Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ A new life ❯ Chapter four: Troubles and a visitor ( Chapter 4 )

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A new life

Chapter four: Troubles and a visitor

Duo stared at the ceiling with his hands behind his head. He shivered. He was cold. He was always cold. The stereo in his room was playing loud music. When he came here Duo had gotten some money to start with. After that he received a bit of pocket money every week, as did the others in the orphanage. As soon as he could he'd bought this CD with dance music.

He often wandered trough the mall when he still lived on the streets. There was this one music shop that always played this CD round noon. For some reason Duo always got attracted by it. He used to wander into the place to have a good look at what they were selling. At least that was what the other customers must've thought. The real reason he kept coming back everyday round the same time was to hear the CD play. How he loved that music. And he swore that one day he'd buy that CD.

And now he finally had it.

And he loved it.

His thoughts drifted off to the others again. He recalled the thirteen-year-old girl who loved painting.

`Hope', that's what I'll call it.' Saria said as she looked at her painting. `The birds are so happy, free to soar trough the sky, no worries at all.' Then her face would sadden. `I wish I could fly.'

Whenever Duo walked passed that painting, he'd slow his pace and look at it, wishing that one-day, Saria would find the mountain where she'd be free. After everything the girl had been trough, she truly deserved it.

Three weeks had gone by and Duo still didn't like it in the orphanage. He had made no friends yet but he didn't care. Miss Noin told him that he was pushing people away because he was afraid to loose them again or they'd hurt him or something. When she told him to open up more because he was pushing everybody away he'd simply shrugged. No one was to be trusted, he'd learned that the hard way.

If Noin knew what was walking around out there she wouldn't take this all to be so easy.

Wufei wasn't much good either. He had made it clear from the very first day that he wanted as little to do with the new kid as possible and so they ended up ignoring each other as much as possible.

Duo spent most of his free time in his room. This all to the great annoyance of Wufei who claimed never being able to get some privacy with him around. Duo simply ignored his ranting. He'd just lay on his bed, listening to some music, thinking about all sorts of things.

He wondered if Solo and the others were alright. He almost felt guilty about being here. He had a roof over his head, a nice warm bath, all the food he needed while his friends sat out there somewhere in the cold, probably wondering how they'd survive another day.

School was boring too. The teachers figured he'd be way behind, but Duo had stolen money to buy books so that he could at least get some kind of education. Even when he was old enough to work, he'd probably never get anywhere if he had the brains of a ten-year-old. Solo thought about it the same way so together they'd studied books and they taught the little ones how to read and write.

He had been a little behind in class, but he'd almost fully caught up now. His classes were boring, English, history, math, science, gym. Only with history he was still way behind, but that was because he'd found it too boring to take the time to study it back then. Like he really needed to know which Louis did what in France or when Columbus discovered America. It all happened such a long time ago.

And then there was Miss Noin. He had to admit it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be. He could speak to her about whatever he wanted, even if it wasn't important and if he didn't want to speak, which was most of the time, he could just listen to whatever she would tell him.

The music had stopped playing. Duo looked up to see that Wufei had entered the room and was now meditating. He hadn't even noticed him coming in and he wondered if he had turned off the music or if the CD was just done. He glanced at his clock. Nope, the CD shouldn't have been done yet. Wufei did it. Duo got up and walked over to the stereo to press the play button. Immediately the room, and probably the whole orphanage, was filled with the loud dance music again.

Wufei's eyes snapped open as his concentration was broken by the music. He glared at the braided youth while he got off his bed to turn off the music.

"Hey! I was listening to that!" Duo complained as he pushed the play button again.

This time Wufei opened the stereo and took out the CD, breaking it in two pieces before he threw it in the trashcan.

"Not anymore."

Duo growled at the Chinese boy. "You'll pay for that!" He lunged himself at the smaller teenager and threw him to the ground. Wufei looked startled at first. He hadn't expected him to react like that. Duo had threatened him before, but he'd never actually attacked him like this.

