Sorry for taking so long on this. Sadly I already had almost this entire chapter written up for about a month and then I remembered it...
Anyway, just warning you guys, hopefully by the next time I update either this or Tangled Fates I will be... a black belt. My ten-hour test is this saturday and it's pass or fail- please, any prayers for me and my fellow Chonans (black belt candidates) would be greatly appreciated because we are going to need them. I'm scared stiff thinking about it now. I've done Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido for 8 years and this is one huge day for me, lol.
Also, the next thing that should be up is a one-shot on Kitalla's life so for those who love Kitalla from TF i hope you will check that out- and for those who aren't I still hope you will because there will be some major parts in her one shot that have a LOT to do with Cagalli and TF.
Now for my rather hasty replies =D
Cagallifan- I've been dying to get a huge dog and name it Chewie for a while so i took out my pent up longing on this fanfic. Besides, dogs are irresistible lol
IgNighted- Meer, typcasted once again... Lol, actually I don't have anything I against Meer. Flay pisses me off but Meer really never bothered me except for how she sorta was a ditz. Lol, i am planning more to Meer though then just that annoying jerk we all know in our life
empathaticsympatheticpathetic- No probs, feel free to steal the poem, it's what I did. Though...Cagalli isn't really a 'shy freshman' well have to make do *rolls eyes* though Athrun... we're going to do some image beefing with him, if it's possible we're going to amp him up till he's even more so hot and wild and the heart throb of the school for more then just a pretty face (though that's definitely part of it)
AsuCagaLover- can't remember where I found the poem, I collect these sorta things all the time, lol and yeah, i've never gone to school so i'm probably going to get quite a bit wrong in my chapters but we'll just have to make do- feel free to correct me if something doesn't seem right, lol =D
Kkornelia- thank you and i hope the rest of the chapters prove just as fun =)
Dazzling-Sachiko- I guess we'll have to wait and see how the poem proves relevant to story ;)
C.C- The truth is dogs are masterminding geniuses- they just hide that fact from us because we amuse them ;) Chewie is a Saintbernard and Justice is a black lab, retriever mix =) And i'm thrilled to hear that you love TF =D thank youuuu!
Mrs Zala- another story to add to the millions! hurrah! How one anime changes the world *shakes head* lol, i'm rewatching the anime and i've decided to myself that I love Kira's and Athrun's hair dos more in GSD then Gundam Seed. Cagalli's I like better from GS,... just saying... oh, that and I've also come to the conclusion that Kira is hot in GSD, LOL i'm such a dork. Why can't anime characters be real? *shakes head and laughs*
Darksilvercloud- thankyouu 3 Chewwieeee!
WritingKnightmare- we meet again! *evil laugh* ... hi lol I'll have to check out that thing you were talking about with Mr. Rogers (though i'm slightly afraid too... -.-) and wait,,, why would being OFF pain meds make you hyper, isn't it supposed to be the other way around O.o lol Actually, i'm not really friends with any public schoolers mainly cuz i don't any public schoolers, like not kidding i don't know any public schoolers in my town- it's so sad and pathetic...I live a lonely life,,, just me, my phone, my computer, my fridge,,,, my dogs... lol
THANKS EVERYONE =D
*Disclaimer- I don't own Gundam Seed
Note- Orb, Plant and EA are countries. They live in the EA and Athrun is from Plant
Chapter two: in which the first day of school quickly becomes the worst day of school
It was in the start of the morning, when bus drivers were yawning at the wheel, getting ready to pick up even-more-so tired students, that an odd sight appeared on Mulberry Street.
Not that Mulberry Street wasn't used to strange sights- oh no! being home to the famous Hibiki 'twins', who could stir up more trouble then a horse stung by a bee, they were quite proud of their abilities to adapt to 'strange'.
However this…this sight trudging down the side walk probably topped them all to those who happened to glance out their window, looking for the bus but instead spotting what appeared to be a minified lochness monster and it's pet.
Two figures, one definitely humanoid and holding limply onto what appeared to be a rope that was connected to the other. The other was massive and while it's obvious owner dragged each foot, this one bounced merrily about. The only thing these two had in common was the fact that both were covered in mud beyond identification.
