Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ One Step Forward, Two Steps Back ❯ Change of Events ( Chapter 10 )

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Author: Kimpisces
Rating: T
Summary: "Love can die but a dance can last forever. You may not be happy but at least you'll never feel the pain of betrayal."Heero Yuy is a boy who has never believed in loveDuo Maxwell is a boy who has never felt its touchWhat happens when these two boys meet and Heero's belief that a relationship should be based around the other is put to the test against Duo's belief that love conquers all?Who will win? Come and watch the dance.
Warnings: Angst, AU, slight OOC, Yaoi/Shonen-Ai, Relena Bashing and Language
Author Notes: This is the tenth chapter. I don’t have the eleventh chapter finished in my book yet so I’m probably going to write it from the top of my head between today and maybe this weekend but that’s okay because I still know what I want to happen in the rest of the chapters. It’s been a long time since I updated and I apologize for it but I have a lot of chemistry homework and English just floods me with homework this year. Thankfully school will be out soon and I won’t have to worry about it anymore. Cheers to that and I hope that you enjoy this chapter.

Chapter Ten: A change of events

Wufei sat alone at a library table, hidden in the back of the crowded room by lines of bookshelves and students. Gritting his teeth, Wufei tried to ignore the sound of chatter all around him. He didn't understand why people couldn't do their homework in silence. It wasn't like any of them could possibly have homework that they needed the entire library to help them with it.
"I didn't think you'd be here." A female voice mocked as two people approached Wufei's table. "I thought that people who are as smart as you don't have to do homework. Doesn't Mieran call you the teacher's pet?"
Wufei saw the pink mini skirt and placed that article of clothing before he placed the voice. "Hello Relena. Do you have something to ask me? I am sure that I could pull that C-minus of yours up to a decent B but only if you are willing to put a couple of hours in."
Relena rolled her eyes and scoffed. "I don't need your help with my homework. I know how to get my mark up without hard work. Unlike you, I have connections in this school."
"Sleeping with the teacher isn't considered having connections." Wufei muttered under his breath but then he flashed a smile and spoke up. "I'm sure you do Relena. Unfortunately, some of our parents don't approve of using power to get good grades and would rather than their son, or daughter, work for them."
"Yeah, whatever." Relena flicked her hair over her shoulder. "That's just what poorer kids say when they know that their daddy doesn't have connections in this school."
"Do you want something Relena?" Wufei said with an exasperated sigh. "Shouldn't you be out stalking Heero or something?"
"I do not stalk Heero. He likes me so therefore it is considered hanging out, which is something that you would know if you had friends." Relena crudely remarked and then sat down in the chair across the table from Wufei. "But actually, Heero is what I came here to talk to you about."
"Sorry Relena, I don't know where he is either." Wufei looked back down at his book and copied out the next formula from the book.
"Actually, I know exactly where Heero is. I just came to tell you something." Relena leaned in and even with Wufei's eyes focused on his book, he could see down her shirt. "Heero has just replaced you with me, and so you can just leave my Heero alone from now on."
"Relena, you're going to have to start distinguishing from your dream world and reality." Wufei said coldly. "First of all, Heero doesn't need to replace me because we were never together. Secondly, Heero has much better taste than that, I doubt that he would ever ask you out." Wufei turned his head so that he didn't have to look at Relena's cleavage anymore.
"Well apparently he has changed his mind." Relena snickered. "Hilde was there, she'll tell you the same thing."
Wufei looked up at Hilde who he hadn't even noticed was there. From what he could see though, she didn't look like the kind of person who would normally hang out in a group such as Relena's.
Hilde blushed when Wufei started looking at her and nodded, trying not to look in Wufei's eyes. "It was weird. I thought that Heero really liked Duo, but he went up to Relena and asked her to the movies. Then again, after going to that party with you, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Has Heero given up on Duo?"
Wufei was surprised by the question. He recovered quickly though and shrugged. "I don't know. They are always fighting as far as I can tell. Seriously, they act like there is no better foreplay than a good fight. Who knows, this just may be one of those times."
