A/N: HEYY ALL I'M BACKKK:scary music plays in backround: What the hell? Where is that music coming from:shrugs: whatever. Anyway, I hope you all like this chapter because I work really hard to get it out ASAP and I did it in what like three, four days? Ok well next chapter shall be the fluff chapter because I hit 200 reviews and like… I promised I would…
Disclaimer: Can I just stop doing this? Chapter 31… if it isn't clear that I own nothing, not even a life by this time… then there is nothing more I can do for you…
Enough Hits to Go Round.
After scarfing down another slice of pizza, Gippal leaned back in his chair and slung his arm over Kerri. "Well, that was fulfilling."
She shook her head. "Jeez, I had to like fist fight you and Tidus to get a slice of pizza. That was crazy."
Tidus rubbed his head as he shot Kerri a glance. "You didn't have to hit me so hard, ya know?"
"You were on your fourth piece when I went for my second! If I didn't act quickly I would have starved to death," she retorted as she crossed her arms over her chest. She nudged her boyfriend with her elbow, "And this one ate a whole pie!"
He shrugged, "I'm a growing man, I need my nourishment."
She rolled her eyes. "Yea, right and when you get a bubble butt too don't come crying to me."
Tidus glared at her as he said, "I don't have a bubble butt!"
Everyone laughed at Tidus' outburst. Kerri merely shrugged and said, "I never said you did."
Tidus crossed his arms and glared at Kerri from across the table. Kerri just smirked back. Auron watched the two carefully as he stood and said, "Alright, now that I just took a second mortgage on my home to pay for Gippal and Tidus' food let's hit the road."
The teens got up from their tables and made their way to their respective cars. Gippal came in the car with Kerri, Scott, Auron, and Tidus, As Kerri gave Tidus a shove because he was on 'her side of the seat' Auron said, "Gippal, why didn't you go with Wakka and Lulu. Wakka lives around the block from you."
"Wakka is going to Lulu's house. She lives on the other side of town, I'd be out of the way," he explained.
"Besides, he wanted to be with me," Kerri said with a cheeky grin. She turned her attention back to Tidus. "Tidus! Either lay off the Twinkies or keep your bubble butt on your side of the seat!" She gave him another push.
He pushed her back. "I'm not on your side of the seat. You're the one whose ass is overpowering the back seat!"
"No it's not!" she shouted as she punched him in the leg.
"Oh, but it is!" he said as he returned the hit.
She rubbed her leg where Tidus hit her. "Ow, ya jerk that hurt!" She pinched his arm.
"Ow!" He pulled his arm away from her. "What's with the pinching? That causes cancer!" He pinched her leg and she gave him a death glare. He shrugged as he replied, "If I'm going down, you're coming with me."
"Oh don't worry, Tidus. You won't have to worry about going down anywhere. I'm sure that butt of yours will help you stay afloat," she replied as she punched his leg again.
"Damn it, Ker! That really hurt ya know," he replied as he punched her back.
"Oh yea because your hits are like getting blows from a three year old," she remarked as she pulled her hand back to hit him again.
Gippal grabbed both her arms. "No more beating on Tidus, Ker." He kissed the top of her head. "I don't want a girlfriend who has bruises all over her legs, people will think I beat you."
She glared at Tidus before reluctantly agreeing to not hit him again and he did the same. Scott laughed and looked back them. "I'm kinda glad I only had one kid, if I had this to deal with all the time, I think I would have went crazy."
Auron gave him a sideways glance as he pulled up in front of Gippal's house, "But now you have two 17 year old teens to deal with, that makes up for it, no?"
Gippal opened the door and got out. "Thanks for the ride, Auron." He turned his attention back to Kerri. "I'll see you later, ok? I'll come by round 7ish?"She nodded. "See ya then."
He waved to the rest of the people in the car before retreating into his house. Kerri moved over to the other side of the car and smirked towards Tidus. She gave him a quick shot to the leg before pulling her legs up to her chest and saying, "Ah! Daddy, Tidus is going to hit me again!"
Tidus gaped at her before he nodded his head and slowly said, "Oh. You're good."
She smiled innocently at him as they pulled up to their house. "So, tonight you're going out with Yuna right?"
He nodded. "Yea, I'm taking her out to dinner and then I have a surprise planned for her."
"Always the romantic," she said with a laugh. "Well, I want to know what happens. Spare no details!"
He laughed. "Alright, same for you. But, You can leave some of the details out… I'm not interested in what you and Gippal do with your 'alone time.'"
