Disclaimer: If you thought this was the last chapter I'm sorry, but there will be one more after this… The only characters that are mine are Connie, her family, her friends, and her family's friends. All the other characters are from FFX, FFX-2, FFVII, and Yu Yu Hackusho. Unless you count the dog and cat's names which are from Kingdom Hearts, the animals are mine, but the names are from Kingdom Hearts. Okay, now chapter 14, only one chapter after this!!!

Close Encounters of the FFX Kind!: Chapter 14.

I headed down stairs, "So!" I said, "Where are we? How are we doing?"

"Good!" said Shuyin. "We haven't lost to bad… yet."

"Key word there being yet," said Tidus.

"Okay, let me see where you are." Tidus, the current ruler of the controller nodded, and worked his way there.

"So, what do you think?" I heard Rikku say. "Do you think they'll stay? Or what?"

"I don't know," said Yuna. "how long 'til half hour?" she asked.

"Well… it's lookin' about…" Paine looked at the clock, "I'd say 20 minutes."

"What!?!" said Rikku. "I don't wanna wait that long! Can't we speed up time?"

"Uh, we can cast haste, but then everything will only seem to go slower, because we are moving faster, so we could cast slow, and it could be here before we know it!" said Yuna.

"Too much effort, not worth it," said Paine. "Just sit down for 20 minutes, it'll go by like that," said Paine snapping her fingers and sitting down on the couch.

"Fine!" said Rikku sitting next to Paine on the couch pouting. "Wanna play a game?" she asked anyone who was listening.

Shuyin, Tidus, Max, Aeris, Yuna, Paine, Baralai, Yuffie, Kurama, Mrs. A, Lenne, Silly, Calli and I, (in short just about everyone in the basement,) all looked right at her and said, "NO!"

"Geeze! Okay!" she said. She looked up at the ceiling and started to do something… I think she was counting the little dots, but she was speeking Al Behd. "Uha... dfu... drnaa... vuin... veja..." and she just kept right on goin', while Yuna sat down next to her. Then my ears listened in on Max's and Aeris conversation. The two of them were sitting on the huge chair together.

"So?" asked Aeris.

"So, what?" asked Max back.

"So, what's your answer? Are you coming?"

"Well…"

"You're not coming!?!" she said looking at him.

"No, well… wait, a second, you're trying to get it out of me. I promised Connie that I would tell everyone when she did." Hearing him say that made me pretty happy. He wouldn't even tell someone that he, obviously had a HUGE crush on whether he was going to go with them or not.

"Oh, fine. How long is that?"

"Ummm..." he said looking at a clock, "I'd guess about 15 minutes."

"Okay, fine."

Then I was brought back to Kingdom Hearts with Tidus and Shuyin. "Whoo-hoo! One bad guy down!" said Tidus. He was having way to much fun beating up Jafar at Agrabah.

"Yeah, well, don't get too excited there's another stage."

"What? No way! I already beat him!"

"Oh, it's not like it's hard. Just hit him you idiot!" he said smacking Tidus upside the head.

"Hey, I don't see you knowing what to do," he said smacking him back.

"If you give me the controller than I might!" said Shuyin nailing him in the gut.

"Hey! That hurt!" said Tidus jumping on him.

I had to stand up to get out of the way. "Knock it off guys!" said Max trying to get between them, but only wound up getting knocked in the head, and thrown out between them. "Geeze, they are gonna kill each other!"

"Lenne, give me a hand," said Yuna.

"I was just about to ask you to do the same for me. Connie, you wanna take it then?" Lenne asked. I nodded.

The girls looked at each other, than at the two of them. "HEY!" they screamed in perfect unison. Then they nodded at me.

"Okay, look, if you guys can't get along then both Max AND I will wait another 24 hours before telling you what our plans are. AND, in that time there would be no video games. Final Fantasy or otherwise. Now…" before I was able to finish my sentence Grandma Jill called from the stairs.

"HEY! COME EAT!" There was a stampede. Lucky for Max and me we were the first ones up the stairs. We pulled over and watched everyone go by, actually Grandma Jill pulled us over. "Sit down, and Connie and Max will let you know, so you guys can get out of here, and on your way."

I looked at Max. "You got your decision?"

"I think so. What about you? You ready for this?"

"I hope so. I'm still not sure if I'm doing the right thing…"

Grandma Jill grabbed me by the shoulders, and looked me square in the eye. "Connie. Follow your heart, it will never betray you," she said. Those words stuck in my head ever since that day. I've done nothing but that since.

Grandma Jill left the kitchen, and grabbed a bunch of food and headed for the dinning room. There were 3 places open one for grandma Jill at the head of the table, one for both Max and me beside her, then next to those empty chairs were Aeris, and Silly. Then there was a random placement of everyone else.

"Ready?" asked Max, looking at me.

"Yeah. Let's do this," he and I both followed Grandma Jill into the kitchen. Both had our final decisions in mind.