Chapter 7 (Courageous girl)

Freedom9217:I haven't update for quite a long time, sorry about that.I'm continuing last chapter, I hope you enjoy it.

Previously:

Cagalli tries to cheer Athrun up from his engagement with Mia. By concordance, it reminded her of the engagement she had before.

Flashback

"Yunna, your future husband."

"What!"

"What are you talking about?" Cagalli asked furiously, other than her friends, she won't tolerate anyone else talking about her especially since it's about marriage that kind of thing. She looks at her parents hoping that they would kick out this stranger that claims to be her future husband, but her parents doesn't seem to be bothered by it.

"Don't you remember me, Cagalli, we use to play together." Yunna said with a stupid smile.

"NO, I don't remember who you are; now please get out of my house." Cagalli said, she's not giving Yunna any chance because she had a natural feeling of hatred for the purple hair boy.

"Cagalli, don't be rude." Cagalli's mother Mrs. Athha said.

"Yunna is right; you were engaged with him since your birth." Mr. Athha said.

Cagalli's eyes widens in disbelief, completely covered from the outside world. Anger, confusion, doubt, hatred, all started flowing in her mind. "Am I really engaged with this guy Yunna?" "Why didn't my parents tell me?" "Is it true?" Millions of questions flow in her mind. All left unanswered. But she knew that there's no doubt about it, her parents never lie, or at least she thought so. Feeling angry and sad, she confronted her parents for answers. She faced her mother with a serious and confused face, her eyes filled with anger and confusion.

"Is this true mother?" Cagalli confronted her mother angrily.

Cagalli mother looked nervously at Cagalli, unable to find a suitable reply; she helplessly looks at Mr. Athha for help.

"Look, Cagalli, we didn't mean to hind this from you. It's just that we know it will be difficult for you to understand." Mr. Athha said looking quite frustrated.

"But I don't think hiding this will make me happier." Cagalli said to her parents.

Cagalli's mother felt ashamed for hiding something from her daughter. She had always taught Cagalli to be honest, but she never imagined that Yunna would show up again after all these years. She felt the urge to tell Cagalli the whole thing. She looked up to Cagalli and found her eyes shining with courage and demanding to know everything.

Mrs. Athha signed and decided to tell Cagalli everything. "Before you were born, our family lived close to Yunna's family which is the Seirans. Your father was a businesses partner and a close friend to Yunna's father (Unato). When you were born, Yunna was already 3 years old. You and Yunna's father arranged you guys to be married someday, at first, I strongly disagree, because I think you should chose your own happiness, but in the end I gave in. After 2 years, our family moved away and left the Seiran family. A few years past and I completely forgot about this, until today Yunna came and reminded us."

After hearing everything about the engagement, Cagalli felt betrayed and sad, especially since she doesn't like Yunna at all. She's decided to break up the engagement, but she's afraid that her parent will be unhappy. Cagalli stood there motionless, not moving a muscle. She has not expected that her happy day would turn into such a nightmare.

Yunna moved closer to Cagalli and puts his hand on her shoulder, "It's okay Cagalli; we'll be happy together." Yunna said smiling happily knowing that Cagalli will be his wife someday. Cagalli felt disgusted after Yunna said that, if her parents wasn't there; she would punch the lights out of the daydreaming boy. She badly wants to be alone so she went up to her room without saying another word.

It's night time and Cagalli still haven't come out of her room. Mrs. Athha got worried and went up to Cagalli's room, she knocked on the door and called out to her daughter hoping that Cagalli would come out and talk to them. But silence was her only answer. Mrs. Athha is afraid that Cagalli will get mad at her forkeeping somethingimportant from her. Mrs. Athha signed and went downstairs.

For Cagalli, she's now sitting on her bed with her head buried in her arms. She's not the type to cry so easily, but she can't stop the tears from streaming down her face. "What am I doing? I'm not supposed to be crying, I never cry because of this kind of things." Cagalli decided to fight against the engagement, she's never gonna let someone else control her happiness. She got out of bed and walked out of her room. She went downstairs and saw her parents sitting at the diner table. Cagalli wanted to back down the moment she saw her parents, but her personality gave her courage to confront her parents and tell them that the engagement's off. She walked quietly to the diner table and sat down; she looks at her parents with a serious face and started things off.