Wufei couldn't know it, but this time was different to Duo. This time the youth had touched something that was Duo's and Duo's alone. He hadn't had that in years so now he swore he would make the boy pay for taking it from him.

He punched the Chinese boy in his face, taking advantage of his startled position. But the other teenager recovered quickly from his state and he managed to push the boy off of him. He got in a fighting stance as he wiped some blood away with his sleeve.

Duo attacked the other boy, aiming for his stomach, but the Chinese youth dodged it easily, bringing his hand down on his opponent's back. He brought his knee up, causing Duo to double over and fall to his knees. Wufei got ready to attack again. Duo rolled away and got to his feet, ready to continue. Now it was Wufei who threw himself at the other boy. Fists flew around but suddenly the door slammed open and another boy came in, followed by Sally. The boy, Duo recognised him as the silent one they called Heero, broke the two fighting boys off and stood between them.

"Leave him, Wufei." Heero warned the Chinese boy. "He's not worth it."

Sally looked at the two boys and sighed. "Follow me."

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It was night now. Duo glanced at his clock. 23.00. Time to go to sleep. He had a normal school day again tomorrow. Duo glanced at the bed on the other side of the room to see that Heero had put out his light too.

Duo had been transferred to another room. Wufei had insisted on that. He couldn't possibly live with that boy any longer. And since he had been there longer than the taller boy it was only justified that Duo would be the one to move. The braided boy didn't really care. He was glad he could finally get away from Wufei and his ranting.

They'd both got detention and they weren't allowed to go out for a couple of weeks. Not that Duo cared, he never went out anyway. He now shared a room with the ever-scowling Heero. Unlike Wufei this boy hardly spoke and he couldn't be bothered by Duo's presence. If Duo asked anything he would answer and he never spoke a bad word about him. But then again, he hardly spoke at all.

Duo was convinced this boy hated him too, though. He DID tell Wufei he wasn't worth the fight.

Duo sighed and closed his eyes. He was really tired and he hoped that for once he could get to sleep early. He had been having trouble sleeping lately, he laid awake for hours thinking of what to do. He felt like he had left his friends, but yet he didn't. He had been given the chance to clear his name and to get an education, a future. He knew Solo would want him to take this chance, he was sure of it. Then why did he feel he had to convince himself of this, and fast?

For once Duo's wish had come true. He didn't lay awake for hours this night, instead he fell asleep right away. He was exhausted.

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Duo woke up as he heard a loud bang close by. His instincts told him to quickly scan the room to see what was going on. Heero was on the floor on top of something or. . . Someone? He narrowed his eyes to let them adjust to the darkness. Heero was trying to hold down someone.

"W-what's going on, Heero?" was all Duo could say.

"Duo? Gah!" Strange. That voice. It sounded familiar. Duo looked at the figure on the ground to see him staring back at him. As did Heero.

"Duo, would you mind telling your body guard to get off me?"

Duo blinked. "Solo?" He had to be dreaming! Solo couldn't be here. No way.

But the voice proved him wrong.

"No, the Easter bunny. Of course it's me, you idiot!"

Duo blinked again before he turned to Heero.

"It's alright, Heero, let go of him."

Heero paused a moment, glancing from one boy to the other before he got off the figure. But his eyes never left the intruder. Solo got up, rubbing his wrists to ease the pain.

"Damn, he's strong."

"Solo?" Duo hissed. "How did you find me here?"

"I just asked that nice guy from the other day if he knew where I could find a braided idiot who couldn't get his mouth shut."

"Shit, you idiot, you hacked into the polices computer, didn't you? You have any idea how well those are secured?"

"Yeah, I kinda found out. . . But don't worry, I used a computer in the library to. . ." But before Solo could finish his sentence a hand covered his mouth as they heard footsteps coming their way.

