Warnings for this chapter: NICE Relena and shonen-ai.
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Heero Yuy was bored. He'd thought about ditching this class and going to do something infinitely more fun many times. Not that he was a bad student; on the contrary he was an excellent student; straight A's, the teachers loved him and the students respected him…well most of the students respected him. No, Heero Yuy was a good student; it was just that what they were doing in his IT lesson he'd done and mastered at the tender age of 5.
While the teacher was writing on the board (1) the headmaster came into the room. Heero decided to tune back in for he might miss something important.
"—New student. Will you introduce him?" New student? Wow, they didn't get many of those at Ansfield High.
"Class. Class! CLASS! Thank you. Today we have a new student – although I don't see why I have to get another one – his name is Wufei Chang," The boy scowled at her for the mutilation of his name but she remained oblivious, "Say 'hello'." There were various mumbles of 'hi' and 'hello'. The teacher nodded as if knowing she wasn't going to get a more enthusiastic response from a bunch of 16-year olds.
"Go and take a seat next to Duo, he'll show you around. Duo, raise your hand." Duo waved, although it wasn't necessary since the seat next to him was the only empty one in the classroom. Wufei made his way to his seat, which was just below Heero's seat.
"Hi, the name's Duo Maxwell and here is my best friend Heero." Duo turned to look at Heero as he said this. Wufei turned to look at him as well and then he smiled. Heero smiled back, and suddenly, Heero Yuy wasn't bored anymore.
"…and so here you have your general locker. You can put anything in there but don't put your kit in there – we have gym lockers too, which are located in – shock, horror! – The gym. The classroom doors have numbers on them and your schedule will the room numbers for each of you lessons. Lunch is at 12:30, which is where we are headed now – you can sit with us until you make some more friends of your own, although we can leave school grounds if we want, since we're in year 11. Am I talking to fast for you?" All of this was said in one breath and it was a wonder that he didn't collapse from asphyxiation. Wufei was still stupefied – he was the only one though, Heero had some what gotten used to the speed of his speech – so while Duo was still waiting for an answer to his question, which was pretty obvious since 1 minute had passed and Wufei was still blinking like he was lobotomised with no answer forthcoming – he was still trying to process all that had been said. When the timer was fast approaching the 2 minute mark and still Wufei hadn't moved –Heero and Duo were starting to get worried – he suddenly turned to Duo, causing Duo to jump out of his skin before settling back in embarrassed, and said,
"Yes, you are. Could you possibly slow down a bit?" Duo, not missing a beat carried on talking, albeit at much slower pace for Wufei. Heero blinked twice before smiling slightly and falling into step with Wufei and Duo.
"And here we are; The Cafeteria!" The way Duo had said it, you could hear the capitals in the name, and it seemed like it was some big tourist destination, 'After the Grand Canyon, we have The Cafeteria'.
They got into the line, each grabbing a tray on the way. While waiting in the line they chatted about nonsensical things (well Duo was. Heero grunted appropriate places and Wufei smiled, amused) slowly inching forward when presented with more room to move. After they'd gotten they're food they made their way towards their table, Heero leading the way. Heero dropped his tray onto the table as he dropped into the chair. Wufei sat down with a bit more grace. Duo was still chatting amiably but that came to a grinding halt when some guy decided to be a smart-ass and stick out his foot. Duo tripped over the foot, his food went flying into the air only to meet the ground moments later; and Duo landed with a thump on…Heero's lap. The boy and everyone at his table started to laugh openly at him, but that all stopped when instead of running out of the room in tears, Duo just smiled at them. They soon lost their interest and turned back to their fine example of English cuisine (sarcasm!) that is the cafeteria food.
"Well I was thinking of the seat next to you, Heero, but this is fine for me!"
"Baka, get off me!" Heero shoved him onto the seat next to him. Duo let out an ooof! when his butt landed on the hard seat.
"I love you too, 'Ro!" Duo grinned at him. Wufei shook his head despondently at their antics.
"I was just wondering," Wufei began quietly, fidgeting with his hands and his head bent downwards, "You two are practically opposite to one another. How is it that you are best friends?" When no answer was forthcoming, Wufei feared that he had offended his new friends and rushed to rectify his mistake. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to offend you. You don't have to answer if you don't want to…" He lifted his head as he said this to look at them, expecting to be told to leave but Duo was smiling gently at him.
"Nah we're not offended, just surprised. Since we haven't had any new students until you came and everyone already know why Heero and I are best friends, we don't get asked that question a lot.
