9. Hot and Cold
Tidus didn't realize he had fallen asleep until his cell phone rang and woke him up. He carefully moved so he wouldn't wake up Yuna and reached for his phone. He saw that it was Rikku, and strongly considered not answering it, but he knew he would never hear the end of it if she got his voice mail the night where he had a girl over.
"Hey," he said softly into his phone, being cautious not to talk too loudly. He didn't want to wake up Yuna.
"Fuck her yet?" Rikku asked bluntly as Tidus shook his head and smiled.
"Not yet, I'm working on it," he responded as he looked over at Yuna. She looked so peaceful lying there, and she even had a small smile on her face. Like an angel…He thought to himself.
"Working on it? What, she's still over your house?" She slightly gasped as Tidus looked down at Yuna and softly brushed his fingers against her back.
"Yeah," he said simply.
"Well, what the hell are you doing?" She asked as her voice started to become more high pitched.
"Studying, Rikku," he said calmly as he lied to her again. He couldn't understand what Rikku was freaking out about. "What else would we be doing?"
"Well, damn, Tidus," she started suspiciously with a pause. "You've been studying for what, five and a half hours?"
Tidus blinked at her statement and looked over at the clock on his wall. He gasped when he realized that it was 1:30 in the morning. "Fuck!" He cursed under his breath, forgetting that he was still on the phone. He knew that Yuna was going to get into trouble for being home that late. "Kay, gotta go, Rikku. Bye."
"What? Wait!" He didn't answer her or explain himself. He simply hung up the phone and threw it on his dresser. He softly kissed Yuna on the cheek, not wanting to wake her up, but he knew he had to.
"Yuna, Yuna come on, wake up." She let out a soft groan as she slowly started to stir and stretch a little bit. "I gotta get you home."
"What time is it?" She squinted as she was trying to get adapted to the light in his room and tried to focus on his face.
"Um, like 1:30," he said as her eyes flew open and she sat up straight. He had never seen anyone wake up that quickly in his entire life.
"Oh Zaon, my parents are going to kill me!" She cried out as she leaped off the bed to find her clothing that was spread along the floor. She found her shorts first and slipped them on.
"Well, they didn't call you or anything, so you should be in the clear," he said as he slowly stood out of bed to find his shirt. By him saying that, Yuna ran over to her purse and grabbed her phone.
"Maybe we didn't hear it because it was on vibrate!" She looked up at the ceiling and lightly groaned. "I have five messages."
"Oh..." Tidus said as he pulled his shirt over his head. He grabbed her history book off the floor and handed it to her. "Saying you were studying isn't a good excuse, is it?"
"Not really when it looks like I've been sleeping…or doing something else!" She looked in the mirror that he had in his room to fix her hair. That's what I get for putting hair spray in my hair and falling asleep…Shethought as she looked at her bed hair. "Meeeh..." She whined as she ran her fingers through her hair.
"I think it looks beautiful," Tidus said as he walked over to her and put his hands on her waist.
"My parents won't think so." She quickly bent over and grabbed her shirt off the floor. She faced Tidus as she slipped it on and he gently put his forefinger under her chin. "Tidus, this is not okay. You just don't know my parents."
"I know, I'm sorry." He motioned her to walk out of his room so they could leave, but put his finger up to motion, 'one minute.' He rushed to his dresser and grabbed his necklace. "I never leave home without this."
"You and your blitzball," she said as she shook her head and he put his necklace on. He followed her out of his room to his car. Again he opened the car door for her before she could even reach for the handle. She waited until he opened up his car door before she started to speak her mind. "So, I just have a simple question."
"What's that?" He asked as he sat down in his car and started it up as quickly as he could.
"Are you always like this, or are you putting up a show for me?" Tidus looked at her as she had a humorless look on her face. "I'm serious when I ask this."
"Okay, I'll be honest," he said as he looked over at her. "I'm not like this."
"Oh, okay that make sense now," she said as she put a frown on her face and crossed her arms. "You're just putting on a show by being all nice and sweet, and the next time I fool around with you, you'll push me so I'll go all the way?"
"Yuna, that's not what I meant," Tidus said as she made a 'tch' sound with her tongue and rolled her eyes. Instead of putting the car in gear, he turned to look at her. "Listen to me before you make judgments!"
"I had my judgments made the day I met you," she admitted as she noticed that Tidus wasn't about ready to back the car out of the driveway. "Well, move! Let's go! I gotta get home!"
"No, not until you calm the hell down and explain to me what you mean!" Just to prove a point, he took the key out of the ignition and faced her. She scoffed again and looked out the window. To prove her impatience, she tapped her toe and sharply exhaled. After observing her actions for a moment, he crossed his arms and turned so he could lean against the car door. "You know, I never thought Iwould be able tofind anyone more stubborn than me."
"I am not stubborn!" She snapped as her jaw dropped in astonishment from his statement.
"Then tell me what the fuck you meant." He glared at her as he spoke. His voice remained calm, but his eyes flared with anger.
"Excuse me?" She said in response from his swearing. "Do not swear at me!"
