Disclaimer: Nothing is mine once more just the fic! ;)

I hope I've kept both Athrun and Cagalli and most importantly the second players (kira and meyrin) in character. Lol please don't be shy Review.


Chapter 2

Life was enjoyable for Athrun Zala. Most of the time anyways. The strangest part of it all was that some days he felt unsure and empty. He told himself time and time again that he was probably the luckiest man. He had everything a man could want. A beautiful woman, a great and important position in the Orb military. And to top it all off he was getting married in less then two months.

Days like today were happy ones. Both he and his now fiancé Meyrin were enjoying themselves preparing their wedding invitations. Laughing, talking about the wedding everything felt right, but at the peek of it's glory it came crashing down on Athrun Zala, when he was writing the invitation to one of the most important people in the Orb faculty, and perhaps to his personal life altogether. Head Representative of Orb; Cagalli Yula Attha. At first it was almost surreal to see her name, and how when he verbalized her name mentally a wave of overwhelming feelings came crashing down on him.

It staggered him.

"Athrun?"

He was brought back to reality by his fiancé's sweet voice.

"Are you alright?" she asked concerned, placing a gentle hand over his and squeezing it.

"I'm fine. Sorry about that, I don't know what overtook me." He said, giving her a shaky smile.

She took the invitation from his grip and held it up to her nose, trying to get a good look at it. She sighed heavily. Then she looked at her fiancé. Lifting an eyebrow and smirking serenely.

"I can imagine what did overtake you, but this is completely understandable. You and her shared something special once that will never be replaced and--"

"I wouldn't have invited her if it wasn't for the simple fact that she is the Head of state. It's important that I invite my employer; it's something that should be done. If it wasn't for that I--" he interjected her only for him to swallow up his remaining words by one knowing glance that she was giving his way.

"Athrun." she said almost making his name sound like a warning, but with no harshness in its tone.

"Hm?"

"It's alright. It'll be nice to see her again. Cagalli was very kind to me. I want her at our wedding."

Athrun looked at her almost surprisingly, he smiled gently at her. "I'll put the invitations in the mail tomorrow."

"Very good," Meyrin said sweetly leaning in to give him a quick kiss on the cheek. "Remember don't forget them. Anyways I'll see you later on; I have last minute preparations to take care of. Bye."

"Bye."

A few weeks after the invitations were sent out, friends and colleagues rushed with their quick replies. Sometimes Athrun would wonder to himself if Meyrin didn't invite more people without his knowledge. The number of replies to their wedding invitations seemed larger than what he recalled mailing out. He scanned each envelope looking at the printed address. "Harold with guest...just great...Dearka...Yzak...have mercy on me...Kira and Lacus...Cagalli...Ca-Cagalli!" He re-read the address it was definitely her. A part of him was anxious but that pleasurable eagerness soon melted away into a horrid guilt.

Guilty of what? He could not say, perhaps of knowing that he had truly moved on. Then a little voice in his head would say that she looked happy. Or perhaps he was blind to see Cagalli's true grief only because he didn't want to know that he was the cause of her unhappiness. He brushed away the thoughts out of his mind. He was going to marry a great person, someone who was there for him, who cared for him…who would do anything for him.

But it's not Cagalli…

Bitterness bit him, that stupid little voice that often attacked him in the darker parts of his thoughts, always giving him meaningless hope. He mentally wished it would just go away.


"You're crazy why would you agree to go? You know you won't be able to bear it!" Kira Yamato scowled harshly at his twin.

"Drop it. I'm going and that's final. It won't kill me, I'll bare it. I have to go, people expect me to go. Besides if I don't go that means I'll prove to him that I still have feelings for him." She said almost monotone scanning over some papers held up in her hands. Kira stared at her and was taken a-back by the difference in mood in Cagalli. One minute she was totally distraught and the next morning she was withdrawn as if nothing had ever happened.

"You do have feelings for him, that's the whole point why you shouldn't go. Am I the only sane one in this room that sees the repercussions of this ridiculous idea of yours?" he said sternly determined to get his statement across.

Letting out a rage filled grunt headed towards her brother, she banged her papers with her opened palms, hard against her wooden desk. "I know that! But don't you think," she began a little more somberly, "that if I don't go that that will only upset Athrun. He'll think I can't witness him and Meyrin getting together and he'll always have doubts and wonder why and feel guilty about it. No way I won't do that to him and I won't to that to Meyrin either. She didn't ask for this. Athrun is not bound to me and he'll never be. I have to come to terms with my own decisions and destiny."

"Have you ever given any thought that maybe he feels the same way about you?" he asked curiously, awaiting patiently his sister's reaction. There was a long pause before she did reply.

"I have, Kira. I ended what was left between he and I. I'm the one who wrecked everything because I thought I was doing what was best for him. But…I've learned to accept that I'm the only one who should suffer for my decisions." As she spoke her voice never faltered, strong and steady. Kira read the determination in Cagalli's eyes and he spoke no more. He knew that she would hold to that. She would stand on her two feet and take the wind of change head on, strangely maybe this was the conclusion he was hoping for his sister, the end to all her misery. And then perhaps she could move on with her own life and finally be happy.

Kira glanced down at his wrist watch. It was getting late. He understood his sister's reasons and he would not interfere. Standing up he walked up to his sister and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead. She in turn smiled and kissed him quickly on the cheek. Walking out of the study Kira still felt a slight twinge in his heart that told him this situation was far from resolved.

When Kira arrived home, Lacus was already fast asleep in her bedroom. He closed her door gently as not to wake her. Making his way to his bedroom he was suddenly startled by a knock at his front door. Walking up to the entrance Kira opened the door hesitantly. 'Who could it be at this hour?' he thought. When the door was opened to its full capacity, Kira could of sworn his eyes bulged out of their sockets.

"Kira we need to talk."

"Athrun?"

To be continued…


Author's Note:I know it's kind of short but it will have to do for now,some things have been placed here just to get the ball rolling so to speak, before the big Bang (aka the wedding) Yeah the wedding is going to happen, but how it will end…well that'll you'll just have to wait and see. I'm hoping to make the rest of the chaptersmuch longer, bare with me all. I'll try to update soon. Ciao