That morning as Lelouch turned the corner in the halls of Ashford he overheard a conversation between Suzaku and Kallen.
"I'm not sure Suzaku," said Kallen.
"Come on, please," came the whiny reply.
"Well, fine. When?"
"Tonight. I'll pick you up around eight."
"Alright, see you then I guess."
"Great, looking forward to it."
The two then departed for their classes and Lelouch left to avoid being noticed by either of them. He had a plan, it may have seemed pretty cruel even to him if his mind wasn't crowded with jealousy. The plan was simple, he was going to let Milly know about their date, and everything else would fall into place. Lelouch never thought about what the consequences of his plan would be if they caught on. Nor did he think how the plan would affect Kallen. All he wanted was for Suzaku to suffer and be embarrassed like he had been the night before. At the end of the day he would set his plan into motion.
The day seemed to drag by for Lelouch and Suzaku, but went by far too quickly for Kallen because she wasn't exactly anticipating her date with Suzaku, she was nervous. Kallen had thought about blowing him off, but decided against it. She wondered, throughout the day, how she had been talked into this date and somewhat regretted ever agreeing to it. 'But those eyes of his are so enticing. They pull me in and hold me there not letting go. But it's okay, I don't want them to,' she thought as she debated about rather or not she should call off the date. Kallen had finally given into her feelings for Suzaku, but the problem was that she still liked Lelouch too. She was torn between the two, so Kallen decided to let them prove themselves. The one that did the best would be the one that she would choose. At the moment, though, Kallen was almost completely unaware of their competition for her love, but she had a feeling something was going on. And she decided to find out. But there was just one more issue, "love" is a strong word.
Lelouch was the first to show up for the student council meeting, although Milly was already there of course. He grinned and approached Milly,
"Hey Milly I heard that Suzaku and Kallen are going on a date tonight." He said.
"Really!" squealed Milly "Awww, how cute! It's like they were made for each other." Lelouch scowled, but it disappeared from his face so fast it wasn't noticeable,
" Yeah, must be Fate working its magic." He agreed, his voice just above a whisper as he strained to keep the venom of jealousy out of his voice. At that very moment, before their conversation went any further, the door opened and Kallen entered the room followed by Suzaku.
"And how are my favorite love birds today?!" greeted Milly. Suzaku and Kallen looked around the room, back at Milly, and pointed to themselves with questioning looks.
"Duh, you guys. We all know I'm not talking about Lelouch." She joked. Lelouch, on the other hand, did not look amused and his face was turning red, but he sat there and made no response.
Severalminutes later, Shirley and Rivalz arrived, and Milly got them started in balancing the budget for the other clubs. With an hour remaining until the meeting was over, Milly got everyone started on the decorations for the Halloween Festival. Lelouch and Rivalz worked on the huge jack-o-lantern shaped piñata, Suzaku and Kallen went down to the supply room and got decorations for the games and concession stands, while Milly gave orders and had Shirley run errands. The hour flew by and everyone was relieved to finally be able to relax. Suzaku and Shirley were the first out the door because they had to get ready for their date. Once they were gone Milly held everyone else back.
" What is it Milly? You know we have lives, right?" groaned Lelouch.
"Does anyone know where they're going for their date?" asked Milly, ignoring Lelouch's question.
"Who's date?" asked Shirley. Milly rolled her eyes,
"Suzaku and Kallen's date, duh. Where have you been?" she said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Anyway, it's time to start Operation: Lovebird Watching!" she said smiling deviously and punching her fist into the air enthusiastically. Rivalz mimicked her actions just for the heck of it, and because he had a huge crush on Milly that everyone on the student council, and possibly a few others, knew about. Lelouch grinned and made no attempt to escape Milly's plan, not that he had any chance of getting away even if he wanted to. He had a plan of his own that he had thought of during gym when he was on the roof. And so far everything was going great.
Milly turned to Lelouch, who was lost in his own thoughts."What, no objection or excuse,Lelouch?" she asked.
"Well if I even tried would you let me get out of this? No. So I figured why even try." He said shrugging. If he made it too obvious that he actually wanted to do this, then they would get suspicious and then they would suspect that he either didn't like Suzaku or Kallen, or both, or he had a crush on Kallen. And if that happened…
Suzaku had just gotten back to his dorm; he was about to take shower when he heard a window open and voices whispering. Suzaku went to investigate the situation.
