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Summary: Cagalli breaks up with Athrun. How do they both feel?

A/N – same as before. Words in italics are flashbacks and lines are changes in the scene.

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Short Moments

"Don't you know how to drive?" Athrun asked Cagalli. She looked over angrily at him.

"What do you mean don't I know how to drive?" her voice was sharp. "The car is moving, both my hands are on the wheel, I signal when I turn. What more do you want from me?"

"What more do I want?" Athrun's face was drained of all colour, his face showed absolute fear. "I agree that the car is moving, both your hands are on the wheel, and that you signal when you turn. But what I want is for you to slow down and drive at a more reasonable speed. This isn't a race track where you go your fastest. What I want is for you to not only have both hands on the wheels, more importantly, have both eyes on the road in front of you. And one more thing I want, besides signalling when you turn, turn when there aren't any cars coming directly at you when it's their green light!" Athrun fell back on to the seat clutching it tightly.

Cagalli frowned. "Stop being so picky about such small detail."

"Small detail! Those aren't small details! Those are details in which our lives depend on!"

Cagalli continued to frown, she took her eyes away from the road to glare at Athrun in which Athrun flinched. "If you're going to be so picky, why don't you just drive?" Cars to their left and right started to honk at them. Cagalli had just run a red light.

Athrun groaned then screamed at her, "I was, but you begged me to let you drive!"

Oblivious to what she had just done, she angrily turned her head back to the road. She then smiled evilly and pressed the gas pedal even more.

Cagalli went out for a drive that morning. Her driving had definitely improved. She went to driving school, and had a proper driver's licence. When she finished her morning drive, Cagalli expected to find Kisaka waiting for her at the front entrance. But to her surprise, some young man that she didn't know stood there instead. She frowned, Kisaka was her personal bodyguard, what the heck was he doing?

Cagalli parked her car, got out and approached the young man. She asked him, "Where's Kisaka?"

The young man smiled and replied, "Kisaka-san has gone off on a one week leave under your orders. My name is Ken Smith, his replacement."

Cagalli felt her face turn red in embarrassment. She forgot that she told Kisaka to go on vacation a few days ago. The poor man was overworking himself in protecting her from every little thing. Cagalli turned away from her temporary bodyguard, Ken Smith, and said, "Of course I knew that. G-good work Ken."

"I am honoured by your praise, Cagalli-sama."

Athrun sat in his apartment staring at the television blankly. There was absolutely nothing interesting going on in the world. He had gone to work again, but his boss told him to go back home and take a break, he even threatened to fire him if he didn't rest for at least one day.

"#$#%%$"

"Cagalli!"

"#$#%#%!#$%&"

A fine long stream of curses left Cagalli's mouth as she was surrounded by dozens and dozens of different dresses for her to wear for the party that night. She had less then an hour to choose a dress, put it on, have Athrun force make up on to her, and get to the party. Cagalli had run away to Athrun's apartment in hopes of getting away from having to wear a dress. But Kisaka was always a step ahead of her. He knew that she was planning to go directly to Athrun's apartment and not to her own house, so he brought all the dresses to Athrun's. The dozen's of dresses were scattered on the couches, TV, and tables.

"Hurry Cagalli, or else we'll be late. Do you want me to pick for you?" Athrun smiled at her innocently, but Cagalli snapped back at him.

"In your dreams!" However, Athrun paid no attention to her answer. He was already picking up various dresses and examining them. Cagalli gritted her teeth when finally Athrun picked up a dress and threw it at her.

"Put that on." He reached down under the couch and started to examine different shoes. After finding a pair that matched the dress he threw those at her too. "Put those on too."

"Don't wanna." Cagalli threw the dress and the shoes on the ground and sat on the floor cross legged. Athrun sighed as he looked at the clock that hung on the wall.

"Cagalli... how about we do it this way. You put on the dress and shoes... and you don't have to wear any make up."

She looked up at Athrun defiantly, "Still don't wanna." Athrun sighed again and then decided on a different approach.

He sat down next to her and said, "Alright then, how about we just forget about the party. I'm sure nobody will notice that the guest of honour isn't even there."

"I never said that I wouldn't go."

"But even if you do go, people won't believe that you are the guest of honour. You aren't even going to be dressed up, they'll just think that you're some kind of prankster trying to trick them." He moved in closer to Cagalli, wrapping his arms around her waist. Cagalli squirmed, her cheeks flushed slightly. Athrun smiled and leaned his head on her shoulder while pulling her even closer to him.

Cagalli's cheeks turned a deeper red. She stammered, "F-fine. A-alright already. I'll, uh, get dressed later. I'm feeling lazy right now." She didn't want to leave Athrun's warm embrace just yet.

Athrun then whispered into Cagalli's ear. "Would you like me to help you get dressed then?"

Cagalli opened her mouth in shock. She stood up angrily pulling Athrun along with her and threw the apartment door open. She pushed Athrun out into the hallway. "I'm capable of dressing myself, Athrun." Her face was red all over as she slammed the door.

Athrun stood outside in the hallway, trying desperately to muffle his laughter.

It's been a few days since Cagalli's replacement body guard had come. But no matter what she tried, she just couldn't get used to the guy. She just didn't trust him. Maybe it was the way that he looked at her at times. She could've sworn that this guy was watching her at times that he shouldn't be. Cagalli was sitting down on her bed, the hairs on the back of her neck were tingling. Cagalli could feel that Ken was watching her, but how she didn't know. He was standing outside her door just like Kisaka used to do.

Cagalli stood up from her bed and started pacing her room. She stopped in the middle of the room and looked at the telephone, then at the door. Cagalli walked to phone. She stood over it, hesitating. She looked over her shoulder at the door once more. She bit her lip while she tried to decide on whether to call or not. Finally, she picked up her phone and dialled the number.

A/N – chapter 2 is now done! Woo hoo! (runs around in circles screaming) Anyway, R&R, hope you all enjoyed. Oh yeah, and for the people who actually bother reading author notes, I had suddenly changed my mind about something. Rite now my other fic (New Memories) is on hold since I just decided out of nowhere to finish this one first. I'm planning on only having 3 chapters for this fic, but I have a tendency to over expand and start talking about other stuff. For example, before planning that this fic is going to be 3 chapters, it was originally supposed to be just one! But as I was typing out the 1st chapter, I strayed off on something completely different... Hmm...