Disclaimer: Nothing Final Fantasy is mine. Pooey. : (
Very sorry it took so long, but I have mocks. Okay, where did I leave you people? Ah yeah, I remember…
Tidus offered Yuna his picture, and Yuna did the same. They took each others, glanced at each other and smiled nervously. Yuna turned the page and gasped. There was an extremely accurately pencil sketch of her. It was just her face, arms and shoulders, and her head was laid on her desk. The light behind her was streaming out of the window. It was like looking at a photo. He had captured the light in an amazing way. There were also feathers falling all around her. Yuna instantly loved it. She couldn't stop smiling. He had drawn her eyes very carefully, as though he cared about them the most. She was really very overwhelmed. She looked to calm in the picture, like there really existed another Yuna that was serene and beautiful, but she only lived on that page. Yuna felt herself so happy that she felt her eyes prickle with tears. She smiled weakly, just…shocked. Tidus really had an amazing talent.
"Yuna?" asked Tidus.
Yuna broke out from her thoughts and gave smiled.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"Yes, I'm…I mean…I've never felt better!" she was silent for a moment, but then said quietly, "thank you."
Tidus's eyes met hers, and it seemed as if he understood her for a second, but then she saw the confusion flash across his eyes. He looked down at Yuna's photo once more.
"This is really amazing. I don't think anyone's taken a photo that looks this good, let alone of me." He gave half a laugh.
"Your's is just…amazing," replied Yuna. Her heart felt so warm with his compliment. It felt like they weren't in a classroom, there wasn't anyone else there, until she heard the bell go. Suddenly everyone else was there, and the room was there too.
"Better get going. Wakka said he'd meet me for lunch, so I better not be late," said Tidus as he collected his bags and shoved his pencil in his blazer pocket.
Yuna gave a little laugh. She wished he could stay with her forever, in this room, she already just loved being around him. It was like she had known him forever, even though she knew nothing about him.
"I'll see you around then," he said. He took the picture from the desk and turned to leave. He stopped though and turned around. "Thanks Yuna." His eyes met hers, and understanding overcame Yuna. She understood what he meant; it was how she had felt. It was indescribable, she sort of felt gratitude, and contentment, and just wanted to thank him, for the picture, but also just for being him. She smiled and nodded her head slightly.
After collecting together her things, she went and found Paine, Lulu and Rikku who were in the lunch queue. The Year 7s (just a note to people who don't get the English school system. I don't get the American one, and am waiting for someone to explain it soon! Skip this bit if you already know, but I thought I would save people possible confusion. Okay, Year 7s are the youngest in Secondary schools, and they are aged 11-12. The last year is year 11, where the students are 15-16. This is the year that Yuna and Tidus etc are in. Schools also have a 6th form, upper and lower, which is optional. This means that some people leave education at 18, and then go on to University to get a degree and graduate. Hope that's clear. Anyway, on with the story) get lunch priority as they were the youngest and needed to get used to the school, so they were let into the canteen first for a week. This pissed Yuna and her friends off a bit, especially since this meant that Year 11 was last, but then again, she did remember how daunting it was back in Year 7 with a new school and all these people that were much taller than her, so she put up with it. Rikku, however, made her thoughts heard, and loudly at that.
"Geesh! Hurry up! Look, you are small, that means you don't need as much food as me, so don't go eating everything…. Move along….yeah that's it. No, don't you dare push in squirt...Dying of hunger here! Can't you just let us through?"
After 5 minutes, Paine told her to shut up. At this point, a Year 7 turned and said "Yeah, shut up!" in a really cheeky annoying way, with a smirk to match. His friend laughed and said something that sounded like "nice one". Rikku narrowed her eyes, but not before Paine grabbed the boy by the collar and held him up to her eye level. "Don't" she said. The boy's eyes widened and he nodded fervently. Paine put the boy down and he turned away and hid behind his friend.
"Must you?" asked Lulu coldly.
"Yes," replied Paine.