"Will you just calm down?" He asked with a frustrated sigh. What the fuck is with this girl? Hot one minute, cold the next…Tidus thought to himself as he looked at Yuna, who was fuming. He was pretty sure that if it were possible, steam would be pouring out of her ears. "Now, explain what you meant by saying that you had your judgments."
"Well, let's just put it this way. You're star of the blitzball team, you're up for homecoming king and you know that you don't have any competition, you've had sex with practically every girl at A-East...you just think you're king of the world, Tidus." Yuna's words bit hard into Tidus, mainly because he knew that it was true. His response back to her was putting the key back into the ignition, starting up the car, and backing out of the driveway. He pursed his lips together so he wouldn't say anything he would regret to Yuna, although he had a mind full of things of say. "What? No response?"
"You are amazing, Yuna, and I don't mean that in a good way," he snapped as he kept his eyes on the road as an excuse not to shoot death glares at Yuna.
"Oh?" She said, almost as a challenge. "You know I'm right."
"Yes, okay? You are right! You win! Is that what you need to hear?" He shot at her as he hit the steering wheel as emphasis.
"What are you talking about?" She threw her hands up in the air in frustration. "You are confusing me, Tidus!"
"How am I confusing you?" He asked her as he shot her a look. His look was met by an icy glare from Yuna, and it almost chilled his blood. "Answer me that!"
Yuna scoffed and looked away from him. She didn't know how to form her words, so after a minute of silence, she slowly said, "I was only going to teach you history, Tidus."
"Okay, here's the thing," he started to explain, trying hard not to explode at her. "I think you are a very sexy girl. Maybe the fact that you're so smart, naïve, and innocent is the major reason why I think that. You are unlike any girl I've ever fooled around with, so that's pretty intimidating to me."
"I'm intimidating?" She asked quietly as she looked at him again. He scoffed and shook his head at her. She was offended by the scoff, so she asked him, "What was that for?"
"It's just that you practically invited me to fool around with you, that's what," he said as he pulled into her driveway. He hadn't reached his point yet, so he was not going to let her leave his car until he did. "Look at what you're wearing! You're basically wearing a 'come fuck me' outfit, so I thought that's what you wanted tonight."
"You know I'm not like that," she said calmly as she realized that he was right. She knew that she was trying to impress him, and she sent him the wrong signals. There was silence for a moment as Tidus put his car in park. "But...you still didn't answer my first question."
"What was that?" He shot back rather harshly compared to her quiet, calm tone of voice.
"Why were you putting on a show?"
Tidus put his head down and slightly faced away from her. "I wasn't putting on a show. I didn't want to have sex with you tonight because it was more than that to me."
"Well, I'm glad," she said almost sarcastically. I don't want to be a sex object to him, so he better think of me as more than one!
"You're different, like I've said before." He got out of the car so he could open Yuna's door for her. She didn't know what to do, so she waited until he opened her car door. Instead of letting her get out, he squatted down in front of the car door and smiled. "But when I saw you today wearing practically nothing, my hormones got to me. You've got to remember that I'm an 18-year-old boy. Looking at shoopufs makes me want to have sex. So with you wearing extremely short shorts and a shirt that shows your stomach, shoulders, and almost your chest...imagine what that does to me."
Yuna couldn't help turning her frown into a smile at that statement. "Oh, Tidus," she said with a chuckle. He reached out her hand for hers, and she gave it to him so he could help her out of the car. When she stood up, he put his hands on her hips and looked into her eyes.
"Yuna, you're incredible." He didn't really say that as a complement, but he didn't say it as an insult either. "You're a lot more passionate than I thought you were."
"What do you mean?" She asked him as she watched the gentle night wind flow through his hair.
"I don't know what to think of you," he said as he moved a strand of hair out of her face. "I mean, three seconds ago, we were practically screaming at each other, and now you're looking into my eyes like you want to kiss me again."
"Don't count your chocobos before they hatch, mister," she warned as he smiled. She did want to kiss him again, but she wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of knowing that he won the quarrel that they just had.
"All right," he said as he gently held her hand and kissed it instead. "Have a good night, Yuna."
"Yeah, thanks." She said as she started to walk toward her front door. When she heard his car door open, she turned around to face him again. "Oh, Tidus?"
"Yeah?" He said as he looked up at her.
"Can you at least look over the chapter that I was supposed to help you with tonight so Mr. Rin doesn't kill me?" He broke out into a smile and chuckled. "No, I'm serious."
"Yeah, I will," he said as he got into his car. Still thinking about her academics…He thought to himself in amusement. That's a first with all the girls I've fooled around with…
Yuna watched him drive away, and when he turned the corner, she said under her breath, "Ha, yeah right." She smiled at the thought of her night and walked through her front door, which was unlocked. She walked into the foyer and jumped when she saw both of her parents standing there; with harsh looks on their faces and their arms crossed.
"Oh, hi guys." Yuna said with a forced smile on her face as her parents simply pointed to the grandfather clock that stood about three feet away from her. Oh great…Yuna thought. Reprimanding time…
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