The sight of all the looks of disgust and all the sneering towards her had become a common and everyday event for Lacus Clyne. To say that she was unpopular amongst the many students in her school would be an understatement. They seemed to absolutely despise her.
Rumors had totally ruined her high school life. 'After all, I'm just the slut of the school,' she thought bitterly as she walked through the halls of her school with her head down trying her best to ignore the stares that were coming at her.
To the women she was simply the slut of the school. They saw her as a woman with absolutely no morals who stole their boyfriends and went around sleeping with anything that had a dick.
To the men she was merely an object of lust, or an object of disgust in the case of the men that were actually decent. Most simply wanted her body and that usually just made things worse for her afterwards as even more things about her would start going around the school.
Out of everyone there was really only one person that talked to her in the school. That happened to be her friend Cagalli. Despite taking a hit on her own reputation for being associated with Lacus, Cagalli stuck by Lacus as one of her closest and only female friend.
No one ever bothered to say anything to Cagalli about it to her face though. Many were afraid that she might hurt them if they did. Cagalli was not a very feminine woman. She hated skirts and dresses preferring to instead dress like a guy. Her attitude could be a bit fierce at times especially when someone angered her.
So lost in her thoughts, Lacus accidentally ran into someone's back. This caused her to fall backwards and land on the floor hard. "Ouch," she muttered quietly as she rubbed her butt as she stood up with a grimace.
"I'm terribly sorry," she said as she looked at the people she ran and couldn't help another grimace that crossed her face. There standing before her was the popular crowd of the school and at the front were none other than Kira Yamato and Fllay Allster. The two of them were considered to be the most popular couple in school.
"Watch it you little whore!" Fllay screamed out since Lacus had run into Kira. "Kira you should go change, you don't know what kind of diseases you might have caught just by touching her!" Fllay said looking at Lacus like she was some kind of walking disease.
Kira didn't even say a word. Fllay watched in shock as he simply walked right by Lacus and continued on towards his class. Fllay thought he would've said something. "Consider yourself lucky you little whore!" she yelled as she ran after Kira.
Lacus frowned hating how people called her that. 'Not like she has any room to talk, she slept with just about everyone at this school. I wonder why she's considered popular,' she thought as she continued on her walk towards her locker.
"I see she's a bitch as usual," a rough female voice said from behind Lacus causing her to turn and smile at her friend Cagalli. "Kira seems awfully moody," she said since Kira was her twin brother.
"What do you expect? I would be too if I had to hang around Fllay Allster all day," Lacus said suddenly looking all happy despite how sad and angry she had been several minutes ago.
This caused a laugh from Cagalli as the two of them walked side by side towards their lockers which were right next to each other. "You know, if you do something about all this then maybe you can stop it," Cagalli said and Lacus shook her head.
"You know I can't. Last time I tried it only made things worse," Lacus responded and Cagalli sighed knowing that what Lacus said was the truth. "No one trusts me, no one likes me, and apparently all I'm good for is sex," Lacus said looking annoyed.
"High school life has definitely not been good to you," Cagalli murmured and Lacus nodded her head as they came to a stop at their lockers and quickly grabbed their books before heading towards their class.
Walking into their classroom, the two of them immediately headed towards their seats. The two of them sat in the back of the room as suggested by the teacher who got tired of people interrupting class by throwing things at Lacus's back.
Compared to the students, the teachers held a great deal of respect for Lacus. She got nothing but straight A's, always came to class, and always helped them when they needed it. None of the teachers seemed to care or believe the rumors that were going around about her.
"Good thing graduation is in two months. Then we can get out of here and you can get your social life back once again," Cagalli said with a grin which Lacus simply nodded to. "We could get it back sooner if you'd just let him help," she murmured as she got out her books for class.
"I don't plan to ruin his school life like I ruined yours," Lacus said looking down sadly. To avoid that happening, Lacus had stopped associating with some of the friends who actually stuck with her after this all started. Cagalli stuck with her anyways despite all that and in many ways Lacus was grateful. Though it hurt Cagalli, it made things so much more bearable for Lacus.
In all reality though, Cagalli was one of the only ones that actually wanted to associate with Lacus. When all this started, all of her friends had pretty much abandoned her. Only her three closest friends remained even though she tried not to associate with two of them in school.