They were just turning onto the Hibiki's driveway when the single parent and mother of the devil reincarnations happened to step out to water her flowers.
Bloody murder screamed through out the neighborhood, making sure that everyone who wasn't awake was now.
"Mom! It's me!" came Cagalli's voice from the muddy, water-dripping humanoid.
Val Hibiki struggled to steady herself, her eyes wide as she stared at the two figures before her. She could make out now the clothes that were stuck to the skin and those amber eyes. "Oh my God!" she shrieked. "Is that really you, Cagalli?"
Cagalli dragged the dog past, obviously furious.
"What happened?" her mother asked, following them back into the house. She made a face at the muddy marks the two of them made on the wood floor and hurriedly grabbed Chewie's leash from her daughter's hand, hauling the poor, soggy pooch to the back door.
"Chewie is what happened!" Cagalli growled, fingering her sopping clothing. "Chewie pulled me into the swamp!"
Well that explained the mud and well…everything else.
Thumps came from the stairway and a brown-haired teen with purple eyes skipped down, whistling. "Hey Mo- Holy Shiii-" his eyes, though wide with horror at the monster before him, glanced at his mom in a flash and he amended quickly. "-iiiips."
"That's what I thought you were going to say." His mother huffed, shoving Chewie out ruthlessly and shutting the door behind him.
"Youuu." Cagalli growled, reaching her dirty hands up to throttle her brother. "I wanted to get a cat! But oooh nooo, you thought a dog would be sooooo cute."
"Cagalli?" Kira asked nervously, darting out of reach of her grimy hands. "What happened?"
"YOUR DOG IS WHAT HAPPENED!"
"I think I'm going to go sit down and read a book." Val murmured, already sensing an argument spurring. When the two siblings – nicknamed twins for their closeness- fought, they reaaally fought.
"My dog? Since when is it my dog!"
"Since you picked him out!"
Kira huffed, crossing his arms over his chest defensively. "I think you're making a big deal out of nothing. Besides, Chewie would never drag anyone into a swa-"
The look Cagalli gave him would have set an ice cub on fire. "From now on, Kira, you can do morning walks. I'll do the evening ones."
Kira made a face but shrugged, knowing that he was getting off easy. Of the two, he was the more sweet-tempered, easy-going one while Cagalli gave a whole new meaning to 'hell fire'. Carefully, trying not to touch her and get mud on himself, he slid past her and out the door.
Just.
As.
A.
Yellow.
Bus.
Pulled up.
"No." Cagalli stared out the door after her brother. "Nononononono! Please, no!"
Cheerfully, her brother waved good bye at her before the school bus doors closed behind him and the bus whizzed away.
A howl split the Hibiki house and Val jumped in her seat in the kitchen, her book nearly falling from her hands. "It's just my imagination." She murmured to herself, her eyes wide as she held the book tightly.
Cagalli rushed up the stairs, taking three at a time, tripping on the top one before scrambling to the bathroom. She stripped and leapt into the shower. Gone, gone was her best pair of clothes. Gone was her hair-do and make-up. Gone was any form of forgiveness or sanity.
"Must. Not. Kill. Dog." She whispered through her teeth, reliving the horror of that fateful walk. Every morning she would take Chewie out for a quick trot around the neighborhood. They were passing a marshy area when a bunny had darted out and Chewie had decided that then would be a good time to show Cagalli how good- or bad- of a hunter he really was.
In the end somehow they had both ended up waist deep in a marsh where Cagalli fell over numerous times trying to get out.
Now she was late for school, so dearly late. "I think I want to cry." She mumbled to herself, stepping out of the shower. Quickly, she got dressed in a pair of faded jeans and a middle-school soccer tee-shirt that lay like a limp rag over her chest- or lack there of. She stared at herself in the mirror, knowing that she had only moments to spare to catch the late bus. With out make up she was fairly alright, or so she considered. Her blonde-hair was of course frizzy and thick around her shoulders, but a pretty gleaming blonde and though she wasn't very curvy, she was toned and fit. After all, she had played on the soccer team through out her middle school years.
