Sweet Reality Chapter 7: Truth Never Lays Low, a g-gundam fanfic

Disclaimer: I do not own G-Gundam. T.T

Summary: We're all trapped in the wonderful, yet cruel, reality. High School isn't an exception. This is a story of some High School students who face the oh so 'Sweet Reality' of learning to trust and growing up.

Pre-Notes: Well, another late update, but I'm saying be happy you're getting anything. Oh, I'm not trying to be snotty or anything either... just a little cranky. It's rather late. Ah well, I hope that this delay didn't make you lose interest in the story!

Sweet Reality

Chapter Six - Truth Never Lays Low

She sat on the dock looking at her arm. It was free of constricting slings, casts, whatever. She wiggled her fingers, it felt good to be rid of the sling, and she dipped her arm into the water. It was nice and welcoming. Not to cold, not to warm.

"Come on Rain," Shirley coaxed her friend into the waters, "It isn't going to come after and bite you. It's water after all."

Rain smiled, "I know Shirley, but first I have to get over the realization that I'm not held back anymore."

The sun was suddenly blocked from her back, someone was behind her. She squinted up and turned around to see Domon standing behind her on the dock. She felt a flutter starting up in her stomach. Here they were, both on the dock again. This was where Rain became a two-some with Domon, instead of being a one-some with herself.

Well... sort of anyways. The only problem was the Domon didn't know they were a two-some... yet.

"If you're not held back anymore," He started, "Then why don't you hurry up and get in the water already?"

He yanked her up to stand. She gave a quick yelp of surprise. When she was steady of her feet, she turned around to face him. Rain lightly poked him in the chest.

"I was just enjoying the sce-" She never did finish that sentence. Domon had given her a slight push and she was falling backwards.

Panic filled her breast as she fell and her feet left the safety of the dock. A small squeal of surprise left her throat as her back hit the water. She took a gulp of fresh air just before dipping completely under the blue-green liquids of Aameyii Lake.

There she found herself face-to-face with a medium sized silver-green fish. Its slimy looking eyes blinked at her, its mouth opening and closing in the classic 'fishy' way. She remembered baby-sitting two kids one day, Min and Hoi... Hoy... Hanz, something like that. They danced around her while making 'fishy faces'.

Unbeknownst to anyone but herself, Rain secretly hated fish. They were so slimy and disgusting. While she didn't like looking at them or touching them alive with skin, life still in it, or dead yet freshly caught, she loved eating fish. Sushi, one of her favorite foods, was the only time she would ever eat raw fish.

And since she did not like fish alive, and this fish was, she let out a scream of bubbles. She was still in the water! And so was that fish. Instinctively she kicked her arms and legs in front of the fish, shooing it away. She had lost all the air in her mouth while 'screaming', and kicked off the bottom of the lake towards the clear blue sky above.

She came above the surface of the water and breathed in deeply. Air! It was such a wonderful thing! Breathing it? Wonderful! Her rejoicing became anger as she glanced over to Domon and Chibodee laughing at her still on the dock. So Domon had complained she was taking forever getting into the water while he himself hadn't gotten in yet either? She frowned, this just wasn't right!

"Domon," She called in a seemingly happy voice, "Why don't you come in the water now? It feels great."

"I know it does," Domon called back, "But when it's noon, it'll be better for swimming."

"Then why am I in the water now?" She demanded back, "It's not fair! Mou..." She pouted.

He laughed at her again, "Because," He said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world, "You pushed me in the other week, I'm only returning the favor."

She opened her mouth to retort something back, but she looked around her, everyone was watching her. Everyone being, Chibodee, Shirley (A/N: lets pretend the rest of Chicopee's crew doesn't exist in this story...), Natasha, Argo, Cecil, Sai-Saishi, George, and Marie Louise. Her jaws clamped shut.

Shirley began to giggle, Sai-Saichi laughed out loud, George let a smile escape his composed self, and the others joined in their making fun of Rain-The-Weirdo.

She glared at them all, ducked under the water and swam to under the dock. Disgusting! Was her immediate thought, don't they clean under here? It's got all kinds of disgusting... crap underneath that dock! She set her feet down on the slimy bottom of the lake, her head came out just above the water so she could breath.

The reached her hands out from under the dock and grasped Domon's ankles firmly.

"What the he-" She grinned with satisfaction, pulling her arms towards the water with all her might, Domon came crashing down into the water. But it didn't look ungraceful to Rain, from her position under the dock, it looked rather graceful, like he did it on his own...

She was jerked under the water as she was still clutching Domon's ankles. While in the commotion, she didn't get a breath of air, and was pulled out into the clearer water. She let go of his ankles and floated up to the water.

Her eyes blazed, "You did that on purpose!" She yelled at Domon.

He looked at her innocently, "Me? Why, I never!" He said in a high-pitched girly voice.

"Are you mimicking me now?" She demanded.

"How can I mimic you if you haven't said that yet?"

"Why does everything have to be so... logical with you, Domon?" She asked, splashing water into his dark eyes, "Can't something be 'relaxing' or 'anti-serious' once in a while?"

"I never said it couldn't be," Domon retorted splashing water right back at Rain, the water matching the color of her eyes, cerulean blue... The water of Aameyii Lake was extremely clear, and pure. Safe to drink out of too... if you used a faucet at least.

"Okay you guys," Cecil called from the shore, just beyond the dock, "It's time for lunch! It'd be nice if you two stopped goofing around and came over here so we could eat already!"

