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Chapter 10

"That's weird." I felt Miriallia's surveying me. Well, maybe it's just someone in my direction. I ignored her and continued to read my book.

"You're certainly right Miriallia." Lacus nodded and also fixed her gaze to me.

It was getting uncomfortable, the way they were staring at me. Why were they doing that? I've never been the type of person that liked it when the spotlight was on them. I thought that they would stop after a minute or two, but when I still felt their eyes on me, I was getting pissed off. I closed my book and finally confirmed that I was the one they were looking at. "Is there something on my face?"

Both of them nodded in unison and it was embarrassing. So there was something in my face. Why didn't they just say that? My hands were all over my face, trying to remove whatever was the cause of the commotion.

"No it's not that 'something' is in your face." Miriallia said.

"It's just that there's something on your face!" Lacus continued for her.

I raised my eyebrows on the logic of their sentences. "That didn't make any sense." There's no something but there's something? Maybe they're using some kind of 'figure of speech' on me. How even more puzzling can my friends get?

Lacus giggled when I gave them a confusing look. "You see Cagalli, you're so…"

"So?" I urged her to continue. They got my attention now; I really want to know what they were trying to say.

"You're so smiley today." I looked at Miriallia and I saw the expression that she had. It was one of those 'I-know-something' ones.

"I'm not all smiley today." I fought back and went back to reading my book. But the reason that I felt so happy was because I got to spent time with Athrun yesterday! It took a long time before we could hang out like that again, like two best-friends. Ever since that stupid Athrun mistook the confession letter I gave him as stupid Meer's, that's when things started to change.

Why did I even think of confessing anyway? If it wasn't for that letter, they wouldn't be together right now.

That's very selfish of me. Athrun seems to be so happy with Meer. I should be a supportive best-friend for Athrun. Though it gives me a weird ache inside, maybe I'll get used to it in time. Just, maybe. Even though Athrun has a girlfriend now, he still makes time to hang out with me.

Like the one we did last night.

I bet I put on another goofy smile on my lips because Miriallia was exclaiming. "See! See!" She pointed her index finger at me and turned to Lacus to see if she saw it too. "There it is again! She's being smiley again."

"Stop it you too!" I blushed in embarrassment, well how can I not when I'm being stared at by these two? "I'm not being smiley okay?"

"Spill it!" Miriallia took the book out of my hand and closed it shut.

"Hey! Give it back!" I tried to get it from her, but it was too far from my reach. My book was under Miriallia's bag. There's really no escape from these two.

"Tell us first why you're so happy Cagalli!" Lacus squealed.

"Why do you want to know?" I asked them.

"Because we're your friends." Lacus, who was so cheerful awhile ago looked like she was about to cry now. I looked at Miriallia's direction and saw that it was the same. Looks like they were going to stop at nothing to know why my mood is so great.

"Look Cagalli." Miriallia said in a serious tone. "I know that we're not on the same level as Athrun when it comes to best-friendship, but we want to get close to you as well." She sniffed. Wait was she crying?

"She's right." Lacus pouted. "You don't trust us."

Oh no. I think I've made them mad. "Wh-what? It's not like that!" I tried to reason to them.

"But it looks like that." Miriallia retorted. "Then why won't you tell us?"

"Alright already!" I sighed. I guess I should be filling them in on my one-sided love life. They were the ones that were there for me when Athrun wasn't. They comforted me and gave me advice. It wasn't fair to treat them like this. "I'll tell you why."

"Yes!" Lacus and Miriallia cheered and gave each other a high five. It turns out they were only acting so that I would give in. This two, really…

"You tricked me!" I pretended to feel hurt.

"Tell us! Tell us!" They said in unison. Wait are their eyes sparkling like those characters that you see in television when they get sweets? Maybe it's just my imagination.

"Me and Athrun…" I started. I swear their faces were getting closer to mine. They're so funny. "We hung out yesterday."

"What?" They both said at the same time. These two are starting to be twins.

"Why are you two so shocked?" I laughed at their reaction, but mostly because they were saying stuff in unison. "We're best-friends, its normal."

"I know, but…" Lacus stopped midway of her sentence.

"…but you two haven't gone out for ages!" Miriallia continued for her. See what I'm talking about? Now they can continue each other's sentences.

"Well yeah." I agreed. "Athrun has a girlfriend now; of course we'll be hanging out less often."

"So where did you go?" Miri asked me, looking so curious of what happened yesterday.

I really wanted to scream and say: Oh my gosh Miri, Lacus! Me and Athrun went bowling yesterday! It was so much fun! I'm so happy that we were laughing and all! He also treated me dinner! But it was too embarrassing seeing that we were in the cafeteria and I feared that Athrun or anyone that knew would hear what I said. "We went bowling." I tried my hardest say those in a very composed manner.

"And then?" The urged me to continue.

"We ate."

"That sounds like a date!" Lacus beamed.

"Not." I added to the sentence. I really want to have, dates with him. But it's really impossible right now, with him dating Meer. I wonder if it will ever be possible. Will he accept my feelings if he knew?

