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Guaranteed to make you Smile
Chapter 3
With only two hours left till school was over, and rainstill pouring outside in the gray-lit sky, Tidus sat in the gym waiting for his turn in the lead of the dodge ball game.
"You okay?" Gippal asked when he walked by, cupping his hip and scratching the back of his head.
"Yah, a lot has been going on today…I really don't know why?" Tidus replied and the thunder roared harder than ever, "thunder exactly matches my mood today…"
Gippal chuckled and sat next to him, " The break up eh? Well, I'm still going to hang out with the others today. You should lighten up a bit…you know, just relax and hang out. We're going to the mall, you wanna come?"
"I dunno yet, I mean, I feel very heavy. It's raining outside, have some homework, and it is very likely to have a storm in Zanarkand…so today, not a good one." Tidus asked and Gippal laughed again.
"Haha, anyways, you should go up and play, I'm beat." Gippal said and off went Tidus to play.
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"I just don't feel so good…"Nooj complained and Paine nodded.
"I understand," she said as she walked down the hall and Nooj put his head down, looking at his papers and sighed.
"Yeah right, sure you understand…you don't know anything in my world." He sat at the nearest bench. Yuna was his first love…did he ever wonder why?
"Hrm, you're a strange one Nooj." At those words Paine left and Nooj sat there. Soon a few minutes passed and he went into the office to drop off his things and went to gym before it was too late…
"I know there's no space for me…Yuna..." Nooj left back to his gym class and sat by Gippal.
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"Hey Noojster, you okay? You look kind of down." Gippal said and Nooj turned his gaze to a brunette passing the ball to another teammate, and she smiled not at him, but at her teammate.
"Uh, Nooj?" Gippal waved his hands in front of him and clapped his hands together.
"Huh? What? What do you want?" Nooj asked and Gippal gave him the weird look.
"Oh, never mind, go of to your other world, yah, continue to stare at people." Gippal said and Nooj nodded.
"Okay, I will." Nooj said and continued to look at Yuna.
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Yuna passed the ball to Rikku and she passed the ball back.
"Look at Tidus, he looks tired." Yuna said as if she was in a dream legend game of some kind.
"Huh? Okay, erm, Yunie, off the Tidus subject, let's talk about something else. Let's see what Gippal's doing."
Rikku and Yuna looked over and to see Gippal sitting, and moving around. Apparently, he wasn't sitting still. And Nooj, which had his eyes on Yuna's face.
She looked at him weirdly and mouthed a 'what,' nicely.
At that he averted his gaze and poked Gippal in the shoulder.
"Hmm," Rikku teased, "looks like Yunie's gotsa secret admirer."
"I do not!" Pouted Yuna and threw the ball up in the air, "he probably just needed to see me or something. I mean he's the only guy I hang out with. I mean I knew him forever…"
"Uh huh, right. It doesn't seem right for girls to make moves." Rikku sarcastically said and Yuna sighed.
"Okay, Nooj's sweet, cute, and smart, but guess what?" Yuna said and Rikku giggled.
"What?" Rikku asked and Yuna answered.
"I LIKE TIDUS!" She said and threw the ball at Rikku.
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At the end of the day when the bell rang and everyone ran out of halls and into their cars, it meant something harsh for Gippal. Bad traffic…
"Err! Damn! Damn traffic!" He shouted, as he was nearly twenty-minutes away from the light.
"Hey, Gippal, lighten up!" Yuna said as she turned the radio off and took out a piece of chewing gum, "want one Rikku?"
"Huh? Oh yeah, sure!" Rikku said as she took the gum and ripped of the wrapper and started to chew.
"Hey! Don't throw wrappers in my car! Pick it up this instant!" Gippal said as he too started to chew.
"Don't sound like my pops!" Rikku pouted and looked at Nooj, "want a piece of gum?"
"Nah, hey Gippal, just drop me off home will you?" Nooj asked and he frowned.
"You're starting to act like Tidus…he didn't want to come either, and now you?" Gippal asked and Nooj sighed nervously and chuckled a little too.
"What? Tidus is not going?" Yuna asked and Nooj noticed as how she was so concerned.
"No, there a prob?" Gippal asked, as he got closer and closer to the signal each minute.
"Uh, no no. No problem. Just wondering why." Yuna replied and rested her back on the seat; she was sitting in the front seat.
