EDITED. SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION OF THE PREVIOUS CH3! (It was three in the friggin' morning, okay!)


The halls of Eagle Rock were empty, minus a few forgotten pieces of paper and a boy with somewhat strange, dark brown hair. It was long, long enough to reach his lower shoulder blades, but instead it seemed to be permanently flipped over to cover his right eye, which most suspected was as emerald as the left. He was dressed in extremely tight faded blue jeans and a dark navy turtle neck sweater that was perfect for that time of year, September. The only hint of jewelry on him was a small, diamond stud on his right ear.

The door beside him opened and out stepped a short blond boy. His hair was cut to his ears, still long enough to fall into his bright, near-indigo, blue eyes. Standing next to the uni-banged teen, the boy seemed small in his light blue jeans, white tee-shirt, and blue jeans jacket.

Giving each other a soft smile, they headed down the hall, the blond pausing only to look at the clock on the wall. "Mr. Kushrenada took long enough, didn't he? Its almost five o'clock."

The taller laughed softly, "Yes, he did take a lot longer than he said he would," he placed a hand lightly on his friends head. "Well, Quatre, what did he need?" his voice was pleasant and calming and his movements quick as he pulled the boy closer, wrapping a slender arm around his waist.

"He wants me to take a new student around tomorrow," Quatre snuggled closer to the taller, his own arms going around his waist, grabbing his other hand. "The students name is Duo Maxwell, he moved here from Dallas, Texas to live with Zechs," a heavy frown placed itself on his lips.

"Zechs?" his boyfriend seemed somewhat confused. "Why Zechs? Doesn't he own The Epyon?"

The blond sighed, "He does, Trowa, and Kushrenada said that Zechs was a friend of the new students former boss. The boss set him up with a job at The Epyon, too," he sighed again, "He's sixteen and working at a club in down town L.A. There is definitely more to this than I got out of Kushrenada, besides where his apartment is."

"Quatre," Trowa gave him a warning look.

"Monday, Wufei will come with us."

"Alright."


Everyone stared. He could feel their eyes on him as he walked towards a recently occupied table. A false smile was plastered to his face for the sake of the late-night Epyon customers. It was his second table of the night and he was already getting extremely pissed by the constant cat-calls from the other customers. He hoped this table was better than the last.

The glass-top table and red couch circling it were occupied by two blond girls and one brunette male- an extremely good looking brunette male, at that.

"Welcome to the Epyon, my name is Duo and I will be your server for the evening- er..." the braided teen looked at the watch on his wrist, eyes widening at the blinking announcement of 11:27 P.M. "Excuse me, server for the night... Time really does fly when you're having fun," he returned his gaze to the three people, smiling falsely still. "What would you like to drink?"

"He's polite, isn't he, Heero?" the blond on his right smiled darkly.

The brunette frowned at her and tilted his head, "Relena..." He warned quickly, eyes dark and steely blue. And Duo Maxwell's troubles only escalated further that night.


Duo sighed as he slipped through the Epyon's doors and locking them, "Man, it has been a very long night..."

"It's only one," Noin muttered, giving the teen a pat on the head. "But you should still get home. You do have school seven hours, no?" Duo shrugged and his co-worker changed the subject quickly. "Did you have any problems tonight?"

"One table with two blonds and a dude with brown hair. He had weird blue eyes."

Noin gave a disgusted face, "Those three are real trouble, Duo. Especially the boy, Heero Yuy. He's the leader of a gang called the Lightning Band. They may be hackers, but they're stronger than they look," she paused, sighing. "The girls are Relena and Dorothy. Relena, sad as it is, is Zechs' little sister and Dorothy's 'boss.' Both of them hang around the Lightning Band and usually have 'body guards' from the group at their heels at all times; so watch what you say to them," with that, she waved her goodbye to the boy and walked in the direction of her apartment.

"Trouble, eh?" he chuckled. "Shinigami always finds trouble when unneeded," sighing heavily, he walked in the opposite direction Noin went.

The street was dark; no lamps to light the way because the kids living on the streets around the area had knocked them out. It reminded Duo that this was the bad end of LA and not the rich suburbs that he was so used to being around.

At the moment, he was walking by a dark alley, something he did not like one bit. He shivered, thinking about what could be lurking there and not noticing the Prussian eyes that followed him as he continued on his way.


Duo was in his normal attire of all black, minus the bright yellow rubber ducky(1) on the front of his hoodie, the many silver arrangements on his body, and his golden cross, which he, along with his keys and book bag, nearly forgot in his rush to leave. He considered getting something to eat from the basket on the counter, but decided against it and went ahead out the door and down to the sidewalk.

His school was, to say the least, gigantic. It was nothing like what Zechs had explained it as ("Simple enough for a high school. Small, yet roomy"). Oh, it was a HUGE understatement.

"I hope I can find the office without any trouble," Duo muttered as he stepped through the open front doors, the tardy bell ringing above him.


Its edited, good... I added stuff I was going to put in CH4, so its quite a bit longer.

1- Duo just seems like a rubber ducky dude.

(Duo: I do not!

Yes you do! Now shut up and get back in the suitcase!)

I have some good, yet bad news. I will be missing for about a week and will not be able to get online at that time. So, until then, here's a bit of info: The Irish rock (No offense!).

P.S.: From that info, it should be pretty easy to figure out where I am going.