Pairings - 1x2x1
Disclaimer - Don't own them. Only the plot and a few odd characters are mine.
Meet Me In Heaven
Heero Yuy stared at the large, gray school building bleakly. It was his first day at this new high school; his most recent foster parents had turned him in after less then a month. They had said they felt sorry for the next person who was stuck with him and never wanted a foster child over five ever again, but Heero couldn't find it in himself to care. They weren't the first parents to treat him with such "affection", and they surely wouldn't be the last. At least Mrs. Krieger seemed nice… And then there was the Maxwell Church down the street. The kids there were at least half decent.
Heero took a breath and stepped into the building. Under the stony façade he was just a timid boy who had lost the ability to trust. Looking around anxiously, well anxiously for Heero Yuy (he looked nonchalant to the rest of the student population), he realized the main office was no where to be found. Shit. Now what am I supposed to do? He wondered slightly nervously. All of a sudden a pretty young girl, probably a freshman, walked down the hallway. Noticing Heero standing there staring at a wall aimlessly, she skipped up to him cheerfully. She smiled sweetly, and shyly said,
"Excuse me for asking, but are you lost?" Heero pulled his attention from the fake brick wall, and cocked his head at the girl.
"Who are you?" he asked coldly. The red-haired girl was rather unnerved by his uncaring tone and hostile glare, but tried to hide it. Covering her mouth sheepishly, she exclaimed,
"Oh! I'm sorry! My name is Mariemeia Khushrenada! What's yours? I'm a freshman!" Heero looked at the girl strangely, why was she acting so kind to him? She didn't even know him!
"Heero. Heero Yuy. Sophomore." Heero answered, his voice was cold and calculating, nothing like Mariemeia's sweet, warm one. Mariemeia smiled at her new acquaintance, her sky blue eyes sparkling with mirth.
The way her eyes sparkled reminded him of two brilliant sapphires, he had seen sapphire earrings, they belonged to one of his old foster mothers, and her eyes looked just like them. Only they looked warm, and not cold like the stones.
"Do you need any help, Heero?" she asked sweetly, although her charm didn't seem to have much effect on Heero. He did, however, feel the girl was pleasant and a possible friend.
"I can't find the office." He answered, and although Mariemeia couldn't tell, his voice was less cold and more affectionate. The girl brightened and grabbed Heero's hand, grinning unabashedly.
"Come on, Heero! I'll show you the way!" Blushing lightly, Heero let the girl pull him through the complicated hallways to the very center of the maze. The principal's office.
Upon reaching the office, Mariemeia smiled happily and released Heero's hand.
"Maybe I'll see you at lunch, Heero! If I don't… I don't know! But I'll see you again soon!" the girl gave Heero a quick hug, and left him stranded at the entrance to the principal's office. Heero nodded in the direction the girl had run off in, before turning and opening the large, wooden door.
A pretty blonde lady looked up at him and smiled. She beckoned him to her desk, and Heero raised his eyebrow at how unprofessional she looked in her hot pink, low cut, shirt.
"Hello, sweetheart. What do you need, honey?" the woman asked in a sugar filled voice. Looking at her nametag Heero's other eyebrow flew up, at both her slightly ridiculous name and flat out ridiculous coddling. Candy Apple. What had her parents been thinking? Looking up at… Candy Apple, Heero answered,
"Heero Yuy. I just transferred." The young lady looked rather frightened at the cool tone and straight to the point manner of the teenage boy. He was unlike any of the other children at Lawson High, not that that was a bad thing! At least to the young 16 year old it wasn't… Candy Apple smiled sweetly, and turned to go through her files.
"I'm not really a teacher, Heero. I'm an office aid, I help in homeroom and first block." The girl explained sweetly. "What grade are you in, Heero?" Heero raised an eyebrow and nodded toward Candy's desk. Right at the top of her stack of papers was a folder labeled… Heero Yuy. Candy at least had the decency to blush. Looking through the folder, she began humming. Heero noted she was EXTREMELY out of tune.
"Ah, Heero. You are a… Sophomore! Like me! And you are in the… Angels! Again, like me!" Before Candy had a chance to read off his schedule, Heero snatched the folder out of the girl's hands.
"Yuy, please. And excuse me, Miss Apple. But I can handle reading my own schedule." He stated coldly. Candy hmphed, but after noticing it had no effect whatsoever on the stoic Heero Yuy, Candy tried another approach. Batting her eyes at Heero, she said,
"I am SO sorry, Heero! I never doubted your capabilities!" Heero sighed and rolled his eyes.
"If you could give me a map of the school or something-" he began. Candy interrupted, saying,
"Oh, Heero! It would be a pleasure to show you around!" Getting irritated with the girl's honeyed tone and meaningful glances, Heero looked up at the ceiling and sighed. After a few moments of staring at the ceiling, Heero looked back at the annoying girl.
"Yuy." Heero repeated. "Now would you stop treating me like I'm your boyfriend or something? I don't even know you, and have no interest in persuing a relationship with you either. If you would just treat me like a normal student, give me a map, mark it, and let me leave it would be greatly appreciated." Heero's normally cold tone was laced with annoyance, and Candy could hear it clearly. Deciding to try another time, she smiled sweetly.
