Welcome back to the story that doesn't feel like it's going to end! groan I'm really sorry, this story is really starting to disappoint me. I will finish it eventually...because it's losing its charm. Anyway, I'm glad fanfic is up and running again...I was in withdrawals. This chapter took me like a week and half to write though...I've been struggling with this story. However, there are things in this chapter that will lead to events that I have planned. It's a rather long chapter...but if I would've cut it into two, that would've meant MORE chapters (I'm already on chapter 33 for the love of god and all that is holy) and the first part would've been too short. Kay...read on...

33. Distraction

Yuna tapped her fingers against her desk as Mr. Rin was going over the notes for the day. She really tried to pay attention to him, but after a while all she could think about was going to LYU. It's been my dream to go there all my life. I'll be able to get the quality education that I've always wanted and always dreamed for. I'll be able to work for my career finally, fulfill my childhood dream. Then again, I'll be so far away from home and my parents…and far away from Tidus…Although a boy isn't enough to keep me from going to the college I've been working so hard for, but…

"Yuna?" Yuna whipped her head up to see Mr. Rin staring at her, chalk in hand. "Did you hear me?"

"I'm really sorry, Mr. Rin," she said as she shook her head to get out of her daze. Several other students snickered from their seats as Yuna started to flush. "Could you repeat the question?"

"I actually didn't ask you a question," he said with a slight chuckle, only causing Yuna to blush a deeper shade of red. "I just wanted to see if you were paying attention, which you clearly weren't."

"Sorry," she apologized as she slumped further into her seat to hide from the gazes from the other students. She picked up her pen and positioned her hand into a writing position. "I'm paying attention now."

"Good," he said as he walked back over to the chalkboard and continued to lecture.

Instead of actually taking down notes like Mr. Rin instructed, she doodled on her notebook paper and continued her thinking. She looked over at Tidus who was frantically writing something down on his paper. She narrowed her eyes to concentrate on him to realize that he wasn't writing notes down. He spent about thirty seconds frantically writing, then would spend about the same amount of time chewing on the end of his pencil, then repeated this cycle. Yep, he's writing down blitz plays for the game tonight. He is going to have to be punished…She thought in amusement. Yuna held in a chuckle as she continued to draw all over her paper.

When the bell rang, Yuna quickly grabbed her things and started to walk toward Tidus so they could leave together. She almost reached him when she heard Mr. Rin's voice call out her name.

"Yuna, please come here for a second." Tidus overheard as well, and he and Yuna exchanged wincing looks. Tidus mouthed the words, 'I'll see you later?' and Yuna nodded. She then gulped and walked over to Mr. Rin, who was erasing the chalkboard.

"Hello, Mr. Rin," she said as politely as she could. She waved her hand in front of her face to prevent the chalk dust from entering her nose as she slightly coughed.

"I was just wondering how the tutoring was going," he asked, not looking at her.

"Oh, it's going well," she explained with a large grin. "I mean, he's been actually studying, doing the homework, and cooperating with me when I tutor him. I think that's pretty impressive knowing that he didn't even open his book until I came along."

"Yes, I have been noticing a large change in his grade," he said as he faced her. He reached into his briefcase and pulled out a few papers. "However…" He gave Yuna a disappointed look and handed her the papers.

"Ouch, a 72 percent," Yuna muttered as she saw poor grades on several papers. She let out a gasp she recognized the handwriting on the papers. "Oh my Yevon, these are mine!"

"For an average student that would be fine," Mr. Rin clarified as he sat down in his desk. "However, you're not an average student, Yuna. Average students are not accepted into Lady Yocun University."

"You heard about that?" Yuna asked as she broke out into a half smile, still wounded about her grades on the papers.

"Word got around," he informed her with a pat on the shoulder. "It's not every day that a student from A-East is accepted into a high class, first rate college such as LYU."

"I'm really excited." Yuna couldn't help but gush at the thought of her going to LYU next year. "It's always been my dream. Well, both my parents graduated from there, so I would like to follow in their footsteps."

"And you're definitely on the right path," Mr. Rin said as he took the papers back from Yuna. His smile faded slightly as he folded his hands over the papers. "Yuna, I don't mean to intrude on your personal life, but I also heard that you are now together with Tidus."

Yuna blushed slightly as a small smile appeared on her face. "Yeah, that's true." She realized that he meant that in a disapproving way, so she instantly looked up at him in a slight stage of panic and began to explain herself. "B-but, Mr. Rin, it's not going to interfere with the tutoring or anything. I mean, we're still going to keep going with that. Especially now that he's my boyfriend, I want him to do well."