"Tidus!" she shrieked. "We don't do anything!" she yelled as she smacked him.
He laughed and rubbed his arm. "I'm sure…" He dodged another hit from her and ran into the house.
Kerri ran in first and scream, "I GET THE SHOWER FIRST!"
"Not if I get to it first." He called as he ran up the stairs.
"Damn it," she muttered under her breath as she ran after him.
When she reached the top of the stairs she saw Tidus, entering into his room. She run as fast she could, shoving Tidus away from the bathroom door. She quickly entered the bathroom and locked the door. She laughed evilly through the door as Tidus banged on it. "Damn it, Kerri!"
After taking a quick shower and dodging Tidus as she ran to her room, she spent twenty minutes picking out clothes. Eventually, Kerri emerged from her room wearing jean capris with a low cut, black collared shirt. She ran down the stair, jumping the last five. She walked to the door and right on time there was a honk sounding from outside. "I'm leaving!" Kerri called to anyone who was listening.
She ran over to his car and hopped. "So, ready to hit the mall?" Gippal asked as she put her seatbelt on.
She nodded. "Yup."
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As they entered the mall, they ran into a guy Kerri hadn't seen in months. "Hey, Gippal," the guy called out.
Wonderful… Gippal groaned as he forced a smile on and said, "Hey, Tony, what's up?"
The security guard approached them and looked at Kerri. He looked at Gippal and nodded approvingly. "Well who is this lovely young lady with you?"
She linked arms with Gippal. "Hi, Tony. You probably don't remember me. I'm Kerri. I met you once before when I came here with Tidus."
He looked her over once more. "You know, I didn't recognize you. But I remember you now. When I met you, you were wearing sweatpants and a baggy T-Shirt. This however," he motioned to her clothes, "is a pleasant change."
Gippal wrapped his arm around Kerri waist and pulled her closer to him. "Oh so you know my girlfriend?" Gippal asked casually to let Tony know Kerri was 'Off limits.'
"Your girlfriend? How long has this been going on?" he looked at Gippal and whispered, "Wanna know how long it'll be till I can try to get with her."
Unfortunately, this guy's 'whispering skills' were nothing to brag about. Because Kerri glared at him as Gippal replied, "Six months in a few weeks."
Tony's face dropped. "Six months? You've never gone out with a girl longer than six weeks. What makes her so different?"
"I love her," Gippal replied. Kerri smiled widely and rested her head on his chest.
"I love you too," she whispered to him. She turned to Tony and put on a fake smile. "Ok well, it was a pleasure seeing you again. See you." She then took Gippal by the hand and the two walked down the wing of the mall.
After an hour of walking around aimlessly, with the occasional entering of a store to look around, Kerri and Gippal spotted Seymour down the hall. "Well this day just keeps getting better doesn't it?" Gippal muttered.
Kerri rubbed the temples of her head. "Yea, well maybe we'll get lucky. I mean after what I did in the sphere maybe he won't come near us?" she said with a false hope.
"Yea and maybe I'm not Al Bhed," he retorted sarcastically as the continued walking.
Seymour saw the couple and walked casually over to them. "Well, if it isn't Kerri and Gippal, what a surprise it is to see you," Seymour said with a hint of malice.
Kerri narrowed her eyes as she replied, "Well, I see you healed fine after today's game."
He took a step closer to Kerri and stood over her, glaring down at her. "Yea, no thanks to some…"
"Seymour, why don't you cut the act and just leave us alone okay? We want nothing to do with you," Gippal said as he tried to walk around Seymour, only to see the rest of his group approaching. Damn it.
Seymour held out his arm and said, "Don't be ridiculous, Gippal. I want no trouble." He waited till his friends surrounded him. "Me and my friend only want to talk to you."
Kerri looked to Gippal and whispered. "Maybe if we ignore them… they'll just go away…"
"You! I heard that, Love" LeBlanc said as she pointed a finger at Kerri.
Kerri started humming and going. "Still ignoring them." She looked to Gippal. "Did they leave yet?"
"Insolence!" Logos shouted as he stepped forward, raising the sleeve of his arms in an attempt to threaten the couple.
Kerri raised an eyebrow and whispered to Gippal loud enough that they could hear it, "I think the tall one if trying to threaten us. Should I act like I'm scared?"
Gippal smirked and nodded. "Yea, don't wanna hurt his feelings."
Kerri turned to the group and gasped slightly before clinging onto Gippal. "Ah. Help… I am so scared," she said in a bored tone.
