The next few weeks really sucked. Duo and his friends hadn't come back yet. I was beginning to think that they weren't coming back. And now school was just how I thought it would have been from the beginning. I had no friends anymore, but I already had enemies. A girl named Relena Peacecraft and her gang for preps was always out to get me, saying that I had flirted with Heero. The guy hadn't even talked to me much. But she still insisted that he had. (She must have had some sort of obsession over him).
I sat in Computer Tech. Class and wrote an email to duo.
Hey dude where are u? Where have you been? I kno when you get this
I'll prolly already kno, but life sucks now here at skool with you
gone. Come back soon.

Babydoll

I sent the message and checked my inbox. I didn't expect anyone to have emailed me, since it was just through the school and I didn't know anyone in the school. I would occasionally get the nasty threats from Relena, but nothing more.

But today, there was an email from a person that called themselves, bloomchick34. I opened the email and read:

Hey punkiechickie10
Hi my name is Catherine. You can call me Cathy thou. I just found out that you're a friend of Duo's. I just wanted to let ya kno that he wrote to me last night and he's coming home tomorrow. He'll be back in school on Thursday. So yea, I thought you would want to kno that.
Rite back.
Cathy

I sighed with relief. And replied with a thanks and we started talking about the guys and our lives and school and Relena.

Yea I know she's just like that. She was totally jealous of me when I was hanging out with my brother and him at the ice cream place down the road after school. It was really funny she started flipping out at me and I just started cracking up. Heero has told her that she needs to stop stalking him so many times before and she just doesn't get it. Lol.

Yea. Lol. That's funny. But yea I was thinking I should make her madder when they get back, just piss her off. And if Heero hates her then it'll work even better. Lol.

I had just sent the email when the class bell rang and everyone got up to leave. I was so relived the day was over now. Then a girl with curly brown hair walked over to me from the other side of the room. She was wearing a uniform that was too big for her, just like me, and she had a huge pink plastic ring on that reminded me of one of those ring pops.

"Hey!" she said, and I figured she was Catherine.

"Hi!" I replied. I hadn't ever seen her before. I wondered if she was new, but by what she had said I knew she wasn't. We walked in silence for a few minutes until I got near to my locker.

"Hey I just want to thank you for telling me that they're coming back tomorrow. You have no idea how much school has sucked here without them."

"Yea I do." She replied, hanging her head. Then she looked up and smiled, " Well ill see ya tomorrow in Math." Then she walked off to her locker down the hall.

I climbed on the bus and looked to the seats in the back. All full except for one that already had one girl sitting in it. I had never seen her before. I was wondering if she was new to the school, or maybe just to this bus. The girl had really short black hair and she sat slouched down in the seat with a notebook in her lap. I walked up and she looked at me.

"Can I sit here?" I asked and she nodded. I sat down and pulled my headphones out of my bag. I popped in my burned CD with all the bands I had like the most the day I made it. Now they were old. I wanted to listen to something a little newer, but it was still okay.

I looked over at the girl. She was scratching something on the paper. I leaned over and saw that she was drawing. I studied her picture and saw that she was drawing Duo. It was really good too, it looked just like him. I took my headphones off.

"That's really good." I said, "Is it Duo?"

"Yea," she said looking at me.

"That's really cool. I like to draw too, I'm not that good though."

"That's cool, do you have any of them with you?"

I nodded and reached into my bag. I pulled out a completed picture of the Gundam I had drawn. The one Duo had liked. I had redrawn it, colored it and outlined it. And I had wanted to give it to him, but he had been gone. I handed it to her. She studied it for a few minutes.

"Did you see this on TV?" she asked in a suspicious tone of voice. I nodded, but my brows furrowed. She shrugged.

"That's really good. I wish I could draw mecha. I can only draw people though."

"Oh." I said and took my picture back and set in the front of my bag.

I was about to put my headphones back on, when the girl spoke to me again.

"What do you think? About the Gundams I mean." She asked. I blinked at the question, kinda taken back by it.

"Well..." I started. "I guess I think they're unneeded. I mean, things were fine when they weren't here and I'm sure it still would have been."

"What about the colonies? It wasn't "alright" there." She answered sharply. I was silent. She had caught me, I hadn't even thought about them. I was always too preoccupied by my own life, and was just sick of hearing about the Gundams on the News.

"I dunno." I answered. I put my headphones back on and she went back to drawing Duo, but I could tell that I had pissed her off. What was the big deal? It didn't affect us. Not here, all the fighting was always somewhere else. It didn't have anything to do with us. Not me, not her, not the school, no one. Or so I thought.