Chapter 3

Cagalli went inside the girls change room to get change into her other uniform. She realised that she's the only one in that room. "There must be only a few girls taking this subject" Cagalli tried to maintain a positive thought so she doesn't get a mental breakdown on her first day in her "first" school.

After she finished, she put the other uniform inside the locker and went out to the hall. The hall is packed with numerous amounts of huge mobile suits and they are assembled in rows. There are only a few people around and the most frightening part is that they all are boys, but doesn't seem to concern Cagalli that much. She used to being around boys all the time since she was little.

After a few minutes, some boys in a group appeared. They all chatting and laughing so hard. Cagalli walked around the hall and analyse through the mobile suits specs since she had nothing better to do. A brown haired boy beside her do pretty much the same as her however he is totally focused on what he's doing. He scanned through the specs report and typed some stuff on the main computer.

"Excuse me. Could you please help me check through this specs. I'm sure there's something wrong in this part. Do you agree?" the boy turned to Cagalli and handed her sheets of paper on a wooden clipboard. Cagalli took it and have a look. There are heaps of writing about the mobile suits and she couldn't understand any of it.

"Sorry. I don't really understand. Did you guys really learn this kind of stuff?" Cagalli asked confusingly and handed the clipboard back.

"Well, sort of. I knew this kind of stuff when I was little so it's easy for me to understand. You must be new then?" he answered politely.

"Yeah and it's my first mobile suits class as well." Cagalli replied and embarrassed at the same time.

"I'm Kira Yamato. Nice to meet you" Kira held out his hand.

"I'm Cagalli Yula. Nice to meet you too" Cagalli replied and shook his hand.

"For this subject, we'll be doing it in partner. I'm sorry but I've already have one but a friend of mine's partner left a few days ago so maybe you can join with him. But if you need any help, you can still ask me." Kira explained and smiled.

A small green robotic robot flew towards him and perched on his shoulder. "Ah. This is Tori, my little friend" Kira said.

A minute later a group of boys appeared. It seems that the blue haired boy is the leader of the gang. "Yo, Kira. Finish your report yet?" he asked Kira.

"Not yet. Do you think it's right if I put this part here?" he asked the blue haired boy the same question as the one he asked Cagalli.

"I think it's okay if you leave it in the original position." Athrun corrected.

"Arigato" Kira took back his clipboard and typed the whole report on the main computer he's been using. While doing so, the blue haired boy named Athrun is looking at Cagalli disgustedly who tried to understand Kira's report.

"Sorry, I'm late." A tall figure blasted into the room and he looked a bit unorganized. Apparently, he's the teacher of this particular subject. As he arrived, all the students assembled into one group.

"By the way, we have a new student. Cagalli Yula Att…" he looked at the note given to him in the morning.

"It's only Cagalli Yula." Cagalli replied quickly, hoping that no one listen the last part. She was enrolled with her full name but she preferred not to have "Attha" since she doesn't want too much publicity.

"What a weird name, for a guy" Athrun gave a smirk as his friend, a white haired boy laughed at her name.

"Plus she sounds like a girl. Are you sure you're in this class?" The other blond, dark skinned boy laughed.

Cagalli is quite insulted and offended by this. She could feel a volcano erupted inside her body but she tried to control her temper. It's her first day and she doesn't want to blow it away even though she already has a feeling of hate towards them.

"Uh…she's a girl" Kira explained to them who have all these shock on their faces.

"Alright class. Let's get started. I want you to go pilot the mobile suits, today and have a mock up fight. Athrun, you can show Cagalli what she had to do and she'll be your partner." he instructed the class.

"Him?" Cagalli thought. Even by looking at his face, it makes her want to puke. How can she work with someone who just laughed about her name and her appearance?