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Slice of Life	By : Starla_Q Category: Gundam Wing/AC > General Views: 1313 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 10: Half Truth

Relena was used to being toted around in a fancy car, this was much different. Her hybrid and limousine service put together didn't make as much noise as the Lincoln Continental the cabby had. She was feeling refreshed that morning as she left the dorm; even if she was out some money because of the 'great destroyer'. Duo's antics ended up costing her twenty-five dollars; she was contemplating adding it to his account at the school, as a lesson, but decided against it in the end.

When she was carrying him down the stairs she took note to his weight in comparison to Heero and Quatre, who were both heavier. Duo was so slender she could have mounted him on her shoulders and carried him out fireman style. She made a quick call to the dormitory to see if there were any vacancies, but they were full up. She then called Wufei, knowing Duo was going to be there all week, to ask if he could stay longer.

'What's in it for me?' he asked.

"Couldn't you just help your friend out?" she was getting annoyed at his selfish attitude. This, along with the previous night, was another strike against him. She knew they all had debt, but this was plain cold.

Wufei chuckled, 'It's not that, I just know you can pull some strings. Ask and you shall receive; that's government policy, right?'

Relena sighed, "If he were paying you board, how much would you charge?" She took a notebook from her evening bag and flipped it open to scribble the figures down.

'For a living room couch? I'd say a hundred a month,' he sounded like he sincerely considered the value of his floor space.

"Alright. I'll credit it to you once every-"

'All at once.' Wufei interrupted her.

"...do I have a choice?" she said with annoyance.

'Of course you do,' he sounded in control of the situation, 'And so does Duo.'

"...all at once, then." She reluctantly wrote that down.

'If you're willing to make it one-fifty per month, I'll give him my office.' He was bartering with his friend's livelihood; Wufei had every intention of letting Duo stay free of charge for as long as he wanted, but she didn't need to know that. He wanted freebies.

"Done. You really do love to haggle. Anything else, your majesty?" His attitude was totally uncalled for, and she was dealing with a mild headache now. The headache's name being: 'Wufei'.

'You can drop off my scarf,' he said with a smirk that could be heard.

"For what I paid? I'm keeping it for the week!" She ended the call, angrily pressing the the hang up button; a far cry from slamming it down, but it would have to do. It was a rage that quickly faded when the car hit a bump. She discovered that the vehicle didn't have decent shock absorbers. Relena's sensitive side was feeling tender against the hardened seat of the cab. Her mind wandered back to Heero. What would become of them on the following weekend? It was all that went through her head for the remainder of the drive.

When she arrived back home a few of her friends were there waiting for her. Relena had forgotten about the plans she made with them for that Friday. They didn't look to be in the best of spirits, most likely still tired from the party the night before. "You girls seem down." Relena noted and made her way to them.

Delicately tucking a strand of short blond hair behind her ear, one friend gave a worried look toward the others. "Relena, I want to start of by saying that 'none' of us believe this, we would never think badly of you."

She raised an eyebrow, it was quite the strange greeting. "What do you mean?"

"We thought you should know...there was a rumor that got started last night and it grew since then. We know it can't be true, but we really wanted to talk to you ourselves." They moved out on the veranda, giving them some privacy away from her mother. "You left with Heero last night, right?"

"Yes," she said. Relena assumed that they were talking about the hickey on her neck, now covered by her hair. She kept it in a 'do' on top of her head for the banquette, but let it down in the cab. Had they noticed it when she briefly lost her cover after dropping Quatre off?

"And Duo?" she continued.

Relena began feeling uneasy, "That's right. I took him to a friend's house."

"And then Quatre?" She was wringing her hands nervously as she saw her friend nod. "And then you left with Wufei at the end of the night."

"I don't understand the implication," she was trying to make sense of this supposed 'rumor'.

"It went around that you 'got with' four out of the five gundam pilots." This made Relena gasp. "Like I said, we know it's not true." The friends had already defaced the graffito in the hall's bathroom saying Rx4/5, and didn't even bother to tell her about it.

"Then why bring it up?" she was baffled by this new turn of events. She actually did spend the night with one of them, and only one. Now she was unsure if she should say anything about her evening.

