Chapter 9 - Dearka's Problems
Northern Ookami Youki - I LOVE your pen name! And I now know why your penname kept changing when I responded to your reviews! I'm glad you like my story. It's soon coming to a close...um...including this chapter...um...9, 10, 11, 12...4 chapters! Wait...that's not a good thing...-sad- but, at least now I don't have an excuse for not posting except laziness.
Dearka yawned. He was bored. Yzak had told him that he was going for food since they didn't have any, duh. Now Dearka was sitting on the bench, wearing the same clothes as he had been wearing yesterday morning. As he sat, thoughts passed through his head.
I need a change of clothes...A shower would be nice...Maybe a big mac or a burrito with chili...Nah, a couple large cheeseburgers with a large fry, chili cheese dog, a dil pickle, some cheetos and maybe a gallon of pepsi...Can I make it rain? Nah, snow would be better. Watch everyone freeze...I want a tv...my DVD and VCR broke...they're really really old...Fans, air conditioner? Swimming pool...gales blowing on a rock during a hurricane and blowing volvos and sewage pipes...Jesse James from way back when...Football, baseball, Gymnastics, freestyle dancers...
"All passengers please board the ship now. The 10:00 ship has been canceled. Due to unseen technicalities, the next ship does not come until 12 noon!" a man cried. Dearka's thoughts came back to the present. He looked around. Yzak wasn't back yet.
"Heh heh. Bye." he laughed and jumped up. Dearka paid to get on, and the doors closed. Yzak wouldn't arrive for another 10 minutes, he was stuck in line behind a group of people who were...fat. It annoyed him.
"The 8:20 ship is leaving!" the man yelled as the doors closed and Dearka took a seat.
10 minutes later.
"Dearka! You ditched me! Come back here you...you...ARGH!" He threw the bag that held the food all the way across the street. Now he sat on the bench and glowered. His stomach growled, so he growled and picked the bag of food up for lunch/breakfast.
Kira and Athrun had been shown all around Lacus's home and were now being driven through the PLANT. Kira was fascinated, Athrun was bored, and Lacus was thrilled to be out and about with them.
"That's the grand hall. Oh! Over there you can see the remains of the theater I first sang at! There's the park!" Lacus pointed out. "Marco!"
"Yes ma'am?" the driver asked.
"Stop at the park please. We'd like to go for a walk." she smiled.
"Alright then." he smirked and pulled the car to a stop next to the entrance. "I'll wait here for you three."
They climbed out and began walking in the park. Athrun remembered seeing the memory while standing at the top of the hill. He looked at the ground as they walked. When the three made it to the top, Kira saw that the town looked kinda like the one from his dream, just...closer. He shrugged off this fact and enjoyed the scenery.
"When does Nicol's concert start?" Kira asked suddenly.
"Oh. It's at 1:00 sharp. We have plenty of time." Athrun assured him. Lacus smiled.
" I've never seen you both together before. Except in that picture Athrun has in his house." she smiled.
"Picture?" Kira turned to look at Athrun.
"Same one you have." Athrun said with a certain softness to his voice. He smiled a small smile and looked at the city. No visions of the past, but he could hear the sounds of guns and war. This was common, he heard it in his dreams, in his waking hours. War was part of his life, it always would be. Even after it was all over.
"Athrun!" Athrun looked to see Lacus calling him from down the hill. Kira was next to her. "We're going now! Come on!" he hurried down to meet them.
"Ah! Finally! I love the PLANTS!" Dearka stretched his legs like he had been sitting down for days. "Now. I could care less about this 'kira' guy. I'm going for lunch. Maybe I'll go to Lacus's concert." Meet this guy Kira...wait. I said I didn't care!
He began walking towards the nearest food place. Dearka sat down at a one seater table and ordered his food when the waitress came around. She wore a blue shirt and skirt than showed her figure and Dearka was pretty sure she just got this job to check the guys and see how many of them were pigs. He ordered a hamburger, which they didn't have. So he actually checked the menu and found a chicken sandwich with a side dish and ordered that.