"Crap." She mumbled, picking at her shirt with two fingers. "Can we say 'new kid' any clearer?" she sighed, regretting snatching the 'middle school' shirt but knowing she couldn't afford to be late.
She charged down stairs, tripping on the last one, and darted out side.
"I'm going to make it," she panted to herself, running down the block to the second bus stop only to see the bus driving away.
She staggered to a halt. "This. Can't. Be. Happening. To. Me." She whispered, her backpack sagging off one shoulder in dejection.
She didn't know how long she had stood there for, her mouth gaping open as her brain struggled to process this turn of events, when a black Porsche drove up beside her on the curb.
It definitely took her a minute to realize someone was calling her name.
"Huh?" her head whipped around, her wide amber eyes meeting exasperated green ones. "Who?" she raised an eyebrow.
"Athrun, remember me, we met yesterday."
She tried to restart her brain, feeling like an overturned train on the tracks. Think, dammit! She gave the equivalent of a kick in the butt and felt her brain jump into place.
"Oooh, yeah, I remember you." Please… please don't let this be happening. She thought. The memory of how they met flooded her, giving her another reason to kill the obnoxious mutt.
"Do you need a ride to school?" Athrun asked curiously.
"No," Cagalli snapped. "I'm just standing here by the bus stop playing the part of a late loser for fun."
Athrun laughed much to Cagalli's irritation. She hadn't meant to be funny. "Come on in then," he said, nodding to the seat next to him and she hesitated. It was just a car ride. Not like he was going to kill her and then dump her body in the river.
She glanced at her watch and sighed, she didn't have a choice. Hurriedly, she ran around the car and slid into her seat on the otherside, noticing the new-car smell and the luxurious leather seats. I could get used to this. Her mind purred in harmony with the car's engine.
Athrun glanced behind them for cars before switching gears and revving the engine.
And like a shot they were out of there.
A few minutes later, Cagalli, holding on to her seat for dear life, piped up. "That's the seventh person you nearly killed back there. I think this is a sign." She didn't dare to look outside again, afraid to see just how fast they were going. The trees on the side of the road had melted into green and brow blur, the homes just colorful blobs in the midst.
"Yeah, idiots should obviously not cross the street when I'm driving." Grunted Athrun in response.
Cagalli gave him a funny look. "If I wasn't sitting here in the car with you, waiting for my life to end and wishing that my life had at least surpassed highschool, I would've probably found that funny."
When a moment passed and Athrun still hadn't responded to her last comment she steeled herself to glance again at him from the corner of her eye. "Please tell me you're not TEXTING!" she screamed, gripping her seat belt tightly in her hands.
Athrun glared at her. "Shhh, the top is down! People can hear you!"
"Good!" she hissed. "Then at least they'll know who to blame when I die!"
"You're not going to die." Athrun said calmly, swerving a turn.
"You're steering with your KNEEs, while texting while driving at speeds I don't even want to know!"
"Be rational- I'm driving you to school."
"But-"
"You're distracting me-" Athrun sang sweetly before Cagalli could fire back a retort and she gave him a dirty look. "Do you want to drive?" he asked.
Cagalli blinked. "I can't drive, idiot."
Athrun gave her a funny look. Then he shrugged. "Well we're nearly there." He said calmly.
What should have been a ten minute drive to the school was oddly enough a five minute drive and the late-bus's were just finishing their drop offs when they parked.
"I would kiss you to thank you but I'm afraid I might throw up." Cagalli mumbled, staggering out of the car. "Tell me, is my face as green as it feels?"
Athrun rolled his eyes. "I'll see ya later, Cagalli." He gave her a cheerful, casual salute, walking off, a satchel over one shoulder.
Cagalli leaned heavily against his car. "That's a madman." She whispered to herself, staring after the blue-haired boy with a look of horror. From that moment on, she vowed never to miss the buses lest be a victim of Athrun's driving. "He's a driver." She suddenly realized. "He's eighteen!" And with that she shook her head drunkenly and staggered off to class.
OO
Athrun tried not to yawn through his first class after homeroom. After introducing himself, telling the class he was from PLANT and sitting down for some sort of lecture, he had come to the conclusion that he was ahead of the rest of the class. Not that he was surprised about that. In PLANT he had received the best of the best education; if he continued to be ahead in every class like this then things would be rather easy.
