Reminiscent Chapter 4

[Lei]

*pokes head around corner*

Eep! So sorry for being late!! I really did mean to update earlier but I don't have that much time anymore plus a bit of a writer's block.

Thank you Lady Casper for sticking with me!! I'm glad you didn't dump me for taking so much time. So awesome!!! ^______^

Reminiscent
Part 1
Chapter 4

Relena and spoke again the day afterwards. We aren?t fighting; we never have. However, I noticed that Monday things weren?t the same anymore. Neither Relena nor I took the effort to try and see each other, but I was always looking out for her, wondering if she was behind the next corner. I spent the next week in silent misery, and no one noticed. Things at home weren?t going too well either. Mia was mad at Mother because she was threatening to take her out of dancing. Dad was drinking a bit more. Grandma? I think she?s going back to Japan soon, and had withdrawn from me.

Like that was a big difference. However, something was really bugging me about this. Especially, since I couldn?t look at them without catching a glance of hatred, or something rather sinister.

?Heero! Buddy!? Duo? he?s a pain in the ass. The guy nearly ran passed me running towards me. He managed to grab my shirtsleeve and took a moment to catch his breath. I watched him blankly as he huffed. ?Hey? where have you been? There?s a meeting in the gym again.? Have I mentioned it?s been two weeks?

?Yeah... I know. I?m quitting council.?

?What!? He smacked me upside the head so I grabbed his arm and twisted it. He was on the ground in seconds. ?Man, are you crazy? You never see Relena ?cept in council!?

I glared. ?What makes you think I care if I see Relena?? Duo rolled his eyes and got up again.

?You did something stupid, didn?t you?? Maybe? I never asked her. Although, things aren?t going to be the same again. I don?t know how, but that little screw up seems to have broken a lot of the understanding between us? perhaps there wasn?t much at the beginning?

?Maybe.? It felt like an echo to me, but that was only because I thought about it before I said it.

?Maybe? How is it you don?t even know if you did something??

?You should talk.?

?Oh gee, thanks.? Duo stretched and took a seat on the ground next to me. Had it been a couple of years before, I would?ve dropped my leg just to see him get aggravated. Actually, had it been a few weeks back, I probably would have still.

And that?s when it hit me. Something had screwed up before the chat with Relena. She wasn?t the cause of my misery, although I have to admit she made it a bit more apparent. It?s puzzling, how someone can affect you like this, but then again, Relena?s a puzzling girl.

?Oh yeah, did I mention? Relena?s going to church.? That, surprised me more than anything else I?ve heard in a long while. Did I show it? Not really? ?Surprising, isn?t it?? Or maybe not. ?Miss I?ll-control-my-own-future, has faith. Never struck me as that kind of person.?

No, she doesn?t. Maybe I should talk to her; maybe I should try and figure out what?s happening?

?Heero? are you listening to me?? Duo poked his head into my view, and I realized I?d drifted off. ?He-?

?I?m listening.?

?Good, cause class is starting.?

?Already?? Duo rolled his eyes and rapped me on the head.

?Yes, if you timed the time you spend sulking you?d know it?s been the entire lunch hour, and we don?t have the period off today.? Great. Possibly the best news I?ve heard all day.

Sarcasm, people.

I stood up and spent a moment steadying myself (not to mention sitting on the window like that really dug into a person?s ass?) and followed Duo through the doors.

?Hey Relena.? He winked and did the double point corny thing at her. I looked up in time to see her giggle and wink at him back, jokingly. Certainly didn?t look like Relena was sulking, or anything of the like.

Relena passed me and her eyes widened a little. She looked surprised, but she smiled and greeted me, like she did every other person in the school. I didn?t respond. I passed her without a word, feeling very defeated.

The reason; that was her reaction to every other person in the school. Yes, I?ve said that, but it is; I?m not every other person in the school. At least, I wasn?t, until today. Before, she would pass, and look at me, and smile, and to everyone else it would look like we had a little secret. Just between us two, with our smirks. It would look like we were crazy, or stupid, or madly in love.

Forget that last one.


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Considering my grades have been dropping anyways, the last two classes went by slowly. All the more time to think. When had we gotten so close, to the point where we relied on each other for our kicks of the day? Of course, we?ve known each other since we were ten, the last seven years that means, but still. She?d known all of our close friends, actually, let me try that again, her close friends since then.

So I dug. Right back to the beginning, when we first met. Rika was the social butterfly. This was back when we took the bus to school, and our last year of primary. Relena? well, I don?t actually remember. This was before her stage, I believe, as the universally known tough girl. The one that beat on the boys, the one that never cried, you know, that kind of thing.

I saw her my first day, but she didn?t see me. Well, she didn?t notice me, and I hardly took notice of her. She was an outcast to the bus; didn?t have any friends, therefore no place to sit but by herself.

