"Oh come on Miriallia. Just one dance is all I'm asking for," Dearka begged the still unwilling Miriallia. "Just one," he was still trying to say but she still didn't look at him but rather looking around her Tolle.
"Dearka, will you please get it through your mind that I am going out with Tolle," Miriallia said finally growing a little too frustrated with the blonde haired man's pestering. "Now will you please go away?" she nearly yelled out but managed to hold the yell back because she didn't want to attract any attention to herself.
Dearka couldn't help but smirk at how she was getting annoyed. "Not until you agree to a dance with me," he said enjoying how flustered he was able to get Miriallia to be. He considered it to be very sexy on her.
"Don't you get it you stupid jerk?" Miriallia yelled at Dearka before stepping on his foot very hard before walking away. "Why can't he just get it through his thick head?" she asked herself although she did find it flattering that he wouldn't give it up. 'I have Tolle though,' she thought with a smile.
Dearka was bouncing around holding his foot after the encounter. He grew angry when he heard snickering coming from around him and glared at the people who decided to shut up quickly. He still heard it and turned to see his friend Yzak was the one. "What the hell are you laughing at?" he yelled at his friend.
Yzak walked forward and leaned against a wall that was next to his friend. "That was a really pathetic attempt at getting her to dance with you. I don't know what was worse. How much you tried or how hard she shot you down each time," he said with a smirk on his usually calm face.
Dearka glared at the silver haired man. "I know she likes me," he said arrogantly. He just heard a groan from Yzak. "Why wouldn't she then, someone like Kira, who is going out with Fllay Allster is dancing with Lacus Clyne. So why won't she dance with me?" he asked himself more than Yzak.
"Oh I don't know, maybe it is because they have always been friends. Miriallia and you have never really been in good of terms with each other. I don't know of anyone who fights worse than the two of you," Yzak saying laughing at his friend. He shook his head as he walked away.
"Kira and Lacus can because they are friends with each other? Would that mean that Miriallia would if I was to become friends with her," he said before an idea hit him. "Maybe if I was to do that, I can get really good with her and she would leave her boyfriend behind," he thought with a smirk and then left to do some thinking.
"Dearka is definitely a weird one," Cagalli murmured during her dance with Athrun. "He doesn't know when to give up even when the odds are stacked against him," Cagalli said with a laugh that attracted Athrun's attention.
"He's had the biggest crush on her for the longest amount of time. He never knew what to do until she was together with Tolle. He just had the worst timing for it," Athrun said while sort of comparing it to himself. He wasn't too late but he just didn't know what to do with Cagalli.
"Well tell him that I wish him the best of luck next time you see him," Cagalli said with a chuckle. "Got to admire how he won't stop. It will probably be worthless unless Tolle suddenly decides to move away but I somehow doubt that that will happen," Cagalli said pulling away from Athrun as the song came to an end.
By the time that they got back to their table, they saw that Kira and Lacus were already sitting there and in deep conversation. Lacus had this huge smile on her face. They noticed that Kira seemed awfully confused by that but never said anything about it. He just talked about anything while he still had the time before Fllay decided to come back.
"You two sure seemed to be enjoying yourselves out there," Cagalli said with a grin which was more directed towards Lacus then her clueless brother. Her smirked broadened when she saw Lacus's face darken slightly but the smile remained on it. She just laughed at them. She was curious as to what would happen if the two of them ever got together.
"What do you mean, we only danced," Kira said a little clueless to what she was actually talking about. He heard the three of them groan and Cagalli even smacked her face in frustration. "What'd I say?" he asked a little confused on what was going on and why Cagalli hit herself.
"Nothing," Lacus said before standing up and walking away. Maybe she was hoping too much out of that. To her, she now saw it clearly. He obviously didn't see much more into it than a dance with a friend. Even if he did refuse Fllay in order to do that. She knew Kira would be in trouble with Fllay later for that also.
"Where's she going?" Kira asked and the two at the table groaned once again and his stupidity. "Why do you two keep doing that? I better go make sure she is ok. She didn't seem happy about something," he said making the two smile as he stood up and started to walk in the direction that Lacus went.
