Quatre's Birthday
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Quatre’s Party
The setting is Quatre’s gynumbus house. (Quatre is four years old turning five) There is a long table with fifteen sisters on one side and fourteen sisters on the other side all in age order. Quatre Mom and Quatre Dad are sitting at either ends of the table. Quatre is sitting by himself on a little miniature version of the bigger one that has room for about six people. A bunch of minions come in with platters of food.
Quatre Mom- Oh, Minion #3784! This looks wonderful!
Minion #3784- Thank you mother of Master Quatre. (DING-DONG!!) Quatre looks up and smiles excitedly.
Quatre Dad- Quatre, that must be one of your friends! Quatre gets up and runs through the house to the door. Hattie, Olivia, Shannon and Isabelle get up and run to the door as well. They all wrestle Quatre to the floor and get the door themselves. They push each other out of the way so that THEY would be able to open the door. Shannon eventually overpowers them all and opens the door. Trowa (five years old) is standing at the door with a chalkboard that says, Hello. Trowa’s parents are standing behind him. They look exactly like Trowa only the mom has longer hair. They are also holding chalkboards that say, Happy Birthday. Quatre makes it to the door and looks at the chalkboard.
Quatre- I know what that says…it says, ‘HELLO’, right? Trowa nods. I’m getting good at this! Quatre takes Trowa’s sleeping bag and tosses it on the stairs. About fifty minions swarm over it and carry it upstairs. Trowa hands Quatre a little package and Quatre places it gently on the stairs and the minions do the same thing only more gentle and with more care. Come on, we’re just starting dinner! Quatre grabs Trowa’s hand and pulls him to his little table. As soon as they sit down, the door bell rings. Then again. And again. And over and over. DUO’S HERE! He runs over to the door (outrunning Charlotte, Sasha and Bobetta) and pulls it open. Duo (four years old) is standing there all by himself with no parents behind him cause he is an orphan (sniff). He continues to press the bell. Duo, you can stop now.
Duo- I think your doorbell is broken. I didn’t hear it ring at all. He thrusts the gynumbus package messily wrapped into Quatre’s hands. Quatre hands it to his minions as well as Duo’s sleeping bag and they take them upstairs. You just missed my mom. When she saw the door opening, she ran away as fast as she could. She’s very shy.
Quatre- Oh, okay. Anyway, it’s one of those doorbells that you can only hear from the INSIDE.
Duo- Oh, okay. He steps inside the house. He immediately jumps back.
Quatre- What is it?
Duo- Your house is so… big… clean…I’ll have to fix it…later though because I’m hungry and I can’t cause mischief on an empty stomach. My mom always likes a messy house. Quatre smiles, trying to block that out, and leads them him to the kitchen.
Quatre Mom- Oh, what a cute little girl! You invited girls to your party? Is she your GIRLFRIEND?
Quatre- Mom! He’s not a girl! He just has a braid for some reason!
Duo- Look lady, I’m no girl! I’m a boy! My MOM never messes me up for a girl! She KNOWS I’m a boy! There is another doorbell ring. Anne hurtles over everyone, knocks Quatre down and zooms to the door. She opens it to see Wufei standing there all by himself. His dad is about five feet to the left of him and his mom is five feet to the right.
Anne- Why are you so far away from your daughter?
Wufei- Son.
Anne- Whatever! Why are you so far away?
Wufei Mom- We are giving him his personal space.
Wufei Dad- And he is giving us ours.
Anne- Uh…okay. Quatre’s face appears under Anne’s arm.
Quatre- HI WUFEI! Duo and Trowa’s head stick above his, creating a totem pole.
Wufei- Hello Quatre. Trowa, Duo. He holds out a small box, perfectly wrapped with no wrinkles or tears or tape sticking up. The bow is tied nicely and a clay figure is on top of the package. I made that. Quatre looks at Wufei’s sleeping bag which is tied up so tightly, he can practically hold it in one hand.
Quatre- Did your mom help you with the wrapping?
Wufei- No, I did it by myself. Wufei Mom and Wufei Dad turn and leave, walking on separate sides of the road. I do everything by myself.
Quatre- Don’t you get lonely?
Wufei- No, I like it that way.
Quatre- Shrugging. I’m always alone because I’m the youngest, only boy of thirty.
