Living With A Sneaky Devil
Disclaimer: It's simple. I don't own GS/D, Sunrise or any of the GS/D characters.
Author's Note: Thanks everyone that review for last chapter! I'M REALLY SORRY THAT I TARDY THIS CHAPTER! It's just that I'm feeling the tension between writing and exams. One more week and I'm finish with school! Then the whole summer vacation to write! Woohooo!
Anyways back to AxC, I know, people are going to feel bad for AxC since what happen to last chapter but… no worries! Everything will be A-Okay!
(Oh, and in this chapter, I made it extra long for you, my readers! Enjoy!)
Previously in Sneaky Devil 9…
Cagalli inserted the wrong key, as she kept pushing the key in. She sighed and stopped. Suddenly, she felt something heavy leaning on her. Right away, she knew it was him.
"…Cagalli," He whispered softly, "…I'm sorry…"
"…" Cagalli faced the door, her forehead touching the polish wood paint, her eyes closed. "I think…" She spoke…
—Sneaky Devil: 10. Hell was never hell without Heavens—
"…Cagalli…" Athrun softly whispered through his lips.
The soft chilly air from his open window wrapped him in his thoughts. He only thought on was the girl who his heart burst for and appreciated for, and no one else.
The night breeze was cold yet it was summer. The white silk drapes that hung on the window blew softly, creating waves to the open air. Not only was the room dark with no light, the ticking clock beside his bed on that maroon end table was silent tonight. It felt hollow all the sudden.
The forever-illuminating sun slept in a drunken state, setting hours ago. It's trustworthy friend and companion, moon, rose to care of their children, the world. It shined ever so bright, not itself giving its glow, but its partner, the divine scorching sun. Everything and everyone had a purpose in everyone's life. But now, Athrun didn't know his on Cagalli's.
He sighed, covering his eyes with his calloused hands. His now lonely heart ached in pain as he remembered her saying those things to him. He felt like a miserable jerk.
"I thought that you were my prince. But I was wrong…"
He would be and wished to be, but what was the matter with him? …Couldn't he control that idiotic temper of his? Why did he get so angry over such reckless thing?
Because he was an idiot himself…
"I'm not that stupid to fall…"
Her words were clear on his mind as she said so to him. He had no reason to judge her intellectuality. Maybe because of himself, that he couldn't trust on. He trusted on her, right?
He did. He very much did. It was just a sudden mistake, a tiny one that was made by him. And he hated himself for it.
He slowly turned to the other side of his bed; his brushed his hand lightly on the soft silk sheet. It was the side where she sat, kissed him and snuggled onto him hours ago. As he kissed those angelic immature lips, he felt full, full of warmth and passion. It was the feeling, which Athrun never had with his previous girlfriends. They were nice but selfishly to themselves. He never thought of them innocent or nice as Cagalli. They were the party type, those who drove you to the wild side. But to Athrun they were just plainly boring and selfish after he knew what they were about, and (that's the raison d'être he's single right now). All they wanted was his looks, money, but not his heart nor feelings. He soon learned that when he met a certain golden angel. She was like brought from heavens to save him.
He chuckled when he remembered Cagalli asking him what a French kiss was. She thought it was like French fries. "Is it a kiss from a French man?" she asked curiously in an unadulterated way. "No of course not." He answered.
It was so Cagalli. Sweet, sweet honey from the honey flower suckles that every bee died for. So pure, so innocent, so addictive.
Athrun groaned. And he ruined that. All that warmth, gone, just like a bee sting.
He absently stood from his bed. He staggered a bit as his body was tired of fatigue, but could not get any sleep. It wouldn't let him. Work was tomorrow and he needed his sleep, but his certain love problem blew on his mind. His heart ached again.
He groaned for the second time and leaned on the wall for support.
How long was it since she locked her door and didn't wish to speak to the lights of him?
Like hours and hours ago…
Athrun sighed deeply and averted his eyes from the wall to the silent ticking clock. It ticked away each single minute of the night.
Athrun sighed once again remembering exactly how it occurred…
It began after that incident…
Beginning of flashback…
"I think…" She began, biting her lips to refuse her solemn tears fall. "I want to leave…and go back home…" Cagalli thought to say. "…But I…"
"And what if he…" She felt scare and hurt, and just wanted someone to comfort her, like her family or someone...
