FINALLY! Another chapter done. I am so happy. This chapter had always been one of my favorites so I was glad to type it and get it over with. Now good things happen in this chapter so please enjoy reading it.
I do not own anything from this fic, shocking. Well the title, story line, and great comedy acts are not mine. They belong to LilFoxgirl. I have no way of know her in anyway just re-typing her fic to fit the story. The characters belong to Gundam peoples, trust me if I ran them it would be way different. And past chapter 14 is going to be me. Also the comedy is broken out in later chapters and also characters may go OC. Don't be afraid. So on with the story!
Chapter 7: Mixed Emotions
Cagalli walked up the stairs slowly taking a step every few seconds. Milly who was many steps in front of the girl looked back at her friend, wondering why see seemed to be spaced out. The hug couldn't have done this to her right? Milly knew they hated each other and that Cagalli would rather run around school naked than willingly hug him. But then, it WAS just a hug and what it's doing to her is just plain CREEPY!
"Hey Cagalli…are you…okay?" Milly asked and went back down a step to walk next to Cagalli.
"No I am not okay," Cagalli said as she started sweating for some reason. She wiped at the sweat on her forehead and blew air out. "This is killing me!"
"It's killing you because you hugged Athrun on accident and he said he actually liked it?" Milly asked, guessing that she was right about why her best friend looked nervous and sweating. She looked like she was in pain too…
"WHAT! YOU THINK--" Cagalli screamed, her eyes wide as saucers. "You think THAT was killing me? Oh no! No no no no no no no! THIS is killing me!" Cagalli shouted and pointed behind her at her HUGE bag of plushes that she was dragging up the stairs.
"Oh…umm…whoops…?" Milly whispered sheepishly and rubbed at the back of her head. "Hey Cag…can I ask you something?"
Cagalli, who had slits for eyes since she was annoyed that Milly thought Athrun, of all people, was making her nervous and sweating, hissed out viciously, "what!"
"Do you umm…like.. Athrun?" Milly squeaked out quickly, fearing her head will be sliced off pretty soon.
"Do I--Do I---li--like--A-ATHRUN!" Cagalli yelled in such a loud voice that parts of the ceiling grumbled and fell on Milly's head. "HELL NAW!"
Milly squeaked as she felt Cagalli's aura blow sky high.
"I WILL NEVER LIKE THAT GAY ASS!" Cagalli screamed and ran up the stairs pulling her bag of plushes along behind her like it weighed as light as a feather.
"Whoops…" Milly said as she watched Cagalli disappear from view. "I guess the wrong thing to say…"
Cagalli trudged up the stair case while pondering Milly's words over and over. Did she like Athrun? She didn't think so. I mean, it was just a hug and it's not like she could stop hating him just because he told her he liked it. She still hated his guts and she still hated the way he would smile and she still hated the way he would talk and flirt…in short she still hated everything about him. The only problem was whenever anyone mentioned Athrun, the first thought that popped into her head was not about how she wanted to kill Athrun but rather when he said he enjoyed that little hug. That was annoying her but its not suppose to be a big deal…
"Okay…now where did I go and where is Milly…" Cagalli grumbled to herself as she noticed that though all her anger, it had taken her to some unknown part of the castle. She spotted a soda stand and shrugged. Might as well stay in once place then walk around mindlessly.
She walked up to the stand and ordered a sprite. Leaning against the stand, she looked around for any signs of Milly or anyone else she knew. There was hardly anybody here and the few people who were here, she didn't know.
"Here's your sprite," the young guy behind the counter said and handed Cagalli over the soda.
Saying thanks, Cagalli took a seat on one of the benches nearby and continued to look around for someone. The history classes were big! How come she couldn't even see ONE person she knew.
Sipping on her sprite quietly, she stared at the bag of plushes in front of her and the first thing that stood out to her was that cat. It was right there, staring back up at her with those enormous cute eyes. Athrun had given that to her…
"HEY CAGALLI!" someone screamed in front of the girl, giving her such a fright that she sprayed the soda all over the person's face until the person was barely recognizable.
Cagalli gulped and took another long sip from her sprite to calm for rapidly beating heart. Taking another sip, she got ready for some screaming from whoever it was that was dripping wet with soda and probably very pissed.
"Cagalli…it's me…Yunna," the guy said and wiped away the soda revealing Yunna's face.
