I hope everyone had a nice New Years!!! Mine was pretty weird, and boring.

"Ha," said Zack. "The camera reveals all truth. I win."

"That doesn't prove anything," Yuffie said.

"Proves enough for me," Zack said.

"The why did he let me run away from him today? Why didn't he tell me any of this?"

"Maybe you didn't give him a chance," Zack said.

Yuffie pulled the pillow back over her head. This was weird. This was hard to wrap her brain around. She'd spent so long being convinced that Riku couldn't like her and would never like her that it was incomprehensible to think that he really might. It was like suddenly meeting a dolphin with wings. What was she supposed to do now?

"Okay, fine," she said. "So tell me your secret."

Zack actually looked embarrassed. "It's not as good as your secret," he said.

"I don't care. Spill it."

He picked up a pencil from his desk. "I'm in summer school."

Yuffie sat up again. "Summer school?! But, Zack, you're so smart."

"Yeah, right," he said. "I failed math last semester."

"No way! Why didn't you tell me? How did I not know this?!"

"It wasn't exactly something I wanted to share."

"But I'm your twin!" Yuffie said." You'd think I would have noticed. I feel like such a bad sister."

"Its okay," Zack said. "I asked Mum not to tell you. That's why I'm not at Summerlodge with you."

"Suddenly it all makes sense," Yuffie said. "Zack, you could've told me. I still think you're smart. Now I just think there's something wrong with our high-school grading system."

"There is," Zack said with a smile. "They have this crazy notion that we should be taking notes on geometry instead of building model airplanes."

Yuffie searched his face. "But you don't seem upset anymore, like you have been the last couple of weeks."

"Yeah," he said, tugging a sheet of paper out from under the camera. "Look."

It was a math quiz. A bright red 100% was emblazoned at the top.

"Mrs. Campbell says I just need to focus, but I'm very bright," he boasted.

"Well, I could have told you that anytime, silly," Yuffie said, batting his head with the quiz. "You didn't have to be a major grouch for two weeks to find that out."

"Sorry I didn't tell you," he said.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you about Riku."

"That's okay," he said. "If you told me too much of that stuff it would get a bit girly for me."

Yuffie glanced behind him at the screen, where the camera was now focused on Tifa, who kept looking up at it and laughing.

"Hmmm," she said, raising her eyebrows at Zack. "Maybe the camera does reveal the truth."

"Shut up," he said, flicking it off.

"You should ask her out!" Yuffie said. "She would totally say yes."

"Yeah, right," he said.

"Would you rather pine over her for three years like I've been doing?" Yuffie said.

"You've been pining over Tifa?" Zack joked.

She threw his pillow at him. "I think she likes you," she said. "She's much more normal than we thought. It can't hurt to ask."

"Easy for you to say," he muttered.

"I could ask her for you," Yuffie teased in a singsong voice.

"Don't you dare!" Zack said, picking up Thorn and shoving him along the bed at his sister. Yuffie shrieked as Thorn knocked her over and started covering her face with wet doggy kisses.

"What is going on here?!" Mrs. Kisargi said from the doorway. Alanna poked her nose in, too, wagging her tail.

"Zack threw Thorn at me!" Yuffie squealed, wrestling Thorn under her so she could pin him down. The pug snorted and finally laid still, painting happily.

"She totally deserved it," Zack said. "Hey, Mum, look." He held up the quiz.

"Oh!" Mrs. Kisargi said with a quick glance at Yuffie.

"It's okay, I told her," Zack said.

"That's great, honey," the twins' mum said, coming over and taking the quiz from him. "This is terrific."

"Guess I'm not so dumb after all," Zack said.

"Duh," Yuffie said.

"Of course you're not dumb," Mrs. Kisargi said, tousling his hair. He ducked away from her hand but smiled.

"Yuffie, how was the volleyball game?" her mom asked, sitting down on the bed beside her.

Yuffie's face fell. She'd nearly managed to forget for a moment all the horrible events of the day.

"Oh, you lost?" her mother said sympathetically, patting her knee.

"No, we won," Yuffie said. She could tell there were awkward questions coming, so she said quickly, "Thanks for bringing me the bikini. It fits perfectly."

"Really?" Her mum beamed.

"Yeah, you totally saved me. I think I'll take Thorn and Alanna for a walk," Yuffie said, scrambling to her feet. She wanted to think about Riku, and she didn't want her mum to ask about him, because she'd have no idea what to say. We broke up? We were never really dating? I still want to really date him? It was too complicated. She needed to think.

"All right," Mrs. Kisargi said. "And by the time you get back, your father should be home, so we can go out to celebrate Zack's quiz grade."

"And Yuffie's volleyball win," Zack said loyally.

"Absolutely."

Yuffie bundled Thorn off the bed and grabbed her sandals from her room, the dogs trotting excitedly behind her. Downstairs, she dug out their leashes from the basket by the door, hooked them onto their collars, and opened the door to the porch.

Riku was sitting on her front steps.

Oh my, that was short. I'm sorry! ONLY ONE CHAPTER LEFT!!!!!!

So, That last line. Does it ring a bell? Like when Yuffie had to explain to Naminé and Tifa about how Riku asked her out? Hmm?

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I'm not sure when the last chapter will be out, since I have to go back to school on Monday (and we haven't been to school in 3 weeks) and I have A LOT of projects due, and I have to study for Finals, which is going to be HELL!!!!!!!

Reviews please!

~Erin