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Wow. 10th chapter already? Well, there's more to come! :D
P.S.: I told you guys I wouldn't be using that LOOONG paragraph anymore. Hahaha!
autumn's fairy thyme14: Well, obviously Kira and Lacus are rich now, Fifi-nee. Freakin' filthy stinkin' rich! XD
Freyris: Kiara is just a cutie, isn't she! :3 My faaave is Seth. Cool kid.
Fate Camiswhil: Yes, Ate Lynx. Athrun IS an idiot AND a jerk! :D
Cuteshe: Yeah. I kinda like Shinn and Cagalli making up after the war, but the tension between them will never be absent. Hahaha! :D
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P.P.S.: Everyone in last chapter agreed that Meyrin sucks. Just so you all know, I know :D She does suck. Hihi. Sorry, still can't get over the thing that happened between her and Athrun -.-"
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You and Me
Announcements
"AHH!"
Dearka suddenly paused from drinking his tea. "Did you hear that?"
"Liana!"
"Shit." Shinn immediately put his cup down and ran to where he heard his daughter's name with the other men trailing behind him. His eyes widened when he got there. "Liana!"
"Daddy! Help!" Her voice was barely understood because of the water she was starting to swallow.
"I'm coming!" But before Shinn could tart taking off his shoes, someone already jumped after his daughter. "What-"
Kira's eyes widened and shouted, "Alex!" If something happened to his sister's child, he would be responsible for it. Plus, she'll beat the crap out of him! "Alex, what are you doing?"
But the little boy couldn't hear him. He was already under water, pulling the girl up. It was a good thing his mother made him and his sister take swimming lessons last summer.
Kiara hugged Ally as she watched Alex put Liana safely in the side of the pool. They immediately ran over to them and checked on Liana. "Is she okay?"
"I don't know." Alex said, panting. He was then pulled up by his Uncle Kira and started to feel the cool air brush against his skin as soon as he got out of the water. "Thanks Uncle Kira."
"You were a brave boy." Kira said as he muffled with his nephews wet hair. Then, he turned to Shinn, who was checking up on her daughter. "How is she?"
Shinn looked back at the brunette with a frown. "She swallowed a lot of water." He carried Liana on his arms and started to walk back to the manor to get her dried up.
"Daddy, I'm scared." Yzzie said as she tugged on the hem of Yzak's shirt.
The platinum blonde-haired man looked at his daughter with furrowed eyebrows and carried her. "There's nothing to worry about. Liana will be fine."
Yzzie nodded her head and buried it on her father's chest.
"Kiara, can you go back insde with Alex and ask your Nanny Lala to help him dry up?" Kira told her daughter. "I'll catch up with everyone in a minute."
"Okay Daddy." And the two left.
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"Would someone please tell me what happened." Shinn asked when everyone was gathered in the living room, except for the girls, who were watching over Liana inside Kiara's room.
"Well, a while ago, Seth and I were playing with paper boats near the pool." Alex started explaining. "Then, the girls came down and said that they wanted to join us, but we were done playing, so we decided to play another game."
"We played tag and I was 'it' first." Seth said, pouting.
"Anyway," Alex continued. "the game started and we started tagging each other. After Seth tagged Ally, and Ally tagged me, and I tagged Kiara, and Kiara tagged Ally, and Ally tagged Yzzie, and Yzzie tagged Seth, and Seth tagged, Kiara, and Kiara tagged me, I started to chase Liana because no one could ever tag her."
"But then Kiara saw a puddle, and that's where Liana slipped." Seth added.
"And I jumped in after her before anyone else could." Alex finished.
Shinn sighed. "What am I going to tell Lunamaria?"
HONK HONK
"I think you should start thinking about that." Dearka grinned. Oh, how he loved to tease his friends.
"We're back!" Cagalli ran to the living room and plopped down on the couch beside her brother. "We're finally back."
"What happened?" Kira asked his twin.
"I hate shopping." She hissed.
"We had Cagalli try on twenty pairs of high-heeled shoes after we went to buy stuff for the baby." Miriallia said with a giggle. "The clerks even had a hard time-"
"Lalalalala!" Cagalli covered her ears. "I don;t want to hear it. You shoud be lucky I love you, Milly. If I didn't, I would never do that in a million years!"
Miriallia giggled harder as she sat beside her husband. "I love you, too, Cagalli."
