6. Making Plans
Tidus walked through the hallway toward Rikku's locker and stopped dead in his tracks when he saw her and Gippal making out. Oy...Tidus thought as he rolled his eyes at the two of them. As much as he loved the both of them, he hated when they practically had sex against their lockers. It didn't seem to matter that he has told them both a million times to stop doing that in public, they still did it nonetheless.
"Hey, want to get a fuckin' room, you two?" Tidus asked with a frown as he crossed his arms in front of them.
"Actually, that would be great," Rikku said with a huge smile that made Gippal chuckle and Tidus scoff and make a disgusted face. Tidus looked over at Gippal who had Rikku's lipstick all over his lips and had to laugh at him.
"Hey, uh, Gippal, that shade doesn't match your skin type," he said as he pointed it out with his index finger. Rikku looked at Gippal and giggled at him.
"Well, it looks good on me," Rikku admitted as she opened her locker, grabbed out her mirror, and handed it to Gippal. She then grabbed a tissue out of the box of tissues from her locker and handed it to him. "Here you go, baby."
"Thanks," Gippal said as he started to take the lipstick off of him.
"So, you will neverguess what just happened to me, Rikku," Tidus said with a huge grin on his face. Rikku searched her purse for her lipstick as she pretended to think about. "Go on, guess." After a second, she gave up with the lipstick and looked at him.
"Wakka ordered a bunch of new blitzballs for the team in an array of colors?" Rikku guessed in a sarcastic tone.
"No." Tidus said, and before he could tell her what really happened, she continued to guess.
"Leblanc came into school wearing clothes that didn't show off her boobs?"
"No, that would never happen."
"Um, Yuna grabbed you, pinned you against a locker and started to make out with you?"
"Heh, I wish," Tidus said with a smile as he started fantasizing about it.
"Rin told you that Yuna was going to be your new tutor in history?" Tidus' face fell when Rikku guessed it right on the nose.
"Hey, that's no fair. You just took away all my fun in telling you," he said with a slight pout. "How did you—"
"Hello, I sat next to the girl all last hour to do your dirty work, remember?" She reminded him as she turned to help Gippal get the lipstick off his face.
"Oh yeah." Tidus said as his face broke out into a smile again. "Hey, about that; did she say anything about me?"
"Not really. But I bluntly told her that if she ever wanted any information about you she could ask me." Tidus' jaw dropped in shock as Rikku smiled at him. "I meant it in a good way."
"I wondered why she looked at me and smiled," Tidus said and he exhaled. "Oh well. But yeah, about her tutoring me, isn't that great news?"
"What are you going to do about it?" Rikku asked as she put her hands on her hips. "Go over to her house and then jump on her?"
"Well, actually, yeah," Tidus confessed as his smile fell because Rikku was on a roll of guessing things today. Rikku rolled her eyes at him and grabbed her books for her next class. "What? Not a good plan?"
"Honestly, your plan sucks," Rikku said as she looked at her watch to see how much time she had before she had to be in her next class. "Any other girl, yeah, it would work. However, I think you're going to have to be a little more suave than that when it comes to a girl like Yuna."
"What, you sit next to her for an hour and you know everything about her?" Tidus challenged as he put a hand on his hip.
"No, I didn't say that." Rikku said calmly to her impatient friend. "I think if you move too quickly, you'll scare her away."
"She already knows about my reputation," he said as they started to walk to their classrooms. "I think if she was scared, she would be by now."
"Well, your bedroom has had more visitors than Luca has every year on the day of the Crystal Cup, Tidus," Gippal piped up as Tidus smiled as his accomplishment. "And the fact that you're proud of it is not a good thing, my man."
"I think it's awesome," Tidus said as he laughed a bit about it. "Heh, go me."
"That's exactly what I mean, Ti," Rikku said as she stopped before her classroom. "That's intimidating for a girl." She kissed Gippal as he said goodbye to her, and Tidus stood there watching again. He sighed and looked away until they were done, then after Gippal left, he faced Rikku again.