"Well it is!" She said with dreamily. They really don't give up. "You spent time together doing the things you love, like playing bowling. You ate dinner and I guess he was the one paid for yours too."

"I had no choice!" I defended myself. "I was supposed to get money from my wallet but he beat me to it!"

"Then it was a date!" Miri added. "Gentlemen always pay on dates!"

"Athrun's a gentleman, but it wasn't really a date." I said again.

"Whatever you say Cagalli." Lacus smiled at me again.

"I'm happy for you." Miri had her two thumbs up.

"Me too!" Lacus did the same.

-o0o-

"I can't open it Meer!" Luna whispered to her pink-haired girl beside her.

"What?" Meer was in disbelief. "You said you know how to undo locks?"

"I know how to!" Luna was still trying to disjoin the lock in Cagalli's locker with a hairpin. "It's just that this lock is proving to be difficult."

Meer was getting impatient, classes would be over in a few minutes and they were still not done with their mission, to get revenge on dear Cagalli. She pushed her Luna aside and went in front of the locker. "You're too slow! Give me that hairpin and hold this." She handed Luna a paper bag.

With a few twists of Meer's fingers the lock finally opened. She looked at Luna with pride with what she had accomplished. "See? You're no good." Luna inwardly rolled her eyes; of course Meer thinks that she's so good in everything.

"Hand me the bottle in the paper bag." Meer ordered Luna as she opened Cagalli's locker. "There's nothing interesting inside here." She was disappointed that there weren't anything valuable inside except for books, there weren't even any clothes. "But oh well, this will have to do." She smirked.

"Wait, you're going to soak Cagalli's stuff?" Luna questioned her. She was reluctant to give Meer the bottle. Even though she wasn't close with Cagalli, she didn't want her books to get wet with fruit juice. "I thought you were just going to mess her locker, like you always do with the others."

She smiled at her best-friend, not the angelic smile that her cousin, Lacus always had. It was a smile of a witch. "Cagalli's a special case you know? Special cases equal to special treatment."

"But didn't she help you with Athrun's birthday party? She even let you use her bedroom!" She tried to defend Cagalli. It was weird and unusual for her, but she was doing it anyway.

Meer's expression changed, she was now furious. "Are you an idiot? So what if she helped me with Athrun's birthday party? I was so kind to her at that time! So that means it was just fair!" She fumed. "But last night?" She laughed. "Because of her my boyfriend wasn't there with me in the party! I was so embarrassed to even say to our friends that my boyfriend ditched me!" Her voice could now be heard in the halls, but luckily, there were still classes going on. "I can't believe how she put me in that humiliation! All because she wanted to spend time with Athrun! How selfish was that? I am Athrun's girlfriend here!"

Luna's eyes widened with surprised. Meer was getting prettier as the days go on, but her attitude gets worse as time goes on.

"Are you deaf?" Meer cut her thoughts. "I said hand me the bottle of juice!" She forcefully got the paper bag from Luna and opened the fruit juice.

Meer removed the lid of the bottle and started to pour the contents into Cagalli's locker. "Cagalli's going to be so surprised when she sees this." She smiled with satisfaction when she saw all the things inside Cagalli's locker were soaked with orange fruit juice. She closed the bottle and returned it inside the paper bag.

Luna was starting to walk away when Meer called out to her in a singsong voice. "Luna! I'm not done yet. You have to see what I'm going to do next!"

Luna breathed heavily and walked back to where Meer was. Meer pulled out another bottle, which happened to be spray paint.

"You're also going to vandalize her locker?" Luna said, disinterested. She wasn't surprised anymore.

"You've guessed it right!" Meer beamed as she shook the bottle of spray paint before she opened it. She wrote the word 'Bitch' Cagalli's locker and closed it shut. "Let's go to our next class." She turned to Luna as soon as she clicked the lock close.

You're the one being the bitch here. Luna inwardly thought as she walked with her so called "best-friend" to their next class.

-o0o-

"Yo Cagalli!" Dearka called after me as I headed my way out of the classroom.

"What is it Elsman?" I went to the side of the door, other people might be mad if I get in their way. Its dismissal time, everyone's excited to get out of school, including me. My brain has been drained. What could this Dearka Elsman need with me now?

"Me, Yzak and Kira plan to watch a movie this Friday night." I waited for him to continue, but it seemed like he was hesitating a bit.

"So?" Whatever he had to say, he should hurry it up. I wanted to go home; I'm so tired and sleepy.

"You girls want to come?"

"I'll ask them." I said. "What movie will we be watching? If it it's something perverted, morbid or scary, then count us out. Lacus will faint if she sees any blood or any scenes with intense make outs."

"Of course not!" He chuckled nervously. "The movie's called 'Somebody to Love', it's a romantic comedy movie. I picked it myself." He said proudly.

"I see. You picked what Miri would love to watch." I looked at him knowingly. I kinda had a hunch that he had a crush on Miriallia. I just needed more signs, like this one.

"R-really?" He stuttered. "I didn't know that she liked these kinds of stuffs! I chose it because Anya White would be the main star of the film! She's hot and pretty!" He defended himself as he got red.

