c h a p t e r 7

We all climbed in the cars. Looking strange to other people passing by, as we were all driving together and talked to each other while doing so, looking like part of a large gang or something.

"Hey, did you know Shinn is going to be Stellar's date too? You know, for the nigh club?" Sting asked.

"What? But we're going together." I replied, annoyance in my voice.

"Well, apparently, now you three are a date. Sounds like a love triangle. You better watch out, Shinn…"

I glanced at Shinn in the other car, who was with Kira and Lacus and Athrun. Stellar was with Cagalli and Meer. I was with Sting and Yzak, and Dearka was with Miriallia and Shiho. A lot more people were in other cars, A LOT more, but they were behind our car and I didn't feel like turning around to see who they were.

I couldn't believe that Stellar and Shinn were going together too. I hoped that she only went with him so he wouldn't be alone.

I got a phone call on my cell, "Yeah?"

"Hey Auel, it's Athrun."

I frowned, looking at him in the other car with his cell, "what? You can just talk to me now you know, you don't have to call me, I'm not that far away."

"Yeah I know, but I don't want to shout, it'll distract the other drivers. So yeah, how much longer 'til we get there? Kira said only like 5 minutes but I don't trust him."

I heard Kira shout an offended, 'hey!' in the background, and smirked, "not much longer, see? Look ahead of you, that big building with all the lights is where we're going."

"Holy crap! It's huge! And I thought you were crazy for inviting all these people!"

"Yeah, and the best part is, I don't have to pay for all of you, I have free admission for as many people as I want since my cousin owns the place."

"Wow! Connection's much?"

"Heh, whatever Athrun, see you when we get there," I said then hung up.

Stellar was in the car in front of me, and she turned and smiled at me, waving when she saw me sitting on the ledge of the backseats of the convertible.

I smiled back, waving. She wore a blue halter top and a pink mini skirt, I could tell she borrowed clothes from Lacus or Meer, since she barely ever had much of those revealing clothes. She looked absolutely beautiful, and I loved that she wore makeup, with a butterfly hair clip in her hair.

I could also see Shinn staring at her, then glared at him before smiling back at Stellar. Meer was beside her and waved as well, and I waved back.

Sting sighed, "so who did Kira choose to go with? Fllay or Lacus?"

I shrugged, "I don't know, let me call him."

"Yeees?"

"Hey it's Auel you idiot, did you choose Lacus or Fllay to go with?"

"Why do you want to know?"

I saw Sting giving me the 'don't-you-dare-tell-that-it-was-me' look. I smirked, sticking my tongue out at my grass haired friend.

"Sting wants to know."

"Oh, I chose Lacus, Fllay said that she had someone else in mind to go out with anyway."

"Who?"

"Oh I don't know, you should ask her."

I hung up, then turned around and saw Fllay in another car with her friends, laughing and smiling. I sighed, that doesn't make it any easier to tell which guy she wanted to go with.

"Hey Sting, maybe she wants to go with you? Kira chose Lacus and Fllay said she wanted someone else."

I saw him smile from the corner of my eye, and I grinned, "I bet you want it to be you."

"Duh."

The green haired turned to Yzak, "so who are you going with?"

"Nobody." He answered bluntly.

"Shiho?"

"I said nobody!"

"Does Shiho count as nobody?"

The platinum blonde gave Sting a death glare, making him shut up, "nobody as in, GOING WITH NOBODY!" We were quiet for awhile, the silence uncomfortable, and Sting a bit scared of asking again.

I sighed, "you're going with Shiho aren't you?"

"Yeah," he admitted.

I grinned, "good for you, losing you're reputation of being queer?"

"Queer?" He said, blinking, "what's queer?"

I shut up, "never mind."

"No really, what is queer? Tell me, you bastard!"

"No. Leave me alone!

Sting sighed, "that's great," he said sarcastically, "stuck in a car with two ill tempered idiots."

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" Yzak and I said in unison.

"I proved my point."

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"Hey Shinn, you like Stellar right?" Athrun asked.

I frowned "what? Where'd you get that?!"

Lacus giggled, "it's obvious, no use hiding it."

I gave up immediately, knowing that they knew everything, "fine, yeah I do, so what? Auel does too!"

"Yeah but Stellar and Auel knew each other a really long time, they were childhood friends and he's probably been in love with her ever since they were kids, didn't you see his face when they reunited?"

I looked away, "yeah… So? Doesn't mean she feels that same way about him!"

Kira shrugged, "who knows? If she loves anyone, it's either you or Auel, maybe someone you haven't even met yet."

I growled, "oh shut up Kira!"

The blue haired stepped in, "quite it you two. So Shinn, what do you plan on doing? Are you going to try and win her heart?"

"Yeah, I'll do whatever it takes."

The pink haired girl sighed, "then that means you'll have to try and split Auel and Stellar apart, and that would be quite hard, since they are really good friends. Then I guess you'll have to flirt like crazy."

I sighed, "whatever, Lacus, I'll think of something."

"Hey, who do you think has a chance with Stellar anyway?"

Kira and Lacus shrugged at Athrun's question.

"Well, they both have an equal chance, but I think Auel maybe has a tad bit more, since they knew each other a lot longer than Shinn knew Stellar."

"Doesn't matter, maybe Stellar and Auel just don't have the chemistry as a couple? Maybe Stellar and Shinn are perfect?"

Everyone in the car began talking about this, and I just sighed, staring at the ocean beside the road.

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"Hey Stellar, who do you like anyway?" I asked, looking at the blonde girl with keen interest.

"Huh? As in romantically?" She questioned.

I nodded, seeing Cagalli look at her as well. Stellar shrugged, "I don't know… What does Meer and Cagalli think?"

