Wish i did own the characters :P. And for warning mild language in this chapter :D.

****************************************Jewelry Shop********************************************** *************

Shinn, Yzak and Dearka was looking through the display cases, looking for something for the girls. Which in Shinn's case, he actually had 3 things to look for, earrings with a matching necklace and an engagement ring. No one not even Yzak and Dearka knew he was planning to engage to her tonight, but he was ready to ask her the question.

As he was looking through the case of ruby rings, he was scratching the back of his head hoping to find the one he spotted just a little while ago when he was there. He sighed hoping they still had it in stock as for Dearka and Yzak, they were searching for their girls something special as well.

Then he heard someone call his and the other two boys' names, the voice sounded familiar. He slightly turned his head to the left as Dearka and Yzak were looking the same direction as well and they spotted a boy with short brown hair and violet eyes, with a long haired pinkette beside him.

The three knew exactly who it was. Dearka asked Kira from a distance what they were doing there and Kira replied "Picking up a necklace for Lacus she's had on lay-away for a few months." The boys walked closer towards the two, once they got closer, Dearka firstly noticed Shinn's ex-girlfriends sister Meyrin behind them holding the hand of Cagalli's ex-fiance which he didn't notice them just a few ago from the distance between them, Kira and Lacus.

Once Shinn noticed Athrun, Dearka who was standing beside Shinn, laid a light hand on his shoulder and whispered "Shinn, it'll be alright man, just don't go killing him especially right in the middle of the store here" with a laugh at the end.

Shinn smiled at Dearka's joke and started to rub his temples, thanking back to when he first enlisted into ORB's military just a month after Cagalli found out Athrun wasn't coming back to her.

He remembered hearing her crying in her bedroom and screaming his *Athrun's name, calling him every name in the dictionary as well he heard her yelling out to him in her sleep he had heard all of that the first week of nights staying there and he was so mad at Athrun for doing that to her, because the following days after hearing her crying he'd ask her if she was okay and would let her spill her feelings out to him.

*flashback*

Then there was the night she tried to go walking by herself because she happened to find that ring that Zala gave to her before he left her for PLANT *like the idiot he is* to through it in the nearby ocean, he was getting his things unpacked when he heard the front door to the mansion open at 2300 hours at night, he hurried downstairs as she was getting ready to exit the door and he spoke softly "Princess are you a complete idiot!, wanting to go out there by yourself this time of night on your own at that!?"

She looked back with tears in her amber orbs and said "Yes I must be an idiot, but…I found something I need to rid of and also Asuka….DONT CALL ME PRINCESS!"

Shinn sighed and said "I'm coming with you." Cagalli just nodded and the two began walking. Once they got to the ocean, Shinn noticed the ring Cagalli tossed out in the ocean and he asked out of curiosity "Where the hell did that ring come from?"

Cagalli just sighed and asked "DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO DAMN NOSEY ASUKA!"

Shinn sighed, grabbed one of her hands and held it into his own, looked straight into her eyes in a soft tone "I heard you crying the past few nights because I'm guessing it's from who that ring was from, and to be honest, it pissed me off for him to do that to you…..your beautiful and deserve way better than him."

He also remembered that blush after he said that to her, and she then hugged him, he mentioned to her he'd never do that to her or anything near what Athrun did to her and that's how they became where they are today.

*end of flashback*

He got thrown back to reality when he felt Yzak tap him on the shoulder and looked around. Dearka sighed and said " Kira was talking to you, dumbass" with a loud laugh.

Shinn then apologized to Kira and Lacus, Lacus firstly spoke "So what are you three doing here?"

Shinn spoke softly and mentioned they were picking something out for the girls and Lacus smiled and softly said "How sweet of you three."

Kira then eyed Shinn, noticing how he kept glancing at the ruby section in the case that he was standing beside and asked out loud "Are you looking for something specific for my sister in there?"

Shinn nodded answering yes, he noticed the glare he got from Athrun after answering Kira's question with a yes.

Shinn thought to himself "well bastard if you wouldn't of done that to her, you'd be with her."

Shinn already felt annoyed by Athrun, he kept giving him looks and glares.

Shinn then told the four talking to excuse him he was still looking and he wondering off looking for that ring. He got to the middle section where another ruby section was located and yelled happily "FOUND IT!"

He then asked the worker for help getting it out as well as a pair of matching earrings and a matching necklace with a ruby heart.

He hehehe stopped it here, because next is when the girls are back! :P