Room 308, Monday Afternoon, After Class
Rikku was sprawled on her bed, chewing a pen and composing a letter to Yuna. A way, way overdue letter to Yuna. Which was getting longer and longer and longer. See, this was a good reason not to stall on letters: they turned into massive thousand-page novels. At least, they did if you were Rikku and couldn't ever shut up.
Dearest Awesomest Yunie,
I can't believe how long it's been since I last wrote you!!! Things have been crazy here. Why can't Spira have cell phones already!? Maybe Rin could start selling them. (Cell phones are little devices where you can talk and it sends the signal and the other person hears you so you can chat all the time and not wait days and days for the mail to go through and you hear their voice and it would be expensive but I have money and Rin owes me one anyway, right???)
Okay so. Um. Lemme see. First off new term is going awesome and I'm way better than I was before. I'm so glad we came home for the Omega Ruins, I really needed that. Is that horrible to say? I feel more myself when we're out killing fiends.
There's a friend of mine named Romeo that I wish you could meet. I think you guys would understand each other. He's in a bad place right now - maybe not now, more like, he was, a while ago, but he's kinda better now, or starting to be? - so I'm hoping things get better for him. You said I'm supposed to be watching out for a happy ending, but I think he needs one more, so I might ship it along to him if it knocks. I'll catch the next one.
Two of my friends have hooked up, kinda, and it's one of those weird things where I would have never predicted it but they might be oddly kinda perfect for each other. It's really sweet. I don't know which one I'm supposed to beat up if they have an ugly break-up, though. It's throwing off the whole "don't hurt him/her or I'll maim you" speech, too.
I'm trying to make an invention for invention class and I have no idea what to invent so I'm stalling furiously. Any ideas? It seems like all the stuff I like have been invented already, and all the ideas I have he says I'm not allowed to use because we can't do weapons. That's kinda my specialty, dang it.
Last week was Spring Break! We went to Mexico, which you've never heard of but it has warm sunny beaches and lots of drinks and people wear swimsuits all day because it's so hot out and the water is clear. I went diving and shopping and there were four of us in the room and we kinda partied a lot but I think if you're on vacation you have to, right?
I don't know how to tell you the bit I really wrote you to tell you about, so I've been dancing around it this whole time. I suck at that. Okay. Uh. Here's the thing: I met this guy. Wow, met's kinda the wrong word. But that's just it, I don't know the right word. I don't have any words. It's not what I expected, I wasn't looking for it, if I'd seen it coming I would've run the other way, because I didn't want to get that mess started again, you know?
He's all tall and lanky and he has crazy red poofy hair and I think he's kinda dangerous. Not in the "ooh sexy" way, and not like I'm scared of him, just ... he does rough things for a living, I think. I mean, he was at a convention that Deadpool was at, too, and Deadpool is awesome but Deadpool does rough stuff for a living, too. At least he did before he taught. It kinda gives you a weird edge, you know? Like Auron, the way he held himself off from everyone, 'cause he'd seen a bit too much and he couldn't drop that edge. That's what Reno sort of feels like, sometimes. I think it eats at him. And other times he lets it down and I don't want to breathe wrong because there's something really delicate under all that.
You think I'm crazy, right? We're ... I don't know what you'd call it. He puts his hands on me and I can't think straight, and he snuggles perfectly around me when I fall asleep, and he told me at the beginning he didn't ever date and then two weeks later told me maybe he should. And so you're thinking, what do you want, Rikku? And I want this. Whatever it is. I don't get it, and it's so different from what I'm used to, and I don't know where it's going, but I'm going to see as it goes. You can totally call me insane now. Right?
Do not tell Pops this, but I got way, way too drunk in Mexico and I got a tattoo. Look! Doesn't it kinda look like my claw?! Isn't it the best? DO NOT TELL POPS PLEASE HE WILL KILL ME.
I'm really good, right now, I think. But in a way that kinda worries me, like there's bad stuff lurking just out of sight, and there's a shoe up in the air looking for a good spot to drop. Maybe that's a sign that I need to enjoy the here and now more?
Speaking of shoes, my boots have decided they're on strike, so I had to thump along to class in a pair of loafers that spent the whole time telling me I don't appreciate them enough. No, I'm not drunk; that's just Fandom.
I love you, Yunie. Tell Tidus he has to give you a big hug for me. He's good at them.
-Rikku
She stuffed a picture of her brand-new tattoo into the envelope with the massive letter and began licking it shut cheerfully.