Dona took a step forward. "Enough. I am not going to stand here and let this little bitch make a mockery of us!"
"Wow, I didn't know you could use big words like 'Mockery' now Dona, what is the name of the thing that you need to get?"
Dona looked at her like she was a fiend before Kerri continued. "They are called clothes." She looked around her eyes filled with awe. "And well would you look at them… They sell them here!"
Dona put her hand on her hip. "That's it!" She turned and glared at Seymour. "I don't care how precious she is to you! I'm goin' to kick the crap outta her right here right now!"
Kerri looked at Gippal a little concerned. She was a little worried because it was five on two. Gippal wrapped his arms around her protectively. "Just go away, alright?" He said as he tightened his grip on Kerri.
"Don't even try to protect her Gippal, because we will just as easily take you on too," Dona said as she clenched her hands into fists.
Kerri pried Gippal's arms off of her. "It's ok, Gippal. I'm not afraid of her."
LeBlanc stepped up along side Dona. "You may not be afraid of her, but what about me?"
Kerri crossed her arms and shook her head. "Nope, still not scared." I'm petrified…
Dona gave LeBlanc a shove back. "I don't need help taking care of this little bitch." She took a step forward and lunged at Kerri, bringing her down to the floor. Kerri skidded against the tiles on the floor. "Stupid bitch!" she said as she brought her hand down on Kerri's face giving her a slap.
Kerri winced in pain as Dona's hand made contact with her face. As Dona brought her hand back to hit her again, Kerri punched her in the stomach. Dona gasped for air as she fell back off Kerri. Kerri took this as an opportunity and pounced on her, giving her a swift punch to the jaw. At this time, the guys have ganged up on Gippal and Kerri had LeBlanc pulling her off of Dona by the hair.
"Alrighty, love, we're going to have some fun," LeBlanc said as she dragged Kerri across the tile floor.
Kerri grabbed for LeBlanc's arms. When she found them, she dug her nails into her arm as hard as she could. LeBlanc dropped Kerri as she pulled her arm to chest. "You little wench," she spat.
Kerri got to her feet and glanced between the two girls who were on either side of her. It was almost like stare down, each girl waiting for one of them to blink to see who would go first. Kerri attention was brought to her left as she heard a pain cry come from Gippal. "Gippal!" she said as she turned her head.
Ormi was holding Gippal and Logos and Seymour were taking turn hitting him. "Had enough?" Seymour sneered.
"Go To hell," Gippal said as Logos punched him in the stomach.
Seymour gave Logos a shove. "Leave the tweak to me, go help LeBlanc with that other bitch," he said as he took a handful of Gippal's hair.
This gave LeBlanc a chance to move in. She ran over and grabbed Kerri by the hair again. Kerri bent over forward and moved to LeBlanc to try and kept the pain to minimum. As she was bent forward an idea came to her; She slammed her shoulder into LeBlanc stomach, sending the both of them to the floor.
LeBlanc released Kerri and caught a right hook to her left eye. As she was going to land another hit, Logos lifted her off of LeBlanc and into the air. "You think your gonna win?"
Dona and LeBlanc stood before her looking at her menacingly. Dona wiped the blood that was trickling down her mouth away and took a step towards Kerri. This is really bad, Kerri thought to herself as the two girls moved in.
"You dirty Al Bhed! I should kill you for that," Seymour shouted at Gippal who had managed to get a hit in on him.
Ormi got off the ground grabbing at his abdomen. Gippal, threw another punch at Seymour's gut having him double over gasping for air. He knocked Seymour off his feet and went to kick him again, but Ormi was back in the fight once more.
Kerri looked to her right and thankfully she saw some friendly faces. Paine, Rikku, and Baralai just happened to be in the mall that night. "PAINE!" she screamed out hoping to her attention.
Dona sneered, "That's right. Pain is coming," she said as she smacked her across the face.
Paine glanced to the direction where her name was called. Her eyes widen and she looked at Rikku before she said, "Is that Kerri?"
Rikku nodded and exclaimed, "And there's Gippal!" She pointed to Gippal who was trying once more to defend himself against the two guys.
Baralai didn't wait for the girls to decide what to do; he was already running over to help them. "Come on, we have to help them!"
Rikku ran over to Dona and tapped her shoulder. Dona turned around wielding her arm. Rikku caught it and smirked. "I've been waiting a while to do this," she said before she punched Dona right in the nose.
Dona covered her nose with her hands. "MY NOSE!" She screamed out.
