by Hex
"Hey man. You home?" Duo queried into his cell phone.
"Yeah. Why, what's up?" Quatre's voice asked on the digital channel.
"I need outta my house. Parental units are pissing me off. Feel like going cruising?" Duo asked, slipping into a more comfortable position in the driver's seat.
"Sounds cool. I could use out of my house too." Quatre said. Duo could almost hear Quatre roll his eyes.
"Good. I'll be there in ten minutes. Bring music. I forgot mine." Duo said and hit the end button on his phone.
Duo drove with the windows rolled down letting the wind ruffle his bangs and pull little hairs free from his trademark braid. He kept his round sunglasses on and sang along to a song on the radio. It wasn't long before he was parked in front of Quatre's house, a modest bungalow with enough room for Quatre and his father. Duo got out of the car and shut the door. He leaned against the driver's side door and folded his arms across the top of the vehicle. He rested his chin on his forearms and waited for Quatre to stroll out of the house, which he did just as Duo found a comfortable position to stand in. The blonde was wearing a red golf shirt, a pair of beige slacks and brown loafers. This was what Duo refereed to as "casual Quatre". Usually the blonde wore designer dress shirts and pants, looking like he had just strolled out of the pages of GQ. Quatre always made Duo feel like he dressed a little ratty with his plain old jeans and T-shirts.
"Yo." Duo said and slipped back into the car seat.
"Yo." Quatre replied after he opened the door to shotgun and slipped into the suicide seat.
"So what made you want to get out so badly?" Quatre asked, setting his multi-disc CD holder onto the dashboard.
"My parents are asking me about what I want to do after high school again." Duo said pointedly. "What they think "I don't know" has changed from this morning? Christ, I wish they'd get off my back."
"Parents are on the same wavelength, I swear. My mom phoned this morning asking about what courses I need to take in University to become a doctor and my Dad was talking about some of the Business Administration courses I should take. I wonder what they're going to do when I say I'm taking Fine Arts."
"The same thing my parents are going to say when I tell them I'm going in with Heero on the whole Asian movie place instead of going to university." Duo replied.
"Screw this. I don't even want to talk about it. So do we know where we're going or are we just making it up as we go?" Quatre asked.
"Making it up as we go of course." Duo replied, grinning.
"OK Duo, our whole friendship rides on your answer to this question." Quatre said, putting as much drama into his voice as was possible. The blonde shifted in his chair trying to face his whole body towards the boy in the driver's seat, his movement's barred by the seat belt.
"No Quatre, I don't think you look fat in that shirt." Duo replied in a dead panned voice.
"No, this is far more important than that question. Besides I think this shirt really compliments my complexion." Quatre said, raising his voice and octave and making faint fluttering motions with his hands. His voice returned to normal as he posed the ever-important "question."
"Would you order pizza from a place called, 'Spanky's Pizza'?"
"HELL NO! That almost reinforces the idea of that urban legend. You know the one about the pizza place where an employees jerked off onto a pizza." Duo declared.
"Exactly what I thought." Quatre said and settled back into his seat, the billboard for Spanky's pizza shrinking in the distance.
"What the-" Duo began.
"HELL!" Quatre finished.
"It's a suped up-" Duo said
" ACADIAN!" Quatre wailed.
"Who in the hell would supe up an-"
"ACADIAN!"
"It's so-"
"WRONG!"
Both boys burst out laughing so hard Duo had to pull over onto a side street to calm down before continuing to drive.
"Do you even know what's on that CD?" Duo asked, looking at the blank case and the unlabeled silver disc in Quatre's hands.
"Nope. It's a 'Guess That Mess' scenario." Quatre said, slipping the CD into the player.
freezin', rests his head on a pillow made of
concrete, again
feelin' maybe he'll see a little better, set a days
hand out, faces that he sees time again ain't that
familiar
dark grin, he can't help when his happy looks insane
even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies [1]
"He don't know, so he chases them away someday yet, he'll begin his life again, life again, life again." Both boys sang at the top of their lungs. No doubt the world outside of the car cringed at the serenade, the boys' voices carrying out of the open car windows.
