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Mina burst into the room pointing her finger at Quatre. “You show off! You cad!! It’s on!!” Shocked at the sudden intrusion and outburst of words, Quatre dropped his bow.
“What are you talking about?” Amy walked in and placed a hand on her hip.
“Don’t give me that Quatre. You were showing off and you know it. I’m here-“ Amy coughed.
“I’m here too ya know.”
“Sorry. We’re here to prove how much you suck compared to masters like us.”
“Masters like us!” Amy piped in. Doris gingerly picked up Quatre’s bow and returned it to him, then quickly turned to Mina and Amy.
“What the hell is wrong with you bastards?! Can’t you see this is no time to be interrupting?! How could you ruin something so beautiful with your petty self-worship! I-” A comforting hand on her shoulder stopped her from saying more.
“Mina, Amy. I’m sorry if you thought I was trying to show off, but I really didn’t realize that anyone else could hear me.”
“Well you thought wrong.” A low growl from Doris made Amy hide behind Mina.
“Maybe another time....when you’re not so spoken for.” With a wink, Mina and Amy left the room.
“I guess I’ll have to wait to finish the song. I don’t think I’m up for another unsatisfying go at it.”
“I’m sorry Quatre. I interrupted you first. Let me take you out to lunch or something.”
The sun was shining brightly as Doris and Quatre walked down the street. “Quatre, may I ask you something?”
“Of course.”
“Um...well...I was-”
“That’s Trowa! Over there! It’s him!” Quickly they hid in an ally being sure to stay out of Trowa’s sight.
“He was in the lake with us after we blew up that base right?”
“Yeah, but didn’t you notice he was working for OZ? He’s a traitor, I thought he was on our side...but...he’s the enemy now.”
Hmmm those two must know each other from before they came to Mizu-iwa. Poor Quatre, lost his friend in this war, because he turned traitor. Damn this war!
“We should probably stay out of sight until he leaves. If he recognizes us....”
“I think, we should follow him.”
“What?” Doris tried to stay quiet, but found her voice rising higher than usual. “Why would you want to do a thing like that?!”
“Well, I don’t know, I just feel that we should follow him.”
“Yeah but why? Why do you feel like following him? What possible good could it do?” Not to mention following this guy would be horribly depressing and kill whatever romantic mood I may have had a shot at.
“I’d rather not talk about it.” She reached out to touch him but she quickly withdrew her hand.
“You can tell me anything and I’ll always be here to listen. Trust me, please.”
“Well, he...and I...used to be friends. Or at least I thought we were friends. I could never be sure of his feelings. I thought maybe if we followed him...well I don’t know what I was thinking if we followed him.” They watched as Trowa strolled down the street and out of sight. Quatre’s eyes glittered with unshed tears.
“C’mon, let’s get out of here.” They left the ally and went the opposite way of Trowa. Hopefully there’s something that will take his mind off things down this way. This is pathetic- I get slightly turned around and then I’m lost.
After walking for a while, the scenery started to look familiar. Ah ha! I know where I am now! Okay- as long as I steer clear of the boxing club, I should be able to make it to the little ice cream shop around here. As they were passing the comic book store Sean and Noah exited the shop. Sean spotted Quatre and Doris, and nudged Noah with his elbow. They both looked at each other and nodded. A huge grin came over both their faces as they advanced on their unsuspecting victims. “Oi! Doris! Quatre! Wait up!” Quatre turned around and waved at the oncoming pair- while Doris stopped dead in her tracks awaiting the pending doom. “So- what are you guys up to?” Noah asked with a snicker. Doris turned around and smiled.
“Nothing. We are up to nothing at all. Right Quatre? Of course. So since we’re up to nothing- I suppose we’ll be on our way.”
“Really? It doesn’t look like nothing to me.” Sean’s grin got even bigger.
“Now why would I lie to you? Really what it is that we are doing is no-thing. That’s it, no more! Just nothing!” Noah and Sean looked at each other and couldn’t contain themselves anymore.
“You two are gonna fuck! Fuckers!” They rolled on the ground with laughter.
“Yeah real funny HA HA!! How long did you guys practice saying that at the same time?” Please don’t them see through my “I’m a bad-ass” routine...it’s the only thing covering how embarrassed I really am. They were still laughing. They’re still laughing? It wasn’t THAT funny sheesh. Just then Doris turned to see Quatre as red as a turnip. Noah finally caught his breath and stood up.
“We didn’t think you’d take it so seriously- it was just a joke.”
“Well that’s dirty! And I think you permanently scared Quatre!” By now Sean had caught his breath too.
“Oh Doris, you think everything is dirty. You have to admit it was pretty funny.”
“I don’t have to do anything because that was NOT funny! Don’t you guys have something better to do besides pester us?”
“Well actually we were on our way to the school.”
“Yeah! I was going to hack into the computer and change everybody’s grade!”
“Sean! Some of us actually work hard to get our grades! That’s wrong to change someone’s grade just because you can.”
“Yeah- but I just want to see if I really can. Well actually I know I can, but I just want to prove it.”
“Well then I guess you guys should be running along back to school now shouldn’t you? Bye bye then.” Sean and Noah started to leave, as did Quatre and Doris.
“Man Noah- Doris is one crabby girl! I can’t believe she got so mad at us.”
“She’s probably upset because she knows it’s true.”
“I heard that! Shut-up! It’s dirty!!” Noah and Sean roared with laughter as they walked to the school.
“Sean and Noah- can’t live with them- can’t hunt them down and shoot them. Heh heh heh” Maybe I should take lessons from Duo on how to make light of a situation.
“It’s okay. I understand they were just kidding around.”
“Well.....whaddya want to do now?” A gunshot was heard a couple streets over. Doris and Quatre looked at each other for a moment before Doris took off running in the direction of the sound. “C’mon! What are you waiting for? We’ve gotta check this out!” Quatre soon followed her lead.
They ran down the street in time to catch a glimpse of Mina and Duo running away from a group oz soldiers. “Holy shit! What are they doing? Are they trying to get themselves killed?!” Mina and Duo slipped down an alley.
“Hurry up! We gotta catch up before we loose them!” Quatre took off after Mina and Duo, Doris exhaled heavily, blowing her bangs, then ran after Quatre.