At The Hands of Fate
Summary: Cagalli's never been to school before, then her parents died and her guardian decides to send her to school. She then meets new friend and new enemies. Will she survive school life? AxC, KxL.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews! I'm glad you liked my fic. A big thanks too, for those who reviewed Finally...I'm glad you liked it too. Well...here's chapter two! Enjoy!
Chapter 2: Introductions
Cagalli was late for her first class. She scrambles along the corridors looking from room to room taking note of their numbers until finally! She releases a huge sigh and opens the door.
'Eeep!' Cagalli steps back realizing that everyone was staring at her.
"Come in. Come in. You must be the new student Mr. La Flagga mentioned.
Cagalli's gaze snaps toward the direction of the voice and was startled. It was the woman who was making out with Mwu a while ago.
Murrue blushes a bit as she saw recognition in the girl's eyes. She took the girl's hand and drags her inside the room since the girl was about to run.
"Cagalli Yula Attha right?" Murrue asks her in front of the class.
Cagalli blushes at this and whispers a barely audible "Yes."
Okay then Cagalli, my name is Murrue Ramius, your History teacher. Why don't you go sit down on the empty seat beside Mr. Zala. Mr. Zala raise your hand please." She smiles at Cagalli and motions for her to take her seat.
Cagalli mumbles an "okay" and slowly scans the room for the empty seat and the raised hand, and gulps... it's beside the boy with the gorgeous eyes. Then confusion sets in as she saw two pink haired girls who looked the same, one was smiling and waving at her, the other was glaring at her as if she had done something awful.
'Twins probably.' Cagalli shrugs and heads for her seat, which was between Lacus and Athrun.
Lacus waves at Cagalli and saw her smile back.
"So this is the new girl you were talking about?" Kira asks Lacus who was sitting beside him.
"Yup. I showed her to the principal's office, that's why I was a bit late in meeting you at your locker. I'm really sorry Kira." Lacus looks at Kira with puppy dog eyes.
Kira had to summon all his willpower so as to prevent himself from hugging Lacus right there, in front of everyone.
'Aw man! She looks sooo beautiful! God Lacus! If only you knew!' Kira looks away so Lacus wouldn't see him blush, then fakes a small laugh "hahaha, no biggie."
Lacus misinterprets Kira's action and thought that he was mad at her. So she looks away with a sad expression on her face.
All these did not go unnoticed by the girl with red hair, sitting two rows behind them. She watched them with a smirk of satisfaction on her face.
On the opposite side of the room, a guy with sandy blonde hair ogles at the new comer.
"She's hot!" he absent mindedly exclaims and recieves a smack on his head. "Ouch! What was that for?" Dearka asks, one hand holding his throbbing head, looking at his girlfriend. But he only recieved a glare from her. Then he realized what he just said about the new girl...
" Aw come on baby. I didn't mean it. Really!" He then looks at her immitating Lacus' puppy-dog-eyes look.
But Miriallia knows all too well and just glares at her boyfriend. "Hmph! I'm not falling for that Dearka!"
Dearka just sulks in his seat knowing she'll be in a bad mood for the whole day.
"Ummm...Hi." Cagalli greets her new blue-haired seatmate, who just ignored her. 'Geeez. What's his problem'
Athrun's heart skipped a beat when he saw the girl on the doorway. 'It's her!'
He noticed her blush as all eyes were on her. He couldn't help but smile at this.
'She looks sooo cute when she blushes.'
He also noticed that the girl got really scared and was ready to run away if Miss Murrue hadn't taken her hand. She looked like a little girl on her first day of school. 'Really cute.'
Athrun chuckes to himself. Then Miss Murrue introduces her to the class and was asked to sit beside him.
Athrun froze.
'Yes!'
'What?'
'No!'
'Why?'
He groaned silently. It's going to be hell. This girl would annoy him all throughout the semester like his other fangirls.
Athrun looks down on his table 'Just ignore her. That's it. Just ignore her and she'll probably get the message.'
Then the girl, Cagalli sits beside him. He heard her say hi to him but he just ignored her, as planned.
Cagalli ignored her seatmate until class ended, since he was doing the same. 'What a jerk! Two can play this game you know.' As soon as class ended, Cagalli bolts up and leaves the classroom in a hurry.
Athrun watched her go with a sad look on his face. Honestly, he was dissappointed that she totally ignored him for the whole period. It was his fault though, mentally kicking himself for his stupid plan. 'Sigh. I'll try and talk to her next time...hope she has economics next.'
"Athrun sweetheart!" Athrun was jolted from his thoughts and ran out of the classroom as fast as he could. He had goosebumps just thinking of what would happen if Meer caught him. Meer would cling on to his arm and would rub her breast against it. He shivered in disgust and looked back, making sure that Meer was nowhere near him.
Cagalli didn't have the next class with Zala, 'thank god!' But her next one, he was there. She wasn't told to sit beside him this time but in front of him, which was in her favor. But on the other hand Cagalli had the same subjects as Lacus, which she tried to ignore as well, but to no avail. Lacus would squeal in delight upon seeing her. Cagalli couldn't help but smile at her reactions.
