I thought I would never love again after losing you... how wrong I was...

Prologue

"WHAT!? Father, you must be joking!" a loud voice came out of the Attha mansion.

"You must understand that I am very serious about this Cagalli. You will be engaged to the son of the Zala family," leader of the country Orb, Uzumi Attha calmly replied.

"Why? I don't want someone else to live my life for me! I don't even know him and you want me to marry him!? Not in a million years!" Cagalli shouted, tears were threatening to spill in her golden eyes.

"Cagalli Yula Attha, you are the daughter of Attha family! You will marry the son of the Zala family! It doesn't matter if you like it or not and that's final!!" Uzumi turned around facing his back to his daughter Cagalli.

"Father, I can't believe you did this to me!" Cagalli shouted one last time and stomped off. She needed sometime to think by herself.

"To get married to a stranger... how is that even possible for me ..." Cagalli stood on the beach, feeling the cool seawater brushing against her delicate skin. She stared at the shining stars.

"Afmed..." how she wished that he was still here, standing right beside her, embracing her. He was always there when she needed to find comfort within someone. She missed him so much.

"You are such an idiot..." she said to herself, "OMAE WA BAKA!!" in the middle of the night, shouting to no one. She couldn't love a stranger. In fact, she couldn't love anyone right now.

"I will escape this, no matter what."

-Zala Mansion-

"Father, you called?"

"Yes my son. I have some important news to break to you. I have arranged a marriage for you," said Patrick Zala, leader of the country ZAFT.

"Eh?" Athrun was very surprised. He knows that since it was his father's decision, it cannot be changed.

"You will marry the daughter of the Attha family. Because of political and diplomatic reasons, both Uzumi-sama and I have agreed that this is the best way to strengthen our allegiance."

"I see. I will marry her if that's father's wish." Athrun didn't really want other people to decide on his marriage however he had always been an obedient child. Since it was his father's decision, he thought maybe some relationship would develop once his fiancée and him get to know each other.

"Attha family's daughter along with her servants will arrive next week and she will be staying here until your engagement ceremony. Uzumi-sama and I decided to give you two 2 weeks to get to know each other."

"I understand father."

"Sigh... thank you for doing this my son," Patrick patted his son on the shoulder, "That's all I wanted to say. I'm sorry to put you through all this. You may go now."

"Not at all father, this is for the country's future." Athrun didn't know what to say. He left and closed the door.

The rain was pouring down. In the graveyard, there stood a girl who had short golden hair hanging down to her shoulder and a boy with brown hair and purple eyes holding a black umbrella.

"Afmed..." the girl placed a bouquet of white lilies in front of the cold dark tombstone.

"Cagalli, are you okay?" the boy asked.

"Ya I'm fine Kira," Cagalli replied while wiping off her tears. Kira was really worried. In the family, maybe he was the only person who knew Cagalli well. In the past 3 years, a lot had happened. As Cagalli's brother, it hurts him to see her buried in such pain. He wanted to help, but he didn't know how. However, Kira's marriage was arranged as well. His fiancée, Lacus Clyne is a kind hearted caring girl. Although their marriage was arranged by their families, they fell deeply in love with each other soon after their engagement.

"Cagalli-nee san, it might not be as bad as you thought marrying into the Zala family. I mean, maybe it's time for you to move on..."

"No one can replace Afmed... No one..."

-Athrun's Room-

Athrun sat there, staring at a picture on his desk. On the picture, a little boy with dark emerald eyes and blue hair was sitting under a tree. A little girl with golden eyes was sitting beside him with her head leaning on to his shoulder. She wasn't wearing anything special, except for one dark orange water-drop looking stone hanging down her neck. Everyday, Athrun would sit and look at this picture.

"Who is she... why do I have a picture of her...?" This might be the millionth time he asked himself this question. The boy on the picture was a younger version of him no doubt, but who was the girl?

"Why do I feel there's something special about her...?" It felt like there was a valuable piece of memory stuck back in his brain. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't remember it.

For me, maybe this wasn't meant to be remembered...

Author's Note:

Phew... finally finished the Prologue. The next chapter is going to be Athrun and Cagalli's meeting. What will happen???

This is my first fanfic Flames are accepted but I will kinda ignore them LOL D i know i suck at grammar...

PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW!! tell me what you think!! And also tell me some of the things you would like it to happen in the story! That way i can get more ideas. I'm almost out of ideas...!! Till next time