A/N: Umm a few notes before I begin this chapter…

Cagalli and Kira are NOT siblings. Just good friends.

Athrun and Lacus aren't engaged, nor will they ever be.

There is no such thing as Cordinators and Naturals.

This story is based in the present. Nothing futuristic or really technological.

Everyone is either sixteen or fifteen.

That's about it, I think…other than my warning that the rating may change to M in future, I might put in some swearing and there are other things to take into account, so, yeah.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam SEED.

Chapter Two

It's You!

The first day of school. It is always a hectic sort of day. The new timetables are handed out and the Year Adviser gives you a long-winded boring speech on the year to come, it's basically always the same, I've heard it three times already. When you first walk in the door for your new classes, you look around the room, observing the people you are now stuck with for the year. I'm usually stuck with mostly people I could never stand. The kind of people I had never enjoyed being around. This year was particularly bad.

I was placed in the second highest classes for everything. Funnily enough, most of the more popular kids at school were also placed in the class. I sighed as I looked around the room. It was going to be a very long year.

My eyes darted to the big, white, ugly clock above the door. I sighed again. It was only the beginning of second period; we all had just been freed from the long start-of-term speech, and allowed to go to our first math lesson of the year. I stifled a yawn as my teacher told us what we would be requiring this year. The door opened. I was surprised to see my friend Miriallia walk in. She was peering at her new timetable, but looked up as the teacher told her to sit down already.

"Yes sir." She answered. She looked around the room and saw me, making a beeline for the empty seat next to mine.

"Why are you late?" I asked in a whisper as the teacher began drawling on again.

"I went to first period instead of second." She whispered back, getting out a notepad and writing down whatever it was that the teacher was saying.

"Trust you to do that." I said with a slight smirk. She just rolled her eyes at me.

I soon lost interest in Sir's boring lecture on revision and began looking out the window. The sky was still a cloudy grey, but it was not raining as it had been yesterday. I looked down at my notebook; the page it was open on was devoid of any writing. I flicked my pen idly, wondering how long it is till first break. A very long time was my conclusion.

After what seemed like forever (it had been a double math lesson, one of my greatest fears) the bell went for first break.

I packed my things happily, relishing the feeling of being freed from what was to become the weekly horror of double math. Miriallia and I walked out of C block together and made our way to our regular seat.

I dumped my bag on the table and sat beside it on the table top. Miriallia followed suit.

"So what classes are you in?" she asked me, taking out an apple from her bag.

"Umm…" I said, taking out my timetable, not that I really needed to, I already knew. "Number two for everything…"

"Oh, I'm in mostly two." Miriallia said, peering at hers once again. "I'm in one for English. What electives are you doing?" she asked.

"Textiles and History." I said bitterly. I had not wanted to do those electives, but we only got to chose two and those were the best ones out of all the choices.

"Cool, I'm in the same history class, except I'm doing art as well."

"What's Kira doing?" I asked her, looking around for Kira while looking in my bag for the sandwich I knew I packed.

"Dunno…where is he?" Miriallia asked.

"Umm…I don-" I cut myself short, finding my sandwich in my bag. "Ha! Found it! I so knew I packed a sandwich!"

"Quick! Call the newspapers! Cagalli has found the Missing Sandwich Of Ancient I Cannot Find It!" Kira joked from behind them.

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean!" I demanded angrily, biting into my somewhat squished sandwich, which, I might add, tasted fine!

"I mean nothing Cagalli! You offend me!" Kira laughed, but still managed to look scandalized as he took a seat beside Miriallia.

Ignoring us both, Miriallia turned to Kira.

"Where were you?" she asked him, throwing her apple core into the garbage can, a perfect shot.

"Oh, that…" he sighed dramatically. "I was in detention." He said.

"On your first day? What class are you in?" I asked, thinking Kira was in one of the lower classes, though, that would surely be the day alien elephants from the planet Zirconie take over the planet; Kira was like the smartest kid in the grade.

"Well, I'm in one, but, so is Athrun and his friends." He said, rolling his eyes.

"Oh…" Athrun and his friends were a few of the biggest trouble makers in the year, they were brilliant minds, but they acted like jerks most of the time, it doesn't come as a surprise that they got the whole class into detention on the first day of school.

"I don't even wanna know what they did." I said, shaking my head, imagining the worst.

"You sure? It included an orange-"

"No! Stop!"

