A/N: Greetings! Um, I don't know what to say...Well, s always, thanks for the reviews! The characters aren't really in character at all, but you still seem to lik it, and I thank you for that. Anyways, here's chapter eleven! One more left...

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Chapter 11: Over the River and Through Macalania

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"I can't believe she had an alligator as a pet," Tidus muttered behind the wheel of the Navigator.

"I told you not to pick them up," Lulu reminded the truck.

"And I told you they were psycho," Rikku added. "Remember?"

"Yes. And I'm sure they heard they heard you," Yuna replied. "You yelled so loud I'm sure the whole hotel heard you."

"Oh, Yunie, you exaggerate." Having grown bored with every gadget in the truck, Rikku leaned back into her seat and sighed.

"Tired?" Auron questioned, turning from Wakka to Rikku. Yevon knew he was.

"Sorta. Mostly I'm just bored."

"How? It's like an electronics store in here." He pointed out the t.v.'s, laptop, and PS2.

"There's nothing on t.v., I don't want to play a game, and I'm tired of the computer," Rikku replied as he pointed to each device.

Sighing, Auron resumed his conversation with Wakka. "So, when is the wedding date again?"

"The seventeenth of November."

"Oh, yeah! Yunie, Lulu, and I need to start preparing," Rikku said, joining the conversation.

"It's for another eight months," Tidus chimed in.

"You can never start planning to early," Yuna spoke up, "Right girls?"

"Right," Rikku and Lulu replied.

"So, what kind of bridesmaids dresses are we getting?" Rikku asked, turning in her seat to face Lulu.

"I'm not really sure." Digging in her bag, Lulu grabbed a couple of magizines. "What do think about this?"

Rikku took the magizine and looked at the long tailed, light purple gowns. It had a sheer overlayer covered in tiny beaded flowers and and had a haltered styled neck line. "Ooh, pretty! Yunie, look!"

Taking the magzine from her cousin, Yuna replied, "Lulu, it's beautiful." She flipped to the next page. "Oh, and so is this."

"I can't see...Yuna, you come back here," Lulu ordered.

Wakka, who had been very comfortable, was rooted out of his seat by Yuna and Rikku. The back seat now consisted of three woman and a buch of magizines.

"You brought wedding stuff," Tidus sighed, "on our vacation."

"I can't just abandon my wedding plans," Lulu said, barely paying attention to anything except the books that were spead in front of her.

"Lulu, what about this wedding dress?" Yuna said, holding up a picture.

"Oh, that is pretty. And so is that one," she added, pointing to the dress next to it. "There's just so many."

"I know," Rikku agreed, putting one magazine own and picking another one up.

"I like that one," Wakka spoke up. He now sat in Rikku's seat next to Auron.

"Which one?" Lulu asked, leaning forward so he could point it out.

"That one." The one he pointed to was the one Lulu had had her eye on. It was long, had beaded trim along the bottom, sheer sleeves with matching beaded trim, and a slightly dipped neckline.

"Oh, no. Wakka's turning into a woman," Tidus joked.

"Hey, it's my wedding to, brudda," laughed Wakka.

"I'm glad he wants to get involved," Lulu defended her fiancé, placing a quick, loving kis on his lips.

"The dress is nice," Auron agreed, leaning over to look at one of the magazines with Wakka.

"Not you, too, Auron," Tidus sighed.

"Soon we'll probably be planning your's and Yunie's wedding, so get over it," Rikku stated, flipping through her third magazine.

"Oh. Um..Uh-" Yuna stuttered. She looked to the front to see what Tidus had thought of Rikku's comment. He seemed rather unphased.

"Guess your right," Tidus replied, which resulted in Yuna getting choked on air.

"Yunie, are you okay?" Rikku asked, placing a hand on her cousins back. She hadn't meant for Yuna to die, she just wanted to have a little fun.

"Yes." Yuna gained control of herself. "I'm fine."

"Hey, they have stuff in here for the honeymoon," Wakka teased, holding up a page displaying lingerie.

