And although no one voted for this, I have decided to write another high school fic. Its based in ST Bevelle university.

Ages:

Baralai: 18

Gippal:18

Nooj:19

Tidus: 18

Yuna: 18

Rikku: 17

Paine:17

Paine and Rikku are just about to turn 18!!

Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy X-2 or any characters.

"The word totalitarianism is passed around a lot these days. Many years have passed and even more people have..." Professor Kinok droned on to a mostly asleep group. Among the group sat a young blonde Al Bhed girl ,dressed in a yellow skirt and halter top,doodling chocobos on her notepad. Next to the doodle were the words 'Gippal + Rikku 4eva' in pink glittery pen. The blond was poking her tongue out the side of her mouth in a bid of concentration. Next to her sat a silver haired girl clad in leather. Her red eyes pierced her friends notepad making her give an audible laugh at the little note Rikku had written. On this girls note pad were the words 'Note to self, Kill Nooj' in bold red and outlined in black. She stretched back in her chair, discretely placing an earphone into her ear and placing her Ipod on full blast. On the other side of the death metal girl sat a pretty brunette dressed in a long pencil skirt and white turtle-neck top. Unlike her two friends, her pad was covered in notes from the lecture and even a few footnotes from her own personal research. She was sitting bolt upright, listening intently and scolding the others for not paying attention. In her world, this was mild multitasking.

"And so, to conclude today's lecture, Spira only became a democracy after the summoning event of the early archaic period. For those of you actually paying attention, please inform your fellow class mates that a class quiz will take place next Friday." Kinok ended, shutting his briefcase and allowing the mass of students to flow through the doors. The brunette and her friends were, as usual some of the last out of class.

"Yunie, can we hurry up and go. I wanna catch Gippal before he heads off to the gym with Buddy." The blonde whined to the brunette. The death metal girl laughed and headed towards the door.

"Rikku, you are aware that in some places people don't like to be followed by random strangers." She smirked. The blonde huffed and crossed her arms tightly over her chest. She turned around to find Yuna already over at the professors desk, congratulating him on his lecture today.

"Professor Kinok, I was wondering if I was possible to arrange a field trip to the Zanarkand ruins at the end of the term. I really feel like it would benefit the class." Yuna asked the man in front of her who nodded and occasionally gave a grunt of agreement. The two other girls stood round a desk by the door with bored expressions.

"Wouldn't it be nice to leave at least one lecture before lunch ends." The leather dressed girl said in a stoic voice to the blonde.

"Who cares about lunch. I wanna see Gippal!" Rikku cried, deafening the girl next to her.

"Uh, excuse me but did you say you know Gippal?" A soft male voice asked from behind the two girls. The silver haired girl looked smugly at her friend and not at the stranger who was eavesdropping on their conversation.

"No, she means she wants to know Gippal but is too scared to talk to him. What's it to you?" She asked, finally turning around to see the guy she was verbally being rude to. Something in her mind made her stop and assess him for a couple of seconds more than needed. The stranger was tall with chocolate brown eyes and tanned skin. But the feature that stuck the girls the most was his snow white hair that fluttered over his face, beautifully contrasting with his skin.

"Sorry, its just- I've just transferred here from Kilika and I happen to be friends with Gippal. I was kind of hoping that I'd make more that one friend here so I... ah, forgive me. Sorry to interrupt your conversation." He said and started to make towards the door when Rikku jumped up and barred his way.

"Hey mister. I don't mind you butting in and all but its rude not to give your name to your new friends." She said with a smile. The other girl groaned and buried her head in her hands. The tanned guy gave a bright smile, shifting his weight from his left foot to his right.

"My name is Baralai. Yourself?" He asked shyly. Rikku jumped up happily and dragged him over to the table again.

"I'm Rikku, Al Bhed princess, thank you very much and this here is Paine. She's normally more anti-social than this but you'll get used to it." Rikku said happily whilst Paine scolded her mentally. "Oh and the geeky girl that's talking to the prof is Yunie, she's my cousin!" She added, pointing wildly.

"Did Rikku mention she was the hyper one?" Paine said finally. Baralai scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"Words weren't really needed." He stated obviously. Paine nodded and went back to hiding behind her bag.

"So 'Lai. You don't mind if I call you 'Lai do ya?" Baralai shook his head in amusement. "Why'd you transfer to this old dump?" She asked excitedly.

"Well-"

"Right, to lunch then." Yuna said, happily skipping to her awaiting friends. Almost immediately she noted the new arrival to her gang. "Hello, I don't believe we've met. I'm Yuna." She introduced, tilting her head to one side.

"Baralai." He returned. "A friend of Gippal's and now apparently Rikku." He said with a superstitious tone in his voice.

"Say Rikku, you wouldn't be trying to make friends with Baralai here to get to know Gippal would you?" Yuna said in a jokey voice. Rikku chirped in nervous laughter and exited the room very quickly.

"That's our cue to go." Paine said rushing out after her friend. Only stopping briefly to wave goodbye to their new acquaintance.

"So sorry about this." Yuna said with a bow, running after the other two.

"Good note taking today guys." Yuna said in a bubbly tone, taking her usual spot next to her friends under the shade of an oak tree. Rikku looked around in bewilderment.

"But we didn't take notes today." She insisted but quickly forgot about the argument when she spotted the sports majors exiting the hall. Yuna shook her head in disagreement.

"Exactly. You two need to start writing important things or you will get kicked out of college for good." She lectured. "I mean, 'Gippal + Rikku 4eva' and 'Note to self: Kill Nooj' are not going to get you those 4.0's you want." She carried on, now noticing that Rikku wasn't paying attention to her but was following a crowd of guys with her binoculars.

"And this isn't classified as stalking?" Paine asked a far off Rikku. "And for the record Yuna, you have eyes like a hawk" Paine grinned. Yuna shook her head again, glaring playfully at her friend.

"Well firstly, you wrote your note in bright red and outlined it in black and secondly, I guessed Rikku would write that. Its her fantasy." The brunette concluded.

"Aw, he's out of my vision again." Rikku pouted, putting down the binoculars are replacing them with a cucumber sandwich. "And Yunie. I promise to start paying attention straight awa- look, he's back! Paine, pass me the binoculars." She squealed, dropping her sandwich on the grass. Paine pulled the binoculars away from her friends grasp.

"Rikku, I'm cutting you off. No more stalking. And by the way, Gippal's sitting right opposite us with Tidus and that Baralai guy. I have no idea who you are following" She drawled, looking once again at the spot the boys were sitting. He eyes stayed longer on the new guy, inspecting him until he noticed her and looked directly into her eyes. Paine looked down immediately.

"Ohh, interested?" Rikku teased, resulting in a smack round the head. "Owie. I just wanted to know." She whimpered, hiding behind Yuna.

"He seems like a nice guy." Yuna interjected making Paine face her with a shut-up-now expression, A.K.A death glares.

"Who? Baralai or Tidus?" Rikku teased her cousin who she knew liked the blitzer opposite.

"That's it. I've had it up to here with you." Paine growled, and stormed off in the direction of the boys, stopping directly in front of Gippal.

"No, no Yunie? What do ya think she's up to?" Rikku asked her cousin in worry. Yuna shrugged her shoulders and took a dainty bite of her sandwich.

"I'm not sure, Rikku, but i'd take those binoculars before Paine destroys them." She suggested just as Paine returned with a cool expression on her face.

"Painey, what did you do?" Rikku nervously asked, noticing Gippal and the guys walking over.

"Oh nothing. Just invited some old pal's over for lunch." She grinned snapping a picture of Rikku's shocked face on her camera.