Lunch time.
Cagalli remembers Lacus' invitation to sit with them during lunch. She wasn't in the mood to face Lacus 'twin' who would glare at her everytime they pass each other on the hallways. She could now distinguish which is which. Their hair clips were of different shapes. Cagalli still couldn't understsnd why Lacus' twin hates her.
Cagalli heads for the principal's office in a hurry, hoping to avoid Lacus and besides, Mwu forgot to give her money for lunch.
Cagalli found him at his office eating a muffin. She grabs the last muffin that was sitting on his table and earned a protest from him. "Hey that's my lunch!"
"Well, since you didn't give me money to buy myself some lunch, I guess THIS is MY lunch." Cagalli counters heading for the coffee maker and pouring herself a cup.
Mwu's eyes widens as he realized his negligence. "I'm sooo sorry! I forgot! Really, I did! Here..." Mwu fishes out some money, handing them to Cagalli.
" Nah! Don't worry about it. I already have my lunch," raising the muffin and coffee at Mwu.
Just then Murrue enters the office. Cagalli nods and smiles to her and exits the principal's office, muffin and coffee in hand.
"You're not planning on feeding a growing girl with just a muffin and a coffee for lunch are you?" Murrue asks Mwu with one eyebrow arched.
"Of course not! That muffin was MY lunch. I kinda forgot to give her money for lunch." Mwu looks at her sheepishly.
Murrue just shakes her head, arms crossed in front of her, with a disapproving look on her face.
Cagalli stood outside the principal's office wondering where she could sit down and eat her lunch in peace, when all of a sudden.
"Cagalli!" Lacus was headed her way with a huge smile on her face.
Cagalli cringed at the sight of her. 'Great. Just great. So much for my peace and quiet lunch. Sigh. And I was trying to avoid her.'
Cagalli plastered a fake smile at Lacus and was about to apologize for not remembering to meet her but Lacus links her arm with Cagalli's and continues on, dragging Cagalli with her, chatting non-stop and ignoring the surprised look on her new friend's face.
Cagalli notices a brown haired boy trailing behind. She looks at him and he shyly smiles at her.
Then she remembers 'Oh! He's with most of my classes, he's always sitting with Lacus. Her boyfriend probably.' And smiles back at him.
Kira's POV
'What was she doing in the principal's office? And is that coffe she's holding? Oh, she's looking at me. Smile. She's smiling back. She's cute. But not as cute as Lacus though. Kira blushes slightly as he dreamily examines Lacus.
'Cute is not the word...beautifu, exquisite and...sigh...perfect. She looks like a goddess. I love her so much! I wish I could tell that but...sigh!' Kira looks away from Lacus with a sad look on his face.
Cagalli's POV
Cagalli watched Kira's dreamy look, only to be replaced by a sad one.
'Poor guy. He's sooo in love. I guess he hasn't told her yet. So he's probably not her boyfriend yet.' Cagalli smiles to herself.
'Maybe I could wait a minute! What am I thinking! I don't even know these people much. I shouldn't interfere with their lives, much less their love lives.' Cagalli sighs at this thought.
Lacus' POV
Lacus notices Cagalli's sigh. She glances at her and noticed that she wasn't even listening to what she was saying. Lacus frowns a bit. She noticed her cringe when she saw her at the corridor earlier. She observed that Cagalli was a shy girl and would probably prefer to be alone. But Lacus was determined to shake that shyness off. 'I have this feeling that we'll be good friends.' Lacus smiles to herself.
Normal POV
"Here we are." Lacus tells Cagalli as they stopped in front of a particular table.
Cagalli shyly scans the curious faces looking her.
Lacus then introduces her friends to Cagalli which are Miriallia, Dearka, Yzak, Shiho and Kira(which she forgot to introduce earlier, afraid that Kira was still mad at her), then introduces Cagalli to them.
Cagalli seats beside Miriallia, finishing her muffin and sipping her coffe, listening to Yzak and Shiho bicker. Kira was busy eating his lunch while Lacus and Milly talked with Cagalli. Dearka on the other hand was eating his lunch too but kept stealing glances at Cagalli, making sure that Milly wouldn't catch him.
"So Cagalli, how do you like our school so far?" Milly asks her
"Well, errr"
"KIRA! KIRA! GET YOUR BUTT HERE NOW!"
All 7 heads turned towards the voice. Kira choked on his food, and saw Athrun, surrounded by his fangirls, some were clinging, others were trying to feed him.
Kira bolted out of his seat and peeled his best friend out and away from the crowd, toward their table. Athrun's fangirls wouldn't dare follow then 'coz they were afraid of Yzak and Shiho.
Cagalli burst out laughing at the scene before her. All five heads turned to her. Cagalli felt conscious and tried her best to contain her laughter but failed miserably.
Athrun noticed Cagalli, seated at their table and was laughing hyserically at him. He glared at her as he sat with them. He didn't like the fact that she was making fun of him. But as he watched her laughing in front of him, he couldn't help but smile. He liked it when she was happy like that. It seemed as if her face glowed and he liked that look. He tried to talk to her earlier in class but either she didn't hear him or she was just ignoring him. He looks at her and smiles. Cagalli smiles back.
