A. N. Yes, I know I'm hell spawn. I'm sorry but I had a bunch of stuff to do this weekend. To make it up to you all, I'll try to make this chapter the longest yet. Ok? Thanks to BlueFox of the Moon, seifersfire, Malcom Yuy, Vent silencieux, Mind Over Matter, and as always Lucifer's Garden, for reviewing. -Hugs reviewers- Ok, I'm done now. Wait, one more thing! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! Everybody cheer! -Crickets chirp- Uh, never mind.
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Yuna ran into class late. Ms. Belgamine looked at her. "Nice of you to join us Yuna. Do you have a reason for not being to class on time?" said the teacher, a pleasant look on her face.
Yuna gulped. "N...no Ms. Belgamine. I...I stopped to talk to a friend," she stuttered.
Ms. Belgamine scared her more than any other teacher in the school, including Auron, who had that specialized teacher's death glare down to a fine art.
The reason was because Ms. Belgamine was almost as young as some of the seniors at the school. Because of this, she knew what students were afraid of, and used that knowledge well.
But by no means did that mean she was unliked. Every student knew her, respected her, and considered her one of the most trustworthy confidants in the school. All the same, no one messed with her discipline system, knowing that the teacher would use her extremely advanced knowledge of them to her advantage. That kept most smart students quiet and obedient.
"Have a seat Yuna. You will have to make up work. However, it's not much. So open your Litature book to pg. 187 and we'll begin reading it. Understand, Yuna?" Yuna nodded meekly and pulled out her book, hoping to Yevon that the rest of the day be normal.
Just goes to show that not everyone gets their way.
She was following along in her book when a note landed in her lap. It read:
Hey Yuna. How's it goin'? You know, you look lovely today. Just the right date for a studly blitzball star like myself. How 'bout it? My treat?
Awaiting your favorable reply, Seymour Guado
Yuna stared blankly at the note for a few moments, then had to really work to keep from laughing her head off. Seymour was asking her out! In a totally vain and egotistical way, too! She might have gone, if he hadn't tried to pour on the I'm-so-wonderful-and- everyone-wants-to-be-me ness.
She pulled herself together, and wrote back:
Sorry Seymour. It's nothing personal, I'm just not interested. Yuna
She watched as her wishful amore read the letter and watched as the varicose veins around his eyes popped out. He looked angry, but didn't look her way again. Yuna wasn't arguing.
Just as she was leaving the class, she saw Ms. Belgamine telling Seymour off for passing notes in class. She left with a feeling of utmost satisfaction. It was lunch, Seymour Guado had gotten told off, she was on a good foot with all her teachers...T'was shaping up to be a very good day.
Yuna got her food and headed off to her and Wakka's usual table. She was pleased but not at all surprised to see Rikku, Wakka, and Lulu there. However, Tidus was a different story all together.
"Um, hi guys," she said, puzzled beyond belief.
"Hello. Hiya! What's up ya? Hi Yuna," came the various greetings. At Tidus', everyone looked at him.
"You know Yuna?" asked Wakka, a befuddled look on his face. Tidus nodded, a huge grin on his face.
"Yup! First person I met at this school. Did I forget to mention it?" he said pleasantly. Wakka, Lulu, and Rikku all nodded.
Rikku glowered at Yuna. What?" Yuna asked.
"You didn't tell me you had made any new friends. Your just a big meanie," she pouted. Yuna blinked.
"What?" she asked, looking vaguely confused.
"You knew Tidus! And you didn't introduce us! You big jerk! I need all the friends I can get!" Rikku whined.
Yuna raised her eyebrows so high, they were in danger of disappearing into her hairline. "Rikku, you've been at this school for a day, and you're already friends with most the sophomore population of the school. What else do you want?"
Rikku looked thoughtful. "I suppose your right. How was your day?"
Yuna, quite accustomed to Rikku's mood-swings, answered calmly, "It was good. Seymour asked me out."
She looked up to see her table-mates looking at her in horror. "Your kidding, ya?" Wakka looked like he was going to cry.
"No he really did. I told him no!" she said noting the fact that Lulu was glaring across the table at her, Wakka was dabbing at his eyes with a napkin as a joke, Rikku was trying to look like she didn't care, and failing miserably, and Tidus's eyes kept twitching as he tried not to hyperventilate.
The entire table visibly relaxed, Wakka put down his napkin, Rikku quit trying and blew out a huge breath of air, Lulu stopped glaring, and looked pleased instead, and Tidus quit looking like he was considering chewing on the table.