He didn't make it more than two steps before he was ambushed by Fllay who latched onto his arm. "Come on Kira, you said you would dance with me," she said pulling a protesting Kira onto the dance floor. It was either she didn't notice or she didn't listen to it.
Kira knew he was defeated. It was obvious that Fllay wouldn't give up so he knew he would just have to talk to Lacus about it later, which he guessed would only be when he dropped Fllay off at her place since she looked like she was going to occupy his time for the rest of the dance.
Cagalli was grumbling something under her breath on the way home that night. She just couldn't believe that Kira would get up to do one thing and just because of one persons insistence to dance that he would forget about his own best friend and just go with Fllay.
"I don't think Kira really had a choice. Fllay just wouldn't let him go. I saw him protesting quite a bit but she just wouldn't listen to him. I have some serious doubts about that woman," Athrun said but it just didn't have the effect that he was looking for since she kept cursing out her brother.
The rest of the ride to her place remained like that with Cagalli cursing her brother and Athrun doing what he could before she decided to kill her brother when he got back.
Athrun pulled into the driveway and turned to face Cagalli. "Listen, he is taking them both home now. Maybe he plans to talk to Lacus then. Fllay wasn't giving him any chances to. Every time he tried to get away she would pull him back to dance more," Athrun said because he knew Cagalli would murder Kira if he didn't.
Cagalli thought about it for a second. "Yeah, but…" she said but couldn't get the words out before Athrun suddenly caught her lips within his own. She was shocked beyond belief but quickly fell into the bliss of his touch.
Seeing that she was responding to the kiss, Athrun deepened it a lot. Athrun had just meant to do that to shut her up but he found he liked it too much to stop it too quickly. He just hoped that Cagalli wouldn't kill him about it later though. He did kind of take her by surprise and she once told him that she hated being surprised by anything. She did seem to enjoy it.
Both were in a daze as they broke apart and Cagalli stumbled out of the car with a quick goodbye and then Athrun drove away. He nearly got in five accidents because he was too stunned by what had just transpired between the two of them. Luckily he made it to his place and stumbled into the house.
His father looked up at his son. To him, his son looked like he was drunk stumbling all over the place like he was. "You didn't drink anything did you?" he asked setting down some papers that he was reading over a few moments prior.
Athrun just looked at his father and smiled a cheesy smile that caused his father to back away. "That was completely unexpected," he said as Athrun just walked up the stairs to his room. He knew what really happened though. He had gone through the same thing once with Athrun's mother Lenore. "Young love," he muttered before getting back to his work.
Dearka was walking around with absolutely no destination in mind. He was doing a lot of thinking. He suddenly heard some complaining and came to a stop as he recognized the voice that was saying it.
"I thought you got it fixed Tolle," Miriallia said calmly as she watched her boyfriend do anything that he could to get his car started. It was an older car since that was really all he could afford but it was mostly still in good shape except for a few engine problems.
"I did. I just got it back yesterday from the shop and they said that they were sure that they had fixed the problem with it," Tolle said as he looked at the engine trying to find whatever was wrong with it. "I have got to have a serious talk with them about this," he grumbled knowing that it probably wouldn't start on that cold night.
Miriallia clutched the jacket that Tolle had given her closer to her as she waited patiently. She noticed that Tolle was shivering and felt bad for him since he was cold because he gave her a coat to wear. "Why don't we just call for a cab Tolle," she said but he still tinkered with is car.
Dearka grinned and quickly ran to his car and drove over to the area that the two of them were waiting around at. "Looks like you are having some car troubles. Would you like a ride?" he asked with it being more directed towards Miriallia than to Tolle.
Miriallia stared at Dearka strangely. She always thought of him as a selfish person but he was offering both of them a ride. "Um… no thanks. We'll just call a cab if he can't get the car fixed," she said turning back to Tolle. He was still struggling with it.
Dearka sighed since he knew how stubborn Miriallia was when it came to him. She wouldn't easily change her mind about his offer to give her a ride. He figured that there might be something else that he could do to get on her good side and he intended to take it.