"Who's there?" he shouted, the figures froze and started to scramble. Suzaku's military training kicked in and he spin-kicked the first intruder, and clipped the other intruder in the temple. They both lay on the ground unconscious. The next intruder he approached was female, he could tell. He came up from behind her and tied her up with a sash from a robe that he had left lying around. She was now on the floor, unable to move.
"Suzaku, stop!" yelled the last intruder. 'Hey, I know that voice,' thought Suazku as he cautiously made his way over to the wall, groping for the light switch. Though it was still bright outside, he was keeping his eyes on the last intruder, who sounded like Shirley.
The light flicked on and Suzaku stared at the sight before him, Lelouch and Rivalz lay on the ground unconscious, while Milly was on the ground tied up. She didn't look angry though, she looked rather amused with her rather devious smile on her face. Suzaku had a feeling that she was sole purpose for this break-in. He then looked over by the wall at the far end of the living room and saw Shirley, her mouth ajar as her eyes took in the scene in front of her. She was amazed yet somewhat afraid of how fast Suzaku had incapacitated her friend. His speed and agility was amazing like some superhuman power. 'Well, I guess that's why he's in the military,' she thought to herself.
"What are you guys doing here?" asked Suzaku, breaking the silence as he knelt down and untied Milly. As soon as he had gotten the knot a loose Milly sprang up and said, "My lips are sealed. But have fun on your date, I want details!" then she was gone, having run out of the room.
"Wow, that's the fastest I've ever seen her run," said Suzaku.
"She only does that when she really needs to get out of a situation," said Shirley, shrugging. Suzaku turned and walked over to Rivalz and lifted him over his shoulder.
"Could you do me a favor and grab Lelouch and put him on the bed? He should be easy to lift it's not like he ever eats much," said Suzaku as he laid Rivalz down on the couch.
"Sure," replied Shirley as she lifted Lelouch. She had braced herself before lifting him and found that he was very light. "It's unhealthy to be this light, Lulu should be eating more," she chided.
"Hey, tell him not me," said Suzaku, he glanced at his watch," Holy crap, I only have half an hour to get ready!" Suzaku bolted into his room and went into the conjoined bathroom. Several minutes later he emerged from a steam filled bathroom with a towel around his waist, frantically searching for something decent to wear. After around ten minutes, he came across a pair of jeans with a jade green dragon on the pockets and a plain blue green shirt. He put it on without a second thought and ran for the door.
"Shirley, do me a favor and keep an eye on those two until I get back," he shouted, then he disappeared out the door.
Shirley sat down on the couch beside Rivalz, his mouth was open and he was snoring loudly. "Loud and obnoxious even when he's sleeping," she said to herself. Then she went and sat beside Lelouch and watched his sleep, 'Always so calm and serene. I wonder what his inner thoughts are like,' she thought. "Jeez, I'm bored," she said, voicing her thought. So she turned in the television. Ten minutes after Suzaku left, Lelouch began to stir. 'Oh, he's waking up,' thought Shirley as she approached the bedside.
"Lelouch, are you awake?" she asked.
"Shirley, where am I?" asked Lelouch, answering her question by asking a question.
"You're in Suzaku's dorm," she said, "Remember, Milly wanted us to plant small cameras and microphones on Suzaku's things, but he sort of heard us and kocked you and Rivalz unconciuos and-"
"Suzaku! Where did he go?" he asked interupting her.
"He went to pick up Kallen," she said.
"I've got to get going, see you Shirley," he said as he jumped out of the bed and was gone out of the door faster than Shirley had ever seen him run, especially with his weak stamina.
Suzaku was in a hurry, he had about five minutes to pick up Kallen, or else she'd be angry, or at least he thought she would be. He was a short walk away from the girls dorm, but he got sidetracked by Arthur. 'Almost there,' he thought as he jogged towards his destination.
When he finally arrived at Kallen's dorm, he knocked on the door. Kallen opened the door by the third knock, "You're early," she stated.
Not quite listening Suzaku said, "Yeah, I know I'm la-, wait did you say that I'm early?" his brow furrowing in confusion.
"Yeah Suzaku, I did. Are you listening? Remember when you picked me up for dinner at Lelouch's house, you told me that your watch is twenty minutes fast so that you won't be late for military duty or anything important."
"Oh yeah, I forgot." He whispered, turning a light pink because of his stupidity.
"Don't worry about it. Well, since your early we might as well get going," said Kallen. There was a knock at the door.
