JC: Chapter 42 is up and ready. The last chapter was about Rey regaining his friendship with Cagalli. All is left now is for Rey to be back at Shinn. What will Shinn do if he sees Rey?

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Gundam Seed: Mythical Legends

Phase 42: Friendship found once more

Lacus had worked hard to prepare dinner for Kira. She put her heart and soul to all the food she made. She felt like a wife cooking for her husband. Inviting Kira was the most daring thing she had ever done, since he was the boy she really liked. She was happy to see Kira at the dinner table, eating and enjoying her meal. She could care less about eating, because all she wanted to do was to stare at Kira all night.

Nonetheless, she never expected dinner to be so noisy. She was not in the right position to tell her sister to stop talking to Kira. While she was sitting across Kira and eating, Meer was having a wonderful conversation with Kira. She felt a bit envious. She could never talk to Kira so freely and naturally like her.

"He was way out his league. Imagine a dorky guy like him asking me out on a date?! P-PLEEASEE! I'd rather date my dog." Meer kept going as she sliced her steak and picked it up with the fork. "Dumping him was so right." She placed the steak into her mouth and looked at Kira, who was right beside her.

"I think you were a bit harsh on the poor guy," Kira replied, taking a sip of water. "Can't you give him a chance? He sounded like he really likes you."

"He's not my type and he'll never be." Meer went back to eating.

Kira sighed and took a bite of his steak. He had to admit that talking to Meer was fun. Her stories were very interesting and there was never a dull moment with her. But whenever he was with Lacus, he would feel calm and relaxed. He also enjoys her company.

He turned his head to Lacus only to see a sad face. "Clyne-san, what's wrong? You seem a bit down."

Lacus quickly looked up and faked a smile. "Nothing is wrong, Yamato-kun," she said nervously. Did he ask me that because he was concern about me?

"You sure?" he asked, not a bit convinced of her answer.

Lacus nodded her head. "Yes, I'm sure." She grew happier, thinking he is concern. This means he cares about me. But as she was about to speak to Kira about something, Meer butted in and opened her topic about her talents. What was worse was that Kira was keenly listening to her. It made her more envious, though she felt it was wrong.

Cagalli's House

Rey finished his wish first and opened his eyes. He turned to look at Cagalli, who was still making her wish. He leaned his cheek on his hand as he started at the blonde beauty with amazement.

I've never expected Freya to be reincarnated this way. The long-haired blonde who was admired by all gods and goddesses has turned into a star athlete who is popular at school. Freya never liked doing bold things like the sports she's into today. She has changed a lot.

"It's annoying." Cagalli snorted with eyes still shut.

"Huh? What?"

"You staring at me," she retorted. She opened her eyes and glared at him. "It's rude to stare at people."

"So you don't want me admiring you?" Rey teased.

Cagalli flushed red when he said that. She immediately pushed him away and turned her back at him. "Don't get cocky with me, Heimdall!" she yelled.

She was expecting a reply from him, but she got patted on the head instead. Slowly, she turned her head back at him again and saw something surprising. "Heimdall, you…" she said as her eyes widened.

Rey was evidently smiling at her. He was showing a genuine smile—not a smirk nor a grin but a smile. It had been a long time since he smiled like that and it was rare chance to see him smile.

"Heimdall, I can never forget a smile like that," she said softly.

"You said the same thing to me once," he replied, removing his hand off her head.

"Did I? Oh yeah… I remember." She hugged her legs once again.

"I remember it as well," a loud and crude voice spoke out of turn, alerting the two blondes.

Rey sensed the aura of Shinn close-by. "Loki, you're finally here," he uttered, standing up to get ready for an attack. How come I didn't sense his presence? How did I let him get so close?

"I've been here like 30 minutes ago." He materialized in front of the blondes and landed on the roof with complete balance. "I would have come out to face you, but Cagalli told me to wait and listen to you guys talk. Man, I was getting impatient." He complained out loud.

"It was a good thing you listened to me," Cagalli muttered as she stretched out her arms. "Putting up a force field around you was hard work." She placed her hand on Rey's chest, chanted the right words, and dispelled the field.

"What—you mean to tell me you had some sort of shield around me all this time!" Rey finally realized the reason why he could not sense Shinn's aura in the first place. But he wondered why he was not able to sense Cagalli aura. Did her power grow as she recovered all her memories? She can't do this before so why was she able to do it now?

