A Diary of Distress

Chapter five


The blonde boy slammed the front door shut behind him and stepped out on the soft lawn. He was so mad at everybody! At Duo for stealing Wufei’s diary, and then not apologize! At Wufei for being so childish about all of that, and he was upset over the fact that both his lover and Heero had known about the book and not told him about it.

Trowa hadn’t even acted as he knew something was wrong.

But mostly he was angry at Trowa for taking the blame. He and the Shenlong pilot had had a very close friendship, even if no one else had noticed.

He walked around the house in hope of getting all his anger out. Or at least some of it.

He was so deep in thoughts that he almost missed the crunching beneath his right foot.

“What’s this?” He asked aloud as he bent down to pick up a piece of paper.

“Kat! Hey Quatre!”

The blonde boy whirled around, paper still in hand.

“I’m sorry,” Duo started, but when he saw the paper in the other boy’s hand he stopped. “What’s that?”

Quatre never had to answer before another piece of paper came swirling down with the wind.

Then another.

And another..

And then a whole bunch of partly ripped pages.

“Oh my God…” Duo whispered. He didn’t need to see what was written on them to know that those were pages from their fifth pilot’s diary. “I never meant for this to happen…”

“You-”
“Should go and apologize, yes I know.”

***


Knock Knock

“Wuffers?” Duo asked leaning heavily against his friend’s door. He wasn’t expecting Wufei to open it at all, and if he did, it would just open an inch. At the most.

But that door swung open all the way.

There was nothing he could do but to ‘yelp’ as he fell right on top of his friend. Who wasn’t at all happy about it.

“Maxwell!”
“Sorry! Didn’t think you’d open..”

Wufei growled and pushed the braided boy of off him.

“I just thought that you wanted these back.” He handed him a bundle of papers.

Wufei simply stared at them, and then at him.

“I…”
“If you meant to destroy them there are a lot of easier ways.”
“…Maxwell,”
“You should have burned them. That way nobody could ever find out what you wrote, throwing them out the window just-”
“Giving everybody else the right to read it. I know.”
“Well, if one could read Chinese that’ll say.” Duo smiled. “Hey, I’m your friend, your best best buddy!” He said right before he drew his friend into his arms, embracing him in a long hug. “You know you can talk to me, right?”
“Maxwell..” He warned.
“About anything.” Duo said low before he let go. “Now, would you sit down and translate all of this, because Heero would kill me if he knew I was holding this thing!”

He made the mistake of waving the papers in front of Wufei’s face.

Wufei growled and grabbed the papers.
“Get out Maxwell!”
“But-”
“OUT NOW!”


To Be Continued…