Tease Me, Tease Me Not- Chapter 15: Love Lost
Chapter 15 is here! Alright! And in this chapter we discover the horrible past of one of our characters. Will it be Tidus? Rikku? Lulu? Or will it dig even deeper into the past of Yuna? The only way to find out is to read...
By the way, yes I did write all those poem/lyrics myself. I'm glad you guys liked them!
I had to update today or you guys wouldn't be getting one for a while but one editor is away while the other didn't get the email on time so this Chapter might be a little messy. Bare with me.
I must also add that I absolutely love the opening to this Chapter. Gippal makes it all worth my while! .:Laughs to self:.
"Yuna…" Yuna rolled over, "Yuna…You have to get up now…"
"Tidus…?" Yuna asked as she cracked her eyes open but was blinded by the sun.
"Yuna it's time to get up…" She managed to open up her eyes.
"Tidus, what are you doing here?"
Rikku crossed her arms and pouted, "How is it that you can wake her up and I can't? I've been trying for over an hour!"
Tidus leaned over a groggy Yuna, "Hey sleepy head! Your breakfast is here. I had Hanzel bring you up some. There's eggs, bacon, pancakes…"
Yuna rubbed the sand out of her eyes, "What are you doing here this early in the morning? And what time is it?"
Tidus smiled as he put down a tray of various foods on a tray on Yuna's lap, "Rikku couldn't wake you up so she asked me to do it for her. And it's around seven in the morning."
Yuna was still tired and having trouble processing all of her thoughts at once, "Why do I have to get up this early?"
"It's the last day of our cruise. Don't you want to enjoy the whole thing? Besides, you know you want to spend the whole day with me!" Tidus said sarcastically.
Yuna giggled, "Alright, alright. I'll get out of bed and get ready." Yuna took a bite of eggs and stuck a piece of toast in her mouth and just let it hang there until she reached the bathroom. She washed her hair and stepped out of the shower, "RIKKU!"
Rikku was outside the door laughing her ass off. Tidus stared at her with a confused look on his face, "What's going on?"
"I'm gonna kill you Rikku!" Yuna screamed from the inside of the bathroom.
"I took all the towels and her clothes out of the bathroom while she wasn't looking," Rikku continued to giggle.
"Rikku, you better get me some towels and give me my clothes back!"
"I'll see ya later Yunie! I'm going for a walk," Rikku left the room still giggling.
"RIKKU!" Tidus couldn't help but laugh underneath his breath, "Umm… Tidus?"
"Yeah?"
"Any chance that you could pass me a towel?" Yuna was blushing so hard she could have sworn Tidus could feel the heat from her face from the other side of the door.
"I don't know where they are," Tidus lied.
Yuna sighed, "Then turn around or something…" On any other occasion Yuna wouldn't have cared if a guy saw her naked but for some reason she felt nervous about Tidus being there.
"Sure." Tidus turned around as his face went red, "Go ahead." Yuna peeked her head out of the door and when she saw that his back was turned she stepped out from the bathroom. She couldn't help but stand and look at Tidus.
Suddenly the door flew open and Gippal was standing in the door way with Rikku's key, "Rikku forgot her purse so I said I come back to get—" Yuna turned around, still completely uncovered. Gippal immediately turned red as his eyes widened, "Oh! Sorry I must be interrupting something!" He shut the door as fast as humanly possible.
Tidus had turned around to see who was at the door. He had completely forgotten the reason he had his back turned away from the door. It was then that Yuna had turned back around to face him, "I'm sorry!" Tidus turned back around, "I was just wondering who it was…"
Yuna ran for a towel in the closet and wrapped it around herself, "Don't worry. It's not like you're the first guy to see me." She put a hand on Tidus shoulder, "You can turn around now."
Tidus hesitated then turned back towards Yuna. Even his ears had turned red, "Umm… the game starts at six. So ah… I was wondering if…umm… you wanted to go for a walk on the ship or something and then explore Zanarkand with everyone else until the game starts…"
"Sounds good. I'm gonna get dressed so I'll meet you by the elevator in twenty minutes."
"Okay," Tidus rushed out of the room with his face still looking like it was on fire. He decided to run into his room and grab his sunglasses. He opened the door to reveal Rikku, Gippal, Lulu and Wakka all talking about something.
Tidus sighed. He knew what was about to become the topic of conversation, "Hey Tidus so when do you want to leave for town?"
