The Heart Doesn't Lie
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed, Gundam Seed Destiny or any of the characters in this story
except for Jet and Ari they are my made up characters.
Note: I would like to thank my reviewers, you really make my day. As far as angry eyes person goes, it will be a little while before that is revealed. Maybe I am messing it up by dragging it out and when it is revealed everyone will think it was disappointing, but I am trying to keep that from happening and there are other reasons to keep it going.
This chapter skips ahead a couple of days to Wednesday.
Chapter 11
Athrun and Kira were sitting together in Kira's car before school. Athrun, who had not come to school the day before, had called Kira early this morning asking him to pick him up.
"So what happened yesterday? It's not like you to miss school." Kira asked his best friend.
"Nothing. I just had something to do." Athrun answered not really wanting to talk about what had happened.
"Where is your car?" Kira asked trying to get some information from his friend. They normally told each other just about everything. Kira could tell Athrun was keeping something from him. Something that was bothering him.
"I put it in the shop." Athrun said giving him a short answer. "Can we talk about something else?"
"Okay. I seemed to have made Cagalli mad the other day. She lectured me." Kira told him granting his friend wish to change the subject.
"What did you do?" Athrun asked.
"I asked about Miguel. That wasn't what earned me a lecture though. I asked her about liking someone else. I guess it surprised her that I knew about it, so she got mad."
"So she lectured you?"
"Yes, but the lecture wasn't just about me. It was about you too."
"Me? Why? What did I do?" Athrun asked confused as to why Cagalli would lecture about him.
"It's more what you, I mean both of us, haven't done." Kira answered. Kira proceeded to tell Athrun all about what Cagalli had said when she blew up at him.
"Oh. I see. So according to her, we both should have a girlfriend." Athrun said after Kira had finished.
"Yeah. She was wrong though. I don't care about having fan girls. And I not trying to keep a bunch of girls interested in me either. I just haven't given it much thought. I think the same goes for you. Does that make us bad guys?" Kira asked.
"I guess. We are suppose to be like all the other guys trying to get a girlfriend."
"Maybe we should start thinking about whether there is anyone we like or not." Kira said leaning back some in his seat.
"I already know the answer to that. There is someone that I like." Athrun said, looking out the window.
"Really, who is it?"
"I'll tell you some other time, but not now. I'm not ready to talk about it."
"So, I take it you have not confessed, or asked the girl out?" Kira asked trying to get something out of his friend.
"No, and I don't plan to right now." Athrun answered.
"Ah, come on Athrun. If you asked the girl out, then Cagalli would not be able to say things like that about you anymore."
Athrun glanced over at Kira, his face that had been calm before now showing traces of anger.
"I have other things on my mind right now. I don't have time for that. If that makes me a bad guy, so be it." Athrun said causing Kira to sit back up in surprise. He had never heard Athrun sound like that. He sounded cold and angry. Sure he had seen Athrun angry before, but this seemed deeper.
"Athrun what is going on?"
"I told you it's nothing." Athrun told him and got out of the car. Athrun did not wait for Kira, who had to grab his books. He wasn't mad at Kira, he just wasn't in the mood to talk about it.
He had spent the day yesterday trying to find a shop that could fix his car. There weren't many around who could do something about the key marks. It was going to take a little while to fix and it was not going to be cheap. He did not want to drive his mom's car to school afraid that something might happen to it too. That meant he would be out a car for a while.
"Maybe I should talk to Kira. I am going to need him to drive me and not telling him why it's really fair to him." Athrun said to himself. "I tell him later."
x x x
Jet and Shinn pulled into the school in time to see Athrun get out of a car and storm up to the building. Jet had told Shinn he would take him to school since he was on the way. Shinn had been happy to accept the offer.
Shinn sat there watching Athun walk up to the building. 'Athrun. He looks angry, I wonder what happened. I didn't see him yesterday. Why didn't he come to school? Was he sick or hurt? I missed him.' Shinn blushed slightly at his thoughts. The blush did not go unnoticed by the other occupant of the car.
"What are you thinking about to be blushing? You seemed to have been looking at Athrun, so why would you blush?" Jet asked slightly amused at Shinn's obvious discomfort to his words.
