Yo everyone I am now officially finished with High School. My graduation day was awesome and now I'm celebrating with updating with another chapter of How To Tell You. Yay! So this is the BIG chapter so I hope ya'll like it. Thank you Mizuki hikari, Kami-Crimson, Lady11Occult, and SanzoGirl for reviewing the last chapter. Here is Chapter 9.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing or the characters in any way.
Thoughts are in /…/
-Two Hours after Quatre's Visit with Wufei-
Wufei stormed through the Winner mansion.
"Sir! Sir you can't go in there!"
"The hell I can't." Wufei burst through the den and Trowa looked up from where he was standing next to the bookshelf.
"Wufei! What the hell are you doing here!"
"I'm so sorry Mr. Barton," the maid ran up behind Wufei trying to catch her breath. "I tried to stop him, but-"
"It's all right Maria, I'll handle this."
"Alright sir." She gave one more look at Wufei and left the den.
"It's not nice to barge through people's homes uninvited."
"And it's not nice to cheat on your faithful lover either."
Trowa growled "I want you to get the hell out of my house now!"
"This isn't even your house it's Quatre's." retorted Wufei.
Trowa took a deep breath to calm himself. "Why did you come here Wufei? To criticize me?"
Wufei crossed his arms. "I'm here to question you as to why you haven't told Quatre about you little rendezvous with your mistress."
"I told you I would handle it."
"Yeah, well you didn't do it fast enough because he came to my office today nearly in tears wondering why the hell his supposedly faithful lover is hiding something from him."
Trowa took a step closer to Wufei. "And what did you tell him?"
"I should have told him about your lying, cheating ways, but I didn't because that wasn't my place to. It was yours, but now I don't care anymore. You've broken his heart enough now and I won't stand for it anymore."
"Ha! So that's what this is about. You got involved so that Quatre would fall willingly into your arms."
"Dammit you don't understand anything do you Trowa? It's not about whether I love him and want him to myself or that you have him and attempt to love him. It's the fact that I want Quatre to be happy. Whether it's with me or someone else."
"Trowa what's going on here?"
Wufei and Trowa turned toward the doorway and saw a pretty young woman with red, flowing hair and light green eyes wearing blue jeans and a light pink shirt.
"Sherry?"
The young women walked into the room and stood beside Trowa. "The maid let me in and said you were in here."
"Well, well, well if it isn't you little slut showing her face in you own lovers home."
"Don't call her that Wufei! You have no right to disrespect her like that. You don't even know what's going on so stay the fuck out of it." Trowa growled.
"Oh I know exactly whats going on. You're acting like a whore by going out with two people at the same damn time."
"Trowa's not a whore!" Sherry spoke up, standing in front of Trowa. "He is a very kind and loving man."
"I wouldn't be talking if I were you." snorted Wufei. "You know Trowa was taken and you still pursued him and not only that, but you knew he was going out with THE Quatre Winner and you still had thegall to date his man and walk into his home."
"I love Trowa and he loves me and that's all that matters, regardless of what you say."
"It's alright Sherry, you don't have to explain yourself to him." responded Trowa as he placed his hand on Sherry's forearms.
"So this is what the big secret is?" a soft voice from the den entranceway asked.
Everyone in the room turned toward the voice.
"Quatre?...What are you doing here?" Trowa voiced just as quietly as Quatre, yet everyone in the room heard him.
Quatre stood looking at the floor, but snapped his head up at Trowa's question. "Oh, so now I can't come into my own home without your consent." Quatre stated, his voice gaining volume.
Trowa took a step forward. "That's not what I meant Quatre….I just….How much did you hear?"
Quatre walked fully into the den standing a few meters away from Trowa and Sherry, with Wufei to his left. "Evidently enough to know that she and you have a thing going on."
Trowa sighed and took another step forward towards Quatre. "I'm sorry Quatre….I didn't want you to find out this way."
"Yeah you were just going to let him catch you two screwing before you told him." Wufei spoke sarcastically.
Trowa spun on his heals and growled. "This is none of your damn business Wufei. I can handle this."
"Yeah, you're doing that well aren-"
"Wufei….you knew about this didn't you?" Quatre interrupted the argument.
Wufei shut his mouth, answering Quatre's question with silence.
Quatre sighed, "Why didn't you tell me?"
Wufei looked guiltily at Quatre. "I really wanted to tell you, I did. I just…didn't know how to tell you. I really wanted to. I'm….I'm sorry Quatre, but I thought Trowa was going to and-"
"Oh so you're blaming this on me now!" Trowa yelled, entering the two way conversation.
Wufei turned angrily towards Trowa to yell back. "Hell yes this is your fault you're the one cheating on him, not me, don't try to turn this around like it's my fault."
"Stop it! Both of you!" Quatre loud voice stopped Trowa and Wufei's bantering. "Please just stop it." He repeated in a quieter voice. "I just…I just want to know why Trowa."
