"Come on Athrun… Please please please please do this… PLEASE!" Kira begged and the blue haired teen dug various books and binders out of his locker and stuck them in his bag.

"Why can't you do it!" Athrun said, not even sparing the brunette a look.

"I have practice afterschool!" he argued.

"Practice for what! You're not on any teams"

"Umm… it's for dance" Kira said, his head falling from the embarrassment. Instantly the blue haired teen bursted out laughing.

"Classic"

"So will you do it!?!" the brunette said with hope.

"No, do it after practice then" Athrun said bluntly. He had no interest being thrown into an awkward situation with what happened yesterday. He couldn't imagine showing up on the blonde's doorstep. How could he even start explaining that one... Hi, your brother gave me your address to give you two sheets of paper. Nah, knowing her, she'd just close the door before anything could be said.

"I can't… I have plans" Kira whined.

"What do you mean plans?" Athrun said, sighing.

"I have a date" he said quietly, his cheeks now glowing red.

"With who?" he said in disbelief, raising an eyebrow.

"No more questions! Can you just do this please?"

"Not until I find out who" Athrun said curiously.

"Lacus… now will you do it. What are friends for?" Kira said holding up the now three sheets of paper.

"Fine" Athrun said, grabbing the papers. Although in the back of his head he felt like he made a deal with the devil. Just what had he gotten himself into?

With that said, the bell rang and the brunette immediately disappeared into the vast crowds before second thought decided that he couldn't do it. Athrun sighed loudly as he looked down at the papers given him. The new one added to the stack contained a sloppily written address with 'Thanks!" scribbled in the corner.

"Thanks' my ass" he grumbled as he finished collecting his books from his lockers, throwing the two papers and another text book to the already heavy bag. Heading outside he looked back down to the address, flipping it over he found himself looking at a mess beyond words.

"Is that suppose to be a map?" he said squinting, trying to make sense of the vertical and horizontal lines that covered the back, paired with illegible writing.

"Thanks, Kira… you've been a lot of help" the blue hair teen muttered, shaking his head in disapproval. Looking back at the address he sighed again, he'd never even see the street before. Then again he knew the general direction Cagalli walked, it couldn't be too far off the path when they split directions. Slowly, he traced his regular route until he came to the split where the blonde would usually turn off.

"Silver Creek Road and… Knop Road… and no Redding Road" Athrun said with a sigh, scratching the back of his head as he looked both ways down the road.

"Sheesh, I should have looked at map first" He told himself. It wasn't like he was in a rush in the first place, he could have afforded a few minutes. Deciding that it would be best to go right he continued on his journey.

"Success!" he congratulated himself mentally, as he turned back the paper to get the exact address.

Aptmt#3xxx Redding Road

"Is this a 7 or a 1, maybe a 4?" Athrun said as he tried to translate the atrocious handwriting.

"Whatever I'll just have to check them all" he said to himself, annoyed. Looking at the page again he could at least make out first number, 3. This usually meant the floor number. Approaching the only apartment complex on the street he made his way up the stairs.

"…"

4 attempts later he came to the last door on the floor. Surprisingly the large outward appearance of the building was relatively smaller on the inside, only 5 units to a floor. With a quick few taps on the door he listened closely for movement. Nothing. Being a bit louder this time he knocked again. Again he heard nothing. Sighing he threw up his hands.

"Curse you Kira sending me on a wild goose chase!" he said out loud, shaking his fist into thin air.

"Your…talking to yourself? Are you okay?" came the small, unimpressed voice of the blonde who was looking out a small crack through the doorway.

"For the love of God! Why do people keep asking me that!" Athrun said, finally snapping.

"Wait, what?" Athrun said, spinning around to face blonde. If he had to guess he would've assumed she'd just gotten out of bed, as her hair was standing end on end. She wore an oversized sweater pair with sweatpants, which covered up the mark on her neck fairly, you would never notice it unless you were purposely looking for it.

"Hello to you too…" the blonde in her regular unenthusiastic voice, now leaning against the doorway.

"Are you okay? I mean… you never showed up to school today" the blue haired teen checking for any more injuries he might have missed yesterday.

"More so then you it appears" she said curtly, her eyes locked on Athrun.