Duo- I’m never alone because I live with my mom, dad, four brothers and my two sisters. Everyone ignores Duo’s lies.
Trowa- I’m alone because I never talk and neither does anyone in my family. Everyone studies the chalkboard.
Duo- I agree.
Quatre- With what? What does it say? Wufei was trying to hide it but he obviously wanted to know.
Duo- It says…Trowa is a big fat loser.
Anne- No it doesn’t! You can’t read! It says, I’m alone because I never talk and neither does anyone in my family.
Duo- I was GONNA say that but I wanted to make fun of Trowa first. They all sigh. My mom taught me how to read.
Quatre- Come on, let’s go eat! He looks at his group. Wait a sec…where’s Heero?
Duo- Why’d you invite HEERO?! Come to think of it, why’d you invite Trowa? Or Wufei? Why’d you invite YOURSELF?! Why’d you invite YOUR SISTERS?! If you had just invited me…we would have had fun but so far I’m not!
Quatre- That’s because we have to wait for everyone to arrive before we start! He leads them through he house and back to the kitchen. Anne sits back in her seat. There in is sound of glass breaking. Everyone look up. Heero, Heero Mom and Heero Dad plow through the skylight, all holding guns. They point the guns at everyone. Then they put their guns away. Heero Mom turns to Heero.
Heero Mom- Heero, your mission is to have fun at this birthday party.
Heero- Mission understood. He looks at his parents. And you two, your mission is to leave.
Heero Dad- Mission accepted. Heero Dad blasts the ceiling open. Heero Mom and Heero Dad shoot those rope guns and pull themselves out. Good luck, son. They salute each other. Heero turns around, looks at Quatre’s horrified face and hands him a medium package.
Heero- Please accept my gift.
Quatre- Taking it. Uh…thanks. Heero sits down next to Trowa.
Duo- My parents do that all the time! You’re not anything special!
Quatre- Look, the food’s here!
Duo- OH GOODY! FOOD! He grabs a fork and a knife and starts banging them on the table. One of the minions put the food in front of Duo. He pulls off the little silver cover thingy and begins eating it right away. The other four are served.
Wufei- Looking at the fork and knife with confused eyes. He pushes the plate away, not having a clue how to use anything but chopsticks. I’m not hungry.
Duo- Looking over Wufei’s shoulder. Yours doesn’t look as good as mine but I’LL TAKE IT ANYWAY!! He grabs Wufei’s plate and dumps it on top of his.
Wufei- Looking horrified. Invasion of my personal space. Three feet. Now.
Duo- A mouth full of food. Whatever!
Trowa- Please pass the orange juice. He waits. No one notices. He begins to throw peas at Duo because the orange juice is right next to him. Duo looks up and glances at the chalkboard.
Duo- WE CAN’T READ YOU IDIOT!! He looks at the chalkboard. I’ll write YOU a note! He snatches the board away from Trowa. He holds the chalk wrong and scratches his three circles and erases the tip of the middle circle. THERE!
Quatre- What’s it say?
Duo- Feeling smart. GUESS!!
Quatre- But I can’t READ!
Duo- I CAN! It says ‘DUO’!
Quatre- Let me see the chalkboard. He takes the chalkboard. It was a lot easier for you because your name only has three letters but my name has…um… He counts on his fingers. FIVE letters. Wait, SIX! He starts to write his name. He works on it for a few minutes before presenting to Duo. It’s in CURSIVE!
Duo- Well, that doesn’t make you smart! He erases the chalkboard. I’ll write YOU a note! He scribbles all over the chalkboard. Wufei leans over and looks at it. He smiles a little, just barely, and whispers it to Heero whose expression doesn’t change at all. Duo hands his scribbles to Quatre. Quatre looks down at it and frowns. My mom taught me those words.
Quatre- Duo, that’s not very nice. Trowa leans over and looks at the scribbles. He shrugs and looks confused. No, Trowa, you shouldn’t look at this but I don’t want to be keeping secrets from you…
Duo- He can’t read it, he can’t read it!
Quatre- Well, he has his OWN language that WE can’t read!
Duo- I can read it!
Wufei- So can I.
Heero- Me too.
