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Summary: C.C. is a lazy and gluttonous girl who only cares for pizza. And Lelouch is the man that may fall for her, ahem, charms.
Green Silk and Golden Orbs
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Chapter 14
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As far as Lelouch planned out his life, yes he was the type who lived for the future, travelling the world was never in his agenda. It wasn't in C.C.'s agenda as well until she chanced on a commercial that was playing repeatedly at the electronics store beside her favourite Pizza Hut. Then again, C.C. didn't live by an agenda; she didn't live for the future. She lived aimlessly, letting the wind carrying her along day by day.
It didn't come to a surprise to Lelouch when C.C. announced she wanted to venture to other countries during the Summer. He always expected the unexpected from her and her declaration to travel was unexpected to say the least.
He was sitting by the local cafe, a newspaper in one hand and tea cup in the other. He was waiting for C.C. who told him to meet her there the night before. Supposedly she had big news to tell him. Lelouch had an inkling to prepare himself for something mind-blowing but he didn't prepare himself enough for the words that came out of her mouth.
"I want to go to Paris so that you can propose to me on the Eiffel Tower."
As if he was an actor who prepared himself for this one take, Lelouch spat out his tea past his newspaper. It was perfectly executed. Using a clean napkin, he dabbed his chin dry of any extra residue. His eyes didn't wander off C.C. for a moment.
When he was done cleaning himself up, Lelouch composed himself.
"What did you say?"
"I want to go to Paris so that you can propose to me on the Eiffle Tower." She repeated her opening statement word for word; tone for tone; expression for expression. It was if Lelouch had pressed replay on his Life Remote.
"Are you out of your mind? What show did you watch that made you want to visit Europe all of a sudden?" For more than a year of knowing C.C., Lelouch knew that some of C.C.'s ideas or suggestions usually came from the shows she often watched. It was thanks to a couple of Italian cooking shows that got C.C. obsessed with pizza.
She leaned back lightly against her seat.
"Well, I saw a commercial featuring Paris and other European cities last night. It got me thinking that I've never left Japan." C.C. wasn't pure Japanese herself. Only her Mother was. Her Father's side was British. Despite being Eurasian, she has never seen the European side of her family tree. "My Father grew up in Great Britain for a portion of his life; he's toured France, Italy, Germany, Spain and many more while I have just been to Hokkaido and back."
"So, you want to get in touch with your European culture," he concluded, which she nodded to.
"And visiting the homeland of pizza wouldn't be such a bad experience. Before you propose to me on the Eiffel Tower, of course."
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And before he knew it, they were jet-setting across the world, well, across Europe. Their first destination was the homeland of pizza, Italy. Lelouch suggested England since C.C. was part British but her love for Italian pastries pulled at her heart-strings more. They arrived in Italy after a thirteen hour plane ride. Lelouch was thankful his family had their own private jet because they stuck in a plane filled with screaming children for thirteen hours would have surely killed him prematurely.
The plane ride was exhausting despite sitting down for the majority of the flight. He was a bucket of nerves during the entire duration of the flight. Travelling at about 12 000ft wasn't his definition of a relaxing lazy afternoon. It wasn't that he was scared; Lelouch just didn't like the idea of being so high up for sigh a long period of time. He was paranoid the plane might unusually run out of gas, oxygen even or that the pilot might succumb to sleepiness. Dying on a private jet in a fury of flames wasn't the death he hoped for.
Once the plane landed, C.C. asked their Italian driver to take them to the best pizzeria in all of Rome.
That did not surprise Lelouch one bit.
However, it did annoy him.
"Can't we stop by the hotel first?" He wondered out loud tiredly after a yawn. He was beat and would probably pass out at any given moment.
"But I'm hungry," was C.C.'s only reply.
Lelouch fought the urge of releasing his temper.
"You can order pizza at the hotel. Aren't you tired? We were on the plane for more than twelve hours." He was lamely trying to persuade C.C. to change her mind. He was trying to convince her that she was tired, that her hunger can be satisfied by hotel food.
"Well, you can sleep here in the car while I order pizza."
"Isn't this supposed to be a romantic getaway?" Lelouch almost snapped at her; he just didn't want to startle the friendly driver that may get rattled enough to lead them into a car accident.
No, Lelouch wasn't being paranoid.
"No, it's a journey to get to know my European roots better."
"But you're not Italian."
"I could be, you never know."
She could be; she ate pizza probably more than the entire Italian population. Correction, C.C. ate pizza more than the entire pizza eat community.
"Hold on, first you tell me you want to have a Parisian proposal and now you're telling me this isn't a romantic getaway..." He glared down at her only to be met by her signature sarcastic smirk.
"Why? Were you hoping something would happen between us, Lelouch?" She teased, causing him to blush and the nosy Italian driver as well. "Naughty boy."
Honestly, he felt like choking her due to the embarrassment she just laid out on him.
"I've never felt like strangling you more than this moment."
She cocked an eyebrow at him.
"Why, are you a secret sadist that gets turned on when you see your fiancée in pain?"
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A/N: I'm sorry for the late late late super late addition. I haven't been that busy to be honest but I've just wandered away a bit from my stories to clear my mind. This chapter is shorter than anticipated BUT if it were any longer, it would just be too long. And I wanted to give you guys a tiny update to show you I'm still alive and kicking aimlessly.
Since this story is based in summer, well, this arc is based in summer, I will try to update this during the entire summer. Now, it shouldn't last more than four chapters, this addition, but I may or may not be slow/random with my updates.
Thank you all so much for sticking by me. I don't expect everyone to return to this story since I haven't been a good updater but thank you to all those you do choose to stick by.
