"IF YOU WOULD STOP BEING SUCH A LITTLE BITCH AND JUST LISTEN TO M--"
"NO HEERO! YOU LISTEN TO ME! JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND LISTEN TO ME!"
"YOU'RE TALKING CRAZY, DUO!"
"I AM NOT CRAZY!"
"SO WHAT? YOU WANT TO YELL AT ME FOR THE NEXT HOUR? HOW DOES THAT HELP"
"AT LEAST I'D FEEL BETTER!"
"TURNS OUT THAT HOW YOU FEEL IS NOT MY GODDAMN PROBLEM"
"FUCK YOU! STOP TALKING TO ME!"
"We're done here."
"Heero."
"Go to hell." Heero wrenched the door open and left
"ARG!!" Duo threw punch into the wall where Heero's head had been moments before. Slumping to the ground, Duo looked pleadingly at the ceiling. There was an electronic chirping, and Duo pulled out his phone. Trowa calling. Duo pelted the phone across the room. And it smashed against the wall, popping open and ceasing to ring.
After a few hours, or maybe a few minutes, Duo sighed and picked himself up and retrieved his phone. The antenna looked broken, but not hopeless. He toggled through the contacts list and called Catherine, "Got some time for me tonight?"
-Hey, what's up?-
"been better."
-what's going on?-
"meh fighting with Heero"
-Oh no! Do you need to talk?-
"Yeah."
-gimme me 10 minutes and I'm yours-
"okay. My room?"
-as always!-
MEANWHILE…ON THE OTHER SIDE OF CAMPUS…
"Love and tenderness are human qualities, anger and lust are animal qualities"
"Huh."
"Catherine…do you think…."
"Hey, hold on." Catherine's cell phone ring interrupted Relena.
Catherine dug out her phone and answered, "Hey, What's up?"
-been better-
"What's going on?"
Relena rubbed Catherine's arm and whispered, "Who is it?"
Catherine cocked the phone away from her ear and mouthed "my mom".
Having made a plan with Duo, Catherine closed her phone and leapt out of Relena's arms and pulled her shirt on, quickly doing the buttons up, with and unapologetic, "I have to go"
Relena put on a pout, "Aw, so soon?"
Catherine hurried to let herself out of the room," I'd stay if I could."
"I'll miss you, baby"
"Wha- yeah. You too."
Catherine slipped out to the hall and pulled her phone out again, "Heero?"
-sup?-
"Where you at gangsta?"
-What's it to you?-
"Just looking for my Heero!"
-Trowa's. Actually I can't really talk right now..-
"that's cool, are you gonna be around later tonight?
-I'm thinking no.-
"Alright, I'll catch you later." Catherine closed her phone and smirked.
Hanging up with Catherine, Heero dropped his jacket and slumped down in the hallway, glaring at the floor tiles.
After awhile heavy footsteps echoed in the hall. Trowa ignored the brooding Heero huddled in her hallway. She unlocked her door and disappeared inside the room. Heero didn't follow her in so she microwaved tea and brought two mugs into the hall. Heero still refused to acknowledge her. She put the tea down in front of him and sat across from him. After a long time, Heero looked at Trowa, "Duo asked me if I wanted to have sex with you."
"…."
"…."
"…."
"…."
"Um, Heero, are you going somewhere with this?"
"He doesn't believed me that we're just friends."
"Hn."
"…."
"…."
"I think this needs to stop."
"…."
Trowa leaned forward on her knees and brushed some of Heero's bangs behind his ear.
"What are you doing?"
"Moving your hair."
"Please stop."
Trowa folded her hands in her lap but continued to kneel in front of Heero.
Heero continued to glare at the mug o' tea for a while before taking a sip. Heero wondered if he should tell Trowa how he had responded to Duo's question. The response that had sparked a blow out argument.
