Chapter 5: Let's Start Over

"Well, everything seems to be fine." Nurse Sally Po said, smiling at the pair before her. "Relena did a pretty good job treating your wound, I hope you thanked her." she added, addressing the frowning boy named Heero Yuy.

"Hn." Heero just sat on the bed they had for Sally's patients. As he had expected, this actually was a waste of time. Relena had already done most of the work treating him and all the Nurse did was basically approve of it. He really did regret coming here. Why did he agree to this in the first place?

"Thank you, Sally." Relena stood by Heero. "I just wanted to make sure he was okay."

"It's alright, I get it." Sally winked at Relena, causing the younger girl to sigh. "Anyway, I have my break coming up. I'll see you crazy kids later." Sally turned away from them and headed off.

"Well, I guess everything checks out." Relena spoke. "Are you sure you're completely fine?"

Heero was rubbing his eyes. Her concern was starting to really bug him now. "Yes… enough already."

"I know, sorry." Relena smiled lightly. She was sure she was starting to irritate him with her constant worrying. "And I apologize for what that guy did to you, that wasn't right. Are you sure you don't want me to do anything about him?"

Heero shook his head. If they were in the streets and that happened, then Heero would make sure that he had his foot down that kid's ass. Truth be told, he would have liked to be locked in a room with him. He would teach that guy a lesson he would never forget. But he wasn't in a place where he could do that. He made the choice to be on his best behavior. He had to admit, sometimes it was hard to do so and a situation like this would test him. He wouldn't retaliate, but not because he didn't want to.

"It's kind of disturbing to know some people are acting this way because they think they're doing me a favor." Relena sighed and took a seat next to Heero on the bed. "They really need to get over what you did."

Oh yeah, He made himself a target for what he did yesterday. "Brought it on myself." Heero plainly stated. "I'll deal with it."

"You shouldn't have to." Relena looked at him, he had his head low, eyes almost completely covered by his brown bangs. She almost wanted to move them to the side to see his face better. This thought caused Relena's chest to pound a little. She kept her composure though.

"It's my fault. You're popular and I threw your invitation away." Heero explained. "Can't say I didn't ask for it."

"You didn't ask for it. What you did was an action against me, not the whole student body." Relena shot back. "Which again, I'm sorry for whatever I did yesterday."

There she went apologizing for nothing at all. Heero didn't see any logic in that. He made the asshole move, not her. It annoyed him greatly and he needed to kill that noise. "Will you stop that?" He looked over at her, his eyes looking at her harshly.

"Stop what?" Relena looked back at him defensively, feeling the scrutiny of his gaze.

"Saying sorry for something I did." Heero didn't understand how she didn't get that.

"Well I don't know why you responded the way you did so I had to figure something in my approach caused you to react that way." Relena wasn't sure how else to go about the situation.

She did nothing wrong, Heero knew that. He was trying to keep everyone away and didn't like the crowd she had inadvertently gathered. So he chose to shit on her act of kindness. Heero sighed. "Honestly, you did nothing wrong." Heero hated that he was even getting into this conversation.

"Are you sure?" Relena didn't know if she bought that.

"Yes, I'm sure." He replied.

"Then do you mind if I ask why you responded to me like that?"

Heero didn't know how to answer her. He didn't want to say the truth because that would lead to him having to explain why he wanted to keep people away, and he had already felt like he had spoken too much anyway.

Relena looked at him intently, curious to know his reason. She could tell he was thinking about his response. She waited to see what he would say.

Heero ran a hand through his hair, keeping his eyes away from her. "I'm not good at meeting new people. So I panicked."

"Is that really it?" Relena wondered if there was more to it than that. She wouldn't pry though. She was already getting more out of Heero than she thought she would get.

"Yeah, that's all." Heero nodded. "I'm sorry…" He frowned. He didn't intend to apologize to her, but it just came out. His body had been acting on it's own a lot these past two days. He wasn't liking it.

Relena smiled. "It's alright. Truth be told I had already forgiven you not that long after you did that."