"Did I do that?" Cagalli said pointing to his cheek. The emerald eye teen merely shrugged, putting a hand to his cheek as if to shield it.

"Ow" he said wincing from the pain, quickly dropping his hard.

"…sorry. I didn't mean to" she said softly, looking down at the floor.

"It's fine, it'll heal" he said looking around at the hallway, shrugging the matter off.

"So why are you here?" she said bluntly, raising an eyebrow once again.

"Oh! Yes! Here" Athrun said opening his bag and pulling out the two papers, and a textbook.

"You volunteered to bring me homework" the blonde said with a frown.

"Volunteered, no. Coerced and begged to do it, yes. You can thank your brother for that." The blue haired teen said, running a hand through his hair, sighing. "Just make sure you hand in the print out with the project tomorrow" he said holding the things out.

"And the textbook is for?" the blonde said taking the sheets.

"The questions from today, he wants them handed in tomorrow"

"I already have a text book though" she said looking at him oddly.

"You do, but you didn't bring it home, did you?" Athrun said as he recalled her throwing everything back into her locker not bother to bring anything home yesterday.

"Oh…" she murmured.

"Anyway, I better be on my way" the emerald eye teen said, noticing the tired expression the blonde was wearing, it was obvious she wasn't interested in talking. Zipping back up his bag, he threw it over his shoulder.

"Okay, bye" the blonde said, yawning loudly. With that said, Athrun made his way towards the elevator.

"Hey Athrun!" Cagalli shouted from her doorway. "Thanks'" She said, unable to force the smile. Athrun didn't bother to turn around, but merely gave a short wave back to show he acknowledged her. The blue haired teen frowned, the blonde's behavior seemed foreign. Her usually high animated anger outburst bursts were replaced with sullen expressions, tiredness, and kept to herself. He was already missing the blunt, loud, opinionated comments. Putting his hands in his pocket it came to rest on the silver chain. Quickly he spun around to see if Cagalli was still there, she wasn't. Sighing he decided he'd just have to ask her tomorrow. Walking outside the apartment building he noticed that it was already fairly dark outside, never realizing how much time had passed. Hopefully tomorrow would be better.

"…"

The blonde grumbled as she dug everything out of her locker. Not only did everything fall out of her bag as she picked it up, but she left her coat in her locker as well. Making the long walk to school this morning seem like it lasted forever on the frigid morning. Dropping the various textbooks and binders she needed for the morning on the floor she quickly reorganized her locker. She sighed contently as she looked at Athrun's textbook. She felt sorry for the way she reacted but at the same time it wasn't her fault completely.

"Ah, your back today" Lacus said happily, greeting the blonde with a smile. "Where were you yesterday?"

"Home, I wasn't feeling well" Cagalli said dully. Which was the truth, as she merely slept the whole day away unable to do anything.

"Ah, I see. You feel better now though right?" the pink haired girl asked, concerned.

"Yea, good as new" she said as she locked her locker, unable to make eye contact. Every once in a while she caught herself glancing out of her peripherals. The incident obviously making her a bit more on edge and paranoid.

"Are ready to head to class?" Lacus said, looking over at Cagalli who was just standing there looking into space.

"Oh… yea" she said, scooping up her pile of books off the floor. "Is Miriallia sick today?" Cagalli said, not seeing her once. Which was odd since the auburn haired girl was always the first one to be at school.

"Yea, she's here. I saw Dearka walking her to class a few minutes ago. The blonde raised an eyebrow.

"Really…?"

"Yes, it was cute" Lacus gushed, smiling widely.

"…"

Looking around the classroom, Athrun was nowhere to be seen. Sighing Cagalli put her head on her desk, frowning once again. The bell was due to ring any second now and he was nowhere to be seen. Usually he would be sitting in the classroom reading a book by the time the blonde even reached class. It seemed weird to think he miss a day of school for being sick. His 'I'm smarter then you' remarks would surely drag his ass to class no matter the excuse, right?

"Cagalli, you feeling okay?" Lacus said, looking down at her friend.

"Yea, just tired" the blonde said, not bothering to lift her head. Even though she slept though the good majority of the day it felt that it acquainted to nothing. Truth is she still felt incredible bad for hitting Athrun after what he did for her.

