Chapter 9: Jealousy and dinner don't mix
Ok… it is finally here! I was busy and this chapter had to go through a lot but here it is! I don't have much to say right now… I'm tired as hell… so hope you like this!
TO MY REVIEWERS: (You know that I love you guys to death but come on people? 4 reviews? You can do better than that!)
Lady Sonora the Black Rose- it was funny he seemed kinda stalker-ish but he isn't! he just knows some stuff about her… your character is here! She seems kinda like a side kick but she isn't… I swear… she has a big role in this… just wait a couple more chapters.
AngelKairi- sweet isn't it! One phrase could mean a lot… Yuffie's just too dense to see it! Thanks so much for the editing! Ok… just have to write this now coz I am pissed… there is something wrong with my keyboard and it doubles the letters t, l and s. so when ever I write I have to go back and press the back space button! Ok… that was out of topic… naw… your not rude… just helpful.
KairiLuv- ok! I've put more of Tanni in there but I cant write what she looks like! I e-mailed you last week about that… not sure if I sent it or not… hehe…. But please tell me what she looks like so I could add that in here! It's awesome! Yeah! Haha! YAY! An update AND a one shot! I'll check it out as soon as I possibly can!
Jordansailoranime- I know the sora stupidity is weird but in a cute way!
LeonLeon walked into the doors of his house… er… his parent's house. The help greeted him and he just nodded in reply. Leon was followed by a bunch of guys who carried the hundreds of plastic and paper bags that were filled with clothes for his sister.
He checked his palm pilot. His sister had sent him pictures of the clothes she wanted him to buy for her.
"They are outside in the garden, sir." An old butler said to Leon.
Leon walked out of the house and saw in front of him a pond full of orange and yellow fish, a bridge that connected the place together and a big white tent that served as his dad's "rest place".
Leon heard two girls talking on the other side of the garden. He walked toward the voices. There were two girls. One was his sister, Tanni, and the other was her friend, Sonora.
Both girls looked up when they heard Leon's footsteps. Tanni squealed then ran over to Leon and gave him a warm hug.
"SQUALL! You're here! So… how's my little brother doing?" Tanni asked in excitement.
"Ok… I guess." Leon asked. "And it's Leon."
"Why don't you like the name Squall? It's a cool name!" Tanni said shrugging. "Ain't that right Sonora?"
Sonora looked up not knowing what to say. "Actually… I like Leon better than Squall."
"You're supposed to be on my side!" Tanni pouted.
"Just speaking the truth!" Sonora shrugged.
"I agree with her." Leon said.
"Fine! Everyone gang up on me! But I'm gonna have my payback Leon! You'll see!" Tanni said, already thinking of an evil plot.
"Fine whatever, I bought the stuff for you." Leon said, pointing at the pile of plastic and paper bags on the veranda.
Tanni's eyes filled with pure happiness. "SQUALLL! YOU ARE THE BEST BROTHER EVER!" Tanni hugged Leon again and ran to her pile of clothes.
Sonora shook her head. "That girl and her clothes."
Leon nodded. "I know what you mean. You have no idea how much I spent on those."
Tanni ran back to them with a huge smile on her face. "Hey! Leon! Let's have dinner tonight! Sonora, you can come too! I'm picking the restaurant!" Tanni said happily.
Both Sonora and Leon couldn't refuse.
Yuffie"OH MA GAWSH! What am I gonna wear!" Yuffie was in her room with piles and piles of clothes on the floor, the bed, the tables and even on Selphie.
"I could help you if you would stop throwing those clothes at me!" Selphie said as she threw the clothes away from her.
"I'm sorry! But this is like the first date that I've ever been on!" Yuffie said on the verge of panic.
"You're FIRST date? Really? Woah. That's why you're stressing so bad!" Selphie said as she picked up a light material colored spaghetti strapped shirt. "This is nice." She looked at the tag. "Gucci! Wow! Where did you get the money for this?"
"Uh… um… it was a gift from my aunt." Yuffie said taking the shirt from her. "Yeah. This is nice. It's not clingy so it's good first date clothes… right?"
Selphie smiled. "Yuffie! snap out of it! It's only a date! Not your wedding!"
Yuffie breathed in and out. "Ok. So… just pants?"
"Yes. Jeans will be ok… and add bangles… and just flats. Ok?" Selphie said with her hands on Yuffie's shoulders.
"Yes. Ok. What time is it?" Yuffie asked with a look of worry on her face.
"Um… 6:30."
Yuffie almost fainted.
Almost.
During dinner…
Yuffie and Cloud were in one of those beach restaurants, one where they ate on the beach with the sand under their feet.
"So… what do you think?" Cloud asked Yuffie who ate her stuffed flounder with complete happiness.
