Kira was slightly stunned. He'd heard her sing several times in the past but there just seemed to be more heart put into her singing this time. He would be lying if he said that he didn't like it. It was simply stunning. He was so caught up that he didn't notice the disappearance of Fllay.
Lacus hopped off the stage and was swamped by several people she didn't even know but just kindly said goodbye to them before she walked back towards where her friends were. They were all happy with her but she noticed that Fllay wasn't there either. 'I wonder what happened to her,' she thought but just shrugged it off.
"Nice work Lacus. Although I somehow get the feeling that you weren't paying attention to the applause you were getting. Or maybe just focusing it all somewhere else," Cagalli said with a smirk as she wrapped her arm around Lacus's shoulder.
Lacus just blushed slightly because she knew that it was true. None of the applause did matter to her since Kira was applauding to her as well. It just made her burst with joy to see that and also the fact that he agreed with Cagalli earlier thinking that she was a better singer.
Kira started to take a few steps towards Lacus but he suddenly felt as if something was missing. He looked around and finally noticed that Fllay disappeared from view. 'I wonder where went to,' he thought but just shrugged his shoulders and continued walking towards Lacus.
Kira walked up to Lacus and he saw her turn to him and a bright smile crossed her face. "That was wonderful Lacus," he said giving her a friendly hug. "By the way, have either of you seen Fllay? She seems to have disappeared," he said although it didn't seem to bug him as much as he thought it would.
Cagalli just shrugged her shoulder with a look that said that she didn't care. "Can't say I have. Probably got jealous that Lacus outdid her and ran out of here crying," she said trying to hold in her laughing at the images that came to her mind of it. The painful expression on her face gave it away though.
Lacus just sighed at Cagalli's pitiful attempt to hold in her laugh. "I think I saw her heading towards the bathroom while I was on stage. I wasn't really paying attention so I can't be positive though," Lacus said and smiled when he didn't start walking over there.
Kira looked in the direction and then just shrugged his shoulders just like Cagalli did a few moments ago. "She'll come back eventually. Come on. Let's go back to our table," he said leading the two ladies back to the table where Athrun was waiting.
Athrun looked up when he saw the three of them approaching. "Nice job Lacus. You should really think about going professional with your singing," he said with a smile as he took a sip of his drink.
Lacus just smiled and shook her head. "I never really thought of it. People have made me offers but I like how things are going in my life now so I haven't given it too much thought," she said taking a quick glance at Kira that went unnoticed by everyone at the table.
The four of them talked very lively for several minutes until Fllay returned to the table. Her hair was rather ruffled and her clothes were disheveled. It looked like she'd been in a fight.
Cagalli looked at her in shock and anger because she had a feeling she knew what Fllay was doing or more of who but she wouldn't say anything about it for Lacus's sake. "What happened to you? You get in a fight or something?" she asked bitterly.
Fllay glared at her really quickly before smiling and turning to Kira. "Yeah. Some bitch wouldn't leave me alone and we got in a scuffle," she said very convincingly. "I managed to take care of her though and now I'm back," she said proudly.
Kira looked her up and down trying to find any sort of bruises. Except for her appearance, she appeared to be perfectly fine. He thought she would have been inured more if she was in a fight. He also thought a fight would have attracted some attention in this crowded place.
"Strange how I didn't hear anything about a fight," Athrun said giving her glances that clearly said that he didn't believe her story in the least. Everyone could see that she was cheating on Kira. He just wondered how Kira couldn't see it. Had this girl made herself out to be some sort of saint to Kira that he'd believe her every word?
Lacus took a quick look from Athrun to Fllay waiting to see what her response would be. She couldn't believe that this woman could continue lying to such a kind person such as Kira and keep getting away with it.
Fllay was about to open her mouth and speak when a song started to play over the crowds. "Oh I love this song. Come on Kira. Let's go dance," she said grabbing his arm and pulling him to the dance floor without giving him a chance to decide.
Cagalli looked towards Lacus after the event and she saw the young woman fidget a little. "I swear to god Lacus. If you don't say something to him soon, then I will. You don't want to see him hurt but he'll be hurt worse if you don't say anything," she said in a warning tone.
Lacus didn't respond to Cagalli as she watched Kira and Fllay slow dancing on the dance floor. Her heart ached to see it. Kira looked happy and she didn't wish to take that happiness from him.
On the dance floor, Fllay took a quick glance in the direction of the others and grinned into Kira's chest. "I don't like those friends of yours Kira," she muttered into his chest and shook as if afraid of something.
Kira looked down at her a little confused and then looked towards his friends and sister. He didn't know how anyone couldn't like them. "What do you mean? They're a great group of people," he said raising an eyebrow at her.