A few minutes passed and then the bell rang, giving the sign of one torture over and the other beginning. The class sighed in unison, standing up and gather their stuff. Athrun hooked his books under one arm and walked quickly out of the room. Too quickly in fact as he ran into a girl, knocking her over slightly.
"Ouch!" the girl yelped, dropping her bag and falling to her knees. She looked up, her blue eyes narrowed and furious. Her pink hair, so perfectly done up, fell about her shoulders.
"Lacus?" Athrun asked, recognizing her immediately.
At the name though, the girl only frowned darkly and tossed her hair. She gave him an appraising look and then suddenly smiled, her whole face lighting up. "No," she moved her bag to the other arm and standing up. "Meer, Meer Campbell." She held out her hand to shake. "I'm Junior," she added after he had shook her hand. Her hands reached down to straighten out her mini-mini skirt and her V-cut shirt that Athrun knew would have never been allowed back at his school in PLANT.
"I'm Athrun, Athrun Zala." He said with an easy going smile and she grinned, her eyes sparkling.
"So you just came from this class?" she glanced behind him and shook her head, laughing quietly.
"Yeah?"
"That explains the drained look." She grinned. "I've heard that the lectures given here can bore a man to tears."
"Like you wouldn't believe," Athrun returned her grin.
She snorted. "Well I'll see ya later, kay." She smiled flirtatiously back at him over her shoulder as she walked into the classroom she had just left. "Don't hesitate to call on me!" Her hips couldn't have spoken her thoughts any louder as they swayed side to side attracting many of the young men's gazes. Athrun raised an eyebrow, reaching up to drag a hand through his hair sheepishly.
In all the classes that followed, Athrun kept an eye for the peculiar blonde he had met previously but she wasn't in any. In his last one before lunch, he sat next to a shaggy, brown-haired boy with gleaming purple eyes who introduced himself as Kira.
"I'm Athrun," Athrun told him, trying to think of why Kira's name sounded so familiar to him.
"And this is Miriallia." Kira added, jerking his thumb in the direction of the girl behind him who gave a cheery wave. "Our representative paparazzi."
Athrun winced slightly at the word then smiled as the brunette girl gave a cheery wave, in her hand was clutched a camera.
She raised it, "Picture?" she asked, peering at him with a smile over her slightly dented, obviously worn camera. "For the newspaper," she added with a small shrug.
Athrun hesitated then nodded and with an all-too-familiar flash, she took his picture.
"Hmmm," the girl studied the small screen on her camera. "I think we should try that one again… and perhaps this time you shouldn't grimace no matter how photo-phobic you may be." She glanced up, raising her camera again with a feisty grin. "Gotta look pretty for the ladies!"
This time Athrun did his best not to wince at the small click, the wide smile on his face felt strained.
"Great, thanks! Now the girls who aren't already drooling all over you will be." She made a mock face of disgust and Kira laughed at Athrun's puzzled expression.
"What?" Athrun asked, puzzled.
"Half the population in the school already thinks that you're the sexiest thing since pokemon." Mirallia added, her eyes sparkling.
"Pokemon." Athrun mouthed to Kira and he shrugged, as lost as he was with Milly's logic.
Athrun shook his head in disbelief. "If half the population in this school means all the girls then-"
"Actually… it means most of the girls and some of the guys- that's half of the population." Milly interjected hastily and Athrun rolled his eyes.
"If that girl, Meer, is the girl's welcome wagon I'm sorta afraid to see the guys…" he mumbled and then glanced quickly at Kira, something occurring to him. "Unless…"
Kira's eyebrows shot up, following Athrun's train of thought. "I'm not gay!" he cried.
"Yeah, but you are a cry baby!" Milly teased back.
Kira reddened. "Am not!"
"Puh-leeze, the whole class watched you get all weepy during Romeo and Juliet."
"That was my allergies acting up!"
"You said that about Anne of Green Gables, when Matthew died, too! The teacher had to excuse you from the classroom it was so bad." (A/N, guys, I'm a die-hard Anne-fan lol)
Athrun laughed. "Tough luck."
