Author's Notes: Dear readers, sorry if the previous chapter was boring. It's one of the boring chapters. And, sorry if it's short... I'll try my best to write longer chapters! All right! Thank you for the five reviews! I can continue with the story after all! So, sit back and relax as you enter Chapter Seven!
Chapter Seven
Cagalli blinked a few times, trying to register what she had just saw on the television.
Her lips slowly curled into a playful smile. Then...
"Ha ha... Ha ha...Ha ha ha...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Cagalli's light chuckle suddenly developed into a thundering laughter. Loud enough to scare the wits out of a five year old child.
"He looks so adorable with his face a beet red! How embarrassing!" Cagalli leaned back in her couch, hugging her stomach. She laughed so much that her stomach hurt terribly. It's that moron rich customer I had this morning! Ha! Serves him right for what he did to me! Haha! Cagalli thought.
She breathed heavily, exhausted from all the laughing. "Looks like I've got the final laugh, birthday-boy!" Cagalli said proudly, like a young child boasting about her candy at her friends.
Despite that, she felt an awkward sensation.when she looked at the person's eyes.
A light floating sensation
Emerald...
Wow...
Knock it off Cagalli! her conscience shouted, realising that she was drawn to image of the person's eyes.
1.05 p.m.
After gobbling down her noodles, Cagalli decided to start looking for a new job. Stop slacking and start mending, she made a mental note to herself.
She retrieved the day's delivered newspapers from her mailbox and sat down on her couch.
"Tokyo News... "
"Classified..."
"Recruit!"
Cagalli chucked the other newspapers aside, the Recruit newspaper held in her hands.
She flipped through it's black and white pages, carefully scanning through the job offers, hoping to find one which would suit her best.
She was desperate to have a job, to earn money, to live up to her dreams.
The shine in her eyes however did not last long after flipping through five out of six pages of the newspaper.
Obviously, none of the job offers were favourable to Cagalli's liking. Most of them required an employee with masters degree, diploma or PHD. How demanding!
Cagalli was now looking at the sixth page, hopes lost, eager to tear the newspaper into shreds until something caught her eye.
JOB OFFER AT Z.A. PETROLS as a car washer Second Aprillius Street
Requirements: Must be of at least eighteen years of age, dutiful, educated.
Pls: Fax a copy of your identification card to us. No interview. First call first serve basis.
Telephone/Fax: 6492726
Cagalli mind screamed in alarm when she read the last sentence.
She did not care whether it was a low-pay job or if it is under Z.A. Co., she just wanted to work again. After all, they required anyone whom is educated. No specific requests like degrees and so on!
With a speed of lightning, Cagalli hurried to fax a copy of her I.D and telephoned the employer.
"You got the job Miss, cognratulations..." replied the receiver.
She put down the receiver, and exploded in to cheers.
"I GOT THE JOB! YESS!" Cagalli cried for joy, jumping jubilantly around the living room as if she was the most lucky girl in Earth. All her troubles were instantly washed away as she jumped, like stomping on her problems.
She was happy to know that she would start work the very next day at eight thirty in the morning. Her work would last until five towards evening.
Her boss had informed her that she would have to wash and polish cars, help the other workers to pump petrol for their customer's cars if they needed a hand.
NEXT DAY!
8 a.m.
"All set for work!" Cagalli had woke up at 7.30 a.m, very excited to start work.
Strange. It is such a low class job and yet she is so glad about it.
She brisk-walked along the pavement to her work place, feeling slightly nervous to be working in a new environment,with new faces and a new boss. She wondered how her boss would be this time.
Cagalli soon reached her destination, now standing in amazement before Z.A. petrol station
The pertrol station certainly is enormous, stretching as far as ten terrace houses. There were eight big neat red columns, adorned with various smallmulticolouredmachineries and gadgets polished to sparkles, where drivers would stop to get their car's engine fuelled.
Curiousity aroused within Cagalli. She was new to these machines as she had never been to a petrol station before. Her thoughts wondered to how she would be handling with these machines. It would be so muchfun!
A glass panel-walled mart, 'Z and A Snacks OGalore', stood behind theeight columns. Snacks and beverages of different varieties wereput in metal shelves and refrigerators. It had checkered carpet flooring of lush warm red and black.
Cagalli adverted her gaze to the 'Car Wash' section. The section was separated into two; manual, automatic.
"Interesting!" she exclaimed.
The automatic car wash section had two gigantic glass walls built parallel to each other. In it were bigger machineries and gadgets; huge sponges, water pipes, polishers and a big fan to blow the car dry.
At the 'Manual Car Wash', there is a small platform where the car would drive on to to be washed. Beside the platform were bottles of car shampoo, polish, cloths ands ponges neatly placed in a small wooden counter.
