Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Old Friends New Enemies ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Old Friends New Enemies

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. I am just using them to extend my artistic abilities through writing. So please don't sue me. I have nothing to give you but my two bad cats and I'm sure you don't want them.

Authors Note: I'm sorry that I haven't updated in a while but I haven't really had any access to a computer. The chapter has been written for about two weeks. But enough with excesses, on with the story.

Chapter 2

"Here's your locker." Sandra said as she stopped beside a couple lockers. "Your combination should be right below your locker number."

"Yeah I got it here." Relena said as she pulled the paper out and got to work opening her locker.

"If I were you, I would keep it locked at all times." Sandra suggested. "Once word gets around about where you transferred from then you'll be a big target for a shitload of pranks and such.

"Thanks for the tip. I'll keep it in mind." Relena told her as she popped open the locker and threw her books inside, keeping the ones that he would be needing for her first classes. "I'm ready, let's go," she said shutting the locker door.

"I have to make a quick stop at my locker and then we can head for homeroom." Sandra explained as she walked off down the hallway.

"Right."

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"What?"

"Seriously, Hilde, this chick so would have taken Dorothy on if I hadn't stepped in." Sallly said to a girl about 5'10" with midnight black hair and dark blue eyes.

"Hmm. .she must be new cause no chick that has been going here for any length of time wouldn't have stuck around." Hilde replied. "Have one of the girls check out her background and have another pull her schedule."

"Already on it." Sally told her. "Her name is Relena Peacecraft and she will be joining your Math class. Natasha is looking up her family history, so we should have it by the time school is out."

"Good. Keep me up dated." Hilde said as the bell rang and the pair started to their homerooms. "Catch ya later."

"Yeah." Sally called back.

"Class, we have a new student coming into our class today." Miss Bell said as she walked into the classroom. Her name is Relena Peacecraft. Relena why don't you tell us something about yourself."

Relena slowly stood up beside her desk blushing lightly as people laughed at her name. Relena squared her shoulders and said, "Like you said my name is Relena Peacecraft and yes my father was the late Carleton Peacecraft." (AN I don't know her father's really name so I made it up.)

With that said Relena sat down while everyone just sort of stared at her. Relena was used to that. It was the same with every school she went to. Everybody laughed at her name until she told them who her father had been. Hell how many ambassadors of peace did you see executed on international television?

"You mean to tell us that you're the daughter of that diplomat that got killed a few years back?" a boy with brown hair asked in disbelief.

"Yes."

"Well I've heard a lot of bogus stories told by new students, but that one takes the cake." A girl near the front laughed.

"Don't believe it if you don't want to. Either way," Relena commented, "it's the truth and you not believing don't hurt my feelings none."

"You have a really big mouth you know that?" a voice snarled from the front. Everyone was silent as the owner of the voice stood up and faced Relena. "I don't think that we were introduced before. I'm Dorothy Catalonia."

Relena recognized that the voice belonged to the girl that she had run into before she stood up. "Relena Peacecraft." was her curt reply.

Before the conversation got any farther the bell rang again and all the students stood up and hurried out of the room so as not to be late. They were all whispering about what had happened.

"Why do I feel like I just made and enemy?" Relena asked Sandra as they walked out of the room and down to their first class which was History.

"I really wouldn't know." Sandra replied seriously. "I have never know her to be nice to anyone who had walked into her. Not that that was nice for her, but still."

"So it's a good thing that happened back there?"

"We're just going to have to wait and see." Sandra sighed. "One thing that you should never do is underestimate an Angle."

Relena followed her into a classroom and found an empty seat next to Sandra in hopes that she would be able to ask her more questions about what had happened. Unfortunately for her, the teacher was a stickler about talking in class. Luckily, for her the class passed quickly and before she knew it, Relena was walking down the hall with Sandra to their lockers.

"Is he always like that?" Relena asked as she quickly exchanged her History books for English.

"Yeah he is. Sometimes he's worse though." Sandra said as the two of them headed for her locker.

