Look my Way

Ch.1

Hey minna! This is my first Hilde and Duo fic so please be gentle when commenting on it! Ja! -Keiko

Hey! My name’s Schbeiker Hilde, but you can just call me Hilde. I love sushi, pocky, yan-yan, and Yaki Soba. I have blue hair, and no it is NOT dyed. My eyes are blue, and my favorite color is purple. Oi, bet you just love hearing about me ne? Ne, minna? But, alas, I have an interesting story to tell. Yes, this ACTUALLY has a point. Scare you? Hah, scare me too.

So ANYWAY, one day, as I was walking to school like I do every morning, drooling over the same bishonen that I do everyday, a braided baka decided today was the day he was going to fall into my world.

"Hi! My name’s Duo Maxwell." He chirped. Arg, morning people, don’t we all hate them?

"Name’s Hilde." I replied, keeping a close eye on the boy that was walking three feet in front of me.

His name is Trowa Barton, and ma~n! That boy is built! He has lived down the street from me for like…five or so years, and he has yet to remember my name. I know he doesn’t do it on purpose, but when you are so far gone on someone, you forget to care about the little details.

"Is that your REAL hair color?" Duo asked, poking me in the side.

"Hai." I ground out, trying to be polite.

My mother says you can never hate someone until you know their favorite color and candy, but I was seriously considering dropping that principle.

"Sorry, I’m just a morning person. I take it you’re a night owl?"

Well, at least he could tell when he was being annoying.

"Actually, yeah. What’d you say your name was again?" For a moment, I saw the smile that was plastered across his face fall, but he snapped it back up immediately.

"Duo Maxwell."

"Hi Duo." I said, taking his hand and shaking it. He grabbed my hand and shook it vigorously, giving it a soft squeeze before letting go.

"Nice to finally meet you." He said happily.

"Nani?"

"You’re in my English class and we live two houses away from each other."

I blushed deeply and looked down at the ground.

"I didn’t know that."

Duo nodded, as if this was common fact and pointed toward Trowa.

"You have a thing for him right?"

I coughed nervously.

"Am I THAT obvious?" He nodded, a little TOO enthusiastically, his braid bobbing up and down on his back.

"Well, it doesn’t matter I guess. He’ll never notice me…"

I sighed and hugged my books closer to my body. This Duo boy tried not to seem interested and decided to change the subject.

"You like music?" he asked, chewing on the tip of his braid.

"Yeah, a lot," I exclaimed, surprised he knew that about me,

"do you?"

"Yep. Allen Jackson is my favorite." I blinked at him.

"Allen Jackson? Isn’t he-"

"That really old country singer? Yep! I like his earlier work better than his resent work."

Ok, I know that I’m supposed to be open minded, but I had a hard time excepting this. Music is so important to me, and well, old drunken country singers just don’t work in my book.

"What kind do you like?" Duo asked, casually throwing his braid over his shoulder.

"Save Ferris mostly, and SES."

"They’re cool." He said, fiddling with his backpack.

I could see he was getting nervous about something, and I didn’t know what. I was about to ask him, when a wheat blonde haired girl popped up in front of me.

"Hilde! I thought I told you to wait for me and Heero!" Relena Darlian parked herself in front of me and glared, tapping her foot impatiently.

"Er…gomen ne?" Relena smacked her forehead and shook her head.

"Look, following Trowa Barton to school everyday is just NOT normal."

"Like you can talk my friend!" I shot at her.

She had stocked her boyfriend Heero way worse than me for six months before the bonehead noticed her and asked her out. Duo snickered beside me and rolled his eyes, showing his approval.

"I know you didn’t just sneer at my girlfriend Duo."

Heero Yuy walked up calmly from behind us and glared at Duo, his tousled hair blowing in the wind.

"Naw man, I SNICKERED at her…didn’t you read the script?"

Heero mouthed something unpleasant toward Duo and turned away.

"Sooooo, are you two getting along ok?" Relena broke in, poking me in the side.

I don’t know what it was about today, but EVERYONE decided I needed to be poked.

"Yeah…why wouldn’t we?"

Relena had her ‘I’ve got a secrete but I can’t tell you until my boyfriend is out of earshot’ face on, and I decided that I wanted to walk a little faster to school.

Hey, if Relena had a good secrete, who’s to say that I don’t want to hear it? After all, I am a woman, right?

Sugoi! Done with Chapter one! I know it was short, but I kinda wanted to leave this on an "Oh my God what happens next!?!?!?" note.

Owari

Keiko

Keiko@tasuki.zzn.com