Chapter 4
6 years later
When I was 15 Pops started to make me work in the machina shop. He thought since I was 15 that I need to start working, when all my other friends get to sit around and have fun. This was so not fair.
One day, when I was in the shop not having fun, Gippal came into the room. This is not a rare sight, but it still surprised me. I was bent over a machina that I just made from scratch, when Gippal came up behind me and poked my sides. My sides are very ticklish, and Gippal knows that. He just loves to hear me make the high pitched yelp when he pokes me. It makes him laugh and me mad.
"What do ya want this time?" I ask Gippal in a bored tone.
"I just want to bother you, like always. And I was hoping you would skip work for a while and go swimming with me?" He asked me. God I hate it when he does this, He makes it seem that he likes me. It is torture because I do like him, and he doesn't know it. The day 6 years ago, when I had a chance to tell him, I couldn't find him after he left my tent. I have always regretted not telling him, but I don't have the courage to now.
"You know I can't skip work, if pops finds out I'll be killed." I told him. He knows because I have skipped out on work to be with Gippal and I got in a lot of trouble. Cid made me work more hours for the next 2 weeks. It was horrible.
"Come on, Cid's Girl." He taunts.
"Stop calling me that!" I yell back at him. "I'm my own person, you know. And I have a name, it's…"
"Cid's Girl" He finishes.
"No, it's Rikku." I tell him.
"What ever, Cid's Girl. Are you coming or what?" He asks again.
"Hold on and let me finish this machina, I made him so he could do my work while I take a break. If the work gets done, then pops will never know."
"I have corrupted your mind, haven't I?"
"No" I tell him, "I was these way before, you just didn't know it.
"What ever you want to think, Cid's Girl." He says.
"RIKKU!!" I yell back at him.