"…You should…apologize to him," she said instead, after few broken thoughts. She wanted so badly to flee from his arms, as his warmth was overwhelming her. He felt so good and warm, like a home. But he hurt her…badly…
After few seconds she spoke again, "…maybe it's better that I learn this..." Her tears felt silently. She didn't meet his eyes; her head was still leaning against the door, hands clutched into a fist. She tried fighting the damn tears, but it was in vain. It felt slowly down her fair cheeks. "…That I am stupidly sheltered and naïve to the core…"
"C'mon, Cagalli..." Athrun said trying to hold her evading hand, his voice cracked like hers. "I didn't mean it that way…if you could—"
Before Athrun could have finish what he wanted to say, a couple passed by them, laughing, hands in hands, sweet words been exchange. The loving couple gave a short glanced to the midnight blue haired guy and the teary-eyed blond. As they passed by, their faces filled with sudden blush. They could see it clearly that Athrun and Cagalli had a problem, but not only that, they stood so closed, in an intimate kind of way, almost like they were…
Seeing what the couples were seeing, Athrun moved a bit away from Cagalli, who by the way had no clue. His face filled with somewhat embarrassment and guiltiness. Why did it feel so awkward when someone stared and wondered? Why couldn't they have what that couple had? Athrun wished that, and he would make it so, if she gave a second chance.
Cagalli, who drifted her eyes away, first, finally had the strength to find the correct key and opened the door. Athrun flinched at the lost of contact with her, as he felt her move away from him. The blond whispered before she ran inside the flat, "…I thought that you were my destined prince. But I was wrong…" To her room she ran, tears flowing out.
"Cagalli! …Wait!" He followed behind. In a second, she locked her room door.
"Go away!"
"Please open up—I need to say something."
"I don't want to hear it!"
After trying several times, Athrun decided to give her sometime to cool off. In slow movements, he walked back to the living room, and threw himself on his unfinished work. The piles of documents that were untouched from the hour ago that he left them unattended still lay there on the coffee table, silent. God, he better finish them. And there was a lot he hasn't finish with! He had a meeting tomorrow and he had to present them.
Massaging his temples, Athrun started on a yellow folder.
He had lots to do. And they weren't going to finish themselves.
He will talk to her once she's cooled down.
Finally finishing at nearly 4 a.m., Athrun yawned for the umpteenth time. He turned to his filled coffee mug. Picking it up, he found it empty. Oh yah, he drank it all few minutes ago.
He blinked and put it back down on the coffee table.
He's just sleepy. Yes, he should get some sleep.
Standing up after sitting on the carpet floor for so long made him winced as his sore bum and legs shook. He turned to pick up all the files that he need it tomorrow and walked to his room. He stopped at Cagalli's door. He wanted to speak to her, but obviously, she was sleeping! Athrun shook his pathetic sleepy state and turned to his door, opening it.
He need sleep, a lot of it—
End of flashback…
"I can't sleep, damn it," he grumbled, still leaning against the cool wall in his room. He stood there for God knows how long! And finally he moved from it. He rubbed his tired face.
Maybe it was all that coffee he drank. He did drink a lot. Well, he needed it. But now…he suffers from it. And what Cagalli told him made it worse.
"I have a meeting in four hours..." He grumbled annoyed and moved to the door. He twisted the knob and walked out.
As he walked out, he faced Cagalli's door, again. He stilt there for a sec, his hand on his neck and his head slowly leaning against the coolness of the wood door.
"Cagalli…" he whispered, verily audible.
He slowly opened his eyes to see the doorknob. And he knew that Cagalli since the beginning been locking her door, probably afraid of letting him in, to his mischievous actions.
"God, please let me comfort her…I won't hurt her like yesterday. I promise, please." He begged feeling a bit pathetic yet right.
He sighed and laid his right hand on the knob and slowly turned it. It was unlocked! Was it a miracle or did Cagalli leave it open after he went into his room? Oh, well, which ever it was, he didn't mind at the moment. He wanted to see her, badly.
In quiet steps and green tired eyes, he walked slowly to the sleeping blond. He could hear her quiet breathing. Her golden locks spread everywhere. Her scent was reach from his distance. He felt warmth coming over him. Quickly he shook his head and mentally hit himself. He's not going to take advantage over her! He promised. And he wasn't going to break it—till later on.
Finally he gently crawled beside her, and slowly turned towards her sleeping form. And what shocked him was that she looked like a deprived angel. Her expression sadden, eyes wet, with what it look like tears. "Was she crying?" Athrun asked himself, frowning.
He touched her cheeks with his thumb and felt it wet with moisture. "She cried herself to sleep…"
"…I'm sorry, Cagalli." He whispered in a guilty tone, placing a kiss on her wet cheek and on her temple.
