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Ed Black-Thank you for giving suggestions and helping me with this before I put it up. You are totally awesome! And hurry up and review me! Or I will bug you when you try to sleep! You know I will hee hee hee. #starts going crazy# (I won't bug you too much I was just kidding)
Letselina- OH MY GOSH!! You are the first person to ever review for me. I absolutely love you. Thank you, thank you, and thank you! Anyway, I totally forgot about translations so I went back and fixed it. And I think it's cool that you like Tikku fics, I say to each his own, Get down witch yo bad self! YEAH! Oh and thank you so much for adding me to author alert.
Kingleby- Once again, thank you for reminding me about the translations. Oh, and thank you soooooo much for the great review. And I agree, Gippal/Rikku are the best! YEAH! Later on in the series you will get more of Paine/Baralai and maybe Yuna/Tidus. Thank you!
xpunky-galx- is this soon enough? And thank you for the praise. I am so glad that people like this
Back of Beyond- here's your update and I hope you have fun on your vacation
Disclaimer- Alright you all know that I don't own FFX2 why prolong the agony for me? Anyway here you go. I don't own Final Fantasy or any of its characters.
Chapter 1- The Vymmehk Point
In Djose Temple-Gippal's Office
"Gippal, Cid is on the commsphere for you," Nhadala informed him.
"Good! Maybe he's found me an assistant. If he hadn't called today I would've ha to...well, I dunno what I would've done." He chuckled to himself as he walked over to the commsphere. As he switched it on he put on a happy smile. "So, Cid, have you found me an assistant yet?"
"Yeah I have!" Cid answered nervously. But when Cid got nervous he got loud. He didn't know how Gippal felt about Rikku but he was sure Gippal wouldn't be happy he was springing her on him. Rikku was someone you needed to prepare yourself for.
"Well, who is it?" Gippal said also beginning to feel nervous. 'Why is Cid nervous?' he thought to himself. 'Oh well, I can only hope it isn't someone I hate. But, I guess if it is someone I hate then I can have some fun getting him to quit.' And as he stood there, he thought of the funnest plot to get rid of the stupid boy that Cid would hire for him.
"Well! HA HA HA!" Cid said trying to gain enough courage to tell Gippal. He didn't feel like getting yelled at twice in one day. 'After all,' he thought, 'I am an old tired man. They should treat me with respect and reverence, not yell at me.' But (back to reality) Cid knew that his time was limited. Rikku would be arriving at Djose any minute. "Your new assistant is..."
But just as he was about to reveal himself, the banging of Gippal's office doors as they were opened and slammed shut cut him off. Gippal turned around sharply and readied himself to start yelling at whoever was trying to destroy his office. "What do you think you're..." but he stopped as he caught sight of a short little blonde Al Bhed girl. She stood there huffily glaring at Gippal, arms crossed and trying to keep from smiling. She had change a lot since he had last seen her. She no longer looked like a kid. Something in her eyes had changed. They no longer had the look of a five-year-old in a candy store. They looked just as excited but more like she was grateful for the candy then just plain want of the candy. She wore much more revealing clothes too. 'A bikini?' he scoffed, stunned that she would wear it while just walking around. 'But WOW! She looks good,' he thought sincerely.
'Oh my gosh,' Rikku thought. 'He's checking me out! Of course I can't blame him I am hot. Even the guards considered letting me in after I winked at them. But ya know, he doesn't look too bad himself.'
The last time Rikku had seen Gippal he had been toting around a giant machina-enhanced gun and wearing big, bulky armor. Now, however, he had no gun or armor and his hair was a little shorter. But other than that, of course, he looked the same. Same muscled body, same eye patch, same playboy grin.
Gippal shook his head slightly to tear himself from his daze and noticed that Rikku too was checking someone out. Him.
"Hey Cid's girl," he said walking over to her and ruffling her hair.
"I have a name you know," she said pushing him away and turning her attention to fixing her hair.
"So," he said imploringly, "what are you doing here?"
Rikku pulled her attention away from her hair and turned her face towards Gippal with a confused look plastered on it. "Hasn't Vydran told you yet?"
"Oh yeah, Gippal," Cid said making Gippal and Rikku jump. Gippal had forgotten he was there when Rikku had walked in and Rikku hadn't known. "Did I forget to mention that Rikku is your new assistant?"
