Chapter 4: Disturbed Feelings

Lacus was on the veranda of their house. Her pink wavy hair was swaying with the cold breeze of the night as she reminisced what happened that afternoon.

"That stupid guy…" she said touching her lips.

Then Stellar came and went beside her.

"What are you thinking Lacus? Do you have any problem?" Stellar asked worriedly.

"No… am… it's nothing… by the way how's your first day at school?"

"It's fine…"

"Am… do you want to bathe with me?" Lacus asked tentatively.

"Huh?"

Meanwhile, Kira was so shocked seeing Cagalli in his house.

"When did you come?" he asked his sister.

"Just this morning…" Cagalli said assertively, "Is it true that the four of you went to school?"

"Hmmm… Yeah…" he said in a low voice.

"That's weird… I know you hate school." Cagalli said wondering, "Now I'm thinking if I can go to school too…"

"N-no!"

"No?"

"A… I mean you don't have to…" he said instantly.

"Why? What if I like to?"

"If that's what you want, I can't do anything about it…"

"That's my brother… then I will arrange my papers tomorrow…" Cagalli said with a triumphant smile on her face, "And by the way, don't tell Athrun I'm here. I want to surprise him tomorrow." she added.

"This is bad… Athrun will surely be dead tomorrow…" he thought.

Lacus and Stellar are in the bathroom-taking bath when Lacus' noticed something.

"Stellar, what's that on the back of your neck?" she asked while she's scrubbing Stellar's back.

"Huh? I don't know…what does it look like?"

"Never mind… its just numbers. Maybe it's just a tattoo or something."

"Maybe…"

"No, I'm definitely sure it meant something, but what?" she thought.

The next day, Yzak and Nicol were on the Dean's Office, they skipped class just to

Investigate.

"Nothing's here…" Yzak said.

"Yeah… I think this is not the right place to look for clues." Nicol agreed.

"I think so too…"

Then they heard footsteps.

"Someone's coming… let's hide! Quick!" Yzak said as the footsteps drew nearer and nearer.

"W-whe-" Nicol didn't finished what he was saying for Yzak suddenly pulled him behind the curtains.

"Is everything alright here?" a man said fully coated in black said in a deep voice.

"Yes, certainly…" another man said, he's the Dean of the school.

"Do you have any news about the Allience?"

"From what I heard, everyone in the Allience is panicking for the sudden disappearance of their so called 'experiment' and-"

"Sshhh!" the man in black looked around, "someone's here and listening in our conversation…"

"Huh?"

The man went near the curtain in front of them and pulled it.

"Nothing's there." The Dean said.

"Yeah… you should be more careful from now on, the Allience might send spies here. We should be ready."

"Alright."

Yzak and Nicol were catching their breath as they sit down on a bench near them.

"That's totally close!" Yzak exclaimed.

"Yeah… but who do you think the guy in black is? And what's with him and the Dean?" Nicol asked.

"I don't know… but one thing is for sure, they're from Eris! This school is ruled by an Eris' member." Then suddenly Yzak saw the girl who he bumped to yesterday, "Nicol, go and find Kira and Athrun, tell them what happened, I will just fix some things." He said with a smile and he followed the girl.

"Hey! Where will he go?" Nicol sighed and he justwent inside the school to find Kira and Athrun.

Inside the school, Athrun was walking in the corridor when someone called him…

"Hey! What are you doing wandering here in the corridor? I think you should be inside the classroom." A very familiar voice of a girl said.

He turned around and, "I'm sorry ma'am-" instead of seeing a teacher he saw a blonde-haired girl smiling at him, "C-cagalli?!"

"Yes-"

Before Cagalli could say anything Athrun immediately hugged her.

"I missed you so much!"

"I missed you too…" Cagalli said in bright red.

"When did you come?"

"Yesterday morning…"

"How come Kira didn't told me?"

"Because I told him to."

"Well, Kira is still an obedient little brother huh?"

"Of course!" Cagalli said proudly.

"Come! Let's go there!" Athrun said pointing at the rooftop.

"Sure!"

Yzak followed the girl and he saw her beside a Sakura tree, her long brown hair was swaying with the wind. Yzak felt a sudden gush on his cheek. (He's blushing.)

