I knocked on the door and slowly opened the door. "Uh…Cid, you wanted to see me?"

"Gippal? That was faster than I expected. Well come on in and close the door. This is private matters and we don't need other people to know about them." Cid said.

I shut the door and took a seat near Cid's desk. It was very large making in more intimidating then it already was just being in the office. "So…What is it that you need?" Just sitting there without Cid talking was beginning to make things worse than they already were.

Cid looked at me straight in the eyes and smiled. Oh Yevon. "Well I know you like my daughter and she likes you." The look on my face was just pure horror. How did he know that? "Don't give me that look boy! Everyone knows it. Okay, well down to business. Everyone knows that Brother is helpless and I'm not as young as I used to be, and I got to thinking. Would you like an arranged marriage? I know, you probably want love and what not, but this is for your people! I cannot lead them much longer and I know Rikku can't do it by herself…So, how about it?"

This was a new twist on things. I was expecting to be yelled at for thinking about making his daughter mine, not ask to marry someone.

This was going to be a problem. I wanted to marry Rikku and I have since she had started puberty and all of the other boys begun to notice her as much as I did, but Rikku wanted love. I couldn't just take that away from her because I was being selfish.

Cid's big green eyes were looking at me waiting for an answer making it more uncomfortable for me. I sighed, "I'll do it, but only if Rikku says it's okay. She's the one that wants to marry for love. Not me."

"Fine. I'll tell her on her birthday as a birthday gift from me and you. That's got to make her happy…" Cid honestly thought he was doing her a favor by making her get married to me. He was really putting us into a hole. A deep one at that.

'Crap!' Her birthday was only three days away and I still hadn't thought of anything to get her anything. Plus she was turning twenty-one and it had to top everything else she was going to get. How could I do that if Cid was going to ask her to marry me?

"Okay Gippal. You can go." Cid got up and walked towards the window and looked out of it. I'm not sure what he was looking at. I mean I love the desert as much as any other Al Bhed, but all it is out here is sand. What is there really to look at?

"Goodbye." All I could think about was how Cid was going to ruin her twenty-first birthday by telling her she was getting married without her say in it. When she found out it was me, there was going to hell to pay.

~ONE DAY LATER~

I walked up to the door they had told me that belonged to Rikku. As I walked up to the door, there wasn't that many people. It was weird. She was in the wing that happened to be away from most people and knowing Rikku loved to be by people it was even weirder.

I knocked o the door. No one answered. I knocked again and still no answer. I began to panic. 'Why wasn't she answering?' 'Was she still sleeping?' 'Had something happened to her?' 'Had Cid already told her about the marriage and now she's avoiding me?' One this was for sure though, I had to find out.

I barged into the apartment Rikku had purchased. It was very lively; not a single space throughout the house was not covered by color. Blue, yellow, red, green, orange, and even pink were on the walls. The only place that purple was found was on pictures of me and Rikku from when we were younger.

One picture in particular caught my attention. It was the night that I lost my eye along with everything else that was important to me. Rikku was cuddle up next to me in the hospital bed, her head resting on top of my shoulder. I had no clue on where she had gotten the picture. I had never seen it before and I knew that Rin hadn't taken it; he wasn't much on capturing things on camera. It had to be Cid; he thought everything his daughter did was cute.

I laughed at all of the pictures when we were kids. I don't even remember all of the moments that were on the walls and tables.

"Who's there?" A small voice came from a corner of the room. "If you don't name yourself I'll hurt you."

I chucked at this. "So, where have you been? I've been trying to find you for twenty minutes."

"Oh, Gippal! Why are you here? I didn't let you in here! Are you here to make fun of me for yesterday? If you are I'll never talk to you again!" She came out of the corner with her hair up in a towel. Other than that she was only wearing a bra and underwear and skimpy ones at that. She was just trying to kill me.

"Rikku," I was slowly making my way over to her. "Why aren't you wearing clothes? That's not that safe with a man in the room." I came over closer to her with a devilish smirk on my face. "You never know what he might do."

"Where is this man? I don't see one; all I see is this perverted boy! Gippal why are you here?" She put her hands on her hips making my eyes rest upon them. "You know my eyes are up here." She used one hand to point up to her eyes and left the other one on her hip making in cock off to the side.

I shook my head and walked over to her and gave her a hug from behind. "I came to see if you wanted to hang out with me." I rested my chin on her shoulder and began to swing back in forth making her body rock with mine.

She must have had the reddest face known to man. "What?" Her voice cracked as she tried to say that one word sentence.

"I asked if you wanted to hang out. You know like when we were kids." I looked around the room. "I mean, I guess you really liked me more than anyone else considering there are like one hundred of me and maybe ten of the others…most of those are family pictures too." I pulled back and smiled at her.

