Heero-Ella

Chapter 6: Heero POV

I had been working all night and my hands burned from the cleaning chemicals I had been using. I could hardly believe it when Duo came to my rescue only just an hour ago. He looked radiant with his hair in a low ponytail and dressed in a fitted Armani suit that brought out the sharp lines of his shoulders and chest. He looked like... well... a prince. I could barely believe that this was the same person I spent hours joking with last night

After Lady Une allowed me to leave the house (albeit grudgingly), I was ushered into a limo that, to my surprise, Trowa was driving. I was handed a pair of jeans and a royal blue tee shirt with "W.Z.I." written on the front in big, bold, block letters with "wing zero inc." written just below it in all lowercase white font. I vaguely remember being given an order to change my clothes, but I did so. When I finished getting dressed, I was given socks and a pair of white "WingZ" sneakers to go along with my outfit.

Once I was ready, I looked up to see Duo had changed his clothes too. He was now wearing some stone-washed jeans, a black tee with "Wing Zero" embroidered on the front in white thread, black tennis shoes with a big "0" sewn onto the sides, and his hair neatly plaited down his back.

I couldn't remember him changing his outfit, but now he was grinning at me like a Cheshire cat as he put on his black cap.

"So Heero, ready to have some fun?" he asked.

"Huh?" was my ever so witty reply. Where had my vocabulary gone? I know I have one somewhere...

"Tro-man here," he gestured at Trowa (who had now shaken his hair back to it's original style and taken off the sports coat jacket that he had been using as camouflage), "tells me that you never get to go out and have fun."

I shrugged. Damn that Trowa for giving out personal details like that. "I'll go to the library and read when I have the day off and Trowa's busy," I said, fully aware of how lame I sounded.

Duo snorted, "Not today you won't. Trowa said you don't work today so I'm going to make sure that you have the time of your life!"

"For someone so quiet, you sure have a big mouth, Trowa!" I snapped at our driver.

Trowa just shrugged in his Trowa way saying, "Lying, or even with holding information from the crown is considered treason."

Duo laughed at that, his beautiful violet eyes shimmering with mirth. "That's a good one, Tro, I should have used it on Lady Une!"

"So... where are we going?" I asked. I still didn't know where we were headed and I don't like being kept in the dark about anything.

"Water Park, baby!" Duo cheered, doing a little impromptu dance in the back seat. "It's going to be so much fun! Don't you think today's just perfect for it?"

Indeed it was perfect. The sky was slightly overcast so that the bright blue of the sky could still be seen, but it was also just cloudy enough to keep the sun hidden away so that its rays didn't beat on our skins. I was looking forward to spending the day with Duo, but I had forgotten my wallet at home. I didn't want to be a freeloader after all.

"Uh.. Duo..."

"We're here!" he cheered, sounding like a five-year-old at Disney world.

I looked around, but the limo and maybe five other cars were the only vehicles in the parking lot. The park was probably closed today and those care were probably maintenance workers. Well, that solved my wallet problem.

"Duo... I think the park is closed today..." I said.

He laughed a little and hopped out of the limo just as Trowa shifted the gears to park. "Of course it is!" He said. "I had the place rented out today so that we'd have the park to ourselves."

I couldn't believe it. Duo had gone through all that trouble just so that I could have a little fun today? 'No, it can't be that,' I thought. 'Why would he go through all of that for me? He wouldn't,' I decided, 'He probably already had this planned and it was just a coincidence that led him to bring me along too.'

By the time we all got out of the limo, Duo was already rushing through the gates and talking to one of the very few workers around today. I saw the girl smile, her braces shining, and give a happy little nod. Obviously Duo had worked his charm on her.

About half an hour later, we were all walking out of the gift-shop that Duo had had opened for us, all of us sporting new swimwear, sandals or flip-flops, and towels as well as small backpacks to carry our clean clothes in. Duo, Wufei and Trowa got themselves swim trunks, each as distinctive as their owner. Duo's faded from dark blue to black and had little white palm trees along the bottom hem of the shorts with a lace-up front, Wufei's were a plain navy blue with white lining along the bottom and the pockets, and Trowa's were a Hawaiian flower print in forest green that Quatre kept sneaking glances at. Quatre and I both got Speedo™ suits with one major difference: Quatre's red suit was a brief-cut that left very little to the imagination where as mine looked more like black bike shorts with a blue triangle running up both of my outer thighs. We were all about to go into one of the pools when Wufei started walking away from us.