"Who needs a reputation? I wouldn't even want to hang out with those stuck up assholes anyways. Why become popular if you have to lose your true friends in order to do it?" Cagalli asked which caused a smile to cross Lacus's face. "Just don't worry about it. I'm happy with my life right now," she continued as she leaned back in her chair and just relaxed for the few more minutes left before class was supposed to start.
Looking around the room, Lacus's eyes landed upon two people in the middle of the room. There sat Kira and Fllay. Fllay as usual was yapping on and on while Kira appeared to be getting a migraine. This caused Lacus to giggle as the teacher came into the room and class finally started.
When school ended that day Lacus was all too glad to finally get out of there. The day just seemed to drag on without end. No doubt there were new rumors being spread about her to cause her even more problems. It would explain why people were looking at her with more distain than usual.
Lacus left the school in a rush and immediately took the same route she did everyday after school. The thing was that the direction wasn't towards her house but that of her best friend's. Inside school she ignored him but outside school they were close.
Her best friend and his family were the closest things she had to a real family. Her father was pretty much always away on business which meant that she couldn't see him much. She loved him but she really wished that he was around more. Her mother had died while giving birth to her meaning that she didn't know much about her.
The saying money can't buy you happiness was definitely something that applied to her. Her family was one of the richer ones in the country and yet she was as unhappy as possible or at least when she wasn't with her best friend.
Everything suddenly went dark for Lacus but she wasn't the least bit surprised. "Haha, very funny," she said as the hands were pulled away and a familiar chuckle reached her ears. "You know very well that I'd know it was you," she said turning around to smile at her best friend Kira Yamato.
"Darn, and here I thought I might actually get you today," he said with a chuckle as he walked to her side and started to walk right next to her. "Today was such an annoyance," Kira said shaking his head in dismay.
"Tell me about it. So what's the new rumor everyone's hearing? I know there has to be one since everyone was acting worse than usual," Lacus responded remembering all the looks that everyone started to give her after lunch was over,
"Some guy claimed to catch you giving a guy a blow job in the men's restroom earlier today and then asked if he wanted one in exchange for keeping it quiet. No one knew where you were so they assumed it was true," Kira explained with a short and emotionless chuckle.
"Figures, I go to eat outside and they start spreading rumors for why I wasn't around," Lacus said with a depressed sigh. "At least there is only two months left of school. Then I only have to think of this as nothing but a nightmare," she said with a frown but smiled when Kira put his arm around her shoulders.
"It could be better if you'd just let me help you," he said but Lacus shook her head no and that caused Kira to frown. "It doesn't exactly make me happy to just have to sit back and watch you have to go through all this," he said in a disappointed voice.
"Who would believe you? They'd think it was some joke to get into my pants and then new rumors would start to spread. That's not something either you or I need right now with him around," Lacus said as she looked towards the ground.
Kira frowned since he knew very well who she was talking about. Two years ago she went on a date with a guy who then tried to get her to sleep with him. It was one date and only because he continued to pester her until she agreed to go on it.
The thing was that despite all the rumors Lacus was still a virgin. When he tried to get her to do it with him she refused to because she wasn't ready and that pissed him off. He was a serious playboy and the biggest bastard around who was known to get any girl that he wanted and was also very popular among the school population. He was a senior like the two of them meaning they had to put up with him for the rest of the year.
When Lacus told him no, he immediately started to ruin her reputation with false rumors. They weren't sure what he did to get everyone to believe him so fast but they did and that has only hurt Lacus since.
If he thought people were starting to like Lacus again then he'd spread more rumors. He intended to hurt Lacus enough mentally till she was begging for him to do her just so that it would all stop. He hasn't made that any secret from Lacus. It was too bad for him that Lacus simply didn't care about her reputation. The way people treated her annoyed her but she didn't mind not being popular or anything.
At the time it originally started Kira went to a different school but ended up transferring shortly after it all happened. By the time he got there the damage had already been done. Lacus immediately took to not talking to him in school so that he could at least have a social life. He was against it and still was but Lacus wouldn't let him do anything. When he would try, she would simply ignore him like he didn't exist. The two of them just took to being friends outside of school when no one was around.
The two of them had known each other since they were children. Lacus moved away because of her father's business. Their families had always been close though so Kira's family ended up moving down as well shortly after that since their father's were partners in business.