"Wakka!" Lulu cried, flushing a shade of bright red.

"What? You don't like anything on this page? There's more," Wakka began, feeding off of Lulu's discomfort. "See?" He had turned to next page when Lulu made a grab for the book.

"Wakka, give me that!" She quickly snatched the magazine from him.

Wakka couldn't help but laugh at the look on his future wife's face. It was a mix of embarrassment, peevishness, and he was sure he saw a little laughter. "Lu, don't be mad at me." His response was a slap to the back of his head. Maybe there wasn't

any laughter.

"Anyways, where are we?" Lulu asked, going back to circling things in the catalogue.

"Um, Macalania. I think," Tidus answered.

Lulu instantly jerked her head up. "What do you mean, 'you think'?"

"I mean I don't know. I don't have the map."

"Here we go again," Rikku sighed.

"I know we're on the right path. I'm just not sure where we are," Tidus defended himself. He messed up two time, and now suddenly he can't be trusted.

"Oh, the map's beside Auron," Yuna said, having abandoned her position as map holder to look at catalogues.

Auron picked up the large piece of paper. "We are," he began, scanning the map, "in Macalania. Tidus was right."

"Shocking," Lulu muttered.

"Thanks for having faith in me guys." Tidus rolled his eyes. "Anyways, we should be in Bevelle by tonight."

"Good. I can't wait to get to the hotel room. Then we can go shopping, and go to the spa, and..." Rikku began naming off things she planned to do.

"Don't forget sleep," Yuna commented.

"Yes. Sleep," Rikku echoed dreamily. She hadn't been able to sleep well for the past two days.

"Oh, ya. About that. You know how we wanted two adjoining rooms?" Wakka started.

"Yes," Lulu said motioning him on. She knew she should have booked the rooms.

"Well," Tidus began taking over where Wakka had left off, but then thought twice about it. He had screwed up enough. "Auron you tell them," he finished his sentence.

Auron shot Tidus an annoyed glare. "Well we only have one." That was easier than he thought it would be.

"Is that it?" Lulu asked, eyebrows raised. "We have only have one room?"

"Is it small?" Rikku questioned. That was the only downside she could see.

"No, it's actually pretty big," Tidus answered.

"So what's the problem?" Yuna inquired, putting the magazines away.

"Well," Tidus started.

"Sleeping arragements need to be made," Auron ventured carefully.

"Why? Don't we have six beds?" Rikku asked, turning to look at Auron. It was the first time she had really looked at him since her episode last night with Lily, and she wondered how she had kept from looking at him before then. He was so good-looking...

"We only have one bedroom."

"So?" Lulu put the last of the magazines away. It couldn't be that bad. Why were they beating around the bush?

"Well," Tidus started for the umpteenth time.

"Just tell us!" Yuna yelled, clearly annoyed.

"Weonlyhavetwobeds," Wakka said quickly.

"What?" Yuna questioned. She was getting sick of asking questions.

"He said we only two beds," Lulu translated.

"Huh?" Rikku asked, snapping out of her trance. She wondered how long she had been staring at Auron and how much she had missed of the conversation.

"We only have two beds," Lulu explained "But that isn't a problem because we have a couch, right? We do have a couch?"

"Yes we have a couch," Wakka answered.

"Good. Yuna, Rikku, and myself will take the bedroom, and you boys can take the hide-a-bed," Lulu stated, as if the matter was closed.

"It's not a hide-a-bed, and we only have two beds," Tidus said, disrupting Lulu's plan.

"What kind of a hotel are we staying in?" Yuna cried. "Don't they know six people are staying in the room?"

"Yes, but they said they were booked, and it was either take it or leave it," Auron said, trying to think of some solution the their problem.

"So we have one room, with one bedroom, two beds, a couch, and six people," Tidus said, summing up the situation.

"Great," Rikku sighed, wondering what they could do to fix the problem. "Hey! What about cots? Do they have cots?" Rikku asked hopefully.

