Title changed again! From "Cagalli is a maid!" to "Sweet Serendipity" to "Secrets And Lies"...XD

And just so you know, this is already the edited version. Thank you!^^

This is dedicated to you! The person who has nothing better to do with his/her life and is now currently reading this piece of crap I made. Well, if it would make you feel any better, I also do not have a life! Otherwise, I wouldn't have time for kidding!

This is dedicated to all of those who can't seem to grow out of their fantasies, like me! Lolx!

Disclaimer: I do not have anything to do with Gundam Seed / Destiny!

"Secrets And Lies"

Chapter 1: The Runaway

"What?"

Princess Cagalli jerked up and out of bed when she read the first sentence of the letter.

She immediately ran through the hallways of the palace, in a hurry to get to her father's office, then, "BAM!" she kicked the door open, hurried to her father and slammed her hands on the table, shaking it.

"What the hell is the meaning of this?" she yelled, then she took out a letter from her pocket. It was an invitation to an engagement party, HER engagement party which she absolutely was unaware of, until Flay sent her a copy of it.

Her father stared at her with furrowed eye brows and said: "It is what you think it is…"

Cagalli was devastated, "But why, Father? How could you do this to me?" Cagalli yelled, her voice was starting to shake.

"As you have already known, I will be signing a peace treaty with the Plants in about two weeks." he said with a stern voice. "The ORB Union and the Plants Supreme Council have decided to make this bond stronger than any bonds before. We have decided that we will not let war tear up our world again. And so, we came up with this resolution, having you married with a son of a council member." with that, he stood up and turned his back on her, looking out the balcony.

Cagalli had wide-open eyes, staring up at him, nearly moved to tears. "But Father—" he cut her off, "No buts! This is for the sake of world peace!" he closed his eyes, didn't even look back. Cagalli took a few steps back in disbelief of what's happening, then she clutched her fists and ran away. Lord Uzumi slowly opened his eyes and whispered: "I'm sorry…"

Kisaka and Erica were standing outside Cagalli's room. "Princess Cagalli has been locked up there in her room for more than five hours straight now." Erica told Kisaka. "I'm starting to get worried, she didn't even eat lunch. This is just too much for a sixteen-year-old princess to handle. Can't we do something? " she asked him.

Kisaka took a deep breath and with that he knocked on the door. No one answered so, he took the liberty of opening the door and going inside, Erica went with him.

Inside, they saw Princess Cagalli lying in her bed, face furrowed in her pillow. Erica went to sit beside her. Kisaka stayed standing there. Erica started stroking her head and her long golden silky hair. "Don't worry Princess, I'm sure everything will work out in the end." Erica said softly, trying to cheer up the fallen princess. Cagalli didn't react, she didn't even move.

Erica leaned over to look at her face. "I think she's cried herself to sleep. Poor Princess." she said with a sad expression on her face. Kisaka went closer and said: "She's bound to do it. We all know something like this would push through eventually. I'm sure that even she's figured out by now that she had it coming. She's a Princess after all; things like these are normally planned out even before she was born, it's something that comes along with her stature." Kisaka was concerned but he knows there is absolutely nothing he can do.

Erica nodded her head in agreement, stood up with Kisaka and they both bowed their heads before exiting the room. After closing the door, Cagalli's eyes opened, she was wide awake all along.

Cagalli skipped dinner that night, leaving her father to have lunch and dinner all by himself that entire day. Cagalli was in her balcony, staring up at the night sky when her phone rang. She didn't feel like talking to anyone that time but she decided to take a look on who it was anyway. It was Flay, daughter of a Vice Foreign Minister, because of her father's connection to the ORB Union, she has become a familiar face and to some extent a friend of Cagalli.

"What the hell do you want Flay? I'm busy!" Cagalli answered with an irritated tone.

"Busy? Doing what? Starving yourself to death?" Flay said with a sarcastic tone.

"How the hell did you know that?" Cagalli asked annoyed.