"I'm glad. Seymour's a loser," he expressed.
"Oh, you know him?" Yuna asked.
"Yup. Wish I didn't. Incredible idiot. Jack ass. Ego maniac. That's Seymour in a nutshell for ya," Tidus said. The people occupying his table all looked at him like he had sprouted an extra head and an alien had popped out of his chest.
"What? I met him, didn't like him, end of story," Tidus said defensively. Yuna smiled.
"Neither do we. It's just that we have never heard anyone talk smack about Seymour except us," she explained.
Tidus looked around. "So that's why? Oh. Well, what do ya know about him? Does he ask out a lot of ladies? More importantly, does he get their attention and dates?" he asked curiously.
Lulu nodded. "A lot of popular ladies. Very few unpopular ones. Good for us, believe me. Unfortunately, he apparently has realized that he is a worm, and that not many popular girls really like him anymore since those varicose veins popped up and his hair started to get all strange," she said.
Yuna grinned. "Too bad he was rude and hurtful to all us sweet, unpopular girls, huh?" she commented.
Wakka nodded. "Loser. Even the guys on the blitzball team think he's a huge fool, ya? With all his bragging and putdowns, I'm surprised Coach hasn't benched him yet," he commented.
Tidus looked up. "Is he good?" he asked casually. "Ya," Wakka said. "That's why," Tidus said as if it were obvious.
Yuna looked at Tidus. "Not here. You mouth off too much, and your benched. The only reason Seymour hasn't been is the fact that his parents are old money people, and their the leaders of the Guado. In short, Seymour's filthy rich, and his mommy and daddy can control fiends. That is why," she explained.
Tidus looked at her, slightly taken aback by her bitter tone. "Is it just me, or did it get really cold in here? What's your problem with Seymour Yuna? Besides the obvious," he asked, sounding rather concerned.
Yuna poked at her food for a moment, then looked up. "Well, my dad is Lord Braska. Have you heard of him?" she asked. Tidus' eyes grew to the size of silver dollars.
"Your father is...Lord Braska?!" he burst out. Yuna nodded. "Wow. I never...wow. That's just..." Tidus said. Lulu rolled her eyes.
"Yuna, please continue. Tidus seems to have lost hold on the few brain cells he had to begin with, so it may be awhile before he finally gets around to making his point," Lulu said, looking somewhat amused at Tidus' complete inability to form a coherent sentence at the news that Yuna was the daughter of the most well-known living priest in the Bevell priesthood.
Yuna nodded, fighting down a chuckle. "Well, you see. My father was up for Maestership. Everyone seemed to support the idea. Until Lord Jyscal got involved in it. He said that since my father was a nobody from a nobody family, with no money, he shouldn't get the position. Instead, he nominated Seymour, and just because nobody wanted to go against Maester Mika's 'golden boy', Seymour got in. Apparently, he's been training for it his whole life, and they gave it to him. Now my father has little to no chance of getting in, no matter how many people nominate him. There are no more positions," she said.
Once again, Tidus looked shocked. "I knew that Lord Jyscal's son got the Maestership, but I had no idea that his son was Seymour. Or that he had beat out Lord Braska either. How did it happen without any body in Zanarkand finding out? We've got the top news team in Spira," he asked.
Yuna smiled sadly. "Lord Jyscal and his supporters paid all the newspapers huge amounts of money to keep it quiet. They knew that my father's popularity would win over they money, so they had to stop it. So Seymour's going to be stepping into my father's positions as soon as he finishes school," she said, trying to keep the bitterness out of her generally calm tone.
Tidus looked at her sympathetically. "Gee, I'm sorry Yuna. Your dad is great guy. My dad knows him," he said comfortingly.
Yuna's head snapped up. "What? He does?" she said. Tidus looked around the table. The entire table's expressions mirrored Yuna's own, one of complete disbelief.
"Well, your dad stayed with us in Zanderkand for about two weeks. Very different guy from my own dad. He's actually pleasant, for starters. He talked about his daughter, you, a lot. And he met my father in college. According to my dad, him, Auron, and Braska all went out, partied, and graduated together," Tidus explained.
Yuna looked surprised. "Really?" she said in an awed whisper. Tidus grinned happily. "Yup. Great buds, according to my dad. He said that Auron was the stiff, never loose, Braska was the one who inevitably got Auron to go along with my dad's crazy antics, and my dad thought up all the stuff and talked Braska into it," he said. He was happy to have something to connect him with Yuna. He felt like he had known her forever, like they had been friends a long time ago.