"I'm not sure," Tidus said, "I was just about to leave for a walk around the track. Want to meet at four so we can look around the city before the match?"
Everyone agreed, "Well, I'll see you guys then. I'm leaving."
"Wait Tidus, I'm leaving too. I'll see ya guys later!" Gippal said as he left the room with Tidus. He shut the door behind him, "I didn't tell them…"
"Didn't tell them what?"
"You know, about the 'incident' earlier."
Tidus looked at him in shock, "I'm telling you: nothing happened."
"Whatever, just know that you owe me one! Catch ya later!" Gippal ran off down the stairs. Tidus sighed with relief to interrupted by Yuna.
"Ready?"
"Yup!" Tidus put on his shades and continued to the elevator. Shortly after they reached the walking track,"You ever been to Zanarkand before?"
"Never. But I can't wait to see it. I've always had dreams of the 'city that never sleeps'. You grew up there, right?"
"Yeah. I know you'll love it. Everything's lit up at all hours of the night. It's really…pretty."
"When was the last time you were there?"
"I go there at least once every year. I spend my summers there too. They make the best corndogs!"
Yuna giggled, "I can't remember the last time I had a corndog. It sounds good."
"I know this one place that makes homemade ice cream too!"
"You're making me drool! Do you know when we're suppose to meet everyone else?"
"I told them four."
"So you saw them? Did Gippal tell them about…ya know?"
"No. He said he'd keep it a secret. Which is a huge miracle for us. Honestly I think he was just too embraced to tell the others." Yuna and Tidus started to laugh.
"I hope you don't mind me asking all these stupid questions, but can I ask you a few more?"
"Of course I don't mind! Ask me all the question you want," Tidus said with a smile.
"Well, it's about the songs your band plays, is it true you write them all yourself?"
"Uh-huh. One hundred percent me."
"Wow. Are they based off of personal experiences?"
"Pretty much. I always write how I feel. A lot of times that's the only way you can tell what I'm thinking," Tidus scratched the back of his head and stepped around the sunbathing chair that was placed in the middle of the path.
"So... umm... who was the song you sung yesterday about?"
"Which one?"
"Any of them I guess. It's just weird because the first one you sang 'Beautiful Girl', was so happy and love struck while the others were, well, depressing." Yuna said not able to think of another word besides 'depressing'.
Tidus gave a smile with no happiness behind it, "I guess I should explain. Do you remember a girl back in middle school named Lenne?"
"Kind of. She was the one with really long brown hair, right? I remember you two were kinda close."
"She's been my next door neighbor since I was seven and moved here from Zanarkand. I loved her once."
Yuna couldn't move she just gazed down at the ground and asked, "What happened?"
"I decided one day that I would tell her how I felt. But on that same day she came up to me in complete happiness and ran into my arms saying that she just got a boyfriend. Some guy named Shuyin or something. Anyway we started to see less and less of each other over the next few weeks, as she was with him all the time until I finally couldn't take it. So I decided that I had to tell her before it exploded out of me.
I pulled her aside after school one day and told her that I loved her. She just gazed into my eyes and didn't say a word. I know she wanted to say she loved me too but just couldn't bring herself to say it. Needless to say, the next few weeks weren't exactly perfect. Her boyfriend had found out and wouldn't let her near me. Then one day she came up to me and said she needed to talk to me. She said, 'Tidus, if you love me, like you say you do, then you won't follow me to Luca High.' She knew it was causing problems for me to be around her.
So I had to make a decision: Follow my heart to be with the one I love, or let her be happy and completely destroy my heart in the process. I guess you know what I chose, seeing as though I haven't talked to her since then. It's always been those few words always ringing in my mind for as long as I can remember 'If you love me, like you say you do...'"
Yuna could see a tear well up in Tidus' eye and then run down his cheek, landing on the ground, "So I guess that's what you meant when you said 'I sat alone, I cried your name, Nothing in this world will ever be the same'. It was about her the whole time."
"Yeah..."
"One more question: Was your last song about her too?"
Tidus smiled, "No. That one was about you."
Rikku was right...Yuna thought.
"Yuna, you make me forget about the past and all the hurt that I felt." Yuna smiled at him, "Anyway, let's go do something fun!"
"What did you have in mind?"
"You'll see…" Tidus led Yuna to the elevator and up to the arcade.
"Oh Yevon! You're gonna make me play on that dreaded machine, aren't you?" Yuna whined.
Tidus grinned, anticipating showing off in front of Yuna, "Just give it a chance!"
