DISCLAIMER: Lalala! Now this chapter should be fun, other than the last one. Well anyways, I don't own anything, but the story. And, that's about it. Happy reading! :D
A V A C A T I O N I N Y O U R A R M S
three.
NORMAL P.O.V
"YUNIE! When will we board? I can't stand sitting here for another hour! I mean, there aren't even any cute guys here. Y'know what, I'm gonna go walk around!" Rikku whined and got up from her seat, stretched her arms and left.
Paine and Yuna were left to watch Rikku's stuff, leaving those two in complete silence. Paine has been staring at the same object for about more than 30 minutes, and Yuna was looking around the environment. There were businessmen, crying babies, old people, and some people that were her age, everybody else were kids or adults never in between.
After a few minutes, Rikku came back and sat on her seat, "I see things haven't changed." Rikku shook her head.
"You've only been gone for 3 minutes Rikku, and we board at 11:30, so we have like ten minutes left, so sit still and be quiet." Yuna said in a motherly tone.
"Hmph. Fine then." Rikku sat back in her seat and crossed her arms with her usual pout face on.
After those few minutes passed, the trio was ready to board the airship.
"Finally! I coulda died if we had to wait for another hour back there!" Rikku bounced up and down in excitement, "How many hours will it take to get from here to Besaid?"
"Five hours." Yuna responded scooting a little bit farther from Rikku, knowing that she would complain even more.
"WHAT?!" Rikku yelped, "five hours? Are you sure of that Yunie? You already know that I can't sit still that long!"
"Well, actually, more of like 4 hours and 46 minutes." Yuna gave her ticket to the flight attendant and walked onto the bridge leading them into the airship.
"Seriously?! What am I supposed to do then?! I'd probably die by the time we get there!" Rikku whined as she ran to catch up with Yuna.
"Sleep for five hours. What do you expect it to be, 0.1 seconds or something?" Paine scoffed and rolled her eyes at Rikku's dumbness, "We're not that hi-tech, Rikku."
The three girls walked down the aisle of the airship and searched for their row, when they found it, Rikku moved in first, then Yuna, and finally Paine.
"But-But, on Pops' airships it usually only takes about 2 hours to get from here to Besaid, usually!" Rikku sat on the seat next to the window and put her purse underneath the chair in front of her.
"Well, haven't you noticed there are some people that are older than you, and that can not take the turbulence, Rikku?" Paine reluctantly sat on her seat next to the rather large aisle.
"You guys." Yuna tried to separate the two from quarrelling, again.
"Pops can, and isn't he like 100 years older than me?" Rikku tried to make a point.
"Never mind, Rikku. Forget I said anything." Paine rolled her eyes, completely giving up on Rikku.
"Oh! So I see where this is going, you think I'm just a dumb blonde, huh?" Rikku raised her chirpy voice.
"There's one thing you finally understood." Paine just sat back on her chair, crossed her pale arms, and looked at Rikku.
"You guys." Yuna then harshly whispered.
"That's it!" Rikku unbuckled her seatbelt and was prepared to stand up from her seat.
"Bring it on, blondie." Paine smirked.
Rikku literally stood up and was just about ready to jump Paine from where she's standing, even if that meant hurting Yuna.
"Rikku, Paine, ENOUGH!" Yuna practically yelled, "Buckle up, Rikku, we're already moving, and can't you two see that people are looking at us already!"
Rikku plopped down onto her seat, buckled her seatbelt, and continued glaring at Paine. Instead of stopping, Rikku threw a used napkin that was left behind on her seat to Paine, making Paine glare at her, viciously. They continued to throw that napkin back and forth at each other leaving Yuna stuck in the middle, trying to close her eyes and sleep.
Just then the airship's intercom rang.
"We're very sorry, but there might be a slight 30 minute delay to our flight today, there's a bad case of airship traffic on the runway," the airship's captain announced, "in that case, go sit back and relax, and I'll find a way to get us out of here."
"DELAY!?" Yuna yelped.
