Hey everyone! I hope you enjoy my Rikku x Gippal story entitled: "Wasted Emotions." Please read and review and let me know what you think! Constructive criticisms are always welcome!! Just a little note, Rikku may seem a little OOC in this story, but only a little bit…
If you think that she is too OOC please let me know! Hopefully I still managed to capture her the way we all know and love her
Anyways! On with the story!!
Legal mumbo jumbo:
All characters copyright Square Enix, except for a couple which are copyright me! Also there is a little snippet in the story which are song lyrics, and those are copyright (I know sounds silly ) Garth Brooks and his respective record label.
Chapter 1: The Wedding
"Love is something that is very hard to find. Especially true love. When you do find it, make sure you embrace it, hold on to it like it is your last hope for living…If you do not, it could slip through your fingers…"
Rikku rolled her eyes slightly, not enough that anyone noticed of course, since she was standing before at least 300 people. She was listening to a priest talk about love and how wonderful it was when it happened..blah blah blah….
She glanced over at Yuna and Tidus who were smiling happily and looking into each other's eyes. They had finally reached their wedding day, after months of planning, and they were both happier than Rikku had ever seen them.
Rikku and Paine stood to the left of the happy couple as their bridesmaids. It was very odd to see Paine in a lavender bridesmaids gown, as she was usually in her leather getup which wasn't exactly feminine. Nooj and Wakka stood on the other side of Tidus, Wakka was Tidus' best man, and Baralai was Paine's date and was up there to escort her down the aisle.
Rikku looked around into the crowd, spotting a few familiar faces among the many unfamiliar ones. Her father and Brother were in the front row smiling at her. A few rows back, she spotted Lulu, Nooj and LeBlanc clinging to his arms. And right behind them sat Gippal grinning widely at her, his arms resting on the back of the pews. He actually looked decent, dressed in an all black suit complete with tie.
Then she spotted him. In the second to last row. He was actually watching her, his dark eyes focused on her green ones. He looked away quickly when their eyes met. He sat close to a pretty girl with long brown hair and dark rimmed glasses that made her look very intelligent.
She leaned her head on his shoulder and wrapped her arms in his as she watched the priest with a serious expression on her face.
Rikku looked away from the couple quickly and bit the inside of her cheek, trying to hold back tears. "So he decided to show up here." She thought a little bitterly.
The young man that Rikku was so upset about was named Angelo. He had, at one time, been the center of Rikku's universe. Her one true love. She had met him shortly after she and her group of friends had saved the world from Vegnagun.
He was from Bevelle, and a fellow sphere hunter. He had asked to join the girls one day after meeting them in Bevelle, and they had agreed since he seemed like a really nice guy.
Rikku and he began a friendship that eventually developed into love. They both had many things in common, and shared the same happy personality. Rikku loved everything about him, from his dark tan skin, to his beautiful dark eyes. He had dark black spiked hair, and Rikku's favorite thing about him, some freckles that were smattered across his nose and cheeks.
After a few months of Sphere hunting, the group decided to take a break since Yuna and Tidus wanted to start planning their wedding. So Rikku and Angelo decided to move in together. She had never been more happier than when she was with him. Their times spent shopping, laughing, hanging out at the beach, was so perfect. She knew that they would be together forever.
Then eventually she noticed little thing that were changing between herself and Angelo. They seemed to argue a lot more, over little things. He would be gone for longer periods of time, and when she asked about it he would snap at her. Sometimes they would sleep on opposite sides of the bed after arguments, not speaking to each other all day long.
After a few months of this, she decided that she would confront him about what was going on, and see if they could work things out.
He came home late one night, and Rikku asked him what was wrong with him, and if she had done anything wrong to him.
He instantly snapped at her, and brought her to tears.
"Rikku, things have been very difficult for me lately. I've been trying to figure out some things. I..think it may be time for us to go our separate ways. This whole thing may have been just a mistake. I'm trying to say that I don't love you anymore, and I can't continue to live like this. I'm leaving. Tonight."
Rikku could not believe she was hearing this. She sobbed, begged him to re-think what he was doing. Even stooped so low as to grab his shirt and try to pull him to her. But there was just coldness in his eyes. She knew that the love that was once there between them had faded away.
He packed some of this things that night, said he was going to a friend's house, and left after saying he was sorry, and wishing her all the best. Like he was just a friend who had stayed with her for a while. He walked out the door, and left a once vibrant, happy girl sobbing in the shadows of their dark living room, her heart broken.
That was about a year ago, and in the time following their break-up Rikku had, at first, found it hard to move on. She got rid of anything that reminded her of him, and tried to return to her cheerful normal self. After a while, things did return to normal. Rikku never started dating anyone else, simply because she didn't find anyone else she was interested in. She kept busy with planning Yuna's wedding, sphere hunting, and helping her father out with machina repairs.
Rikku had heard a few snippets of info about him over the year, mostly just that he had not left her for another woman, as she had suspected at first, but he had just decided that he did not want to commit to her anymore and had left her like that.
Then a couple weeks ago, Rikku had spotted him in a nearby café as she was doing some shopping around Luca. He was with the same brown haired girl he was with at Yuna's wedding. Rikku had spotted him kissing and laughing with the pretty girl. Suddenly everything that Rikku has pushed into the back of her mind, sprung forward again, and the familiar heartache of losing him welled back up in her heart.
Rikku's thoughts were interrupted by Tidus' voice.
"There's no more waiting, holding out for love. You are my godsend, that I have been forever dreaming of. You are my angel from above…."
Tidus was reciting a poem that he had written for Yuna. As he continued reading the poem, Rikku's thoughts drifted away to Angelo again. After seeing him again with his new girlfriend, and opening up old wounds inside of herself, she became sad, almost depressed in a way. Everything that was the opposite of her usual bubbly energetic personality.
She finally decided that love was silly, overrated, and a waste of time. Only the truly lucky found love. People like Yuna and Tidus. Or Paine and Baralai. Love was just not meant to find her.
Not to say that she didn't have love in her life. She had plenty from her friends and family. But she had wanted that different kind of love, the kind that made you do silly things, and laugh over nothing, the type of love you can't find with friends and family.
"I think I am just going to be lonely little Rikku forever. I will be crazy auntie Rikku to Yunie and Tidus's children when I get older…Probably own 50 cats…" Rikku thought to herself as she watched Yuna finish reciting her vows to Tidus.
"Well then!" Said the jolly priest who reminded Rikku of Santa Claus, "By the power vested in me by the mighty gods, I pronounce you two officially joined in holy matrimony! Kiss your bride young man!" He laughed jollily as Tidus lifted Yuna's veil, and embraced her in a passionate kiss.
Feeling overjoyed for her two friends, despite what she had seen, Rikku let out a loud cheer and threw her bouquet into the air. The crowd followed by cheering as Yuna and Tidus walked joyfully down the white carpeted isle.
WELL that is it for chapter 1!!! Please let me know what you think about it! Hopefully Rikku wasn't too emo for everyone…But even our cheerful Rikku will have some bad times!
Well please R&R!
Chapter 2 is already written and will be posted up either tomorrow or the next day!
Thanks everyone!