Chapter 12- Preparations and Confrontations
When Suzaku woke up he broken into a frantic sweat and look around just to make sure that Euphy was no longer in his room. 'Ugh. Euphy, just the sound of that name makes me want to gag. The freak,' Suzaku thought as he got up and dressed for school. He hadn't forgotten about the auction today, and he was more terrified than Lelouch ever could have been. 'At least he doesn't have a freaky pink haired stalker.'
Lelouch may not have had a freaky stalker, but he was painfully aware of all the girls in the school that wanted to date him, and that was enough to freak him out. The school had enough money, so that reason for the auction was ruled out, so the only other reason would be that this was Milly's revenge. Her revenge is usually dreadful, but Lelouch had gone through worse, he just didn't like the idea of being sold to a girl for a day. He and to do whatever the girl wanted to. Anything. it was a terrifying thought, but it was the consequence for disobeying Milly. 'Who knows,' thought Lelouch as he headed out the door and towards the school, 'maybe she'll take it easy on me this time. Pfft! Dream on.' he thought as started his walk to to the now dreaded academy.
As Lelouch entered his first class the teacher entered behind him and closed the door. when he'd started to prepare the day's lesson, the intercom came on and Milly's voice drowned out any noise that there had been.
"Good morning everyone! I know my latest event didn't work out because of two unwilling winners," she sniffed as if she were going to cry, "but i have a new one planned that those same two boys will participate in whether they want to or not. I will be auctioning off Suzaku and Lelouch after school tomorrow. whoever bids the highest gets a date with which ever on they want. The school will be paying so they have to go anywhere the bidder wants to, and the bidders can go wherever they want to. Doesn't that sound great?!!! So if you have any kind of crush or feelings for Suzaku Kururugi or Lelouch Lamperouge then please attend and bid on the one want. Thank you,"
After the announcement the room was once again filled with noise until the teacher cleared his throat loudly and began talking.
"For today's lesson we will be...."
Lelouch had stopped listening after mind was focused in the auction. 'What if I'm stuck with some rich, stuck up brat, or worse Nina!' at that thought he could have cried.'She's always so quiet, how would I know if she liked me?' Lelouch covered his mouth as he made a gagging noise. 'I refuse to believe in that possibility!' he thought sternly as he turned his attention back to the teacher. If only to get his mind off of his cruel fate.
All day all Suzaku did was nod off in his classes and get yelled at for doing it. He hadn't been able to get back to sleep after the Euphy incident. He'd worked his hardest to avoid her all day but his attempts were fruitless, and he was starting to fear that she had inserted a chip in him while he was sleeping.
By lunch time Suzaku had received a total of 1,597 texts from Euphy. All of them said 'You will be mine Suzaku Kururugi!', and by the 2,709 text he'd gotten Suzaku started to think that Euphy really was the mad-pink-haired-stalker-that-couldn't-take-no-for-an-answer that he had always known she was.
"Suzaku you look really worn out," said Euphy, smiling her evilly sweet smile as she walked over and sat beside him, much to Suzaku's dismay and Lelouch's amusement. 'She acts as if she had never broken into my dorm last night, taken my picture, and stolen my shirt.' Suzaku thought as
"Get away from me you she demon!!" Suzaku said as he quickly stood up and ran away, or at least that's what he thought about doing, but being the gentleman that he is he answered politely saying, "Yeah, some... weird stuff happened last night and I'm just really tired." He scooted away from her a bit.
Kallen looked them from the other side of the circle of friends/ student council members sitting on the grass eating lunch and glared. Suzaku knew how much she hated Euphy, so he was amazed at how long she could keep up her nice facade around her before she pounced on the other girl for acting so bluntly about a nonexistent relationship between her and Suzaku.
'I wonder what happened last night. Suzaku is usually so alert,' she thought.
'Hey Suzaku, I need to talk to you for a minute. Come with me?' Kallen scribbled down on a piece of paper before throwing it at Suzaku's head and getting up to leave for a secluded area where they could talk alone. As in without any interruptions from Euphy. Suzaku easily caught the note, opened it, and immediately got up to follow her as she disappeared behind a corner. Lelouch watched as Suzaku got up and went after Kallen, 'Maybe I should follow and see what's going on, or maybe I should act inconspicuous and just leave them alone for a moment. No, I'll go check it out' he decided as he stood up and headed in the opposite direction. 'I'll just go a different way.'