"Lunch!" Sai-Saishi cheered, "Cecil's a great cook. It's gonna be an awesome lunch!" He predicted.

The other's followed his lead and splashed ashore to eat, in truth, a wonderful tasting meal.

♥

They lounged about on the dock, catching some sun rays and just hanging out. It was near two-thirty in the afternoon. Sai-Saishi even lay snoring, or he did until Chibodee kicked him into the water, which caused mass-mayhem in the small group of friends and couples.

An enraged Sai-Saishi stormed out of the water, and launched himself onto the dock. He stomped over to Chibodee, making the boards of wood holding the dock in form shudder ever so slightly.

"You," He yelled, "You! You kicked me into the water!"

"Yup, so ya noticed?"

"How can I not notice is a better question! You don't kick a sleeping man into a lake! Not from a dock or from anywhere else for that matter!"

"Oh yeah, and why not?" Chibodee demanded, "What's so wrong with kicking a sleeping hog into the water? I wasn't lying around doing nothing, so I felt I have a right to kick a lazy ass into the water!"

"And," Argo added his thoughts, "You're not a man yet."

Sai-Saishi glared daggers at them both, "Why should that matter?" He wanted to know, "Neither of you are a man either!"

"Your point is... ?" George asked daintily, "We're closer to being men than you are, you know. We are all a year older than you, except Cecil, who I may remind you, is also older than you, too."

"Oh for Kami's sake!" Sai roared, "She's older than me by a few freakin' days! That doesn't even count!"

Domon looked at each member of his group, they had fittingly called themselves the 'Shuffle Alliance', and they had all agreed on deeming him 'King'. It was his job to make sure they didn't beat each other up, too badly anyways.

And this little squall was totally pointless... Why did it matter who was older? Wasn't this about why Chibodee had kicked Sai-Saishi into the water? And how did Cecil get dragged into this? She was now playing as Sai-Saishi's defense,

"Why does it matter who's older?" She asked sternly and no one answered her, "See? This is totally pointless!"

Good old Cecil, Rain thought watching the exchange of statements and insults fly by her, she'll knock some sense into these idiots.

"Chibodee!" Rain heard Shirley bark, now taking command. "State your problem!"

"I..." Chib looked at Shirley with confusion. Since when did the girls boss the boys around? What was the world coming too? "I- My problem? My problem is that this little boy was hogging dock space when I could be using it for a more useful purpose."

"And what were you going to do with the dock space after you had claimed it?" Natasha asked promptly.

"I was going too..." Chibodee was at a loss for words, "I was going too use it for..."

"Exactly!" Marie Louise exclaimed, "You were just going to sit there and go to sleep like Sai-Saishi was doing!"

"Do you stand your ground, Chibbo?" Domon asked lazily, he was the 'King' after all. He couldn't let the woman run everything.

"Whatever," Chib sighed in defeat, "You win ladies. Looks like the score is Men

- Zero, Ladies – One."

"We aren't men, Chibodee," Sai-Saishi corrected smugly, "The score is actually Ladies – One, Boys – Zero."

"If we aren't men, how can they be ladies?" Argo wondered aloud.

"Because," A voice stated simply, "Ladies are more mature."

"Agreed!" Rain, Natasha, Shirley, Cecil, and Marie Louise chorused in unison.

Then they all turned around to see non-other than...

Allenby standing there by her car. "See? I'm always right." She said primly.

Shirley snorted, "As if! What're you doing here anyways, Allenbaka?"

"Honey, sticks 'n stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me."

"That's so cliché." Marie Louise said, she was really into fancy words since the French used them, and she was into the French too.

"Whatever."

"Whoa... Allenby, what happened to your face? Did someone slap you out of pure fright?" Sai-Saishi laughed at the bruise on the face... effects of Domons' slap.

And Domon felt a sinking feeling in the stomach. This wasn't going right! No one was supposed to know about that! Now they were poking her for the info! She was going to tell them, no matter how hard he tried to steer the conversation away from her face. Allenby was too much of a bitch to let this availability to get him into trouble pass her by.

And he hadn't even told Rain yet! Well... He really wasn't going too... But finding out this way was way worse!

"Oh, that?" So smooth Domon thought, "Got it last Friday..."

"Who did it?" They urged her on.

She smirked... so smooth, so evil, and so easy.

"Why! You mean Domon hasn't told you yet?" She pretended being surprised. "Well... he lost his temper, and bam! Slammed me into the lockers, whacked me on the face."

She was such a good actor... Fake tears came to her eyes. "It hurt so much! It still does if I touch it." She sighed.

"Domon!" George turned to the 'King of Hearts', "You mean to tell me you slapped a girl?"

He stood his ground.

"Way to go, Domon!" Chibodee cheered, "Congrats! I never thought you'd be the one to finally hit 'er home!"

"I just can't believe he actually did it..." Argo mused.

"Who cares? Someone did it!" Sai cheered.

But Domon wasn't even listening to them...

He was concentrating very hard not to look at Rain, but he couldn't help it.

His eyes traveled to meet hers... And the face, usually so calm, serene, caring, kind, was looked back at him with emotions written all over it, hurt, shock, wonderment, anger...

And what was that last one?

Betrayal. . . ?

Authors Notes: Well, there you go. Sorry for the long update once more. But hey, I think this chapter is pretty good! And my Microsoft Works finally 'Works' again! It was screwed, but not anymore! So mostly likely little to no spelling and grammar mistakes.

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