And that day, she?d gotten out late.

Rika was looking over at her, and she hadn?t any friends either, as we had just moved there. So, she invited the loner-like kid over. Rika sat in front of me, and we both had seats alone, since I couldn?t stand her. She sat down, and about two minutes afterwards, the bus got going and so did my sister?s mouth.

They started talking, and I?m not sure about what until they got onto the subject of brothers. Suddenly, I remember Rika?s annoyingly round face in mine from over the seat, and Relena?s shy eyes peeking over. She saw me and her eyes got wide. That was when she interested me.

They retreated back over to the other side of the bus and this time I listened. She said she hadn?t been expecting an older brother, because she had one too but they hardly talked. She took care of her little brother more, so she was more familiar with that concept. They started talking about each other?s ages, and we soon discovered this little, timid girl was in the other class; same age as me. After that Rika started talking about herself and I tuned out. Though, I was still curious about this girl that was my age.

The next day was the same thing, except she brought her little brother along with her this time. She wasn?t blowing steam when she said she cared for her little brother; I could tell by the protective arm around him and how she held her jacket against the window to give him, and ultimately Rika, some shade. Apparently her little brother had been home sick the day before, so he wasn?t with her then.

Weeks went by like this, and then, finally, Rika got real friends her own age. Relena was late again, and she had absolutely nowhere to sit this time. So I invited her to sit by me. She was blushing, I remember. I asked where her brother was, and it turned out he was sick again, with chickenpox, and now he had to stay home for awhile. It had become my turn to get to know her, and that, I suppose, is when I actually talked to her face to face for the first time. She seemed a little more reluctant to talk to me, though, because I was a boy, and the kids at this school were just coming out of the cooties stage and looking for suitable dates.

Relena wasn?t one of them, as I learned through the years. Actually, I first noticed it when she withdrew from me and started looking for other seats even though mine was the only one open. It took her another year to be more open? and loud. She was quite the annoyance then, always trying to look superior, trying to be better. She was craving attention, I figured, but the instant she got some from a boy, she withdrew and would blush like crazy. She also started to notice another boy, Trowa.

And that was how I met him. But that?s a different story. All through sixth grade we were in a lot of the same classes. She wasn?t so shy, so we actually made friends, in a strange way, about halfway in the year. She was more open to Trowa, Duo and Quatre, though. I can?t blame her; I was a pretty weird kid myself. Although? I did screw it up completely for the next year? by making her mad through her little brother. Maybe I should?ve learned from the year before she was a protective older sister. Maybe then I wouldn?t have insulted Zechs?

She hated me for the next year. Actually, she didn?t even notice me much, as I was in the other class. Trowa, Duo and Quatre were in her class, though. I only had Wufei to keep me company. The girls didn?t like me much, either. Something about me and my nose blowing contests??

Sarcasm, people.

About two years after we first became friends, Relena was given an assigned seat. Right. Beside. Me. Our first assignment of the New Year: tell our table partner about our holidays.

That?s how we started a friendship.

That lasted us another four years.

And this is what it amounts to.

Four years, four years of prying at each other, of trying to see what the other was made of. Four years of late night chats about everything and nothing. Four years of designing and programming the private instant messaging program. Four years of bitching and moaning about our life?

Four years of building our trust and understanding of one another? of learning how to read each other without words, how to sense if something was amiss, of understanding one another?

And this is what it amounts to.

How did I remember all this, you ask? I suppose Relena?s strange memory habits had rubbed off on me.

I think I just trailed off?

Yup? There?s the bell.

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That's all for now! I'll hopefully have the next chapter out soon!!!

[Edit: I named Heero's sister and Sylvia's sister both Mia.. so now Heero's sis is Rika. >_<;;;;]

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[takisha16]

WOW, this story gave me the creepiest flashbacks from when I was that age, and had a similar relationship to a guy who paractially represented Heero's personality.
I liked how you made the story from Heero's perspective, it gave it a personal touch.
Guys should learn to speak up, I hate it when they obviously care for you, but don't show or say it.
how sad.
thanks a bunch for the update, real nice!

[Lady Casper]

Of Course I am going to say it was written beautifully...it was written by you of course ^^

Lovely...i like the description you put Heero's perspective on a young girl his own age and how he thinks of her and what he thinks of himself afterwards.


you know im demanding more of this don't you?

[Lei]

thanks you!! I'm working on the next one right now, but I have to go through a rewrite something.

You two are awesome!! ^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^

Takisha: LOL strange coincedence, isn't it? And about guys learning how to speak up.. ha ha... I need to learn too ^^;;;;

Lady Casper: thank you!! You flatter me ^^;;;