Kira grimaced, glaring at Milly. "Thanks, friend."
"Anytime."
Class started, cutting off the brunettes bickering and yet by the end of the class (and the start of lunch) they were already at it again.
Seeing Athrun looking sorta lost, Kira punched him lightly in the arm. "Come on, new guy, you can sit with us."
"Yeah, it's not like a law or anything of where you can and can't sit." Miraillia added with a roll of her eyes. The trio made their way to lunch- during the walk, Athrun noticed to his vast amusement that many of the girls (and some of the boys…) were glancing every now and then at him, from freshmen to seniors.
"Oh look, there's Yzak." Milly pointed a few minutes later to a silver haired boy with pale skin who was looking positively livid across the cafeteria. They set down their recently aquired trays full of food on an empty table before Mirallia led them over to where 'Yzak' was in a heated debate with a brunette girl.
"Next time you want to beat up a kid, Yzak, then come to me and we'll dish it out!" the brown haired girl snarled to Yzak, standing, hands on hips, in front of a green haired boy.
The gangly green-haired boy was gaping from where he sat, covered in his own food, a tray laying beside him, upside down on the floor.
"Not again…" Mirallia sighed and leaned over, asking the boy if he was alright as she began picking things up.
"Beat it, Hahnenfuss!" Yzak growled back, his icy blue eyes narrowed.
"Chill, dude." Kira raised a hand in warning. "She's a girl and Nicol's only a freshman."
Shiho gave Kira a glare- obviously pissed at his sexist implications.
"Who is that?" Athrun murmured to Milly once she had straightened back up.
"Shiho Hahnenfuss- our resident blackbelt and female badass- is a Junior. She's got her heart in the right place but has violent methods." Milly shrugged. "Yzak is a decent guy too, but he…has his temper as you can tell. Shiho is the only one who isn't afraid of getting between him and his victim. Then again, Shiho isn't really afraid of anyone. She'll stand up for anyone who she thinks is in trouble."
"I'm alright," the boy, Nicol piped up in a small voice, dusting off his pants.
Shiho glanced at him up and down and then the cleaned up floor. She relaxed and smiled at everyone as if they had just got in from a good game of chess. "Nice talking with you," she glanced at Athrun curiously before nodding in greeting and walking away, her shoulders stiff.
"Yup… that's Shiho." Kira mumbled, dragging a hand through his hair.
"Hey guys!" a dark-pink haired girl ran up grinning. "We gonna eat lun- oh!" her eyes widened at the sight of Athrun and she blushed slightly. "Oh, hi! I'm Lunamaria! I'm a Senior here too!" she chattered quickly at the speed of light and Milly giggled as they all sat down to eat.
"Aloha my pretties," drawled a male voice behind Athrun and Mirallia suddenly yelped as someone squeezed her sides.
"Dearka you pervert! Keep your hands to yourself!" she shrieked as tan, grinning blonde slid into the bench next to her.
"Gee… no, 'Hey! Dearka! How was Hawai? We missed you!' Boy do I feel the love." He glanced at Athrun and added. "Kira! How many times do I have to tell you? You can't bring ho-bos for show and tell!"
Kira paused, his mouth full of food and he was obviously considering his list of retorts. He settled for a shrug, unable to speak.
"This is Athrun Zala, he's a Senior from…" Mirallia paused and Athrun added in hastily.
"PLANT." No reason to tell them his exact school.
Mirallia's eyes narrowed slightly in a puzzled way but she nodded. "So you're a Coordinator?" When he nodded she grinned. "Neat!"
Dearka cocked his head. "Nice to meetcha. The name is Dearka, a Junior, but the mortals here know me as the 'god of sex'."
Yzak swatted Dearka. "Idiot! Don't use pick up lines on guys! That's sick!"
Dearka laughed. "Don't be jealous, Yzak. Take a number, get in line." He glanced at Milly who seemed to be trying her best to deny his existence. "And you, my beauty, don't even have to wait in line." The brunette girl gritted her teeth furiously.
"I'm trying to eat, guys." Kira butted in, making a face. "And though we're all used to it, I'm sure Athrun is having second thoughts about sitting with us."