"What? The food or the restaurant?" Yuffie asked as she took another bite.
"Both." Cloud said as he watched her with great amusement.
"Hm… the food is great. And the restaurant… well…" Yuffie smiled. "You're trying too hard." Yuffie gave a confident smirk.
"What do you mean trying too hard?" This girl never ceased to amaze him.
"Hm… candle lit dinner? On a beach? For a first date?" Yuffie said giving Cloud a knowing look.
"Too romantic for you?" Cloud asked, frowning slightly. So… she wasn't one of those girls.
"Actually… yeah. Hey uh Cloud… are we gonna get dessert or what?" Yuffie asked raising her eyebrows.
Cloud laughed.
"We will if you don't choke on your food."
Yuffie laughed.
Just then Leon, Tanni and Sonora walked into the restaurant. Leon froze when he saw Yuffie and Cloud on a table. Together. Alone. To make matters worse, Yuffie was laughing at something that Cloud had said.
Tanni saw her brother freeze in his tracks. She looked at who he was staring at. It was his best friend Cloud, and a girl she never saw before. Tanni smiled. He likes her.
"Hey, Squall, stop staring at your… er Cloud's little girlfriend there. I'm hungry." Tanni's smile grew wider as he gave a fierce look. Perfect payback.
They sat down on a table where the chairs were stuck to the floor.
"So… uh… Leon… Cloud's right over there. Why don't you say hi?" Tanni said. She tested Leon's nerves, knowing that her brother would pop later.
"No… I don't want to disturb them on their DATE!" Leon emphasized the "date" word.
Sonora was catching her drift. "So… they didn't tell you? Why, is she your girlfriend?"
Leon shot a glare at Sonora. "No."
"Then why are you looking so mad Leon?" Tanni said sweetly.
Just then Leon heard Yuffie laugh again. He twitched and felt like someone kicked his guts.
"Oh… they seem to be having a good time." Sonora said making Leon's hands clench into a fist.
"They do seem like a sweet couple, don't you agree Leon?" Tanni said.
This made Leon start to shake in anger.
"I think he does! Look how happy he looks for them!" Sonora said clasping her hands together, pretending to be one of those mothers in old movies.
Leon's eyes were twitching and he was turning into a light shade of purple.
Happy. Yeah.
"What is the name of that girl, Leon?" Tanni asked.
"Yuffie." Leon cooled down for a while but then his anger popped right back in.
Tanni's eyes grew wide. Was her brother getting… soft on this girl?
"Well anyways… I wonder what Cloud and Yuffie would be doing later. You know what a player Cloud can be!" Tanni said, smiling.
The thought of Cloud making Yuffie moan and beg for more made him reach his maximum anger level.
Leon stood up getting ready to kill the living daylights out of Cloud when he heard a small click and he felt a clod metallic bracelet like thing wrap around his right wrist.
He was handcuffed to the chair.
And his sister was standing beside him holding up a key.
He felt like he just popped a blood vessel and he was going to lose consciousness out of anger.
"Now, Sonora, mind watching my baby brother while I go to the lady's?" Tanni said sweetly.
"If…If… you leave me here I will tear this chair off the ground!" Leon said fiercely with his eyes looking like they would pop out any second.
"Now…now… Squall, I don't think it will look too great if Yuffie sees you with a chair hanging on your wrist. I know if I saw a guy like that… I'd think he's a nut job." With that last word Tanni turned her heel.
Squall continued to pull and pull but he felt Sonora slap him on the arm. She held up a shrimp to his face. "Stop pulling if you don't want this shrimp up your nose." Sonora said glaring daggers at Leon.
Leon looked threatened, knowing that she really would stick the shrimp up his nose. He sat down, shooting glares at Yuffie and Cloud's table.
Cloud reached towards Yuffie and he wiped something off her face.
Leon felt something boil inside him. He kicked the sand under his feet with immense power.
"So… I see you like her." Sonora smirked.
"Why are you doing this?" Leon said, glaring at Sonora.
Sonora shrugged. "If I don't play along, she'll make me suffer." Sonora said nodding slowly.
Just then Yuffie and Cloud got up from their seats. Leon winced. He wanted to get up and somehow hurt Cloud. Why was he doing this? Why did he feel this way? Cloud has been his friend for as long as he could remember. And their friendship was falling bit by bit because of some girl.
He didn't really like it but he couldn't help it.
When they left, Tanni popped out of nowhere and unlocked the handcuffs.
Leon glared at her. "I hate you."
"You don't mean that, and besides, Leon, I don't do things because I wanna torture you. I do things to ya cause it's for your own good!" Tanni said triumphantly.
"What do you mean?" Leon said still glaring.
