I know, it has been ages. Seem's like forever to me since i actually had time to sit down and try to write something, all my creativity had been stolen by English Lit, Media studies and ICT coursework, sorrry.
I hope you guys are still interested, thank you for reading.
Um, i know there is a bit of a time gap but hopefully you like it.
-avoids flaming arrows from neglected reviewers-
Haha, love you DEMONSCAN'TLOVE even though you've stopped writing I did it to get a reaction!, go give her abuse!:)
Disclaimer: c'mon if i owned anything, i wouldn't be here. (i'd be with Gippal in my bed..) (don't tell my boyfriend:P)
New Years Eve
The one night of the year that I am allowed to be ecstatic about and actually get so bloody wasted that it doesn't even matter, that nothing even matters anymore. Well, in my head that's how it should go, not that it ever does. Generally someone drinks my drink, spikes my drink (Shiva, was that a bad year) or I fall over or something just as appalling happens that ends in an almost sober or injured me. Last year I spent midnight with my head in the toilet, puking up my insides, all the food in my stomach has been emptied into the toilet bowl about six hours ago.
I am determined that, that will NOT happen this year but I'm not so sure I will be let off so easily, I know Yevon likes to punish me often, why else am I cursed with such a brother? I mean he could easily pass for the devil himself.
Speaking of devils, I am rifling through Paine's wardrobe (making a huge mess in the process, let's hope she doesn't notice) for some boots to wear tonight, my logic is no heels equals no falling over and landing on my arse. Paine's not here, she's probably preying on some poor innocent. Yunie is here, she's on her bed scribbling away onto some paper; completely ignoring me. Which I find extremely rude, I clear my throat. Once, twice and on the third time she glances at me and I grin, probably scaring the hell out of her 'cause I have been in a bad mood all day, three guesses as to what person caused the mood from hell.
"Yunie." I sing, "Whatcha doin'?"
"I'm writing my new years resolutions." She says, tapping her pen on the paper. Her way of concentrating, it's adorable, well at least that's what Tidus tries to drill into my brain.
"Oh, I hadn't even thought of it yet. Can I see?" I ask, sliding closer to her.
She clutches the paper to her chest like it's something seriously important, and not something silly that she will never keep, "Yunie," I start with patience, "I am not going to laugh."
She looks doubtful, honestly I am not Tidus; I will not laugh at her, as much as he would, "Please Yunie? When I write mine I'll show you them." I say, reaching for the heart shaped notebook in her hands.
Just as she is about to hand it over to me, Baralai comes flying in through the door, (not literally, that's more Yunie's style.) me and Yunie blink in surprise; he barely glances at us and dives under a bed. Which is extremely rude, seeing as the bed in question was mine, I could keep private things under there and he didn't even ask! He could see all my girly things! Oh, he'll get a piece of my mind soon enough.
"Rikku? Did that just happen?" says a wide eyed Yunie from my left.
I am still trying to contemplate the nerve off the usually impeccable mannered boy so I don't reply when Tidus runs through the door and stops abruptly 'causing Gippal to run into the back of him, I stifle my giggle as Tidus turns to face him.
Gippal rubs the back of his head nervously, "Accident?" he offers and Tidus shrugs, letting go of this blunder to stare around our room, like a lion looking for its prey. Oh, I want to play; don't think he would take too well to me jumping on his back though. Finishing this train of thought, I realise the emotion I'm feeling is anger at the rudeness of them, not that I expected any better.
"Can we help you?" I ask, tartly of the two boys.
"No." Tidus says simply before going over to my wardrobe and ransacking it, pulling out dresses, shoes, underwear, skirts, jumpers and throwing it all over our newly cleaned room. Yunie stares at him in horror and before I can murder him, she points at him and stutters, "Y-you!"
The devil pauses and cocks his head at Yunie, he grins, "Yes m'lady?"
I would have rolled my eyes if I had not been frozen in horror, "What are you doing?" she enquires her body language relaxing into something similar to his. Her anger was now turning to curiosity. Typical. Love is patient, love is kind and all that jazz. Yunie follows these guidelines religiously.
Gippal grins, showing his teeth and answers for Tidus, "Hunting."
That feral grin makes me and Yunie shiver, probably for very different reasons or so I hope.
