A/N, Okay here is the third chapter
You'll meet some new characters. Which some i do not own and some I do.
Chapter 3. Why?
Yuna's POV.
After they'd shown her the video of her mom, she felt so angry. The man in the video had been beating her mom, real bad. At the end of the video, she saw her mom been knocked unconscious. "Why are you doing this?" Her voice was shaking. "Because, Yuna. You are gonna…" He was interrupted by someone. She recognized the voice. Great, just what she needed, another jerk.
"Didn't I tell you to stay the hell away from her?!" Tidus stood next to her, looking really pissed. "Stay out of it, Tidus. Please!" Seymour ignored her and walked up to Tidus. "You hear, Tidus? Stay out of it!"
He spat the last four words in his face. "Leave her alone! What did she do to you, to deserve you harassing her?" She hoped he knew how ironic he was being now.
Seymour breathed hard out of his nostrils. "I'll leave for now. Think about you mother, Yuna. One wrong move and you will be placed in an orphanage." He walked past them, nudging Tidus in the making.
They stood there for a long while, not saying a word. "You know you're being hypocritical, right?" She turned to him. He looked at her, confused. "What do you mean?" She sighed and started walking away, maybe she just should forget, about world history, and just went to find her locker. "Hey, what do you mean, Yuna?" He grabbed her arm, and turned her around.
"Why did you do that to that boy earlier? What did he ever do to you to deserve that kind of treatment?" She could tell he realized the irony of it. "Yuna I… Just got a little frustrated, and he was at the wrong place till the wrong time. I'll tell him I'm sorry later."
He looked like he really meant it. He looked like he was truly sorry. "Yeah, you will tell him!" She didn't mean to be so harsh, but she was a little PMS. They stood there again, and she turned around. Right there, in between them, was her locker. Tidus looked at it to.
"That's your locker?" She nodded. He chuckled, and opened the locker next to it. "Looks like I'll be seeing you a lot, then" Yeah, a lot. "Yuna?" She looked at him, please don't ask about earlier she thought. "About earlier." Great. "What was he showing you? Don't lie, because I heard some of it." She looked away; tears stung her eyes, threatening to fall. "N-nothing, I… just, I need some time alone now. I…" She stammered, and the hot tears rolled down her cheek. "Yuna." She shook her head and tried to leave, but he held her hand, and pulling her closer.
Tidus POV.
He could tell Yuna was crying. She didn't look at him, and her voice was so filled with sadness. All he wanted was to comfort her, but he needed to know if it was true, that Seymour kept her mom captured. "Yuna?" She became paler by the second. "About earlier?" All the color left her face. "What was he showing you? Don't lie, because I heard some of it."
She looked away, and she started to say she needed to be alone, but her voice drowned out into small sobs. She tried getting away, but he held her hand, and pulled her to his chest.
"Shh. We'll get Seymour; he won't get away with it, not this time." This was Seymour's way of getting girls, by threatening someone they loved. The last one was a freshman girl, she was really pretty, and looked like she was older, but she was 15.
Some believed Seymour's story, about her sleeping with him, voluntarily, but most people knew the truth. Seymour had raped, that girl. She moved to Luca, after everything. Seymour paid his way out of it. It scared the living shit out of everyone. No one dared standing up to him, either.
He never really cared, since no one he knew had been threatened yet. Until now. "Tidus, I don't know what to do, I'm scared, but at the same time I just wanna beat him up, y'know." Oh yeah, he knew what she meant. All too well.
Yuna cried softly into his shirt, they couldn't stand here. He took her hand and led her down the hall. They went into the boy's locker room; no one went in there until after lunch. Yuna had stopped crying, but her eyes were red and puffy. She looked beautiful, even then. "Yuna…" I started, but she hushed me. She walked down the gym lockers, and stopped by mine. She looked it over, and smiled weakly. "Tidus, is it okay if I tell you something about my past? I need to talk to someone about it."
He nodded slowly. He wondered what it could be. She didn't say anything at first, but after a while she slowly started talking.
"10 months ago, I did something really stupid. It nearly cost me my life. I was in a really dark place, and I felt like I couldn't live any more. You see, my boyfriend at the time, he hit me, a lot. My momma didn't know. Partly because she always was out with men. I nearly lived by myself for a couple of years. Well, Jason, my ex, he was an alcoholic and also addicted to drugs. I did some drugs myself, but not that much."