It was back in year 9, when Heero joined our school. He didn't talk to anyone, was flat out rude to anyone who approached him and didn't have the friendliest expression on his face. Everyone began to create rumours about him and call him names like 'freak' and 'loner'. They said that he was in a gang and that he did drugs. That he changed school because he killed a guy. I didn't believe any of it because it was just too ridiculous. Since no one had spoken to him no one had the real story so it would've been stupid for me to believe that. I decided that I would take on the 'mission' of being Heero's friend and getting the real story. So I sat next to him in every lesson that we were both in, ate lunch at the same table. My friends kept on telling me to be careful and that Heero was dangerous but I just ignored them. It was about 3 or 4 weeks after I had started that he talked to me and we had a conversation. After that we became friends, and later after that he was my best friend. But my other friends still wouldn't accept him. One Thursday before class my friends were saying how I had been over to all of their houses and I'd never invited them to mine. I said it was because it was really busy at the orphanage and there would be any room for any of them to hang out. They were silent after that, and then they all just walked away. The next day at school, everyone hated me and started taunting and teasing me. They called me a 'street rat' and said terrible things like 'your parents abandoned you' and 'no-one loves you – not even your own mother'. That was only on my way to the form room! I entered the room dragging myself to the back to sit by myself, but Heero called me over to sit next to him. I thought he didn't know, and I wasn't gonna keep it from him, so I interrupted him when he was asking me over to his house to stay the night, saying,
'Heero haven't you heard? Don't you know that I live in an orphanage?' He looked me in the eye and said,
'Yeah, so what?' And carried on talking about me staying the night, talking about what we would do and stuff. I grinned at him and hugged him and he smiled back.
We've been inseparable ever since!"
"I don't understand," Wufei said, shocked, "why would people turn against you just for living in an orphanage?" Duo turned one of his 1000-watt smiles on him.
"Does that mean that you don't mind?" Wufei shook his head. Duo leapt across the table at Wufei. He had just enough time to move his food out of the way before he was attacked.
"Ack! Alright, alright I can't be your friend if you kill me." Duo sat back down in his own seat looking a little sheepish.
"Hey Duo look, Zechs is over there." Duo jumped to his feet, leaning over Heero, resting one hand on his shoulder and the other pushing against Heero's head.
"Where?!" Heero pushed him into his own seat for the second time that day and glared at him.
"There, by the entrance. He's with Treize." Duo leaned on the table and rested his head in his hands. He sighed.
"God he's just so gorgeous…"
"Hn."
"…so utterly sexy."
"Hn."
"…and smart and kind and funny and -sigh- I wish he would just ask me out."
"Hn"
"So you're gay then?" Duo was shaken out of his thoughts with that question.
"Huh?"
"He prefers the term bi." Heero smirked
"Wow."
"What? Do you have a problem with it?" Duo expression could only be described as guarded.
Wufei shook his head viciously. "Nope, just surprised that you're so open about it." Duo smiled
"What's even more surprising is that people still liked me when they found out about it. They're more open about that thing in this school. So are you…?"
"Dunno." Just as Duo opened his mouth to respond Heero smoothly cut in,
"Back to the matter at hand…are you gonna call Zechs over?"
"What?! No! I can't!"
"Why the fuck not?!"
"He…that is…I…might know…can't." Whoa! Stop the presses! Call the mayor! History has been made! Duo Maxwell has just been made speechless!
"Oh for God's sake," Heero muttered, and then he raised his voice to shout, "Hey Zechs! Over here!" He waved goodbye to Treize and made his way over to them, grabbing a chair from a nearby table and flipping it around to straddle the back of it when he sat down.
"Hey Duo, Heero and…?"
"His name is Wufei and he just arrived this morning. First new kid we've had years"
Zechs smiled, "Nice to meet you Wufei. Finding you're way around alright?"
"Yeah, Duo drag- ahem! Duo showed me around this morning." He smirked at Duo. Duo glared back but the effect was ruined by the slight blush he had staining his features. Wufei's smirked widened and he turned back to his lunch. An adorably puzzled expression crossed Zechs' face before he asked,
"Hey Duo, what happened to your lunch?"
"Some wise guy decided to stretch his feet just as I was walking by and my lunch liked the floor much better than me so it landed there." Duo didn't look in the least but bitter about what had happened. And Heero found himself feeling angry on his behalf.
