Stubbornly in Love

Chapter 1: First Encounter

A girl with short blonde hair and pair of golden eyes walk at the hallway it was her first day of school at the Destiny Academy. The school is an exclusive institution reserved only for students from incredibly wealthy and affluent families.

Cagalli is in lower-middle class family who happen top the entrance exam and enrolled as a scholar at the academy. She was walking at the hallway. All of the students look at her. They all whispering and talking about her.

"Hey, isn't that the girl who passed the entrance exam?" the girl said whispering to her classmate.

"Yeah…. I heard that her family were poor and she enrolled here as a scholar." The other girl whispered back.

"But look at her, she's doesn't deserve to be here." The girl said.

"Yeah… you're right." The other girl replied.

Cagalli glance at the two girls who were talking about her and then she walks away.

"Shessh! This spoiled rich kids!" Cagalli said angrily.

"Who do you think they are?! They're just spoiled rich kids who want to show-off their expensive things and they think that they're superior!" she continued stomping her foot while going to her classroom.

As she reach to her classroom. She takes a sit on her seat and start putting out her notebook and pen for her class which she's going to take that time. She looks around and all she can see were that all the people around her were showing their most expensive things that they have. Cagalli sighs.

"Why this people bring some expensive things around in this school? Aren't they scared for being robbed or hold-up by someone?" Cagalli thought.

"Why do high school students have chauffeurs to take them here and back home?"

"It's CRAZY!"

"I'm sick saying that repeatedly and it's my 2nd year in the fall."

"People from high society came at Destiny Academy. This distinguish private school is an escalator from kinder garden to university." Cagalli thoughts.

"Oh… well… they're rich and they don't even care if they lost something… money can buy anything for them." Cagalli said to herself and rest her chin on her hand.

"Hey, where did you buy that Prada bag?" the girl ask.

"At New York. I heard that this is a limited stock so I went there and buy it." The girl with dark red shoulder level hair and pair of gray eyes said.

"Really?" the girl said.

"I stay at the famous 5 star hotel in LA." The girl continued.

"Honto?" Flay said.

"Oh… near miss!" the other girl said.

"Everybody from the outside world admires this school, thought."

"I'm a commoner in this prestigious school who happens to TOP the entrance exam and got a scholarship."

"I have no choice but to follow them." Cagalli thought.

Then the class started as the teacher came in and all the students went back to their respected seats.

Andrew Waltfeld, the current teacher in History that time.

"Ok… as the other historian says that the Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra was a recreation of the Egyptian Goddess. Isis…" Andrew said teaching his lecture.

Andrew is about to announce about the quiz when someone shouts from the corridors.

"RED NOTE!!" the boy shouted along way to the corridors.

"RED NOTE!! Sai Argyle from class 1-C got a RED NOTE from ZAFT!!" the boy announced roaming around the school building.

Andrew got alarmed.

"Ok. Class. Dismissed." He said and packs his things and went out the room hurriedly.

As Andrew Waltfeld left all the students left the room. Each student in every class left the room.

"Lets catch up with Argyle." The guy said.

"Yeah!!" everyone said except for Cagalli who's sitting quietly.

As the all of the students in school went out to their room and catch up with their new victim. Who's running around the school building to hide for himself from the school bullies. But all of the students catch up with Sai and get him and bring him at the school cafeteria were the judgment and bullying taking place.

Cagalli stayed behind the room, resting her head on the table. She sighs.

"Those fools…" she murmured and looked stressed out.

"Not again… those guys… they think that they're gods coz they can control this school. They're just a bunch of rich kids that have nothing to do with their money." Cagalli thought and she sighs again.

A girl with long pink hair and paired with blue eyes approached Cagalli.

"Athha.." the girl said.

Cagalli look up at the girl.

"What a pity girl… she transfer herself here in the most prestigious but most dangerous and pitiful school in Japan." Cagalli thought.

"Hm?" Cagalli said.

"Why all the students went out the room? What's happening here? What's happening to everyone? What is a Red Note?" the girl asked.

"I'll tell you later, Campbell.." Cagalli said and stand up.

[Hallway

Cagalli and Meer walks at the hallway.

"A "declaration of WAR" from ZAFT." Cagalli said.

