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Chapter 1: Beginning

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It was the final class of that day for the two friends. The lecture of Professor Ramius was winding down to a close.

The class was located in a large auditorium as it was a general history course. But on this friday the room was feeling rather empty. A three day weekend was ahead and some of students had decided to take an early start.

Kira let out a slight yawn. He had stayed up late last night messing with some new OS code for his computer. It was a hobby of his that consumed a bit too much time.

This day had been spent mostly going through the classes in a mindless fashion. Kira had pushed aside the images of the woman he had seen earlier. It had just been a random chance encounter. But he had always been shy, even if another moment, a better moment were to come, he would probably just watch her once more. Kira again pushed the train thoughts away.

Picking up his pen he continued to write the notes from what the Professor was saying.

-After the Junius affair, creation of Zeonic Alliance of Freedom and Transition

-pushed for more open government and end to civil conflict

-many intellectuals in the movement

Professor Ramius stepped aside from her podium. "Well that will be all for today. Everyone enjoy your weekend," she said to her students. The auditorium became a mess of noise from everyone getting up to leave.

Athrun stood up and gathered his things. "Well done for the day. Want to go get something to eat?"

Kira stretched out his arms. "Yea but can't stay too long, have to go to my internship later."

"With the phantom professor?" Athrun asked sarcastically.

"Hey Dr. Morganrate is just a very busy man, that's all. So lets go grab a burger." The two friends walked down the stairs and out into the hallway. The building was busy as many classes were letting out at the same time.

Outside a young man of green hair ran over to them. "Hey Athrun," he called out.

"Oh hey Nicol," Athrun replied, giving him a high-five.

"So you coming to practice latter?" the green haired kid asked.

"Yea I should be there. We were on our way to get some food if you want to come as well."

"No thanks, I'm late for piano practice," Nicol replied.

"You sure keep yourself busy don't you?" Athrun joked.

"Well have to keep oneself busy while we are still living after all," he responded as he ran off, waving.

The two friends continued to walk along, away from the campus. The sky above was a wide open sea of blue. Not a single cloud to be seen above the buildings. The college itself stood in the center of the city, mixed in with the various buildings of the sprawling metropolis.

"So what are you going to be doing this weekend?" asked Athrun, moving through the sidewalk full of people.

"Don't know. Haven't really given it all much thought to be honest," Kira replied.

"I thought you were going to tutor to that one girl with the long red hair."

Kira looked over to his friend as they walked. "Oh um Flay. Yea she did want to study some. But I think I'm just going to call it off."

"Why is that? Two weeks ago you used to always talk about how pretty she looked."

"That hasn't changed. Guess it just feels like she's not ever going to be interested in me beyond someone who can teach her stuff," Kira responded.

"Don't look so gloomy," Athrun said as he shook Kira. "Never know what she might really be thinking. And not that I'm the best for giving advice with women problems. Hell, I'm more shy than you around them."

"Is that why you stutter around my sister then?" Kira asked with a smile.

Athrun's face turned a bit red as he tried to look away. "Uh what? I don't know what you mean by that."

"Come on Athrun, I've known you since we were just little kids."

"Yes but before we started college this year, the two of us hadn't seen each other in a long time."

Kira nodded. "True. I still do have the image of you in that weird green outfit you used to wear."

Athrun gave Kira a push, "Hey shut about that already. I told you, I had to wear it for school."

"Yea except I'm sure you still have it hanging in your closet."

They joked around some more with each other as they crossed the various roads to their favorite local restaurant. The Archangel, a place for the young and old alike to enjoy the a quick meal.

It was half patio, half indoors. Not too many people were there at that time. The two friends sat at a long table outside by the street. The sidewalk was busy with people in the lively city. Kira liked to sometimes sit and watch all the different people walk by.

Athrun spoke up. "So I hear there was another protest at the Central Gardens today."

"Yea they sometimes even march down this street. Can be rather annoying, especially with all the cops that will be around. Then this place gets all crowded, hard to just sit and enjoy the peace."

"It has been pretty interesting living in this city."

"Lots of people, lots of new experiences, lots of surprises," Kira said randomly.

"The first day of school fit that profile considering I ran into you suddenly. I was so surprised to meet you at my college."

Kira smiled as he remember, "Yea when I first saw you I didn't even believe it was you. I was just helping Ramius carry somethings too. Didn't even know who she was, she just randomly asks me for help."

"Well you know her, she is not exactly a by-the-book teacher."