"If this is one of his good days, then I don't want to see him on a bad day." Relena laughed.

"If you are going to be staying in this school for any length of time, you will see one of his bad days guaranteed." Sandra laughed as well grabbing her own English books.

"Is our English teacher as bad?" Relena asked as she followed Sandra down the hall.

"No way!" Sandra explained. "Ms Hillden is one of the best teachers in the school. She is always having class discussions and getting everybody involved."

"Sounds very nice." Relena said as they walked through the door of a classroom. Even though there were still about five minutes of break left, there were about a hand full of people scattered in small groups around the classroom.

"Sandra!" a girl called from the back corner of the room.

"Hey." Sandra called back as she made her way over to where the girl was with Relena trailing shyly behind.

"What have you been up to?" another girl asked. "We haven't seen you at all today, well after the fight this morning."

"Yeah, well I had a few things to take care of and I picked up a new student." Sandra explained. "Everyone this is my new friend Relena. Relena this is Gwen and Paulette."

"Pleased to meet you." Relena said politely.

"Likewise." Gwen and Paulette replied after sharing a disbelieving look.

"Is there something wrong?" Relena asked noticing the look the two had shared.

"Nothing's wrong. But are you sure that a prep like you wants anything to do with the likes of us?" Paulette shot back.

"What are you talking about?" Relena asked puzzled. "I'm not a prep."

"Oh my God! The girl can use some compound words." was Gwen's sarcastic come back.

"Hey!" Sandra exclaimed. "What's with you two?"

"What's with us? What's with you bringing this prep around here?" countered Paulette.

"She's not a prep. She just transferred here. So they talk different there. So what? That doesn't make you a prep." the now very defensive Sandra told them shortly.

"Sandra," Relena began, "thanks for standing up for me and all, but I don't want to be the cause of any trouble here. They want to think that I'm a prep then fine they can think that. I know who I am and that's all that matters."

Leaving the three girls a little stunned by the passion in her speech. Sandra was the first to recover her wits. I'm glad that she did that, Sandra thought, but I said it before and I'll say it again, she has the attitude that the Angles are definitely looking for. Paulette and Gwen by this time had gotten over their shock, well not quite as they still had slightly stunned looks on their faces.

"That girl has a lot of spunk," Gwen commented absently.

"Yeah she does." Sandra agreed snapping the two girls out of the stupider as the bell rang. "You know something, she was the one who was in that fight this morning."

Sandra then walked over to her usual desk just as Ms Hillden walked into the classroom. Sandra noticed that Relena sat quite a ways away from where she herself was sitting.

"Good morning, class." Ms Hillden greeted everyone cheerfully. "Now as some of you may or may not have noticed, we have a new member joining our class, Relena Peacecraft. I'm not going to put you on the spot any more than I already have, Relena, so don't worry. On that note, everyone get out your 'Romeo and Juliet' books. Relena there is another copy on the top shelf to your right. Here we read the play and then for extra credit or for the fun of it we put the play together for the school.

"Everyone, turn to the last scene that we were working on. For you, Relena, that would be Act three, scene five, line 138. Now who should read which part?" Ms Hillden paused as her eyes scanned the room. "Paulette you can be Lady Capulet, Michael you be Capulet and Relena how 'bout you take over Juliet."

Relena was surprised to be asked to read at all. Not that she didn't want to, she like all Shakespeare and particularly loved Hamlet as well as Romeo and Juliet. Relena had studied Romeo and Juliet twice already in two different schools and read it about five times herself.

"Relena," Ms Hillden said snapping Relena out of her daze, "it's your turn to read."

"Oh, right." Relena said as she blushed and everyone else in class commented about how she would by unable to read the passage. All comments died as she began in a calm clear voice. "'Not proud you have but thankful that you have, Proud can I never be of what I hate; But thankful even for hate that is meant love.'"

There was a short pause before Michael started to speak again as Capulet. Relena knew that there were several people looking at her, including Sandra, but chose to ignore the fact.

