Fantasy Ways

Sorry you guys, just finished some major exams and took a bit of a break, I'll also be leaving to go overseas soon for about 3 weeks and when I return I hope you'll still keep reading, as you've probably noticed I'm one of those slow updaters…hope you enjoy!

Chapter 12: Beginner crushes

Unnoticeably another week had passed and Yuna's friendship with Tidus seemed to deepen while Monica held her breath until she couldn't take any more and began plotting against Yuna. Monica had no idea what Yuna's weaknesses were, she knew she had to do something but without knowing anything how can she even begin? Day by day Monica witnessed unwanted happenings where Tidus became more close to Yuna; she had never seen Tidus get so wrapped up with a girl like this before-he certainly wasn't like that around Monica.

Even though Yuna is getting close to Tidus, it so happens that she can get a little out of control like she did on the first day. She hadn't used her Black Magic for a while and when she attempts to mind read others it's still not very stable.

Lenne joined Yuna's group and became one of the contiguous friends to Yuna she was quite curious when Yuna gets mood swings and eventually she found out Rikku and Yuna's secret, black magic. Lenne was obviously very interested in that topic but of course she would have to keep the secret locked up safe. Lulu and Wakka were officially going out while Paine was in jealousy world.

It was a Monday, Rikku had always looked forward to this day; she was extremely excited because today was the day that they found out who's the president of their grade and obviously she was excited for another reason-seeing Gippal. Even though Gippal was sort of a play boy he had just managed to notice Rikku's actions around him; Rikku definitely did not know anything about what Gippal was thinking; giving Rikku Gippal's thoughts it just wouldn't seem like what he would do.

During the past six weeks the students had to vote for whom they thought was worthy to represent their grade, the finalists in Yuna's grade were Monica, Yuna and Lenne.

'Ok attention everyone we have an assembly today, as you all know that the election was set last week, we must congratulate Yuna who is a finalist in the choosing of the president of the grade.' Ms Brown announced and conversations fell upon the class whilst a round of applause was taking place as Yuna's name was stated.

'Hey Yuna congrats…' Tidus said with a tint of nervousness since he has never complimented or congratulated anyone before-well at least not a girl.

'Thanks.' Yuna smiled gratefully in return for his generous words; it didn't seem like the Tidus you knew in the first week at all. Tidus responded back to the smile in a rather dumb way, he wanted to reward her or something but all he did was just sit there and stare into her green Al Bhed eye and her non-Al Bhed blue eye falling into another one of those trances. He felt strange, it felt like there was a sudden pause in time just like it had happened before where he studied her as she froze, she was different and he had just realized how different she was to the other people like Monica who just prances around him like an insane personalized magnet. He could feel a tingly feeling running from the tip of his toes in his sport shoes to tip of a hair strand; this great feeling was so great that he fell off his chair when Gippal was stating his observations.

'Just admit it man, you like her'. Gippal nudged Tidus' arm which just made him go through self-denial again. Almost everyone took note of his reaction to the statement but Yuna was too occupied with gossips that poured into her territory to notice. Gippal elbowed Tidus again. 'Are you guna ask her out?' He winked as he tried to convince a date. 'You better do it quick or someone will take her.' He smirked mischievously.

'No way!' Tidus couldn't help but blush, 'I told you I don't like her!' he whispered just incase anyone had heard. He looked at Yuna once again drawn by her beauty. 'Do I really like her? I'm not sure myself! Let alone my friends know anything…I don't even know what real feelings like love feel like! Why do they always pressure me? It's not that I pressure them this much…'

'Hey Tidus are you ok? You're turning red.' Tidus was too busy mind chatting that he was blown off his chair by Yuna's gush of aroma blowing towards his way as her hand approached his forehead to check if he had a fever or something.

'Haha, yeah I'm ok, just thinking about-I mean I was just-' Yuna laughed as Tidus struggled for an excuse, he didn't want to lose his cool yet have an excuse for falling off his chair.

'Hey don't try and kill yourself, I won't ask ok?' Yuna chuckled as did their class mates and referred back to the announcement. 'I'm so happy that Lenne got into the finals too!' Yuna clapped her hands together and twirled to show her excitement, she then gleefully half skipped and half walked back to her group. Tidus sighed while his teammates gave him a suspicious glance.

'It's so obvious that he has a crush on her!' Gippal whispered practically blowing into Baralai's ear.

'Cut that out, you nearly burst my ear drum.' Baralai complained as he covered his ears. Gippal took a glance at Rikku and decided to walk towards her group while the very observant Baralai was distracted by his ears.

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'Congratulations Yuna, you've only been here six weeks and many already favour you.' Paine unfolded her arms and rested one on Yuna to show her how proud she was.

'Hey congrats too,' Rikku joined in while getting closer to Yuna signifying that she was about to say something personal, 'getting A on that assignment earlier showed everyone didn't it?' Rikku winked, she seemed like she was trying to get something across to her unnoticing-but smart cousin the feedback was unexpected, Yuna shrugged and had absolutely no idea what she was on about. She knew that she did get the highest marks in class and that she got A in an assessment but that wasn't really a huge deal to her. Rikku attempted again yet it failed so she gave up and swayed her arms from side to side as usual.

'Hey Rikku don't need to get all bogged down, cheer up I'm sure she'll get it someday.' Gippal didn't know why he was in this conversation with Rikku but he laughed anyway making it seem like he knew it all.

'Enough chatting, let's go we've got an assembly to attend.' Lulu said with slight enthusiasm, knowing she'll see Wakka on the way.

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'OH MY GOSH! Monica you're in the finals! You are so guna win this.' Grace jumped out of her seat as the rest of the students made their way to assembly. Both Monica and Grace hi-fived each other like they had won, they were the last to leave the room.

