Duo walked through the halls to his homeroom class.
The weekend had ended, but thank god Hilde hadn't punished him when she learned the reason that led to the fight. He sported a nice cut just under his left eye and a bruise on his right cheek. But at least he wasn't as bad off as Zechs who was in the hospital being fed through a straw because of a broken jaw.
He strolled into home room and sat at his usual seat. He laid his head down on top of his arms, hoping to close his eyes for at least a few more minutes until class had started. He looked up when he heard Relena's squeal.
She ran up to Heero, who was just entering the room with a nice black eye.
" OMG! What happened to you?" she shrieked. His face portraying nothing he responded, "nothing."
She grabbed his arm and pulled him to a seat next to her and began to bombard him with questions. It was obvious from his first answer that he didn't want to talk about it. Relena seemed to think he was just playing the bad boy role to make her want him more. If that was the case she was an idiot, anybody could see that he would almost cringe away from her whenever she had attempted to touch him.
Oh well, it wasn't any of Duo's business anyways
School seemed to go by fast until lunch.
He had decided that he wanted to eat alone today instead of with the gang. He didn't feel up to talking much today, plus he just wasn't hungry. He grabbed his bag and head to the roof.
Duo had always loved it up there. It was the one place he felt he could be free from everything and everyone. When ever he would skip class or just need a place to think he would always be up on the rooftop.
He found a shady place to sit and pulled out his cigs from his bag. As he lighted up he heard a small cough.
Duo looked around to see who else was up on his precious roof only to find Heero in a shadow across from him curled into a small ball. Well as small as he could manage to get himself, the boy was tall not to mention he had a nice chunk of muscle on him so he couldn't really shrink that much even if he had wanted to.
Brilliant blue eyes appeared in the dark and looked icily at Duo.
"Mind putting that out?" Heero said as he pointed at Duo's cigarette.
" I will if you tell me why your up here and not with the queen and her lackeys like you always are." Duo heard a low chuckle that sent shivers up his spine, who knew Heero had such a sexy laugh.
" Fine. I'm hiding."
"Why?" Duo inquired wanting a more in-depth answer this time if he was really going to have to put out a newly lit cig so fast.
" Always have been. Relena is overwhelming."
"Then why hangout with her and her lackeys?"
" Because you ignored me. Made it obvious that you weren't interested in being acquaintances." Ouch, that guilt trip hit home.
" You know I didn't ignore you because I wanted to." Duo said taking another puff of his cig. Heero looked at him, his eyes held a curiosity that hadn't been there before.
"What do you mean?"
"Exactly what I said. Its not that I want to ignore you, but its better that you stay away from me. Some consequences aren't worth the friendship." Duo said looking down, hating that he could be controlled so easily by Relena's commands. But he didn't want to hurt his sister, she was his everything and scarified everything for him, so in turn he would sacrifice for her as well.
" What like how you were with your friends at the club? I'm surprised you make that kind of demands in order for friendship." Heero said, studying Duo's reaction.
Duo chuckled, " No I don't make those kinds of demands at all in fact." Why wasn't he upset at such an accusation? Normally he'd want to gut someone if they ever thought of him as someone as shallow as what Heero had just accused him of.
" Then what? And you still haven't put that out."
Duo huffed, " Fine, fine." He flicked the cig away and turned his attention back to Heero.
"Like I said its not that I want to ignore you. But there are consequences that effect me rather poorly if I do hangout with you. Trust me I would like nothing more then to talk to everyone and everything freely but I'm not free so I don't have that option."
Duo hated feeling what he was feeling then. He felt so worthless. Again another person was unhappy because of him, he wished he could disappear.
Heero just stared at him. He noticed Duo's violet eyes water until a lone drop fell silently from his eyes. He never knew eyes could hold so much pain. Heero didn't really understand, but in a way he did. Something was holding Duo back from being his friend. But more importantly Duo did want to be friends.
Heero didn't know what came over him but he got up and walked over to sit next to Duo. He wrapped his arms around Duo and pulled him into his chest.
" It doesn't matter to me if people know we are friends, just tell them I stuck to you and that you couldn't shake me. And if that doesn't work we can always meet here to talk and stuff."
Duo wanted to cry out in joy, why had Heero have to be so sweet even though he came off so cold.
Duo could only nod his head into Heero's chest, he couldn't trust his words in such an intimate moment.
One thing was for sure they had both wanted to be friends, or maybe more, Duo could only hope. But Relena was still defiantly a problem and the reason for the two to not be together.
Duo was walking a fine line, he'd need to be careful or he could loose everything he and his sister had ever worked for. But he wanted, no craved Heero's attention. He hadn't realized how empty he was with out it, even if it meant that they could only be friends.
