My, my, my. I have so much catching up to do! Being sick does help! Anyway.....
Baralai:Wow, you make me so....me.
Me:I know ((blushes))
Baralai:You're an amazing writer
Me: ((fans herself)) Why thank you....
Baralai:I love you....
!!! I only wish....v.v;!!! Hehe
I wake to sun pouring on my face. I see Baralai in the chair beside me, asleep. How long have I been gone? I try to move, but I can't. I don't have the energy. My fussing makes Baralai wake up. "Paine! My God, you're okay!" He comes over and hugs me, and I feel serenity within me. "Wow, you really scared me. You've been out cold for more than five hours. How did you get here? You have no gil on you!"
"I walked...."
"Were you trying to kill yourself or something? That's too much walking for such a shortened journey!"
"Don't tell me what to do. I have to ask you a question."
"Okay, ask away."
"Did you know my parents?"
"Why, yeah. I'm pretty sure. My dad was good friends with them."
"Do you know how they died?"
"I heard from my father and his men. They were talking in the conferance room, why?" 'Paine, don't do it. Please, just keep asking questions. Just hear him out!' I look at him.
"Who killed them...."
"I don't know...." I look at him, I glare at him, and I can see that he doesn't know, but how do I know he isn't lying?
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah....Why?"
"Because....Lulu told me your father killed my parents."
"....What?"
"She said your father killed my parents." He looks at me, and he lowers his head. I slide off the bed, and get my sword. I walk over to him, and put it close to his neck. "Tell me the truth. Did your father kill my fucking parents?"
"No, God damnit!"
"Well then tell me who fucking did!"
"Look, all I know is that your parents worked for my father. As spies. They loved you very much, and there is only one other thing that I know, and that is that Lulu is your sister. I don't know why she would lead you on such a wild goose chase, but that's what she did. My father loved your parents as if they were his own brother and sister. He wouldn't have done anything to hurt them, especially you. Don't you ever remember playing with me? Don't you remember our promise?"
"What promise...."
"Here." He threw a sphere towards me. "I taped it, watch it, you might remember." I caught it, and looked at it's rosey colour glowing in my hands. "I love you Paine, never forget that. I wouldn't do anything to hurt you, ever." He left the room, and I put the sphere in the sphere player. I look at the screen.
Sphere plays here
"Paine, we're gonna always remember this, 'kay?" said a much younger Baralai. A smile was radiating off his face.
"You better believe it, Lai!" A much happier Paine looked at her best friend.
"Would you be scared if I told you I liked you?"
"I guess not, Lai. Why?" Baralai leaned over and pecked her on the cheek. Paine's cheeks became hot and flushed. She smiled, and pecked him on the cheek back. "Lai, promise me you'll always protect me....Promise me you'll always love me.
"I promise Paine."
Sphere ends here
I look at the fuzzy screen through tear filled eyes. I remember that day. I remember Baralai now, and how I used to call him Lai for short. I remember that day clearly now. How could my sister have said that? 'Paine, remember now. You've unlocked a bit, you just have to remember. Please, just do this for your own health. You need this. Don't stop remembering. Keep going.' I also remember how Lulu and my parents would get into fight. Long, big ones, about nothing. I remember how she would look at them, her crimson eyes full of hatred. I all of a sudden see the flashback of the sphere I watched on the Celsius. Oh my God, it was Lulu! Lulu did this to my parents! Our parents! How could she have killed them? I loved them....She would hurt me, lie to me, and even try to get me to kill the only one I love, and still say she was my sister, still say she loved me, and not ever feel guilty? The fucking wench.
Looking out the window at the rain, I pull on my boots. I walk out of the room. I go to Baralai, and give him a hug and a passionate kiss. "I gotta go. I have some business to take care of. I'll be back sometime. Love you, Lai." I see him smile, and I smile back. I run out of the room, and out the building. I run and run. I don't even know where I'm going. I trip, and fall. The rain feels cool on my skin, but also feels like acid. I don't know how I'm going to do this. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. I love Lulu. She lied, she's killed, she's taken everything away from me, but she's in my blood. She'll always be in me. I hate that. I stare at the dirt. The rain falls more. I can't run, I can't move. I have no energy. I feel faint, yet I still move with all my might. I pull myself up from the ground. "Mom, Dad, I'm going to avenge you. No longer will your murderer run free. She will be taken down!" I'm fuelled by hatred, and I can feel my eyes burning against the rain. I start to run again, through the pounding rain. 'I told you to remember Paine. Now run. Run as far as you can, get as close as possible as you can to her. You have to go there and make it as if you don't know, then catch her off guard. There will be a lot of explaining to Yuna and Rikku...' Screw them. I don't have to explain anything to them. '...But it will be okay. Just explain it was clearly as possible, but you must defeat her. She must be brought down.' No really?
I look towards the docks. No ships. Fuck, I just remembered I have no damn gil. I go to open my purse, and find 25 000 gil. I take out a note. "Paine, I know you will need this on your journey. I hope you feel well, and that whatever problem you are dealing with, it's dealt with. I love you, Baralai." I smile, and sit under a stand for some shelter. I'll just wait for a boat for the morning. Won't take too long, I suppose. I look at the starless night again, and close my eyes. The rain pelts down on my face, and I let the melancholy of the night take me in. My eyes start to droop and slowly everything falls out of focus.
Disclaimer: ((mumbles something about a massacre for all the idiots that need to read the disclaimer to figure out she does not own Final Fantasy))