The Heart Doesn't Lie
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed, Gundam Seed Destiny or any of the characters in this story.
I also do not own High and Might Color, they are real. I do however own Freddie's (if there is any real place like this called that I am unaware of it) and the OC Jet, hmm...what should I do with him.
Chapter 6
Heine walked around the school once more. He was making sure that the school was back to normal. Pleased to see that all of the work had been completed he made his way back to his friends who had waited on him. With the amount of people who had shown up to help it had only taken about four hours to completely take down things from the festival.
"Everything okay?" Dearka asked.
"Yes, everything is done we can leave now."
Most of the people had left before he had made the final rounds, but that was fine. If he found something that had been missed there were still people here that could help him.
"Good. I'm starving. Let's go eat." Yzak told them all. Yzak had still been in a bad mood when he arrived, but over the course of the day his mood had improved and he was fine now.
"Sounds good. Where are we going? We had pizza last night so that's out." Miguel said.
"How about hamburgers?" Rusty answered.
"Why don't we go to Freddie's?" Nicol piped in. Freddie's was a local restaurant that had an all you can eat buffet.
"Freddie's sounds good, but I'm a little broke this week. Can't really afford it." Dearka said.
"That's right, you had to put down money on your new car." Nicol said.
"Yeah, and it wasn't cheap"
"Didn't you get money from the insurance company since your other car was totaled?" Rusty asked.
"Not yet. The other side is fighting it so it might be a while. I couldn't wait that long for a car." A couple of weeks ago Dearka had been in a wreck. The car beside him suddenly started moving into his lane. He tried to brake but the car ended up hitting his front end. He then spun from the force of the impact, went off the road and right into a tree. Luckily he was not hurt. He could not say the same for his car though.
"I'll pay for your meal, so can we go now? I said I was starving. All this talk is not doing anything to fix that." Yzak stated as he started walking out the door.
"Yes sir, commander sir" Dearka said while saluting Yzak, not that he saw it his back was to them.
"Does that mean we are going to Freddie's?" Nicol asked since it had not been clearly said.
"Yes." Yzak answered.
"We can take my car. I don't mind driving us every once in a while. The two of you always insist on driving." Lacus told her two friends as they walked out of her house.
"Umm...that's because we really love to drive." Cagalli told her emphasizing the word really.
"Yeah, that's right." Milly quickly added.
"Milly you were going to drive today right?" Cagalli asked her.
"Yes I am."
"Oh, okay. Well I guess it really doesn't matter as long as we get there." Lacus said a little sad. Her friends never let her drive.
'Thank goodness' Milly and Cagalli both thought. It was not that Lacus was a bad driver, she was actually quite good. They just did not really care for her car. Lacus favorite color was pink. Her hair, her clothes, her shoes, and even her bedroom furniture were all pink. But it did not stop there. For her birthday she had gotten a new Lexus LS, a very nice car. Problem was it is completely pink inside and out. Being two people who do not really care for the color pink it was a little much for her friends to stomach.
"We decided on Freddie's right?" asked Milly as she pulled out of the driveway.
"Yeah. Freddie's, I really like the food there." Lacus answered.
The three talked about various things on the way to the restaurant, which was about a 20 minute drive.
Shinn had waited until Heine had returned from doing the final check before he left. Rey had left earlier saying he had plans and could not stay any longer. Heine and his friends had been talking about going out to eat but he would not be joining them. For one he really did not know them all that well, and two he did not feel that he was being invited, he did not want to invite himself.
There had been another guy there who was not part of that group as well. Jet was a junior who had recently moved in down the street from Shinn. He had not actually started school yet, but he had come today because he was bored. Shinn was pretty much the only friend he had. Shinn did not figure it would stay that way long. Jet was the kind of guy girls drool over. You know the type, aqua eyes, silverish about shoulder length hair, and not the kind that goes straight down like Yzak's. Kind of spiky like Shinn's. This was all according to Shinn's little sister Mayu. In her words Jet is hot.