This cause LeBlanc to whirl around to see what was going on and Logos dropped Kerri on the ground. Paine greeted LeBlanc with a kick to the stomach. Kerri looked up at her friends with a smile. Paine extended her arm to pull up Kerri. "I don't think I have ever been so happy to see you guys."
Paine smirked and said, "Save it for later. Now, we have some ass to kick."
Kerri nodded and looked over to Gippal and Baralai. Baralai had Ormi in a headlock and was giving him hits to the back of the head and Gippal was hitting Logos. Seymour was walking up behind Gippal ready to hit him in the back of the head.
Kerri ran over to him and jumped on his back pulling at his hair. "You stay away from my boyfriend, you blue haired FREAK!" she screamed.
He screamed out in pain as he grabbed for her arm. "You are much more problems than it is worth," he said as he dug his abnormally long, sharp nails into her arm. Kerri screamed as blood began to draw from where his nail was digging into her skin. She scratched at his eyes and he quickly allowed her to drop to the floor. She clutched her arm and scream. "You freakin' fruit cake! What the hell?"
He spun on his heel and head straight for her. She quickly took a few steps back and took a swing at him. He caught her arm and punched her in the stomach. She bent over forward to catch her breath. Seymour roughly shoved her against the wall and she slid to the floor. He stalked over to her and grabbed her throat. He lifted her off the floor and held her a foot above the ground. Kerri was gasping for air and Seymour had this twisted smile playing on his lips. She swung her bloodied arm at him, but he once again caught her arm. He looked at the blood and smirked. He licked it off her hand and said, "Mm that's nice…"
Kerri eyes widened in disgust. "Sick!" she screamed as she gave him a swift kick to his groin.
He dropped her to the floor and he grabbed at his assets as he fell to the floor. She looked angrily at him and extended her leg giving him a kick to the face. She struggled to her feet and kicked him in the stomach. "You sick, freak. Don't ever come near me again."
Baralai grabbed her shoulder. "Come on, Ker. We have to get out of here."
She shook him as she gave Seymour another kick to the rib cage. Baralai sighed as he lifted her off the ground and began to carry her away. She didn't struggle with him; instead she called over his shoulder to Seymour. "If you ever come near me again, Seymour Guado, I swear to God I will not hesitate to kill you!"
Rikku and Paine were helping Gippal who was all bloodied and Baralai was carrying Kerri. "Come on, guys. We gotta get out of here."
The group 'ran' as fast they could out of the mall. Rikku ran over to her yellow Kia and unlocked the door. "What are we gonna do? I mean, she we bring them to the hospital?"
Gippal shook his head and staggered away from Paine who was holding him up. "I'm fine, how is Kerri?"
Baralai smiled down at Kerri. "She'll be ok, she's a tough one. But, both of you need to get cleaned up."
Rikku climbed in the drivers seat and Paine climbed in the passenger seat. "We should bring them back to your house Rikku."
Rikku nodded as she started up the car. Gippal had already climbed in behind Rikku and Baralai was trying to get Kerri in the car. As he placed her in the car, she whimpered as a sharp pain came to her and she placed her hands to her ribs. Baralai looked at her worriedly and looked up Rikku. "I think we should call Yuna if we aren't going to be bringing them to a hospital."
Kerri opened her eyes and looked at him. "No. Tidus and Yuna are on a date. No."
Baralai climbed in the car besides Kerri and looked sternly at Kerri. "Well then we're bringing you to the hospital."
"NO!" Both Kerri and Gippal shouted at the same time. Gippal let out a strained laugh as he rested his head on the back of the seat.
Kerri rested her head on Gippal's shoulder, but removed it when he winced in pain. She wiped her head, which happened to have Gippal's blood on it. She looked up at Gippal with a concerned expression. "You're bleeding. Maybe you should go get checked out."
He looked at her firmly before he replied, "I'm not going to the hospital."
She leaned back slowly resting against Baralai. She winced as he touched her ribcage. Paine rolled her eyes. "I'm calling Tidus."
"No!" Kerri shrieked.
"I don't want to be the one Tidus flips on when he finds out his sister got beat up and no one called him," Baralai told her. He addressed Paine next, "Call him, Paine."
Rikku slammed on the breaks causing Gippal's head to smack against the side window and Kerri to fall forward off the seat. Both of them cried out in pain and Rikku turned to them. "Sorry… I was trying to beat the light…"
"Damn, Cid's girl, you trying to give me a concussion?" Gippal said as he rubbed his forward, wiping some blood off at the same time.
