Ch.10 You Think…What?

IMPORTANT!! This is chapter 10, not chapter 9. If you read chapter 9 before my most recent update, it was actually chapter 10. Sorry…just go read the actual chapter 9 and come back to this one

Have I mentioned how much I hate forensic science? Cause I do. More than life itself. Mrs. Legary SUCKS. and i failed it...

Riku doodled all over his textbook.

Sure, art was one of his classes that required no brainpower at all, but damn was it boring.

And the fact that Sora had dragged him around outside in the rain all morning didn't help either.

"Open your textbook to the page jfasghiu" the teacher said.

Or something like that.

He was too busy not paying attention to notice.

"Riku!" Seifer whispered, nudging him in the ribs, "turn to page twelve, you idiot!"

'Whatever' he thought as he turned the pages, hoping the ninety-minute class would just let out eighty-five minutes early.

"The principal of kjfowin explains that kdnogi can only exist as long as it has wognasni to supplement it" the teacher said, further boring him.

Looking up, he saw Kairi, who sat a seat in front of him, paying undevoted attention and even taking notes.

"Dork" he whispered just loud enough so that Kairi could hear him.

Kairi opened up her notebook and began to write something.

'Heh heh...' he thought devilishly.

Operation: Distract Kairi was complete.

Sooner than not, a note was passed behind the table and into Riku's hand.

He opened it and it read pay attention.

To what? he wrote back with a smile on his face (even though he did feel a little bad for pulling Kairi's mind away from the class).

The lesson, what else. This is the second time you've taken this class right? How many more times do you want to take it?

Urk.

I don't care. I'm only taking it so I can get a fine arts credit...

Kairi sighed and shook her head as she read the note.

The reply Riku got was You shouldn't go by doing things "just because". Even if you don't want to, you should give everything your all or it's just a waste of time, right?

Riku paused before he wrote his response.

'Just a waste of time, huh...?'

What about you?

Huh?

You know what I mean, don't "huh?" me. What about You and Yuffie? Are you wasting your time?

Kairi was obviously uncomfortable as she read the note.

Sure, it was a bit much for Riku to back her into a corner like that.

But he wanted to, how should he say, think what Kairi was thinking.

No...I don't necessarily want to go out with her. Well, I do, but that's not all. Going out with her would be nice and all, but as long as I still have her I'm fine. Whether she's my friend or my girlfriend, just having her around is fine enough for me.

Riku grinned widely as he read her response.

A conversation similar to this happened when he had asked Sora out.

Remembering what Sora said, he smiled even more.

I don't think that the time when we liked each other but didn't do anything about it wasn't time wasted...as long as I had you around, what does it matter, right? And it's not like it was one-sided, so...

What do you like so much about her anyways? She's just loud and annoying...

Hey! Don't say that! She can be loud, yes...but she's also very considerate! Like when we go to Irvine's parties she avoids making me talk to him and she walked me home one time and...

Kairi's list dragged on and on.

'Jeez!' Riku thought as he read the thing.

One comment in particular made him think.

When I'm with her I don't feel lonely. I don't feel like I'm a burden, you know? With other people (don't worry, not you and Sora), especially my parents, I feel like they don't want me around. But with Yuffie...I can tell that I'm wanted to be there. It's kind of hard to explain. And whenever I see her it's like...you know that feeling you get when you check your progress report and see you're not failing any of your classes? It's like that. Heh heh, I'm rambling...

Yes, you are rambling. Do you think she likes you back? Sora was saying something about it when he was done "being sick" at the mall.

Oh yeah, your birthday present. I saw them. Or it. whatever.

That's what he was doing? What a liar. So what'd he get me?

Um…I'm not at liberty to say. And I'm certainly not at liberty to say how exactly he got them. It.

You know we're going over to Irvine's on my birthday right?

Ew.

Be quiet, it gives me an excuse to eat him out of house and home. And it gives you an excuse to hoard Yuffie. Speaking of Yuffie, what's going on? What happened?

Nice subject change. Well...she said that if she wasn't dating Rinoa she'd be dating me. But then later that night she told Rinoa she liked her more than me and I was just a little crush. But then this morning she walked me to school and was talking all funny...she knows I like her, I guess, it's pretty obvious.

Aaah, yes...so I hear that you kissed her?

Kissed her? Which time?

Which time?!

No, it's not like we're making out constantly or anything! There was no tongue either time! Unlike you and Sora...

What? What was that?

Nothing, nothing... but anyways, she kissed me first. But then Friday night I was looking for a way to show her that I liked her, but instead of words coming out I kissed her.

That's rather bold, Kairi.

Yeah, that too! I've changed a lot since I met her, huh?

Riku paused.

'She's right' he thought, thinking of how introverted Kairi used to be and how (almost) outgoing she was now.

Yeah, you've changed. But for better or worse?

??

Ha ha, never mind. So anyways...

Riku and Kairi continued their "conversation" and a response he got from Kairi stopped him.

So...all these things make me know it's not wasted time. I know that I'm doing something good, even though sometimes I feel as if something bad is going to happen...but that's probably postpartum blues or something (look up words like that if you don't know what they mean, Kairi!).

Riku's smile faded as he wrote his response.

You may not think it's time wasted, but what does Yuffie think?

When Kairi opened the note, she was to find that she had no answer to that question.

For about the fifth time that month, Yuffie was sitting cross-legged on Zell's bed, pouting as he played Soul Kaliber.

The same exact thing had happened not even a week ago; it was as if she didn't learn her lesson the first three times she'd pushed Rinoa to the point of verbally attacking her.

'What a dumb girl…' Zell thought absentmindedly as he button-mashed, hoping his winning streak wouldn't be put off by her whining.

"I'm serious Zell! I think she's going to break up with me!"

"Rinoa's not gonna dump you, alright! Christ, shut up…"

"Zell!"

"AUGH, I'm dead! Dammit, Yuffie, go talk to her!"

"I can't! I have too much sinful pride to admit I'm wrong!"

'You just admitted you're wrong, you idiot…' Zell thought, ruffling his hair as she flopped onto her back, continuing her pout-fest. Really, he didn't know why she kept bothering to run to him whenever they fought – all that happened was that he yelled at her until she went back and apologized. 'It's not that hard of a concept…crap.'

"Really, though…she was really mad this time, Zell. What if she really does break up with me? What am I gonna do then?" Yuffie pondered, kicking her feet violently over the edge of the bed, seemingly not caring that Zell's head was there.

"You haven't even been together that long. Get over it and find a new one" he retorted, grabbing her feet and attempting to tickle them (he got kicked in the nose).

"But I really like her!"

Noise level rising.

"I don't want to find a new one; I want to keep the one I have!"

His parents were going to wonder what was going on if she kept rambling like she was…

"I really really like her. Or love h- Oh my God, did I just almost say that?"

And so Yuffie came to have a great epiphany while causing a ruckus on her best friend's bed. It was too annoying to be inspiring, and he ended up having to threaten kicking her out to get her to shut the hell up.

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