"We knew it was going to get mentioned on Monday and figured it best to prepare you for that. Plus, a few people say they saw you leaving the dormitory this morning...so..." She began to go through her phone for a message, dancing around the 'meat' of the rumor.

"I was making sure Heero was doing alright," she said and tried to think of who would have said such a thing.

The other girls nodded. One chimed in, "He was looking pretty dozy at the party. We assumed you were taking him home and didn't think anything else of it."

Finally locating the tidbit of information on her phone, she said, "I believe it got cemented a short while ago. Here," she said. Pressing a final button, she handed it off to Relena.

The text in question read 'Think she's so straight edge? Just saw her leaving Yuy's room!', this was followed by a winking smiley emoticon. "Well then..." Relena was furious because she even made a point to check the hallway before she left. It gave the impression someone was snooping on her.

"This came from Ted. We don't usually talk, so it was weird for me hear that from him." she said.

Relena didn't want to lie to her friends. "I took Heero, Duo and Quatre home because they had a significantly too much to drink. After the party was done, I took Wufei home. I went back to check on Heero...and he was awake. So I stuck around." It looked like if she were to clear her name, she would have to be honest about it.

The girls began to crowd closer, they leaned in, "What?" a few said in a hush.

"Is that were you were earlier?" the girl with the freckles asked, glossy eyed with anticipation.

She could no longer fight the smirk, it was quite noticeable. "Yes." She told them about how Heror's drink got spiked and that he was fine a few hours later. "When I dropped Quatre off, I went to see how he was doing. We talked for a time, he was really..." she twirled a strand of her hair around a finger, unable to bring herself to say anything. "I-I don't see why I'm not allowed to have an intimate relationship with anyone."

"You can," she said, "Just not for money."

"Excuse me?" she said.

"Yeah, they also said you bedded all four of them for cash," the meat of the rumor, "When you spoke with Wufei, someone saw him hand you money for it," another friend said.

"Why would I need money? That's absurd!" She threw her hands in the air, astounded that people would believe anything. "This is why I go to private school, to avoid drama like this." She folded her arms in frustration, one hand lightly brushing her purse. She reached in briefly to grab her flask so she could take an angry shot from it, but it was gone. It occurred to her that she may have left it on Heero's shelf. Though now she was debating if going back for it was a good idea, what with the rumors flying. Whoever it was, really went out of their way to be elaborate. She laughed, sitting back in her wicker chair.

"I guess this is what we get for inviting students from other schools," the blond girl said. The function that went on was only for their school, but people could bring a significant other, even if they attended a different school. Common students mixing with the high rollers seemed to breed jealousy and start nonsense.

"They're making it up," Relena said. It was true, she did leave the dorm that morning, but they had no way of knowing unless they had access to the school's security camera's or saw her going in at one in the morning. Again, she was sure to stay out of sight then too. 'Could they have heard anything through the walls,' she thought.

"We thought you should know because it may come up on Monday. You should prepare a verbal lashing for anyone who tries to say different." Her friends smiled at her, they were some of the best supports she could ask for.

A butler in passing dropped tea off for all of them. "Thank you. I must confess," she said and drew them closer, avoiding prying ears, "I know that whoever sent that is lying, because no one saw me leave Heero's room this morning...I checked the hall before I left," Relena said and sipped her tea.

They gasped, "No way. You actually spent the night?"

"You're pulling our leg," the one with the freckles held a hand over her mouth in shock.

"I'm serious. In fact he's coming with me to the awards next weekend. We're even going to Circ de Soleil afterward." She sounded proud that she finally roped him in to going somewhere with her.

"We thought you two might have kissed but..." the blond friend said.

"Are you two going steady?" said another.

"More importantly, did you go all the way with him?" said two.

Another friend held her hands up at chest height, "Even more important than that!" Palms facing in, she began sizing something up, "How big?" asked freckles.

They laughed. "I don't kiss and tell. Let's just say, I'm looking forward to next weekend." She took a long drink of her tea, "-and spending all that time in the announcer's box with him...alone." This made her friends giggle uncontrollably.

Relena let them in on some of the lesser details of her night, but it was still enough to get one of the girls to fan herself with her hand. Showing off the trophy on her neck earned some overzealous applause, too.

"Are you going to sleep with him?" freckles asked.

"You should think of your reputation. Is that such a good idea?" the blond friend said.

