Author's Note: I hope everyone liked my last chapter. A little more humor this time… Please enjoy this one!
Chapter 19
What are Happy Endings?
People must come to understandings where not every lifetime has a wonderful ending. Take those who died in the unexpected. Their families and friends will mourn for them forever in their hearts. The pain may slowly wither away … but …
- Little Pieces
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"Kira, that's the hot sauce!" Lacus shrieked as she grabbed the bottle away from his wrist as he was about to pour it onto her plate. "It's not exactly…"
Kira resented her actions. "So! You used to love it when I poured hot sauce everywhere! It's not like anyone's around to see the great Lacus Clyne drown in her own hot sauce! Come on! I know you want it!"
"K-Kira…" Lacus sighed a heavy sigh. "Fine, alright. Just this once."
Kira jumped for joy as he practically poured the bottle all over her plate. "Eat up, Lacus!"
"I don't know…I haven't eaten this stuff in a really long time…" Lacus gulped as she stared down at her pepperoni pizza covered in boiling hot sauce. She used to be the master of this stuff but now that she was older…
"That's it! I can't wait any longer!" Kira grabbed her dribbling pizza and stuffed it right into her mouth. Lacus practically gagged at it being in her mouth all of a sudden. But she managed to bite off a piece before pushing Kira's hands away. She struggled to swallow it whole and grabbed a napkin giving a quiet burp.
Kira started clapping.
"Go, Lacus!" Kira cheered as Lacus looked at him with the most tired look and hot sauce dripping from the corner of her mouth.
"DON'T make me do that ever again!" she panted. "I don't think I can do that anymore!"
"Awww…Lacus! That was great! Here! Try some…"
Lacus grabbed his wrist again. "No, Kira."
Kira frowned as he placed the bottle down. "Fine. Do you have to ruin my fun?"
"Do you have to remind me of the old days?"
"But it makes you happy and I know it."
"Why?"
"You give me that look."
"What look?" Lacus raised an eyebrow as they sat at the breakfast table. Cagalli had stolen Erika again, right under Lacus' nose. So they would have the house to themselves again, and if Kira even heard Lan's voice, he'd sock him in the face and let Lacus' bodyguards deal with him.
"You always smile and then giggle, just like now! You're just trying to hide it!" Kira stuck his tongue out as he picked up his plate and headed for the kitchen.
Yes, it was odd that they were having pizza for breakfast but Kira insisted on visiting their old days during high school. He had to make her let loose sometimes.
"Lies," Lacus growled as she picked up her plate and followed him into the kitchen. Kira was making her loose her temper easily now and she was having trouble controlling her emotions. She followed him inside the kitchen and saw that Kira had disappeared. Nanny was still on her vacation, but Lacus didn't feel like washing the dishes at the moment, so she left them beside the sink and tried to find her missing writer. "Kira!" she called.
But only a mute and tense thin atmosphere filled the air. Lacus felt a tingle go down her spine as she forced herself to turn around and was silenced by an unusual sensation on her lips. She practically giggled into it as Kira was forced to pull away for air.
"I win!" Kira laughed.
"Oh, no you don't! That wasn't fair! That was irrelevant, too!" Lacus screamed. "Kissing you is practically a sin! You're with Fllay! Remember!" Lacus sighed. "How many times do I have to tell you that?"
"You don't because I'm not with her, Lacus!" Kira said encircling her with his arms.
"What are you talking about? You haven't been there in 24 hours and you say that you've broken up with her!"
"Tsk. Tsk. Dear Lacus, who happens to be right in front of me at this very moment?" Kira asked unusually poetic.
"Me," Lacus answered plainly.
"Who am I holding?"
"Me."
"Who did I just kiss?"
"Uhh…Me?" Lacus pointed at herself as Kira rocked her side to side.
"And who did I say I love you to last night?"
"M-Me?" Lacus blushed a dark red. Where the hell was he going with this?
"So dear Lacus Clyne…may I ask you a question?"
"O-Okay."
"May I kiss you again?"
"Kira, that's the corniest line I've ever heard from you," Lacus tried to hide her fits of giggles but it was almost impossible as she broke out laughing. He fluttered his eyes!
"I'm just being polite…" Kira laughed into her ear.
"Kira!"
"What!" Kira yelped as she pinched him in the arm.
"Stop joking around!"
"I'm not! Why would I be!"
"You're trying to be Athrun wooing Cagalli! Let me go!" Lacus continued to laugh as her cheeks got redder and redder.
"So what if I am, huh?" Kira said as he grabbed her by the waist and brought her into another kiss.
Lacus tried to pull away but he only pulled her closer and right now … well, let's just say she didn't care that Fllay was nagging the back of her mind and that Rau might be watching…
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Rau rustled behind the house bushes as he watched closely on Lacus just as he was told. Of course, he still hadn't told Fllay a single thing. "How wonderful for her."
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One hour and thirty minutes later…
"Kira! Get off me!" Lacus said in a high pitched girly voice as she lied back lazily on the couch and making out with Fllay Allster's current boyfriend.