Jet had told Shinn he wanted to come help today the night before, but he had some plans so he would be late. He agreed to take Shinn home after clean-up since Rey who was taking him to the school would be leaving early.
"So you are not friends with those guys?" Jet asked Shinn as they walked to the car. "You didn't want to go to this Freddie's place with them.?"
"No, they are all older than me and I only know one of them. I don't feel like hanging out with a bunch of people I don't even know."
"I see. But if you had gone maybe you could have gotten to know them."
"Did you want to go Jet? Is that why you are asking?"
"No, I have plans for tonight already."
"So is it a problem for you to take me home? If it is I can always walk."
"No it is not a problem. You don't have to walk. I was going home first anyway and you are on the way." Jet told him.
"If your sure" Shinn said.
"Yes."
The two drove just listening to a CD for a little while. They seemed to have the same taste in music. The CD currently playing was High and Mighty Color. They both were lightly humming along to the song as Jet practically flew down the road. He slowed down when they reached the residential area.
While driving by a house Shinn saw something strange.
"Hey stop the car." Shinn told Jet. "You can just drop me off here instead of at home."
Jet did as he asked then drove away. Shinn looked around. 'What a mess' he thought. The person that lived in the house appeared from the side of the house.
"Oh, hey Shinn. What are you doing here?"
"Athrun what happened here?"
"Someone thought my house needed redecorating. You should have seen it earlier." Athrun answered.
"So you have no idea who did this?" Athrun's house still had eggs and toilet paper everywhere. If it was this bad now, Shinn wondered what it had looked like earlier.
"None. I was awaken by the doorbell and when I opened the door instead of finding a person I found all this." Athrun answered letting out a sigh.
"I'll help you clean it up." Shinn offered.
"If you don't mind, that would be great. I'll cook you some dinner after we are finished as a thank you."
"You got a deal." Shinn told him smiling.
Mia sat down exhausted. Fllay had been in a good mood because her date with Kira last night had went well, or so she said. She had insisted that the three of them spend the day shopping at the mall. They had been to just about every store at least once, some of the twice, when Fllay would find something that would go just perfect with something she saw somewhere else. They had decided it was time to stop and eat. They chose a little cafe that was here in the mall. The place was fairly small. There were hardly any costumers in there. Having shopped at this mall before they had also eaten here before and knew the food was good.
"So Fllay, now that we are finally sitting down why don't you tell us why you are in such a good mood today." Mia told her.
"Yeah, did Kira finally ask you to be his girlfriend?" Luna was also curious about this.
"No, but he doesn't have to ask. We went out that means we are a couple." She proclaimed proudly.
Mia and Luna looked at each other worried, then looked at Fllay. They really did not want to make Fllay mad but...
"Fllay, you walked around with him at the festival and you were the one who asked him. You did not 'go out' that doesn't make you a real couple. I walked around with Athrun, but I know I am not his girlfriend yet." Mia told her hoping Fllay would understand.
"Don't say things you know nothing about. Kira and I are in love. That is just the way it is, so of course we are a couple."
"Did Kira tell you he was in love with you. Did he do anything to suggest such a thing." Luna asked.
"Of course he did not say it, he is shy. He was a gentleman all evening." Fllay said smiling. She was starting to get that far away look in her eyes.
"That doesn't mean he is in love with you. Kira is always a gentleman, last night was no exception. You can't just assume you are now a couple. If you want to know if he thinks the same way you do you will have to ask him." Luna said. She knew Mia was thinking the same things she was, but she figured it was better for her to say it. Mia was not so good with confrontation. It was usually Luna and Fllay fighting and Mia fixing things.
"Alright I will. Just to prove you wrong." Fllay told her. It was obvious at this point she was getting angry. She couldn't believe her friends, best friends no less, would say these things to her.
