Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ A Shot at Normalcy: University Life? ❯ The World is Full of Surprises ( Chapter 7 )

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Chapter 8: The World is Full of Surprises

The bed was nice and warm. It was nice, but… but the window was on the wrong side. The sun was supposed to fall on his feet not on his face. Ummm. Delicious sleep. He turned around and faced the wall. Wrong place for the wall. It was supposed to be over his head, not on his side. Sleep is so nice. He pulled the blanket up to his chin. It was so thick and warm and soft, so unlike his coarse woollen blanket. He turned around and felt the sunlight straight in his face. Where was he? The Sun was definitely not so evil in his room. He woke up groggily and looked around with sleepy eyes. This was definitely not his room.

"Where am I?" He asked himself. His voice was all husky due to the sleep.

"You are up pretty early for one who slept so late."

This voice, he knew this voice. He turned around on his stomach and propped himself up on his elbows. He saw Jade sitting in front of her study table typing away at the laptop.

"Sleep well?" she asked again, not taking her eyes off the screen.

"What am I doing in your bed?" he asked her now sitting up.

"You fell asleep last night. So I did not wake you up," she said finally looking at him.

"If I slept in your bed, where did you sleep?" he asked, slightly confused.

"Right beside you. It's my bed after all," she replied nonchalantly.

"Chill. I was only kidding. I could not sleep last night," she said when she saw the appalled look in his eyes, though his face remained expressionless.

He relaxed visibly. (A/N: If you have read the last chapter, you would have figured out by now that 'He' is Trowa)

Then he appeared confused again.

"If you didn't sleep what did you do?"

Just then there was a knock on the door. Jade shut down her laptop and went to answer the door.

________________________________________________________________ < p> There was a knock on the door and Jade went to answer it. Trowa had said something, but she really did not hear it. Trowa was in something of a slight shock on waking up in her bed.

She absently opened the door. Duo and Heero were standing there.

"Breakfast," Heero said in a monotone. Duo was grinning widely.

"Oh! Good morning to you too," Jade said.

"Hn. 'morning."

"Good Morning. Where's clown boy? And where's breakfast?" Duo asked.

"Clown boy's sleeping and I have yet to start breakfast. But do come in."

"It's 10.30 in the morning. What were you doing?" Heero asked her.

"I was working. But what were you doing? You could have come earlier."

"It took me a while to wake him up," Heero said and gestured towards Duo with his head who was fingering the various objects beside the television. He found the touch lamp strangely amusing and was busy playing with it.

"Fast-fast-fast. Slow-slow-slow. Fast-Fast. Slow-Slow." Duo was muttering to himself while playing with the touch lamp.

"Duo please leave that poor lamp alone," Jade requested and threw him a Rubik's cube. "Amuse yourself with this."

"Hey, I never knew you had these things with you," He said deftly catching the thrown object.

"So what do you want for breakfast?"

"How 'bout pancakes?" Duo asked.

"'k." and she disappeared into the Kitchen. Heero watched Duo for a while and then followed Jade into the kitchen. He was making her cook for them and the least he could do was help her.

"Oh Hi!" she greeted him when she saw him enter the kitchen.

"I can help you," he told her.

"I didn't know you could cook."

"Hn." But after a while he replied. "I can make pancakes."

"Where did you learn to make pancakes?"

"I can cook."

"You can?"

"Hn."

She smiled. He watched her smile from the corner of his eyes.

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Duo was happily playing with the Rubik's cube. No matter what he did, he could not solve it and it was enough to keep him occupied. He was twisting the Cube, when he saw someone standing in the door to Jade's room. He looked up. That some one was Trowa. Shirtless, in his pyjamas, hair all tousled from sleep and in Jade's room! Duo just gaped at him and Trowa was fixing Duo with his stare. Trowa broke the silence and brought Duo back to reality.

"What are you staring at?" Trowa asked coldly.

"It's always the quite ones. I knew it." Duo said. He was recovering and his smirk was widening into a big grin. And then he started laughing.

"What were you doing in Jade's room, buddy? In that attire?" Duo asked mischievously.

Then realisation dawned on Trowa. He paled visibly and Duo started laughing. It was the first time that Duo had seen Trowa actually go pale.

"I did not sleep with her," Trowa told Duo bluntly, colour returning to his pale cheeks. As a matter of fact, too much colour. He was blushing. Duo laughed even harder.