He turned to look at her. Relena saw clearly that he was confused by her statement. She chuckled and continued to look at him. He looked kind of cute when he seemed flummoxed. She felt his eyes searching hers and they spent one too many seconds looking at each other before Relena blushed and looked away.

Heero kept looking at her. She was a strange girl. How someone could be so forgiving and so… kind, he would never understand. Were there really people like her in this world? Heero wasn't used to anyone acting like this. His eyes studied her some more. Her honey blonde hair cascading around her blush tinted face. Her blue eyes looking downward. He almost wanted to move his hand through her hair and see more of her fair skinned facial features. These foreign thoughts made him shake his head, as if trying to get rid of that idea. He looked down and saw her hands move nervously. Then he noticed something that raised an eyebrow.

He looked over to the side where there was a medical table and reached for something. Relena was keeping her eyes low. Kind of shocked at how long they had spent together already. Her body was feeling funny. Maybe it was time to leave, she thought. She would say bye to Heero and head back to the gym to change back into her regular uniform. She needed to be alone to compose herself.

"Heero I-" However, before she could continue with her goodbye, she felt him take her hands. She let out a slight gasp and her eyes widened. Her body froze and her face became flushed again. Heero let out a "Hn." before she realized that he was using a disinfectant wipe on her. "H-Heero…?"

The brown haired teen wasn't sure he was doing the right thing for himself, but he felt like this was something he had to do. "My blood… there was some that got on your hands from when you were wrapping my cut." Relena was so caught up in the moments following Heero's injury that she didn't even realize that she had gotten some of his blood on her. His touch was warm, she noted. He held her hands firmly. He wasn't rough or anything though. She simply watched as he continued to wipe away before he eventually finished. Heero let her go, threw away the wipes and Relena's hands felt like they weren't yet ready to be released. She opened and closed her hands repeatedly, still taken aback by the contact. She blinked a few times and then looked at Heero as he stood up. "Sorry for getting that on you."

"Um, no… it's fine." Relena's eyes focused up at him. "I didn't even notice. Thank you."

Heero Yuy was unsure where to go on from here. His hands felt strange after doing that and his chest started to feel like it was caving in on itself. There his body went again. "Come on. Next period is gonna start soon."

Relena nodded, knowing she had to change out of her shorts, sneakers and t-shirt soon. She got up and followed behind Heero as they exited Sally's office's.

"Um, I'm going to the bathroom first so I, uh, guess I'll see you around." Relena stated. Heero looked down at her and nodded. As he was about to turn and walk away, Relena continued. "Heero, so how about we start over?" Heero looked at her questioningly. She stuck her arm out for a handshake. "My name is Relena Darlian. What's yours?"

She really was weird, he thought. Heero looked at her warm, smiling face and then at her hand. He would choose to humor her and reached out to shake her hand. "Heero Yuy…"

Relena chuckled. "Well, nice to meet you Heero Yuy. I hope we can become friends. Take care." She let go of him and ran off towards the bathroom.

He watched as she left him and mentally cursed himself. He was failing his mission of not getting involved, and it was only his second day. He felt weak. He turned and headed for the nearest stairs, though not before looking back once more to see… but she had already disappeared.

Relena entered the bathroom and backed herself into the wall. Her heart was racing a mile a minute. She put a hand to her chest, trying to calm herself down. "What's happening to me?" she whispered to herself. She moved to the sink and began washing her face, trying to calm herself down. She wiped her face dry and looked at her reflection in the mirror. "Heero…" she said to herself. "Just… who are you? And what is this feeling?"


The rest of the day went on as usual and classes ended for the day. Everyone started exiting the building, ready to go home.

"So, are you gonna tell me what happened or what?" Dorothy asked, eager to probe her friend for info before separating for the day.

"Nothing really, we just got him checked up and that was that." Relena answered, not getting too deep into it.

"Oh come on, I saw how you two were looking at each other. There has to be more to it than that."

Relena shook her head. "No, it kind of ends there." she shrugged. As they were leaving the building, Relena couldn't help herself but to look around and see if there was any sign of him. As she expected, he was nowhere to be found, probably halfway to the bus stop already.

