Reason for Living

Chapter Four

Day after...

Never again would he willingly drag himself to a wedding. What had occurred had been pure torture, worse that anything Dr. J had put him through. How could men put up with it? Weddings were something females enjoyed. Men were just pulled unwillingly along for the ride, or so he concluded. The memories of what had taken place at the reception still chilled him to his bones.

And never had he met a more confusing female than that friend of the bride's. Tsukino Usagi was it? It had been scary how the girls had all rushed to catch the bouquet. One would not have been mistaken to think that it was made of solid gold. It reminded him of Relena's dogged pursuit of him during the war. There had been a single minded determination in each feminine face to get that bouquet, consequences be damned. And they were supposedly the weaker sex? Ha! What a load of baloney.

That blonde chick Usagi had caught it, only to have it slip from her hand as she was pushed forward by an eager Relena and then snatched up by her as well. The anger that flashed in her eyes had been replaced by resignation while he had blanched in horror. He had not been aware of her presence before. What sin was he paying for that had been the cause of her presence he knew not but his desire to leave had increased threefold. He almost wished that the blonde had decked her for the push, hopefully knocking her out. Alas it was not so.

Instead it was time for the guys to catch the garter. Moving slowly away from the gathering crowd of men, he made sure that he was not in the sight of his determined admirer only to have something more terrible than one of Hitler's concentration camps happen to him. He caught the garter. Immediately her attention zeroed on him and he groaned in pain. He tried dropping it but everyone had already noticed. It was too late and for once the Perfect Soldier Heero Yui cursed his quick reflexes.

Snapping back to the present, he dared not think about what had occurred after but surely that Tsukino Usagi would hate him along with the 'father' of the bride and basically the whole group of them who were the bride's close friends. It seemed certain that he would have to forego further invitations to anything held by the couple, if they could find him, that is.

Right now, he had something else to deal with. As the handyman for this apartment complex he had an easy job and a free place to live until he moved on. It also meant that he was on call twenty four/seven and despite the early hour he had an apartment to go fix for the new tenant.

Moving into a new apartment was always hell. Especially when she had no money to rent the one that really appealed to her. Usagi sighed as she climbed up the stair to her apartment with the heavy box. She was hoping that the building's handyman would be there already so she could have him show her how to install her appliances and basically tell what was wrong and how much it would cost her to repaint. Maybe she could even get him to help her.

Usagi trudged up the stairs slowly, her small frame unable to to bear the brunt of the weight of the box. She decided that the first thing the handy man need to do was fix the damnable elevator which was out of order. She could not take much more of this heavy lifting and was now wishing that she had enlisted the help of friends. Oh well, she would get the handyman to do it.

Finally reaching the fifth floor, she went to apartment 206 and lay down her burden to open the door. While accomplishing that task she heard the light sound of footsteps behind her and turned to the person with a ready smile. One which dropped as soon as she saw that it was the last person she wanted to see.