"I'll be back momentarily with your food." she said in a snooty voice when she found Dearka had no interest in her. As she walked off, Dearka looked her over and nearly whistled, but held it back. Then he turned and looked at the table.
He laid back, his arms resting on the back of his chair, and stared at the ceiling. A few minutes passed and the waitress returned.
"Thanks." he said almost bored-like and she walked off. He picked up the sandwich and was about to eat when he began to pick up a conversation from the group of people in front and to the left of him. One of them was hidden by plants, one had blue hair and the other had brown hair.
"Later we can go to the theater and check out where Nicol is playing. Oh! Kira! Do you have a ticket to the concert? Athrun and I have ours...but you just got here..." Lacus asked nervously.
"Nicol had one on him when he asked for the captains approval." Kira said, flashing the ticket he got from Nicol and then pocketing it again.
"Approval?" Lacus asked.
"Yea. Nicol came down to see us just as Athrun was leaving. He said he could get me on the PLANTs, cause I really wanted to go and Athrun wanted me to go. I took him to see the captain and he asked if I could go to his concert. I'm not sure how he knew the captain liked that kind of stuff...I didn't even know." Kira put his right forefinger to his chin and looked at the ceiling in thought.
"Yea...I think he just guessed." Athrun said, laughing in what sounded like a nervous way. "Anyway, so he showed her some piano music and she said yes. Of course, she found out that we were both pilots-"
Dearka dropped his sandwich.
"But I think she was fine with it. Said that as long as none of the secrets of the Archangel that I might have learned got out, we were fine. Kinda surprised me. Then we left. I think Dearka and Yzak missed the ship again at 10." Athrun said, checking his watch. "Whoa. We should go now if we're going to check out the theater before the show." Athrun stood up and threw out his trash, followed soon after by Kira and Lacus, but Kira still had his soda.
Dearka leaned back in his chair. "Athrun Zala, you are in such deep right now." He smirked. "If anyone were to find out, zzzzt" he made a motion as if to say 'you die by throat slitting.' "Well..." Dearka stuck his entire sandwich in his mouth at the same time then began to feel his pockets. He pulled out a slip of paper, smirked at it, then got up and left, after cleaning up of course.
"Wow!" Kira exclaimed as they walked into the theater.
The walls were covered in long, velvet, crimson red curtains and dark pink, silk drapes. Large, flower shaped lights were set to the side walls and looked movable, they were shining with an almost heavenly light. Men wearing dark blue suits, probably security, were standing at the exits. The seats were red, almost black, and as comfortable as riding in a car on a flat street. (I think you can call that comfortable) They were made of a strong yet comfortable material and Kira was happy to just sit and enjoy the view.
"Kira. There are our seats." Athrun pointed to three seats two rows from the front. "These are good too. Sitting to close to the front makes it hard to see sometimes and sitting to far back makes it hard to hear. Nicol should be coming out in about...1 hour and 15 minutes...14." They took their seats, there was one seat empty on the aisle side. This seat was soon taken up by a man with blonde hair who was now sitting next to Kira, who sat next to Lacus, and then came Athrun.
Dearka smiled at his luck. The kid didn't even know he was so close. The theater was already filling up, even though the concert wasn't just about to begin. He made himself watch the others walking in as if he were interested. But soon he couldn't help it, he was listening as Athrun told Lacus about his trip to Cupriferous. It was quite boring...except the parts where Kira hit him for almost revealing something.
About 30 minutes until the show started, Dearka had his mind made up. He turned slowly and faced Kira, whom he was sitting next to. Kira wasn't facing him and was instead watching Lacus's reactions to the trip. Dearka took a deep breath.
"Hello Strike Pilot."
Chapter 9 Done. Please Review, Thank You!
I like the way I described the theater...
