Chapter 6
Camp!
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"Class, quiet please,"
This was the third time Miss Daniels had asked the whole class to quiet down, however, no one was able to hear her over the deafening conversations in the room. Reaching its limit, Miss Daniels wasn't going to ask anymore, "HEY!"
Suddenly, the whole class became quiet, all staring widely at her. Never had she actually screamed. It just wasn't her being the nice, calm and cool teacher she was.
"Thank-you." she smiled sweetly, her mood changing dramatically.
"Now, seeing that I've finally gotten all your attention, I have something to announce." she exclaimed.
The whole class had leaned in closer without even realizing making Miss Daniels giggle slightly, "I think you guys would be pretty pleased with the news I have for you. Here, in my hand, on this sheet, are the groups and your separate destinations. I hope you guys will like the groups the teachers and I have arranged for you."
Giggles and excited whispers were heard from the girls in the class saying things like, 'Oh my gosh, I wonder if I'm gonna be in the same group with Tidus or Squall' or 'I hope I'm in the same group with either one of them, I'll truly be blessed if I were.' This caused Tidus and Squall to grin while Yuna rolled her eyes. It was almost becoming like a ritual, Tidus and Squall grinning, Yuna rolling her eyes. It just seems to repeat itself continuously.
'Can't the girls in this room get a grip or something?'After the first group was called out, there were a few moans and disappointed looks among the group. Mostly from the girls based on the fact that they weren't lucky enough to end up in either the blonde's or brunette's group.
"Okay, the second group," she started, adjusting her Guess glasses.
"Second group... Rikku, Wakka, Lulu, Squall, Tidus..."
Before Tidus' name was called out, Yuna was hoping she'd be in that group. However, after hearing his name she rapidly changed her mind, and was now praying that her name wasn't next.
"... and Yuna."
Every single girl in the room had showed a sign of disappointment one-way or another. Either moaning, glaring, or simply had their heads down. Yuna closed her eyes, also disappointed. It wasn't the disappointment the girls suffered, in fact quite the opposite. She was no longer looking forward to the camp anymore, just picturing herself spending two whole weeks with Tidus was enough to make her dread the days ahead of her.
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After fifteen minutes since the bell to leave went, Yuna had not stopped complaining about the group selection; therefore Rikku had to think quickly to change subjects, "SO! What happened yesterday after I dropped you off at Lulu's place?"
Instantly Yuna tensed up from the memory of yesterday's unpleasant incident. Hiding her emotions, she quickly turned away, "N-nothing, nothing happened." she stuttered.
"Oh Okay!" Rikku chirped.
"Anyway, where were you?" Lulu asked, remembering the way she kicked them both out of the car.
"Oh that, well I received this phone call..." She started explaining, not noticing that Yuna and Lulu weren't really paying attention to her at all.
After realizing Rikku had finished Lulu and Yuna simply nodded, pretending to act satisfied with her explanation, they continued walking back to Yuna and Rikku's apartment preparing for the camping trip.
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"If we're going for two weeks, what about your Blitzball practices?"
"Well basically it means that I'll just have to miss out on nine practices in total." Tidus mumbled, somewhat pleased and not pleased about it.
"Well, that's not entirely a bad thing you know. I mean, you do spend heaps of your time on Blitzball." Squall pointed out.
The only response he received from Tidus was a sigh. A short silence fell among them as they continued walking.
"You know, my old man is seriously pissing the crap outta me these days. It's not like I want to spend majority of my time on Blitzball, I mean I do have a social life." Tidus suddenly blurted out, sounding deeply frustrated.
At a very young age, Tidus had already developed a liking towards Blitzball. Watching his dad being showered with praises to seeing him on TV persuaded Tidus to be just like his old man. Or so he thought. At the age of seven, Tidus had finally plucked up the courage to ask his dad to teach him, and by the mere age of nine, Jecht had started training Tidus unnaturally hard. As years went by, Jecht became more like a coach than a father to Tidus which reasoned to their distanced relationship. Yes, it was undeniable that Jecht's coaching had actually paid off, as Tidus was labeled 'Star player of Zanarkand Abes' but for that, in return Jecht had sacrificed his name as 'dad' to a simple 'Jecht' to Tidus.
