I woke on Wednesday morning after one of the best night's sleep of my life. The only other time I've slept like that was when my dad was still alive. I turned on the radio option on my CD player as I got out of bed, but it wasn't turned up loud 'cause WuFei and Heero could have still been sleeping. Marilyn Manson's song Tainted Love was on so I sung and danced my way to the bathroom. I stripped off my clothes and hopped into the shower. That was probably the best shower of my life. I didn't really have showers when my dad was alive and at Richard's house my shower only had cold water so that was probably the first shower I'd had with hot water. It may seem like a small thing, but to me it was paradise. I had to step out of paradise far too soon for my liking because I didn't want to use all of their hot water. I wrapped myself in a huge fluffy towel. I didn't need one for my hair 'cause I made sure it didn't get wet. When I went back into my room (you don't know how cool it was to be able to say that that was my room!) Evanescence's My Immortal was playing so I hummed along to that while I dried myself off and got dressed. I put on another pair of combats made from a mass of zips and pockets, except these ones were a dark purple, and I put on my long, black Nirvana t-shirt.
I took the sandwiches I made yesterday and put them in the bin and left the crisps for a midnight-snack supply. After, I left the room to make my way down to the kitchen for breakfast. Along the hallway towards the stairs, there were plenty of doors. The door practically opposite my room was wide open so I had a little peek inside. It was a bedroom but unlike my room this one had doors leading to a balcony and had a TV with and video and DVD player. There were Doc Martins at the foot of the bed and I recognised them as Heero's so, using my amazingly quick mind, I deduced that it was Heero's room. Score one for me.
The door next-door to me was ajar so me being curious had a little peek inside. Turned out it was WuFei's room and he was still asleep inside. Oh and he looked so cute while he was sleeping. A truly evil grin split across my face as I got another idea. I ran from the door then leapt into the air shouting 'BANZAI!!' as I landed on WuFei. I then proceeded to grab him by the shoulders and shake him awake while I was shouting in his ear:
"WUFEI, WAKE UP! THE ALIENS HAVE LANDED AND HAVE TAKEN ALL OF YOUR UNDERWEAR!!" He suddenly sat up and shouted,
"WHERE THE HELL IS MY SWORD? I'LL KILL THEM ALL! THAT'LL TEACH THEM TO STEAL MY BOXERS!" I collapsed laughing on top of him as he slowly returned to the land of the living. When he realised that it was me, he pushed me to the side but I didn't really care because I was laughing so much. In fact, I was laughing so much that I fell on the floor. But I found that even funnier so I laughed harder until tears were streaming down my face. WuFei looked down at me with an expression of pure murder.
"Maxwell!!" He looked so pissed. I knew what I was about to do next was practically suicide, but it just came out and I was powerless to stop it.
"Hey WuFei, I didn't know that you were a boxer-man. I always figured that you'd wear briefs to keep in place that stick you have up your a –"
"MAXWELL! I'LL CUT THAT BLOODY BRAID OF YOURS OFF AND USE IT TO STRANGLE YOU!!" I didn't get to finish my sentence because a) WuFei interrupted with his muderous shout and b) he flung the covers back and leapt out of bed at me. Because I happened to like my braid attached to my head and I didn't want to die of asphyxiation, I dived to the side and WuFei landed on his face. I then scrambled to my feet while I was laughing at WuFei's landing and ran/stumbled out of his room, through the hallway, down the stairs and into the kitchen, where I came face to face with Heero.
"What was all that noise about?"
"Oh nothing. I guess WuFei didn't like my wake-up call. You didn't tell me he was grumpy in the mornings." He just shrugged. Suddenly WuFei burst into the kitchen and promptly set his sights on me.
"I'm gonna kill you Duo." I let out a 'meep!' and hid behind Heero.
"Move out of the way little brother or I'll be forced to hurt you too." And to my utter surprise he did. WuFei then started towards me. Since I wanted to live now that I had a new home to live in, I ran around the table and back out of the kitchen into the living room while shouting,
"HEERO, YOU TRAITOR!!!" All I got in reply was a laugh. And then something tackled me from behind and I was falling…falling…Ooofff! I hit the ground. Hard. WuFei flipped me onto my back and I couldn't get away because he was straddling my thighs, and then he started to tickle me. And he seemed to know everywhere that I was ticklish! I was squirming, trying to get away from those evil fingers. I was laughing so hard that I couldn't breathe and my stomach hurt and I was crying, yet he still carried on. Then I saw Heero in my peripheral vision, he was just standing there with that sexy smirk on his face and his arms crossed not doing a bloody thing! I tried to glare at him but the effect was ruined by the tears in my eyes and my laughter.
"Say 'uncle'! Say it, damn it! Say 'uncle' or I will never let you go!"
"Alright, alright. Uncle! Uncle! Now gerroff me, you're not exactly light yanno." He got off me and dusted himself off. Heero extended a hand to help me up but I ignored it. When I'd finally gotten up, I glared at him. He put his hands up and gave me that wide-eyed innocent look but that little smirk on his face completely ruined whatever image of 'innocent' he had.