"I hope you guys are gonna be quiet," she told her loafers. "'Cause we've gotta walk downtown and mail this, and I don't want any lip from you."
(Will be a massive linkdrop eventually. Door and post both open!)
Dearest Awesomest Yunie,
I can't believe how long it's been since I last wrote you!!! Things have been crazy here. Why can't Spira have cell phones already!? Maybe Rin could start selling them. (Cell phones are little devices where you can talk and it sends the signal and the other person hears you so you can chat all the time and not wait days and days for the mail to go through and you hear their voice and it would be expensive but I have money and Rin owes me one anyway, right???)
Okay so. Um. Lemme see. First off new term is going awesome and I'm way better than I was before. I'm so glad we came home for the Omega Ruins, I really needed that. Is that horrible to say? I feel more myself when we're out killing fiends.
There's a friend of mine named Romeo that I wish you could meet. I think you guys would understand each other. He's in a bad place right now - maybe not now, more like, he was, a while ago, but he's kinda better now, or starting to be? - so I'm hoping things get better for him. You said I'm supposed to be watching out for a happy ending, but I think he needs one more, so I might ship it along to him if it knocks. I'll catch the next one.
Two of my friends have hooked up, kinda, and it's one of those weird things where I would have never predicted it but they might be oddly kinda perfect for each other. It's really sweet. I don't know which one I'm supposed to beat up if they have an ugly break-up, though. It's throwing off the whole "don't hurt him/her or I'll maim you" speech, too.
I'm trying to make an invention for invention class and I have no idea what to invent so I'm stalling furiously. Any ideas? It seems like all the stuff I like have been invented already, and all the ideas I have he says I'm not allowed to use because we can't do weapons. That's kinda my specialty, dang it.
Last week was Spring Break! We went to Mexico, which you've never heard of but it has warm sunny beaches and lots of drinks and people wear swimsuits all day because it's so hot out and the water is clear. I went diving and shopping and there were four of us in the room and we kinda partied a lot but I think if you're on vacation you have to, right?
I don't know how to tell you the bit I really wrote you to tell you about, so I've been dancing around it this whole time. I suck at that. Okay. Uh. Here's the thing: I met this guy. Wow, met's kinda the wrong word. But that's just it, I don't know the right word. I don't have any words. It's not what I expected, I wasn't looking for it, if I'd seen it coming I would've run the other way, because I didn't want to get that mess started again, you know?
He's all tall and lanky and he has crazy red poofy hair and I think he's kinda dangerous. Not in the "ooh sexy" way, and not like I'm scared of him, just ... he does rough things for a living, I think. I mean, he was at a convention that Deadpool was at, too, and Deadpool is awesome but Deadpool does rough stuff for a living, too. At least he did before he taught. It kinda gives you a weird edge, you know? Like Auron, the way he held himself off from everyone, 'cause he'd seen a bit too much and he couldn't drop that edge. That's what Reno sort of feels like, sometimes. I think it eats at him. And other times he lets it down and I don't want to breathe wrong because there's something really delicate under all that.
You think I'm crazy, right? We're ... I don't know what you'd call it. He puts his hands on me and I can't think straight, and he snuggles perfectly around me when I fall asleep, and he told me at the beginning he didn't ever date and then two weeks later told me maybe he should. And so you're thinking, what do you want, Rikku? And I want this. Whatever it is. I don't get it, and it's so different from what I'm used to, and I don't know where it's going, but I'm going to see as it goes. You can totally call me insane now. Right?
Do not tell Pops this, but I got way, way too drunk in Mexico and I got a tattoo. Look! Doesn't it kinda look like my claw?! Isn't it the best? DO NOT TELL POPS PLEASE HE WILL KILL ME.
I'm really good, right now, I think. But in a way that kinda worries me, like there's bad stuff lurking just out of sight, and there's a shoe up in the air looking for a good spot to drop. Maybe that's a sign that I need to enjoy the here and now more?
Speaking of shoes, my boots have decided they're on strike, so I had to thump along to class in a pair of loafers that spent the whole time telling me I don't appreciate them enough. No, I'm not drunk; that's just Fandom.
I love you, Yunie. Tell Tidus he has to give you a big hug for me. He's good at them.
-Rikku
She stuffed a picture of her brand-new tattoo into the envelope with the massive letter and began licking it shut cheerfully.
"I hope you guys are gonna be quiet," she told her loafers. "'Cause we've gotta walk downtown and mail this, and I don't want any lip from you."
(Will be a massive linkdrop eventually. Door and post both open!)