Kerri moaned in pain as she tried to get back up on the seat. "Rikku, be careful. We don't need a car full of people being sent to the hospital."
She nodded and continued driving. After a few more minutes they reached Rikku's house. Rikku rushed into the house while Paine and Baralai were helping Kerri and Gippal.
Paine and Baralai brought the couple to the bathroom where Rikku had the water running with towels and an assortment of first aid necessities. "I'm going to call them," she whispered to Baralai as she ran out of the room.
Gippal was sitting with his head against the wall and Paine was dabbing his cut with a wet towel. He winced as the wetness made contact with the cut. "Ow, Paine, damn it that hurt."
"Shut up and stop being shut a baby, Gippal," She said as she continued cleaning the blood off of him.
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Meanwhile Rikku was in the other room calling Yuna. After a few rings Yuna answered the phone sounding slightly irritated. "What is it Rikku?"
"Yuna, it's Kerri and Gippal," she said through the receiver.
Yuna's voice immediately softened at the sound of Rikku's worried voice. Something really bad must have happened. She doesn't call me Yuna. With a hint of worry in her voice she said, "What about them Rikku. What's the matter?"
"They're hurt. Kerri didn't want me to call you cause you were on a date with Tidus, but they refused to go to the hospital and they left me no choice!" Rikku said all in one breath.
"Alright, Where are you now?"
Rikku sighed. "My house. I'm so sorry, Yuna, it's just that I know you are really good with White Magic and I'm so sorry!"
"Rikku, don't worry." She put her hand over the mouthpiece of her cell phone. She looked at Tidus and said, "Rikku's house. Quick. Kerri and Gippal are hurt."
Tidus didn't even ask what happened he just slammed on the gas and took off towards to Siclari home. Yuna talked again into the receiver. "I'm coming now, Rikku."
"Thank you, Yunie!" She hung up the phone and walked back into the bathroom where Gippal and Kerri were being tended to. "I called Yuna," she stated in front of the group.
Kerri groaned. "Rikku! Come on!"
Rikku placed her hands on her hips. "If Tidus was hurt and you were on a date would you want me to call you?"
Kerri was silent before she replied. "Ok, but would he want you to call me?"
She contorted her face while she was thinking then said, "But I still would!"
"Whatever," she mumbled as Baralai finished cleaning up her arm.
"Who cut your arm like this, Ker?"
She looked down at her arm and scowled. "Seymour," she spat.
"Seymour did this?" Baralai said as he motioned to her arm.
"Yea and he punched me in the ribs, and I bet any other injury I have could be attributed to him in some way." She said as she looked towards Paine and Gippal.
Gippal had grabbed her arm. "Just stop, Paine."
She pulled her arm away from him. "Stop being a baby. I need to clean you up, or it could get infected." She went to dab his head, but he grabbed her hand again. She glared at him. "Gippal if you don't let me clean you up, I'm going to break your hand."
He released her hand and she continued cleaning him. After some brief silence interrupted every so often by Paine threatening Gippal, a car door slamming shut was heard followed by the front door swinging open and a set of footsteps heard running up the stairs. Tidus ran into the bathroom and looked at his battered friends.
"Kerri!" he shouted as he ran to her side. He pulled her into a hug. "Oh my Yevon are you ok?"
She closed her eyes and fought back the tears from the pain the hug was causing her. "Tidus," she said gently. "You're hurting me…"
He released her and looked at her. "I'm sorry. Are you ok?"
She nodded. "With the exception of my arms and ribs, I'm ok."
He looked over to Gippal who was finally cooperating with Paine. "Gippal what happened."
"Seymour and his bitch squad is what happened," he grumbled.
Tidus clenched his fist. "Seymour? I should have figured as much. What else is freakin' new?"
Yuna bent down next to Kerri. "Where does it hurt?"
Kerri looked at her and replied. "I'm really sorry for ruining your date, Yuna. I didn't want them to call you."
"Kerri, I don't care. Tell me where it hurts you the most."
Kerri motioned to her ribs. "He punched my in the ribs."
Yuna nodded and placed her hands over to Kerri's ribs. "This might feel a little weird," she warned her before she closed her eyes and concentrated. Slowly a slightly large blue orb emitted from Yuna's hands and into Kerri.
Almost immediately, Kerri felt better. She looked at Yuna and smiled. "Thank you…"
Yuna nodded. "Let me see your arm."
Kerri shook her head. "No go take care of Gippal, he's in worse shape then me."