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Students were pouring in from the doors, each group with a different conversation making a large echo throughout the hall. Yuna's house group sat in the front, Lenne's sat behind Yuna and Monica sat behind Lenne. Tidus had always never sat where he was supposed to sit but today he sat next to Yuna, she sat on the seat before the end and that seat at the end was empty so he decided to sit there.

'Please may I have all your attention?' The deputy principal announced while many were still trying to settle in their seats.

Yuna felt a little nervous knowing that she was sitting at the front and she could see everything. Lenne tapped her on the shoulder.

'Hi Yuna, congrats you're in the finals too!' Lenne said while leaning back to her seat. Yuna twisted her body to face Lenne and smiled.

'Yeah, congrats to you too! We're both in the finals!' Yuna placed her hand out, it was almost like a thing that was going on when there was a special thing happening they'd do it and it was a special hand thing that they made up together.

'Can all the finalists please come up on stage?' Applauding, whistling and cheering were heard from the crowd as the 15 finalists approached the centre of the stage.

Tidus kept his eyes fixed on Yuna all throughout the introduction; Monica was staring at his way and was noticeably blown off her course.

'We'll have our Principal presenting the badges,' the deputy principal jerked her glasses on while getting out a piece of paper with all the presidents' names. 'I will now call out the vice-presidents…Monica.'

When Monica heard her name called out as a vice-president she clutched her fists, she felt beat but she knew that she can't show that in front of the whole school so she forced a smile to keep her cool. She was all stiff when it came to shaking hands with the Principal; she nearly had a mental breakdown when Mr Maechen said 'Congratulations.'

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'I'm surprised that neither Lenne's nor mine got called out…and everyone else's grades have two vice-presidents…' Yuna wondered as she looked at the principal giving out hand shakes and badges. Around of applause was given by the viewers after the vice-presidents received their badges. Tidus was too busy watching Yuna to notice anything.

'Now for the presidents…we have two presidents for this grade because the principal thinks that these two has worked extremely hard during the past times that they have been here, we have Lenne and Yuna.' An even louder applause was received by the two and Tidus was perceptibly clapping louder than before. 'I'm sure all of you students who nominated the presidents for this year will make this year the best they can. Can all the presidents and vice-presidents stay after the assembly ends, we have a special treat for you and for the rest of the students you can have a break and we'll start in period 3.'

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After the assembly a short break was given to the students, a banquet of food was provided just outside of the cafeteria for the candidates. Tidus was drooling; he could have sworn to Yevon that he didn't have breakfast this morning unfortunately the food was only for the winners.

'Oh my gosh!' Yuna gave Lenne a hug, she was so happy for them both to score the president's place and Lenne couldn't believe it either. Shuyin approached the two happy friends and gave his girlfriend a hug showing how proud he was for her.

'Shuyin's so sweet, I just can't believe that I got president with her! I wish I had someone who would hug me like that after something like this.'

'YUNIE!' Rikku threw herself to Yuna who was half scared to death by the suddenness.

'Rikku don't scare me like that!' Yuna hugged her childish cousin back while Paine and Lulu was just staring at Rikku's immature behaviour.

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'Awf! Why didn't I get the president of my grade?! I was so certain that I was going to get it, but no those two amateurs got it! I must have looked so bad up there! If it wasn't for that stupid new girl I would have got it! That's it I've had it!' Monica blew up her cheeks. 'She's gona get it now…'

'Hey Monica wassup?' Tidus approached the steaming madwoman. She let go of the air and forced another smile just to show that she was ok with what she got. 'Man what was with those cheeks?'

'Oh nothing much, aren't you going to congratulate me for getting vice-president?' Monica asked expectedly, she wanted a reward for getting the-what-she-thought was the stupidest thing in the world and a congratulations from Tidus would be that reward.

'Oh yeah, well done.' Tidus scratched his head as his eyes came across Yuna's back.

'That's it? Well done?!' Monica couldn't stand it any more therefore she thundered her way to the banquet and stuffed her face with food. Baralai walked slowly towards Tidus, placed his hand on his shoulder, shook his head and sighed.

'You can never understand girls can you?' Baralai was enormously disappointed, Tidus may be the most attractive guy in Zanarkand High but he certainly does not know how to deal with girls. 'I see you're looking at her.' Baralai whispered as he knew that Tidus didn't like to admit that he favoured Yuna. Tidus was quiet, he didn't want anyone around them to hear anything, Baralai laughed inside but not in appearance then all of a sudden he turned to look towards Paine with a particular expression.

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Paine paced her way to the forever continuing conversation set by Rikku.

'Yuna I think someone likes you.' She said with a deep voice with a hint of resentment.

'Huh? What do you mean?' Yuna looked around and became confused, she was smart in academics but when it comes to love, she was dull. Rikku wasn't happy again, she didn't like people busting in when she was talking but I guess when it's something very interesting to her she wouldn't mind.

'She means that someone's staring at you dummy.' Rikku added, Yuna took another glance about but noticed that there was no one staring at her, she only saw Baralai gazing at Paine, she shrugged and continue to drink her soft drink.

'Paine I think someone likes you, not me…' She let out soft drink air; the feeling of the fizzy substance slip down her esophagus relieved her.

'Oh really?' Paine folded her arms and her crimson red eyes came across a set of brown eyes, feeling rather strange she excused herself and unnoticeably returned to the conversation. 'Yuna, Baralai is looking at the food that's behind me, you really need glasses.' Paine chuckled knowing that it can't be true; Paine had never had a boyfriend before she was always too glum for boys but if a boy took the time to know her, they'd find that she was totally different.

There's a bit of love going around, it may be just a start for some but it'll be all certain later...