Lacus managed to avoid Flay during the class hours and she was now feeling awkward towards Kira which made Kira disturbed. Meanwhile, Athrun was talking to Cagalli but she seemed to be spacing out most of the time. She sometimes nods at what he was saying but Athrun knew that she was really bothered about something, so he just let her be. Classes have ended and everyone prepared to go home. While Kira and Lacus are walking toward the car they saw Mir.

"Lacus, are you alright?" Mir worriedly asked

"Yeah, why did you ask?" Lacus confusedly asked

Kira eyed Mir suspiciously. Mir noticed Kira and pulled Lacus a little farther so that no one can hear them

"You know, about the celebration of this school's anniversary" Mir whispered

"It's alright Mir, I'm prepared for the worse" Lacus said

"But…" Mir was hesitating to say when Lacus patted her shoulder

"Everything's going to be just fine. Come on Mir, let's go home now" Lacus smiled reassuringly at her then walked back to her car

Lacus went to her car and saw Kira open the backseat door for her. She forced a smile then seated at the back. Kira went to his seat and glanced worryingly at Lacus through the rearview mirror, and then he started driving. Mir watched Lacus went to her car; she let out a deep sigh and then walked towards her car when she saw her driver leave.

"What the…" Mir chased after her car when she bumped at someone

"Hey…" a familiar voice said

Mir glanced at the person she bumped and frowned

"Dearka, are you doing this on purpose?" She angrily asked

"Doing what?" He asked

"Making my driver leave" she answered

Dearka laughed at her then placed an arm around her shoulder

"Of course not…anyways since your driver left you, do you mind if I drive you home?" Dearka teasingly yet sincerely asked

"Don't bother, I will just ask Lacus if she can drop me at my house" Mir said then walked when Dearka stopped her

"Wait Mir, look" Mir annoyingly glanced at Dearka and saw him pointing at Lacus' direction

Mir's eyes widened when she saw Kira and Lacus going home together, and what's worse was they already left. She sighed in defeat and went to Dearka's car and seated herself at the passenger's seat. Dearka grinned at her; he took his place and drove.


Cagalli was waiting for Stellar at the school's entrance when she saw Athrun walk past her. She called his attention and ran toward him. Athrun heard someone calling him so he stopped and glanced at the person calling him.

"Hey Athrun wait!" Cagalli called

"Oh Cagalli, do you need anything?" Athrun asked, smiling at her

"Well...umm…it's about Ki…" Cagalli was cut off when she saw Kira driving a car with Lacus

Athrun noticed her reaction and glanced at the way she's looking. He immediately blocked her view and pushed her backwards.

"What are you doing Athrun?! Will you please move!" She shouted

"I thought you want to ask me about something? Come on let's talk inside" he said pushing Cagalli farther

Cagalli focused her attention at Athrun then she glared at him. Athrun flinched at Cagalli's glare so he looked at his left, trying to avoid her deadly glare. Cagalli looked at the driveway again but Kira left already which made her irritated.

"What's wrong with you?!" She yelled getting the attention of the other passing by students

Athrun glanced back at Cagalli and was about to answer when Stellar ran between them

"Nee-chan! Sorry I'm late" Stellar said placing her right hand at Cagalli's shoulder while catching up for her breath

Cagalli glanced at Stellar then glared back to Athrun. Stellar then looked at Athrun and noticed that he seems to be hiding something important that Cagalli can't know yet. She guesses that this isn't just ordinary trouble for him, being with Cagalli for quite some time, she knew what her glare exactly means, big trouble.

