Chapter 3
Let the Pranks begin!
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"Man Tidus, seems to me you got yourself a little trouble maker there. She sure is different to all the girls here. But I guess it's excusable, she's still new and a bit stupid but she'll learn soon." Squall managed to joke while Tidus kept his straight face.
With a one-hour break for recess, the two men made their way down the wide long corridors with lockers attached together on each side. It was always a hassle for Tidus and Squall to get through the corridors keeping in mind that majority of the girls wanted a piece of them, however, because it was like an every day thing, they managed to squeeze through the swoon of girls sooner or later.
"You're right about her being different, but trust me, she's nothing to me, she's not gonna be a trouble maker if I don't even notice her." he cockily replied.
"Yeah whatever man, anyways, what's going on with the cleaning up the yard issue?" Squall asked as they slowly walked past a few giggling girls
"Oh, I just paid some guy some cash to do it for me, no stress."
"Yo! Guys over here!"
The yell had come from Wakka who was sitting on a large table situated on the yard with a huge group of both guys and girls, officially labeled as the 'cool' group. A chorus of Hi's was heard amongst the large group, as they sat themselves down on the table.
"So Tidus, I heard you had some trouble with this new chick, am I right?" asked a blonde guy with a pretty girl sitting on his lap.
"What! You're making it sound as though I had trouble in bed with her man! She's just different to the average girls here." he replied, mumbling the last eight words
"You mean, she was able to resist your charms, Tidus, Mr. I am the hottest thing alive?" another of his friends sarcastically added.
Tidus shot him a death glare before getting interrupted by one of his girl friends, "Hey, isn't she Yuna the new chick?"
The entire group turned their heads to see who the blonde girl was pointing out, "Yeah that's her alright." Squall stated, spotting the bi-colored eyed girl with her blonde cousin and Lulu.
"Woah man, damn she is one fine chick. Look if you don't want her, I'll take her." the girl in his lap gave him a disapproving looking as she elbowed the blonde playfully in the abs.
"I know! And look at the other one, Rikku, she's hot as well." Squall added
"You guys are kidding right? Tell me you're kidding because seriously, if you're not, then you're either blind or your standards have dramatically lowered. I'm glad at least Tidus' standards are still standing its ground." a voice added from the group, a voice belonging to a brown haired girl who went by the name of Myleena.
Ever since she laid eyes on Tidus, she was physically and mentally attracted to him. Yes, she was very attractive herself; however, Tidus was never able to develop feelings for her anymore than just a friend. But no matter how many times Tidus tried dropping that hint on her lightly; she never seemed to get the point.
"Oh yeah man, what about Cassandra, heard you dumped her." Wakka asked whilst eating his lunch.
Tidus merely shrugged and answered lamely, "I don't know, guess it wasn't working out, so yeah that's basically it."
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It was the last class of the day, and Yuna had successfully avoided Tidus the whole day despite the little incident in the morning. Unfortunately she was stuck with them in her last class. Squall, she didn't really mind him, but still avoided him, remembering that he was also rich and spoilt just like Tidus.
"Hey Yunie, come on, it's our last class! Quit looking so down." But Yuna couldn't help it; she just couldn't stand seeing his face.
"Alright alright I'm coming." and with that, she closed her rusty locker door and walked unusually slow with Lulu and Rikku back to their original classroom, their last subject for the day.
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Everyone was seated back to his or her normal places by the time Miss Daniels entered. She greeted the class with a smile on her face and looked oddly enthusiastic. Possibly because it was the last class and she simply couldn't wait to get out of this hell hole. At least that was what Yuna thought.
"Class, seeing that it's the last class of the first day, I don't want to get any work started, so I'm just going to spend this lesson giving you the facts regarding your Retreat camp."
The whole room burst into excited whispers upon the mentioning of the Retreat camp. Tidus simply prayed that it wasn't one of those boring ones like the camp he went to last year where Myleena had accidentally walked in on him while he was changing after his shower. 'Till this very day, Tidus was still thankful that he had a towel wrapped around his waist.