Cagalli's eyes widened to a considerable size and sprayed the mouthful of sprite she had in her mouth all over Yunna again. Quickly she grabbed her bag of plushies by a corner of the plastic, she made a dead sprint for the door, not caring where it took her as long as it was anywhere from Yunna. She would have rather met no one at all in that place than having to meet him while she was alone. The guy was spooky and Cagalli swore that he stalks her because he always had pictures of her everywhere she didn't remember taking a picture there. Was he…obsessed with her?
Running through a big hall, she saw another door at the end and quickly opened it. In her haste, she clicked the lock closed on the outside of the door without knowing and slammed the door shut on the inside. Heaving a big sigh of relief, she just wasn't ready for the next shock.
"Ca…Cagalli?" a familiar voice asked and Cagalli froze as she felt her blood turn cold.
Peeking just one eye open, she turned around and came face to face with Athrun.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" she screamed, loud enough to deafen the poor guy in front of her.
"It IS you!" they both shouted in each other's face and had their mouths open.
"Oh screw my life," Cagalli mumbled angrily to herself and tried to turn the doorknob. She suddenly gulped and tried turning the doorknob again. Panic rising to the surface of her emotions had taking in deep breaths as she twisted the doorknob this way and trying to make it turn. "AAAAH! FRIGGIN DOORKNOB! LET ME OUT!"
Athrun just stared at her in shock. "You…locked us in!" he demanded with wide eyes.
"No I di---Yes I di---I mean! No! YES! AAAHHHHH!" Cagalli screamed out in frustration and clutched her head. "This isn't happening! I can't be stuck in a dam room with that biggest jerk on Earth!" she screamed and slid down onto the ground, putting her face in her hands in horrible resignation.
"Well sorry for being a JERK!" Athrun hissed out angrily and looked at the pathetic pile on the ground. "You make me sick…"
"Well you make me sick too," Cagalli grumbled irately before turning around and leaning on the door to stare around the room observation. This time, Cagalli's eyes were WIDE with horror and she squeaked while covering her eyes. This couldn't be happening…
Athrun grinned like he had won the lottery at seeing the strong fear in Cagalli's eyes. "I see you don't like this room very much, huh?" he questioned as he smirked at having the upper hand.
"Oh no! I loooove this room!" Cagalli grumbled as sarcastically she could from her hands and shook her head. "I just don't like seeing thing like this…"
"Come on! It's just how people were tortured in the castles years and years ago! It's just some people getting their heads chopped off, people hanging from the ceiling by a chain connecting the ceiling to their belly button, people having their tongues pulled off, people being stretched---" Athrun was just beginning to tell the nasty details about the room when Cagalli threw one of her big plushies at him.
"SHUT UP!" she squeaked out loudly while her heart thumped in her face as those descriptions were just graphically drawn in her mind from her trepidation.
"Well learn to love this room because I think we'll be stuck in here for a while, thanks to you," Athrun stated and walked to the other side of the room, leaving poor Cagalli alone.
"I really do hate you, Athrun. I really, really do," Cagalli said quietly and looked down at the ground. "You can HAVE your stupid cat back," Cagalli growled and picked up her back up her bag of toys, searching through it for the plush. "Where it is…" she whispered to herself while digging through the mess of animals.
"So? Where is it?" Athrun asked, watching the girl dig through her enormous bag of toys.
"Umm…I don't have it right now. I'll give3 it back to you laters," Cagalli said and frowned at Athrun. She didn't know where the plush was but she had an idea that she might have dropped it at where she met Yunna. She's guessing that in her haste, she dropped it without knowing. Only problem is that she hopes Yunna picked it up and was holding it for her or else she wouldn't know what to give back to Athrun. Her sewing skills ain't great either. Hey wait! Why would she sew the cat back for ATHRUN? She'll tell him she lost it if couldn't find it.
'I bet you lost it or threw it off the tower," Athrun said and shrugged as he looked the other way. "Not like I care though."
"Heh…" Cagalli said and from then on, the two of them were on mute, each of them on the opposite sides of the room.
Cagalli hugged her knees to herself and laid her chin on them while keeping her eyes closed and shaking slightly. This was the most perfectly horrible place to be right now. In a horror/torture room with the biggest moron on the face of the earth. God is SOOOOOO nice to her…
Athrun looked at the girl across the room with his sharp emerald eyes and sighed. She was being stubborn and he knew it by the way she was shaking slightly and how she kept on mumbling incoherent things to herself. He wasn't trying to be mean by leaving the girl on the other side of the room while she was scared out of her wits. Its just…this was Cagalli! And why was he even thinking about her…
Cagalli squeaked really loudly when she felt the slight touch of fabric brushing down her arm. This brought a chill down her spine and her heart missing a beat. Screaming, she swatted at what it was with her hands while continuing to keep her eyes shut to the world.
