2 months later, Friday 6.45am
 
The darkness melted away in the daylight. A new day was born. The sun awakened from its long slumber and emerged from its hiding place, lighting up the world with its presence. Its rays streamed in through a window, throwing light on Duo's face. The warmth it generated imbued a sense of familiarity, as if luring Duo away from his sleep, beckoning to him to open his eyes. Wake up Duo... wake up...

"Hmm?" Duo reluctantly opened his eyes. Bright glaring light. He shut his eyes and frowned. It was painful to open them. Duo laid in his bed thinking for a while, the covers thrown over his head. "5 minutes... I'll be up in..." Welcome back to dreamland, Duo.

 7.20 am

"Maaaaa!!! Why didn't you call me up?!" Duo shouted across the room as he frantically shot out of bed and dressed up. He panicked. Negative thoughts raced in his head, he could feel his heart throbbing inside him as he started to pack his bag. "Oh shit!" Duo exclaimed and begin undressing. He realized that he had just slipped his arm into his school pants.

"Bye Ma!" He hopped out to the living room and put his pants on at the same time. Stuffing his sandwich into his mouth, he dashed out of the door with a skateboard in his hand.

"Dear! Don't forget your lunch!" Helen reminded.

"Fuh-gert tit! (forget it)" Duo shouted back munching on the sandwich, his voice in muffles. He was gone in a spilt second.
 

7.28am (Trowa's usual time for going to school)

The morning was peaceful. The streets were beginning to be littered with a few people, either men and children rushing off to work or school, or women strolling to the markets for their daily shopping for groceries. From the distance, soft sounds of wheels on the uneven road were heard... As it got louder, heads turned, only to catch a glimpse of a slim figure speed by.

With a pair of rollerblades under his feet and the volume of his Discman blasted to the max, Trowa skated his way to school. Listening to the song and following its rhythm, he dangerously swerved in between vehicles and pedestrians, uprising a commotion among the public.

HONK! HONK! Cars skidded to avoid hitting the agile lad.

"Stupid kid!" A driver yelled out in a fit of anger. His face was flushed red from the blood rising to his head.

"Watch it!"

"Hey!"

Trowa paid no attention... well... actually, he couldn't hear a damn thing with his headphones on and so he carried on skating, not even aware that he had just awoken almost the whole neighbourhood up due to his deafness. Ironic huh?

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" Duo was cursing his bad luck. After he looked at his watch, Duo picked up more speed on his skateboard and zoomed off to school. He still couldn't believe how late he was or how he could actually oversleep. Horrendous thoughts flooded his mind, like giant waves washing in over and over again, pushing out his senses. He wondered what new tortures his teacher, Ms Lucrezia had in store for him this time. Gas chamber? Whipping? Electrocution? Execution?!?! His hair stand on the back of his scalp. A glimmering drop of sweat crawled down his forehead. Numbness enveloped his body, swallowing him down to an endless pit of fear. His vivid imagination got the better of him and his mind drifted off somewhere else, causing him to almost go off the road and heading for a drain. Reality struck him like a sandbag in the face, snapping him out of his state of daze.

-Nearby-
Trowa  took a glance at his watch before focusing his attention back on the road. "Hm... still early." With his school bag slung over his shoulders, he jumped onto a bench and flipped off it before skating towards a T-junction.

-Even Nearer-
"I still have time! I still have time! Just round the bend and... " Before Duo knew what happened, he collided into something hard, REAL hard.

"Itai... did anybody get the number of that gundam?" Duo, though a little dazed, lifted a hand to his head, wondering if his head was still attached to his body. He suspected that it probably rolled off down the street when he couldn't see a thing. A dark shadow towered over him. Duo tilted back his head and looked up. "Am... am I ... dead?"

"Hey you! The one with the braid." Trowa's voice was deep and cool.

Duo saw two boys, wait, he was seeing double. He shook his head and fixed his eyes on a tall and slim figure. The boy had long spiky bangs that fell over a side of his face, obscuring one eye. His expression was calm. Duo pranced around for his board.

"Look! I'm really sorry about this but I gotta get moving." Duo snatched his board and started off for school.

Trowa shrugged. He picked up his bag and decided that he should get going as well.

Duo sped through the school gates and right past the 5 stone statues of Gundams in their school compound stationed right outside the building. The Gundams were placed there to commemorate them for saving the world many years ago. Right in the middle was Wing Gundam with Deathscythe and Heavyarms on its left and Sandrock and Shenlong on its right. The school's name was also in tribute to Wing Gundam for saving the earth.
 

Duo flew up the steps on his board. He caught his board in mid-air, landed on the ground on his feet and sprinted off to class.

Trowa came into the school a few minutes later and leapt up the flight of steps. He skated into the building and stopped in front of his locker. Taking his time, he took off his skates and kept them in the locker before strolling off to class with his bag slung over his shoulder.

On To Chapter 3....

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