Blossoms of Ones Dead Soul
A/N: hehe next chapter! Lacus explains some things in this chapter and in here they start off their new school year!
Summary: The boys and the girls go to boarding school on a ship that travels around the world! When they discover the biggest change in their life, the adventure goes all out! To find someone, and to lose someone, to hate someone, to love someone, all in this fanfic, Blossoms of Ones Dead Soul!
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed or Gundam Seed Destiny...sniff
Chapter 4: New and Old faces
Lacus closed the door behind her with her fingers touching her lips. Shocked about what had just happened, she walked into the kitchen to get some water. Lacus grabbed a cup and went to the sink when she spotted an empty instant cup noodle beside it and remembered. Cagalli! She checked the time on the clock above the tv and let out a sigh of a relief. It was only nine thirty. Cagalli is definitely not asleep yet. Lacus headed for the stairs when she heard Miriallia, Shiho, and Cagalli coming down talking about a game of monopoly.
"Lacus! Want to play monopoly?" asked Mirr excitedly. She held up the box and pointed to it. "We won't have a lot of time to play after tomorrow!"
Lacus looked at Cagalli, which looked back at her, the golden eyes showing how confused Cagalli was.
"Cagalli told me you were talking to some guy outside too! Tell us about it! You haven't talked to a guy in years!" continued Mirr. Shiho stared at Lacus.
"Cagalli told us it was a boy name Athrun," she said sitting down on the floor. Lacus bit her lip and looked at Cagalli again.
"Okay Mirr, I'll play. But right after I explain something to everyone," Lacus said. She sat down on the floor beside Shiho, and the two girls followed suit.
"Athrun Zala is a very close childhood friend of mine. Also, he's my arranged fiancé," started Lacus. She held her breath and looked at Cagalli. For once, Lacus didn't know what she was thinking about. Mirr definitely looked excited. Her hand was on her mouth after she gasped. Lacus looked at Shiho. She didn't look at all surprised.
"Shiho! How the hell can you looked that calm after Lacus has just told us she has a fiancé!" said Mirr, nudging Shiho.
"I knew about it," said Shiho shortly. "I was friends with Lacus since elementary school. Didn't you know that? You can say I was also, in a way, friends with Athrun."
"Yes, Shiho knew. I met Athrun when I was 5 and we became close friends after that. When we were 14 though, he moved to the Plants. We always kept in touch until—," Lacus took a deep breath, "—until my mom died. You guys all remember right? I had that big emotional breakdown and cried every night. Then I got into that big fight with my dad. That was when I went to live with you," Lacus nodded towards Cagalli, "for two weeks. At that time, I stopped talking to Athrun because my mom absolutely loved Athrun and he reminded me of her too much. I couldn't bear the pain."
"Why didn't you tell me about him before?" Cagalli asked. She looked at her best friend and felt pity towards her. She never realized how much Lacus has gone through, but was always able to act cheerful and smile, even though Cagalli has caused trouble for her.
"I don't know. I just never found the moment to," Lacus shrugged. "I'm sorry for not telling you guys."
"No problemo," winked Mirr. Lacus looked at Cagalli but she never replied.
"When I saw Cagalli come back with him. I panicked. But we talked and we're cool. I'm going to eat breakfast with him tomorrow and catch up so I won't be able to go with you guys," Lacus said.
"He asked me to go to dinner with him," whispered Cagalli. "How could he do that when he has a fiancé? I'm going to kill him!" Cagalli expected Lacus to be shocked but was surprised when she started laughing. "Aren't you mad?"
Still giggling, Lacus said, "He told me how you hurt your ankle and how he saved you and everything. Athrun has always been the nice one and he told me he felt sorry for pushing you to eat dinner with those other people and being cheeky when you first met. He probably wanted to pay you back."
Cagalli blinked. She finally understood. One part of it, at least. Out of two years, Lacus had never told her she had a fiancé. Didn't she trust her?
"Monopoly!" Mirr yelled. She pulled out the box from behind her and quickly set things up. "Shiho, you're the bank."
"I'm always the bank. I want to be nothing for once," declared Shiho.
"Aww, but you're the best at math here!" complained Mirr.
"No is a no," said Shiho in a final way. Mirr pretend to sulk and they both laughed.
Cagalli just smiled but remained buried in her own questions. Lacus glanced at her worriedly and pretend to laugh with the other two to not make things too obvious.
"Oh god, that was fun!" Mirr put the last house into the box and headed upstairs.