Kira wished more than anything that he could do something to help Lacus out of this. He wanted to be able to talk to her freely during school but she wouldn't let him. Unfortunately for him Fllay happened to take an interest in him and that has taken even more chances to be around her away. He had no doubt that Fllay would only make things worse if she caught the two of them together. She wouldn't do anything to Kira since she wanted him but she would probably make Lacus's life even worse. So the two of them started to figure it was best to keep their distance in school for both their sakes even though they hated it. Kira was always trying to find some way to end the charade though.
"Are you sure you should be here Kira? I'm sure your girlfriend must be looking for you," Lacus said teasingly with a small grin on her face. She knew the two weren't actually going out and that Kira didn't want to anyways but that didn't stop people from saying that the two of them were boyfriend and girlfriend.
"You know she's not my girlfriend. Nor do I have one period," Kira said with a chuckle but Lacus just kept giving him that teasing look. "She can do whatever she wants. I've been trying to get her off me all day. For right now though I'd rather be right here with my best friend," he said pulling her closer.
Though the two of them were best friends they never actually tried to become more. Athrun and Cagalli always teased them about how close they were to each other but they never did anything. Kira and Lacus were as close as can be. Even closer than most couples were with each other but the two of them never became one.
"Sounds fine to me," Lacus said with a light hearted giggle. She hated Fllay and how she always clung to Kira even though he never wanted it. She didn't understand why they hated her when she had never even let a guy touch her like that before and yet Fllay could get away with it as if she had done absolutely nothing. It was all just so confusing for Lacus and annoyed her so much.
"Well if I didn't know any better I'd say that the two of you looked like a nice cozy couple walking home from school," Cagalli's voice said from behind the two of them making them role their eyes at all the teasing she liked to put them through because of their friendship.
"That again? You just never give up," Kira said rolling his eyes again as Lacus giggled beside him. "It's none of your business though whether we are or aren't. Things are just fine the way that they are," he continued with a smirk as he turned around and looked at her only to see her walking right next to Athrun Zala. Everyone knew Cagalli liked Athrun and that Athrun liked Cagalli but the two of them were just too stubborn for their own good. "What about you and Athrun?" he asked with a grin.
"W-w-w-w-hat about us?! We're not going out and never plan to!" Cagalli said a little too quickly for those that were around her. Though Cagalli was unpopular, she never tried to hide her friendship with Athrun much to the annoyance of people like Meer Campbell who was out to get Athrun for herself.
"Oh yeah, sure, sure," Kira said looking like he obviously didn't believe a word that Cagalli was saying. "If you are going to be like that than you shouldn't get on our case," he said looking between the two blushing people who had suddenly put some distance between themselves trying not to look like they were actually close.
"Oh shut up little brother!" Cagalli screamed. Even though Kira and her were twins, they had no clue which of them was older since their biological parents died years ago. They were adopted by the Yamatos but were never able to figure out just who it was that was actually older. Cagalli preferred to think that she was the older one though.
Things got silent between the four friends as they walked quietly down the deserted street. It was a back road towards their home and one that wasn't used all that much and almost never used by the people at their school. That made it the perfect way for the four of them to walk down the road without worrying about anyone seeing the four of them together.
It wasn't long before the four of them came upon Kira's and Cagalli's place. Their family was loaded so they had a nice place but it wasn't huge compared to people like Fllay's family who liked to show off their money with expensive cars and huge houses.
"We're home," Kira called out which caused his mother to come walking into the room drying her hands with a towel. Caridad Yamato was a very kind and lovely lady for someone her age. She never judged a person based on rumors and only went with what she knew of the person. This made it easy for Lacus to still get along with her after the incident started since Caridad never once believed the rumors.
"Oh hello there. Looks like we've got everyone over today. I'll go and get you some snacks so why don't you all go and get comfortable," she said kindly and they all nodded already looking forward to the snacks since any that were made by her were sure to be great.
"I'll come and help you," Lacus eagerly said since she loved to be able to help Caridad cook. She had learned everything she knew about cooking from Kira's mother and it really showed when people tasted the food.
Caridad didn't argue since she really liked it when Lacus helped. She was a wonderful person to talk to and when they worked together it just made the food even better. "That would be great," she said as she turned towards the kitchen.
