Disclaimer: I don't own GSD.. Just borrowed a few casts..
hmm.. fresh air.. err..fresh air conditioned air :D rofl
did you guys miss me? Sorry bout the late update. I got stressed out from the work load and some unfortunate events at home.. hopefully my brain is functioning well now. I'm working on some other fics, thats why it took a millennium for me to update this :D Please do stop by my other authored fics cause I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy the story too. :D
Thanks for all who reviewed my story and kept on watch for my fic.
missfk21 – yeah.. i agree that chapter was wee confusing.. lots of elements missing. I revised chapter 19 :D
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CHAPTER 20: Between Two Rivers
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The sun has just started to emit its golden rays upon the seas, Cagalli shot up her bed and quickly dashed off to the the bathroom.
Today is the last day in Oroboro Island, throughout that "7 day stay" , she hadn't experience the salt water yet in her skin. The beach had been too occupied the previous days with events that she wasn't interested at all. They also said that in a vacation, the last day is the best day.
"there!" she finished off with her red bandana on her head.
Knock knock knock
"come in!" she said as she closed the bathroom door. Luna came in from the entrance, "excited?" she greeted the blond who was cramming over her bag. They agreed last night to spend the last day in Oroboro Island swimming together.
"sort of, its been years since my last beach outing "
"you still do know how to swim don't you?" the red head joked
"of course I do! I'm a swimming pro" Cagalli proudly stated as she triumphantly pulls out her slippers.
"Okay lets go!!" Cagalli pulled Luna out to the neighboring room and banged hard on the door. She didn't stop knocking until they got the small response from inside the room. "coming"
"easy on the door Cags" Luna sympathized to the door as she fixes herself from Cagalli's pulling.
The door swung open, Rey stood by the door wearing his swimming trunks, white shirt and a jacket over his shoulders that had "nurse" on its back.
"Good morning" Shinn greeted face back as he put on his slippers, eyes not on the visitors. He was wearing the same thing as Rey, they only had different colored trunks and he was not wearing a shirt.
"Hurry up Shinn!" Cagalli pouted impatiently,
Suddenly he heard a clash from the doorway that made him turn to their direction. Rey was not moving a budge, he stepped up to the door to see what is keeping his blond friend frozen in time. As he did, he felt his jaw almost dropped to the door.
Rey's plastic mug lied on the floor, Cagalli picked up his mug and shoved it hard on Rey's chest. "Hold your mug Rey" she bolted at the fellow blond.
Shinn felt his cheeks burn up and his throat run dry, his eyes widened upon his doorway were two ladies in their bathing suits standing. Luna was wearing her green two piece swimsuit, her bra style top perfectly hugging her shapey busts and her undies covered by a thin beige towel, still showing her well carved model body and long legs. Woot woot
What made him gape more was the latter with the red head, the blond was wearing a black haltered swimsuit.. and her hair was patted wet making it flow tamely downwards.(1). His nose bled, he had never seen Cagalli in so much 'skin' before. This is the first time he had seen her bare long legs and slender curvy body.
The two girls glimpsed at each other then stared confused at the two men.
"uhh.. Shinn?" Luna waved her hand in front of him
"Rey??" Cagalli nudged the mug harder on Rey's chest who fumbled backwards, snapping the lad out of daze
"oh..sorry" laughing sheepishly as he held on to his mug and wiped his nose off from possible drips. He then elbowed Shinn by the side who was still in trance.
Cagalli humphed and started to walk towards the aisle, "daydream all you want Shinn! Me and Luna are out of here" she waved back as Luna followed her, winking at the two lads.
"W-Wait! I'm coming!" Shinn shook himself from daze and dashed off to catch the two.
"mmmmmmmmmmm fresh air" Cagalli stretched her arms up. She hadn't notice Luna sneak and pushed her back, she fell forward face first to the sand.
"Your IT!" Luna laughed as she made her escape to the waters
"bleh! I'm gonna get you!" Cagalli lifted herself and started to chase Luna.
Shinn sat himself by the sands as he watched the two tag each other
"Didn't thought they'll be good friends after what happened huh?" Rey commented as he puffed out his smoke beside him
"yeah" he switched his attention to his smoking friend, "good for them they're enjoying. Its crappy that out of our 7 days here, the last day is the only day we got freed from nurse work" Rey complained as he tapped his cigar.