"You expect me to believe that?"

"Yes."

"And where is your shirt?" Duo asked him, still laughing.

"My shirt is in my room. I went to her room at around three in the morning."

"Three in the morning!" Duo exclaimed and howled again with laughter.

Trowa realised his mistake and was now looking anywhere but at Duo.

He said, "I can explain," and then went to his room to get his shirt. He wouldn't want to worsen the situation when Jade and Heero came out of the kitchen.

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Heero and Jade were busy making Pancakes.

"Heero could you find the syrup? It has to be somewhere in those cupboards."

"Hn."

He went to the kitchen cupboards and started looking for the syrup. All of a sudden the sound of Duo's laughter reached the two of them.

"What's that idiot laughing for now?" Jade asked herself.

"Only one way to find out," Heero said and went and stood behind the Kitchen door. He opened it just a crack so that he could hear Duo talk, but he was still well hidden behind the door. Jade followed him. She was way shorter than him so he allowed her to stand in front of him, the pancakes forgotten for a while.

"What were you doing in Jade's room, buddy? In that attire?" they heard Duo say. And then louder laughing.

Heero opened the door just a bit wider so that he could see Trowa's "attire". Heero was as shocked as Duo and he stared at the back of Jade's head.

She immediately said, "We did not sleep together. Don't get any wrong ideas."

At the same time they heard Trowa say, "I did not sleep with her."

"Then what was he doing in your room?" Heero asked her.

"Shhh."

"My shirt is in my room. I went to her room at around three in the morning," they heard Trowa say.

"Then what was he doing in you room at three in the morning?" Heero asked again.

"Talking and then sleeping," she said shortly.

"I did not sleep. I couldn't. I'm an insomniac. So I let him sleep on my bed," she said when she saw Heero still looking at her.

"Hn" he believed her.

"Oh! And he already has a girlfriend," she added as an afterthought.

Heero was shocked.

"Don't be shocked. He has a girlfriend. I wonder why he didn't tell you guys."

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Duo was still laughing his ass off.

"Leave the poor guy alone."

He abruptly sat up and stopped laughing. Jade and Heero were standing in the Kitchen door.

"We did not sleep together. I am an insomniac. I did not sleep yesterday."

Duo could tell that this was a wrong time to argue or make fun of Jade. When she was this serious, she was definitely telling the truth.

"Sorry."

"It's Ok. He was shocked too when I told him I slept beside him." Before anyone could say anything, she quickly added, "It was a joke."

"Hn"

"Ok"

"Breakfast is ready."

"So soon?"

"Yes." The sternness and coldness vanished and Jade said with a smile, "Come soon or else I won't leave anything for you."

She beat Duo to the pancakes, but Duo grabbed the syrup. She was trying to grab the syrup but Duo was taller than her and she had trouble getting to it.

"What are they doing?"

Heero, who was busy watching the two play with the Syrup bottle and the pancakes, hadn't noticed Trowa walk into the kitchen. He had his shirt on and his face and his expression were back to normal.

"Fighting over food," he replied in a monotone.

Trowa just walked ahead and took the syrup from Duo's hand and the pancakes that Jade was carrying and walked out of the kitchen. Heero smirked and followed Trowa. Duo and Jade just stood there staring at each other, shrugged after a while and followed the two out of the kitchen.

"Hey, why did you do that for?" Duo asked Trowa.

"Because I am hungry and if you don't come and get your share in the next five minutes, we are going to finish the pancakes."

"Guess you are really hungry. Haven't known you to speak that much, that fast, at one go."

"Heero did you make these pancakes?" Trowa asked while eating his fourth one.

"Yes. How did you know?"

"They taste different."

"Heero's pancakes are better than mine."

"I can't make out the difference," Duo mumbled with his mouth full.

Jade glanced at Duo's plate and then said, "Duo? Are you eating the pancakes with syrup or syrup with pancakes?"

This remark prompted Trowa and Heero to look at Duo's plate too. In his plate was a pool of Syrup with the sole pancake floating in it. No wonder, he could not make out the difference in taste. It was all sugary to him. And speaking of sugar, Duo on a sugar high was not something any of them looked forward to.

The rest of the breakfast was uneventful. But Duo was definitely on a sugar high and one could practically hear him buzzing with energy.

