We sat in the kitchen at Duo's island counter, drinking sodas. Duo was on my right and Quatre on my left. We held a decent conversation, but Wufei and Trowa decided that they didn't want to join. Trowa kept staring through the window by the door. I wasn't quite sure why, but it seemed he was waiting for something. I ignored him and continued talking with Duo and Quatre, trying my best not to bring up the questions that danced in my head.
" Hey, do you need some clothes to wear to bed, Naomi?" Duo asked. I nodded. It was better that I borrowed his than went back to my house to get some of my own. He stood up and beckoned me to follow him upstairs. We went into the room on the left-hand side of the stairs, I only assumed it was his bedroom. He grabbed some pants and a tee shirt from his dresser drawers and handed them to me.
"They might be a little big for you" he smiled.
"I'm sure I won't mind" I took the clothes into the bathroom down the hall and changed. When I came out I noticed that Duo was still in his room. I sat down on the bed next to him. He was looking through a book.
"Whatcha got there?" I asked him, peeking over his shoulder. He closed it and turned to me.
"Its a sketchbook of pictures that Hilde drew for me." he replied.
"Can I see?" I asked. He opened the book back up and I looked at the pictures.
"Does Hilde have short black hair?" I asked him.
"Yea, here's a portrait she did of herself" He flipped a few pages and showed me the picture of the girl I met on the bus.
"She's really good at drawing, I showed her the one I did of the Gundam on the bus." I told him. "She asked me what I thought about the Gundams."
"What did you say?"
" I said that I thought they were unnecessary since there was peace before they came to earth. She asked me what I thought about the colonies then, and I realized that they were being suppressed. I dunno, I guess I'm glad that the Gundams are fighting this war now. People shouldn't be treated differently from other people, I think."
" I couldn't agree with you more." He said. He closed the book and layed down on his back. His head rested in my lap.
"Hi." he grinned. I smiled at him. For some reason his head in my lap felt so right.
" Do you ah... wanna go for a ride?" he asked me. I was surpised, but not dissappointed. I had hoped he would ask something like that.
We walked downstairs to tell everyone we were going for a drive, when Heero walked in the door. He walked up to Trowa and whispered something in his ear. Then him and Trowa walked out the back door. Quatre sat at the counter watching them leave and Wufei sat meditating on the floor in the living room.
Duo walked up to Quatre.
"Me and Naomi are going for a drive, let me know when I get back what's up with them okay?" he said to him. Quatre nodded and took another sip of his soda. Then Duo led me out the door to the car in the driveway.
" If you have a car, why don't you drive yourself to school?" I asked him.
" To save on gas money. I've got friends on the bus, so its not a big deal." He started the car and we drove off down the road.
We drove for an hour, just talking about our lives, getting to know each other better, so to speak. Duo told me that he had lived in the colonies up until only a year ago. He said that he was an orphan since he could remember, but that he had lived at the Maxwell Church for awhile. That was how he got his last name. He said he missed the place since the people were so good to him, but it had been destroyed by the Alliance. I told him about my mother and how she spent all of her time dating or working and how I had to practically be the mother in the house. I also told him about my dad, who left when I was 3 and moved to Los Vegas with his old girlfriend. Now we were sitting in silence in the school parking lot, just drinking milkshakes that we had gotten from the Dairy Queen in town.
" You know, there's a school dance this weekend. Do you want to go with me?" Duo asked me. I felt my heart start racing. I was so excited that he was asking me. I think I was falling for him.
"Yea, that'd be great!" I replied. I could hardly contain my excitement.
" Sweet." he said, and I could tell he was excited too. Perhaps he was feeling the same way about me that I felt about him. Wouldn't that be so cliche though?
We sat in silence again, each of us thinking about the dance. It was so nice to be asked out by someone so fun and understanding; so like me. Duo was charming and handsome and witty and bright all in one. He was almost a dream come true, or at least I thought he was. It seemed like he had no flaws to him at all.
"Naomi?" Duo called my name and I turned to look at him. He put his hand on my cheek, brushing my hair back out of my face and he gently leaned in and kissed me.
Miki: haha I finally updated again. sorry it took so long, I haven't been motivated to write lately. but I just got another comment so I figured, "hell I can start that again." So sorry again for the long delay, but I'm gunna try and finish it now. :P
