No you are not dreaming, a new chapter is up! I'm not very satisfied with the beginning but the last part sure is interesting or so I hope.
CHAPTER 13
Yzak and Shiho turned and looked at the intruder. Athrun looked at them smiling. Shiho sighed as did Yzak.
"Well, seems like Cagalli and I aren't the only ones having fun today." Athrun stated. "Yzak, honestly I'm surprised. For a guy who despises all women, you sure look to enjoy Shiho's company."
"Shut up Zala!"
"How long has it been since the two of you…?
"Since last summer." replied Shiho shyly.
Athrun looked at them confused. How any of them could not have noticed. He had no idea Yzak fancied Shiho and vice versa.
"Why didn't you tell us then?"
"In case you've forgotten, I have a very very obsessed about me fiancée and I don't want her to take it on Shiho, Yzak explained, you don't know what she is capable of."
Shiho looked up at Yzak, very touch.
"You don't have to say it to the entire school, but at least your close friends ought to know, don't you think?"
Shiho looked at Yzak to see what he thought about that. She wanted so much to tell her friends. She wanted to be able to hold his hand, to kiss him or just to greet him with a smile in the morning. She was fed up of hiding. It had been exiting at first to meet in empty classrooms or on the roof but now she just wanted to stop that.
Yzak looked down at her and saw that she agreed with Athrun.
"I guess, it won't do any harm." He complied.
"Yay!!!" exclaimed Shiho, hugging him.
"BUT."
She froze.
"Dearka may be my best buddy; I don't want him to know."
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In the library Meer and Flay were sitting in front of a computer.
"Ok, let's try typing her name." Flay began typing Shiho's name in and clicked on the "search" button.
Nothing.
"Maybe we should look for the archive website of the main paper of Orb." Suggested Flay.
"Yeah, but I have no idea what is called their papers here." Her friend complained.
"Hold on."
Meer got up and went to a guy, not her type but the end justifies the means, and began talking to him. She came back 2 minutes later holding a piece of paper with the name of the 3 main papers in Orb.
"You're a genius, really."
They looked for an hour through different websites but to no avail.
"ARGH, we have to find something!"
Meer took the keyboard from her friend's hand and enters the name of Cagalli and Shiho's previous high school. Flay watched her friend clicked on the Search button and looked at the results. Meer opened the first linked and they began to read. As they went on, a bright smile appeared on their face. It had taken some time but they finally had something.
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The next morning, Shiho was very exited at the idea that her friends would finally know about her and Yzak. She was the first to sit for breakfast this Monday morning. When they were all here (except for Dearka who had great difficulty to get up in the morning and always was the last to take his breakfast), Shiho looked at Yzak to see if he was still ok. When he smiled, she felt reassured.
"Guys, we've got something to tell you." She began.
"And when you say "we" you mean?"asked Kira.
"Yzak and I."
They all stopped eating, except for Athrun and Cagalli who already knew.
"You two are seeing each other, cut Lacus, ho I'm so happy for you, you look so great together."
Yzak went as red as a tomato and Shiho laughed at his behavior.
"I suspected something was up between the two of you, continued Lacus, you're not fighting as you used to do anymore and I also caught some smiling exchanges."
After they explained the all "Keep Dearka out of it" part, they all went to class.
Later in sports class.
"That left Miriallia to find a good guy." Began Cagalli.
"I'll pass. Guys are so much trouble." Miriallia was still mad at Dearka and Tolle.
"You didn't tell us what happened between you and Tolle." Continued Shiho, throwing the volley ball to Lacus.
"Nothing."
"Come on Mir, you can tell us. We're your friends."
Miriallia sighed. They were right. And telling them would take a weight off her mind.
"At the beginning it was great, I even thought that he could be good for me and as the evening went on he was acting more and more as if he was my boyfriend."
"You mean holding hands and stuff?" asked Cagalli.
"Yeah. I didn't mind at first. But then we went to the cinema and I realized that it was not for the movie that we went there." Miriallia couldn't help but look at her feet while telling what happened. She was feeling somewhat ashamed for something she wasn't responsible for.