"Quiet class. Anyway, this camp will be held on next Monday, so you all have exactly one week to prepare yourselves. I advise you not to leave things to the last minute due to the fact that this camp is a two week period trip."
"Wow, a two week trip, that's the longest we've ever had," a voice stated from the front of the room.
"Yes Simon, it is, but it is a retreat camp. So luckily for you guys, it's pretty much just taking a break before your exams. We don't want anyone distracted so this year we decided to get it over and done with so it doesn't interrupt any of your classes." Miss Daniels informed.
"But what's the point of this camp, I mean, we already have breaks," asked another student, adjusting his thick glasses, seemingly disappointed with the news.
"Well, it's to show your independency and how well you work without teachers there... and, you have to write a reasonably long and detailed essay about it which counts for 23 of your overall mark at the end of your first semester. The essay is one of the main assignments this year, so I advise you to not think any less of it than your other assignments."
Everyone's brows shot up as soon as the part where she said, 'without teachers there' was announced. They did, however, ignore the catch to the camp at the end of her sentence.
"So where are we going exactly?"
Miss Daniels adjusted her glass and proceeded to answer the questions "Well, I'm not sure, because you're going to be split up into groups, meaning you'll be going to different places,"
"Oh, do we get to choose our groups?" Simon asked eagerly
"No, it is already chosen for all of you, but you won't find out until Friday,"
A few moans were heard, not only because they weren't going to find out their groups any time sooner, but also because the groups were already selected.
"Okay, seeing that we only have a few more minutes in class, you can talk amongst yourselves quietly until you are dismissed,"
Straight away, Rikku turned herself towards Yuna so she was facing her, "Oh my gosh Yunie, this camp sounds so cool! I wonder if we're in the same group."
Yuna smiled back widely at her, "Yeah does sound interesting."
As Rikku was about to say something, a voice had spoken up just before her, "Yay, this means I get to sleep with as many people as I want because the teachers aren't gonna be there, right Yuna?" Tidus sarcastically remarked.
Squall simply smirked, "Well, I don't know about Yuna, but I definitely havta agree with you man." he agreed, placing his two feet on the table.
Yuna gave them both a dirty look, but nevertheless ignored them. "Anyway! Rikku, Lulu, wanna go shopping after school on Thursday, you know, for the stuff we need,"
The two girls nodded in agreement before packing their things into their bags ready to leave as soon as the bell went.
"Well sis, seeing that you're gonna go shopping tomorrow, you might as well get me some spare 'you know whats', just incase I run out." Squall said, both Tidus and him laughing.
Lulu rolled her eyes and sighed. Being the mature sister that she was, she was already use to her brother.
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Yuna parked her car in the school car park before she hurriedly walked to class. As she positioned her bag properly on her right shoulder, she thought,
'Great, late on the second day, just great, and why didn't Rikku wake me?'
She however quickly dismissed her thoughts as she arrived to the entrance of her homeroom.
"Yuna, late already on the second day." Miss Daniels said, not sounding too pleased.
"Sorry." Yuna mumbled, seating herself down between Rikku and Lulu.
"Class, the new lockers have just been in today, so in a few minutes I'm going to let you off few by few to organize your things." Miss Daniels informed the class.
With that, she ordered some students first to pack their belongings into the locker while Yuna took this opportunity to tell Rikku off for not waking her.
"Rikku! Why didn't you wake me up this morning?" she questioned.
"I tried, but you locked your door, and you still couldn't hear me when I literally smashed your door." Rikku replied, hands in the air in a surrendering gesture.
Yuna thought for a while, then realized what had prevented her from hearing Rikku.
Stupid MD playerIt wasn't long until Yuna was called out into the corridors to pack her books into her new locker, which was situated next to Lulu's.
She carefully spun the numbers on the combination lock before opening the locker door. However, as soon as she fully opened the door, she gasped at the sight. It was badly spray painted with scratches everywhere. She squinted at the smell the paint had caused and noticed a note stuck on the back of the locker. The handwriting was messy, but not to the point where she couldn't read it. The note read,
'Hope you like the way we decorated your locker, it was done especially for you Yuna'
Yuna was infuriated, she had a pretty good idea who was behind this and was not going to tolerate with it. So she ripped the note off the locker furiously and stormed off to Tidus on the other side of the large corridors.
