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Notes: Um, just remember that words in 'italics' are thoughts. Also, this fic is currently taking place on Sunday. Remember that Tidus goes to Zanarkand International School along with Gippal and Wakka.

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"Melinda's Food Store?" Tidus read from a sign in front of the store. "Original."

Yuna laughed. "It's a funny story how this store started up."

"Really?" Tidus wanted to hear it. "So, what's the story?"

"Melinda, obviously the founder of the store, founded this store ten years ago," Yuna started to explain. "Melinda had a twin two minutes older then her. Her name was Shelinda."

(A/N: Yes, I know that Shelinda doesn't have a twin in the game. But let's just say she does for the sake of the story XD)

"Shelinda got was trying to become a doctor. It was really hard, though, since her family didn't have enough money to send her to school," Yuna continued. "So, Shelinda got some books from our shop and tried to study white magic instead."

"Right …"

"Shelinda succeeded. Everyone was so happy for her, always throwing parties for her. I didn't see the big deal, really, but I guess that was just Shelinda's goal. Melinda got really jealous of Shelinda. Really jealous. She decided that she had to do something to get back everyone's attention."

"I could understand that …" Tidus said slowly.

"Really? I could too, I guess. Anyways, so, Melinda decided to open this store."

"How did it turn out?" Tidus said, grinning.

"Not too good. In the beginning only, though. She grabbed attention of course. She got the attention of her parents. Melinda spent a lot of money opening up the shop and getting supplies. She told her parents, not to worry. She said that one day; she was going to make lots of profits."

"And she did, right?"

"Yup. So, that's the origin of this store."

"Interesting story," Tidus commented.

"It sure is."

"Sounds familiar though. Maybe I heard the same thing from somewhere, sometime. Or maybe I just heard a story that sounded like it," Tidus pondered.

"Really? I heard it from my mom when I was little. My mom was a good friend of Shelinda and Melinda's mother," Yuna said. "Anyways, let's go in. We still need to get to your, uh, hotel, right?"

Tidus nodded. "Right."

"Are we near this Yaibal's Exotic Foods place, yet?" Wakka said, walking behind Lulu.

"Your name is Wakka, correct?" Lulu asked, looking behind her.

"Um … ya …" Wakka said, looking back at Lulu. She still didn't rememeber?

"Then, Wakka, no. We just left Rikku and Gippal about seven minutes ago," Lulu said. "I did say it was a twenty minute walk to Yaibal's - did I not?"

"…Ya," Wakka looked down, defeated. "But it feels like so long, ya?"

"Like I said, it's only been seven minutes," Lulu told him. Again.

"Ya! You said that already!" Wakka said, starting to get a little annoyed.

"Short tempered, are you?"

"And you aren't?" Wakka asked.

"You hardly know me."

Wakka just stood there in response to what she said.

"Well, let's go. We still have thirteen minutes to walk for. Unless you want to start running."

"So, Cid's girl, where is Belcem's Smoothie Shop?" Gippal asked.

Rikku punched Gippal in the shoulder. "I do have a name, you know. And it's not Cid's girl. Anyways, Beclem's is about another seven minutes away. You can tell whenever you see this grocery store."

Gippal looked up at the sign for the grocery store. 'Melinda's Food Store. That's original.' Gippal had to do a double take, though, when he thought he saw hair that looked a lot like Tidus'. But Gippal shook that away. 'Nah. That can't be Tidus.'

"Hopefully Yunie and this Tidus person is still in there," Rikku continued. "If they aren't, I wouldn't know where to go."

Seven minutes later, the two were standing at the entrance of Beclem's Smoothie Shop. There was no sign of Tidus or Yuna.

"Damn it," Gippal muttered. "Tidus isn't here, either."

"Yeah," Rikku agreed. "No sign of Yunie."

They both sat down at a bench outside, staring off to space, and thinking about where to go next.

"Well, Lulu and Wakka are probably near or at Yaibal's Exotic Foods. Yunie and Tidus are there, maybe," Rikku said, thoughtfully.

"Yeah, but what if they aren't?" Gippal asked.

"…We're stuck at a dead end, probably."

"Dead end? C'mon, we have to think of something!" Gippal said.

"Well, where else should we go?" Rikku challenged.

"Good point …" Gippal stood up and started pacing around.

Rikku looked at him with a weird look on her face. "What are you doing? Is that how you think?"

Gippal nodded and continued to "think" some more.

Rikku shook her head. "Why don't we just go back to the shop to see if Yunie is there and if she's seen Tidus? If Yunie isn't back yet, we'll go to Yaibal's and hope for the best."

"Well, I guess that's a better plan," Gippal commented.

"Plan? What plan were you thinking about?"

"I was thinking about sort of giving up. Tidus was the one that dragged Wakka and I here anyways."

"What? You didn't want to go here? You didn't want to visit?" Rikku asked.

"Uh … I was sort of, um, planning to relax at the hotel … yeah."

"You seem like a couch potato," Rikku said, laughing.

Yuna waited patiently as Tidus picked out some foods from the grocery store. Tidus kept on muttering to himself, stating food names that he would probably need to buy. At one point, Yuna thought that was so hilarious that she really started to laugh.

Tidus looked at her, and Yuna explained why she was laughing so hard. He seemed a bit embarrassed, but he continued to mutter anyways.

They were now at the checkout counter, and Tidus was paying the cashier. Yuna was already waiting outside.

"Sorry that took so long," he apologized once he was done.

"Oh, don't worry about it. No problem," Yuna assured. "I wasn't bored at all. That was sort of … amusing."

Tidus gave her a small smile.