Feeling her move closer to him, made him smile. He wanted her to feel it and it looked like she did. "…Hmm…Athrun…"
Was she dreaming of him? He smiled lazily.
He placed a soft kiss on her neck and said apologetic, "…I'm sorry for yesterday."
His eyes felt heavy and her sweet scent filled his nostrils. Her hair felt soft on his cheek. Her appearance changed and turned soft. She cuddled more into him, not knowing that her dream was real.
"Let me just close my eyes for few seconds…" he whispered before his eyes shut and drifted into sleep.
Groaning softly as the light hit her eyelids, Cagalli turning slowly to the other side of her bed. She snuggled against the soft sheets and inhaled the beautiful fragrance of... "Athrun?" she mumbled.
She inhaled it again, double-checking, and with alarm she shot right up with her eyes opened wide. The memory of yesterday's incident bit by bit filled her mind. Quickly she turned to find disappointment. She was dreaming… he wasn't there.
"But why did my sheets had the scent of him?"
Some part of her wanted her dream to be true, (though it was) and the other part told her that it wasn't. The scent was probably from the night before where she snuggled against him.
Sighing disappointedly, Cagalli turned to her white plastic bunny-ticking clock. "It's just nine in the morning." She read, and got up and went to the washroom, stopping on Athrun's door.
Forgetting that it was Monday, a business day, Cagalli knocked on his door. But no respond came. She knocked again, and nothing.
"Athrun, I need to—" she shook her head. What did she want to talk to him about? "…Uh, nevermind…" Quietly with a frown, Cagalli turned away and headed to the washroom.
"Best to leave him alone. After all, I am the one to tell him off…"
"I wonder what's she's doing now…" Athrun looked up at the office clock hanging above his office white wall. "I should have written her a note. I hope she knows that I'm not home."
"Athrun?" an employee and a good friend of him called knocking on the glass door.
"Yes, Dearka?"
"Here are the—" Dearka looked up from the files that he was reading from to see Athrun's face all pale and drained. "Did you get any sleep at all? You look dead," the blond asked.
Rubbing his eyes with his hands, Athrun replied tiredly. "No. I had to worked very late last night to finish the FJA proposal."
The blond winced. "Man, you should go back home and rest as soon as work is over."
"You are right. Thanks for your concern—"
"OR maybe we should go and pick up CHICKS and PARTY the whole night around!" Dearka said amusingly and a big pervert smile.
The blue haired project manager just stared at his crazy sex-addict friend. It was usual that Dearka would go crazy and invite him to drink and pick up girls to take home to.
Hearing the usual silence, Dearka scratched his blond short hair. "Man, you really moved on didn't you?"
Arching a brow, the man sitting on his office asked. "…Meaning?"
"You aren't the sex-addict type anymore."
"No, that was you. And you still are."
Dearka laughed. "Yes, that's right." He dropped the files on his desk and sat on one of the chair in front of him. "So, how the flat? Any good? How about chicks, are they hot? And got one yet?"
Sighing, Athrun replied casually. "The flat's great. Chicks, I haven't had the time to see any." Fiddling with one of the ball pen in hand, Athrun replied at the last question, hesitantly. "And haven't got one yet."
Sensing his buddy's mood, Dearka nodded. "I see..." He stood up and walked around thinking, meanwhile staring at his blue haired friend. He was analyzing Athrun's mood. And damn did he do a good job…
"You are fucking one now and she suddenly got pissed at you, am I right?" Dearka guessed nodding at his quick conclusion. He looked amused as Athrun arched a brow.
"Dearka, why is it that you can always use such foul words and not get kicked out of my office?"
"Maybe," Dearka walked to Athrun, fun twinkling eyes boring into his, "because I'm just telling the facts?"
Athrun sat there tilting his head to one side. "Really?"
"Yup. And besides—"
He sighed. "Let me put it this way, we didn't do it." Athrun said bluntly, putting the topic to rest.
An immediate 'O' shaped on Dearka's lips in surprise, "You-you didn't do it?" He stammered in shock. "I don't get it. Was she not hot?"
"No. That's not it."
"Then what?"
Athrun shrugged his shoulders. "She's too special." He answered staring out of his office window.
"Hmm…I wonder what's wrong with him?" a blond asked herself. She seriously hasn't seen him all morning. Maybe he went out? Or took a troll around the block? Cagalli sighed. She shouldn't have yelled at him, in the beginning. And yet he did deserve it.
