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Chapter 4

Inside there was a beautiful queen size patchwork quilt. Kira thought it suited them, he kissed her on the forehead, she smiled, something he hadn't seen her do in a week. They began to unpack the groceries. Preparing for their new life, together, like a patchwork quilt.

Kira woke early the next morning to the sound of birds chirping. Cagalli stirred but never woke. He showered and dressed, then went out on the balcony.

"Next trip to the city I have to pick up some chairs." He reminded himself.

He stared out into the bay. "It's so peaceful here," he though to himself. "I think I might settle down here. Me and Cagalli."

Cagalli woke up and came out on the bridge with him. "What's for breakfast?" She asked him, wrapping her arm around his waist.

"I don't know, what're you cooking?" He joked.

She smiled at him and looked out into the bay. "It's beautiful."

"Ya I know."

"Kira."

"Yes."

"Don't ever leave me again, okay?"

He was going to argue that he never left her in the first place but decided against it. " I promise I won't."

She cuddled into him. He held her tight, not wanting to lose her as well.

They went downstairs to prepare breakfast. Just as the bacon started to brown up, just the way Kira liked it, there was a knock on the door. Cagalli went to the window to see if she could identify the car. "A black Toyota sports car." She told Kira.

Kira shook his head to say he didn't know who owned it, and went to answer the door. Before he got to the door it burst open and in came Athrun and Lacus.

Kira and Cagalli were in shock. "Wh, wh, what are you doing here?" he said, a little less than enthusiastic.

Athrun's big smile tuned to a frown. "Aren't you surprised?"

Kira snapped out of his gaze and a grin stretched across his face. "Of course I'm surprised I just didn't realize you were coming. It just shocked me to see the two of you here I guess. How did you know where to find me?"

Athrun laughed and said, "I just went with the Mustang out front."

Kira laughed too. Then he remembered something really important. The bacon!

He turned around and started towards the stove. He noticed steam over the table. He looked at the table. There were four plates of bacon and eggs, four mugs of coffee, and two girls giggling at each other. Cagalli looked up at Kira. "Who knows when the two of you were going to stop gabbing, we were getting hungry."

"And we saved the bacon." Said Lacus laughing.

They all laughed together. Athrun and Kira sat down and started eating.

"How long do you plan to stay for?" Asked Cagalli.

"As long as it takes us to get a house built on the empty lot next door." Athrun said smiling.

Kira and Cagalli glanced at each other. So much for forgetting about the war.

Athrun sensed something wrong. "Is it okay with you, because we can rent in the city until it's done."

"No, no it's fine." Said Cagalli.

"Stay as long as you like." Kira added.

"Thanks a lot." Lacus said, finishing her meal and clearing away the dishes.

"I can do that Lacus." Cagalli offered, getting up.

Kira helped Athrun bring the suit cases to his and Lacus' room. Then he showed him the rest of the house. They looked at each others car. They both commented on the others taste. And went back inside.

Later that day they went to see the garden. Well not really, there wasn't much of a garden there. The former home owners had been an old couple who didn't have the strength to devote to a garden, so the lot was entirely gravel. Lacus started bursting into thought. "Put a fountain here, oh and this is a great place for…"

"Lacus, it's their garden remember. You have your own garden to plan."

"Oh, right."

They had a snack and Kira and Athrun decided to make a trip to the city. They took Kira's Mustang to the Ford dealer, the salesman was surprised to see them so soon.

"What's the trouble?" He said, looking over the car.

"Nothing, we want a truck too." Kira said.

Athrun and Kira decided to go halfs on a truck. Not because they couldn't afford it on their own, it just made sense.

They chose a turbo diesel F-250, black, four wheel drive, leather, sunroof. Kira wanted to drive it so Athrun took the Stang. They went to the hardware store, Kira wanted to build a Flower box for Cagalli, and for Lacus until she got one of her own. He also wanted to build a deck on the bottom floor. He got 100 pieces of 2 X 4, 10 pieces of 4 X 4, and 20 pieces of 2 X 6.

"That should do it." Said Kira.

"I hope so, if I didn't know better I'd say you were building a house."

They laughed, Kira picked up 200 lbs of nails, a hammer, a cordless drill, a handsaw, a shovel, and a few bags of pete moss.

"We're gonna need another truck." Athrun joked on the way out of the store.

They got into the vehicles and Kira led them to Canadian Tire.

"What now." Said Athrun to himself, a little annoyed.

Kira ran into the store, ten minutes later, he came out and backed the truck into the big doors at the back of the building, he came out five minutes later towing a dumping trailer be hind him.

"Oh Jesus." Athrun said rolling his eyes.

Kira grinned as he drove by, Athrun shook his head.

They drove down the highway, Athrun wondered what the trailer was for.

About a minute away from the city they pulled off onto a side road, i twas made from gravel, Kira signaled Athrun to stay where he was, not wanting to beat up his car.

A whole twenty minutes passed, Athrun was sure he had had five or six naps, when Kira finally came out, pulling a heaping trailer load of fine gravel with him.

They had the deck built in a couple of days, and the flower box was huge, and full of all kinds of flowers, to Lacus' delight.

Kira and Athrun had even started a vegetable garden. And Athrun and Lacus' house was almost completed outside.

One night while they were all eating supper, someone knocked on the front door.

"Who could that be? Not more company i hope." Kidded Kira.

"I'll get it" Said Cagalli.