"Well that doesn't matter now," Relena remarked angrily. "Heero is going out with me now and there isn't going to be a Duo soon so there's nothing that you can do about it. Duo will never get his claws back in Heero now that I have him. I'm a very forgiving person. I can forgive Heero for being momentarily crazy and dating both you and Duo but he won't do it again, especially now that he can experience a real woman. Duo is through and there's nothing that he can do about it. By the time he realizes what a perfect person Heero is, it will be too late."
Wufei looked at Relena and shook his head. "Heero is not a possession."
"He's mine, possession or not." Heero smiled and stood up. "Well toodles Wufei. I have to go and hang out with my new boyfriend so that everyone can see us together. Just remember about this little talk and stay away from my boyfriend."
"All right." Wufei rolled his eyes and then nodded to Hilde. "Good-bye."
"Bye." Hilde replied and then hurriedly followed Relena out of the library.
"What was that about?" Meiran asked, pushing herself off of the wall where she had been observing the entire thing. "Does she not have anything better to do than bother the normal part of this school population?"
"She's just going crazy because Heero asked her out." Wufei summarized quickly. "I think that he's finally lost his mind, but it's not my place to judge. I'm sure that he has his reasons for going out with her."
"I'm sure he does have a logical reason for going out with Ms. Stalker." Mieran sat down next to Wufei and fished out some notes from her backpack. "Why was she so worried about you going around Heero?"
"Heero wanted to break the news about him being gay to his father at a party the other day. Unfortunately he and Duo were fighting at the time so he asked me to be his date for the evening. So I went to his house and allowed him to pretend that we were together," Wufei said simply.
"And what happened?""His father didn't even care because he recognized me as a member of the Dragon clan and said that Heero was good to get someone so rare."
"Sounds like he's a conceited asshole," Meiran replied. "If you were a girl, I'm sure that he would approve of you for breeding rights."
"Yeah, I have to admit that idea did come to my mind," Wufei said and then looked down at his work. "We'd better finish this project. Did you bring the poster board?"
Meiran paused and then closed her eyes slowly. "Damn it, I knew I forgot something."
"How could you forget something that big?" Wufei asked in disbelief.
"I don't usually carry poster board around, do I?" Meiran sighed. "Well, this project is not due until tomorrow, we could just finish writing everything up and then put it all together at my house. After all, it is after school and we can go home at any time."
"I guess that would work."
"Yeah, of course it will," Meiran replied. "It was my idea."
"You're pretty full of yourself, aren't you?"
"Just do your part of the project and keep your smart alec remarks to yourself."
Wufei grinned but went back to concentrating on the project notes. He finished with his last paragraph and then looked up to see Meiran watching him expectantly.
"Ready?" Meiran asked.
"Yeah, just let me go and put the books I borrowed away," Wufei said and looked around, noticing that all the books he had previously been using were all put away except for his textbook.
"You don't really pay much attention to your surroundings, do you? You must be really good at meditating," Meiran said in way of an explanation.
"I am." Wufei stood up. "Well then, let me go and put my textbook away and then we can go to your house to put the project together."
"Deal," Meiran said as she smiled. "You go to your locker and I'll wait for you outside the school doors."
"All right," Wufei agreed and headed out of the library with Meiran following him but each going their separate way once outside of the library doors.
Wufei got to his locker fairly quickly and was placing his textbook on the shelf when he heard someone talking from down the hallway.
"Are you sure that you and Heero are actually dating exclusively? What if you tell Duo that you are and Heero turns around and leaves you for him as soon as Duo decides that he wants Heero again," Hilde asked from what sounded to be around the corner.
"He won't leave me!" Relena exclaimed as Wufei recognized the anger in her voice. "You're not much of a friend if you think that anyone could actually do that to me. Duo is just a brief fling that he had and as soon as Heero realizes that, it'll be fine. Heero's not gonig to go back to him once he gets everything that he wants: me."
"If you say so," Hilde's voice sounded defeated.
"I do say so and you would be smart to listen to me," Relena remarked and Wufei could hear her high heels click as she headed down the hallway.
Closing his locker, Wufei turned and headed outside to where Meiran was waiting for him.
"What took you so long? Did you get lost?" Meiran asked, jokingly.
"I heard Relena talking in the hallway," Wufei replied as they started to walk away from the school.