Thinking how he implied all those things made her angry now. She knew he had no right to say that. For God's sake, all she wanted was to make friends with—what's his name? Oh, right, Shinn Asuka, was it? The dark haired guy who she accidentally accused of being a rapist out to get her, and yet Athrun punched him when he asked if she wanted to come to his apartment and get to know each other. Sheez, Shinn had a girlfriend! There's no way some one like him would betray his love one! Well, she didn't know him but she was certain that he was a 'fine gentleman'.
Cleaning her plate quickly, Cagalli went to her room and got her purse. She took the spare keys to the apartment and walked out of the flat, locking it behind.
That's right. There's no way in hell she's staying under one roof with an overprotective guy who thinks she's totally weak and defenseless, and unemployed.
"Got to find a job!" Cagalli thought determinately, as she walked to the elevator, bumping into a woman along the way.
"I'm sorry! Are you ok?"
Wincing as she got up, the light blond woman with amethyst eyes replied with a nodded. "It's alright. I'm fine."
"Oh, thank goodness." Cagalli sighed.
The amethyst blond smiled then blinked in confusion. "Are you visiting someone?"
"Me?" Cagalli pointed at herself. "Oh, no. I live here—I just moved in." She pointed at the apartment behind her.
"Oh, that's why, I don't recognize you." She smiled. "I live three doors away from you. Sorry if I didn't welcome you the day you moved in, I just had a fight with my boyfriend. And he—Ahh, sorry, I bet you didn't want to hear about a stranger's life problems."
"Oh, no, it's alright." Cagalli answered, entering the elevator as the blond woman beside her did too.
She was shorter than Cagalli and younger, maybe at the age of 21? Cagalli guessed. She looked so sophisticated for such a young person, unlike herself. She was naïve as she remember been pointed as. The blond beside her wore a black office type suit with her blond silky hair curled perfectly. The earrings on her ears were silver pearl-shaped. Her posture was made for a company type person. And unlike her, Cagalli wore a blue flowery sundress, her hair flat and shinny flowery earrings, and her posture not even close to an office worker. This girl looked all what Athrun wanted. Cagalli didn't know why he played with her, if there was a girl next door all perfectly matched for him. Except that this girl had a boyfriend already. But still.
"I'm sorry if I didn't introduce myself." The blond woman apologized, reaching her hand out. "I'm Stellar Loussier. But everyone calls me Stella."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Cagalli Hibiki." Cagalli instantly accepted her hand, shaking it lightly.
"Your last name sounds familiar…" Stella said tapping her chin. "Where have I heard it from?"
Cagalli swallow a lump in her throat. She tried diverting the question into something else. "…Uhm…so, which floor are you heading to?"
The diverting worked. "Oh, lobby please. I'm going to work. What about you?"
Cagalli froze in place as she pressed the lobby floor. "Uhh…" she blushed. "I'm going…to look for—I'm unemployed." Cagalli thought that startled the woman beside her but she was wrong.
"I see…" Stella said nodding. She thought for a sec then turned to Cagalli with a proposal. "There will be a lot of customers today at the café and I don't think me and the others will manage without more help. What do you say you join us?"
Cagalli blinked with wide saucer shaped-eyes. Was she employing her? She was so startle with the proposal, Cagalli stumbled on her words, "I-I…well, I want—pardon me?"
Chuckling, Stella shook her head and smiled brightly. "Do you want to work at my workplace? It's a café. It's close by and the wage is more than ok."
Cagalli blinked as the realization hit her. "I-I—Ah, thank you so much!" she quickly vowed. "I would love to work at your café!" She hugged Stella with glee, who hugged back with laughter. "Your welcome."
"Is it ok to work today?" Cagalli asked nervously. "I'm not—I mean I not trying to be rude but I'm not wearing a suit like you…"
"Oh, it's that's ok. I'm wearing this because I'm the hostess of the café."
"Wow." Cagalli turned at the corner as Stella lead the way to work. "So, do you want to work as a waitress or a bartender?"
"Eh, uh… maybe waitress. I can't stand alcohol." Cagalli looked nervous.
"That's ok. I use to work at that job. But it was all right, I got used to it. It was fun actually."
"You worked as a bartender before?" Cagalli asked bewildered. Stella nodded and smiled. "Yup. Until I got promoted to hostess."
"You're amazing." Cagalli complimented. "This is my first job and I hopefully hope that it goes alright."
Stella stopped and looked at the 23 year old, shocked. "This is your first job!?"
Cagalli thought of something quickly to cover the truth. She really didn't want her or anyone to know she was the rich heiress of a big company. "Uh, no. My words slipped, sorry. I meant to say that this is my first time at a food and service job."