"YOU DIDN'T TELL HIM?!" Rikku screamed, blowing up for the second time in one day.
"What do ya mean 'Rikku's my new assistant'?" Gippal asked dumbfounded.
"No, Rikku I hadn't told him yet. I was in the process of telling him when you barged in and," he said turning towards Gippal, "I mean she's your assistant," he calmly explained.
"Well, I only barged in because the guards said I couldn't come in and then I said 'Yeah I am' and they said 'No your not' and then I had to run in," she stammered turning pink in the face, "I mean they're obviously too slow to catch Gullwing-guardian-theif Rikku," she continued proudly.
"But, why Rikku?" Gippal said completely ignoring Rikku.
"Whaddya mean 'why Rikku'?" she said savagely, turning towards Gippal.
"Well," Cid started also ignoring Rikku, "she is one of the best. She knows things even you don't, Gippal."
"Yeah! I'm good, I'm good, I'm good! Woo-hoo!" Rikku sang happily bouncing off the walls once again.
'Well, she still acts like a kid,' Gippal thought silently laughing. "I guess I could use Rikku's help then," he said after a minute of pondering.
"All right, now that that's settled, I must be off. Got plenty of stuff to do. Oh, and Gippal?" he said after a pause. "You better be good to my little girl." And with that Cid hung up the commsphere.
Gippal sighed to himself and turned to Rikku who had crossed her bow- covered arms and was tapping her foot impatiently.
"Well?" Rikku said impatiently. "Are we going or not?"
"Going where?" Gippal asked once again confused.
"To the Celsius of course!" Rikku said as if this was the most obvious thing in all of Spira. "I mean I still have to get my stuff and Buddy and Brother want to talk to you."
"Well alright, I guess I'll come," he said as though she were interrupting something important. But Rikku saw the truth in his eyes. He was glad for an excuse to leave that office.
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At the Celsius
"Finally, Rikku. What took so long?" Buddy said and without waiting for an answer he turned to Gippal and said, "Come with me Brother and I need your opinion on something."
"Alright, Cid's girl," he said turning to Rikku. "Get your stuff and I'll be back soon to help you."
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Five minutes later outside the Celsius
"So, Gippal, what did Buddy and Brother want?" Rikku asked innocently. The truth was she knew exactly what they had wanted. They had warned Gippal not to hurt Rikku. She also knew Brother had threatened Gippal in some way or another.
"Uh," Gippal blushed. "They just told me to #cough# uh...watch over you," he said. It annoyed him that nobody trusted him. Sure, he thought she was annoying but he wouldn't hurt her. Not on purpose anyway. Furthermore, he wouldn't let anybody else hurt her.
"Anyway, Cid's girl," he said gathering himself back to his normal self-absorbed Gippalness, "as my new assistant, you will be helping me take apart and understand an ancient machina we found in the desert. But right now we need to get you moved in. I actually wasn't expecting you. I was expecting a guy," he said earning a deadly glare and growl from Rikku. "But your good too," he said trying to redeem himself and failing dismally. "Anyway, since you're a girl you obviously can't bunk with the rest of the guys like the new assistant was going to do." "Well," he said trying to come up with a solution, "I guess you could stay in the guest room. We only have one free so you're lucky you got here now or you might've had to stay with me," he said winking at her. Rikku punched him lightly on the arm and blushed. "Just kidding!" he said backing away from Rikku. "I was only kidding." Just then Gippal turned around to see what his workers were doing. The noise had died down quite a bit since the beginning of the conversation. When he turned around he saw every single worker staring at Rikku. "Hmph," he said grudgingly. "GET BACK TO WORK!" he yelled at his workers. "You three!" he said nodding to the nearest three workers. "Take Rikku's things to room 4-K. Rikku go with them and get settled in. When you're done find Nhadala and she'll bring you to where the ancient machina and I are. Okay? See ya later then," he said turning to walk away. "Gippal! Wait!" Rikku shouted running after him. "I want to see this ancient machina thingy right now," she said putting on her best pouty, puppy-dog face. "I can settle in later. Please!" Gippal sighed, "Alright fine. If you must see it right now." Then he smiled that infamous playboy smirk of his, "Come on Cid's girl." "Gippal," she said running after him, "I have a name you know."