"…"

Taking a seat in English class, there was still no sign of Athrun. Looking down at her desktop, the blonde realized she grabbed the wrong text book. Taking a quick time check, she had 5mins before the bell would ring, plenty of time to go to her locker and back.

"Hey, Cagalli!" Kira said, catching the blonde as she was making her way down the stairs.

"What do you want" she said gruffly.

"Did you finish the assignment and the work from yesterday?" he said, catching up to her pace.

"Oh shit!"The blonde said loudly, completely forgetting about the assignment. The sudden shock made her loose her footing sending her hurdling forward, down the stairs. This was going to hurt. Putting her arms out to try and catch herself, she braced her body for the impact. She was shocked when she felt someone catch her. Opening her eyes she came face to face with a wall of blue hair.

"Woah, nice catch!" Kira said surprised at the sudden appearance of the blue haired teen. The blonde quickly squirmed out of Athrun's clutch, immediately putting space between them.

"Let me guess, you forgot to do the Chemistry assignment?" Athrun said in a condescending tone. The blonde merely glared at him, before storming off to her locker. Kira and Athrun exchange questionable looks.

"You sleep in or something? I never saw you this morning" the brunette said causally.

"Yea" the blue hair teen said. "I need to head to class I really don't want to miss anything else today"

"Fair enough, Catch you at lunch" Kira said, continuing down the stairs. Taking a seat in English Athrun sighed loudly. Why did Cagalli act so coldly towards him, storming off like that without a word or anything?

"…"After Cagalli's track practice

Cagalli walked quickly back to her locker, managing to forget her math textbook once again. Pushing through the set of doors separating the stairs from her locker she could swear she could hear footsteps. Stopping in her tracks she looked behind her, knowing for sure someone was there. A chill making its way down her spine as the memories resurfaced. Her expression dropped as she faced the blue hair teen.

"What are you doing here?" the blonde said angrily. Today had not been a great day for her. Firstly she had to cram to finish the assignment on time, which drained her mentally. Now she was physically tired from practice. The last thing she wanted to deal with right now was Athrun. She'd noticed he was watching her bit more closely the whole day. Not in the creepy I'm going to take advantage of you way, but more so a protective way.

"Grabbing my coat?" he said walking by her to his locker.

"But why are you still here? There are no assignments out at the moment, so there's no need to be at a library." The blonde retorted. The blue haired teen sighed loudly, caught without an excuse.

"I don't need a babysitter" the blonde said heatedly.

"Really? You seem to be a magnet for trouble" Athrun said smartly, recalling the incidents one by one.

"So? I can take care of myself perfectly fine!" She hissed.

"Look, I'm only trying to be nice" he said in his defense.

"I don't need someone pitying me, leave me alone and mind your own business!" the blonde shouted obviously hurt.

"If that's what you want" Athrun said as he closed his locker, throwing his coat on quickly. Walking towards the blonde he reached in his pocket. "One last thing, I found this on the floor the other day. I couldn't tell if it was yours or not so I thought I'd ask you" He said holding up the chain necklace. The blonde eyes widen as the sight of the glittering silver as it twinkled in the golden haze of the sky outside. She cupped her hands together as if get a drink of water.

"Judging by that look I'd guess it's pretty important to you" he said, dropping the necklace into her hands. A thin smile creasing his lips as her expression lightened up for first time that day. "Anyway, I'm off. I won't say a word to you" Athrun vowed as he headed towards the stairs. With Athrun gone, the blonde fell to the floor, silent tears starting to fall down her face.

Okay, so I'm having lot's of fun writing this again. I'm mixing in some new idea's along with the old ideas. The preview from ch.8(I think it might be 7) will be in the next chapter for those of you that are wondering when that'll come in. Ooooo a grave!Anyway, next chapter up as soon as I finish writing it!

Also, any critques/questions/ idea's you have you can message or stick it in a review! Remember, your Authors love hearing from you. :)

Also, my 2min lolfunny VIA paint - http://i47(dot)tinypic(dot)com/33y750i(dot)jpg - came from this remark - His 'I'm smarter then you' remarks would surely drag his ass to class no matter the excuse, right? Replace the (dot) with .

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