Athrun looked at Cagalli then drifted his eyes at Stellar who gave him an 'I'll take care of her' look. Athrun got confused at Stellar's action but he knew he couldn't tell Cagalli anything about Kira yet. Though Athrun really don't know who this girl is, he trusted her and gave Stellar a slight nod. Stellar smiled at him then stood straight again

"I really want to know everything about Kira as well, but I think this is not the right time to tell her. If ever she knew about him, I know for sure, she won't stop asking Kira, and I can't allow that because Kira still have other problems he isn't aware of" Athrun thought to himself

"Nee-chan let's go now, I have a very important news" Stellar excitedly said while pulling Cagalli outside

"Just wait a sec Stellar, I have to talk to Athrun about something very important" Cagalli seriously said not taking her eyes off of Athrun

Athrun sweat dropped and glanced nervously at Cagalli. Stellar sighed. She stopped pulling her and spoke

"If you really wanted to tell him everything then fine, I'll help you then" Stellar happily said while glancing back at Athrun

"Mr. Zala, do you know that Cagalli nee-chan here, dreamed that she was making love with y…" Stellar was cut off because Cagalli placed her hands at Stellar's mouth preventing her from speaking

Athrun stared at them disbelievingly, a small blush could be seen at his face, while Cagalli was blushing with a bright shade of red and was doing her best stopping Stellar at whatever she was about to say.

Cagalli removed her hands at Stellar's mouth and hurriedly pulled her outside. Stellar smiled and obediently followed her.


After classes Flay hastily went outside to go home and tell her father about her plan. She called for her driver to pick her up at the entrance. She was currently waiting when she saw Athrun and a blonde girl talking. She just ignored them because she was too occupied with her own problem. Flay then got tired of waiting and searched for her car when suddenly, she saw Kira driving a car. Her mood lightened, she still likes Kira after all, and seeing Kira driving a luxurious car made her more interested at him. Flay then waved her hand at him, trying to get his attention, when she stopped halfway.

Flay noticed that Kira was not alone; she saw a bright shade of pink hair at the back seat. Flay gritted her teeth and clutched her hand

"Damn you Clyne" she cursed under her breath "But with my plan, you won't be able to face anyone anymore, especially Kira" she added while grinning to herself.

Then she noticed her car stop in front of her. The driver hurriedly opened the door for her and the moment she was in, he gently closed the door and went to his seat.

"What took you so long?!" Flay demanded

"I'm so sorry Miss Flay; there was an accident and th…" the driver tried to explain but Flay cut her off

"I don't care! Next time you're late, I'll tell daddy to find me a new driver!" Flay shouted angrily

"I'm very sorry, it won't happen again" the driver apologized

"Whatever, will you start driving now?! I've wasted enough time here you know!"

The driver followed her and then started driving. And in a blink of an eye they were no where in sight.


They were a few blocks away from Lacus' house when Kira glanced at the clock fixed at the car's dashboard. It's five thirty. He noticed that they arrived a little earlier. Two blocks away from home, he stopped because of red light and then took his phone and called someone.

"Hello" a familiar voice from the other line answered

"Hello Mr. Clyne" Kira replied

"Oh Kira, is there something wrong?" Siegel answered

"Sorry for disturbing you but I would like to ask your permission to bring Lacus somewhere" Kira asked politely

"Where? Why?" Siegel asked a little bit worried

"It's not that far. Don't worry Mr. Clyne, I'll ensure you her safety, I will never leave her side" Kira stated confidently

Then a voice could be heard at the other line "I'll be there in a minute" Siegel answered at the voice then answered Kira again "Ok, I'll entrust her to you then. Please take good care of her" Siegel answered in a hurried tone

"I will. Thank you Mr. Clyne" Kira said then turned his phone off

Lacus was busy with her own thoughts. "Why do I feel so awkward towards him? Maybe because of his confession, but why does it seems like he doesn't feel the same? Is he really that comfortable to me or maybe what he said isn't true, but still it felt so sincere" She doesn't notice anything around her when suddenly she heard Kira thank someone. The red light turned to green then Kira started driving again. Lacus' shyness was turned to curiosity.

"Kira who are you talking to?" Lacus curiously asked

"Mr. Clyne" Kira replied coolly

"Father? Why?" She asked a bit worried

"You're just like your father" Kira said more to himself then added "I asked his permission about something"

"About what?"

Kira didn't answer her instead. He focused on driving when he suddenly turned to the next block.

"Kira, I think you turned at the wrong street" Lacus reminded

"I'm very sure of where I'm going" He answered with certainty

Lacus looked outside when she recognized the way. She just watched as her car passes the familiar way she loved to see. Then after a few more minutes they arrived at their destination. Lacus stared outside then back to Kira with hopeful eyes. Kira turned to face her and smiled at her.