"We'll stop there for a minute." Ms Hillden interrupted before Paulette could say her line. "Can anyone tell my why this last part is a contradiction from earlier?" Ms Hillden paused for a moment looking around the room. "No one? Michael how 'bout you?"

"No idea." came the simple reply.

"How about Denise then?" Ms Hillden tried again.

"Sorry," was the only reply she got.

Shyly Relena raised her hand. "Relena, you got the answer?" Ms Hillden questioned.

"This passage is a contradiction because earlier in the play Capulet tells Paris firstly that Juliet is to young and must wait two years. Then Capulet says that his consent is not the answer and Juliet has the final say. Here Capulet is telling Juliet that whether she likes it or not she will be marrying Paris." Relena explained.

"Very good that is precisely the reason." Ms Hillden said approvingly. "Paulette, continue please."

Relena stayed quiet for the rest of the class. They finished Act three and read scene one of Act four. Relena happily read, no more like recited, Juliet's whole conversation with Friar Lawerence. Ms Hillden assigned the conversation to be paraphrased by Wednesday's class. She left them the last fifteen minutes of class to start on the assignment.

Relena pulled out a couple pieces of paper and got started. She noticed that several others had pulled out paper as well but they seemed to be talking rather than working. Relena also noticed Sandra getting out of her desk and making her was over to where Relena sat followed closely by Gwen and Paulette.

"Hey Relena." Sandra said as she sat down in the desk in front of Relena.

"Hey," Relena replied not taking her eyes off her work.

"Why don't you want to talk, Relena?" Sandra asked a little hurt. "What did I do?"

"You didn't do anything, Sandra." Relena began looking at her friend.

"So then what did we do?" Gwen asked a little agitatedly.

"You didn't do anything either." Relena began again. "I just like to use my class time wisely."

"See I told you she was a prep." Paulette shot at Gwen over Relena's head.

"I told you before that I'm not a prep." Relena started getting agitated. "I simply like having my free time after school so I can hang out with my friends and do what I want to. Now if you don't mind," with that, Relena turned back to her assignment.

Sandra looked a little hurt by the whole episode, but wasn't about to say so. Sandra merely shrugged her shoulders as she stood up and walked back to her desk. Thankfully, Gwen and Paulette followed without being meaner to Relena.

A minute before the bell rang Relena packed up her things and was ready to leave just as the bell went. On her way out however Ms Hillden asked her to stay for a moment. Relena saw the smirks on Gwen and Paulette's faces. Just great, thought Relena, now I'll never be able to convince them that I'm not a prep.

"What did you want to see me about?" Relena asked as politely as she could at the moment.

"I get the distinct impression that you don't want to be here right now." Ms Hillden stated. "Be that as it may, I was wondering where you picked up your knowledge of the play?"

"I've already studied Romeo and Juliet in a couple different schools. I seem to have a knack for joining the English class while they are studying it." Relena explained. "I also have read it several times on my own."

"That would explain why you just sailed through that last scene." Ms Hillden said thoughtfully.

"It's one of my favorite scenes," was the simple reply.

"Well then I look forward to your interpretation of it." Ms Hillden said in dismissal.

Relena simply nodded and made her way out of the classroom. She was not shocked at all to find that no one had waited for her. With a shrug Relena dug out her map and schedule. On the map Relena the cafeteria, but then decided that she wasn't really hungry.

Quickly conferring with both the map and schedule, Relena first made her way back to her locker to deposit her books then found where each of her afternoon classes where. By the time that she had that done, it was already time to be heading to her fifth period class which happened to be Math, one of Relena's least favorite classes, even though she was really good at it.

Fifth period also brought the realization that she probably wouldn't be seeing Sandra again that day. Relena shrugged as she made her was inside the classroom, then paused nervously by the door.

"You're blocking the doorway," an irritated voice said from behind her.

Relena turned around and came face to face with a girl of medium height and build who had midnight black hair and dark blue eyes. "I'm sorry." Relena told the girl as she moved out of the way.

"You're that new girl, Relena Peacecraft aren't you?" the girl asked even though it sounded more like a statement.

