The Heart Doesn't Lie

Disclaimer: Although I, along with a lot of other people, wish I own them, I do not. GS/GSD and the characters belong to someone else.

Note:

Darkmoon Fleur- Thank you, I'm happy you liked chap. 17 and 18.

M- Thanks. I like the dream part too.

Furin-a -I am a little confused, not really sure if you liked the chapt or not.

Chapter 19

"I saw Athrun talking to you at lunch today." Jet said to Shinn. The two were sitting in Jet's living room. Jet lived in a small house a few doors down from Shinn. It had one bedroom, a kitchen that you could barely turn around in, and a living room that wasn't much bigger than the bedroom. There was not much furniture and the walls were also bare. A person would have a hard time believing someone really lived there. This was Shinn's first time inside.

"Yeah, I talked to him."

"Well, did he answer you?"

Shinn looked over at Jet and nodded. Jet could tell by the look on Shinn's face that Athrun had rejected him.

"Sorry, man. I shouldn't have push you into confessing."

"Why? Did you know he was going to reject me? He rejects me because he has feelings for someone else. He doesn't even know how that person feels about him. They might just turn around and reject him. Then he will feel hurt like I do." Shinn said.

Jet sat down next to Shinn, "You could always be there for him if that happens. Comfort him, then maybe he would see what a great guy you are and that he was a fool to give you up."

"Like that will happen."

"You never know, Shinn. I've seen it happen before."

"So you are going to continue to encourage me even now, after he has rejected me. Do you hate me or something and you want to see me in a lot of pain?"

"No. I just know it is not easy to give up on someone you really love even if they have rejected you. Have your feelings for him changed since you talked to him?"

Shinn looked down at the floor, "No."

"See, when you really love someone, you can't just turn those feelings off and on like a switch. It doesn't work that way." Jet said. Shinn did not want to talk about this any longer. The more he thought about it the more it hurt.

"Hey Jet, how come you don't have more things here? It doesn't even really look like you live here."

"I have what I need, can't really afford more."

"That's right you live on your own. Where is your family?" Shinn asked.

"You certainly like to pry, don't you?"

"You pried into my life why can't I pry into yours a little?"

Jet laughed, "That's fair I suppose. All right my family lives in a different part of Orb. We were having a slight problem, so I moved here for a while. I am trying to help my family out."

"What happened?"

"My father's company was... bought out. The new owners are threatening to shut it down if... some things aren't done. If they shut it down it will hurt a lot more than just my family. A lot of people in that area rely on that company to survive. So it will be really bad if they shut it down."

"Oh." Shinn did not really understand the situation but he could tell Jet did not really like talking about it.

"Are you hungry? We could go get something to eat." Shinn asked Jet.

"Sure. I don't really have anything here. Pizza sounds good."

x x x

Kira sat at the table in the dining room waiting for Lenora to sit down. She had insisted that he come over for dinner. Not wanting to disappoint her, he agreed. She had prepared a nice meal for the three of them. Lenora took her seat and the three started to fill their plates.

"So uncle left today?" Kira asked.

"Yes, he has an important meeting tomorrow. I really wish he would have been able to stay longer this time." Lenora said.

"Well he is a busy man." Kira said.

"I know, I just miss getting to spend more than an evening with my family. Athrun is getting older and in a couple of years will be off to college, probably moving out. Then he will be getting married, and"

"You are marrying me off already? Aren't you rushing things a little?" Athrun asked.

"The time will go by so quickly. I should be prepared. So anyway, he'll get married and then have children of his own and"

"Now I'm having children? What if I don't have children of my own? What if I don't get married?" Athrun asked.

Lenora and Kira looked over at him slightly worried at his outburst.

"Why wouldn't you get married?" Lenora asked him.

"Maybe I will, maybe I won't, but what if I marry someone who is unable to have children?" he answered.

"With technology now almost anything is possible. Even women who were unable to before are able to have children. So whatever woman you choose should be able to."

"And what if I don't choose a woman? What if I choose a man?" Athrun asked her.

"A man? Well, you could always adopt. Or maybe find a surrogate that way the child could have one of your genes." Lenora said.

Athrun was a little surprised he hadn't expected an answer like that. He knew his mother did not have a problem with gay people, but sometimes it was different when it was your own child.

"You are taking this quite well." Athrun said. All Kira could do was sit there and listen to the conversation. He wanted to see how Lenora would react, what she would say. He also wanted to know what else Athrun had to say on the matter. Maybe Kira had been wrong and it was not a woman that Athrun liked.