"Lacus, is it alright if I park the car first? I promised your father that I won't leave you side"

"Sure, go ahead, I don't mind"

Kira turned at the nearby parking lot. After parking Kira got down and opened the door for Lacus "Let's go now Lacus" he said

"But why are we at the park?" she confusedly asked

"I noticed that you're feeling down lately, so I thought that going to the park will at least lighten your mood. You said you like going here right?" He smiled at her while extending his hand at her.

She gladly accepted his offer and grabbed his hand. When she got outside Kira was still holding her hand. Again her awkward feeling toward him returned.


Flay arrived at their mansion and stormed inside. She threw her bag at her room and immediately went to her father's library. She opened the door without knocking and went to her father's desk. There she found him sitting behind the table with a lot of pile of paper works and reports in front of him. (In short, he's very very busy). Flay stood in front of his father's table and watched him do his work, reading reports, checking and studying different computations and signing paper after paper. She got completely ignored and that made her irritated the most.

"Daddy!" She said in a loud voice

George Allster got irritated and decided to listen and give his precious time to his spoiled daughter.

"What is it Flay? Can't you see I'm busy?" he said not bothering to look at Flay

"Daddy, I want you to push through the field trip activity!" she ordered rather than asked

"What? Oh that, sorry I can't, we need to wait for the results of the vote" he said still not looking at Flay

"That's why I'm talking to you, you're the school's director right? I know you can do it!" she reasoned

"But that would be unfair to the other students" he explained

"I don't care! Daddy! Please, please!" Flay said stubbornly

"What's the reason behind your eagerness to push through that activity?" George asked, now looking directly at his daughter's eyes

"I wanted to show others how great our school is… and I wanted to help other people" she lied

"I know you Flay, what's the real reason behind?" He said eyeing Flay with doubt in his eyes

"That's the reason, you don't believe me? Daddy, please…I only wanted what's good for the school and not to satisfy my personal desires, come on daddy" she lied again

George leaned on his right hand and started massaging his temples. He knew that what she said was the exact opposite of her real reason but she would not stop until she gets what she wants. He sighed

"Fine, if the school fest got most of the votes, I'll tell the board members to reconsider that and tell them your true reasons and ask them to choose the other option but that would bring up confusion and they might doubt me so you need to do your best to convince students to vote for the field trip. Understand?" he said

"Thanks daddy, I'll do my best!" Flay happily answered

She hugged her father and went out the library, heading straight to her room. George stared at the door where Flay just passed then he let out a troubled sigh

"I can't believe she'd become that spoiled, even I can't ignore her requests or should I say her desires, anymore. I just hope everything will be alright" He said to himself then continued his work.


Cagalli and Stellar rode their car and went home. They didn't speak at the way but when they arrived home, Cagalli hurriedly pulled Stellar to her room.

"Why did you do that Stellar?"

"I thought you wanted to tell Athrun-kun a very important thing?"

"That isn't important! I'm about to ask him about Kira you know!"

"Oh that reminds me of the important thing I need to tell you as well"

"What is it?"

"About Kira nii-san, I think the Kira nii-san at school and Kira nii-san we're looking for is the same"

"What?! How can you be sure?"

"Well, I'm sorry if I eavesdropped at your conversation earlier, but I talked to Kira nii-san after he left you then that's when I knew the reason behind his weird actions"

"Reasons?"

"Yup, I found out that nii-san has amnesia"

"Amnesia? Are you really sure?"

"I didn't believe it at first but that was the truth, he didn't remember anything about us"

Cagalli stared at her with confusion. She looked sideward then thought for a little while then returned her gaze at Stellar.

"You know what Stellar; I think it would be better if Kira would just forget about his past"

"After all that we, especially you, have been through, why are you giving up that easily?"

"Stellar, if you were given a chance to forget about your past, will you take it?"

Stellar thought and recalled some events that happened to her.

