Hey it's me again! Sorry it's been a few days...or longer...but it took me a while to write this chapter. Mild case of writer's block...sorry. I wrote a couple more chapters in This Is My Story though...and I'm getting psyched for that one more and more now. :o) I wrote another chapter to it...but I'm going to wait until I post it. So read that one too! Anyway...I hope you enjoy this chapter of this story, it kind of yo-yos...but it goes along with Tidus and Yuna's personalities. I hope you enjoy...
24. "Relationship?"
Tidus quickly drove home, ran in the shower, towel dried his hair, brushed it, and ran back out of his house. I believe that is my showering record! Tidus thought as he happily got into his car. He opened his moonroof and turned on his car. He drummed the beat of the song on his steering wheel as he drove to Yuna's house. I'm...giddy! Tidus thought to himself with a chuckle. He wasn't sure if it was because he won the game or if he was going to spend time with Yuna. He got the same feeling toward both. And that's a definite first...He thought as he pulled up into her driveway.
He got out of his car and could see Yuna fixing her hair in her window upstairs. He practically danced up to the front door and gently knocked. It was Braska who opened the door and Tidus offered his hand for a handshake.
"It's a pleasure to see you again, sir," he said as Braska genuinely smiled and shook Tidus' hand.
"You too," he said as he motioned Tidus to walk inside. Braska walked to the foot of the stairs and shouted, "Yuna, you have company!"
"Already!" Yuna cried, her voice in a rather high octave. "I'll be there in a minute!"
"You know girls," Braska commented as Tidus had to chuckle. As he started to walk into the kitchen, he added, "You can wait here if you'd like. I'm sure she'll be right down."
"Not a problem," Tidus replied as he sat down on the steps and waited. He realized that he was shaking his leg out of nervousness, so he put his hand on it to hopefully make it stop. Come on, come on...he thought as he looked at his watch. It was already 9:10, and although Tidus likes to make an entrance, he was quite eager to spend some time with his teammates and Yuna.
"Look who's fast with taking a shower!" Tidus whipped his head to the top of the stairs where Yuna was running down. She was wearing a jean skirt, a cute tank top, sandals, and had her hair up in a wet ponytail. "You didn't even give me time to dry my hair!"
"Heh, look at mine!" He pointed to his damp and tousled hair to prove his point. "I wanted to get there as soon as possible."
"I see," she said with a smile and walked to the entrance of the kitchen. "Mom, daddy, I'll be home at..." She trailed off with a huge smile, hoping her parents would give her longer for her curfew.
"11?" Yuna's face fell with her mother's response. She looked back at Tidus, who wasn't paying attention to her parents speaking at all. He was just looking around the foyer with his hands in his pockets. "All right, 11:30, but not a minute later, Yuna."
"Okay," she said reluctantly, still embarrassed of her curfew. "See ya then!"
"Have fun!" Her father shouted after her as she and Tidus left her house.
"Ah, 11:30?" Tidus said with an amused smile and raised an eyebrow. Yuna blushed slightly and looked down at the sidewalk. She didn't realize that he really was listening to the conversation with her parents. "I'll have ya home by then, don't worry."
"You don't mind?" She asked as he took one of his hands out of his pocket and gently grabbed Yuna's. He shook his head at her and intertwined their fingers. "Well, I, on the other hand, am still completely embarrassed by it."
"Nah, don't be," he said as he gave her a gentle kiss on the cheek while opening up her door. She got into his car and he walked around to his side.
"How late does everyone usually stay at these said parties anyway?" Yuna asked as Tidus grabbed her hand with his right hand and used his left to drive.
"About midnight."
"Oh, so that's not too bad then," Yuna said with a shrug.
"Yeah, Wakka and his wife have a baby, so that's a reason. Not to mention the fact that we all, unfortunately, have school in the morning."
"A baby!" Yuna's face broke out into a girlie smile and Tidus had to laugh at her. "How old? Boy or girl?"
"It's a boy, his name is Vidina, and I believe he's about six months old," Tidus answered as Yuna 'aww'ed. "Usually the cheerleaders play with him until it's time for him to go to bed, so I have a strong feeling that you'll fit in wonderfully."
"There's nothing wrong with liking babies," she mentioned with a giggle.
"You're such a typical girl, Yuna." She slightly frowned and his comment, and he furrowed his forehead. "What is it?"
"I believe I told you that I'm not a typical girl." She sounded defensive and it threw Tidus off his guard. "Like the whole thing where I'm not going to just have sex with some random guy, I refuse to be all giggly and flirtatious around every male that walks by—"
"Yet, you're on the cheerleading squad," Tidus interrupted in a monotone voice. "And I still don't understand why you are. You are the complete opposite of every one of those girls."
"I told you," she huffed as she continued to frown. "I am not on the squad for my free ticket to popularity because I honestly don't care about my popularity status. I am on the cheerleading squad so I can have some extracurricular activities besides tutoring you. You don't understand, Tidus. While I was at Yu Yevon, all I did was extracurricular things. I was in gymnastics, I was student body president, I was valedictorian, which required a lot of studying, I tutored four people, and the list goes on and on. I never had a free moment of time. So now I'll actually have something to do in this town."
"Okay," Tidus said halfheartedly, holding in about a million words inside. What she doesn't know is that cheerleading extracurricular activities include sex and alcohol on the weekends and practice during the week where they talk about sex and alcohol. Damn, is she going to feel out of it...
"So um, where does Wakka live anyway?" Yuna asked, breaking the silence that the two of them were sharing.
"Down this street," he replied simply as they sat in silence for the rest of the ride. He parked in the street behind some other cars and got out of the car. Instead of waiting for Tidus to open her door for her, Yuna simply did it herself. "I don't understand you."
"What do you mean?" She asked as she put her hands behind her neck to fix her necklace.