"Come on, Rikku," Tidus said as he sighed again. "Like you're the innocent one."
"I never said that," she said as she thought of her and Gippal. "Yes, Gippal and I are like rabbits, but if I ever have to take an STD test, I won't have to go, 'hmm...where did I get that one from?'" She pointed to hand as she spoke, giving him a visual. "At least I've only had sex with one guy."
"Two," he reminded her as she nodded.
"Okay, two," she murmured. The two of them started to look uncomfortable so she nervously laughed. "Anyway, you were saying?"
"Uh, yeah. It, uh, still doesn't mean that I'll try to get down Yuna's pants," Tidus said as convincing as he could, even though he doubted himself.
"Yeah, okay," Rikku said as she waved to him and walked into her class.
"Bye to you as well, Rikku!" Tidus called after her and then started to walk to his next class.
The rest of the day dragged on for Yuna. She tried to pay attention in the rest of her classes, but she felt so ahead. She learned all of this so long ago, thus proving that private and public schools have a lot of differences. She tried to think of where she was going to be able to find Tidus before the day ended so they could work out a tutoring schedule. She loved tutoring when she was at Yu Yevon and she was excited to start it up again, and also learn a little more about Tidus at the same time. I wonder how much of what he says is an act and how much is actually true...she thought to herself during her writing class. She twirled her pen between her fingers and chewed at her lip as she adverted her attention to her thoughts. He's the most popular guy at school, so I'm sure a lot of it is fabricated...When the bell rang, it took her completely by surprise. She hardly listened to her professor all hour so she completely lost track of time. She grabbed her notebook and purse and walked out of her classroom.
She walked to her locker and grabbed her books for her homework. She really didn't have any due to the fact that she did her homework during her study hour, but she took home some books to get even more ahead of everyone else. She was just about to shut her locker when she felt someone tap her shoulder. She whipped around to see Tidus standing there.
"Hey, you," he said, greeting her with a warm smile. "I've been looking for you all day. Where have you been hiding?"
"In my own little world, I guess," Yuna said as she returned the smile. This wouldn't be so hard if he wasn't so gorgeous. That swoon-worthy smile, those gorgeous crystal blue eyes, that sexy blonde hair...
"So, are we going to plan a tutoring schedule?" Yuna raised an eyebrow at his enthusiasm to learn, but figured there were ulterior motives for his interest in making a schedule.
"Um sure, let's go outside and sit down though," she suggested as saw him look at his watch. "Oh, are you in a hurry?"
"Well, I've got blitz practice in about ten minutes, but if I'm late my coach'll understand," Tidus said as Yuna nodded and they walked outside. They sat down on one of the concrete benches and Yuna opened her planner to the current week.
"Okay, what times are best for you?" Yuna asked as she looked at her nearly empty schedule. Seeing all the blank spots almost made her heart sink. Back when she went to Yu Yevon, she was constantly busy. She was tutoring about four people, she had weekly meetings for about six different things, gymnastics twice a week, et cetera. Now that she was at A-East, her schedule was blank.
"Well, I have blitz practice every day until about five thirty except on Tuesdays. Tuesdays we have games, so we don't have practice, but we have to be ready to go at 6, the game starts at 7, and it ends at about 9:30. Then afterward we all go out and celebrate our win," he explained with a smile.
"What do you do after the game if you lose?" Yuna could've set off a grenade and had the same reaction from Tidus. His eyes opened wide and his jaw dropped.
"Ha! Us, lose?" He just laughed at her as she smiled. "Ever since I've been on the team, we've never lost a game. So that's about three years being undefeated. Impressive, isn't it?"
"Thrilling," Yuna said, clearly unimpressed. Him bragging about himself was one of the most repulsive things he could've done. Definitely not a turn on... She thought to himself as she sighed. "Anyway, so how about—"
"How about tonight?" He interrupted.
"Uh, yeah, I'm free on Thursday nights," she said as she consulted her empty planner to see the best time. "Well, I'm free all night tonight, so what time and where? I was thinking we should go the library or something."