"Hi Mommy!" Alex ran to his mother and hugged her.
"Hi Honey." Cagalli kissed her son's forehead. Then, she noticed that her son's hair was a bit wet. "You took a bath again?"
"Actually, I-"
"Yes!" Kira said, cutting his nephew off. "Uh, he did. It was so hot a while ago, so he told me that he wanted to take a bath again. Right Alex?"
Alex gave his uncle a confused look. He wasn't sure how to react to that, but he nodded anyway. "What the-?"
"Okay?" Cagalli raised an eybrow at the two men. "Where's your sister?"
"She's in the room with Kiara and Yzzie,-"
"Playing!" Kira cut him off yet again. He gave Shinn and the rest of the boys a look. "They're still playing with that doll house, right Shinn?"
Shinn and the rest of the guys then understood what Kira was trying to pull, even Alex and Seth got it this time. "Ah, yeah! They're still playing."
"You guys look suspicious." Lunamaria looked at them with suspicious eyes. "What happened a while ago?"
"N-Nothing!" Shinn said. "Nothing that important for you to know."
"Is that true, Seth?" Shiho asked her son.
Seth shrugged. "Sure. Nothing really happened. Daddy, Uncle Dearka, Kira, and Shinn just stayed inside the house, while we played with each other. The girls came down to play tag with Alex and I momentarily, but then we they got tired, so they went back upstairs to sleep or something while Alex and I continued to do what we were doing in the garden. Kiara, Ally, and Yzzie are awake already, but Liana's still asleep. Alex chased her for so long a while ago, she was the one who got tired the most."
"Wow. This kid is good." Kira, Dearka, and Shinn all stared wide-eyed at the kid, while Yzak nodded. He was proud of his son.
"So that means that you checked on them?" Lacus asked.
The men gave each other looks and nodded.
"We all took turns." Kira said proudly. "You know, because us men are responsbile."
Cagalli scoffed. "Yeah right."
"Daddy! Daddy!" Kiara came running down from the stairs.
"Careful, sweetie." Lacus told her daughter.
"Sorry. And hi Mommy." She gave her mother a hug and a kiss before turning to her dad. "Daddy, Liana's awake!"
Suddenly, Shinn leaned back on the couch and let out a sigh in relief.
"Isn't that normal, honey?" Lacus asked her daughter with a odd look.
"It is, but this time Liana-"
"Uh, Kiara." Alex motioned for his cousin to come closer to him and whispered what was going on.
The little pinkette nodded slowly when she understood it. Though she hated doing this because she had to lie, she had to do it for her daddy. Besides, it was just a little white lie. "Um, like I said, Mommy, it's normal, but this time, err, Liana got really tired and we thought that it would be a long time before she wakes up, but there she was, all awake now."
"I see." Lacus said with a confused look on her face. "Are trying you guys to hide something from us?"
Alex and Kiara shared a look before shaking their heads 'no'.
"It seems really suspicious." Lunamaria said, tapping a finger on her chin.
Everyone suddenly heard footstes coming down the stairs. It was Liana and little Yzzie.
"Hi mommy!" Yzzie ran to Shiho and gave her a big hug, who smiled and kissed her daughter's cheek.
Shinn ran to her daughter and hugged her. "Huh?" Liana muttered with sleepy eyes. "What's going on, Daddy?"
"Yeah Shinn." Lunamaria said with her hands on her hips. "What is going on? And why isn't Liana wearing the dress she was wearing a while ago?"
"Uh, she took a shower, too, Auntie Luna, before she went to sleep." Kiara answered. "Since she didn't bring any extra clothes, I gave her the ones that were a bit small on me. And it fit her!"
"Is that what happened, Liana?" Lunamaria asked her daughter.
Shinn gave her daughter a look. Not just a look, but the look. Oh, how he hoped she understood him.
Scratching her eye, Liana answered wearily, "Uh huh. Thanks for giving me your clothes, Kiara."
"You're welcome." Kiara said with a smile. Ooh, she was a really good liar. "This is only for the mean time, Kiara. Promise yourself to never lie again after this."
Lunamaria sighed in defeat. "Then if nothing happened, nothing happened."
Lacus cleared her throat and smiled. "Excuse me, everyone. I have an announcement to make."
Everyone sat on the couch and waited for Lacus' announcement.
Lacus and the girls shared a look and all nodded. "While we were shopping, the girls and I were thinking that... maybe we should go on an outing!"