After being named 'Star player', along came huge fame and of course, to Tidus' likings, girls. This boosted Tidus' ego incredibly, and not long later, it became obvious. That however, did not change his reputation dramatically; he was still the sexy, hot Star player and girls were still falling head over heals for him. The only thing that changed with his reputation was that next to his label, another word was added. Cocky.
Girls thought of him as an 'Idol' or even a fantasized boyfriend, while some guys thought of him as a rather big headed jerk. Neither one trying to look deeper, or tried to really know what Tidus was about. Had the girls had a chance, they would simply jump into his pants without question and not even bother caring to know exactly who he is, just that his 'The Tidus'. Little did everyone know the insecurity and immense pressure that weighed upon him. The expectations everyone had of him to follow directly in Jecht's footsteps was a burden to him. He was living in Jecht's shadow.
"He's just pushing and pushing, 'Tidus you need more practice to be a pro' 'Tidus I know you can do better'," He mocked, "It's almost like his preparing me for something that I don't know about. But Blitzball season isn't until for another seven months." finishing with a deep growl.
"Well look on the bright side, you're gonna be spending not only two weeks away from your 'old man', but you're also spending two weeks with Yuna." Squall tried to remain optimistic about this camp.
Tidus, however, merely gave a semi-bitter laugh, "That's just great." his voice filled with sarcasm.
Squall smirked.
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Monday
Everyone was waiting impatiently for their mini van to arrive while they stood on the large yard, now looking rather small with around 250 people gathered together. Every group was made to stand together so that the process of getting into their transport and leaving would decrease the hassle. One by one, a mini van would be driven into the parking lot, and then either a man or woman would step out of the van and call out a group number. That particular group would then have to get onto the van and someone among that group would have to drive. The process was simple and brain free yet the whole procedure was taking forever.
Wakka's group was simply standing there, waiting patiently for their number to be literally screamed out. All of them were quiet besides Tidus and Squall. They had their heads turned the other direction as if discussing something confidential, but truth be told, they were simply talking about how many hot chicks they were going to score with at the camp. Note the phrase 'they were going to' instead of 'if they were going to'.
After a long while, their group number was finally called out, however, to the slowness of this procedure, they were still one of the lucky ones to be called out so early, therefore, they had to push their way through groups of people before getting into the parking lot.
"Cool!" Rikku squealed, noticing the mini van at once.
The squeal was high pitched and loud causing Squall, who was standing right next to her, to turn his head abruptly to look at the culprit of the noise. When he looked down at her, he couldn't help but smile, realizing that the squeal had reasoned to her blushing. She blushed even more when she felt Squall's eyes on her face and quickly hid it by covering it with her hands and running into the van.
Now this made Squall laugh.
"Okay, so who's gonna be the driver?" Tidus asked, looking at Wakka and Squall.
"I will, I don't trust you guys man." Wakka joked, slapping Tidus and Squall's shoulders.
"Okay, well I'm gonna sit in the front seat." Lulu declared, blushing slightly after hearing Rikku wolf whistle at her.
Wakka simply rubbed his neck and nervously laughed, "Yeah cool." feeling happy that the one he's had a crush on for so long was showing signs of liking towards him.
"Kay, whatever guys, let's just get on and leave already," Squall said, looking rather impatient.
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"So do you have any idea where we're headed Wakka?" Squall asked loudly just to have his voice heard over the two girls sitting in front of him and Tidus.
"Yeah I think so, think we're headed to a cabin close to a beach." Wakka replied.