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Standing at the foot of the ancient machina in one of the covered workshops
"Wow, Gippal! This is amazing!" Rikku exclaimed as she looked up at the machina in awe.
It was about twenty feet tall. It had a humanoid appearance. It didn't look the least bit old except for the fact that it was blockier than the newer models. Other than that it looked in perfect shape. The metal showed no sign of rusting or dulling and the cover was still intact.
"Yeah," Gippal said walking up behind Rikku and scratching the back of his neck. "It is pretty amazing. There's only one problem. Nobody can figure out how to get the cover off. It's confusing as hell. There are no screws or bolts or even any evidence of welding. It's like they just put it on and expected it to stay and the strange thing is, it did. You got any ideas on how to get it off?"
"Well," Rikku said. She did know one possible way to get it off but Cid had told her never to use it and never show the technique to anyone except in emergencies. But in this case, as Rikku was one not to worry very much about such silly things as consequences, she thought it would be okay to show Gippal. But first...
"Gippal," Rikku started seriously, "if I show you something you gotta promise never to show anyone and never to use it on anything except THIS machina."
"Yeah, sure whatever," Gippal answered lamely.
"GIPPAL! I'm serious." Rikku said stomping over to Gippal and pushing him on his chest.
"Alright, alright. No need to get violent Cid's girl," he said. "Fine, I promise," he said sarcastically. But lucky for Gippal, Rikku didn't notice the sarcasm.
"Now, come over here," Rikku said walking over to the foot of the machina and crouching down in front of what would have been the pinky toe (if machina had pinky toes of course). After studying it for a minute, Gippal became impatient.
"Come on, Cid's girl," he said cockily. 'If I knew how to get it off,' he thought, 'it would be off by now.'
"GIPPAL!" she shouted turning toward Gippal feeling quite annoyed. "Give me a minute. This takes concentration." And after a couple seconds she added, "And my name is NOT Cid's girl. It's Rikku!" And with that, she turned back towards the machina's toe. After a few more seconds she gleefully shouted, "Aha!" and poked the machina. And as soon as she took her finger away, the plate cover for the toe fell off with a 'clink' on the ground. Gippal stared amazed with jaw dropped at Rikku and stammered, "But... I mean, how... wha- HOW DID YOU DO THAT!?" "Hee hee," Rikku giggled. "Well, it's something Cid taught me. It's called the vymmehk point. It's something that's been passed down in my family for generations. Only Shinra and I know how to use it. Cid tried to teach Brother but he's so stupid that Cid figured he might accidentally kill someone with it. And besides Brother would normally just run up and randomly poke the machina when Cid tried to teach him. And when Cid would try and explain he would start singing this stupid song about him and Yuna and a tree and kissing. It was weird," she trailed off. After a second, Rikku looked up at Gippal from her sitting position on the ground in front of the foot to see Gippal bent over the other toe poking at it. "Gippal," she said laughing at him. "You can't just poke randomly." She leaned back on her hands and sighed. "If you want, I guess I can teach you." "But I thought you said Cid wanted it to stay in the family?" Gippal said blushing as he realized what 'staying in the family' would involve. "Yeah," Rikku said not picking up on anything. "But we wouldn't have to tell Cid," she said thinking to herself. "Yeah," she said slowly and quietly, "we just wouldn't tell him. How would he ever know?" "But Rikku, I hate to push my luck, but why would you even want to take the time to teach me?" Gippal said confused. "Because, it means less work for me! Of course it'll take a while to teach you but I expect you'll pick up on it pretty fast. Besides it'll take less time to teach you then for me to take them all off myself. With bigger pieces, there's more room and the more room the more possibilities for the vymmehk point," Rikku stated. "Alright then, let's go!" she shouted. "Go where?" Gippal said, once again confused. "Well, I still have to unpack and I have no idea where my room is. Also, it's dinnertime!" she said smiling and bouncing up from her sitting position. "Alright then," Gippal said putting on his playboy smirk over his look of utter amazement and confusion. "Let's go!"
Alright you all! That's it for now. If you have something to say, and even if you don't, you had better review! THANK YOU!! And remember, reviews are like your favorite candy to an author. THANK YOU!!
