Tease Me, Tease Me Not- Chapter 18: Be With You
Here we are at Chapter 18 and things are about to change for the two lovers. But not until almost the very end of the chapter do we discover what it is. I hope you like it!
P.S. This chapter also has one more of my poem/lyrics. It took me almost a week to write it during work. I wrote it on napkins. Hehe.
Yuna's conversation with Tidus on the telephone had made her feel better but she couldn't get over her feeling of depression when she was away from him. She rolled over in her bed to see what time it was on her alarm clock. She moaned. It was only ten and she was already going crazy. She didn't get to see Tidus until the next day when he picked her up for school.
Soon enough she managed to force herself into a restless sleep only to be awoken by a tapping noise. Yuna groaned and reached for her alarm clock from underneath the blanket. The darn thing wouldn't turn off! So she reached for the electrical plug and tugged it out from its socket. Then Yuna heard the noise again and it was at that moment she realized that the noise she was hearing wasn't her alarm clock at all.
Yuna laid still under her covers listen for the noise again. She heard it again and jolted out from under the covers. She looked around and realized that it was still pitch black in her room. She awkwardly made her way over to her watch on her dresser. It read that it was three in the morning.
She heard the noise again coming from her window. She slowly made her way over towards it and opened the window. She stuck her head out and looked towards the side walk. There stood Tidus with a hand full of rocks. Yuna felt an immediate sense of happiness, "What are you doing here?" She whispered trying not to wake up the people in the apartments surrounding her.
"I wanted to see you," he said back.
"It's three in the morning!" Yuna said in shock.
"Well, if you want me to leave…"
"No! I'm glad you're here. I'm just a little surprised that you showed up at my window at three in the morning." Yuna paused until an idea hit her, "Meet me by my car in ten minutes. I want to show you something." Yuna closed her window and disappeared into her room. Tidus grabbed his guitar out of his car and stuffed it in Yuna's car.
Shortly after Yuna came running out of the building with her keys in one hand and a back pack in the other. She slipped into the driver's seat and stared up the car, "So where are we going?" Tidus asked as Yuna pulled out from the parking spot.
"You'll see…" Yuna drove for about ten minutes and stopped by a beach.
"A beach?" Tidus asked.
"We have to walk from here," Yuna said as she took out her back pack and locked the car, "Better take off your shoes." Yuna walked towards the edge of the water and stuck her feet in with Tidus following close behind. She walked along the edge of the water until it came to a dead end. She sunk in deeper into the water until it was half way up her thighs. She walked around until she came to a stop.
Tidus looked pass her at the watery cove in front of them, "What is this place?"
"It's nice isn't it? My Dad use to take me here when I was little. I come here to think about my life and I've never brought any other person here before. But since you showed me you're favorite place in the world, I figured I'd show you mine. I call it the 'Cove'" There was something to the effect of a mini beach in front of them. Wild blue flowers bloomed around the outside lining of 'The Cove'. Yuna walked out of the water and sat down on the sand so that her feet were still being swept over by the coming and going of the seawater.
Tidus dropped his guitar case in the sand behind him and sat down next to Yuna, "It's really nice here."
"I know. I love this place. I still remember the first time my father brought me here. I was only five and he had to drag me away from it because I wouldn't leave." Yuna said, "What did you bring your guitar for?"
"I almost forgot! I wrote a new song. Wanna hear it?" Tidus asked as he took the guitar out of it's case. Yuna nodded, "Great. But bare with me. I just came up with it so some of the lyrics might be off…"
Tidus placed his hands across the strings and played his first note.
When I look at your face
Everything falls into place
When your away:
The sun doesn't shine,
The stars don't sparkle
And the cosmos stop spinning
Just because your gone
You told me love
Was some thing only in Fairy Tales
But after all we've been through
Can you still say that?
After the laughs
After the tears
After going against the world
Facing our dreams
Facing our differences
Facing everything I knew
To be with you.
I looked at you
Like someone who
Didn't give a care
You told me love
Was something only in a dream
But after all we've been through
Can you still say that?
After the hope
After the rain
After going against the world
Facing our lies
Facing our fights
Facing everything I knew
To be with you
In darkness
In silence
In life and death
To be with you…
With you…
Tidus played his final note and placed his guitar next to him in the sand, "So, what do you think?"
"Wow…" Yuna was at a loss for words, "That was the most beautiful thing I've ever heard."
Tidus grinned. Yuna stood up and started to walk into the water.
As she sunk deeper and deeper in Tidus asked, "Are you really going in there! It's freezing!"
"Come on! It's be fun," with that Yuna submerged her head within the icy cold water and rose to see Tidus rushing into the water. Tidus grabbed her from behind and held her above the water. She looked up at him and he merely motioned towards the endless sea in front of them. The sun was starting to rise. The sky turned an orangey-yellow, erasing the darkness from the skies. Before long the sun had made it's way over the horizon and into the sky above them.
