A/N: Here it is! Chapter four of Shuffle!

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CHAPTER IIII Viruses, Yearbooks and

Crushes

At the Jule Mansion…

Dearka arrived exactly ten minutes after Yzak had called.

"Yzak? Where are you?"He shouted after coming inside the mansion.

"Upstairs… just follow the crying…" he called back weakly. Dearka smirked and walked up the stairs and into Yzak's room. He was still cradling Allaya while she continued to scream at the top of her lungs. It looked really pathetic. "I really don't think she likes you very much," Dearka said walking over to Yzak and taking Allaya out of his arms. She stopped crying immediately. "Are you giving your brother a hard time?" Dearka asked in a "goo-goo ga-ga" voice. She giggled and set her down on the bed where she flopped back and giggled again. Dearka then looked over at Yzak. "Wow… you don't look so good…"

His face was sheet white, he looked like he could collapse at any given moment and his hair was messy because of all the pulling Allaya had done. He just looked over-all sick.

"Yzak, maybe you should lay down. It looks like you caught one of those mutated cold viruses. That's probably why it's affecting you," Dearka said with concern. (About the mutated cold virus- don't ask…) "Yeah… you're probably-" He would have finished his sentence but before he could, his eyes just rolled back and he fell.

With his "Super-Awesome-Coordinator-Reflexes" (that's lame…) Dearka caught him. "Yzak-? Are you all right?" He asked, a bit panicked. His head was hung so he couldn't see his face- but he still knew that he'd passed out. "Aw, man… no amount of CDs is worth this…" Dearka muttered, continuing to hold Yzak's frail form. "And you better not be faking! Or I swear to god you'll get it!"

That's when Allaya decided to look over at her unconscious brother. Since she had no idea what was going on, she did what any baby would do- she cried.

"Oh, this BLOWS!" Dearka thought angrily, using his "Super-Awesome-Coordinator Strength" (more lameness…) to throw Yzak over onto the bed, like half way across the room, while missing hitting Allaya in the process- not that it was his intention to hit her… She just continued to cry. "Yzak! Come on; wake up! … and at least tell me your mother's cell phone number!" Dearka shouted as he leaned over his unconscious friend. There was of course no answer.

Groaning with frustration, Dearka pulled his cell phone out and decided to call a last resort…

"Hello, who may I ask is calling?" Came the polite and kind voice of Nicol. "Just can it, Nicol… I need you over at Yzak's place right now, it's an emergency," Dearka said quickly. "-You… know where that is, right?"

"…Yeah…" Nicol answered hesitantly. "Well then, what are you waiting for? Get over here now!" He hissed. "Okay! Okay!" Nicol cried, quickly hanging up. Dearka sighed and hung up as well. "Man… sometimes I really gotta wonder if he's actually a guy…"

At the Clyne Mansion, 4:30…

"Okay… Cagalli won the pillow fight for sure…" Lacus said quietly as they all lay in an open place on the floor of Lacus' room.

Cagalli was the first to sit up. "Well you guys were just a bunch of wusses."

"Shut up, Cagalli!" Fllay shouted, throwing a pillow at her face. But she caught it. "Fllay's trying to hurt me with the really hard pillows!" Cagalli said sarcastically. She just glared. "Hey, if you guys don't mind, let's skip the drawing contest… my head hurts too much right now…" Miriallia said vaguely. "Yeah…" Shiho agreed. "Okay, then… that bumps everything in our schedule up one spot…" Lacus said, pulling a nearby pillow under her aching head. "That means we're looking at the past two year books, then. I'll go get them," Cagalli offered, standing up and retrieving the yearbooks from Lacus' mini library. She threw one to Shiho and one to Lacus.

"Oh, I'm in this one," Shiho said as she looked at the front. "It's from last year."

"You know, that technically means you were in the school three days ago," Miriallia said smirking. "You know what I mean," Shiho laughed just as Lacus opened the newer yearbook.

"Oh dear…" She sighed, "I seem to be blinking in my picture…"

"Hm… top scores from two years ago…" Cagalli observed as she looked over Shiho's shoulder at the older yearbook, while Miriallia and Fllay looked over Lacus' shoulder at the newer one.

Cagalli continued to read the top scores: " 'Grade Ten: Cagalli Yula Athha, Shiho Hahnenfuss- 92 percent, Dearka Elsman, Lacus Clyne- 96 percent, Kira Yamato, Athrun Zala- 100 percent. Grade 11: Yzak Jule. Grade Twelve: Not Any.' Wow, not so many top scores two years ago. Anyway- you can turn the page now, Shiho."

But Shiho didn't seem to hear her. "Umm… Shiho-?" She asked. That's when Cagalli realized that she was gazing longingly at Yzak's picture. He wasn't smiling of course. But none the less, he still looked hot. Cagalli had to stop herself from staring along with her.

"Shiho." She raised her voice a bit. Shiho finally snapped out of her trance. "Oh, sorry…" she said, quickly turning the page and blushing. "Hm…" Cagalli thought, "looks like Shiho's got a crush on Yzak…"

At the Jule Mansion…

Nicol arrived exactly fifteen minutes after Dearka called.

"Finally! You're here!" Dearka ranted as he walked down the stairs with the still crying Allaya in his arms. "Yzak passed out and his little sister won't stop crying! Now that you're here, he'll have somebody else to yell at when he wakes up- or… maybe you can help..."

Nicol sighed. "Here, let me take care of her," he offered, holding his arms out. "You go try to wake Yzak up."

"No problem," Dearka said, handing him Allaya and running back up the stairs to go tend to Yzak.

"Hey! Wake up! Come on! This isn't funny!" Dearka shouted, shaking Yzak. He groaned. "For crying out loud, just wake up already!"

Allaya's crying suddenly stopped down stairs. A minute later, Nicol came up the stairs with her sleeping figure in his arms. "How the hell did you do that?" Dearka asked in disbelief. "I just rocked her in my arms and she went to sleep," Nicol replied sweetly.

Dearka just looked at him for a minute before asking: "You're a guy, right?"

Nicol frowned. "Yes…"

"Ohh… my head…" came a moan from Yzak. His eyes slowly opened and he sat up with great difficulty. "Hey, Yzak. It's about time you woke up…" Dearka muttered. "-Oh, and by the way, Nicol's a guy."

Nicol just frowned even more. "Nicol-?" Yzak asked. "What's she doing here?"

"He!" Nicol cried. "HE!"

At the Clyne Mansion, 8:30…

All the girls were now, of course, getting ready for bed and taking a long time too. There are five bathrooms upstairs in the Clyne Mansion, one for each girl. It took half an hour forthem to get ready for bed, but not Cagalli. It took her ten minutes- eleven, tops.

Slowly, the rest of the girls started to come back from the bathroom.

When Lacus, Shiho, and Miriallia came back, they joined Cagalli in a circle by Lacus' mini library and waited for Fllay.

Half an Hour later…

Fllay finally came back from the bathroom and joined the circle.

"Fllay, what took so long?" Asked Lacus. "I had to take off all of my makeup," she answered. Cagalli rolled her eyes. "You wear too much makeup, Fllay. It makes you look like a whore…"

Fllay stared at her in disbelief. "I cannot believe what I'm hearing!"

"Please don't fight!" Lacus cried. "Can't we all just get along?"

"Fine," Cagalli said. "But that doesn't mean I have to like her."

"Agreed…" muttered Fllay. Lacus sighed but quickly brightened up. "Okay, it's gossip time!"


A/N: Chapter 5 is longer than the last few chapters, so I might be two or three days before I can post it. Thank you faithful readers!

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