Fllay pretended to start to cry. "I didn't want to say anything but I guess I have to. A few days ago, they came up to me and started to accuse me of things that I would never even dream of doing. They kept saying that I was cheating on you and were going to tell you," she said with a fake sob.
Kira couldn't believe what she was saying. That didn't sound like his friends at all. "You must be mistaken. The three of them would never do anything like that. Why would they need to?' he asked with a small chuckle.
Fllay looked like she was insulted with his statement. "But they did! Why would I lie to you? They didn't like me since they first met me. I tried to be nice to them but they never even tried to be nice to me," she said burying her face in his shirt as she felt her own tears coming out. She was good at putting on fake tears.
Kira took a quick glance at his friends and then looked down at his girlfriend. She looked really distraught about all of this. "If it'll make you happy, I talk to them about it. Figure out why they said what they said," he said unsure of what he should do. He had no idea if he should believe it or not.
"No!" Fllay said quickly as more fake tears fell down her face. "Please don't tell them that I said any of this to you," she begged him and smiled slightly when she saw him uncertainly nod his head back at her. She buried her face in his shirt and then grinned. 'Good,' she thought as the song came to and end.
Everything was quiet in the car. Even after they dropped Fllay off at her house. The two ladies were driving with them this time since they didn't have a ride this time around. Cagalli sat in the front next to Athrun and Lacus sat in the back with Kira.
Kira looked at Athrun and Cagalli and contemplated Fllay's words. He then looked at Lacus. He knew she wasn't capable of doing anything like that and he knew he could trust Athrun and Cagalli. It just confused him if Fllay was lying or not.
Kira looked over at Lacus and saw how tired she looked right then. 'It has been a long night. I'm tired as well,' he thought letting out a yawn when he suddenly felt a light weight fall on his shoulder. He looked and saw that it was Lacus's head. She'd fallen asleep.
He looked towards the front and saw Athrun and Cagalli having a silent argument with each other. They spoke so softly though that Kira was unable to pick up on what they were saying. He could have sworn that he heard Fllay's name mentioned.
'She must have been dreaming or something. These are my friends, they would never do anything like that, would they?' he asked himself as he took another quick look at Lacus. He just chuckled at his thoughts. 'I'm so stupid to actually think that,' he thought amused at his thoughts.
The young pink haired woman looked to be in complete serenity right then. Like she had no worries in the world unlike when she was awake and hid her pain from those closest to her. He wished that he could figure out what it was that she kept from him so much.
Instead of dropping them all off at their separate homes, Athrun ended up dropping them all off at Lacus's. Kira and Cagalli lived close enough so they just decided to hang out with Lacus for a little since there was still a bit of time before they had to get home.
Lacus looked a bit tired but she still enjoyed the company that they gave her since her father was away for the night. 'Just having Kira here is enough for me,' she thought with a smile as she took a quick look at him.
Cagalli saw what Lacus was doing and scowled a bit. She grabbed a hold of Lacus's arm and pulled the pick haired girl far enough so that Kira wouldn't be able to hear what they were saying. "Tell him Lacus. He'll believe you most," she urged her friend on to say something about what they knew about Fllay.
Lacus took a glance at Kira and shook her head. "I cant," she spoke softly. "He's happy and I don't want to be the one that ruins that. Please understand," she pleaded with Cagalli looking towards the ground.
Cagalli grew more frustrated. "You want to be with him but you aren't willing to take a chance," she almost yelled but managed to keep herself relatively calm. "Fine! If you refuse to say anything, than I am!" she said running off.
"Cagalli wait!" Lacus yelled but it didn't seem to have any effect. The blonde haired woman was making a beeline for Kira and Lacus's voice just couldn't seem to reach her. She ran after her but she was already too late.
"Kira!" Cagalli yelled making him turn around to look at her. By the look on his face, she could tell that he didn't even see the two of them walk off. "There's something I need to talk to you about. It has to do with your girlfriend!" Cagalli yelled finally growing too frustrated with the current events.
Kira suddenly had a bad feeling that this had to do with what Fllay said Cagalli confronted her about. "W-what is it?" he asked a bit timidly. He saw Lacus holding back with a sad look on her face.
Cagalli went through her head trying to find any sort of way to break this to Kira. She didn't care if it was easy or hard on him. He had to know before the woman did something that would really hurt him. "She's cheating on you Kira!" Cagalli said trying to be as direct as she could.
Kira suddenly found himself growing angry. "What exactly do you have against her Cagalli?" he asked clenching his fist at his side. "Ever since I started to go out with her you've been on my case," Kira nearly yelled. "She said that you were going to do this and that it wasn't true! That you're just accusing her of something that never happened!" he found himself actually yelling now.