"School should be starting soon. We should probably head back," Yuna said
Tidus nodded as they headed back to the shore and gathered up their stuff to return to their houses for just enough time to head back to school. The car ride back was almost completely silent. Yuna turned off the car and looked over at Tidus.
"I'll be back to pick you up in an hour," Tidus said as he entered his car.
"See you then," Yuna headed back up to her room and hopped in the shower awaiting the next moment that she would see Tidus again.
She wrapped a towel around herself and reached for her watch on her dresser, "Shit! Tidus should be here in less than half an hour and I still have to do my hair and get dressed." Yuna ran through her room trying desperately to be ready on time.
As she was spraying on the last of her hairspray the doorbell rang, "Coming!" Yuna grabbed her backpack, which was unusually heavy from being stuffed full of makeup assignments, and opened the door to reveal Tidus with his hair still wet.
"Ready?" he asked.
"Yup! Let's go. See you later, Lulu!" Yuna screamed behind her as she shut the door. Yuna entered the passenger seat of the tiny blue sports car and with a sudden jerk of the car they were off to school.
Yuna and Tidus emerged from the car to be welcomed by the worst place in the world to Yuna, Besaid High. All of her memories contained within it seemed to be nothing but pain and suffering. But maybe, just maybe, with Tidus by her side things would change for the better. She slid her hand in his and walked up the stone staircase and into the school.
The moment she entered the school the halls seemed to get quieter, not that she really cared. Tidus looked around at all the people staring at them and her leaned down to be ear level with Yuna and whispered, "Why is everyone so quiet all of a sudden?"
Yuna's expression stayed the same as she responded, "It's always this way for me. And if you plan on being around me a lot, you should probably get use to it. Besides, people are most likely confused as to why we're holding hands. We never exactly got along all that well before we left for the cruise."
Tidus lifted his head up still looking confused as ever, "I've got to go to my locker to put some books away before class starts. I'll meet you by your locker in a few minutes."
"Alright, but be fast. We still have to find Rikku, Gippal, Wakka and Lulu before the warning bell rings…" Tidus ran off down the hall and Yuna made her way to her locker. She turned the lock to her combination, now unafraid of condoms spewing out from within it.
She pulled a few books out of her bag and shoved them inside her locker. Before she could even close her locker, Leblanc and Dona had appeared by her side, "Yuna! You're back!"
There where no words to describe how badly Yuna wanted to die at that moment. She hadn't even had time to readjust to her sucky life at school before the worst backstabbers she had ever known appeared, "The talk around the school is that you're really close to Tidus now!"
Yuna sighed and allowed for them to continue. She wasn't in the mood to argue, "So tell us all the details, love," Leblanc said.
"Yeah. We're just dying to hear what happened between you two on that cruise to lead to…you know."
Yuna continued to place more books into her locker, "No, I don't know."
"Come on, Yuna. We're your best friends. There's no need to act like nothing happened at the Blitzball game. The whole school saw it happen." Yuna dropped one of her book and quickly picked it up once she realized it had slipped from her grasp. She had completely forgotten about the kiss that had been shown all across Spira.
"Are you ready to go find the others?" Tidus asked as he had just arrived from coming back from his locker.
Yuna collected her books as fast as she could and slung her backpack over her shoulder, anticipating getting out of the conversation with Leblanc and Dona, "See you soon, Yuna. We still have loads to catch up on!" Yuna sighed in relief that she had narrowly escaped the almighty gossiping wrath of Dona and Leblanc.
"Yunie! Tidus! Over here!" Rikku shouted jumping up and down at her usual spot with Gippal and Wakka at her side.
"Hey Rikku," Tidus said, "How's it feel to be back in school?"
"Ready and excited to get in some massive social time!" Rikku squealed.
The warning bell sounded, "That's the warning bell. We should probably get to class," Gippal said.
"But what about Lulu?" Wakka asked.
"We really shouldn't be late for our first day back. I'm sure she'll understand," Tidus said. They nodded and headed to their homeroom for attendance.
Yuna was the first one in the door when she froze and all the color in her face drained, "Yuna?" Tidus asked a little worried.
She started to hyperventilate and felt herself getting weak in the knees, "No…"
Tidus gazed over at the direction Yuna was looking only to see an unfamiliar face looking back, "Hello, Yuna." He said in a calm, icy cold voice that made the hair on the back of Tidus' neck stand on end. Tidus looked deep into the seemingly lifeless eyes of the bluehaired man in front of him.
Yuna's lungs had lost all air. "Seymour…" Yuna managed to say as she allowed darkness to take over as she collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
Seymour? What the hell is he doing in this fanfic? .:Runs at him with a stick and stabs him in the ribcage:. STICK POKE OF DOOM!
On a different note, I am sad to say that this fanfic only holds a few more chapters (around 3-4) before we reach the end. No sequals or anything like that either. So I am currently in the process of finishing it but I've had the ending planned out in my head since day one so I don't need to think too much. All I can say is to enjoy this fanfic while it lasts, for it's time is running short.
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