"Where do think everyone's going?" inquired Euphy as she watched Lelouch get up and go in the opposite direction of her one true love (poor Suzaku) and the apparently jealous red head.
"I don't know," said Shirley watching Lelouch until he was out of site, 'He's mine! I'll be the highest bidder for him no matter what I have to do' she thought enthusiastically. (I know the thought was random)
Euphy got up and went the way Suzaku had.
"Wait, where are you going?" asked Shirley.
"To go check on Suzaku and Kallen. Just to make sure their okay,' Euphy replied before turning that same corner that the others had.
It didn't take long to find them, so when she finally had Euphy walked over and wrapped her arms around Suzaku's shoulders and giggled. "Guess who," she said. Euphy noticed the glare that was sent to her from Kallen before Suzaku slipped out of her grasp and walked over to Kallen's side.
"What do you want?" asked Kallen heatedly. She obviously wasn't very fond of the pink haired female that now stood in front of the two.
"I just came to check on my Suzaku." she replied putting an emphasis on 'my'.
"Your Suzaku? Euphy I don't know what your talking about, but if you haven't already realized this, Suzaku doesn't like you. Not only that but he belongs to no one!" said Kallen just about ready to pounce on the other girl as Suzaku had earlier predicted.
"Uh, Kallen...," said Suzaku softly, but she didn't hear so she kept on lecturing Euphy.
"We all know you're an airhead, but how many times does he have to tell you that he's not interested?! Jeez, you must be really dense," said Kallen crossing her arms and finally ending her rant.
"You've got a lot of nerve talking to me like that!" shouted Euphy. "Do you know how much political power my father has(1)?! So don't lecture me on what's mine or not..."
"Euphy," Suzaku said stepping between the two, "I've told you before that I don't like you like that, and I'd have probably have excepted you as a friend if you hadn't been so.... downright creepy. But I'll say this once more, I'm not interested, okay?"
"Okay," said Euphy, her voice was starting to crack as tears fell down her cheeks. She turned and ran away sobbing.
Suzaku looked at Kallen and said," Do you think I was to hard on her?" he asked thoughtfully.
"Of course not, but how come you didn't just let me beat her up, stupid brat was getting on my nerves," Kallen replied as the walked back to the group. Lelouch came from behind the nearby bushes as the two friends left.
"Wow, Kallen seems to really like Suzaku," he said, a bit depressed that his chances with her were dimming. He then headed back to the small group also.
As soon as everyone got back, the bell rang for signaling the end of lunch.
"Well I guess I'll see you guys at the student council meeting today," said Milly as she left for her upcoming class. Everyone else dispersed soon after she had gone.
By the end of the day Lelouch was once again dreading the upcoming auction,but this time it wasn't just dread of being bought for a day, it was the fear of who would buy him. When he'd opened his locker to retrieve his coat and book bag before he went to the meeting he was ambushed by love notes. There had to be at least a hundred of them, but Lelouch decided that instead of reading them all he would just dump them, but he decided to make better use of them. So when the hall had cleared and everyone was off school premises he went to Suzaku's locker and shoved them all into there. After the deed was done he left for the council meeting. But Suzaku had watched him do it fro around the nearby corner, so when he opened his locker he held a bag out under it and caught all the love notes in there before making his way to the meeting.
As Suzaku walked into the meeting room with a bag in tote. That was the first thing Lelouch notice when he turned to see who had entered.
"Lelouch I saw you stuffing these in my locker," he said dropping the bag in front of said boy allowing some of the love letters to spill out. "I just want to know why you would be putting love letters into my locker. So why?" he asked with a chuckle.
"Suzaku why would you think that I put those dumb letters into your locker? Euphy could have done it," replied Lelouch.
"Like I said i saw you do it," Suzaku persisted.
"Whatever you say Suzaku."
"Well they're not mine. I looked at the first one and it said to Lelouch."
"Whatever," said Lelouch, gathering up the love note and depositing the in the trash.
"Lelouch that wasn't very nice!" chided Milly.
"So, I wouldn't have the time to read them all anyway," he replied with a shrug.
With a final look that said 'shame on you' Milly turned away and stated the meeting. "Anyway, today we're gonna decorate the gym for the auction!"
