Chapter Four
A little phone call
"You are not going to the play in that!" Kieko told Huy.
"But it's comfortable!" Huy whined back.
"What's that got to do with you not wearing this?" she asked brandishing some khakis, a button up shirt, and a tie.
"Well, that's NOT comfortable!" Huy said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Besides, I feel like a little preppy boy in that"
"Huyyou are impossible" Kieko said rubbing her temples. "Please just put it on"
"No. I don't want to. I'm twenty-one, I think I can dress myself!"
Tai sat on the bed listening to their banter and wondered if maybe he wanted something a little different from Huy and Kieko after all. Then the computer beeped indicating an incoming video message. He sighed and sat down, clicking open the mail. Duo's cheerful face grinned back at him.
"Heeeeeeeello!! Which are you?" he asked. Tai glared at him. "Okay, you're Heero. What's up?"
In the background Kieko had stopped yelling at Huy, and looked to her fiancé curiously. Huy looked uncomfortable and started to herd her out of the room. "NoI don't want to gowhat's going on? Why did that guy call him Heero?"
"Ohthere's a GIRL in Heero's room!" Duo yelled in surprise, then he started to laugh madly. "Hey there cutie! What's your name?"
Kieko came towards the computer. "I'm Kieko, Huy's fiancée. Who are you?"
"And now this conversation ends," Huy said cutting in and grabbed Kieko by the shoulders.
"No! What's going on?"
"Kieko, don't worry about it. I'll explain it later to you," Tai promised.
"Oh come on! Let me introduce myself to her! That will help!"
"Noshe doesn't know a thing about my pastand she's not finding out unless I tell her," Tai said. He could feel Kieko looking down at him. "Now why are you calling me? This better be important"
Huy quickly grabbed Kieko's wrist and pulled her out of the room.
"Huy, is that the name Tai used to go by?" she asked.
Huy nodded. "It's pretty confusing and I was planning on telling you about it since you are going to be part of my family soon. But I like it better this way. II'm not sure what or how much Tai would like shared. I think there are a lot of things that he's still kept from me"
"Then it wasn't a good childhood where he was?"
Huy shook his head darkly. "No. Not at all. If I were Tai, I'd probably have committed suicide by now. He's been through more than I can even fathom. More than Toshi can fathomand he fought in the war too."
"That's so sad"
"Every now and then I wake up in the middle of the night and Tai's thrashing in bed. He's even talked a little in his sleep before. It's scary"
Kieko bit her lip uncomfortably. "That's so sad" she just kept saying.
"I know. And the worst part is, I can't do a thing to help him."
Back in the room, Tai sat in the desk chair with his arms folded across his chest. "So what's up?"
"Well, for one, Hilde's pregnant!"
Tai smiled. So it wasn't anything serious. "That's great Duo. You'll be good parents. Is it a boy or girl? Do you know?"
"Well, we hope so too. And we don't know if it's a boy or girl yet. But we were wondering if you'd be our baby's godfather" Duo said happily.
"I think that'd be okayI don't really know what a godfather does"
"Well, basically you just are the baby's special friend, send birthday and Christmas presents and stuff. And if anything happens to us you get to take care of him or her. So will you do it? There really is nothing to it unless we die," Duo told him.
Tai shrugged. "Sure. But you better make sure that the kid knows to call me Tai. I'd like to keep the number of people who call me Heero to a minimum."
"I got you man. You do seem to have it the hardest with all that stuff. You're just too good I guess!"
Tai smiled. He knew what it took for Duo to say something like that to him. Duo, despite everything, had a lot of pride. "Thanks."
Duo grinned again. "Also"
"Here it comes"
"I talked to Zechs the other day. I found out that everyone thinks you're dead, and I kind ofcorrected that false assumption."
"Duoit would be better if you just let things gobesides, if I die and come back too many times, people will start getting medical conditions. This is the second time now for me."
"Well, Zechs certainly blew a fuse. It sounds like Relena was pretty upset by your death'. I tried to get a hold of her, but I still can't find her. I thought maybe it'd be nice if you found her and told her the truth herself. I don't think Zechs is going to tell her. Then maybe she can stop hurting so much."
"I don't think that's such a good idea. I don't want to cause her any more pain."
"Oh come on Heero! That girl's totally in love with you! She'll be ecstatic to see you alive! What pain could you possibly cause?"
