Hey everyone, I just had to spend about 12 hours in the music building for Flute Day (sometimes I hate being a music major)...so from 9am until 9:30 at night, I had to attend three concerts, four master classes, and a couple of lectures. I wanted to shoot myself. It was great to just come back here and work on another chapter for my story. :) Enough with my bitching...hee hee...It took me a while to write this chapter so it would turn out the way that I wanted it to...but I think it turned out pretty well. Happy reading!

19. The Truth Behind Those Blue Eyes

Yuna sat the rest of her last class in complete silence. She felt rather ill all hour, so she simply stared at the clock to watch the minutes slowly tick by until the bell rang. Paine didn't show up to that hour, so she didn't have a reasonable excuse to leave Naida, so Yuna had to suffer the entire time. When the bell rang, she shot out of her seat, almost forgetting her purse, and briskly walked to her locker.

Okay, he's magically found me all day…where is he when I really want to see him! She asked herself as she grabbed all of her books that she needed for homework out of her locker. After about five (long) minutes of waiting for him to show up to her locker, Yuna gave up and started to walk to where her car was. She stopped outside of the entrance of A-East and realized that she needed to let some things off of her chest. She knew that leaving right at that moment would only cause her spontaneously combust. With a sigh, she reached into her purse to grab her cell phone. She found 'sexy blitz star' in her 'previously called numbers' and pushed 'send.' She sat down on one of the concrete benches, tapping her shoe against the ground, waiting for him to pick up his phone.

"There you are!" Yuna's head whipped up when she heard Tidus speak, and he walked over to her. He had a spherestar smile on his face as he reached out his arms for a hug. She grimaced at him, as if he grew an extra head, so he ignored the look, but dropped his arms and placed his hands in his pockets, trying to act nonchalant. "H-Hey, what's up? Who are you calling?"

"You," she said calmly as she put her phone away. He reached deeper into his pocket to grab his phone.

"Oh, I actually turned it off today," he said in surprise as he turned it on and put it back into his pocket as Yuna stood up and walked over to him, leaving her books on the bench.

"We need to talk."

"Okay, but can we make it short 'cause I have blitz practice and I can't be late again," he said as he looked at his watch. "I just wanted to quickly say goodbye to you before you left. Go ahead though."

"Forget it," she snapped as she grabbed her books and started to storm off.

"Whoa whoa." He ran after her and grabbed her arm to stop her. "What is it?"

"No, I'm obviously not more important to you than blitzball." Tidus tried not to scream 'but we're not dating!' but he knew he couldn't be that vocal about it. She tried to release herself from Tidus' grip, but he held on to her. "Let go of me!"

"No!" He said fiercely as he tried not to raise his voice. He dragged her closer to him so he could look at her in the eye and she would speak quieter. "Not until you tell me what the hell happened. You were in such a good mood today, and I was going to find you to see if you wanted to—'"

"You LIED to me, Tidus!" She interrupted him as she shook her arm free from Tidus' grip. He was shocked by her outburst, so he blinked a few times then narrowed his eyes at her. "You lied to me!"

"What did I lie about?" He demanded as Yuna's eyes started to fill up with tears. Oh Yevon, this is all I need right now. I'm going to be late for blitz practice, Wakka's going to have my head for being late again all because I have a emotional girl having a breakdown in front of me…

"You lied to me!" Tidus rolled his eyes when she repeated herself for the third time. She was appalled by his reaction so she took a step away from him as she folded her arms across her chest. "And you don't care!"

"You told me that, and you know that I care, but what did I lie about?" He asked her as a tear fell from her eyes. Annoyance was in his voice as he shook his head and said, "Stop crying, Yuna."

"You don't understand!"

"No, I obviously don't understand because I don't know what I lied about, if anything at all." He remained calm, and he could tell that pissed Yuna off even more. He reached out his hand to brush the tear off her cheek, but she jerked her head backward so he couldn't touch her. "All right, are you going to tell me what this is all about?"