"What? You mean sweet Tolle is actually not better than Dearka?" Shiho couldn't believe what she was hearing. She thought Tolle was the sweetest guy in school. Some people really knew how to hide some traits of their character.
"And then? What happened next?" Lacus pressed her to continue.
"He kissed me. I was surprised and while he was kissing me I realized I didn't have any feelings for him so I tried to stop the kiss but, but…"
"What a Jerk! Miriallia I swear we will avenge you!" proclaimed Cagalli, looking at Shiho to see the same anger in her eyes.
"No girls, that's ok, really. I already gave him a piece of my mind." Miriallia had the feeling that since she came to this school, everybody was protective toward her. It felt nice to have people taking care of her, but it felt wrong. She couldn't depend every time on others.
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"I still think we should avenge Mir." Cagalli said to Shiho, chewing on her fries.
"Avenge her from whom?"
Cagalli and Shiho looked up their meal to see Dearka sitting next to her. Shiho looked at Cagalli. They knew Miriallia had some interest in Dearka, as Lacus had filled them in with what she knew about Miriallia's feeling for the blonde guy after Cagalli had been surprised to see her friend so angry after Dearka had kissed her. Cagalli smiles knowingly at Shiho before telling him the whole story.
"This guy is dead." He commented very calmly.
"You know, you're not better than him. You kissed Mir without her wanting to as well?" teased Cagalli.
"It's different. It was a game, as for my charming roommate…"
Cagalli looked at Shiho worried. Dearka, for the first time since they knew him, he really looked angry.
"Say Dearka, asked Shiho, Why are you so angry? Would you act the same if it happened to me, Cagalli or Lacus?"
Dearka didn't take the time to think before answering.
"No. I don't know why, I kind of feel like I have to be there for her. Why? I don't know."
"Maybe you're in love with her." Risked Cagalli.
"No, Milly is not exactly my type." He smirked.
The girls sighed and resumed eating their dinner.
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Dearka entered his room to see his roommate on his bed, working on some photographies. The atmosphere between the two was electric. Dearka had sensed something had gone wrong between Tolle and Miriallia and Tolle sensed that Miriallia had feelings for the blonde man.
"Can I talk with you a moment." Asked Dearka sounding friendly.
"What do you want?" replied Tolle defensively.
Dearka sighed. This guy really wasn't who he seemed to be.
"I want to talk to you about Miriallia."
"Oh Yeah? And what do you want to say about Miriallia. That you are sorry you kissed her. I know it's not true."
"No, I don't want to say sorry. Actually, I enjoyed kissing her more than you can imagine."
Dearka saw the angry look on Tolle's face but continued nonetheless.
"What I want to talk to you about is what YOU did to her."
"What are you talking about? I didn't do anything to her." Now Tolle looked confused.
"I know what happened between the two of you last Saturday."
Tolle's face went slightly red.
"What happened between us doesn't concern you."
Dearka was getting fed up with this guy.
"Yes it does concern me. Miriallia is my friend!"
"Yeah, but she's my girlfriend!"
Dearka didn't hide the look of surprise.
"Oh, because now she is your girlfriend? Are you sure Miriallia knows about that?" He smirked.
Tolle got up from his bed. He had enough to see this guy with his superiority look. He pushed Dearka on the shoulder.
"Yes she is. And you better stay away from her."
"Otherwise?" teased Dearka, knowing perfectly where this discussion was leading.
"Otherwise I'll show you how angry I can be." Tolle replied getting closer to Dearka, looking at him menacingly. Dearka just smile.
"I guess you can show me how angry you are right away, then."
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The following morning the group was heading for class.
"Where are they?" complained Shiho.
"When you say where are they, you actually mean Where is Yzak, right?" Cagalli teased her friend.
"Yes! Where is he? Why do I have the feeling that today will go wrong?" continued Shiho, despair in her eyes.
"Girls are strange, stated Athrun earning a death glare from Cagalli, if they don't see their boyfriend then the earth stops turning."