Quatre- Well… I can too but you don’t see ME bragging about it! He erases the scribbles. I’ll draw a picture! He starts drawing little stick figures all over the chalkboard. Most of them are girls (growing up in a household of thirty girls will make you do that) and they all have long hair down to their feet and dresses.
Duo- Why are they all girls?
Quatre- No, there’s YOU! He points to one that has hair dragging behind it with a huge smile on it. This one is Wufei. He points to one with no hair with a line mouth. This one is Heero. He points to one with spiky hair and a huge frown. This is Trowa. He points a stick figure with a scribble on his face. And this is me! He points to a huge one in the middle with shines and a huge smile.
Heero- Why are we all wearing dresses?
Quatre- You’re not! Oh wait, yeah we are! Sorry, force of habit, ya know?
Duo- Let ME do it! He grabs the chalkboard and erases Quatre’s drawing. Okay, here’s ME! He makes a big circle in the middle and colors it is. This is WUFEI! He makes a tiny blob in the corner. This is Trowa… He makes another blob next to himself. Here’s Heero! He draws a blob that is just kinda THERE.
Wufei- We all look the same.
Duo- Well, you have hair like this… He draws a little hook for Wufei’s hair. Trowa’s goes like this… He darkens the top of the circle. Heero’s is like this… He makes the top a little spikier. And MY hair is like this! He draws a line that goes from the top to about the middle.
Quatre- Where am I?
Duo- Right here! He draws a circle and doesn’t color it in. I didn’t color it in because you have BLOND hair and the rest of us have DARK hair.
Quatre- DON’T REFER TO MY BLOND HAIR!!
Wufei- That looks stupid.
Duo- FINE! He hands Wufei the chalkboard. Let’s see YOU draw anything better than THAT! Wufei shrugs. He draws everyone in Anime style. They look perfect and realistic.
Wufei- This is me. He points to the one that he seemed to take the most time on. This is Duo. He points to the one that he seemed to take the least amount of time on. This is Quatre. He points to one without colored in hair. Here’s Trowa. He points to one with hair in front of his face. And Heero. He points to one with a HUGE frown on his face.
Duo- I still think MINE’S better. He snatches the chalkboard away from Wufei and hands it to Heero. YOU do some!
Heero- Mission denied. Before Duo can force him to do it, Trowa grabs it away from him.
Quatre Mom- It’s time for GAMES!!
Quatre and Duo- YAY!!
Wufei- What?
Heero- Mission understood.
Trowa- Games. Whatever.
Quatre Mom- Oh, it seems that we have an ODD number of kids! You two girls can be together.
Duo and Wufei- Boy.
Quatre Mom- Oh, silly me!
Quatre- In a whiny tone. Mom! You’re embarrassing me in front of my friends!
Quatre Mom- Sorry! I guess everyone should get a partner. Wufei immediately steps away from everyone.
Duo- Heero, YOU BE MY PARTNER!!
Heero- Mission accepted.
Quatre- Come on, Trowa! We’re going to be partners!
Trowa- For what?
Quatre- I can’t read, Trowa!
Quatre Mom- Oh, it seems that this girl…
Wufei- Boy.
Quatre Mom- …BOY is all alone! That just isn’t fair!
Wufei- I LIKE being alone. It’s okay.
Quatre Mom- What a nice little girl!
Wufei- Boy.
Quatre Mom- …BOY. Okay, we’re going to have the little girl with the braid…
Duo- Boy.
Quatre Mom- …BOY with the braid and the mute child to come up first. Duo and Trowa walk up. You two are going to be first. You’re going to act something out and your partner will have to guess it. NO WORDS!!
Duo- That’s not fair! Trowa does this ALL THE TIME! I can’t go without WORDS!! WORDS!!
Quatre Mom- Sorry, you’ll have to survive! Okay, you the little girl with the black hair…
Wufei- Boy.
Quatre Mom- …BOY with the black hair, you can’t really play this game. Maybe you can be the card picker or the judge?
Wufei- Okay. Quatre Mom hands Wufei a box of cards.
Quatre Mom- Okay, you have thirty seconds to guess and whoever guesses first, that team gets CANDY! Duo’s attention is immediately received for the first time to anyone.
Duo- Candy? Did you say CANDY?
Quatre Mom- Yes, now here is your card little hyper girl with the braid…
Duo- BOY.
