It was a cold, January morning as Shirley awoke. She couldn't help but be a little cheerful this morning, even though it was quite early. For today was the day that she returned to school from winter break, and saw her friends and the love of her life, Lelouch Lamperouge, she missed them all. She gets ready and runs out the door… only to come back in because she forgot to wear her coat. She walked down the normal route she takes to school, looking at the trees with ice clung to their branches and icicles hanging at the ends. This day was a bit odd from the others though, on this day she decided to take a little detour from her normal route and take a different turn, she thought it would be faster. What she got from taking this different turn was bumping into someone she was not expecting, she bumped into Suzaku Kururugi.
"Oh, hi Suzaku! How was your winter break?" He turned his head and saw who was calling him.
"Oh, hello Shirley. My winter break was fine… and how was yours?" He lied, his winter break was being all alone in his apartment, though he got some visits from Lloyd and Cecile. She didn't seem to take notice of his some what sad expression.
"Mine was terrific! I got to go on a trip to…" then she finally noticed his expression," um, never mind. Suzaku is something wrong? If there is, you know you could always tell me."
"Who me? No, I'm fine! Don't worry about me!" He lied again, only this time with a small smile." So Shirley… I've never seen you going down this path before. Did you move here or something?"
"What?! Me? Move? Ha! That's good, Suzaku! Real good!" She laughed and lightly hit his shoulder." No, nothing like that. I took a different path from my house to the school and I managed to bump into you. Weird, huh?"
"Yeah…I guess you moving during winter break would weird too." Suzaku replied.
"Hey, Suzaku, do you normally go down this road at this time?"
"Um, yeah. Why do you ask?"
"Then that settles it! From here on out I shall take this route to school! I mean it's nice to talk to someone while we're walking to school right?" She looked up at him, giving him a small smile. He could feel his cheeks become a little hotter than they were before.
"Yeah it is."
They continued walking, neither one saying a word but they fell into a comfortable silence. Well until they reached the morning meeting in the student council room and Milly would see them coming in and when they got to the meeting accuse them of doing something dirty. Then there would be blushing and denying and embarrassment….
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"That Milly sure is an old pervert," Shirley said as she and Suzaku walked to their class.'Good thing Lelouch missed the meeting but I hope he isn't absent…'she thought.
"Yeah she can be a little weird sometimes."
"A little? Sometimes? Suzaku you don't have to be so nice when you're with me."
"I'm sorry…"
"Oh no! I mean, I love it that you're so kind and all but you can tell me how you really feel about her! I mean, if you want. And it's not like I back stab my friends or anything, it's just that she always accuses me of doing something perverted or she says that I'm developing in all the right places! Erk! Forget! Forget the last things I said! Please just forget!" She waved her arms then covered her face.'I can't believe I told him that!'
"Don't worry. If I have something to say then I'll tell you. And I would never think that you were mean enough to betray your friends. Besides you both are right about a couple of things." he reassured.'She loves how kind I am…'
"Wait what do you mean by that?" Shirley turned to face him.
"Hello Shirley, Suzaku." a voice came from behind them. They both turned around to see Lelouch behind them.
"Lulu! Um, how are you? How was your winter break?" Shirley said, blushing just by being near him. Suzaku took notice of her some what pink face.
'Lelouch how do you make Shirley love you? I wish someone like her would love me… Wait a minute! What am I thinking!? I mean it would be great if Shirley loved me as much as she loves Lelouch but… Wait I don't like her like that! No I couldn't…. could I? No! No way! I mean even if I did it's not like she would return my feelings… But I don't like her like that which is good because she doesn't like me more than a friend! She loves Lelouch! And I love her! Ack! Wait! No! I don't like her like that! No! No! No!'His thoughts were swirling around in his head. He was getting dizzy, he felt like everything was going in slow motion. 'Stop! Stop!' He blacked out.
"Suzaku?!" Shirley ran to his side in a heartbeat. She put her ear on his chest, to listen to his heartbeat. "His heart is beating rather fast. I better take him to the nurse's office."
"Wait, Shirley I'll help you." Lelouch walked over and put one of Suzaku's arms over his shoulder while Shirley took the other.' Suzaku how can you just faint like that? I hope nothing's wrong…' Shirley thought.
'Suzaku how can you work as a knight when you faint randomly?'Lelouch thought.
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At the nurse's office………
"Finally we made it." Shirley told Lelouch. He only grunted in response. "Lulu are you tired?"
"Kinda… I mean no!"
"This is because you never go to gym class." Shirley scolded. " How do you expect to win me ove-Arrrgh! No! Nothing!" Shirley was as red as a beet. She threw her hands to her face and shook her head wildly.
"What?" Lelouch questioned, he was confused at her strange behavior.
After a couple seconds of her continuing to shake her head she stopped, she made sure that her blushing was kept to a minimum. "I said nothing. Don't worry about it!"
The nurse was out to lunch and wouldn't be back for a while. Meanwhile, there was dead silence in the nurse's office, Lelouch didn't seem to mind but Shirley was nervous and uncomfortable.'Okay think of something to talk about…'Shirley thought.
"Soooo~, Lulu, where were you today? You missed the meeting." She asked.
"I was taking care of Nunally… She says I've been distant lately. Is that true?" He turned his head to meet her green eyes.
"Well… Lulu… you have been rather preoccupied these past couple of weeks. I mean, you've been missing a whole lot of days. I've beenkindaworried, is everything all right?"
"Every things all right. You don't have to be worried… it's just that I've been busy with other things…" Lelouch reassured.'Like the Black Knights….' he thought, 'good thing that I'm taking at least 2 months off. Just for my own personal enjoyment and because of Nunally. Let's see my underlings try and contact me. Let's see what they'll do while I'm gone.'
"Oh, alright. Did you finish the assignments we had?"
"Yep they are all finished I just have to bring them in."
"What?! Already?! Boy Lulu, you sure are fast." Shirley gave him a big smile. Lelouch felt like the room was getting hotter.'Or is it just me?' he thought. Just then the bell rang, signaling that they should get to their first classes of the day.
"You should go, Lulu." Shirley waved her hand giving him the 'go ahead' sign.
"But-"
"It's okay Lulu. Go ahead, I mean you've missed a whole lot of days already. Besides, don't you have to hand in your school assignments?"
"Well…. fine, but I'll come back as soon as the bell rings." Lelouch said before he left for his class.
"Bye Lulu."
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As Lelouch walked down the hall he couldn't help but think about what happened in the nurse's office.
'What's wrong with me?' he thought,' that isn't the first time I've seen Shirley give me that big smile… so why is it effecting me now?…… Could it be that…? No! No, of course! I must be coming down with something…'
Lelouchdecidedtostopthinkingaboutitand to think about the Black Knights.
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Meanwhile at the nurse's office……….
Shirley stood over Suzaku and stared at him up and down. She was still trying to find out why he fainted.
'Maybe he's been sick the last couple of days and is still recovering…'she thought.
Shirley gently placed her hand on top of Suzaku's forehead.
'He doesn't seem to have a fever…. I hope it isn't something serious…'
Shirley then decided to rest her head upon his chest. She let out a sigh of relief.
'Good… his heart has slowed down to a normal rate…Wait it's going back up…'
"Shirley?! What are you doing?!" a familiar voice said.
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To Be Continued………
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Sorakun9 speaking...
Oh no, to be continued! Whose voice was that? ( If you didn't notice my hint in the story) What does Lelouch really feel about Shirley? How does Suzaku really feel about Shirley? Who knows I make this up as I go along. Please review! And stay tuned! Also thanks for reading!