He stood still, while she walked around the room. She didn't look at him; it was like she didn't spoke to anyone in particular. "Well, at least that night, Jason, wanted to have sex. Like all the other times he hit me, he did that because I didn't wanna sleep with him. That night he didn't just beat me, he also… forced me to…"
She trailed of, falling to the floor, sobbing. He didn't know what to do. Had this Jason guy raped her? Was that what she was saying? He didn't know. Somehow he wanted it to be something else. He bent down, and took her in his arms. She was shaking; his shirt became wetter of her tears. "Shh, Yuna. Please don't cry anymore."
After ten minutes Yuna calmed down, and she could continue her story. He kept holding her, but she wriggled out of his grasp and stood up. She started walking again. He was a little disappointed, he liked holding her. He thought about what she said. He couldn't see Yuna doing drugs, it just didn't seem right, but like she said she'd been in a dark place, people change then.
"He had forced me to oral sex, on camera. He never raped me or anything. But it was just as bad. He hurt me mentally, and physically. Almost my entire life, I've seen my momma drag bad guys home, I've seen her being beat up and raped. Every guy she brought home did that. And then I realized, if I didn't do anything, I'd end up like her. So, I thought the only choice was dying. I took an overdose of amphetamine. But I called 911, I don't even remember that, but I did it subconsciously. I was on suicide watch for three weeks. My momma came, and we decided it'd be best for me to go somewhere else, so the hospital sent me to an institution for kids with mental problems, like ADHD and, well, previous drug addictions. I haven't went to school since, well, November. So now I need to take some exams, if I don't want to take sophomore year over again."
She stopped talking and was looking at my locker again. She was quiet for a long time. He didn't know what to say either. What do you say to stuff like that? It is pretty much, and well dangerous. "Thanks, for listening. You don't have to say anything. It's okay. I just needed someone, anyone to know."
She smiled at him, and he couldn't help but feel the need to protect her from all evil. She didn't deserve, being hurt like that. Never, not even once. It was just too wrong Yuna was just a little innocent girl. Well, she was a woman, but her eyes were so childlike. Her big mismatched eyes, no one could ever compare to them. He looked at her again. He had to admit it; he was falling for this girl. And it was going to be a long fall, long and hard.
Yuna's POV.
She'd never spoken so openly about her past before, but there was something about Tidus, that made her want to talk about it. She felt she could trust him, more than anyone. Maybe even more than Lenne.
"Yuna, what he did to you is horrible. But you're here now, in Zanarkand. No one is going to hurt you, I promise." She looked into his eyes, he was being sincere, and that's exactly what she needed. No more lies, and she was getting her momma back, with his help! She suddenly felt a rush of determination race through her veins. She looked at him, now she realized she was in the boy's changing room.
She blushed and looked away shyly. They heard footsteps and from behind a corner the coach showed up. "Tidus, practice doesn't start yet, and this IS the boy's changing room miss." He smiled at us and took her arm and led her out of the room.
"Well, I haven't introduced myself. I'm coach Durham and I coach the basketball team at this school, and I never forget a face! You look just like your mother, Carrie. So what did she call you?"
He smiled sweetly at her. She smiled back. "Yuna. So my momma went to this school? I always thought she grew up in Home." That's what her momma told her. Why did this man know her momma then?
"Nah, your mother went to this school, if I don't remember wrong. You were conceived at this school, at The Valentine's dance, to be specific." She didn't want to talk about her father, every day in her early life her momma kept telling her that her daddy just was an ass, who left with his tail between his legs when he found out she was pregnant, with his child.
"Oh I remember your dad. He was a great guy, really he was. But he chickened out when he found out about you, you weren't born yet, so he wanted your mother to abort, but your mother wanted to keep you. She didn't believe in abortion." Coach Durham spoke about her daddy for a few minutes, but never said his name. Not even once. Maybe one day he would tell.
"I guess I have to have a little talk with Tidus. He can't bring girls into the boys changing room, if you would excuse me." He stroked her hair, and walked back into the locker room. She was alone in the hallway, and never had she felt so alone. She smiled a little; glad she'd told Tidus about her past.
