Clarvoyant Eyes
Summary: Many envy Lacus. She's beautiful, smart, rich and can easily befriends with people. Many thinks she's perfect but for her, she's not. She lives a normal life with her friends but everything changes when her father decided to marry again and when she met Kira.
Chapter 19- Nightmares Do Come True
After their long stay in the ranch, they finally take their final dinner as for tomorrow they'll be leaving. They have been in the town earlier to buy some things. They start to prepare and pack their things while having conversation about their unforgettable experiences. Lacus is outside sitting in a wooden bench looking at the mountain peak while thinking seriously, its cold outside and she's not even wearing her sweater. Miriallia accidentally sees her from a window wondering. She starts to stare at her but Lacus noticed her so she waves her hand and closed the curtain. The truth is she didn't actually recognize that it was Miriallia since it was a little too far. After some minutes she again sneaks into the curtain but Lacus wasn't there. Where could she have gone?
She visits her in their room but she wasn't there only Cagalli putting her pajama on. "Where's Lacus?" she asked as she looks around Lacus' things in her bed. "It's cold outside, she'll catch a cold." She continues without hearing Cagalli's answer. "I keep wondering what's with her, she smiles by her self, looked at something which she never showed us and is thinking too much."
"I guess that's the effect of love." Cagalli said sitting in her soft bed unfolding her blanket. Miriallia became interested to what she has said and asks for all she knows. "She thought I didn't notice her sweet stares in a piece of paper she's always holding. Whenever I came in here she immediately puts it in her back and becomes confused on what she'll do next. She's so naïve, childish and clumsy these days." She finished as Miriallia think for a minute and suddenly murmurs it to Cagalli while laughing.
The next day, after their delicious breakfast of bread, cheese and fresh milk they were brought to the train station. They bid goodbye to the wonderful hospitality they have shown them. They get inside and find their seats. As expected they were still sleepy for sleeping late last night. They went to their room after dinner but didn't sleep instead they just talk and talk until midnight, Lacus was one of them who fell asleep from the start of their trip. Miriallia and Cagalli were looking at her like they were planning something stupid for her.
Their trip lasted for hours and only 20 minutes to go and they'll be in their destination, they keep looking at Lacus while smiling and laughing to one another. Lacus noticed their strange act but keeps ignoring them. When they got there the train stops and they start to pull their suit case and baggage. Lacus got off the train last and is pulling her heavy baggage not looking in her way until she bumped hard into someone and hurt her face. She heard Cagalli laughing hard and when she looks to the person she bumped in she moved away in surprised. It was Kira.
Cagalli stands beside Kira with her hands on his shoulders still laughing. "Looks like your boyfriend came to see you." She said. Her friends moved closer to them to meet her "boyfriend." They praised his good looking face, height and keep saying they look good together. The two blushes as Lacus nod in shyness, as Kira did the same. But they were excited and happy to see each other again after a long week. After meeting Kira they went their separate ways home.
Meanwhile in the restaurant, Flay's looking at Tolle which annoys him. What he hates the most is people staring at him. Not again, why does it have to be always me. He thought ignoring her stares. Maybe she's waiting for Kira's arrival but sorry, he change schedule to see his most beloved. He thought overwhelmed seeing Flay's annoyed face as he continue serving the meals.
Cagalli decided to gave them a ride home but there's an accident that occurred near Lacus' house disabling them to have a smooth ride. To avoid further bothersome to Cagalli, Lacus decided to walk since it isn't that far anymore. Kira gets her baggage and the two left. Cagalli can't help feeling strange to Kira, there's something unexplainable with him. She's jealous of him but she feels comfortable when with him.
The two walks together quietly and slowly taking their time together, no one dares to speak first but when they decided to they spontaneously spoke. "You speak first." Said Kira but Lacus refuses making Kira speak. "So…." He said feeling nervous. "How's your vacation?"
"It was fun, and I'm a little sad for one week isn't enough." She answered honestly with her eyes focus ahead. Kira was somehow hurt, so she wants to stay there rather than staying here and be with him. "That was the most beautiful place I've ever been so far that I forgot all my worries and everything in here." She again said hurting Kira more that he just looks down with no plan of replying. It took a while before Lacus felt his silence. She looks at him as he continues looking down. Curious of what he's thinking she gets ahead of him and appears from below surprising Kira. She finds his reaction funny and so she laughs. "Why are you quiet? Are thinking of something?" she asked going back beside him as they continue to walk.
"Well… I'm glad that you enjoyed your vacation, you should have extended your stay there." Replied Kira with a tone of jealousy towards her likeness of the place.
