A/N: Hello! I hope all is well when who ever is reading this. Oh and remember that whole: "Guess who wrote most of the last chapter and win a prize!" contest thingy? Lol. Well, I got a review that reminded me that I had already mentioned that in the chapter before that. Sooooo, I won't be giving any prizes away today, cuz that would just be too easy, dontcha think? Sorry about that folks! ;;

Another thing...I have terrible news! I just found out that my friend Jenn Yukina is going to retire after she's done with all her stories. I tried to talk her out of it but, she has lost her inspiration and she said that she's more of a drawer anyways. So, she's gonna be an artist. And I wanna let her know that I cherished every second writing a story with her! The brilliant...the terrific...and kind hearted Yukina! We'll miss you so much!. So, if you get the chance to, e-mail her or review one of her stories and tell her thanks for writing her stories and thanks for contributing to the website. Thankies:3

Disclaimer: Nor me or Yukina have ff9 and/or any of its characters in our possession...at least..not yet

♣A New Job♣

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It was very cold today. Very cold. Garnet wondered how the weather could be so comfortably warm one day, and then so uncomfortably freezing the next. The weather was never this confusing where she lived. Speaking of which, she thought, she really should have planted more crops in the field before she had left home. She could have at least done that to make less work for mother. She sighed feeling bad inside, as she made her way further up the street. Poor mother; Poor Vivi.

The city was really busy. There was always a lot of traffic in the streets and always many people walking around on the sidewalks. There were many stores, and many billboards everywhere with advertisements on them. Last week, when she was on her way to hand in her application, there was this odd child running around. He was playing with a colorful ball, that Garnet even thought was kind of nifty.

He bounced the ball on his head, then bounced it back up with his knee and continued this pattern for a while; until he caught sight of a billboard with a star soccer player doing some famous foot, head, knee, hip, kick twist spin.

The boy did his usual pattern with the ball and almost performed the stunt perfectly until, he tried to add a twist to it and he clumsily fell backwards and the ball rolled over into the street. Having no idea that he would most likely get killed by a speeding car, he ran after his nifty little ball, while a large truck was right behind him.

Garnet looked around for the mother of the child to come running to the rescue but, she saw no one. She threw her bag on the ground and ran as fast as she could. It was so close...she grabbed the boy by his collar and dragged him across the street. She could practically feel the truck right behind her heels.

"A-are...you.. Ok...?" Garnet stuttered, her breathing becoming very hard.

"Nnnn...Mmmmm...Uwaaaaaa!" And he just sat there on the ground crying his little eyes out.

Garnet felt her lips turning into a smile. That's one thing she had done right since she came here. She had a knack for being places at the right time. She had saved a boys life!

Garnet took a mental bow as the crowd applauded. She stopped walking when she found herself in front of the Burger King restaurant. Sighing nervously, she stared at the entrance for a while and spotted a familiar-looking young man as the cashier. Raising a suspicious brow, her memory tried to find the location of where she met this boy.

The only way to reveal his identity, was to march in there and ask him. But it would seem a little awkward.. So I can't just do that.. she thought in her mind, while her conscious hand pulled the entrance door to go inside.

She peaked inside. There was quite a line and it smelled like greasy foods. Then again, this was Burger King. What else would it smell like? When she walked in everyone turned around and stared at her. She suddenly felt very hot. She wanted to leave. Say, "Oh I thought this was the library!" slap her forehead and leave. As she approached the An old lady looked her up and down and said, "You have gorgeous hair! My hair used to be dark and lovely like that when I was your age." The old lady said with her glasses sitting on the peak of her nose. Everyone still had their eyes glued on the girl with the gorgeous brown hair.

"Thank you ma'am." She blushed and walked to a familiar looking cashier.

Zidane had his eyes attached to her in curiosity as well.

"Um, excuse me, but I applied for a job here and..." She felt so nervous for some reason. It was the boy. The boy with the long monkey tail from last night. She didn't know he worked here too.

He narrowed his eyes.

"Yea, Baku's in the back. Just knock on his door and he'll get you started." Zidane felt the need to talk to her. Ask her everything about herself. Where was she from? What were her dreams. How old was she? And was she single?

"Where's my damn burger?" The old lady complained waving her cane around, almost hitting Zidane in the face.

"Just a second ma'am." He said handing the lady her tray with a empty cup on it.

Garnet had already become very hot and she hadn't even started working in the kitchen yet. She took off her jacket and threw it onto her shoulder. The people in the kitchen stared at her, as if she were a thief about to grab something. She tried not to look back, but they were strange looking people. They all looked like different types of monsters. One was brown with fangs and yellow eyes. There were two who looked like gargoyles except they didn't have huge wings. There were two who looked pretty human enough. Just, odd looking humans. She kept walking until she came across a door that had, "Baku's office. Keep out!" She gulped and knocked.

