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Part 4

by Blue Violet



Lunch came and went quite slowly. It was a very awkward one, too. The only person who seemed to enjoy it was Wufei. Heero was as usual, quiet and Duo was bugging him - as usual. Trowa, who was always very quiet would usually talk a bit with Quatre but during lunch, he tried to avoid Quatre as much as he could. Quatre on the other hand was wondering why Trowa was so cold towards him and was worried that he had done something to offend the other boy. Therefor, he tried to talk to Trowa and treated him nicely to get him to cheer up a bit. But of course, Trowa would not talk to him so the atmosphere was very strained between the both of them.

"So, what are you going to today? Are you going to practise playing your flute?" Quatre asked Trowa with a forced smile pasted on his face. It has been going on like this for the past ten minutes. Ten long minutes. To him, it felt like the seconds were moving at the speed of a tortoise. No, scratch that. At the speed of a dying tortoise was more like it.

"..."

Quatre sighed. What did he do to Trowa that made him so hostile? He wondered as he watched Trowa eat. "It must be me who made him mad or else he wouldn't be cold to me only," he thought remorsefully as he watched Trowa talking to Wufei beside him. "But what did I do?" Quatre played with the food on his plate absently and stared some more at Trowa.

Suddenly Trowa realized that Quatre was staring at him and he stared back at Quatre, his face expressionless. Quatre quickly looked down in embarrasment.

"What did you ask me just now?" asked Trowa thinking that Quatre was staring at him because he was waiting for an answer.

Quatre slowly raised his head. Trowa still had the same look on his face but at least he was talking to him. At least. Quatre flashed Trowa a small smile. "I asked you, if you would be practising your flute today."

"I see."

"I wanted to know if you would play some duets with me," said Quatre quickly. "I just have to know what's making Trowa like this!" he thought urgently. "I must remember to ask him about it later."

Trowa thought for a while. "OK, I'll see you later then," he said then he shoved his chair backwards and walked away towards the kitchen, empty plate in hand.

"Ne, Heero," said Duo. "Let's do something exciting today. I can't believe why in the world you always spend most of your time with that stupid laptop of yours."

Heero glared at him. "At least my stupid laptop doesn't bug my 24 hours a day and it isn't as noisy as to scare a herd of elephants away."

"Hey! When was I that noisy until I could scare a herd of elephants away!" said Duo indignantly. "The elephants are more afraid of you coz you might blow them up to pieces!"

Quatre watched Duo pleading for mercy as Heero grabbed his braid. Hard. Quatre smiled to himself. No matter what time of the day it was, Duo always never kept his mouth shut. He turned his attention towards Wufei. Wufei was eating his meal quietly.

"Wufei, do you know what's the matter with Trowa?" he asked Wufei. "He seems to be mad and bothered about something."

Wufei smirked. "I don't know, but I think he must be having some kind of crisis."

"What do you mean?" asked Quatre, fearing what Wufei would say next. "What kind of crisis is he having?"

"A crisis in loveland. Oh you know, he's probably in love with some girl and maybe some girl had broken his heart. Or maybe he's sad coz he doesn't know how to win that girl's heart," said Wufei slyly, knowing quite perfectly that this would break Quatre's heart. "This would add more spice to the drama," he thought wickedly.

Quatre felt his face pale at those words Wufei had just uttured. He felt that he was going to faint. No, he felt like he was gonna die and that his whole world has just shattered to pieces. Trowa was all ready in love with someone else. He grabbed Duo's braid.

"Itai!" yelped Duo. "Quatre! I would have expected to get my braid yanked by Heero but not by you! What's the matter with you, huh? You look like you've just seen a ghost."

Quatre pulled the braided boy neared towards him, that his chair was balancing dangerously on two legs. "Did you hear what Wufei just said," he whispered in Duo's ear. He darted his eyes towards Wufei and Heero, making sure that they can't hear what he was whispering.

"No," whispered Duo back. "What did he say that was so scary that it made you look like you're about to die."

"He said..."

"He said what? I can't hear you!"

"He said that Trowa's mad coz some girl had broken his heart!" whispered Quatre in a rush. "Trowa's in love with someone else all ready, Duo!"

"Nani!?" shouted Duo loudly, forgetting to whisper, and quickly sat up straight in his chair, forgetting that his chair was balancing on two of its legs only. Immediately, Duo started to fall off his chair and dragged Quatre along. Soon, the two boys were lying in a heap on the floor.

While all of this were happening, Trowa was watching silently from right outside the kitchen. He had seen Quatre whispering in Duo's ears and wondered if those two were really lovers. "What Wufei said must be true, I guess," he thought. "Or else they wouldn't be that close to each other. Even though they're friends and all. Friends can be lovers, too."

Trowa walked away quietly towards his room. Then he flopped onto his bed thinking about Duo and Quatre. "I should be at least happy that Quatre's happy with someone else...".




"Duo! Get off of me!" complained Quatre. "You're very heavy."

"Heavy! I only weigh 43 kilos. I wouldn't call that heavy!!!"

"Well, I weigh much less than that!"

"So? Are you saying that I'm fat?" asked Duo. "Or that I'm a hippo? Or that maybe I weigh like a herd of elephants?"

"NO! I didn't say such things. I'm not saying that you're a hippo but you're practically squashing me to bits!" complained Quatre.

"Then it's not my fault that you say I'm squashing you to bits. You should learn to eat more. Then you won't have to complain anymore about me squashing you again next time," said Duo. "Oi, Heero! Help me up will ya?"

"You can get up yourself," said Heero.

Duo pouted. "Hidoi!!! Can't you even be kind to 'lil ole me for once?," he complained.

"Why should I?" asked Heero. "You never help me with anything. And you never shut up when I ask you to." Duo was making such a sad face that Heero decided that maybe he ought to help the other boy up. But before he could extend his hand towards the other boy, Quatre had all ready gotten up to do it.

"Quatre, you're my man!" cheered Duo in a girly voice and flung his arms around Quatre. He was pretending to be the damsel who was just saved by the hero. "Only Quatre can be depended around here to help a guy who's in trouble."

Quatre laughed. "Duo, you say the silliest things. You know I'll always be here to help. I'm your friend, remember!"

Heero watched quietly as Duo and Quatre joked and teased and laughed at each other. He felt a weird pang in his heart. "They're so close with each other," he thought. Suddenly he felt jealousy growing inside him. He felt jealous because he'll never feel the closeness of a friendship like the one Quatre and Duo has. He liked it when Duo always bothered him into having some fun with the other boy. Mainly because it made him feel needed. And wanted.

"But not now," he thought. "Duo has a good friend in Quatre. Who wouldn't want to be friends with Quatre? He's kind, caring, thoughtful, and not to mention pretty, too. Wait a minute. What if they're more than friends? What if they're... lovers?" Heero felt sick at the thought. Not because he thought that a guy liking another guy was gross, but because suddenly he realized that he was in love. Heero Yuy was in love with Duo Maxwell.






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