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Heero was typing something at his laptop when Duo on a sugar high bolted in through the door at full speed.

"Hey Hee-man, the clown's picked himself a girl! Did you know that? Do you know who she is?"

"I know and I don't know and please don't call me that."

"How do you know Hee-man?" Duo asked ignoring the comment Heero made about calling him Hee-man.

"Jade told me."

"How did she know?"

Heero said, "Go ask her," hoping that Duo would leave him alone.

"Do you know who she is?"

"No."

"Sonia McDonald."

"Who?"

"That red haired creature that cried because she broke a nail."

"Hn." He smirked.

He had thought of Trowa as having more sense than that.

There was a long silence after that, which was broken by Duo.

"Hee-man?"

"Don't call me that."

"Hee-man, you are going to have to leave soon."

"Why?" this was as much Heero's apartment as it was Duo's.

"Hilde's coming over."

"Ok."

"Don't you want to know why?"

"I am better off not knowing it."

"She is coming here…"

"I told you I don't want to know." Heero immediately took his laptop and left before Duo could say anything.

"I wonder how Hilde puts up with him," He muttered to himself on the way out. He didn't know where to go. He decided to spend time in the large library that they had on campus.

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Jade was sitting in her room, she was reading a book. She heard the door open and click shut. She supposed it must have been Trowa. He had avoided her like the plague after breakfast. She heard a wild giggling sound. When did Trowa start giggling? No, he hardly even smiled.

'Must be his feather-brained girlfriend,' she thought.

"Wait a minute. Did I just call her "Feather brained"?" she muttered to herself. "I don't know why I called her that. I had no reason to do so." She frowned slightly.

Her reverie was interrupted by weird noises and then the complete lack of noise. And what were those moaning noises? She decided to look to see what was going on.

Trowa and Sonia had their hands all over each other and seemed to be having a tonsil banging contest. None of them noticed that she was standing in the doorway.

"Get yourself a room guys," She told them.

That seemed to distract them and they broke apart to look at the interruption. Sonia looked disturbed, a bit annoyed too. Trowa had his unreadable mask on.

"I didn't know she was here," Sonia said to Trowa totally ignoring Jade.

"Neither did I. Let's go," He said, grabbing her arm and dragging her to his room.

Jade just shook her head and walked back into her room. It was quiet for a while and she resumed her reading. However, the silence was short lived. The noises coming from the next room were louder and she didn't even want to think about what might have been going on in the next room. There were a few screams here and there and overall, she found the noise pretty irritating, if not distracting. She took her book and her laptop and decided to leave. She could go next door. She never needed a key; she could pick locks as easily as Duo or Heero.

She left quietly, though she doubted if the two would hear anything amidst the noise that they were creating. She turned to the next door and took out her lock pick. But she put it back again. It would be better if she knocked first. She knocked and was greeted by Duo who was wearing only his trousers and his hair was not in his usual braid.

"Hi Duo can I come in?"

"Nope, sorry. Got company. If you know what I mean."

"Ok, sorry to disturb you."

"It's Ok." And he immediately shut the door. She was glad, she did not use her lock pick. She would have been in a really awkward situation if she had used her lock picking skills.

She decided to check on Dorothy. Dorothy should be in her apartment at this time of the afternoon. It was too hot to be outside. Dorothy intrigued her. She was a different kind of a person. She was strong and was firm in her beliefs. She was also a good strategist. And if what Jade observed was right, then Dorothy found her equally intriguing. They did have a few good conversations in the past. And they had become pretty good friends. Her room was all the way at the end of the corridor. Right opposite Quatre's room. She reached her room and knocked. No answer. She knocked again. No response. She knocked several times. Dorothy probably was not in her room. Must be somewhere else.

She decided to see if Quatre was there. And if she could not find him, she would go and haunt the library. Borrow a few more books maybe. The librarian let her take out more books than were allowed.

She enjoyed Quatre's company and he seemed to enjoy her company too. She and Quatre could talk on end. Both of them were empaths and he was a pleasant person. His room was right opposite Hilde and Dorothy's room. She wouldn't use a lock pick on Quatre. Not in her life. He was just too nice to be subjected to something like that. It was different with Duo and Heero. They picked the lock to her apartment several times. Well, her shared apartment.

