Author's Note: Yay! I've finally posted Chapter 3. I hope you would enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. Again please READ and REVIEW and please please NO FLAMES. I hope you would again excuse me from all the mistakes I made, I'm still getting used to writing, with the grammar and spelling. Anyway enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own GSD. If I have, I would have made Meyrin die in the end. Sorry to all Meyrin fans. Please don't hold a grudge, I just don't like her.
Chapter 3: Disaster stirkes!
It was a very awkward moment to the five people inside the red convertible. Three people seemed to have squeezed together in the back seat. Kira stuffed uncomfortably in the middle, Athrun and Lacus were sitting beside the ace pilot. While Cagalli sitting in front and Kazuo driving seriously in the driver's seat. It seems that no one dared to speak. There was only silence and the loud sound of the car's engine. But luckily, one was brave enough.
"So... Kazuo.. How long have you known our Cagalli?" Lacus asked inquiringly to the man in front of her and the wheel.
"I.. Umm.." Kazuo replied unsure what to answer.
"Three years." the blond sitting beside the driver answered hastily.
The three jammed at the back were suprised by the sudden outcome of this important detail. While the two in front seemed unaffected. Nope, the suprises never seem to stop, they just keep coming after the other. And soon some of them might even get to visit the hospital due to a heart attack.
"Three years? And Cagalli never even mentioned him. Not once. Not even a 'Hey Kira, I'm getting married'. And she expects me to swallow all this?!" Kira's mind asking for a clearer explanation.
Again no one spoke. Kira sitting there staring at his shoes looking stunned. Athrun had a completely different look plastered in his face, it wasn't shock nor anger, it was the look of pain. His heart ached as he heard those words.
"Athrun you Baka! Baka! Baka!" Athrun repeated again and again through out his mind.
"You had her and now... Now, she's gone." he thought.
Lacus gave a sigh and had in her eyes the look of worry. As she watch the two men beside her, she knew exactly what they were feeling, she could read them both like an open book.
Atha Mansion:
After finally arriving at the Atha estate, bags of luggage were delivered to two separate rooms, one for the soon to be Mr. and Mrs. Yamato and one for the ex-Zaft soldier. When all the luggage finally gone, Kazuo gave Cagalli a kiss in the cheek as a gesture of goodbye as he then drove out of the Atha estate. Cagalli feeling red, waved goodbye and soon ushered her guests inside.
"His not going to join us?" Athrun asked rather hoping the answer would be no.
"No. His busy today. He wasn't even suppose to be here but he sneaked out. His superiors should be giving him a harsh punishment later." Cagalli replied coldly not even looking once at Athrun.
"Lady Cagalli, the luggage are already in the rooms." One of the younger maids said as she gave a respectful bow.
"Thank you. Could you please prepare an early lunch?" Cagalli replied sweetly. She then handed the maid her hat.
"Right away Ma'am." the maid said as she gave a final bow and headed for the kitchen while stopping at a closet and gently settling the hat with a few other ones.
She first showed Lacus and Kira's room. She went up the stairs, then right and finally stopping to the second door of the hallway. She opened it slowly as if careful not to damage anything.
The room given to Kira and Lacus was luxurious and had a homey feeling to it. The luggage sitting quietly next to the door. The room was full of intricate designs from the bed to even the ceiling. It had a luscious blue carpet, beautiful light green curtains that spoke 'class' to whoever may see it. Along its walls were decorated with amazing paintings of landscapes that could be seen only in Orb. The bed was large even for two people and looked so comfortable that once your head hit the pillow you would fall asleep instantly. But the most beautiful part of the room was the view. The view was composed of a breath taking garden full of rare and not so rare flowers in full bloom.
"Oh my God! Cagalli this is so beautiful!" Lacus squealed as she quickly opened the door to the veranda showing the fantastic garden.
"Not bad sis. Actually I was expecting you to dump us in a very creepy room. I'm very impressed. You exceeded my expectation." Kira said jokingly while scanning the luxurious room.
"Really?! Maybe I should." Cagalli commented sarcastically.
"Oh Kira, I love it here!" Lacus jumped in as she gives her fiancee's arm a nice, affectionate hug.
Kira still not used to this type of gesture flushed bright red along with his fiancee. Cagalli then left the two lovebirds to help the other guest and to keep herself from turning red as well.
