The Babe of the School Chapter 12: Emergency

"Ah, that was quite the meal, I'll tell you what." Sazh yawned as he entered our home. I never knew it beforehand, but apparently him and my mom are good friends. Go figure.

"Indeed it was. I'm positively stuffed!" Snow belted with a grin. If I ever kill this man, it'll be because every single word and how he says it, pisses me off. "I'm positively stuffed"? What's with the use of the word, positive? Trying to make himself sound smart again.

"You said it, son." Dad agreed, clapping a hand on Snow's shoulder. "Wanna play some Madden?"

"Of course!" Snow replied. Does he really have to ask? Snow proceeded to rush upstairs to bring his gaming system back down to hook up to the living room tv. Fang and Vanille followed him up, probably to go change.

"Yeah, I'm pooped." Zidane yawned and gave an over-exaggerated stretch. "I'm gonna head to bed, night!" And with that, he took off upstairs as wel

"So Light, you've already reached old age, huh? I must say you've aged well, you still look like a teenager!" Sazh joked at my hunched back. I rolled my eyes in reply, but he still chuckled, knowing I was pretending to be annoyed.

"I must say, Sazh. I haven't seen you eat like that in years." Mom commented as she took a seat on the couch beside my father.

"I haven't been hungry like that in years, Jihl!" Sazh laughed, "not to mention that the service was quite terrible for the most part. But the food was good!"

"Yes it was quite infuriating." Mom agreed.

"Mister Sazh!" Serah called out, raising her hand like she was still in school. Ah Serah, always so polite. Gotta love her.

"Yes, Serah? and we're not in school right now, call me Sazh." He added a wink at the end that made Serah swoon.

"Could you help me with my homework?" She asked shuffling her foot on the rug, cheeks glowing red in embarrassment.

"Sure, why not." Sazh laughed jovially before making his way to the kitchen table where Serah had set up her stuff.

"Serah, you shouldn't make the man work when he's off." Mom reprimanded as she always does. Serah mumbled a sorry, her shoulders slumping.

"Come on now, Jihl. You know how passionate I am about helping my students." Sazh grinned as he patted Serah on the back, who in-turn smiled herself.

"Thanks, Sazh!"

"Not a problem, now which questions is it that are giving you a hard time?" Serah pointed to a few on the page and the two proceeded to get to work. I on the other hand, had decided to lazily take a seat on one of the chairs to the left of the couch (nursing my back in the process, mind you).

"How's your back, dear?" Mom asked.

"Bad."

"I'm going to take you to the emergancy room tomorrow. You may have hurt yourself more severely than you think."

"No it's okay, mom. I'm fine." I tried in vain to persuade my mother. But of course I should know by now that I can't ever win against her.

"You don't have a say in this little lady, listen to your mother." Dad said as he scrolled through the Madden teams, trying to decide which team to play as.

I gave a sigh before answering. "Yes, dad."

"Hey why wait now? I'll take her as soon as I'm done helping little Serah here." Sazh called over from the kitchen table.

"That won't be necessary, Sazh. We'll take Lightning." Dad said without looking away from the tv.

"Come on now, Yaag. How are you going to do that when I'm blocking you guys in?" Sazh chuckled as he helped Serah with another question. "Come on, I'll give you a ride, would get to spend more time with you too Jihl. One dinner isn't enough for two friends to catch up!" I groaned. I was just about to go to bed. I don't want to have to wait in the ER for an hour or two before even being seen.

"Well for starters, you could move your car. Effectively eliminating the need for you to take me there yourself?" I didn't really want to spend the night with him and my mother. Sure I didn't have anything against Sazh, I liked him in fact. I just didn't want to sit and listen to old high school stories of them growing up, yuck.

"Logic wins this round, thou won't be troubled by this teacher." Sazh tipped his invisible hat to me while pointing his thumb at himself, smiling, before turning around to continue helping Serah.

"Never one to accept help, are you Light?" My dad asked, eyes never leaving the screen as he started his game with Snow.

Well maybe I can be a little stubborn.

"Get up, Light." Serah shook my shoulder lightly. Ugh what's she doing getting me up? Serah never gets me up.

"What?" I asked. Grumpily might I add.

"When are you gonna get up, it's one in the afternoon already!" Serah exclaimed, a little too loud for my liking.

"When I feel like it. When are you gonna grow a few inches? it's been a couple years now, Ser." I could hear my sisters huff of annoyance.

"When I'm damn well ready, that's when!" She yanked the covers off of me and started to attempt tugging me out of bed. I conceded and sat up on the edge of my bed. My back was feeling a bit better than the previous days and I am finally able to be mobile! without hunching over in pain that is. Still hurts though.

"So what did you get me up for?"

"Because you were being a lazy sleepyhead and it's your turn to clean Odin's litterbox." Serah explained with a bright smile.

"Uh, no Serah. It's your turn to clean up his litterbox." She's trying to pawn off her chores on me again. "Besides, I'm still hurt! I can't bend over to clean up after that fatass." I pointed to Odin, who was in the process of entering the room. The cat glared up at me. Please, as if he can understand English.

"Fine then, go get mom and dad up. I'm sure you're capable of even that in 'your woe is me' crippled state." Serah exited with another huff. Jeez, what's with her today?

"I hope you get shit on your hands!" I called after her.

"I hope you fall down the stairs!" Her reply came from the hallway. Bitch.