"You're lying, but you know what, I'll let it slide for now. I can be patient. I'll get all my answers when we go for our long overdue double date." Relena rolled her eyes. "Though I guess I'll have to learn to get used to his absolutely rotten attitude."

"Stop, Dorothy." Relena responded. "He's actually a very nice guy, invitation throwing notwithstanding."

'Gotcha!' Dorothy grinned. "Oh, is he now? Care to elaborate? I have yet to see this 'nice guy' Heero."

"He's just nice, nothing else to say." Relena sighed. They were outside now and she could see Pagan already waiting for her.

"There's absolutely more to say and you're holding back valuable information, Miss Relena." Dorothy watched her friend move ahead and approach her ride.

"You'll do okay without it." Relena smiled as she entered the vehicle.

"Ah, so there is more!" The pink car door closed.

Pagan bowed. "Miss Dorothy."

"Pagan." Dorothy smiled at the old servant. He got into the driver's seat and they sped off. Dorothy sighed. She didn't get what she wanted out of her stubborn friend but she could at least take solace in the fact that there was something going on. She would see things progress sooner or later. She just had to be patient. "Now, where's Quatre?" Dorothy walked off to find her man.

The rest of the school week continued without incident. Heero showed up to school and handled his business. Relena would do the same. They weren't good friends all of a sudden, but at least whenever they would see each other in the hallways, or even at lunch, they would at least acknowledge the other's presence. Heero would nod at the girl while Relena gave a simple smile and a head nod. That's where they were in their relationship. Which was something considering how they started off on day one.

People noticed this and started to lay off Heero. There were still kids who were unsure of him, but they would have to deal with it. Besides, most of them were concentrating on Relena's birthday party happening tomorrow.

"Your dad showing up?" Trowa Barton asked as he leaned on the locker next to Relena's.

"Still don't know…" Relena shook her head as she grabbed her things for the next period.

"He's been gone this whole week right?"

"Yeah…" Relena hated thinking about her father and it sucked even more with her birthday party only 24 hours away.

"Well he is a busy guy." Trowa reasoned, knowing that was the last thing she wanted to hear.

Relena closed her locker and sighed. "Yup… I know." Trowa had seen that look of disappointment before.

"It's always hard for those in his position." He explained, walking side by side with Relena as they moved on. "Though he could stand to use more vacation time with you and your mother."

"Yeah well, I've told him that." Relena looked down. The possibility of her father not being at her party was too much to ignore. She couldn't get excited to finally settle on a dress to wear. She had a bunch sent in and she and Dorothy were to take their pick at Relena's house later that night. And her father was taking a lot of the fun out of that. Was it really too much to have your dad around for your own birthday party?

Trowa noticed her face fall a little and decided to switch gears. "How's our new friend been?"

Relena looked up at Trowa. "You mean Heero?" The emerald eyed boy nodded.

"He seems fine." She shrugged.

"Getting a little more comfortable here?"

"I guess so. It's hard to tell with someone like him." Relena wondered how things were going for Heero Yuy. They hadn't talked much after their time spent in Sally's office. They kept their interactions to simple greeting gestures. Though each time they passed each other she couldn't help but feel a bit funny. "He's always so intense." There really was no better word to describe him.

"Well if you don't know how he's doing then no one does." Trowa replied. "Though he strikes me as the kind of guy who can handle himself. I'm sure he's good."

"You're probably right." Relena smiled. Heero would be good with or without her, she was sure. It would, however, be nice if they could become actual friends. Being alone had to get old, even for Heero she thought. She was curious as to how he became the way he was. She wanted to know more. There wasn't a bigger enigma in all her life than him. He was a whole new world and she didn't mind exploring if he gave her the chance.

Trowa looked at her, smirking because he knew this was a different kind of smile she was producing. Even though he wasn't pursuing Relena, there was a time when he would have liked to be the reason she smiled. It never got to that point, and it definitely wasn't going to now. It was alright, as long as she was happy, he thought.

