A Summer Romance?
Code Geass
Chapter 3: The Beach, A volley game
"Milly, can you please let me have some fun now?" Rivals pleaded. Rivals continued on rubbing tanning oil on Milly's back.
"I'm not done with you yet, Rivals..." Milly said with a very unsatisfied tone. "Now! Put your back into it!" she scolded.
"Y-Yes!" he replied to his master.
From a distance, Kallen, Shirley, Euphy and Suzaku were watching the two.
"Poor Rivals..." Suzaku commented.
"Poor Milly, she's being touched by Rivals..." Euphy said.
"Why are you worried about Milly?" Suzaku questioned Euphemia's statement.
"I don't know really, I think she's the one suffering, you know... A boy as a roommate... It's kinda hard at our age..."
"What are you pointing at?" Suzaku gave her a questioned look.
"Oh... Well... The usual..." Euphemia Li Britannia rolled her eyes teasingly.
I guess Euphemia-sama is right... Boys have raging hormones... What will happen if Lelouch was my roommate...? Shirley thought and started to day dream about the things that might happen at night between her and Lelouch.
Shirley's Day dream:
"Don't you think that it's getting hot here, Shirley?" Lelouch seductively asked. Lelouch took of his shirt, the moonlight showed his well built body, his sweat sparkling due to the light.
"Ooh... Lulu..." she called back seductively, Lelouch started to approach her, a little more and their lips would have met.
"Um... Shirley? Are you alright?" Euphy asked. Shirley wasn't out of her daydreaming session just yet. Kallen thought of something, she drew water from the sea and poured some on Shirley, the cold water made Shirley's spine tingle.
"Ooh... Huh?" she asked.
"So, what were you day dreaming about?" Kallen asked. Shirley suddenly blushed as she reminisced her dream.
"I... N-Nothing really..." she muttered.
"You're acting very strange lately..." Suzaku commented.
"I'm not acting strange! J-just confused..." denied she.
"Confused about what?" the pink headed girl asked the orange headed one.
"Just forget about it..." she said. The other three nodded and walked away from the sea, Shirley followed in deep thought. H-How could I be thinking of Lelouch like a pervert? He already has a Girlfriend... But that witch she just annoys me... I can't help it! My heart beats fast when I see him, I like him! I like everything about him, but that bitch suddenly shows up! And she's Lelouch's girlfriend only about a month dating?! She really did use some kind of spell to lure him to her clutches... Shirley was really getting frustrated by the turn of events, about Lelouch and about C.C. and mainly about her jealousy-which she denies.
"C.C.! Are you done yet? It's already been 15 minutes since you entered the bathroom! Everyone's waiting!" Lelouch knocked on the bathroom door.
"..." No reply came out.
"Oi! C.C.!" he banged the door again.
"Can't you see? I'm having problems?!" C.C. shouted from the inside.
"No... I can't?" he replied rather annoyingly. C.C. suddenly opened the bathroom door and came out, wearing a white one piece swimsuit; it was revealing her curves and some of her stomach except the middle aisle where the belly-button is located. Her scar on her left breast was very well hidden too. Her pale white skin didn't look paler but rather a little rosy and her long green hair dangled down her back. For Lelouch she looked simply 'hot'. Lelouch looked at her for at least three to five minutes until it registered in his mind that she was already out of the bathroom.
"..." C.C. didn't make a comment but she simply passed by Lelouch and grabbed a bathrobe. She opened the door leading to the hallway.
"Aren't you coming?" she plainly asked. Lelouch shrugged but then followed C.C. out of the room.
The sun was giving off so much heat that Rivals could actually collapse, well the sun wasn't just the reason; Milly was out giving him sets of orders. Some example given is:
"Get me some strawberry milk shake!" she commanded. Then after he would come back.
"It's too sweet! Get me a chocolate smoothie! Don't make it to sweet!" she ordered Rivals like a dog, well it's an over exaggerating description of Rivals' suffering.
When C.C. and Lelouch came into the picture, Kallen and Shirley's blood started boiling at the sight of C.C.
"Sorry for the wait..." Lelouch apologized to the group. C.C. didn't make a comment but simply walked towards the salty sea.