"ZAFT? Who are they?" Meer asked.

"A group of four 3rd year boys from one of the riches families in the country and they control this school." Cagalli explained.

"If you go against ZAFT you get a Red Note, then everyone from here come here and come after you and bully you until you quit attending this school." she continued.

"Why does everyone follows ZAFT?" Meer asks again.

"They're the sons and heirs of SUPER-RICH families." Cagalli continued.

"Isn't everyone were the same here?"

"No. It's different." Cagalli said.

"Our school receives a lot of vast amounts of the money from their parents. Even the teachers were no match from them. They're promised free reign at school." Cagalli continued.

[Cafeteria

Everyone's cheering from the event.

Flay look back and saw the ZAFT.

"It's ZAFT!!" she said.

All of the people at the cafeteria look back and saw the ZAFT coming. The girls were screaming as the ZAFT entered the room. And the boys were cheering their name group.

"That's why I never seen them in our school uniform." Cagalli said.

"The ZAFT's members are.." she continued.

"Joule, Yzak. He loves the company of women of 10 year older than him. He's an older woman "Lady Killer". His parents were bosses of the underground society."

"Elsman, Dearka. He's the son and heir of the head of a tea ceremony school. He's a freaking PLAYBOY and WOMANIZER."

"Yamato, Kira. He's a PET SON of a BIG company. Cool and a few words and mostly quiet type person… a mysterious member of the group."

"And then there's Zala, Athrun. He's the son of the famous Zala Worldwide Financial Group. He's the leader and an autocrat of ZAFT." Cagalli continued.

Cagalli and Meer arrive at the school cafeteria. Everyone's cheering for the ZAFT group. Then two guys when to the center bringing another guy.

"Zala-san, this is Argyle's friend." The guy said.

Then another guy picks up Sai and makes him stand up.

"Stand up" the guy said and pushed Sai beside his friend. In front of the ZAFT's leader Athrun Zala.

Athrun look at the two then nods and look at Sai's friend lean towards him.

"Let the game begin!" Athrun said.

Everyone cheers and Sai and his friend shook their heads. Athrun stand up and walk towards to the two and punch Sai two times until he falls into his knees and Athrun look down at him. Everybody claps and cheers.

"I told you to do like this! You idiots!" Athrun continued.

"Hey, isn't that Kuzzey Buskirk?" Dearka said to Yzak.

Athrun approached Kuzzey with smirk on his face and hold his shoulder and bend a little to Kuzzey.

"Don't waste my time! You loser!" Athrun said and punch Kuzzey on his stomach. Everyone cheers.

Kira stand up and walks towards to the exit he looks at Cagalli and walks away. Cagalli follows him with her eyes.

Athrun kicks Sai and everyone's cheering.

"As we expected, that was a nice one!" the guy said approaching Athrun but Athrun kicks him and fix his jacket.

"Your methods were sucks! It bores me." Athrun said and combs him hair with his hand.

"I don't waste my time on this." He continued.

Yzak and Dearka stand up and approach Athrun.

"Ok! It's over now!" Dearka said.

"Game Over." Yzak said.

Everybody claps as the 3 walks away to the exit.

Cagalli and Meer look around the room.

"Kyaa! He's so cool!" Flay said.

Cagalli look down and clutch her fist and run towards to the fire exit. She opens the door and closes it as she enters the fire exit. Her breaths raggedly her chest was doing up and down.

"Idiots! ALL off THEM!" she said to herself angrily.

"What's with those fools anyway?! Cool?! They're not cool! Especially that freaking blue haired hot-tempered guy! Don't get so happy from such a sneaky freaking game! Freaking stupid bitches!" Cagalli continued while walking down the stairs.

As Cagalli came down and went to the fence and slams her fist on the fence.

"It's wrong to be so happy while your friends are getting beat up and bullied." She said.

"How dare them! How dare them!" she continued.

"This is CRAZY!" she shouted.

Kira is lying down at the stairs with a book covering his face he heard someone and put the book off from his face and looks up at Cagalli and watch her.

Cagalli take a deep breath and nods her head.

"Okay..." she said and left the fire escape.

As Cagalli left Kira sits up and look up at the stairs.