"If she sees me again, things could get complicated. Number one, she'll realize that I caused her all that pain unnecessarily, and two, I don't think we could ever work out. A pacifist leader and a Gundam pilot? I don't think that would look too good."
"But you aren't a Gundam pilotyou are Tai Iwasato, a neurological science major about to go to medical school. You have a clean record, no federal offences. You were kidnapped as a child, tragically, but you were found and are totally sound of mind and body. What's bad or suspicious about that?" Duo said with a quirk in his mouth.
Tai sighed as he rubbed his face. "Duolife would gettoo complicated. I think it's better if I just let sleeping dogs lie, you understand?"
"I think you're just being stupid and insecure. I think you like Relena a lot more than you let on and you're making a mistake if you let a girl that classy get away from you," Duo told him.
"Okaydo you know where she is?"
"All I know is that about three and half years ago she took off and no one's been able to find her since. Zechs keeps in contact with her by e-mail and he said that this is her last year at some college. I'd guess that she's majoring in political science or something along those lines."
"Do you have any idea what name she'd be living under?"
"None. But I figure if anyone can find her, you can. I mean, she didn't graduate from high school, right? And she'd probably pick one of the best schools for political scienceso look in the best schools for a twenty-one year-old senior with a GED. Right?"
"Oh right. It's just that easy" Tai said sarcastically.
"What's wrong with that?"
"Duo, do you have any idea how many different schools there are? Heck, she could be on Earth or on any one of the many, many colonies. Where would I start?"
"Then maybe you should call Zechs," Duo suggested. But Tai gave him such a look that he amended with, "Or maybe not."
"Or maybe not," Tai repeated.
"Okay. But I'm just trying to help. Anyway, I've got to run. Hilde's not in too great of a mood so I better attend to her. Pregnant women are even more emotional than normal ones, if you can believe that. Talk to you later!"
"Bye." And Tai turned off the screen. Then he went over to the door and opened it very quickly. Huy and Kieko were both across the hallway talking to the wall.
"What fine weather we're having," Huy said casually.'
"Huyyou're looking out a cinderblock wall," Tai said behind them. Kieko smacked Huy on the arm. Then they both laughed uneasily.
"E-heHave a good talk?" Huy asked innocently.
"Wonderful. Now get in here if you want an explanation, Kieko."
The abashed college students nodded and hurried into the room while Tai closed the door behind them. Kieko and Huy sat side by side on Huy's bed and Tai seated himself across from them on his bed.
"I'm not sure where to begin from so I guess I'll just be very blunt and simple. I used to be known as Heero Yuy, Gundam Pilot 01."
Kieko's eyes grew round and surprised. "What?"
"I fought in the eve wars and during 195. I Self-detonatedall that stuff that Julie's paper said"
"Oh my goshand you helped her revise that paper that night I"
"That night you forced me over there. Yes, and it was mighty awkward, let me tell you. Especially when she commented on Duo."
"What did she say about him?" Huy asked.
"She said he was very focused and skilled and dedicated." Huy snorted. "That's about what I said, and I had a time getting out of answering for it too," Tai explained
"What's so wrong about that?" Kieko asked.
"You know that guy I was just talking to?" Tai asked.
"Yes"
"That was Duo."
"OhI see He's a goofball!" Kieko said.
"That's what most people think. But I will concede that he's a good pilot. We usually ended up working together, whether we wanted to or not. I think he's still cursing me for the first few times we ran into each other."
Huy began to chuckle. "What's so funny?" Kieko asked.
"You've never seen those two fight. I'm amazed that either of you came out alive!"
"Well, we almost didn't. I wasn'tvery nice to him. But he did shoot metwice."
"He SHOT you? I never heard this story!" Huy said laughing. "What happened?"
"I had some girl at gun-point because she was trying to stop me from stealing a couple war-heads. He didn't seem to like thatand at that point none us knew of each others existence," Tai explained.
"Wait, wait! Hold the train! I thought that you guys all worked together and were a coordinated team!" Kieko interjected.
"Sometimes we were. Most of the time we all just did what we thought was right and many times those thoughts coincided so we worked together. But at first we all thought we were on separate sides. Duo was the first other Gundam Pilot I met, and vice versa. Then Trowa and Quatre found each other and there was a huge battle that all five of us went to. That's when we figured it out."
"Figured what out?" Kieko asked.
