Fading Memories

I've dedicated this story to kari480; she's helped me a lot with the writing process so I just thought that because this was her idea, that I should dedicate it to her! SO here it is!

Chapter One

"Meralia, wakie, wakie!" said a soft voice; Meralia brought the pillow up from her head and threw it aimlessly.

"Oi! No needing to throw things at me!" said the once soft voice turning as cold as stone.

"Cagalli?" Meralia mumbled Cagalli rolled her eyes.

"Well if it sounds like me, odds are it is me, right?" she said sarcastically, Meralia rubbed her eyes until they stopped stinging and got out of her sleeping bag and rolled onto the floor and looked out the window it was pitch black outside.

"Cagalli it's as dark and the space under your bed, why did you wake me up?" she asked.

"Someone is at the door for you," she replied, trying to hold back her laugh. Meralia was confused. Who would be at the door at this time of night? She sat up and quickly pushed her cold feet into her slippers and stood up and followed Cagalli out of her room, making sure that they didn't wake up Lacus. Cagalli was bugged, (by Meralia and Lacus of course,) to have a sleepover get-together, Cagalli was flipping out when they came over with bags and sleeping bags. Anyways.

Cagalli led Meralia down the stairs into the living room, with the t.v blaring and Athrun and Kira sleeping soundlessly on the couch. Cagalli took Meralia's hand and stepped over Yzak who was snoring loudly. And slowly and quietly, turned the lock and chain and slipped her fingers around he knob and pulled gently, and with a sudden push of Cagalli, Meralia was out on the doorstep and she peeking out the eye-hole. She sighed and banged on the door a few times.

"C'mon let me in! I'm too tired to be out here you… you…"

"It's not like you to curse someone Meralia," said a quiet voice behind her, Meralia whipped her head around to see the darkening figure of Dearka, his lilac eyes gleaming in the faded moon, he was holding a flashlight and with only a thin shirt and sweat pants to shield him from the cold.

"Dearka! Why are you here?" she exclaimed, but in a quiet sort of way.

"I had the weirdest dream, and I just thought that you'd help me with it? Please?" he begged, Meralia sighed, she had taken a dream course in school, and everyone thought she was an expert. Even though she had only one class.

"Fine, what happened in your dream?" she asked and prepared herself.

"Well, I was in a big field, and their was a dog chasing me, and then it disappeared, and I felt so sad, like I lost something that I had loved, then everything went blank, suddenly, I was in a church and there was a girl in a black wedding dress and when she looked ta me, she was crying, and then, I woke up." He explained, and then, he raised his shoulders.

"Well, I actually… don't know what it means Dearka, I honestly haven't a clue." She said and sighed once again, CRASH!

"What was that!" cried Meralia, who walked closer to Dearka, her elbow was touching his skin, it seen Goosebumps all over his body. Just a simple touch,

I get so happy when she touches me, why? He thought to himself.

"YOUR DOOR HIT ME HEAD YOU STUPID BLOND BITCH!" yelled an unmistakable cry that was Yzak's.

"What the hell is your problem Yzak?" yelled Dearka who swung open the door. And Yzak started off again.

"Your little friend Cagalli threw the door open so damn fast that I didn't have enough time to sit up!" barked Yzak as he death glared Meralia.

"You know, I fear for your social life Yzak, I'm scared of what you'll become." Meralia said.

"Hopefully not an anger management councilor!" cried Dearka, who laughed so hard his ribs started to sting.

"I don't see the humor in that," said Meralia who walked over the form of Dearka rolling on the floor.

"Good night," she said, that is when she noticed the clock on the wall which read 2:24.

"I mean good morning." she corrected and walked silently up the stairs.

"Cagalli, get off my bed you wimp," she murmured as she tried to shove her off of her sleeping bag.

"You roll of hay! Get the hell up!" she whispered.

"Hay is for horses, and I'm a gangster," said Cagalli, Meralia started down at the pink dressing gown she was wearing.

"You are so not a gangster Cagalli," and she sat on Cagalli's large bed and fell backwards.

"I hate you Cagalli." She said and Cagalli rolled over.

"Feelings mutual." She said and started to snore. Meralia rolled over onto the bed, hands under her head as she started up at the ceiling.

"I wonder what that dream was about?" she wondered aloud, and the closer sleep drew her, the farther away she was from finding out wha the dream was about. She fell asleep minutes after.

Meralia woke with a great start and a bang; she quickly threw on a shirt and a skirt and laced up her shoes and charged downstairs, probably Yzak and Cagalli, or Kira and Cagalli were fighting.

Why did all the fights in this house revolve around Cagalli? Down the stairs and with one swift movement she grasped the banister and swung herself around and down the hallway, past the dinning room and into the large kitchen.

