Next morning, Serah and Snow got up very early, even earlier then Lightning usually gets up at. They had breakfast and talked, real quiet just so they don't disturb the sleeping Hope from the living room couch. At 6, Serah and Snow leaves the house, Snow had left a note on the counter.

Thirty minutes later, Lightning is up. She's still in her pajamas, with her messy bed head, yawning. Lightning goes into the living room, where she sees Hope is still asleep on the couch. She just gives him a pat on the head then goes into the kitchen. Lightning starts making herself some coffee, starting up the machine. While she's waiting, she notices the note Snow left her.

She picks it up and reads it.

"Dear Lightning.

Me and Snow are going to be very busy today with the wedding. But we're going to be too busy to get everything done. Would you be a good sister and get everything listed below done for us? You're the best.

Heart, Serah."

Lightning smiles at the end of the note, but that disappears when she notices there's more, and it's not the list.

"P.S. NORA is going to be coming over to work on that shed. Please be nice to them, especially Yuj when he's in a mood.

Snow"

Lightning hears the ding from the coffee machine. She pours herself a cup and drinks it. As she drinks, she looks over the list from behind the note.

Send the invitations

Order the cake: Order #1259

Set up the dinning room at the Healin Cathedral

Buy yourself a nice dress and shoes - Pretty please, dress nicely for once! If you dare skip on dressing nicely and wear your "Formal" Guardian Corps uniform, I swear, Clair Farron, me and Snow will move in and live with you and make you miserable for the rest of your life!

The warning on the last item of the list scares Lightning. She can tell that Serah's not joking. Normally, Lightning isn't the kind of girl who has an 'Inner Sparkle'. She doesn't really feel comfortable wearing formal dresses or aching high heels.

Lightning sighs. "Fine, Serah. You win." Lightning says quietly.

Lightning sets the note back on the counter. Just then, she hears someone yawning, coming into the kitchen. She turns to see it's only Hope, who's just waking up. Hope stretches his arms in the air as he walks in.

"Morning, Clair." Hope says tiresome.

Lightning smiles at the tired boy. "Morning, Hope." Hope stands in front of the counter, as he reaches for one of the cabinets for a cup. He grabs the coffee pot and pours himself some coffee. Lightning seems surprised, she sets her cup on the counter. "Hope!"

Lightning takes the pot from Hopes hand and grabs the cup he was pouring into. "He-hey. Light!"

"You're too young to be drinking this stuff." Lightning says, pouring the cup into the sink.

"I'm only fifteen!" Hope complains.

"It's still too young." Lightning says.

Hope just frowns, he accepts defeat, knowing there's no way of winning an argument against Lightning. He sighs in depression. "Okay." Hope reaches into the fridge for some eggs. "I'm making breakfast. How do you want your eggs?"

"Scrambled." Lightning answers. Hope makes the breakfast on the stove, while Lightning leans against the counter with her coffee cup. "After breakfast, we're going to be doing some errands."

"Errands for what?" Hope asks.

"For Serah's wedding." Lightning answers.

"Oh right, it's in four days, isn't it?" Hope asks.

Lightning nods. "Yes, and sadly, Serah wants me to wear something dressy." Lightning says in disappointment. "We're also gonna need get you a tuxedo."

Hope looks at Lightning, surprised. "I don't want to wear a tuxedo."

Lightning gives Hope a cold glare. "If I'm going to be wearing a dress, you're wearing a tuxedo. End of story."

Hope sighs in defeat, returning his attention to the breakfast he's making. "Okay..."

Hope and Lightning sits on the table, eating their breakfast in silence. Lightning was the first to finish. When she was done, she takes out a box filled with the invitations and sets them on the table.

"First item on the list: The invitations." Lightning says.

"We delivering them?" Hope asks.

"Not yet. They need to be sealed. Then we're gonna deliver them." Lightning says.

Lightning dumps the invitations on the table. Hope finishes his breakfast and helps Lightning sealing the invitations. Of course, he freezes when he sees one that's for his dad. Lightning notices and wondered what's wrong, until she looks at Bartholomew's name on the invitation.

Lightning reaches over the table for the invitation. "We won't be needing that one anymore." Lightning takes the invitation and tears it in half, which snaps Hope back into reality. Lightning and Hope finishes the invitations and puts them all back in the box.