"If I didn't lock you to your chair, you would have gone there and probably knock out Cloud. So… how did you think Yuffie would react to your sudden burst of violence, and being you, I know you haven't even told her that you liked her, so she would think that there was something wrong with you. This would cause a disturbance in your relationship with both Cloud and Yuffie." Tanni breathed in heavily.
Leon was taken aback. He was still mad but deep down, he knew his sister was right.
"Then why did you make me mad?" Leon asked still a little confused.
"That was her payback." Sonora said sipping her drink.
"Then why did you go along with it?"
"Hey… Leon… I'm not stupid, I know what she was up to and besides, I owe her." there was a light blush on Sonora's face.
"Ok… so I was the only one who didn't understand what was going on. What did you do to make her owe you so much?" Leon asked Tanni.
"I guess so. And it was just some thing in a club, you don't need to know the details." Tanni finished her food.
"Are we all done?" Sonora put down her fork.
YuffieCloud watched Yuffie down her fifth banana split. Yuffie looked up.
"What?" Yuffie licked her spoon.
"How do you eat so much and maintain a good figure?" Cloud asked still staring at her.
"I have a good figure?" Yuffie tilted her head
"Yeah… are you done with that yet?" Cloud pointed at the empty bowl of ice cream.
"Wait… isn't that Leon?" Yuffie pointed at a guy that looked exactly like Leon and two other girls with him.
Cloud looked at the trio. "It is." Cloud couldn't help but sound disappointed.
Yuffie waved her hands frantically like she was a mad woman. Leon noticed her and immediately stopped.
Cloud felt like cursing.
Yuffie signalled him to go into the ice cream parlor. Leon stopped and thought for a while then he called out to the two girls he was with.
Leon"SQUALLIE! What are you doing here!" Yuffie asked them when they walked into the ice cream parlor.
Leon saw Cloud frown. Leon couldn't help but smile… in the inside.
"Just going around the place." Leon and the two girls were still standing.
"Great! Sit with us!" Yuffie pulled out 3 chairs and they sat down.
"So… you're the Yuffie he's been talking about." Tanni nodded her head.
Leon's eyes got wide for a second. He wasn't talking about her!
"You've been talking about me Squallie? I knew you had a crush on me!" Yuffie smiled cheerfully.
"Squallie?" Sonora asked a little bewildered.
"Don't mind her… she has no idea what she is talking about. And Yuffie, I do not have a crush on you." Leon felt like punching himself.
Tanni and Sonora looked like they were gonna burst out laughing. Leon glared at them.
"Tanni, what have you been up to?" Cloud finally spoke.
"Hmm… nothing much, college and it's stress, aside from that, parties!" Tanni smiled. "Oh yeah! I totally forgot! I am Tanni, Leon's older sister and this is my friend, Sonora!"
"Hey!" Sonora added.
"So you guys are in college?" Yuffie finished her ice cream.
Just then a bell rang and everyone's attention went to the door.
There was a blonde girl in a very skimpy outfit.
It was Nami.
"Hey guys! Why didn't anyone tell me that we were going out tonight! I was bored stiff at home!" Nami walked over to their table and seeing that there weren't any more chairs, sat on Leon's lap.
"Um… Who's this?" Sonora asked giving Nami a dirty look.
"You don't know who I am? Ok… anyways… Leon… you're lap's really comfortable." Nami caught Yuffie's gaze and smiled.
Yuffie felt like someone was kicked her ribs.
Yuffie got up. "I'm going to the bathroom."
Tanni got up and pulled a chair from another table. "Nami, here's a chair, sit on it." Tanni glared at Nami but she just smiled at her. Tanni really felt like slapping this girl.
"You know, just because you're in college, doesn't mean you are smarter than me." Nami stayed put on Leon's lap. But Leon was just worried about Yuffie.
Cloud got up. "I'm going after her." Cloud walked to the direction of the bathrooms.
Leon wanted to get up too, but he couldn't just let the 3 girls kill each other. He felt useless but he had to stay here with Nami. (A/N: ehm! Forgot that he still thinks he likes Nami huh?)
"Leon, let's get out of here?" Nami purred in his ear. Before, when she did this, he only thought of her, now Yuffie kept creeping into his thoughts, and he couldn't get her out no matter what.
"No, I promised to escort these two all night." Leon didn't catch Nami's glare.
Tanni and Sonora smiled, both knew the reason why he wouldn't leave.
YuffieShe was in the girl's bathroom all alone. She didn't cry but she felt like it.
The door burst open a few minutes later. Cloud was standing there looking at her.
Yuffie let out a scream. "CLOUD! THIS IS THE GIRL'S BATHROOM!" Yuffie threw a shoe at him.
Cloud just stared.