"Um, or not." Tidus replied boldly, thinking of how being in public would ruin his plans. Yuna looked up at him, and he tried to think of a logical explanation to tell Yuna why being around other people would be a bad thing. "I was thinking more or less at 8 o'clock-ish and at my house."
"Oh really?" Yuna replied with a scoff as she started to catch on. "You know, we are going to study, Tidus. Remember how I told you that if you're going to try to get me into bed with you, you're headed down the wrong path? Yeah, that still sticks."
"I'm not going to pull anything, I promise," he replied as he convincingly as he could, crossing his heart with his finger. "I'll pick you up and everything."
"Okay, fine," Yuna said as she wrote the time down in her planner.
"Can I have your cell phone number so I can call you or something?" He asked as he grabbed her cell phoneoff her lap and started to punch in his number.
"I guess so," she said, realizing that it was too late for her permission. When Tidus called his cell phone from Yuna's, he stored her number down and handed her phone back to her.
"There, now I know that I actually have your number and you won't give me a counterfeit one." He smiled as she scoffed at him in disbelief. "What? You would do that to me, I know you would."
"Yeah, okay," she said sarcastically as she put her phone in her purse.
"Okay, what is with that response, lately?" He let out a soft laugh as he put his phone in his pocket. "Rikku has said that to me about eight times today and now you just said it to me. Is it like 'female response of the week?'"
"You're nuts." Yuna shook her head, looked up at him with an amused smile, then stood up. He only smiled at her and took her statement as a compliment. "Okay, so tonight at eight then?"
"Yeah," he said as she started to walk toward her car. "Hey, I'll walk you to your car."
"Thanks." She was hesitant to why he was being so sweet, but decided to let it roll off her shoulders as they started to walk together. "Oh hey, do you want directions to my house?"
"Ya know, that might help me." He told her as she stopped, grabbed a piece of paper and started to write directions down. She handed the paper to Tidus and he looked at it; quite perplexed at her drawings. "Wow, women have no sense of direction at all."
"What are you talking about? This is a good map!" She then pointed to a circle with stick people in it by a Spiran flag. "This is A-East. See the flag and the people playing blitzball in the sphere pool?"
"That's a sphere pool?" He asked with a laugh. "I just thought it was a bubble with people trapped in it."
"Hey, it's something related to blitz. I knew you would understand that better than me writing out 'Zanarkand A-East.'" Tidus nodded at Yuna and she laughed as they continued to walk to her car. "Any other questions about the map?"
"Nah, it's not that bad. Besides, if I get lost, I have your cell phone number. So if your cell phone rings and the name 'sexy blitz star' comes up, you better answer it." Yuna smiled and shook her head at him as he folded the map and put it into his back pocket.
"That's what you saved your name under?" Tidus nodded proudly at her and she laughed at him. "Oh boy. Do I want to know what I'm saved under in your phone?"
"No," he responded with a straight face as she reached for his phone.
"Oh, come on, now I'm curious!" She said as she put her hand in the pocket of his pants.
"Whoa there, killer!" He warned playfully as he tried to grab her hands. "Watch where you're reaching while we're in public!"
"It's your pocket for Yevon's sake!" She said as he grabbed her hands out of his pocket and she sighed. "Fine, I'll figure it out sooner or later."
"You do that," he said as they reached her car. She unlocked it, and as she was going to open the door, he moved her hand and opened it for her. "A lady should never have to open a door when a man is present."
Yuna looked around her and said, "Man? I don't see a man." Tidus shook his head as she got into her car. "But thank you, it was very sweet of you."
"Yeah, I can be sweet if I want to be." He painfully admitted as he shrugged his shoulders.
"Maybe you should kick aside the arrogant attitude and attempt to be sweeter sometimes." She put the key in the ignition and pushed the button to make the top of her car go down. She put her sunglasses on and smiled at him as she resumed her statement coyly, "Sweetness befits you."
Tidus smiled as he closed her door and watched her drive away. After standing there for a second, he checked his watch and realized that he was already late for practice. Dammit, that's two days in a row...He thought as he bolted toward the sphere pool.