Chapter 02: A New Mystery
"What's wrong with Heero?" Trowa said, getting straight to the point bluntly.
"What?" Lady Une asked dumbly. "Nothing is wrong with him."
"Why is he acting so strange today?" Quatre questioned, almost to himself it seemed.
"Well," Everyone looked at Lady Une. "I'm not quite sure I understand all this, Heero seems perfectly fine to me today. He's probably annoyed at someone if he's acting weird. Duo," Duo looked at him. "Did you do anything to his laptop or anything?"
"No—"Duo seemed to think for a moment. "I did make him eat one of the cafeteria's burgers and he wasn't feeling so good since I put green food dye in it." The others sweat-dropped.
"Well, that solves this mystery. Duo Maxwell has done it again." Wufei said with a temper to the brunet baka and his never-ending tricks on the Wing pilot.
Duo grinned wickedly at this comment.
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A Day, which seemed an eternity, later:
There they were, sitting at the table silently, sometimes murmuring a few words.
They were sitting in the cafeteria when they noticed they had barely seen Heero as it was, even Trowa who was his roommate.
Through the glass windows they caught the familiar image of Heero walking towards the door with a large duffel bag and Une was rushing after him. He was dressed almost exactly the same except for the jean jacket he now wore.
Heero turned around when Une came rushing up to him. She said some words.
"Please don't hate me." She told him silently, the Gundam boys read the movements of her mouth, being so talented and all.
"..." Heero said nothing but stiffened when she drew him into a hug. She let go of him, letting him walk away without another word as a driver in a back tuxedo with sunglasses opened the door and escorted him to a SUV nearby.
"What was that all about?" Duo questioned, trusting his instinct that something was wrong and it had nothing to do with his little prank.
He had reached his destination, the driver stopping to buy him a think black sky jacket and other winter supplies he would need for the cold weather of Maine in the winter times of January and February.
He saw a teenager, thirteen no doubt rushing up to the house where he was boarding and a little girl, probably in the sixth grade rush up too. The smaller girl had long flaming red hair that was tied into two braids. The other one had multicolored hair, gold, silver and brunet.
Heero turned and saw someone was in front of him. He stepped back in surprise but slipped on the ice, the figure grabbing his hand from falling. The driver took out his duffel bag and gave it to him, waving to him before setting off quickly, ready to leave to cold weather.
"Une'll send you money through the bank for supplies and rent!" He yelled and backed out from the tip of the cliff where the inn was located on.
Heero was able to get some traction on his feet again, and the two children were slowing down. The person who caught him, a woman had a bright face on, but her eyes seemed to twinkle shallow as something was hidden under them, something else.
"Thank you." He mumbled, the woman's hand still clasping his. The older woman noticed this and let go, looking at the handsome boy with a smile.
"I suppose that you are Heero?" She said sweetly. The thirteen-year-old stopped a little farther away with a scared, almost sickened look in her eyes.
"Yeah, are you Mrs. Shevvington?" He asked, getting a nod from the woman.
"Say hello, girls." Mrs. Shevvington ordered the two girls to introduce themselves.
"Um—"Dolly, the younger girl with the red hair asked Mrs. Shevvington. "Can we go inside and do that?" She asked.
"Of course," Mrs. Shevvington smiled at this and escorted Heero inside with the girls following, the older girl hiding a scowl.
They went inside to the kitchen where Mrs. Shevvington started making some hot chocolate for them.
"Hi!" The smaller girl said as Heero let a small smile slip, so as not to scare her. He might as well act normal here, if that was possible. "I'm Dolly."
"I'm Heero Yuy, it's a pleasure." He said politely to her and the other girl who had yet to give him her name.
Her eyes fell on him, and she hid a blush creeping onto her cheeks. 'He's better than Blake!' She thought about Blake, Anya's boyfriend ho had been sent away to boarding school after he "fell" off the cliffs.
"I'm Chrissie." Chrissie told Heero.
"Hi," He said to her with a slight smile. Someone appeared in the doorway, wearing what looked like maid's clothes.
"That's Anya!" Dolly said with excitement. "So why are you here? Are you visiting?"
"No, I'm going to be boarding here for school." The hot chocolate was done and Chrissie took into account how Mrs. Shevvington put more coca into Heero's cup.
"You're boarding here?" Chrissie asked with a dreaded fear growing in her.