The Heart Doesn't Lie

Disclaimer: I can only wish I owned GS/GSD then I could make things go the way I want it too. But alas, I do not own them, nor the characters.

Chapter 7

Luna pulled the car into the driveway. Today had been a long day. After declaring she was ready to go home, Fllay had refused to say another word. Mia had tried to talk to her, but her attempts had been in vain. Eventually Mia gave up and just talked to Luna.

Luna had found out what had happened between her and Athrun the evening before. After helping with the haunted house Athrun had to make rounds to all the different areas to make sure everything was running smoothly. Although Mia had went with him he was very busy and she was pretty much ignored. After that they walked around a little and he bought her food from one of the many booths. This lasted about a hour and a half. Then he had to leave her because he still had things to do.

Luna walked into the house to find her sister waiting for her.

"Are you going to talk to me now?" Luna asked her.

"Yes, I have something I want to say to you so please just hear me out."

Meyrin proceeded to talk about the things her and Stellar had discussed on the phone. At first Luna was a little surprised by what she was saying, but after thinking about it for a moment she realized that this was just like Meyrin.

Luna smiled softly and reached over to hug her sister. "You are right Mey. I'm sorry I said that and hurt your feelings. I really did not want to hurt you. I did not know what to do finding out you liked him too. Mia is my best friend and you are my sister so it is hard for me to discourage either one of you. I just don't want to see either get hurt, because like you that would hurt me too."

"From now on I will support both of you. If he chooses either one of you he will be getting a good woman. He is a lucky man I think." Luna added. She thought it was a little sad, she is the older sister. She should be the one teaching Meyrin things, but it was Meyrin who was teaching her.

"Come on let's get some ice cream and watch some t.v. Isn't your favorite show on tonight." Luna said.

"You hate that show." Meyrin said walking towards the kitchen.

"I guess it is not so bad." Luna was just glad that the two of them had made up. She could handle watching a show she hated for a little while for Meyrin.

Dinner at Freddie's was pretty tense. The two groups had decided to have dinner together. Miguel and Heine had talked Cagalli and Lacus into it and Milly joined them without protest, which had surprised everyone. Ever since Milly and Dearka had talked she had been quiet for the most part. Dearka had continued joking around with his friends, but he wasn't up to his usual level. He stayed quiet throwing in comments every now and then. He also kept looking over at Milly. He stayed true to his word though and left her alone.

Nicol noticed how Heine was directing most of his attention to Lacus. Miguel seemed to be doing the same with Cagalli. Both seemed to be lost in interesting, private conversations that the rest of the group was not invited into.

Rusty and Sting were in a competition to see who could eat the most food. Sting appeared to be in the lead. They were not letting the waitress take their empty plates, which they were keeping at the empty spot at the end of the table. Nicol guess this was how they planned on finding out who had won.

Yzak's sour mood from last night seemed to have returned as well and he kept throwing glares towards Milly. She was not aware of said glares or if she was she was not saying anything about them. Nicol could not understand why Yzak had something against her, as far as he knew she had never done anything wrong to Yzak. 'It is strange.'

Milly sat throughout the dinner without talking. She was having a hard time getting what Dearka had said to her out of her head. She had never seen that side of him before. The side that could be serious, the side that really seemed to care about someone else, a side that had appeared desperate. Maybe she had misjudged him. Maybe there was more to him than just being a playboy. But did she really want to find out? Did she really want to get to know him better like he had asked?

She had liked Heine for a while. Heine was the kind of guy she wanted to be with, but Heine never even acknowledged her. As she looked at Heine during dinner he was always talking quietly to Lacus. Giving her friend the kind of attention she wanted from him. Milly could see she needed to face reality. Heine had no interest in her. By what she is seeing it looks looks he likes Lacus. She had not wanted to give Dearka a chance because she was afraid of getting hurt. Maybe she had thought Heine would not hurt her, he was a different type of guy than Dearka. Now she could see that if she let her feelings for Heine continue that was what was going to happen, she was going to get hurt.

'This is it. No more. I will let go of my feelings for him. He would never return them anyway. I have to move on. Dearka wants me to give him a chance and I think that I should.' Milly decided and then looked up at Dearka and smiled. Dearka saw the smile and smiled in return the same genuine smile he had given her earlier.

After Luna had dropped her off, Fllay went inside and dropped off her bags. She checked her reflection in the mirror, grabbed her keys and left again. She had decided she wanted to talk to Kira right away. A phone call just would not do for what she wanted to talk about. She needed to be able to see his face as they talked. She did not bother calling to see if he was home, although she knew there was a chance he was not.

When she arrived at Kira's house she was happy to see his car in the driveway along with a couple more she did not know. It took him a few minutes to answer the door after she ran the bell.

"Fllay, what are you doing here?" Kira asked surprised to see her.

"Are you busy? I see a couple of other cars in the driveway."

"Oh, Tolle, Sai, and Kuzzey are here. We were just hanging out playing poker. What did you need?"

Fllay thought about it for a moment, she did not really want an audience for their conversation. "I would like to talk to you for a minute. Could you come out here? We can talk on the porch."