"You were eavesdropping? What a horrible thing to do!" Meiran laughed.
"She was talking about telling Duo that her and Heero are dating exclusively."
"Did you really think that she wouldn't? Duo's competition and Relena hates competition. For Relena, competition means that there is a slight chance that she might lose," Meiran said with a sigh. "So she'll tell Duo anything in order to get rid of him. She wants to push Duo as far out of the picture as she can. I don’t know why Heero would chose such a snob over Duo though. Sure, from what I've heard, Duo has been hard to get along with but he still acts like a much more decent person."
"He is a more decent person, without a doubt."
"Heero's loss." Meiran shrugged.
They walked the next block or so in silence before Meiran opened her mouth again.
"Hey, listen. I'm really sorry about treating you so unjustly when we first met. You're not that bad, you know."
"Are you going soft on me?" Wufei joked.
"Not a chance," Meiran replied, hitting him in the shoulder as she did so. "Want to race to my house?""I don't even know where your house is."
"See that blue house on the corner?"
"Yeah."
"Good, lets race," Meiran said and then bolted.
Wufei growled but chased after her nonetheless.
They ran laughing through the streets, ignoring the looks that people gave them as they went past. Wufei had never felt this free. He almost caught up with Meiran as they turned to head up her driveway. He almost could touch her when he reached out his hand.
Just as they were about to go up the steps to the front door, Wufei’s hand managed to grab her shoulder and he spun her around in some form of light outrage for her cheating. However, neither of them could seem to stop the momentum they had created and they were thrown down on the ground in one smooth motion.
Meiran fell directly on top of Wufei and before either of them knew what was going on, their mouths were pressed together. As soon as Wufei realized what was going on, he quickly pushed her away and pulled himself up, off the ground.
“Sorry,” he stuttered as he stood up.
“It wasn’t your fault. Gravity really does suck,” she replied and quickly climbed up the steps to her house. “Come on. The poster board is in the dining room.”
“Thanks.” Wufei followed her up the steps and took off his shoes. “Nice house.”
“Yeah, sure it is,” Meiran said with a grin and then rolled her eyes. “It’s good enough of a house to do me until I head off to university.”
“What do you plan on going into?” Wufei asked as he followed her to the kitchen where she pulled out a package of markers, a couple of pencils and the poster board while Wufei fished his notes out of his backpack.
“I’m not completely sure yet,” Meiran replied as she sat down. “Do you want me to put the pictures onto separate pieces of construction paper before putting them on the poster board?”
“Could you? That would add to the over all colouring of the poster,” Wufei said in agreement and smiled as he started to pencil in the title on the top of the poster.
“Um, Wufei,” Meiran said as she looked over at the poster, “you misspelled presentation.”
“Oops.” Wufei looked down at his work and shook his head at himself. “I guess I should fix that.”
They worked for the next ten minutes in complete silence and then they looked up as Meiran finished gluing the pictures on the separate pieces of construction paper and Wufei was done writing the title and outlining it in black marker.
“Okay.” Wufei looked around and the work they still had and sigh. “Well, we have two glue sticks. You could glue the paragraphs I have already written out onto more pieces of construction paper while I lay it all out and figure out how we should put it together and then we can both glue it together when it’s all done.”
“All right,” Meiran agreed, “sounds good.”
Another fifteen minutes of arranging, gluing and being silent later, they finished the project completely and glued the last part of the project onto the poster board. Meiran smiled with approval.
“It looks good,” she said with a smug smile.
“Yeah,” Wufei agreed. “Now all that is left is to put our names on it.”
Meiran put her name on the poster board with a flourish and then handed the marker to Wufei. Wufei stared down at her hand for a moment and then grabbed the marker himself. He wrote his name next to hers and then handed the pen back.
She put the pen down on the table and then they stood there for a few minutes before Wufei cleared his throat. “I guess I should be getting home now.”
“I guess you should,” Meiran replied.
“All right,” Wufei said and then picked up his backpack and headed towards the door.
“I’ll see you tomorrow at school,” Meiran said softly as she followed him to the door.
“Yeah, you will.”
“I promise not to forget the poster board tomorrow.”
“That’s a good idea,” Wufei said with a smile. “I would rather not get a zero on a project that I actually worked so hard on.”