"If you think that this is funny, then you're pretty sick." she spat at him, shoving the piece of paper in his face.
"What? Have you gone crazy or something, I didn't write this note to you, I wouldn't waste my precious time on someone like you." he countered back.
"Oh really, why don't you take a good look at my locker and then tell me you didn't do it." she hissed, glaring at him.
"Fine I will." he said, brushing past Yuna as Squall just stood there staring amusedly at the two as they argued.
"Holy shit! What the hell happened to your locker! I guess you have more people hating you than I thought." Tidus laughed, arms crossed against his chest.
Yuna stood there for a while looking deep into his ocean blue eyes to see if he was really telling the truth. It was until Tidus waved his hands in front of her face that she had snapped out of her trance.
"Whatever Tidus, but I swear, if other crap happens to me today, I'll know where my paybacks are headed to." she hissed before slamming the piece of paper against Tidus' chest.
"As I said, why the hell would I waste my time on you!?" he spoke, raising one of his eyebrows.
"I'm glad, just remember your words." and with that, she turned around and left, leaving to go ask for another locker. Tidus stood there for a while, and thought.
'I wonder who did this to you, but hey, you deserved it.'
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Tuesday – recess 10.45am
After the incident about the locker, Yuna was relieved that she had not noticed anything unusual, although she doubted that feeling of relief was going to last. And she was right.
"Hey Yunie, can I borrow your cell phone, I need to make a phone call to cancel my appointment at the hairdressers," Rikku asked politely.
"Yeah sure,"
Yuna began shuffling through her bag and pulling things out, but failed to find her phone. Normally she wouldn't really get mad over this matter, but with all the things that have happened to her in the past two days, it triggered her annoyance. Suddenly, her cell phone ringing tone was heard clearly throughout the yard yet she couldn't tell where it was. She began walking at a quick pace everywhere looking for her phone with the help of Rikku and Lulu.
At this point, practically everyone including Tidus and Squall on the yard was looking at Yuna cluelessly walking around searching for her phone. The ringing started to get louder as she approached the garbage bin, and it was then, she realized where her phone was. She winced as she stepped closer while Myleena's smirk grew wider.
Yuna squeezed her eyes shut as she slowly reached down to grab her phone, which was only an arm stretch away. To her disgust, she had to remove a banana peel that was purposely placed on top of her phone before she could actually reach it. Finally when the phone was in her grasp, she turned abruptly to face Tidus. He on the other hand had already been watching her since the very beginning.
Expecting to see a smile on her face for finding her phone, he was instead looking at a majorly pissed of girl glaring right back at him. Then it suddenly hit him, she had thought it was him who did this to her and remembered what she had promised him before.
'I swear, if other crap happens to me today, I'll know where my paybacks are headed to.'
"Man, I think she thinks it's you again," Squall chuckled realizing the way she had been looking over at Tidus.
"Yeah well so what if she does, not that I really give a crap anyways." But as soon as he turned his head back towards Yuna's direction, she was no longer there.
Tidus had a weird feeling that something unpleasant was going to happen to him, but quickly let go of that thought when he noticed Squall watching him intently.
"What?" he asked, turning around to face the group again.
"Seriously, did you do this to her, I mean if you did, that's pretty hars-," but he was cut in by Tidus before he got to finish his last words.
"Are you serious?! Of course I didn't, I wouldn't wast-,"
"'Waste my time on her anyway', I know I know Tidus, you've said it over a million times, gees." Squall mocked
"Yeah whatever, I'm gonna go work out on Thursday after school, count you in?"
"Yeah, okay, your house or mine?" asked Squall.
"Yours, my dad's been really pissing me off these few days."
"These few days?" Squall joked.
Tidus merely shrugged before walking off the yard alone to his yellow sports car.
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An: Hmmmm… is Yuna gonna get feisty and retaliate? Or is she going to continue getting pushed around by whoever it is?