"So, where's your hotel?" Yuna asked him.

"It's uh …" Then Tidus remembered something, and Tidus mentally slapped himself. "Gippal and Wakka!"

"What? Gippal and Wakka?" Yuna looked confused. "What kind of hotel name is that?"

"No, see, I came here with two friends. Their names are Gippal and Wakka! And I have no idea where they are," Tidus explained. "And likewise with me. I need to find them."

"Oh," Yuna giggled, since she thought that 'Gippal and Wakka' was the name of a hotel. "Well, we can find them. This town isn't that big, anyways. But, you're carrying the groceries. Maybe we should leave it at my shop?"

"Is that okay?" Tidus asked her.

"Of course it is!" Yuna said. "So, let's head back to the shop. Then we'll go out to find them."

The two started to head back to Yuna's white magic shop, and for some reason, Yuna started laughing again.

This time it was Tidus' turn to be confused. "What? I'm not muttering anything this time, what's to laugh about?"

"Oh, it's not that really funny at all. I was just laughing about how uneventful I thought this day was going to be. I thought this day was going to be like any other," Yuna explained. "And now, look at what I'm doing. Treating you to lunch, helping you find a grocery store, chasing your friends. How wrong I was …"

"And you're okay with that?" Tidus asked.

"Of course I am! I'd rather be doing this then just staying at the store all day!" Yuna said, giggling.

The two began walking to the store again. When they arrived, they found that the sign that Yuna had put up when they left was still there. Yuna blinked in confusion. She turned to Tidus.

"Do you know what time it is?" she asked him.

Tidus looked at his watch. "About one-fifteen. Why?"

"My mom is usually back by this time. I wonder where she is …" Yuna said, thinking back to what her mom said before.

'I need to run a few errands. Then I'm going to have a little lunch with a few friends. Is it all right if you handle the medicine shop for the rest of the day?' Leah Lesca's voice echoed throughout Yuna's mind.

"Oh … my … Yevon …" Yuna said, shocked, with her mouth wide open.

"Uh, something wrong?" Tidus questioned...

"Yes! Yes! Something is wrong!" Yuna exclaimed. "My mom asked me if I could handle the shop for the rest of the day! My Yevon, I can't believe I forgot … I, well, usually she lets me take off after my lunch break … but this time I guess I forgot … I … I … oh, I don't know what to do …"

Tidus looked at Yuna. "I'm sorry," he said, truthfully.

Now Yuna acted shocked at Tidus. "What for?"

"I'm sorry I made you forget, I mean, if I hadn't shown up at your shop you would've remembered, and I …"

"No! This is my own fault, Tidus. Um, don't worry about me," she said, smiling.

"Why shouldn't I?"

Yuna bit on her lip. 'Rikku is right. I can never walk away from people in need. And Tidus needs me to get him back with his friends and to his hotel.' She unlocked the shop with her key and took down the sign on the door. She disappeared for a moment.

Tidus just stood there dumbfounded. Yuna was going to make him go out on his own? How was he going to go back? Maybe he could just find another person, he supposed. He turned around to start finding that person.

But then Yuna appeared again. "Where are you going?"

"Aren't you going to start running your shop again?" Tidus asked her.

Yuna's lips curled into a smile. "I can't just leave you in the dark, now, can I? Maybe other people would, but I can't."

"But … your shop … don't you … what's going on here?" Tidus was at loss for words.

Yuna stuck another sign on the door. "Let's just hope we find your friends before my mom gets home!" She grabbed Tidus' arm and started dragging him away.

Before Tidus was too far away to look, he looked over his shoulder to see the sign that Yuna had stuck on the door.

The sign said: 'Closed for the day.'

Rikku and Gippal walked up to the white magic shop only six minutes after Yuna and Tidus had left.

Rikku gazed at the sign left on the door. "Closed for the day!" Rikku gasped after she examined the sign more carefully.

"Pehku! Fa tet ed!" she exclaimed and started joyously hopping around. ("Bingo! We did it!")

Gippal looked at the sign. "We did? How?"

"Look at this sign," Rikku started explaining while still jumping up and down. "This is Yunie's handwriting. I know that for a fact. She was just here a while ago! The sign we saw when Lulu and Wakka were he said 'Be back around one-thirty."

"So Yuna was here … but you can't tell that Tidus was with her," Gippal said, thoughtfully.

"Yes. But why would Yunie just suddenly close down the shop?"

Gippal just shrugged.

"Maybe Yunie had to work at the shop all day … but Tidus needed help finding you! Maybe Yunie was going to help him and decided to close down the shop for the day!" Rikku started putting the pieces of the puzzle together.

(A/N: Now, isn't Rikku so smart? xD)

"But what if she didn't?"

Rikku punched him in the arm. "Let's just go with that theory, hmm? Unless you have another theory."

Rikku eyed the ground, the dusty ground that led to the white magic shop. Yuna and her mother always put sand on the ground so customers wouldn't trip on the way in. It had happened quite a lot. And Leah and Yuna didn't want to spend their white magic all the time on fallen customers. Well, helping the customer would've been nice, but it happened all the time for some reason.

"Famm, muug yd drec! Vuudcdabc!" Rikku exclaimed.

Now just what did Rikku say? Hah, you'll find out in the next chapter. Actually, you'd probably find out by using an Al Bhed translation site, if you wanted to, but I'm going to explain in the next chapter for those who don't.

Next chapter, we find out how Lulu and Wakka are doing with this 'mystery.' And, will Yuna's mother come home to find that note on the door? Will she be mad? Furious? Wondering what the hell just happened? Also, what else will Gippal and Rikku find out?

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