"That's because you stole my money," said Shiho, trying to not sound like she was accusing Mirr.
"Stop whining," said Mirr.
Lacus looked at Cagalli as she stood up and headed upstairs unusually quietly.
"Cagalli," Lacus said softly. She touched Cagalli's arm and Cagalli turned around.
"Look, I really don't want to—," started Cagalli. Lacus had tears in her eyes that pierced right through Cagalli's anger.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I should've because we're best friends and I don't want this to change our friendship. I just didn't want to talk about Athrun because I was afraid of talking about a distant relationship. I know how you get about those things, especially right after what happened between you're parents," Lacus said quickly.
"Lacus," Cagalli called while hugging her, "It's okay, I understand."
Cagalli smiled at Lacus and Lacus smiled back, wiping her tears. "This is silly."
"I never thought you were the crying kind, Lacus. You broke your happy shell," joked Cagalli.
"It's just with Athrun coming back and all, it really reminded me of my mom. Well, goodnight then," Lacus opened the door to her room, "And Cagalli, from now on we'll tell each other everything."
Even if it's about that small twinge of jealousy I've felt before?
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Light shone through Cagalli's room as the alarm clock clicked 7:50. The waves were hitting the ship gently bringing a soft breeze through the window. The calm quietness was rudely interrupted by the growl of Cagalli's stomach. She shot up from her pillow, half asleep.
"Food...," she mumbled. Cagalli let out a big yawn joined with a stretch and climbed out of bed. She slowly walked downstairs to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. A perfectly clean milk carton stood on the shelf, just asking to be drunk. Cagalli took a big gulp and almost spilt it over herself when she heard a knock on the door. She opened the door and—
"Good morning, Cagalli," said Athrun with a huge grin on his face. He looked at Cagalli with one eyebrow raised. Pajamas, lion slippers, bed head, milk carton... "I see you've just woke up."
At the sound of Athrun's voice, Cagalli stood up and scratched her head with a forced smile. "Heh heh, yeah that's right. I think Lacus is awake already. You can come in and wait for her." Cagalli opened the door wider to let Athrun in. Cagalli blinked at the three other boys that trailed behind him. One had light brown hair and lavender eyes, one with blonde hair and dark skin, and the last one with silver hair and a big frown on his face.
"Um?" Cagalli said purposely loud just so Athrun can notice.
"Oh sorry, these are my friends, Kira, Dearka, and Yzak. They seemed lonely for breakfast so maybe I thought they could join you girls," he explained.
Wow, talk about short notice.
"Oh, uh okay," said Cagalli, resisting the sound of not wanting to in her voice. "I'm pretty sure Shiho's up but Mirr is probably still snoozing away."
"That's okay, we'll wait," said Athrun. Yzak gave scoffed, mumbling "Girls..." under his breath. Cagalli turned to Yzak and raised an eyebrow.
"If you're hungry, go eat breakfast yourself. We aren't forcing you to stay you know," she said rudely. She gestured toward the door, pretending to lead the way. Yzak glared at her and for a second Cagalli actually thought he was going to go.
"Don't mind him, he's just being stupid," said Dearka, laughing with Kira. "I'll give you props for telling him off though. Most people get intimidated by his evil glare."
"Thanks. I'm gonna go upstairs and get the others. You guys can watch tv or something," Cagalli said, "Oh, and here comes Lacus now."
Lacus walked down the stairs wearing a stunning blue knee-length dress with white flaps at the top, ending at her shoulder. Cagalli gave her a small thumbs up and ran past her to get Miriallia and Shiho. Behind her she heard Lacus say, "Oh my gosh! Dearka! Yzak! I haven't seen you since forever!"
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"So Miriallia eh?" said Dearka, looking up and down at Mirr grinning evilly.
"Right...," Mirr said rolling her eyes at Cagalli and sitting down at one of the chairs at the table.
"I guessed that Mirr was a nickname. Funny, that's Lacus's sister's name," explained Dearka. Miriallia chocked on the water and hit her chest to get some air.
"Lacus has a sister?" Mirr asked with a very surprised look on her face. "Did you know?" She asked Shiho and Cagalli and both slowly nodded.
"Actually, it's a twin sister. I went to school with her along with these guys in the beginning of elementary school. But then after, Lacus's dad sent her to Paris to live with their grandparents. Lacus doesn't really remember her because her dad never let her talk to Mia." Shiho said. She waved to a waiter to take their order.
"You're still the same old Shii. Remembers everything. And I mean everything," said Yzak.