What a long trip this is going to be, Yuna thought to herself, it better be worth it once we get there.
YUNA'S P.O.V
After like the longest six hours of my life, including the whole one hour delay, we finally made it to Besaid. Right after I woke up from my nap, Rikku and Paine were both knocked out, and were looking opposite ways, Paine was looking out at the aisle, and Rikku was looking out at the window. Oh! And the funny part was that they both had a little drop of drool coming from the corners of their mouths.
Right when we landed, Paine woke up immediately, yes, of course that creeped the Yevon out of me of how she actually did that, while Rikku was still dead on her seat.
"Rikku, wake up, Rikku, we've landed." I shook Rikku gently.
"Huh, what? We did?" Rikku stood up and grabbed her purse from beneath the chair in front of her.
The three of us then headed for the baggage claim and grabbed our luggage, Rikku had difficulties grabbing hers since it just kept running away from her, but Paine and I didn't even bother to help her. So, it took a while for Rikku, but she kept on pouting anyways.
"Hey! How bout we go get some coffee! I'm still a bit tired, I mean, I slept like last minute in the airship." Rikku started skipping in circles surrounding me and Paine.
"Why? Didn't Uncle Cid ban you from drinking coffee?" I stared at her suspiciously.
"Well, he's not here, and this is like my once in a lifetime chance!" Rikku begged and did her 'hard to resist' puppy pout.
"Okay, okay. But you're only allowed to buy a small one." I rolled my eyes at how well Rikku was at begging. Uncle Cid must be an expert at resisting it.
"Yippee!" Rikku then ran off to the closest coffee shop, while Paine and I followed her slowly.
"I feel sorry for you." Paine said out of blue.
"Why?" I responded with a quizzical look.
"Dealing with Rikku," Paine answered, "but especially dealing with Brother."
"I agree." I nodded my head.
After a few minutes, Rikku came walking out of the coffee shop sipping a large, clear smoothie cup filled with tons of ice and some sort of pinkish-red substance in it.
"Want some you guys? I don't really know what this is, but it just looks pretty, and tastes delicious!" Rikku said as she was sipping her drink from a straw.
"Are you sure that isn't chocobo blood or something?" Rikku shook her head no after I asked.
"Why would you think that coffee stores sell chocobo blood?" Rikku continued sipping her drink.
"Ever since you bought that nasty chocobo tongue meal, from a place where you said that they wouldn't have any nasty food." I responded.
"Oh yeah…but, this is seriously not chocobo blood!" Rikku said still trying to look like she was right.
"Well let's get going, we're to take some sort of bus to go to a rent-a-car shop." I then sluggishly walked towards the exit of the airport.
Rikku was having difficulties carrying her luggage since she had to hold her large drink at the same time. While Paine was walking way behind, not even bothering to catch up.
"Eeep. This is super hard, I can't hold my luggage!" Rikku whined.
"Do you want to sit down and try to finish that drink?" I suggested.
"Nah, its fine," Rikku shook her head.
"You sure?" I had a feeling she wouldn't be able to handle holding her two over-sized luggage with one hand.
"Yep," Rikku just proceeded walking and sipping her almost empty drink, "PAINE! Wanna carry my luggage for me? You only have one luggage to hold!"
"Nope." Paine responded rather quickly.
"Meanie." Rikku glared at Paine and sat down at a nearby bench outside, near the entrance.
"We'll just wait here then." I sat down next to Rikku, while Paine decided to stay standing.
"Wowza, is it burnin'!" Rikku exclaimed and threw her drink into the trashcan, "So what are we waiting for, Yunie?"
"A bus, it's supposed to take us to a car rental shop. The company's name is XXIII Rentals." I responded.
"Aw poopie! Don't tell me we have to wait another hour!" Rikku whined.
"Possibly." I beg to Yevon that it won't take that long.
"YUNIEE!" Rikku yelped.
This is going to be a long day.
