Tease Me, Tease Me Not - Chapter 5- The Maze
I would have updated earlier today but I got called into work last minute, so I had to stay up until 3 in the morning to finsh this. But enough of my complants as they are most likely meaning less to you all.
Anyways, with the last chapter some people told me that it was a little short. And when I went back to look at it, it was! I felt really really bad, so to make it up to all of you, I made this a really long chapter. Think of it as a bonus chapter (It's just about double the length of the last chapter). So enjoy!
P.S. I love the opening scene for this chapter! So funny...
"Are you guys sure this is such a good idea?" Wakka whispered.
"Where's your sense of adventure, Wakka?" Gippal said as he threw his arms around Tidus and Wakka's shoulders.
Wakka sighed and continued to search through his backpack, "Fine then, here you go. But I'm not gonna be the one to throw it inside…"
"No worries Wakka. That's my job," Tidus said with an evil grin as he took the rubber snake out of Wakka's hand, "I'm so glad I spotted that uncovered window in the girls hut earlier yesterday morning. All I have to do is slip it through, and they'll flip!"
Tidus made his way to the back of the girls' hut with Wakka and Gippal following shortly behind, "There it is," Tidus whispered. The window was covered with a piece of cloth, but the left bottom corner exposed. Tidus slowly lifted up his head to the corner.
"What are they doing up there?" Gippal asked.
"What else," Tidus said in his most quiet voice, "their makeup. Here goes nothing." With that Tidus chucked the fake snake into the girls hut, "Run!" Tidus said in a whisper. The boys sprinted for their hut. Within seconds there was an ear-piercing scream from the next hut over. All the guys gave each other a high five.
"It's a snake!" Rikku screamed and ran behind Paine, who appeared unfazed. Yuna had jumped to her top bunk and had assumed the fetal position under her blanket.
Paine walked up to the snake and stepped on it with her large boot. She leaned over to examine it, "It's rubber…"
"You mean it's fake?" Yuna asked peeking her head out from underneath the covers.
"Unless you've heard of a new breed of rubber snakes, yes." Paine said quietly.
"But how…" It was then that Yuna noticed the uncovered window, "Those no good jerks! They threw it in here through this window." Yuna said as she got off the bed and pointed towards it.
"I'll cover it up with this," Rikku said as she reached for one of her scarves.
"Wait Rikku," Yuna said, "We need to teach these boys a lesson. Here's what were gonna do…"
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The girls exited the hut and headed towards the boys at the picnic table, "Are you girls alright? We heard a scream." Tidus said, fighting back a smile.
"Ya were alright. There was just a snake in our hut. But we caught it in a bag and tossed it outside. It didn't put up much of a fight." Lulu said.
"Oh darn!" Yuna said.
"What is it?" Rikku asked.
"I forgot to put on my bathing suit underneath my clothes incase we go swimming today. What about you girls?" Yuna asked.
"I forgot, too." Rikku said.
"It looks like we all forgot. Come on girls, lets go change into them while we still have the chance." As the girls walked towards their hut the guys stood wide-eyed at each other, they were all thinking the same thing: The Window!
The second the door closed behind the girls there was a mad rush between the boys to get to the window. They were punching, scratching, and biting each other to be the first to get to see through the window. The fighting between them was so bad that they didn't even notice the arm that reached out of the window.
It grabbed a hold of the back of Tidus's shirt and pulled him in through the window. Tidus laid on the floor on his back looking up at a very pissed off Yuna.
"RUN!" Gippal screamed at the top of his lungs. Wakka ran left, only to be stopped by Lulu, while Gippal ran right. Soon to be blocked off by Paine. Paine and Lulu took Wakka and Gippal by the back collar of their shirts and led them in through the hut door.
The girls sat each boy down in a chair. Rikku stood next to them with an evil grin and opened up her hand to reveal dental floss. She started to tie the boys to the chair while the girls held them down. "There we go!" Rikku said after she had completed her task.
"Looks like you three peeping toms need to be taught a lesson!" Yuna said as she leaned over to meet Tidus eye to eye. She was practically touching noses with him, "And I know just how to do that."