Couch Durham's POV.
"MR. DYNAH!" He yelled at Tidus after his little chat with Yuna. "What have I told you about bringing girls in here?!" Tidus looked at him confused, that boy was always confused. "What are you talking about, old man? This was not like the other times, we were just talking, nothing else. What do think of me, that I fuck every thing with a skirt? Wait, don't answer that."
Tidus was his star player on the basketball team, he knew he had his pick in the women, and never did he just talk with them. "Did you knock her up?" Tidus jumped and looked at him like he had three heads or something.
"No way, man! I just met her, and I didn't sleep with her at all." Tidus looked at him, groaned and left. Typical, that boy didn't have it easy. His father always pressured him with basketball, and that he would never be as good as his father. Jecht, an outstanding retired basketball player maybe he was a good man once, but that was before all the fame. His sons suffered because of him, and so did his wife.
Carrie's POV.
Where was she? She couldn't remember anything. Her latest memory was when she was outside the grocery store, and then she remembered a black cloth over her mouth. Then it all went black. She lifted her head, but she couldn't see anything. She was blindfolded; she shook her head, trying to get it of. She tried to speak but her voice wouldn't work. Yuna, her daughter, how was she? Was she okay, had anything happened to her.
Why was this happening? What had she done to make this happen? She heard footsteps, and a man spoke calmly. "Well, Mrs. Sawyer, or is it miss. Sawyer? If I do not remember wrong your name was Robinson in high school. So I presume you got married after all." That voice, where had she heard it before? It seemed so familiar.
"I presume you don't remember me? No, why should you. You were really popular, Captain of the Zanarkand Abes cheerleading squad. You dated the captain himself. Now he is a great politician with a lovely wife, no kids though. Wait, he does have one kid, whom he didn't want. You didn't come back after summer that year. What happened? You left town, because you kept the baby, you got help from Mr. Durham. He helped you financially, sent you money every month, he wanted that baby to grow up. That man has gotten mushy over the years too."
The voice was too calm, she couldn't understand it.
"Well enough chit chat, let's get to business. You wanna see you daughter again?" She tried to speak, but her throat was too dry. She nodded instead. "Good. Then maybe you would like to know that, it depends what your daughter decides to do."
She looked towards the voice, but everything was black. "That got you attention didn't it?" She could tell the man was smirking. She'd learned over the years, to hear when people were smirking like that. This man wanted something, something she could give him. In her mind she saw her daughter smiling at her, inwardly telling her that she'd be okay. It gave her a little strength.
She struggled, trying to break free. The man closed the distance between him and her. He slapped her. "Sit still, bitch!" It pricked at the spot he hit her, if she just could see who this man was. Suddenly there was another punch, in the chest.
All the air got knocked out of her. She coughed and tears ran down her left cheek. Several punches came, one stronger than the other. She heard her arm break. She cried out in pain. She wanted him to stop, but when she opened her mouth all that came out was blood and a weird sound. She got knocked out, and her head fell to her chest. Her last thought before going unconscious, were about her daughter.
Yuna's POV.
She stood in the hallway, hoping Tidus would come out soon. She didn't know where anything was, so it would be nice to have him show her around. He still was a jerk though. 'Why did I tell him about Jason and my past as a junkie?'
She looked to the floor, scared. What would he do now? Would he freeze her out or would he still help her? She didn't want to be alone anymore. She yelped at the sound of the school bell. All the students came piling out of the classrooms, laughing and talking together. Some girls looked at her, and whispered to their friends. She had been here one day, and she was already talked about, behind her back.
"Hey, would you move aside a little? You're leaning on my locker." A tall black haired girl stood staring at her. She looked like one of those you didn't wanna piss of.
"Oh, Sorry!" She blushed and moved aside. The girl nodded, opening her locker.
"I haven't seen you around here before. You're new, right?" It was more of a statement than a question. She nodded weakly. "Welcome to Zanarkand High" She smiled a warming smile, and suddenly she didn't look so intimidating anymore.
"I'm Lulu." The girl reached out her hand, and she took it smiling. "I'm Yuna." The two girls smiled at each other, a very strong friendship was being formed, but neither of the girls new it yet.