Kira smiled as he watched the two of them leave before he turned and started to head towards his room. Cagalli did the same as her and Athrun headed towards the game room where the two of them usually hung out when they were here.
Kira dropped his stuff into his room and then headed back downstairs and towards the backyard. It was a beautiful and sunny day that day and he found that it would've been such a waste to spend it inside.
He took a seat underneath a tree and just leaned against it. This was what he liked most, just being able to relax beneath the sun. He knew that once Lacus was done that she would end up coming out there to join him so he just relaxed and waited.
As expected Lacus came out several minutes later carrying some drinks in her hands. "We made some cookies but they shouldn't be done for a little while so these will have to do until then," she said and Kira just nodded as he took his drink from her and took a sip of the refreshing beverage.
Lacus smiled as she sat down between Kira's legs and leaned back against his chest as she pulled out a book. The two of them barely said anything. They just sat there relaxing, or in Lacus's case reading, like they always did. A soft breeze passed over them and the sound of the leaves rustling in the wind relaxed them even more. They couldn't help but think how perfect things seemed when the two of them were alone.
Lacus yawned as she walked home later that night. Long after even Athrun had gone home, she found herself still at Kira's house. She sometimes found that she would much rather live there than merely visit but she figured that wasn't possible.
Lacus snuck out to head back home a few minutes before then without telling Kira so he wouldn't go out of his way in order to walk her there. 'Besides, it's not that far in the first place,' she thought with a smile as she walked down a street that she walked many times before.
When Lacus was just about to reach her house, a car suddenly drove up next to her. She couldn't help but grimace when she realized just whose car it was. It was the one person that she never wanted to have to deal with ever again.
The car came to a stop a little ahead of Lacus and the driver's side door opened and a man stepped out of it. He had raven black hair and brown eyes that showed nothing but arrogance. "Well now, I've been looking all over for you my sweet Lacus," he said as he approached the beautiful young woman.
The guy's name was Eric. Having come from a very rich family, he had been spoiled all his life into getting whatever it was that he wanted. He never took no for an answer. At least until Lacus came. Now his only goal was to finally break that unbending will of hers and take what he had always wanted from her from the first time he ever laid eyes on her.
Lacus didn't say a word to him; all she did was walk right by him as if he wasn't even there in the first place. 'You think he'd get the point by now that I could care less about what he does,' she thought keeping a serious look on her face.
Getting annoyed with Lacus's attitude, he grabbed her shoulder hard in order to stop her. This made Lacus wince in a bit of pain but he didn't really care. "Don't ignore me," he growled out before taking a deep breath to calm himself. "Come on Lacus, why are you being like this? Don't we have something special?" he said trying to sound as nice as he possibly could.
"Trying to ruin my life because I wouldn't sleep with you does not mean that we have something special!" Lacus said in a bit lower of a voice than she normally uses. She then shrugged off his hand from her shoulder and continued to walk to her house.
"Why don't you just give up Lacus? All these problems you have can go away so easily if only you would just give yourself to me," he said arrogantly as he looked up and down her retreating figure with a look of lust filling his eyes. He couldn't wait till he finally got to have her.
"Because I would hate myself if I did such a thing with you. You're disgusting and intolerable. You will never have me no matter what you do. I could care less about what other people think of me," Lacus said turning to look at him with a glare that no one had probably ever seen on her before.
"But you are wrong Lacus. I will have you one way or another," he said suddenly pushing Lacus up against a wall. He stared at her squirming figure and smirked as he brought a hand up and gently caressed her face. "Just make it easier on yourself Lacus. I can assure you that it will be enjoyable," he said leaning down intending to steal a kiss from her only to be pushed away by a strength he didn't know she had.
"Don't ever touch me!" Lacus yelled at him wiping at many of the areas that he touched as if they would suddenly become infect by some sort of disease. "I will never sleep with you! I don't care if we're the last people on earth! I would rather die than sleep with you! Get that through your head and leave me alone!" she yelled as she stormed away faster than he was able to catch her.
Eric stood there staring at her retreating figure with a smirk on his face. 'That spirit of hers only makes me want to have her more and more,' he thought as he got into his car planning out what his next move would be. 'I'm sure that spirit of hers will only be able to last for so long before I will finally be able to break it,' he thought driving away.
