A/N: Yay, I'm posting another story here. This has been on my pc for quite some time now, and I finally got the courage (and will) to put it up here. It's about Tales of Symphonia, but I've never played the first game. I only found out about it's awesomeness after playing TOS Dawn of the New World. So yeah, in my story Lloyd is 19, and all the other characters are also the age they have in the second game.

To be honest, I only fell for Lloyd after watching the anime, but I'm not really all too familiar with the storyline of the game. So bear with me.

Lloyd and the others may be OOC and Lima is my OC since I like creating OC's.

Disclaimer: I don't own TOS and all of it's characters.

Claimer: I own Lima, she's part of my brain XD

Chapter One: Clearing things up

I knocked on Lloyds door. There were some things I wanted to get straight with him, since his first impression of me was highly likely to be extremely wrong.

"Who's there?" I heard him say.

"Eeh.. Lloyd, it's me, Lima, can I come in for a moment?"

I heard him sigh out of annoyance. "..Fine, come in."

I softly opened the door and let myself in. He was standing bend over his table, looking at the worldmap.

He looked up. "What do you want?"

It was obvious he didn't want to talk to me, which was understandable, since I said some pretty harsh things to him.

"..Eeh... well, you see, I wanted to apologize for my rude behaviour from before." I said while trying not to look him in the eye.

I saw his eyebrow rise. "Why would you want to apologize? You hate me right?"

His voice was flat without any emotions, but he was obviously taken by surprise.

"You see, that's where you're wrong, I don't hate you. The things I said earlier weren't things meant for you personally."

"Then why?" He still sounded like he didn't want to talk with me, but it seemed he, also, wanted to talk things through and get things straight with me.

I hesitated for a moment but then decided to tell him anyway, it was not like it was a secret. I took a deep breath. "It's your clothes..."

Confusion spread over his face. "... My... clothes...?"

He paused for a moment. "Why the hell would you treat me the way you did, just because you dislike my clothes?"

"Well... not your clothes, but more the color." I looked around the room uncomfortably.

"The color..? You mean red?"

I nodded. "I detest red, I don't know why, but when I look at it I just get so pissed. That's why I acted the way I did. So I came to apologize."

He was silent for a moment.

"If you honestly came to apologize, then why the hell aren't you looking me in the eye? You keep staring around you like you're talking to air!"

I shrinked away from his outburst, but answered. "You're still wearing your clothes. When I look at you I see nothing more than a big red fuzzy spot. I don't even know what you look like."

"...so... you're saying that if I took of my red clothes, you'd be able to look at me, and you won't say anything like before."

I just nodded.

"Well then, I'll take of anything that's red, let's see if you're speaking the truth."

I was surprised, I had prepared myself for another one of his outbursts. And I certainly didn't expect him to try and help me by taking of his red clothes.

I looked at the red spot before me and felt my anger boil up in me again, but the red started to dissolve, and a young man from around my age appeared.

Lloyd threw the last red glove in the corner of his room and looked at me. "And? Better?"

I nodded silently and looked at him clearly for the first time since I had met him.

He sighed. "I guess you were speaking the truth, the last time you looked at me straight like this, you went berserk the moment our eyes met."

I gave him a wry smile. "I'm sorry, I guess I should have told you before even looking at you."

He shook his head. "No, I'm sorry too. I've seen more strange things in this world, and I still reacted like that. That was wrong of me." He sighed.

"But I never expected that someone who got rescued from the verge of death, would react to her saviour like that." He laughed and winked at me.

I ignored the feverish feeling that found its way to my face and laughed along with him.

"So I guess we're even now right? You yelled at me, I yelled at you." He asked while scratching his head.

I nodded again and an awkward silence followed.

The silence was quickly interrupted with an all too familiar voice calling my name.

"Liiiimaaaa! Honey? Where are you? We were planning on going to Meltokio! You have to come along so I can show you my house!~"

A chill ran over my back and I looked at Lloyd in horror.

Ever since I joined their group, Zelos had been following me around like a little puppy. He wanted to do everything with me by his side and jumped onto every opportunity he could get to make me fall in love with him.

I hated it and definitely didn't want to come along to Meltokio.

Somehow, Lloyd understood my misery and started looking around the room for a place to hide me.

Sadly, there was nothing but the bed there.

We looked at each other for an uncomfortable second.

Lloyd grabbed me by my waist and pulled me into the bed. He threw the blanket over us and wrapped his arm around me.

Right after that, Zelos came barging in. "Lloyd! Have you seen Lima? I can't f... Why are you in bed?"

Lloyd coughed fakely. "I don't feel so good, I think I have a cold coming up, so I thought I'd get some rest."

"Oh... well, get well soon then. So I guess you won't be coming along to Meltokio then?"

"Nope, sorry. What were you guys planning on doing there anyway?"

"Oh, well, since Lima lost her memory, we wanted to look around in the library in Meltokio, maybe there is some useful information. Oh right, before I forget. Have you seen Lima around? I can't find her anywhere."

"Oh, no, ever since she went berserk after seeing me, I have kind of been avoiding her... I don't know, maybe she went into the woods. Since she seems to like them."

I heard Zelos sigh in disappointment. "Well, the woods here seem kinda big, and we don't really have any time to waste, so I guess we'll just leave Lima here for the moment. When you see her, tell her where we are, so she can come after us. You too by the way, when you start feeling better, come after us. We can use all the help we can get."

"Right, I'll tell her. Good luck and have a safe trip."

I heard Zelos leave the room and close the door. I wanted to get up, but Lloyd kept me in a firm grip.

"Lloyd..?"

"Shh.. We have to wait for them to leave, since we never know who's going to enter my room." he hushed under his breath.

And he was right, the moment we were silent again, someone entered the room.

"Lloyd? Are you still awake?" It was Colette.

Lloyd mumbled something that didn't make sense, hoping that Colette would leave soon.

"I hope you get well soon." she whispered and left the room.

There was a lot of noise in the hallway, everyone was getting ready to leave.

"Zelos! Keep your mouth shut and carry my stuff! You're a man, show some strength." Sheena said.

Zelos mumbled something, but seemed to do what Sheena told him.

"Alright, is everyone ready to leave?" Raine said.

We heard some yes' and then everyone started walking. The last person to leave slammed the door shut.

Then there were no more sounds, but from our hearts pounding.

My breath was unsteady and my heart pounded like crazy. I hoped that Lloyd didn't notice, but I guessed he did.

Lloyds body was warm and comfortable, the steady pace of his pounding heart almost sounded like a lullaby, and I would have surely fallen asleep, if I wasn't so nervous.

He suddenly let me go and got out of the bed as quickly as he could.

I got up too and tried not to look at him. But my eyes kept trailing back to his posture.

He had his back turned toward me and was obviously thinking something over.

My eyes kept still at his ears. They were an unhealthy shade of red.

I felt my face get hot again. I didn't want Lloyd to see me this red and got out of the bed quickly.

"Well, thanks for saving my butt Lloyd, eehm... I think I'll go take a walk in the woods for now. Don't worry, I won't get myself in a pinch again. See you later."

With those words, I quickly left his room. Shutting the door behind me.

I heard him let out a sigh, but I had no idea what it meant.

I decided to keep myself to my plan and got my weapons out of my room.

A/N: and that's about it for the first chapter. I hope you like it, and please review. I don't really have confidence in my writing skills. And English isn't my first language, so there may be lost of mistakes in there. But please let me know what you think. (:

I think I'll be updating this story every week or so, but if I suddenly stop updating, spam me with messages or something. XD