Love Is A Book

Chp3: Talk To Me Will You?

Yah...todays February 16 when I startedwriting this, so yah. That daywas a snowday, but I had to go to school. Kinda Sad isn't it? Well anyways I think I have another story Idea coming up. Although we'll see if it actually makes it through or not...

DISCLAIMER: Ok...This will not be the last time I will say this but. YOU FREAKING KNOW THAT I DO NOT OWN GUNDAM SEED SO WHY DO YOU EVEN ASK?

Cagalli and Athrun looked at the selections again as the man that got Cagalli the ice cream approached them.

"So you brought along your boyfriend, huh?"

Cagalli looked at him funny, "Sir, I fell down and my ice cream got ruined, this man was nice enough to buy me another one."

The man nodded. Both of them looked at the choices. Cagalli decided to pick the same one that she got before the accident. She pressed her finger onto the cold glass.

"Good I have this one please?" Cagalli asked the man. He nodded and began to scoop out the ice cream, putting it onto the cone.

"What would you like, sir." The man asked Athrun.

Athrun had a hard time to decide, in PLANTS there were not many ice cream stores. Plus, he had never took time out of his busy schedule to just buy an ice cream.

"I'll get the Almond Vanilla Swirl..." Athrun decided.

Cagalli made a face at him. "Has this guy ever bought ice cream before? It looks like he's never been to an ice cream parlour before. He is so weird."

Athrun finally payed for both of their ice cream, and thanked the man again. They then went outside to walk back.

They walked outside to where the golden sun touched the rich green trees. The sky had changed colour and faded from its natural blue, to its beautiful orange. Most of the children had gone home and the adult couples began to roam around the park, holding hands. When they both walked out of the parlour, Cagalli smiled and stretched out her arms.

"Hey Zala. Do you want to walk around for a bit before we head to my house?" Cagalli asked him.

"Ok, why not?" Athrun said.

They began walking around the park looking at the path ahead of them. They were both silent, too busy eating their ice cream. "It's getting too silent..." Cagalli told herself.

"Uhh...Soo...Athrun." Cagalli finally broke the silence, "Why did you come to Orb?"

Athrun gave her a small hesitant look, but she didn't notice.

"Well, I guess I wanted something real..." Athrun looked to the sky as he licked his ice cream.

"Back home in PLANT, not everything is artificial, but rarely is there anything real..." Athrun implied. Cagalli nodded.

"So you decided to come here...on Orb?" Cagalli asked wondering why he hadn't chose another place.

"Well, yeah. After all Lacus Clyne's father is a friend of my father, so if I came here at least I would already know somebody." Athrun said, he looked at Cagalli.

Athrun's eyes captivated Cagalli as she in turn, glanced at him with her golden eyes. She had butterflies going through her stomach as she tried to decipher what was going on inside his head.

Athrun tried to memorize every single detail of her golden eyes. He didn't seem to know why, but he thought they were special. Even though this was only the first time he has ever seen her, he thought that they were beautiful. After realizing that they had been staring into each other's eyes for about a minute, Athrun looked away blushing. "Sorry." he said to Cagalli while he looked at his ice cream.

"Uh.. yah..um.. let's keep walking..." Cagalli agreed, as she too was blushing.

"So what do you do here in Orb?" Athrun asked.

"Well...There's a festival coming up in a few months, and we are preparing for it when school begins. It's what we do every year before we actually start working. It is a very good way to meet different people." Cagalli said.

"You don't start working until the festival is...over?" Athrun asked.

"Nope. To sum it up, we play before we work. Well I wouldn't really call it 'playing', I would just say, productive fun." Cagalli brightly answered.

"Productive fun, huh? That's sounds pretty good." Athrun said. "In PLANT all we do is work...It is actually relieving to hear that it is not the same as PLANT."

Cagalli looked at him again while they were walking, and caught a glimpse of his emerald eyes. "What do you do at PLANT?" she asked curiously.

"Compared to here...nothing. All we do is eat, work, eat, go home, eat, and sleep. It is like that everyday."

"That's ALL you do? Do you even go to the mall?" Cagalli asked him.

"No. I actually have no time to go to the mall. There's a lot of stuff to do. Especially if you're the son of Patrick Zala..." Athrun said as he flinched at the name of his father. You could tell that they didn't really have good relations.