"The truth is… I'd love to stay there more rather than here." She replied honestly ignoring Kira's way of talking to her. It's obvious that he's hurt for what she's been saying and still she's hasn't realize it, she's like a rock with no feelings until she noticed again his silence. After some minutes they found themselves standing in front of her house. "How about you Kira? How's your week?"
Kira at first hesitated to answer for his week is just normal, nothing exciting happened and most of his time is talking to Flay but is thinking of her but then answers. "Nothing exciting happened unlike yours." Lacus didn't follow her question anymore knowing that Kira's not in the mood for sharing experiences. "Well… there's something that keeps me from boredom…" he said avoiding her eyes. "And that's when I think about you." He said bravely but somehow he regrets saying 'I think about you.'
Lacus now looks the other way avoiding his eyes. Not knowing how to react that she somewhat covers her smiling lips with her hands. "Yeah…" she whispers to her self. She removes her hands and gets something from her bag. Feeling ashamed, he looks again the other way as she gets the paper he has given her. "I also think of you. And whenever I see this gift from you." She said showing him the paper then opening it. "It's your face that appears in my head not mine. It's so precious that I would keep this for all my life."
Overwhelmed by her words of appreciation towards his work and gift he finally speaks with his eyes deeply looking on Lacus'. She can't help smiling and swaying but Kira holds her hand which makes her stop looking serious. "There are things more precious than that that I would like to see for all my life." He said sweetly embracing Lacus as she stands in joy thinking if she'll do the same, she's tense as his arms warm her cold summer night under the starry sky. His embrace shows that he likes her or maybe loves her. It's such a romantic night that they doesn't want to let go of each other.
The clouds starts to cover the shining moon and stars above, he decided to go home since it's starting to get late but before he go he asked Lacus to get in first but Lacus refused. "I'm already in front of my house so it's better if you go first while I look upon your back." But he also refused but soon follows her. He take a last look in her happy, contented face then smiles and waves his hand before going away as Lacus did the same. When he's no longer visible, she decided to ring the doorbell waiting for someone to open the gate but almost five minutes have passed and still the house is still quiet. She gets her key and opens the gate instead thinking that they were all sleeping. She closed the gate after getting in and opens the front door next. She didn't notice that someone was looking at her from the window.
When she gets inside, she opened the light and in her surprised she suddenly take a step back seeing bottles and cans of whine, beer, gin and other alcoholic drinks and other beverages everywhere. Some were broken scattered in the floor. There are girls in the couch and on the floor sleeping with only their underwear and bra on them. She gulps in total shock thinking what's happening. She doesn't know what to do; will she wake them or let them be like that? Suddenly she heard the loud sound of thunder outside, she covers her ears with her hands and closed her eyes. After a few seconds, she opens her eyes and hears the loud falling rain. As she continues walking holding her things she saw a girl and a boy naked at the back of a couch, looking sleepy but still kissing one another. She feels a little disgusted for she never thinks of their house as a place of shameful happenings like what she's witnessing right now.
There were also cigarettes, plastics, chips container and waste food on the floor. It seems like there have been a party before she arrived. She stops looking around to avoid seeing the disgusted surrounding. Where's everybody? Have I entered the wrong house? She thought but the paintings her father has bought are displayed in the wall and even the furniture where placed in its right position. She's also thinking where the maids are and Kira (her cat), he usually runs when she comes in. Suddenly she felt someone's presence from behind, he holds her lower hips but she turned behind and pushed that person hard without thinking of who it was. He's drunk, he's eyes were sleepy and fell on the floor smiling with no shirt no cover his upper body. She's horrified with enlarged eyes as she holds her body.
She left her baggage beside a cabinet downstairs and rush upstairs to see if there were people there but there was no one, she opened the light before continuing to her room. As she opens the door, she looked behind, having no one around she opens it and gets in, she tries to open the light but before she could do it the door shut. Afraid, she moved away from it but before she could make another moved she heard a demonic laugh which she first heard in her dream or rather her nightmare. She also feels something in the floor; she removed her feet from her sandals and realizes that there were petals scattered on the floor and the radio starts to play with a romantic low tune.
"Come here, Lacus!" he cried aloud in a horrifying manner making Lacus tremble and desperate in horror not knowing what to do as she hears his footsteps coming closer. "Lacus……" he again said in a way like Lacus is his pet. She cannot identify whose speaking for he seems to be drunk and out of his mind changing voice every time he speaks.
End of the Chapter
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