The waitress had by now come to them. They ordered their usual burgers and drinks. It never took long to get ones food at the Archangel. As they sipped on their drinks and ate their food, the two joked about the craziness of that first day they had met each other after many years of living far apart. The two seemingly became best friends once again in a moment, as if all that time living different lives had not really changes who they were.

Time was seeming to progress rather quickly. As they finished up their food, the conversation had moved on to the classes they shared. But as they chatted, Kira suddenly remembered about the girl with the pink hair. He didn't know why it suddenly popped into his head, but just tried to ignore the mental images.

But once again Kira caught a glimpse of something in the corner of his eye. He turned to look. Through the crowd of people walking along the sidewalk next to the restaurant, he saw a girl with long pink hair. This time though he saw her more clearly and from the front.

'Could it be her? No it couldn't. Or is it?' he questioned himself in his mind.

Kira was looking at her when she stopped her slow paced walk and turned to look in their direction. She suddenly smiled and walked over quickly.

Athrun noticed his friend's pensive look. He turned to see what Kira was looking at. It was a pink haired girl in a summer dress, a very familiar girl at that.

"Hey Athrun, it is so nice to see you again!" she said, waving her hand high in the sky as she came over to them.

Kira could not believe it. He turned to look at Athrun who was sporting a rather shocked look on his face.

"Lacus? It is you," Athrun said with disbelief.

"Why yes. I am so very surprised to have run into you like this. I would have never guessed that in this big city I would have run across you."

"Yea but it's good to see you. Here, sit down," Athrun said as he scooted over.

"Why thank you," Lacus replied, seating herself very properly. Her face was light up with her simple smile. Athrun's expression had turned to one of mild confusion. Kira still had his mouth a bit open, moving his stares between the two people on the other side of the table.

Athrun then introduced his two friends to each other. "Kira, this is Lacus. Lacus, this is my old friend Kira."

"How nice to meet you," Lacus said with a smile. Her pink hair seemed so smooth as it strands of it blew gently in the breeze.

"Um yea. It's... it's good to meet you," Kira replied, stumbling over his words. He didn't know what to do, thinking how to present himself. But it seemed a bit like a dream, and once again the rest of the world was fading away from his mind. Now there was just his friend Athrun and this women that had to be the same one he had seen that morning.

"Now that I think about it, Athrun had mentioned you before," she said looking over to Kira.

With her looking at him, he now wished he had combed his hair. "We're old friends. Um, like Athrun had said," Kira smiled quickly, finding himself nervous.

Athrun spoke up now. "I met Kira here rather unexpectedly at our campus, much like how you just happen to meet up with us."

"My how well fortune meets us. So are the two of you on a break from the college?" Lacus asked.

"Actually our classes are done for the day and so we usually come here to eat our lunch. Speaking of which, I need to head out or else I will be late." Athrun dug around in his pockets for his wallet.

"It's so sad that you must leave after such a short meeting," she told him. She frowned slightly but still seemed to radiate something to Kira. He didn't know what it was or why he was so affected by it.

And so Kira sat quietly, still wondering how things had worked out this way. And also wondering how the two knew each other. But it seemed he would not be getting those answers just yet.

"So by the way, why are you in the city?" Athrun asked quickly as he gathered his school things together.

"Oh my father and I now live here. We moved just the other day though, so I have spent most of my time walking about like I was before I came upon you two," she responded.

"Here, let me give you my number then. You can call me later and we can more properly catch up." Athrun was seeming a bit more polite in his speech than usual to Kira. Maybe this was a past girlfriend that he had just never mentioned, not that he was the most talkative person either.

Athrun proceed to tare a piece of paper from his note book and scribbled his phone number quickly. Lacus received it with a smile and a thank you. She folded it neatly and placed it inside of her purse.

"I'm sorry but I have to go now. My coach wanted us there early today, so I have to go warm up. See you Kira. And nice seeing you again Lacus, give me a call later." Athrun stood up and waved to his two friends.

"Good bye Athrun. Have a good day out there," Lacus said to him, waving back and smiling once more.

"See you later," Kira spoke up, watching his friend move off.

Athrun walked out into the sea of people.Now at the table was just Kira and a smiling Lacus. A pink haired princess was seated in front of him. This was a dream wasn't it? Yet he was not waking up.

"So tell me about yourself Mr. Kira," Lacus suddenly said.

Gone from Kira's mind was the fact that his internship was expecting him soon. Gone as well was the fact that Athrun had seemed a bit stranger to him around this girl. Gone also was the fact that he had never expected to see her after that morning. All that was in his mind was the thoughts of how he was now sitting with a women he found to be beautiful. And apparently she had no problems sitting here and talking with him.

Where were things to go from here then?