Wakka leaned back in his chair. His eyes wandered over his companions. Rikku, who looked elated to have something interesting going on in front of her, Tidus, who seemed very pleased to be able to talk to his new friends, Yuna, who looked stunned, but very happy, and Lulu, who as always, looked calm. He found himself grateful for all of them.
Lulu looked at him. "What's on your mind Wakka?" she asked. Wakka shrugged.
"Just thinking, ya?" he said. Then he noticed Rikku's attention on something on the other side of the room.
He looked and saw a handsome Al Bhed with an eye patch over one eye looking at her. He then looked at Rikku again. There was no mistaking the look on her face. Wakka laughed inwardly. Rikku was infatuated! He decided to keep it to himself. There was no need for Yuna, Lulu or Tidus to know. It didn't involve them. Besides, Rikku would tell them when she was ready.
He turned his attention back to his other companions, and was surprised to see Yuna and Tidus talking and looking at each other like they'd know each other for ages, and Lulu just sitting by, watching them and their conversation. She smiled at their stories of each of their father's crazy college antics.
If there was one person at the table who he trusted implicitly, it was Lulu. He had been friends with her since kindergarten. He found himself wondering what would happen if...No just better not to think about it that way. He loved everything just the way it was. No reason to try to alter anything.
Sadly, the bell rang, signaling the end of lunch. Rikku got up with out a word, smiled at her friends, and left, as did Lulu. Tidus and Yuna however, were another story.
Wakka watched as they both packed up their individual possessions, and as Tidus gave Yuna a friendly one-armed hug around the shoulders, before taking off. Wakka smiled, seeing Yuna so loose and friendly was something else indeed. She came up to him and gave him a nice, big hug.
"See ya later Wakka," Yuna said, smiling up at her childhood friend, before leaving for her next class. She waved at a few people, a few of whom, dropped their lunch-trays, and walked into walls and tables, very unaccustomed to Yuna being openly friendly to any of them.
Wakka laughed as he watched one poor guy walk straight into a trash-can in shock. Life was definitely going to start looking up.
A.N. Yee-haw! My muse came back! I loved writing this chapter. Review me and tell me what you think. How do ya like how I portrayed Wakka? I tried to make him more of a doll than a dork. You like? Tell me.
Disclaimer: Don't start. You know what I'm going to say.
Yuna ran into class late. Ms. Belgamine looked at her. "Nice of you to join us Yuna. Do you have a reason for not being to class on time?" said the teacher, a pleasant look on her face.
Yuna gulped. "N...no Ms. Belgamine. I...I stopped to talk to a friend," she stuttered.
Ms. Belgamine scared her more than any other teacher in the school, including Auron, who had that specialized teacher's death glare down to a fine art.
The reason was because Ms. Belgamine was almost as young as some of the seniors at the school. Because of this, she knew what students were afraid of, and used that knowledge well.
But by no means did that mean she was unliked. Every student knew her, respected her, and considered her one of the most trustworthy confidants in the school. All the same, no one messed with her discipline system, knowing that the teacher would use her extremely advanced knowledge of them to her advantage. That kept most smart students quiet and obedient.
"Have a seat Yuna. You will have to make up work. However, it's not much. So open your Litature book to pg. 187 and we'll begin reading it. Understand, Yuna?" Yuna nodded meekly and pulled out her book, hoping to Yevon that the rest of the day be normal.
Just goes to show that not everyone gets their way.
She was following along in her book when a note landed in her lap. It read:
Hey Yuna. How's it goin'? You know, you look lovely today. Just the right date for a studly blitzball star like myself. How 'bout it? My treat?
Awaiting your favorable reply, Seymour Guado
Yuna stared blankly at the note for a few moments, then had to really work to keep from laughing her head off. Seymour was asking her out! In a totally vain and egotistical way, too! She might have gone, if he hadn't tried to pour on the I'm-so-wonderful-and- everyone-wants-to-be-me ness.
She pulled herself together, and wrote back:
Sorry Seymour. It's nothing personal, I'm just not interested. Yuna
She watched as her wishful amore read the letter and watched as the varicose veins around his eyes popped out. He looked angry, but didn't look her way again. Yuna wasn't arguing.