She flipped around so that her chest was now on mine, making her breast closer to her chest. This was bad. She smacked me as hard as she could on my shoulder stopping my boyish thinking. "I haven't finished unpacking yet."

"Mmhmm…So are we going to hang out or not?"

"Yeah, I guess we could even though I promised Yunie and Tidus to talk wedding plans…" Slowly her face turned sour.

"Tell 'em you're busy."

"With what?"

"Making grandbabies for good old Cid." I smirked at her as I wiggle my eyebrows.

"Yeah and when Cid finds out, you'll be lucky if even the best detectives in Spira can determine who you are. Also she'll want to know details, and I obviously can't tell her things that aren't true! I don't lie!"

"We could make them true." I said as I made our hips collide and started to attack her neck.

"Gippal! Ah stop!...that tickles…stop it feels…Mmm!" Rikku giggled as she tried to compose herself.

"What was that?" My breath tickled her neck.

"What the hell is going on here?" Someone yelled from the entrance.

Immediately Rikku and I jumped apart from one another and she hid behind my back. "Who's there? This house is private. I will have the police come after you."

Rikku's body was pressed tightly against mine, causing extra strain on my body. I wasn't really sure if I was going to be able to handle myself much longer if she continued to do this…

"Rikku are you okay? Was Gippal hurting you in any way? Gippal where are you guys?" Yuna's voice came out in sheer panic.

"Yuna? What are you doing here?" Rikku stuck her head out from behind my shoulder. Her towel had fallen off of her head and was now showing her golden locks of hair.

Yuna's eyes went wide, "Oh, ah…" She laughed nervously. "Did I interrupt anything?" She stated to make her way towards the door, when that guy came through the door.

"Yuna! Rikku? Is everything okay?" The blonde guy that's name always escapes me asked.

"Uh, Tidus." So that's his name! I have to remember that for next time. "I think we should come back later…" Yuna's face was bright red and Tidus just had a look of pure confusion.

Tidus looked at the current situation and nodded his head. "Well Rikku…Gippal? We're sorry for interrupting. I guess we'll see you tomorrow."

"No! You weren't interrupting!" Rikku pleaded.

"Yes! You should be sorry for interrupting." I said. It ended up being at the same time that Rikku had said it.

They both turned red and hurried out of the room murmuring to one another.

I smiled as I turned to look at her. "That was close. Good thing that was Cid, huh?"

She turned bright red. "Gippal! It would have been better if it was him! Tidus and Yuna cannot keep their mouths shut! They're probably going to be talking about it while walking past everyone! And then the news will travel to Cid, which would result in even worse than Cid…" She was going to starting to panic.

I wrapped my arms around her waist and pulled her close. "You know you worry too much. Cid and I are good friends." Even Brother could have picked up on that lie. "Well anyways, would you like to go to Luca with me today? I have a surprise for you."

Her eyes lit up at the word surprise. "Really? Yes. Yes. Oh, yes! Just let me get dressed! I'll be back in a minute." She then proceeded to run off into her room.

I went back to the pictures and saw that many of them were from our trip to kill Vegnagun. I didn't know she liked pictures so much.

There was one picture on the ground that caught my attention as I began to look at the pictures from Sin. It was the one that we had shared our first kiss, and it was shattered. Why would she have shattered it? I had it hanging in the back of my closet were if Cid came in he wouldn't see it.

I bend over and picked it up making sure not to break the glass anymore than it already was.

"I'm read…y. Gippal! What are you doing with…? Oh…ah, sorry. I forgot I had the picture still." Rikku looked down at the ground bright red once again.

"Why is it broken?"

"Uh…I dropped it?" Her voice became higher and higher pitched as she spoke the words.

"Really? Why? Do you really hate me that much?"

"No, Gippal…It's just Vydran came in and I didn't want him to see it, so you know I tried to hide it. In the panic I put in on the ground and put a box over it. When I did that it shattered….I haven't had time to fix it yet."

"You kept this all these years?" I looked at her in the eyes.

"Yeah…" Her cheeks had a small tint of pink.

I smiled and kissed her on her cheek. "I kept the picture too."

Rikku giggled, causing me to smile more. "So Gippy, where are you taking me for my surprise?"

"Well if I tell you would it be a surprise?"

"Well, no…But I really want to know!" She said as she jumped up and down causing her breasts to jump as she did. I swear, sometimes she does that just to get to me…

"It looks like you're just going to have to wait." I said smiling as I walked towards the door, leaving her behind.

"Hey, wait for me!" She whined and ran after me.