Quatre Mom- …BOY with the braid. Show it to mute child and…
Quatre- Mom, their names are WUFEI, DUO, TROWA AND HEERO!
Quatre Mom- Sorry! Okay, lets get started. Duo refuses to show Trowa the card. Please, be a good little girl and show…
Duo- BOY.
Quatre Mom- BOY…and show…Wufei?
Trowa- Trowa.
Wufei- I’M Wufei.
Quatre Mom- Look, I’m just learning my own daughter’s names… just let me nickname you all, okay? Please don’t correct me if I call you the wrong name. Quatre runs out of the room and returns with nametags and hands them to Quatre Mom.
Quatre- Here, put THESE on them!
Quatre Mom- What are their names again?
Quatre- Duo… She writes it. Trowa… She writes it on another. Wufei… She does it again. And Heero. She writes the last one. She turns to them and places ‘Trowa’ on Duo, ‘Duo’ on Wufei, ‘Wufei’ on Heero and ‘Heero’ on Trowa. The boys, not knowing how to read, assume they have the right one.
Trowa- No, Duo, you have MINE. He points to Duo’s nametag.
Duo- Yes, isn’t it pretty? Much better than WUFEI’S! He points to Wufei.
Wufei- Hey, I LIKE mine. Trowa tries to pull off Duo’s nametag.
Duo- Hey, that’s mine! He starts protecting it. Trowa sighs and tries to pull one off Wufei.
Wufei- Personal space is needed. Three feet. Now. He waits for Trowa to back away but when he doesn’t, he backs away from Trowa. Trowa goes over to Heero. Heero pats his pocket that has the gun in it. Trowa decides to forget about it.
Quatre Mom- There, no more confusion will be made now! Now…Duo, go over there and keep score.
Duo- BUT I WANNA PLAY!!
Quatre Mom- Not YOU! Her!
Wufei- Him.
Quatre Mom- WHATEVER! You go over there and keep score. Trowa and Heero please come up here.
Duo- BUT YOU SAID I COULD PLAY! YOU SAID I COULD GO FIRST!!
Quatre Mom- I did…didn’t I just say you could? Oh, WHATEVER! You and you come up here. She points to Trowa and Duo.
Heero- Whispering to Quatre. You’re mom can’t even read.
Quatre- What do you expect? She’s OLD!
Quatre Mom- Okay, start! Duo looks at his card. He doesn’t know what it says. He taps Trowa on the shoulder.
Duo- What’s this say?
Trowa- Swimming.
Duo- What’s THAT say?
Trowa- SWIMMING.
Duo- I CAN’T READ YOU STUPID BUTT-HEAD!!
Trowa- Sorry, you asked…
Duo- SHUT-UP!! He stomps over to Quatre Mom. What’s this say?
Quatre Mom- I can’t tell you! Wufei might hear me!
Duo- It doesn’t MATTER if Wufei hears!
Quatre Mom- Yes it does, it would be cheating.
Quatre- SWIMMING! Trowa nods and sits down next to Quatre. Trowa and Quatre do a secretive handshake. Though, Trowa doesn’t do it very enthusiastically compared to how Quatre did it.
Duo- That wasn’t fair!
Quatre Mom- Calm down, Trowa. Duo looks at Trowa.
Duo- Why? What’s Trowa doing?
Quatre Mom- You know perfectly well!
Duo- No I don’t!
Quatre Mom- Whatever… next round! Quatre and Wufei!
Wufei- But I don’t want to play.
Heero- And I didn’t get a turn.
Quatre Mom- THEN GO!! Quatre and Heero go up. Here’s your card. She hands Quatre the card. They both just stare at it and scratch their heads. Quatre gets frustrated and throws it on the ground. Trowa looks at the card.
Trowa- Running. Quatre Mom reads the chalkboard.
Quatre Mom- RIGHT! That must be some sort of record!
Quatre- Good job, Trowa! I didn’t even do anything!
Duo- This isn’t fair! Trowa can read and we can’t! Quatre Mom looks at her watch.
Quatre Mom- I think it’s time for CAKE, PRESENTS THEN BED!!
Duo- NOT BED!!
Quatre- Mom, what about our candy? He holds out his hands and Trowa copies.
Quatre Mom- What is his name?
Quatre- Trowa! Quatre Mom leaves and returns with two pieces of candy and gives one to Quatre and one to Duo.