Buhbye Yunikka24
Ed Black-Thank you for giving suggestions and helping me with this before I put it up. You are totally awesome! And hurry up and review me! Or I will bug you when you try to sleep! You know I will hee hee hee. #starts going crazy# (I won't bug you too much I was just kidding)
Letselina- OH MY GOSH!! You are the first person to ever review for me. I absolutely love you. Thank you, thank you, and thank you! Anyway, I totally forgot about translations so I went back and fixed it. And I think it's cool that you like Tikku fics, I say to each his own, Get down witch yo bad self! YEAH! Oh and thank you so much for adding me to author alert.
Kingleby- Once again, thank you for reminding me about the translations. Oh, and thank you soooooo much for the great review. And I agree, Gippal/Rikku are the best! YEAH! Later on in the series you will get more of Paine/Baralai and maybe Yuna/Tidus. Thank you!
xpunky-galx- is this soon enough? And thank you for the praise. I am so glad that people like this
Back of Beyond- here's your update and I hope you have fun on your vacation
Disclaimer- Alright you all know that I don't own FFX2 why prolong the agony for me? Anyway here you go. I don't own Final Fantasy or any of its characters.
Chapter 1- The Vymmehk Point
In Djose Temple-Gippal's Office
"Gippal, Cid is on the commsphere for you," Nhadala informed him.
"Good! Maybe he's found me an assistant. If he hadn't called today I would've ha to...well, I dunno what I would've done." He chuckled to himself as he walked over to the commsphere. As he switched it on he put on a happy smile. "So, Cid, have you found me an assistant yet?"
"Yeah I have!" Cid answered nervously. But when Cid got nervous he got loud. He didn't know how Gippal felt about Rikku but he was sure Gippal wouldn't be happy he was springing her on him. Rikku was someone you needed to prepare yourself for.
"Well, who is it?" Gippal said also beginning to feel nervous. 'Why is Cid nervous?' he thought to himself. 'Oh well, I can only hope it isn't someone I hate. But, I guess if it is someone I hate then I can have some fun getting him to quit.' And as he stood there, he thought of the funnest plot to get rid of the stupid boy that Cid would hire for him.
"Well! HA HA HA!" Cid said trying to gain enough courage to tell Gippal. He didn't feel like getting yelled at twice in one day. 'After all,' he thought, 'I am an old tired man. They should treat me with respect and reverence, not yell at me.' But (back to reality) Cid knew that his time was limited. Rikku would be arriving at Djose any minute. "Your new assistant is..."
But just as he was about to reveal himself, the banging of Gippal's office doors as they were opened and slammed shut cut him off. Gippal turned around sharply and readied himself to start yelling at whoever was trying to destroy his office. "What do you think you're..." but he stopped as he caught sight of a short little blonde Al Bhed girl. She stood there huffily glaring at Gippal, arms crossed and trying to keep from smiling. She had change a lot since he had last seen her. She no longer looked like a kid. Something in her eyes had changed. They no longer had the look of a five-year-old in a candy store. They looked just as excited but more like she was grateful for the candy then just plain want of the candy. She wore much more revealing clothes too. 'A bikini?' he scoffed, stunned that she would wear it while just walking around. 'But WOW! She looks good,' he thought sincerely.
'Oh my gosh,' Rikku thought. 'He's checking me out! Of course I can't blame him I am hot. Even the guards considered letting me in after I winked at them. But ya know, he doesn't look too bad himself.'
The last time Rikku had seen Gippal he had been toting around a giant machina-enhanced gun and wearing big, bulky armor. Now, however, he had no gun or armor and his hair was a little shorter. But other than that, of course, he looked the same. Same muscled body, same eye patch, same playboy grin.
Gippal shook his head slightly to tear himself from his daze and noticed that Rikku too was checking someone out. Him.
"Hey Cid's girl," he said walking over to her and ruffling her hair.
"I have a name you know," she said pushing him away and turning her attention to fixing her hair.
"So," he said imploringly, "what are you doing here?"
Rikku pulled her attention away from her hair and turned her face towards Gippal with a confused look plastered on it. "Hasn't Vydran told you yet?"
"Oh yeah, Gippal," Cid said making Gippal and Rikku jump. Gippal had forgotten he was there when Rikku had walked in and Rikku hadn't known. "Did I forget to mention that Rikku is your new assistant?"