There was Yzak, Kira and Cagalli fighting over a pancake.

"IT'S MINE!" croaked Yzak who made a grab for the French breakfast pasty.

"I only had one! You each had three!" yelled Kira who was thinking of biting Yzak in order to get the pancake.

"I'M A GIRL!" cried Cagalli, both of the boys stopped.

"Really?" asked Yzak.

"I didn't notice," said Kira and shrugged, Cagalli's face turned an alarming shade of red and started to chase the boys, leaving the pancake forgotten.

"Thanks!" cried Meralia who jumped over the chair and grabbed the pancake.

"Cagalli, I'll come over and get my stuff later kay?" she said and walked out the back door.

The Yamato backyard was a well trimmed beauty of a garden, with large cherry blossom trees around the fences, and one great oak tree in the middle with a large tire swing connected to a lower branch. AS kids, Cagalli, Lacus, Meralia, Kira, Dearka, Athrun and Yzak would play here, the girls played with the dolls, and the boys played soccer and football in the summer, and in winter, Mr. Yamato would freeze the middle of the backyard with water and they would play hockey, the boys and girls, surprisingly, the girls always won even though they were out numbered. Mr. and Mrs. Haww, (Meralia's parents.) Never really liked the group that Meralia played with, and they always would say that they would move sometime in the summer, but for 17 years straight, they never did.

Meralia's father was the owner of a great oil company in Africa, owns ship yards in Canada, diamond mines in South Africa and silk trades in China. Mr. Haww was a very important man, with very important employees, and rich ones, with handsome sons who Mr., Haww tried to make Meralia fall in love with, so far, she never even phoned them back after dinner, when she first met each one of them.

Meralia, unlike Lacus and Cagalli had found boyfriends with other members of the group, Kira and Lacus were a perfect couple, Kira was shy and considerate, who was always kind to others.

Lacus was kind and thoughtful, who always treated others as she would treat any other.

Cagalli was the certain tomboy of all the girls, and Athrun was surly the kindest, he was knowledgeable as well as thoughtful, and Cagalli was…was well, a keeper. She was kinda harsh and bossy, but those are only the bad things about her. She was kind and a new part of her was coming out that she had never exposed before.

And everyone thought that Meralia and Dearka would be a couple, wrong.

Meralia liked Dearka, he was cute and funny, but he never really attracted her, he was just a friend.

Dearka on the other hand, felt the same way, but he also felt that he should protect her at all costs.

Meralia ran full speed to the far fence grabbed the top and flew over into her own yard, and quickly climbed up into her bed room and put another night gown on and pretended to fall asleep in her bed until Mrs. Haww came and woke her up.

"Milly, wake up please. Almost time for dance practice." She said, Meralia groaned.

"Five more minutes." She asked and rolled over as if she was really that tired.

"Ohh, Milly." Mrs. Haww picked up her 16 year old daughter and flunked her into her closet.

"Milly, dear, are you eating enough?" asked she worriedly. Meralia rolled her eyes, she was eating like a pig, but her mother always kept her busy by dancing or modeling somewhere for some magazine or another.

"Yes, mother, I am." She replied and waded into her walk in closet.

Her closet was bigger then Cagalli's and Lacus's together, filled with shoes, shirts dresses, and just about everything else you could think of. She even had a jewel encrusted bra that her mother gave her for her 12 birthday.

Think of her closet like the one from The Princess Diaries Two, and ya, with the tiara's too.

She had so much jewelry that could probably fill up a whole room, most of it in storage.

"Where are we going today mother?" she asked as she picked out her cloths for the day, a tight tee with shorts.

"Nah, ah. A Haww will not go out in public in something like that." She said, and pulled out a blue moon dress. With spaghetti straps and silver dancing shoes.

"Where the hell am I going today? A damn ball?" she asked irritably,

"Heavens no!" Meralia sighed in relief.

"You're going to stay the night at the Royal Hotel with your friends!" she cried, Meralia smiled with glee.

"Really?" she asked, her mother smiled.

"Call them up." She replied, and Meralia jumped over to her phone and speed-dialed all her friends.

"Kira, Athrun, Yzak and Dearka too?" she asked Mrs. Haww scowled at Dearka's name.

"I suppose." She replied, and Meralia waited for Cagalli to pick up the damn phone

"Pick up Cagalli!" she cried at the phone. When she finally picked up that phone, the conversation went a little like this;

"Cagalli?"

"Ya?"

"We, I mean all of us are spending the night at the Royal Hotel, are you and the gang willing to come?"

"HELL YA!" she cried and Cagalli dropped the phone, screaming and yelling:

PACK YOUR BAGS EVERYONE; WE'RE GOING TO THE ROYAL HOTEL IN TORONTO!"