"At Rikku's party on Saturday," Yuna started as she sniffed and wiped her own tear away, "when I woke up the next morning, you told me that you didn't have sex with anyone, and guess what I found out today!"

"What?" Tidus asked with a 'chocobo in headlights' look on his face. Oh shit...oh shit...He thought to himself as his pulse started to race. He knew exactly what she heard, but he wanted to make sure that he comprehended everything correctly. Who told her? Why did someone tell her?

"And you're denying it now!" She started to walk to her car with tears streaming down her face.

"I'm not denying it," he said as he caught up to her again. "Who told you?"

"Naida is apparently in my last hour class, and she sat next to me," Yuna explained as she faced him. Tidus didn't know what to do or say, so he painfully watched her tears fall down her rosy cheeks. "And she started to ask me if you and I were seeing each other, and I told her that we weren't and everything, so she said 'I'm sure he wouldn't have had sex with me that night if he had a girlfriend.'"

"Oh Yuna," Tidus said as he reached out his hand again to wipe her tears. This time she allowed him to do it, so he cupped her chin in his hand and cleaned the mascara streaks off of her face with his thumbs.

"Why did you lie to me? Why did you tell me that you didn't have sex with anyone?" She fell into his arms and continued to cry. Tidus looked around to realize that many people were gawking as they were walking by, and he felt his cheeks flush.

"I didn't want you to know," he said soothingly as he ran his hand up and down her back. "I'm so sorry."

"And most importantly!" She said as she took her head off his chest to look at him. "You're the one who basically told me that you had sex with someone else and then you said that you were just trying to tease me!"

"Huh?" He scrunched his nose at her in question.

"Okay," she started as she brushed the tears away again. "When I woke up, I asked you if we had sex, and you said that we didn't have sex, and emphasized the 'we' part. So then I asked you—"

"I-I remember now," Tidus said to stop her. Ouch…he thought as he looked straight ahead, so he wouldn't have to look at her. "Yuna, you have to understand that's how I am."

"No, I thought that was how the old Tidus was," she said as she rested her head back on his chest. She could feel him lift up his hand and lower his head; He's looking at his watch…she thought with a sigh.

"I know," he said with a sigh. "Can we talk about this later?"

"You're not getting off the hook this easily, but I'll let you go to your beloved blitz practice," she said sarcastically as she backed out of his arms.

"Can I...kiss you good bye?" Tidus asked sweetly as he reached his arms out toward her. She just glared at him, so that gave Tidus his answer. He put his hands in his pockets and said, "all righty then."

"We're not dating, Tidus," she said simply as she crossed her arms.

"Then what's the big fucking deal about everything?" He asked, frustrated, as he threw his arms up in the air.

Yuna didn't have a response for that besides reiterating everything she previously said, and her patience ran low, so she walked up to him and smacked him across the face for being so ignorant. He put his hand on his cheek and just looked at her as she stormed off to where her car was.

Wakka can wait a few minutes…Tidus thought, rubbing his face where Yuna smacked him as he stormed right into the girls' locker room. He had some business to attend to and he wouldn't be able to concentrate on blitz with it being on his mind. He looked at his watch to see that he had approximately two minutes until he had to be in the sphere pool, but didn't care. He walked around the corner where the cheerleaders were, and they all gasped when they saw him.

"Tidus! What the hell are you doing in here!" Rikku shrieked as she covered herself up with her tank top that she was going to practice in. She was in shorts and a bra, so he wasn't really fazed.

"Rikku, I've had sex with the majority of these girls so seeing them half naked now isn't doing anything for me," he said as he looked around. The other cheerleaders nodded and continued on changing because they knew he was right.

"Who are you looking for anyway?" She quickly slipped on her skimpy tank top and Tidus stood on the bench so he could see over the lockers.

"Naida," he said as he hopped down. He looked at Rikku who had one hand on her hip, waiting for him to leave. "Oh come on, Rikku. That tank top doesn't cover up more than your bra did. Besides, it's not like—"

"I know, it's just different now, I don't know," she interrupted as she put her long hair up into a ponytail. "Anyway, Naida should be out on the gym floor like the rest of my squad."