Lelouch followed her with his eyes. Where is that girl going? He asked himself. He was just about to follow the green headed girl but was stopped by Shirley-who clung to his arm- and dragged him towards the others. He couldn't struggle because he thought that he might hurt Shirley, physically. Lelouch just sighed but his eyes still followed the so-called 'gray witch'.
C.C. stared at the vast sea, listening to the cry of the winds and the crash of the waves. She felt like it was a familiar feeling. Have she done this before? C.C. sighed. Maybe I have already forgotten this feeling... The wind passed through her, it touched her skin and it danced with her hair. The water slowly made its way to her feet, C.C. felt a tingle because of its coldness, but soon the water started trickling pass her feet and back to its massive body.
"C.C.-san... Aren't you going to play with the others?" a soft voice came from behind. She looked behind her only to see Nunnally strolling in place beside her.
"I guess I could play..." she quietly replied.
"I wish that you would win C.C.-san..." she happily said.
"Of course... I will try to win because you said so..."she replied to Nunnally with a smile. She felt sorry for this girl but she knew she was strong and that she should not look down on her. C.C. touched Nunnally's hands and gave it a light squeeze. C.C. sighed as she looked longingly at the vast sea once more.
"Lelouch! Can you ask C.C.-san if she wouldn't bother to play volleyball with us? We're going to play a four on four volley match" Milly called about.
Lelouch had no choice but to follow Milly, he walked towards C.C.'s direction only to see that she and Nunnally were heading back, Lelouch ran towards them.
"Onii-san!" Nunnally happily exclaimed.
"Are you having fun Nunnally?" he asked.
"Yes, Of course, C.C.-san kept me company..." she smiled.
"Is that so?" He glance at C.C. for a quick second and then back at Nunnally. "By the way... C.C. come play with us..."
"Why should I?" she icily replied.
"I thought you're going to play C.C.-san, I was really looking forward to it too..." Nunnally said in disappointment. C.C. looked over the crippled child, she sadly smiled. Lelouch looked at her with curiosity. What is she thinking? Why did she smile sadly?
"I'm not smiling sadly, but I was a little bit unsure..." she suddenly comments at his thought.
"You, unsure?" he chuckled, a witch unsure about what? She can over look the situations in the future so why now? That was kinda weird, but then again sometimes Oracles are unsure about their readings.
"I'm unsure about, this game we're playing..." she said.
"Volleyball?" Lelouch raised a brow as if attempting to laugh at her.
"No" she glared at him.
"Huh?"
"This game we... no, I started..." she corrected the pronoun used. The gray witch looked up to the blue sky. This game of playing with one's feelings, it felt fun at the beginning but why is she feeling that everyone was drastically changing around her, and even Lelouch, well she really wanted Lelouch to be her lover but in a kind that is true to his feelings.
"Oi!?" he called to her; she just looked at him for a brief moment and then smiled. Lelouch started thinking that there was something wrong with C.C. and he also felt that something is changing with in him but 'what?' and 'why?' Lelouch sighed again.
Back at the group, the court for the volley game had been set up, Nina insisted to be the referee. Due to lack of players, Kallen insisted that she should play, well everyone was worried because they knee that she was sickly but she insisted, everyone settled down the problem.
Lelouch Lamperouge and the one that calls herself 'C.C.' joined the group.
"We just decided what the price the winning group would get..." Shirley relayed the message to the two.
"Oh? What is it?" Lamperouge Lelouch asked. Milly suddenly moved closer to the small group.
"The losing group will be the winning group's servant for this week! It means that anything the winning group wants the losers will follow it with no complains or whatsoever..." Milly said with a confidence.
"W-what?!" Lelouch exclaimed. "That's crazy Milly!"
Lelouch glanced at Shirley who suddenly blushed at the sight of Lelouch.
"O-okay we'll use t-these sticks again to d-determine who p-plays with who..." Nina said as she started acting her role as a referee.
Everyone picked their sticks. They scanned the sticks to search for letters but they only found a number, it's either the number one or two.
"Hey, Milly, when did you have time to change the carvings on this stick?" Rivals again started with the stupid questions.
"Well" she sheepishly started, "What do you think?" she replied with another question.
