The Moon and the Stars

Chapter1

Relena walked into the school with Heero trailing behind her. Relena nudged through the people blocking the doors to the building and vanished into crowd. Heero noticed she had left him, and he decided to walk around and find the office. Relena opened her locker and sighed, placing her bookbag in the locker. She threw her books on the floor and took out a couple of other books too.

"Hello, Relena. What are you looking for, a life?" A girl with shiny shoulder length black hair said. Relena stared at her locker blankly and stopped moving. She and her friends laughed at the joke, then walked away. Relena took out her last book, placing it with the others on the floor and then closed her locker. She bent down gracefully, putting her books in a pile then picking them up and holding it to her chest. She walked into her homeroom class and sat down in the back. She rests her head in one hand and looked up to the front of the classroom.

"Here’s your locker number and combination and this is your homeroom, plus all your other classes. I hope you enjoy this school." The principal, Ms. Une said smiling amiably. She handed Heero a piece of paper and he looked at it, then nodded. He walked out of the office and looked around for his locker. When he finally found it, he put his book bag on the floor, then opened his locker.

The day ended all too soon for Relena, it seemed that it was the beginning of the day. She wasn’t mad about it, she hated school and she hated the people of the school as well. She walked onto the bus and sat in her regular spot. She opened her book and started to read, sighing.

For Heero, it seemed that he had been at school forever. Being introduced to everyone, since he had come to the school in the middle of the year. It was already January, he moved from his old town, just last month. This school was just as bad as his old one, girls hitting on him, fighting over him, like he was some kind of prize. He walked on the school bus and looked for a seat. ‘Relena.’ He thought almost suddenly. She was reading the same book from this morning and decided to sit next to her again. He sat down and she jumped a little.

"What’s wrong?" Heero said looking at her questionably as she calmed down a bit.

"I’m sorry, I didn’t expect anyone to sit next to me." She said blushing.

"Oh." Heero whispered and looked down.

"Why would you want to sit next to somebody like me?" Relena whispered. Heero shrugged and Relena smiled. ‘He’s so different from other guys.’ She thought. The bus started up and the other kids came on the bus, sitting down in their seats. They started the usual thing making a lot of noise and making out. Heero got off at the first stop and slowly began to make his way home. He slowly walked towards his house listening to the light sound of the whistling made by the wind brush against the bare trees. The dead leaves swinging in the air as the wind pushed them forward. The wind caressing Heero’s hair, blowing it across his face with gentleness and delicacy. Heero stopped slowly as he reached a house. The wind fleeted by him in a rush as he turned towards the house, known as his home. He slowly made his way up the brick stoop and opened the door. He walked in quietly looking around, his eyes darting from place to place, looking for someone or something. He closed the door quietly and placed his book bag on the floor, then walked towards the staircase. When he reached it he ran as fast as he could up it when,

"Heero, get down here." A woman with an extremely beautiful and delicate voice said. Heero stopped dead in his tracks and turned around walking down the stairs sloppily. He looked down at a woman of her early 30s, staring at him. One hand on her hip, the other holding a beer bottle half full, and a cigarette in her mouth. She glared at him and took the cigarette out of her mouth, then placing her hand back on her hip, with the cigarette, breathing out smoke. Her hair was the same color as Heero, a dark brown, it spread across her skinny shoulders, all the way down to her skinny waist. Her Prussian blue eyes were dimmed, as if the life had been drained from them and also her body from the way she held her posture. She looked haggard and like her life had been hanging from a tiny string. As Heero reached the bottom of the steps, she sighed, then smirked.

"Give ya mama, a big hug." She said sheepishly, outstretching her arms. Heero sighed and hugged her a little, but immediately breaking away. He looked her up and down, disgusted at her appearance. She had on a tight leopard skin bra, with a mini black skirt and long black boots. Heero turned around ready to walk up the stairs again. Unfortunately Heero’s mother saw the way her son was looking at her and took a sip of her beer, then smirked again.

"Don’t look at your young, beautiful 31 year old mother like that. I had you at 16 and I’m not to old to wear this stuff." She said in a seductive way.

" Just don’t come up to my room when your drunk, you’re so young you think you are allowed to sleep with your son." Heero said in a cold way.

"Yeah, well I didn’t. So don’t talk to me that way, kid." She said her smirk turning into a frown.

"Yeah well you tried and it wasn’t funny, go find someone as old as you are to mess around with." Heero said walking towards his room.

"You are my son and I can do whatever I want to do with you." She yelled and was answered with a slam of Heero’s door and cursed under her breath, then walking towards her room again.

Relena got off the bus and quickly walked to her house trying to avoid the name calling from the people behind her. As she reached her house, she could hear the arguing going on in her house. She looked down to the ground as she opened the door to her house. She walked in and the arguing became louder.

"Hey don't talk about our children that way." Her mother yelled.

"Well maybe I should talk to them that way." Her father said hoarsely and Relena leaned her back against the door, looking in a frightened way towards where the argument was coming from. Footsteps were heard coming towards her and her father came stomping in front of her. He stopped and glared at her staring her in the eye. She pointed a finger and Relena ran towards the stairs. Before she could reach it, her father grabbed her putting her show she could look into his cold eyes.

"You were a mistake, you and your brother were a big mistake." He yelled into her face and tossed her to the ground.

"No." Her mother screamed pushing her husband and rushing to her daughter that was on the ground.

"Get over here woman, I'm not done with you." Relena's father yelled hoarsely and grabbed his wife's hand, pulling her towards him. Relena scrambled up from the floor and started to hit fiercely at her father's chest screaming and crying at the same time.

"Let go, Let go!" She screamed, when her father let go of her mother. She ran as fast as she could up the stairs into her room. She could hear her father following her and when she got into her room, she slammed the door and locked it. She was shaking fiercely and ran to her bed, hugging herself tightly.

"Get out, get out now!" She heard her mother scream.

"Fine." Her father yelled, thumping down the stairs. She heard him, slam the door and her mom started to cry loudly. Relena's tears fell down her face and she fell asleep at the sound of her mom sobbing, still shaking uncontrollably.