"Well, most of your squad is still in here, you know." He observed with a grin as he looked at them all.

"Yeah, I know," she said as she sighed. "I've been trying to get them to work on the concept of time and stuff. It's a work in progress really. However, I know that Naida is out there because I told her to get all the shit out that we use for practice."

"Great," he said as he started to walk out there. He didn't get very far before Rikku grabbed his arm to stop him. "What the fuck, Rikku?"

"What the hell is wrong with you? You're not going to go fuck her on the gym floor are you?" She asked as Tidus gaped at her.

"If I'm not mistaken, you were the one who started the fucking game of fucking."

"Okay, who are you?" She let go of his arm so she could cross her own. It wasn't that she was mad at him for swearing because it was part of his normal vocabulary, but it was the way that there was definite hostility in his voice. "I have never heard you complain about sex."

"It's not that I'm complaining," Tidus said as he ran his fingers through his hair. "It's just that I don't want the world to know what happened on Saturday night."

"Oh, wait a minute, I see where this is going." Rikku chuckled in disbelief as she rolled her eyes and they started to turn that insane color of green that almost frightened Tidus. "Your new snuggle moogle found out about you and Naida, didn't she?"

"Okay, what's with the pet names, Rikku? Come on, how old are we?"

"No, seriously, this is what this is about, isn't it?" She said as she broke out into an icy smile. "She's really getting to you, and it's frightening."

"Rikku," he said slowly as he grabbed her by the shoulders, putting the pieces together. "You didn't, you know, plan this entire thing out, did you? In, like, response of a conversation we had a few days ago?"

"Whatever do you mean, Tidus?" She asked innocently as she tried to get away from him, but he tightened his grip on her shoulders. "If I'm not mistaken, you are the one who brought it up anyway."

"Rikku, you jealous bitch!" He said as he raised his voice. "You planned this entire fucking thing out! You wanted me to fuck someone else just to see if I would do it! You knew how much I really liked Yuna and then you had Naida tell her what happened! What the fuck is wrong with you?"

Everyone else in the girls' locker room eased their way out into the gym so they wouldn't have to hear the quarrelling between Rikku and Tidus. It was very rare to see Tidus and Rikku fight like that, and it made everyone feel uncomfortable. Not to mention that Tidus announcing that he liked Yuna took him off of Zanarkand's Most Eligible Bachelor list and that was always disappointing to every girl.

"So you admit it then," Rikku said calmly as she pierced her lips together. "You want the girl."

"Why wouldn't I want her, Rikku? Honestly! She's the most perfect girl I've ever met and I would love to do anything to be with her!" Tidus took his hands off of her shoulders and sat down in response to he just said. "There, I said it, all right? Are you happy now?"

"Well, good luck with that one," she said with a laugh as she started to walk toward the gym. "Even if you do like the girl, she's still way out of your league."

"Fuck you, Rikku," Tidus retorted as he watched her give him the finger as she left. After she was out of sight, he stood up and walked to the sphere pool.

"Tidus, what's wrong with you, brudda?" Wakka threw a blitz ball at Tidus when he walked into the sphere pool area. Being so out of it, Tidus was surprised that he actually had enough reflexes to catch it. "You have been late every day for almost a week now, ya? I'm debating to even let you play in the game tomorrow, I hope you're aware of that."

"I'm fine, Wakka," he said as he tossed the ball up in the air. "Just need to let off some steam."

"You better do that in the sphere pool today or I'm serious, you won't play tomorrow." Tidus sighed and hopped into the sphere pool.

The girl I'm crazy about hates me, my best friend is a fucking jealous vindictive bitch, my coach wants me to warm the bench for the next game (Which is against our rivals!), I'm still flunking history and the girl that is tutoring me—who is also the girl I'm crazy about—wants me dead...What else could go wrong?

Man, Tidus' life rocks now, doesn't it? Heh, I'll write again soon! However, it's now time for me to go to bed! Night all!