"I'm never giving you guys a ride again..." Gippal muttered.
"The bite still there?" Nooj asked and suddenly grabbed her hand making Yuna jolt.
"Uh, yah. It's a spider bite and I think it'll stay for a few days." Yuna stuttered. Nooj didn't seem to be the types to grab a hand like that. He saw the fang's of a spider, that were marked on her hand.
"We should have the doc see it." Nooj said and he sat back and looked outside.
'Got to hold it in damn it!' He thought and soon they were off.
"Nooj, let's juts hang out at your house. Leblanc obviously doesn't know about it, and Tidus didn't want to go, and Paine and Baralai are clueless."
Nooj thought about it for a second and sighed, "okay…"
When they made it Nooj's house, Rikku started to jump on the couch and watch T.V.
"No, no. First of all, we are all going to sit down and do our homework." Nooj ordered and opened the light to the dining room and put his book bag next to a chair, "sit."
"Aww, party pooper!" Rikku said as she dropped her book bag as well.
"I'm going to the washroom." Yuna said as Nooj watched her walk off into the distant.
"Hmm, something the matter Nooj?" Gippal asked and Nooj shook his head and started to read his books.
"Hmm…" Gippal said and sat a chair next to Rikku.
Rikku noticed this and sat at the other chair that was two chairs now away from him. He smiled and sat next to her again and so it on through out the whole table and neither one of them got tired. (six chairs in all)
"Stop." Nooj said as he continued writing and wasn't paying that much attention, but soon he would be, "Stop guys."
"Hey guys." Yuna said as she smoothed her hair out.
"Stop guys!" Nooj shouted and slammed his pencil and Gippal laughed.
Yuna and Nooj looked at each other and nodded, "STOP!" They both screamed and then Rikku and Gippal looked at the two.
"Now, let's do some homework and after that we'll go outside and eat some ice-cream." Yuna said calmly and sat next to Nooj who shook his head and sighed.
"Brats…" he muttered softly and Yuna looked at Gippal and Rikku.
"Rikku, you're my cousin, not a retard and Gippal, you're a pointless clown…" Yunasighed and Gippal pointed at Rikku and Rikku pointed at Gippal.
"Hestarted it." Rikku said.
"Shestarted it." Gippal said at the same time.
"Uh huh. Now let's all finish our homework, before the clock hits eleven and we're not home."
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"I'm so bored…" Tidus said and lay down on his stomach on his bed.
His stomach was hurting and he decided to call the others and see what was going on.
As he took out his cell phone, there was a bell at his door. He got up to see who it was and when he opened it, it was Baralai and Paine.
"Hey." Paine said as she came inside and Baralai as well.
"Wow, this is so unexpected." Tidus joked and offered them a seat, "want anything to drink?"
"No, thanks." Baralai said and Paine smiled.
"Ice tea, thanks." Paine favored and Tidus nodded.
"So what brings you here?" Tidus asked and Paine scratched her neck.
"Well, we just finished our homework and everything, decided to drop by." Paine replied and Tidus brought over the glass filled with ice tea.
"Oh. And where are the others?" Tidus asked and Baralai shook his head.
"I don't know. I was going to call them earlier, but decided not to." Baralai replied.
After a few minutes of awkward silence, Tidus spoke again.
"Hey, not to be nosy or anything, but are you guys going out?"
At the hint of Baralai blushing a bit, and Paine smiling and chuckling a bit, Tidus answered his own question, "guess not…so why are you always together."
"We're going to start a rock band, and we're going to need people. Just an extra project that Baralai and me came up with and decided, 'hey! Why not try this out?.'" Paine remarked and Tidus mouthed an 'uh huh…'
"Why don't you ask Gippal to play the bass, he's great at it. And Yuna has a great voice for the vocals. What do you and Baralai exactly do?" Tidus asked and Paine replied.
"I, play the drums."
"And I, play the keyboard and or piano." Baralai said and Tidus smiled.
"Nooj knows how to play the piano and the violin." Tidus said and Paine thought about it.
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"Well, I guess this is sufficient enough…I'm beat of doing homework. And it's six-fifteen. The sun went down! Droopy and wet outside… happy it's not raining anymore…" Gippal whined and everyone had their heads in their notes.