The rest of the meal was eaten in silence. Fllay would have left but she was not the one who had drove. Since she did not want to walk or call home for a ride she just left it as it was. After they finished eating Fllay announced that she had done enough shopping and wanted to go home.
Milly pulled into Freddie's parking lot in time to see a group of guys getting out of their cars.
"Great. Do we have to eat here? I can drive us somewhere else." she asked her friends.
"We have to eat here. Ever since we decided to I have been looking forward to it, so no where else will do. Why do you suddenly want to go somewhere else? " Cagalli said.
"Look, Mr. Playboy and gang are here." Milly answered pointing towards the guys.
Lacus laughed at Milly's name for Dearka. "Look Heine is here too, Milly."
"He is? He is. Why does he have to be friends with those idiots? It would be better if he hung around Kira and Athrun. Well Nicol is not so bad." Milly stated.
"It is not like you have to talk to them. We just happen to be eating in the same restaurant as them." Cagalli told her friend.
"Oh I won't have to talk to them, they will probably talk to me. Every time Dearka see me lately he talks to me."
Milly parked the car and they headed up to the building. The guys had been taking their time and playing around, so the girls were spotted before making it inside.
Dearka walked over to Milly and grabbed her hand. "Hey, just the girl I was really wanting to see. Since we are both here why don't we have dinner together."
Milly tried to pull her hand away but Dearka was not letting go. "I came here to have dinner with my friends not you. Let go of me!"
Milly looked to her friends for help but they were talking to Miguel and Heine. They did not seem to notice when Dearka started pulling her away from the group.
"What are you doing? Stop pulling me." she demanded but he did not stop.
"I just want to talk to you for a couple of minutes over here, alone." he told her.
Milly decided it was pointless to fight him, he was determined to talk to her so she would hear him out.
Dearka stopped a little ways away from the others. He ran his free hand through his hair and sighed. He waited a couple of minutes before turning to her.
"Why do you always reject me? Why won't you even give me a chance? Do you hate me that much?"
he asked her. From the look on his face she knew he was being serious.
Milly looked away before answering. "I don't hate you. I reject you because you are a playboy. You date a lot of girls for a couple of weeks and then dump them. I don't want to be hurt like that."
Since Dearka had asked her seriously she thought he deserved a truthful answer.
Dearka sighed again then said, "I won't deny what you said. It is the truth. I have done those things. But I also have never pursued a girl for three weeks before. The longest I have every pursued a girl was almost two weeks, and then I stopped because I figured it wasn't really worth it. I did not like her that much to waste so much time on her."
Milly was a little surprised by what he was saying. She had never heard him talk so seriously before. He usually just joked around all the time.
"You are different. I don't feel like this is a waste of time. I feel that you are worth it. I wish that you would just take the time to get to know me better. I really do like you a lot. I have never told a girl that before. I'll leave you alone tonight, but could you just promise me you will at least think about what I have said here. Please, that's all I'm asking just think about my words." Dearka's eyes seem to be pleading with her.
"Okay. I promise I will think about what you said."
Dearka smiled at her a genuine smile, "Thank you."
After that he let go of her hand and they both headed back to there waiting friends.
Auel walked in the room that Stellar was in. She was sitting down in front of the window looking outside. The way the setting sun was shining it's multicolor light on her golden hair was beautiful. Auel felt like the sun was setting just to cast this light on her, to make his heartbeat speed up, and to make his breath almost stop. Auel was in love with her. He had known it for a while, but he had never told her. And now it was too late. He was going to lose her.
"Are you sure about this?" Auel asked the beauty before him.
"Yes, I think it is for the best." Stellar answered.
"She will be upset. What about Shinn?"
Stellar sighed and continued to look outside. "I know. I really do, but I have never been good with things like this. I would not know what to say or how to act. That's why this way is best."
"For you only. Not for them. This is not fair to them. Especially her." Auel stated one last time hoping she would change her mind.
"There is still time before, so please consider it." Auel told her as he walked out of the room and left the house.
TBC