Cagalli also noticed workers, dressed in collared-red shirt and black trousers, cleaning up the station..
She nervously walked towards small mart. Workers turned and looked at her with questioning faces, wondering why a girl was walking into a petrol station at such an early hour. This made Cagalli quicken her pace and lips set in a straight line.
As she entered the glass panelled door of the mart and was immediately greeted by man, who looked like he was in his late twenties.
"Welcome to your job on the first day my dear Cagalli!" he greeted gayly.
Cagalli grimaced at him.
She noticed; that he had a sissy voice, curly long purple hair tied in a low ponytail, a long oily face which had unmanly features along with countless ugly blemishes and his unbuttoned shirt which revealed half of his unmuscular chest!
Such a poorlydressed man! And his breath! Stinks of garlic!
Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! Is this person my boss? PLEASE! NO! She screamed mentally, trying to control herself from saying those words out loud.
However half of her badly wanted to laugh out loud at his unmuscular chest. How daring of him to show it off like that! Haha!
"I'll be your new boss from today onwards! Just call me Yuna! All right dear? Now here's your uniform, be sure to wear it on later! Come, I'll show you around the station!" said Yuna. His was blinking at her all the time, making Cagalli's eyes widened at each time he blinked.
"O-oh! Yes boss!" Cagalli unwillingly received her uniform, disgusted that he had touched it even before she wore it, and followed her new boss out of the mart.
Later in the mid afternoon at four thirty, close to job dismissal.
Cagalli leisurely strolled along the 'Car Wash' area, waiting for customers to come in.
During the earlier half of her work, with the kind teachings of her colleagues, she had learnt how to use the different machines; the different petrols, how to fuel a car with pertrol and the steps to wash a car.
Before she even knew it, her colleagues were very friendly, and they all shared the same dislike for their boss for he treated them harshly.
Cagalli couldn't agree with their statement of the boss for he treated her anything except bad.
Nevertheless, at this peak hour, there were many cars coming in to get the engines fuelled.
Cagalli hoped that she would get the chance to fuel a real customer car's engine since there were so many cars coming in, and the workers might need her help.
She twiddled her thumbs idly, feeling bored.
She could only listen to the mixed sounds of heavy traffic, songs played on the Public Address. The mid afternoon heat was killing her.
Soon, Cagalli began to look foward to be dismissed so that she could buy groceries to stock up her refrigerator. She could even passby Z.A. Motors to see how was things going on without her. She missed the air-conditioned office, her desk, her job, her...
"Cagalli! I need some help here!" called one of the workers who was busy attending to a customer's car. He pointed to the eighth red column as a gesture for Cagalli to attend to the customer there.
Cagalli's boredom immediately vanished, now replaced with a new excitement.
Of all the other car washers he chose me! Oh thank you!
She had already walked to the sixth column and could see a black convertible and a maroon Toyota ahead at the eighth column.
Cagalli tauted. She couldn't possibly attend to a black convertible without any experience!
No it can't be! I should be attending to the maroon one, thought Cagalli.
"Ah! Lucky you are here Cagalli! Can you take onthat black hotty there? Thanks a million!" Cagalli's colleague grinned at her.
"HUH?" Cagalli was confused, unsure whether her ears are playing a trick her.
Unfortunately for Cagalli, her colleague was too busy to say anything and simply pointed her index finger at the black convertible. Beckoning her to hurry.
"Oh.My.Gosh..." the words slowly came out one by one, silently and seriously.
Cagalli had no alternatives. Feeling slightly scared and nervous, she walked towards the black convertible.
Then did she realise; it is a newly bought car, no flaws on it's metallic black skin, just shining like a star under the mid afternoon sun.
The owner of it certainly must be rich.
As soon as Cagalli reached the black convertible she saw a familiar figure leaning against it, drumming his fingers on the car door.
He had blue hair, black sunglasses on, wearing a white formal top matched with black trousers and black leather shoes.
Cagalli's instincts told her that he was no doubt the same rich customer she had from this morning.
She tensed.
Now beside him, about to ask for his order until...
He turned around and removed his sunglasses with a familiar deft swipe.
She looked into his eyes, and gasped.
Like a paleontologist coming face to face with a living dinosaur.
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Auyhot's Notes: I know I know! Sorry! This chapter doesn't have any Athrun and Cagalli moments! Sorry again!
BUT! BUT! stay tuned to the next chapter! Because I'm sure you don't wanna miss out the A and C part after such a long while after they met. HEHE. Oh well, hope this chapter is considered quite long? I had to write it in a rush cause i wanna mug! haha. Well, i'll be in mugging mode until October first week. I might update one chapter, which is the A and C part, if i can! Please review now!