Flashback (Stellar was only 5 years old)

She arrived from school and she was running happily at their enormous garden when her father called for her. She went to him and as soon as she was close to him, she bowed and greeted him politely but instead of greeting back, she received a hard slap. She stared at her father with teary and confused eyes. "Your teacher called and told me you fought with someone". Her father said with furious voice.

She stared at her father disbelievingly, "I didn't fight with anyone father, it was break time and I have nothing to do so I finished my work when my classmate took and crumpled it, and I asked him why he did that then he just went to our teacher to complain. I really didn't do anything to him, I didn't even touch him" she honestly explained looking directly at her father's eyes, pleading him to believe her.

But to her dismay her father shook his head in dismay. "I don't care! You need to act nice around everyone and that boy who complained happened to be my partner's son, what if we loose a vital part of the company because of your actions, what will you do huh?!" her father asked accusingly

Her father left and she stood there, tears running down her cheek. That's when her cousins arrived to visit her. Kira and Cagalli's biological father is the brother of Stellar's father so they visit often. Kira ran at Stellar's side and asked her what happened. She refused to talk, but Kira and Cagalli already had a clue of what happened. Kira examined Stellar then he noticed her swollen cheek. He leaned over and gave a light peck at Stellar's cheek. She stared at Kira confusingly.

"Mom used to do that when we were hurt, it's effective so I did the same to you, did it work?"

Stellar cried more and that made Kira nervous "Umm…Stellar, I'm sorry did I…" Kira was cut off when Stellar hugged him and said "(sobs) it worked (sobs) thanks (sobs) nii-san" Kira smiled and hugged her back and Cagalli joined them.

End Flashback

Stellar then looked at Cagalli a glad yet lonely look

"Oh…sorry, I didn't mean to bring back unpleasant memories Stellar, don't worry about my question anymore" Cagalli nervously said

"It's alright nee-chan, if I was given the chance…I would not take it"

Cagalli stared at her in disbelief "Why?" she asked with confusion

"Because my past isn't only miserable, it's also great, because I was able to encounter you and nii-san, the most wonderful persons I met" she explained smiling cheerfully at Cagalli

Cagalli smiled back at her and ruffled her hair "Nee-chan stop it" she giggled

"You drama queen!" Cagalli teased and continued to mess up her hair then she suddenly stopped "You're really my cousin, having the same thought as me" she said then stood up stretching her body "I will not trade those happy times with anything" she added then went outside. "Oh and before I forget, go to your room now, I want to change my clothes and eat, I'm starving!" she said happily at Stellar then Stellar walked outside "but do you think nii-san would choose the other option?" she asked

Cagalli smiled at her "Of course not… I know Kira, like us, no matter how bad our past is, I'm sure he will choose the same thing"

"Then let's help nii-san remember, I can see through his eyes that there was a part of him that's empty" she explained

"Jeez Stellar, you really like to make things complicated but I guess your right" Cagalli sighed then smiled at Stellar

Then they went to their rooms and changed their clothes and ate their dinner.


When Lacus was outside Kira let go of her hand and he suddenly removed his blazer, then his tie and opened the first button of his long sleeved white polo. She stared at him confusedly; it isn't really that hot outside in fact, its cold, now that Christmas was just a couple of weeks away.

"Kira why are you removing your blazer?" she asked

"Well, even if I'm not a rich person, I might get attention with this uniform, but it's alright if you don't…" but before he could finish whatever he was saying, he saw Lacus took her own blazer off.

"Let's go now or do I need to wear a mask?" She jokingly asked glancing at him

"No, actually, you didn't have to remove your blazer, it's starting to get cold you know" he said while placing their blazer at the compartment.

"It's alright, I don't want to give you a hard time protecting me because of my eye-catching uniform" she explained then walked

Kira sighed then followed her. They arrived at the park and the cool breeze of the wind welcomed them. Lacus shuddered but she hid it from Kira. Kira stared at the peaceful scenery in front of him. He then turned to Lacus

"You know this park better, so where should we go?"

"At the place where we first met…"

"There, are you sure?"