Trowa- Why didn’t I get any candy?
Quatre Mom- Reading the chalkboard. Because you didn’t win, Heero.
Duo- COOL! FREE CANDY! He shoves the candy in his mouth. NOW FOR CAKE! I WANT A PIECE WITH A FLOWER ON IT!! NOT AN END PIECE AND I’LL ONLY EAT CHOCOLATE! Quatre Mom returns and gives Duo an end piece without a flower and it is vanilla. Hey, I didn’t want this! He stares at it for a few minutes while everyone eats theirs. Oh well! He shoves it all in his mouth. When everyone finishes, Quatre Mom takes them all into one of the many living rooms.
Quatre Mom- Time to open presents!
Duo- I wanna be Santa! I want to hand out the presents!
Quatre Mom- Sorry, a few things might be fragile and to tell you the truth, I don’t trust you.
Duo- Whimpering. Fine. There is a silent pause. OPEN MY PRESENT FIRST!
Quatre- Okay! Which one it yours?
Duo- That one with the brown wrapping paper! Quatre opens up the box to reveal a truck.
Quatre- Cool! Where’d you get it?
Duo- My mom took me to a store. I saw it in the window and I just took it because the sign said, ‘PLEASE TAKE THIS TRUCK’.
Quatre- Cool! He sets the truck aside. Which one next? None of the three say anything. Uh…okay. I’ll just open…this one. He picks up Wufei’s present. He lays the clay figure on the table. He starts to pick at the tape.
Duo- LET ME HELP!! He jumps on the present and unwraps it for him.
Quatre- Oh, okay. He opens up the box. It is a glass figurine of a swan.
Wufei- I MADE that.
Quatre- Thanks! He hands it to Quatre Mom. Which one next? There is still no answer. Okay, I’ll open this one. He grabs Heero’s present and unwraps it. He pulls out a small revolver but before he can really look at it, Quatre Mom snatches it away.
Quatre Mom- Guns are NOT allowed in this household. Now, give me yours. She holds out her hand for Heero to place the gun in it. NOW. Heero takes it out but he runs out of the room. Quatre Mom turns the corner but Heero is holding the gun up and pointing it at her.
Heero- Mission accepted. He starts to pull the trigger but Random Minion #467 comes out of nowhere and snatches the gun away. Random Minion #467 holds the gun just out of Heero’s reach.
Quatre Mom- Thank you, Random Minion #467. Now, take that gun and this gun up to the Gun Destroyer Room. Random Minion #467 goes upstairs with the guns in hand. Now, Wufei, come with me back to the Present Room. She grabs Heero’s hand and pulls him back.
Heero- I’m not Wufei…
Quatre Mom- I’m not THAT dense! I can read, ya know! She drags him back to the Present Room where Quatre had already opened Trowa’s present: a chalkboard and some chalk. Quatre Mom seats Heero down next to Duo and Heero crosses his arms.
Quatre- YAY! Now I’ll be able to draw all by myself! Is that all of them? He looks around. Yup!
Quatre Mom- Don’t you think it’s time for you little ones to be tucked into your beds and go to sleep?
Quatre- But MOMMM! It’s only… He looks at the clock. Half past eleventeen o’thirty!
Quatre Mom- Exactly why you should go to bed. All the boys groan but they get up and follow Quatre Mom to Quatre’s room. They all lay out their sleeping bags and get into their pajamas. Goodnight, little ones! She kisses Quatre, Trowa and Duo. She goes to kiss Wufei.
Wufei- Invasion of my personal space has been sequenced. Three feet. Now. Quatre Mom shrugs and goes to kiss Heero but Heero turns over and throws the sleeping bag over his head.
Heero- Mission denied. Quatre Mom sighs and goes downstairs. Heero hugs his knees. I have failed at my mission. I am not having fun.
Quatre- Don’t say that! This is TONS of fun, right Trowa?
Trowa- No.
Quatre- Knowing that no one can read it. See? He says YES! Wufei, isn’t this party fun? Wufei? Wufei is on top of his sleeping bag over in the corner and already asleep. He sleeps with his arms crossed. Duo?
