Storms of the Heart [Code Geass Fanfiction; LelouchXOC]

Ch.9: A Devious Cat

 Adelice slumped against the wall outside of the student council room. Perhaps she shouldn't have said what she had to Nina but she just couldn't take it anymore. Did Nina not possess a heart? She couldn't understand how a person could be so afraid of something so general as a human race. Adelice slowly ran her fingers through her hair. It was better not to dwell on it. After all she had all this work to do. The only place she was going to get some work done was if she stayed somewhere secluded.

She quietly made her way down the hall, careful to not disturb any classes till she was out into the courtyard. Glancing at where Suzaku had been washing his shirt on the way past. He was gone now, hopefully he had been able to get the writing off. She could only hope that this was the case. Crossing the courtyard to the other side of campus she noticed that some of the flowers had started blooming, a brilliant pinkish red.

She tiptoed to one of the bushes and pulled a flower off one of them, slipping the flower behind her ear. At least it would help make it look like she took the time to care about it today. She set her paperwork down on one of the benches and clicked her pen so that the ball point would come out. At least it wasn't as much as she had expected, she could be done with this by the hour.

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Stepping inside Lelouch's home she was surprised to see Nunally and Lelouch having tea. “Hello.”, she said a little surprised to see them there. She set her bag against the wall and placed the now done paperwork on the end table. “Hi Adelice, I was worried about you. You left so suddenly, was something wrong?”, Nunally asked.

  Lelouch turned to look at her raising an eyebrow. Adelice smiled “No, nothing was wrong. I just felt like it was such a beautiful day to be wasted doing paperwork indoors.”, she quickly lied, trying to make it believable. Pulling out a chair, she quickly sat down next to Lelouch and shook her head at him, letting him know she would tell him later.

 He nodded a little and poured her a cup of warm tea. “Lelouch, why are people becoming afraid of Suzaku?”, Nunally asked him, taking a sip of her tea. Lelouch frowned. “Hmph.. yah.. I was wondering if that was going on.”, he said, his eyes traveling down toward the table. “They're just being cruel to Suzaku.”, Nunally said, setting her cup back on the table.

 Adelice couldn't have agreed more with her. They were being cruel. Writing horrible graffiti on his clothes, not speaking to him, and talking about him behind his back. Not really a very warm welcome to say the least. Lelouch quickly looked up at her. “No it's just... these things take time. People will come around.”, he assured her not wanting to make her upset.

Adelice frowned, she knew it was going to take time... a long time.. perhaps years before people would stop being mean to him. “Isn't there something you can do though? I mean he is your friend.”, Nunally asked. Lelouch frowned more, his expression falling from happy to sad. They all stayed in silence till Lelouch suddenly jumped out of his chair and screamed making Adelice and Nunally jump.

 “What's on earth?”, Adelice asked looking up at him. “Huh?”, Nunally asked. Adelice watched as Lelouch ran out of the room. “Hey give that back!”, he yelled. Adelice stared at the space where Lelouch had been wondering what had happened. “Adelice what's going on?”, Nunally asked. “I have no idea but I thought I heard a meow.”, she answered.

 She was about to go after him when a knock came at the door. “I wonder who that could be.”, Adelice said, walking out to the front door, Nunally following behind her. She slowly opened the door to find Milly, Nina, and Rivalz there. “Hey guys, what are you all doing here?”, she asked, surprised. “I was just hoping I would find Lelouch here, he has paperwork you know~ and I know he's been putting it off.”, Milly said wagging her finger.