your "Relena annoys Duo" scene you wanted.
Cilver klaw: All the gundam sketches already had names; Heero created and named them. The other boys just picked the ones they liked.
Thank you to my reviewers who voted: Shinigami88220, Karen, Chibis Unleashed, and Solo's Ghost.
The votes:
Duo: 2, Wufei: 2, Quatre: 1, Trowa: 0
Meiran: 3, Relena: 1, Hilde: 1, Noin: 0
The tie between Duo and Wufei was settled with a coin toss. Duo won, but Wufei gets to keep the queen for the rest of the evening.