Hello to however feels like reading this! This is my first attempt at writing my own fanfiction, so please review to let me know if it's good and worth continuing. Thanks so much! ;)

Well, I hope you enjoy it (and I don't own anything if you wanted to know),

~Saekaeru

P.S. : It's written in Yuna's POV

Prologue

I gazed outside my bedroom window and sighed. The sky was filled with dark clouds, I was pretty sure rain would come down at some point today. My gaze went down as I looked at the "For sale" sign, that stood in the front garden of the deserted house right next to mine. The sight of it pierced my heart in a way I can't put into words, and an emptiness I knew far too well, washed over me endlessly like tides upon a shore. The house had been vacant for quite some time now. About three months or so. The house they were trying to sell was quite similar to mine. It wasn't all that spacious or modern, and situated in one of the most boring districts possible, quite far away from the city's centre. For those reasons I again knew that the sign would stay there for a long time.
Anyway, I'm Yuna, now 19 years old. I live, as I mentioned, in one of the most boring districts possible, it's about a 20-minute walk from here to the more populated city's centre, where I used to go to school. I sighed unhappily as I turned away from the window. This situation was quite similar two years ago, except that I didn't feel the heart wrenching pain of losing someone back then...

Chapter 1
The New Guy

Where the hell could that thing be? I thought as I searched through my locker.
If that ridiculous book wasn't in my bag, and not in my locker, where was it? I hope I didn't leave it at home again? I sighed and rested my head against my locker.

"Yunie! Is somethin' wrong?" I heard a familiar voice behind me say.
"Rikku!" I turned around and looked at my hyper-active cousin. "How are you?"
"I'm fine." Rikku smiled. "But how are you? Did you forget your math book again?" she continued with a teasing tone in her voice.
"Yeah…I am afraid so." I replied.
"Oh Yunie, you can be such a klutz sometimes!"
"Not just a klutz, I would call her ugly and an idiot, too. Aren't you, Squinty?" the voice of Dona was heard.

I looked at the ground, I knew she called me "Squinty" because I had one green and one blue eye, she teased me with that for as long as I can remember. Another bad thing, she was technically my neighbour, since no one lived in that one house situated between my house and Dona's.

"Don't call Yunie that!" Rikku stood up for me. "Her eyes are a lot prettier than yours, you slimy little—"
"Rikku, it's okay," I interrupted her. I made sure my locker was locked and I walked away. Rikku gave Dona a dirty look and then followed me.
Our first class of the day would be math, which was going to be interesting without a textbook.

Luckily, Rikku had been so nice to share her math book with me. Not that it would really make a difference, I didn't understand any of it! Rikku wasn't very good at math's either, but she'd at least get her homework done.
"Alright class! I'll be checking your homework now, if you haven't finished it I'm afraid you'll stay here a bit longer than you might have planned," the teacher stated. Great! I was about 12 exercises behind, I'd get detention again for sure.
As the teacher got closer to my table I started to feel more anxious. This wasn't fair! What am I supposed to do about not understanding this? Even if it was explained more often, I still wouldn't get it.

"Nicely done, Dona." I heard the teacher say as he looked through Dona's homework.
"You'll do great on next week's test!"
And then, he got to my table. "Yuna, may I see—" -knock knock-
"Oh, come in!" the teacher said as he turned around. The door opened and the principal entered.

"Good morning Mr. Pod, I'm not interrupting, am I?" he said.
"Oh no! Not at all," the teacher replied.
"That's good, I'd like to introduce you all to your new classmate then." The principal continued, now facing the class.
My classmates started talking excitedly, apparently nobody knew about this. And so, our new classmate entered. I gasped a bit at the sight of him. He was a really cute guy with blonde hair and deep-sea blue eyes. I could feel my heart race in my chest, he was our new classmate? I didn't seem to be the only one who was surprised. Most girls let out a sigh and winked at him, including Dona, of course.

"Hi everyone! I'm Tidus," he smiled as he scratched the back of his head. His voice…it was sweet and tender, but also sounded tough and determined, I could feel myself blush a little because of it.
"Ah, welcome Tidus!" the teacher replied with a smile. He walked back towards the blackboard, and I sighed in relief. If I was lucky he might not have enough time to check my homework.

"So, where would you like to sit?" the teacher continued.
"He can sit here!" Dona answered for him.
"Eh, sure!" Tidus replied as he sat down next to a smiling Dona. How typical of her, I thought. Thanks to all the commotion, Mr. Pod forgot to continue checking our homework. Phew, I guess I was lucky this time. I looked at Tidus once more, who was sitting a few tables away from me to the right. He was having a big conversation with Dona, who asked him all sorts of things. I sighed and tried to focus on my math.

The rest of the school day passed slowly, and I was happy to finally be back home. I put my bike back in the shed and went inside. I walked up the stairs, entered my bedroom and opened my bag. I better get working on my math or else it'll be detention next time for sure. I looked around for my math book, which should be around here somewhere. After a while I found it under a lot of paper on my desk. I sat down on my bed and leaned against the wall. This could take a while...I sighed as I looked at the exercises, they made no sense at all…

15 minutes later I still hadn't done anything, and in frustration I threw my math book on the floor. I sighed once more and glanced out my window.
Huh? The 'For Sale-sign' was gone and was replaced with a 'Sold-sign'.

As long as I don't get boring old grannies as neighbours, I hoped.

The next few days were pretty much the same: waking up, getting dressed, eating breakfast, cycling to school, screwing up my math, getting teased by Dona, and so on. But then one day I overheard a conversation between Dona and Tidus in the cafeteria. Tidus had been around Dona quite a lot, since she (rather he liked it or not) followed Tidus almost everywhere.

"So, where do you actually live?" Dona asked with a big grin on her face.
"I'm still living at my old man's place," Tidus replied, appearing a bit uneasy with the question. "But I'm moving into my own little place soon."
"Really? And where is that own little place of yours?" Dona continued with a somewhat seductive tone.
"Somewhere in a district about 20 minutes from here." Tidus simply replied.

My breath got stuck in my throat. Could it be that he would be my (and Dona's) new neighbor? What are the chances of that happening? Dona seemed to realize that as well.

"Well well! What's the name of the street?" Dona asked.
"Why you asking? You wanna come visit? It's a small house, really." Tidus answered laughing a bit.
"Maybe I will, if you tell me." Dona continued using that same tone again.
Tidus seemed to hesitate for a second but then said, "Okay then, it's Fervourlane, number 5."
Dona squeaked loudly and I could feel my heart skip a few beats. I was right. Tidus, of all people would be my new neighbour!

"What? Is that a funny street name?" Tidus asked with a confused look.
"No no no!" Dona replied quickly. "Just try to guess where I live!"
"Ehm…how could I possibly know?" Tidus answered as he scratched the back of his head.

Dona no longer seemed to be able to hide her enthusiasm. "I'm your neighbor! I live next to you on Fervourlane number 7!" she exclaimed happily.
"This is great, isn't it? We can do our homework and cycle to school together! And I can help you with your math!" she went on with a huge smile.
Tidus seemed as surprised as I was.
"Yeah, you're right! I seriously suck at math, so I'll need your help big time!" Tidus smiled back.
"So when will you move?" Dona went on. "I can't wait to hang out with you!"
"Well, if everything works out…" Tidus was saying, I couldn't hear all of it since the bell rang and I had to get up from my seat to get ready for the next class. As I left, I realized it had somehow hurt me to see them talk like that. But no matter how hard I tried, I kept thinking about their conversation and my soon-to-be neighbor.

That's all for Chapter 1. If you liked it and want to read more please review and I'll start writing again sooner. Thanks! ;)