"Wow… she's so cute…" he thought. "Hey! What am I thinking?! Am I hallucinating or what?!" he said slapping his own cheek.

"Hey! Who's there?!" called the girl.

"Oh no! Did she heard me?" he thought, then slowly he turned around and prepared to leave but its too late the girl already saw him and she's already behind his back.

"So it's you, the stupid guy yesterday." she said smirking.

"I'm not stupid!" he said.

"Whatever… so, why are you following me?" she said hastily.

"Excuse me? Do I hear it right? Me? Following you? That's totally absurd! I'm not the type of person who will follow a girl like you!" he said pointing his finger at the girl.

"Oh really? Then what are you doing here?" the girl said teasing him.

"A…"; "This is bad, I can't think of anything to say."

"Can't think of anything to say? Well just admit that you're following me."

"N-no! So what if I'm here?! What's wrong with that?"

The girl let out a big laugh and said, "You know what? You're worst than any girl in our class, 'coz you're such a big talker!"

"What?!"

"Bye! Loser!" then the girl left.

Yzak felt that all of his blood went up to his head and he will explode in no time.

"That… that stupid girl! She will surely pay for this!!!"

Athrun and Cagalli were in the rooftop talking about what happened in their lives this past few years.

"Really? That's so funny…" cagalli said laughing.

"So, why are you here?" Athrun change the topic.

"Well I'm thinking of going to this school too…"

"W-what?! You can't do that!" Athrun said immediately.

"Huh? Why? Is there something wrong wit that?"

"N-no… There's nothing wrong with that… it's perfectly alright…"

"You know, you have the same reaction as kira, is there something I have to know?"

"A…" Athrun started to think about Luna, " I think e should go now…"

"Athrun, what's wrong? Tell me…"

"Well, you see…" then the bell rang, " The bell rang! Let's go!" then he held Cagalli's hand.

"Wait-"

Luna Maria and Meyrin were walking together to the cafeteria…

"Where's Auel? It's odd that the two of you weren't together."

"Don't say that, so what if we're not together? He's not my boyfriend or anything like that."

"Tell me, did the two of you had a fight?" Luna asked.

"Well yeah… sort of…"

Then they saw Nicol walking.

"Hey! Nicol!" Luna shouted waving her hand.

"Oh no! It's Nicol… I must hide, but where?" Meyrin thought.

"Luna, how are you? Do you know where Athrun is?" Nicol said while approaching them.

"I was about to ask you the same thing…"

"You already knew the answer…"

"A… by the way, this is Meyrin my younger sister." Luna said pulling Meyrin.

"You… so that's why you look so familiar…" Nicol said looking at Meyrin.

"Hehe… hi…" Meyrin said in a low voice.

"Nicol, can you take her to the cafeteria? I will just look for Athrun…"

"Sure, no problem."

"Gosh! This is it! I'm going to eat with Nicol." Meyrin thought in excitement.

Kira was looking everywhere just to find Cagalli when he saw the blue-eyed girl sitting and writing something on a paper. He approached her, "Hi!"

The girl looked at him with disgust and stood up to face him eye to eye, "What do you want?"

"Your forgiveness I guess."

"Well I can't give it to you, so just go and get out of my sight…"

"I won't, until you forgive me."

"Then I will leave." Then the girl went away.

"What a girl…" he sighed.

Meanwhile…

"You know Cagalli, there's many things that changed since you left." Athrun said.

"Huh?"

"Cagalli… I… I already…-"

Athrun can't continue what he was saying because a girl suddenly clung her hands into his arms.

"There you are Athrun… I've been looking all over for you…" the girl said smiling.

"L-luna…" Athrun said in shocked.

"Who's she?" Luna asked looking at Cagalli, "Athrun… introduce me to your friend."

"A…" Athrun couldn't utter a single word.

"Yes Athrun introduce me to her…" Cagalli said sarcastically.

"Luna… This is Cagalli Yula Atha, Kira's sister, Cagalli, this is Luna Maria Hawke… my…my…"

"I'm his fiancée, so you're Kira's sister, it's really nice to meet you.." Luna said smiling.

"Fiancee?!"