Lulu followed her to her locker and waited for her. "What do you got next?" Lulu smiled and reached for her schedule. "You got English too, nice. So do I. It's a great class, the teacher is supposed to be nice to. He's new, so no one knows anything about him." Lulu warmed up to her kind of quick, and Yuna warmed up to Lulu too. Down the hall, she saw Wakka and some other guy; he looked a lot like Wakka.
Wakka bid his good byes to the guy whom he were talking to and headed over to her. "Hi Yuna, was sup?" he looked a little at Lulu, who'd closed her shell again. "I've made a new friend, her name is Lulu. And a new not so much of a friend. And I had a fight with Tidus, and then got friends again, I think." She spoke really fast and gestured towards Lulu, and used a lot of body language.
Suddenly she wasn't sad anymore. It was the Al-behd part of her, could never be sad for too long. "Wow, You speak faster than Ri, ya." He chuckled and smiled at Lulu, he introduced himself for her and her to him. 'They look kinda cute together, maybe…' her thoughts were interrupted with the teacher signalizing them to sit down; she hadn't even realized that they'd reached the classroom.
The teacher was a young and rather handsome man. He was somewhere around 25. He had dark brown hair, and his eyes. Yes, they were to die for. Dark, dark brown, they reminded her about chocolate. Oh yeah, she liked it. "Okay, I'm Mr. Sandelin. But you may call me Hank." He smiled, and he looked like an effing Greek god! She wrote a note and tossed it to Lulu. In the note it stood. 'GOD! He is HOT!' She smiled and met the teachers gaze.
"Okay, now I'm gonna does the roll call and tell my class rules, and then you can do whatever you want." Hank turned around and she got to take a look at his butt, and oh my god! He started at the top and worked his way down. He called Tidus' name, and through the door came Tidus. Smirking, and getting all the attention.
The guys were all like "Yo T-dog!" and "Wassup Dude?!" The girls smiled, winked and showed even more legs than what they already did. Geez, I knew he was popular and all, but this was more than expected. She laughed a little looking a little shocked.
Tidus spotted an available seat next to her. Of course. "Class! Settle down, it's just one guy walking through the door, there's no need to get all worked up for it." Hank looked around the room, smiling.
The last name he called was hers, she said she was here. And he started babbling about the class rules. A note fell on her desk and she carefully folded it out.
'Yeah, he is totally hot, but is he as hot as me? Tidus' Oh crap, the note must've fallen on Tidus' desk instead of Lulu's. She felt her face going redder and redder by the second. She slowly turned and saw Tidus looking a little sad, but he was smirking, like an idiot.
"Now, that's all the rules. Now you can talk to your friends." Hank announced to the class and before he'd even finished everyone started talking. "So you think the teacher is hot, huh?" She blushed even harder at this and just looked at her hands. She took a deep breath and stood up walking over to Tidus' desk, and sat down on the table. Her legs were parted, and were on each side of Tidus.
He smirked and tried stroking her inner thigh, but she raised a brow at him, and shook her head. All the girls in the room, glared at her, and the guys at Tidus. "The teacher, huh? I think I'm hotter. And besides he is too old for you, since you are still only 16." He smirked, touching her left calf. She blushed a little bit 'what the hell is wrong with you, Yuna? You usually don't blush like this. Stop it right now!' She mentally slapped herself. "Well, he IS hot. But maybe you are hotter. And you're more my age, but I don't date basketball players. I don't know why, but they are a little superficial"
She chuckled; he put on a fake insulted face. "I'm not superficial!" He pouted and then burst out laughing. She laughed with him, and everyone in the class looked at them funny. Some girl leaned over to another girl and whispered something; she caught the word bitch, and understood quickly it was about her. She stopped laughing and looked at Tidus, whom also stopped. She heard some more snickering from the corner.
One of the girls said "That new girl, Tuna or something, is a bitch." It was meant for her not to hear, but she felt the blood boil in her veins. "Hey you! Blondie, Try say that to my face!" She called to the girl. She just looked at her, and repeated bitch.