"Yeah I noticed too," echoed Dearka. Cagalli thought to herself and tried not to laugh. Shii?
"Well Cagalli, tell us about how you met Athrun yesterday. He didn't tell us anything," Kira mentioned, turning his attention to Cagalli. The rest of the did the same, all eager to here the tale.
"Um, theres really no need for that," Cagalli forced a smile and tried to change everyone's attention to something else as she nervously drank her water.
"Aw, Cagalli don't be like that. Tell us!" Mirr whined. Cagalli sighed painfully as she didn't want to talk about it at all.
"Fine, it first started after I walked away from a guy who...,"
After Cagalli began telling them, she couldn't seem to stop. The word just kept flowing out of her mouth on their own. She started thinking about the situation to herself. She never noticed how nice Athrun really was. He never left Cagalli like he said he would when she stubbornly tried to walk on a twisted ankle. He never complained when Cagalli was being mean. He stayed by her until she got back to her room and never thought about himself and how hungry he was. He could've gone to dinner with Luna and them instead of walking back with her.
When Cagalli got to the part where Shinn had came into the room, the food arrived and the waitress almost spilled the coffee because of Mirr. She had let out a big yell, saying how much of a chance could that have happened. After getting all the food to where it should be, Cagalli continued her story.
"So that was it," finished Cagalli, wiping her mouth with a napkin. She couldn't help but notice Kira's face when she told them Athrun had asked her out to a dinner.
"Good morning everyone! This is your principal, Mr. Dullindal," The announcements were heard everywhere and everyone stopped what they were doing to listen. "We would just like to remind you that in half an hour, there will be a 'Beginning of School Year' assembly in gym #2 on the 3rd floor."
"How about we go there together and meet up with Lacus and Athrun there as well?" suggested Kira.
"Sure!" said Mirr pushing her chair out and standing.
"Yzak will take care of the bill," said Dearka walking towards the exit without noticing the mad look on Yzaks face.
"DEARKA!" he yelled after him. The group headed for 3rd floor and in the end Shiho payed the bill, leaving Yzak incredibly embarrassed.
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"Meyrin! Do you have my hair brush?" Luna yelled from the washroom. Meyrin looked up from the laptop screen. " Wait a second, I have it here!" Meyrin walked down the stairs when she heard a knock on the door. She ran to the door, and opened it. A girl with short blonde hair and magenta coloured eyes looked around the dorm.
"Hi," said Meyrin. The girl didn't reply and walked in dragging a small luggage bag and a backpack. "Um," said Meyrin again. The girl looked at her and dropped her bag. "You are...?"
"Stellar," she said. They stood there for a moment until Luna and Mayu walked downstairs.
"Meyrin? Where were you and my brush? I had to borrow—," she stopped in front of Stellar. "Who is she?"
"Oh, she's our room mate. These rooms are for four people, you know. Am I right?" Mayu smiled at Stellar, who was daydreaming and did not hear a word Mayu said.
"Right," said Luna. "I'm Lunamaria, nice to meet you." Stellar ignored her and walked towards the window.
"Ocean...," she mumbled to herself.
"Her name's Stellar, I think," Meyrin said. the silent bunch jumped to the sound of knocking at the door.
"Coming," said Mayu loudly. She opened the door and Shinn and Rey walked in. "To the assembly right?" Shinn asked.
"Um, Stellar, I don't know if you heard, but there's an assembly down in gym #2 on the 3rd floor. It starts in ten minutes. You should go if you don't want to stand at the back," Meyrin told Stellar. "Do you want to come with us?"
"Stellar!" yelled a boy outside the door. He had aqua blue hair and his hands were placed in his pockets. Stellar's face lit up and ran towards the door.
"Auel! Sting!"
"You...?" Shinn started. Auel looked at Shinn with the same surprised face.
"What are you doing here, Shinn?" the boy with lime green hair behind Auel asked them.
"I was just about to ask the same thing," said Shinn.
"Well, we came to pick up Stellar. Bye," Sting ended the conversation abruptly. Rey looked at Luna. "Your new roommate?" Luna nodded. "Yours?" she asked. Rey nodded and looked at Shinn.
"They were so rude this morning," Shinn added. "Ready? We're going to be late."
"Yeah," Mayu said. The group walked out the door and headed to the gym for the assembly.
A/N: Sigh. I feel like I'm repeating words over and over again. My vocabulary isn't very good, sorry about that. Looking in the thesaurus is annoying too. And the words just never seem to fit. Well anyways, review please, and I'll get the next chapter to you all soon D.