Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam SEED (goes cries in a corner while ppl point and laugh)

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

A/N – Words in italics are flashbacks and lines are changes in the scene. Also, for the flashbacks, I put the name of the person of who is having the flashback in bold. I also put in the words Flashback and End of Flashback. If this makes no sense, then that is ok.

Short Moments

Cagalli listened as the phone rang. One ring. Two rings. Three. "Hello-"

"Athrun!" Cagalli yelled into the phone.

"This is Athrun Zala. I am currently not home right now. Please leave a message." Cagalli frowned as she listened to the recorded message of the answering machine. She listened to the long beep that followed.

Cagalli was about to hang up the phone, but then decided against it. Instead she screamed into the phone, "YOU IDIOT ATHRUN! WHY AREN'T YOU AT HOME!?!?" She turned the phone off and then threw it angrily at the wall. She glanced at the clock and saw that it was almost midnight.

Athrun had finally managed to make it back to his apartment. He wasn't happy however, because of a couple of certain people who followed him back. Or rather, he had to bring with him. Following after him were Yzak and Dearka wobbling dangerously. They had suddenly decided to take Athrun out to a singles bar to have him 'hook up' with another girl. Athrun had no idea whether to be grateful that they were worried about him or to be angry that they had forcefully dragged him to the singles bar against his own will.

Athrun was hugging the wall as he tried to make his way to the couch. Athrun, Yzak, and Dearka all collapsed around each other, their heads feeling unusually light. Suddenly, Dearka started laughing like crazy. Soon following after him was Yzak, the two men started rolling on the floor throwing insults at each other, which they seemed to find even more hilarious. Athrun managed to smile lightly as he watched his two friends continue to curse and wrestle each other.

Unlike Yzak and Dearka, when Athrun was drunk he didn't start bursting into fits of laughter. It was also probably since he didn't drink as much as the other two. At the moment he just became even more aware of all the things that he hated in life. The fact that Cagalli and him weren't together anymore stood out more then ever. Athrun groaned as he thought this.

Athrun finally noticed that the room was very quiet. He looked down at the floor to see that both Yzak and Dearka had fallen asleep on top of each other. He smiled lightly at the scene wishing that he had a camera so that he could threaten the two with the picture later on.

Athrun - Flashback

Cagalli was in a fit of giggles as she continued to drown herself in alcohol. Athrun sat beside her drowning himself in alcohol as well. He was crowned with a Christmas wreath on his head, as proof of him being the champion in the drinking contest.

"Cheersuzacham!" slurred Cagalli. She held up a glass of wine.

"Cheers!" yelled the rest of the room. They all burst out laughing. For the whole night, they yelled and screamed at whatever. All their minds were completely lost as they all did things that they normally never did.

Dearka was busy in a corner with Miriallia, while Yzak was yelling at the fridge. Kira and Lacus were pointing at each others faults and laughing.

Cagalli was hugging Athrun with all her might, laughing into his chest. Soon after, the two were sprawled on the floor all over each other. A while after they had managed to make it to one of the rooms where Athrun was quick to pin Cagalli down onto the bed.

Cagalli giggled as Athrun slowly placed gentle kisses down her neck. The blonde girl ran her hands through his hair, she grabbed his head and pulled him up so that their lips met. The kiss deepened, their tongues met in a furious battle. Athrun's hands began to move down to Cagalli's blouse. He quickly unbuttoned it and threw it out of the way. Following the blouse was his own shirt.

Athrun kneeled over Cagalli whose fingers traced his chest. Athrun brought his lips down onto Cagalli's slowly and gently.

End of Flashback

Chuckling to himself, the blue haired Coordinator lay on the couch. He remembered that the morning was like hell. He remembered when Cagalli had realized what they'd done, she threw a temper tantrum. She woke everyone up and then they all gathered in the room and saw them in bed together.

Athrun smiled at the memory thinking how strange that the first time he had done it with Cagalli was when they were both completely drunk. Since that day he had vowed to never get himself drunk again, and especially to never go to anymore of Dearka's parties. In the end, he never kept that promise to himself, or else he wouldn't be feeling miserably drunk on the couch at that very moment.

Cagalli lay on her bed staring intensely at the digital clock on the table beside her. She was staring at the clock for about one hour and still she waited for Athrun to call her back.

"Wait a minute," she said to herself, "why am I waiting for him to call me back for? After all... I did yell at him, but I didn't tell him to call me back. But isn't it normal to call a person back especially if they yell at you?" She rolled onto her back and tried to go to sleep. After a few minutes she rolled over onto her face, but it became uncomfortable so she rolled onto her back again. She slowly opened one of her eyes to look at the clock but mentally slapped herself and rolled over again in her bed. Cagalli was going crazy, she grabbed at her hair, and rummaged her hand through it in frustration. She thrashed on the bed and finally fell off of it.

Cagalli found herself in a big heap on the floor. She sat up quickly and glared at the clock once again.

Silently she muttered to herself. "Why the hell should I care about that idiot? He's probably out somewhere getting it on with some other girl." Cagalli blushed angrily, "N-not that I care or anything. It's just... not... what he should be doing. Yep. That's right." She nodded to herself, the room was dead silent when Cagalli smacked herself on the forehead, "Why the hell am I talking to myself?"

At that moment Cagalli noticed that the clock wasn't showing the time anymore. Also, the room had become pitch black, the street lights were off as well.

Cagalli frowned, "Now it's a black out?" She also realized that with the power out, she couldn't afford to sleep since the security system wouldn't be working. If somebody were to break into her house, she had to be able to either run or beat the crap out the person if possible. Cagalli sat back onto her bed now feeling very drowsy. Without the clock distracting her, she had nothing to keep her awake.

