Sorry for the really really long delay. I had trouble with this particular chapter, and didn't want to put anything out until it was decent enough. Hope you guys like it.
Life Skills: Chapter 4
It wasn't hard for Duo to find Heero in the cafeteria. It was still quite early before people would begin to flood to the large room. Then again, Heero was the only one sitting at a whole table alone with an egg in front of him. Duo sighed to himself as he observed the fellow pilot. The teen looked slightly hostile in a calm sort of way, and he shot glares at anyone who neared his table.
Duo slowly approached the table and nervously stood beside the it. He waited for Heero to say something but was disappointed when he wasn't even acknowledged. He tried clearing his throat but Heero just concentrated even harder on the mashed potatoes he was eating.
"Heero?" Duo tried quietly. "Heero please let me talk to you."
"Why." Was the dead toned reply. Duo lowered himself down to sit across from Heero at the table.
"Because I want to help you do this." He said as he motioned to the egg.
Heero snorted. "You didn't before."
Duo lowered his eyes. "I reacted wrong. I shouldn't judged this thing so fast." Duo's eyes met with Heero's. "I'm really sorry. Please let me work with you again."
Silence stretched between the two for a few minutes before Heero looked at Duo.
"I don't believe that you want to do this, but I will work with you." Was all that Heero said before he went back to the mashed potatoes.
Duo sat quietly as he watched Heero eat. He wanted to find a way to make it up to the Wing pilot, but he wasn't quite sure how. Most importantly though was the fact that he had to start taking the whole egg business seriously.
"It would probably be a good idea for you to eat." Heero's voice startled Duo out of his musings. Duo grinned sheepishly went to get some food.
Heero shook his head and looked over to where Duo was sitting cross-legged on his bed. He was looking at the list of things they had yet to do with Gary.
"Ne Hero? It says we have to play with it. What should we do?" Heero looked around the room for something they could do. He couldn't find anything.
"I don't know."
Duo scratched his head. "Me either." He rested his chin on his hand. "So how do you think Trowa and Quatre are doing with parenting. I bet they are gonna teach it how to make music or something like that." Heero raised an eyebrow. "What?! They got that whole flute and violin thing going. It could happen!" Duo grinned.
Heero stood. "Do you think that if we put Gary with their egg it could count as playing?" Heero asked.
Duo's eyes widened. "Heero, that's a great idea!" Duo grabbed Gary of the bed and ran past Heero to the door. "What are we waiting for! We don't have all day." Duo wanted to laugh at the bewildered look on Trowa's face. It was quite obvious that Quatre had completely went over the top when he went shopping. There was a variety of baby stuff scattered over the beds in the room, all of which Quatre had bought for Kae. Although how the egg was suppose to use them was unknown to Duo. From the look of it, neither did Trowa.
"So Quatre, where did you get all of this stuff any way?" Duo asked as he twirled a teething ring with his finger.
"There was this little gift shop at the mall I went to that had a huge section devoted to new born babies." He smiled brightly. "I got a little carried away, but I had so much fun."
Duo stole a glance at Heero. The silent teen was examining some of the things that Quatre had bought with a very serious look of concentration. It was almost as if some of the items were foreign objects to him.
"Quatre, have you eaten yet?" Trowa's quiet voice asked.
"Me and Kae ate when we went shopping." He answered as he began putting the baby stuff away. Trowa turned to question Duo.
"Me and Heero ate a little bit earlier than normal." Duo answered before Trowa could ask.
Trowa nodded. "I'm am going to go and eat then." He said as he began to leave.
"Wait Trowa! Do you want some company? I could go with you." Quatre stopped what he was doing and looked up.
"It's all right, I'll be fine." He replied. When he saw the slightly hurt look on the blondes face though, he added, "But I wouldn't mind your company."
"Great!" He turned to face Heero and Duo. "Umm guys, I forgot to ask why you were here." He looked apologetically at the two.
"S'ok Q, we just wanted to see if we could make a play date for Kae and Gary." Duo grinned happily.
"I think that's really good idea." He looked at Trowa as if in question. "How about tomorrow?" Trowa nodded.
Duo nodded. "Sounds good. After class?"
"Sure." Quatre said. Duo flopped down onto his bed and whined. "Heero, now we have to find some way to entertain this e- I mean Gary." Heero stared at him for a moment.
"Why don't you tell him some of your jokes, at least he won't be able to tell you how dumb they are."
"Heero! Your so meaaaan." Duo tried to look hurt but ended up laughing.
Heero almost smirked as he put Gary back into his box bed.
To be continued!
I hope this isn't too bad, I rewrote it 3 times because I just wasn't happy enough. I hope people are still reading this lol Reviews very welcome! I promise the next chapter won't take so long, I just had to get over this one hurdle.