Two warm hands grabbed both of hers and held her still while it commanded, "Shut up Cagalli! It's just me!"
Opening her eyes abruptly, she came face to face with a very pissed Athrun who looked like some of Cagalli's swats had hit him smack on the cheeks. His cheeks were glowing a slight red but his eyes were ablaze with a firefly glow as he stared intently at the girl in front of him until she calmed down at site.
"Are you done hitting me yet?"
Cagalli blushed a light rosy color from her embracement and felt her heart rate go higher instead of lower. Taking in deep breaths to try and calm her heart which was going at express rate and which was thumping loudly in her head, she refused to meet the rapt stare of the guy in front of her but rather gazed at both their hands intertwined together in her lap. This only made her face a deeper red and her mind explode with thousands of thoughts running through them as she felt the heat overwhelm her.
"Are we…are we going to get out of this place?" Cagalli asked quietly, trying to make her mind's train of thought change directions.
"I der---" Athrun began but at that time, Cagalli had looked up at him and gasped.
"Oh my god…I'm sorry!" Cagalli exclaimed when she remembered how red his cheeks were.
Without thinking, she separated one of their hands and reached to brush her fingers lightly across his cheek. Cagalli gulped when she fully realized she had just done something really "friendly" to someone who she was suppose to hate.
Athrun shuddered at the contact and gulped nervously as he felt his face grow heated and heart beat at a nearly painful speed. His hatred for Cagalli vanished like water being poured over the fire to extinguish it. The only thing left behind was diminutive tingle that spread from his head to the tip of his toes. His breath caught in his throat when Cagalli brushed his ear to his chin as they both kept their intense eye contact.
As sudden as she had did that action, she retracted her hand back twice as fast and flushed an almost crimson color. Looking the other way, she mumbled a slurred apology and extracted her other hand away from his vaguely trembling grip.
Still blushing, Cagalli looked at Athrun and asked, "Does it sting?"
"Naw," Athrun grumbled, trying to pretend that Cagalli touching his cheeks wasn't a big deal.
But through the dim, shadowy light, it lit up both their faces perfectly precise and showed that in fact, both of them were still flushing from the uncalled-for action. Turning away from each other in awkwardness, they chose to fix their sights on something else which was very interesting --- the floor and the ceiling.
Suddenly, a pained groan erupted from the other side of the room and Cagalli squealed in fright before literally jumping onto Athrun's lap and hugging him around the chest in fear. Shaking with terror, she buried her head in Athrun's chest and yelped out, "what was that?" while breathing like she had just ran a mile in five minutes.
Athrun, who wasn't as freaked out as Cagalli, imagining that the groan was a sound effect since this was obviously a torture room, patted Cagalli's head softly and tried to pry her off of him.
Who knows who might just choose this time to come in and see them both like this! And since people believe what their eyes first see rather then believing in what was logical, some people might just take it the wrong way. Or maybe just because they were perverts like Dearka, but that's another story…
Athrun gently hushed the girl in his lap as he made small swirly patting gestures on Cagalli's back to try to make her calm down. When Cagalli finally settled down enough to look at Athrun, she took a glimpse around the room, trying to find the source of the groan but to no success.
Looking back up at the guy, she said, "I wanna go out!" and gave him a puppy-dog look which made Athrun melt although he didn't show it.
"We'll go out. Don't worry," he said and tucked a stray strand of hair behind Cagalli's ear before giving her a reassuring smile.
"But I'm SCARED!"
"I'll protect you…"
"…Huh…?"
"I said I'll protect you…forever…"
Now if those two weren't so caught up with each other, they would have noticed a pair of bright, yet flaring blue eyes glaring at Athrun.
Guess who?
"GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY GIRLFRIEND!" Yunna shouted in a deafening voice while literally kicking the door with his foot.
Cagalli quickly scrambled off of Athrun's lap and stared at the open doorway on the left side of the opposite side of the room next to Yunna. A big sweat drop appeared on her head as she glanced over to Athrun who looked just as surprised as she was.
HOW BLIND WHERE THEY TO NOT NOTICE THAT SECOND DOOR!
