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AN: There are some lewd sexual remarks in this chapter and the characters have foul language. Here is Chapter 4. This was a faster update. If you can believe it, it would have been earlier. However, my computer caught a virus and all my files were erased when they fixed it. Hopefully, the next update will be fast too.
Chapter Four: Who's the girl?
The foursome would meet up every Thursday after school at Relena's house. However, their write-ups were taking longer to finish since they had a hard time staying on track. Heero and Relena would use this time to let off the steam that had been building up. Sylvia's attitude did not change, she remained as bitchy and useless as every. Every week, she would have a new issue of Cosmopolitan with her. She didn't even bother to look like she was working. Basically, lab consisted of Relena working like crazy, while Sylvia read her magazine carefully.
It took Heero a while to open up. At first, he really didn't talk much. He just left all the conservations to the rest of them, while he worked on figuring out the next problem. Some of the questions were really difficult, but Heero was exceptionally intelligent. Therefore, the rest relied on Heero to figure out the impossible questions. However, after some time and a lot of goading, Heero started to talk and open up. The group couldn't take all the credit for Heero's sudden openness. It seemed like he was so annoyed by Dorothy, that one day he just exploded and started ranting about Dorothy.
Dorothy used the class-time to constantly flirt with Heero. She was constantly batting her eyes and subtly touching Heero here and there. One day, while Heero was pouring some chemicals into a flask, Dorothy decided to stroke his arm. This action took Heero by surprise, and he accidentally spilled all the chemicals into Dorothy's lap. Dorothy went into hysterics, screaming like a banshee and jumping up and down. Heero tried his best to calm her down by apologizing profusely and attempting to help clean her up, but Dorothy wouldn't subside. That was the last straw for Heero. Heero was trying to be patient with Dorothy, but he just couldn't handle it anymore.
After class, Heero stayed after to converse with Mr. Ferraro. He was going to try and convince Mr. Ferraro to allow him to switch partners. Heero wasn't the kind of guy to be picky. Usually, he would just go along with what the teachers wanted. The teachers were in charge, it was their class, their lesson. However, Dorothy took it to another level. Her constant flirting was getting in the way of the experiments. Plus, he just couldn't stand her. There was no way in hell that he was going to do another lab with Dorothy. It was time to take matters into his own hands.
"Mr. Ferraro," Heero said as he walked towards Mr. Ferraro's desk. "I would like to talk to you concerning my lab partner."
"I was wondering what was taking you so long" Mr. Ferraro said smiling. "I was beginning to think Ms. Dorlian was going to beat you to it."
"Excuse me?" Heero was baffled. He certainly did not expect this reaction. He was expecting this to be a hard sell, considering he was so adamant about picking the lab partners.
"I'm not blind Mr. Yuy." Mr. Ferraro continued. "I know what's going on in my class. I can see Ms. Dorothy flirting with you and how Ms. Sylvia is religiously reading her magazine during my class time. I was wondering how long you and Ms. Relena was going to allow this to go on. Plus, I check your write ups. Your write-ups are very similar to Relena, Hilde, and Duo."
"We are all working ..." Heero started. He wanted to make sure that Mr. Ferraro knew that they weren't cheating.
"I know Mr. Yuy. I can see that they help you clean up with your lab. You guys don't seem to be the kind of kids that cheat. All of you are doing decent on your quizzes, so it appears that you guys all know your materials. I don't have any qualms about students working together on write ups and homework. I would prefer that you would work with your lab partners, but I can see that certain circumstances would not permit you to do that."
"So does that mean that your going to allow me to change lab partners?" Heero asked hopefully.
"I'll talk to Ms. Dorlian tomorrow about having you two be lab partners. If she agrees, then I guess all is settled. Sylvia and Dorothy will be lab partners. Is that all Mr. Yuy or is there something else I can help you with?"
"No, that's it." Heero said gratefully. "Thank you, Mr. Ferraro. I don't know how much more I could've take!"
Mr. Ferraro chuckled at this comment. He could sympathize with Heero. He was getting annoyed just watching her flirt, he could only imagine what Heero must have felt.
"I think that I need a job" Relena said as she pop a pepperoni in her mouth. It was a Friday night and they were all (Quatre, Hilde, Catherine, and Sally) having dinner at Tony's Pizza. "We're going to be applying for college next year and they always look highly on work experience."
"What are you looking for?" Sally inquired.
"I have no idea. I've never worked before."
"Really." Catherine was surprised at Relena's comment. "I thought that everyone worked at least for the summer or so. I mean we're teenagers, we are in constant need of cash."