"Who is it!" A voice shouted, causing Garnet to gasp in shock.

"Yes, um I applied to work here and you told me to come in today."

"Oh yea! The kid who sent that application. Just a sec."

She heard a bunch of noises from inside, maybe she should've come another day she thought. "Sir, if it's a problem I can come back some other time, when you're not busy."

Some more noises...and then it became very silent.

"Come in!" He finally said.

Garnet turned the knob and saw a hairy...bunny...? sitting in a chair behind his desk.

"Have a seat...um Ruby...was it?" He fixed his tiny glasses.

"No, it's...Garnet actually." She said sitting down.

"Oh. Now, how did I confuse you with Ruby?" He chuckled, "Alright Garnet, as you may know already, your application was accepted and you will begin your first day of work here. Now, the first you will be starting on cleaning up. Such as, mopping, sweeping, taking out the trash, washing windows etc." He seemed to be looking at everything except her.

Garnet nodded silently.

"Here, I'll give you a tour of the restaurant." He rose and put some papers into a huge sloppy folder.

"Ok thank you sir." She replied.

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"Hey, did you see that new girl who just started workin' today?" Zidane asked taking a bite out of his double whopper.

"Umm, you mean that cute girl with the long brown hair?" Blank said, slurping down the rest of his Coke.

Zidane nodded, then stuffed a couple of fries in his mouth and used a napkin to clean up his mess.

"Yea, what about her? Do you like her?" He replied as if he weren't really interested at all. Zidane always talked about girls, so he was pretty used to it.

"Well, yea I like her. But I met her like...about a week ago."

"Where was this?"

"It was after Cinna's birthday party. Ya remember when I left to go to Cid's place to pick up our stuff?"

Blank nodded while biting down on his special bendy straw.

"Yea, um Cid said that she was...his niece or somethin'. I think she's there visiting. I couldn't really see her face, cuz it was late at night, I think it's her though. Her voice seems familiar..." He went into deep thought while taking another huge bite out of his burger.

"Oh...well, is this like the time when you went up to that girl at the park, and told her that you had a dream about meeting her there? Or when you bumped into that real cute girl with the huge boobs and you said that you had already met her too?" Zidane had a habit of making up stories to get into a girls pants, or he always had a personal reason to talk to a cute girl. Like it was law or something.

"No really, I didn't even say all that crap to her. Cid introduced us."

Blank sighed and gathered his trash, getting up to throw it away.

"I gotta talk to her again..."

"Zidane I'm gonna--"

"It's destiny that we met again! This is no mere coincidence. We were meant to meet each other once again." Zidane squeezed his fists with this determined look on his face.

"Dude hold on, you don't even know if she's the same girl. And you wouldn't want to go make an idiot outta yourself, with another corny story."

"Too late Blank..." He stood from his seat and made sure he had no ketchup on his mouth.

"Oh no, Zidane...can't you just be friends with her?"

"Well yea, we'll eventually be friends first. But I really think she might be the one." He brushed his hair back, blew his nose, adjusted his crotch and popped a mint into his mouth.

"You don't even know her! She could be a total bitch, or a completely different girl from the one you remember. I'm just tryin' to stop you before you make a complete fool outta yourself."

"Hey, how 'bout a lil' confidence in me for once? Maybe she is the one..."

A/N: I'm sorry that it took me so long to update this. School's startin' up again, been really busy and Yukina's completely bailed on me...she can no longer help me write the story. I mean, she doesn't want to help me finish. So, I put this story up for a while until I wanted to deal with it again. But then when all seemed lost, I got a new review. Which really got me happy and my hopes up again. Looks like I'm gonna have to finish this story on my own...I think I can do it...if I have faithful reviewers than I definitely think I can finish this story on my own. Yukina said she would find me another writing partner to continue the story with but...we started it together! And writing it with someone else...they wouldn't have the same ideas as I do...I dunno. Maybe I'm just being picky and mean but, I don't want another writing partner...I wrote all of this chapter except for like, 3 sentences and it wasn't that bad at all was it? It was a bit short, but I'll try to make the next one fairly longer. That's if I get at least 3 reviews. Which I don't think is askin' for 10 pots of gold. At least 3 and I'll get my writing spirits back up again. I really need and could use some supportive reviews at times like this. Thanks to all who have reviewed so far, I hope you decide to stay with me. I loves ya all