She nodded as she walked over to Gippal. Tidus grabbed Kerri's hand. "Did you say 'He' punched you in the ribs?"
Kerri nodded. "Yea, Seymour, punched me."
Tidus balled his hands into fist and clenched his teeth. "He hit you? That stupid sand blasted grease monkey!"
Kerri smiled. "I was thinking more of asshole, but sure what you said works too I guess…"
Tidus looked at her, his eyes burning with anger. "How can you be so calm about this? Do you know how much worse this could have been?"
I'm only calm because I don't want to scare you. I'm petrified right now. She nodded. "I know, but it didn't so… not much more we can do about it…"
Tidus pulled her into another hug. "I was so scared when Yuna told me you and Gippal were hurt. You like my sister Kerri and I don't know what I would do if something ever happened to you."
Kerri returned to hug and reassuringly said, "Nothing can happen to me with great friends like the ones I have. I do believe you were the one who told me that right?"
He nodded. "Yea I know, but still…"
"Hey! Get your hands off my girlfriend!" Gippal said in a joking manner from across the bathroom.
Tidus turned around with a smile on his lips. "Well I'm glad to see your back to normal."
Yuna sat on the floor and sighed. "He looked a lot worse than he really was. But, nonetheless, it took a lot out of me to heal them…"
Tidus released Kerri and walked over to Yuna. He hugged her and said, "I don't know what we would do without you."
Baralai approached Kerri with some bandages took her arm. "Let me wrap that for you so it doesn't get infected. Then later, Yuna can heal it."
Kerri nodded and let Baralai wrapped her arm. After he finished that she stood up and walked over to Gippal. She kneeled down besides him and wiped his hair away from his face. "Are you ok?" she whispered to him.
He nodded. "Never better… Are you ok? I was so scared for you."
She nodded and smiled. "We got lucky this time…"
"I know," she pulled her into an affectionate embrace. "That could have been really bad," he whispered to her.
The couple looked up at their friends. "Thank you," Kerri said to them.
Rikku smiled. "Hey, I got to punch Dona… it was no problem for me!"
Paine nodded. "Yea I've been looking to hit LeBlanc for a while."
"Basically we used your situation to do the things we've always wanted to do," Baralai told them with a smile.
"Well, that's great." Gippal pulled Kerri closer to him and said, "Some friends we have, they don't care we were getting hurt, only that they could hit the people they don't like…"
"Shesh, don't we have the greatest friend," Kerri said in a sarcastic tone.
Rikku pouted. "That isn't true! I wanted to help you! It's just I got the chance to hit Dona which made it all the more fun!"
Paine shook her head at the two. "These two are made for each other, don't ya think?"
Baralai nodded in agreement. "I already knew that from when I first encountered some of their conversations. They are practically the same person."
"I know," Paine groaned. "Try sitting with the two of them at lunch. I thought it was bad when it was just Gippal…"
"Yea, I always thanked Yevon for not giving me that lunch period," Baralai said in a joking manner.
Kerri mouth dropped. "Hey! That was so mean!"
Gippal smirked. "Don't worry Kerri. She's just jealous that you're the one I'm dating and not her…"
Kerri mirrored his smirked as she said, "Yea and Baralai is just jealous that you're the one I'm dating instead of him." She looked up at Baralai. "Sorry B. just you took too long to ask…"
"Sorry Dr. P., but you don't have to be jealous of Kerri. There is more than enough of me to go around."
"No kidding," Kerri said. "I mean with all those slices of pizza you are today…"
Tidus, Yuna, and Rikku laughed at them. Tidus helped Yuna stand as he said, "You are right. Kerri and Gippal are made for each other. I don't think any one else could handle their personalities."
"And yet we manage to put up with the two of them at the same time," Yuna added with a sly smile on her lips.
Kerri narrowed her eyes. "What is this? Pick on the battered people day?"
"Ker, you know we love you," Tidus said.
Gippal pulled Kerri closer to him as he said, "MINE!" He narrowed his eyes at Tidus and then at Baralai. "Mine! You can't have her!"
Kerri yawned and leaned her head back on his chest. "Sleepy," she said as she closed her eyes.
Gippal leaned his head on Kerri's, closed his eyes, and said, "My thoughts exactly."
Baralai looked down at his watch. "Oh crap… it's getting late."
Rikku clapped her hands together and exclaimed, "I have an idea!" she paused for dramatic affect before she continued. "SLEEPOVER!"