"Oh. Well that's ok." Stella apologized soon after for her out burst.
"Well, this is it." she said pointing at the café just in front of them. It was a French café as the name was written, café bleu d'océan. The outside was decorated with shrubs of red, white gallica, and pink multiflora roses. It was so beautiful that Cagalli couldn't wait to see the inside.
It was past six and a key was inserted in the hole of the doorknob. It was twisted and turned, showing a handsome and tired dark blue haired hunk. "Cagalli?" He said softly, looking at the dark apartment. It was pitch black. The lights were all untouched and the blinds were still wide open. "Where is she?"
While calling her name one more time, Athrun went to turn on the living room lights. In a soft quick moment the room was illuminated. He walked slowly to his room, dropping his coat and his suitcase. He flicked the light switch on as he turned back to untie his red tie. "Is she sleeping?" He asked himself, as he loosened some of the buttons on his white office shirt. Athrun checked his watch and it read, "It's just six."
He shook his head, as he didn't consider that she had nothing to do in this apartment for the whole day. "I should have told her to take a walk at the park nearby or go shopping…"
Athrun walked out of his room to stop at her room. He knocked on her door lightly. "Cagalli? Are you awake?"
He waited few seconds for a respond but none came.
"I'm coming in, ok?" He said before entering her room. Then sudden surprise hit him when he found her room pitch black and no occupant anywhere. Where was Cagalli?
Athrun walked out of her room, leaving her door wide open. He went to check in the washroom, but she wasn't there, nether was she in the kitchen or anywhere in the flat. Athrun's heart started panicking. "Where the hell is she? Did she leave me when I was at work?" He turned to her room again. "That's impossible, all her stuff are still here…"
"I'm home!" a tired high-pitched voice called from the door. The sound of the door shutting and keys being dropped on the glass coffee table startled Athrun.
Seeing that the lights were on, Cagalli walked slowly to her room but was soon stopped by Athrun, who startled her with a hug. "Athrun? What's wrong?"
He pulled back and spoke too fast for her to react. "Wherehaveyoubeen??"
Cagalli blinked a few times. "…What?" She was clearly confused.
"Where have you been?"
"Outside, of course."
He repeated looking at her for any scratches. "Athrun, what are you doing?" Cagalli blushed as Athrun gazed at her body. She clearly forgot about their fight yesterday. "Did something happen to you?" He asked as he found bandages on her two left and right fingers.
"Ah, that was nothing." She said covering them.
"What were you doing outside so late?" He asked looking at her tired face.
"…" She didn't want to say it but his curious cute gaze made her surrender. "...Working." She said, color tainting her cheeks.
"Working?" Athrun's brows rose. "Where?"
"Two blocks away. At café bleu d'océan."
Athrun blinked. "How did you get the job?" Cagalli smiled and told him the whole incident with Stella. They sat on the sofa as she talked.
"See I told you that I could find a job." She pinched him on the cheek. "Yes, guess you were right." He smiled. "Though I'm not good at it. I broke five plates and a cup." Cagalli said showing her bandaged fingers that he spotted before. "It's all right. You'll get better at it." Athrun said soothing her hand with his.
For a second, Athrun almost forgot about the fight. But now that he thought about it, he had to fix it. Obviously, he couldn't avoid it forever.
"You know…" He said with a soft voice. Cagalli looked up tiredly at him. "…Hm?"
"I'm such a jerk."
"What? Athrun…why would you say something like that about yourself?"
"Because, I hurt you when I couldn't trust you." He said looking into her amber eyes. "I'm sorry, Cagalli."
"It's all right, Athrun." She said placing her hands on his cheeks. "I should be mad at you, but somehow I just don't know why, my mind and soul wouldn't let me."
"And besides, you were sort of right." She added. "I am a bit naïve. But I can't help it. This is me, I was raised this way." Cagalli placed a kiss on Athrun's lips.
"Maybe I need some anti-naïveness lessons from someone..." She said as she played around with a button on Athrun's shirt, slowly tugging it open from its spot.
Obviously turned-on, Athrun filled in the gap between them, "Like me?" He gave a lazy smile.
"Perhaps…" She said unbuttoning another one.
"So you forgive me?" Athrun asked huskily.
Her answer was a kiss on the lips.
End of Sneaky Devil 10.
A/N: Anyways, mina-san thanks for reading! Have any questions? Ask me then I will tell you. Plz, review now! Thanks so much! Love ya all for reading this fic!!
By: Daisukiasu'n'caga