Author's Ranting: Baaaaaaaaaaack again! Hey hey, I do have a good reason why I didn't update for such a long time! I had to go on a one-week-trip with my school and there I hurt my hands so when I came back I couldn't write anything! See? I would never forget to update or anything, I just don't write when I really can't! But here it is, the long awaited chapter 35! I hope you all like it!
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"Sora! So~ra!!"
Someone calling his name, Sora's eyes opened, the darkness filled the room.
"..huh...?"
Sora yawned and slowly opened his eyes, noting that he couldn't see anything in the darkened room. The curtains were tightly closed although Sora had insisted on keeping them open just a bit. So he was afraid of the dark, even now as a 15 year old boy. Riku, however, loved to sleep in pitch-black rooms where no single ray of light could hit him.
"Riku?" Sora turned to Riku's side of the bed, rolling his eyes as he noticed that he wouldn't be able to see Riku in this dark room. So instead of seeing, Sora reached out and blindly searched for the other boy's body. Nothing. Maybe Sora was searching in the wrong place, but how could he be sure without seeing anything.
The brunette boy thrust his lower lip forward and silently pouted, brooding over the situation. He sat up and crossed his arms, looking around the room only to find that there was nothing but black.
And as he was sitting there, a light bulb appeared over his head and it hit him.
"The switch!" He exclaimed, mentally patting himself on the back for his ingenious idea. Of course, the light switch had to be somewhere around the bed. He had seen it the day before, but he couldn't quite remember where exactly it was. He turned around into the direction where he thought the switch would be and began to roam over the wall in search of the switch.
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"99 bottles of beer on the wall 99 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall. 98 bottles of beer on the wall, 98 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around 97 bottles of beer on the wall, 97 bottles of beer on the wall 97 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around, 96 bottles of beer on the wall. 96 bottles of beer on the wall, 96 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around 95 bottles of beer on the wall...."
Riku sat in the closet, chanting that stupid song out of boredom and despair. He had tried to open the door twice, without any luck. He had tried to call for Sora, but seemingly his friend was unable to hear him. So what else was there to do except for sitting cross legged on the floor, with one elbow standing on the thigh, head resting on the hand and singing a song to make time pass.
"...87 bottles of beer, take one down pass it around, 85 bottles--aw dammit!" Riku groaned and bit his lower lip. Great, now he had miscounted. Grumbling to himself, Riku shook his head and stood up, carefully trying not to behave like an elephant in a china store. All the old things that were stored in this room looked quite antique, or at least it would be a pity if he destroyed anything. The lack of room in there, however, made it hard to keep everything standing in place. Whenever Riku shifted, he had to look quickly and stop something from falling down from the shelf.
When he turned to the right, a framed picture threatened to fall from the shelf next to him, but luckily Riku managed to catch it in time, just before it hit the floor.
Curiously as Riku was, he held the small picture towards the light to see that it was a photo of Kairi.
"What the..." His eyes widened, his right hand covered his mouth and he raised his eyebrows in surprise.
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"Switch where aaaare you? Come on, don't hide yourself!" Sora was still looking for the light switch. It just had to be there, he knew that he had seen it before. He had only found the plug so far, and nearly got hit by electricity as he found it.
"I know you're here, I just know it...." Sora grumbled, slightly annoyed at Riku since he had to close the curtains. Sora knew why he liked to keep a little light, it was just for those kinds of situations when you woke up in the middle of the night. It was as if you'd wake up blind, with all the darkness around. He had never understood why Riku liked darkness so much when he slept.
As his thoughts began to fix on Riku, he started to worry. He couldn't hear him breath so maybe he had gone out and got lost in the house? It wouldn't surprise him, Sora had gotten lost too. As soon as he had found the light switch he would go and look for Riku.
"Got you!" Sora happily squeaked as he pushed something.
Suddenly the bed started to vibrate and Sora yelped in surprise. Since when did Kairi's bed vibrate?!
Sora frowned and found himself losing sense of direction as the bed started to shake more violently. He felt like riding a roller coaster and the fact that he couldn't see a thing made everything a little scary.
