Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny.

A/N: Crrraaappp! I did it again! I couldn't help myself (wails)... so another light YxF AU.

" " for speech
Italic for flashbacks, thoughts, and opinions.

Yes, I apologize for the bad grammar!

First Love

Flay Allster watched as her companion wore dirt while the hot summer sun pounded down on his blue polo shirt, his jeans, and his silver hair protected by his dark sports cap.

Five agitated stomps to the left. Five agitated stomps to the right. Yzak Joule was in a bad mood again. Unfortunately, he'd been like that since Heine Westenfluss upstaged him during History class a day ago, a subject he heavily took pride in. But right now, this wasn't the case... Adding fuel to his fire,

"They're late again! Why am I not surprised?"

At this, Flay could only sigh. Unlike the male, she was sitting on a bench and waiting for everyone beneath the shade of a tree, but just by looking at him set ablaze like that, made her feel like sweating.

"Yzak, please calm down. Everyone's just being nice."

"What does being tardy have to do with being nice!" Yzak fumed.

And that was it. When Flay saw Yzak turn and frown down at her like he did every single time everyone else was no where to be found, she couldn't help but feel depress.

"Yeah..." Flay murmured, dropping down her head. "Yeah... you're right..." She agreed before dazing out to watch three little kids, two boys, one girl, playing swords with sticks at the park located right across them instead. If it would help improve the situation, to be honest, she wished Cagalli and the girls would just forget all about it. It's not like the mood here would get any better with them always intentionally showing up late.

"You say something?"

"Huh?" Flay blinked up at Yzak, confused. He was still frowning of course under the heat of the sun, but this time he also had his arms crossed. "No?"

"You said something about first love." Yzak darted at her.

"I did?"

"Yes, you did so come out with it!"

"Oh," Flay felt herself blush. Did those words really escape her lips just now? Flay shook her head. "Well, it's nothing really... I was just watching those kids over there and thought that- that boy with the light blue hair is that little girl's first love."

This made Yzak dubiously watch the kids for a second before snapping his attention back to Flay. He raised an eyebrow after this. "Seriously?"

"Yes... You can easily tell by the way she honestly smiles when he looks at her." Flay smiled lightly, closely watching the girl's expression as all three playmates ran.

"Seriously, that's it?" Yzak pressed-on with an eyebrow still raised.

"Yes. Why?" Flay asked, looking up.

"Shit!" Yzak smacked a hand to his face.

"What-?"

"Aren't you... going to-"

"Going to?"

"I thought you meant your-"

"My? ... Ohhh," Flay caught on then grimaced.

... Busted.

"You thought I meant my first love. Didn't know you were interested in those kind of things, especially about my love life, Yzak."

Obviously embarrassed, "Not-! I didn't say I was! I- I just thought if you wanted to share, I'd listen! But if you don't want to- I don't care either!" Yzak unskilfully saved.

A moment of silence.

Hands pressed firmly on the tree bench, Flay interrupted the awkwardness by unable to hold in her laughter. "It's all right." Flay said before mellowing down to get a little more serious, "It was a long time ago anyway and it's not like he remembers me... It was more of a one-sided thing. A mere crush at first. I was five. He was the boy who pulled me up to play with him and his playmates back when I hadn't had any friends of my own. etc. etc. Two years later, I confessed to him before moving away."

"Uhuh, in that case, how did you know he doesn't remember you?" Yzak asked, deciding to occupy the space under the shade beside her now.

"Well, you see," Flay brushed her palms down her skirt, freeing it from wrinkles as she told him the rest of the story. "After moving back, I've seen him around and he doesn't remember me or the confession."

"Pft..." Yzak let out a chuckle before breaking into laughter. "What an imbecile. 'cant even remember the girl who confessed to him!"

Blushing, "Geez, don't laugh!" Why did the weather have to be so hot today? Leave it to Yzak to find humor in other people's idiocy. "The memory must just be more precious to me than to him that's all. And besides we're good friends now!" Flay reasoned. "I said, don't laugh!"

"He's an imbecile. A complete blockhead!" Yzak continued to chuckle causing Flay to reflexively slap him on the arm.

"Then it takes one to know one!"

"Speaking of which, do I know him?"

Flay pouted at this. "I rather not say! Who knows how you'd react when you meet him."

"Does the gang know him?"

"The girls know..."

"So you still like this guy?" He added.

"Yeah... I do."

Silence.

Yzak leaned back on the bench, looked up at the tree leaves hanging above them. Serious question again, "so what's so great about this guy?"

"Hmm..." Flay glanced at Yzak watching the leaves before deciding to tilt her chin up to admire them as well. It had been such a long time... And if she could remember correctly... "At first, I guess, I was taken by his smile. Back when I was little, I used to think his smile resembled sunshine- bright, warm and infectious. A breath of fresh air. Then after that- I suppose his smartass personality followed-through... I suppose he just grew on me... but like I said we're friends now and I don't think he likes me romantically so it doesn't really matter... I'm starting to think that I should just give-up on him."

"So just give-up! Forget about that guy!"

Surprised by the unexpected opinion, Flay stared at Yzak and suddenly he seemed to fidget under her intense scrutiny.

"Because he's an idiot anyway! Can't even recognize a good woman even when she's already dead-straight in front of his face! Okay. Let's go." Yzak stood up suddenly.

Flay blinked. "Go? Aren't we going to wait here for the others?"

Yzak shrugged at this. "Screw them. Let's go grab a drink or something. I'm tired of being the punctual one. Let them wait for us for a change!"

"You mean right now?"

"Yes, I mean right now!"

Yzak turned to leave. Flay ran to catch up.

"Does this mean you're buying?" She asked as she fell into step with him. And despite that bright flustered red face of his, she caught a genuine smile escape there. Ah. As she thought... yes, she could finally attest that Yzak's smile was very much like sunshine and was much more contagious than she remembered.

"Obviously! Hadn't I made that clear enough? You're lucky I'm in a good mood today."

**End 04/20/2012