"I- I made those Rivals..." Nina Einstein shyly replied.
"Oh..." was all Rivals could say.
"Anyway, lets just forget Mr. Cardemonde here asked that question..." the Ashford's daughter said.
"Okay... Who has the number 1?" Nina asked politely.
"I have it..." Rivals raised his arm.
"Looks like were in the same team, R-i-v-a-l-s..." Milly seductively said. By doing that Cardemonde Rivals just felt that Sadako had risen from the well she's been put into to rot and is now behind him. Rivals spine shivered at the thought.
"Lelouch... Save me..." he cried.
"Oh...I have that number too..." Kallen replied quietly.
"Eh? I got it too..." Shirley exclaimed rather disappointed that she's not in the same group as Lelouch.
Group one posses the players, Milly, Rivals, Kallen and sadly Shirley. Group two is composed of the players, Euphy, Suzaku, C.C. and sadly Lelouch.
"The first service is Kallen!" Nina announced.
Kallen held the ball, and bounced it trice. I will show you who's the better player, witch! She thought. The whistle was blown and the game started. Everyone was awed that Kallen served the ball using the over-hand technique.
"Nice service Kallen!" Milly exclaimed.
"T-thanks..." she pretended to be shy. Of course I can serve that! I pilot a knightmare! She boastfully thought.
The ball was headed for Euphemia, she didn't know how to return the ball. Suzaku caught it for her, he stopped the ball in the air, Lelouch fake the spike and the C.C. jumped and completed the volley combo.
"Thanks Suzaku.." Euphemia shyly said.
"Don't worry about it..."Suzaku blushed.
"No Lovey-dovey until the game is over" C.C. coldly warned.
The other group wouldn't lose that easily.
"Oh no you don't" Shirley said to herself.
Shirley ran below the ball and passed it to Rivals, Cardemonde stopped the ball in the air.
"Go for it Milly!" Rivals cheered.
Milly Ashford spiked it directly at Euphy. Suzaku and Lelouch became alarmed but they knew that they couldn't catch the ball in time.
"Euphy!" Suzaku exclaimed.
C.C. sighted the two with an annoyed expression pasted on her face, she ran to Euphy at great speed before the ball could actually touch the ground, the Pizza Girl directed the ball to Suzaku.
"Kururugi!" she called. Suzaku got alarmed and tossed the ball into the air. Lelouch faked the spike again, C.C. came from Lelouch's behind very quickly and once again completed the combo.
"Point to Euphemia-sama's group!" she happily announced the score.
"Hurray!" Euphemia exclaimed, Suzaku gave her a high five. Euphy was about to do the same to C.C. but she coldly shoved off her friendly approach. The pink haired princess frowned. Lelouch, seeing this approached her.
"Don't worry about her, Euphemia-sama... She just isn't good with groups..." he explained.
"Oh... Is that so... Maybe I should befriend her so that she'll be comfortable..." she muttered. Lelouch just nodded in agreement.
At the other side, Shirley was complaining that C.C. wasn't human.
"How could she run so fast?" she asked Kallen.
"I don't know" she replied, she doesn't really know much about that green haired witch, the only information she knows is that she's Zero's lover, and was currently deceiving him.
"She did say she has good metabolism, maybe she's fast because she was trained to do so..." Rivals commented.
"Hmm... You got a point there..." Shirley nodded.
Nina whistled once more to mark start of C.C.'s service game. C.C. Got seven points due to her services and of course their teamwork. The game was getting more intense when they reached the second set. The score of the first set was 19- Milly's group and 25-Euphemia's group.
Everyone was getting exhausted but C.C., Suzaku, Kallen and Milly wasn't. Lelouch looked at C.C. while panting, he gazed at her with awe without him noticing that he was doing it, sure she was dirty because of sliding at the sand attempting to save the ball from falling, she had scratches but they already healed without the others noticing and she was glistening because of sweat. Why is he thinking about the one girl he hated the most?
The game started again and the tension wasn't getting lower, C.C. continued on the offensive and defensive strategy that the group has put up when they had a 'time-out'. The ball was served by Shirley.
"Kururugi!" C.C. called, just in time, Kururugi jumped up to toss the ball backwards to Lelouch.