"I don't want it to interfere with your grades though." Yuna shifted her eyes downcast in shame and nervously moved her hair out of her face. "I'm not trying to reprimand you, Yuna. I'm just asking you to be careful. Don't let your grades slip."

"You don't have to worry about that, Mr. Rin," Yuna stated, slightly offended that he was patronizing her. "I just had a very trying week last week, but things are better now."

"I know that you're cheering at the game tonight, but remember that we do have a test in this class tomorrow," he reminded her as he stood up and placed the papers back into his briefcase. Yuna looked up at the clock to see that she only had a few minutes to go to her locker then go to her next class. "I see you're eyeing the clock. Go on ahead, Yuna, I'll see you tomorrow."

"Thanks," she said as she picked up her purse and notebook off of Mr. Rin's desk and exited the room. Yevon, Mr. Rin! Yuna screamed inside of her head. Now you started all kinds of negative thoughts in my head! She sighed as she walked to her locker, her high heels clicking extraordinarily loud on the linoleum floor.

Yuna opened her locker at the end of the day, completely exhausted from having serious thoughts all day. Maybe Tidus is becoming more important to me than my studies…That's ridiculous, Yuna! You haven't even been dating for a week yet! How can a boy be more important to me? I have never let anything get in the way of my studies…All right, fine. I have a huge test tomorrow in history, so I'm going to prove to Mr. Rin that Tidus isn't a distraction and study as soon as I get home! She put a smile on her face as she happily sighed at her new plan and shut her locker.

"Yuna!" Yuna looked over to see her boyfriend happily walking over to her. He had a sheet of paper in his hand and a rather large grin on his face. He handed her the paper and kissed her on the cheek. "Check this out!"

"What's this?" She asked as she looked at him and not at the paper.

"You'd be able to find out if you read it!" Yuna could only giggle at the beaming grin on Tidus' face and then read the paper in her hands.

"Oh, Yevon," Yuna whispered when she realized what it was. It was the semi final results for homecoming king and queen. The top ten girls and guys' names were on there, and right next to Tidus' name in the guy column was Yuna's in the girl column. "I was nominated for homecoming queen?"

"Yes, you were!" He said as he hugged her tightly. Her jaw was still agape and her hands still clutched the paper tightly.

"I can't believe this!" She announced as she wrapped her arms around his neck and squeezed him closer to her. "I didn't know that many people knew who I was! I mean, I just moved here a few weeks ago."

"Homecoming is going to be the best this year, I know it!" Tidus happily kissed her on the lips as Yuna's look of shock morphed into excitement. "We're gonna kick some major ass at the homecoming blitz game, I'm gonna be crowned king, you're gonna be crowned queen, we'll dance the night away at the dance…" He paused briefly as he flashed her a mischievous smile and added, "and of course, dance the night away in the hotel room."

"Hotel room?" Yuna asked, half in amusement and half in shock of the proposition.

"Um, yeah," he exclaimed, surprised that she hadn't thought about that in the first place. "Of course I'm getting a hotel room for us that night."

"And why is that?" She asked with a half smile.

"A couple of reasons," he started as he placed his hands on her hips. "First of all, because I'm 18 and I am allowed to do so. The second and most important reason is that if we were to go have sex in your house while your parents were home, they would certainly murder us both." He gently stroked up her leg with his finger. "You expect me to spend a romantic night with you and keep my hands off at the same time?"

"You know I would let you put your hands wherever." She placed her hands on his chest, went up on her toes, and planted a kiss on his lips. She playfully bit his lower lip as she trailed one of her hands to his neck. His hands moved to the small of her back and she backed her face away from his. He opened his eyes to see her with a smile on her face and felt her hand slide down his side, pass his hips, and gently brushed it over the front of his pants. "Don't you hate it when I do this?"

"You're such a fucking tease, Yuna, and it drives me nuts," he said as he started to nibble on her neck. "I have ways of making you cooperate though."

"You also have that wonderful talent to make me scream as well," she whispered, teasing him more.

"Oh, speaking of screaming," he cried out seriously as he stopped kissing her neck and looked at her.

"Well, that was random," she said, dropping her hand back to her side as he nodded.

"Yeah, I know it was, but I have a point to make here," he explained as he touched her gently on the nose with the tip of his finger. "Now that you're up for homecoming queen, there is one person who is going to be very pissed off by it"

"Who?" Yuna asked as Tidus raised his eyebrows. She grasped the hint and nervously giggled. "Ah, your little Al Bhed friend."

"Yeah, she's going to be very pissed to say the least," he said, imagining what Rikku's reaction would be. She knows that since Yuna's my girl, Yuna's more than likely to win due to my popularity…and Rikku's dream has always been to become homecoming queen… "That's just a warning."