"Well you're off to a good start to the day." Vanille smiled as she entered the room. She took a seat beside me on the edge of my bed.

"Serah woke me up." I yawned.

"Well duh, it's one o'clock in the afternoon already, sleepyhead!" Vanille poked my head. My eye twitched, two hyper people annoying me as soon as I get up? The only thing that could make this morning shittier is if Zidane walked through the door. I looked to the door expectingly 'cause bad stuff always happens when you have thoughts like that. Luckily for me, my brother was no where to be seen.

"Yeah that's what she said."* I rubbed my temples. I could feel a headache coming on already. "But I'll talk to you later. I gotta get mom and dad up." I told Van before standing and heading out the door. "Damn Serah, pawning her chores off on me." I mumbled. Once at my parents room I knocked on the door a couple times and waited. Of course I recieved no response, they're sleeping afterall aren't they?

"Serah told me to...you gotta be kidding me." I facepalmed.

"Oh um, Lightning. I was just giving your mother a massage." Dad attempted to explain.

"Yeah, with a happy ending." I groaned. "Forget it, I see you two are already well awake."

"Thanks for the privacy, daughter."

"Yeah, don't mention it. Seriously." Damn you, Serah.

"Hey sis, are mom and dad up?" Serah approached me, smiling widely with a glint in her eye. That bitch knew what they were doing, that's why she opened with the litterbox pawning.

"Nope I couldn't wake them up, maybe you should try, you always were better at getting people up." Serah's jaw fell open as I walked past her, a glint appearing in my own eye I'm sure. That always happens when you act devious, doesn't it?

"Yeah, and I'm better at picking out food too!" She probably figures that's a good comeback, come on Serah you have to have something better than that.

"Whatever, you still can't clean to save your life." I made my way to the couch and flopped down. Snow and Zidane were playing some sort of game.

"Y'know Light, you and this Squall guy in this game are a lot alike." Snow said motioning to a dark clad figure on the screen.

"Whatever," I shrugged.

"See?" Snow said to Zidane.

"Okay so maybe you do have a point." Our tailed brother grumbled as he handed over a few gil. I didn't bother asking what kind of bet involving me they could have possibly thought up, it was probably stupid anyway. Everything they do is stupid, especially Snow. Snow's retarded. Off in the distance Serah could be heard squealing. Serves her right, setting me up like that.

"What's wrong, Ser?" Zidane asked as our baby sister walked slowly towards us, eyes wide and shaking slightly.

"I just saw how a Serah is made."

Finally Monday rolled around and I was back in school, to my utter disappointment. My back is still a bit sore but I can walk normally again, which is refreshing. Currently I'm sitting in Sazh's class with Zidane sleeping beside me. I forgot over the weekend that we had a test today, one that I didn't study for since I had stupidly assumed that I wouldn't be attending class today. Damn you mom!

"Ugh I'm so not ready for this." Zidane groaned and buried his head in his arms, he must have just woken up or was never sleeping in the first place. I felt like doing the same.

"Tell me about it, I didn't think that mom was gonna make me go today." I agreed. Somehow I just knew what Zidane's next words would be.

"Well that was stupid of you." Indeed it was.

"Words of wisdom, brother."

"I have my moments." He grinned proudly as he jabbed his thumb into his chest a couple of times.

"Yeah, too bad they're far and few between." I snickered as he punched my back. "Ah, you bastard!"

"We have the same parents, so by definition that makes you one too." My brother-ever so smartly-pointed out.

"True, but I got all the good genes." It's just too easy to poke fun at, Zidane.

"Yeah, you're not kidding there." I'm didn't expect him to actually agree with me, weird. "You don't have a tail."

"Alright settle down everybody!" Sazh's voice boomed as he entered carrying the dreaded tests. The class groaned at the sight of them. Those things were thick! Must be a unit test or something. Well it's only math, so I should do fairly well!

Twenty Minutes Later...

God damn this test is hard! I'm only about a quarter of the way through and there's no end in sight. Jeez I'm just about to give up and flunk it, it's not worth racking my poor, unprepared mind over! Oh and my back is hurting, ow. From the corner of my eye I could see Zidane peeking over my shoulder, trying to copy my answers. He'd be better off doing it himself, I'm sure even Zidane is more prepared then I was, he didn't miss all those days...oh wait that's right, he skipped.

"Stop copying, I have no idea what I'm doing either. Totally forgot there was a test today." I told him, he frowned before answering.

"Never the less, copying an unprepared you is better than going with my own intellect."

"Do as you will." I sighed before going back to my test, Zidane looming over my shoulder. However, before I could get to solving the next problem, a sudden rapping on the door caught my and everyone else in the room's attention. Looking to the door we saw Principal Dysley walk in and converse with Mister Katzroy for a few moments. Once they had finished their conversation, Sazh caught my eye and motioned for me to go to his desk, with his index finger. Oh crap, this can't be good. Walking to the front of the room, I felt my stomach drop, I just had a bad feeling about this...

"Lightning, gather your things," Dysley spoke, "it's an emergancy."

"What's wrong?" I frowned, my stomach dropping further.

"It's, Aquarius."

Cliffhanger =O and even more shocking, an update! !_! sorry for the long wait, I'm going to try and be more consistent with this story, I have another one that I'm writing atm which has more priority, but I'll still be writing for this one as well! Hope you enjoyed, reviews are welcomed and appreciated, see you guys next time! ^.^