This got her on her feet, and she walked over. "You know, you shouldn't piss me off. Okay, now you better shut your little mouth and keep it shut!" She smiled sweetly at the blonde, and was about to turn when the girl said, rather loudly. "I'm sorry, but I don't speak the language hillbilly! But a warning for you, stay away from Tidus! He's my MAN!" She put pressure on my and man. Yuna chuckled and looked at her.
She placed her hands on her hips and smiled a little. She talked to her with a really thick country accent. "I'm sorry; I don't see your name on him, so I guess he is free bait." Yuna cocked her head and walked back to Tidus; he smiled and dragged her onto his lap. She smiled, and leaned her head on his shoulder.
Tidus' POV
It felt so good having her on my lap, she leaned her head on my shoulder and the smell of her hair could even make the hardest headed man go weak in the knees. At least that's what Tidus meant. The smell of lilacs reminded him so much about summer.
He looked at her lips, they were defiantly kissable. Sweet cherry lips and the way they curled up into a small smile, which by the record always were there. He couldn't help but dream he could kiss her, well he could, but he didn't dare. He usually wasn't like this. He usually nailed it, and always scored. Something about Yuna and maybe something about her past, made him change his mind, it was like he wanted to be with her forever, and just be with her. 'Wow, man where did that come from? Nah, forget it man!'
Maybe Shuyin was right about love after all, it happens when you least expects it. No way, it wasn't love what he felt for Yuna, it was just, and oh he doesn't know anymore. His thoughts were interrupted when the school bell rang. Yuna jumped off his lap and went to grab her bag. She talked with one of the gothic girls, her name was Lulu. Wakka had, like, the biggest crush on her.
"Yo man! Yuna introduced me to Lulu. Isn't that great?" Wakka nudged his side, grinning. He nodded looking over at Yuna. She laughed, and she was gorgeous. Her dark brown hair gently touched just below her color bone and the way her eyes shined when she smiled. Her jeans shaped her hips and her top really showed of her curves. She was so petite. Even Rikku was bigger, and that's hard.
He looked around for Yuna, again but she was gone. "Dude, who're you looking for?" Wakka nudged his arm. He looked at him and shrugged. "No one."
Yuna's POV
Her next class was social science; it used to be one of her favorite subject. She was good at it, some of the few things actually. She liked it, because of the things that were brought up. She had met some of Lulu's friends, but none of them were in this class, maybe some of Lenne's friends were in this class. She hadn't seen much of them yet. She sat down in the back of the class, and looked around the room. It was no one she knew there yet, so she leaned her head on the desk.
After class she walked to her locker. A note fell out. 'Yuna. You got till Friday to make your decision. Until then. Seymour.' She felt all color leave her face, and her fingers become numb. What did he want? Her to become his girl? No way, that was happening, she had some dignity. At least, still.
She crunched the note and threw it inside her locker. "Hi there, wanna sit with us during lunch?" It was Paine, one of Lulu's friends. She turned around and smiled brightly. "Yeah, I'd like that!"
Yuna was really different from Lulu and her friends but she liked them. They had some really intellectual minds. The conversations were great, and weren't like what the other girls at this school talked about, after what she'd learned so far.
They entered the cafeteria and looked around. In the middle Tidus and his friends were sitting. Lenne was with them too, and so were some other girls. They hadn't noticed her yet.
She sat down with Lulu, Paine and a guy named Nooj. "Hi guys!" She exclaimed happily. They gave her some nods and continued their conversation. "No, I do not believe I could become student council president. I don't want to either."
Lulu looked at her for support; apparently Paine and Nooj were nagging her about it. "If Lulu doesn't want to, you two shouldn't pressure her. She's a big girl; she can make her own decisions." She smiled at them and picked up her lunch. They didn't say anything but waved at someone behind her.
"Hey guys!" A squeaky voice said next to her, she turned to see Rikku. She was wearing a green mini skirt and a white tank top, with an orange bra under. She smiled at her, and Rikku sat down. "You know, we need someone to run against Brenda in the election, she wins every year see, and no one ever dares to run against her, for student council president." She took a dramatic pause, thinking.
"I know what we need!" She suddenly yelled, the cafeteria fell silent and looked over at us. "I'll be right back! I've got a plan!" She said running of.
A/N: Alright! That was the third chapter. Tell me what you think, and please review. I'm going to need help! I'm starting to think my ideas are running out.
See ya next chapter...