"It's not like we've actually done anything!" Kira laughed as he held down her shoulders to the couch. "You keep still!"
"NO!" Lacus giggled. "M-My phone's ringing, Kira! Move!"
"No, it's not! Stop lying! You're not getting out that easily!"
Even though Kira knew that the house phone was ringing.
"What if it's Erika! She'll think something's wrong and come right home!"
"She sounds like your mother, Lacus," Kira groaned as he got off her and she jumped off the couch and grabbed the phone which happened to be at the couch side table. Kira slapped himself in the face. Great. He was just tricked by her … again.
"Oh, hello, Cagalli," Lacus spoke kindly as she sat on the couch.
Wrong move.
Kira instantly took the chance and dove on her. She shrieked.
"Lacus, is something the matter?" Cagalli blinked as she sat in the car and looked toward Athrun who was keeping his eye on the road.
"N-Nothing!" Lacus laughed. "Positively nothing!" she glared toward Kira who was too busy kissing her neck and keeping her on the couch.
"You're not getting away this time!" Kira whispered into her ear and went back to her neck.
"Kira, I swear if you give me a…"
"Kira's there? What? What are you guys doing?" Cagalli's face slowly went into a very sinister form. "Let me rephrase that. What is Kira doing to you, Lacus, to make you talk like that…what is he trying to give you, huh, Lacus?"
"Food! Th-that's all!" Lacus laughed nervously as he began nibbling at her ear. She hissed.
"Lacus?"
"It's nothing, Cagalli. You know what? I'll call you back later! Bye!" Lacus said as she slammed the phone on it's holding place and tried to force herself back in control.
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"Sounds like someone's having fun," Cagalli giggled.
"What? Why? What happened?" Athrun took a glance at her and then took his attention back to the road.
"I think Kira finally came back."
"Oh?"
"They're making out on the couch," Cagalli stated plainly as she shrugged.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!" Athrun hit the brakes on a stop sign and stared with wide eyes toward Cagalli. "Already!"
"Athrun, don't do that! You nearly gave me a heart attack!" Cagalli screamed.
"Well, you're the one who had to give me the shocking news while I was driving!" Athrun yelled back.
"You're the one who asked!" Cagalli laughed.
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"Kira, I really need to get up…we've been on this couch for the past two hours!" Lacus groaned out as Kira refused to get off of her.
"But we haven't even gone to third base yet…"
"It's not like I want to!" Lacus yelled out, panting. Her face a shaded red.
"Yes, you do."
"How would you know!"
"Your face. It's red," Kira pointed out, poking her cheek. Lacus fidgeted under him, just because he was stronger than her didn't mean he could take advantage of her!
"Kira, this isn't fair! Get off! This isn't funny anymore!"
"Alright! Alright! Calm down!" Kira bent his back straight and stood up as he helped Lacus up.
She straightened out her slowly riding up skirt back to its hanging point below her knees and looked up at Kira with a disgusted face. "I'm not Fllay, Kira. I won't let you get on me as you please."
Kira blinked at her. "I didn't mean it like that."
"Well, it wasn't exactly something I was prepared for."
"But you liked it," Kira poked at her again slyly. "I know you did, or else you would've begged me to get off long ago."
Lacus stuck her nose in the air. "Hmph. Yeah, right."
"You're in denial again, Lacus. Come on, I know you did!" Kira said clapping his hands happily. "I just know it!"
"I did not!" Lacus stuck her tongue out at him. "I'm going upstairs to get ready for the party, you should get back to Fllay and get your tux or whatever you're going to wear."
"Already? It's six hours away!"
"So? My hair's going to take forever to fix and don't you dare go peaking into my room!" Lacus gave him one last glare as she headed for the stairs and with the soft click of the door, she leaped for the bathroom.
Kira grieved at the fact he couldn't get Lacus farther as he plopped down on the couch. The phone rang the moment he sat down. "Hello?"
"Kira? You're answering the phone? Where's Lacus?" Athrun said in a rushed voice.
"What's the rush, Athrun? She's changing upstairs for the dinner thing…" Kira said awfully depressed.
"What's the matter? You sound like you just lost your life," Athrun blinked on the phone as he sat back against his apartment wall and eyed the blonde sitting in the middle of the room with Tsubasa and Erika.
"What if I told you I did?" Kira ran his other hand through his hair.
"Lacus troubling you again?" Athrun laughed putting his other hand in his pocket. "Don't worry, she'll come around soon."
"I already told her, I was practically getting to third base with her, and then she goes and says she has to get ready for the party! I'm starting to hate this getting around stuff, Athrun! How am I supposed to give her the stupid ring now!"
"You got her a ring?" Athrun's eyes widened slowly. "So…Kira's finally going to tie the knot?" Athrun said loudly as Cagalli jumped from her spot and hurried over to listen on Athrun's conversation. Athrun moved it so both of them could hear clearly and he had to cover Cagalli's mouth so her breathing wouldn't be heard.
