AN: I'm going to rewrite the two chapters I have up now, so I can get back the "feel" of this story. Plus, the first two chapters seemed, rushed in a way. Oh and by the way, the ages of the characters are changed…

I do not own.

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Meyrin clutched her lunch bag tightly, her eyes wandering around the large and busy cafeteria. "Oh great… where's Luna?" Meyrin thought uncomfortably. Biting her lip gently, she walked in the general directions of where her sister said she would be. "Left window… left window…" Her eyes stopped by one of the tables by the left windows. Occupied in all the given seats were Luna, a blonde angry-looking girl, a handsome blue-haired boy, a smiling brunette boy, an extremely pretty pink-haired girl and a familiar black-haired boy. "Shinn Asuka." Meyrin remembered him from all the times he had come over to their house to do projects with Luna.

"Hey Rin!" Luna practically yelled enthusiastically towards her shy sister. "Over here!" Forcing her blush to go away since so many people were looking towards her, Meyrin walked quickly towards her sister's table. "Take a seat!" Luna said grinning happily. Meyrin did so.

"Hello," the pink-haired girl said gently. "I'm Lacus, how are you doing?"

"Um, fine," Meyrin said, taken by surprise at how such a beautiful person could be so nice too.

"That's Cagalli," Luna said pointing at the angry-looking blonde. "She's not in a good mood since Shinn had beaten her at something, it seems." Cagalli huffed.

"He beat me by one!" Cagalli growled. "One freaking point!" Her intense glaring golden eyes never left the smirking 'innocence' of Shinn's face. "Wipe that smirk off your face, you arrogant jerk! I'll have you know that I beat you the last time we played basketball by 5 points!"

Shinn growled back at her. "Would you stop bringing that up?! It was five months ago! Five months!"

"It's still the truth!"

"And it's also true that that was the only time you beat me!"

"Was not!"

"Was too!"

"Was not!"

"Was too! I've always been better than you, loser!"

"Why you little!" Cagalli looked as if she was going to lunge towards Shinn. And to Meyrin's surprise, she did. "You JERK!"

"Cagalli, stop!" the blue-haired boy beside her grabbed her waist and pulled her back. "Calm down. And Shinn, stop provoking her. We all don't want her to get a suspension slip on the very first day of school."

Cagalli visibly calmed down, and Shinn scowled at her. "Speak for yourself."

An enraged look passed by the blonde's face. "Oh, that's it!"

"Cagalli!" the blue-haired boy once again pulled her down. "Would you two stop fighting for once? Please?" Cagalli stared at him before relaxing.

"Fine, fine, only because you asked nicely," Cagalli muttered. "Unlike someone I know…"

"Cagalli!"

"Okay, okay! I'm shutting up!" Cagalli grumbled. "Geez, I can't even voice out my opinions here."

"Sorry," the blue-haired boy turned around to smile at Meyrin. "They're always like that, don't mind them." Cagalli and Shinn both protested at this, but the boy ignored them. "I'm Athrun nice to meet you." Meyrin inwardly gulped as she saw how handsome he really was. His emerald green eyes glittered in amusement as he saw her staring at him in amazement.

"I don't think I've seen anyone this cute before…" She fought to control her nervousness and stuttered her next sentence. "Um yeah, same here."

He chuckled slightly. "I don't know if Luna had already told you, but I'm taken by this golden-haired beauty." He draped a casual arm over Cagalli's shoulders. The said blonde girl blushed slightly and shoved his arm off, grumbling in embarrassment. "What? Don't you like the fact I'm your boyfriend?"

Meyrin blushed hotly. "He caught me staring! Stupid Meyrin! Stupid!" Yet, she couldn't help but feel sort of disappointed at this news. She berated herself. "You don't even know him well Meyrin! You can't possibly like someone you just met!"

The last member of the friends group chuckled softly as he saw her blush. "It's okay; you're not the only one that has fallen in love with Athrun at first sight." Athrun blushed slightly at this, shooting his best friend a glare. The brunette grinned, ignoring him and extended his hand to an embarrassed Meyrin. "Hey, I'm Kira, nice to meet you." Meyrin reached out with her hand and shook his soft warm hand.

Luna grinned. "Oh, wow! That's one long introduction! And Rey hasn't arrived yet either…"

"There are more people?" Meyrin blinked.

"Yeah," Luna muttered, her eyes searching around the cafeteria. "He's late… oh, Rey, where are you…?" Her eyes froze at one spot for a moment before tapping her sister on the shoulder. "Hey Rin, I think somebody's looking for you."

Meyrin turned around, and found herself staring at Stellar walking happily towards her with an unhappy-looking Auel, a yawning Jaden and a strange looking boy with green hair.

"Hey Meyrin!" Stellar greeted innocently, her magenta eyes flashed on all the people seated at the table before resting on a surprised black-haired boy. "Hey! Shinn!!" Stellar's magenta eyes brightened at the sight of him.

"Hey Stellar," Shinn greeted. Luna looked at him then at Stellar.

"You wanna introduce us?"

"Uh sure," Shinn said. "Guys, this is Stellar. Stellar and I go way back, I met her in grade school, and I guess we just kept in touch after I moved schools. And Stellar, this is Athrun, Kira, Lacus, Cagalli, Luna and uh Meyrin."

All of them said hello politely before Shinn asked Stellar, "I didn't expect to see you here…"

Stellar giggled. "I told you months ago that I was coming to this school, Shinn."

Shinn blinked. "You did?"

Stellar nodded. "Uh huh!" She giggled. "Silly Shinn."

Shinn blushed and rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Heh, I must've forgotten."

Cagalli snorted. "My, my Shinn, what a bad memory you have."