"Hey Wu, where are you going?" Duo called out.

"If you think I'm going to spend my free time babysitting you, you're delusional," he said without breaking stride. "I have my phone if there's a need, but unless you've gone and broken your royal neck, I don't want to hear from you"

"Uh... okay..." Duo shrugged it off and turned to the rest of us, "Whatever. So guys, where to first?"

"Uh Duo?" Quatre began, "Trowa and I were thinking about spending some time in 'Paradise Lagoon' if you don't mind..."

Duo sighed, looking a little deflated, "Et tu, Q-bean?"

Quatre blushed a little as he wrapped himself around Trowa's long torso, "If you'd rather, we'll stay..."

"No, that's fine, go on, frolic, be merry and enjoy. Heero and I will just have to have fun without you," Duo said, blowing a raspberry at the couple.

Quatre smiled and took off with Trowa in tow towards what looked like a shady area that would ensure some privacy. I couldn't help being a little jealous... I mean, the object of my affection was going to be married soon.

"Well, looks like it's just you and me, Hee-chan," Duo said, smiling at me.

I nodded and followed him into the park.

Duo was right; I was having the time of my life. We went down every slide in the park; the bigger the better, we went down some man-made rapids in a little floating raft, we even went to the kid's section of the park and had a major water fight with all the gadgets they had there. I had no idea it could be so much fun! When we were at "Water Workz," the kiddy area, we climbed this obstacle course and tried to knock each other off with the various pullies and levers that dumped water on us. We tried to blast each other down with the water cannons they had as we each tried to make it to the other side of the course.

We lost track of the time then and it wasn't until we got hungry that we stopped goofing around. We picked up our stuff and made our way to the concession stand, where the four employees that were working today had convened. Duo let them lounge around since we really didn't need any assistance and ordered our food. I had some chicken strips with a bottle of water while Duo had two hotdogs, fries, a large soda, and a cookie.

We ate quietly for a bit. I was unused to having people eat with me other than Trowa and so I felt uncomfortable. I was worried about being a sloppy eater and about table etiquette. Duo had grown up in finery where as I ate in my room where I wouldn't bother my stepmother or sisters. Duo didn't comment on my silence and pretty soon, we had both finished. We cleaned up after ourselves and since we both wanted to be in the water, we got on some floating tubes that went around the entire park in the man-made river. I know we're supposed to wait half an hour after we eat, but we weren't planning on swimming, we were just going to sit on a tube.

We ended up getting two bright yellow tubes to sit on and grabbed on the blue handles on the other's tube so that we didn't get separated. After about ten minutes of struggling to sit on top of the things, we were quietly making our way "downstream."

"Thanks Duo... for bringing me out here today," I said, glancing at him sideways.

"My pleasure, Heero. I've been wanting to get out like this for a while now, and you've given me the perfect opportunity to do so," he smiled at me with that beautiful smile of his.

"You've done so much for me in these past two days... I just don't know what to say to repay your kindness." I was flushed. I knew it. I just hope Duo didn't see it.

"You don't have to say anything...."

"Um... I don't want to sound ungrateful or anything... but why did you do this?"

Duo laughed easily, giving me another grin, "Because I felt like it, of course. I don't need any other reason..."

"Duo..."

"Hm?"

"You are my only friend other than Trowa. Lately he's been seeing Quatre and I don't get to see him all that much... Also... I never said thank you for getting me out of the house. I never would have imagined you'd do that, especially since we've only just met."

"It was no problem Heero," he purred, "Although... I was hoping you'd do something for me too..."

That sounded suspicious, but I gave him a little nod. He then took my hand and kissed it gently, "Please come to my birthday party. I really want you to be there."

I blushed a little and nodded a little more, my voice suddenly leaving me. He grinned again and leaned in close to me as he pulled my tube closer to his. Before I realized it, he took my face in his hands and kissed me softly, "It's a date then."

The rest of the afternoon seemed hazy, all filled with a dreamlike quality and little white clouds filling my peripheral vision. I remember my hand in his, a kiss on my cheek and a hand at my waist, and an overall feeling of warmth. It wasn't until I got home that I opened my bag and found a tiny little white box tied with a little black ribbon. I opened it carefully and gasped at its contents. Inside, there was a platinum chain with a little charm shaped as a set of platinum wings hanging from it as well as a note that read:

"To my Hee-chan. I'd be honored if you wore this for my birthday ball.

Yours,

Duo"