"Lelouch! Stop it!" Lelouch stopped the ball in the air as to what C.C. commanded. Euphy jumped to fake the spike but Shirley knew all it to well, she didn't jump because she knew that the gray witch would hit it back. But C.C. was all to smart to fool her, their technique had changed since the start of the second set.
"Now!" she said. Euphy hits the ball, it was soft so it only fell a top the net, everyone was waiting for the result, they only have to trust in luck this time. The score was 23- Euphemia's group and 24-Milly's group. This set will determine if there would be another set.
"Oh, please, please… let us score…" Euphy prayed, as if God heard her prayers the ball fell to the ground, Rivals tried to save it but he was too late, it hits the net and then fell right beside him.
"Damn…" Rivals said in defeat.
"Yeah!" Suzaku cheered. There was only one point separating them from victory and the service was theirs, it's up to C.C. to make the final score. C.C. looked at the sky just for a brief moment as if she was feeling the surroundings. Can she make it? The last ball to determine if they win or if they have to prove that they are really worth to win and become the kings and queens in the next set.
"Go for it C.C,-san" Nunnally said from her place. C.C. glanced at her and then back at the ball. The whistle was blown, and she tossed the ball up, she hits it and it went flying towards the other side.
Shirley caught it then she passed it to Milly and the Kallen returned it. Lelouch dived to get the ball Suzaku tossed it to the air and C.C. came to spike it. Rivals caught it again and then to Milly and back to Shirley, C.C, caught it, then Euphy managed to let it afloat in the air then Suzaku returned it. Back to Kallen then to Shirley, the ball went over the net then to Lelouch and Suzaku returned it. Shirley saw a chance to spike it.
"Milly!" Milly nodded as if they talked with their eyes. "Rivals!" Shirley said and Rivals brushed his thumb to his nose as if he was acting so cool. Rivals passed the ball to Milly then Milly tossed it up in the air. Kallen jumped for it but then again Shirley was the one planned to hit the ball. C.C. grinned.
"Is that the best you can do?" she said a little boastfully. In a very spilt second C.C. was already in front of them. C.C. gave it the final blow and she sent it buried to the ground.
"Game set! Euphemia-sama's group wins!" Nina happily exclaimed as she rundown the referee's chair to greet the winners, especially Euphy.
"That was great Euphemia-sama…" Einstein greeted shyly.
"Thank you, but C.C.-san gave her all and had done a lot more than me…" she said with a smile.
"Euphemia-sama is really humble!"
"That was a great play C.C.-san" Nunnally said, C.C. looked at her for a brief moment only to see that Nunnally had offered her a towel.
"Thank you" she politely said to the girl.
"I knew you would win…" she trailed off and left to greet her brother too. C.C. just looked at her with wide eyes. I want Pizzas… the Gray witch thought.
Kallen left the group and went inside the house, she quietly walked up the stairs and into the second floor hallway. She searched the doors for the letter B. Alas she found it, it was just across Shirley's and Nunnally's room, she opened it too see that it has two beds. Her bag was placed near the balcony. At least we have separate beds… she thought.
She entered the room and walked towards her luggage. She searched for her phone, she found it and flipped it open and dialed Zero's number. The phone rang.
Everyone was just about finish outside and was heading to their respective rooms to freshen up for dinner. It was already 5:30 in the afternoon, it was just a few minutes ago when Kallen entered the house.
"Are you going to eat first?" Shirley asked the man standing before her, Lelouch turned around.
"I'm just going to freshen up a bit…" he replied.
"Oh…" Shirley said, she entered the dining hall and passed by C.C., the witch just came out the dinning room holding a slice of Pizza. Lelouch sighed as she saw the Pizza lover entered his sight.
"What are you looking at?" The Pizza Girl coldly questioned his staring.
"Nothing…" he expressionlessly replied.
"Going back to the room?" C.C. asked as she took another bite of her Pizza. Lelouch nodded and started on the stairs. C.C. followed as she wished to freshen up too.
Why is it that it just keeps ringing? Are they doing something important? Kallen Stadtfeld worriedly thought.
"I guess I should try later, I need to take a bath…" she said to herself, she left her phone lying on her bed and entered the bathroom.