"Rikuuuu!" He cried out, getting dizzy from the darkness and the bed. If he didn't knew better he would have guessed that this house was cursed. First having Riku disappear, then the tightly shut curtains which had been open when he went to sleep, and now this horrifying bed.
"Riku! Help! I want this to stop and I want light!!"
All of the sudden, the bed stopped vibrating and the lamp standing in the right corner went on. Sora blinked in surprise, his brain not quite working before he realized what had happened. Did Kairi's furniture function by voice?
"Light," Sora said, quietly, tentatively.
The light was turned off immediately.
"Light," Sora said again, and the light was turned on again. Two, blinking, large blue eyes darted around the room. No Riku.
The boy frowned, a little frightened by the room. He looked at the clock, it said 2 am. Riku was nowhere in sight and the door to the corridor was open. The sheets and pillows were a mess, caused by the vibrating bed before.
Sighing a little confused, Sora climbed out of the bed to go and look for Riku, dragging a blanket behind while doing so. Somehow he felt safer with that blanket. He strolled out of the room and stopped at the stairs. Which way should he go? Downstairs, or should he stay here and look in the other rooms? There were so many rooms and Sora had no idea what Riku would do in the middle of the night.
Deciding that Riku was either drinking some water in the kitchen, or looking for ice cream, Sora went downstairs. He remembered the time Riku had brought that raspberry ice cream in the middle of the night, intending to play a little. The idea seemed nice right now, nicer than back then, when he wanted to sleep.
As he walked towards the kitchen, he passed the door to the storage room in which Riku was currently standing.
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Trying not to laugh, Riku tightly clasped his hand over his mouth, staring at the photo in his hands.
It was Kairi. No that wasn't the thing that made Riku laugh. The thing was, that behind Kairi a person was standing, almost hiding behind her. And that person was no other than Sora.
Not that Sora was something to laugh at, but the way Sora was dressed up in that picture was simply hilarious. He figured that it was some kind of Halloween photo since the background was the beach, decorated with pumpkins. Kairi was wearing a dress, probably trying to look like a princess. Hiding behind her, little Sora was dressed up in furry suit, complete with tail and paws. Two big pointy ears were attached to his hair and his face was painted like a cat's face.
"Lil' Kitty Sora...." Riku muttered, amused by the photo. He wondered why he had never seen that costume before, Sora and Riku had spent every Halloween together. But he had never seen Sora in a kitty outfit.
The blush on the boy's cheeks and the adorable pouting lips were clearly visible on the photo even if he tried to hide behind Kairi.
Riku immediately fell in love with the picture and decided to take it with him as soon as he got out of here. A very good thing to tease Sora with, and of course it was simply cute to see his lovely Sora in such an outfit. Looking at the picture with a smile, he idly wondered whether Sora still had this costume somewhere. Or maybe it belonged to Kairi? If that was the case, then it could be still somewhere in this house, maybe even here in this room?
Grinning, Riku put the picture back to the shelf and started to look for the costume. It would be too great to have Sora wear this again.
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Sora searched in the kitchen, no one in sight. He sighed and walked back, passing the door to the closet again. He knew that Kairi kept most of her stuff in there, most of her old stuff or things that were embarrassing. Blushing, he suddenly remembered the time when she had him dress up as a kitten. He had begged her to never do that again and hide the costume somewhere because she refused to burn it.
He shook his head and headed upstairs, back into his room. Riku would come back sooner or later, it was useless to go looking now. Not when Sora felt like breaking down and falling asleep every other second. The boy hummed sleepily and sighed as he finally reached the bedroom again. After dragging himself to the curtains to open them a bit, he crawled into bed and yawned cutely.
"Light," he commanded, finding it a little odd to say light to make it dark. But it was useful, whenever he said light, the light would turn itself on or off. Better than looking for a switch in the dark.
After a few minutes of floating in his mind, Sora fell asleep again, one hand clutching to the sheets on Riku's side....
Riku rummaged around until he found something furry. Smirking satisfied, he pulled out the costume, nearly bumping into all kinds of things. He let out a string of curses and glared at the little room. He couldn't even move properly, and Riku hated to be unable to move almost as much as Sora hated darkness.
He took the costume and chuckled. What great coincidence that he found this photo *and* the costume. As soon as he managed to get out of this room he would get back to Sora. He couldn't wait to see the younger boy's reaction on this. All he knew for sure was that Sora would be absolutely adorable in this costume.
