Sorry this chapter is a little long. Anyway I hope you'll like it!

Disclamer : Still don't own GS

Chapter 4

Miriallia was walking toward the photography club. A few weeks before, they had decided on the theme of there exhibition. Although she was the one which had proposed to work on students, she still had no idea on what aspect she would orient her photos. Simple photos of students in their daily life would be too boring. I have to find something. Then she saw something that caught her eye. A guy, shirtless was walking toward the boy's dormitory. She took out her camera and zoomed on him. She recognized the guy. Dearka! No way! She took a picture. I think I've got my idea!

"Miriallia?"

She jumped in surprised and then turned around to see Tolle smiling at her.

"I scared you, sorry."

"That's ok."

"You found something interesting?" he said trying to find what had captivated her this way.

"Well, maybe. Are you done with your class?"

"Yes. Say Miriallia, would you like to come the cafeteria with me, my treat."

Tolle had gown very interested in Miriallia over the weeks. Miriallia liked him but only as he friend, nothing more. However she didn't have the courage to say it to him. And she liked the fact that he was caring about her and waiting for her to carry her books and other stuff that couples usually does. She knew it wasn't nice to give him false hope, but she thought that maybe her feelings would change.

"OK"

"Summer break is only in one month from now. Have you planned anything?"

"Cagalli invited me to her place."

"Ho," he said disappointed, "so I guess I won't be able to see you."

"Probably not, but we'll keep in touch!" Miriallia said looking at his sad face.

Tolle cheerfulness came back immediately at her words.

"Athrun, give me that back" yelled Cagalli. She was running after Athrun who held a photo of baby Cagalli in his hands.

"What are you ashamed of; you're very cute on this photo. Not like today!"

"Shut up, give it back or I swear…"

"What? What will you do?" Ahtrun looked at her challenging her.

Athrun saw a strange glint in her eyes and a second later, Cagalli was next to him and kissed him very soundly on the cheek. Athrun froze literally and Cagalli snatched the picture from his hands.

"That's quite a reaction for someone who received a kiss from an ugly girl" Cagalli giggled.

"Cagalli HIbiki, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Kira was looking angrily at his sister.

"Oops" was all she said before running away from her brother which started chasing her.

They were soon out of sight and Lacus approached Athrun. He was still blushing, not knowing what to think about what just happened.

"Athrun, are you ok? It was just a kiss on the cheek. Do you, by any chance, have feelings for Cagalli."

Athrun looked at her as if she was crazy. What is she saying? Me having feelings for Cagalli! I admit that she is really cute and funny but that's all, isn't it? Lacus' words kept running through Athrun mind all day long. Did he really have feelings for her? No, she was his best friend sister and was like a little sister for him too. They had fun together, that's all. Happy with this conclusion Athrun finally felt asleep.

"Damn it, we have to do something! I can't stand to see this Lacus Clyne with my Kira anymore."

"Calm down, Meer, we'll do something." Said Flay.

"You say that for weeks. I have waited long enough. Just because your Yzak doesn't seem to get closer of Shiho, it doesn't mean I shouldn't do anything."

"Alright, alright, I get your point. Now I am going to sleep, I'm tired. Let's set up a plan tomorrow. Ok?"

"Ok."

Meer had calmed down and Flay went back to her room. The light was off, Shiho already fast asleep. Of all girls, why did she have to share a room with her? She was a creepy girl. Flay went to dressing table and began to remove her make up. Suddenly she heard a scream.

"NOOOO!!!"

"AAHH!!" she jumped in surprise, letting go of her night cream. She turned around to see Shiho, sitting up in her bed, looking quite scared. Shiho took a few seconds to catch her breath. She was shaking. Then, she noticed Flay presence.

"I'm…I'm sorry" she muttered, "bad dream."

"No problem" managed to answer Flay.

Shiho then got up, took a jacket and went out the room. So creepy, thought Flay.

Shiho walked through the courtyard for a moment then sat on a bench. It was quite, many students were already sleeping. Shiho was lost in her thoughts. Why did she have to make this nightmare every single night? She had thought than maybe changing school, meeting new people would help her. But no. Then she heard steps behind her and turned around. Yzak was starring at her. He didn't say anything, he just walked to her and seated next to her. He looked at the sky, still not talking.

"What do you want?" said Shiho, not sounding very friendly.

Yzak turned his gaze to her. She was surprised that for once, he didn't have an angry face on. They looked at each others eyes for only a second before Shiho turned away. She lowered her head, letting her hair fall to cover her face. Why am I feeling so uneasy next to him? At the sound of his voice she looked up.

"It's not the first time I see you like that." He simply said.

"Like what?" she questioned.

"Like you're the saddest girl in the world."