After another 5 minutes they had reached the canteen and ordered their food. They then went to find a table. More tables had been added compared to last year, and the hall was much louder. They went to find their normal table, but not before Yuna noticed Dona and LeBlanc's table. They normally sat near the window with their friends. This time, however, they weren't alone because Tidus, Gippal, Wakka and a couple of Wakka's friends were there too. Yuna felt a twinge of sadness combined with jealously, but she just looked away and went to her table. Rikku seemed to have seen them too because she slammed her tray down on the table before she sat down.
After about a minute of silent eating, Yuna asked Lulu,
"So Lulu, how come it took us a week to get your number, but you give it to Wakka so soon?"
Lulu blushed slightly and said, "It was for educational purposes.
Rikku sniggered and Paine raised an eyebrow. Yuna just replied "sure…"
Lulu glared and stabbed her chicken with her fork. After 2 minutes of watching Lulu attack her food, Rikku said,
"We should have a sleep over. We normally do after the first day. We haven't got any homework, it'll be fun. What do you say?"
"Yeah!" said all the girls. Even Paine's lip twitched into a smile.
"Okay!" said Rikku excitedly, "I'll get the pizza, Lu, you get dips and snacks, Paine, you can get the ice-cream, and Yunie can get the films. Agreed?"
They all nodded and the bell went. Then piled their trays on the designated table and went to their tutor room. Auron wasn't there yet to they lined up outside.
"Hey," said Gippal, winking at Yuna as he joined the group outside the classroom.
"Oh, hey," smiled Yuna politely.
Wakka and Tidus then burst through the double doors near them, talking very loudly. Wakka was laughing really hard.
"Ah, hey there Lulu," he said once he had caught his breath. Lulu smiled in response and Rikku nudged her in the ribs and grinned cheekily. Once Wakka had started to talk to Gippal, Lulu sent Rikku a glare, but Rikku just held her hands up in an I-didn't-do-it sort of way.
Tidus then turned away from Wakka and Gippal and said to Yuna "Hey, wanna come and watch me, Gippal and Wakka blitz on Saturday, its inter-school. We'll pick you up if you want."
Yuna felt suddenly really happy, and she almost completely forgot her sadness at lunch when she had seen him talking animatedly with Dona. Oh God, did this mean she liked him? She blushed at the thought and realized that she can't, she didn't even know that much about him. All she knew was that he played blitzball and was amazing at art.
She nodded and said "We'd love to." Lulu, Paine nodded and Rikku jumped up and down in excitement.
At that moment Auron came and unlocked the door and they all went in. He took the register quickly and the bell went for their final lesson. They finished early on a Monday, which Yuna was always pleased about. They all headed to Maths, and found that the teacher had assigned them seats. This wasn't unusual, and Yuna didn't mind. It meant she got to sit next to different people, and she lucky because she nearly always got to sit next to Rikku, Paine, or Lulu.
She found her name on a piece of paper on the middle of a circular table along side Paine, Baralai, Wakka and Lulu's names. She sat down and got her books out. The others joined her and the teacher wrote pages out of the text book on the board. Paine took the seat on Yuna's right, and Lulu took the one on her left. Wakka sat next to Lulu, and Baralai sat next to Paine. Yuna sensed that Lulu was quite happy about the seating arrangements because she was trying very hard not to smile, but Paine looked very uncomfortable. Baralai gave her a weak smile which she ignored.
They all started on the work, but Yuna found it hard to concentrate as Wakka was nearly constantly whispering to Lulu about everything from the game at the weekend to how long it took her to braid her hair. Lulu was replying to his questions, but mostly just listened to him talk while she worked.
After about 5 minutes, Paine threw down her pen and glared at the page.
"What's wrong?" asked Yuna, concerned.
"Number 15," said Paine.
Yuna looked at the page and the odd shape with all the letters and numbers surrounding it. She hadn't got that far yet, so she couldn't help. She doubted whether she could have helped anyway. She was not bad at Maths, but not as good as Paine or Lulu.