"She's telling you to save her own ass! She probably feels that if she said something about it, that you would actually believe her and my guess is obviously right!" she yelled feeling like hitting her brother. 'How can he believe someone he's known for a short time over those that he's known his whole life?'
"Do you have any proof Cagalli? Do you have anything to back up this accusation? Maybe I can believe you if you did!" Kira yelled finding a need to just stop all the accusations before someone said something they would seriously regret.
Cagalli's fist was shaking at her side. "Has she got you so deep in her tricks that you'll only believe her and not us? You saw her at the movies! How she was with another guy!" Cagalli yelled staring deep into Kira's eyes.
"She said that it was her cousin! Why would she have an affair with a cousin? That's just sick!" Kira yelled suddenly growing tired of the conversation. "just forget it!" he yelled turning around and walking away.
"She said that because she was caught! She was sucking faces with him once you left!" She yelled but he didn't seem to be listening. "Lacus was the one that found them like that!" she yelled and grinned when she saw him stop.
Kira stopped dead in his tracks. "If she saw then why didn't she say anything?" he asked trying to calm his voice. "We don't keep things from each other. So why didn't she say anything?" Kira asked forgetting that Lacus was there as well.
"Oh I don't know… wait yes I do! She too soft hearted and didn't want to see you get hurt! Maybe you should be asking her that!" Cagalli said pointing towards Lacus who just stood off to the side watching quietly.
Kira turned and groaned at how he forgot that Lacus was there. He was too deep in his argument with Cagalli to notice her. "Lacus/" he asked her but he just saw the horror in her eyes before she suddenly turned and ran away so she wouldn't have to say anything.
"You know Lacus better than anyone. She'll avoid a confrontation if it was possible. You also know she's incapable of lying about stuff like this. She can lie about how she's feeling but she can't lie about something like this!" Cagalli said before running ahead of Kira before another argument could start.
As much as Kira didn't want to agree, he knew Cagalli was telling the truth about Lacus. The woman thought about other and was incapable of lying. She just didn't talk about it if she didn't want to say anything. 'If it wasn't true, she would've said something. Instead she runs away and avoid the subject,' Kira thought suddenly feeling that he was being a jerk and they were just actually helping him. 'I need to talk to Fllay,' he thought heading home knowing he needed sleep right now.
School was the last place that anyone wanted to be. Lacus didn't want to be confronted by Kira about what was brought up, Athrun was tired because of a project he was working on, Cagalli just didn't want to be there, and Kira didn't want to go and face the facts that someone was lying.
Kira walked slowly through the halls. He was much earlier in getting to school than. He'd yet to see Fllay and in a way he was thankful since he didn't want this confrontation. Yet he figured that it was almost unavoidable.
"Hey Kira!" Athrun yelled running to catch up to Kira. His eyes had bags under them and his lack of sleep was pretty obvious. "You don't look too good," he said noticing that Kira looked the same as him.
"You're not one to talk," Kira muttered taking on looking at Athrun before looking towards the ground in front of him. "Athrun, can I ask you a question?" Kira asked and he saw Athrun nod his head. "Did you know about what Lacus found?" he asked wondering how many knew but him.
"Sadly… yes. Lacus was pretty upset about it too. She saw that you were happy and didn't want to say anything about it. Cagalli's the one that pushed her to do so. Neither Cagalli or I saw any of it though. Lacus's the only witness," Athrun said as the two of them took a seat and just waited patiently since they both got there rather early.
Kira groaned and leaned his head back against the wall behind him. "I gotta go," he said standing up and walking away without another word. He really needed to talk to Fllay about this.
'Maybe Lacus just saw things. I was late and we were all tired. The theater was also pretty dark. Please say it was just a mistake,' he thought searching through several rooms. He knew that Fllay was there because she had a lesson that took place early in the morning just before school.
He was just about to give up when he heard a noise in one of the janitor's closet. His curiosity got the best of him and he opened the door slightly and peeked in only to shut it quickly and ran off. Suddenly not wanting to just be home and sleeping again hoping what he saw was a bad dream.
Lacus saw Kira coming and she immediately took notice that he looked pained. She figured that it was something that had to do with the argument he had with Cagalli. "Kira?" she called out softly as he passed her.
Kira came to a stop and turned towards Lacus. "I'm not feeling too good so I'm going home. Please tell the teacher that for me," Kira said trying to put on a smile but not finding much energy to do it properly so it almost looked distorted.
Lacus looked at Kira in sympathy and then looked to where he came from only to see a door open and Fllay try to sneak out of the janitors closet trying to straighten out her clothes as another guy did the same a minute after. Lacus never hated anyone in her life but she now hated Fllay for doing this to Kira.