Just as she was leaving the class, she saw Ms. Belgamine telling Seymour off for passing notes in class. She left with a feeling of utmost satisfaction. It was lunch, Seymour Guado had gotten told off, she was on a good foot with all her teachers...T'was shaping up to be a very good day.
Yuna got her food and headed off to her and Wakka's usual table. She was pleased but not at all surprised to see Rikku, Wakka, and Lulu there. However, Tidus was a different story all together.
"Um, hi guys," she said, puzzled beyond belief.
"Hello. Hiya! What's up ya? Hi Yuna," came the various greetings. At Tidus', everyone looked at him.
"You know Yuna?" asked Wakka, a befuddled look on his face. Tidus nodded, a huge grin on his face.
"Yup! First person I met at this school. Did I forget to mention it?" he said pleasantly. Wakka, Lulu, and Rikku all nodded.
Rikku glowered at Yuna. What?" Yuna asked.
"You didn't tell me you had made any new friends. Your just a big meanie," she pouted. Yuna blinked.
"What?" she asked, looking vaguely confused.
"You knew Tidus! And you didn't introduce us! You big jerk! I need all the friends I can get!" Rikku whined.
Yuna raised her eyebrows so high, they were in danger of disappearing into her hairline. "Rikku, you've been at this school for a day, and you're already friends with most the sophomore population of the school. What else do you want?"
Rikku looked thoughtful. "I suppose your right. How was your day?"
Yuna, quite accustomed to Rikku's mood-swings, answered calmly, "It was good. Seymour asked me out."
She looked up to see her table-mates looking at her in horror. "Your kidding, ya?" Wakka looked like he was going to cry.
"No he really did. I told him no!" she said noting the fact that Lulu was glaring across the table at her, Wakka was dabbing at his eyes with a napkin as a joke, Rikku was trying to look like she didn't care, and failing miserably, and Tidus's eyes kept twitching as he tried not to hyperventilate.
The entire table visibly relaxed, Wakka put down his napkin, Rikku quit trying and blew out a huge breath of air, Lulu stopped glaring, and looked pleased instead, and Tidus quit looking like he was considering chewing on the table.
"I'm glad. Seymour's a loser," he expressed.
"Oh, you know him?" Yuna asked.
"Yup. Wish I didn't. Incredible idiot. Jack ass. Ego maniac. That's Seymour in a nutshell for ya," Tidus said. The people occupying his table all looked at him like he had sprouted an extra head and an alien had popped out of his chest.
"What? I met him, didn't like him, end of story," Tidus said defensively. Yuna smiled.
"Neither do we. It's just that we have never heard anyone talk smack about Seymour except us," she explained.
Tidus looked around. "So that's why? Oh. Well, what do ya know about him? Does he ask out a lot of ladies? More importantly, does he get their attention and dates?" he asked curiously.
Lulu nodded. "A lot of popular ladies. Very few unpopular ones. Good for us, believe me. Unfortunately, he apparently has realized that he is a worm, and that not many popular girls really like him anymore since those varicose veins popped up and his hair started to get all strange," she said.
Yuna grinned. "Too bad he was rude and hurtful to all us sweet, unpopular girls, huh?" she commented.
Wakka nodded. "Loser. Even the guys on the blitzball team think he's a huge fool, ya? With all his bragging and putdowns, I'm surprised Coach hasn't benched him yet," he commented.
Tidus looked up. "Is he good?" he asked casually. "Ya," Wakka said. "That's why," Tidus said as if it were obvious.
Yuna looked at Tidus. "Not here. You mouth off too much, and your benched. The only reason Seymour hasn't been is the fact that his parents are old money people, and their the leaders of the Guado. In short, Seymour's filthy rich, and his mommy and daddy can control fiends. That is why," she explained.
Tidus looked at her, slightly taken aback by her bitter tone. "Is it just me, or did it get really cold in here? What's your problem with Seymour Yuna? Besides the obvious," he asked, sounding rather concerned.
Yuna poked at her food for a moment, then looked up. "Well, my dad is Lord Braska. Have you heard of him?" she asked. Tidus' eyes grew to the size of silver dollars.
"Your father is...Lord Braska?!" he burst out. Yuna nodded. "Wow. I never...wow. That's just..." Tidus said. Lulu rolled her eyes.
"Yuna, please continue. Tidus seems to have lost hold on the few brain cells he had to begin with, so it may be awhile before he finally gets around to making his point," Lulu said, looking somewhat amused at Tidus' complete inability to form a coherent sentence at the news that Yuna was the daughter of the most well-known living priest in the Bevell priesthood.