"nurses are nurses" Shinn shot at his complain, Rey replied with a sly smile, "you can say that cause you were able to enjoy the 'heavens' of Oroboro Island"
"hnn?" Shinn raised him an eyebrow
Rey just gave out a sigh, Shinn is just too slow in such things.. He strayed of his sight with the two ladies chasing each other
Shinn stared at his friend trying to grasp what he meant awhile ago, he traced where the blond's gaze drifts to. He cocked backwards as soon as he realized what he was pertaining. Face all red.
"hey.!! I was drunk then!!"
"drunk in heavens" Rey was enjoying teasing Shinn
"was not!!"
"really? Let's ask Luna then"
"fuck you Rey" Shinn glared at Rey
"fuck you too Shinn" Rey puffed his smoke with a smile of success on his lips. Before the two knew it, they found themselves dumped onwards the sand. They were too busy to notice Cagalli and Luna's sneak attack
"gotcha!!" Cagalli shouted on top of Rey, as Luna laughs at Shinn who was gagging out from the sand
"you guys are it!!" Cagalli stood up and pulled Luna for dashing.
The day passed by so quickly. Too fast for the 4 people enjoying the beach. Splashing water here and there, trampling on sand castles Rey worked so hard to put up, surfing with the waves, eating grilled meat and corn, playing tag, girls vs boys beach volleyball (where Cagalli intentionally directed the ball for Shinn's head, girls won with a spinning Shinn), and snorkling. They made the best out of the last day in the island, trying almost all the activities.
The blanket of night has already set itself in the skies. Carrying all their stuffs on the cruiser ship, Cagalli made her last glimpse on the harbor of Oroboro Island.
Luna ran to the edge of the harbor waving, "see you guys!! till the next visit"
Cagalli waved back, "Thanks for the memorable stay!!" then she made hand signals. The two girls chuckled which Rey and Shinn shrugged off. Only Luna and her understands it. Despite the awkward first meeting, Cagalli found a new best friend in Luna.
"Come on lets move" Rey walked to the cabin's direction. Shinn saluted the harbor and followed Rey inside.
Upon arrival in Leaf's harbor, same one Dearka's private ship left from, Cagalli's phone rang in her pocket. While walking off the boat she slid her phone on her shoulder with her bags in her hands. Shinn was occupied with his own bag and some medical boxes, same thing for Rey They both apologized not being able to help her, but you know Cagalli, she really didn't mind.
"Gagalli here" effort in her voice for keeping her phone in place.
"hey"
the voice on the other line made her grip on her bag loosen, "Alex?"
"yes its me. I'm here by the crates" her eyes caught the blue lad in his red car car waving, "need a lift?"
"I'd like to, but mind if you help me car--crap!!" Cagalli's phone fell from her shoulders and plunked on the solid ground. "Shit" she dropped her bags and started to put together her dislocated phone. Cursing and cursing with each piece.
Shinn's car stopped in front of her
"a little help?"
"sure do" he left his car engine on to help her pick up the pieces.
"I'll drop you off in your home. Surely Kira won't mind. Right?" he said handing over the last piece with a smirk
"well..." this is trouble
Just then, the other's red car pulled a brake opposite Shinn's silver car, the driver stepped out , Shinn boiled inside when he saw who it was.
"you ok?" Alex said to her lifting one of her bags, not really minding Shinn's presence
"am fine" she stood up brushing her jigsawed phone "my phone dropped"
"that explains why the line got off. I thought you got kidnapped" green eyes met the glares of Shinn
"She's perfectly fine" the black haired lad grabbed the other bag from the ground, "let's go Cags"
("oh no... I smell trouble")
Alex glimpsed at Cagalli then stared at Shinn, "I'm dropping her off to her house", his voice ever so calm but she can sense the bluenette's fume inside.
"no thank you mister. I'm driving her home" the latter scowled
(" oh man...") the two men glared knives at each other, Cagalli slapped her forehead. This is trouble. Real trouble .But she was too tired to argue with two hard headed guys. She just wanted to go home and feel her cozy bed on her back.
The silence and glares continued. She tried to snatch her bag from Shinn but he resisted.
"Hey , Cagalli is already tired. Just hand her her bag so I can bring her home"
" Why will I hand her over the bag? Why don't YOU hand me the bag?!"
again, she slapped herself on the forehead, unbelieving the stubbornness in the two."guys"
"hand it over" Alex voice was now commanding, it made Shinn irritated, Alex's keeping cool is getting on his nerves.
"I wont, I WILL take her home" that's it, Shinn's cover has blown
"you won't. I will. So hand it over"
"guys.." man they're both rock heads...
"NO!!"