He got out of his car and walked over to what had to be the biggest hunk of junk ever, not to mention the even uglier car to him. "Move out of the way amateur," he said pushing Tolle off to the side and looking under the hood. What he saw made him want to laugh. It was only a loose piece. He was surprised that Tolle didn't see it. He fixed it and turned to Tolle. "There, it should work now," he said before turning to Miriallia and smirking at her before walking away.
Tolle grumbled as he stepped into the car to try and turn it on. He expected that it would probably be even worse than before. He hated eating his own words when the car hummed to life as soon as the key was turned.
"That's a first, Dearka was actually being helpful," Miriallia said as she watched Dearka walking back to his car. "Um… thanks, I guess," she said to him. It was almost as if seeing him in a new light. He actually helped them without asking for anything else in return.
Dearka only waved at her as he got back into his car. Although he was calm on the outside, he was smirking victoriously on the inside. He liked the way that she sounded when she wasn't yelling at him. He even liked helping her even more. He thought that that would be the best way to go with her.
Kira drove rather nervously. There was great tension in the car coming from Fllay towards Lacus. He was worried that a fight would break out while he was driving. Luckily for him, Lacus was trying to avoid any sort of confrontation with the redhead sitting next to him.
He was luckily that the drive to the first house was relatively short. Also luckily for him it was Fllay's place meaning that he could talk to Lacus afterwards. "We're here Fllay," Kira said snapping Fllay out of her glaring match with the unresponsive Lacus who just stared out the window humming a tune to herself.
"Huh?" Fllay said as she stared out the window and saw her large mansion looming over the vehicle. "Oh, why don't you come in Kira? My daddy ought to be home by now," she said in a tone. She wanted him to just leave Lacus there and make her walk home on her own.
"Um… I have to take Lacus home too," Kira said pointing towards Lacus and heard Fllay groan in annoyance. "I am not just going to forget about her Fllay. She is my friend. Please just try and get along with her," Kira said rubbing his head where a headache was starting to form.
Fllay didn't respond but just swung the door open and stepped out of the car before slamming the door in anger. "Fine! Have it your way!" she yelled as Kira flinched slightly. She just ran up to the door and went inside before Kira could respond. It slammed behind her.
"Maybe you should go and talk to her Kira," Lacus said climbing into the front seat of the car. "She seemed awfully upset so you should talk to her," she said and Kira glanced at her. "Don't worry about me, I can walk home myself," Lacus said about to open the door but Kira locked it.
"I don't think so Lacus. There are a lot of weirdo's around here. So I will feel a lot better if I made sure that you got there safely," he said backing the car out of the driveway. "Don't worry about Fllay, she will probably be calmed down when I see her next," he said keeping his eyes on the road but he couldn't help but glance at Lacus every once in a while.
The two arrived at her place about five minutes later and Lacus seemed in a hurry to get out of the car. Kira got out and followed her since he had wanted to talk to her about something. "Lacus, wait!" Kira yelled causing her to slow down but keep walking into her house.
Kira followed her inside and after saying a quick hello to her father, he followed her. He placed and hand on her shoulder and turned her around so that she faced him. He was met with that smile that she always had on. "Are you ok Lacus? You've been awfully quiet all night and Athrun, Cagalli, and I are all worried about you," Kira said looking deep within her.
"I am perfectly fine Kira. There is no need to worry about me," she said smiling up at him. "Good night Kira. I had a good time tonight," she said kissing him on the cheek and then went into her room and locked the door before Kira could stop her from doing so.
Kira sighed knowing that he would never get Lacus to tell him what she was really thinking. He wondered if maybe it had to do with what he had read in her diary but put it aside and walked back towards his car.
Siegel Clyne watched the young boy leave and sighed as well. He knew perfectly well what his daughter felt for the young brown haired man. She didn't talk about it though and although she put on a smile, he knew it was hurting her inside to know that he was with someone else then.
'Maybe if she would just speak what she was feeling, then maybe she would be able to put on a true smile and not just one that would hide what she was truly feeling,' he thought leaning back in his seat and looked towards the stairs wondering when his daughter would ever do anything for her own happiness.