A.N.: Oh look. Another Fan Fic from Chibi Cat. I plan on finishing all me stories but it’s gonna take me a LONG while. Um...this is an angst story. Deals with child abuse, drug use, depression, suicide, eating disorders... Read if you dare. I don’t own GW. Bah bah bah.

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The eight-year-old boy looked out of the window for the stars but the gaudy flashes of neon blocked their pure light from the people. He heard screams of anger coming from the other room, a bottle was broken and someone was crying out in pain but he didn’t go to investigate it. He simply watched the sky for a brave star who’s light outshine all the others to peek through the wall of neon and reveal itself to him. The screams of pain grew louder and the snarls of anger did too but he still did not run to see what was going on or to help. If he did he would be next and that was the last thing he wanted. After a while the screams died down and crying began, then a door was slammed. His mother called for him and he left the window, there were no stars tonight.

Blood was seeping in the already stained carpet and his mother sat in the bed grinning drunkenly with her boyfriend and a bloody knife in her hand. He stopped in the doorway and didn’t move from that spot. His mother motioned for him to come closer but he did not budge. He knew what she wanted and he would avoid for as long as he could. Unfortunately that was not long for her boyfriend shot up and grabbed the boy around his waist over to the bed. He struggled without making a sound, he hadn’t spoken a word in that apartment for three years now. He was handcuffed to the bedpost so he could not escape. His mother grinned even wider and brought the knife down and slashed his shirt open and off. Then with an even sicker grin she began to make shallow cuts in his bare skin. He didn’t struggle anymore because if he did he would be cut deeper and the chance of a scar would be even higher. He shut his eyes tightly as the cuts continued to spring up and his blood oozed down the wounds onto the dirty sheets. His mother and her boyfriend were becoming aroused by the boy’s blood and began to touch him. Soon his mother took him into her mouth and then into her. He could not remember the climax, he always blotted that out of his consciousness.

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"Jeez man, what happened to you?" Duo asked as they walked to school. Heero glared at him, it had been the same question almost every week for the past three years now. Heero had always refused to answer it but Duo continued to ask with the hope that one day he may know what happened to his best friend. Duo and Heero met when they were three years old. Their friendship was a strange one. Heero rarely talked and when he did it was a curt one-word answer. Duo on the other hand talked endlessly about everything he could think of and when he could think of nothing else he would sing loudly until another topic entered his mind. Because of this the older kids sometimes called them Jay and Silent Bob after the characters in a movie. Duo rattled on as they walked to school and Heero walked along with him silently half listening to his friend’s endless chatter. The other half of his brain thought of so many things he almost lost track of them. Most of them were unimportant like "What will I buy for lunch today?" "Did I remember to bring my math homework" "What do mosquitoes actually do for the earth" and then those questions that loomed in his mind which created a dark, ominous shadow that no eight year old should ever have to think of "Is it safe to go home tonight?" "Will these cuts scar?" "If someone finds out what should I tell them?".

"HELLO!" Duo said loudly interrupting Heero’s thoughts, "Did you hear me? What did you get for the answer on problem eighteen on our math homework?"

"27," Heero replied. Duo scribbled it down just as they entered the school building. One of the mothers glared from her car window at the boys. They were much too young to walk all the way to school by themselves.

"Now Relena, I know this is your first day at a new school, but try to make some friends," the woman said. Relena nodded her head silently, her honey blonde hair waving like a sheet of gold, and bravely stepped out of the car. She was always the new girl but her daddy assured her that they would be living here for quite some time.

"Hi!" a voice behind Relena said amiably. Relena turned around and was face to face with another girl about her own age.

"My name’s Hilde!" The girl said. She had short black hair and was wearing all purple with a purple hat.

"My name’s Relena," Relena answered quietly.

"Are you new here?" Hilde asked in her same happy voice.

"Yes."

"Well that’s great! I’m new too! We can hang out together okay?"

"Sure!" Relena smiled and the pair walked into the school together.

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"And then I ate a piece of pizza but I was drinking Pepsi at the same time so when I laughed Pepsi and pizza bits came out my nose and then..." Duo rambled on to no one imparticular.

"Duo...shut up..." Heero said in his forever monotone voice.

"Awww, why don’t you shut up?" Duo asked while playfully pushing his friend. Heero pushed Duo back and unfortunately Duo was pushed right into two unsuspecting girls.

"Hey watch it!" the first girl said.

"Err sorry!" Duo said as he stooped to help her pick up her books. Heero followed his example and helped the second girl pick up her books.

"My name is Duo," Duo told the first girl with an unsure smile.

"I’m Hilde!" Hilde smiled.

"That’s Heero," Duo said motioning over to his friend who had finished helping Relena.

"He can’t say his own name?" Hilde asked.

"He can, but he won’t. He barely talks to me so I doubt it if he talks to you!" Duo laughed.

"Why doesn’t he talk?" Hilde asked. "I don’t know. He hasn’t barely said anything since I’ve known him," Duo responded as he picked up the last of Hilde’s papers. "Well, here ya go. Maybe I’ll see you later!"

"Yeah, maybe," Hilde grinned as she turned to Relena who had been done for a while. The girls giggled at each other much to the confusion of Duo and Heero and walked down the hall way.

"Girls are weird," Duo stated.

"Hn."

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A.N.: Oooh look. Part one of the prologue. Yes, there will be a part two of the prologue, the actual story starts when the people are 15. Ok, bye.