"That the engineers who had trained us and built our Gundams had worked together and each built their own part of the plan. But then a few things changed at the last minute and so we were never told about each other. The need to fight was too great. So we were sent out," Tai told her.
"Wow" Kieko said in awe.
"Hey, I just want to hear about this girl that you were going to shoot. What happened?" Huy asked.
"What if I don't want to tell?"
"I'll pester you until you do and accuse you of being in love with her!"
"You dork"
"That I am!" Huy beamed.
"Okay, okay. Duo shot me and I lost my gun. I went after it and he shot me again. He was about to shoot me a third time when the girl jumped in front and insisted on tying up my gunshot wounds. Then I managed to get myself blown up and carted off to a hospital. Duo broke me out of it and I stayed with him to fix my Gundam. Then I left and he wasn't too happy with me so we had a bit of a fight the next time we met–or at least he interrupted my mission and I made him think I was going to shoot him down. He nearly wet himself."
"Why wasn't he happy with you?" Huy wondered.
"I repaired my Gundam with parts from his Deathscythe."
Huy laughed and Kieko looked horrified. "TAI!! You're awful!"
"All's fair in love and war." Tai said with a shrug. Huy laughed more.
"So did you ever see that girl again?" Huy asked.
"A few times"
"What's her na-ame?" Huy said in a sing-song voice.
Tai rolled his eyes. "You can just forget about finding some old love in my past. I was fifteen. Nothing ever happens romantically when you are fifteen." Then Tai got up. "I've got to go turn in a paper before five." He grabbed his backpack and opened the door to leave but stopped. "And her name was Relena Peacecraft. See ya."
Huy and Kieko just sat there with their mouths open, almost to the floor.
Deirdre circled her room for the fiftieth time, holding a torn off little piece of paper. Heero's numberI think. She couldn't understandwhy would Heero fake his own death and not tell anyone? The only people who cared or knew him didn't even know, otherwise he would have told her. How could he be soso much like a guy? Was he not thinking? Did he not care? Did he think no one else cared about him?
Or maybe he was just running from everyone. Maybe he didn't want to be found. He had run from her during the wars, hidden from her. But she didn't think he genuinely hated her. Should she call? Why on earth would Heero not tell anyone he was alive?
When Kiki came in, Deirdre was so preoccupied that she didn't even notice. She just kept pacing.
Kiki dumped her bag on the floor beside her bed and pulled out some books, pencil in her mouth, began to read and scratch in notes here and there as she sat on her bed.
*Thump* Deirdre ran into the side of her own bed, but kept pacing without even breaking eye-contact with the paper.
Kiki looked at her roommate curiously. She had only known Deirdre a few months, but she had lived with her and seen her more than anyone else. She had seen her at all hours of the day, seen her happy, seen that when she was sad she locked herself in the bathroom so no one would see even though everyone knew that she was upset, and even heard her whimper in her sleep once or twice. But that was very rare. And she had NEVER seen her like this. Her face was blank and she was totally focused in on her other world inside her mind. And for some reason, Kiki was actually a little concerned about her roommate.
Why should I care about her? Who gives a flip anyway. No one cares about me And Kiki turned back to her book.
*Thump* This time Deirdre had run into the closet door–which was closed. Again she didn't break her gaze.
With exaggerated annoyance Kiki yelled, "Will you stop that infernal pacing and sit down! I can't study with you going on like that!"
"Um" Deirdre said dreamily as she sat down, straight-backed on the very edge of her bed.
Kiki scrunched her face in disgust. "If you're going on about that Marcus kid I'm gonna have to slap you out of it. It's disgusting!"
"Marcus?" Deirdre looked up and asked blankly. Her eyebrows crunched slightly in concentration. Who was Marcus Oh! I rememberthat nice guy I went out with the night I sawthat boy And she was back to her paper, not moving, not blinking. Just looking.
Kiki got up and sat next to Deirdre and looked over her shoulder to read the paper. It just had some foreign name and a number on it. She shook Deirdre's shoulder a little. "Hey, what's wrong? Someone die or something?" Kiki asked, a little concern actually showing in her voice.
Deirdre's head snapped up and she stared across at Kiki's empty wall. A sob escaped her lips, and she clapped her hand over her mouth, dropped the paper, and sprinted to the bathroom. Kiki could hear the bathroom door slam shut and water run. Deirdre would sometimes run water if she cried loudly so that no one would hear. Deirdre thought she was being inconspicuous.