Trowa didn't need to ask. She smiled her small Trowa smile and carefully slipped her arms around Heero's neck. Heero closed his eyes, finding Trowa's wordless comfort refreshing. If anything, Heero Yuy was tired of talking. With Duo there was always talking, there were questions and explanations. Trowa understood that there were other ways to communicate, and Heero liked that. However Heero Yuy also knew a crush when he had one, and the best way to deal with such a distraction: "Which part of 'please stop touching me' was unclear?"
Trowa released him, resuming slouching against the opposite wall, already feeling the effect of Heero's words and missing his touch.
Heero didn't open his eyes for a long time, until he heard the footsteps of an approaching dorm proctor. Trowa and Heero silently ducked into Trowa's room and closed the door. In the dark, Heero and Trowa stood surveying Trowa's room.
"…."
"…."
"…."
"…."
Trowa looked at her shoes and smiled, "Just ask."
"…."
"…."
"…."
"…."
"Can I sleep here for tonight?"
"Yeah."
Heero casually walked farther into the room and lay down across the floor.
MEANWHILE
Duo killed the last sip in his cup of coffee and leaned his back against the side of the bed to look up at Catherine and joke that although she had made good coffee, she shouldn't be encouraging him to work his problems out with food. Catherine giggled from where she was sprawled across the bed that Duo and Heero usually shared and playing with the tip of the braid.
Duo sighed, "I'm just being stupid aren't I?"
"No. I think you had every right to speak up. Fuck, even I'M uncomfortable with Trowa/Heero PDA and I'm not secretly dating either of them."
"It's just that they're both so creepy when they're together and not talking…I think they have telepathy or something… always like taking care of each other and stuff, you know?!"
"I'd be jealous too."
"I'm not jealous."
"Duo…"
Duo winked at her, Catherine laughed and pulled out Duo's hair tie.
Duo frowned, "Down girl.."
Catherine sat up smiling mischievously, "Just let me play with it, I'll braid it back when I'm done."
"..s'really kind of a Heero thing.."
Catherine began to loosen the braid, "Let's not talk about Heero anymore."
Duo closed his eyes in submission, and let Catherine run her fingers through his hair.
MEANWHILE
Wufei and Quatre were sitting around in Quatre's room. Wufei was reading aloud from Samuel Becketts, "Waiting for Godot" in order to give Duo and Heero the night off from helping Quatre. Tonight Wufei was going to crush the blond boy's soul with Absurdism.
Wufei began, "…Nothing to be done"
"I'm beginning to come round to that opinion. All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying, Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle…. So there you are again."
"Am I"
"I'm glad to see you back. I thought you were gone forever."
"Me too…. What are you doing?"
"Pale for weariness"
"Eh?"
"Of climbing heaven and gazing on the like s of us."
"You're boots, what are you doing with your boots?"
"…I'm leaving them there…. Another will come, just as….as…..as me, but with smaller feet and they'll make him happy."
"But you cannot go barefoot!"
"Christ did."
"Christ! What has Christ got to do with it? You're not going to compare yourself to Christ!"
"All my life I've compared myself to him."
"But where he lived it was warm, it was dry!"
"Yes and they crucified quick."
"…"
"…"
"We've got nothing more to do here."
"Nor anywhere else."
"Ah Gogo, don't go on like that Tomorrow everything will be better."
"How do you make that out?"
"Did you not hear what the child said?"
"No."
"He said that Godot was sure to come tomorrow. ….What do you say to that?"
"Then all we have to do is wait on here"
"…"
"…"
"I'm cold!"
"Wait!... I sometimes wonder if we wouldn't have been better off alone, each one for himself….. We weren't made for the same road."
"It's not certain."
"No, nothing is certain."
"We can still part, if you thinkg it would be better."
"It's not worth while now."
"…"
"…"
"Well shall we go?"
"Yes let's go."
"…"
"…"
"A dog came in-"
MEANWHILE IN DUO'S ROOM
"I appreciate you taking care of me tonight, Catherine."
"No problem, Heero can be pretty insensitive sometimes."
"He's such a bastard. I dunno why I bother."
"You know, there are perfectly attractive people out there who will listen to you, and not cheat on you or make you feel like shit."