'Ah... she has forgiven me! Yaaay! We're in good terms again!' Athrun grins widely at her.
Cagalli blushes at Athrun's gaze and looks down. She glances at the direction of the fangirls, hoping they didn't see that. They were all glaring at Shiho in particular. Cagalli then noticed 'Lacus twin' with them and asks Lacus about it.
At the mention of 'twin' from Cagalli, Kira, again almost choked at his food, Milly, Dearka, Yzak, Shiho, Athrun and Lacus stared at her with shocked faces.
"Oh my, Meer..." Lacus started
Cagalli noticed that at the mention of her name, all of them sneered.
"...is not my twin sister." Lacus finishes.
"That bitch is definitely not Lacus twin sister! Don't ever make that mistake again! They are nowhere near similar with each other." Kira burst out, standing from his chair.
Cagalli was shocked by his outburst and almost fell off her chair, 'coz Kira was leaning down on her with a very angry face.
"Hey Kira stop that. You're scaring Cagalli." Athrun placed a hand on Kira's shoulder, slightly pulling him away from Cagalli. He then looks at Cagalli with an apologetic smile.
"Kira calm down." Lacus pulls him back in his seat.
Cagalli was confused at Kira's outburst and watched Kira cautiously.
" Meer is not Lacus' twin sister, hell, they're not even related." Milly explains. "She and Lacus were best of friends when they were still eight years old. As they grew up, she was jealous of Lacus' beauty and popularity, so she changed her appearance to be just like Lacus. Her attitude changed too, she became a bitch...she's still bitter because Lacus was still more popular eventhough they looked alike. Her hatred towards Lacus increased when Lacus became good friends with Athrun."
"I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to insult Lacus." Cagalli apologizes to the group, but to Kira in particular. Kira smiles at her and apologizes for his outburst earlier. The two of them grins idiotically at each other, holding that pose for a while, looking at each other, as if they were talking that only the two of them could understand.
Lacus and Athrun notices the sudden closeness between the two. Both felt jealous and looked away from the hurting scene.
Milly noticed the look on both Athrun and Lacus' faces. Milly was about to interrupt Kira and Cagalli when Shiho 'accidentally' spilled her juice on the table. Everyone jumped away from the table. Milly looks at Shiho, who just grinned at her.
Later that afternoon, Cagalli was alone in the girl's washroom when five girls burst in. They glared at Cagalli. She heard one of them say 'whore.' Cagalli didn't like the way they were looking at her so she decides to leave. One of the girls blocked her way and pushed her back inside. Cagalli was surprised and fell down on her butt. The others snickered. Cagalli was about to ask them what their problem was when Meer suddenly entered. She was surprised to see Cagalli on the floor. She looked at the other girls, then at Cagalli. She then approached Cagalli, who was still seated on the floor. She smiles an evil smile and slaps Cagalli on the cheek. Cagalli's hand automatically holds her now stinging cheek and stared at Meer with utter disbelief. 'What did I do?'
The other girls were laughing at her. Cagalli was furious and was about to stand up when she felt hands on her arms and shoulders holding her down. Meer then looks at her with a smug look on her face. "This is just a taste of what you'll get if you continue to hang out with MY Athrun." Meer then exits the washroom and the others followed suit.
Cagalli went home that day with mixed emotions, pondering on what to do concerning the day's events.
Coffee Shop
"Hey where's Cagalli?" Kira asks Lacus as they were seated at the coffee shop, their usual hang-out place after school. Milly and Shiho exchange looks at Kira's question, Athrun looks down, Lacus looks out the window, Dearka and Yzak, well, they were oblivious of what was going on.
"Ummmm...I wasn't able to catch her after class ended. She kinda bolted out of the classroom, sorry." Lacus answers Kira, giving him a fake smile, which went unnoticed by Kira.
Kira shrugs his shoulders "I just thought that she'd be hanging out with us from now on. I guess she's still shy when it comes to haning out with us, hehehe, I mean, Cagalli kept on blushing and stuttering when Lacus talked to her on the way to the cafeteria. But all her shyness disappeared when she saw Athrun being mobbed by his fangirls, she was laughing so hard" Kira wasn't able to finish 'coz his phone was ringing. He answers it.
"Sorry guys, have to go, mom wants me to buy something and she needs it right away. Bye." Kira explains and scrambles out of the cafe.
Milly, Shiho and Athrun looks at Lacus who was on the verge of tears. Athrun streched out his hand towards Lacus but she suddenly stood up and ran towards the washroom. Athrun sighs and the two girls went after their friend.
They found her inside the washroom, crying. She didn't look up when the two girls entered. The two girls watched their friend in silence, tapping her on the back, comforting her. After a few minutes, Lacus decides to go home. Athrun offers to take her home.
A/N: That's it! End of chapter two. Ummm...not much of a Cagalli x Athrun romance.. but please be patient. They're still teenegers by the way. Read and Review please. I'll try and update next week. TY.