"I haven't heard this song in the longest time. What else do I have on here?" Quatre mused and began playing with the buttons on the CD player.
"We have to do it!" Duo declared as the next song came on. He cranked the volume and skipped ahead to the part of the song they needed to hear.
"Agreed!" Quatre replied.
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the Fandango-
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-
Galileo,Galileo, Galileo Galileo Galileo
figaro-Magnifico-
But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me-
He's just a poor boy from a poor family-
Spare him his life from this monstrosity-
Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-
Bismillah! No-,we will not let you go-let him go-
Bismillah! We will not let you go-let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go Will not let you go let
me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me-
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye-
So you think you can love me and leave me to die-
Oh baby-Can't do this to me baby- Just gotta get out-
just gotta get right outta
here- [2]
The boys completed their sing-a-long, Wayne's World head banging imitation, in gales of laughter.
"What the bloody?" Duo said.
"What?" Quatre asked, his mouth full of Smartie [3] blizzard.
"It's the Church of the Rock! [4]" Duo declared and pointed at the burgundy and white sign on the outside of a building that had at one point been a bank.
"Church of the Rock? What the bloody, is right!" Quatre said, then snickered. "Can you smell what the priest is cooking [5]?"
"Holy SHIT!" Duo cried.
"What?" Quatre said, whipping his head around to bring his gaze focus on the girl Duo was staring at.
"There's more material in my tighty whities than in that chicks entire outfit." Duo declared, pointing out the window.
"Well Duo, we do know there's plenty of material down there. You know all things considered." Quatre said, as he slapped a hand onto his friends shoulder. "Although it's nowhere near the amount of material in mine."
"Keep dreaming there Q-man. There is no way you can compare the Master of Love to Mini-Q." Duo said, around his laughter.
"At least Mini-Q is there. The 'Master of Love' disappears when you take the socks out of your shorts at night." Quatre countered.
Duo responded by punching Quatre in the arm. The boys drove for the next ten minutes punching and insulting each other.
"Hey Duo. I finally figured out something that we can do to your hair." Quatre said and grinned. Duo peered sideways at his friend through narrowed eyes.
"And that would be?" Duo asked, almost afraid of the answer he would get.
"We could shorten the sides and the top so you could have a mullet." Quatre replied, his lips twitching wildly.
"If you come within ten feet of my hair with a sharp object I will kick you so hard in the nuts you will choke on your own testicles." Duo growled. Quatre began laughing hysterically.
"What you don't want to be 'Mullet-tron'[6]?" Quatre managed to gasp out.
"Fuck you." Duo grouched.
"I'll pass thanks." Quatre rasped, still trying to get his laughter under control.
Duo grumbled and drove while Quatre snickered and wiped the tears from his eyes.
"Hey Quatre do you think there's any possible way I can avoid my parents for like, the next ten years?" Duo asked, as he pulled up in front of Quatre's house.
"Well, considering right now you live at home..... I'd vote, no." Quatre said. "If only it were that easy though."
"No shit. See you in class tomorrow?" Duo asked.
"Yup. I still have to make my presentation for French. Bleah!" Quatre whined. "Guess that means I better go finish it."
"If you get an 'A' on this one I swear to good I'll kick you in the head." Duo muttered.
"See ya tomorrow Duo." Quatre said, waving.
"Bye."
[1] Even Flow, performed by Pearl Jam, lyrics by Vedder and Gossard. I love this song.
[2] Bohemian Rhapsody, performed by Queen. Words and music by Freddie Mercury. Sorry I can just see Quatre and Duo doing the Wayne's World thing in my head>.<
[3] These are Canuck smarties. They are chocolate with a candy-coated shell. Think M&M's but yummier.
[4] Actual name of an actual church in the 'Peg. It would broadcast it's service on Sunday's.
[5] As much as I would like to take credit for this I can't. It was in the Red Lion, the University of Manitoba's Engineering newspaper. I almost wet myself when I read it though.
[6] This is actually from a music video and I can't remember the name of the song or band. I was waaaaaaay to busy laughing at "Mullet-tron". If anyone can tell me which band etc I would really appreciate it.....^_^
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