"He doesn't have to sit here." Yzak muttered darkly.
"You don't have to either, as I recall." Dearka replied cheerfully and quickly ducked the hook punch Yzak swung over the table at him.
Kira rolled his eyes then stopped as something vibrated loudly in his pocket. He pulled out his phone, his eyes scanning the txt message. "Oooh, I forgot they were doing the first-string soccer try-outs today…" he murmured to himself.
"You play?" Athrun asked, interest kindling in him. He had been on the soccer team back in PLANT.
"A little enough to know the rules and stuff. It's my baby sister who is the real soccer-freak."
The doors banged open emitting a number of grass-stained girls and Kira's eyes lit up. "And here she comes."
Athrun glanced curiously from the corner of his eyes at the four girls who were laughing as they made their way through the cafeteria. Three of them were obviously athletic and right away he recognized the cleanest of them. Lacus Clyne was more petite then the busty Meer and obviously younger looking.
The tallest of the three other girls had long dark pink hair and a sway to her hips, curvy.
The shortest had bright pink pigtails and a delighted smile.
And the last, the one who walked confidently with a grin on her face, her amber eyes gleaming brightly in excitement was-
"Cagalli?" Athrun didn't realize he was half standing in his chair until Kira tugged him back down.
"You know my sister?" Kira asked, raising his eyebrows.
"Sister?" Athrun's eyes widened. "Oh! You're the older brother! Now I know why your name was familiar. Yeah, I met your sister yesterday when she was walking your dog. I just moved in on your street."
"Oh!"
"Kiraaa!" Cagalli's familiar voice called out and the petite yet sturdy-looking blonde jogged up followed slowly by Lacus. "I made it! I made the-" her words trailed off as she spotted Athrun. "You!" she yelped.
Lacus waved to Athrun. "Hi Athrun," she waved to everyone else smiling and only Yzak didn't respond back to the sweet pink-haired girl.
Kira glanced at Athrun, his expression unreadable before he reached up to give his sister a hug. "Congrats- what position?"
"Flay and I got offense and Meyrin got defense." Cagalli quickly explained, her narrowed amber eyes never leaving Athrun's.
"You're a Junior?" Athrun guessed, ignoring the context of conversation- Kira glanced at him again from the corner of his eye.
Cagalli gave him a funny look. "I'm a-" she paused then as someone called her from across the classroom. She glanced at Athrun and said. "I'll talk to you later- bye." And then spun a bout, heading towards the atable.
Athrun blinked in surprise, his green eyes following her for a moment across the room until she sat down. Then he turned back, slightly bewildered feeling .
"Is she always like that?" he asked Kira, trying to cover up the moment.
Kira, in the middle of fending off the veggies Dearka was picking out of his food and flicking at him, nodded. "Sorta in one ear and out the other? Can't mistake her for anyone else." An extremely nasty piece of something soggy and dark green smacked him in the middle of the forehead- Dearka let out a crow of victory.
Kira sighed, wiping it off before glaring at Dearka. "You!" he hissed.
And Dearka bent a single finger. "Bring it."
OO
Cagalli was sitting on the stage with Lacus, strumming her acoustic guitar while Nicol, off stage, played a duet to her song on the piano. Meanwhile, Lacus, sitting beside Cagalli on the edge of the stage sang whatever words came to her mind. With most people that would ridiculous but with Lacus- she could pull it off.
"Ahhh, it sounds sooo good. We just need a drummer and a bass player." Cagalli groaned.
"There has to be someone who fits us that will join." Nicol said.
The three friends had been looking into constructing a band for the school's talent show. Lacus singing. Nicol playing piano and Cagalli play guitar.
Cagalli's cell chirped and she pulled out of her pocket. Her eyebrows slanted down for a moment as she glared at the screen as if it had personally offended her. Texting furiously on the tiny keyboard she hissed. "I don't forgive!"
Lacus raised her eyebrows. "Cagalli?"
Cagalli shook her head. "Kira just messaged me. He's going out tonight and he wants me to take Chewie for the evening walk and feed him."
Nicol slid the wooden panel over the piano keys gently before standing up and walking towards them. "What does forgiveness have to do with dog-detail?"