Shinn glared at her. "Well at least I wasn't the one that forgot Athrun was her boyfriend and screamed when he tried to hold your hands!"

Athrun coughed as he tried to hide his embarrassment and amusement as Cagalli blushed hotly. "Shut up Shinn!"

Shinn smirked at her. "I win again Cagalli."

Cagalli glared. "Just wait and see Shinn, you will lose to me in the end!"

Luna sighed, rolling here eyes in exasperation. She turned and smiled at Stellar. "Hey, just ignore them, they fight all the time, but we know that they love each other on the inside. Right Athrun?"

Athrun, who was looking back and forth between his girlfriend and Shinn in amusement as they argued non-stop nodded at her. "Yeah, this is how they like to show their affection for one another."

"WE DO NOT!" Cagalli and Shinn both yelled. "HE/SHE IS THE MOST ANNOYING CREATURE TO WALK THIS EARTH!"

Stellar giggled. "Whatever you say Shinn." While Shinn yelled at Luna for 'contaminating his good friend's mind with stupid ideas', Stellar turned to Meyrin. "I was actually looking for you. You just disappeared after gym class. I was going to introduce you my friends properly." She turned around, expecting to see the three guys behind her… but they weren't. "Huh? They were here just minutes ago…"

Meyrin smiled. "They left when Cagalli and Shinn started fighting. I think they were getting bored." Stellar pouted.

"Aww, I was sure you and Jaden would've been great friends! I'm not so sure about Auel and Sting though…" She looked around the cafeteria before running off. "Wait, I'll get them!"

"Uh, you don't have to…" Meyrin trailed off, looking at Stellar run towards a packed table. "I'm not so sure I want to know that blue-haired guy…"

"What was that Rin?" Luna asked, ignoring the black-haired boy, and left Lacus and Kira to calm him down since a teacher was walking dangerously close to their table. "You already made enemies? On the very first day of school?

Meyrin shrugged. "I don't think so, well, I know I don't really like him since he embarrassed me in front of my whole class. And you know how much I hate being looked at Luna," she said, giving her sister a pointed look.

Luna nodded thoughtfully, her eyes following Stellar as she pulled three guys along with her. "The blue-haired boy? He doesn't look so bad."

Meyrin rolled her eyes. "I wasn't talking about his looks Luna."

Luna gave her a cheeky grin. "You agree with me then? He looks amazingly cute! Admit it!"

"Luna! We weren't even talking about his looks! Besides, his brown-haired friend looks better…" Meyrin gasped immediately and clasped a hand over her mouth, not expecting that to come out.

"Aw, my baby sister is growing up!" Luna giggled. Meyrin gave her a smack on the arm.

"Shut up Luna. You're just a year older!"

Luna ignored her comment and poked her sister's arm. "Wait until mom hears this! She'll blow!"

"Shut up Luna!" Meyrin hissed as Stellar dragged all three boys to stand in front of her.

"There you go!" Stellar said innocently. "That wasn't so bad was it, Auel, Sting?" The brown-haired boy laughed at the two's dark faces, since he had decided to come her by his own free will.

He smiled at Meyrin and gave her a wink, she immediately blushed. "Hey there!" He said. "Name's Jaden Hunter, what's yours?"

"Meyrin Hawke," she replied, amazed at herself since she said it without stuttering. She smiled back at him. "Nice to meet you."

"I knew it!" Stellar said happily. "I knew you would like Jaden!"

Auel rolled his eyes. "Stell, everybody likes Jaden."

Jaden grinned arrogantly. "Ya hear that? I AM the man!"

"Everybody insane, that is," Auel snickered. Jaden scowled immediately and the two soon erupted into a heated, but amusing, argument. All the while, Meyrin felt insulted. She had been, indirectly, insulted as an insane human, by Auel, again… Indescribable anger bubbled inside of her. What was with that guy?! Why did he have to be so… so… unlikable? Well at least to her.

The bell rang, signaling the end of the lunch break. Groaning, the teens at the table rose tiredly, unwilling to go to class except for Lacus, who was giggling and pulling Kira with her.

"Aw man," Luna mumbled. "Rey never showed up. That little piece of jerky!" Mumbling to herself about the unfairness of the world, Luna walked briskly out of the room, probably to find out where Rey had gone.

"I'll see you later okay?" Stellar said to Meyrin, who nodded quickly. "Bye!" The innocent blonde skipped away happily, throwing her arms around the quickly disappearing Sting and Auel with Jaden walking beside them.

Meyrin was so concentrated on observing the friendship bond the four had that she didn't see herself bumping into a, er, big student. "Ow…" she muttered, rubbing her backside in pain as she struggled to get up.

"Hey, midget, get out of my way," the student growled angrily. Meyrin looked up and gulped. Above her was a bulky and muscular student, and by his size, it looked like he was in grade 10. His glaring brown eyes frightened the heck out of her and she cool feel her heart beat, heck, she can hear it!

"Sorry, sorry!" Meyrin apologized, her voice squeaking uncontrollably, and bowing twice to show how sorry she was.

Beside the guy was a crowd of what looked like his friends. And by the way they were all glaring at her, he had to be their 'leader'. Oh great, of all people she could've bumped into, she had to bump into the leader. "Che, stop standing their you dumbass, get out of my way!"

Before she could even scurry away and hide in total fear, an angry male voice froze her to her spot. "Hey, what do you think you're doing?"

And to Meyrin's surprise, Kira appeared beside her with Lacus in tow. And his usually serene purple eyes were angry.

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End of Chapter 2.

The next chapter will focus on the bet. I hope you enjoyed this! Oh, what do you think of these chapter lengths? Are they too short?

Review please?