"SAY SOMETHING!" Yuffie felt a tear fall.
"Yuffie, what's wrong?" Cloud walked in.
Yuffie's tears still fell no matter how hard she tried to stop them. "Nothing…" Yuffie quickly wiped away the tears from her face.
"If you say so." Cloud shrugged. "Come on, let's get back to them before they kill each other." Yuffie laughed.
"You're right."
LeonThe three girls were red in the face. Tanni and Sonora were trembling in anger. Yuffie walked back with Cloud beside her. Leon's heart fell seeing that Cloud was able to comfort Yuffie for whatever reason she cried for. Wait… she cried?
"Yuffie, did you just cry?" Leon asked softly.
"No… why? Do I look like I did?" Yuffie tilted her head.
"You look the same to me." Nami shrugged.
"It doesn't look like she cried." Sonora said looking at Yuffie closely.
"What makes you say that, Leon?" Tanni asked her brother.
"Her eyes… they aren't shining in the right way… and she's a little redder than usual." Leon shrugged as if he were saying that Yuffie had the words I JUST CRIED on her face.
Tanni smiled softly… her brother really does love her!
"So! Why don't we go to the park?" Tanni broke the silence.
"TO THE PARK!" Yuffie sang happily.
At the park…"WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! PUSH HARDER!" Yuffie was on a swing and Cloud pushed her.
Yuffie looked at Leon who was on another swing with Nami.
"HIGHER!" Yuffie commanded Cloud.
"I AM TRYING!" Cloud pushed again.
"OK! ENOUGHHH!" Yuffie announced and jumped off the swing in mid-air leaving the swing to fall back.
Yuffie walked towards Leon as quietly as she could.
Nami was talking to Leon about some party, but he didn't seem interested.
Yuffie stopped and stared at Leon's back. 1… 2… 3…. "LEONN!" Yuffie screamed from behind Leon. Leon fell face first into the sand below them. Yuffie was laughing her head off, Leon was spitting out sand, Nami was pouting, Cloud felt like laughing and at the same time crying in frustration and Tanni and Sonora were somewhere spying on them, also laughing their heads off.
"I like her." Tanni said while trying to stop laughing.
"She's not that bad." Sonora smiled.
OK! Done with another one! Sorry haven't posted in forever… it's just that I have a ton of school preparation things to do… uh… hate school… anyways… OMG! OMG! No one would ever believe it but… I AM THE CHEERLEADING CAPTAIN! Captain of the cheerleaders… whatever you wanna call it… I am so freakishly happy! But sadly this will take a lot of my time so I'm not sure if I can update as often as I used to but I will try my best… much love to all of ya!
Special thanks to AngelKairi for the editing!
What separates teens from kids:
1) If you're in a fair, you are there to enjoy and… you have to admit… hunt for a cute guy. A kid would go there for the games… period.
2) Whenever you went out shopping with your mom… you would spend hours and hours waiting for her to shop so that you can buy the new Barbie that only your mom had the money for. Now, you are the one who goes shopping… for twice as long as your mom took. And now you go with your friends more often… not your mom.
3) You used to be able to get down and dirty. Now… you do but just in a different way. (A/N: I did not make this!)
4) Girls used to be better than guys… now guys are better than girls.
5) Before when someone called you names… you would go tell the teacher and start to cry. Now you make that person cry.
6) You used to think that kissing was disgusting… now that's what you want.
7) You used to want to play soccer with that guy to prove you were better. Now you want to see him get all sweaty and take his shirt off- Lady Sonora the black-Rose
8) You used to think boys were blecky, but now you wanna be held tight?"-RayZor
9) You used to eat everything in sight because you wanted to get bigger, now all you can think about is how to get smaller. –star-chan89
10) You used to hang out with everyone, now you only hang out with "cool" people. –xthechickenhousehelenaaaaaa
11) You used to listen to nursery rhymes, but now you listen to rock and rap and pop. . –xthechickenhousehelenaaaaaa
12) You used to close your eyes whenever it was the kissing scene but now you are willing to kill to be in it. (with the guy of coarse) –me……. skippinsunday
13) when you surfed the net… it used to be all Barbie or bratz or whatever but now… you're more into chatting. –me! AGAIN! See! See! I'm helping!
14) Grandma used to be someone who bought you toys and gave you candy when your mum wouldn't let you have any... Now she's the one you talk to when you're having problems with your mum and YOU bring the snacks to watch some sappy movie. –RayZor
15) When you were a kid you wanted to ride the bus to school, now you can't wait until your old enough to be able to drive a car there. -DiamondLucy
16) When you were a kid you wanted more responsibility so you could seem older, know you want less responsibility so you can just hang out with your friends. -DiamondLucy
luv ya!
XOXO
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