"Are you trying to say that I am fat, Duo?" His tone was dangerous so I knew answering would be like walking through a mine field
"No, no, not fat. It's just that stick up your ass that adds the extra weight." I mumbled that last sentence under my breath. I really didn't fancy being tickled to death again
xXx
We got to school surprisingly early. I guess they're usually the first ones there out of our group. They took the motorcycles that morning. I rode on the back of Heero's because even though I was annoyed with him, WuFei still looked like he wanted to kill me and besides, it was Heero. I'd be glad to wrap my arms around him anytime. We went to the cafeteria because that was where everybody went before school had started. We sat down at our usual table. Well I sat as far away from them as possible because I still was annoyed with them. And the identical smirks they had on their faces wasn't helping the matter any. I gave them both glares and their smirks got even wider so when I got up to myself a hot chocolate from the machine, I knew I was pouting.
When I had gotten my cup of hot chocolate, I turned around and made my way back to our table but I froze mid-step. Sitting at our table and in my seat was Miss Queenie herself. In the other three seats was her loyal band of followers. WuFei looked up and gave me a look that bordered on pure distaste I could practically here him saying, 'Get these women away from me, now!' I gave him a grin in return that wasn't all that cheerful and strode up to the table. I slammed my cup down making the hot liquid slosh all over the sides of the cup.
"Relena darhling, to what do we owe the pleasure?" I said sarcastically, but I guess the sarcasm just flew right over her head.
"Oh I wasn't here to see you! I was here talking to Heero." Quelle surprise.
"Uh-huh, that's nice dear. Now can you be so kind as too get the fuck out of my seat?!" She gasped as if she's never heard a swear word before, even after living with all of that time.
"This is not your seat; you have no claim on it. Oh and by the way I will advise you to stay away from Heero, since finally we're an item. And none of your meddling can come between us." I looked at Heero and raised an eyebrow; he just shrugged as an answer. I walked up behind Relena and she whipped her head round to glare at me.
"Maxwell, just what do you think that you are doing?" she snapped. I just ignored her – as usual – and grabbed hold of the chair. Then I pulled it away from the table and dumped her off of it. The other three girls rushed to her side immediately to help her and gave me dirty looks. I just grabbed the chair, flipped it around and sat down so that I was straddling the back. Heero was smirking and looking like he was struggling awfully hard to not laugh his ass off, but WuFei had no such restraint and was doing just that – laughing his ass off. I grinned at both of them.
"Maxwell!" she screeched at me WuFei and Heero both reflexively covered their ears but I didn't because I was used to it.
"What? What?! I didn't do anything!"
"You know very well that you did. How dare you touch me, you little street rat." She all but growled at me. It wasn't a growl because that's not very lady-like."
"For the last time Relena, I am not a street rat. I do not live on the streets."
"For someone who claims he doesn't lie, you've been telling an awful lot of lies today. We all know that daddy kicked you to the kerb and since you have no where to go, too poor to afford anything you ended up living on the streets." I think she was waiting for me to get angry because she looked disappointed when I grinned at her instead.
"Relena darhling, I have a little secret to tell you!" she tried to look uninterested but I could tell she was dying to know.
"Actually you dear father miscalculated. It seems that I do have somewhere to stay. It's nice having real friends. You see I'm actually staying with…Heero! Ain't that just a kick in the teeth! I am living at your 'boyfriend's' house and you don't even know where it is!" Oh yeah I was feelin' good!
"WHAT!!!! That's not true, it can't be. Tell me the truth Heero; I know you'd never lie to me." Heero got that evil smirk on his face that something bad was gonna happen to someone and he would enjoy every minute of it.
"Oh yeah, he's living with us. I mean, his room is right across from mine. Such a coincidence." He leant back against the chair and grinned. His eyes were twinkling and WuFei was holding his stomach laughing. Relena burst into big crocodile tears and ran from the cafeteria, her followers running after her and shouting for her to come back.
"You know that I'm still miffed with you two. You're lucky that I hate Relena or I would've left you two to fend for yourselves." Heero's eyes widened in mock horror.
"You wouldn't!"
"You better believe I would!" WuFei was still laughing but not as hysterically as before. I got up off my seat and walked around to their side of the table. I grabbed their t-shirt collars, one in each hand and dragged them off of their seats. Out of the cafeteria and towards our homeroom.
"Come on, move your lazy asses. We have places to go, people to see and all that jazz."
"Mr Maxwell! What have I told you about your mouth?!" I was in a mood where nothing could bring me down and I just felt like being silly.
"Um…to watch it? But sir I've tried to watch my mouth before but I couldn't do it without a mirror. Maybe you should ask one of my friends for me." I pondered. Then I grinned.
"Aww sir I didn't realise you cared so much about my mouth! But then again it's such a talented one, isn't it?" WuFei started laughing loudly all over again and Heero burst out laughing as well. All this happened with me still holding onto their collars. I winked at the teacher and walked past him while dragging WuFei and Heero along.
"Come along dears we have to get to class. Ta-ta for now sir!" I was practically carrying them down the hall way since they had collapsed from laughing.
"Really! What am I gonna do with you two! I can't take you anywhere!"
xXx
I had a lot of fun writing this little chappie. I actually got the idea for the beginning from a reviewer who said that it was gonna be mad with Duo and WuFei living in a house together.
I was so surprised yesterday. I uploaded chapter 9 and next time I go to check my email there's a review there! Wow…
Thank you! Thank you! -bows-