"You say that as if Heero's the kind to brag," Relena defended him.

"True. But what if the rubber breaks?" a fourth friend added.

Relena halted her thought process, "I hadn't considered that."

"Don't worry," said the fifth friend, "If you use it properly, it won't break."

"What if I don't know how to use one at all?" Relena was hoping to leave the mechanics of the contraceptive to Heero. It was then she figured, he may know as little as she did. The friends spent the rest of the morning plotting a course of action for Relena to follow. The final chunk of the day was spent trying to discover who started the rumor; they needed to be dealt with.

With no success, only finding the 'he said-she said' people of the rumor, they gave up until Monday. Whoever it was definitely didn't go to their school. The girls chalked it up to one of the students from another acadamy trying to make waves. They all decided it would blow over and let it go.

At least, they tried to let it go. When Relena arrived at school on Monday, she received some odd greetings. It wasn't too long before her same friends came running down the hall. "Relena, you need to get in here!" Her tall blond friend shut them in the conference room to talk.

She saw one of her friends crying into a small tissue in the corner, "What's wrong?" she immediately thought her friend was in danger and went to comfort her.

"Relena, I can't believe someone would do this to you," she said while wiping her face dry. "I'm so angry, I don't know what to do with myself."

"Is that why you're crying?" she said with a smile. She figure the rumor they tried to stifle, remained un-stifled. "I'll manage. Is it that rumor again?" Relena was hoping it hadn't grow again, overnight.

"You don't understand how bad it's gotten," she said and reached to the table beside her. There was a slim, independently bound book beneath a cloth; it was too much to see the cover of. "Here," she said and held it up.

"What? Did they release it in the school paper or something?" She took the comic and glared at the front. It was a sketch, painted over with basic watercolors. The two people on the front looked strikingly familiar. "..." She opened the book and looked at the first few pages. "This is the ball, from last night..." she went on, her friends trying to make sense of it all. "The pool game...and...that part didn't happen." It followed her night up until she played pool with Heero, and then it spiraled into a lusty 'forbidden love' scenario.

Finally getting through the whole thing, with haste, her jaw fell open. "Who made this?" Whoever it was, they had access to the billiard room security camera, not just the dorm. They got all of the motions correct, right up until Heero sat her on the pool table. After that, it was purely a work of fiction, very graphic fiction. There was even a scene with Heero doing something unspeakable with a pool cue.

"We have no idea! No one we know draws like this, it must have come from another school." Her blond friend took the book and flipped it to the back. "We can tell it was done out of malice, no one's taking credit for it." She showed that there was no signature or date.

"The other interesting thing is this-I'm sorry...I have to open the book." Freckles took the book in hand and showed her two of the pages in question. "These two," she flipped to another page toward the back, one with a particularly naughty pose on it. She blushed, "This one. And finally, this one," she said and turned to the back pages. "The style shifts every few pages."

Relena lowered her stare, deep in thought. "That means there's more than one person who was working on this." She had dealt with rumors many times before, having the kind of connections she did made it really easy to get to the bottom of things. This was different. If this person, or people, went to a different school, it was going to put a crimp in her investigation. It would also be putting a 'crimp' in Heero's day. She knew how he felt about the whole 'affection' thing and hoped he was faring better than she was.

Heero was out front, only just showing up, as Relena was being told all this. A girl from their school ran up to him, "Excuese me?" she said. "Are these yours?" Her arms extended a large brown paper bag to him.

"Hmm?" he opened the bag with Duo staring over his shoulder. "I think so." It was his tie and coat from the party. "Thank you. Where'd you find this?"

"Someone told me to give it to you, sorry, I don't know who they were." And she was off.

Upon closer inspection there was a note in the bottom of the bag, typed, not written. "...I see." The note taunted him and told him not to leave his clothes in the billiard room.

What made it worse was when he found out about the homemade book from a passing teacher; who was meerly confused and expressing his concern. Heero was done with the nonsense; an invasion of privacy of that caliber wasn't going to be without punishment.

"Want me to hack into the system and check emails? I might be able to track them down," Duo suggested. He was having a hard time keeping up with Heero's enraged stride.

"I've got something else in mind. I do need your help though." He had a feeling the day wasn't going to end well for someone; as soon as he got his hands on them, that is.
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