The only problem was now to get out of here. Riku played with the doorknob, trying to get it open. If he only had a hairpin or something thin to use as key, it would probably work. Turning back to the shelf, Riku looked around for something useful. His eyes fell on a pair of keys lying on the shelf and he blinked in surprise. Why hadn't he realized those keys before?
Shrugging, he reached out to take the keys but as soon as they were in his hands, they slipped and fell to the floor, sliding somewhere under a cupboard.
Riku smacked his forehead and groaned. "Stupid haunted house," he grumbled, knowing that it was getting ridiculous. There had to be a way out of this closet. To think that he, Riku, was stuck in this little room, like some idiot... Riku snorted. No way he would stay any longer. He would find a way out.
But even after trying everything unlock the door, nothing seemed to happen. In fact, everything seemed to get worse and Riku was getting frustrated. So frustrated, that he growled in anger and before he knew what he was doing he shoved his foot against the door.
"Shit!" He yelled as the pain stung in his leg. But, much to his surprise, the door was now lying on the floor, out of the hinge.
As he realized that he had really managed to get out, he quickly grabbed the photo and costume and ran upstairs like a starving wolf. Oh the irony, Riku thought. After spending all the time trying to get out he never thought about kicking the door open. Wouldn't that be the first thing to do? Riku snorted. He could be so stupid sometimes.
Nevertheless, he quickly made his way into the room Sora was sleeping in. Finally, he would get back into the room, finally after hours of being locked. And finally, he would get to see Sora's reaction on the costume.
Riku smirked.
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"Oof!" Selphie piped up, waking Tidus who was currently dreaming of being a Blitzball star.
They were both lying on the sand since they had decided to camp outside tonight. Selphie's eyes were wide open and she cocked her head to one side, resting a hand on her cheek.
Tidus sleepily rubbed his eyes and turned to his girlfriend, wondering what strange idea she would have now.
"I think I know why the room blew up!" She said, so fast that Tidus's sleepy brain had to think over a minute to understand the words.
"Uh...you mean when you tried to curse Kairi...?"
Selphie nodded vigorously and pointed at the list she quickly pulled out. There were a lot of things written on it, stuff like 'Something of Kairi's clothes' or 'Some of Kairi's hair'. Tidus rubbed his eyes again and scratched his head in confusion.
Selphie sighed melodramatically and pointed into the direction of Kairi's house.
"Instead of using exactly Kairi's belongings, I used everything I could find in her house when I was sneaking around in the night--"
Tidus flinched and frowned at Selphie. "You mean you broke into her house at night to steal things?!"
Selphie blinked and cocked her head to the other side, cutely confused.
"You make it sound like it's a bad thing."
Tidus's eyes widened. "Selphie, it *is* a bad thing!" He exclaimed, ruffling his hair in shock.
Selphie shrugged nonchalantly. "Oh come on, it's not like she'll ever find out. And I didn't steal anything, I just borrowed it over an undefined span of time," the brunette girl stated as if it was the most common thing.
Tidus stopped everything and stared at Selphie like she was from Mars. The girl stared back but then quickly turned back to her actual topic.
"So when I took the things of her house I didn't really curse Kairi, but her house! Maybe I cursed Kairi too but we'll never know since she's probably currently dying away on a forsaken island, which would be a good story line for a book although it would probably be very boring to read since there are already too many books like that," Selphie ranted, without stopping to breath once. Tidus sighed and grabbed Selphie by the shoulders, pulling her into a kiss to make her stop rambling.
The girl immediately shut up as Tidus's lips met hers and all the trouble about cursed houses or boring story lines were forgotten.
After the kiss, Selphie and Tidus crawled into the tent they had made and Selphie snuggled up with Tidus, falling asleep shortly after.
And somewhere, on a forsaken island near Destiny Islands, a girl was stuck hanging on a tree, trying not to shriek as a huge snake wrapped around her body, the snake's eyes meeting the girl's ones, holding an amused and predatory glint.
"Heeeeeeelp!!"
