school adversary

Part 16

I got home after a long day at school. I stepped through the door and was immediately enfolded by a cloud of the most delicious aroma I had ever smelt. It smelled like cinnamon and chocolate! I moved toward the kitchen and discovered, to my delight, that there was an entire tray of Duo's chocolate and cinnamon cookies. I grinned and reached for a cookie, dropping my bag on the floor by the counter. Duo must be feeling better if he was baking again. Taking out Duo's homework, I dropped my bag in my room and then searched him out, munching on my still warm cookie. I found him in the family room with Relena, watching the end of Playschool. "Duo, I picked up your homework for today. I hope you weren't too bord here with only Relena to keep you company." He turned and reached for the work I held out for him, and that was when my smile vanished. Duo was wearing his sun glasses again. I sighed. "I didn't know it was so bright in here Duo" I said tersely. "If you want, I can close some of the curtains" "No man, it's fine" he replied, still grinning. The fact that his grin had not wavered at all when I verbally attacked him was proof that that smile was fake. I had to get to the bottom of this, once and for all. And if it had been Heero who broke Duo's wrist, I would rip out his heart.

I waited all the rest of the afternoon and evening until Relena was finally chuffed up to bed. Her pink pj's were in the wash, so she had to wear her white ones with the pink sheep on them. This didn't go down well, as the pink ones were her favorite. After pointing out for the millionth time that the sheep were pink, and so it counted, we finally managed to get her to go to sleep. I headed off to the family room, which was the direction Duo had been going. I was going to get some answers, and I was going to get them now! It was an injustice to both me and Duo for him to keep his silence any longer. The
dishonorable cur he was protecting must be punished! Duo was lying on the couch watching cartoons, his back to me once again. I came into the room and walked straight to the television, flicking it off. I then turned and looked straight into the lenses covering his expressive violet eyes. He just grinned at me. I had to repress the urge to smack him. I moved closer to him, and snatched his glasses of his face. The expression in his eyes almost made me sick. He was suffering. I could see it now. It wasn't just his wrist that had been broken. He reached for his sunglasses, but I tossed them across the room. I stared down at him for a while, absorbing all the thoughts that were floating through his head, curtesy of the now revealed windows to his soul. Finally, I broke the silence. "It was Heero, wasn't it?" I asked him, my voice low and slightly husky with suppressed emotions. Duo surprised us both by bursting
into tears.

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My thoughts had been weighing down on me all day. The endless feelings of loss and hopelessness driving me further into my created sea of self pity. All day I had focused on the one truth that my life now centered upon: I was alone. When Wufei had ripped off my sunglasses, I had known what was coming. He was going to try and find out who broke my arm again. Well, tough luck buddy, I wasn't
going to tell. Then, when he had actually guessed who had caused all this pain, I had surprised myself by breaking into a fit of tears. I guess I just couldn't handle the stress and pressure anymore. I mean, it's
not everyday you come to the unpleasant realization that you will be alone forever. That's how I found myself pressed against his well formed chest, wrapped in the comforting circle of his arms, as I cried out the entire story to him. I left nothing out, even telling him about my conviction that I would always be alone. Even telling him that I loved him. I know I shouldn't have, not when I had confessed my
love for Heero a few hours beforehand. Wufei stiffened when I said those three little words at the end
of my hour long sob story. "I love you," I had told him, feeling so safe and secure in is arms that rejection felt a hundred miles away. Something that could not possibly happen in this world.
My tears were slowing their pursuit of each other across my face, and I felt myself being eased away from Wufei's body. I looked up at him, all my insecurities surging to the forefront of my mind once
again.

I gazed into his chocolate brown eyes, dark and turbulent with an emotion I dared not name in case I was wrong. "I love you too." He whispered into my ear. His words, instead of bringing my solace, were like a slap. No one could love me. Heero had proved that no one could love me. "You can't love me." I said harshly, "No one can love me." I tried to pull away from Wufei, for a moment hating the way he held me to him. "Yes, they can, Duo! You are the most lovable person I have ever met! I've loved
you from the first moment I saw you. You were so beautiful and golden, the light playing on your hair. You looked like my fantasy come true." Wufei looked at my face searchingly. "Why could nobody ever love you Duo?" He asked me. "Because my dad didn't, and my mum...she left me alone with him, she died and she left me alone with him! And then, I never got adopted, never even got looked at!" I had started sobbing again, the tears streaming down my face as I choked out words in a barely coherent voice. "When I gave myself to Heero, I told him I loved him, and he was...Oh God! He was my first,
and he told me to get out! Just like that. I thought he loved me. He told me he *loved* me! But he was
just using me. Using me for what I could give him!" Mytears were soaking through
the material of Wufei's dark blue shirt, plastering it to his chest.

"Ssshhhh baby, shush," He told me, rubbing circles across my back. "It's OK now, I promise." I looked up at him, tears still pooling in my eyes. "Do you promise?"

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I looked down at the slender creature in my arms. He was looking up at me soulfully with tears misting in his eyes. God I loved him! He was everything I had ever hoped for. A sudden wave of rage washed over me as what Heero had done to him finally sank in. Heero had taken his virginity and then tossed
him aside. That complete prick! He had no honor at all! I was tempted to go to Heero's house and kick his ass! The softly crying boy in my arms halted all thoughts of revenge for the moment. I had to calm him down and erase all those evil thoughts that had been collecting in his mind, not just for a few months, but for years. "I love you Duo." I told him tenderly, not moving my gaze from his tear-darkened amethyst eyes. "I need you so very badly. Please tell me you need me too, that you want to be
with me always?"
"But all the others-"

"Fuck the others." I said harshly. "All the others were fools to give you up Duo! Anyone who couldn't or wouldn't love you is a fool. Do I look like a fool to you?" I asked him gently. He shook his head, his
now unbound hair moving gently around him. "Then how could I possibly not love you?" He gave me a watery smile and I picked him up and carried him to my room. "Where are we going?" Duo asked, his voice harsh from crying. "To my room." I told him. He stiffened in my arms, and I knew that he was
thinking I only wanted to use him like Heero had. "I just want to go to sleep with you in my arms Duo, that's all." I told him, and I smiled as he relaxed and snuggled against me. I put him down on his feet in my room as I pulled down the covers of my king sized bed and tossed him the tops of my black silk
pajamas. I turned around, stripped and pulled on the pajama pants. When I turned back, Duo had already changed into the top and was crawling into bed. I got a glimpse of his boxer clad ass as he was crawling up the bed on all fours, intent on reaching the top of the covers. Peeling them back slightly more, he slid his slender body underneath, pulling the covers up to his chin. I walked to the other side of the bed and got in, shifting across the vast expanse of mattress to where Duo's form rested. I
wrapped myself around him, pulling his body closer to mine. I buried my nose in his hair, smelling his unique scent, and asked him, "Is this OK? do you mind?" "No." was the almost immediate, yet soft, reply I recieved. I settled down behind him, and fell asleep almost immediately.