Scars

Chapter 1:

Healing Scars

By: Yuy Ren

"What the HELL are they thinking? I canNOT take 12 courses this year! It just doesn't WORK!!" Jenna screamed furiously, as she slammed her locker shut, causing the students nearby to turn their heads. However, those students only looked on with mild interest; this scene before them was not so unfamiliar. Jenna was known to have outbursts of emotion and would occasionally scare onlookers with her self-ranting. Jenna stomped down the hall, smashing lockers at random.

" 'I can't take 12 courses' I said." SLAM! " 'Oh, don't worry, honey, there's always night school" SLAM! "and weekends! Oh and also your winter break!' " SLAM! "Mom, Dad, I have a life! " SLAM! "And friends!" SLAM! "and a boyfri-....ok, wait, don't have one of those..but that doesn't MATTER!" SLAM!

NOW people were starting to get a little scared... a girl that had smashed in six lockers on Monday morning was not someone you would like to mess with. Jenna's worry was incomprehensible to most people. She had been getting top marks in pretty much everything she took, but somehow, this being her senior year, her parents were asking for more. Twelve courses... that's four more courses than the average senior year high-schooler at AYR High.

Students murmured on about Jenna's peculiar behavior and somehow... the gossip conversations switched to something about a new transfer teacher...and something about him being very good looking.

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As he walked down the hall, he could feel the eyes on him. They were scorching his skin... such piercing power. Suddenly, he no longer felt comfortable and quickened his steps. Room 207... Room 207.... 206, no... 208... no... Wait, where was 207? Oh yeah... the hallway had two walls, he turned around and walked into room 207.

It was a noisy class. Apparently nobody noticed his entrance. Well, one boy had seen him come in and grinned his way, but turned around and continued to converse with his classmates.

Apparently my student-looks are still present He thought and cleared his throat... several times... until he made sure the message of He-Is-Boss got through.

Being a man of very few words, he briefly eyed the class, during which interval he conducted a head count. One was missing. A girl. He looked down at his attendance list and read through the names. He had looked at the photo of every student in his 2 classes and for this Senior Year Chemistry-University Prep. Course, the only face missing was...

"I'm sorry I'm late!" came from the door that had just swung open. He eyed her... then stared.

"Nina!" he breathed.

She glanced at him, obviously confused. "Huh? I'm sorry, my name's Relena Darlian... You must have mistaken me for someone else."

He stared again and Relena was beginning to feel a little uneasy. He looked lost for a moment but quickly wiped the look off his face. That's right. He thought, I HAVE mistaken you for someone else... Nina... is different. Less open. But they look so much alike, how can that- Realizing that the entire class was starting to shift around restlessly and the poor girl was still standing at the doorway, pinned down by his stare. He shook his head ever so slightly and motioned her to sit down.

Clearing his throat for real, he commenced with the introduction. "I'm Mr. Yuy filling in for Ms. Rey. I'm here for the remainder of the year."

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Jenna spent the entire Chemistry class period glancing over a Relena. Her friend had been short of breath for a really long time, clearly shocked by the stare she received earlier. Those were pretty intense, even for Relena, the girl who was known to be immune to stares and hardly ever shying away. This new teacher didn't speak another complete sentence for the rest of the time. As a matter of fact, he only said the words "Read this.", "Do this.", and  "any questions?" and used them interchangeably. However his handouts and notes on the board were very specific, not giving much to ask for questions, hence the class stayed silent, and frantically copied off the board, hopelessly trying to match Mr. Yuy's speed.

Relena was still in shock, but occasionally, Jenna noticed that she stole a few glances at Mr.Yuy, but lowered her head as soon as she noticed that Jenna had noticed. Taking down the last few lines of notes from the board, Jenna prepared, in her mind, a list of questions she will ask her friend at lunch.

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Heero entered the apartment and threw his set of keys into the key basket hanging by the door. He noticed that two other sets were present. One set had a little violin ornament attached and the other a Chinese dragon. The laughter from one of the rooms in this five bedroom apartment (A.N. Do those even exist?? O_o) and the clink of wineglasses confirmed his suspicion. He rubbed his thumbs against his forehead, hoping for the mild headache to disappear, slung his jacket on a kitchen stool, got himself a wineglass from the cupboard and followed the laughter.

"And then he said. 'I'm sorry, I didn't see you there. Is there anything I can get you?' HAHA! Good thing it was my break spare and I was around. Had to pull him away from the stunned students." Quatre laughed, red-faced. The blonde had obviously been drinking and with his alcohol tolerance, or lack thereof, he probably only had one or two sips. He and Wufei were sprawled on the floor, enjoying some good red wine.

Wufei took a sip and snorted. "Knowing him, that was probably the longest sentence he said in the entire day. Can't believe I missed it. All the fun happens when I'm teaching. But what was with the 'is there anything I can get you?' " Wufei inquired, more like making conversation than actually curious.

"I was distracted." It came from behind the two drinking friends and as they turned around, they saw Heero at the doorway. Heero sighed and entered the room, sat down beside Wufei leaning against Quatre's bed and held out his wineglass.

"Distracted?" Quatre exclaimed in awe as Wufei filled the waiting wineglass. "distracted enough to knock a student down the stairs? On your first day too! And the 'is there anything I can get you!" HAHA, how does that fit in? That doesn't even make sense! What happened to the old-fashioned 'Are you ok?' "

"I told you, I was distracted." Heero said monotonously and chugged down his drink.

"You were distracted? What? Earth stopped rotating too?" Came the reply from the doorway as a braided 24 year-old walked into the room, with a wineglass in hand. He plopped down beside Quatre, tsk-ing (A.N. that a word?) "Man! Drinking without me, eh? Come on, spread the joy!" Not waiting for Wufei to serve him, he grabbed the bottle and started pouring some himself.

Heero could sense by the silence in the room that the three were waiting for him to speak. Sighing once more he started talking. "It's about Nina. I don't know, I saw this student in my first class and I thought it was Nina so.."

"Dude, it's ok." Duo interrupted. Suddenly the light atmosphere in the room disappeared. "You don't have to talk about it if you don't feel like it."

"Hn."

The silence was broken with a knock on the doorframe and a tall man shadowed over the group. "Am I interrupting?"

"Yes, Trowa, but it's welcomed." Quatre murmured and waved at Trowa to hand over his wineglass in his left hand.

Handing it over, Trowa sat down and threw a plaque onto the center of the campfire. "Check it out."

Heero, glad for the interruption and change of topic, picked up the plaque. "Employee of the month?" He read, raising an eyebrow.

"They give those at gas stations?" Quatre asked, giving the filled glass back to Trowa.

"Apparently so…. SO… Heero, how was your first day of school? Haha."

"Interesting." Heero voiced whilst thinking. Gonna be a LONG year.

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TBC

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