~Tbc~
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Ending notes: How did you like it? Ne? ne? Review please? Pleaaase? I hope the next chapter comes earlier, my hands are getting better again since I was able to type this here. Anyway, please stay patient and please keep reading! My readers are my reason for life! Love you all! ^^
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"Sora! So~ra!!"
Someone calling his name, Sora's eyes opened, the darkness filled the room.
"..huh...?"
Sora yawned and slowly opened his eyes, noting that he couldn't see anything in the darkened room. The curtains were tightly closed although Sora had insisted on keeping them open just a bit. So he was afraid of the dark, even now as a 15 year old boy. Riku, however, loved to sleep in pitch-black rooms where no single ray of light could hit him.
"Riku?" Sora turned to Riku's side of the bed, rolling his eyes as he noticed that he wouldn't be able to see Riku in this dark room. So instead of seeing, Sora reached out and blindly searched for the other boy's body. Nothing. Maybe Sora was searching in the wrong place, but how could he be sure without seeing anything.
The brunette boy thrust his lower lip forward and silently pouted, brooding over the situation. He sat up and crossed his arms, looking around the room only to find that there was nothing but black.
And as he was sitting there, a light bulb appeared over his head and it hit him.
"The switch!" He exclaimed, mentally patting himself on the back for his ingenious idea. Of course, the light switch had to be somewhere around the bed. He had seen it the day before, but he couldn't quite remember where exactly it was. He turned around into the direction where he thought the switch would be and began to roam over the wall in search of the switch.
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"99 bottles of beer on the wall 99 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall. 98 bottles of beer on the wall, 98 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around 97 bottles of beer on the wall, 97 bottles of beer on the wall 97 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around, 96 bottles of beer on the wall. 96 bottles of beer on the wall, 96 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around 95 bottles of beer on the wall...."
Riku sat in the closet, chanting that stupid song out of boredom and despair. He had tried to open the door twice, without any luck. He had tried to call for Sora, but seemingly his friend was unable to hear him. So what else was there to do except for sitting cross legged on the floor, with one elbow standing on the thigh, head resting on the hand and singing a song to make time pass.
"...87 bottles of beer, take one down pass it around, 85 bottles--aw dammit!" Riku groaned and bit his lower lip. Great, now he had miscounted. Grumbling to himself, Riku shook his head and stood up, carefully trying not to behave like an elephant in a china store. All the old things that were stored in this room looked quite antique, or at least it would be a pity if he destroyed anything. The lack of room in there, however, made it hard to keep everything standing in place. Whenever Riku shifted, he had to look quickly and stop something from falling down from the shelf.
When he turned to the right, a framed picture threatened to fall from the shelf next to him, but luckily Riku managed to catch it in time, just before it hit the floor.
Curiously as Riku was, he held the small picture towards the light to see that it was a photo of Kairi.
"What the..." His eyes widened, his right hand covered his mouth and he raised his eyebrows in surprise.
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"Switch where aaaare you? Come on, don't hide yourself!" Sora was still looking for the light switch. It just had to be there, he knew that he had seen it before. He had only found the plug so far, and nearly got hit by electricity as he found it.
"I know you're here, I just know it...." Sora grumbled, slightly annoyed at Riku since he had to close the curtains. Sora knew why he liked to keep a little light, it was just for those kinds of situations when you woke up in the middle of the night. It was as if you'd wake up blind, with all the darkness around. He had never understood why Riku liked darkness so much when he slept.
As his thoughts began to fix on Riku, he started to worry. He couldn't hear him breath so maybe he had gone out and got lost in the house? It wouldn't surprise him, Sora had gotten lost too. As soon as he had found the light switch he would go and look for Riku.
"Got you!" Sora happily squeaked as he pushed something.
Suddenly the bed started to vibrate and Sora yelped in surprise. Since when did Kairi's bed vibrate?!
Sora frowned and found himself losing sense of direction as the bed started to shake more violently. He felt like riding a roller coaster and the fact that he couldn't see a thing made everything a little scary.
"Rikuuuu!" He cried out, getting dizzy from the darkness and the bed. If he didn't knew better he would have guessed that this house was cursed. First having Riku disappear, then the tightly shut curtains which had been open when he went to sleep, and now this horrifying bed.
"Riku! Help! I want this to stop and I want light!!"