[Cagalli's Classroom

The class is on going. A student reciting a book for the whole class and a teacher walks around the classroom to listen.

"Just a year and a half to go that I'll need to endure till graduation." Cagalli said to her self in her mind.

"I will keep quiet… and try to not stand out. That's my only wish for."

Cagalli rest her chin on her hands.

"But However…."

[At the Japanese Sweet Store

"Eh? Really? Someone got a Red Note again??" a girl with short brown hair and pair of blue eyes said.

"This guy Argyle, what did he do this time?" the girl continued.

"At the school cafeteria, he accidentally spills a glass of water on that Zala's shirt." Cagalli said while eating something sweet stuff.

"What?" the girl ask.

"ZAFT's name came from a military unit from a shounen manga." Cagalli expalained.

"Hah! How stupid are they." She continued while she walks towards to the girl.

"They're just a bunch of stupid and selfish brats." She said angrily.

The girl laughs.

"Stupid and selfish brats." The girl said while laughing.

"If you're at Destiny Academy, your classmates might take on you to a garbage can and throw you into a river." She continued while wiping the glass window.

"Yeah… you're right." Cagalli said and nods.

"Milly, if you don't eat this. I'll eat it." Cagalli asked for food if Milly will eat it or not.

"But that was already expired." Milly said.

"It's ok." Cagalli said eating the food.

"But I know you'll survive." Milly said looking at her.

"Yep. I had a stomachache once." Cagalli mention about her stomachache before.

"That's not what I meant." Milly told Cagalli.

"Huh?" Cagalli blinked.

"Hmmm… I wonder how you can survive with their stupid behavior." Milly said looking at her.

Cagalli look down while eating.

"You always protect me and everyone else since we're kids."

A flash backs came into Cagalli's mind.

"When were still in kindergarten." Milly said.

A young Milly crying and while a young Cagalli hoping and ready for a fight and approach the four young boys and punch one of them.

"When were in elementary school."

A 9 years old Milly crying and while a 9 years old Cagalli hoping and ready for a fight and approach the four 9 year old boys and punch one of them.

"When were in Junior High school."

A 15 years old Milly crying and while a 15 years old Cagalli hoping and ready for a fight and approach the four 15 years old boys and punch one of them.

"Nobody from Destiny High know how good and kind you are." Milly continued.

Cagalli look down at her food then she look at Milly.

"I wish that I could beat them up and make them leave the academy." She continued.

"But…"

"But?" Milly asked.

"I can't do that. All I can do is obeying their rules." Cagalli said.

Milly nods.

[Night time, Athha Residence

Cagalli opens the rice cooker and saw 3 boiled eggs.

"Shinn, why is there eggs in the rice cooker?" she asked.

"If I boiled them separately, it'll waste electricity sis." Shinn said as he went to the table and put the food on the table.

"Cagalli." Urumi Nara called her.

"Hai?" Cagalli said.

"I saw this fancy lunch box." He said and put the lunch box on the counter.

Cagalli look down at the fancy lunch box and start feeling speechless.

"I saw this last night when I'm arranging the dishes on the cabinet." Her father continued.

"Starting tomorrow you're lunch will gonna put in here."

"But… Otó-san this is too fancy…" she said.

"What are you saying? This is nice. There's nothing bad if you bring this beautiful lunch box at school." He said.

"But…" Cagalli was about to protest when her father stops her.

"No buts. Like it or not you'll bring this ok?" her father said.

Cagalli look down at the lunch box and sighs.

"Shinn, time for dinner." Uzumi said as he put the food on the table.

"Hai!" Shinn replies and went to the dining room and take a sit on his seat.

Everyone's at their seats.

"Itadakimasu!" everyone in the dining room said and starts to eat. Later Shinn start to say something.

"I want to successfully enter a high school with the cheapest fees in Japan!" Shinn said.

Uzumi claps.

"Do you best son!" he said cheerfully.

Cagalli looks down and unhappy.

"Umm… If you're having too many troubles, then I should quit attending Destiny Academy…" she said look unhappy.

"No… I'm just joking sis!" Shinn said then look at Uzumi and he nods and both of the two men resumes eating.

Cagalli looks down and sighs.