"Don't know, but does it have anything to do with Auel or Shinn?" I asked.

I saw her face turn red a bit, and I had gotten my answer right then and there. But now the question was… which one?

"Which one, Stellar? Auel? Or Shinn?"

"Shinn and Auel are both really nice to me… Shinn promised he would protect Stellar and Auel did too… And Auel is a really nice person."

Cagalli and I knew that she was debating with herself as well to find out which one she liked more, and we sighed.

"Well, I think that you like Shinn," Cagalli said, "I saw you two together, and besides, you both are a cute couple. Auel is a bit of a jerk to other people besides you, and I just don't think you two as a couple click."

I knew she was just saying that because she didn't like Auel and thought that Stellar shouldn't be with anyone she didn't really like, but I had a different opinion.

"Nah, I think that you look really cute with Auel. You knew him a lot longer than you did with Shinn, and there's a reason he's always so nice to you, Stellar. It's 'cause he likes you. Yeah, Shinn likes you too, but who can you picture yourself with?"

I saw the blonde think about it for awhile, and then smiled, "Stellar doesn't really know, they are both really nice to Stellar."

She turned back to the ocean, staring at it and I knew she was in her trance-like phase. I turned to Cagalli, "does she like both? Or is she just hiding it from us?"

The other blonde shrugged, "I don't know, I think she's hiding it."

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"We're here!!!" I shouted, jumping out of the convertible. Everyone that was near my car stopped and got out of their cars as well. A lot of the people were still driving here.

I grinned as I saw their amazed expressions. Their was an onsen on one side of the building, and a rock garden near the ocean on the other side. We could hear music booming every time someone opened the door, then it was silenced as soon as the door closed.

"Let's go you guys!"

I went up to the door, opening it then smiling as my cousin saw me, she lunged into my arms, hugging me.

"Auel! You came!" She squealed.

Everyone could see the resemblance. Her hair was sky blue like mine and her eyes were only slightly darker an aqua as mine. She, however, had a dark tan and glasses.

"Hey Yuki… glad to see you too…" I turned around, "these are all my friends that want to party tonight."

She nodded as if the large crowd of people was nothing new to her eyes; which was probably true. She opened the large doors wide open, "come in everyone and stay as long as you like! Time to party!"

Everyone cheered and ran in, mostly the people I barely even knew, but my friends walked in with me. I pulled Stellar to the side with Yuki.

"Id like you to meet Stellar, a very special friend of mine. Stellar, this is Yuki, my cousin."

The two shook hands, "I've heard a lot about you from Auel here, he's always talking about you."

"Shut up!" I said, blushing darkly.

Stellar smiled at her, "nice to meet you!" She turned to me, "let's go dance Auel!" She grabbed my hand, earning a darker blush from me, and dragged me with her.

"Have fun you two!" Yuki called to us.

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"Wow, this place is really awesome, where did Sting and Fllay go?"

Lacus shrugged, "I think they went to the onsen…"

Kira stuck his tongue out, "eww… those two are so horny."

Athrun laughed, "yeah I guess, gross but I guess they actually love each other to do that junk."

He winked at Cagalli and the blonde blushed darkly, slapping him on the arm playfully. Meyrin and Lunamaria actually came as well. Lunamaria was flirting with many different guys, who had tried to get away, but failed. Meyrin was talking with this one guy off at the sidelines, and people were relieved that her crush on Athrun had finally weared off.

Shinn went over to Stellar, "Hey Stellar, do you like this place?"

Auel glared at Shinn, while Shinn ignored it and continued talking with Stellar.

"Yeah! It's really fun here!"

Shinn smiled, offering his hand to her, "want to dance?"

The blonde turned to Auel first, "Uhmm…"

The sky haired shrugged, "go ahead."

The two went off the dance floor, while Auel decided to go find another dance partner, which was some random girl. The girl eagerly accepted and the two began to dance as well.

'Well, at least Stellar likes this place, I'll have to try and keep Stellar to myself tonight so that Shinn doesn't spend too much time with her… damn that bastard.'

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Meer was dancing with Cagalli, Athrun, Kira and Lacus, and she knew that she was the twin that knew how to dance much better than Lacus could.

Lacus' movements were graceful, but Meer's were energetic and fun. She could see guys looking at her, their eyes trailing on her body, but chose to ignore them.

Cagalli and Athrun were dancing really close together, and people recognized it as grinding. It looked like the two were having a lot of fun, so Kira and Lacus began to do it too. Meer laughed, it was strange to see her innocent twin grinding naughtily, but then went off the dance floor, getting a drink.

"Hi there, I saw you dancing up there, you were really fantastic."

The pink haired looked up and saw a boy smiling at her. He actually looked a bit similar to Athrun. He had dark blue hair and green eyes, although his hair was shorter.

Meer smiled, "thank you, my name is Meer by the way."

"Beautiful name, mine is Dante."

The two began to talk like no tomorrow, as if they knew each other a long, long time.

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I was dancing with Stellar now, and I could tell she was having fun. Her body was glistening with sweat from all the dancing, and she was laughing happily with me. We had gotten closer as we danced, and I hadn't noticed until I felt her brush up against mine accidentally.

I blushed, "o-oops. Sorry."

She smiled, "no problem."

We continued to dance, and I glared at the guys that had begun to stare at her hungrily, like a pack of hormone grazed wolves. They immediately looked away once they got the message.

I smiled at her, "Stellar..? Can I ask you something?"

"Hmm?"

I immediately began to get nervous and my cheeks flushed, "Uh well… You see… I… wanted to know if…

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TO BE CONTINUED!