Hihi!

I am so sorry for the late update. I just lost track of time and if I explain, I would just keep going on and on and on. And thanks to all you my faithful reviewers for reviewing. And I have decided that Shinn should be in the same class as the rest. So enjoy this chapter and if you are interested, review.

Drum roll…..

(In a deep voice) Presenting chapter 4 of Taming the Princess

So please ENJOY.

CHAPTER 4

"Stupid school…can…shhitn…bone…heads…huh!" Cagalli gave an exasperated sound. She was on her way home. The first day of her school had gone awfully well for her, not that she hasn't seen better or worse but it was still good enough for her. But the price of turning the cafeteria to food slop was humiliating.

After she was pinpointed as the culprit for the food fight, the principal had sent her to his office, giving her another lecture and a warning. And discipline is not completed without punishment. Cagalli had to clean the whole cafeteria all by herself, except for the time Lacus came to help. But she had to go home when her dad came to pick her up after the school. So Cagalli was left alone, again to clean. They made her hate the very thing she loved the most because she was smeared with chocolate all over, making punishment sweet and yet bitter. And by the time she was done it was late, which made washing up impossible and she walking home alone, hence making her angry, hence her rambling.

"God I wish Shinn was here." Cagalli said to herself.

Shinn had been Cagalli's best friend since they were in preschool. Cagalli had saved Shinn from Yunna the playground bully, Cagalli laughed when she remembered him going home with a lot of sand in his hair and mouth and not to forget the worm stock in his butt. Cagalli had liberated the kids that day and she became the preschool hero and Shinn her faithful sidekick and best friend. Since then they had been friends. They had gotten into trouble together, gotten out of trouble together, gotten people into trouble together. Those were the days.

She was right at the gate of her mansion in form of a castle when her cellphone rang.

"Speak of the devil." She said as she picked up the call.

"Hey you."

"Hello to you too. How was your new school today?" the voice on the other end asked

"Okay I guess. That is if I minus the food fight and the punishment for causing the food fight, just another day as the new girl." She said sarcastically. She was on her way towards the front door of the house, having been driven by a golf cart from the gate to the garden.

"The gang misses you." He told her.

"And I miss them too. But Lord Uzumi is still pissed off with me because of the incident at my ex-school." She said while opening the front door of the house.

"I don't know how you do it, but it's not fair that you get to change school more than I do." The voice said.

Cagalli just gave a sigh. "That's because your parents own a school, which I got kicked out of three years ago Shinn."

"Three years ago." Shinn and Cagalli began to reminisce what happened three years ago and at the same time they burst out laughing.

"We should do that again." Shinn said. Cagalli was in the hallway now which made her voice echo making her arrival known in the house. Making a certain someone who had been waiting for her, call out.

"Cagalli Yula Arthha." The thick voice said firmly.

Cagalli knew whose voice it was and where it was coming from, and the way the voice sounded, it was not too happy with her.

"Shinn I'm gonna have to get back to you on that one. Talk to you later."

Cagalli hung up before Shinn could say his goodbye. Making her way to the living room where she was so sure her dad was waiting for her. This time around he was seated on a single sofa facing the door. Making him the first thing Cagalli saw when she entered. And it was obvious that he was furious with her because his hands were folded across his chest and he had a stern look on his face.

"Hi dad, you're home early today." She said laughing guiltily.

"Well this is the time I get home. But I wouldn't say the same for you missy." Uzumi said flatly.

"Guess I'm in trouble, aren't I?" she said. But her father said nothing for a while.

"All I asked for was just for you to act normal for just the rest of the year! But I should have known, you couldn't even do a day without trouble. Food fight on the first day!" he finally said.

"Technically, you said I shouldn't burn down the school." Cagalli said.

"Don't play smart with me young lady. You still have a lot to answer to, and you will one day, but good thing you did not burn down the school cos I'm running out of schools for you. I should have known better not to hope. At least it would have saved me the emotional stress." He gave a big sigh. All the while Cagalli's head was down, for the fear of meeting her father's eye.

"As much as I would like you to skip dinner and think of how you will change. I can't because you have already been punished enough." Uzumi said gesturing at his daughter covered in chocolate. Smiling, he said "Go wash up, dinner will soon be served."

Cagalli felt relieved that her scolding had gone well, the old man must be getting soft, she thought. She rushed to her room to have a bath and put her dirty uniform in the laundry basket. The school is such a snitch, she thought. Though she was not surprised, heck she was expecting it. All other schools did it so why should this one be different.

Dinner was normal but quiet that night, and unconsciously, Cagalli's mind seem to stray to a particular blue haired boy. She didn't see much of him after lunch; well not until the bell rang for closing hour. He had made the trip just to tell her 'bye and see you tomorrow', and also to tell Lacus that her dad had come to pick her up. Well that didn't matter to her, he still came to say bye and it counts for something. Why was he getting into her head, she was getting concerned about the little gestures he showed her, waiting for her, introducing her to new and good friends, saying bye before he left. Those really made him seem real and genuine. She didn't have much of that in her life, but she had a feeling that Zaft High would be different from the other schools she had gone to and she was pumped up to find out.