"From the bottom of their hearts, everyone in my family were happy that I'm attending Destiny Academy…" Cagalli thought and resumes eating.

[Flash Back

At the company where Cagalli's father Uzumi Nara Athha works.

A guy approaches him and asks him.

"Athha-san." The guy said.

"Hai?" Uzumi look at the guy.

"I heard that your daughter goes to Destiny Academy." The guy said.

"Yes… She does." Uzumi said smiling.

At the Jr. High School where Shinn attends too.

Shinn's drinking at the fountain when a guy approaches Shiinn and asks him.

"Hey, Shinn." The guy said.

Shiin look up at his schoolmate.

"Yes?" he asks.

"Does your sister goes to Destiny Academy?" the guy asked.

"Yes…" Shinn said and smiles.

[End of Flashback

Cagalli's eating while thinking.

"For my sake, they are encouraging me with their smiles." She thoughts.

[30 minutes after dinner, at Cagalli's room

Cagalli is lying on her bed and thinks.


"So, I can never say such things as 'I WANT TO QUIT DESTINY ACADEMY' in front of my family." She thoughts.

"I shouldn't have entered Destiny Academy at the first place."

[Flash Back, At Destiny Academy, 1 month before the school year starts

"I'm Lacus Clyne and I graduated last 2006" a girl with long pink hair color and pair of blue eyes standing at the stage at the auditorium having her speech.

"Welcome to Destiny Academy." The girl continued.

All the people were looking at her.

"She's gorgeous." Uzumi said with amazement while looking at the brochure.

"She look like a model." He continued.

"She's the daughter of the president of Clyne Company. She's study abroad at a school at France."

"What an amazing person she is!" he said aloud.

A woman look at him asks him to keep his voice down.

"Shhhs! Please keep your voice down." The woman said and pays back her attention to Lacus.

Cagalli looks down then Lacus look at her side and Cagalli look at her. Lacus smiles at her and look back at the audience.

"I like to say something for those that are deciding on which path they want to take." Lacus said.

Cagalli gulped and pays her attention to Lacus.

"Just be your self." Lacus continued.

"If you do that I'm sure you will enjoy your life at school."

[End of Flash Back

[At The bathroom

Cagalli's taking a night bath and looks down at the water while she's thinking about her problems and her life as a High School student.

"I thought that I wanted to be like this wonderful person, so I entered Destiny Academy." Cagalli thought and sighs.

"I thought that I would have had more exciting life at school" she continued.

[Flash back on what happened at the Cafeteria at Destiny. Showing those events how the ZAFT bully those people can't fight for them selves and how they rule the whole school.

"I hate Destiny Academy…"

"I hate those arrogant ZAFT…"

"I hate my cruel classmates…"

"But to be honest… I hate myself because I can't say anything…"

Cagalli look up and sighs and lower self in the water.

[Next Morning, at Destiny Academy

Lunch time and all the students were eating fancy and expensive food. Cagalli is resting her head on the table looking at the girl who's eating her lunch at the next table beside her's.

"This is unbelievable…" she said under hear breathe the she look at her lunch box and unwrapped it. She gets her chopstick box and look at her lunch box and sighs.

"Well… this is also unbelievable too.." she said and opens her lunch box and look at her lunch closely.

"Huh?" she look closely at her lunch.

"This is my lunch? Prawns?" she said in disbelief and put the lid at the side and opens her chopstick box and get her chopsticks.

Two guys approach the new transferee student Meer Campbell and ask her.

"Hey! Are you Campbell who just transferred to Class 1-B?" the guy asked.

"Ah, this is the first time meeting you. Want to eat lunch with us?" the other guy asked.

Cagalli happened to be seated near where Meer's confronted by the two guys hear them and look at them.

"Umm… I…" Meer said looking down.

"Hey, I found some seats so come with us." The guy said again and holds Meer's hand and pulls her towards to the vacant seats.

"Campbell!" Cagalli called Meer.

Meer looks at her and let go the guy's hand.

"Over here!" Cagalli said pointing the vacant seat in front of her.

Meer went to Cagalli and sit across from her the two guys left.

"Thank you very much…" Meer said thanking Cagalli.

"No Problem…" Cagalli said.

