Chapter 1: Cupid gone haywire


It's been a few months since we showed that bastard Vegnagun who's the boss.

Everybody seems to enjoy their lives to the fullest. Yuna got her fairytale ending and she couldn't be happier. I really am amazed how much she loves Tidus and even more how much he loves her back. I mean… The magnitude of their love is something beyond my understanding. Tidus seems to have forgotten that he was actually dead for while there. Or that he never really was alive or real in the first place. Deaths means nothing to him compared to his love for Yuna. A love that conquers the barriers of another reality and death… Oh… How romantic. I wish I could someday feel as strongly towards someone as those two feel right now. Oh no… I'm starting to sound LeBlanc.

And… giggle Talking about LeBlanc and others, Cupid's been a busy little toddler these past few months. Paine and Baralai are going out nowadays. Ok, they haven't even held hands yet, but just the fact that Paine actually agreed to go on a date with Baralai was a giant leap when measured in Paine-scale. And now that I got to those hard-to-woo-types, Nooj is actually smiling a lot these days. I'm damn sure that LeBlanc bribed Cupid off… I mean, with her pushy attitude I would've gladly let Vegnagun finish me off if I were Nooj. But then again I'm not and maybe that over aggressive flirting thing works for some guys.

Wakka and Lulu and their beautiful baby boy are all living happily in Besaid village. Wakka's finally getting used to his fatherhood and one of his favorite things is changing Videna's diapers. He even agreed to coach the Aurochs, so he's quite busy these days. Even Kimahri's been hit by those Cupid's arrows and marries his longtime girlfriend Tamila. We're excepting news of their family's growing number too. Not to but too much pressure on Kimahri of course.

I could go on and on with the list of the new-found and not-so-new-found lovers, but the final conclusion is the same no matter what. I'm not on that list.

Being surrounded by all these happy couples just makes it more noticeable and clearer to see. I'm alone. I'm missing something. Of course I got friends and family who will always support me and put up with me but that's not enough. I feel so selfish saying that, but there's nothing I can do about my feelings. But there's no way I would end up living all alone for the rest of my life, is there?

At least I hope so…


A/N: Well, here you go. Every little love story must begin with the heroine suffering from heartaches or one serious case of loneliness. I wanted to make Rikku seem a bit more mature than she is described in FFX or FFX-2. It's only logical, that she really thinks something.