"YOU DIDN'T TELL HIM?!" Rikku screamed, blowing up for the second time in one day.
"What do ya mean 'Rikku's my new assistant'?" Gippal asked dumbfounded.
"No, Rikku I hadn't told him yet. I was in the process of telling him when you barged in and," he said turning towards Gippal, "I mean she's your assistant," he calmly explained.
"Well, I only barged in because the guards said I couldn't come in and then I said 'Yeah I am' and they said 'No your not' and then I had to run in," she stammered turning pink in the face, "I mean they're obviously too slow to catch Gullwing-guardian-theif Rikku," she continued proudly.
"But, why Rikku?" Gippal said completely ignoring Rikku.
"Whaddya mean 'why Rikku'?" she said savagely, turning towards Gippal.
"Well," Cid started also ignoring Rikku, "she is one of the best. She knows things even you don't, Gippal."
"Yeah! I'm good, I'm good, I'm good! Woo-hoo!" Rikku sang happily bouncing off the walls once again.
'Well, she still acts like a kid,' Gippal thought silently laughing. "I guess I could use Rikku's help then," he said after a minute of pondering.
"All right, now that that's settled, I must be off. Got plenty of stuff to do. Oh, and Gippal?" he said after a pause. "You better be good to my little girl." And with that Cid hung up the commsphere.
Gippal sighed to himself and turned to Rikku who had crossed her bow- covered arms and was tapping her foot impatiently.
"Well?" Rikku said impatiently. "Are we going or not?"
"Going where?" Gippal asked once again confused.
"To the Celsius of course!" Rikku said as if this was the most obvious thing in all of Spira. "I mean I still have to get my stuff and Buddy and Brother want to talk to you."
"Well alright, I guess I'll come," he said as though she were interrupting something important. But Rikku saw the truth in his eyes. He was glad for an excuse to leave that office.
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At the Celsius
"Finally, Rikku. What took so long?" Buddy said and without waiting for an answer he turned to Gippal and said, "Come with me Brother and I need your opinion on something."
"Alright, Cid's girl," he said turning to Rikku. "Get your stuff and I'll be back soon to help you."
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Five minutes later outside the Celsius
"So, Gippal, what did Buddy and Brother want?" Rikku asked innocently. The truth was she knew exactly what they had wanted. They had warned Gippal not to hurt Rikku. She also knew Brother had threatened Gippal in some way or another.
"Uh," Gippal blushed. "They just told me to #cough# uh...watch over you," he said. It annoyed him that nobody trusted him. Sure, he thought she was annoying but he wouldn't hurt her. Not on purpose anyway. Furthermore, he wouldn't let anybody else hurt her.
"Anyway, Cid's girl," he said gathering himself back to his normal self-absorbed Gippalness, "as my new assistant, you will be helping me take apart and understand an ancient machina we found in the desert. But right now we need to get you moved in. I actually wasn't expecting you. I was expecting a guy," he said earning a deadly glare and growl from Rikku. "But your good too," he said trying to redeem himself and failing dismally. "Anyway, since you're a girl you obviously can't bunk with the rest of the guys like the new assistant was going to do." "Well," he said trying to come up with a solution, "I guess you could stay in the guest room. We only have one free so you're lucky you got here now or you might've had to stay with me," he said winking at her. Rikku punched him lightly on the arm and blushed. "Just kidding!" he said backing away from Rikku. "I was only kidding." Just then Gippal turned around to see what his workers were doing. The noise had died down quite a bit since the beginning of the conversation. When he turned around he saw every single worker staring at Rikku. "Hmph," he said grudgingly. "GET BACK TO WORK!" he yelled at his workers. "You three!" he said nodding to the nearest three workers. "Take Rikku's things to room 4-K. Rikku go with them and get settled in. When you're done find Nhadala and she'll bring you to where the ancient machina and I are. Okay? See ya later then," he said turning to walk away. "Gippal! Wait!" Rikku shouted running after him. "I want to see this ancient machina thingy right now," she said putting on her best pouty, puppy-dog face. "I can settle in later. Please!" Gippal sighed, "Alright fine. If you must see it right now." Then he smiled that infamous playboy smirk of his, "Come on Cid's girl." "Gippal," she said running after him, "I have a name you know."