"Shush Gippal! You know we have that big test in math tomorrow!" Yuna said and she yawned, "Yeah, you're right! I'm beat. I read all my notes like five-hundred times."
"Read more." Nooj retorted, "Practice makes perfect."
(A/n: actually Billie Joe Armstrong quotes the quote that Gippal actually is going to say now, he's from Green Day! It belongs to him! Though actually in this story, it's going to be some one else.)
"As one of my role models, Jecht said…" Gippal began but was interfered.
"Tidus's father?" Yuna asked and Gippal nodded.
"Yes, before me and Tidus left the middle of Zanarkand, Jecht told me and Tidus…"
"Damn it…" Nooj said and Gippal continued.
"We go to school to practice. Practice makes perfect. Nobody's perfect, so why practice?" Gippal smiled, "get what I'm sayin'?"
"Why would a guy, or such a famous blitzer like that say something like…that!" Rikku asked and shook her head and hit it too.
"Because he obviously failed school…" Nooj retorted and Gippal gave him the look.
"You dissin' the famous one and only Jecht?" Gippal asked and Nooj nodded.
"Yah. I'm dissin the guy! NOW! READ!"
"Guys, your very good friends…let's not get in a fight." Yuna said and Nooj sighed.
"Horrific." Gippal said and Rikku looked at him.
"Horrific?" She asked.
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"Yum! Yum! Ice cream!" Rikku said as she jumped, twirled and danced.
"Noojster, you've been very distant these days…" Gippal said and Yuna went into the line.
"I have?" Nooj asked and looked at Yuna and then back at Gippal.
"Yeah." He replied and took out some gil.
"Uh, uh," Nooj insisted, "I'll pay."
"Welcome to Creamy Spira, how may I help you?" The faired hair woman asked and Yuna talked.
"Um, okay guys. I want a strawberry."
"I want cookie dough!" Rikku said happily.
"Chocolate and Vanilla swirl for me." Gippal said and then it was up to Nooj.
"Uh, I'll have strawberry too."
"Okay, so that's two strawberry's, one vanilla and a chocolate swirl, and a cookie dough one?" She asked and Yuna nodded.
"Mm hmm."
Few minutes later when they got they're ice cream, they all sat down. Gippal sat down next to Rikku and teased her, and Yuna and Nooj were talking about school stuff.
"See, I never wanted to get elected," Yuna spoke, "but the next day I was in and I was so busy from then on…"
Nooj laughed, "same with me. I've had the same problem."
"We have so much in common Nooj, it's funny. And we knew each other since the second grade!" Yuna replied.
A little girl came up to Yuna and smiled.
"Hi! Are you Yuna? The girl that came on T.V.?" The little girl asked and Yuna nodded.
"Yeah."
"Oh, I want your autograph." She giggled and Yuna jolted. She looked at Nooj and tucked her hair behind her ear.
"Oh, this is sudden? Why?" Yuna asked and then the mom came up.
"Oh, Yuna dear. It is really you? Well, I'm sorry. Ever since thatspeech for little kids last year, my daughter loves you. She can't stop random babbling on how pretty you are." The mom said and Yuna blushed.
"Oh, really ma'am? I'm flattered." Yuna replied and then signed the balloon of the little girl, "here you go!"
"Nice night huh? Here with your boyfriend? A little chilly you might say?" The mom asked and Yuna blushed and so did Nooj.
"Uh, yes! Hehe! We're just friends!" Yuna said and the woman giggled.
"Well, you two have fun now! C'mon darling let's go!" The mom said and off they left.
"He," Nooj said as he blushed a little, "I remember that speech."
"Yah, I was real popular back then, huh?" Yuna laughed and Gippal and Rikku watched from behind.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Rikku asked.
"I think so…" Gippal replied.
A/n: Review! Review! Review! Okay, now I'm off to see the wizard of Sin! Lol! Hahaha! JK! NO FLAMES! MUCH LOVE! This took me so long to write! Maybe, the longest chapter than any other story so far! Lol!
Next time…is the secret out? Does anyone find out? When a sudden change affects the lives and grades of teens in a rock band coming forward from Baralai and Paine, it's up to them to decide a name. Meanwhile, Tidus is stuck with his feelings to confess to Yuna. Will he tell her? Next time on, Guaranteed to make you Smile: Chapter 4
To confess or not to confess…huh?