"You're hot one minute, cold the next." She stopped in her tracks and when he realized she stopped, he turned on his heel and walked over to her. He could tell that she wanted further explanation, so he continued with, "we can't ever really have a nice conversation without one of us losing it and trying to bite the other's head off."
"That's not true," she said as she crossed her arms across her chest. Crossing my arms means he can't hold my hand...she thought as she kept them crossed. She didn't want him to hold her right now, not when he was like this. "We had a nice conversation after the game tonight."
"Yeah, that's pretty much the first and only one," he pointed out as he walked closer to her. I'll show her what I mean...he thought as he kept talking. "Sometimes I feel like you want me and other times I feel like you want nothing more than to turn on your heel and walk out of my life forever."
"Well, not to sound all defensive, but I'm not sure which one you want." She innocently blinked at him as he put his hands on her shoulders. His hands didn't faze her or make her move her gaze from his eyes.
"Now it's my turn to ask, what do you mean?'" He lowered his voice to a more soft and gentle tone as he moved one of his hands to brush her cheek with his fingers. She looked off to the side, keeping her arms folded across her chest.
"I've heard so much about you, and I'm not sure how much is just made up and how much is factual." He inched his face closer to her and she sharply inhaled and moved her head backward. "I mean, you seem so sweet to me sometimes and then I have to look back at what everyone has told me about you. Like, how all you want is sex and, my personal favorite, how you think 'breaking in' someone like me would look magnificent on your record."
"Who did you hear that..." he jerked his head backward and trailed off as Yuna gave him a glare. He cleared his throat and nonchalantly continued to brush her cheek. "I mean, what makes you believe that?"
"You're incredible. You just walked yourself right into a trap, are you aware of that?" She gave him a smile out of disbelief and scoffed. She threw her hands up in the air and looked up at the star filled sky. "I knew I shouldn't have done this."
"Done what?" He asked as he dropped his hands off of her. Okay, my plan of trying to get her to kiss me just bombed...
"Fallen for you," she said quietly as she started to walk toward the entrance of Wakka's house.
"Wait just a damn minute!" He didn't yell, but his voice still had a harshness to it as he walked in front of her. She didn't say anything to him, only looked up at him with a hurt look on her face. He could see a film forming over her eyes as she fought back her tears. "Fallen for me?"
"Remember how I'm not a typical girl?" Tidus nodded and she continued. "Well, that roughly translates into the fact that I won't kiss a guy or get practically naked with a guy unless I really like him! Also, you were the first guy to ever see me without, like, any clothes on!"
Tidus tried to quiet her down because she was starting to shriek and he didn't want anyone from inside to hear. Her eyes were turning red from holding back tears and she began to shake. "Yuna, come on..."
"What?" She snapped as she pointed her finger at him. "You know I have a point! You were going to just string me along until you were able to 'break me down' and then get me into bed with you! Admit it, Tidus!"
"Why don't you stop assuming things and realize something!" He put his hands on her arms so she would look at him. "You have to understand the way I am. Yes, I love sex and blitzball, it's what my life used to revolve around. The only thing that used to make me happy was to either be in the sphere pool or brag about the amount of girls I've had sex with."
"I knew it!" She cried as a tear ran down her cheek. Tidus tightened his grip on her arms and continued to look at her.
"Wait until I'm finished, dammit!" More tears ran down her cheeks as he started to get more aggressive. Now she wasn't only hurt, she was also quite scared. She didn't think that Tidus would hurt her, but she knew he had the power and strength to do so. He knew he wasn't going to hurt her, because he would never hurt a girl, but the feelings just were about to explode. "In case you didn't realize the past tense in that statement, I said the word 'used.' Sex and blitzball were the only thing that used to make me happy and be able to make me smile. Then you had to walk into my life! At first, yes, I admit that it was a game just to see how far I could go with you, but you have to understand how things have changed!"
"What do you mean?" She asked him as she blinked a couple of times and sniffed. The angry and frustrated look fell off of his face and his features softened.
"Just...just forget it," he said quietly as he released his grip on her and turned around. "It's not even worth it anymore."
"'Kay, stop," she said calmly as she wiped away her tears and grabbed his arm. Without breaking his stride, he kept walking to the front door. "Don't be that way."
"I'm not being 'that way,'" he shot at her as he turned his head away from her. "You just don't understand me at all."
"No, I guess I don't," she said as they stopped on the porch. She put her finger under his chin and directed his head so he could look at her. He scoffed at her and looked away. "Come on, I'm sorry."
"This is a perfect example of what I meant when I said you're hot and then you're cold. I can't deal with this much bullshit," he brushed her hand away and knocked at Wakka's door. "This is a perfect example to why I don't get involved in relationships or anything that has to deal with the matter. This is fucking ridiculous."
"Relationship?" Yuna looked up at him as he let out a frustrated sigh. Relationship? What does he mean by that? Yuna was very confused at the entire conversation that they just had so she looked down at her shoes. Tidus shoved his hands in his pockets and she wiped her face to make sure that it was free of tears. Good thing I decided against the mascara idea...She thought to herself as the door opened.
"Hey, Wakka!" Tidus exclaimed as he put a huge smile on his face and gave his coach a high five. Yuna was confused on how he could just put on a façade like that after they just spent a good ten minutes yelling at each other. He looked over at Yuna with the same smile on his face and put his arm around her.
What in Spira is he doing? I'm not his toy...She decided to let him get away with it for a few minutes, but as soon as they walked inside of Wakka's house, she shrugged him off to walk over to where the other cheerleaders were sitting.
That's the problem with two stubborn people...lol. Eventually they'll see the light, right? Don't ask me...you'll just have to wait until I update next. :) (Which hopefully won't take as long...again I apologize!)