"What? Finding out my son prefers other guys to girls? I had already figured that out, I was just waiting for you to tell me yourself." Lenora told him.

"What? How... how did you... what do you mean you already figured that out?" Athrun asked confused how his mother could have figure it out when he had only recently figured out he really did not like girls in that way. Sure he knew that he has had feelings for Kira for a while, but he had thought that was because it was Kira. That Kira was the only guy he liked like that.

"I can't really explain it a mother just knows these things. I guess I could say you have never seemed to take an interest in females. You were with Lacus for a while, but I felt that your relationship was closer to that of siblings than lovers."

"And by that you assumed I was into guys." Athrun said, slightly angry.

"That, among other things that I won't discuss at this time. But then again, I do know who it is that you love and maybe you would love that person whether they were male or female."

Athrun blushed. He had no idea how his mother knew who he loves. He has never told her his feelings. Lenora noticed her son's blush and confusion.

"You think I haven't noticed the way you are with him. The way you look at him. You think I can't see the love in your eyes when you look at him. And that I don't understand that it is not just a friendly or brotherly love. You think I haven't seen the same emotions run through him when he looks at you. The two of you are deeply in love with each other, you just haven't realized it out yet. I know his mother can see it too, we have talk about it before. We've been waiting to see how long it would take the two of you to figure it out."

Lenora was pretty sure she had never seen a redder face than the one she saw in front of her now. Athrun had looked away from her. Kira looked from Athrun to Lenora clearly confused by the conversation that had just taken place between the two. He did not know who the other person was Lenora had been talking about. Kira felt his heart sink, Athrun liked this person so much that even his mother could tell it. Where did that leave him? If that was the case then he did not have any chance of being with him.

Nothing else was said all of dinner. Athrun was too embarrassed about what his mother had said to look at the other two at the table so he keep his eyes down on his plate. Kira was deep in thought about everything. Lenora sighed, it appeared that what she had done to help the situation had failed. Maybe it would have been better if she would have come right out and said Kira was the one Athrun loves, but they really did need to work this out for themselves. She had done all she could.

"I'm finished. I cooked so the two of you can clean up." Lenora said getting up and taking her plate into the kitchen. After that she left and went into the living room. Kira got up and started clearing the table. Athrun looked up at him as he walked off to go into the kitchen then got up and grabbed some dishes following him. Athrun found Kira standing at the sink deep in thought.

"Am I in your way Athrun? Does my always being around you cause you problems?" Kira said, quietly.

"What are you talking about Kira? Why would you be in my way? I don't even know what you mean by that." Athrun answered.

"You have someone that you love. Even your mother can see it. But maybe my always being with you keeps you from being with that person."

"No, that's not true. Don't even think that way Kira."

"How can I not? You spend so much time with me, how can you have time for anyone else. I should give you some space so that you can try to work things out with him. Sorry, I should go. I'll help you next time" Kira said and ran out of the house, leaving Athrun to try to understand what just happened.

Why had Kira sounded hurt? Was what his mother said true? Kira had not known that it was him she was talking about, there was no way he could have. But his mother had said the person Athrun loves feels that way too. It that was true then Kira probably would feel hurt if he thought she was talking about someone else and not him. So Kira thinks he is in live with someone else, and that Athrun doesn't love him.

"Man, what a mess. I have to straighten this out." Athrun said to himself.

X x x

Kira ran. He did not know where he was running, but it didn't matter. He had to get away. He could not face Athrun right now. The thought of him loving someone else hurt too much. As he ran he could feel the tears being blown off his face by the wind.

Kira ran until he could not run anymore. He stopped, panting, trying to catch his breath. Kira never imagined loving someone could hurt so much. What was he going to do? Athrun loves someone else. Someone that is not him. He would never be able to hold Athrun like he wanted too. And as his friend he would need to be happy for him. But could he? Could he be happy with Athrun with someone else when he loves him so much? He would have to be, they were friends and that was what friends did. And Kira had never hated that word as much before as he did at this moment. Friends.

X x x

Jet walked into the house and dropped his keys on the one table the small house had. He walked into the kitchen over to the fridge opening it open to grab a pop. After taking a drink he walked back into the small living room. He stopped by the table once again and picked up the picture, the only picture he had in this house. The picture was of his family. His father, mother, older sister Megan, and Jet's twin brother Jude. Jet was also in the picture. The picture had been taken on the twins 18th birthday. The family had been so happy that day. Megan had come home from college to celebrate with them. Now she was home for a different reason. She was home because the family could no longer afford to send her to college. Thanks to the buy out.