"Are you ok?!" Kira screamed over the phone. He was worried when he heard that Lacus had gone home by herself this late at night while he was busy. Then he got the call from her. She told him everything that happened between her and Eric that night and that just made him feel even more worried.
"Yes, I'm fine. He didn't get to actually do anything," Lacus responded from the other side of the line. Kira could hear though that she sounded a bit shaken up. He really couldn't blame her. "I'm perfectly alright so please calm down Kira," Lacus said trying her best to calm down her best friend.
"No! I won't calm down! What if he had done something to you Lacus?! You could've been seriously hurt! You should've waited for me so that I could've walked you home!" Kira yelled as all sorts of thoughts about what could've happened flew through his head and made him worry even more.
"I'm not a baby Kira. I can take care of myself just fine," Lacus said trying to be calm but it was easy to tell that she was annoyed with Kira. "Nothing happened, just leave it at that. Please?" Lacus said in a begging voice.
Kira wanted so desperately to continue arguing about this with her but something in him wouldn't let him. "Whatever," he muttered and could almost see Lacus smiling on the other end of the line. "But don't do that again," he added for good measure.
A sigh was heard on the other end because of Kira's stubbornness. "Fine then, why don't you just come over here and see that I am fine for yourself?" Lacus suggested for two reasons. One, she simply wanted this argument to end. Two, she was lonely in the empty house and wanted her best friend to keep her company.
"Is this about the argument or do you just want me to come over there?" Kira teased picking up on her idea. He'd known her long enough to know exactly what was going through her head at times.
A giggle was heard on the other end of the line before Lacus spoke. "Both," she said which caused Kira to grin. "Well it's lonely in this house all alone. You know that. My dad's gone and the maids have left for the day," she said with a pouting voice while using words that she usually used to get him to come over.
Kira chuckled and shook his head. "Fine, I'll come over and keep you company," he said with a smile. "I'll be over shortly; I just have to tell my mom first. I'm positive that she won't care in the least though," he said and then the two of them said their goodbyes before they hung up the phone.
Kira chuckled as he told his mom so that she wouldn't worry and headed over to Lacus's place. "She sure knows how to stop an argument," he muttered to himself getting another chuckle out of it.
To Kira and Lacus, this seemed to become more and more of a common thing for them to do. Since the two of them couldn't hang out as much as they'd like to because of school; one or the other would always stay at the others place whenever they could.
As Kira stepped out of his house, he found himself immediately looking up at the night sky. "The sky is so clear tonight," he muttered looking at all the bright shining stars that shown down upon him without being impaired by any clouds. 'I think I'll walk instead of drive,' he thought with a smile while putting away the keys to his car which he originally planned to take.
Turning his eyes away from the sky, Kira started to walk down the street. Something was bugging him though. It was like something was about to happen that he really didn't want to happen.
Kira's bad feeling came true when he saw an all too familiar limo pulling up to his house before he was even able to get out of the drive way. 'Seems like no one wants Lacus or me to get to her house,' he thought rolling his eyes as he tried to walk by as if the limo weren't there.
This effort was useless when Fllay Allster got out of the limo and blocked his path. "Oh Kira!" Fllay yelled happily as she latched herself tightly onto Kira without any intent on letting him go anytime soon. "How sweet, you were waiting outside for me to come. How did you know that I would be coming though? I wanted to surprise you" she said while tightening her hold on him.
"Coincidence, pure coincidence," Kira said wondering just how long Fllay planned to continue on with this charade that she had been putting up ever since he first moved down there. It was annoying enough in school.
"Oh don't say that Kira, I'm sure that it has to be fate," she said happily before deciding to get down to the point as she followed next to Kira as they walked along the sidewalk to wherever it was that he was going since he didn't stop walking when she joined him.
Kira found this really annoying. As long as Fllay was attached to him he'd only be able to walk around in circles instead of actually heading right to Lacus's house. Luckily for him he had just the plan for this sort of situation since it wasn't the first time Fllay had done this whenever he went over to Lacus's house. He just had to do that and he would be free of Fllay within seconds.