"I guess I was always a bit spoiled." Relena said sadly. "But now, I don't think I want to be asking my mom for everything. I don't want her to work too hard. This must be really hard on her too, being the sole provider and all."
"What did happen with your dad?" Hilde asked. Hilde has noticed that Relena barely talked about her father and the divorce. They've known each other for a month now, but she knows nothing about Relena's dad or the divorce. She was curious, but she wasn't just going to randomly bring it up. However, this conversations appeared to be the perfect opportunity.
"It's a long story."
"Oh" Hilde said. She was disappointed that Relena hadn't really opened up concerning her past. It seemed like Relena was hiding a lot of things. She didn't want to push Relena, but she just wished that Relena would trust her. Out of everyone, Relena and her had become close. They had their chemistry group, they would hang out every Saturday at the mall or somewhere, and they would constantly talk to each other on the phone. Hilde would tell her all about her family and her problems, she even told Relena about her little crush on Duo. However, it seems like she was the only one opening up in their friendship. Sure it was great that Relena was a good listener but a friendship was a reciprocal relationship. Hilde was feeling neglected.
"I'm so sorry. I'm just not ready to talk about it yet . . . I guess I haven't dealt with it. I just need to figure things out before I can talk about it." Relena felt bad that she wasn't able to tell her friends about her father, her family, and the divorce. They were her friends but she was hiding a big part of her life from them. She noticed how they were always curious when something about her family or her past was brought up. However, she would immediately change the subject. She really wanted to tell them, but she couldn't. It wasn't because she didn't trust them, she did. However, talking about it would solidify the situation and she wasn't ready to accept it. "I am really sorry. I know that I've been hurting you guys - keeping all this information from you and all. Believe me, I want to tell you, but I'm just not ready. Please understand."
They all heard the sincerity in her voice and saw the tears forming in her eyes. This seemed to be a really difficult and delicate subject for Relena, still; therefore, they decided to drop it. They all silently agreed that they wouldn't bring it up anymore; they would wait for Relena to tell them in her own time.
"So I heard that Ms. Snobby and Bitchy got replaced with Mr. Hot and Mysterious." Quatre conveniently changed the subject when an air of silence surrounded the group after the topic of Relena's past.
"Oh yeah, did I not mention that?" Relena was thankful at the change of subject.
"No definitely not. I would remember if you told me that you would be working with Mr. Heero Yuy."
"Quatre, Hilde and I have been working with Heero and Duo with our write-ups for about a month now. I don't think it makes that much of a difference now that we're officially lab partners."
"Oh it definitely does, princess."
"Quatre, they're lab partners, not officially a couple." Hilde didn't understand what the big deal was either. Heero and Relena technically had been lab partners for a while. Now, they can just work together during class time.
"Have I been the only one noticing?" Quatre was completely surprised on how clueless these girls were. Sure, they didn't have a lot of boys or relationships under their belts, but surely no girls could be so clueless. All girls had some kind of woman intuition, didn't they?
"Notice what?" All the girls said in unison. They were all curious to know what Quatre could possibly be seeing.
"You guys are all clueless."
"So, are you going to enlighten us with your knowledge, oh wise one." Catherine said sarcastically.
Quatre pretended to think for a moment and finally said, "No, I think I'll let you guys figure this one out for yourself. Apparently, you guys need to practice on honing your woman's intuition. You guys need to figure this one out on your own."
All the customer could here groaning coming from four girls in the back booth of the restaurant.
On the near-by park, four guys were just finishing up some two-on-two basketball. It was five all, last shot. Heero had the ball, he dribbled pass Trowa, faked a pass to Duo, and drove to the basket. Game over. Heero nod to Duo and headed to the cooler for a bottled water. Trowa and Wufei followed Heero's lead, their postures were a little bit slump due to the disappointment of the lost. They left Duo all alone at center court doing his victory dance.
"Whose the best! Whose the man! Who just creamed your asses!" Duo repeated those phrases as he tried his best to impersonate Michael Jackson.
"Maxwell, stop your pathetic dancing!" Wufei growled. "You give us, men, a bad name. Get your pathetic ass down here."
Duo stuck his tongue out and said, "Your just a sore looser Wu-man."
"I think you need a lesson on how to handle winning, Maxwell."
"Oh, come on Wu-man. It's not like it's a real-game. I promise I'll be on my best behavior once the season starts."
"You've never been before, so we don't really expect that now." Trowa interjected.
