Alternate Universe: Story Setting and Characters.

Chapter one

1 If there's love, there's you and me.

It's six in the evening and our little lady is tutoring her schoolmates. Scratch that, she's tutoring the popular girls in school. Well the saying, "Beauty and Brains" is somehow not appropriate to them. Heck, the three of them are all pretty and snotty but brains? I don't think so. Their brains are like those of green peas. So small. The truth does hurt sometimes.

As for Cagalli? She's one of the smartest in her batch. Physical appearance? She's a natural beauty although she needs a lot of polishing in wearing clothes. Have you seen those movies wherei n the heroin is smart and wears eyeglasses and her hair in braids? Cagalli Yula Athha is duh, not one of them. She's not that into make-up and too-girlish clothes. She'd rather wear denim jeans, white tank tops and flip flops. Oh and her hair in headbands. Imagine her - a simple smart girl. Isn't she the cutest?

"Ms. Ramuis, this is not the correct answer." Cagalli tries to get her attention.

What do popular girls often do? One, hair. Two, nails. Three, magazines. Four, social life. Five, oh yeah, boys. And right now? They're doing Popular-Girls'-Daily-Talk Number 05.

"I agree! Athrun zala is so H-O-T! and he are soooo compatible!" meyrin screamed out her lungs.

Popular Girls' voices are so deafening. If there would be a champagne glass beside them, it would have definitely been broken into pieces.

"Football players are the image of H-O-T!" Another girl expressed her hot opinion in the same high-pitch voice. "Have you seen athrun zala and kira yamato play last week?"

"OMG meer campbell! He's like super cool that day! I almost want to kiss the ground where they was standing!" A shoulder-length-haired girl shrieked. Well from her name plate, she's .meyrin hawke

"Ms. ramuis!" cagalli shouted at them. In what way could such a timid girl get the attention of the talkative girls?

"cagalli we're not deaf you know." lunamaria said.

"Sorry. I just wanted to tell you that your answer in item 01 is wrong and so are items 02, 03, 04, 05 -" cagallil was cut in her sentence when So Ra dismissed her with her hand.

"Who cares getting the right answer? Why do we even have to take tutorials? And not to mention, cagalli hibiki as the tutor. What's wrong with the world?" lunamaria continued curling her lashes.

"It's because you failed the exams twice. And Ms. gladys is helping you through tutorials." With that being said, all three girls gave her a menacing glare which made cagalli gulp.

"This is boring. I'd be in a club right now dancing with boys from other schools if not for you, Cagalli." meer pointed at her with her last words.

"But this is not my fault. Please listen to me when I explain where you got it wrong and I'm sure you'll pass the exam tomorrow." cagalli persuaded them.

"You know cagalli, we don't need your help to pass the exam tomorrow. I'm sure we'll do just fine. Right, girls?" meyrin told her in a very girlish manner.

"Yeah!" The other two synchronized with their reply.

"Let's go girls. We're wasting our time here." meyrin stood up from her seat and looked dirtily at cagalli. "Where were we? Oh yeah, athrun zala!"

And there the popular dim-witted girls went out their way back to their more-scream; more-make-up; more-nail polishes; more magazines; more boys world.

"Aathrun Zala..." cagalli sighed.

After that let's-not-waste-our-time-here-with-Cagalli, our little cute girl went upstairs to her bedroom. She slumped down to her chair-desk and found her grade-three artwork interesting. Snapping her back from her embarrassing artwork, her phone rang.

"hello?" calli greeted the caller.

"Hey calli! It's me milly!"

"Oh, milly. Why did you call?"

"Well, I was going to ask you about your day with P-girls. So how was it?"

"It's terrific!"

"That horrible?"

"Yeah, I can't see why they're so hard to get along with."

"That's who the P-girls are. You didn't think of going along with them, right? That would be wishing for the impossible."

"No, it's not like that. I just hope they would focus to the lessons. Tomorrow would be their third time failing the exam."

"You're very sure they'll fail it?" milly laughed hysterically. "That would be no wonder. I don't blame them."

"Yah miriallia haww! That's quite going overboard." Calli giggled like a girl caught eating cookies with her best friend.

"So then, if they didn't study what did they do?"

"Well, they talked about boys the whole time. They talked about my brother kira and..."

"And?" milly asked urging her to continue.

"And athrun zala calli trailed off with the words.

" ultimate-hot-soccer-captain?" milly almost puked with the term the student body uses.

"Yeah..." calli sighed once again tonight.

"athrun zala: Calli long time crush since first year high school."

"Yah! milly! You don't need to put it that way!" calli wholeheartedly laughed at her best friend's statement.

"It's the ugly truth!"

"Ugly truth?"

"Crushing on athrun zala is a bad-bad thing, Ga Eul. That would be wishing for the sun to rise on the west."

"What do you mean, milly?"

"It's impossible. I'm 99.99% sure he wouldn't look at average girls like us. Don't get me wrong, calli. But that's what I think. He's a far-fetched dream. You do understand me, right?"

"Of course, I understand you. But it's not a bad thing to just like him a little."

"A little? Or do you mean a lot?" milly giggled.

"The latter." calli laughed at her own remarks.