The Heart Doesn't Lie

Disclaimer: Interviewer: Author, do you own the shows this story is based off of, GS/GSD?

Author: No, I'm afraid I do not own them. All I own is the plot of this particular story and the OC Jet. Also Joe's.

Note: To Yunih and furin-a. I thank you for your kind words and I am glad you like my story. Your reviews make me smile and makes me want to post the next chapter soon.

Chapter 9

Jet walked into the school Monday morning and looked around. He had come in on Friday to enroll and register for classes. On Saturday when he came up here to help tear down the festival, Shinn had shown him around some. He knew where the lunch room, gym, and library were. He had a little bit of an idea about the hallways, they were lettered to identify them.

The halls were already starting to fill up with students getting ready to start another school day. Jet still had to go to the office to pick up his schedule. As he made his way there students stopped what they were doing to look at him. He was not surprised, at his old school he had quite a following of girls, and he is a new face here. He could hear whispers from people glancing his way as he walked by.

Jet made is way to the office. There were a few students in there when he walked in. One he recognized from the clean-up on Saturday. It was the one that had been in charge of the work. Shinn had told him his name but Jet could not remember it. The other he was somewhat familiar with, although he had never been formally introduced. He was curious about this person.

They both looked at him as he went up to the counter. The secretary had been expecting him and quickly handed him the papers he had come for. His class list and his locker number. He turned to leave but was stopped by one of the other students.

"You must be the new student." the orange haired one said.

Jet turned to face him before answering, "Yes, I am."

"My name is Heine, this is Athrun." Heine said pointing towards Athrun.

"Jet. Nice to meet you."

"You look familiar. Were you here on Saturday?" Heine asked him.

"Yes, I was bored and Shinn said he was coming to the school to help tear down the festival. I figured since I was going to be going to school here it should be okay for me to come help out. Also I got to look around the school a little too."

"So you know Shinn." Heine said.

"Yeah, he lives down the street from me."

"Are you the reason he did not come out to eat with us Saturday after clean-up?"

At this the other two looked at Heine with questioning looks on their face. 'Shinn had plans the other night?' Athrun thought, 'Why did he stop at my house if he had plans? I didn't mean to keep him from something else.'

"No. Shinn said he wasn't going to the restaurant because he hadn't been invited. He didn't want to invite himself. I asked him about it and that is what he told me. So I drove him home, or I was driving him home but he stopped me at a house that someone had egged and toilet papered." Jet told Heine.

"A house someone had egged and toilet papered, I wonder whose house that was?" Heine said.

Athrun sighed, "Mine."

"Yours?" Heine and Jet both said.

Athrun had not planned on telling anyone about what had happened to his house. Shinn knew because he had seen it, but Athrun did not know that Shinn had been dropped off there. He had been in the backyard and by time he had come around to the front of the house Shinn had been there but he had not seen a car. He knew Shinn walked places sometimes so he thought he had been walking that day.

"Yes, mine."

"Athrun, what happened? Do you know who it was?" Heine asked him concerned.

"No. I was resting, still worn out from planning the festival, when someone rang the doorbell. When I answered it there was no one there, but I saw there was toilet paper everywhere and eggs."

Heine did not have time to question it further. The first bell rang and Athrun left the office to head to class. Heine glanced over at Jet who was looking at the door Athrun had just walked out of.

"Was it just me or did it seem like he really did not want to talk about that?" Jet asked Heine.

"I got that feeling too." Heine answered. "Would you like me to show you to your locker and first class?"

"Won't you be late if you do that?"

"It's alright if I am a little late. My first period teacher likes me and will excuse it if I explain the reason behind my tardy."

"I'll accept your offer then. Thanks."

"Let me see your schedule. First period Science with Dullindal. Same as me. I know where this locker is too. Follow me." Heine and Jet then left the office so they would not be too late for class.

X x x

Luna was sitting in her second period Government class before class started. Fllay and Mia were not in this class with her, but Shinn was. So was Stellar. She looked just in time to see those two people enter the room holding hands. She was not the only one that had noticed everyone else had as well.

"Hey Shinn, you finally ask Stellar to be your girl?" one of Shinn's friends asked him.

Shinn smiled and answered, "Yes. Stellar and I are going out now."

This statement was followed by cheers and random comments like; Shinn is off the market now, Shinn scored himself a good one, and way to go Shinn. It was too much for Luna to handle, so she quietly gather her stuff and left the room. No one seemed to notice that she had left.

Luna ran out of the school and right into Rusty who was just now coming to school. She had not seen him because she was trying to stop the tears from coming.

"Woah, Luna" Rusty said catching her. He quickly noticed that something was wrong with her.