"Duh? The writer told me—I mean, what else could a helpless princess like you possibly do in situations like this?" she answered.

"Go to hell!" Cagalli was starting to get really pissed.

Flay laughed; "Anyway, I just wanted to congratulate you on this new realization."

"What realization?" Cagalli asked curiously.

"You know, that fairy tales don't exist in the real world and no matter how long you stare up at the sky from your balcony, stars won't send a knight in shining armor to come save you!" Flay giggled.

Cagalli gasped; "How dare you? Aren't you suppose to be my friend in this story?"

"Oh yeah, right. So, what are you planning?" she asked.

Cagalli sighed, "I'm not really sure, what do you have in mind?"

"Ever tried running away?" Flay's eyes narrowed.

"Runaway? That's crazy!" she couldn't believe her friend's suggestion.

"This world is crazy." Flay said, trying to get her to do so.

"But still, I can't just abandon everything, the engagement is for the sake of the world!" she tried to fight of temptation.

"What about your sake?" Flay was like a little devil on Cagalli's shoulders. "In the end, you have to do what you want Cagalli, it's your life."

"But—" she didn't really know what to say.

Flay cut her off, "Think about it, you can just blame your father, after all, it's his idea."

"Well…" Cagalli was losing the argument.

"If he really wants world peace, why can't he get married himself?" Flay seemed irritated, she almost yelled.

"But even if that's true, it would be awkward for father to…" Cagalli tried to change the topic.

"If you follow your heart, I'm sure you won't regret it. Besides, don't you want to give him the guilt trip? He put you through so much." Flay coached her.

"Uhmm, you're right." Cagalli's eyes narrowed and she lost it.

"But remember, you gotta be ready for the consequences." She teased.

"Consequences… I don't think anything could be worst than this." Cagalli assured herself.

"That's the spirit!" Flay cheered.

"By the way, Flay, How did you know about the engagement?"

"You'll be surprised; I actually went through the same thing." she giggled.

"You got engaged too?" she was surprised.

"I can't help wondering how you didn't know, considering you were invited then." Flay's eye brow twitched.

"Oh, really…? Well, gotta go, bye!" Cagalli hurriedly hung up.

After hanging up, Cagalli put her thoughts together. "If I runaway, I don't need to get engaged, father would feel guilty, people would be looking for me and if ever I make it out alive, I'll be normal… On the other hand, if I go missing, it would probably affect the treaty-signing-but that's their fault! I don't need to bear the guilt, father does!"

Cagalli took a few deep sighs and then, she decided: "Oh, what the hell? Just do it Cagalli! No one has the right to blame you for this anyway!" she yelled at herself.

She then went to pack her necessities, some clothes and cash. After that, she changed clothes. She wore a red shirt, a black jacket over it, dark green pants, a pair of sneakers and a cap wherein she tucked in all of her hair, she also decided to put on sunglasses to finish her look, she can't be recognized nor caught. And she has to escape now or spent another day of complete starvation. So, she went out to her balcony and jumped off.

After Cagalli hanged up on her, Flay decided to make another call. This time to the heir of the throne, Prince Kira.

"Hello, who is it?" Kira answered his phone half asleep.

"Hey, Kira guess who I am." Flay answered sweetly.

"Look, whoever you are, can you just bug me again later, like when the sun's up... I'm still sleeping…" Kira slowly said while still lying in his bed.

"Kira, how could you still lie in bed when the 'only hope for peace' just made a run for it?" Flay was trying to give him a hint.

"What on earth are you talking about?" Kira was starting to come to his senses and decided to sit up and take a look on his watch. After seeing that is was only half pass one, he got annoyed. He then, looked at the caller I.D. to see who the caller was and he almost exploded when he found out that it was just Flay. "Flay! Do you have any idea what time it is?"

"Yes, it's only 1:30." Flay replied with a giggle.

"Yes, Flay. It is only 1:30…in the morning!" he shouted.