C.C. and Lelouch entered the room, the first thing that Lelouch thought off was 'what did they do when I gave no orders' He picked up his phone that was placed above the drawer near their bed and saw that Kallen gave Zero three calls- which were not answered.
"Hmm… she's thinking of selling me out did she?" she said to Lelouch, she just finished her Pizza and started to lick the cheese off of her fingers.
"Selling you out?" he raised a brow.
"The two timing thing…"
"Two timing me?" he asked again.
"Zero" she plainly replied and entered the bathroom and closed it quietly. Lelouch was in a trance between who two timed who. He didn't got her message. Just great.
Just about when he was to enter the bathroom his phone rang. Who could that be? The screen flashed Ōgi's name.
"Ōgi?" he questioned himself. He picked up the call.
"Z-Zero!" he said through the phone.
"What is it?"
"We've been discovered at the last raid, they found out that this was the place well attack today!" he screamed through the phone.
"What?! Cornelia…" he muttered the name Cornelia.
"What should we do, everyone's panicking!"
"Evacuate the place immediately, see that everyone is safe and the HQ is not found out… "
"Yes!" he replied to Zero and turned off his cellular phone. Lelouch gripped his hand into a fist. He sighed, he knew that he couldn't do anything if he was here. He grabbed his towel and headed towards the bathroom, forgetting that C.C. was in there.
C.C. was so tired that she slumped into the bathtub. Soon afterwards she fell asleep playing with the bubbles.
The doorknob moved and the door opened. Lelouch came in without really paying attention, well he was paying attention to his failure just a moment ago. Lelouch headed for the shower which was just at the corner after the bathtub. By the corner of his eye, he saw a flash of green, then he remembered that C.C. entered the bathroom just a while ago. Lelouch was about to screech in embarrassment but he composed himself, this is in-fact his most embarrassing and worst scenario he had experienced this summer, he blushed.
He moved backwards away from C.C. but quietly, he didn't notice that C.C.'s swimsuit was in the way, he accidentally tripped over it and made a loud thump with a moan of hurt.
C.C. flustered her eyes open and gazed out the tub, he saw Lelouch groaning.
"What are you doing?" asked C.C.
"Groaning" he replied sarcastically.
"Really, and when did that became a profession?" she questioned.
"Just now… And it's none of your business…" he replied.
"If you mind? Lelouch? Have you forgotten what my gender is?… or you're staring at me because you want a taste of me, D-a-r-l-i-n-g" C.C. said again with a teasing tone. His heart skipped a beat when he heard her say that he wanted her. Lelouch blushed but hid it from her, there was a moment of silence until he got his composure back.
"Who would want that?" he replied with an emotionless face and tone.
"Then get out!" she shouted.
"Gladly!" he replied angrily. He stomped out the bathroom and banged the door close. Then a thought came by. Why did she angrily shouted 'Get out' when I refused her jokingly offer? Did she want me to say yes? Lelouch confusedly asked himself.
"DON'T THINK ABOUT PERVERTED STUFFS!!" she shouted. Now C.C. really became mad, a little heart broken? Yes.
Kallen just got out from the bathroom and saw that Nina wasn't in sight. Kallen strolled to her bed and picked up her phone, she once again dialed to Zero. The phone rang and soon was picked up.
"Z-Zero?" she asked nervously.
"What do you want?" Lelouch's a.k.a Zero's voice came out.
"Is C.C.-san there with you at HQ?" she asked.
"No. Why do you ask…"
"It's just that, she's here… with us…"
"What do you mean? She's there with you at your summer outing?"
"Y-Yes… and she's t-two timing you…"
"Two timing me? She wouldn't dare… is that all? I have some business to attend to, Kallen" his deep voice said through the phone. This is kinda weird lying to Kallen… Lelouch thought. I just have to play along…
"Y-Yes…" with that Zero hanged the phone. Zero-sama, wouldn't believe me… C.C. you witch… she clenched her fist and threw the phone on the bed. "I'll make sure you won't fool Zero…"
AN: WHAAHAHAHA!! What a long chapter, my fingers are hurting… anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this… btw… that was just Kallen's first attempt to rant out C.C. to Zero, hope you guys drop some reviews!
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