"God, do you think he's really cheating on me?"
"He's with her right now."
"WHAT?"
"I called before I came over, he said he was with her, he said he couldn't talk."
Duo whimpered, "That FUCKER…"
Catherine pulled Duo close and hugged him hard.
Duo buried his face in Catherine's hair, and Catherine kissed him gently on his ear. Duo began to unbutton his shirt. Catherine nuzzled Duo's hair and grinned.
THE NEXT MORNING
While walking briskly to his morning class, Wufei caught sight of Trowa, also walking at a bit of a clip, lugging her book bag, and nursing her morning cigarette. As he approached, she stopped to check her watch and properly sip her coffee. The Chinese teenager ran a hand over his hair and called," You late, baby?"
Noticing him, she nodded an acknowledgement, approached offering him her lighter.
Wufei smirked and asked, "How goes it?"
"Alright. You?"
"Got in a fight with my deodorant, now I smell funny."
"Did you ask me for a light?"
"Wha- uh yeah." Wufei fumbled for a cigarette feeling both relieved and disappointed that Trowa had misheard him.
"A pretty girl should never have to light her own cigarette" Trowa recited as she lit Wufei's cigarette.
Abruptly brushing past Trowa, Wufei blushed and grumbled something about being late.
MEANWHILE
Heero cleared his throat and knocked on the door to his own room. He heard a groan from within and politely let himself in, "Koi, I didn't mean those things I-"
Heero froze in the doorway unable to tear his eyes from Duo who was sprawled across the bed, naked, with braid sloppily arranged. There were long kinky locks that had been completely forsaken, and extra sets of hands were intertwined in the hair. A naked Catherine struggled to untangle her self from Duo and cover her body with a blanket, "Heero! What are you doing here?!"
Heero glared at Catherine, "Well I did some research, and it turns out that I live here."
Duo sleepily groaned something that sounded suspiciously like "…Oh mother FUCKER…"
Catherine gave the pillow a jerk, "Duo wake up!"
Duo squinted, "Eh? Heero?"
Heero growled, "Over here."
Duo sat bolt upright.
Catherine looked from Heero to Duo, "Um, I should go."
Heero glared, "Don't bother." Heero stormed out of the room.
THAT AFTERNOON
Quatre looked around the Cafeteria and spotted Duo and his friends. Quatre briefly felt strange about black mailing people into being friends with him before approaching the table and beaming, "How was everyone's night?"
No one spoke. Regardless, Quatre joined Duo, Catherine, and Wufei. Eventually Trowa joined the table.
Duo nodded to Trowa, "How's Heero?"
"He's refusing to speak in English."
Duo groaned.
Wufei rolled his eyes, "… but he's got that thing today.."
Catherine snickered.
Quatre perked up, "What thing?"
"We've got international assembly today," Wufei explained, "and all the international kids are required to present something to the school, so we can convince each other that we live in a culturally diverse community of rich white people."
Quatre loosened his tie and frowned, "Heero's an international kid?"
Glares all around.
Wufei scowled, "Heero's Japanese."
Quatre tried to politely express interest,"What do you have to do for it?"
Wufei sighed, "I'm EMCEE-ing in my traditional garb and saying a bit about in the beginning."
Duo scoffed, " It's only kind of a cop out."
Quatre whispered to Trowa, "I thought he was wearing his PJs"
Trowa glared. "Go away."
Quatre quietly returned his attention to his plate.
FLOP
Heero dropped his books on the table and pulled up a chair."
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…"
Wufei broke the silence, "Hello, Heero."
"Konnichiwa, bitch."
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…"
Heero cursed in frustration at his books. A confused Quatre nudged Duo..
"He said," Duo sighed, "he would like some waffles."
"Oh!" Quatre lit up, "We have waffles? I love waffles!"
"Oh Quatre!" Catherine mimicked, "I just remembered, you have somewhere to be right now!"
"What?"
Trowa set her fork down and clarified, "fuck off."
"Oh.." Quatre packed up his shit and left.