"Ha, ha, ha." Duo feigned a laugh, obviously un-amused by the comment. "I'm surprise you were able to fit us, your lowly friends, into your busy schedule. It's 7, don't you have a date to go to or something."
"Oh that's later tonight. I guess you wouldn't know much about the etiquette of dating nowadays. It's been awhile since you've been out."
"We're not all like you Tro, who finds it necessary to date every single girl with a face in our high school. Some of us actually wants something more than a pretty face. Plus, it hasn't been that long since I went out on a date. I dated Michelle over the summer. Not like these two guys over here - now they're the one's out of date."
"Don't bring us into this, Maxwell." Wufei growled. Duo was secretly amused that he was getting on Wufei's nerves today. He always found it fun to annoy Wufei, it was just so easy and you can always expect a reaction out of Wufei. Also, Trowa and Heero were always around to keep Wufei from beating him into a pulp. However, he had a feeling that one of these days, they are just going to let Wufei go and have his way with him. Oh, well. Until then, he's safe.
"Who's the girl this week?" Duo asked curiously. Duo figured that Wufei had enough of his annoyance for one day; therefore, he decided to change the subject. Trowa's girls were always fun to talk about. He always had some interesting reasons for going out with a girl.
"Tracy" Trowa answered nonchalantly. "I heard from Steven that she was an easy lay and I need one of those right now. That last girl, what's her name?"
"Jennifer," Heero answered.
"Thanks man. Well, Jennifer, she wouldn't go for any of that. She had no problem with making out here and there and the occasional oral sex; but she wouldn't go all the way. Apparently, she had morals. Bull shit, what a hypocrite. How can you blow me in the janitor's closet during lunch time, and come and tell me that you won't have sex with me. Give me a break."
"Oh my gosh, Trowa hadn't gotten laid in two weeks. I think he needs to see a doctor." Duo just didn't understand his friend some time. How can he just throw around these girls like that? And why do these girls keep vying for Trowa when they already know how he's going to treat them. Some things will just remain a mystery.
"Well I need an easy lay this week, 'cuz the next girl is going to be a challenge." Trowa's eyes were gleaming, he was bating them to ask him who the next girl was.
Duo did not like the look in his eyes. Trowa was planning something. However, he took the bait anyways and asked the unavoidable question: "Who's the girl?"
"Thank you for asking, Duo." Trowa said with his best game-show host voice. "I think you might now her actually. I've seen you talking to her during school. Actually, now that I think of it, I've seen Heero talk to her also."
Heero gave Trowa a hard look, he did not like where this conversation was heading. They stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity. Heero with his serious and somewhat-threatening Prussian blue eyes against Trowa's amused and menacing green eyes. Wufei and Duo just watched the staring game. Heero never cared for Trowa's debauchery. As far as Heero was concern, it didn't concern him. He just brushed it off and ignored him. This time, Heero knew that Trowa was up to something and he was picking this girl to deliberately get under his skin.
Duo was getting impatient with their staring game and could no longer stand the suspense. He had a bad feeling about this. Trowa was getting Heero involved for a reason. Duo wanted to know why. What was Trowa up to? There were only a handful of girls that
Trowa could use. Actually, there are less than a couple. To come to think of it, Duo could only think of two girls.
"Who the hell is she?" Duo yelled. His face was strained from the suspense and he was sweating from all the waiting.
This broke their staring game, and both blinked as they heard Duo's voice. However, their eyes remained lock. Trowa smirked at him, signaling that he was ready to give them, especially Heero, the answer.
AN: I really wasn't planning on ending it there. I was getting a little confuse on how I wanted the guys to respond to Trowa's future conquest. I wanted some extra time to think about it. Plus, I thought this was an adequate length for a chapter.
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CrimsonDragon010: Yeah it took me awhile to update last time. I had ideas, but I just wasn't in the mood to write. I have some ideas on how I'm going to establish Duo and Hilde's relationship, but nothing is set in stone. I really don't want to rush any of the characters' relationships because then it won't seem realistic.
Reignashii: I fixed the whole Sylvia situation. I wasn't going to let them suffer for long. Although, technically, it took them a month before Heero did something about it.
PureAngelEnchantress: I came up with the lab dilemma so they all have a reason to spend some time together. Yeah it was supposed to be three months. Sorry for the confusion. I really need to learn to edit my writing. Editing is the worse part of writing though (Atleast in my opinion.) I'll fix it sometime. Not tonight though, since it's 2:30 in the morning and I need to get some sleep. Thanks for letting me know! ()