The Girl Next Door

Disclaimer: It's simple. I don't own GS/D or Sunrise. Now go and bother some one else. (Smiles)

Author's Note: Here is the first chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. Oh and thanks for the reviews! SD will be updated soon, maybe tomorrow or the next day.

Note to be cautioned:

-Cagalli and Kira aren't related in any sort of way.

-Cagalli and Athrun are a bit OCC in this fic. Hopefully you have not problem with that matter. Don't worry it will be good.


--Chapter 1: She's back--

Meet Athrun Zala, the son of a well-known family in the Heliopolis neighborhood as to that his dad is the priest of the town.

As you can see, he isn't one of an athlete who can score girls or win everyone's heart by one look. He is just plain, Athrun Zala. He is in fact one of the boys who begins to sit from morning till night, during weekends and weekdays in the local library reading big heavy theory books. Yup. That's him, Plain and boring Athrun Zala, just turned 17 and geeky as a fact. Oh, did I mention he wears thick black glasses?

The Popular teens in school, tease him inside and as well outside of school, as he is the biggest high school nerd in the neighborhood. And for another fact, he isn't as lonely as everyone thinks he is. He does have a friend. Ok, friends. They were Kira and Nicol.

Sadly, they were 'geeks' as well.

The popular kids also teased them as the 'nerd followers' of the 'BIG Geek'—Yes, that's right, that's the special nickname for poor Athrun and his friends—and as they were called that, they did nothing to stop it.

And obviously, Athrun couldn't deal with them or even tell them to back off. He just didn't want more bothersome problems, he had only a year to go, no point bugging over it

One more year and he will be out of that darn high school into the big university in December City where he will be safe and won't be bother.

He was to belong there in the first place.

For somewhat years in that horrible high school that he is still attending to, Athrun just walked softly without giving himself much commotion, until…

"Athrun, did you hear?" a boy with a brown eyeglass frame asked walking beside the person he was talking to. He held his books with both arms. Along beside him was a boy with green hair and simple glasses. His name was Nicol.

"Hear what, Kira?" the navy blue hair boy named Athrun asked boringly as he readjusted his thick dark frames on his nose bridge.

"Remember Cagalli Hibiki? She's moving back to Heliopolis."

A chilling breeze swept up his long spine and a drop of sweat formed on his brows. He hadn't heard that name for such a long time, that it was almost strange hearing it in such a casual way. "…Really?" Athrun answered rather not interested in plain tone. Weirdly his heart pound quickly and his hands started to sweat. He rubbed his sweaty hands on the side of his pants. Thoughts of a certain blond ran through his busy mind but at the same time, fury befell on him. She left him. He remembered that.

"Yup." Kira said confirming it. Nicol nodded along side. "It's been a long time since we have seen her. I wonder how she looks like."

"Well, I bet she will ignore us just like everyone else." Athrun said coldly as he made a turn at the corner of the hallway.

"Oh c'mon, we have known her since preschool." Kira said with a smile. "Maybe she might remember us…"

Athrun shook his head. "Kira, you think too much." Athrun sighed. "You should just forget about her." He looked at the class they were entering to, AP Biology. Athrun smiled and brushed that 'thought' away. This is the only class that those 'Idiotic Wannabes kids' aren't in. But of course, they aren't that smart, they said so themselves. As meanly as that sounds.

Athrun greeted his teacher and sat down with Kira and Nicol in the same front row, always in front of the class. There weren't many kids who took AP—Advance Placement, a higher level, a university level course study—only students who wanted to learn more took it, like the ingenious bluenette.

Athrun inhaled the air in a Zen mode. "Yes, peace and tranquility--"

"Ok class, today we got a new student joining our class." The teacher interrupted his thoughts. Athrun opened his eyes to find a young person about his age beside his Bio teacher. It was a blond girl. No, not a nerdy blond but a…a r-really busty blond with gorgeous looks and a short white miniskirt follow by a red tank top. Thank god, it wasn't see-through…

"This is Cagalli Hibiki, everyone." The teacher introduced the person beside him.

"Hey." The girl said plainly, rolling her eyes with a-what-ever expression. She was playing with the gum in her mouth, coiling it around her slim index finger. No bright smile there, just a punk rebellious chick, probably with the bad reputation.

The whole class's mouth was gaped, whispering to each other, making a loud murmuring noise. "No, no this couldn't be!"… "By the law of physics, there can't be a gorgeous blond smart enough to take AP Biology!!" A boy nose bled from looking at the blond… "What's with her?" said a girl making a disgusted face.

"It just has to be a joke." Kira muttered with a red tomato face. "Yes, it must be one of those cruel jokes that those 'kids' are trying to put together." Nicol said looking at Kira, then at the blond. "But it's Cagalli Hibiki…" the green haired boy turn to the bluenette beside him and nudge him, "Athrun, do you think this is a joke?"

The answer to Nicol's question didn't come. Athrun was in outer disbelief and in plain shock. Of course his face didn't show that.

