The Sun You Seek

Chapter Four


“Why’d you do that?” cried Hilde, yet again, an hour later. “I don’t want to see him, and I doubt you want to see her! In fact, that’s the last thing we both want, and you know that!” she said getting off the bed. They had been arguing like that for the last hour, neither of them getting off the bed.

“It’s about your business, Hilde. That’s important regardless of whether you want to see him or not,” he said with his usual calmness. “I’m going to take a shower now, we’re going to meet him in,” he looked at the clock on the other side of the bed, “in one hour. I’ll be out in ten minutes,” Heero told her going into the bathroom.

Hilde sighed. ‘Damn, after a year and a half and we’re going to see him, and her too, probably. Seeing those two any time in this life time will be too soon for me.’ She shook her head and began searching in her bag for some clothes. “Heero, you want me to get you some clothes out?” she yelled, making sure he heard her over the spray of the shower.

“Yeah, thanks!” Heero braced his hands on the wall of the shower. He was going to see the two people that had caused him the most pain in his entire life in two hours. He let the hot spray of the shower flow over his body. He was tense, as soon as Hilde had mentioned that she didn’t want to see him his muscles had tightened. ‘I have to show her that I’ve moved on; that I don’t care about her anymore. I need both of them to see that what they did didn’t break neither me or Hilde.’ Heero rinsed the shampoo on his head and lathered the little puff in the shower. “Heero, hurry up! You know how long it takes me to get ready!” he heard Hilde yell. He smiled. She was a good friend, the only good outcome of Duo’s and Relena’s cheating. She was his best friend now, and he was sure he was her best friend too.

He turned the hot water off and picked up the towel. The sting of the hot water had done nothing to take away his bitter thoughts. All the happy memories he had of Relena were clouded by that day; the day he’d received Hilde’s call. He discarded the wet towel and wrapped a dry one around his waist, a smaller one going on his head to dry his unruly hair.

“I put your clothes on the bed,” Hilde said as she looked through her own clothes once more to find the ‘right’ ones to wear.

“Thank you,” murmured Heero under his towel. He walked to the bed. He didn’t turn around until he heard Hilde go into the bathroom. That’s when he noticed the clothes she had laid out for him. “Hilde, you don’t want me to wear this! I’ll look--”

He heard the hiss of the shower. He yelled this time, “Hilde, I’m not wearing this!”

“Oh, come on! Do it for me! Haven’t you seen what I’m wearing? We’re in California Heero! In Los Angeles to be exact, please!” she said sweetly.

“Fine, but you owe me a big ass favor for this! And you’ll have to pay me in any way I choose!” he yelled, laughing at what he was going to wear. Stereotypical, California guy clothes. He looked at what Hilde had picked out for herself. He laughed aloud this time. A light blue, spaghetti strapped sundress with matching sandals. ‘What are you planning, Hilde?’ his mind asked him.

*~*~*~*

An hour later, Heero and Hilde walked down to the restaurant. Hilde glanced at Heero and giggled. He was wearing loose jeans, with his boxer shorts sticking out of the waist band, his short hair was gelled up into little spikes. He was wearing a light blue button down shirt, which was unbuttoned, with nothing underneath, his smooth, tanned chest showing. Around his neck was a pooka shell necklace. “Don’t laugh, Hilde. look at what your wearing.”

She rolled her eyes and looked down at her short sundress. “It’s hot outside, and unlike you, I haven’t gotten a tan. I need one. But just a little one because we still have to shoot tomorrow and they want me really pale,” she said dramatically.

“That’s pretty stupid since your background is the beach and you look as pale as a ghost,” he said chuckling.

“Hey, shut up!” she said and punched in hard on the arm.

When the words had come out of her mouth two heads immediately turned to them. One with honey blonde hair and the other with long dark brown hair. Duo stood up from his chair and motioned for them to come over to the table for four.

“Told you she’d come,” whispered Hilde to Heero.

They both approached the table. Heero pulled out the chair for Hilde, touching his hand to her shoulder for a brief moment. A gesture which made both Relena and Duo frown.

“Hi,” said Relena shyly. She was addressing both of them buy neither of them made a comment.

“Hi, Hilde. Hi Heero,” said Duo hesitantly. Neither Hilde nor Heero looked like they wanted to be there. Their expressions were almost bored. Hilde didn’t say anything, and Heero merely nodded. An awkward silence fell among the four young people.

“It’s good to see you guys again,” said Relena quietly, looking mostly at Heero. “You guys look good, have you been in LA for long?”

Both Heero and Hilde looked ahead, neither wanting to see the faces of the people that had betrayed them. They didn’t comment to anything. ‘I can’t do this,’ thought Hilde. Her thoughts echoed Heero’s.

“Yeah well, I don’t wish I could say the same about you two,” snapped Hilde. Underneath the table Heero place his hand on top of Hilde’s, a sign of comfort. He was surprise to find that Hilde was losing her cool, her hand was clenched tightly into a fist, he knew, without looking, that the knuckles were white.

In another effort to break the thick silence Duo said, “You guys want to order something? I thought we could discuss our business over breakfast.”

Hilde was about to shake her head when Heero intersected her by saying, “Excuse us for a minute.” He pushed her chair out and allowed her to stand up. “Hilde, come on. He’s being adult about this, you should too,” he whispered.

“I can’t, Heero,” said Hilde with tears in her eyes. She was trying to blink them back. “I can’t stop thinking about what they did! How can you forgive them? I know it hurt you just the way it hurt me.”

“I did, but we can’t live in the past! We have to move on and grow up. We learned a lesson from that!”

“I’m not living in the past, it’s just that I can’t forget how much it hurt me! Don’t ask me to have breakfast with the, please!” she cried, running her hand through her still-wet, shoulder length hair.

Heero looked at her pained expression. “Maybe we can get over them, by seeing how happy they are with each other.”

“Heero, you are stronger than me, you can do this! I gave my heart to Duo and he stomped on it!”

“And you think that I didn’t give mine to Relena without apprehensions?” he whispered. “The first-- the only-- person that I’ve ever loved and she breaks my heart, Hilde! We can do this, we can show them that they didn’t break us? And if you can’t do it for you, then do it for me, show me you’re strong!”

She hugged him briefly. Aware that several of the other customers had turned to look a them. “But I don’t have to be nice to either one of them,” she stated.

Several questions ran through Duo’s and Relena’s heads. One of which was, ‘What is going on between them?’

Duo took Relena’s hand and kissed it. He looked at her only to see that she was looking at where Heero and Hilde were. “What’s wrong?” he asked her, a little annoyed by the way she had been looking at Heero.

She shook her head and turned to him. “Nothing, I was just wondering if they’re... you know, dating? They seem pretty close,” she answered coolly, she had also noticed the way her boyfriend was looking at Hilde.

Hilde and Heero came back to the table. Hilde’s heart twisted in her chest when she saw Duo holding Relena’s hand, and it had hurt badly when he’d picked it up and kissed it. She sent a meaningful glance at Heero. He smiled softly at her.

Duo frowned a little. He didn’t like the fact that something was going on between them. Relena had told him that Heero was a nice guy, that he was a great boyfriend to her, but he still didn’t like it. Hilde deserved much better.

The waitress came over to their table. They ordered their breakfast. The