"Yup, that place holds a lot of wonderful memories"

"Ok, let's go there then" Kira said smiling

Lacus lead the way even if Kira actually knew it. Kira was watching Lacus' back while walking. He was busy thinking to himself

"What did happen back there? Why do I feel like I wanted to…to… really kiss her? This feeling, did I fell in love with Lacus Clyne? No that can't be, I'm only her bodyguard…we…no even thinking about that is impossible…" Kira was thinking when he bumped at Lacus. He didn't notice that Lacus stopped already and they were in the exact place where they first met.

"Sorry Lacus" he apologized

"Don't worry about it Kira" Lacus said smiling brightly at him

Kira became aware of Lacus' sudden change in attitude. He also noticed her bright smile which made him smile back unconsciously. Then something struck Kira's mind, "I don't care about anything right now, my main goal is to keep her smiling" he thought staring at Lacus. Lacus seated herself at the bench under the tree. She looked up at Kira who's still staring at her. Lacus blushed but still glanced at Kira.

"Kira, why don't you sit?" Lacus shyly asked

Kira returned to reality and heard what Lacus said, but he saw Lacus' cheek with a bright red color. He got worried and immediately sat beside Lacus, placing his hand at her forehead, feeling her temperature.

"Lacus are you alright?" Kira worriedly asked

"Umm…yes…Kira…why did you ask?" Lacus asked, her face getting redder and redder every second

"Because you're face's so red, look you're becoming redder now!" Kira said, he's starting to freak out

"I'm perfectly fine Kira, you don't need to worry" Lacus insisted

"But…"

"Come on Kira, don't you trust me?" Lacus asked

"I trust you but you can't make me stop worrying about you" Kira explained

Lacus stared at him then blushed again .Then that's when Kira fully understood why Lacus had a very red face. "She's blushing? Could it be that she...?" Kira asked himself then smiled then his phone rang, he answered it

"Hello?"

"Hey Kira, it's me Siegel, will you please tell my daughter that I can't go home right now"

"Why sir?"

"There's a little conflict at the company, anyway, I'll be back after two days, take care of Lacus"

"Wait, don't you want to talk to her?"

"Not now, I don't want to make her worry"

"I understand sir, I'll take care of her"

"Ok, I'll see you later then" Kira turned his phone off and sighed

"Who was that?" Lacus asked

"Your father, he told me he can't go home yet, there's a meeting and it will take two days, nothing to worry about" he smiled convincingly at her

But still Kira noticed that Lacus became too worried. Kira glanced at his watch and saw the time and it's already six. The sun's starting to set and the wind's becoming cooler. Kira knew that Lacus wouldn't want to go home yet.

"Lacus will you come back with me at the car"

"Kira, can we stay…"

"We're just going to get my jacket, the one you returned earlier, I promised your father that I will never leave your side so just come"

"Ok but promise me we're not going home yet"

"You have my word"

"Let's go now"

They walked back at the car. Kira opened the compartment and took his jacket and Lacus' blazer when he noticed something. He thought then closed the compartment. Kira held his jacket and her blazer.

"Here Lacus, use this" Kira said handing her the clothing

"My blazer and your jacket? Are you going to lend me your jacket again? I can handle the weather so you can…achoo" Lacus sneezed

"See? Please don't argue with me about this, just use it. I'm used to this weather more than you think"

Lacus wore her blazer then Kira's jacket then they went back to the park. Lacus seated at the bench again. Even if she's wearing her blazer and a jacket she's still shivering. Kira noticed it and seated a little bit closer to Lacus which made her feel more awkward. After a few moments of silence, Kira asked something.

"Can I ask you something?" Kira seriously asked

"…what is it Kira?" Lacus asked nervously

"Tell me the truth Lacus, why do you look so down at school?"

Lacus paused, she was thinking if she's gonna answer him or not. Kira stared at her while waiting for her answer. Lacus sighed, she pushed the feeling of awkwardness and told him in her normal tone.

"It's about the…"


A/N: Ok cut! Hello everyone! Sorry for my late update, I'm really really sorry, I didn't know that I would take that long to update but still thank goodness I finished it! I hope you liked it. And if you want to say something about my story, I would listen or rather read your opinion gladly. Hehehe Thanks for reading ^^