"Cagalli?" his mind questioned. "That's Cagalli? No, it couldn't be…"

"She left…and…" Athrun swallowed an unusual lump in his throat. "Now she came back looking like…" he glanced at her body figure, "…so grown up…and beautiful." His mind kicked. "Remember she's not the same girl from before… just forget about her…" Athrun frowned. "…Like you were trying to this all this years..."... "That's not her..."

Seeing everyone's reaction on the new student, the teacher spoke in a matter-of-fact, "Ok, I know Miss Hibiki is different from all of you, but remember everyone, don't judge a book by its cover. Miss Hibiki here has scored the second highest on the Biology Government exam."

"Eehhh!!??" Everyone gasped in astonishment. Athrun blinked in shock. If Athrun was the first one to score the highest...than the person who he wonder that scored next to him was...Cagalli!? Impossible!

"Gee, thanks. Now everyone will think I'm a geek." She spat looking away, her eyes caught the sight of emerald eyes. Just for a second she thought that she has seen them before, but the next she shook her mind and was back to her rebel-self.

The adult in the classroom sweat dropped. "Uh, Miss Hibiki, please take a seat anywhere that's available." The teacher indicated.

"Thanks." She said plainly, putting back her gum in her mouth. She walked passed the boy with emerald eyes, books in hands. Everyone eye's were on her. She sat a table behind Athrun and his nerdy friends. Athrun silently cursed in his mind.

Not minding all the morning commotion, the teacher walked to the whiteboard with a black marker and started to write the lecture number. "Ok, now open to page 156, Eukaryotic cells." Sentences in black ink were written. "The plasma membrane resembles that of prokaryotes in…"

"This is going to be a long day…" A blunette sighed in his wonderous thought.


"Ok, finish the worksheets that are been passed down. You can work in a group, but I prefer you work alone. Non the less, this is AP class after all." The teacher said. "They are due by tomorrow." He walked to his desk and started marking some papers.

As Cagalli got the paper from the person in front of her, she groaned and cursed in colorful words silently. Before she could even take another look at the worksheet in front of her, two boys walked towards her with a friendly smile on their faces. "Hey Cagalli." They waved.

"Huh?" She gave a good look at them. Both of the boys had different hair color, one was brunette, the other was greenette. Eh, it wasn't just their hair color that was geeky and old fashion; their clothing attire was…completely tasteless. Just awful, awful fashion sense. "What do you want?" she asked rudely chewing her flavored bubblegum.

"Ah, you don't remember us?" Nicol asked in shock.

"No." she said. "Even if I did, why would I?" she snorted in an unladylike manner.

Feeling a little taken aback, the brunette said pointing at her, his friend beside him, him and at the bluenette who was not paying attention to any of this sat on the lab chair doing his homework quietly, "Eh, we all went to preschool together."

"Yah, right." she said in disbelieve, chewing her gum. "Why in the world would I hang--?"

Feeling that Kira needed to proof this he called the bluenette over, "Hey, Athrun! C'mon over here for a second."

Feeling sort of startled, the name 'Athrun' ran in her mind. "That name…" She tried to take one good look at the boy who turned around, but he turned too fast. She gave up and shrugged it off. He was probably no one special to her, if she knew that name. She felt her heart go sore. "What's this feeling?"

Athrun said plainly not in the mood, "Sorry, Kira, I'm busy, maybe later." and turned back around to finish his work. "That's definitely not her…I know, Cagalli…she wouldn't be like that…" the thought of her buzzed in his mind.

"Cagalli…"

The brows of the blond rose, "You heard your geeky friend," she said mockingly turning her head away from the nerds who stood in front of her eyes. "Now beat it."

Kira sweated and turned around with an apology.


Lunch time…

"You are right, Athrun, she might have already forgotten us…" Kira said in disappointment.

"I told you so." Athrun said reading a book.

"But she didn't take a look at Athrun." Nicol interjected. "Yah." Kira said as a back up. Athrun's eyebrows rose in question. He raised his face from his book, "Does it make a difference?"

The both boys responded with a sweat drop. "Well, for a fact, you've been Cagalli's most closest person when we were young. She might have remembered you if you had come with us." Nicol rose as a matter-of-fact.

"Yah, that's true." Kira said nodding. As he opened his eyes, he found Athrun walking away, his book in hand.

"Hey, where are you going?" Kira asked standing up.

"Somewhere where it's quiet. See you guys later." Athrun answered in an irked-yet-silent voice. Nicol waved bye but Kira stare in blank. He whispered to Nicol, "did we say something wrong?" And his friend shook his head. "I don't think so."


Library…in the deepest part of it…where it's abandoned…

"The principles of stratigraphy are applied to archeology in terms of the law of superposition, which states that…" Athrun read silently in his mind, until a familiar voice interrupted his reading.