"Oh, can I see?" asked Baralai. Paine looked at him shocked, before she gave him her book with an I-hardly-think-you-will-be-able-to-do-it sort of look on her face. Baralai took the book and looked at the problem. After a few seconds, he penciled something in and crossed something out. "You added these two sides; you didn't need to do that. You just need to use Pythagoras."
Paine looked at the book at scanned the work.
"Oh…thanks," she said.
"As always, I'm just happy I can help you Paine," he smiled.
Lulu and Yuna shared quick confused glances. Yuna had the feeling that Paine knew Baralai before even though they had just met the boys today. Perhaps she should ask her? Then again, she probably shouldn't. Lulu gave Yuna the smallest nod as though she understood what Yuna was thinking and continued her work. The rest of the lesson went by fairly uneventful, apart from Rikku's pen exploding. She explained later that she had no idea how it had happened, but there was ink all over her, Tidus, Gippal, LeBlanc and Dona who had all been sitting on the table with her.
Yuna waved goodbye to her friends and walked to the DVD store. She picked a couple of films, one humor, and one action. She then returned home, had a shower and got changed into some jeans and a black strapped top. She then blow dried her hear and put some moose in it so it flicked out at the ends (FFX2 style). She then grabbed the DVDs and headed out to Rikku's. She got there in 5 minutes as they lived pretty close.
"Heya," said Rikku as she opened the door. "Oooo! Let's see which ones you brought."
Yuna handed over the DVDs and Rikku seemed pleased with the choice. She had bought three pizzas, one was traditional Luca style, one was plain and one had pepperoni on it. She found Lulu and Paine were already in the sitting room watching TV.
"Heya," said Yuna. Lulu smiled and Paine nodded. Rikku joined them with the dips and they all started to open packets and choose crisps.
"So Lulu, I think Wakka fancies you," said Rikku giggling.
"Yeah," said Yuna in agreement.
"No he doesn't," said Lulu who hurriedly looked for another bag of crisps.
"Ah come on Lulu, admit it," said Paine, who was giving her a half smile.
"Oh whatever," said Lulu frowning, "anyway, I think Tidus likes Yuna."
Yuna blushed at this and looked round for the salsa.
"What? Tidus?" asked Rikku, "but I watched him and Dona flirting like mad in Maths, I thought he liked her."
Yuna felt her heart grow very heavy and she muttered something about getting the DVDs from the kitchen. When she was in there, she head Lulu whispering loudly to Rikku, and Rikku's very audible "how was I meant to know?"
Yuna decided to shrug it off. I mean, he had asked them to the game right? But then she suddenly remembered Dona talking to Tidus at lunch and she sighed, grabbed the pizzas that were now ready along with the DVDs and headed back into the sitting room.
They started watching the films, laughing and eating, and Yuna nearly forgot completely about Dona and Tidus. Well, nearly.
Okay. This is going a bit slow isn't it? I kinda just realized that. Well, I have come to the conclusion that it should remain as realistic as possible, and I think this is how people behave. Maybe I am wrong, so don't flame me saying nothing's happened because it will do.
Anyway, thanks for reading, review if you like, I love to read them.
ShalBrenfan: (Or do you prefer Izzy? Sorry, I couldn't decide!) Hope this one was okay. Thanks so much for your support. I hoped you had a picture in your head of what Yuna looked like in the picture. Sorry if you didn't, it was hard to explain.
Heya Meg, thanks so much for your review. Sorry this chapter took so long. The pace should pick up next chapter, well, that's my intentions, but bear in mind, they have only just finished their first day of school, so things aren't going to go 100mph (or kph, lol). Are the chapters still too short do you think?
Leprechaun: (sorry about the mis-spelling of your name, ma comp auto corrected it) there will be no deaths. Or will there? insert evil laugh here
Okay, bye for now, I'll update asap, I really want to get into this story, and all that I have planned for it, but I don't want to rush either. Anyhu, see ya!