"What kind of outing?" Yzak asked. "And where?"
"How about in Crystal Resort?" Miriallia suggested. "Going swimming would be nice."
"Swimming?" Shinn almost fainted. "At least Liana doesn't remember a thing."
"When do you plan on doing it?" Dearka asked.
"Next week, maybe." Lacus replied. "Are you up for it?"
"Well, it does sound like fun." Kira said, smiling. "I mean, all of us need a break every now and then, don't we?"
"I'm not so sure about this." Yzak said, arms crossed. "I have a lot of reports to read and a big pile of papers to sign."
"Aww, come on, Daddy!" Yzzie said with pleading eyes. "You're always working. Take a break please? For me?"
"It's going to be fine, Yzak." Shiho said with a warm smile. "And hasn't it been a while since we had a family vcation?"
Yzak tried not to look at his daughter's and his wife's amethyst eyes, but it was just too much; too powerful. "Fine." He huffed. Only two pairs of eyes could overpower him.
"Then it's settled." Lacus clapped her hands with a pleased smile on her face. "Now all we have to do is confirm the date."
"Um, guys," Kira suddenly spoke up. "has anyone seen Cagalli?"
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Back in Kiara's pink room, Ally lay on the bed, staring at the window. She's been like that since Liana and Yzzie left the room. She was lost in her own train of thought, until the opening of a door interrupted.
"Ally?" Cagalli, her mother, closed the dor behind her and sat beside her. "Is something the matter, sweetie?"
Ally shook her head and buried her face on a pillow.
"Oh, come on, sweetie." Cagalli caressed her daughter's blue hair. "You can always tell Mommy anything, right?"
"Yeah, but Mommy can't tell me anything."
Cagalli was a bit shocked from her daughter's answer. "What's that supposed to mean?"
Ally sat up and faced her mother, her eyes full of tears. "What happened to you and Daddy? Why aren't the two of you together anymore? How come Alex and I have never met him before?"
Cagalli was expecting this day to come, but not this soon. It was a good thing she was prepared for it. "Sweetie, it's complicated. And haven't I told you already? Daddy just left for a while-"
"A while is a long time, Mommy!"
Cagalli sighed. "Ally, your father and I had to do our duties. Because of what happened in the war, we didn't get to have the life we dreamed of. I had to take care of Orb and your Daddy had to do something back here in PLANTS. I'm sorry if things are really messed up right now. If I could go back to the past and change everything, I would, but that's not the way it goes, Ally. It's adult stuff and... it's complicated."
Ally stared at her mother's crying state. She gave her mother a hug and said, "I'm sorry, Mommy. I didn't mean to make you cry. I-I promise not to ask those kinds of things ever again."
Cagalli smiled and hugged her daughter back. "I'm sorry, too, sweetie. Really sorry. I'll try to fix everything, I swear."
Ally hugged her mother tighter. "Daddy's a jerk for leaving us."
Cagalli chuckled. "Yeah. He is, isn't he?"
"Hm." Ally let go and sat on her mother's lap. "Can you at least tell me what Daddy's like?"
"Well, he's as handsome as your brother."
"EWW!"
Cagalli laughed. "Oh, and he's sweet and kind and he's very thoughtful. He always took care of me and protected me from anything."
"Mommy, do you think Daddy's thinking of us right now?"
Cagalli sighed and kissed her daughter's forehead. "I hope so."
oOo
Cagalli went downstairs with Ally in her arms. Both of them washed their faces so it wasn't too obvious that they cried.
"Where have you been, Cagalli?" Lacus asked her sister-in-law.
"I just went up to check on Ally." She answered as she put her daughter down.
"Where's Kiara?" Ally asked.
"She's at the kitchen with the others." Her Aunt Miriallia answered. "Why don't you go over to them? They're eating the cake we bought a while ago."
"Yay!" And Ally ran to the kitchen.
"What's up?" Kira asked her twin.
Cagalli sighed as she sat on the couch and turned her head to Lacus. "Lacus, we... we're going to invite Athrun, right?"
"We haven't really thought about that, did we?" Shiho said.
"Well, if you want to, Cagalli." Lacus said. "It is your choice if you would be okay with it."
Cagalli nodded and leaned back on her chair to relax.
"Are you actually-"
The blonde shrugged and gave her friends an unsure smile. "Ally wants her father back."
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