"Mom, dad, I don't know how to say this, but I don't like Yunna, and I never will, I know it maybe hard for you guys, but I can't just marry someone I don't love." Cagalli said to her parents.

"But Cagalli, Yunna's father is a very important friend to me; I have to keep my word." Mr. Athha said.

"Which is more important? Keeping your word? or my happiness? Cagalli said which left Mr. Athha in a state of shock.

Mr. Athha signed in frustration and told Cagalli that it is her happiness that's more important to him. He looks over to Cagalli's mother for advice. Mrs. Athha don't know which side to take, she knows that a person is suppose to chose his/her own happiness, therefore, she took Cagalli's side and agreed that the engagement should be off. Mr. Athha seems a bit angry but he also wants what's best for Cagalli so he broke up the engagement.

End of Flashback

Athrun is quite surprised at how courageous Cagalli can be, if it was himself, he doesn't know if he has enough courage to talk to his father that way.

"Interesting story, I wish I had your courage." Athrun said giving out a small sign.

"It's actually quite easy, your parent only wants what's best for you, so it's not hard to tell them how you feel. Besides, when you want something bad enough, you gotta be willing to sacrifice everything for it." Cagalli said with a smile.

"You're right, thank you." Athrun said.

At a restaurant

Yzak and Dearka are having lunch at a new restaurant. They ordered 20 minutes ago but the food was still nowhere to be seen on the table, Yzak is getting very impatient as usual. Finally the food came and the one who brought it was Lunamaria.

"Hey Luna, I didn't know you work here." Dearka said.

"Yah, I just got the job today." Luna said.

"What took you so long, don't you know that you shouldn't keep guests waiting. I could complain to your boss and have you fired you know." Yzak said angrily.

"Why'd you come to a restaurant if you're not willing to wait patiently, besides I'm only the waiter, why don't you complain about the chef instead?" Luna said.

"Why you!" Yzak's temper rose.

"What a hothead!" Luna said.

"How dare you call me a hothead?"

"Aren't you, I didn't even say anything and you're already angry, I'd be surprised if you don't explode in the future."

Yzak has never been insulted by a girl before, he gritted his teeth, his fist clenching together. Dearka nervously looks at him, knowing Yzak, he'd probably beat Luna to death, but to his surprise, Yzak actually calmed down. He did a small grunt then folded his arms across his chest and looks out the window, ignoring both Dearka and Luna.

"Luna, maybe you should get going now." Dearka said to Luna who is just as angry as Yzak.

After a while, Luna went back to work, Dearka and Yzak left the restaurant after they had finish eating.

Yzak's house (Joule mansion)

It's 8:00 p.m. Yzak went on the chat line that he always goes to, it's the only place that he could feel relaxed and is also the only place where he can be gentle instead of being a hothead. His eyes dead fixed on the computer searching for a certain girl that he always chat with, to Yzak, the girl is the only one that he can share his feelings with, he has always been the tough guy that never truly express his feelings to any body. Everyone has emotions, but for some reason Yzak chooses to hind it. Perhaps he's used to that, but with this girl, he can express more of his true self. What he doesn't know, is that the girl is actually Lunamaria. Finally, his eyes sighted the girl's chat name (Gunner ZKW) he clicked on it and switch it to private chat.

DuelX102 (Yzak's chat name): Hi, I'm really angry today, I got into an argument with an annoying waiter who just happens to be a so called friend of mine.

Gunner ZKW: What a concordance, I also had an argument with a hotheaded friend. There are so many bad people in this world; I wish everyone is like you.

To Luna, DuelX102 is a great friend to her, although she hasn't seen him, she can express all her feelings to him, Luna feels that he's so understanding, of course that she's has no idea that it's actually Yzak.

2 hours soon past and the clock hit 10 p.m. which is the time that Yzak needs to get off the computer, so he logged off, took a shower and went to sleep.

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