"Sorry. It was the only way to let Shinn know you're a friend now."

"And it worked. Hearing you talk a while ago moved me." Shinn raised his hand to shake hands. With a smile on his face he said, "So, are we cool?"

Rey stared at Shinn's hand for a moment before shifting his cobalt eye to Shinn. "Does this mean you forgive me for everything I—?"

"Do you wanna stay enemies? I don't!" Shinn yelled out.

The blonde god paused to reflect on the matter. Of course, he did not want to be an enemy of Shinn anymore. He wanted to be friends. But his hesitation was getting to him. He simply could not forget the bad things he had done. It was unforgivable. Yet, Shinn did not seem to care about the fight between them.

"Gee, are you just gonna stare at me all night?!" Shinn was seriously getting pissed off by Rey's silence.

"This is gonna take forever," mumbled Cagalli as she approached the two. He grabbed the two by the neck and huddled them closer together. "You guys! Let's all make up and be friends again! If you don't, I'll have to strangle you both."

"Eh! Is that a threat?" Shinn asked.

"Did I say I was joking?"

"Guess not…" Shinn looked up at Rey and smiled. "This Freya is so annoying. Don't you agree, Heimdall?" He winked an eye.

"I agree," replied Rey, laughing slightly.

"What?!" Cagalli released the two guys and pushed them so hard that they almost fell down. "Go to hell!"

"Ah… We got her mad." Shinn placed his hand on Rey's shoulder as he pointed at Cagalli.

Rey showed his smile again and nodded his head. "This Freya is hot-tempered."

"One more word out of you guys and you're dead!" She unleashed a fiery aura, sending chills down to the guys' spine. At that point, she was being dead serious, which was not good.

"Um… Cagalli, you better calm down," Shinn said nervously.

"It's too late for that," added Rey.

"Hmph!" She folded her arms. "I'll let you off this time."

The three of them took a moment to glance at each other, thinking how wonderful it were to be all friends again. It felt wonderful for them to be together like that. They have missed each other so much. They have experienced such a difficult past before and dealt so much pain. It was sad that their friendship broke over a big misunderstanding. But, as they made their wishes, they swore to fix their broken friendship and start over again.

School (Next day)

"I wonder if I would see him today," Meyrin muttered to herself as she walked through the hallways. She was on her way to her locker to retrieve her history book. Auel… I really like him. Do I have the courage to confess my feelings to him? She pictured his handsome face in her mind and started giggling.

From the time she woke up this morning, all she thought about was Auel. It was what she called deeply madly in love. Her feelings for her previous crush Athrun were totally gone. Auel made a great impact on her, mainly her heart. There was so much about him that she adored.

"Auel…" she said softly, closing her eyes and clasping her hands. She walked straight and fast until she tripped on somebody's foot. "Eh?" She plunged forward, completely out of balance. She thought she would be landing face first on the floor but she didn't. She landed safely on some guy's chest.

"You okay?" the guy asked.

"I'm okay. I'm so sorry about that—" When she looked up, she was so shocked to see it was Auel. "Auel!" she uttered, pulling herself away.

"What were you thinking walking with your eyes closed?" Auel asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Well… I-I was sort of…" She could not possibly tell him that she was thinking about him a while ago.

"Don't tell me you were daydreaming?"

"You can say that."

Auel smirked. "You're getting more interesting by the day, Meyrin." He held her hand. "Come on, let's go out and do something fun." He started walking while pulling her away.

"Wait! How about school?"

"Who cares about school? The teachers are gonna have a seminar for the whole day, right? So all the students are free today!" He was smiling, meaning he was pretty excited.

To Meyrin, his eagerness to have fun was surprising. It was even more surprising that he wanted to bring her along and it made her very happy. It was silly for her to ask him about school, but that's only because she forgot about the teachers' seminar. "All right, let's go," she finally said.

They ran out of the school building with smiles on their faces. Auel looked back at Meyrin, reminding himself how she looked a lot like Fllay. But he also thought of Meyrin's uniqueness and cuteness. Well, he thought of Fllay as cute too, but not like Meyrin. He held her hand firmer but not too tight and exited the school grounds with her.

To be continued…

JC: Rey and Shinn are officially friends again. Lacus is getting jealous over Meer (I know its way out of her character, but bear with me). Lastly, Meyrin and Auel are going out to where? Find out in the next chapter, which will be updated soon. It is midterm's week for me, so I'll be pretty busy. Please review and no flaming.