Yet another short chapter to get me back into the swing of things.
Thank NaNo for the break in my writer's block!!
You guy missed me, right?
Right?
Right?!
Of course you did.
EXAMS ARE OVER!!!
Thank God.
If you hadn't missed me, I'm not going to tell you what happened on the walk with Lightning and Noctis :P So you'd better have missed me!
Oh yes! And the next chapter will be a Christmas Special, so look out for it. :) It'll be really random and stuff, and I'm posting it here because I need Rufus and Cloud and co. in it XD
So!
I've kept you guys on a two-month wait now.
I shall not keep you any longer!!!
... Ah curse you, old-fashioned NaNo characters for speaking like that and influencing me. –scowl-
This chapter is courtesy of my humorific muse, Atach Mexac. So say thanks!! I wasn't going to update this 'til next week, but he made me.
Sorry for the length, but my fingers are still suffering from the darned business test.
-Chapter Nine-
We are just friends.
We are just friends.
We are just friends.
We are just friends.
We are just friends we are just friends we are just friends-
So why is he walking so darned close to me, his shoulder brushing mine and his knuckles practically glued to my back?
Answer: ... Well, I don't even know myself! How am I supposed to answer something I don't know?!
Argh!
I have to stop talking to myself.
Isn't talking to oneself a sure sign of insanity?
... Huh.
Probably means that I've lost my mind ages ago.
Noctis glanced over at me in concern. "Are you feeling all right?"
"Y-yeah..." How on earth can someone explain to a smoking hot, extremely composed guy exactly how smoking hot, extremely composed he is?! Because he is. Believe me.
He is.
"So where are we going?" I asked, sneakily trying to put some distance between us. It's not that I didn't like it – I did, but it was just... he was too close!
"For a walk," he responded; I rolled my eyes.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
"Yes, but where to?"
"Somewhere."
"Noctis, you're not dragging me off somewhere to elope, right?"
"What?!" The look he shot me was a completely shocked one. I fought back a laugh as he looked away quickly, his fair cheeks tinged with red.
"Kidding, I was kidding," I snickered.
"You had better be kidding!"
"What's wrong with eloping with me?" I teased, my lips curving upwards in what I hoped was an amused, sexy smile.
It must have been, because he seemed staggered when he glanced at me again. I had to grab his arm before he ran into a pole. "Careful." This is amusing. For once, I was the knight in shining armour and he the damsel in distress.
I allowed my smile to widen.
Not that he looked like he was a damsel in any way...
"Erm..." He seemed to be collecting his thoughts. I shot him a sneaky, sly look, and he swallowed. "Um, nothing's wrong with... eloping with you, but... my dad would kill your smi- I mean, your dad would kill me. And mine would probably, er... die... of..." He trailed off when I smiled even wider, his eyes practically bugging out of his head.
"Of what?" I asked, feeling exceptionally flirty today. I pressed close to him, giggling inwardly when he just continued to gape at me.
See, this is what you get when you hang around Serah and Vanille together for too long.
"Of... emba... embarrassment," he finally got out.
Took him long enough.
And I thought I was a complete blur case.
I laughed, and stepped away. He grinned at me, looking a little blur, but he was definitely in recovery from... my flirting skills?
Wow!
Serah, Vanille and Lebreau will be so proud of me.
Snow, too, probably.
And... my mom, maybe.
I mean, they've only tried to hook me up a bazillion times.
I grinned quietly to myself.
"Noctis!"
We both turned to see a beautiful blond I would expect be paired up with sky-blue eyes run up to him and throw her arms around the taller teen.
Startled, Noctis caught the girl. "Stella." He sounded a little surprised if not stiff, but definitely pleased and affectionate. As affectionate as a guy being glomped by a beautiful chick would expect.
And one who knew him really well as well.
Can life get any better?
Definitely.
I stood there for an entire five minutes – yes, five minutes – waiting for the girl to let go of Noctis. She was chattering away excitedly, in a speed so fast and a tone so high that I could barely catch her sentences. Once in a while she would squeal about something in an even higher pitched voice, so high that my ears began to hurt after the first time.
I pitied Noctis – his ear was right next to her mouth.
But he was probably used to this by now, if they really were that close.
Were they dating?
Surprised at the thought, I peered closer at them, wondering if they really were going out. Stella sure acted like they were, but... but...
If they were going out, why did he kiss me? It wasn't as though the girl – Stella – wasn't hot enough; she was way hotter than me, that's for sure. But... but...
I was definitely overtaxing my poor brain.
I always said that it wouldn't be long before it completely shut down on me, anyway.
Having decided to stop thinking before I really went brain-dead, I saw now that Stella had let go of Noctis and was pointing at me, not very superiorly, as though she was someone he was going out with and I was his best girl friend who had a huge crush on him...
Which we weren't.
... Well, for me it applies...
"Hi there! I'm Stella. Noctis said that your name is Lightning? It's an interesting name – do you know why you were called that?"
Is there a mute button on this woman?!
Apparently not, because she kept nattering away as I tried to find the mute button that was definitely nonexistent.
Damn.
So I introduced Stella into the story.
For the Stellis fans, I bet you're thinking 'FINALLY!!'.
Lightis fans...
-shrug-
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