"Who could that be?" she asked to no one unparticular.
Suzaku shrugged, "I don't know, I'm the only one that should be here; unless Lelouch… no, never mind. He wouldn't stoop as low as to follow us would he? Though he didn't look too excited about the fact that we're going out tonight," he said, whispering the last few of his thoughts to himself. Kallen opened the door and saw an exhausted Lelouch with his hand on his knees, panting for breath. Suzaku came up from behind and frowned when he saw Lelouch. Is eyes clouded over with annoyance as he slipped past Kallen and said, "Kallen, can you excuse me for a moment? I need to speak with Lelouch." He had already made his way past Kallen and was closing the door. " this'll only take a moment I promise." Kallen nodded, and he then closed the door. 'Whatever they need to talk about, I'm pretty sure has nothing to do with me, so why should I care,' she thought to herself as she headed towards her room to grab her purse and jacket.
Outside of Kallen's door, Suzaku was practically interrogating Lelouch, bombarding him with questions. His first one being, "Alright Lelouch, why are you here?"
Lelouch had expected this question and had an excuse ready."You left your jacket and Shirley sent me to give it to you." he replied holding out said jacket. Suzaku had indeed left his jacket because he was in a hurry. He grabbed the jacket out of Lelouch's hand.
" You didn't put any cameras or recorders on it? You're not plotting anything with Milly?"
"No and no."
"I don't know Lelouch, by the look on your face at the student council meeting today, I thought you were planning something. You had the same look on your face on April Fool's Day earlier this year, when I came to the meeting I was greeted with laughter as a bucket of God knows what fell on my head," Suzaku. Completely forgetting his suspicions and what they had been talking about before. He got lost in his complaints. Lelouch grinned at the mention of the prank. He knew exactly what was going on. He knew that if they kept talking that Suzaku would forget their conversation and he would be able to dodge any other questions. So he kept the conversation going.
"You would think that since you had been in the army, you would have been able to avoid having the contents of that bucket fall on you. Guess you let your guard down when you're at school, huh?" said Lelouch.
"Not since then. Lloyd wouldn't let me get near the Lancelot for a week!" he exclaimed. Lelouch, no longer able to successfully hold in his laugh, busted out laughing at the brunet's expense, which earned him something between a glare and a pouty face from Suzaku. That only made him laugh harder.
"Alright, I have the jacket, you can leave now," said Suzaku, and to his surprise, Lelouch complied with his request, turned on his heel, and made his way down the hall without any rude comments or protest. When he was out of sight, he pulled out his cell phone. "Better let Milly know."
"Sorry about that, our talk took a little longer than expected," said Suzaku, letting himself back in.
"No problem, but we'd better get going if we're going to get to the restaurant on time. Our reservations are for 9:15, and it's already 8:47, said Kallen as she gathered up her things that she had carelessly tossed onto the couch.
Alright be on the lookout for Lelouch or Milly and the others. I don't know exactly what's going on, but Lelouch is acting suspicious so she probably planned something," said Suzaku as they walked out of the building.
They had walked two block when Kallen looked back and saw Lelouch following them. "I think I see Lelouch, it looks like he's been following us since we left," she said.
"Alright then let's cut through the woods. If there's one thing I know about Lelouch it's that he's terrified of the woods," said Suzaku confidently as he led Kallen to the path.
'Crap!' thought Lelouch as he watched the couple turn on to the dirt path that led into the nearby woods. 'Suzaku knows I ahem... hate the woods.' He hesitated at the path he had watched them head down. He took a deep breath and started down the path.
Suzau and Kallen were almost at the end of the path when they heard a loud girlish shriek. Suzaku whipped around at the sound of it and turned to Kallen, "We have to go back," he said. She nodded and they turned and headed back down the path.
End note: I so sorry this took me so long to get up, the next chapter will be up by sunday i promise. you know what i want. review and stay with the story, it's not as hopeless as it seems. i'll get better with getting up the chapters. look, i know it's annoying that i keep asking these questions and what you guts/ girls want, but i just want to make this story satisfactory for my viewers, so do me a favor and answer this question in your review: DO YOU WANT THIS STORY TO TAKE PLACE BEFORE OR AFTER EUPHY'S DEATH??? I GOTTA KNOW CUZ RIGHT NOW this story coould got two ways and i need at least 3 people's opinion on this before this story comes to an end. Kay? thatnks in advance ^-^