A/N: In the words of the great Homer Simpson… SWEET MECIFUL CRAP! Another chapter and its only been what, 3 months? Haha I'm sorry. Not that I got any reviews which doesn't help, but hey. I must be the only one wanting to know whats going to happen! (and no I don't know, I'm making this up as I go…) Please review… please?
.:How Can I Not Love You:.
"What's going on here… This is the second time tonight that you've confused me, Yuna. And where did you guys go before... Hey, wait a sec…" Rikku turned around to face Gippal mid sentence and pointed at him. "What did you just say about my arse, Gippal?" Gippal gave a slight grin, and turned to the others.
"Um… I'll see you guys tomorrow, yeah?" He then looked back at Rikku, who was pouting and trying her best to turn her usually wide eyes into angry, narrow slits. "I believe I called it skanky…" with those words he turned and disappeared into the crowd.
"Why you no good, son of a smeghead!" Rikku yelled and started after him.
"Rikku, wait." Paine grabbed her arm.
"Paine, lemmie go! I'm gonna kill him." Rikku squirmed in Paine's firm grip.
"That's great, but are you gonna be ok by yourself? I think we are about ready to go home." She let go of Rikku's arm and looked at her seriously.
"I'll be fine. I'm gonna stay at Gippal's." And with that she ran off into the crowd chasing after him.
"She'll be ok, Paine. Gippal wouldn't let anything bad happen." Baralai put his arm around Paine's waist and then promptly removed it when she turned around and shot an icy glare in his direction.
"Ok so the question is how are the rest of us getting home?" Tidus piped up.
"Well, where do you live Tidus?" Baralai asked.
"Way over by the stadium. It's like a 30 dollar cab ride…" Tidus scratched the back of his head.
"Why don't you stay at our house like Baralai is?" Yuna asked followed by a wry look from Paine.
"That's a good idea. I'm not going home tonight because my father's being an arsehole." Baralai nodded in response and Yuna looked at him strangely.
"I'll explain later, Yuna" Paine told her. "If it's ok with Yuna to stay it's ok with me. But you sleep on the couch." Paine added as she saw the sparkle in Tidus' eye get just the tiniest bit brighter.
They arrived home and all stumbled out of the taxi. Before they had left Wakka had made them all have another drink and a dance. Paine had protested vehemently but had ended up enjoying herself.
Much to Yuna's surprise, when they got inside, Paine said goodnight and led Baralai straight up the stairs to her room. With a quick glance back at Yuna, Baralai was greeted with an I-told-u-so smile from her. He smiled back and winked at her; she blushed and hoped Tidus hadn't seen it.
When she heard Paine's door close, she turned around to Tidus who was sitting on the couch.
"I'll just go get you a blanket and a pillow. Would you like a drink of water?" She asked as she opened a linen closet and grabbed sleeping bag and a pillow. She tossed these to Tidus who, due to the dark room an his alcohol effected reflexes, didn't move fast enough to catch them and was nearly knocked off the couch. Yuna laughed as she walked with a wobble over to the fridge.
"Yeah that'd be great, thanks." Tidus said as he realized he had left his shoes on when he came inside and began to take them off. There was a commotion over by the fridge and Tidus looked over to see Yuna struggling with something on the door. He stuck his socks in his shoes and put them neatly next to the couch and got up to see what was going on.
"God-dammit…" Yuna mumbled to herself as she tried to untangle her half-skirt from the door handle. It was one of those new fridges that believed more in looking fancy and modern than being practical and had a crazy handel. Tidus couldn't help but laugh.
"You know," Yuna huffed throwing her hands down. "Instead of laughing, you could help me…"
Tidus stopped laughing and walked over to her.
"Hang on." He knelt down so he was eye level with the knot Yuna had managed to create from all the struggling. He blinked a few times to get the drunkish haze out of his eyes and started to untie the threads of blue material.
As his fingers worked, Yuna looked down on the blonde hair and had to fight the urge to run her fingers through it. She stopped for a second and chided herself for having these crazy thoughts. She blamed it on the alcohol. She wasn't drunk, but she was definitely intoxicated. She smiled at the closeness of his face to her bare belly and wondered what it would feel like if he kissed it.
"Would you like me to?" Tidus' voice brought her out of her thoughts and she blinked, suddenly fully concentrating on what she was looking at.
Tidus had untied the knot and the blue material now lay on the floor in a heap. He was sitting back on his heals, his handsome face and striking blue eyes looking up at her. His blonde hair was mostly flicked back but a single bang fell across his forehead. Yuna blinked again.
"Sorry?" She asked, having not really heard what he had said.
"Would you like me to kiss your belly?" He asked with a small but innocent smile.
Oh my god! Yuna thought. I must have said that out loud… Oh my god how embarrassing…
"Um… well…" Yuna stumbled to say something but she couldn't think of the right words.
"Just once then, I promise." Tidus half whispered. And for some reason Yuna found herself nodding.
Tidus reached up and gently placed his hands on Yuna's hips. Still looking up at her, he gently moved his thumbs up and down a few times, stroking her soft skin. Yuna closed her eyes took a big breath in. She felt his fingers moving slightly on her back as he kept hold of her hips. Through his hands, she felt his body shift as his head moved closer. Suddenly there was a sharp warm contrast on her cool belly.
His lips were warm and moist as he kissed her skin. Yuna put her hands on his head and tangled her fingers in his soft blonde hair. She began, absent mindedly to gently run her nails over his scalp. He let out a sigh of simple pleasure as she did. She could feel his nose in her bellybutton and his breath ticked her so she giggled slightly. Much to her dismay, this made Tidus stop kissing her. The alcohol had put her in a playful mood and she pouted down at him. Without taking his hands off her hips, he stood up effortlessly and looked her right in the face.
"I was enjoying that…" She said disappointedly. Her hands were now on his shoulders, his still around her waist. The room was dark, and it was sad to say that the mood lighting came from the open fridge.
Yuna closed her eyes and lent forward, her heard turned upwards towards Tidus'. However instead of her lips touching warm soft skin, they found themselves pressed against cold and slightly rough skin. She opened her eyes to find Tidus smiling down at her and his fingers pressed softly onto her mouth.
"Another time, perhaps." Tidus whispered. He let her go and took hold of both her hands. "For now, I think it's your bedtime." He laughed quietly. "Which way is your room?"
Yuna took her hands back and put them on her hips. Had she just been rejected by him? Yuna never did daring things like what she had just done, and now that she had, she had been rejected?
That arrogant prick, Yuna fumed internally. And then telling me it was my bedtime?
"I'm not 12, you know. I say when it's my bedtime. And I can find my own way to my room, I don't need your help, thank–you very much!" She said angrily as she pushed the fridge door closed. She half marched, half stumbled over to the stairs, turned around at the base of them and pointed at Tidus.
"And you can get your own stupid drink of stupid water!" And with that she stumbled up the stairs and then a door was slammed. Tidus was grateful for the dark because it his smile.
He sighed and opened the fridge again. Seeing a jug of water, he took it out and looked around for a glass. Not being able to find one, he simply drank from the jug. Filling it up with tap water, he put it back into the fridge and made his way over to the couch.
After getting comfortable, and snuggled under the sleeping bag, he set the alarm on his watch to go off at 7am.
Tomorrow was going to be a long day…
A/N: I know its short but at least it's something right? Right… ok well maybe not. I'll try make the next chappy longer. Sumimasen!