(Hello. Let's hope I can finish a certain part of the story especially the Christmas and the New Year parts in time and you readers can help by sending reviews. Thank you)
After a long drive home, Heero parked his car in the driveway and got out. It was about 6:30 PM now. Remembering that Sango had told him that they were invited to the Maxwell's, he walked over to the house next door and knocked. The door opened and a man with brown hair that hung in a three foot braid appeared. "Hey, you must be Heero! My name is Duo. Pleasure to meet you!" he said and they shook hands. Duo led him to the living room where a woman he hadn't met before who had dark purple hair and azure eyes and his wife talking with each other as they sat on the sofa. "Hello Heero. This is Hilde, Duo's wife" Sango said introducing her to him. Heero reached down a little and shook hands with her as well. "By the way, lets all go and eat at the kitchen. Dinner's ready" Hilde said. They all went to the dinner table, and on it was pan American food. Other than McDonald's, both Sango and Heero had never tried other kinds of American food. "So, Heero, you're a teacher huh?" Duo asked as he slurped his spaghetti. "Oh, yes. I teach social studies and literature. What do you do?" Heero said answering the question asked and asked back one. "Oh I'm just a mechanic. And Hilde's a salesperson at the local flower shop." Duo said. "Oh, just to let you know, we're having a sale at the flower shop. 99 percent off everything for a year" Hilde said. "I see. Thank you Hilde" said Sango. Just then, the phone on the wall rang. Duo went to pick it up. "Hello? Maxwell residence here" A few moments later, he said. "Oh ok. Yeah. Sure" and hung up. "Oh Heero, that was Quatre" Duo said. "Do you mean Mr.Winner?" Heero asked. "Ouatre? Yes, of course. We're all good friends y'know" he said. "So what was it about?" Heero asked Duo curious. "Oh, nothing much. He said he was going to come over to your house later tonight." Sango and Heero finished their dinner and stayed a little bit longer and chatted before heading back home.
It was around eight o' clock when Quatre came. After he heard knocking, Heero went over to open the door and his colleague came in. They went to the living room where he introduced his wife to him. Then Sango left to do whatever business she had to take care of, leaving the two alone. "So Heero, the other teachers and I are thinking of planning special occasions for the school ahead of time for the years to come. Would you like to join us?" Quatre said as he took a seat on the couch. "So what are these special occasions?" Heero inquired. "Oh you know, parties and special events during and after school. In fact, you've come at an appropriate time for our Christmas festival. Interested?" he said to him. Yes, indeed he was interested and yes, he wanted to become part of the school community. "Yes, of course" he said gladly. "So, what are we going to do and when do we start?" he said eager to learn more about it.
That night, when Heero and his wife were in bed, a certain thought came up to her, and she felt it was necessary to talk about it. "Heero? Are you asleep" she asked, turning to face his direction as she lay on the bed. "What is it Sango?" he asked. He also turned, and now they were looking at each other in the night. "It looks like you've made some friends so quickly in just your first day here" she said. "Is there something wrong?" he asked. "Well, no. But I haven't made any friends here. At least not yet." She told him. "Don't worry about it. I'm sure you'll at least make one friend here" he said to make her feel better. "Alright. I believe you. But what if we forget about each other, or one of us forgets about the other when we have all these friends?" she asked with concern. "Don't worry. I won't forget about you. And you?" he said to her radiantly smiling and his eyes softened. "I won't forget about us" she said returning the smile. With a goodnight kiss to one another, fell asleep.
Heero knew where he was. It was the beautiful country side of his homeland, and here it was pleasantly peaceful. He liked the scenery here a lot-there were evergreen forest trees, and a waterfall that fell gently from a river that flowed by. He walked his way out of the forest, which he would never forget his way around. Outside, it was a clear, sunny day on a grassy plain with the view of Mt. Fuji in the background. It was such a great day that he could easily see the white peaks of it. But central to his sight was a swing that stood there with someone riding it and laughed happily. That person had those amazing blue eyes, honey blonde hair, and the very pretty face he had seen before Heero thought for a moment trying to figure out who this was…Relena! Yes, it was Relena, but why was she here, and what was she doing? She caught sight of him. "Hello Heero" she said not addressing him formally which he would prefer she used. "Relena? What are you doing?" he asked walking over. "Nothing much" she replied looking at him smiling. "So Heero, if I may ask, what are you doing?" she asked bravely with her jolliness. Before he even had the chance to answer, she then said "Come join me" with her eyes in a daring fashion. When Heero failed to come for he did not feel like it, she got off the swing and seized him by the arm and she ran across the plains happily. Her grip was a strong one too, and he was unable to break free. Finally, she stopped and turned to face him. "Relena…" Heero said sternly, but her expression did not change. He was about to continue what would be his scolding, but their surroundings grew from a lovely day to a furious wintery one, and it was suddenly snowing like crazy. Hard snowballs, more like hail actually began falling on him. "Arghhh!" he screamed as pieces of ice-rocks the size of hands began showering on him as he was brought to a kneeling position. He looked at Relena whose happy mood was now replaced with a serious expression. He could also see that no hail was even touching her. But then, the rate at which the dangerous precipitation fell increased as more and more hail fell from the angry sky.