His conversation earlier with Shinn had made him think about things that he did not want to think about. Things that made him angry. His situation with his family was not a good one. He had not told Shinn everything. Actually he had been very careful about what he said to the boy. If Shinn knew what was going on, what he was doing it could ruin everything. And he could not have that. Everything he was doing was for his family and the other people that worked for the company. He could not have it all be for naught.

The longer Jet looked at the picture and thought about things the angrier he got about everything.

"Damnit" He yelled and threw the pop against the wall, watching as it hit and the liquid splatter all over. Jet walked off, entered the bedroom and slammed the door.

X x x

Ari sat in her bedroom in front of the computer. She was doing some research over the Internet. There was something that had been bugging her lately that she just had to look into. She needed to see something that might justify her suspicions. She typed in the name of what she was looking for. Different sites popped up. There were profiles, general websites, and media websites. She clicked on one of the media ones and skimmed over the article.

"This is very interesting. This might be what I was looking for." Ari said to herself and printed out the article.

X x x

The week went rather slowly, but not slow enough for Kira. But now Friday was here. Kira was having a hard time hiding his uneasiness that Athrun would be staying with him for a while. He had raised more than one eyebrow to his strange mood this week. Cagalli had question him about it but he did not answer her. What was he to tell her? The guy I am secretly in love with, who I recently found out is in love with someone else is going to be staying in my room starting Friday. He could not really tell her that.

Kira had spent the rest of the week since the dinner at Athrun's house avoiding him. He would not walk away if there were other people there, but he did not want to be alon with him. So any time that happened he was suddenly busy. Kira knew Athrun wasn't stupid and probably figure something was up, but he just did not want to deal with it yet. But now that Athrun would be staying with him in his room, he probably would not be able to get away with it so easily.

Kira was in his room making sure it was fairly picked up before Athrun came over. Athrun had went to his house after school to pick up his things. He hadn't wanted to bring it all to school. Kira was fixing his bed when there was a knock at his door.

"It's open." Kira said, as the person who had knocked opened the door.

"I'm here." Athrun said walking into the room.

"Hey, come in put your stuff anywhere. Is that all of it?" Kira said, trying to act like everything was okay between them.

"Yes, I figured I could always go home if I needed anything else."

Athrun put his stuff down in the corner and sat down on the bed. Kira busied himself with hanging up some clothes that his mother had brought in earlier. Athrun watched Kira wanting to say something to his friend. He knew that Kira was avoiding him and he knew why. He wanted to correct the situation but he was unsure of how to go about it.

"What do you want to do tonight? My parents are going to dinner with some friends, so they will be out late. And it seems Cagalli has a date with Miguel." Kira said before Athrun got the chance to say anything.

"So those two are going out now?"

"I guess, she doesn't really talk about it and gets mad when ever anyone brings it up." Kira said, walking over to the stereo to turn it on.

"I wonder why. If they like each other what's the big deal? Hey stop it there I like that song." Athrun said. The song was Wings of Words by Chemistry.

"I don't know what the big deal is. You like this song? It's kind of weird."

Athrun looked over at him and shrugged, "Yeah but after you hear it a few times it grows on you. So it is just you and me then, huh?"

Kira looked back at him unable to read the expression that was now on Athrun's face. "Yes, but not for an hour or so. My parents are still here now."

"I know, your mom let me in. We could watch a movie or something. You got anything to eat?"

"Let's go see." Kira said and led Athrun to the kitchen. Once there the two look around and found something that sounded good to them. They agreed that Athrun would cook and Kira would clean up. A couple of hours later they were both well feed and the mess was cleaned up. They sat in the living room alone watching television.

"Kira, about what my mom said the other day, " Athrun started.

"You don't own me any explanation Athrun." Kira interrupted.

"I want to explain. You need to hear what I have to say." Athrun tried again.

"No, I don't. I don't need to hear anything, I don't want to hear it. Who you love is your business it doesn't have anything to do with me."

"Yes it does. I love" Athrun said.

"I said I don't want to hear it. I don't care who you love. So just drop it Athrun. I'm going to bed."

Kira yelled then left the room. Athrun heard his door slam a minute later.

"This is going to be harder than I thought." Athrun said and laid down on the couch. He was trying to think of a way to get Kira to listen to him. Or some way to let Kira know how he feels.

TBC

Poor Athrun, Kira is being stubborn and won't listen to him. Truth is before I rewrote this, Lenora had told them the others feelings, I know she in a way did that here, but Kira didn't know she was talking about him. In the original he did. I wanted it to be a little harder than that for them, and it actually works better for a part of the story, where I needed an excuse to get Athrun somewhere.