When Athrun reached the Mess hall Kira, Yzak, and Dearka were all waiting for him. To his surprise Yzak had a grin instead of a scowl on his face.
Yzak and Dearka were two of his closest friends at the high school. Both were medium-built but besides that they were very different. Dearka was carefree and laidback, with curly blond hair and tanned skin. He spent most of his time chasing girls and swimming, or both at the same time.
Yzak on the other hand, was all regulations and rules. He was one of the Assistant Prefects of the school. Overly serious and possessing a short temper Yzak quite frequently embarrassed himself in front of others whenever he lost his temper. His white hair (apparently the stress had got to him…) fell straight down the sides of his face, and he gazed over at other people with steely cold eyes. Most of the time.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Yzak roared with laughter, prompting the people near them to move away quickly.
"Shut up man, you're gonna get us kicked out!" Dearka nudged Yzak in the ribs, at which point the other boy quietened down.
"What's so funny?" Athrun asked, quite bewildered.
"Apparently you had a head-on collision with one of the goddesses of our school…" Kira said mildly.
News travels fast. Especially about my mishaps in life…Athrun sighed. "What do you mean goddesses? As far as I recall no-one here is immortal." At which point Yzak roared with laughter. Again.
"You don't know about the girls everyone calls the Goddesses?" Dearka asked. "Athrun, Athrun…shameful my friend."
"What?"
"Fine, you don't really keep up with these things I guess. Might as well enlighten you now. Like they say: better late than never." Dearka murmured. "The Goddesses are pretty much the sexiest, hottest babes in our school. Every single guy compares his girlfriend to one of them apparently."
"How the hell do you know that?" Athrun asked shocked.
"I did it for a survey." Dearka answered, winking. "Anyway…Currently there are…3 goddesses…And a copycat."
"A copycat?"
"Of one of the goddesses."
"Well at least tell me who they all are…"
"I'm going out with one of them." Kira said. Athrun looked at him shocked.
"You-you mean-"
"Yeah, Lacus is one. The others are Flay Alster, that pesky Year 9 and the one you bumped into. Cagalli Yula Attha. Apparently the only one still single. And the one with a violent temper too…"
Oh great…Athrun thought. My life is destined to be miserable. Apparently I've upset one of the hottest girls of the school…Add to that the fact she has a short fuse and there goes my social life…Athrun was about to ask about the copycat when Lacus appeared.
"Hey Kira! How ya' goin'?" Lacus said offhandedly. She smiled at Kira, and Kira turned a deep shade of red. They both liked each other but at the same time both were too scared to admit their feelings to one another. Athrun had heard confessions both of them and put two and two together to figure it out.
"I heard about what happened to you Athrun…Man, Cagalli is so pissed right now…I think you'd better apologise…" Lacus murmured.
"Wha-What?" Apologise? To her? She should apologise to me! She's the one who blew up in my face in the first place!" At this point Dearka and Yzak suddenly burst out laughing.
Lacus gave a sympathetic smile. "It's our social standing, Athrun. Granted you're one of the hunks of the school-"
"Since when was I a hunk?"
"Since we found out that you have a group of girls stalking you. You really don't pay attention you know..." Lacus smiled evilly and looked from Athrun to Kira. Athrun just sat there stunned.
"What the hell is this? I-I didn't even know anything about this…" he murmured to Kira. Kira turned away too guilty to answer his friend's question.
"Getting back to the point, even though you're one of the hunks of the school, Cagalli has at least every guy in Year 10 drooling over the prospect of going out with her. I don't think you want them all thinking you went and upset their idol now, do you?"
It was at that precise moment that the end of lunch bell decided to go off. And Athrun hadn't eaten any of his lunch.
Oh Shit. So hungry…
Athrun thought about Lacus words. "You should apologise to her."
Maybe he would.
Not it was a stupid idea.
C'mon you weren't watching where you were walking…I…I just don't wanna apologise…
He made up his mind. He knew what he was going to do.