Yuna nodded, fighting down a chuckle. "Well, you see. My father was up for Maestership. Everyone seemed to support the idea. Until Lord Jyscal got involved in it. He said that since my father was a nobody from a nobody family, with no money, he shouldn't get the position. Instead, he nominated Seymour, and just because nobody wanted to go against Maester Mika's 'golden boy', Seymour got in. Apparently, he's been training for it his whole life, and they gave it to him. Now my father has little to no chance of getting in, no matter how many people nominate him. There are no more positions," she said.
Once again, Tidus looked shocked. "I knew that Lord Jyscal's son got the Maestership, but I had no idea that his son was Seymour. Or that he had beat out Lord Braska either. How did it happen without any body in Zanarkand finding out? We've got the top news team in Spira," he asked.
Yuna smiled sadly. "Lord Jyscal and his supporters paid all the newspapers huge amounts of money to keep it quiet. They knew that my father's popularity would win over they money, so they had to stop it. So Seymour's going to be stepping into my father's positions as soon as he finishes school," she said, trying to keep the bitterness out of her generally calm tone.
Tidus looked at her sympathetically. "Gee, I'm sorry Yuna. Your dad is great guy. My dad knows him," he said comfortingly.
Yuna's head snapped up. "What? He does?" she said. Tidus looked around the table. The entire table's expressions mirrored Yuna's own, one of complete disbelief.
"Well, your dad stayed with us in Zanderkand for about two weeks. Very different guy from my own dad. He's actually pleasant, for starters. He talked about his daughter, you, a lot. And he met my father in college. According to my dad, him, Auron, and Braska all went out, partied, and graduated together," Tidus explained.
Yuna looked surprised. "Really?" she said in an awed whisper. Tidus grinned happily. "Yup. Great buds, according to my dad. He said that Auron was the stiff, never loose, Braska was the one who inevitably got Auron to go along with my dad's crazy antics, and my dad thought up all the stuff and talked Braska into it," he said. He was happy to have something to connect him with Yuna. He felt like he had known her forever, like they had been friends a long time ago.
Wakka leaned back in his chair. His eyes wandered over his companions. Rikku, who looked elated to have something interesting going on in front of her, Tidus, who seemed very pleased to be able to talk to his new friends, Yuna, who looked stunned, but very happy, and Lulu, who as always, looked calm. He found himself grateful for all of them.
Lulu looked at him. "What's on your mind Wakka?" she asked. Wakka shrugged.
"Just thinking, ya?" he said. Then he noticed Rikku's attention on something on the other side of the room.
He looked and saw a handsome Al Bhed with an eye patch over one eye looking at her. He then looked at Rikku again. There was no mistaking the look on her face. Wakka laughed inwardly. Rikku was infatuated! He decided to keep it to himself. There was no need for Yuna, Lulu or Tidus to know. It didn't involve them. Besides, Rikku would tell them when she was ready.
He turned his attention back to his other companions, and was surprised to see Yuna and Tidus talking and looking at each other like they'd know each other for ages, and Lulu just sitting by, watching them and their conversation. She smiled at their stories of each of their father's crazy college antics.
If there was one person at the table who he trusted implicitly, it was Lulu. He had been friends with her since kindergarten. He found himself wondering what would happen if...No just better not to think about it that way. He loved everything just the way it was. No reason to try to alter anything.
Sadly, the bell rang, signaling the end of lunch. Rikku got up with out a word, smiled at her friends, and left, as did Lulu. Tidus and Yuna however, were another story.
Wakka watched as they both packed up their individual possessions, and as Tidus gave Yuna a friendly one-armed hug around the shoulders, before taking off. Wakka smiled, seeing Yuna so loose and friendly was something else indeed. She came up to him and gave him a nice, big hug.
"See ya later Wakka," Yuna said, smiling up at her childhood friend, before leaving for her next class. She waved at a few people, a few of whom, dropped their lunch-trays, and walked into walls and tables, very unaccustomed to Yuna being openly friendly to any of them.
Wakka laughed as he watched one poor guy walk straight into a trash-can in shock. Life was definitely going to start looking up.
A.N. Yee-haw! My muse came back! I loved writing this chapter. Review me and tell me what you think. How do ya like how I portrayed Wakka? I tried to make him more of a doll than a dork. You like? Tell me.