She reached his apartment and checked to see if the door was locked. Quatre generally did not lock the door when he was in his room. The door was unlocked. She just stood there in shock at the scene before her. Here there was another tonsil banging contest. And this time she blushed and blushed like a tomato. He blush was almost as bad as Quatre's. She quickly shut the door and stood there with her back to the wall, closed her eyes and tried to calm down. It was hard to imagine somebody as shy as Quatre to kiss somebody like Dorothy that passionately. They were like two opposites, for God's sakes.

"What's wrong?"

"Huh?" she opened her eyes and saw Heero looking at her. She wondered why she hadn't noticed him approach.

"What's wrong?" he asked her again, this time reaching for the door to Quatre's room.

"You do not want to go in there. Seriously," she told him.

"I had to ask Quatre for something but I guess it can wait," he said with a slight smirk. He seemed to have understood what she meant.

"Hn."

"What are you doing out here with your laptop and a book?" He asked her again.

That was new. He hardly asked so many questions.

"I didn't know you had conversational skills," she said with mock surprise.

"So now that you have discovered it, let's talk."

"Huh?"

"I am going to the library." He told her and turned in the direction of the elevator. He held open the door for her.

"Are you coming?" He asked her again.

"Huh…Oh…Yes. Just a sec." This was a totally different Heero.

She took her stuff and entered the elevator. He pressed the button for the Ground Floor.

"So what were you doing there?" he asked again.

She knew he was persistent, but this was something like prying. She decided to let it pass. It was the first time that she had found him readily starting a conversation, without having any good reason to do so.

"It's a long, long story."

"I want to know."

"I'll tell you when we get to the library."

"You are being as uncommunicative as me."

She just smiled. He smiled too.

They got to the library. Jade exchanged a few words with the eccentric librarian who had become something like a good friend. Heero meanwhile had chosen to sit at a secluded end of the library. She had some trouble finding him, but then she tried the new variation of her ability that she had learned at her empathic class. She tuned into Heero's emotions. It was fairly easy. His were the most confused and the most intense emotions that she knew of. Well, Trowa did kind of compete with Heero where confusion was concerned. She found him immediately after she did that.

"So what were you doing there?" He asked here again. He had already asked her the same question at least three times now and without getting an answer. He seemed to be getting a bit frustrated.

"I was looking for a place to work and read quietly."

"What happened to your room?"

"Trowa."

"Huh?"

"He was busy humping his girlfriend and it was not possible to work or read in the noise that they were creating. Besides, those two would have needed privacy."

Heero seemed to be completely shocked. And the shock clearly showed on his face. She had to bite her cheek from laughing out loud. He stared at her for a full minute and then said, "You are joking."

She finally snorted and replied, "No Heero, I am not joking. That was the reason why I left."

"It's always the quiet ones," Heero muttered to himself.

"You fall into that category too Heero," Jade reminded him.

He was startled. He apparently hadn't realised that. She tried hard again not to laugh.

"And that's not all. Duo has company, but you probably know that. Since you are not in your room."

"Hn."

"And as to why I was standing outside Quatre's room, it was because I did not want to intrude on Quatre and Dorothy?"

"But it seems that you already did intrude."

"Yes, but they did not notice. It was as though their mouths were glued together."

"It's hard to imagine Quatre kissing Dorothy. She gets under my skin. And Quatre is so kind and gentle."

She stared at him hard and then said,

"Heero? Dorothy is not weird or freaky. She is just different. Just the way you are different."

"Hn. What sis you do before you came to the University?"

"Ask me no questions and I shall tell you no lies."

"What does that mean?"

"It means that I am not going to talk about my life, so don't ask me. But why did you ask me that question?"

"Just curious."

"You don't normally talk this much. Are you alright?"

"I don't talk, because most of the time, I don't feel like talking."

"But now you do?"

"I can talk to you."

"Thank you for considering me worthy of your time."

"I should thank you."

"You just thanked me? And you talked to me? I guess the world is full of surprises."

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Author's note: and how was this chapter, I know it was a bit crappy. Actually compared to Devil's it might be a lot crappy. And if you are wondering if devil wrote this, the answer is no she didn't. I am her beta also known as the Incarnation. Hence the joint ID: Devil-Incarnate. And no one is beta-ing this chapter so don't go on looking for mistakes. But I hope you like it anyways. Feel free to write anything in the reviews.