"I wasn't." Shinn declared.
"You were." Jet corrected. "My eyesight is pretty good and I clearly saw you looking at him and blushing."
Shinn glared at him. "Shut up. I was not."
"We could sit here fighting back and forth like children, 'you were', 'I wasn't' but that isn't going to change the truth. So why don't you just face it. Do you happen to have feeling for him?" Jet said.
Shinn blushed even more but did not say anything.
"So you do."
"I...I can't. We are both guys. It's not right. It's not possible." Shinn said quieter than before.
"So you are trying to cover the feelings you have for that guy by going out with a girl. How is that working for you?"
"What?"
"You like him, that much I can tell, but you now have a girlfriend. Did you get together with her to prove to yourself that you don't like him? Or to make the feelings you have for him go away? I think it's one of the two, if not both. So is it working? Are your feelings going away?"
"Stop it! You don't know what you are talking about. I like Stellar, that is not a lie."
"Maybe, but do you like her the same way you like him? Are your feelings for her stronger than the feeling you have for him. Why don't you really think about it?"
"What good would that do. Even if what you say is true, what good will it do to acknowledge it? He would not return the feelings and it would just hurt me. Athrun is a very popular guy, a lot of girls like him. Why would he choose a guy?"
"Does he have a girlfriend? Does he have a girl he seems to like?" Jet asked. "If he doesn't then maybe he hasn't found what he is looking for yet. Oh, don't forget I can't take you home today, I have to leave early."
With that Jet got out of the car. The first bell would be ringing soon and he did not want to be late. Plus he did not want to give Shinn a chance to respond to what he had just said. Shinn was in denial and needed to think about things. He was stuck on the fact they were both guys.
Shinn sat in the car thinking. He understood what Jet was saying, but he still could not accept things. Not the blushes, not the way his heart had pounded, and not the jealous feelings he had had. He could not accept it, he would not accept it. He would be happy with Stellar.
X x x
Lunch time came around and Athrun was on his own. He wasn't sure where all his friends had disappeared to, but maybe it was just as well. He did not want to answer any questions yet. He figure they would be trying to find out why he was in a bad mood and why he had missed school yesterday.
As he sat under the tree they usually ate lunch under a shadow fell over him. He looked up to see Mia looking down at him.
"Are you eating alone today?" Mia asked.
"I guess so, I don't know where everyone else is." he answered.
"Do you mind if I join you?" she asked.
"Suit yourself."
Mia sat down next to Athrun and started eating her lunch. Athrun was quieter than normal today and that bothered her. She wanted to see the smile he usually had, but it did not seem to be anywhere in sight. After a few minutes the silence was getting to her so she decided to try to get him to talk.
"Athrun, is there anyone you like?" She asked not really sure she wanted to hear the answer.
"Anyone I like? You mean like a girl?" He asked.
"Yes."
"I like some girls, as friends. But I don't think there is any that I like in the way you are asking." He answered her truthfully. He understood that it might hurt her feelings, but he did not think it would be right to lie about it. He knew she liked him and to lie about it would give her hope. But giving her hope would only hurt her worse in the long run.
"I see." Mia did not know what to say next. She now knew he did not share her feelings and that hurt. Maybe it helped a little to know he did not like anyone else as well. There was no one in his heart. The more she thought of it that way, the sadder she got. He did not like anyone. He felt nothing. She wanted him to feel something. Something for someone. That is why it made her sad. To her it was like he was an empty shell right now.
X x x
Stellar looked over at her boyfriend. She had not failed to notice that his eyes were elsewhere. Suddenly he appeared to get a little angry. She followed his gaze and noticed what it was he had been looking at.
"Shinn is something wrong.? You seem to be angry?" She asked him.
Shinn turned his gaze back to his girlfriend, "No, nothings wrong. I'm not angry."
It was a lie he knew. Even if he wished it was the truth it wasn't. He was angry. Angry at a certain pink haired girl that dared to get to close to his Athrun. 'What? My Athrun? Since when has he been mine?' In other words he was jealous again.
Stellar could tell that he was not being honest with her. What she really wanted to know was, was he being honest with himself?