Shiho had no idea how long they had stayed like that in silence. Somewhat, she was happy to have someone with her, someone not asking question. On the other side, she didn't want Yzak's kindness. She was afraid of getting attached to someone. But why was he here anyway? Since they knew each other they had not stopped fighting and getting at each other's throat. The guy who claimed that he hated women was here, sitting next to her, trying to comfort her in his own way.

Yzak was starring at the stars. He was making his way toward the dormitory when he saw her sitting on her own with the look she had at moments. At first, he wanted to ignore her, but couldn't. There was something about this girl that made him perplexed. It wasn't that he had any feelings for her but his attraction for her was real. It was like a magnet. He had never felt. any kind of attraction toward a girl. Maybe I should ask Dearka.

The following morning, the girls were having breakfast altogether. Lacus was lost in his thoughts for Kira. Miriallia was thinking about her photographic project and Shiho was trying to stay awake after her lack of sleep. Cagalli however seemed very cheerful. Holidays were coming closer and having her new friends with her during 2 whole weeks made her very happy.

"I have planned so many things for us to do during the summer break!" she said excitedly, "Like going to the beach, make you discover Orb and going to dance during the summer festival."

Lacus smiled. Being with Cagalli during the summer meant being with Kira as well. Their relationship was slow to develop and Lacus hoped that they could get closer in the meantime.

"Can't wait for it" she replied.

Then Yzak arrived and sat. He didn't look at Shiho and she didn't look at him. He mumbled a "Good morning" and proceeded on eating his breakfast.

"Hey Yzak, where is Dearka?" Miriallia asked.

"Why?"

"None of your business, just tell me where he is." Miriallia said angrily.

"Just outside, flirting with Megumi again." Yzak said with a disgusted face.

Miriallia got up, went outside and looked for Dearka. She saw him making out with Megumi. The sight somewhat annoyed her. She wondered how far they had been together. Megumi had stopped sticking to Athrun when she understood that she had no chance with him. Dearka had seemed more incline to have fun. Miriallia walked up to them.

"Dearka"

No answer.

"Dearka"

Still no answer.

"DEARKA" she yelled.

He turned his head to her.

"What?"

"Can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Yeah, go on." He said, Megumi still stuck to him.

"Can we go somewhere else?"

"Ok" He freed himself from Megumi's grasp and followed Miriallia without a single word for the blonde girl.

What a jerk, Miriallia thought.

In the cafeteria, Flay was having her breakfast, looking dreamily at Yzak. Since her parents had told her she was engaged to him, she couldn't think of something else. In her mind, she was already Ms Jule. A "bang" brought her back from her daydreaming. Meer had put her tray down on the table and was now sitting. She seemed quite excited.

"You'll not believe what I just heard."

"What is it", said Flay greedy for gossips.

"Yesterday night, really late, a 3rd year girl saw Yzak and Shiho seating on a bench outside.

"WHAT?"

Everyone had turned their head toward the two girls. Flay repeated lower.

"What?"

She turned her head to watch Yzak and Shiho acting like they hated each other.

"So she is really trying to still him from me. Then Meer, we have to set up a plan. I can deal with the fact that he is having his lunches with them but nothing more!"

"Ok but how?" asked Meer.

"First of all, let's try to find some interesting information about Shiho and Lacus. Shiho is a strange girl. She gets up at night and seems to have frequent nightmares. Try to find something in Lacus' stuff that we could use. I'll stick on Yzak and make him fall in love for me."

"Ok, but what will I do?"

"We'll find something, don't worry."

"You already said that, weeks before."

But Flay wasn't listening anymore. Now that she was sure that something was going on between Yzak and Shiho she had to undertake some action. Flay smiled to herself. She will NOT let anyone interfere in her future.

"So, what did Miriallia tell you?" asked Yzak as Dearka entered the classroom.

"Well, she asked me if I could be her model." Replied Dearka proudly.

"Model? For what?"

"Some photographic project. She was probably seduced by my incredible handsomeness."

"Ha ha ha, don't make me laugh." mocked Yzak.

"Shut up! She is going to take a few pictures of me after class to see if I am photogenic" Dearka continued, "but there is no doubt about it."

Yzak laughed again before the teacher entered the classroom.

At lunch time, they gathered altogether. Megumi hadn't appreciated the way Dearka left her in the morning and had decided to have lunch with her friends. Yzak had taken the habit to lunch with them since he noticed that Flay and Meer were quite afraid of Cagalli and Shiho. He preferred fighting with the girls rather than to have to listen to Flay, planning on their marriage.

"Yzak," teased Cagalli, "why don't you go and have lunch with your lovely fiancée?"