"So Kira, there is a reason I came to talk to you. I was wondering if you'd like to come over to my place. My dad is very interested in meeting my boyfriend so I figure it would be the best time for you to finally meet him since you haven't been able to make it all the other times I invited you," she said putting on a pout that she felt was irresistible to any guy on her face.
"Can't," Kira said in a way that seemed as if he had rehearsed it over and over again. "I'm going to see a friend so I can't go with you," he said again after like the fifty times he was sure that he'd said it before. "Besides, I'm not your boyfriend so it is kinda pointless for me to be going to meet your father when he wants to see whoever this guy is," he said with a sigh.
There was only one reason why Kira continued to put up with all of Fllay's claims of him being her boyfriend in school. As long as he was around her in school he could make sure that she didn't try to do anything to bad to Lacus. He would never have put up with it for this long if it wasn't for that.
"Oh you're such a joker Kira. You know that you're my boyfriend. Only someone like you could ever be it," she said with a laugh even though she was really annoyed that he continued to refuse to be her boyfriend. 'As long as everyone thinks he is my boyfriend then that's fine but eventually I will make him mine one way or another. He's just shy is all,' she thought with a smile.
"Get over it," Kira said making a turn and mentally smirked when Fllay immediately let go of his arm before coming to a stop behind him. 'She's so predictable,' he thought as he started to walk across a small field he sometimes used.
If there was one thing that Kira learned it was that Fllay hated to get her designer shoes or dress dirty with anything. Kira had no problem with a little dirt but he knew that Fllay found the whole idea completely repulsive. "Well, see you later," he said with a small wave while he had a smirk on his face that Fllay was unable to see.
While this path took a little longer to get to Lacus's house, it was the only way that Kira found he could go through to get there when Fllay was around. Dirt could be easily kicked up and he has to go through a few bushes that could dirty up and possibly leave a few small tears in Fllay's dress should is snag in it.
The limo pulled up next to Fllay and her driver got out of the car and approached her. "Will you be going after him Miss. Allster?" he asked wondering what she wanted him to do since she wasn't moving.
"What?! Are you kidding me?! There is no way in hell that I'm going to ruin my new shoes and dress going through all that!" she yelled pointing at the field. "Take me home! I'll just have to try again some other time!" she yelled as she got into the limo and slammed the door before the man could close it for her.
Kira watched from a little ways away before the limo finally started to move once again and he continued on his way. 'She's simply too predictable,' he thought with a chuckle as he continued on his way through there not trying to backtrack in case Fllay might see him coming back that way. He'd never be able to get rid of her if she was to see him coming back out of there. He knew she left but he didn't want to take the chance.
Several minute later, Kira found himself walking up a very familiar driveway and smiled when he saw that Lacus was already out there and waiting for him like a puppy that was waiting for it's master.
Lacus saw Kira approaching and pouted at how much time it took for him to get there. "Ahh, what took you so long Kira?" Lacus asked with a pout as she latched herself onto his arm. Unlike with Fllay, Kira didn't mind it if Lacus held his arm like that.
"Sorry, Fllay turned up and I had to take the back way," he said and Lacus nodded in understanding as she led him into the house. "So, did you have anything planned? It's still pretty early," he said since it was only nine o'clock.
"But of course. I thought maybe we could watch a movie," she said as she led him towards her room. "What do you think?" she asked with a smile which he just nodded to which made her very happy.
The two of them walked into Lacus's room. For a family who were insanely rich like the Clyne family, Lacus's room seemed pretty modest. Just like any other room even if it was a bit larger. She had a bed which was covered in light blue sheets with a TV directly across from it. By her window were several stuffed animals which Lacus really liked. Then there was a bookshelf filled with books which were mostly romance novels. Then there was a desk with a computer on it to finish it up. Her stuff didn't take up too much space though which made the room seem bigger than it actually was.
The two of them put in the movie and got comfortable on the bed. Kira just laid down and Lacus got on the bed next to him and laid her head upon his chest. The movie then started and the two of them fell silent.
By the end of the movie, both Kira and Lacus had fallen asleep. Sleeping in the same bed didn't bother either of them in the least. They'd been doing that for years and were comfortable with it. The two of them slept without a care in the world without caring about anything that has happened or will happen to them.
I'm having a hard time with LotH and DoL so i thought I'd give you guys something else for now. It will be a short story like SoE. Hope to see many great reviews from all of you.