'Duo. Duo, Duo, Duo. I have just received a call from the school informing me of your absence from school for most of the day. They say that you didn't even make it to your first period.'
'Yeah. I know.'
'Care to enlighten me as to why you were not present at school today.' Bloody hell. This man suffers from longwinded-ism! He just has to use three words when one would suffice.
'I walked out of school because I got pissed off with the headmistress.'
'Watch your mouth boy!' he snapped. My left eye twitched. I had developed quite a hate for that phrase. 'What could Principle Kelly have done to annoy you enough to leave the school premises?' It really is a chronic disease.
'Well, even after all Relena did to me, all she said to me, the principle decided that Relena was the victim and didn't deserve to be punished! And I got it all instead! Wouldn't you be just a little bit pissed off with her if you were being punished for something you didn't do?' I was really fired up and was out of my seat pacing around the study. You could feel the anger in the air; my braid was practically crackling with the tension it was producing.
'Boy! I told you to watch your mou–'
'I swear – I SWEAR! If you tell me to watch my mouth One More Time, there will be Hell to pay. Come on! I dare you to say it! Say it! SAY IT!' I swear it's all a conspiracy to make me go insane. And lookie, it was starting to work. That newly-repaired thread of sanity slowly fraying.
'Calm down! Don't you dare tell me what to do!' He was out of his seat now. He was all red in the face and breathing harshly through his nose, and if glares could kill I'd be six feet under by now. 'Mrs Kelly told me that you attacked my little girl. Now I don't see why you shouldn't be punished for attacking someone – a girl no less!'
I took a few deep breaths before speaking, just to calm down. I wasn't usually that temperamental, that whole family just had the knack of getting under my skin so easily. They're the only ones to master that skill.
'It did not hit the bitch – I didn't get the chance.' He opened his mouth to comment about my language but I just raised an eyebrow and he snapped it shut again. Hey, I was getting pretty good at shutting people up without speaking!
'And besides, my 'attack' was a provoked one. She was saying some uncalled for thing about my dad. She had no right – no bloody right! to speak about my dad let alone say offensive things.'
He just waved it off like it was some pesky fly. 'No matter what she said, that does not give you the prerogative to attack my only daughter so viciously. She was very much shaken when she came home from school today.'
'Ooh, did daddy's little girl tell daddy what the big bad Duo did to her today?'
'Yes! As a matter of fact she did. She told me how you made the absurd accusation that she was jealous of you; how you conned the boy that she loves into saying that he doesn't like her. She even told me how you've been filling this boy's head with all sorts of lies about my little princess.' I swear this man has an obsession with pet names.
'Oh pur-leese! Give me a break! She doesn't love him. She barely knows him!'
'And that's because you won't let her get near him. Now Duo, just because you are jealous of their love for one another, there is no need to try and prevent them from getting together.'
'Don't give me that shit! Has she been filling your head with her childish fantasies and delusions too? My friend Heero wants nothing to do with her. He doesn't like her. I mean, really! Would you fall in love with someone that stalks you, glomps you every time they see you and won't leave you the Hell alone?!'
He gasped at that. I think that that was his first real dose of reality. His face had gone as red as my wall! He deliberately took a deep breath then sat back down.
'Well, this brings me to my next point. I believe this boy would make a very nice partner for my little angel –' My right eye twitched this time, 'But since she never got the chance to get to know him and since you're such good friends with him–'
I did not like where this was going. There was this foreboding feeling creeping into my veins. I should've listened to my instincts.
'I want you to help get them together.' Woah. Rewind. I must be hearing things.
'YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT!!! Are you insane? Why on earth would I help to put my best friend together with that witch?!'
'Do not speak of my daughter in such a way! As to the reason why you would help…well, you don't really have much of a choice.'
You know that foreboding feeling creeping along my veins? It was full out stomping through them and settling in my stomach.
'Oh really? I think I do and my choice is no! I refuse to assist in the hurting my friend.'
'Oh but I think you might change your mind if you knew what was at stake.' He was smirking at me maliciously and there was a twinkle in his eyes that showed how much he was enjoying the fact that he knew something I didn't.
Something very important.
'Stakes?'
'Yes stakes. If you refuse to help my darling daughter get that boy, Heero, then you can kiss your home goodbye!'
'What?!' For someone who's pretty quick on the uptake, I was having a hard time digesting what he meant.
'Don't you get it, you stupid boy? If you don't help Heero and Relena get together then I am going to be forced to kick you out of this household.' Woah. I got it then. I began to get a little hysterical.
'Forced?! FORCED?! Who's forcing you? Nobody's forcing you to kick me out of the house!'
Make that a lot hysterical. I mean, I always wanted to move out of that God-forsaken house and get a place of my own – it's been my dream ever since Teresa got remarried. But I can't move out now, I don't have enough money to support myself. Hell I can't even buy a place to live! So you can see why I was getting upset.
'I can't have a person that cares so very little for this family in this house. I can't have such a selfish boy in this house. So if you refuse to help, you give me no choice but to kick you out.'
'Selfish? How the Hell am I selfish?'
'I gave you a home, a place to live. And how do you repay me? By being a rude, uncouth delinquent that shows no respect!'
'You are supposed to give me a place to live! When Teresa married you –'
'That is your mother you are speaking of in such a disrespectful way – '
'SHE IS NOT MY MOTHER! Not anymore. The day she married you was the day she gave up that right. So I'll speak of her in any way I fucking feel like!
When Teresa married you I became your step-son. So you were supposed to give me a home, a place to live. But as rich as you are, all you gave me was a closet for a room and a small dilapidated washroom for a bathroom. I receive no money from my so-called mother and Relena gets more pocket money each day than I make in a week. In fact I had to get myself a full-time job to afford anything I needed that wasn't food from the weekly shopping!'
'You are supposed to be working at you age!'
'Not full-time. And Relena isn't! She's never done a hard days work in her life! Everything is just handed to her! She could get away with murder if she just batted her eyelashes at you and called you 'daddy'!'
'So I take it your answer is 'no' then?'
'Damn straight it is!'
'Then I'd advise you to pack your bags. I want you out of my sight by the time I wake up tomorrow morning.' And with that he brushed pass me and slammed out of the study leaving me to ponder what I was going to do next.
I was in deeeeeeep shit.
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Weeeeeeell Lookie here! Is that another chapter I see? Why, I believe I'm spoiling you!
And it was thanks to these reviewers that I decided to write another chappie!
RikoRishodeathangeloflight: Well your bad feeling was not misguided, was it? And here's your update!!
MC-88: Sorry! I wanted Duo to punch Relena but my fingers wouldn't let me write that!
Hikaru: Sorry but you're gonna have to go through a lot more Duo torture before we get to Relena's just dessert! As to how they can be blind to Relena's wrong doings? Her father donates a big fat some of money to the school.
Camillian: I hopemade up for the cliffie in the previous chapter
Dragen Eyes: Sorry about the spelling blushes but I hope this chapter made up for it! Ooh some 1x2 action. Well you're in for a wait.
Raven Star: Yay! Another Muse lover! And I am glad you love this story, so here's some more for you!