Kiki stood up and took a look around her room. The side by the door was Deirdre's and covered in posters, colorful trinkets, and only evidence of a happy, carefree girl. Things were arranged at angles and bright smiles of past friends and perhaps family looked down on the pink and green flowered bedspread. A floppy fish pillow decorated the end of the bed. Kiki's side under the window, opposite the door was empty. There were no framed pictures of friends or family. There were no little trinkets. There was only an alarm clock on the desk next to a lamp. School books, dictionaries, and thesauruses were on the shelf above her bed. The olive green blanket was folded on the bed to military perfection. Square. Everything was perfectly straight, up and down. Organized. Almost unlived in.
She sank down on her bed and thought over her entire life in an instant. She could see her father coming home in his pressed military suit, her mother strained from a job at the school. Her father yelling, her mother grabbing her and running. Now they were living on just her mother's teaching salary and child-support. Everything was done as her father had taught her, or rather, barked at her. Her mother was so tired of life, Kiki had never even heard an "I love you." Not once in her short life had anyone ever told her that or showed that they even cared. She'd run around with friends at school. That's when she started getting high and slitting her wrists. Who cared anyway? But then she got arrested for breaking an entry into a convenience store to get money for crack. Rehabshe never wanted to go back there again, and now she always wore long sleeves so that no one would see the scars. She learned to survive, got herself into college. And now she threw herself into her studies so that she wouldn't have to remember that no one cared about her. If she died tomorrow, not a soul would cry. She could forget everything when she focused and studied. She forgot that she was on anti-depressants and couldn't live without them. She forgot that her mom was a worn out empty shell at home. She forgot that her father was a high ranking military man who'd remarried a Barbie doll and emailed her on her birthday to say, "Join the army. Protect the colonies." What kind of life was that?
But she had never considered that anyone else had problems too. It was so weird seeing this seemingly perfect girl so upset. She was beautiful, smart, friendly. Many people would cry if she died. So what was so likeable about Deirdre? What did Deirdre have that Kiki didn't?
Kiki looked down at her small, coarse hands.
She remembered that first day she had come into this apartment
"Hi! I'm Amada!"
Kiki snorted at the girl. "Which is room number one?"
Amada looked confused by the snort but answered nicely, "That one on the left. You'll be rooming with Deirdre. But don't worry. She's really nice."
Kiki ignored her and opened her door, dragging a suitcase behind her. She looked around at the very decorated, colorful side of the room and then and the empty one. There was a little, fuzzy teddy bear and a card sitting on its legs against the wall. Kiki walked over and opened the card. It had some cheesy, girly saying on the front about "Happy you're here!" Inside it read,
"Hi! I'm Deirdre, your roommate. If you're reading this it means I'm not home right now. Sorry I couldn't be here to meet you and help you move in. But I can't wait to meet you and I hope that we can be great friends. With much future affection, your roommate, Deirdre."
Kiki snorted at the letter and bear and stuffed them into the closet. Then she dragged all her luggage up to her room, with no family or friends to help. Deirdre had come home that night full of energy and enthusiasm..
She walked over to her closet and pulled out the little bear and held it to her. Kiki never thanked Deirdre for it. No one had ever treated her like Deirdre did either. Everyday Deirdre asked her how her day had gone and when she snapped at Deirdre, Deirdre never minded. Once when she had failed a test, Deirdre had some how figured out that it was an extra bad day and made her cookies and a cute note. No one had even noticed that she was having a bad day before. And now Deirdre was upset, really, really, REALLY upset and she couldn't help her. But Kiki wasn't going to let her mope around in the bathroom!
Kiki put the bear away and marched to the bathroom door and banged on it. "Deirdre, you in there? Open this door right now!"
Deirdre turned off the water and said a little shakily, "Don't worry about me. I'm fine."
"You are not fine. You're acting like a zombie and I won't let you do it. What gives you the right to help me out on a bad day but not vice versa? I'm coming in." But the door was locked so Kiki went and got her keys and opened it.
Deirdre sat on the floor with her head against the toilet, face turned up to look at the furious Kiki coming in. "Get up and get into that bedroom. We are having a talk!" Kiki ordered and grabbed the surprised girl by the arm.
She didn't notice as she dragged Deirdre into their room that Amada and Ianthe were standing and watching the entire episode with large eyes.
Kiki threw Deirdre onto her bed and shut the door firmly. Then she turned, hands on hips, and glared at her roommate.