Once again, she began to mutter to herself, "It's not like I'm scared or anything... I'm not. I'm just... not used to it... that's all. Besides, Ken should be standing guard just outside the door. And if Ken is asleep, then some other guard is probably standing there." Cagalli pulled the blanket more tightly around her, the fact that Ken was probably standing on the other side of the door did not make her feel any safer. Now she desperately just wanted to go to sleep without any worries. About a few months ago, a blackout like this had happened before...

Cagalli – Flashback

Cagalli tried to sleep but found that she couldn't. Although Kisaka was standing guard outside her door, she just couldn't sleep. Even if it was probably only a hoax, the letter threatening her a few days before was bothering her. She couldn't help but think 'What if it wasn't a hoax. What if whoever wrote that letter cut off the power so they could attack me.'

Cagalli pulled the blanket over her head, her eyes were still wide open as she listened to the empty silence. All around her, there was not a single sound. Cagalli began to feel more and more nervous in the large silent room. When there came a light, soft knocking on the door, Cagalli screamed loudly and covered her ears. The door slammed open, and Cagalli heard the sound of someone rushing to her.

"Cagalli, are you alright." Cagalli looked up into a pair of emerald green eyes. Athrun placed his hand on her shoulder, he looked at her worriedly.

"Athrun?" asked Cagalli, her voice was shaky. "W-what are you doing here?"

"Kisaka asked me to come." Athrun looked around the room, apparently trying to find something. He returned his attention to the blonde girl in front of him. "But, are you alright? Why did you scream? Are you hurt?"

"No..." Cagalli turned away from Athrun's intense gaze. She heard him sigh in relief.

"Thank god. I thought that something might've happened to you. You shouldn't scare me like that, Cagalli. Nightmare?"

"Nightmare? Hell no!" Cagalli screamed back. "It's your fault that I screamed. You come right in the middle of the night and just knock on my door. Who wouldn't be scared?!"

"My fault?" he was not capable of saying anything other then that.

"Yes, you!"

Athrun's mouth hung open in shock. He turned around so that his back faced Cagalli. Cagalli soon began to hear his muffled laughter. "Why are you laughing?!" She grabbed Athrun and turned him around. His laughter filled the room as Cagalli was on the verge of beating the Coordinator's head in.

After calming himself down, Athrun asked Cagalli with a playful smile, "If you're feeling scared, would you like me to sleep with you tonight?"

Cagalli threw her pillow at Athrun, who caught it. Her teeth were barred angrily, but even in the faint moonlight Athrun was able to see that her cheeks were burning crimson. "W-who said I was scared?!"

Athrun threw the pillow down onto the bed next to the many other pillows. He climbed onto the bed and circled his arms around Cagalli's waist. "You did," he stated simply. He pushed Cagalli down onto the bed with him so that they lay side by side. Cagalli couldn't help but snuggle closer to him, she looked into his eyes, her face singed red. Athrun's body had such a nice warmth that made her want to stay in his arms.

"Now go to sleep." Athrun demanded. "I'll stay awake, since I'm supposed be guarding you while Kisaka gets his own sleep."

"Then shouldn't you be outside my door?" she whispered. She could feel her eyelids begin to droop.

"What would you prefer? Outside your door so that you can't sleep, or here with you in bed so that you can sleep?"

Cagalli thought about it for a second before replying, "Good point." She felt Athrun wrap his arms around her more tightly as she finally slept.

End of Flashback

Cagalli felt hot tears running down her cheeks. She wiped them away, rubbing at her eyes. She sniffed lightly as she sat alone on her large bed, hugging her own knees.

A/N – Wow, is it me, or are my chapters just getting longer and longer? Anywayz, how did this fic become so long? At the rate I'm going, it'll take at least a couple more chapters if I start compressing it. And OMG, the flashbacks are getting longer as well. By the way, sorry if the characters are very out of character (OOC), especially when they were drunk... hmm... I wouldn't really know how it feels like to be drunk since I don't even drink.

So... I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, please R&R. Feel free to leave any suggestions that may help me write better in any way, I would really appreciate that.

Yes, and just for the hell of it, I decided to reply to ppl's reviews from the last chapter! I must enjoy my last week of freedom before school starts... sniff (goes to the corner and cries again)

Thanks to...

Lomiothiel-YzaknNicol fangirl – make Ken the bad guy, and have Athrun be the hero... uhh... cough cough... (looks the other way while whistling)

Miriallia Elthman – will Athrun get jealous indeed... hmm... that's something to think about...

PreciousRose –did you listen to the song "Precious Rose"? To me, it doesn't even sound like Cagalli's singing it. And don't we all wanna see Cagalli in a dress?

cagalliathrun –if you noticed, I changed the way I do flashbacks a bit. Now whoever is having the flashback will have their name put right before it. Hope it's less confusing now! And if it isn't, just tell me and I'll see what I could do.

Princess Paine of Darkness – Athrun or Kisaka... well, that question is already answered now. YAY!

Kitti3g0Me0w – Athrun and Cagalli is my favourite couple on Gundam SEED too!

Keirin-Sama - ??? I just don't get what's wrong with the name Ken. But, to each their own right?

Blue Savage – perverted thoughts? Perverted thoughts! OMG! PERVERTED THOUGHTS!!!

Kichi-chan – Cagalli depends on Athrun too much doesn't she... hmm...

And if I missed anybody, uhh... thanks for reviewing!