"Well, not very many people know me, so I'm not looking to win," Yuna said with a shrug, even though it bothered her. My one big chance here at this school… "Besides, Rikku's the head cheerleader. Isn't that basically the ticket to homecoming queen?"

"Most of the time, yeah." But you're my girlfriend…Tidus thought, slipping his arm around her waist as he started to walk her to her car. It was a Tuesday so Yuna didn't have cheerleading practice and Tidus didn't have blitz practice due to the game that was later on that night. "Anyway, I'll see you after the game right?"

"Of course," Yuna said, still bothered by the competition that she is going to face. I never was one for competition…I want to become homecoming queen, but I don't want Rikku to freak out at me. Not to mention that I know that Tidus will become king, and I don't want some other girl dancing with him for the king/queen dance…Oh Yevon, I'm turning into one of those jealous girlfriends who don't want their boyfriends talking to another girl. What is wrong with me? More distractions… She sighed as she smoothed her shirt against her small frame.

"What was that for?" Tidus asked her, bringing her closer to him.

"I honestly don't know," she replied. Her eyes were looking at the floor, as if she was trying to advert her gaze on anything but Tidus. "Just a variety of things, I guess."

"Care to share them?" She started to nod her head, then changed her mind as she shook it. "Why not?"

"Because I'm just confused at the moment." She started to play with her fingers, still contemplating the overabundance of thoughts that were running through her head.

Tidus nervously bit at his lip due to the fact that he wasn't sure what to say to her. If there is one thing I'm horrible at, it's consolation…He thought as they reached her car. She exhaled as she reached into her purse to find her keys and he put both of his hands on her waist. She looked up at him as he brought her into an embrace. "You're going to be queen, you know."

"Okay, that's not really what my moment of silence was about, but why do you say that?"

"Because you're my girl."

Yuna wasn't sure how to take that and pursed her lips together. To be honest, she was almost insulted. Is he saying that the only reason why I'm guaranteed to win is because I'm dating him? She took out her keys and placed them into the lock, remaining in silence.

"Oh, I see what you need," he said as a playful gleam leaped into his eyes. He whipped her around and started to kiss her neck. Instead of giggling and playing along in the manner that she usually does, she struggled out of his grasp, leaving him speechless.

"Tidus, not now." Without looking him, she jumped into her car.

He held her car door open with his hand so she couldn't shut it. She shot him a glare as she held her hand on the handle. "Hey, seriously, what is it?"

"You know Tidus, maybe…" She trailed off and sighed. She didn't want to express her thoughts with him yet, not now. She still needed to think about them more instead of acting on impulse. He raised an eyebrow at her, curious of her behavior.

"Maybe what?"

"Never mind," she said as she forced a smile. "I'll see you at the game, okay?"

"Hey, I'm not doing anything until the game. Want to hang out for a while?" He knelt down so he was even with her and trailed his fingers up her leg, halting when he reached the hem of her short skirt.

"We do have a test tomorrow in history, Tidus," she reminded him as she ran her fingers through his silky blonde hair. "I've kind of been shirking my studying lately, so I think I need to go home, grab myself a bowl of Moogle Charms, and study until I have to be back here for the game."

"I need to study as well and I study better with my tutor," he said with an innocent smile on his face. Yuna didn't have to even question the fact that he had sex on his mind, not studying.

"Tidus, I have a problem of concentrating when I'm around you," Yuna said as she bent over and kissed him.

"Seriously, we'll study." Without giving her time to react or answer, he hopped up and ran to the passenger side of her car. She chuckled as he opened the door and sat in the seat next to her. "Okay, let's go."

"Are you incapable of driving yourself?" Instead of replying, he placed his hand on her thigh and brushed his fingers upward to her waist. "Tidus, come on. I'm not going to be able to focus if you come over!"

"Are your parents going to be home?" He asked, leaning over and kissing her neck.

"Nope, they're at work." She answered with a quiet giggle.

"I think I'm up for a distraction." Yuna rolled her eyes in response to the way her boyfriends' eyes sparkled in delight. "Oh come on, Yuna! We'll study for the majority of the time, spend a few moments snuggling, and then we can drive back up here for the game tonight."

"Fine, but only to study!" She said as Tidus gave her a quick peck on the cheek, sat back in his seat and gently held her hand. Yuna sighed as she turned the keys in the ignition and put her car in drive. She sighed at herself for giving into his charisma, but she didn't spend time with him the previous night. Yuna also was aware that spending ten minutes in front of their books would be a miracle. Yevon, help me…

Yeah, hopefully I'll update soon, but we'll see...I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving because I probably won't post before that! (I'm going home tonight! does happy dance) Bye!