DISCLAIMER – I do not own any of the final fantasy VIII or X characters... Although I DO wish I could own Tidus and Squall... Sigh

Please be kind this is my first story... hope you like it!!!

Chapter 1.

In the Beginning

So it's like this, girl meets boy, boy meets girl they fall in love and live happily ever after right? Not in my case and that is definitely not the case in REAL life... Love is a tool that all men like to use against us, sometimes it's the girl that uses it against the boy whatever the case is it hopefully gets solved in the end...

My Name is Yuna, and I am 17 years old. My friends Rikku, Lulu, Sephie, Rinoa (she's actually my twin sister) and Quistis all have had or still have boyfriends! But not me... I don't know why, but I suppose he will come one day and sweep me off my feet with a bunch of beautiful red and pink roses and say "yuna, Yuna? YUNA!!!

"YUNA!"

Ok so it wasn't my true love with flowers, and he definitely wasn't holding me so it could only mean one thing... that I had....

"YUNA! How dare you fall asleep in my class young lady, this isn't your bedroom it's an area for learning!" exclaimed Mrs. Blutoan.

"I'm so sorry Miss, I didn't mean too I swear I won't do it again!" I replied innocently

"You have fallen asleep 10 times this year young lady how do I know you are telling the truth this time?!" she said angrily.

"Umm, I'll ahh, I'll make it up to you... I'll do extra work at home"

"Fine now get on with your work"

Luckily a few moments later the bell rang.

BELL

Outside in the playground

It was obvious that I'd get "THE" lecture from my friends, and yep I was right. Here it began as we walked out of the classroom.

"Yunie, you know she's right..." Rikku whispered.

I hate it when she uses my nick name whilst lecturing me on the benefits of school I was hoping that Sephie wouldn't add anything but I was wrong...

"She is kinda right... how do you think you are going to pass your Higher School Certificate in Ancient History if your not going to pay attention and sleep all the time?" Questioned Sephie.

"I know, HEY! I don't fall asleep ALL the time, that is just a little over exaggerated... I sleep some of the time... He he he?" I responded sincerely.

We walked silently towards Lulu and Quistis after the short disagreement we had about what STUPID Mrs. Blutoan Said. I kept thinking to myself that what ever she had said would affect me, but the thing was I couldn't remember any thing she said or even anything that she teaches... She is just another horrible teacher that is against me and doesn't understand what I'm going through. Yeah sure she was my age once but as if she was anything like me?! She probably had guys after her because she was a big time slut that or a complete nerd that no one would want anything to do with her!

"That's it!" I exclaimed loudly.

"What's it?" Lulu curiously questioned.

"Oh nothing, just daydreaming but I didn't think I had said that out loud..."

"Come on, you can tell me, not like I'm going to use it against you."

"It's just that, hey where'd Quistis, Sephie and Rikku go?"

"That's beside the point, and don't change the subject! You sounded excited about something!"

"Oh yeah I was just wondering why Mrs. Blutoan always picks on me and now I think I know! It's cause she was a Nerd and wants me to be exactly like her, some teachers don't understand. It's probably her Nerd self talking to her and saying that I need to pay attention a lot more and that she has to make ME exactly like HER when she was our age."

"Right.... Well the others went to find your sister we think she's taking extra classes or something, she isn't around as often as you."

"... What's that supposed to mean? So what if she's smart and I'm not!"

"No why would we think that, you both are our friends! And you both will stay that way for ever!"

"ok, rinoa did tell me something about taking an extra few units here and there, she said something about four unit Maths, Science, Community studies and Business classes... but that's all that I know."

Lulu's jaw drops "a FEW units???"

"Yeah it isn't that much ya know... she likes her spare time taken up by school work..."

Rinoa sigh she's got to be the smartest person I know! Well you'd think I'd carry the same trait considering that we ARE twins! But you know she's the brains and I'm... I don't know yet I'll figure it out sooner or later though. I guess I just need motivation, perhaps a handsome young prince that will love me for all of eternity. Yeah you could say I'm boyfriend deprived, not many guys that are worth the second look these days, you just have to wait for Mr. Right... One day my Prince Charming will appear, hopefully sooner than later and then maybe I can sleep at night and concentrate on my study and have something to believe in. One day... OH great here comes Auron and Co. to make me jealous and create PDA (Public Displays of Affection) lucky for me the others aren't here... well I have to say that Lulu and Auron do look cute together... I just wish that they'd set me up with some one OUTSIDE of school that is someone Handsome, Romantic and compassionate... But I suppose there's no such person of the male species that contains all three without wanting sex!

"Hey Hunnie!" exclaimed Quistis

"Huh?" I replied

"You can be my hunnie too!" Quistis giggled

"OH... OK!" I say as I begin to grin "but wouldn't you want your real hunnie?"

"Yes" she replies whilst hugging Irvine.

"Oh my god! You're cheating on me" I exclaimed

"She's ALL mine" answered Irvine

"Nah Ah! She was mine first" I scream whilst trying to snatch Quistis from the dirty hands of Irvine.

"Yunie, by cheating on you with Irvine is just showing my love for you" Quistis explained.

I give her a pout and feel relieved to have Sephie Wrap her arms around me and give me a hug.

"Now you know what it's like or feels like when you have a boyfriend" Sephie giggled "Now I know why you haven't had a boyfriend..."

"Huh?" I answered blondely

"It's cause you're LES!" Sephie screamed pointing madly and making the whole school turn to look. The group went into an up roar of laughter as I exclaimed...

"It's cause I'm blonde isn't it!"

All of a sudden the group went quiet as I felt a tap on my shoulder and have the voice of Sephie in my ear saying...

"Yunie, your not REALLY blonde!"

Yet again the group was in fits of laughter

"I knew that!" I exclaimed "I... I was just... testing you, yeah that's it I was testing you!"

At that moment I knew that I had been out smarted and I also knew that I wouldn't be able to get them back without my twin... a couple of seconds later after the laughter had died down Auron began to speak his few words of wisdom, well not REALLY wisdom it's more like his few words of... WORDS!

"I guess it's pick on Yuna day today!" he said as he interrupted my important, precious and profound thoughts. HEY THAT WAS A BIG WORD (I think in my thoughts).

"Maybe we should continue at lunch Auron continued.

And yet again I was interrupted by the sound of Aurons Voice.

"Yeah, I agree!" agreed Zell

"I suppose we could do that" Said Squall "as long as Rinoa doesn't show up!"

"It's ok, she won't considering that the bell is about to go!" said Wakka

BELL

Thank god for the serene sound of the bell and the end of the torture I go through. Well not quite...