Kira glanced back inside towards his guest and then agreed to talk to her.

They sat down on the porch swing his parents had. The two of them sat in silence for a few minutes. Fllay was trying to think about how to say what she wanted to say and Kira did not know what to say because he had no idea why she was there.

"How do you feel about me?" Fllay asked Kira surprising him. He certainly had not expected that.

"How do I feel about you?" he repeated.

"It's an easy question. I like you, I would like to be your girlfriend. I thought because you agreed to go with me last night you felt the same, but I need to hear it from you."

Kira looked away from her. This was something he was not prepared to answer. He did not know what to say. He reached up and ran his hand through his hair trying to think. The silence continued for a few more minutes before he answered her.

"I'm sorry. I can't tell you what you want to hear. Maybe I should have said no when you asked me about the festival, but at the time I did not see any harm in walking around with you. I did not know it would lead to this. I don't think we are right for each other."

"Not right for each other? What makes people right for each other?" she cried.

Kira looked at her. She was crying. He really did not know what to say to her to make this better.

"I'm sorry, I am. I don't know what makes people right for each other. I think there is something you feel in your heart when it is right and I don't feel that now. Please find someone else to love. Someone that will love you as much as you love him. You deserve that and I am not that guy." Kira told her.

"Goodbye Fllay." He said quietly as he slipped away to go inside.

Fllay sat there crying softly for a little while before getting up and walking away.

"Goodbye Kira." she said just as softly as he had.

"Are you sure you can cook?" Shinn asked Athrun.

"Yes, I'm sure I can cook. My parents spend a lot of time away so it was either learn how or eat junk food all the time."

It had taken the two of them about an hour to finish cleaning up the toilet paper from Athrun's front yard. After they were done with that he used the water hose to wash off the egg. Now they were in the kitchen were Athrun was getting ready to make the promised dinner. Shinn did not know what Athrun was planning on making.

"What are you going to cook anyway?"

"Salad, noodles, and chicken Parmesan. It's going to be a little while. Why don't you make yourself at home. You could watch some t.v" Athrun told Shinn while pulling out ingredients.

"You don't want any help? I could help."

Athrun laughed, "I promised to cook you dinner to thank you. I did not say we would cook dinner. Don't worry I will take care of everything and it will be edible. So go on, get comfortable. Would you like something to drink now?"

"Sure" Shinn answered blushing slightly, but not enough for the other to notice.

Athrun handed Shinn a glass of iced tea which Shinn took then went into the living room to make himself comfortable as Athrun had told him to do. Shinn sat down and flipped on the t.v He felt a little distracted thought and did not sit there long. He got up walking around the room looking at the various pictures that had been placed on the wall, probably by Athrun's mom. There were pictures of Athrun all throughout the years. Shinn noticed that there were a few pictures that contained Kira as well as Athrun.

He continued to look around stopping to smile at one every now and then. 'Athrun was a cute kid' the thought seemed to come from nowhere. Shinn stopped, the smile disappearing from his face. 'What am I thinking, that is not something I should be thinking.'

"But it's true." he said not to loud but loud enough.

"What is true?" Athrun asked. Shinn had not seen him come in the room. He had to think quick.

"You and Kira really are close." Shinn said hoping Athrun would buy that. He had hid his face when he realized Athrun was in the room to hide the blush he was sure had returned.

Athrun looked at him strangely, thinking that what Shinn had said had not made sense. Everyone knew Kira and him were close, they had been friends for a long time and had always been close. What Shinn was saying, it was like he did not believe they really were close that it was all a lie and now he was seeing the proof first hand. Athrun wasn't buying it but he decided to leave it alone.

"I wanted to ask if you needed to use the phone to call your parents. You can let them know you will be home later." Athrun stated.

"No, it's alright. My parents are going to be out until late tonight and Mayu is staying at a friend's."

"Oh, okay. Well do you need anything?" Athrun asked trying to be a good host.

"No. I'm fine." Shinn answered still facing away from Athrun.

"Alright, I better go check the food." Athrun said as he left the room.

'What is wrong with me? Why was I blushing around him?' Shinn decided maybe it was safer to just watch t.v and not look at the pictures anymore.

As Luna walked to the door she was wondering who would be coming over now. When she open the door her heart sank a little. There in front of her was Fllay crying. 'Did she talk to Kira?' She pulled her friend into the house right into a hug. Fllay continued to cry as her friend comforted her. After a few minutes she quieted down. Luna led her into the living room, where Meyrin quickly turned off the t.v and left to give them some space.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Luna asked Fllay quietly while sitting her down.

"You can say it. You can say 'I told you so' " Fllay told her on the verge of new tears.

"I won't. I won't say that." She said rubbing her friends arm trying to let her know she was there for her and that she was important to her. "Want to tell me what happened?"

Fllay sat there for a little still sobbing from the crying she had done earlier. She did want to tell Luna she just could not bring herself to say anything yet.

"Want me to call Mia and have her come over too?" Luna knew her friend was hurting bad and figured she could use both of them right now. "It would not take her too long to get here."

"Okay, thank you." was all Fllay said.