"What's wrong?" he asked her loosing his hold on her a little.

Luna shook her head, "It's nothing. I have to go."

Luna tried to pull away but Rusty refused to release his hold on her. He was not going to let her go like this. He might be a playboy, but he was not a complete jerk who did not care about anyone else.

"Luna it is obvious something is wrong. It's not nothing if it has you this upset. You would probably talk to Fllay and Mia about this kind of thing, but they are not here right now, I am. So please talk to me, tell me what happened. I'm really worried about you right now."

When Luna still did not say anything he thought maybe a change of scenery was in order.

"Hey I could really use some coffee, how about you? We could go over to Joe's, they have the best coffee there."

Luna realized Rusty was trying really hard to help her and what he said had been right. She would normally talk to her two friends about this, but they were in class right now and she did not want to be the cause of them skipping too.

"Yeah, coffee sounds good."

Rusty led her to his car and they drove to Joe's Coffee shop. Once they were inside and have gotten their order Rusty decided to ask her again.

"So what happened? What has gotten you so upset?" Rusty asked.

Luna took a drink then put down her coffee.

"There is a guy I like. I really like him, but I found out today that he has a girlfriend now. The way the class was acting was like it was the greatest thing in the world that the two of them had gotten together.

Seeing him with her, hearing all those comments, it hurt. Bad. I just couldn't take it anymore, I had to get out of there."

Rusty could tell she was trying not to cry even though she was in pain. He understood, her heart had been broken. Any girl would cry in her position. Hearts are fragile things. He sat there trying to think of something to say to help her but before he could say anything she spoke again.

"A couple of days ago a close friend was hurt. It had to do with a guy as well. I tried to think of what to say to comfort her. I did not want to say a whole bunch of meaningless words to her about how she was better off without him and the likes of that. As I sat there not knowing exactly what to do my other friend said these words to her; 'It's going to be alright, maybe not right away, if will hurt for a little while, but eventually it will be alright. Eventually the pain will pass, but in the meantime your friends will be here to help you through it.'"

Luna paused for a moment, "After she said those words I was happy in a way. I felt that she had said exactly the right words. Words that were full of truth, words that did not cover the fact that the pain would be there. It was going to immediately go away. Words that help promises for a tome the pain would be gone. When I sit here now in my own heartbreak, remembering those words helps me feel a little better. I know my friends will be there for me and eventually I will be alright."

"So you don't have to say anything to try to make me feel better. It is enough that you are here and concerned about me. I feel like you are showing your support in your own way."

"I am." Rusty said smiling at Luna.

X x x

"Milly" Dearka called to the girl he liked. It was lunch time and he was hoping to get to talk to her. He had not had a chance to talk to her since dinner the other night.

Milly turned around and smiled at him.

"Hello, Dearka. You were calling for me?" She asked him with that sweet smile on her face.

"Yes, would you eat lunch with me? I would like to talk to you."

"Okay. I wanted to talk to you too."

Dearka led her over to a grass area under a tree outside. At this school the students usually stayed on campus for lunch. The school's food was pretty good. When the weather was nice they would go outside to eat in the yard. The weather today was just right for that.

"I was wondering if you thought about what I said the other night yet?" Dearka was pretty sure she had but thought it would be bad if he just assumed that.

Milly stayed quiet for a while. She was thinking of what she wanted to say.

"Yeah, I have. I was surprised the other night. I had never seen that side of you before. All I had ever seen was the playboy who was never serious about anything. But you showed me you can be serious. I decided I would not mind getting to know you better. I would like to see this other side of you some more. No I don't expect you to completely change and always be that serious, just every now and then it would be nice to see."

Having said that, I would like to get to know you better, but I don't think I am ready to get in a relationship with you. I don't think that would be fair to either one of us." Milly continued.

She looked over at Dearka and could tell he was a little confused by her last statement.

"What I mean is, I liked someone else. I really liked him and wanted to go out with him. I never told

him this, that's not the problem. The other night after talking to you I noticed that he would never return the feelings I have for him. I realized that he likes someone else. I thought he would be someone who would not hurt me. I realized if I continued to have feelings for him that was exactly what was going to happen. I decided to end my feelings for him."

"A person can not end their feelings so easily though. I do want to not like him like that anymore, but just because I want it doesn't mean it is going to happen right away. It will take some time. If I were to get in a relationship with you now I would feel I was doing it just to get over him. I don't want to use you that way, especially when you seemed so sincere the other night."

Dearka understood what Milly was saying. Even if he knew that she had liked someone else and was trying to get over that person, if he said he did not mind helping her forget him, she would always feel that she had used him. Even if he did not mind being used by her in such a way she would mind. Milly needed time.