"Hey, what do you say we ditch this place and go somewhere fun, like the mall?" a male voice whispered, in a seductive tone. The female replied with the same tone but with a giggle, "Hmm…sounds great, but I have math next class, sorry, babe. But maybe after school…"

"Ca-Cagalli?" Athrun said in an utter shock. He didn't hear well what they said. "What does she mean…after school?" He slightly turned over his shoulder, to the bookcases, to see a blond and a male brunette flirting.

The guy leaning on the bookshelf groaned but said in annoyance, "Fine, I will meet you in the parking lot after school." The girl smiled, nodding her blond head. "Okay." She kissed him on the lips, her arms around his neck.

Through Athrun's eyes, his mind shattered. "SHE'S KISSING A GUY WHO SHE JUST RANDOMLY MET!!!??" Athrun noticed that the guy she was kissing was in his next class, Ahmed…eh, something! And she's in his math class too!


Math Class…

Before he entered his class, he sighed inwardly. "That's not her…just don't think about it…" He told himself as he sat down near the middle of the class. His dark frame blocking the sun light that hit him.

The bell rung, and students rushed in to the class, finding their seats.

Athrun looked around the classroom to find no blond or Ahmed in sight. His thoughts were stopped short as a laughing couple entered the room lastly.

"Sorry, we're late." The brunette said waving an apology to the teacher. Ahmed turned to the blond whispering something to her, both of them giggling afterwards. They took their seats all way behind the class.

Minutes after class started, the tall math teacher began to teach, writing equations and graphs out, handing tests back, and stuffs.

"…" Athrun wasn't surprised that the students behind him were fooling around, not paying attention at all. But what surprised him was the way Cagalli scolded them to listen once in a while.

Athrun could hear her familiar childhood voice. Everything in his mind went blank, and he started daydreaming about the day he first heard her sweet innocent voice introducing to him.

He could smell the cherry blossoms, and the fresh spring air.

The voice of a girl laughing in his ears rang nicely.

But suddenly, he heard an angry shout befall on him. Athrun snapped his eyes open.

"MR. ATHRUN ZALA!!!" the teacher yelled, his face all red in anger.

Athrun shook himself from the daydream he just had and sweated. He looked around and saw kids laughing at him. He swallowed a lump of saliva in his throat. "Yes?" He asked nervously, not knowing what all the commotion was or what the teacher wanted from him.

If Athrun would have come close to his teacher, he could have seen a vein ready to pop, luckily he didn't. "…Answer the question on the board, Mr. Zala." the teacher sighed, massaging his temples.

Before he could, his teacher gave him a scolding, "Tell me this won't happen again, Mr. Zala."

Feeling all red from embarrassement, he still answered to him. "Yes, sir. I'm sorry. It won't happen again, I promise..." At the corner of Athrun's eyes, he caught a small sight of an ashen looking blond.

"Good. Now answer the question."

Trying to remove all his current feelings for 'her', he plainly answered the solution to the math problem…


The bell rung signaling class was over; the next and last class will begin soon. Athrun stood up after organizing his books. He was about to exit the class until the same tall teacher, who got mad at him, stopped him. "Athrun, I need to have a word with you."

"Yes, sir." He answered, walking back to the teacher's wood desk. A sight of someone staring at him poked his mind.

The person left before he could even see whom it was.

The teacher coughed, getting his distracted attention, once again. He began lecturing the boy in front of him.

After several of sighs and talks about sleeping in class, Athrun was finally allowed to go.

"Yes. I'm once again sorry, sir."

He nodded. "Good. Now go to your last class, I don't want you getting punish for being late."

"Thank you. Bye sir." Athrun close the door behind him and walked to his next class. He stopped short when he saw the same blond from his nightmares, drinking a tiny box of juice near the bending machine.

Scurried of thoughts ran through his mind. He had to walk pass her to get to his next class, and there wasn't another way to get there without being late. He silently cursed his mind. Athrun decided to walk pass her, like he didn't know her. Besides, she probably won't even care who the hell he was anyways—

"Hey YOU." The voice of the girl, who was chilling, suddenly called him. Her voice rung in his ear like a conch, flowing the pleasant ocean waves sounds in his eardrums. It was soothing but yet terrifying.

Ah, he was late, as he checked his watch. Athrun kept walking, pretending he never heard her.

She made another call to him, only angrier. "HEY!"

Athrun stood frozen when he felt a small yet strong hand fall on his shoulder. He turned around to face unexpected wild amber eyes.

"Are you deaf?" she said arching an eyebrow, holding up a book. Athrun looked down as he saw his Archeology Theory book in her small hands. He looked embarrassed as he took the book from her hand, as she was holding it out. The way she stared at him gave a soft pierce in his heart. "You dropped it when you left the library." She said softly.

Sudden warm feelings filled his heart. And once again his hands started sweating, his heart pumped hard and fast. He looked away. "I'm late for class…" With quick thanks, he walked away quickly to his class, leaving the blond girl standing there in the middle of the hallway, wondering something in mind.


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By: Daisukiasu'n'caga