RIKKU'S P.O.V
It was hot! My buns were on fire, and not in a good kinda way. After a few minutes of sitting, Yunie started walking towards this bus that said XXIII Rentals on it, that's the bus right? It was one FUGLY bus! But, when we got inside, I was so happy that it was at least air conditioned, and actually, it was quite nice inside the bus. I remember what Pops told me, "Never judge a book by it's cover, Rikku. Or you just might have nothing!" I still do a couple of times, well, a lot.
When we got to the rental store, oh my Yevon, was it big, and high class! Yunie was busy getting talking to the clerk to get the car keys and Paine was next to her, but I was just roaming around. I mean, it was like a mall, they even sold clothes here! They had FREE drinks and FREE donuts. I swear, I wouldn't mind staying here.
"Hey Rikku, ready to go?" Yunie walked up to me twirling the car keys in her hand.
"I've been ready, Yunie." I walked towards the door where we entered from.
"Um, Rikku, this way." Yunie was walking towards a door leading towards a parking lot filled with BEAUTIFUL cars, and I mean it.
Yunie then led us all the way through the parking lot until we reached this silver CONVERTIBLE!
"Oh my YEVON! A convertible! AHH!" I squealed in the middle of parking lot.
"I knew you would somewhat react like a dying bunny." Paine said rolling her eyes, that big meanie!
But I just ignored her, like the strong person I am and as Yunie opened the trunk of the car, I dumped my two rolling bags into the trunk first and rushed to sit in the passenger seat.
"YUNIE! Open up!" I was so excited I couldn't wait until we get out of this parking lot.
Yunie unlocked the doors and I immediately sat on the leather seat and started checking out the car. After a few minutes, Paine and Yunie sat in their seats, and Yunie started the car. I then put the top down and turned it to a radio station that was playing a song that matched my mood.
Just then, I found the perfect song that would annoy Paine to death.
"PERFECT DAY! Nothing's standing in my way." I sang at the top of my lungs.
"Rikku shut up." Paine rolled her scary, crimson eyes.
"I COULD STAY, FOREVER AS I AM! ON THIS PEEEERFEEECCTTT DAYYY!" I continued singing.
Yunie sang some parts with me, while Paine just rolled her eyes. Hah, now Yunie's on my side. We passed by the beach, and oh my Yevon was it beautiful! There were hot guys playing blitzball, and beautiful girls lying on the beach. The water was so blue, that I never even knew water can possibly even be that blue!
We drove around the place for a few minutes, and we then entered a neighborhood filled with actually, quite big houses for a small island. Then Yunie halted the car in front of this, how can I explain it, well, BEAUTIFUL house. It was overlooking the beach and it was big. Maybe that's why Besaid starts with a B, because it's Beauitul. Well, Bevelle does too, but the B in Bevelle stands for Boring.
I really, really hope this vacation lasts for a lifetime.
PAINE'S P.O.V
That whole screeching sound coming from Rikku's mouth during the whole car ride was the most annoying thing ever. I thought my ears were going to explode. When we arrived at Yuna's grandfather's house, I thanked Yevon that we got there before I actually would commit suicide on the freeway.
We took all the luggage out of the car's trunk and walked to the front of the door. Rikku was about to ring the doorbell, but Yuna stopped her.
"Don't ring it, I have a key. He might be sleeping too." Yuna inserted the key into the lock and opened the door.
If the house wasn't big and pretty on the outside, it sure was in the inside. It looked nothing like your regular Grandpa, Grandma house. In fact, it had a very modern, contemporary style.
"Wow Yunie, is everybody on your dad's side of the family that rich?" Rikku looked around the house and left her luggage in the middle of the living room.
I left my luggage next to Rikku's and followed Yuna upstairs. Upstairs, it was big too, there were 4 rooms and a balcony leading out from the hallway. Yuna stopped at the second door on the right and slowly opened the door. There we saw an elderly, but not really too old, he doesn't have that bad of a case of wrinkles, laying down on a bed, reading a book about Spira's history.
"Grandpa Maechan, how are you?" Yuna walked to her grandfather and hugged him.