"I am very sorry, Mr. Yuy. I'll go get you a map immediately." Heero nodded, annoyance fading slightly at the girl's cooperation.
A few moments later Candy was back in the room. She beckoned for Heero to come around to her side of the desk. Heero did as bidden, and Candy pulled a pen out of the desk drawer. She marked the map, locating the Angels pod, and smiled up at the boy. Then she marked the office, "accidentally" brushing Heero's hip.
"So you just follow this hallway, and there's the pod in the North-East corner!" Candy finished. Heero nodded, grabbed the map, schedule, and supplies list, and briskly walked out of the office. Damn girl. He thought, before pulling out his scheldule and looking it over.
Homeroom Barton, 305
A-1 Kinomoto, Foreign Language, 505
B-1 Kawasaki, Music Theory, 503
A-2 Kondo, Japanese History, 303
B-2 Aoyama, Math, 301
LUNCH, Cafeteria
A-4 Kurata, Biology, 300
B-4 Hayama, English, 304
A-5 Kurosaki, Literacy, 302
B-5 Tsuzuki, Algebra 2, 306
So. Headed to Room 305, Barton. Where am I now…? Looking down at his map, Heero realized he had lost himself. It would take him all day to get out of this fix…
XX-XX
After ten minutes of aimless searching, a bell rang signaling first block. Ah well, Music Theory will just have to wait. The boy looked around the halls and saw… Mariemeia. He bit his lip, having difficulty deciding whether to call out to her, or find his way himself. In the end he didn't have to make a decision, as a friend of Mariemeia's turned around and said,
"Hey, Marie! Isn't that the boy you were talking about in homeroom?" Mariemeia turned around, and when she saw Heero she squealed,
"Yah, that's him! That's him! Hey, Heero!" Mariemeia came running over to Heero. Wrinkling her nose and putting her hands on her hips, she gave Heero a knowing glance. Then she giggled.
"You're lost again, aren't you? What do you need to find?" she questioned, laughing gleefully when she saw Heero's blush.
"Music Theory room. Can you help, please?" he asked. Mariemeia laughed again and nodded. Grabbing his hand, she pulled him along. Looking over her shoulder she cried,
"I'll see you girls in first block! Tell the teacher I'm showing Heero where the Music Theory room is if I'm late!" then, looking to Heero, she said, "So when do you have lunch?"
"3rd block." He answered sharply. It didn't matter if the girl was pretty or nice, he wasn't going to let his guard down for anyone. The boy stiffened slightly as Mariemeia flung her arms around him in excitement.
"I have it 3rd block too! I'm a freshman, but I have some Sophomore classes also! Maybe I'll see you then…" Heero listened to the cheerful babble half-heartedly, and commited the maze of school hallways to memory. He wasn't going to get lost again.
"Ah, you have a map!" Mariemeia exclaimed, snatching the accused piece of paper from Heero's hands. Taking a pen out of her binder, she quickly marked the locations of the Music Room and Cafeteria.
"What is your other elective?" she asked; ready to mark it on the map of the school. Heero, looked at the girl and answered,
"Foreign Language. Thank you." Mariemeia squealed and marked it quickly. Pulling him down the hallway, she began to run as the bell signaling a tardy rang.
"Here's the Music Theory Room! I'll see you at lunch!" With that she placed a sloppy kiss on the boy's cheek and ran down the opposite hallway, trying to get to her classroom as fast as possible. Heero ignored the gesture, walking into the Music room confidently.
XX-XX
The bell indicating lunch hour rang, and Heero walked toward the lunchroom nonchalantly and without any difficulty. During Math he had made it his goal to memorize the locations of the all of his classrooms so he wouldn't have to ask for help again.. The first two blocks had not exactly been what you would call fun, but they weren't too bad. His first class, with Kawasaki-sensei was okay, but Heero wasn't really a person who was interested in music OR singing. The teacher was very sympathetic with him though, and didn't take any points off for his missing supplies. Then came Math. Heero was very good at maths, so he didn't have a problem with the class. The teacher, Aoyama-sensei, supplied with him with enough pencils and paper to last him a month! She was also very good with the students who didn't understand math. She even went so far as to say she wasn't very good with math as a young girl, but came to love the subject and mastered it, giving many students hope for their failing grades.
Heero walked into the lunch room calmly, feeling none of the nervousness that a new student generally felt on their first day. He found and sat down at an empty table, scanning the cafeteria and indulging in one of his secret pleasures: people watching. After looking around for five minutes and analyzing just as many people, he saw Mariemeia giggling with her friends. He decided to examine her next, but feeling his stare on her back, Mariemeia turned around. Seeing the dark haired boy, she scooped up her tray and ran over to sit by him. Giving him another one of those knowing smiles, she said,
"You like me, don't you?" Heero rasied his eyebrow, and shrugging slightly nodded. It didn't really matter to him. Mariemeia, on the otherhand, giggled at him. A smile lit the girl's face and she whispered,
"I like you too. Wanna go out?" Heero's eyebrow raised even higher and he shrugged again. What did he have to lose? Mariemeia grinned again, taking his hand and dragging him over to her lunch table and introducing him to all her friends. All the girls giggled and fawned over him, before gossiping about who was going out with who once more. Heero, on the other hand, merely went back to people watching.