Tidus stepped onto the DDR machine and put the required quarters into it. Yuna stepped up with a hidden smile on her face. She knew something Tidus didn't.
"I'll put you on beginner and we can start with an easy song. How about… Afronova?" Tidus grinned. (A/N This is not any easy song.)
The song started to play and Yuna saw her first few arrows float across the screen. 'Perfects' were flying across Yuna's screen. The result screen showed up. Yuna had gotten an 'A' while Tidus got a 'D'.
He looked at her, "How did you…?" Yuna simply shrugged, "How about we bump you up to light." Tidus changed Yuna's settings, "Ok then. How about Max 300?" (A/N: This is a VERY HARD SONG!)
The song ended and, one again, Yuna kicked Tidus' ass with an 'A', "How the hell?" Tidus was in shock. Yuna had just annihilated him.
"You know what, I'm putting you on Standard, Miss. Show-off!" Tidus shouted, pissed off that he wasn't whopping Yuna's ass at DDR.
"Can I choose the song?" Yuna asked innocently.
"Whatever."
Yuna gazed down through the songs, "There's so many, how will I ever choose? Oh! This one looks good!"
"Witch Doctor, huh? Alright, but I'm going down to standard to show you how it's done."
Yuna smiled and hit the start button. The same arrows started to fly across both screens at the same time. Before long Yuna had achieved a 150 combo. The song ended and Yuna smiled as her score revealed a double A. Tidus' was only an A. This seriously made Tidus flip out, "What the fuck!"
Yuna giggled. She wasn't about to reveal the truth to him. She had secretly been sneaking down to the arcade in the middle of the night and in early mornings to practice. On top of that she had memorized the "DDR for Dummies" book from cover to cover. Which explained her need for constant naps and reason for sleeping in so often. She had played Witch Doctor so often that while she slept the arrows of the song would start to appear in the middle of her dreams.
Tidus eventually got so pissed off that he asked Yuna to go get lunch with him just so that he could get out of the arcade, "ThankYevan they just have buffets for lunch instead of that formal dining crap." Tidus said with enthusiasm, "Oh goodie! Hamburgers!"
They sat down in a shady place near the edge of the main deck with their trays, "How many hamburgers did you buy?"
"Only four," Tidus said as he shoved one in his mouth, "Besides, how much chocolate did you get?"
"Hey! If you've got a problem with chocolate, take it up with someone else 'cause I'm not listening." Yuna said as she dove into her chocolate cheesecake.
Yuna reached across to Tidus' tray and stole one of his hamburgers, "Hey!"
"You snooze you lose! You've got enough of the damn things anyway." Tidus reached across and stole her bowl of chocolate pudding. She tried to steal it back but Tidus flung it at her face before she could reach it. He burst out laughing. She just stood still with chocolate pudding running down her face.
"You are SO dead!" Yuna said as she picked up a can soda and shock it vigorously. She then opened it and sprayed it all over Tidus.
"Ok! Ok! I give!" Tidus screamed. They cleaned up the mess they made and headed for the trash. As the two of them walked they received some weird looks from the people around them. But who wouldn't give them strange looks? Yuna was covered in chocolate pudding (which made her look like she had just come back from rolling around inside a porta-potty) and Tidus smelled like a walking can of root beer.
Near the elevator entrance there was a small crowd of people huddled around in a circle. Tidus and Yuna decided to find out what was going on. They squeezed their way in through all the people to find a fruit carving, "That's so awesome!" Yuna said as she spotted a watermelon being carved into a perfect rendition of a rose.
"I like that one!" Tidus said as he notice that dog made out of cauliflower. They continued to watch the carving until they decided that they really needed a shower and some new clothes. Plus they had to meet the others in less than an hour.
"See ya in a little bit, Tidus," Yuna said, "And I'm taking a shower so don't come stopping in, for my safety and yours." They laughed and returned to their rooms to get ready for the what the night had in store for them. But even they didn't know how crazy of a night they were about to have…
Awwwww... Poor Tidus! So sad... But atleast he got to see Yuna naked! Hehe... I love that part.
Anyway, next chapter everyone's off to Zanarkand (And I mean everyone, even Paine. So rejoice all of you people who felt bad for her!) Chapter 16 (which I have already written as well as Chapter 17 and half of 18. I've been on a spree.) is by far my favorite chapter so far! I love it! Lots of Tidus/Yuna fluff towards the end of it. But until then REVIEW! Because it's the nice thing to do...
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