If Only I Knew
Ch.3
By: Emily
She sat staring at the diamond sky overlooking the majestic beach. The cool breeze blew her hair gently behind her, which made it easier to see her face, which was calm and peaceful. The moonlight shone brightly on her, making her look angelic to any figure that happened to walk by.
‘It’s so beautiful here. I should have thought about coming here sooner. Well, all thanks to Hilde anyways.’
‘Heero, I wish you could see this with me. It’s so beautiful and everything is so calm. I feel like there’s no worry whenever I gaze at this. There really is something more than just paper after paper, day after day, huh?’ she thought, while chuckling to herself. She was too busy thinking, that she didn’t notice that someone was walking up behind her.
“Relena? Actually laughing? There really is a god,” the figure said half joking.
The voice from behind snapped her back to attention. “Duo, I didn’t hear you coming.”
He couldn’t help, but laugh. “I wonder why. Does this have something to do with…oh…I don’t know…a certain someone you could be thinking about?”
Now it was Relena's turn to laugh. “Of course not,” half lying, “I was just thinking how beautiful the sky was. You can actually see the stars shining brighter here then in the city.”
“Yeah,” he said sitting down next to her. Duo Maxwell, the other person who had jumped at the chance to go, was here to protect Relena from any unexpected danger. However everyone knew why he was really there: Free vacation of course. ^_^
"Did Hilde call?"
Duo nodded his head sadly. Relena looked surprised as to why the most energetic person she had ever met was looking sad right before her eyes. ‘I never thought that one day I would witness Duo not having a happy statement on his face. He was always the most joyful person out of all the Gundam pilots. Heero would love to see this. In fact, he would give anything to see this,’ she thought while smiling to herself.
“What’s wrong?”
“Hilde was just checking in, that’s all.”
'Oh, so this is about Hilde. I should have known.'
“She didn’t even want to talk to me. She asked for you the minute I picked up the phone. She didn’t even say hi,” he continued, whining.
There was a moment of silence, until Relena spoke. “Do you like her?”
That made Duo look up. “Of course I do. She’s like my best friend. I’m her roommate for crying out loud!”
“No, I don’t mean like that. I mean do have feelings for her in that ' you know' kind of way?”
“Like you like Heero?”
“Yeah, something like that.”
“WHAT? Of course not! I was merely saying that she didn’t seem to care enough to even say hi to me!” a nervous looking Duo screamed at the top of his lungs.
Relena raised and eye brow at him while covering her ear.
“Ok…ok…I do. I really like her. I care for her. In fact, I love her. Too bad she doesn’t know.” Once again the sad statement was on his face.
“Well, then tell her,” Relena suggested.
“WHAT? Your nuts. I don’t want to die so soon.”
Relena couldn’t help but laugh as Duo sat half worried, half scared. Duo was the kind of person that was shy about anything. Maybe there was a whole other side of him no one knew about.
“Why would you have to die?” She couldn’t help but ask him.
“She’ll probably think I’m trying to pull something on her again,” he said thinking about the last time he put a fake rat in her bed and about the time he put color dye in her shampoo. “She’ll probably pull a gun out and shoot me right there. Although, that would be better then if she said she doesn’t feel the same way about me.” The last sentence he said to no one in particular.
Relena couldn’t help but feel sorry for the young man sitting before her.
“How do you know she doesn’t feel the same way then?”
“I just know she doesn’t.”
“No,” was all he could say. He didn’t want to lie, but he also didn’t want to betray his friend, knowing what would happened if he did.
“Duo, does he hate me?”
“No.”
‘He doesn’t hate you. He loves you. Oh, man. What if that’s what she believes? Heero would kill me for sure.’ Feeling a little scared, he kept quiet and just stared at the beach.
“Then why did he need to start over? I can understand that he doesn’t want to remember the battles, the innocent lives that was lost during them, but I thought he has some really good memories too, you know? Does he really want to forget all his friends? About me?” She felt like crying.
“No, that’s not the reason. Well, yeah, you were right about him wanting to forget about the war, but he will never want to forget his friends and most of all he will never ever want to forget you. He’ll come back, you can count on it. Didn’t he promise to always protect you or something? Heero is a man of his word, and his gun.”
The last part made her laugh a little. “Yeah, he did.” Feeling hope rising in her, she stood up to go inside.
‘Whatever it is you need to forget, forget it fast and come back to her before it’s too late,’ was Duo last thought before he went inside.
~~~~The Next Morning~~~~
Relena woke up bright and early the next day. She felt different. Something she hadn’t felt in a long time. ‘Duo’s right. Heero has always left, but then come back to me whenever I was in danger. So he’ll be back again. Although, if he did come back, I would have to be in danger, ’ she thought as she put her clothes on. ‘Hopefully that won’t happen.’
There was a message on the answering machine, when she walked into the living.
‘I wonder who it’s from. Probably Hilde checking in again.’
Miss Relena,
The food you have ordered is ready. Unfortunately, our delivery truck had some technical problem and therefore could not make the delivery. We are truly sorry. If it’s not a problem for you, could you please come pick it up? We don’t know when the truck will be fixed. Just come to 243 LAN LAN Dr. Thank you.
‘Duo’s still asleep, so I guess I’ll go pick it up.’
She wrote a note to Duo and was out the door.
~~~~Duo’s room~~~~
Duo got up 2 hours after Relena did.
“Man, I slept like a log. Probably cause of that dream about Hilde,” he said smiling to himself. He got out of bed and got dressed.
Walking around the house half asleep, he looked for Relena, but he didn’t find her in her room. ‘Man, where is she?’ Then a note on the table caught his eye. It was from Relena.
Duo,
I went to town to pick up some groceries. I got a message from the store this morning. Don’t worry; I’ll be back soon.
Relena
‘What I’m I suppose to do while she’s gone? Oh, well, at least I didn’t have to pick up the groceries. She’ll probably have to get ten big strong men to help her. At least there be more food soon. I think we’re running out again.’
“Here are you groceries. I hope I got everything. Thank you for using Lenny’s Quick Food Deliver. Have a nice day sir.”
“I think you have the wrong house. My friend was supposed to pick these up.”
“No, I got the right one. A delivery for a Miss Dorlain, right?”
“Yeah, but I got a message from you guys and…well…why don’t you h ear it for yourself.” Duo led the man inside the cabin. He didn’t feel like arguing right now.
“Could it be that someone else called because they were supposed to deliver today?” Duo asked the man standing before him.
He was getting worried. Not only for Relena and also for his life.
“Nope, I do all the deliveries around this area. Haven't had a substitute since my very first day. I don’t intend to start now. Beside I want to have that raise, which by the way I am, pretty soon. My boss says I’m the best man he has yet.”
‘Man, this guy brags.’
“So…” he began.
“Someone must have lied to your friend to get her…”
Before he could finish the sentence, Duo was running toward the front door.
“Hey, where are you going?”
“I’ll be back.”
“What about the food?”
“Take it inside and remember to lock the door on your way out.”
He didn’t get a chance to reply because Duo was in the delivery truck and had started the engine already.
“Hey, that’s my truck,” he yelled angrily for Duo to stop, but was too late. He was already gone. “Great, just great. How am I going to tell my boss that I didn't finish? COME BACK HERE YOU BRAID BOY!” he yelled.
‘Relena, I hope I’m not too late.’
To be continued…