"Right." I sarcastically agreed.

"That's the truth!" He kind of yelled at me. "I chose it because of Anya White and not because Miri likes it."

"I said 'right' right?" I raised my eyebrows at him. "No need to feel defensive."

"Then I'll be going ahead now." He was too embarrassed to look at me. "Tell us if they can come okay?"

"I'll definitely text you when Miri says 'yes', in fact, I'll tell her to text you herself!" I teased him.

"Was that Dearka?" Lacus suddenly popped out behind me.

"Lacus!" I yelled in shock. "You scared the life out of me!"

"I'm sorry!" She smiled with that kind of smile that was so hard to resist. If were a boy, I'd completely be lovestruck if she gives me one of those smiles, but I'm a girl and I like a boy.

"It's okay." I told her.

"Are you going home?" She asked me.

"Yeah. After I put my books in my locker. Where's Miri by the way?" I asked her as we walked to the direction of my locker.

"She went ahead. It's her parent's anniversary remember?"

"You're right." I stuck my tongue out. I forgot that her parent's anniversary was today. Before I forget, Dearka was asking me if we wanted to watch a movie with them. Do you want to come?"

"What movie?"

"Uh… 'Somebody to Love' I guess."

"That romantic comedy movie!" Lacus jumped like a child. "I want to watch that! I saw the trailer then I decided that I want to watch it!"

"Then that's a yes?"

"Of course!"

"I'll ask Miri later too." I said as we approached my locker. I pulled out the key to my locker from my pocket. "Lacus, can you hold my books first?" She nodded and got my books from my hand.

I was about to open my locker when I saw liquid dripping from my locker. "Wait a minute. What the heck is this?" The liquid smelled of fruit juice, I don't remember putting a bottle of juice inside my locker! Heck I've never put any food inside it anyway. I opened my locker just to find my things already soaked with fruit juice. Not only that, the word 'bitch' was written in the side of my locker.

"What happened?" Lacus was just as surprised as I was.

"I don't know." I said, dumbfounded. "Somebody must have done this on purpose."

"That's not very nice at all!" Lacus was starting to get mad; she pulled out her handkerchief and handed it to me. "Use this to wipe your locker, I'll go get a bucket." She said as she ran to the washroom. That was the first time that I've ever seen her so angry.

She got back soon and handed me a bucket and a plastic. "Put your books here first." She said, holding out the plastic bag. "Who could have done this?"

"I have no idea." I answered her. It was true. I haven't angered anyone, not that I know of. But I'm not really the type of person that picks a fight.

"Whoever it was, it surely isn't pleasant." She was really pissed. I was really glad that she was here to help. She was even getting mad for me.

"Cagalli? Lacus?" I heard Athrun's voice behind me. Oh no… Not now.

"What are you two doing?" He approached us, his tone full of concern.

"Well apparently, someone did this." I pointed my finger to the direction of my locker.

"What the hell?" He was surprised as he saw the state of my locker. He also pulled his handkerchief and wiped with Lacus and me.

Athrun and Lacus were helping me out. I wanted to cry out of happiness but at the same time it was embarrassing that their handkerchiefs were being spoiled. "I'm sorry for ruining your handkerchiefs."

Athrun smiled at me. He smiled at me. I can die now. I'm kidding. "What are you talking about? This is just a handkerchief." He squeezed the juice from his handkerchief to the bucket.

"Athy-poo!" I heard Meer's high-pitched voice. I found it irritating that she was destroying the moment that we three currently had. "What are you-oh my! What happened here?" She asked me as she saw liquid oozing out of my locker.

"Can't you see just by looking?" I snapped at her. She could be really stupid at times.

"You don't need to take out your bad mood on me!" She pretended to act hurt. "I'll help you guys! The faster we finish, the faster Athrun can me and go and leave."

She's trying to pull the 'I'm-such-a-nice-girlfriend-to-be-helping-my-boyfriend's-best-friend act'. It's not working on me. "It's okay, you don't-"

"Why don't you go ahead Meer?" Athrun asked her. Way to go Athrun! "Luna's waiting for us."

"It's okay, I can help you guys." She insisted. Can you just leave and go to your minion already? Sheesh. I don't need myself owing you a favor.

Athrun gave her a warm smile and said. "We're almost done here. You can go to Luna; I'll be there in a few minutes."

She first didn't agree to it, but then gave Athrun a flirtatious smile. "Okay. We'll wait for you outside."

"What do I do with these books?" I held the books with my finger. They were so sticky now.

"Throw them away!" Meer joked. I'm sure it wasn't a joke. I'll throw you away you pink flirt!

"The exam is days away." I frowned. I really fail this time.

"I'll just lend you my books." Lacus offered. "You can photocopy them along with my notes, since we copy the exact same stuff."

"You can borrow mine too." Athrun offered as well.

I was very lucky to have them as friends. I smiled back. "Thanks a lot for your help."

-o0o-

"It worked Luna!" Meer laughed as she walked to Luna.

"Congratulations." Luna sighed.