Chapter dedicated to:
Madmaz
Randomcat23
Without them telling me it wasn't worthless this chapter would of taken me a whole lot longer to write.
And here it is! Chapter 2 please enjoy
Chapter 2:
Neeka pulled out her long tattered diary, she rarely used it although she had make a commitment to write in it everyday.
Howdy Diary,
It's never a nice thing when you realize that your life might not be everything you gave it credit for, that somewhere in your observations of life you missed, or quite frankly ignored something very big, and when you finally stop ignoring it, well lets just say it changes everything.
I suppose it was an ordinary day to begin with, it started with breakfast as usual.
We were all seated around the plain circular table.
Khan was completely enthralled with Machina Magazine, smiling in wonder like he had never seen a machine before.
Mum was staring at her clipboard, for once her lips were curved in a wicked smile.
Dad was bored, so he was picking at every article in the "Spiran Gazette"
I was flicking little machine shaped cereal pieces in Khans hair, smirking and waiting for him to notice.
Then mum made an announcement.
"Yunie is having a get together in Besaid tonight" Mum said energetically, her blonde pony tail bouncing
Khan broke his hypnotized like gaze from Machina Magazine
"And we can actually go?' He said with uncertainty
"The excavation teams are back on schedule so they don't need me to stay back"
I felt a tingle of excitement well up
"Gippal?" Mum said frowning
"Oh, yeah I guess I can go" Dad said offhandedly
"The faction running fine?" Mum said her voice tinged with slight sarcasm.
"Of course, the Faction rarely makes mistakes after all, and they can handle it themselves when they do" Dad said.
Mum gritted her teeth and went back to her clipboard.
If looks could kill ...
That was the morning, like I said it was just average, nothing out of the ordinary.
The afternoon went average, nothing out of the ordinary.
Nothing out of the ordinary was my world, I hated it but mum and dad said I should embrace having a normal 'calm', life.
So I pottered around the house, praying Mishaai the moron wouldn't mess anything up and ruin our night, I watched the clock eagerly, my own blonde ponytail bouncing enthusiastically.
"A loud knock on Neeka's door interrupted her entry
"Neeka have you been stealing my screwdrivers again, I TOLD YOU NOT TO, they're the expensive ones, USE DADS to build your creepy little robot" Khan shouted.
"SHUTUP KHAN, I haven't taken your stupid screwdriver, look under your bed"
Khan mumbled something unintelligible and left her alone
She went straight back to her diary entry and continued to write about last night.
Besaid was completely alive that night bonfires burned left right and center, everyones was laughing, their feet padded the warm sand as they prepared to dance the night away.
Dad scanned the area for Uncle Tidus
Mum hugged Auntie Yunie, actually she pretty much jumped on her. Now they were rolling around on the sand laughing.
Vidina and Khan embraced each other with a manly one armed hug, asked how each other was and begun to scan the beach for what they called "talent"
"Aunt Yunie wheres Leia" I asked interrupting my aunt and mum
"Leia's been kidnapped by Asha, they'll be on the island somewhere" Yunie said
Leia is my cousin, Yuna and Tidus's only child, shes two years younger then me.
I didn't see her often and we didn't have that much in common, but I still liked her a lot.
If your wondering who Asha was well ...
Asha is the crazy flirtatious daughter of Nooj and Le Blanc, I knew I didn't have too look for my cousin and Ash, once Ash heard word that my brother was on the island she would come running.
So I waited, observing my watch with a self satisfied smile, and sure enough three and a half minutes later Asha came running out of the temple, patting her hair down and dragging my poor cousin Leia with her
"Neeka your here" Asha cried dramatically, kissing each of my cheeks.
"Khans on the beach" I said plainly
"Thanks loves" ... and Asha left in a hurry
Leia looked relieved.
"Thanks Neeks, she tried putting orange eyeshadow on me"
Up in the distance I could hear Wakka's loud accented voice summoning everyone up to the beach for ''speech time"
Everyone made their way over to the beach where Yuna sat on Tidus's lap, they were managing to kiss, hug and giggle all at the same time.
"Isn't it awful" Leia said with disgust
"What is?" I asked curiously
"My parents are always like that, seriously I know like they're in love and everything but honestly sometimes I think they're gonna do it on the couch while I'm trying to watch SphereVision." Leia said halfjokingly
"You'd rather they not be so affectionate to each other?" I asked, surprising myself with this question
"I guess it's kind of cool, just embarrassing ... severely, severely embarrassing" Leia replied heartily
"hmm" I replied offhandedly, but Leia didn't notice.
"Why don't my parent's act like that to each other, aren't they in love too?" I remember questioning silently.
Neeka shut her journal and hid her it under her matress, a trick she'd borrowed from Khan, which he used when he wanted to hide magazines that weren't exacly "Machina Magazine"
She then lay on her bed, watching the ceiling trying to block out the sound as her parents sniped at each other.
She wondered if Khan ignored it.
(more dialogue in that chapter, basic recap is Neeka has had a realization. The whole Besaid get-together was a bit cliche but it was the best way to make my point. I wouldn't really expect to see Leia, Yuna, Tidus and so on very much, Asha doesn't even have a point but I couldn't bear to delete her. Still not 100 happy with this chapter)