"Going out? On a date." Lacus repeated innocently.
"Trust me, Nicol. You don't want to know…" Nicol swallowed, contemplating Cagalli's ominous words while the blonde shot Lacus a funny look. "A date? Kira? Are we talking about the same guy?" she shook her head. "As long as he keeps shoving dog-detail on to me then it's a sure fact that he'll be single for a long time."
"You're sabotaging his love life?" Nicol chortled.
"Hell yes."
Lacus shook her head. "Don't you think you're taking this a bit far."
A strange scary gleam shone in Cagalli's eyes. "If you know what I went through this morning." She shook her head. "Kira will rue the day he indirectly crossed me."
The doors to the auditorium banged open as someone struggling to carry a huge purple bin stumbled in.
Distracted from her vague and rather empty threat upon her brother, Cagalli hopped to her feet after a moment of watching the stranger struggle with carrying the obviously heavy bin.
"You need some help with that?" she called, running up to the tan boy.
The boy craned his head around the edge of it. "Ah. That would be fantastic. Simply superb." He had a funny brogue to his voice and a sparkle in his eye that filled his words with grateful humor.
As Cagalli supported the one end, lessening the weight for him as he directed her backstage.
"It's not every day that the beautiful princess comes to the knight's rescue." He mused as they set the bin down in the drama-club's apartment.
Cagalli snorted. "Please." She rolled her eyes in exasperation before noticing the teasing glint in his dark chocolate-brown eyes. "My name is Cagalli."
Suddenly he bowed, grabbing her hand and kissing it. He grinned up at her. "My name is Ahmed."
Cagalli tugged her hand uncertainly away from him and he laughed at the odd look she gave him.
"Where again did you come from?" she asked.
Ahmed tipped his head back as if recalling something, his tone lilt but serious. "Well one night my mother and my father-"
Cagalli flushed and shoved him hard, causing him to stumble chuckling.
"Idiot." She hissed.
"I couldn't help it!" he protested, sticking his hands in his pockets and grinning at her boyishly as he rocked on his toes. His hair stuck out in every direction in a rather wild but interesting way and Cagalli laughed silently to herself at the idea of static in his hair.
"Actually," Ahmed pulled a hand free to jerk his thumb over his shoulder. "I just came from the hallway- some teacher asked me to carry this down here so- voila." Behind him in the entrance they had come through to the back of the stage Lacus stood, looking curiously at Cagalli.
Cagalli smiled and waved. "Well my friends are waiting for me- I guess I'll see you later?"
"I'm a sophmere- you?"
"Freshman, so maybe we'll see each other." He laughed exuberantly and Cagalli shook her head incredulously, lost.
"See ya."
Cagalli ran up besides Lacus and as they walked away, Lacus elbowed her gently.
"He's cute- who is he? Was he nice? Where is he from? This school of course- but what grade?"
Cagalli fended her off, laughing slightly which seemed to stun Lacus for a moment. "His name is Ahmed and he's a sophomore."
Lacus processed this for a moment before nodding her head. "Well he is definetly cute."
"He is…isn't he." Cagalli murmured absentmindedly to herself- completely missing the look of disbelief that crossed Lacus's face. They walked out into the blinding sun that blazed down onto the parking lot just in time to see a green eyed man start up his black Porsche that was located next to a sparkling red sedan.
"Oh, there's Athrun." Cagalli added, watching as the blue-haired man carefully backed out.
Lacus, overcoming her moment in shock added. "Didn't you get a ride with him this morning."
Cagalli chortled. "If you can call it that. I thought I was going to die!" The black Porsche revved up and then shot past the girls fast- but not so fast that Cagalli didn't notice those unique gorgeous green eyes glance in her direction for a moment. What she didn't see was the slight smile that spread across his face as the wind whipped his hair back from his face.
"I get what you mean." Lacus observed watching as the car swung a corner. "Chewie certainly has a way of getting you in trouble."
"Boy can you say that again…"
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Well, i didn't really edit much cuz i wanted to get it out before the weekend so i could work on black belt stuff (aaaaah!) So sorry for spelling/grammar errors -.-
Please review, it means a ton =)
Azetta