X x x
The group sat in one of the class rooms for lunch, the group being Athrun's friends who had disappeared. They had agreed to meet here and not tell him for a reason. They were still planning his birthday party, the bonfire at the beach. They did feel kind of bad leaving him all by himself at lunch though.
"So that's the plan. Kira you are responsible for getting him to the beach on time." Lacus stated.
"I know, but I don't know if that is going to be so easy." Kira said.
"Why not? You're his best friend he'll go with you if you ask him to." Cagalli said.
"I don't know about that. Have any of you talked to him lately? He is not in a good mood. I was talking to him this morning and a couple of times the things he said came out cold. Like he is angry about something. He would not tell me why he missed school yesterday and he changed the subject before I could ask him why his car is in the shop." Kira told his friends his voice full of concern.
"I know why his car is in the shop." Heine told them.
"What? He told you, but he wouldn't tell me?" Kira said upset.
"No, he did not tell me. I went to his house the other day after school to talk to him. He wasn't there but his car was. It had been keyed and all the front lights busted out." Heine answered.
Everyone sat there stunned not knowing what to say to this.
"Who would do that? Everyone likes Athrun." Dearka said. Others nodded their head in agreement.
"It was not the first attack on him." said Jet. Jet had quickly become friends with the group after Heine had introduced him to everyone on Monday. He fit in perfectly with them.
"What do you mean Jet? Not the first attack on him. What do you know that we don't?" Rusty asked.
"Hey, I'm not the only one that knows about it. Heine does too." Jet said.
"Knows about what?" Yzak asked starting to get angry. Athrun might not be his best friend, but he was still his friend and Yzak did not like the fact someone was messing with one of his friends.
"The attack was on his house. Someone egged and toilet papered it on Saturday." Heine said.
"He only told us because I happened to mention that I had taken Shinn home that day and he had told me to stop at that house. Heine said he wondered whose house it was and he admitted it was his." Jet said.
"We got the feeling he didn't want to talk about it." Heine added.
"Do you think it could be the same person?" Nicol asked.
"Don't know, but probably." Heine said.
"So this person has attack him indirectly twice." Miguel said.
"Maybe not twice, but three times." Kira said.
"Three times? What was the third time?" Cagalli asked.
"Athrun was the one that worked the hardest on planning the festival. He made the arrangements for a lot of the attractions that went on there. An attack on one of those attractions, like the haunted house, could be considered an attack on him. Of course I don't know that for sure, but it is possible." Kira told them all.
"You may be on to something there. If we think about it that way then we have the haunted house first, which wasn't really that big of a deal because we all worked together to fix it. Then his house, which I'm sure annoyed him and took some time to clean up, but again, not that big of a deal. That was followed by his car, which he is going to have to pay to fix. One has to wonder whether the attacks will stop there or are they going to get worse?"
"I would be mad too if I was him." Dearka said.
"I still don't understand what reason someone would have for targeting him." Milly stated. None of them understood the reason. They all sat there in silence for a little bit taking in all that they had just learned. The bell rang shortly after signaling the end of lunch.
"Cagalli wait up." Miguel said.
Cagalli stopped walking and waited for him to make his way over to her.
"How about we go to Joe's after school. I hear they started serving a new pie that is really good. I'd like to try it." he asked her.
"I heard about it as well. Sure we'll go." She said smiling at him. This interaction was witnessed by a few of their friends.
X x x
Athrun had asked Kira to take him home. His friends had asked him to join them after school, but he did not feel in the mood for it. They had all started looking at him funny after lunch and he did not know why. He just wanted to get away from all of them. He also still had a lot of work to do to make up for the day he had missed. Not to mention his ongoing history project that was due soon.
He went in the kitchen to grab a drink then headed up to his room to start his homework. His mood got even worse that it already was once he entered his room. His computer, the computer that held the history project they had been assigned the second week of school, was completely smashed.
Somewhere not far away was a person with angry eyes. Although the person could not see Athrun right now, the person knew what Athrun would find, and it made that person laugh.
TBC
Oh, I am really being mean to my favorite character. Ah well, it must be done. Maybe it doesn't really have to be done, but I'm doing it anyway.
