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Chapter 2: Hung to Dry

After thanking the family once again, Kira was now heading to his apartment to develop the pictures. On the way, he tried to look for the certain civilian girl that he came across earlier that afternoon. All Kira was able to remember was her long pink hair and her sweet voice.

Shaking it off, Kira decided to try and contact Athrun again. Taking his cell phone, he dialled his best friend's cell phone, but only to find it turned off once again. Sighing to the fact that he hasn't talked to anyone all day, he just silently walked to his apartment.

As he reached to his apartment door, Kira found himself fiddling with his keys. A certain pink haired girl came across his mind. Frustrated by his stupidity, he hit himself on the head a few times.

'Come on Kira, get a hold on yourself. She was just an innocent civilian, nothing else, she isn't special. But…pink hair, that is special is it not?' Kira thought and couldn't help but grin at the thought of this.

He finally unlocked his apartment door and entered inside.

Kira's apartment wasn't fancy, or was it not dirty at all. It was rather simple, it was carpeted except for the kitchen and washroom, but the family room had a wooden floor. He had a leather couch that can seat three people which was placed in front of a television and in his room was a queen sized bed. Everything else was not out of the ordinary, except maybe the fact that Kira had his own darkroom for developing his pictures. Kira's job gave him decent money and he's fine with that, just sometimes he has trouble with the bills since his career just started.

Kira took in the peacefulness of his apartment and placed his camera on the shelf. He decided to wait later to develop the roll of film since he needs to talk to Athrun before he can start developing them. He needs to know what specific kind of photographs his partner would need.

Suddenly, his stomach growled. Kira looked down at his flat stomach and laughed nervously while scratching the back of his head.

'Oh yea, I haven't ate anything since that hotdog, better start making something to eat.'

Kira opened his fridge and realized that there wasn't much food to make a full meal, but decided to make a simple sandwich. Once finished, he sat on his couch, planning to call Athrun and got his hand to the phone.

As his hand got to the phone, he realized that there was a red light that continued to blink. He realized that someone might have left him a message while he was at the park.

Kira picked up the phone and pressed the button for the messages. He waited awhile until he heard a slight beep and a familiar voice, it was Athrun's.

"Hey Kira, sorry but I won't be able to meet with you at the park today. An important meeting came up at the last minute. About the article, it's just basically about the entire park so feel free to take any kinds of pictures, I won't mind. Well I have to get going, hope you're not mad, bye!" -Beep!

Kira sighed as he was relieved that at least Athrun had a reason why not to show up and also about taking any kinds of pictures he wanted. Although he was a bit irritated that Athrun left this message a bit late and Kira realized that if he heard this message before, he would've spent less time at the park.

Kira just shrugged it off thinking that he would be able to get Athrun back, probably by making him pay for an all you can eat dinner.

'That would be great!' Kira laughed while grabbing his camera and heading to the darkroom.

Kira entered the darkroom and shut the door behind him, so that no light would expose any of the photo paper and film. He turned on the red lights and not surprisingly, his eyes stung for a bit until they were able to adjust.

After his eyes finally adjusted, he took his camera and took the roll of film out; he needed to develop the film first and did so. After the film was fully developed, he started to develop each picture onto photo paper.

After about an hour, Kira only had two more pictures left to develop onto the photo paper. He raised the strip of film at the red light and looked at it carefully; it was the picture of the family and also the one where the pink-haired girl was caught in between.

Knowing that he wouldn't be able to use the picture which the girl was in, he developed the picture of the family first. Once the picture of the family was sitting in the water bath, all Kira had to do was wait a while until the chemicals would wash off and he'll be able to hang them on the horizontal rope above him to dry.

Kira caught himself looking back at the strip of film with the girl in it. Not knowing why, he had an urge to develop it. Without thinking, he exposed the film onto the photo paper and placed it in the developer.

'Wait a minute, what am I doing? I know Athrun wouldn't accept this picture, but why am I developing it anyways? And why did I even use a full sheet of photo paper? Arghh I'm stupid!' Kira thought.

He smacked his forehead for wasting a full sheet of expensive photo paper and as soon as his open hand made contact with his forehead; his face was yet, forgetting that his hand just came out of the water bath.

Kira was a bit stunned, but simply laughed it off and wiped his hand and face with a towel. After waiting a good five minutes, he took all the developed pictures and hung them on the rope. Somehow, the full-sized picture of the girl was catching his attention.

Instead of hanging it to dry, he grabbed his towel and placed the photo on top of it and tried to look at the picture better, but the red lights weren't helping.

He quickly turned the red lights off and walked out of the darkroom with his eyes still focused on the photo.

Caught off guard, his eyes stung in pain for the bright natural light of the sun pierced through his apartment. Kira moaned from the pain until his eyes adjusted and starred at the wet picture in his hands.

Kira looked deeper into the picture and saw the girl that accidentally got in the way of the picture. Kira then remembered the girl's unique pink hair, but it didn't show on the picture since it was black and white. The pictures on newspapers were usually black and white so there was no need for Kira to waste more money for coloured ones.

Kira saw that the girl had great big eyes which showed an expression of shock and there planted on her face was a small grin, probably about half way of turning to a complete shocked expression. Kira chuckled at the girl for her mistake wondering why she didn't see him taking the picture. The water from the fountain in the background sparkled around her face. Kira had to admit that she was definitely beautiful, the most beautiful girl he had ever seen actually.

Kira then focused his attention on her clothes and saw that she was wearing a nice dress while holding a small bag, probably for work. He then looked at the bottom right corner of the picture to find the date and time from which the picture was taken.

'12:30 pm, probably the time when she heads to work, most likely has to pass by the park in order to get there. I don't know why, but I have an urge to meet this girl, maybe I'll stop by the park one day.' Kira thought to himself as he headed back the darkroom and hung the wet picture of the young beauty to dry.

Hope you guys enjoyed that, Kira and Lacus won't meet until the next chapter or the chapter after that.

I'll update as soon as possible, maybe tomorrow or Thrusday.