"N-Not exactly," Kira laughed nervously as he slightly turned around to see if Lacus was coming down or something. He gave a sigh as she was nowhere in sight.
"Then what is it?" Cagalli said annoyed.
"Cagalli? You're here, too? Athrun! You set me up!" Kira yelled quietly.
"No, he didn't. What the heck is the ring for, Kira? Tell me now!"
"It's so …that she knows…that I love her," Kira blushed a dark red not knowing that he should've turned around that very second because Lacus Clyne was right behind him. She sucked in her breath so he could keep talking.
"Awww…Kira's really growing up now," Cagalli laughed pretending to get teary-eyed when she was actually crying of pure joy.
"Thank God, Kira, we didn't know when you were going to come around. OH! That reminds me, I have to drop by there later before you guys go to the dinner," Athrun laughed.
"You're not coming?" Lacus said coming into the conversation without Kira knowing. He looked back at her and she winked at him, sitting next to him. Kira moved the phone so she could hear.
"Lacus? You're here…Uh…well, yeah. Cagalli and I decided we should watch Tsubasa on our own. He isn't exactly good with baby sitters…He's a bit…difficult," Athrun laughed nervously as he saw his son zoom around with his airplane again.
Kira continued to stare at her as she talked casually on the phone. Had she heard him?
"I understand, well…maybe I won't go either," Lacus shrugged with a sigh eying Kira from the corner of her eye. (AUTHOR: THAT RHYMED!) Kira stared at her with a puppy dog face. What did she mean she wasn't going to go?
"But don't you have to go?" Cagalli stared at Athrun with the dullest look in her face and Athrun the same. Lacus would never miss such an important party.
"The press has practically forgotten about me. It doesn't matter whether I show up or not, all they wanna see is Fllay and since Fllay controls part of my company then I don't exactly need to be there since she can represent both. Nicol can take care of it, too," Lacus finished. "I wouldn't mind staying home away from all that."
"Are you sure, Lacus? What if something happens that you don't know about?" Cagalli said worriedly.
"Yeah? What's the problem? Is it Erika? She'll be fine! We can take care of her for another night," Athrun added.
"It's not that…there's something else," she looked at Kira directly when she said this, "…that I have to do," her eyes diverted to the stairs and Kira followed where she directed and his cheeks turned the darkest red of the century.
"Oh…well, okay," Athrun scratched his head.
"So I'll see you guys tomorrow when you drop off Erika?" Lacus smiled.
"Yup, see ya then," Cagalli laughed as she forced Athrun to hang up. He gaped at her.
"Hey! I wasn't done yet!"
"Leave them alone. Wouldn't want to ruin Kira's chances of getting an actual wife, now do you?" Cagalli shok her head as she walked back toward Erika and Tsubasa who were mimicking the football currently playing on TV. She had to grab both of them by the back of their shirts just to make them stop.
"A wife?" Athrun blinked.
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"H-How much did you hear?" Kira shivered as she scooted closer to him.
"Enough," she smiled as she leaned head on his shoulder. She didn't make any sudden moves but she giggled when she heard Kira gulp loudly. Her facial expression softened. She was…relieved. "I don't need the ring, Kira."
Kira's hand in his pocket began to sweat as he twirled the little box. "I know y-you don't … but …I …"
Lacus still didn't move. She was currently thinking if she was actually going to miss something for once in her life. She closed her eyes and visualized the press swarming Fllay and her looking at every camera. She laughed.
"What's so funny?" Kira said innocently.
"Nothing," Lacus said as she got her head off his shoulder. She stood up and helped him off the couch and as he reached full height, he stared a little downward. Lacus crossed her arms. "I still can't believe you grew that much. You make me feel like so small."
"Eh? You're not small… "
"Fine, I'm short."
"Lacus! You're saying bad things about yourself … again. Didn't we go over this already? You're acting like a child," Kira glared.
"Childish is when you cried to get you and Athrun out of trouble when we were six! And everyone fell for it!" Lacus broke out laughing as his shoulders sagged.
"Shut up."
"I'm glad you're here, Kira," Lacus smiled as she rubbed her arm. "Erika is very happy. I'm happy."
"Have I been forgiven? For everything?" Kira spoke slowly. Lacus looked at him and she shrugged.
"Of course."
"It's that easy? I mean … I could just walk out and never come back," he looked toward the door and back at Lacus. He grabbed her by the arms. "Wouldn't you hate me?"
"Hatred is only another word for a denial in love, Kira."
"What?" Kira released her.
"When one keeps a grudge, it means one cares. It means one wants something from that person. They want something and that is love in denial. They don't want to admit that the other cares for what the other does. Even if it may not make sense, it's almost the same thing," Lacus rolled her shoulders back. "And that's why … I could never hate you. I never did."
"But I hurt you…I made you cry…you suffered…because … of …"
He never finished his sentence as Lacus kissed him and everything was a dream after that.
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Author's Note: Short chapter this time. Nearing a close to the story I might say. I don't know when the ending chapter will be…but please. Continue to review!