"I'd rather kill myself than having lunch with those freaking women." Yzak replied surprisingly calm. Cagalli looked at him. She had expected him to yell at her. Now that she thought about it, Shiho was also very calm. She was wondering if there was something between the two. I have to talk to Shiho.

Kira, on the other side was thinking about his sister's action the previous day. She had kissed Athrun on the cheek. Cagalli was not the type of girl to do that. But worse, Athrun had seemed quite moved. I have to talk to Athrun.

After class, Dearka made his way toward the photography club. There he waited for Mirialli to arrive. When she did, she was with Tolle.

"Dearka? What are you doing here?" Tolle asked.

"Hey roommate, what's up."

Miriallia turned to Tolle.

"Dearka is your roommate? Poor Tolle!"

"Hey!" protested Dearka.

"Anyway, what are you doing here?" Tolle repeated.

"I asked him to come." said Miriallia, "Dearka is going to be a part of my project. He may be stupid but he has the look I want."

"Hey!!" protested Dearka once again.

"Excuse us, Tolle, I need to expose my project to Dearka."

They left, letting Tolle alone. So, Miriallia, this is the type of guy you like. I have to ask her out. The sooner, the better.

"Shiho"

Shiho turned to see Cagalli running toward her.

"Hey Cag, I am going to swim. You wanna come?"

"Yes, it's been so long since we last had a talk only the two of us."

Shiho looked at Cagalli. She didn't like it. Cagalli wanting to have a talk with her, there was something strange.

They swam for an hour and then stayed in the water, relaxing.

"Ah, I like water!" exclaimed Cagalli. "So Shiho, tell me. What is it between you and Yzak."

Cagalli was always saying what was in her head straight.

"Nothing."

"Don't lie to me. Last week, you were fighting and now you don't even look at each other. Are you having feelings for Yzak." Cagalli examined her best friend face.

"You know I don't." replied simply Shiho.

"Shiho, it's been more than a year. Don't you think it's time to-"

"Cagalli" Shiho interrupted her, "I'm not ready yet."

Cagalli knew she had gone too far and change the subject. She wanted her friend to be happy and talking about the past wouldn't help.

"Hey we have to help Kira and Lacus during the holidays. Those two are so slow. They are together for two months now and are still so shy with one another. If I had a boyfriend, I would kiss him in front of the whole school just to be sure that all the girls notice he's mine."

Shiho smiled.

"No problem. And what about you?" Shiho had decided to tease Cagalli a little.

"What do you mean?"

"I heard that Yuna asked you out."

"Don't tell me about that. I had a hard time trying to escape him."

They glanced at each other, then burst out laughing. Yuna was a real sissy. Dearka and Yzak enjoyed making fun of him.

"Then what about Ahtrun?"

Cagalli blushed a little.

"Athrun? We're just friend."

"You spend a lot of time with him. Don't you think he has a thing for you?"

"Don't be silly, there is nothing between us." Cagalli replied before swimming away form her friend.

"If you say so."

Kira and Athrun were playing at table football. Athrun was sensing something was wrong. Kira was really quite.

"Kira, is something bothering you? he asked.

"Actually, there is." replied Kira.

Athrun stopped playing to look up at Kira.

"Athrun," Kira continued, "be honest with me, are you interested by Cagalli?"

Athrun was silent for a while.

"Would you mind if I was?"

Kira hadn't expected this answer.

"Well… I guess I don't." Kira was thinking.

"Listen Kira, don't worry about that. I'm only thinking at Cagalli as a sister."

"Are you trying to fool yourself? There is more between the two of you than that. And you know it."

Athrun went silent, lost in his thoughts. He had tried so hard to convince himself that he only liked Cagalli as a sister. And now he was doubting again. He sighed and continued to play.

In the evening, Kira, Lacus, Cagalli, Shiho, Athrun and Yzak were playing cards. It had become a habit for them to gather and relax altogether. Then Dearka arrived.

"Hey Dearka, where were you?" asked Yzak looking up form his game.

"With Miriallia. Men, she is really into her project. She developed it to me until now."

"When it comes to photography, you can't stop her." Laughed lacus.

They played a little more when the fire siren went on.

"Dammit," exclaimed Cagalli, "not an exercise now!"

"Let's go." Simply said Kira.

They proceeded to the exit following the flow of students. Once outside, they noticed smoke that was escaping from windows in the left side of the building.

"Wow" exclaimed Cagalli, "seems like it's not an exercise."

"I hope nobody's inside." said Lacus holding Kira's arm tightly.

"Miriallia" Dearka whispered.

"What?" Kira went pale, "Don't tell me that she is in there."

"When I left, she was going to work in the darkroom. You can't hear a sound in there."

All gazes turned to where was the photography club. Flames were escaping from the windows.

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That's it for now! Sorry but I wanted a little bit of suspense. Please tell me what you think of this story

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