"A thumb tack-"

"Kira! I said stop!"

"Chalk dust-"

"I SAID STOP ALREADY!"

"Okay, okay. No need to raise your voice."

The bell rang, signaling the end of first break, just Kira's luck.

"Well, bye!" Kira said, and he shot off into A block as if all the demons of hell were chasing after him.

I scowled in the direction he had just disappeared in. Just my rotten luck, whenever I'm out for his blood, he gets away.

"C'mon. Let's go to geography." Miriallia said picking up her bag and heading towards the A block, though, much slower than Kira had.

"Hmph." I muttered, following her.

I stood in front of the door, painted blue, with the sign, 'A 8' on it. This was the same room I had for geography the year before, meaning I had the same teacher. I smiled. This teacher was easy to mess with. I ticked him off the year before, in my own way, nothing like how Athrun and his mates muck up in class, but in my subtle, quiet way. I even got sent to the head teacher. I found the whole thing rather hilarious.

Miriallia and I watched as he walked down the hall. I smiled at him and I visibly saw his face fall slightly before he resumed his normal expression. One point to me.

We filed in and sat down where ever we chose, Miriallia and I sitting up the back, furthest point from the teacher's desk, the same place I sat last year. Though I knew I wouldn't be sitting here long. Last year for the first two terms we had to sit alphabetically, I knew it would be the same this year.

"Welcome to a new year." He started saying. "Some of you I have taught before. Others don't know me. I'm Mr. Hibiki. Don't say it wrong or misspell it." I snorted softly at that, he said the same thing the year before. "I'll be putting you in alphabetical order, it will be easier to remember your names and mark the register that way."

So he put us in alphabetical order, something that made me feel childish. But I was shocked when I was told who I was to sit next to.

"Athrun! I have to sit next to him!" I said angrily. There had to be a conspiracy against me or something. How did I get stuck in his class? "My last name begins with an 'A' didn't you notice? Sir? He is Athrun Zala…with a 'Z'…I'm Cagalli Yula Athha! Athha! Do you remember your ABC's sir?"

He smirked at me…definitely a conspiracy…

"Well Miss Athha, on the register here, it says that your last name is Yula Athha, and seeing as you are the person directly before Mr. Zala on the register, you will be sitting beside him. Take your seats." I glared at him as I sat beside Athrun. Teachers could be so evil sometimes. There was a mistake on the register. Now I am the one being punished for the schools bad mistake.

"Hello." Athrun said cheerfully to me, smiling and waving in a stupid way. I ignored him, taking out my notebook and pen.

We sat in an awkward silence for the rest of the period, and as soon as the bell rang I shot up from my chair and walked as fast as I could to my next class, which was my first elective class, textiles.

I didn't really know any of the girls in my class that well. They were all more like acquaintances than friends; I knew most of them by sight. I tried not to associate myself with these people, there were just so many. It's hard to break free of them. The desks were arranged so that there were three tables in the middle of the room, six to eight people could fit on one desk, and the rest were lining the walls either side of them. I sat at the front desk, in the middle, facing the teacher's desk; it was the only desk which didn't have one of the girls on it.

A few minutes later a girl walked in, I knew her, her name was Lacus, she wasn't so bad, she was nice to me those few times we spoke. I liked her hair, it was unusual, and it was waist-length and a soft pink colour. I assumed it was natural, odd as that is. She sat beside me on my right. I smiled at her, and she smiled back, this class might not be so bad with at least one okay person there. Maybe I'll survive.

The only set back was that she was a close friend of Athrun. After the teacher finished her own start-of-term speech, something I know I'll still be enduring tomorrow, we started talking because the teacher said there was nothing we could really do for the remainder of the double lesson.

Lacus told me that she was going to chose cooking rather than textiles, but the class had been full and this had been her other choice. She looked excited at the thought of making a stuffed toy; we were to make bunny rabbits after first term, in which we were going to make pajamas. The whole thing was called 'Pajama Party'.

I didn't mind talking to Lacus, she was really nice, and she didn't act like her friends did, which I was glad for. Though I wondered why she hung around a bunch of people like that. She didn't seem the type.

"So why don't you like Athrun, Cagalli?" she asked in her sweet, kind voice. I didn't think anyone would ever be able to lie to her with that tone.

"Well, he just acts like an idiot…he's teased me before, along with those friends of his, I'm like their main target…" I said as easily as I could. I wasn't that much of a fan of the topic.

