Author's note: Don't kill me! Please! Ah, I have had this typed up for like a week, but I kept forgetting to upload it. :( Anyways, I'm not going to say anything, just going to let you read the story, but anyways, thanks for the reviews/alerts/favorites! Let me know what you guys think of this failure of a chapter/story! :)

Rikku was in the cabin on her bed again. She couldn't stop thinking. Gippal liked her? She just couldn't understand it. She didn't do anything to attract him or anything, did she? She acted the same around him as she did around all the other guys, right? RIGHT?

Honestly...not so much.

"Hey, Rikku. What would you like to do today?" Yuna asked as she came up the stairs.

"I DON'T LIKE GIPPAL!"

"She didn't say you did," Paine said in a monotone, but then whispered, "But we all know that that's not true."

Rikku glared at Paine.

She did NOT like Gippal!

She did NOT like Gippal!

...

She liked Gippal?

Two employees watched as their boss frantically ran around the faction.

"What's his problem?" Asked the twenty year old blonde girl among the two workers.

"Cid's coming," her companion answered. He was equally young and also blonde, but much wiser.

"About Rikku?"

"Shinra."

"...what?"

"Shinra's group went missing."

"Oh, right! No wonder why I haven't heard 'I'm just a kid' in days!"

They watched as Gippal tripped, causing all the papers that he had in his hands to fly all over the room. He started to quickly pick them up as he muttered curse words to himself. The two employees looked at each other.

"Should we help him," the girl asked.

"Nah, he's in his freak out mode. We'd just be making it worse in his eyes."

"Right..."

"Hey, look there's Rikku!" The man said as he pointed to the girl who was crouching by the door.

"Maybe she's here because she wants to see Cid."

"I doubt that. Wait, why's she crawling around like that?"

"It's Rikku, does anyone know when it comes to her?"

The man looked at his companion, surprised because for once she made sense.

"Point taken."

Rikku was bored again. Paine and Yuna decided to go training after the whole episode. She didn't want to train, especially when she was still mad with them. She had helped defeat Sin AND Vegnagun, why would she need to train anyway?

That's the only reason why she went back to Djose.

She was bored and she wanted to play pranks. Nothing about seeing Gippal. She didn't care about Gippal.

She entered the temple and instantly got down on all fours. She crawled over to her hiding spot where she had previously left a bucket filled with chocolate sauce. She had seen Gippal walk into his office so she stealthily brought the bucket to the office door.

She looked around the room and saw no one around the room so she pushed a machina in front of the door and jumped on it, bucket in her hands. She placed the bucket on top of the door and carefully jumped down. She quickly moved the machina back to its original spot and she ran to the other door, ready to make her escape.

As soon as she reached for the doorknob, the door opened, backing her into the wall.

Cid opened the door, unknowingly squishing Rikku into the wall. He looked around the front room, finding it completely empty.

"Where's that boy at?" Cid asked the two employees who were slacking off earlier.

"Sir, he might be in his office," said the man.

"Yeah, he might be in his office being responsible and finishing up that paperwork you gave him," the female employee said trying to defend Gippal.

"Responsible?" Cid spat. "That boy doesn't know the definition of responsible and if he was responsible, he would have had it done days ago!"

"He's had a lot on his mind sir."

"Yeah, someone's been messing with him. Playing pranks or something!"

Cid ignored the two employees and reached for the doorknob to Gippal's office causing Rikku's eyes to go wide. She wanted to stop him, but what could she have done?

Cid slammed the door open and he was welcomed by a bucket filled with chocolate sauce landing on his head.

Gippal jumped out of his seat once he saw the scene that just happened in the doorway. He ran to Cid as fast as he could.

"Gip-PAL!"

"Sir? I can explain?"

Author's note: Sorry for the short and suckiness! I SWEAR the next chapter will be up this weekend. The play is this weekend, so I will have a lot of time to do nothing during act I. Heh, let me know what you guys think, even if it's flames!