Yuna snapped her finger and Rikku came running over with a bag and opened it to reveal it stuffed full of makeup. "What are you girls gonna do? Make us put on your makeup?" Tidus asked as he laughed.
"Oh much worse than that." Yuna said as she took out a shade of bright green eye shadow. With in seconds the other girls rushed in and started to apply makeup on the boys. Even Paine.
Eventually after the girls had had their fun and had taken a picture or two, they released the boys out of the hut. They immediately ran for the pond, "And don't ever let us catch you peeping toms at it again!" Yuna screamed.
"Sickos!" Rikku shouted.
The girls laughed and returned to their hut where they would wait for Stacy to show up.
LATER THAT MORNING
"Alright everyone, here we are! The Maze!"
Everyone gazed at the enormous maze in front of them. It was huge! It was in the dead center of a gigantic field. The walls were nothing but hedges but were reinforced by a metal fence. They reached well above two times the average persons height. The only thing the group could do was stare at it's immensity.
"Here's what's gonna happen: Everyone will be partnered up in pairs of two and tied at the wrist. You are not allowed to untie yourselves at any point in time and trust me, I will know if you do. There are five markers in The Maze; you will have to find each one. To prove you've been there you will be given a stamp card. Stamp your card with the designated color, there is green, blue, red, yellow and a mystery color. The first team to exit the maze with all the colors wins!
And of course there is a prize for incentive. The fastest group will be excused from all chores for today and they will each be receiving one shower."
Yuna's eyes grew ten times larger. She wanted that shower! The camp has bathrooms in the middle of the woods, but nothing to wash off. The lake was too filthy for her, so she would do whatever she had to do to get that shower.
"Since there is an odd number, one of you will have to stay out. Any one?"
"Whatever," Paine said.
"Great! Now as promised Yuna and Tidus will be together," Yuna and Tidus glared at each other, "Let's see…Lulu and Wakka. So that leaves Gippal and Rikku together. Get in line with your partner's and I'll tie you together."
Yuna walked over to Tidus, "I want that shower! Don't screw this up!"
"Whatever. Just try to keep up."
"Alright everyone! On your mark…get set…GO!" Stacy screamed. Everyone shot off at a different beginning path. Tidus and Yuna ran down the farthest path to the right. Before long they came to their first intersection.
"I think we should go right." Yuna said pulling her wrist and Tidus in her direction.
"No way! We obviously have to go left. The markers are most likely in the center of The Maze, if we keep going right we'll never get there!" Tidus tugged Yuna in his direction.
"You sense of direction is off! We should go this way!" Yuna pulled harder.
"Why do you have to be so stubborn! Can't you listen to anyone else's ideas just once?" With that Tidus pulled his wrist with all his body weight a hurled Yuna to the ground and started to drag her in his direction.
"Asshole!"
Yuna stood up and continued along down the left path. As they walked along the path Yuna stuck her foot out in front of Tidus's legs. Tidus tripped over her leg and tumbled to the ground. As he fell, Yuna was pulled down by the rope connecting her and Tidus's wrists.
"Ow! Jerk!" Yuna said as she sat up.
"It's your fault! You're the one who tripped me!" Yuna looked down at the ground.
Tidus sighed, "Yuna, this isn't getting us anywhere! As much as I hate to say it, we need to come to some sort of agreement or truths or something…"
Yuna rolled her eyes, "Fine. But first we need to work some stuff out! First off, I hate you, and no amount of 'agreements' is gonna change that!"
"You couldn't pay me to like you! Second, we need to stop these senseless pranks. As funny as it is to see your hair covered in hot fudge, it's not gonna make us tolerate each other any better." Tidus said.
"Agreed. And let's atleast try to work things out together instead of taking over completely."
"And no more tripping! It hurts." Tidus said as he rubbed his back.
"I can still call you names like asshole and stupid jock though, right?" Yuna asked.