All of the sudden, the bed stopped vibrating and the lamp standing in the right corner went on. Sora blinked in surprise, his brain not quite working before he realized what had happened. Did Kairi's furniture function by voice?
"Light," Sora said, quietly, tentatively.
The light was turned off immediately.
"Light," Sora said again, and the light was turned on again. Two, blinking, large blue eyes darted around the room. No Riku.
The boy frowned, a little frightened by the room. He looked at the clock, it said 2 am. Riku was nowhere in sight and the door to the corridor was open. The sheets and pillows were a mess, caused by the vibrating bed before.
Sighing a little confused, Sora climbed out of the bed to go and look for Riku, dragging a blanket behind while doing so. Somehow he felt safer with that blanket. He strolled out of the room and stopped at the stairs. Which way should he go? Downstairs, or should he stay here and look in the other rooms? There were so many rooms and Sora had no idea what Riku would do in the middle of the night.
Deciding that Riku was either drinking some water in the kitchen, or looking for ice cream, Sora went downstairs. He remembered the time Riku had brought that raspberry ice cream in the middle of the night, intending to play a little. The idea seemed nice right now, nicer than back then, when he wanted to sleep.
As he walked towards the kitchen, he passed the door to the storage room in which Riku was currently standing.
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Trying not to laugh, Riku tightly clasped his hand over his mouth, staring at the photo in his hands.
It was Kairi. No that wasn't the thing that made Riku laugh. The thing was, that behind Kairi a person was standing, almost hiding behind her. And that person was no other than Sora.
Not that Sora was something to laugh at, but the way Sora was dressed up in that picture was simply hilarious. He figured that it was some kind of Halloween photo since the background was the beach, decorated with pumpkins. Kairi was wearing a dress, probably trying to look like a princess. Hiding behind her, little Sora was dressed up in furry suit, complete with tail and paws. Two big pointy ears were attached to his hair and his face was painted like a cat's face.
"Lil' Kitty Sora...." Riku muttered, amused by the photo. He wondered why he had never seen that costume before, Sora and Riku had spent every Halloween together. But he had never seen Sora in a kitty outfit.
The blush on the boy's cheeks and the adorable pouting lips were clearly visible on the photo even if he tried to hide behind Kairi.
Riku immediately fell in love with the picture and decided to take it with him as soon as he got out of here. A very good thing to tease Sora with, and of course it was simply cute to see his lovely Sora in such an outfit. Looking at the picture with a smile, he idly wondered whether Sora still had this costume somewhere. Or maybe it belonged to Kairi? If that was the case, then it could be still somewhere in this house, maybe even here in this room?
Grinning, Riku put the picture back to the shelf and started to look for the costume. It would be too great to have Sora wear this again.
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Sora searched in the kitchen, no one in sight. He sighed and walked back, passing the door to the closet again. He knew that Kairi kept most of her stuff in there, most of her old stuff or things that were embarrassing. Blushing, he suddenly remembered the time when she had him dress up as a kitten. He had begged her to never do that again and hide the costume somewhere because she refused to burn it.
He shook his head and headed upstairs, back into his room. Riku would come back sooner or later, it was useless to go looking now. Not when Sora felt like breaking down and falling asleep every other second. The boy hummed sleepily and sighed as he finally reached the bedroom again. After dragging himself to the curtains to open them a bit, he crawled into bed and yawned cutely.
"Light," he commanded, finding it a little odd to say light to make it dark. But it was useful, whenever he said light, the light would turn itself on or off. Better than looking for a switch in the dark.
After a few minutes of floating in his mind, Sora fell asleep again, one hand clutching to the sheets on Riku's side....
Riku rummaged around until he found something furry. Smirking satisfied, he pulled out the costume, nearly bumping into all kinds of things. He let out a string of curses and glared at the little room. He couldn't even move properly, and Riku hated to be unable to move almost as much as Sora hated darkness.
He took the costume and chuckled. What great coincidence that he found this photo *and* the costume. As soon as he managed to get out of this room he would get back to Sora. He couldn't wait to see the younger boy's reaction on this. All he knew for sure was that Sora would be absolutely adorable in this costume.