"I'm not used to guys." Meer explained.

"I also think that I can't get used to this school." She continued and look around.

"Hey!" Cagalli said and get closer to Meer.

"By a chance are you a commoner?" Cagalli asked.

Meer look at Cagalli's lunch box and gasped.

"Oh!"

"What?" Cagalli asked.

"Ah! On no! its moldy!" Meer said and points at Cagalli's lunch.

"Oh… It's not. Its just 'FURIKAKE'." Cagalli explained.

Meer look at her in wide eye and curious and Cagalli stares at her and nods her head.

"As I thought… you're a rich man's daughter…" Cagalli said and look at her straight into Meer's eyes.

Meer blinks and looks down. Cagalli smiles and get one rice ball from her lunch box.

"Wanna try?" Cagalli asked.

Meer nods.

"Itadakimasu." She said.

Cagalli hands the rice ball to Meer. Meer gets the rice ball in shaking hands and eats it.

"Its delicious!" Meer said in disbelief.

"Really?" Cagalli asked smilingly.

Meer nods.

"Yes!" she said.

Cagalli smiles and they start to eat their lunch.

Cagalli and Meer finished their lunch and start talking.

"Meer… it's a nice name." Cagalli said.

"I'm kinda jealous…" she continued and fix her lunchbox.

"Cagalli is a cute name." Meer said clears the table.

"How?" Cagalli asked.

"Its kinda sucks." She said.

"I really wonder why my parents named me that name." Cagalli said smiling and stands up.

Meer smiles and stands up and get her tray. She's about leave when she bumps into someone. She look shocked when she recognized who she bumped into. It was Athrun Zala.

Athrun looks down at his shirt the rest of the ZAFT went down stairs beside Athrun except for Kira who's still upstairs.

"I'm Sorry." Meer apologized.

"That was unusual greeting" Athrun said.

"Uh…" Meer said and looks down.

Athrun looks down.

"I'll pay for the cleaning cost…" she continued.

Athrun look at Meer and takes off his neck tie.

"Cleaning cost huh?" he said.

"You're joking right?" he continued.

Meer look scared while Athrun takes of his shirt and throws to Meer. She drops her tray and lean against the table. Cagalli look at Meer.

Yzak approach Athrun and pats his shoulder.

"Now, Now. Athrun." He said and sit on the table.

"Don't bully such a cute girl…" he continued and look at Meer and touch Meer's hair.

Meer looks down and scared.

"That's a shame! I wanted to meet you if you were 10 years older than me." Dearka said as he approach Meer and look down at her.

"Do you have and older sisters?" he asked as he put his hand on Meer's shoulder.

"Ahhh…" Athrun said.

The two guys look at Athrun and stand up and went behind him.

"If I catch pneumonia, what will you do?" he asked.

Meer and Cagalli look at him.

Athrun approaches Meer.

"I'm the son of Zala Financial Group which Japan relies on!" he continued and looks closer to Meer.

Cagalli takes a deep breath and looks down.

"What do you know about the future of Japan?" he asked.

Athrun lost his patience.

"I asked what you know!" he shouted at Meer.

Cagalli look at Athrun.

"Sto…. Stop…" she said.

"Please." She begged.

Both Athrun and Kira look at her. All the people inside the cafeteria look at her. Flay's group gasped.

Cagalli look down.

'F-Forgive her… Please…" she begged again.

Athrun look at her angrily.

Cagalli look uneasy.

"It wasn't on purpose." She said and looks more uneasy.

Athrun stare at her for a moment stands straight and walks towards her and stops at her side and walks pass on her. The rest of the ZAFT follows him after he left the cafeteria.

Cagalli release her breath that she's holding and look at the ZAFT.

Athrun stops in front of the door while the other three continue walking out the cafeteria and looks back at her for a moment and follows the three.

Cagalli looks down and nervous on what she did.

[At the lockers area

Cagalli approaches her locker and start to think things.

"I really wish…" she thought.

Cagalli reach the locker and holds the handle.

"I really wished for a quiet life…"

She opens her locker and looks up and saw a RED NOTICE hanging inside her locker.

"Then I got involved in their game…"

she stares at the red note which hanging inside her locker.