"A beach!" Rikku exclaimed, jumping slightly, "I love beaches. Remember that time when Johnnie's board shorts fell off when he fell off his surfboard Yunie? Man that was so funny,"
"Oh my gosh, that was the funniest. He was blushing so hard, I seriously thought he was going to explode." Yuna added, both clutching onto their sides from laughing.
"Rightttt," Wakka, Lulu and Squall all said in unison, while they continued laughing.
Two hours later
"Okay! We're there people!" Wakka yelled in excitement.
The six of them stepped out of the van and found themselves looking over a beautiful beach, with soft golden sand and the hot sun shining down on the water making it glisten and sparkle. There were palm trees on the side of the pathway making it look tropical and cool. It appeared that other people the same age from other schools had also come here as their camping trip when the group realized the stack of cabins across the road from the beach and a heap of teenagers everywhere.
"Oh my gosh, this place is so pretty." Rikku shrieked, jumping around whilst everyone else was unloading their luggage out of the van.
"I know, and check out the hot babes on the beach." Tidus added with a mischievous grin on his face.
"Tidus man, isn't there anything else you think of besides chicks." Squall joked.
"Hey, speak for yourself 'cause you're probably thinking the same shit." Tidus called out from the van while trying to pull three suitcases out at the same time.
Squall merely smirked before walking over to give Tidus a hand.
As soon as they walked up to their cabin door, there was a note stuck to it saying:
Hello students,
Sorry but all cabins here have no kitchens therefore breakfast lunch and dinner's are all served for you if you order them via phones. However, you are always welcome to go out to other places to eat if you wish.
After reading the note, Tidus ripped it off the door, scrunched it up and chucked it on the ground like it was the most useless piece of information ever. Once the posse walked in, they noticed that it was a fairly big cabin with three rooms, three bathrooms (two en suites and one bathroom) and a lounge. Sure it wasn't a five star hotel look alike place, hell it wasn't even a two star look alike place, but all in all, it was livable. The whole group separately walked off checking out the cabin before considering unpacking. Suddenly Lulu noticed that every room only had one bunk bed.
"Hey guys, the rooms only have one bunk bed!" she pointed out.
"Yeah, what's the problem with that?" Squall asked, clueless of why she brought that up.
"Well, idiot, that means that in one room one of us will have to share the bunk bed with a one of you guys, get it?" she sarcastically added, pointing at the boys as if they were diseased.
Squall simply rolled his eyes after her comment, still not understanding why she made such a big deal out of it.
"Simple, you and Wakka can share the room sis," Squall said back, smiling evilly before receiving a blow at his rib cage.
"No seriously, who's gonna share the room?" Yuna said looking at everyone.
"Any volunteers?" Lulu added, "And don't you dare start Squall," pointing a warning finger at him.
"Fine, last one to get into a room will have to share it." Tidus yelled before making a mad dash into one of the rooms.
After hearing this, everyone else had run into a room, all except for two. Squall was still standing there looking confused and still holding onto his ribcage, while Rikku was too busy jumping around to hear what Tidus said.
Squall turned around to Rikku and said, "Guess it's me and you tonight."
"Um actually Squall, I forgot to point out, that the last ones in will have to share the room for the week." Tidus managed to say through his laughter.
First Squall glared at him, but then simply shrugged his shoulders, "Fine with me." he said before turning himself towards Rikku once again, "Shall we?" he joked, extending his arm out to the direction of their room making her blush madly whilst everyone else was laughing their heads off.
A while later, Lulu had left the room to unpack some of her other gear into the bathroom, leaving Yuna alone to unpack her things. She was kneeling on the soft carpet with her back facing the door, slowly placing her clothes on the bottom bunk.
"Hmm, you have quite a lot of clothes even for a chick." a voice interrupted her from behind.
She turned around to see Tidus leaning on the doorframe with his arms folded across his firm chest. She simply turned her head back around and continued what she was doing almost acting as though he wasn't there. With her back facing Tidus, she did not see the smirk growing on his face, fortunately for him.