The only problem was now to get out of here. Riku played with the doorknob, trying to get it open. If he only had a hairpin or something thin to use as key, it would probably work. Turning back to the shelf, Riku looked around for something useful. His eyes fell on a pair of keys lying on the shelf and he blinked in surprise. Why hadn't he realized those keys before?
Shrugging, he reached out to take the keys but as soon as they were in his hands, they slipped and fell to the floor, sliding somewhere under a cupboard.
Riku smacked his forehead and groaned. "Stupid haunted house," he grumbled, knowing that it was getting ridiculous. There had to be a way out of this closet. To think that he, Riku, was stuck in this little room, like some idiot... Riku snorted. No way he would stay any longer. He would find a way out.
But even after trying everything unlock the door, nothing seemed to happen. In fact, everything seemed to get worse and Riku was getting frustrated. So frustrated, that he growled in anger and before he knew what he was doing he shoved his foot against the door.
"Shit!" He yelled as the pain stung in his leg. But, much to his surprise, the door was now lying on the floor, out of the hinge.
As he realized that he had really managed to get out, he quickly grabbed the photo and costume and ran upstairs like a starving wolf. Oh the irony, Riku thought. After spending all the time trying to get out he never thought about kicking the door open. Wouldn't that be the first thing to do? Riku snorted. He could be so stupid sometimes.
Nevertheless, he quickly made his way into the room Sora was sleeping in. Finally, he would get back into the room, finally after hours of being locked. And finally, he would get to see Sora's reaction on the costume.
Riku smirked.
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"Oof!" Selphie piped up, waking Tidus who was currently dreaming of being a Blitzball star.
They were both lying on the sand since they had decided to camp outside tonight. Selphie's eyes were wide open and she cocked her head to one side, resting a hand on her cheek.
Tidus sleepily rubbed his eyes and turned to his girlfriend, wondering what strange idea she would have now.
"I think I know why the room blew up!" She said, so fast that Tidus's sleepy brain had to think over a minute to understand the words.
"Uh...you mean when you tried to curse Kairi...?"
Selphie nodded vigorously and pointed at the list she quickly pulled out. There were a lot of things written on it, stuff like 'Something of Kairi's clothes' or 'Some of Kairi's hair'. Tidus rubbed his eyes again and scratched his head in confusion.
Selphie sighed melodramatically and pointed into the direction of Kairi's house.
"Instead of using exactly Kairi's belongings, I used everything I could find in her house when I was sneaking around in the night--"
Tidus flinched and frowned at Selphie. "You mean you broke into her house at night to steal things?!"
Selphie blinked and cocked her head to the other side, cutely confused.
"You make it sound like it's a bad thing."
Tidus's eyes widened. "Selphie, it *is* a bad thing!" He exclaimed, ruffling his hair in shock.
Selphie shrugged nonchalantly. "Oh come on, it's not like she'll ever find out. And I didn't steal anything, I just borrowed it over an undefined span of time," the brunette girl stated as if it was the most common thing.
Tidus stopped everything and stared at Selphie like she was from Mars. The girl stared back but then quickly turned back to her actual topic.
"So when I took the things of her house I didn't really curse Kairi, but her house! Maybe I cursed Kairi too but we'll never know since she's probably currently dying away on a forsaken island, which would be a good story line for a book although it would probably be very boring to read since there are already too many books like that," Selphie ranted, without stopping to breath once. Tidus sighed and grabbed Selphie by the shoulders, pulling her into a kiss to make her stop rambling.
The girl immediately shut up as Tidus's lips met hers and all the trouble about cursed houses or boring story lines were forgotten.
After the kiss, Selphie and Tidus crawled into the tent they had made and Selphie snuggled up with Tidus, falling asleep shortly after.
And somewhere, on a forsaken island near Destiny Islands, a girl was stuck hanging on a tree, trying not to shriek as a huge snake wrapped around her body, the snake's eyes meeting the girl's ones, holding an amused and predatory glint.
"Heeeeeeelp!!"
~Tbc~
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Ending notes: How did you like it? Ne? ne? Review please? Pleaaase? I hope the next chapter comes earlier, my hands are getting better again since I was able to type this here. Anyway, please stay patient and please keep reading! My readers are my reason for life! Love you all! ^^