"Hide!"

Solo ran for the window and climbed out just in time. The door opened right after he was out of sight and Mister Tsuborav, the history teacher walked in.

"I thought I heard voices here." He grumbled.

"Yeah, sorry, that was me." Duo tried to think of something good, but nothing came up. He had to react fast enough, though, or Tsuborav would get suspicious. And he was not one you wanted to be on the wrong side of. "I hurt my toe on the way to the bathroom."

Tsuborav glanced at Heero, who was now glaring at Duo but he stayed silent.

"I accidentally woke him up too." Duo looked down, afraid that if he didn't his face would somehow betray him. Why? He used to be able to lie into anybodies face, he used to be so fearless. What was this place doing to him? Was it good? Could he really have changed that much in only six weeks?

Tsuborav glanced at him. "Well, what are you waiting for? Go to the bathroom then."

"I-Eh. . ." Damn, now how was he going to save his ass? He did the only thing he knew that might work. Laughing dumbly. "Actually, it's strange. I don't have to go anymore."

Tsuborav looked from one boy to another, wearing a suspicious scowl. But finally he shrugged and closed the door again.

Duo glanced at Heero, but he only rolled his eyes and sat down on his bed. Then he glanced at the window.

`Shit! The window!'

They were on the fourth floor! He got over to the window and glanced out. Solo stood on a small ledge below the window. Duo offered him his hand and Solo climbed back in.

"I hurt my toe?" The elder boy snickered. "You're loosing it, boy."

Duo scowled at him. "It worked, didn't it?" Solo just gave his friend a weird look. "Solo, what are you doing here?"

"Isn't that obvious?" He said matter-of-factly. "I came to get you out of this dump."

"Solo, this isn't that." Duo explained, knowing Solo would understand. "This is a normal orphanage."

"It is?" He glanced around the room as if to see if it was normal. Then he turned back to the younger boy. "Well, even so, are you coming or what?"

He turned around to leave by the window again, expecting Duo to follow him.

Duo looked at the floor. He had to decide now. He had to make the right choice now or he'd never get the opportunity again. "No."

It was barely a whisper but the older boy had heard it anyway. He turned back and blinked at his braided friend. "What do you mean?" He asked, not understanding the answer.

"Don't you see? I get an education here, I can have a future again. It's what we've been dreaming about ever since we met, remember?"

"No, it's not." Solo's eyes almost saddened for a moment before they turned into the harsh mask Duo had gotten used to. Only this time it hurt to see his friend like that. "We've been dreaming of staying together forever, having a future together."

"I'm sorry, Solo. But this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Call me selfish all you want but I can't afford to let it slip." He saw in his friend's face that he didn't understand. Speaking the next words was the hardest thing he ever had to do, no breaking in or running away could compare to it. "I think you'd better go."

Solo looked at Duo. He probably couldn't believe his ears. But he must've seen that Duo was serious, for he turned around to leave.

"Fine." He said angry, but Duo knew better. He'd hurt the only true friend he'd ever had and ever would have and now he had to watch him leave. Was this really the right decision? Shouldn't he be better off out there with Solo than he was in here with all those strange people? But it was too late now.

Duo watched as Solo disappeared trough the window once again, this time to never return. When he was gone he let himself fall on his bed, facing the empty white ceiling. He shivered. He was cold. He was always cold.

The silence was broken by Heero's quiet voice. "You never were transferred from another orphanage, were you?"

"Is that what they told you?" Duo glanced at his roommate. "I got transferred here from the streets."

"Solo. . ." Heero said it as if he was trying to taste the word. "Is that why you call yourself Duo?"

"Yes." Suddenly the braided boy narrowed his eyes and growled softly. "And if you ever say one word about this to anyone, I swear I'll make you regret you ever laid eyes on him in the first place!"

Heero turned around in his bed as if to ignore the threat. But Duo knew he'd heard it. He'd better have.

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