2 hours, a broken bed(Yunie's to be precise), a deflated ego, 4 dead arms and 2 ecstatic boys later. They were hunting, hunting for Baralai because he had the 'holy grail' as Gippal described it, a.k.a Paine's sacred diary. When me and Yunie heard what they were looking for, we immediately stopped what we were doing (screaming bloody murder at the boys) and told them where 'Lai was hiding, this resulted in all four of us, yes even Yunie, scrambling along the floor towards my bed.
In hindsight, this obviously was not the best idea because Gippal crawled over Yunie's hand who went "OW" loudly enough to make me and Tidus turn round, 'causing me to bang my head of Tidus' big head and for him to put his hand on my red hot straighteners. The yelp he let out nearly made my life which also made Yunie rush to see if he was okay, resulting in Gippal getting a kick to the head as Yunie crawled through the tangle of our limbs towards Tidus, who swung his hand around in pain and hit me in the face and I let out a yelp to rival his.
Baralai, not being able to see any of this, just listening from his hiding place let out a whimper, probably thinking we were killing each other, at this point I can't say I hadn't thought about it but the noise alerted us back to our task. Finding the white haired thief.
We all went to move when Yunie, (yes our sweet Yunie) whispered for us all to move away from the bed and stand at the other side of the room and in the closets so he couldn't see us, then she moved and opened the door, then closed it and made a show of dropping on her bed, sighing to herself and muttering about lunatics. To my surprise I saw Baralai pop his head out from under the bed and I could feel Tidus next to me, glowing with pride at this kind of girlfriend's cunning, I was grinning myself.
"Yunie?" Baralai said softly, "you know she would kill me right?"
I see Yunie's face flush with guilt and before she can do something stupid like tell him to run, I burst out of the wardrobe and unfortunately Tidus had the same idea and we stumbled over each other and landed on Yuna, who was still on her bed. The bed made a noise reminiscent of a fighting cat and Gippal burst out of my closet laughing hysterically, Baralai joined in; forgetting his terror in the moment. We stayed like this for a few moments, just all laughing.
Until a quiet voice from near my head whispered, "Tidus, your head is in my crotch."
Not quiet enough because everyone stopped what they were doing which caused the attention whore of my brother to respond, "I thought you liked that, Yune Yune."
"Ewww!" I exclaimed, trying to climb out of the chamber of horror.
Which resulted in more giggling from the two boys not involved in this little pile of limbs, Yunie tried in vain to remove Tidus' head from her crotch but he was determined and she gave up, red faced.
Until Gippal let out a battle cry and rugby tackled Baralai who squeaked and I tumbled out of the bed and Tidus looked up in mild interest. Seizing the diary from 'Lai's almost stone grip, Gippal threw it to Tidus who gave it to Yunie and then gave 'Lai a look as if to say, "touch it and die." Baralai sat down on the floor, sighed in defeat, put his head in his hands and exclaimed, "She is actually going to kill me."
I felt a pang of sympathy for the guy, and that's saying something. I knew what it was like to be in Paine's doghouse; actually I'm usually the only resident. Tidus just acts so nonchalant, it's impossible to give him the silent treatment and anyway he just talks to you even if you aren't listening at all. It's endearing, well at least that's what I try to tell myself.
I sat beside him and patted his arm; Gippal shot him a death glare. Yevon, he must be treating this game seriously, fraternising with the enemy and all that. Baralai smirked at him; I shook my head sadly at 'Lai. He's too young to be picking up Tidus like habits, people will start despising him and I think he's too gentle to handle that sort of treatment.
Tidus was reading through the diary and we all sat patiently, not unlike children at story time, albeit a few bruised and frightened children. Tidus after looking through it at the ground in disgust, we just stared at him for half a minute.
"That's it?! After all that?" I burst out a few seconds later.
"Yeah, it's full of…" he shuddered, "poetry."
I rolled my eyes, Yunie squealed happily, Baralai sighed in relief; if he doesn't watch out he'll turn into Tidus, Gippal smiled and leant back.
"Poetry?", I muttered, wondering if there was any about us.
"Yes, as in poems about 'heart being suffocated' and 'death is life's true beauty." Tidus snarled in disgust, he was obviously disappointed.
