Chapter 2
"I heard about the whole thing!" The male announced, as he came up behind Yzak, and slung an arm around his neck.
"What whole thing? And when the Hell did you get home?!"
"That whole Toshin thing! And how you nearly blew his brains out! Nice work. And, I just got back from the airport actually…Athrun came and got me, I'm surprised he didn't tell you I was coming back today!"
"I told you why I didn't tell him in the car already," Athrun's voice came from Yzak's open bedroom doorway.
"Well you should've brought him with you to come get me! It broke my little heart when he wasn't there to wish me a welcome back!" As if to emphasize his sorrow, the male feigned a sad sigh, and hugged Yzak.
"I think you had too much sun in Florida," Athrun stated simply, closing Yzak's bedroom door, before he walked off down the hall.
The male waited until the footsteps were gone. He sighed, spun Yzak to face him, then gave him a push that sent him backwards onto his bed. Yzak sat looking frustrated. The male pulled up the computer chair, and sat in it backwards. Arms crossed across the back of the chair. He watched his friend intently,
"Well, are you going to explain yourself, or do I really have to ask?"
"What the Hell are you going on about?!" Yzak was infuriated. His friend comes home from Florida after two years. Two years of being gone. And then he comes home with his short mess of golden blonde hair, and his brilliant eyes, and starts a damn interrogation! He doesn't make himself make any sense, because apparently Yzak is a damn mind reader now.
Athrun was right. His friend had been in that damn sunlight too long.
"The dreams, Yzak. The others heard you talking in your sleep."
"A lot of people do that!"
"Do a lot of people also sleepwalk into their friends room while their friend is away?"
Yzak looked down towards his feet. The others were bound to have noticed him walking into his friends room after his friend had been gone for four months. Which had then ended up lasting the two years. And they could obviously hear him. He could hear himself. Screaming in his sleep…
"…Yzak?"
"Nightmares. They heard nightmares. And as for the sleepwalking, I'm sure plenty of people do that, too."
His friend wasn't buying it.
"You get so easily defensive sometimes. It's ridiculous," his friend told him with a smile,
"You probably just missed me, and won't admit it."
Yzak glared at his friend,
"I did not miss you! You self absorbed little brat!"
"Awww, feel the love you're spreading?" His friend's smile only grew wider as he continued to tease him.
"Shut-up Dearka! Why couldn't you just stay in Florida?!" At this, Yzak got up, and stormed out of his own room, to leave Dearka behind. He didn't move. He waited for the footsteps to disappear down the hallway. When silence engulfed him, he sighed,
"I had to come home sooner or later you little idiot," he whispered to the emptiness surrounding him,
"I wasn't going to be able to take much more of not being able to see you…"
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"Miss Lacus, I have deeply missed your cooking," Dearka said kindly, digging into his remaining dinner.
"Why thank you Dearka! I have missed your enthusiasm!"
Kiro stretched his tiny hands to Dearka,
"Dee-Dee!" He called out desperately. It was obvious he wanted some attention.
"Well, that's another name for him! He knows Mommy and Daddy…And Athrun, Cagalli – or as he calls her, Calli – and he knows, Arien, who he prefers to call Aren…And now Dearka is Dee-Dee," Kira laughed.
Dearka pushed his finished dinner away from himself, and picked up Kiro, sitting him in his lap,
"Why hello Kiro. Are you going to end up calling me Auntie Dee-Dee one day too? Or is Dee-Dee enough of a feminine name?"
The small boy giggled, then stopped when he looked over and saw Yzak looking angry. He whimpered, and turned away.
"Hey now, don't worry! He may look like a brute, but he's harmless enough. That's Yzak. Can you say Yzak?"
"Pardon me, Dee-Dee, but if he can't say your name, what makes you think he can say mine?" Yzak asked coldly, leaning back in his chair.
Kiro's next word threw everyone off.
His small hand pointed to Yzak,
"Swar!" He announced.
Yzak flinched. Kiro was referring to the huge scar across his face. He got up out of his chair, and headed off to his bedroom, muttering angrily the whole time.
Dearka stared after him.
( A.N: Woo! Chapter 2! Finally! R&R! )