"Of course! I wouldn't want you to get all mushy on me and stuff! Plus we can still make fun of each other. We can't change everything in an instant. Truths?" Tidus extended his non-tied hand to Yuna.
She hesitated and then grabbed it, "Truths."
"Now the question is, how do we get out of this Maze? Since we took this break the other groups are probably WAY ahead of us." Tidus said as he stood up.
"Well, let's use some logic. There are five markers in this maze. They're probably all in random places. I guess the best thing we can do is work off of our gut feelings…" Yuna said in deep thought.
"And we never have the same gut feelings. What if we take turns?"
"How can we possibly do that?" Yuna asked as she tilted her head in question.
"Simple. We can alternate turns at each intersection."
"But who goes first?"
"I guess you can," Tidus said. The two continued down the path together. Until they reached a two way intersection, "Your up, Yuna."
"I say we go left."
"Alright then. Off we go." A few steps down they arrived at a three-way intersection.
"It's your call." Yuna stated.
"Keep going straight." This path seemed longer than the others until they once again came upon a junction in the road.
"Huh, I'm not quite sure on this one…" Yuna said as they approached it.
"It's left!" Tidus said, "Trust me, it's left."
"If you feel that strongly about it then let's go!" Tidus looked down at Yuna a little surprised that she had agreed to it so quickly.
"Are you sure that's what you want to do?" Tidus asked.
"You told me to trust you…" Before Tidus could say another word, Yuna had taken off to the left, tugging Tidus behind her at the wrist.
To the two's surprise, the path didn't lead to the usual intersection, but instead to a marker station, "Woohoo! You were right, Tidus! It was the right way." Yuna screamed jumping up and down. She ran over to the marker station and grabbed the stamp.
"Red's down, only four more to go." Tidus said as the two left the station, "Since I took your turn, why don't you choose which way to go next."
The two continued to do the same routine, successfully achieving the blue and green, until they arrived at the yellow marker station. "Look! There's yellow!" Yuna screamed.
They entered the station together and dotted their card. "Hey. Check it out! It's Wakka and Lulu." Tidus said with a smile. And sure enough, Wakka and Lulu had entered the marker station.
"I told you we had already been in this direction, ya." Wakka said to Lulu, not even noticing Tidus and Yuna, "We already have yellow!"
"What are you talking about? I told you that taking a left at that second three-way intersection was a bad idea. I knew it would lead us right back here…" Lulu trailed off as she noticed Tidus and Yuna staring at her and Wakka. Wakka noticed Lulu's gaze and turned his head to see Tidus.
"Hey, brudda! How's it going, ya?" Wakka asked pretending as if he and Lulu hadn't been arguing a few moments before.
"It's going alright. What colors do you guys have so far?" Tidus asked.
"So far we have yellow and green. Oh ya, and that mystery color thingy." Wakka said.
"Awesome. We have green, blue, red and just got yellow." Tidus said.
"Hey I have an idea." Yuna said. Everyone turned their heads towards Yuna, "What if we tell you what direction to head in to get to red and yellow, in exchange for where we could go to find the mystery color. What is the color anyway?"
"It's just plain black," Lulu pulled their stamp card out of her pocket and showed it to Yuna and Tidus, "and that sounds like a good idea."
"Great! The red was the first one that we found. So it should be some where at the very beginning of the maze. I'd look for it on the right hand side."
"As for the blue one," Tidus said as he cut into the conversation, "I remember it being somewhere close to the green. It was around three right turns and maybe one or two left turns from it."
Lulu smacked Wakka in the back of the head with her free left hand, "I told you we shouldn't have gone straight and then taken all those lefts!" Yuna and Tidus giggled a little without Lulu and Wakka noticing.
"That hurts, ya!" Wakka said, "Lu really packs a punch!"
Lulu sighed, "The mystery color is somewhere in the back. I thought I heard Paine's voice once, so it must be close to the finishing exit. Good Luck. And we'll see you both at the finish line." Lulu said as she dragged Wakka past Tidus and Yuna and out of the marker station.
"Good Luck to you, too! And thanks for all your help!" Yuna called to Lulu as they left.