Paine rolled her eyes. "Rikku, I…"
"Don't! You have no excuses cause you're already here!" she ran down the hall and into her room. "I have jammies for everyone! Even the guys, cause they can wear Brother's stuff!"
Yuna giggled. "Guess we have no choice…"
Tidus looked down at Kerri and Gippal who were pretty much sleeping already. "Yea and I don't think these two are going anywhere," he said motioning to the sleeping couple.
Everyone turned their eyes at the sleeping couple and Baralai said, "We're just going to leave them there?"
Tidus threw his hands in the air. "I'm not waking her. She'll try and kill me. Believe me… I know…" Tidus looked at Baralai. "You do it."
"Me?" Baralai said as he raised his hand to his chest. "Why do I have to do it?"
"Because you don't wanna just leave them there." Tidus gave him a push forward. "Go ahead, B."
Yuna sighed. "Forget it. I'll just wake Gippal up and he can wake up Kerri, I'm sure she won't kill him."
She walked over to Gippal and gave him a light shove. "Gippal, get up."
He dug his head in Kerri's shoulder. "No," he muttered.
"Gippal, just get up and get to a bed," Yuna persuaded. "And get Kerri up too…"
He opened his eyes and looked up at Yuna. "Where am I sleeping?"
"You can sleep in Brother's room! He isn't here tonight, he's spending the night at a friend's house," Rikku said as she popped her head in the doorway.
"Whatever you say," he muttered. He shook Kerri a little and she groaned. "Ker, come on, we have to move to a bed…"
She groggily opened her eyes. "Sure…"
The couple stood up slowly and Kerri rested her head on Gippal's chest. "C'mon, Ker."
She slowly walked out of the bathroom, Gippal's hands on her hips leading her to Brother's room. She walked over to the bed and dropped herself on it. Gippal mirrored her actions and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her close to him.
Tidus followed them and stood in the doorway. "Do you see this? They think they are sharing a bed!"
Baralai laughed and said, "Ti, do you really think they're going to do anything? I mean look they're both out cold already." He patted Tidus on the back. "C'mon, Rikku set up the guest room for us."
Tidus looked at them once last time before he sighed and followed Baralai down the hall.
The next morning, Gippal and Kerri were woken with a start. "GIPPAL! WHAT YOU DO IN MY ROOM?"
Gippal held his eyes closed tight as he nestled his head in the nook of Kerri's neck. Kerri groaned and pulled the covers up over her head.
"RIKKU! WHAT BE THE MEANING OF THIS?"
Rikku opened her door and shouted. "SHUT UP! SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO SLEEP, YOU IDIOT!"
"Rikku! Fro ec Gippal eh so pat? (Why is Gippal in my bed.)" He shouted.
Rikku stormed down the hall right for Brother. "Pnudran, ev oui tuh'd crid ib E's kuehk du drnuf oui tufh dra cdyenc! E ryja baubma cmaabehk ujan yht ev oui fyga dras ib, E's kuehk du GEMM OUI! (Brother, if you don't shut up I'm going to throw you down the stairs! I have people sleeping over and if you wake them up, I'm going to KILL YOU!)"
Kerri was just about to doze off again when Brother came back into his room. "Gippal, kad uid uv so pat. HUF! (Gippal, get out of my bed. NOW!)"
She blindly reached for the nearest object to her. Once she grabbed something she threw it in the direction of the voice. "SHUT UP!" she screamed from under the covers.
Brother managed to dodge the flying projectile. He stomped over to his bed and grabbed the covers ripping them off the bed. "GET OUT NOW!"
Kerri shot up and glared at him. "That's it!"
He took a step back away from her, his eye wide. "Rikku, Fru ec drec kenm? (Rikku, who is this girl?)"
She crossed her arms and with a smirk replied, "Dryd'c Kerri, oy ghuf kebbym'c kenmvneaht, oui'ja sad ran pavuna. Ur, yht E cikkacd oui nih. Huf... (That's Kerri, ya know Gippal's girlfriend, you've met her before. Oh, and I suggest you run. Now…)"
Brother started running as soon as Kerri emerged from the room. If looks could kill, Brother would have dropped dead on the spot, but seeing as they can't he began to run for all he was worth.
At this time, Tidus came out of the room and scratched the back of his head. "What the hell is going on? You guys woke me up…"
Rikku smiled. "Brother came home early… and well he doesn't really like Gippal all that much and well he woke Kerri up…"
Tidus' eyes went wide. "He woke Kerri up? Did she kill him?"