Flay gave out a superficial gasp; "How could you yell at me like that?"

"Look, I'm sorry, but right now my brain isn't fully functional yet to have a fun chat with you so please, if you don't have anything important to say, leave me and my pillow alone!" Kira was irritated already.

"Okay, okay. I'll leave you alone with your pillow now, but just so you can have a peaceful slumber, I want you to know that your Princess has been taken away by kidnappers." Flay joked.

"Eh?" Kira was still thinking.

"Good night!" Flay quickly hung up.

"You're kidding right?" Kira still had his phone in his ear. Then, thanks to the beeping sound, he realized that the line was already dead. He put the phone down and waited until what Flay said sank to him.

"Oh my God! Cagalli's been kidnapped!" he got the wrong message though.

The next morning, Cagalli was already in the Plants. She took the last flight thinking that the Plants would be the most unlikely place for her father to look for her. When she got there the first thing she did was...eat.

She went to a fairly-looking café, when she got in she saw that there were so many customers on that café, so she decided to look for another place but before she could exit, she bumped into a beautiful lady with short blue hair. She quickly apologized; the lady said that it was all right and even asked her to join her, Cagalli was surprised but still decided to accept the lady's offer.

"So, what's your name?" the lady asked politely.

'You can't tell her your real name, Cagalli!'she screamed in her mind, her eyes were moving from one place to another, as if trying to find something that would give her an idea of a false name, then she saw a vase filled with calla lilies on the counter. "Uhmm… My name is Calla. You are?" she said trying to hide her anxiousness.

"That's such a beautiful name, I'm Lenore." She said smiling.

"Uhmm, thank you Miss Lenore." she replied. Then, she thought; "Lenore… where have I heard that name before?"

"So, what brings you to the Plants?" Lenore asked.

"Uhmm, what?" Cagalli was startled.

"Based on your luggage, I'm guessing you just got here." She said.

"Ahh, well… yes. Actually, I arrived just a few minutes ago." she was hesitating but she thought it wouldn't hurt to admit it.

"Are you a tourist? Or do you have some business here?" she asked although she didn't seem curious at all.

"Well, the truth is… I plan to stay here for good and to find some work." Cagalli answered looking determined.

"I see. Do you have a place to stay in already?" the lady was full of questions.

"Uhmm, well, I haven't looked around yet." Cagalli felt a little doubt.

"Would you like to stay in at my house then?" Lenore offered.

"What?" Cagalli was surprised again, to think that they we're strangers to each other.

"We're actually in need of some helpers, the work isn't that heavy I'm sure you'll manage and we can provide a place for you to stay in." she explained.

"Uhmm, well, thank you but…" she was still hesitating.

"I'm quite fond of you, even though this is our first meeting." Lenore assured her.

"Well… All right then, I accept your offer. Thank you so much." she bowed. Cagalli was uncertain about this but then she thought: "What could possibly go wrong? right?"

After their meals, Cagalli went with Lenore, hiding herself under the name, Calla.

Flashback:

Flay was talking in the phone: "That's right, Princess Cagalli will be arriving there at about eight in the morning, please take care of her, Miss Lenore. Thank you so much."

Meanwhile, Kira arrived early in the morning at the Athha mansion. He went straight to Cagalli's room and when he got there, he confirmed that Cagalli was missing. It was only when Kira arrived did the people there notice that the princess was no longer there. Kira then went to his father to inform him about Cagalli's disappearance.

Author's Notes:

Just so you know, I like Flay and I think her character can play that role best. She met Lenore at her engagement party. Lenore was there in place of Patrick.

In this fic, Cagalli has long hair almost like Lacus' hair; Flay always wears black and I only added the flashback scene of Flay telling Lenore about Cagalli to stress the fact that Cagalli bumping into Lenore was not an accident.

Please Review! it's the only way I know how many people have read this. Also, I don't want to end up dropping this so please help me make it better. I'm open to comments, questions, suggestions, anything as long as you review it.

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Lynx