Something About You

By Neytah-chama

Disclaimer: I doesn't own Code Geass

She sits on a park bench. Her red hair droops over her face like a willow tree, her arms wrapped around her stomach like vines. The children playing in the park don't notice the shell of a girl sitting on the bench. But I do.

I've been following her for about a week now. Go ahead and call me a stalker, I willingly admit to it.

Her name is Kallen Stadtfeld. Well, that's who I used to know her as. Kallen Kouzuki is what she goes by now. No longer constantly sick classmate, but a previous member of the black knights. The enemy, my family would say. But not me.

But she's been different ever since the black rebellion. I'm not claiming to know her like a best friend, but she was the captain of Guren Mk-II, one of the most powerful knightmares I've ever faced. I find it hard to believe that the girl in front of me could be that same girl inside the pilot hatch. Something changed. Something snapped inside her. There's a part of me that's just drawn to it. A part of me just needs to know what's brought her to this state.

I know it sounds crazy. Honestly, it scares me. Anya already left for Britannia. My parents have been begging me to come home. But I'm here, hiding behind a tree, staring at a nearly lifeless girl on a park bench.

She stands up, her arms still clutched around herself.

"Why have you been following me?"

Shit.

I step out from behind the tree to meet her eyes. They are cold and empty, yet baring into me.

"What is it you want from me?" She says. "Money? Sex?" She pauses. "Revenge?"

I feel like an idiot. I'm being confronted by the girl I have been following for the past week, and I can't answer the simplest questions. I find myself staring at the ground.

"Go back to your own country." She says. She walks away. I want to say something. But I can't figure out what. She's already gone.

I feel so stupid. You could say I know everything about her. I know her schedule, what she eats for lunch. I know her locker combination and her mom's first name. Even her shoe size. But I don't know myself anymore. I'm knight of 3, of the powerful country of Britannia, from a great family impatiently awaiting my return, and I'm here, staring off into the distance, thinking about a girl I barely know. For all the things I know about her, I've only ever talked to her a couple of times. Nonetheless, I want to know her.

But I don't feel it's possible. It's not long until my parents come here to drag me back, and she just said it. If she wants me to leave, what can I do? Might as well, call my parents, make up some crazy excuse, pack my bags, and board a one-way plane home.

But I can't.

I'm lying in my apartment, staring at the ceiling. It's gray and plain, with mold growing in the corners. After Britannia lost control of Japan, I moved into this old apartment building. I didn't want to be a douche and try to stay in the old 'Area 11 Castle". I just left. I doubt they even know I'm still here. I mean, why wouldn't a pureblood Britannian knightmare pilot stay here?

My eyes wander to the window. The sun is bright, but not too bright, in a kinda perfect way. An annoyingly perfect way.

I wonder where she is right now. Is she at her house on 32 Freshgrove Avenue? Has she returned to the park? Is she out by that pond, staring at goldfish? Is she at the graveyard?

I know, it seems like I'm the biggest stalker is the world. Like I should get a life, get a real house, stop making my family think I'm insane.

It's a bit of an OCD. All I want to do is be near her. I never stop thinking about her. In the past week, she has become the center of my world. And I don't think that's changing soon. I wish she would acknowledge it. How much I care, how much she means to me, even thought I barely know her.

But, chances are she'll acknowledge me as some psychotic stalker and send the Japanese police after me. But for some reason, I'm willing to take that risk.

OMG! I'm finally done typing this up.

I got this idea in the middle of the night, and then decided to put it to paper in the middle of Biology. I hate science sometimes. (Sorry Lloyd.)

I know that Kallen and Gino fought in the final battle with Lelouch and Schneizel and the FLEIAs of doom, but I forgot about it when I was writing, so for the time being, it didn't happen. Okay! I would really appreciate constructive criticism, so pleez R&R! -Neytah-chama