"DON'T YOU EVER TOUCH MY GIRLFRIEND LIKE THAT!" Yunna bellowed as his eyes held a livid look.
Running over to Athrun in his natural speed, Yunna flew his fists at Athrun's face before Athrun side stepped and avoided the blow with Yunna losing control and instead, landing his fists on the first door. This caused it to crack and split while the people on the big hall outside just stared at the fist protruding from the tick wooden door.
Retracting his hands, Yunna scowled daggers at Athrun who was currently looking at the enormous hole in the door with wide eyes. Yunna WAS angry and he HAD taken the scene wrongly.
"Yunna-kun!" Cagalli tried screaming but it seemed like the guy wasn't listening one bit and his only intention was on hurting Athrun…seriously.
"Yunna you shit hole!" Athrun shouted as he ducked to avoid one of Yunna's fists. Twisting 180 degrees, he stared at Yunna's back to one of those horror displays which had a hard, concrete cage around it. "Don't frikkin' take what you saw seriously!" he tried reasoning but Yunna just wasn't listening to anyone.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU BASTARD!" Yunna shouted in pure rage and landed a kick at Athrun's abdomen and sent him flying backwards, skidding to stop right in front of the display.
"STOP FIGHTING!" Cagalli screamed loud and clear, having enough of their fighting and throwing herself right in the middle of the fight.
That…would and was a bad idea.
Yunna, who had been running at his fastest speed, withdrew his fists as he finally noticed that Cagalli was right in front of him. Unfortunately, momentum carried him running and he couldn't stop in time, resulting in him smashing right into Cagalli. She exhaled sharply as the air was knocked out of her and both of them were sent hurtling backwards through the air.
Athrun's eyes grew to the size of pans as he watched the two hurtle back very close to him. He was frozen in place as the air in his lungs refused to let him breathe and his heart had seemed to stop in time.
By simple pure luck or something, Yunna and Cagalli whizzed right past him and when he blinked his eyes and he gulped as he turned around so quickly, it was a surprise that he didn't break his neck in the feat.
He watched in horror as Cagalli collided with the concrete cage, her eyes wide, with pain evident in them as her head knocked hard against the concrete. Yunna landed sharply on Cagalli's stomach, sprawled horizontally as he rolled down on her lap, moaning something about broken bones.
People who were peeping in had horror in their eyes as they watched the girl's head loll forward with bright blood revealing on the concrete behind.
Athrun has his mouth open in shock as he clambered over to Cagalli quickly while a familiar scream from behind signaled that Cagalli's best friend had just seen the scene.
Shaking the girl roughly, he shouted, "CAGALLI! ARE YOU ALRIGHT? CAGALLI! ANSWER ME! SOMEONE FUCKING CALL THE HOSPITAL!" The people stared back at him with weird looks until one decent soul finally whipped out his cell phone and dialed the emergency number.
Cagalli has her eyes half open as she stared at the fuzzy images in front of her. Why did her head hurt this much? Why was everything fuzzy? Why can't someone get that weight off of her lap?
Milly screamed in plain panic and worry as she watched her best friend's eye close more. "What happened?" HUH!" she screamed at Athrun as she shook him like a rag doll while watching more blood drip from the back of Cagalli's head. "WHAT DID YOU DO?"
Athrun looked at her with the most confused and terrified look he had given anyone and he quickly shot a worried glance over at Cagalli who by now has her eyes open to the least. Fret etched across his face as he finally heard the people with white stretchers come and push him away.
Cagalli took in ragged breaths as she felt the darkness creep to her mind and try to swallow her whole. Closing her eyes and welcoming the darkness, "Cagalli! Be alright! I LO-- Just be alright!" was the last thing she heard before the darkness embraced her in its peaceful sleep and the whole world was blacked out.
Gasp! well it may just be me, but it does sound likeAthrun was about to say love. Well I wonder what will happen. Well I know what happens. You don't but yeah. So here are some previews.
"Today's Thursday...you've been in the hosital for two days. You were injured at Medueval Times."
"I can't remember ever going there! What happened to me!"
Cagalli hissed like a car and growled.
"Slown down! SLOW DOWN!"
"SHUT UP YOU LIAR!"
"YUNNA WAS LIKE HARASSING ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CORRIDORS, CONFESSING HIS "LOVE" FOR ME AND i THINK HE WAS GOING TO HUG ME!"
"Get me Dullindal"
(cries) 7 pages for the next chapter. That's way there are 7 previews. I made a system now. ;-)