"Yeah I am." Relena said wearily wondering what the girl had heard about her.

"I'm Hilde Schbeiker." The girl introduced herself pleasantly. "There's a desk free beside mine if you want to sit there. Mr. Loaden gets a bit testy if you aren't in your seat when he gets here."

"Thanks for the tip, Hilde." Relena said as she followed the other girl to the back of the room.

"So how has your first day been so far?" Hilde questioned trying to make conversation.

"As good as anyone's first day in a new school." Relena answered as she sat down.

"Some how I don't think that you get into many fights on your first day of school." Hilde commented.

"I suppose that the whole bloody school knows about that don't they?" Relena asked, her voice tinged with dread.

"Yeah pretty much." Hilde confirmed. "It's not every day that the new kid stands up to an Angle. Hell anyone to stand up to an Angle is rare."

"What's with these Angle's? Are they just a bunch of mocho chicks out for a good time or are they something more?" Relena wondered.

"I think that there's something more to being an Angle than just being tuff," Hilde said some what knowingly, "but to find out that you'd have to talk to an Angle."

Before Relena could answer, the teacher walked in and the lesson began. Though Mr. Loaden was not as bad as her History teacher, Mr. Smith, for quiet he was no Ms Hillden. Mr. Loaden liked the class quite quiet but you could whisper to each other.

About half way through the lesson a folded up piece of paper came flying onto her desk, startling her. Curious as to see where it came from, Relena glanced over to see Hilde gesturing for her to read the note.

Relena unfolded the note. It read: 'This is boring. Talk to me'. Relena picked up her pen and quickly scrawled back a message that said, 'I don't know what to talk about.' Relena silently folded the paper back up, waited till the teacher wasn't looking then chucked it across the aisle.

Hilde opened it up, read it wrote something and then tossed it back with a little smile playing about her lips. Relena picked the paper up off her desk. 'Well you're a real conversation starter,' was how it read. Quickly Relena scrawled out her reply, which was 'I know. It's a talent.'

When Hilde read this, she had to cover her mouth quickly so as not to laugh out loud. As it happened, she wasn't quite quick enough and let out a rather loud giggle that caught everyone's attention.

"I never knew anyone who considered Mathto be fun let alone funny." Mr. Loaden said tartly. "Perhaps you could enlighten us all as to what the joke is?"

"I wasn't laughing, Mr. Loaden." Hilde told him, she was the picture of innocence. "I had something caught in my throat."

"At any rate, don't disturb my class again." Mr. Loaden replied going back to the lesson.

Hilde waited for a moment before she wrote her own reply. Unlike they had been doing, Hilde merely held the unfolded paper in the aisle for Relena to grab. Unfortunately the exchange didn't go unnoticed.

"Relena, what is that you have there?" Mr. Loaden asked irritated.

"Nothing. I dropped one of my papers and Hilde picked it up for me." Relena lied easily.

"Then you won't mind letting me see it," said Mr. Loaden.

"Of course not sir," with that Relena got up and headed to the front of the class. As she stood, Relena noticed Hilde giving her a look that said, 'what the hell are you doing!'

Relena made her way to the front of the room calmly aware that everyone was watching her and placed the paper into Mr. Loaden's waiting outstretched hand. Mr. Loaden took the paper and carefully looked it over.

"I suggest that you study your map on your own time. Right now you're supposed to be paying attention to the lesson." Mr. Loaden stated disapprovingly as he gave the map back.

"Of course, sir." Relena said looking completely innocent.

As Relena walked back to her desk, she saw Hilde lean over and pluck up the real note. Not wanting to call any more attention to the girl or herself, Relena just kept walking. About a minute after she sat down the note landed on Relena's desk. The first part of the note read 'Do you always have a cheeky come back?' The part that had just been written was 'This is getting to dangerous. Wait for me after class.'

Relena folded the note back up and tucked it in her binder. Seeing that Hilde was waiting for an answer out of the corner of her eye, Relena nodded.

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To Be Continued. . . . . .

I hope that was worth the wait. Tell me what you think.