"What is going on? Why are you so upset? I've seen you upset before, but not like this. What is it?" she demanded.
Deirdre looked meekly down at her hands, then her brain seemed to kick back in and she looked up angrily at Kiki with a hardness that Kiki had never seen before. It scared Kiki.
"I don't think," Deirdre began with a voice of steel, "that you have any right to question me like this."
"I'm your roommate!"
"That never mattered before! Why is it that now you care?"
Kiki had to admit that Deirdre had a point, but she wasn't backing down. "Listen, this is unnatural for you. It's natural for me to be a pain in the neck and poky all the time. This is weird for you. And I'm worried. What's going on? You aren't talking to anyone!"
"I never talk to anyone," Deirdre said in her slow, calm voice. Kiki began to understand that tempers weren't always manifested as flaring screaming and yelling. And after facing this cold, calculated version, she thought that she preferred the yelling. At least then you can yell back.
"Well, you are going to talk now!" Kiki wasn't about to let Deirdre know that she actually had Kiki scared.
"It's none of your business. Leave me be."
"It is too my business! I have to live in this room with you."
"I still don't see how that matters. You don't care about me. All you worry about is studying."
And then it hit Kiki. That's why people liked Deirdre and not her. That's why she was so unhappy. All she ever worried about what herself. Her studying. Her problems. She never had even asked anyone how their day was. And Deirdre was right, she didn't careor at least she thought she didn't care until about ten minutes ago. And in that moment Kiki realized that if she died tomorrow, she knew that Deirdre would cry.
"That's not true. I'm worrying about you now," Kiki said softly. "You're the only person who's ever been honestly worried about me or cared about me. And now I'm worried about you."
Deirdre's mouth dropped a little. Then she snapped it shut. "That's very nice of you" she said slowly, as if she'd never been faced with this situation before.
And she probably hasn't, Kiki thought. She's probably never actually melted a stone before.
"So are you going to tell me who died?" Kiki asked.
Deirdre's eyes grew full of tears again and she sighed heavily at her own lap. "A very good friend of mine died four years agoor so I thought."
"So you thought?" Kiki asked incredulously.
Deirdre nodded. "Last week at the gamesaw someone who looked just like my friend. So I followed the person and they gave me a name and number to call and said that that person could tell me where my friend is. So now I don't know if it's a joke or if I should call. I'm just so confused and hurt."
Kiki sat on the bed next to Deirdre and looked at her hands. Now she remembered why she had quit caring about people. It hurt so much.
"I'm sorry about your friend. But that's really odd. How can that happen?" Kiki asked. "How did he supposedly die?"
"Leukemia. I never even saw or talked to him before he died."
Kiki bit her lip thoughtfully. "I think the best thing to do would be to call that number, fully realizing that it might be a hoax, and find out the truth. Ask questions that only your friend could answer. That type of thing. And if it is a hoax, I'll personally go over there and kill someone."
Deirdre smiled. "Thanks Kiki, but I don't think violence will be necessary in this instance. But it's just so hard to let the feelings go."
"You really loved this girl, didn't you?"
"It was a boy actually."
"Was hewere you two." Kiki wasn't sure how to ask her question, but Deirdre seemed to have understood what she was trying to ask.
"We were never together in any way, but, I did care for him a lot in that way. II don't think that he ever thought of me as more than athan a marionette in some ways."
"A marionette?"
"It's complicated. Maybe I'll tell you some day." Then she looked at Kiki and smiled, a little of her normal self showing through. "You know, it's kind of nice having someone know about this now. I've never told anyone about my friend before. It's always been too painful. But now that you know, I feel as if I don't have to be quite so strong on my own anymore. Thank you."
Kiki stuttered. What was she supposed to say to something like that? But Deirdre laughed a light little laugh and put an arm around Kiki. "You don't have to say anything. Just maybe a You're welcome.'" And then she gave Kiki a little squeeze and walked out the door.
"Hey, where are you going?" Kiki called after her.
"I think I need to take a little walk and think things through. I've got to figure out what I'm going to say. If I don't, as soon as I hear his voice I'll break down. I'll see you in a little while. Thanks again." And then she left. And Kiki sat in the room alone with a little fuzzy feeling keeping her company while her friend was gone. If she felt like this more often, she probably wouldn't need those anti-depressants any more.