"you said you wanted to get to know me better, so why don't we start off as friends. We can get to know each other as friends and you would be able to have time to get over your past love." Dearka suggested.

Milly smiled at him, "I would like that. Thank you for understanding."

x x x

Yzak walked out of the school for lunch. He had seen Dearka meet up with Milly and walk away. As expected it had made him mad. He could feel his heart aching. Yzak decided he needed some air and to get away from the scene between Dearka and Milly so he would go for a walk.

Yzak took off towards the garden area. He had never been there before, but he had heard that there were paths through it. He had no idea why the school had such a thing, as far as he could tell it would be a good place to hid to ditch class, right now he was glad it was here. Yzak followed one of the paths inside. He passed several side paths but decided to stay on the one he was on.

The path that Yzak had been following lead to an opening that had benches and a fountain. He never knew something like this existed at this school. He was willing to bet not many students did know. Someone did though, he was not alone in the opening. There kneeling in front of the fountain was a girl. Yzak could only see her backside, but that did not look familiar to him. He wondered if she was really a student of this school.

The girl must have sensed she was no longer alone because she got up and turned towards him. She smiled softly and Yzak's breath caught in his throat. She had the most beautiful smile he had ever seen. Her hair was light brown and layered, long in the back, framed her face a little in the front. Her eyes were also brown, they had a warmth to them. Yzak was sure he had never seen this girl before.

"So someone else managed to find this place. I thought I was the only one who knew about it. I've never seen anyone else here before." She stated still smiling softly.

"I heard there were paths in the garden but I did not know they led to a place like this." yzak told her.

"Not all of them do. Most of the side paths just circle around and lead you back out. Only one of the main paths leads here, the one you followed to get here. The other main path just leads to a dead end."

"Only this one main path leads here? You would think it would be a side path." Yzak said.

"Maybe that's why. People generally think that if there is a side path it will lead them somewhere good. So they turn off the main path to find out where the side path goes. Maybe I read to much into it but I think it is like that because there is a lesson to be learned from it."

"What lesson?"

"A lesson on life. If you look at the course of your life there is one main path. On that main path there may be many side paths, many opportunities to stray from the main path. It is okay to stray from the main path every now and then, as long as we can end up back on the main path and continue in the right direction, instead of going backwards. See a lesson."

"I take it you have been here a lot?" he asked her.

She laughed, "Yes and I have had a lot of time to think about this. I am a person who believes that things happen for a reason. So that extends to this garden as well, that there is a reason for it. What better reason than to teach a life lesson. It is on the grounds of a school after all."

Yzak had to smile a little at what she had said. "I guess you have a point. It would make sense, this school tries to throw in life lessons every chance they get."

She laughed again and Yzak thought it was a beautiful sound. "That's right they do."

The two continued to talk about different things until they heard the first bell in the distance. They walked down the path out of the garden together. When the reached the end of the path they went to part ways.

"Hey, my name is Yzak. And you are?"

"Arianna, my friends call me Ari." Ari told him. Ari walked away heading towards the school.

"Ari, huh? You are a very interesting person Ari." Yzak said quietly, turning a walking towards a different part of the school than Ari had.

X x x

Rusty sat through lunch deep in thought. He was with some of his friends, but he wasn't really paying attention to them. He was thinking about Luna. She had really surprised him earlier. He was amazed at just how strong of a person she was. To be in that much pain and be able to say the things she had, she had a strength he had never known she had.

Rusty had been interested in her lately. He flirted with her when he saw her, but he really had not been to serious about her. Until today. Today had changed everything. He now longer wanted to go out with her to be the same as all the other girls he had pursued. Ones that he liked a little but not all that much. Not enough to consider having a real relationship with. He had a good opinion of Luna before, which is why he had pursued her in the first place. Now that opinion had changed for the better. From now on when he pursued her he would do it seriously. He now wanted to have a real relationship with her. 'I'll give her some time though, she was hurt by that guy.'

x x x

Athrun had to leave school a little early. He had an appointment he needed to keep. He waved bye to Kira before heading to his locker to retrieve the books he would be needing tonight. Then he left the school and went out to his car. He had been parked facing away from the school so it wasn't until he was about to get in the car that he notice something was wrong.

There were scratches on the car that had not been there earlier. On closer inspection Athrun could tell what they were. Someone had keyed his car. He walked around the car looking to see how bad it was when he noticed that it had not just been keyed. All the lights on the front of his car had been broken. Seeing this caused Athrun to become furious. First his house and now his car. He got in the car and slammed the door in a fit of anger. Then he sped out of the parking lot and away from the school.

Parked in a car not far away a person with angry eyes was smiling.

TBC