"Oh joy," mumbled Lelouch sarcastically. Milly rolled her eyes at him and said, "So let's all go down to the auditorium and get started." She then grabbed Lelouch at the elbow and proceeded down to the auditorium with him in tote and the rest of the student council following closely behind.
They put up banners, balloons, hid exploding confetti, and put up whatever else Milly wanted.
"Milly where do you want me to put this confetti?" Nina asked shyly.
"You can put it over there," said Milly pointing towards the right side of the stage.
"Okay," Nina mumbled in reply. As she walked over tot eh designated spot she dropped the canister of confetti and it exploding making everyone in the auditorium jump at the resounding bang. The top of the canister flew off and hit Nina in the fore head and she was out like a light the instant it made contact with her head. Everyone rushed over to see if she was okay, except Suzaku since she wouldn't have wanted him near her even if she was on her deathbed and Kallen was also one of the last people to her aid because she hated Nina for hating Japanese, she refused to call her people Elevens, and when the two had finally caught up with their fellow student council members she was out cold. And if anyone had looked at Kallen they would have seen a small satisfied smile bloom on her face.
'Karma,' was her only thought while she giggled in her head.
"We should take her to the nurse," said Milly. Everyone immediately looked at Suzaku.
"What?" he asked.
"Suzaku carry Nina down to the nurse," commanded Milly.
"But-"
"No buts!" said Milly.
"Milly your not listening!" Suzaku said getting a bit aggravated.
"Suzaku, carry her down to the nurse now!" Milly said sternly.
With a sigh Suzaku picked up Nina's limp body and started down to the nurse's office. About halfway there she opened her eyes a bit and immediately recognized the face she was looking up at.
"Let me go you Eleven!!" she shrieked kicking and punching and thrashing.
"Nina calm down, You got knocked out. I was just taking you down to the nurse," he tried to explain, but Nina was shrieking so loudly that she didn't hear him. Then one of her surprisingly painful punches connected solidly with Suzaku's jaw, and when he moved one of his hands to cradle it she thrashed again and Suzaku accidentally dropped her. Nina's head collided with the floor and she was once again out cold. Suzaku smiled a bit, picked her up, and once again started on his way to the nurse's office. This time he was humming a happy tune and this time she didn't wake up. Suzaku had successfully dropped Nina off at the nurse's office without any further problems and headed back to the auditorium.
When he got back everyone had finished decorating and they were taking all the extra balloons and stuff back to the meeting room.
"Suzaku why's your cheek all red?" asked Euphy, running up beside him.
Suzaku glanced nervously at Kallen who wasn't paying attention and replied, "Oh, well Nina... punched me."
"Woud you like me to-" Euphy started to say, but Kalllen interrupted.
"Hey Suzaku, could you carry this?" asked Kallen. Without waiting for an answer she put it on his hands and picked up another box.
"Come on we gotta take this stuff back down to the room," said Kallen.
"Oh, okay," Suzaku replied as he left Euphy behind and started towards the Student council room.
"Two can play at that game," Euphy muttered darkly to herself and pulled out her cell phone.
As soon as Suzaku put the box down on the table in the meeting room his cell phone rang, he'd gotten a text. I will not quit until you are mine Suzaku Kururugi! it read. ' Euphy's really starting to freak me out," he thought as he deleted the message and returned his cell phone to his pocket.
Lelouch grinned when he realized that Euphy was an absolute airhead who had been spoiled her whole life because her father owned a sakuradite company and thus had lots of money. 'Tomorrow will be interesting to say the least," Lelouch thought with a chuckle.
END NOTE:Okay so technically this chapter isnt late cuz i finished it at exactly 10:07 Suzanday January31, 2010 so the only hing i will apologize for is that i said i would try to get 2 chapters up this week, but i couldnt cuz of Science olympiad (an after school activity for those of u that dont know) and we had a competition Saturday that i had to get up at 4:00 AM for and i didnt get home till 7 and we've had practice everyday this week, ans on top of all that i still had homework. but i will try again this week to get out 2 chapters but no promises. kay?
On another note, i really hope you guys enjoyed the chapter that i only had a few days to write and thanks very much to my reviewer. please review for this chapter. tell me who you want to win the bids for Suzaku and Lelouch. THANKS VERY MuCH to those of you who have stayed with the story no matter how late or hopeless i may be at times. ^-^
(1) like lelouch said euphie's dad owns a sakuradite company, i'm not sure how much power that position holds so if i'm wrong let me know THANKS.