"Well anyway, we're gonna go down to the beach in two hours so be prepared for that."
"Okay, but why two hours later?" she said again turning around to face Tidus.
"Beats me." was his final reply before he pushed himself off the doorframe and left.
Yuna simply shrugged to herself and continued unpacking.
After finishing what she was doing along with some other things, she found herself extremely exhausted from the lack of sleep she had the night before this camp. So keeping in mind that she still had an hour to kill before they were off to the beach, she decided to take a nap.
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"Hey guys ready?" cried Rikku, holding a towel in one hand and a beach volleyball in the other.
"Um, Rikku, I think Yuna's still sleeping, reckon we should leave her a note before going first?" Wakka insisted.
"Yeah that would probably be good, just tell her that we're at the beach and bring her own towel and stuff, we've got all the food and things." Lulu ordered, while slowly making her way out the door with the others followed close behind, forcing Wakka to write the note.
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A loud slam of the door caused Yuna to stir and gradually wake up. She yawned and stretched before looking over at the clock which read 1.00 pm. She groggily made her way out of the room when she noticed a little note for her on the door.
"Oh crap! They've already gone, just great." she mumbled to herself, rushing off into the room to get herself changed into her beach clothes.
"Thanks for telling me you guys." she muttered to no one in particular.
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"Man, there are heaps of chicks here, and did you notice that hot blonde checking me out?! Damn come on, I know I'm hot and all, but does she have to make it that obvious." Tidus boasted with a huge smile on his face showing them that he was also kidding.
Squall and Wakka simply sighed, use to all the compliments he treated himself.
The guys were just sitting there on the beach watching Lulu and Rikku trying to master surfing using their surfboards, but failing miserably. Rikku and Lulu both had a bikini on and a pair of board shorts, which looked extremely sexy on them both according to Wakka, Squall and Tidus' opinions. The three of them smirked as they again saw Rikku fall off the board hitting hard onto the water.
"Yo, your sis is like hot ya." Wakka pointed out to Squall.
"Oh Hyne Wakka! She's my sister bro, can you not say shit like that to me again!" Squall said with a screwed up expression on his face, causing Wakka to laugh.
"Hmm wonder what Yuna's gonna wear." Tidus accidentally said out loud.
"Woah man, and why do you care?" Squall asked smirking with one eyebrow raised up.
"Nothing, just wondering, betcha she's gonna show up in like a gay one piece swimsuit anyway." Tidus quickly replied.
Squall had looked over to another direction which had funnily caused him to smile widely, "Well be prepared to stand corrected," he said, eyeing Tidus towards the thing he was looking at.
Tidus reluctantly turned his head backwards to face the 'thing' Squall was looking at.
However what he saw next made his jaw drop, eyes wide opened. There was Yuna, walking alone towards their direction in a dark blue triangular bikini top covered by a thin white singlet with a short orange sarong wrapped around her thin waist covering her thighs. She had brown rectangular sun glasses raised up to the top of her head with her hair tied back leaving a few strands to fall beside her face. She came walking down normally with her white sandals not noticing Tidus' eyes scanning every part of her.
"Hey, thanks for waiting," she sarcastically said, before releasing her towel next to Tidus. However, Tidus remained silently sitting there still not taking his gaze off of her, which had finally come to her attention.
"Is there something… wrong?" she asked, pointing out that Tidus was staring at her.
Finally Tidus snapped out of his trance after hearing Yuna.
"Nah, he's just checking you out," Squall said matter-of-factly.
"What?" Yuna asked, not exactly paying her full attention to them. Squall and Wakka simply smirked.
"Okay... Anyway, where's Lulu and Rikku?" she asked, looking around.
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An: Hello! Thanks a bunch for the kind reviews reviewers, and the emails e-mailers!
Well at least in this chapter Tidus and Yuna didn't bite at each other, well sorta.
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