Chapter 4

"We're home!" Kira yelled.

"Uh Kira I don't think anyone is home." Athrun whispered to his friend.

"Of course someone is home you dingbat!" Kira said giving a playful swat to his best bud. "They must be in the garden. Sh! Let's sneak up on them."

They walked across the room and found the back door. He saw his fiancé Lacus Clyne speaking with someone whose head was blocked from view by the shadow of a near-by tree.

Kira was just behind the door when an unusually high voice came up behind Athrun and Kira and yelled, "Boooooooooooooooo! Haro! Haro!" Then a mechanical toy jumped out at them and started bouncing around.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the boys yelled and fell down the stairs into the backyard.

The girls finally noticed the boys' arrival. "Are you guys ok?" Lacus asked in her musical and gentle voice.

Kira got up and just hugged Lacus to answer her question. "I think I can take that as a yes. But what about you Athrun?"

"A-Athrun? As in Athrun Zala?" came Kira's sister's voice.

"Yes. That would be me. And how do you know me?" Athrun asked.

"Why I sat next to you on the shuttle. And now I remember why you looked so familiar! You were the guy I crashed/fell onto when I was running away from that ass Yuuna." Cagalli said.

"Why hello. And you said we would never meet each other again! And even my best bud's sis! What a small world! What college are you going to again?"

"I'm going to Oxford College in London. Why would you care? Besides the chance that you are going to the same college as me is very unlikely."

"Well as slim the chances are the answer is affirmative. I am going to the same college as you. When do you exactly plan on leaving? I don't mean it in a rude way I mean would you mind if I accompanied you?"

"Well… Yes in fact I do mind. But since it won't only be you and me. I guess it is ok. Right? Kira, Lacus, you guys are coming back on Halloween right?"

"Negative I'm sorry to say sis. Lacus and I are going to stay back until the 3rd of November. We have to be able to spend some time together without you two nuisances to bother us." Kira laughed, but then turned it into a cough to disguise his amusement.

"Oh great…" Cagalli mumbled.

"Well that is fine right, Cagalli?" Athrun said slinging his arm around her shoulder, smiling at seeing her blush before hiding her face.

"Don't touch me!" she said slapping him on the shoulder.

"Let's have a contest who can go the longest without eating and the two losers ha to do a dare."

"No! That's not fair! You know I love to eat!" Cagalli complained.

"Yeah. And I can't talk right without the right food!" Athrun said.

"Oh look at who are chicken!" Kira and Lacus said making clucking noises.

Athrun and Cagalli not being able to resist a challenge said in unison, "You're so on!"

"Good. Now I am off to make lunch," Lacus said. "Cagalli, I hear from Kira that you absolutely love spaghetti and meatballs so I am going to make it for your pleasure. And since I was once engaged to Athrun I know that you adore it also."

"Hey! Lacus! Wait up!" Kira yelled catching up with Lacus and leaving Cagalli and Athrun alone—together.

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Cagalli and Athrun watched them walk into the house together. That was when they noticed that they were alone together in the backyard filled with flowers. They looked away, feeling awkward, since they were alone. "So…" Athrun said trying to start a conversation.

"Um, you come here often?" Cagalli asked.

"No, I just happened to be here since I am going off to college soon. What about you?" Athrun answered and questioned.

"No, I rarely ever come to visit because I am busy usually. I live at Orb and am one of the heads there." Cagalli said.

Another awkward pause passed making the minutes feel like hours. "Kay! Everyone ready for the dare! The food is ready!" Lacus yelled walking in with a huge plate full of spaghetti and meatballs.

'Thank goodness,' Athrun and Cagalli thought.

The food looked perfect and it smelled delicious. This made Cagalli and Athrun's mouth water. Cagalli and Athrun realized something; they hadn't eaten since they both had left the shuttle. They didn't think that this was fair. Cagalli's stomach all of a sudden growled loud enough for everyone to hear.

Everyone started to laugh, except Cagalli. "Hey! This is not fair! I haven't eaten for six hours!" Cagalli complained.

"Cagalli is right," Athrun agreed. "We haven't eaten since we boarded the shuttle."

"And how do you know that?" Kira asked. "Have you been spying on her or something?"

"WHAT! Of course not! I was sitting next to her on the shuttle by chance, sheesh!" Athrun yelled.

"CALM DOWN ATHRUN!" Cagalli screamed at him.

"Don't yell at me!" Athrun yelled. "You're the one spasing out!"

"Shut the hell up!" Cagalli yelled.

She stood up and glared down at Athrun. They glared for a while until Cagalli's stomach growled again. Everyone started cracking up, even Cagalli smiled. "Well I am going to eat!" Cagalli said forgetting about the dare.

Nobody stopped her. She dug in and ate at a speed of 100 miles per hour. It took her 10 minutes to eat half the platter of food. Athrun looked hungrily at the food. Then he stuttered, "C-Cagg-aa-lli y-yu-yu-you f-forgot a-ab-o-o-u-ut t-he d-d-da-are."

"Wow Athrun you do speak funny when you are hungr-- What was that you said!" Cagalli said through a mouth full of food.

"He said, 'Cagalli you forgot about the dare' and that means you are the first loser! This means that we get to dare you! But, we will first have to find out who the next loser is." Kira said evilly.

"O-ooooh br-bro-th-th-errr." Athrun said with a strange sigh.

Everyone started cracking up except for Athrun and Cagalli. Cagalli stopped eating and was very pissed off at them all for not stopping her from eating and falling into the trap. Athrun's stomach growled even louder than Cagalli's did before. He scowled at them for laughing. 'Man! I am so hungry! This sucks!' Athrun thought.

He got up and walked inside. Everyone exchanged looks and decided to follow him. They followed him into the kitchen and saw him stuffing his face. "ATHRUN!" Kira yelled at him making him jump.

He turned around to see three faces glaring at him, one naturalist and two coordinators. "Heh heh?" Athrun said hesitantly.

"For cheating," Lacus said. "You have to do TWO dares."

"What!" Athrun growled, "That was not even fair! You guys probably already ate before Cagalli and I came and we didn't!"

"Oh shut up Athrun! We didn't, we waited for you both. We wanted to have a picnic together." Kira said giving him a disappointed glare.

"Oh…" Athrun said.

"Now for your dares…"

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