Quatre picked up the phone and dialed three numbers, then he slammed it down again. Duo had given him the number to contact Heero, but he was really unsure of what to say to him. "Hi, you jerk. What have you been doing all these years?!?!" or, "Hi Heero. I just heard that actually, you're alive and I was just wondering why you've been making us worry all this time." Or maybe the classic "Heero!! You're alive?!?! We missed you sooooooooo much!" with plenty of dramatic moves to accompany the words. If Wufei was calling he'd probably actually GO to Heero's apartment and give a couple death threats with that cold voice of his, and then wave his sword around a little bit. Trowa would talk peacefully but be very reserved. Zechs would scoff at him. Noin and Sally might slap him and tell him he was a jerk, but then hug him. But none of those reactions were Quatre.
For the seventieth time, Quatre picked up the phone and dialed. A Japanese girl answered the phone. "Iwasato residence. Can I help you?"
Her face was blocking most of the back ground, but what Quatre could make out looked like a typical college dorm room. "HiI need to talk to H-uh-Tai. Is he around?"
The girl smiled and nodded. Then she kicked someone to the left of her. "Tai, it's for you," she told the side of the screen.
A door in the background opened and the girl went over to the boy who'd entered. Just before Heero sat himself in front of the screen, Quatre saw the girl put her arms around the new comer's neck and say something in his ear softly.
"Quatre" Heero greeted him.
"Hi. Zechs told us aboutyou." That was a brilliant way to startwho-ho, go Quatre Quatre was even sarcastic in his thoughts.
Heero looked uncomfortable. Then the man in the back said something a little blurred and Heero said, "See ya!" and waved as the girl and boy left. "Sorry about that" Heero said meekly. "That was my brother and his fiancée."
"Oh," Quatre said. And then there was silence again.
"QuatreI'm really sorry about all this. II didn't know thatthat you guys would care so much. Care enough to find out about me and worry. I can't say that if I'd known I wouldn't have still done it, butbut I can say that it would have at least made me feel guilty for doing it. I'm really sorry. Especially about Relena. I had no idea anyone cared that much."
Quatre smiled. "Of course we cared! What are friends for!"
Heero smiled. "Yahit's taken me a while to understand that. But now that I do, life's a lot better."
Quatre smiled broadly. "So when can we all get together? We all have a lot of questions for you."
"I get out for Christmas break December 20th. Maybe I could fly out to one of your places for a couple days before Christmas or just before school starts again. We could just see how everyone else's schedule works out."
"Okay. I can ask around and find a good time. I justI just have a few questions for you that I'm sure everyone will want to ask first."
"Go ahead."
"Is the Iwasato family really your family?"
"Yes. We were running during a colony uprising when I was three and I got lost in the crowd. Then I ran into Huy in high school and we did a little blood work. I've been with them ever since."
"You seem"
Heero smiled. "I am. Also, everyone knows me as Tai. In fact, only my family and Kieko, Huy's fiancée, know that I used to be Heero Yuy. I'd prefer to keep it that way. That's why I allowed for an official death certificate to be made. It's illegal to get into those records, but in case anyone does break in, Heero Yuy officially died."
"I understand. I'll tell everyone. And, uh, Taiit's great to see you again. We all missed you. And just as a warning, Zechs and Wufei will probably throttle you when they see you. And Noin and Sally might have a few unpleasant words for you as well," Quatre warned.
"I wouldn't expect anything less. I deserve it."
"You really have changed. I'll talk to you later."
"Bye."
Tai couldn't help but feel happy that he had managed to get everyone so upset. That meant that they really cared. But then he mentally slapped himself. He had been a jerk to them, and he was never going to do that again. Never.
Relena finally decided. She was going to call now. Most everyone was gone at the moment. It had been two weeks since she had been given the number and it was time to see if Heero was alive, or not.
She picked up the phone and dialed the number. A lot of places had video phones now, but they were expensive and most college apartments and dorms were so old that they only had a regular phone. Besides, she wasn't sure if she wanted to see Heero right now. Listening would be a trial enough.
The phone rang a couple times and a very familiar voice picked up. "Hello. Iwasato residence."
"Heero?" she asked timidly Darn it! That's not what I wanted to start out with!
"Who is this?" His voice was harsh and suspicious.
"Heeroit's Relena."
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A/N SorryI couldn't help it. I know I'm evil. But now you'll read the next chapter, right? Toodles! Tygerlilee =^;^=