Zechs smiled at Duo, "C'mon, I'll buy you lunch." You would've thought Christmas had come early the way his face lit up.
"Really? You'd really do that for me?"
"'Course I would!" Duo flung himself across the table again but this time with a different victim. Zechs.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you! I love you so much Zechs! Let's get married and have lots of kids!" Zechs was smiling at his antics. Heero thought that it was pertinent to point out one thing.
"Duo I think it's impossible for you to have children. You don't have the right…equipment." Duo stuck his tongue out at Heero as he got off of Zechs and pulled him to his feet and towards the lunch line.
"Is he always like that? Or is this all especially for me?" Heero smirked lightly and shook his head.
"No, he's always like that." They fell into a comfortable silence until it was ripped apart by the return of one Duo Maxwell, who – might I add – was grinning like a Cheshire cat. He put his tray on the table and flopped into his seat. He looked a little dazed and that silly grin just wouldn't leave his face.
"Okay, what the hell happened to you?"
"Well, Zechs Marquise, Sex God extrordinaire, has just asked me out." Heero smirk broke into a full blown grin.
"No shit? I told you it would happen."
"And Duo, I didn't know that you thought so highly of me. I'm flattered." Zechs was grinning too. Duo didn't even look embarrassed. He still had that dazed, goofy look on his face and didn't even notice that Wufei had stolen some of his chips.
"Hey Heero, you coming to basketball practice?" He nodded and rose from his seat, but not before giving Duo one playful punch in the arm and waving goodbye to Wufei. Heero was in a year below Zechs so they don't have basketball practice on the same day but since Heero was so good at it, he plays for the sixth form team as well as the year 11 team.
Wufei was just about to grab his drink to finish it off when it was moved out of his reach and he was yanked out of his seat.
"…the hell?! Ack! Help, there's something on my arm!"
"Oh pipe down back there and stop being so melodramatic."
"Melodramatic? ME? Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black?" Duo waved his free hand in the air to dismiss it.
"Whatever. They should be on the roof about now. Maybe Q and T are there too. I know that Hilde'll be there but maybe Dot's at guitar practice…"
"Duo, what are you mumbling about, and who are 'they'?" Duo carried on mumbling to himself so Wufei sighed and resigned himself to waiting.
They burst through the doors leading to the roof where Duo stopped abruptly causing Wufei to crash into him. There were 3 girls and 2 boys on the roof. The two boys were standing very close to one another and were resting their forehead together.They were looking a little flushed too A girl with short, dyed, space-blue hair was chatting animatedly with a girl that had dark blond hair. There was another girl with blonde hair twisted into pigtails. She was sitting on the edge of the roof, swinging her legs over the side. He finally let go of Wufei hand and sped forward to embrace one of the girl with the space-blue hair. She turned around at the last second and her face lit up. She opened her arms and Duo leapt at her, causing Hilde to lose her balance and crash into the floor with Duo on top of her.
"HILDE BABY!!!!!! Long time no see! I haven't seen you in years." He exclaimed rubbing his cheek against hers.
"-gasp- Duo…can't…breathe!" Duo finally realised that he was squashing her and rolled off of her onto the floor. He flashed her a devil-may-care grin.
"Don't be stupid. We saw each other before school today." She fell into a coughing fit before speaking again, "Jesus Duo, I think that you are putting on weight. You damn near almost killed me!" She stood up and dusted herself off, trying to avoid looking at Duo's pout. Duo suddenly remembered Wufei standing uncertain at the entrance, and turned to him.
"Well this lovely lady here is Hilde, as you have gathered. The girl she was talking to is 'Miss' Relena. The suicidal girl sitting on the edge is Sally." She turned around to look at Wufei. She gave him a nod in greeting and scowled at Duo for suggesting that she was suicidal, before turning back round again. Duo just grinned sheepishly. "And the two boys who look like they were just necking in the corner are Trowa and Quatre. Trowa's the taller one." They both jumped apart when they heard their names, embarrassed, but they were soon over it and came over to say 'hello'.
"Oh and who might you be? I've never seen you before so you must be new." Relena smiled at him. Wufei smiled back shyly.
"My name is Chang Wufei. It's a pleasure to meet you all."
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(1) I meant an interactive whiteboard where you use a special pen to work it. It's hooked up to a laptop and shows everything on the screen like a projector.
I am such a bad updater-person thingie…anyway I should be dragged into an alley and shot. I hope you enjoyed I tried to make it longer than my first chappie.
And I was just joking about the being shot part…