She would probably be happier if Heero showed up to her party. Might make up for her possibly losing time with her father.


"Hey do you remember where Relena's party was going to be? I can't find my invitation! I swear I just had it." one girl asked her friend as the hallways cleared.

"I have mine on me, I'll just tell you were it is!" the other girl responded as they ran off to their next classroom.

Heero watched the girls take off as he walked on. He noticed something out of the corner of his eye. Something sticking out under the lockers. He stopped and moved over to see what it was. He took a knee and picked it up.

An envelope.

To Relena's birthday party tomorrow. He stood up and studied it. He knew there would be a ton of people there. Definitely not a crowd he wanted to be a part of. He was curious however about what that kind of party would look like. All he knew was grimey house parties where he was mostly interested in making deals. However these parties went, he knew it was different than what he knew.

He walked over to a trash can, thinking about throwing the thing away. As he was about to do so, the image of Relena's shocked face from their first meeting flashed into his head and he stopped himself. He wasn't tossing it away in front of her face like last time, but disposing of it made him feel like he was doing it all over again. He frowned, hating this form of weakness he was displaying.

He looked at the invitation again. This time images of his second day at school invaded his thoughts.

Relena taking care of his wound. Following her to Nurse Sally's office, losing himself in her wide blue eyes, wanting to reach out to feel her hair, holding her hands to clean them and finally their reintroduction to each other. They hadn't talked much since then, but she still popped up in his head every now and then. Even at home he couldn't get away from it. It was frustrating him immensely. Why did she take up any kind of real estate in his thoughts? It wasn't fair.

"Hn." Heero muttered. With the envelope still in hand he walked off. He was gonna be late for class if he stood out here some more. He threw the invitation into his back pocket and started moving.

Little did Heero know, but Trowa Barton had watched him struggle with the invitation. He wore a smirk the entire time.


The day was over. He was one of the first people outside of the school building. His last class was close to the doors, so he was glad he was able to beat the crowds that piled up and head straight for the bus stop. He felt drops of water hit his head. He looked up and cursed himself for forgetting that it was supposed to rain today. He forgot to buy an umbrella. He would have to grab one later. He sighed and walked to his stop.

After a 5 minute walk, he took the spot on the bench. The rain had picked up and he got a bit soaked. He would have to remember to wash his uniform again.

He wondered what the weekend had in store for him. He knew that a party was happening at Hilde's building. Duo would obviously be there. So would Wufei. He figured that's where he would be. Then he remembered the envelope in his back pocket.

He chuckled to himself. Even if he wanted to go, he had nothing to wear. He had to imagine big fancy places were strict about clothing. He had nothing party appropriate. And he didn't want to waste money on a tux or whatever it was rich guys wore. He wouldn't even know where to get one.

He didn't even know why he was wasting time thinking about it.

Heero ran a hand through his wet, brown mane and waited for the bus. As he did, he noticed a high end, pink colored vehicle slow down by him. Who was this he wondered. The back window began rolling down to reveal Relena smiling at him.

"Hey, it's a bit wet out today. Need a ride?" she kindly offered.

Heero was surprised to see her, and even more surprised that she was out here offering him a ride. He shook his head. "I'm okay, thanks."

"Are you sure? We don't mind dropping you off anywhere you want to go." Relena continued, knowing he would probably refuse her.

"Thanks, but i'll be alright.." came his flat response. He thought he saw some disappointment in her eyes but didn't want to think too much of it.

"Well, suit yourself." Relena continued to smile at him, their eyes clashing once more. Their bodies feeling fuzzy the same way they did in Sally's office. "Take care of yourself, Heero." Relena figured now would be the time to get away.

Relena rolled up her window and the pink car rolled away.

Heero watched her go. Very few people had ever made him feel any kind of self doubt. In many ways, she was a dangerous girl. He hoped he could find some sort of defense for her. Because right now, he was failing himself.

AN: Here's another. Let me know what you think. I thought it was a meh kinda chapter, but I wanted to get it out there anyway. Appreciate any feedback or whatever. Love you all.