Quatre inspected Sherry's looks noticing the way she hovered near Trowa. He looked at her long red hair tied back away from her face showing off her bright green eyes and the lightly tanned face. He noticed she had a low cut pink T-shirt that said 'I'm all yours' on it and a pair of tight blue jeans with high heeled black boots, adding about two inches to her height. Quatre hated to admit it, but she was pretty and could see why Trowa wanted her, but he needed to hear the reason from Trowa.
"Tell me Trowa what was it? What made you turn away from me? Am I not living up to your standards? Am I not attractive enough? Am I not satisfying your needs?...Or is it because you've realized you want a female instead of a male?" stated Quatre dejectedly.
"Shit Quatre that's not it….you know how I feel about you, I would nev-"
"Then tell me right now Trowa do you love me?"
"Quatre come on we've been through a lot together. I really do love you Quatre and-"
"Bullshit Trowa, because if you really loved me you wouldn't be with her." Quatre said, voice dripping with anger.
Trowa stepped up to Quatre. "Please Quatre…" He tried to touch Quatre's arm, but Quatre backed away.
"Don't touch me, Trowa."
But Trowa stilled pursued. "Please Quatre listen let me make it better." He once again reached out and touched Quatre's arm. This time though Quatre pulled his arm away, pulled it back and slammed it across Trowa's face. Trowa surprised, stumbled back into Sherry's arm.
"What the hell was that for!" exclaimed Sherry lightly touching Trowa's bruising cheek.
It looked like Quatre was going to strike again, but Wufei intervened and pulled Quatre away from the two lovers.
Quatre shook off Wufei. "Don't touch me either Wufei." Wufei had a surprised look on his face. "You and Trowa are both lying bastards. Trowa did this behind my back and you knew about this whole thing and didn't even fucking tell me about it."
"Hey don't try to belittle Trowa." stated Sherry, stepping in. "Trowa is loving and caring and just because he doesn't love you anymore and loves me gives you no reason to-"
"No, he's right Sherry." Trowa responded, dropping his hand from his aching cheek and placing it on her forearm to quiet her. "Quatre deserves an explanation."
"You know what Trowa, forget the explanation."
Trowa looked at Quatre with confusion. "But I thought that's what you wanted."
Quatre took a couple steps backward towards the entranceway and he shook his head making his blond hair falling into his pale blue eyes. He looked at Trowa, but seeing him and Sherry together made his eyes water and he directed his eyes downward.
"I don't want an explanation anymore. I don't need it. You don't want me anymore that is easy to see."
"Quat-"
"And I'm sorry Wufei."
Wufei gave a confused look toward Quatre, but Quatre's attention was towards the floor. "Sorry for what Quatre?"
Quatre looked up at Wufei, eyes full of unshed tears. "I'm sorry that I wasn't the friend to you that I thought I was." Quatre looked at Trowa one more time. "I wish you and Sherry good luck." And with that last comment Quatre turned around and left from the room running out of the house.
"Quatre wait!" Trowa shouted taking a few steps to run after him, but Wufei grabbed his arm to stop his movement.
"What the hell are you doing?" Trowa said yanking his arm from Wufei's grasp.
"You shouldn't follow him. It is apparent he doesn't want to talk to you." Wufei said calmly.
"Oh yeah? So now you know what's best for him huh? And let me guess you're going to go run after him."
Wufei put his hands in his pocket and sighed. "No I'm not going either and that's because he doesn't want to talk to me either. Look we both hurt him. Intentionally or unintentionally, it doesn't matter, what matters is that two of the people he had trust in betrayed him. So we need to give him time to cool down."
"You just think this is your chance to win his heart." Trowa scoffed.
"Dammit Trowa you understand nothing! Despite the fact I care for Quatre doesn't matter anymore because I hurt him just as much as you have. And I'll probably never be able to fix that." Wufei started to leave the room, but gave Trowa one more piece of advice. "I think you also need to take some time to decide who and what is more important to you in life."
As soon as he left the room Trowa sighed and ran a hand through his hair.
"It's all right Trowa." Sherry said putting her arm around his waist in a hug. "I'm still here."
Trowa sighed and removed Sherry's hands. "I know Sherry, but I need some time to collect my thoughts."
"But Trowa I-"
"Just give me a little time okay. I'll call you tomorrow."
Sherry looked up at Trowa, but he wouldn't meet her eyes. "Alright Trowa, take you time." She stepped away, gave one more look at him and left.
Trowa collapsed on the couch with his head in his hands. /I totally fucked up this time. Shit now what the hell am I going to do/
Trowa looked up at the ceiling for answers, but it provided none.
…So what do you think? I hope its okay. I didn't want to make Quatre seem too weak, with crying or too aggressive with knocking everyone's lights out. So I tried to find an in-between. Please review and tell me what you think. If you have any complaints or suggestions please tell me, I wanna know your thoughts. Thanks everyone.