Gippal, angry that all his hard work had gone to waste; picked up the book and threw it, it hit Baralai on the arm, he clutched it (his arm, not the diary; there in lies his mistake) and punched Gippal's left arm, who smiled innocently at him.
I snatched the book up, rifled through it and then threw it at Gippal's other arm, he glared at me and 'Lai while we giggled at him. Tidus and Yunie holding each other on her now broken bed and watching the show.
Gippal then punched Baralai's other arm, Tidus snorted and rolled over so he was facing the wall with his back to us, "Rude much?", I yelled at his back.
Without turning over, he drawled "Ugly much?"
"Ohhf" I sighed, angrily.
He turned around and looked at me, clutched his hands together with faux excitement, "I'm so happy that you've progressed to such high speech standards, Rikku!" he exclaimed, dropping his face to a smirk.
I glared, there was really nothing else for it but I did see Yunie nudge him, he looked at her and without a sound lay back down on the bed.
Gippal made a whip cracking noise, me and Baralai giggled and Yunie tried to hide her smile behind her hand.
"Oh yes, it's so horrible for me but it's not me going back to an empty bed, is it?" Tidus said, so nastily; I blinked in surprise and so did Gippal for a matter of fact.
Just as Baralai opened his mouth to say something, "What the fuck happened in here, I swear I leave for an hour and this happens?" A voice says from the door, referring to the broken bed, clothes everywhere, the smashed straighteners and everyone lounging on the floor.
I opened my mouth to explain but she held a hand up, "Any one care to explain that will not take four million hours to do so?" she said, looking at the group.
I sighed and glared, she just ignored me. Seriously, every one here needs lessons in manners.
"Well you see Paine…" Baralai started nervously.
Gippal must have been in a sympathetic mood because he pitched in, "We had a game of Hide and Seek…"
She looked around the mess of the room, raised an eyebrow and stuttered, "Hide and seek?" in disbelief.
"Well Paine, it's really just a simple game… one person hides…" Tidus started, smirking.
"YES. Thank you, I know what it is but why so much mess?" she sighed.
So we explained that the game had got out of hand, I don't think she believed us because she couldn't believe how anyone could get lost in our tiny room but no one said anything different and she went along with it. By the time we had finished our little explanation, it was just coming 9. I was a little disappointed because it was potentially too late to go out and party especially as we were still to get ready so with a heavy heart I decided to stay in and subject myself to some drinking games.
"Well, you know… I never really fancied him hiccup... and Tidus is suuuuuch a better lay …anyway." Yunie slurred, covering her mouth and giggling after every hiccup, waving her shot around with her other hand.
I cringed, I had heard enough 'truth' stories for the night and it was only half 12, 12 was spent hugging and kissing everyone in our small room and I have to say it was the best midnight of my life. From there we had progressed to spirit shots, I was still on the sober side of things, most of us were; Yunie was too. She just can't well handle her drink well enough, yet.
Paine glanced at my face and decided to change the game for the sake of my sanity I like to think, "Well I think, that's enough of this game, how about 'I never'?" she suggested.
Yunie frowned, "I'm not sure how hiccup play."
"Oh it's easy, Yuna; you just got to drink if someone says they're done something and you have." Gippal tried to explain, "I'll go first, I have never slept with the high summoner."
We all laughed as Tidus drank, even Yunie giggled, Tidus smirked, "You're god damn right, the only man in Spira to drink when someone says that is me."
Yunie grinned at him, sickening.
"Right Paine your turn." Gippal said, turning to her. I frowned, why didn't he pick me? Rude, stupid Paine.
"I've never …had sex in the kitchen." Paine said, smirking. The bitch, she knew I had.
Me, Gippal, Tidus and Yuna all drank, I cringed again; these games are a bit too revealing sometimes.
Some time later I was straddling Gippal, Paine was whispering softly to 'Lai and Yunie was giggling to Tidus. We were merry, very merry probably from all the booze. We felt closer as well, all those secrets that had been shared made us bond.
I smiled at Tidus over my shoulder and he smiled back.
Yes, I think this was one of the best new years ever and we didn't even party. Just goes to show you only need 6 people, a few games and smiles.
(oh, and a whole lot of vodka.)
Right, this was a little rushed, i know i have had lots of time. but you know how it is.
thank you for reading, it means alot to me.
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