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A/N: English is not my first language. Pardon the bad grammar and stuff... n.n;
Italic words – Thoughts
SPINNING A DREAM
Part 11
Cagalli took a deep breath and tucked a strand of her blonde hair behind her ear before standing up. "The meeting ends here. Thank you all for your presence and attention. Any further suggestions or information you wanted to share, we will do it in the next meeting," she said to the several sitting people around the table in front of her.
The others rose from their seats and bowed their head slightly to each others before making their way out of the room. Some of them were discussing matters about the previous meetings while others were engaged in a conversation with their cell phones. Cagalli sighed in relief as soon as everybody's gone from the room and flopped back down onto her seat. She rummaged through the papers in her hands, once in a while jotted something on some of the white-filled-with-words papers.
"Good work for today," a voice interrupted her.
Cagalli looked up to the owner of the voice. "Athrun," she said the other's name. "You're early. I thought I told you the meeting will be over in," she glanced at her watch. "Another one and a half hour."
The raven-haired man smiled. "It's a bodyguard's duty to always be there for the one he serves," he said as he walked closer to the Orb Representative. His eyes fell to the stack of papers in her hands. "You need to check all those?"
"Eh? Ah, yeah," the blonde nodded, trying not to blushed at his first comment. "Sorry. I thought you're going to arrive later so I tell the officers that it's okay for me to skim through these documents before heading out. It'll be-," she paused and lifted her face from the papers in her hand when he heard the man chuckled.
"Oh, sorry about that," Athrun apologized between chuckle as he saw the blonde raised an eyebrow at him. "You never change, Cagalli."
"Huh?"
Damn. I shouldn't say that. "Ah, I mean…you're still too focused with your work even though you're in PLANT," he replied and continued chuckling, silently hoping that the young woman will not ask further about the things he blurted out earlier.
Cagalli sighed and raked her hair in frustration. "Isn't it obvious? I need to work hard to make sure that this peace will never reach its end. For the sake of those who died because of the war," sadness crept up to her face. "And for the sake of the children. They know nothing about the war we've had years ago and I don't want them to experience such unpleasant experience…"
Athrun's stare fixed on her. He had never seen the blonde carried such expression before apart from the time when she told him and Kira the death of her father and during their parting 6 years ago. "It's okay," he said, smiling as he moved closer to her and patted her shoulder. "There won't be wars anymore. The last battle had put an end to all those previous battles, right?"
"I guess so," the blonde smiled back at him and turned to face papers in hand, arranging it neatly before stacking it all in a brown-coloured envelope lying on her left on the table. "And I guess I can do this later. It'll be rude to make you wait for me to finish up," she added as she sealed said envelope and rose from her seat, making her way towards the exit.
"Worry not, My Lady. It's one of the job listed on the list – waiting for you to finish whatever you're doing, I mean," Athrun let out a small laugh and followed the blonde. "Say, do you mind if we drop in somewhere before heading back home?" he asked as they exited the meeting hall.
"Hm? I don't mind," Cagalli nodded without looking at the questioner's face. "Where to?"
"A school," Athrun simply answered as he opened the car's door for the ORB representative, never realized the figure standing under a nearby tree whose gaze was fixed on the raven-haired man and blonde-haired woman.
A/N: An update after…uh, a very, very, very long time. OTL I actually plan on re-writing this story but refrain myself from doing so because I wanted to see if I really improve and whatnot in writing. X"D