"Nope," Tidus replied sadly. "I tried that already."

"What kind of a hotel doesn't have cots," Rikku mumbled under her breath. She was suddenly very tired now that the option of sleeping seemed very far away.

The truck grew quite as everyone brained stormed.

"I just want to sleep," Rikku said, climbing over the seat and plopping down next to Auron. "Is that too much to ask?"

"In this situation, yes," Auron replied, trying to wipe the defeated look off of her beautiful face and putting on one of her trade- mark smiles. It worked, and he heard her sigh as she leaned back into the seat.

"We could couple up and share beds like we did at the hotel in Guadosalam," Tidus suggested.

"Yes, but who gets the couch?" Yuna questioned as she moved into the passener seat.

"Let's draw straws," Wakka said, moving back to his spot by Lulu.

"We don't have straws, Wakka," Lulu sighed.

"Then let's flip a coin or something, ya?"

"That'll work," Tidus said, digging in his pocket for a coin. "Okay, whoever wins get the beds, and whoever loses gets the couch. Who's going first?"

"Me and Auron versus you two," Rikku answered.

"Alrighty. Call it in the air."

"Heads!"

"Tails!" Rikku and Yuna shouted at the same time.

"Yuna, you call it," Tidus said as the coin landed on Valefor, which was tails.

"Great, and we would have won," Rikku whipered in Auron's ear.

"Heads," Yuna called as the coin was in mid-air.

"Heads it is," Tidus declared as the coin landed with Yevon's face facing up.

"Yay!" Yuna cried happily.

"Humph." Rikku grunted.

"Wakka, you call it this time," Yuna said, taking the coin from Tidus and flipping it.

"Heads."

"Heads," Yuna confirmed.

"Cheaters! That's a two headed coin, isn't it?" Rikku cried, snatching the coin from Yuna.

"It landed tails up the first time," Lulu pointed out.

"Maybe it will be a big couch," Yuna said, hoping to cheer up her cousin.

"Yeah, right," Rikku scoffed, handing the coin back to Yuna.

"Well, it won't be too bad. At least you get to sleep with Auron," Yuna said, caughting what she said to late. "Opps," she muttered under her breath. Turning in her seat, she found her cousin glaring daggers at her.

"I don't mind sharing the couch with Rikku," Auron said, clearing his throat. "As long as she doesn't mind sharing with me." He was in fact looking forward to sleeping on the couch. It was small, and they would be forced to touch each other...What was he saying. He really needed to get ahold of himself.

"I don't mind," Rikku replied, still staring at Yuna. "Do I Yuna?"

Yuna gave a nervous chuckle. "Tidus, honey, how much longer until we get to the hotel?"

"Probably about four hours."

Rikku turned her gaze away from her cousin-whom she planned to kill later- and decided to see what the others were doing. Wakka and Lulu were talking amongst themselves, and Auron was looking out the window. He's probably wishing he didn't have to share a bed with me. He probably thinks I'm a nut job, thanks to Yunie and my little stunt last night.

Auron glanced away from the window to find Rikku staring at him. "You know, sleeping on the couch won't be to bad," he said, leaning in so only she could hear.

"I know," Rikku sighed. As long as your my sleeping partner, I could care less. Whoa. Where had that come from? Well, she knew where it had came from, but she couldn't believe she had almost said it. She must be sleepier than she thought.

"And as long as you're my partner, I know I can make the best out of the situation," Auron added. Sure it was a little bold, at least for him, but the surprised look- that quickly turned to pleasure- on Rikku's face was a just reward.

For Rikku, the rest of the ride to Bevelle was spent in mostly silence as she tried to figure out just what exactly Auron had meant. Whatever it was, it sure had made her happy.

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Reply to my terrific reviewers...

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A/N: Well there it is! Chapter eleven! Wow, only one chapter left. Kinda sad, isn't it? I'm sure I'll return with something else. Well, thank you for the reviews. Keep it up! Last chapter will be here soon!