Sorry it took so long for me to update! I've been terribly busy, and now I'm going to go eat Thanksgiving leftovers! Oh well, Rikku-Hoshi's going to have Shepard's Pie! (Yucky!) Hehe! Okay, anyway, chapter 3 is up, enjoy!

Chapter 3: The First Day of the End of My Life

Brother had already run to the door before Tidus or Rikku could even regain themselves. Brother thrust the door open, only to see a girl who was slightly taller than Rikku standing there, talking on her cell phone, her suitcases casually laid out before her.

"Just a second!" the girl said, and then said goodbye into her phone. She then looked at Brother with this weird look, and then nodded toward her luggage.

"This is all my stuff," she just said, as she pushed her sunglasses on top of her head, revealing bi-colored eyes; one green and one blue.

Rikku gave a little snort, and then gave an evil smile toward Tidus, only to find Tidus staring wide-eyed at her cousin.

Brother stooped down to pick up his cousin's luggage, and, humming a tune to himself, pushed his way through the gawking Tidus and Rikku, and toward Rikku's bedroom.

Yuna followed Brother, looking at Rikku and then at Tidus, and then made her way past them, following Brother toward Rikku's bedroom.

Tidus and Rikku exchanged glances, and Tidus just gave a quirky little smile and ran to catch up with Brother and Yuna, leaving Rikku just standing there. Finally, as if coming out of a daze, Rikku ran and caught up with the three, who were all now at her bedroom.

Yuna took a look around as Brother laid down her suitcases, and finally just made a little noise and said, "I see the maids haven't arrived to clean yet."

Rikku looked stubborn, before replying in a somewhat nasty tone, "There are no maids."

"No maids?" Yuna just said, looking shocked, "This room is atrocious!"

"Atrocious?" Tidus said dumbly, although his blue eyes never left Yuna. He smiled that same quirky smile at Rikku again, causing Rikku to just give him a confused look in return.

"What does that mean?" Brother asked giddily, causing both Tidus and Rikku to exchange knowing glances.

Yuna made another noise, as if scoffing Brother, and then just said, "Well, you can all leave now so I can make myself comfortable."

"Uh, look here Princess," Rikku said, shaking her head at her cousin, "This is my room. I can stay here if I want."

Yuna just looked at Rikku as if not comprehending, before saying, "You mean, we're sharing rooms?"

"Yeah," Rikku said, and now it was her turn to give Yuna a dumb look, "Duh."

Yuna just wrinkled her nose, and looked as if she was about to say something else, but kept her mouth closed, and just said, "Very well, I suppose..."

"You can have my room, if you want!" Brother said, causing both Rikku and Tidus to roll their eyes at him once again.

"No thank you," Yuna said bluntly.

"Just ignore him," Tidus said to Yuna, still smiling his ridiculous quirky smile.

"I will," Yuna said, flipping her hair, looking at Tidus, as she said, "Who are you?"

"I'm..." Tidus paused, as if having a major blockage to his brain, "I'm..."

"He's just Tidus," Rikku said, rolling her eyes at her friend, "He's my best friend."

"Oh," Yuna said flatly, and then looked around the room again, her disgusted look coming back to her face, "Anyway, I need to go shopping. Anyplace special I should go?"

"You could go to the mall," Tidus put in quickly, causing Rikku to give him a strange look. Rikku was going to simply say that everybody in Zanarkand shopped at the thrift store.

"Great, I'll go there," Yuna said.

"Uh, you don't..." Tidus looked quickly around the room, as if trying to think of something to say, "You don't know where it is!"

"So," Yuna just said, giving her hair another flip.

"So, Rikku and I'll happily drive you there!" Tidus said quickly.

"We will?" Rikku said, only to be cut off by Yuna.

"Okay, that's fine, I guess. You don't drive some junker, do you?"

Tidus smiled, and said, "I drive the finest car in Zanarkand."

"Until Brother smashed it, that is," Rikku said, smiling evilly at her friend.

"Okay, second-finest car," Tidus just said, giving Rikku a strange look, as if to say, 'Can't you see I'm flirting here?'

Rikku just frowned, and said, "If we're goin', let's go."

"Alright," Tidus said, acting almost as giddy as Brother acted.

"Can I come too?" Brother asked.

"Uh, we'd rather you didn't," Yuna just said snottily, with one more hair-flip as she lead the way out the door.

Tidus smiled, raising his eyebrows at Brother, whispering, "Burn!", before running along behind Yuna.

"Sorry Brother, not this time," Rikku just said, folding her arms across her chest, watching Tidus run up and start talking to Yuna, "But I'm sure next time you can go."

"That's okay," Brother said, not a hint of disappointment in his voice, "I have other things to do anyway."

"Come on Rikku!" Tidus' voice was heard, and, with her arms still folded across her chest, Rikku walked to where Tidus and Yuna were standing, and then followed them toward Tidus' car.

Rikku went around the back of Tidus' car, reaching the passenger side at the same time as Yuna, only to hear her say, "Uh, I'll be sitting in the front."

"Uh," Rikku said, copying Yuna's tone, "Actually, this is my spot."

"Hey Rikku, let Yuna sit there; she is new, after all!" Tidus could be heard.

Hiding her anger, Rikku simply went to the back seat, as Yuna crawled in the front.

Tidus started off, talking excitedly to Yuna about nothing in particular, mainly Blitz, being that Blitz was all he talked about, anyway.