BELL RINGS…

"Alright kids, don't forget that you are turning in your papers on Charles Darwin's Evolution Theory tomorrow, so I will not accept overtime and excuses like my dog ate my homework, it got stolen on my way to school, my baby sister threw up on it, and Kuzzie…make sure the aliens don't take your assignment for scientific experimentation this time. So have a nice day." With that, the biology teacher Mr. La Creuset left, ending school for that day.

"Ahhh, I thought he would never leave." Cagalli said, stretching her hands.

"You always think every teacher will never leave." Athrun said while packing his things.

Two weeks had gone by since Cagalli's arrival in Zaft High, and she had gotten pretty close to Athrun and the rest of the group. Though she still knew little about him, but they seemed to be getting along. She was also getting along quite well with her new friends in Zaft High, she had female friends which she rarely had, good guys who look after her, especially Kira who sometimes acts like a protective brother over her which always get her annoyed, but truth is she didn't mind, since she was an only child. And her trouble making had decreased since the cafeteria blast, just few things to rile up the school like blowing up the chemistry lab unintentionally, which caused the fire alarm to be raised causing the whole school to be in frenzy, but at least she didn't burn down the school. The school had given her a teacher as her mentor as a way of changing her, but he just seemed to be almost the same as her. Mr. Mu La Flaga was the best and coolest teacher she has ever met. Apart from having the best looks among the teachers, he also had the perfect body. Well that could be because he teaches P.E. But he was a nice guy, and if Athrun wasn't the fantasy of every girl in school, he would have taken that spot.

Athrun. Lately he has been popping in her head very often and she wouldn't agree if anyone said she liked him, which she did. Admitting that would be like a social suicide. His fan girls had advanced from glares to hate mail, threatening to kill her if she dares make a move on him, and Meer Campbell was the ring leader. Cagalli now knows that she was not Lacus's twin, just her wanna be. But she wasn't scared; she could take on all of them.

Now that school was over, the group of friends usually walk home together. Only on important or emergent issues they get picked up by their parents or drivers or they take the bus.

"Hey Cagalli, do you wanna go shopping in the mall after school tomorrow?" Lacus asked on their way home. The boys were ahead of them leaving the girls behind to talk more.

"I'm not really a shopping kind of gal, but I can accompany you if you throw in a hard bargain." She said. The other three girls looked baffled.

"So you have what you'll wear to the fall dance this Saturday?" This time it was Shiho who asked the question.

"What's a fall dance?" Cagalli asked, obviously hearing it for the first time.

"What's a fall dance?" Miriallia yelled. "You should be ashamed of yourself. You have been here two weeks and you are just hearing of the fall dance! Which is THE most spectacular opening dance of a new school year. " Miriallia attacked Cagalli who was cowering where she was.

"Well you wouldn't blame her if she hasn't heard of the fall dance. It only means that she hasn't been asked to the dance yet." Lacus offered a reasonably.

"Well that's true." Shiho said in agreement.

"Who do you think will ask her? The dance is four days away, and the fishes are swimming away." a more composed Miriallia said.

"Athrun will." Lacus stated.

"WHAT!"

Cagalli who had just been watching and not paying attention yelled so loud that even the boys heard.

"Oh don't act surprised, we all know you kinda like him even if you will deny it, and he kinda likes you and quite frankly I don't know why he hasn't asked you yet." Lacus said naughtily and Miriallia and Shiho had mischievous smiles on their faces. Seriously, these girls scare Cagalli sometimes.

"You think he kinda likes me?" Cagalli asked in her best not that I care tone.

"Of cause he does, I think. If he didn't, he wouldn't be sitting with you." Shiho said.

The girls did not mention anything about the dance again until the next day at the mall. They had all picked out their dresses and on Lacus's insistence, Cagalli picked one too, saying it's better to be ready when her date comes calling. They were now resting in an ice-cream parlor when Lacus's face lit up.

"I just got an idea!" Making the other heads turn from their menu to face her.

"Well what is it?" Cagalli asked impatiently. She had seen double chocolate fudge with whip cream sprinkled with strawberry icing and M&Ms that was calling out to her from the menu.

"Well it concerns you." She said. "Since Athrun hasn't asked you out to the dance yet, why don't you ask him." Lacus said excitedly.

"Yeah Cagalli, you could try that." Miriallia said.

"But isn't that a cliché, but it could be worth it since he likes you too." Shiho said.

"What if he says no?" Cagalli said, uncertain if she wants to go through with what the girls were pitching in.

"He won't say no. from what have seen happen these past two weeks, I'll say he likes you." Lacus said assuringly.

"So you'll go for it?" The girls asked Cagalli.

"What have I got to loose?" She said

"YAY!" T hey all shouted rejoicing.

Tada 4!

So I know that there was not much action in this chapter but the next chapter will be to die for, well at least that's the way it looks in my head. And you'll be hearing more from Shinn from the next chapter. So watch out for the next chapter, fall dance here we come! Thanks for reading and sorry once again for the late update. Please review!

Jana!

Zitless.