[laundry] Title: Laundry
Author: Cobalt 27
Pairings: 1=2
Rating: PG-13, Fluff
Warnings: I normally don't write from Duo's point of view and the narration is very casual. I hope you like it!
Prompts: Song lyrics "I love your smell"...This Velvet Glove (RHCP)

Disclaimer: Don't own the g-wing boys. Written for LinkWorshiper, merry belated Christmas!

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Typical, yeah? Everything around me was so damned typical. I was a typical biology student at a typical college in a typical dorm with typical assholes. I was in a typical laundry room with the typical hot guy, and I typically had nothing to say when I'm the one who never typically shuts up!

I had a speech prepared for this hottie that was in my ecology class as well as my dorm building. I had it all worked out. I was going to turn to him and say, "Hello sexy. Duo Maxwell's the name; I'm gay and you are the sweetest piece of eye candy I've ever seen in my entire life. And trust me, I've seen fine Asian ass before!"

But no. No, I just stood there and watched my laundry spin around and around while stealing glances at his heavenly face. My god, seriously, there was something sinful about how goddamned gorgeous this boy was. This face could definitely launch a thousand ships! He launched mine! Hahaha...oh, boy.

I shook my head at myself. What was I thinking?! Seriously, straight guys hassled guys like me for being in the same room, let alone blatantly staring at them! Oh, but he was so worth a hassling!

His dryer buzzed and he moved to empty the contents and that's when I noticed that we were the only two doing laundry. Out of all the dryers and all the washing machines lined up, stacked up, and smiling in a row, he put his clothes in the ones next to mine! Okay, maybe I was reading way to much into it, but still. It made me happy, okay?

He actually folded his clothes before placing them neatly in the laundry basket he had with him. I was so intrigued by this I couldn't stop from staring. I think he noticed...well, I know he noticed because he raised his brow at me and I blushed. I turned away and promised myself to keep my eyes off him and his laundry.

You ever have one of those moments where your body ignores your brain? Yeah.

So, I turned to him for some stupid, stupid reason because I don't even know what I was going to say to him! But I turned to him and actually moved. I dunno what I was doing, but I obviously wasn't paying attention because I bumped into his laundry basket spilling his freshly folded laundry.

"Sorry!" I bent down to help him. Luckily the basket just tipped and the refolding of his laundry took seconds. I picked up one of his sweaters that had tumbled over the side of the basket and went to refold it when I caught a whiff. It was a pleasant smell. No, a captivating smell. No, it was an enchanting alluring scent of the gods and the more it assaulted my senses the more I had to sniff it into my entire being. "Ohmigaud, Iloveyoursmell!"

"Gain."

"Huh?" I looked at him, blushing. His eyes were staring right into mine and I was frozen. I couldn't move; I couldn't even blink. His eyes were so blue, such a deep majestic blue that any other blue I had ever seen before, and would ever see, paled in comparison. With his Asian appearance, blue was the last thing I expected. Then again, him speaking to me was also the last thing I expected.

"It's Gain." He took the small bottle of laundry detergent that was next to his feet and placed it in the yellow basket.

"I...oh..." Seriously, what was wrong with me?! "Ermyeahokay."

"Are you alright?" He took the basket and stood at full height. His brow was cocked and he looked at me quizzically.

"Uh...yee-ah, I'm...okay." I nodded as I stood to full height also. My laundry buzzed and I jumped looking at it as if it bit me.

"Heero Yuy."

"Huh?" I turned back to him, watching his moist and plump lips move as he spoke.

"My name is Heero Yuy." His pale bronze skin pinked at his perfect cheekbones but his unwavering attention was on me. His eyes were glued to me, or at least that's how I felt.

"Oh...I'm...my name is Duo Maxwell."

He nodded. "Well..." His washing machine buzzed and he turned to it. Placing his basket on the table nearby, he wordlessly emptied his wet clothes into the dryer. This reminded me that my own machine had buzzed so I opened it and messily pulled my clothes into my laundry basket. But that was it. My clothes were done...and it would have been oh-so-obvious if I had stuck around to watch him do laundry. "Uh...well," he took note that I was leaving and dipped his head slightly. "See you."

"Yeah," I smiled. "See you." I slowly made to exit the laundry room and crawl back to my dorm with images of the gorgeously sexy Heero Yuy prancing in my head. And then a wonderful idea crossed my mind. "Uh, we're in ecology together," I started. I was amazed at my nerve. Thinking about what I wanted to do and doing it were two different things!

He nodded.

"And, you know, finals are coming up and...maybe, if you want...we could study together."

He broke out into a full smile. "Yeah," he nodded. "I'd like that...a lot."

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