"Come on." Cagalli said rather coldly to the blue haired man waiting outside of the room.
Not even waiting for Athrun to reply, she quickly paced further of the hallway, Athrun following behind. Again silence accompanied them. Cagalli not even once glanced at Athrun wondering if he was even following her. She then stopped at a door at her left and opened it harshly, it was a good thing that the door looked strong or else it surely would've broke. Beside the door was Athrun's luggage waiting patiently.
Inside was a beautiful room. It seems to be less luxurious and quite smaller than that of Kira's but it was beautiful and comfy none the less. The walls also hung beautiful paintings of landscapes but at a lesser count. The bed seems to be for one person only, but feels a lot more comfortable than the beds that he was used to while he was still a soldier. The ceiling was painted with complex designs that only a person with knowledge of such art could appreciate thoroughly.
"Sorry I couldn't get you a better room. I wasn't exactly told that you would be coming, so I didn't get a chance to prepare one." Cagalli spoke with no emotion in her voice.
"No. It's no problem at all. I really like the room." Athrun replied softly.
"Then, since there's no problem, I better get going." she spoke coldly once again, as she turned out to leave, her long golden hair followed.
Then out of nowhere, someone took hold of her right hand, stopping her from leaving.
"No!" Athrun screamed as he reached and stopped her.
"Please don't go. Don't leave me alone." He pleaded softly, now tears began forming in his emerald green eyes.
It seemed time froze, not one moved. Athrun didn't know what else to do. Right now he had only one option. Beg for her to listen.
He then turned her around once again, now both of them face to face. Athrun looked devastated as he looked at her eyes, the caring eyes he remembered were no more, instead, there lay eyes containing pure anger and loathing, soon those amber eyes began to cry, tears fell from her now red cheeks.
"LEAVE!? LEAVE?! You were the one who left me!" Cagalli yelled not having any strength to contain her anger anymore. Not even caring if everyone in the mansion could hear them.
"I-I-I didn't leave you Cagalli. I needed time, I needed time to think." He pleaded yet again, now more than anything, he wanted was that the look of anger in Cagalli's eyes would disappear.
But you don't always get what you want not even if you wished it deep down in your heart.
"Yeah, you took one hell of a time! Five years to be exact! Five long years!" Cagalli answered, now her eyes full of more anger.
"Cagalli, listen to me. Please listen to my explanation." Athrun begged her. He then took hold of both Cagalli's arms.
Cagalli squirmed as Athrun took hold of her. All she wanted now was to run away, as far away as possible from him, but him being a man and not to mention a coordinator she would be powerless against him. As Cagalli squirmed trying to get away from his hold, Athrun gripped harder, now hurting Cagalli. Cagalli now averting his gaze, a while ago he was the one who seemed helpless but it seems the table has turned.
"Please listen to me. Look at me!" he now yelled as he gripped harder.
Cagalli not wanting her arms broken, turned her gaze on him slowly. Her eyes now red from crying.
"Cagalli... I love you." Athrun said boldly.
Not even waiting for Cagalli to react, hell, not even waiting for her to process what he just said.
He kissed her right then and there. What happened shocked Cagalli, she couldn't even think straight anymore. The kiss Athrun gave wasn't passionate, it didn't contain any love, heck, it was a kiss he did not plan. It was a kiss he needed more than anything now. A deep, harsh kiss, just to let her listen to him, to shut her up and to even just try her to calm down. He then loosened his grip on her now red arms.
PAK!
The sound of a loud noise reverberated around the room, Cagalli had just slapped Athrun with her right hand. Because of the force, he stumbled backward. No, he didn't expected this to happen, he thought that after the kiss, Cagalli would try and talk to him.
"H-Ho-How dare you!" she yelled still shaken from what had happened.
"How dare you do that!" she added as she took her right hand near her chest protecting it. It looked a little swollen, it must've taken a lot for her to slap him like that.
Athrun frozed as he couldn't move. He put his left hand on the swollen cheek. It ached so much, not only his cheek but also his heart. Cagalli then quickly turned as she dashed out of the room, heading nowhere in particular, as long as she gets away, far away.
Author's Note: Sorry this chapter wasn't that long. Hope that you liked it. Well I was wondering, since other authors used this rule I would also like to use it. I would post the next chapter if I get atleast 5 reviews. So again please READ and REVIEW! Please don't kill me! Or send me flames because of this. Hope you understand.