Luna got up from the couch and saw that Meyrin was looking into the room concerned. She mouthed for Meyrin to call Mia and Meyrin nodded and went off. Luna did not want to leave Fllay all alone right now not even for a few minutes to use the phone.

For the next 15 minutes they sat there in silence Luna just being there for her friend. They could talk when Mia got there. When the doorbell rang Meyrin went to answer it and then lead Mia into the room. Mia quickly ran over to her friend and threw her arms around her. At this Fllay started crying again, but this time it did not last as long.

"I went to talk to Kira." Fllay stated when she was finally able to talk past the sobs. "I told him I liked him and that I wanted to be his girlfriend."

Fllay paused she needed time to get things out.

"He said he was sorry but he didn't feel the same. He said we are not right for each other."

Although her friends had expected this when Fllay showed up crying it still sadden them to hear.

"He told me to find someone else to love. Someone who would love me as much as I love him. Then he said goodbye." she finished telling them what Kira had said to her and tried to keep herself from crying again.

Luna and Mia did not know what to say to her. What do you say to a friend in this situation? That she is better off without him, that she is too good for him, that he is making a mistake and doesn't know what he is missing. Would any of those things really make her feel better. Probably not. Those are just meaningless words said to make someone feel better. The problem is even if it makes them feel better it is only temporary. The person that it was said to will realize that the words spoken were not really the truth. How could they be. If the person was so bad in the first place then they would not have fell for them, right? The did not want to speak these meaningless words to her.

"It will be alright." Mia said to her quietly. "Maybe not right away, it will hurt for a little while, but eventually you will be alright. Eventually the pain will pass, in the meantime Luna and I will be her for you to help you through this." Luna smiled softly. Mia had done it. She had said the right words. She had spoken the truth. There were no meaningless words in what she had said.

Fllay also smiled softly and then hugged her two friends close. "I know and thank you."

Dearka was happy. Milly had remained quiet during dinner. She seemed to be distracted for most of the evening. He was worried about her at first but then she looked at him and smiled. For him that one smile had held so much. That smile had given him hope, it had given him relief that she really did not hate him. It was a sign to him that she had been thinking about him, about what he had said. It was a sign that she would give him a chance and that was really all he wanted. A chance to show her he was sincere.

Yzak had also seen the smile. He had also seen the smile Dearka gave her in return. It irritated him. He did not know why, but it did. It made his heart ache. Just like at the festival when he had watched Dearka flirting with her. 'Why? Why does it hurt? Why does it make me mad? Do I like her?' He did not know the answer to any of these questions but he need to find those answers before it was too late.

"Well, how was it. Can I cook?" Athrun asked Shinn after they had finished eating.

"If I say yes is it going to go to your head?" Shinn asked smiling.

"Of course not."

"Then it was good. Yes, you can cook." Shinn wasn't lying. The meal had been good. He had been pleasantly surprised by it. Everything had been prepared perfectly. Shinn had not known about this side of Athrun before. 'His fan girls would probably love to know about this.' Not that they would be hearing it from him.

"I'll help with the dishes." Shinn offered, after all Athrun had cooked dinner all by himself.

"No need. Most are already in the dishwasher, I'll just put these in and be done with it." Athrun told him.

Shinn frowned. Athrun was not letting him do anything. 'This is probably how he is with his girlfriends too. What? I am doing it again. Get your mind off things like that.' Shinn was starting to get a little mad at himself. 'I better get out of here before it gets worse.'

He waited until Athrun had returned from taking their dishes into the kitchen before telling him, " It's getting late, I should get going."

"It is already dark outside. I'll drive you home."

"That's really not necessary. I can walk." Shinn told him.

"Quit being stubborn and let me drive you." Athrun told him giving him a look that told Shinn he was not going to win.

"Alright."

The drive was a quiet one. Shinn did not live that far away. Athrun turned on the radio to break the silence. When he pulled into Shinn's driveway Shinn immediately went to get out. Athrun turned towards him and quickly stopped him by grabbing his arm. Shinn look at him trying to figure out why he had been stopped.

"I just want to say thank you for your help today. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it." Athrun told him.

"You already thanked me, you cooked dinner for me." Shinn told him blushing at the contact as much as the words.

Athrun gave him a warm smile, "Yes, but I wanted to thank you again. You really helped me out big time."

Shinn was grateful that it was dark and Athrun could not see how much redder that smile had caused his face to become.

"You are welcome, and thank you." He said and got out of the car then quickly walked up to the house. He needed to get away from him fast.

Athrun sat there for a moment trying to figure out Shinn's strange behavior before driving away.

It did not take him long to get back home. Athrun went in and turned out the porch light.

He did not know that there was someone in that seemingly empty car that had been parked across the street. Someone that had been watching him. Someone with angry eyes.

TBC

Anyone getting tired of the whole angry eyes thing yet. I'm not. I am doing it that way as a way to identify that person. I don't mean to be able to tell who it is, just to know that it is the same person. And since I don't want to tell yet if this person is male or female, or any other features about this person this is the easiest way. But...have you noticed anything about this person other than the fact said person is angry? Just wondering.