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Standing at the foot of the ancient machina in one of the covered workshops
"Wow, Gippal! This is amazing!" Rikku exclaimed as she looked up at the machina in awe.
It was about twenty feet tall. It had a humanoid appearance. It didn't look the least bit old except for the fact that it was blockier than the newer models. Other than that it looked in perfect shape. The metal showed no sign of rusting or dulling and the cover was still intact.
"Yeah," Gippal said walking up behind Rikku and scratching the back of his neck. "It is pretty amazing. There's only one problem. Nobody can figure out how to get the cover off. It's confusing as hell. There are no screws or bolts or even any evidence of welding. It's like they just put it on and expected it to stay and the strange thing is, it did. You got any ideas on how to get it off?"
"Well," Rikku said. She did know one possible way to get it off but Cid had told her never to use it and never show the technique to anyone except in emergencies. But in this case, as Rikku was one not to worry very much about such silly things as consequences, she thought it would be okay to show Gippal. But first...
"Gippal," Rikku started seriously, "if I show you something you gotta promise never to show anyone and never to use it on anything except THIS machina."
"Yeah, sure whatever," Gippal answered lamely.
"GIPPAL! I'm serious." Rikku said stomping over to Gippal and pushing him on his chest.
"Alright, alright. No need to get violent Cid's girl," he said. "Fine, I promise," he said sarcastically. But lucky for Gippal, Rikku didn't notice the sarcasm.
"Now, come over here," Rikku said walking over to the foot of the machina and crouching down in front of what would have been the pinky toe (if machina had pinky toes of course). After studying it for a minute, Gippal became impatient.
"Come on, Cid's girl," he said cockily. 'If I knew how to get it off,' he thought, 'it would be off by now.'
"GIPPAL!" she shouted turning toward Gippal feeling quite annoyed. "Give me a minute. This takes concentration." And after a couple seconds she added, "And my name is NOT Cid's girl. It's Rikku!" And with that, she turned back towards the machina's toe. After a few more seconds she gleefully shouted, "Aha!" and poked the machina. And as soon as she took her finger away, the plate cover for the toe fell off with a 'clink' on the ground. Gippal stared amazed with jaw dropped at Rikku and stammered, "But... I mean, how... wha- HOW DID YOU DO THAT!?" "Hee hee," Rikku giggled. "Well, it's something Cid taught me. It's called the vymmehk point. It's something that's been passed down in my family for generations. Only Shinra and I know how to use it. Cid tried to teach Brother but he's so stupid that Cid figured he might accidentally kill someone with it. And besides Brother would normally just run up and randomly poke the machina when Cid tried to teach him. And when Cid would try and explain he would start singing this stupid song about him and Yuna and a tree and kissing. It was weird," she trailed off. After a second, Rikku looked up at Gippal from her sitting position on the ground in front of the foot to see Gippal bent over the other toe poking at it. "Gippal," she said laughing at him. "You can't just poke randomly." She leaned back on her hands and sighed. "If you want, I guess I can teach you." "But I thought you said Cid wanted it to stay in the family?" Gippal said blushing as he realized what 'staying in the family' would involve. "Yeah," Rikku said not picking up on anything. "But we wouldn't have to tell Cid," she said thinking to herself. "Yeah," she said slowly and quietly, "we just wouldn't tell him. How would he ever know?" "But Rikku, I hate to push my luck, but why would you even want to take the time to teach me?" Gippal said confused. "Because, it means less work for me! Of course it'll take a while to teach you but I expect you'll pick up on it pretty fast. Besides it'll take less time to teach you then for me to take them all off myself. With bigger pieces, there's more room and the more room the more possibilities for the vymmehk point," Rikku stated. "Alright then, let's go!" she shouted. "Go where?" Gippal said, once again confused. "Well, I still have to unpack and I have no idea where my room is. Also, it's dinnertime!" she said smiling and bouncing up from her sitting position. "Alright then," Gippal said putting on his playboy smirk over his look of utter amazement and confusion. "Let's go!"
Alright you all! That's it for now. If you have something to say, and even if you don't, you had better review! THANK YOU!! And remember, reviews are like your favorite candy to an author. THANK YOU!!
Buhbye Yunikka24