"Hello, Yuna. I'm doing fine. I see you have grown up a lot. How are your parents doing?" He coughed a bit and set his book on the nightstand.
"They're doing fine as always, do you need anything? A glass of water, food, a pillow?" Yuna asked.
"No thank you, dear. Who is your friend over there?" He spotted my standing against the door frame.
"Paine, nice to meet you." I walked towards him and shook his hand.
"So are youngsters now-a-days called that?" He had an amused smile on his face and chuckled a bit, "Forgive me. You have a very unique name I must say."
"I have another friend, downstairs, her name is Rikku," Yuna sat next to her grandfather on the bed, "she's my cousin from my mother's side. I'm sure you have heard of her at least once."
"Ah, the little Al Bhed girl your age, yes, I do remember her. Anyways, that is wonderful, being an old, sickly man now-a-days means that you barely have company. Now you girls can go ahead and unpack your bags and make yourselves comfortable in either of the three rooms left in this house, unless, if you want to stay in the living room downstairs, by all means. In fact, you girls can go explore Besaid, or go to the beach. I can probably take care of myself as of now, I feel rather well." He picked up the book from his nightstand and flipped to the page he was reading a while ago.
"Are you sure Grandfather?" Yuna inquired with a concerned look on her face.
"Of course, have fun you girls, watch out for strangers, I wouldn't want my only granddaughter and her wonderful friends to be gone." He chuckled and continued reading his book.
Yuna and I then walked out of the room and continued walking downstairs.
"Cool grandfather you got there, Yuna." I said.
"Thank you. He's the nicest man you'll ever meet, but not in a creepy way at all." Yuna smiled.
When we got downstairs, we saw Rikku sitting on the couch, watching MSV on the large plasma screen S.V., a show only where girls like Rikku and Yuna watch, Music Sphere Vision.
"Rikku, wanna head to the beach? But first, we have to unpack." Yuna brought up.
"Well then let's go!" Rikku turned off the S.V., grabbed her luggage, and brought it upstairs. She picked the first room on the left, Yuna picked the one across from Maechan's room, so I was stuck with the room across from Rikku's.
We unpacked our bags and organized our stuff. When I took a look at my work, it made me feel like I was at home, excluding the fact that there were people living here with me, and that it was a bit bigger than my other room. I changed into a strapless gray and white bandeau bikini, I put red, white, and gray board shorts on and an oversized black shirt over all of it. I just slipped on some black flip flops and I was pretty much ready compared to the other two.
I was actually quite confident that I would actually be the only one ready for anything out of the three of us.
NORMAL P.O.V
Paine waited downstairs on the couch flipping through the S.V. channels. Even this old man had satellite! Yuna was the first one to come downstairs first, she was wearing a white halter two piece bikini, with a short, flowy white casual dress on top of it, and had brown leather flip flops.
"Rikku's not done yet?" Yuna glanced around the house searching for Rikku.
"You already know that there's something wrong with that child." Paine responded still staring at the S.V.
"Hey, who are you callin' a child? You big ol' meanie!" Rikku came walking down the stairs. Her hair was tied back, but she kept her bangs out, and she had a yellow halter two piece bikini with a big white t-shirt on top and yellow flip flops.
"Wow Rikku, not only are you a girl, but a turtle too." Paine turned off the S.V. and grabbed her black backpack that was filled with all her necessities, since she didn't want her stuff to get mixed up with Rikku's and Yuna's.
"Well, at least turtles are cute!" Rikku grabbed her purse and followed Paine.
"Yevon, you two." Yuna rolled her eyes. She then grabbed her purse, locked the door, and walked towards the car prepared to depart for the beach.
Dun dun dun! Done with the third chappietur! :D I hope this chap was a bit more funner than the last one. And also, I'd like to thank Yunacutegirl for reviewing. :D So R & R, the two "R's" in RemembeR to review this story! :D Oh and if you don't know what a bandeau is, just think of Paine's swimsuit in that spring scene at Mt. Gagazet when they were liberating the uniforms.
Bianca Lightyear, over and out.