Duo- It WOULD be if we can stay up ALLLLL night and tell ghost stories and the first one to fall asleep is the loser! Now, nobody snore or talk in their sleep cause I’m a REALLY light sleeper! The contest has started! The first one to fall asleep… Duo slams his head on the pillow and starts snoring loudly. Heero puts a pillow on top of Duo’s head. The snores are still heard but not as loud as before.
Quatre- Well, I’m sure tomorrow morning you will have lots of fun! He pulls the sleeping bag over his shoulders and goes to sleep. Trowa copies and soon Heero turns over and goes to sleep. In the middle of the night, Trowa wakes up to hear Quatre saying something. No, Mom, I don’t WANNA invite Door! Door is so mean! Get Door away! Don’t invite DOOR!
Trowa- Quatre, you’re talking in your sleep. Quatre is asleep so he doesn’t notice. Trowa pats Quatre on the shoulder. Quatre jerks up. Trowa holds up the chalkboard.
Quatre- There, I see my name! What about me?
Trowa- You were talking in your sleep.
Quatre- I CAN’T read, Trowa! You know that! Goodnight! He lays back down and goes back to sleep. Trowa sighs and goes back to sleep as well. Later in the night, Heero wakes up because the pillow on Duo’s head fell off. Duo had also stolen his sleeping bag and spread himself out as far as he could.
Heero- Taking his sleeping bag and putting the pillow back on Duo’s head. I think it’s time I took matters into my OWN hands. He gets up and climbs down the stairs. He comes across a piece of paper posted on the wall.
Rules of the Winner Household
1. NO FIGHTING
2. NO GUNS
3. No harassing younger siblings
4. No dressing Quatre up like a girl
5. Do not cross your territory
6. No entering other sibling’s rooms, younger or older
7. Only sit at your assigned seat at dinner
8. No interfering with other siblings quarrels
Heero- He shrugs and doesn’t bother reading the rest because he doesn’t know what it says. He goes into the kitchen and looks up at the blasted ceiling. He takes out his rope gun… Meanwhile, Wufei’s eyes open widely.
Wufei- Bathroom. He gets up and climbs up the stairs. He passes the list of rules without even glancing that them. He walks down many hallways and up many stairs until he came across a room. He looked inside to see who he recognized as Anne. He looked around and noticed that there was another door in the room. He ran over to it quickly and opened it to see, to his relief, a toilet. Meanwhile…Duo wakes up suddenly.
Duo- I’m so hungry! He gets up and goes upstairs to the kitchen. He opens up one of the many refrigerators and piles some food on his plate. He closes the door and looks up at the ceiling to see Heero. Heero? Heero looks down and dashes out of view. You know I saw you! Just come out where ever you are! He puts down his food and starts to climb up the rope. Meanwhile…Wufei couldn’t seem to turn the knob.
Wufei- What is going on. Maybe it is locked. He goes over and climbs into the bathtub and lays down. Meanwhile…Trowa wakes up and looks around. Someone is missing…actually, THREE someones are missing. He gets up, writes, Gone looking for Heero, Duo and Wufei on the chalkboard and leaves it next to Quatre. He climbs down the stairs and begins his search. He sees the rules and looks at it for a while. He wonders how many times Quatre WAS dressed up like a girl when his parents weren’t home. He just pictured Bobetta and figured that that’s what Quatre would look like as a girl only a little shorter and younger looking. Meanwhile…
Duo- Chasing after Heero who is running around on the roof. Where do you think you’re going?
Heero- I must complete my mission of having fun. Believe me, it is no easy task. He unhooks the rope from the kitchen to the roof.
Duo- Having FUN?! What kind of mission is that?
Heero- A good one to test my abilities.
Duo- Well…I’ll help you complete your mission. Heero hooks himself to a harness and shoots a tree. He slides down and lands on the ground.
Heero- No, I must complete it on my own.
Duo- So, you’re just gonna LEAVE ME UP HERE?! Heero walks away. Meanwhile…Wufei had started knocking on the door.
Wufei- Anne. He knocks quietly. Anne. It’s Wufei. Anne doesn’t answer. Anne. Anne. He shrugs and sits back down… right in front of the door. Meanwhile… Duo is sitting on the roof.