"So it's in the back, huh?" Tidus said thinking, "I wonder how Rikku and Gippal are making out…"
"I don't know, but they might have already gotten the rest of the colors." Yuna said.
"Chances are they're doing a lot better than Lulu and Wakka. The both of them have been really close since they were little. They can work together better than anyone I know." Tidus said still thinking.
"And there's no way that Wakka and Lulu are gonna make it to the blue and green and beat us back to the finishing line. So they're pretty much out of the game." Yuna thought out loud, "The only chance we have is to find that black marker and run."
"Then let's stop thinking and get going, Ms. Whore." Tidus said. Yuna put her hand on her hip and gave Tidus a really dirty look. They continued down the path, switching turns at each intersection.
"Hold it," Tidus said as he put his arm across Yuna to stop her from walking any father, "Shhh… listen."
There was a moment of silence before Yuna heard it, "Go away before I shatter your bones, little squirrel!"
"It's Paine!" Yuna said.
"Stop looking at me like that. You want some? Fine, I'm gonna come over there and attack you with a stick! This one should do… Feel my stick wrath! Muahahahaha!" Paine's maniacal laughter trailed of into the distance. Once she couldn't be heard any longer Yuna and Tidus broke down into uncontrollable laughter. They actually started to tear up.
"Oh my Yevan! I've never heard Paine say anything like that before! She always seems so collected and together. When she's alone, she's psycho!" Yuna said in between gusts of air.
"Wakka and Lulu said that they heard Paine around where they found the black marker. It shouldn't be too far away." Tidus said.
"I'd guess it's that way." Yuna pointed to a curved path directly in front of them. As they turned the curve they saw the marker station in view, "Over there!"
As they entered the station Rikku and Gippal came in from the other side, "Hey you guys!" Rikku screamed. She hoped over to the stamped and plopped down the ink on her card.
"We got them all! We got them all!" She started to sing, creating her own dance to go along with it. Yuna stamped her card and looked up at Rikku.
"This is your last one?" Yuna asked.
"Yuppers! How about you guys? How many do you have left?" Rikku asked.
"This was our last one too!" Yuna said. And in that moment the groups both paused and looked at each other. "So that means…"
And with in an instant, both groups ran. Gippal and Rikku took the left exit and Tidus and Yuna took the right. It was a made dash for the finish line. Tidus was a much faster runner than Yuna so she was being dragged behind by the tie around their wrists. "Hurry up, Yuna!"
"I can't! I'm not some stupid jock like you! I don't spend all my time practicing running!"
Tidus sighed and slowed down, "This isn't working! I can here them on the other side and they're ahead of us!"
"Well what do you want me to do?"
"Hold on!" Tidus shouted. Yuna noticed her feet were no longer touching the ground. Before she knew what was happening Tidus had picked her up and was running with her in his arms.
"Good thing your anorexic! It makes you lighter to carry!" Tidus said with a laugh.
"Hey! I am not anorexic!" Yuna said as she punched him in the shoulder. She then wrapped her arms around his neck to try to keep herself positioned correctly.
Tidus ran as fast as he could, "We're gaining on them!" The path was coming to an end and the finish line was within site but as they flew out of it Gippal and Rikku, who were exiting their own path, greeted them. The two groups were running neck and neck with each other.
"Hey! You guys are cheating! No fair!" Rikku shouted in a high-pitched voice. And then it happened, Rikku tripped. And as she did Gippal was pulled down by his wrist and fell down into the grass.
"Oh poopie!" Rikku said as she laid face down in the grass.
Tidus rushed to the finish line with Yuna in his arms. The two of them felt an immediate joy.
"The winners, Tidus and Yuna!"
And so it is done! A truths has been made and the friendship is in motion (finally). That was a really long chapter! Holy crap! Well, for me anyways. And so I am off to sleep! See you all in the next chapter! And watch as I do the review dance! Do Do Do! Review Review Review! Do Do Do! Because I love it when you do! (It rhymes!) Thank you! Thank you! No money necessary, just REVIEW PLEASE as payment!
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