"All right, time to mail them." Lightning goes into her room, Hope goes into the bathroom down the hall, and they both get dressed. After that, they're heading out the door, where they're greeted by team NORA. "What are you guys doing here?" Lightning asks.

"We're here to build that shed, didn't Snow tell yea?" Laguna says. Laguna from FFVIII

"Well, today I'm busy running errands. There's no way I'm letting you four running around my house unsupervised." Lightning says.

"Relax, Farron. We won't mess anything up." Lebreau promises. "We're just gonna be out back building that shed."

"Fine, but touch or break anything, you'll regret it!" Lightning walks right past the team. "Come on, Hope."

Hope follows Lightning, but before he passes team NORA, he hands them their invitations, then he catches up with Lightning. Lightning and Hope travels around New Bodhum, sending out the invitations to the guests. After an hour of traveling, Hope was starting to get exhausted, not as much to give up, he can keep going.

"All right, invitations are done...except for Fang and Vanille." Lightning says. "We'll do that on the way to the Cathedral where the wedding's gonna take place."

"Okay. What's next?" Hope asks.

"The cake." Lightning says. "The bakery's down the street."

Lightning and Hope arrives at the bakery: "Cakery" They arrive at the counter lady. "Welcome to Cakery, how can I help you?" She asks with a friendly smile.

"Hi, I need a wedding cake." Lightning says, handing the lady the order ticket.

"Oh, you're getting married?" The lady looks at Hope next to Lightning. "But uh...isn't he a bit too young to get married?"

Hope is shocked to hear that, he just blushes at the thought of marrying Lightning. Lightning however, wasn't very pleased to hear that. "I'm not getting married! And he's not my boyfriend. No, it's for my sister. She's getting married."

"Oh, I see." The lady looks at the order number. "Okay. When's the wedding?"

"Four days." Lightning answers.

The lady nods. "Okay. I'll have it ready by then."

Lightning nods. The cake lady goes into the back room, and Hope and Lightning makes their leave. Lightning and Hope returns home, just to get into Lightning's car.

"All right, next is the Cathedral." Lightning says. Lightning drives her way to the Archylet Steppe. But on the way, she makes a quick stop at Obera at Vanille and Fangs house. Lightning walks out of the car and at the door, knocking on it.

Fang answers it. "Lightning. What brings you here?"

Lightning hands out two wedding invitations. "I'm here to deliver you and Vanille invitations to the wedding."

Fang smiles and accepts the invitations. "Thanks, mate. You want to come in? Have a drink?"

"No thanks, we need to get to the Cathedral and help set up the wedding." Lightning gets back into the car and drives off.

Lightning drives all the way to Archylet Steppe, arriving at a small town known as Healin. Lightning parks the car at the parking lot of the Cathedral. Lightning and Hope gets out of the car and enter the Cathedral.

Lightning and Hope walks into the dinning room, there they find stacks of chairs and folded tables. Hope handles the chairs while Lightning takes care of unfolding the tables. Once they got started, Sazh shows up. He's certainly surprised to see Lightning and Hope here.

"Lightning? Hope?"

"Sazh? What are you doing here?" Lightning asks.

"Your sister asked me to help set up the dinning room." Sazh says.

"Okay then."

Lightning, Sazh and Hope sets up the dinning hall. Once that was done, Lightning and Hope says good-bye to Sazh, gets in the car and drives away.

"Is that it?" Hope asks.

"Unfortunately, no." Lightning says. "I need a dress and we'll need to get you a tuxedo for the wedding."

Hope sighs in disappointment. "Great..."

"It's no picnic for me either." Lightning tells him.

Lightning drives back to New Bodhum, she drives the car to a tailor shop: Tailor-tale. They enter the store, but when their separate ways. Hope seeks out the suits in the mens department while Lightning checks out the dresses in the women's clothing.

Each dressing Lightning looks at, she just feels more and more pathetic. She can't believe her own sister is making her do this. After looking over twenty dresses, she was just about to give up, but then Lightning runs into a dress.

The upper half of the dress is simple and plain, while the skirt part of it is in ruffles that goes down to the upper-lower legs (Basically under knees). The dress is all red with a black sash on the waist. The dress only has one strap, goes over the left shoulder.