Duo- I’m not gonna cry…I’m not gonna cry…it’s only cold…dark…scary up here. There is a long pause. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! Meanwhile…Trowa hears a cry from the roof. He goes over to the kitchen and looks up at the ceiling. He sees Duo. TROWA!! I’m so glad to see you! Tell someone! Tell Quatre’s mom! Tell the police! Get the fire department! Call the army! Duo suddenly remembers that Trowa can’t tell ANYONE. WAAAAAAAAAAA!! You gotta talk… my life depends on it! Go get Quatre’s mom! Trowa turns around and goes upstairs, in search of Quatre’s mom. He passes Anne’s room only to hear a faint knocking.
Wufei- Help. In here. Anne. Trowa goes over and opens the door. Wufei’s eyes get wide and he stands up. Trowa, I am grateful. And to show my gratitude, I will go back to the slumber party… and go back to sleep. Wufei leaves Anne’s room but then he remembers that he has no idea where Quatre’s room is. Meanwhile… Quatre all of a sudden wakes up. He looks around but he realizes that he’s all alone.
Quatre- Where’s everyone gone? He sees Trowa’s chalkboard. Oh-no! They’ve all died! He gets up and grabs the chalkboard. He runs upstairs to his mom’s room. Mom! Look! Everyone died! Quatre starts to cry. It’s all my fault! I could have saved them! Now they’re dead! Quatre Mom looks at the chalkboard.
Quatre Mom- Don’t worry, they’re just somewhere around the house.
Quatre- Wiping his eyes. Ya think so?
Quatre Mom- Yes, now, let’s go find them. She takes Quatre’s hand and they leave the room. Trowa enters about thirty seconds after they leave. He looks around for Quatre Mom but he doesn’t see her anywhere. He sees his chalkboard and sighs. He turns around and goes back down the stairs. Meanwhile… Duo started to peek over the edge of the huge hole in the ceiling.
Duo- Trowa? Trowa? His face is stained with tear marks. Anybody? HELLO!! HELLO DOWN THERE! All of a sudden, he sees someone turn around the corner. TROWA?!
Wufei- No, it is me.
Duo- YAY! I HAVEN’T TALKED TO ANYONE IN YEARS!! PLEASE HELP ME!!
Wufei- I can’t because my personal space as been invaded by you far more times than I can count.
Duo- BUT I’M ON THE ROOF!!
Wufei- I must repay my dept to Trowa and go back to sleep. He turns and leaves. Duo starts to sniff again.
Duo- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! COME BACK, WUFEI!! He is too late; Wufei leaves. He thinks for a minute. HOW COME TROWA SAVED HIM FIRST WHEN HE CAME TO ME FIRST?! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! Two people round the corner. HELP!! HELP!! HELP!!
Quatre- Look, it’s DUO!
Quatre Mom- Looking up. No, that’s TROWA!
Quatre- No, it’s DUO.
Quatre Mom- It’s TROWA! Just LOOK at him!
Quatre- Mom… we shouldn’t be fighting at all.
Quatre Mom- You’re right! They hug.
Duo- HEL-LO! UP HERE! YOU CAN BE HELPING ME RIGHT ABOUT NOW!!
Quatre Mom- Looking up. I’m not even gonna ASK how you got up there, Trowa!
Duo- I’m not Trowa!
Quatre Mom- It must be so cold up there that he’s losing his mind or something!
Quatre- But, Mom, that ISN’T Trowa! It’s Duo!
Quatre Mom- All right, I’ll have no more of this! You are going to sleep really late tomorrow morning and go to sleep early tomorrow night! No more of these middle of the night walks! Trowa suddenly walks around the corner. Heero, what are you doing? Trowa looks behind him. He then looks at Quatre Mom and points to himself. He holds up the chalkboard.
Trowa- Me? I’m TROWA.
Quatre Mom- That’s it! Everyone to bed! She starts to walk away.
Duo- WAIT!! WHAT ABOUT ME?!
Quatre Mom- Oh yeah! She turns to Quatre. Quatre, could I use your cell phone?
Quatre- But MOM! You promised that you wouldn’t ask to use it anymore! When are you gonna get your others fixed? He sighs and pulls out a cell phone and hands it to Quatre Mom.
Quatre Mom- Thank you dear. I will raise your allowance. She opens the phone. Hello, this is the Winner Household… we need a fire truck or something …bye. She hands it back to Quatre. They’ll be right over. They hear sirens outside.
Quatre- Wow, they’re getting slower. |
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