"Oh…well, you know they're just having a bit of fun, right?" Lacus said, a little uneasily. "They are just mucking around, they don't really mean anything by it."

"Yeah, well, I don't care, I'll be nice to Zala when he's nice to me, until then, I'd like to keep my extremely bad opinion of him thank you very much." I stated bitterly.

Lacus sighed sadly. "Very well, but he is really a nice person, you know, not nearly as bad as you think."

For some reason, I spent the whole of second break and history elective thinking of Athrun. I was off in my own world, and I hardly noticed the weird looks Miriallia and Kira were giving me. We lined up outside the E block, the science rooms. Our teacher came out soon after and we headed inside. Everyone left their bags outside, as was the rule, so we didn't trip over them and cause massive accidents when doing practical work. I took my wallet in with me; another rule was that we take all valuables inside with us, that way they wouldn't be stolen. There was a big bout of things going missing from bags last year.

As I sat down, I noticed that this was another class I had with Athrun. Vaguely I wondered just how many classes I had with him. I still hadn't had some of my other classes yet. I hoped he wasn't in my other ones.

The rest of the lesson was a hazy blur; I wasn't paying attention, like with every other class. I spent the whole period thinking of what Lacus had told me about Athrun. I didn't see how that was possible, I watched as he sniggered and laughed with his friends Yzac and Dearka in the far corner of the room. There was just no way he was any thing like what Lacus had told me.

I only snapped out of my thoughts when I heard Miriallia saying goodbye at the school gate. She caught the bus home, and my dad picked me up around the corner.

"Bye Cagalli." She waved and gave me an odd look as she boarded her bus.

I walked down the footpath and hopped into my dad's car, hardly acknowledging his greeting and asking me how my first day back at school was.

I flopped lazily onto the couch, turning the T.V. on. I flicked through the channels to see if there was anything worth my time to watch. I probably had homework or something, not that I really cared. It was sad how little motivation I had for school work.

I flicked over to the movie channel; it was some old sappy romance story. It was even in black and white. With a grimace I pressed the off button on the remote and immediately dropped it so that it fell on one of the couches cushions.

I was thinking about going on the computer when there was a knock on the door. I got up and opened it, expecting to find some door-to-door idiot who wanted to sell me some sort of useless thing, when I was surprised by the person I least expected to turn up at my doorstep.

"Zala?" I questioned him quizzically, raising an eyebrow at him. "Why are you here?"

"I said I'd see you around." He said with a huge grin on his face. He looked as if he was privy to some big secret and was dying to gloat about it to me.

"No you didn't." I told him, going through the entire school day in my mind. All he'd said to me was 'hello'.

"Yes, I did, have you forgotten already?" he put this look of great hurt and disappointment on his face. "I saw you yesterday, in the park."

"Wait a moment. It's you?" I said disbelievingly, unable to accept what he was saying.

"Well, if I mean that little to you. If you want to forget about our meeting yesterday and you being okay with my presence then, fine. Who said I wanted to be friends anyway? I didn't come here to apologize for anything. I'll just go if I'm so unwelcome." He turned and started to walk away. I stood stunned for a few seconds. I couldn't believe what I just heard. He was being sincere with some of what he said. That surprised me. A lot.

"Wait!" I called, chasing after him.

"Yes?" he said, turning to face me.

"Look, I'm sorry I was being such a jerk. I was just surprised, that's all. I've only ever known you to be an idiot towards me." I said apologetically.

"That's okay. I actually came to say sorry about that, anyway. Lacus told me about you and how you guys were okay with each other in class and she thought you were pretty okay. I thought I'd re-think my ways a little." He said with a wink.

"Umm…thanks, I think." I said.

"No problem. So, I'm sorry about how I've acted towards you. Totally didn't mean it to get so bad." Athrun said cheerfully.

"Uh…okay, I s'pose."

"So, friends?" Athrun asked me, holding his hand out for me to shake.

"Yeah, friends." I agreed, shaking his hand. His grin widened. This was the beginnings of a weird and wonderful relationship.

A/N: Confusing? Well, I know, but I think it will become clearer. I've based the school timetable on mine, it's just easier that way, and the school is my school, it's the only one I know, so therefore the only thing I can refer to. (Sorry, I know it's confusing)

Also, sorry if this is under-edited, I'm feeling a little sick, and when I'm sick, I'm extra lazy. I usually go back and edit eventually. Usually…