"She didn't catch him… yet…"
By the time Brother managed to reach the front door, Kerri had caught up with him and left a nice red handprint across his face. She crossed her arms and yelled, "Tuh'd ajan fyga sa ib mega dryd ykyeh, un E fuh'd ku ayco uh oui! (Don't ever wake me up like that again, or I won't go easy on you!)"
Tidus winced. "Ow, that sounded like it hurt…"
Rikku laughed as she replied, "Good he deserved it…"
Kerri came back up the stairs, with the blanket in her arms. She walked past Rikku and Tidus and straight for Brother's room where she and Gippal had slept. She walked over to the bed and plopped down on top of the blanket falling back asleep.
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"I still can't get over that you hit Brother. I mean all of us have wanted to do it, but like… none of us have ever done it, well with the exception of Rikku," Tidus said as Kerri passed by him as she walked towards her room.
She rolled her eyes. "I said I was sorry. He woke me up, and it was the way you do it, ya know grab the blankets and rip them off the bed…" She opened her bedroom door and tossed her shoes in there. She turned around and made her way down the stairs. "It's not my fault he woke me up like that. Seriously, who does that?"
He laughed as he made his way downstairs. She followed him down and into the kitchen. "So, Gippal and you have a six month anniversary coming up this Friday, no?"
She nodded. "That we do. And to make it even more perfect, we have no school. How awesome is that?"
He laughed as he sat down with a bowl of cereal. "So, what are you going to do?"
She shrugged. "I have no idea, Gippal said he has something planned, but it's going to be surprise."
Tidus looked up at her from his bowl of cereal and smirked, "And that's driving you crazy isn't it?"
"Yes. Yes it is," she said as she sat down and joined him for a bowl of cereal. "Though I am kind of excited, I like these little surprises he plans for me."
"Yea, but until then you're going to be temperamental and such because the fact that you don't know is going to eat at you all week," he said with a smirk.
She nodded. "Yep, and you'll be the one who will get the brunt end of it," she shrugged, "Oh well."
"Damn it," he muttered under his breath. "Well all I have to say is it better be something good that I'll be putting up with you!"
She laughed. "Well, we'll just have to wait and see, won't we?"
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A/N: Sooo what'd you all think? I think it was a pretty decent chapter, though I'm not the one reading.. ok well no I'm reading it, I'm not the one judging it, that's better. Well… I managed to update really quickly, don't you think? Let's see long I keep this up for. I didn't get many reviews, though I mean I did just update like what, 3 days ago? CraZyY
Thanks:
First I wanna thank the other … wait I can do math I swear… wth is 41-7?… 34 there we go! Lol.. yeaa the other 34 people who read and didn't review… Although I would love them a whole lot more if they reviewed :hint hint: I mean cause my stories hit thing is about 900 and my review do not mirror that, even if I take away the first chapter, which is…181.. that still…690! Ok, well regardless, I'm glad that you people read it so.. THANKS!
GiGgLyGaL: I glad you liked it and how is this for a quick update?
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Emmy-miester: hehe well that sounds lik fun, Soccer was like that, just not as bad, most things got caught, although a lot of things didn't. I still remember those days, they were great! Wow I'm talking like I'm 50 here, I'm 17…. Well I hope you like this chapter, because I worked ultra hard and quick to get it out here ASAP
CeE CrOw: Shut up Colleen! He got hit hard, and you're just mad of what I did in my part of ur story so ha!
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Akiraine of Gia: I save your thank you for last, because well it was my longest review and I need some time to type up a thanks. I've been writing this since last October! Eep! Almost a year, I think it's time I wrapped this up and start the sequel, but then again, this past school year I got a load of homework and stuff so it took me a while to update. Thank for complimenting my writing, It means a lot to me! I try to keep it interesting and try to add humor in there, though it doesn't always work out that way… And Monstro! I hate that stupid whale, the first time I played, I skipped him lol. I was like screw this and I went to Agrbah or whatever, I skipped Alantis too.. Of course, when I played for the second time, I made sure I did everything and I mean everything because I was ready for it as I was armed with my handy dandy guidebook! Lol And Ursala took me a while to beat too… stupid fish thing…. Lol Hitting things till they work, That's how I get my things to work for me! Lol I'd be lost without it… And don't worry I do the same thing. I've come to realize I socialize more with people from this website than I do my own friends, when it comes to the computer anyway… It's kinda sad when I think about it… so I'm not gonna think about it! Lol And I am glad my vocabulary has rubbed off on you. I feel so cool, lol, Ok well… this is long and I'm gonna post this chapter so.. TOODLES!