"Well, we are a lot more romantic than you guys are." Cagalli replied, pinching Athrun in the arm.
As they entered the class, Kira and Lacus froze in their spot.
"Oi, Kira, why are you stopping?" Cagalli then noticed the couple starring at something and followed their gaze. It was her turn to freeze. On the blackboard in big letters was written "SHIHO HANNENFUSS KILLED HER BOYFRIEND". Cagalli looked at her friend who was now shaking. Cagalli quickly grabbed her and left the room, Miriallia and Lacus on toe.
Kira turned to the class as all stares were now focused on them.
"WHO WROTE THAT?" he yelled. Athrun was taken aback by the sudden outburst of his friend. Yzak and Dearka chose this moment to enter the classroom and watched an angry Kira shout to their classmates. They turned to Athrun who indicate them to look at the board. Yzak couldn't believe it.
"Do you think it's funny? You don't know anything about Shiho and what she went through!" With that said, Kira grabbed the sponge and began cleaning the board. Yzak turned around and decided to go look for his girlfriend. Unluckily for him the teacher chose this moment to enter, avoiding him to leave the class. Shit!
Nobody noticed the two girls smiling at themselves in the back of the classroom.
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Cagalli leaded Shiho to the roof top were she knew teachers couldn't find them. She forced a crying Shiho to seat on the floor. She sat next to her and put her arms around her, allowing of friend to cry on her shoulder. Lacus and Miriallia watched the two of them, wordlessly asking for an explanation. Cagalli mouthed I'll tell you later to the girls. They sat on the floor; Lacus stroking Shiho's head while Miriallia hold on to her hand. After some time Shiho began to calm down. She didn't move from her spot but addressed to Cagalli.
"You can tell them, Cag."
Cagalli looked at her friend and saw that she had closed her eyes.
"Ok." Cagalli agreed. She cleared her throat and began telling them the story. "In our previous High School Shiho had a boyfriend. His name was Allan. He was a nice guy, very popular among students and teachers. He had good manners and good grades. But one day he cheated on Shiho. She discovered it and broke with him. Then he started to follow her everywhere, it was like having a shadow. Kira even had to threaten him to leave her alone. But to no avail. Once in the girl changing room, he attacked her."
Cagalli paused felling Shiho shake at the memory. Miriallia and Shiho listened dumbfounded.
"But you know how fierce Shiho can be and hopefully she managed to escape but the guy had harmed her a bit."
Miriallia and Lacus could see the anger in Cagalli's eyes. She stopped talking, lost in her own thoughts:
"And? Risked Lacus, What happened next?"
Cagalli looked at her friends before continuing.
"She reported it to the principal of course and to her parent's. But the guy denied. And with his school tracks, people tended to believe him. Shiho and I were always getting in trouble so they chose to believe him. Even her parent's thoughts we were lying. Even Kira didn't manage to convince them. After that we never left her alone for a second. It was clear for us that this guy was mad. We went on like that for weeks until Allan made a mistake. He had a note-book constantly with him. I don't know exactly the details but he lost it and a teacher found it. It was filled with things about Shiho. What she wearing this or this day, what guy she had smiled at and things he would like to do to her, very sickening things."
Cagalli stopped disgusted at the memory.
"The teacher realized then that he was the one lying and bring the note-book to the principal's office. The following day, Allan was call in with his parents as well as Shiho with hers and what resulted from it is the exclusion of Allan. As you can imagine his parents were mad at him and understood that their son had a problem so they decided to send him in a hospital were they would take care of his mental problems. The day before he was to leave he came to school and went to the roof top and waited for Shiho to come out and-"
She stopped not sure her friend wanted to hear it.
"Go on." Said Shiho, never opening her eyes.
"Well after school we went out and noticed everybody was looking up. We followed their gazes and saw Allan. When he noticed Shiho was here he cried, that- that it was her fault and-and he jumped off the roof."
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There you go!!!!! Things start to move (finally). I fell very inspired nowadays. Please review!!!