Chapter One
Yuna saved the file of her dairy and closed out. She stretched and then guided the mouse to the messenger bar. Double clicking on it, her messenger popped up, She smiled as she noticed her friend was on. She clicked on his name and started the conversation.
BrokenHEARTangel463: Do you know when you can come yet?
KiynteyhBLUE506: Soon.
BrokenHEARTangel463: You said that last time you know.
KiynteyhBLUE506: I know Yuna, but blitz season is almost over.
BrokenHEARTangel463: I know.
KiynteyhBLUE506: I'm sorry, but how about in a couple of weeks? Can you wait that long or are you gonna kill me?
BrokenHEARTangel463: Yeah that's ok. He always says that.
Yuna smiled and then something came to mind. This is the perfect way to ask him.
BrokenHEARTangel463: Hey T.
KiynteyhBLUE506: Yeah
BrokenHEARTangel463: I was watching this movie, and there was a girl who was abused by her father and didn't tell her friend.
KiynteyhBLUE506: What was it?
BrokenHEARTangel463: don't remember. But if you were her friend what would you do when you found out?
KiynteyhBLUE506: I don't know, I'd probably hit her father. Especially if it was someone like you. I'd feel sorry for whoever that happened to. There are situations like that in real life, I can't imagine why someone would do that to their own child, and it just doesn't make sense.
Yuna let Tidus's words sink in while her hands nervously sat on the keyboard. He wouldn't be mad, maybe I should tell him. Yuna was about to tell Tidus the truth when she heard banging on her door. She quickly minimized the messenger and closed the laptop, stuffing it under her bed. She jumped up and slowly opened her door. As soon as it opened, her father knocked her to the ground.
"How many times do I have to tell you to stop locking your damn door?" He yelled as he stood her to her feet.
"I'm sorry," Yuna managed through tears.
"Do you think I give a shit?" He yelled pushing her down to the floor.
Yuna slowly sat up and gave her father a shake of her head. He laughed at her as she covered her head with her hands and curled her knees up to her head. He grabbed her by the arm and threw her over to her door, causing it to let out a crack as she hit it. She lay there as she held her arms against her chest. Her father gave her a quick kick in the stomach and then walked off. Yuna sat there for a few minutes trying to get the urge to stand. She then remembered Tidus was still waiting on the computer, she stood and closed her door. She went back over to her bed and pulled out her laptop. She rubbed her eyes as she opened it and went back to the messenger.
BrokenHEARTangel463: Back
KiynteyhBLUE506: What was that about? You didn't answer for like five minutes.
BrokenHEARTangel463: Sorry, I was doing something for my father,
KiynteyhBLUE506: ok
BrokenHEARTangel463: Anything new? How are you doing in blitzball?
KiynteyhBLUE506: Good
BrokenHEARTangel463: Ok
KiynteyhBLUE506: You okay? You want to get on webcams?
Yuna wanted to talk to him face to face, but as she looked towards her mirror she saw she still had tears running down her face, and her eyes were red and puffy.
BrokenHEARTangel463: I have to find mine, give me a sec ok?
KiynteyhBLUE506: Ok
Yuna got up off her bed and went to her bathroom and washed her face and made it look like she hadn't been crying. She walked back to her room and got the webcam from her dresser. She hooked it to her laptop and then turned it on where she could see Tidus and he could see her. He was in a blue t-shirt, like he usually was after blitz practice, he always wore that shirt around this time of the day. But his room behind him looked different; she was about to ask about it when he started talking.
"Hey," He said giving her a smile.
Yuna just nodded and then gave him a little wave.
Tidus rubbed the back of his neck and gave a nervous smile. Yuna had watched him do this over the past three years and noticed he only did it when he was nervous, confused, or was going to ask something.
"What?" She said smiling.
"Huh? Nothing," Tidus said with a smirk, "Who said there's something?"
"Do you want to ask me something?" Yuna asked with a smile.
"Yeah, why did you just bring up that movie out of nowhere a while ago, it kinda made me start thinking," Tidus said crossing his arms. "It seemed like it was a random thought, but I don't know…"
No, he knows, but how? Everything's ruined now! But he couldn't have found out, maybe it's about something else. But then again it might not be. Yuna's insides were yelling at her to just turn the webcam off. To forget about him and then everything would be fine again. But just as her hand was about to reach for it…
"Yuna…. Does your old man…. Does he beat you?" Tidus asked cocking his head to one side like he had seen Yuna do thousands of times. He does beat her. I know he does.
Yuna just stared at him and let tears slowly fall as Tidus shook his head.
"Yuna, you haven't noticed yet, but I'm on an airship, right now," Tidus said.
"Why?" Yuna asked through tears.
"To come see you silly," Tidus said with a smile, attempting to lighten the mood. "You still haven't answered me. Does he beat you or not?"
Yuna just nodded as her eyes began tearing up again.
"Why haven't you told anyone?" Tidus practically screamed.
"I can't tell anyone. If the Yevonites found out, they might send him to prison or the Via Purifico!" Yuna cried.
The Via Purifico was basically a death camp for criminals when the prison does not cells for, or for those who sneak into the government buildings, which were highly off limits. People, who went in, rarely came back out. It was actually a maze that could kill or drive the sanest man crazy.
"Yuna, that's where he deserves to be! He beats you, I mean do you enjoy it or something?!" Tidus screamed back at her
"It's not that simple!" Yuna cried back at him as well.
"Yeah it is, you're abused! How could you think it's not simple, what he does to you. That's just not right."
They sat there in silence for a few minutes until Yuna looked up at the webcam.
"How'd you find out?" Yuna finally asked.
"Well you dropped a few hint bombs here and there. Let's see there was the thing where you never talk about your family. You'll have bruises on your face and arms, yet you play no sports. You often have headaches a lot when you get on. You get off without warning a lot. You often look like you've been crying, and I'll ask you if you're okay, and then your voice cracks a lot when you talk about certain things like school or that one time I asked you what was the best thing you've eaten in the past few days. You busted out into tears and said it was your stomach. And I bet it was that because you were hungry," Tidus said, "Oh and another thing, what you asked me today, that put the cherry on top of the cake," He gave her a worried look.
"I care about him, a lot, but he," Yuna tried to explain, "doesn't,"
"Yuna," Tidus said with a shake of his head.
"No! Tidus, promise you want tell anyone," Yuna said through tears.
"Yuna, I can't, your father beats you, I can't not say anything," Tidus said as he shook his head again.
"Tidus, no! You can't tell anyone! He'll get in trouble!" Yuna cried.
"Listen, I'll be there in a few hours, we'll talk then, okay?" Tidus said with a sigh.
"Okay, bye," Yuna said as she gave him a small smile.
"Bye,"
The connection between the two of them was canceled. Yuna closed her laptop and got under her covers, falling asleep.
Yuna awoke an hour later, after she crawled out of her bed, she got out the laptop and she checked to see if Tidus was on. He wasn't logged into the messenger but he had left her an email.
It read: Yuna, when you get this, I'm probably already at the aerodome. I need you to give me your address or come meet me somewhere, see ya later, alright?
Yuna read it over again in her mind. I can't bring him here; he'll do something about my dad. I'll meet him at a café or something. Yuna typed in the directions to the Luca Café and sent it to him.
He replied quickly: Thanks, see you there.
She stuffed the laptop under her bed and turned towards her door.
This was going to be a hard night.