Meiran chuckled.
“Well, I’ll see you,” Wufei said and then turned to leave.
Meiran suddenly grabbed Wufei’s hand and pulled him back inside the house. Wufei was about to say something in surprise but was unable to when he found her lips on his for the second time that afternoon.
“I’ll see you tomorrow,” Meiran whispered as she pulled again and closed the door.
Wufei blinked in confusion and then made his way down the steps. He looked back at the house and noticed that Meiran was watching him out the window. He held up his hand in recognition and she smiled.
Wufei was walking along when suddenly a car pulled up to him. Heero’s head poked out of the door and he smiled. “Want a ride home?”
“Sure.” Wufei climbed into the car.
“You look very happy. What happened?” Heero asked. “Did you fall on your head or something?”
Wufei rolled his eyes but couldn’t help but smile anyway. “Nah, but I think I may just have a girlfriend now.”

Duo sighed as he headed home by himself. He was still mad at Heero but he was surprised that he hadn’t even attempted to apologize. Heero always tried to make Duo come back to him and to not even look in Duo’s direction all day was something that Duo didn’t think that Heero would ever do.
Then again, he was probably too busy trying not to gag. After all, Relena had been hanging off of his arm all day and it appeared that Heero had gotten tired of telling her to go away. Or, a traitorous thought interrupted, Heero has replaced Duo with her.
“Yeah right,” Duo said to himself and then laughed. Heero hated that snob as much as Duo did so why on earth would he go off with her? No matter how mad Heero was, he would not do that to himself. It would be pure torture for Heero.
Still, it was kind of lonely walking home alone and Duo almost found himself wishing that Heero was there. When he really thought about it, Heero’s affection wasn’t completely unwelcome. It was somewhat reassuring to know that someone liked him. It had been so long since Duo had someone to just be himself with.
Duo sighed. Sure, he wanted Heero around simply because he wasn’t. It was such a cliché to want something that he couldn’t have. Why did Duo have to want Heero? Was it because he actually liked him and nothing more or did Duo really like him? Or did Duo just not want to be alone anymore?
Duo thought back to their kiss in Heero’s house. It had been the most intoxicating kiss that Duo had ever experienced. Was it because of the person he was kissing or just the kiss itself? If it was because of the person he was kissing than should Duo be pushing him away?
Duo thought back to all of the memories he had of Heero and he had to admit that there were a lot of them. He remembered the basketball game where Heero had made him blush by telling him that he looked almost as cute when he was upset about being scored on as he did when he was recovering from a kiss. He remembered eating dinner with him, talking about the porn collection that Heero had when he was little. He even remembered the feeling of strong arms around him when Heero pulled him under the water. He knew that those arms would never have let him drown but he had still gotten mad. Why?Duo saw his house and ran to it. Calling out a greeting to his adopted mother, he ran up to his room. Duo looked at himself in the mirror and smiled. He was kind of nice to look at when Duo really took the time to look at himself. Was it such a stretch to believe that maybe Heero felt the same way?
Sniffing his armpits, Duo winced. He should probably go and take a shower. He went into the bathroom and stripped, climbing into the shower stall. As he soaped himself up, Duo continued to think about Heero.
Why had he gotten so mad over something so stupid? It was something that he used to do with his old friends all the time and he hated it.
He had really blown up at Heero though. He hadn’t even really been that upset though, had he? It wasn’t Heero’s actions that had made him upset at least. What had really bothered him was that Heero had told him not to worry and for the first time in a long time, Duo was thinking about doing it. When Duo had been pulled under, he hadn’t even had the thought of being scared. That had been the most terrifying thing: for the first time in his life, Duo felt like he completely trusted someone else.
It frightened him that he could trust Heero so quickly. It alarmed Duo that he could have stayed in those arms forever. It worried Duo that Heero always seemed to dominate his thoughts throughout the day. It was like he was actually falling for Heero.
Correction, Duo thought as he paused during his hair washing, he had already fallen for Heero.
A huge grin spread across his face. Now it was his turn to try and make things up to Heero. Plus, he still needed to get his pants back from last week.
Duo decided that he would go to Heero’s house as soon as he had eaten dinner and he would apologize for everything.