She heard of that name before. Partick Zala, the Chairman of ZAFT. She didn't know why ZAFT was still around, because the last war that had happened was at least twenty years ago. Although you never knew when another war would just start.

Patrick Zala was a vicious man who was very intellegent, and hard working. Rarely was he ever kind. Only when facing his wife and child.

Yes, Athrun was a single child. Patrick Zala was far too much a busy man. Rarely was he even there to support his first chaild when he needed him most. It saddened Athrun's heart, especially when he was a child finding that every recital that his class had performed, and times when he had earned honours at school, he was never there. It still saddened him now that he and his mother still lived alone without a father or a husband to be there.

"Oh...umm...I'm sorry...I mean to talk about something as uncomfortable as this..." Cagalli shyly blushed.

Athrun looked towards her, she understood. He chuckled slightly, "I don't mind it much, in fact I'm mostly used to it. Which is also one of the reasons that I came to Orb. Just to get away from all the people in PLANT that think that I someday could be my father."

"I am never going to be like him...He's missed so much in life. I don't want to be a man that misses every possibly great moment of his life just for his job. You know, I want to be there when I have kids, and I want to be there with my wife, I want work to be something unimportant, because I never understood what it was like to be with my father." Athrun said quietly, just enough for Cagalli to hear.

She finished the rest of her ice cream and hugged him. "Don't worry, I'm sure you won't be like that...Just a few hours ago I learned that every person that you meet has their own story. Thank you for telling me yours."

While they were in that embrace, Athrun felt a warm feeling inside, so did Cagalli. He knew at that moment, there was someone who cared.

"So Cagalli...Do you want to go home now?" Athrun smiled, noticing that they were still hugging each other.

Cagalli practically jumped off of Athrun and blushed. "Uhh yeah. Lets go back."

It was dark now and you could only see the street lights. Other than that, you could see a man and a woman walk alongside each other talking and laughing. They finally arrived at Cagalli's house and both stopped at the front of the door.

"Thanks Athrun. For the ice cream." Cagalli said blushing.

Athrun kissed Cagalli on the cheek. Both of them blushed, "No problem."

Cagalli was silent for a while, "Do you want come inside? Lacus and Kira are still here..."

"My mother is probably waiting for me at home, but I guess I could see you tomorrow right? After all, Kira still is having rollerblading lessons..." Athrun said chuckling.

Cagalli laughed, "Yeah, I guess so..."

"Ok then, see you tomorrow Cagalli!" Athrun said as he turned to walk out of the porch.

"Hey Athrun!" Cagalli shouted. Athrun turned to face her.

"Welcome to Orb!"

Cagalli smiled at him, and he made an even bigger smile back. With that, she opened the door and stepped inside the house.

"I think I am going to like Orb..." Athrun thought in his head as he was walking to his house.

Inside Kira and Cagalli's house were delicious aromas originating from the house's kitchen. As Cagalli stepped inside, she saw Lacus still bandaging poor Kira on the couch while he was lying down.

"Good evening Cagalli, you are aware that it is nine in the evening, right?" Kisaka said as he stepped out of the kitchen.

"Yeah, I know--"

"She was walking with Athrun..." Lacus cooed. Cagalli sent her a smile dirty look.

"He only bought me ice cream, and then we talked. That's all." Cagalli said as she was starting to blush.

"Sure that's what they all say...watch next time, we'll catch you two making out!" Kira said as revenge to his sister.

"Yeah, whatever..."Cagalli said. "I'm going to read upstairs..."

"Ok." Lacus said to her as she watched Cagalli walk away.

"One more thing. Lacus?" Cagalli said as she popped her head out of the hallway.

"Yes?"

"Does Athrun have a girlfriend?" Cagalli said as she bit her lip.

"No.." Lacus said with a smile.

"Thanks...Good night everyone." Cagalli said as she happily went upstairs.

"Your sister is in love Kira!" Lacus said as she shortly kissed his lips.

I know you are all thinking this is going a bit too fast.. BUT! You will see why in the later chapters... for now its all fluff for them... but problemo's will arrive...

On Sunday I wasted about five hours of my time and i am very pissed off about it. I should have been doing my homework./...its is now Wednesday and I have piles of it...Diet coke tastes the same as regular coke...Is that supposed to happen! XD