They arrived at the mall, and walked in together, but as they arrived in the doors, Yuna turned to Tidus and Rikku and, with yet another flip of her hair, said, "Okay, thanks Tidus. I'll see both of you here in...Two or so hours! 'Kay?"

"Okay!" Tidus said, although he looked kind of disappointed that she was ditching them. He looked as if ready to protest, or say something, but Rikku stopped him.

"Okay Yuna, we'll see you back here."

With another flip of her hair, Yuna marched off, looking back at the two, who were just standing there watching her.

"'Bout time I ditched those losers," she simply thought, as she walked into the first store that came to view.

As soon as Yuna was out of sight, Rikku turned swiftly and faced Tidus, saying, "What was all that about?"

"All what about?"

"All you being so nice to her? Remember, we both agreed to be mean to her!"

"I was being...," Tidus paused and said, "But you didn't tell me she was so...hot..."

"Tidus!" Rikku said in a high-pitched voice, hitting her friend on the arm, "She's not hot!"

"Yeah she is!" Tidus said, smiling as if pleased with himself.

"No she isn't!" Rikku just said firmly, looking angry at her friend, "And besides, who cares if she's 'hot'? We still have to be mean to her!"

"Why?" Tidus just asked, shrugging his shoulders.

"Because I said so!" Rikku said, looking at her friend angrily.

"Why do I always have to do what you say?" Tidus just asked, and now he was turning angry.

"Because! You just do!" Rikku said stubbornly.

"Whatever," Tidus just said, shaking his head, "It's not like I like, like Yuna. She's just hot."

"Okay, so, it's decided then," Rikku said flatly, "We're going to be mean to her."

"But she's hot!"

"Tidus!" Rikku stuck out her bottom lip in a pout, and grabbed her friend's arm, leading him down the mall, "We're going to grab something to eat, and talk about it there, okay? We both agreed that we're going to make Yuna's life as miserable as possible!"

"But–."

"No 'buts' about it!" Rikku just said, "Besides, we have homecoming to worry about now, remember? Your girl life can wait!"

"No it can't," Tidus said, pulling his arm from Rikku's, "I never said I liked her! I just said she was hot. Okay? So, we can be mean to her, I guess. Is that better?"

"Much," Rikku said, looking satisfied, as she continued leading Tidus to the food court.

Yuna was sorting through some clothes, wondering which color of which outfit would work the best for her, when she suddenly heard some girls behind her.

"Why hello there," one said. She was wearing all pink, and had short blonde hair. She was surrounded by two other girls, one with short brown hair and the other with long red hair.

"Uh, hi," Yuna just said, and returned to looking through clothes.

"We couldn't help but notice that you came in with Tidus and Rikku," the girl in pink continued, "Are they friends of yours?"

"Hardly," Yuna said, "I just happen to be related to Rikku, that's all."

"Oh, so you're that girl who Rikku's been talking about the past week."

"She's been talking about me?" Yuna asked, although it didn't really surprise her.

"Yes. And, well, quite frankly, we've all been anxious to meet you."

"Oh yeah?" Yuna asked, giving the girl a look as if to say, 'And you are...?"

"I'm Leblanc," the girl said, holding out her hand for Yuna to shake, "I'm the head cheerleader, and the most popular girl in school!"

"The head cheerleader?" Yuna said, looking kind of shocked, "Uh, I'm kind of interested in joining!"

"Really?" Leblanc said, "Well, let's go grab a bite to eat, and maybe we can talk about you possibly joining the squad!"

"Really?" Yuna said, practically dropping all of the clothes she was holding onto.

"Of course!" Leblanc said, as she and the other two girls lead Yuna out of the store.

"Yevon, would you look at who Yuna picked up?" Rikku laughed, pointing toward the corner of the food court where Yuna was walking alongside Leblanc.

Tidus smiled, and yelled across the food court, "Hey Leblanc! Where's Nooj?"

Leblanc shot him a glare that seriously could have shot venom, and marched over to where Tidus and Rikku were seated.

"Who's Nooj?" Tidus and Rikku heard Yuna say, as the four girls approached them.

"Leblanc's hottie," Tidus said, "He's like fifty."

"He is not!" Leblanc shouted at Tidus, "He's only twenty-six."

"Oh, and you would so know!" Tidus laughed, as pop squirted out his nose.

Rikku laughed hard, but Leblanc just looked disgusted, before shouting, "I can't believe I dated you!"

"Me neither!" Tidus said, wiping his nose on a napkin, a painful expression on his face as he did so, "Damn that hurt."

Rikku laughed again, all while Tidus just continued dabbing at his nose.

Yuna rolled her eyes, and turned toward Leblanc, and said, "Uh, Leblanc, would you mind if I got a ride home with you?"

"Of course not, Love!" Leblanc said, glaring again at Tidus and Rikku.

"Wait, you don't even know her!" Tidus said, "Believe me, she's a–."

"She's great!" Rikku interrupted, causing Leblanc and Tidus both to look surprised, "Really, it's great that you two are hanging out."

"It is?" Tidus said, looking confused.

"Of course it is!" Rikku said, rolling her eyes, "Have fun with them, Yuna!"

Yuna just looked at Rikku, and then to Tidus, before finally flipping her hair and saying, "Okay, I will."

"Come on then, Love," Leblanc said, giving an almost satisfied look at Tidus and Rikku, "About homecoming queen..."

Rikku's smile suddenly faded, as she turned to Tidus and said, "What if Yuna became homecoming queen?!"