"stop being childish"
"am not!! who are you anyway to call me as such?!"
" a family friend. And you?"
"a loyal friend and colleague"
"guys.." god please stop them... or you must forgive me for what I'll do..
"alright 'loyal friend', for the better of Cags, hand over the bag"
"no 'family friend', hand over her bag!"
"he's Shinn and he's Alex" Cagalli butted in introducing the two to each other. It was odd to do it this way, but it was better compared to them calling each other 'family friend' and 'loyal friend'
The bluenette looked at his wrist watch, "its late Shinn, let's get this over with. Cagalli is tired"
Shinn cracked his knuckles, "sure, I'll end this fast" , Alex brows narrowed as he lifted her bag off his shoulders
"GUYS!! would you just freaking stop!! why don't you just both go home then I'll go take a cab"
"I won't allow that!" the two said in unison, then glared again at each other
("will this ever end?") Cagalli rolled her eyes
"Pick one of us" Shinn said confidently with a smirk
"both of us won't allow you to go home alone at this time. Better choose Cags" Alex agreed at his proposal
Cagalli scratched her head furiously, ("they're making it super difficult"), but the look in the two says they wont stop until she decides. She began to scale each side. Eyes closed, arms crossed. Silence taking over the situation. If she goes with Shinn, it will be unfair for Alex for she agreed first with him. He also took the trouble of dropping her off on the island and taking care of her when she was sick. She meant it when she said shed like him to drive her home. Then on the other side, If she goes with Alex, she might hurt Shinn. Well she already caught Shinn in the act with Luna but..still they are friends. He had been there in her bad times. And had kept his word that he'll always be there. Man this is sooooo hard. If I could just summon shadow clones like the one in comics I would've done so to keep them both.
Her auburn eyes strolled to the two, there is only one factor that one exceeds the other.
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"sorry but I'll go with him" she raised her hand to get her bag.
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"sorry I'm late" a brunette closed the cab's trunk then opened the door for her
She smiled to him, "its ok Kira"
"Fllay kept me on hold, sorry, I'm really sorry"
the other giggled, putting her hand over his reassuringly, "its ok Kira, no need to apologize. I'm sure Fllay just missed you so much"
Kira tilted his head to meet her eyes, "did you not miss me?"
reflecting at his own question, he blushed and turned his head down. "sorry"
Its the third time he apologized. No, actually fourth. This brunette always apologized on petty things which she found rather amusing. She told him that everything was fine. But Kira can't skip 'sorry' everytime they meet. She pressed his softly, "I missed you Kira"
The gentle smile on her face made his heart melt, he pressed back to her hand, "I missed you too"
though it was wrong to take it like this...he never felt like this with Fllay. The fluttering of butterflies in his stomach, heart racing inside his chest, and blood pumping in his cheeks. The happy moments with her always blows him off his feet.
"ahem, love doves, where to?" the chuckled sheepishly, embarrassed to the driver who was amused at their puppy moment.
They have forgotten they were in a taxi and not alone.
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Cagalli inclined the seat enough for her to relax her aching back.
"music?"
"nah am fine" she replied to the driver while her eyes were out on the scenes outside. She was somehow guilty of the choice she made.
"ummm.."
"yes?"
"can we drop by Junius Hospital first?"
His gaze strayed off to her from the corner of his eyes, "a visit?"
"yeah" she said blankly.
"but its late. The hospital will surely not allow us in" the driver excused, he just wanted her to rest for now.
She sighed, he was right, its past 10:00. If they haven't taken that long for contesting against each other they might've made it. The scene played again in her head, the disappointed look, and the grunt of defeat. She must thank Rey tomorrow for helping her decide.
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"what are you guys still doing here?" Rey popped out of nowhere. He was caught in the middle of Cagalli thinking, thus he wasn't answered.
"sorry but I'll go with..."
"what??"
"the bag, please"
"hand it over friend"
grunting he gave her her bag. "call me once your at home"
"alright, thanks"
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hmmmm... I wonder who she picked.. who would you like her to ride with??
and who is that girl with kira?? Kira is being left handed here huh? Tsk tsk tsk
a little short? I wanted to leave a cliffhanger for my 20th chapter. :D stay tuned for chapter 21 :D thank you guys for all your support
(1) If you know the uniform swimsuit in card captor sakura, its somehow like that but it has a haltered top and has 2 big slanting oval wholes by the waist exposing the waist area. As for Cagalli's hair, just try to rewind the part Athrun shoved her to the waters. She looked like her mother.