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Epilogue
When they are twenty…
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Athrun, holding a bouquet of carnations, went to his Mother's grave. He kneeled before it and smiled. "Happy Mother's Day, Mother." He laid down the bouquet of carnations. He stayed silent for a few moments before he suddenly said, "…Ma…ma." Athrun looked awkward at his outburst and he looked around to see if anyone heard him. Finding no one, he sighed. Somehow, he could feel his father looking disapprovingly at him and his mother smiling at him. Athrun did not know where that comes from. He felt that, that single word, 'Mama' made his mother's day. Athrun just knew it from somewhere in his memories.
"Dearka!"
Yzak, holding a bouquet of roses and a gift in his hands, looked irritably at Dearka, "Are you done yet!"
Dearka looked up from the flowers to Yzak's annoyed face, "I'll be done soon!" He said and turned back to the display of flowers, tapping his chin, wondering what flower he should buy for his mother.
Yzak had agreed to buy flowers and gifts with Dearka and now, he clearly regretted it. Yzak had waited three hours for him to choose the right flowers.
In the end, he chose to have a mixture of carnations, daisies and roses. "Finally!" Yzak said when he saw Dearka walking out of the flower shop. Dearka grinned apologetically. "Let's go." Dearka said and they walked together to the grave of Mrs. Elsman.
"Hello Mum! I have come to see you." Dearka laid down the colorful mixture of flowers. "Remember when I am eleven-years-old? I also gave you a colorful bouquet of flowers." He grinned. Dearka turned to Yzak and said, "Why don't you go home first? I want to stay longer a bit."
Yzak nodded and went off, knowing that Dearka needed some time alone.
Yzak turned around a corner and saw a familiar brown-haired girl kneeling in front of a grave. He went nearer and saw someone he never expected.
"Shiho?"
Shiho turned around at the sound of someone calling her name. She looked up and saw Yzak's curious face. Her eyes widened and her face tinted slightly pink. "Yzak? What are you doing here?" She asked him.
"I accompanied Dearka here." Yzak replied. "And you?"
"Well, I am here to wish my mother a 'Happy Mother's Day." Shiho replied back, nodding to the tome stone in front of her.
"Oh…" For once Yzak was at a loss of words.
A pregnant silent fell in between them. Then Yzak suddenly asked something he normally wouldn't ask. "You…Do you want to come home with me? To celebrate Mother's Day with my mother and me, I mean."
Shiho looked up, clearly surprised. Yzak turned to the other direction, blocking his slightly flushed face from her view. "I mean, if you don't want that's okay." He said.
"I want…" Came Shiho's shy reply. "If it's okay with you."
Yzak spurned around to look at Shiho's slightly blushing smiling face and he smiled.
Dearka stayed there, felling into a trace after Yzak went off. He sat down and stared at his mother's grave after what seemed like hours when a voice pulled him out of his trace.
"Dearka?" A familiar feminine voice called.
Dearka turned around surprised to see Miriallia looking at him. "Milly!" He said.
Miriallia had remembered that Dearka told her that he was going to visit his mother's grave and she had went over to find him.
Miriallia shifted her gaze from Dearka to the tombstone in front of him. "This is your mother, Dearka?" Miriallia asked. Dearka looked back and replied, "Yeah."
Like a normal thing he would do, he pulled Miriallia down and placed her on his lap.
"Hey!" Miriallia exclaimed.
"Just for a moment." He said and placed his head in the crook of Miriallia's neck.
Miriallia's stiff body relaxed and let him laid there. If normally he did that, she would surely push him away but today was a special occasion.
"Miriallia…" He mumbled in between her hair.
"What?"
"Would you marry me?"
"WHAT!" She shot up and spurned around to face him.
"Would you marry me?" Dearka grinned and took something out from his pocket.
"Are you serious!" She said, feeling shock yet a tad happy.
"Yes, I am. I was meaning to give you this earlier but I didn't have the guts to do so." His face turned a bit flushed. He opened his hands to reveal a tiny red velvet box. Dearka opened it and a beautiful ring was in it.
Miriallia searched her boyfriend's expression for signs of joking but there were no signs of it even though he was grinning.
After what seemed like hours Miriallia replied, "Yes, I will." She looked at Dearka, smiling happily, eyes brimming with tears. Dearka grin turned so wide it could almost touch his ears. He jumped up and slid the ring in her finger. He hugged her, the scent of her showered hair filling his senses.
Then Dearka suddenly shouted, "Mum! I had got myself a wife!" He carried her bridal style and playfully swung her around. Their happiness clearly shown on their faces.
The evening sunlight spread over the graveyard, tainting there ember. Kira and Lacus walked to Lady Clyne resting place. "Kira, you go ahead. I'll go by myself now." Lacus told Kira.
Kira smiled and said, "Oh right then. I'll pick you up later."
Kira walked to his Mother's grave. He turned around a sharp corner when he bummed into someone. Both of them fell down onto the grass.
"Ouch! You idiot! Didn't you see where you are going!" A feminine voice shouted.
Kira blinked at the familiar voice and saw who he bummed into. "Cagalli!"
Cagalli stood up and saw the 'idiot' who she had bummed into. "KIRA!" She hollered upon seeing him. "What are you doing here!"
"Umm…Visiting Mother's grave?" He smiled sheepishly at her.
Cagalli looked at Kira and offered him a hand. Kira took it and pulled himself up. Then, Cagalli saw what's he was holding.
"You brought mother a flower crown?" Her eyes softened. Kira nodded and looked at the flower crown in his hand and he saw the flower crown in Cagalli's hand too, "You brought one too?"
"Yeah." She nodded. "How come you thought to bring a flower crown instead of a bouquet of flowers?" Cagalli asked.
"I thought mother might like it." Kira answered and smiled at his twin sister.
"Me too." Cagalli told him.
Kira offered her his hand. Cagalli took it and they went there hand in hand. Just like that time when they were two-years-old.
When night was falling, Kira bid Cagalli goodbye and he went to fetch Lacus. Cagalli went to the grave of Lady Athha. She did what she did when she was five-years-old.
A navy blue-haired man passed there and he stopped his pace when he saw the Orb princess. "Cagalli." He called her.
Cagalli turned around and saw Athrun smiling face. She smiled back and they went home together.
"Let's have dinner together." said Athrun.
"Okay! I'll cook today!" Cagalli replied.
"Well, let's hope you don't set the kitchen on fire first." Athrun chuckled silently and ran off.
"What did you say!" She chased after the chuckling Athrun. She still had a smile on her face.
Lacus was waiting for Kira. When she saw him, she smiled and called him, "Kira."
Kira smiled back at the pink-haired princess and went to her side.
"What are we having tonight?" Kira asked.
"How about chicken stew?" Lacus asked.
"Sounds great!"
Mothers had brought those couples together, happily ever after!
END
A/N: The end of the story 'Mothers'. I hope you like it.
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