Lightning doesn't really like the dress, but if anything, she hates it the least of all the other dresses. Lightning decides to try it on. She takes the dress and goes into the changing room. Hope looks over the suits, he finds a tuxedo with black dress pants that's about this size.

Hope takes the suit and goes to the changing room. When he's about to go in, Lightning comes out in her dress. Hope becomes completely shocked seeing Lightning in that dress. He just stares at her, amazed at her beauty. Hope never expected that Lightning Farron would ever look so beautiful.

Lightning notices Hope staring at her. She snaps right in front of him, snapping him out of his trance. "You're staring." Lightning tells him.

Hope shakes his head. "S-sorry. I just...I didn't expect you...in that dress."

"Yeah, well don't get use to it, I'm only wearing it for the wedding." Lightning says. "I don't really like dresses."

"Well, I think you should try wearing that one often. I mean..." Hope starts to get nervous, he even shallows hard. "You do...look beautiful in it."

Hope closes his eyes and cowers, expecting Lightning to hit him. But instead, Lightning just gives a chuckle, ruffles the boys hair. "Well thank you for the complainant." Hope calms down hearing that. Lightning looks down at the dress. "Maybe I'll give this one a chance." Lightning walks back into the changing room. "But I'm not gonna try and get along with heels."

While Lightning chances back into her normal clothes, the brown skort and turtleneck sweater vest with the white sleeveless jacket, Hope gets dressed in his suit. Lightning waits outside for him.

When Hope was done, he leaves the changing room, looking uncomfortable. Lightning smiles, he looks pretty grown up in that suit. "You look nice."

"I don't feel nice." Hope says, scratching himself. "This tux is itchy."

Lightning just laughs. "Wear some baby powder before putting it on. That should help."

Hope returns into the changing room and change back into his clothes. When he was done, he and Lightning pays for the clothes and then returns to the car. Lightning and Hope notice how late it's getting.

"You hungry?" Lightning asks. Hope nods. "I think there's a restaurant down the road."

Lightning drives the car down the road. She and Hope arrives at a restaurant known as 'Boiling Point' the waiter escorts Lightning and Hope to a table by the window.

Hope orders the Sweet and Sour chicken, Lightning orders the stuffed trout. The waiter leaves, Lightning and Hope waits for there food.

"Hey, Lightning?"

Lightning looks at Hope. "Hmm?"

"I was wondering...Do you think you can train me sometime?" Hope asks.

"Teach you how to fight?" Lightning asks.

Hope nods. "Yeah. I'm pretty much defenseless since I'm no longer a l'Cie. Don't have my magic spells or Alexander anymore." Lightning doesn't say anything. Hope clears his throat. "So...can you...teach me?"

Lightning gives a slow, single nod. Hope smiles. A couple of minutes later, their food arrives and they eat in silence. After eating, Lightning pays for their meal and they head home. When they're out of the restaurant, it's already pitch black.

Lightning drives the car to her house and parks it in the driveway. When she gets out of the car, she can hear loud construction going on at her house. She can tell it's team NORA and she's hoping they're working on the shed and not messing up the house.

Lightning walks into the house, then walks out back. She can see they're still working on the shed. The outlining is build and they're now working on the walls, doors and ceiling.

"Hey!" Lightning shouts. NORA stops their work and looks at Lightning. "Time to get!"

Maqui looks at his watch. "She's right, it's getting late."

Everyone puts down their tools and makes their leave. "We'll be back tomorrow." Gadot tells Lightning.

Lightning watches the team leave, then walks back into the house. She sees team NORA is gone, and Hope is walking into the living room in his pajamas.

"Going to bed already?" Lightning asks.

"Yeah. I'm exhausted." Hope says. Lightning just rolls her eyes, it's not that late, it's only about 8. She knows one thing Hope's gonna need to work on in his training: His stamina.

Hope lays on the couch, pulling the sheets over his body and his head on the pillow. "Good night."

Lightning sighs silently as she watches Hope drifting off into slumber. She just walks past the couch and goes into her room. She had a long day of traveling, so she figured it's best to get into some comfortable clothes.

Lightning goes into her room and chances into some pink shorts and a white shirt. She lays in bed and starts reading a book. Lightning reads the book for a while. Once she got to chapter three, which takes about two hours to get too, Lightning starts to get really tired.

She sets the book on the night stand and yawns. Lightning turns the lamp off and falls asleep.