Startled, Heero woke up sweating. He leaned over to see if he had woke Sango up, she was fast asleep. Quickly remembering what he was dreaming about, he didn't know why he dreamed it. Taking a deep breath, Heero lay back down on the bed next to his wife and closed eyes trying to think about something positive.
The day was almost over and the bell was going to ring in a few seconds and Heero had to make this announcement quick. "Ok, class, if any of you would like help out for our up-" But the bell rang. Too late. He tried to finish his sentence with "-coming events, raise your hand so we know how many people we'll have to help out", but the students were too busy just simply getting out of class and talking to all their friends. Heero was ignored. Not really concerned that much, thinking he and the others would be able to handle this pressure while they had to teaching, schoolwork, and their own personal things to deal with. It would just take a while, that was all. Heeo took a seat and began filling out other paperwork he had to do. "I'll be glad to help out Mr.Yuy" said a voice Heero remembered hearing from yesterday. He took his eyes off the desk and looked up in front of his desk and saw that it was Relena standing there with the same plain nonchalant expression. Great! We have anotherhelper he thought satisfied to know that someone was willing to try and help out al least. "Well thank you very much Relena. I'll be sure to let you know what we're going to do and when we start alright? If you can't come just let me know" he smiled. "Yes, of course Mr.Yuy" she said. "So I'll be going now then. Good bye" she said and left for the door. The way she spoke seemed a bit funny to him. Although it wasn't like a robot talking to you, it kind of seemed like she wasn't alive. And her facial expression too…both of those physical features of her was stoic. Oh well he thought thinking it wasn't right to judge you got as helpers.
Heero went to the lounge to meet up with everyone else after he signed all the papers. Quatre, Sally, Wufei, and Lucrezia were there sitting down already talking. "So how'd it go?" Sally asked when he opened the door. "Well, so far, I have one helper. How about the rest of you?" he asked. No one replied. "How unfair this is," Wufei stated. "these kids don't repay the time we spend to educate them" he finished. "Well, we still have some time. Maybe later, more people will come to help" Heero said. Lucrezia laughed, as she stroked her purple hair that hung over her face, hiding one half of her face underneath. "Well, I can get these students to take orders" she said as if joking.
"I thought I'd never make it…" Heero said sighing as he parked his car in front of the garage. There had been another stagnant traffic today just like the day before. He opened the front door and walked to the kitchen and saw that Sango was doing something that was traditional of wives of every culture. "Sango? You didn't have to make dinner. We could've gone out to see what NY was like for tonight and go to a restaurant for a meal" he said coming over and stood next to her giving her a charming smile. Pretending to look hurt and mad, she scoldingly said "You would rather eat else's cooking than mine?" with her eyes sharpened. "Never would I ever eat someone else's cooking" he said without a second's delay. He leaned over and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Taking a seat by their kitchen table, he asked "So what are we having tonight?" "Chicken teriyaki" came her reply. "So, did you get any assistants for your little party?" she asked as she brought their meals over on the table. "Just one and only one" he said. "Well maybe if I have time, I can help you" Sango offered. "Sure, Sango. Anytime" he said not able to refuse his wife. "When we're finally done, maybe you should join us in the party" he added further. "Oh alright" she said. "So Heero, tell me about your new helper" Sango said as she used a pair of chopsticks and put food into her mouth. "Oh nothing much. I wouldn't know anything yet. Today was just the second day after all" he answered her. "Oh my apologies master" she joked. They ate and finished their meals to delighted satisfaction.
Heero went to the phone and dialed Quatre's number after he was done with dinner. "Hello?" the voice said. "Hi Quatre. I was just wondering what our first step would be?" Since the reply did not come right away, Heero assumed that he was thinking. Then after a moment or two, Quatre finally spoke. "We should first find a place to hold the party. And I don't think anywhere in school will be big enough. Do you think that we should try to look somewhere else?" he said. "Yeah alright. Any ideas?" Heero said. "Well, I think the Moon Crown Palace will be an excellent choice, but you've got to have money…"
The next day, which was Saturday, Sango got up early leaving Heero still asleep on their bed. He always slept a little later when there was no work. She went to the airport where she and her husband had arrived. It was now 7:30 amand the flight she had been waiting for had arrived only a few minutes ago. It was not long when she found the person she was looking for, or rather, that person had found her. "Sango!" a girl with long hair said. "Kagome!" cried Sango. The sisters ran to each other and embraced one another warmly."So how is life here?" Kagome asked. "Its ok. By the way, you'll be starting school at Heero's workplace starting on Monday" Sango said to her younger sister. Sango escorted her to the car, and when they got in, she told her whatever she knew of the Christmas party Heero and the other teachers were planning. "Why not ask Heero if you could help out?" Sango said.