Today? Today was Reno's birthday. He wasn't a teenager any more. She was going to tease him a lot about being oooooold.

When he woke up. Because they were celebrating in Fandom this weekend, since his home was kinda depressing (no offense) and her home had everybody in everybody else's business (downside of living in a commune of sorts) and ( Read more... )

Citrus. All day. She'd been smelling it and tasting it whenever she licked her lips and apparently it was everybody? Weeeeeeeird.

Tangerine on her lips and kinda blood orange-y on her arms and peach on her wrists and lemony on her shoulders and there were some spots she couldn't reach, dang it.

This required assistance. Knock knock knock!

(for ( Read more... )

Rikku was pacing. And wondering if she shouldn't just ... take off. He'd stood her up for sparring before, she owed him one, right? And she wasn't in the mood to spar anyway. And she wasn't sure what she was in the mood for, but it probably wasn't standing out here in the cold and dark explaining to him that she didn't feel like sparring after all ( Read more... )

After her Flight and Flying class - which was awesome - Rikku bounced up the stairs two at a time. Not to 308, but to 407, because she had a feeling the Jude would still be there ( Read more... )

Rikku fell asleep in Denmark, curled around a tiny gray cat, sniffling as the images of cathedrals and tombs whirled in her mind.

It was now early Monday morning, and she jerked restlessly in her sleep, not waking up enough yet to realize that a thin, blonde boy was wrapped around her, holding her tight.

( Jude: not a cat. )

Jude had wondered about the identity of the tiny yet adorable turtle trying to get to his feet in the middle of their floor for all of about a minute and a half before realizing that there was that distressing tendency dudes around here had for turning into weetiny versions of themselves. "Don't worry, Mikey-bro, it'll be okay," he assured the wee ( Read more... )

"Okay," Rikku said, pulling Jude's hand as they got closer to the building. "It was the best I could think of. I'm kinda off the woods for now and everywhere's got someone and ... I know we'd get in trouble, but we'll head back to the cabin at first light. We just need some serious anti-Thursday mojo. Yeah?"

(for the jude, and nfb)

Rikku pulled the curtain back on Jude's alcove and ... he wasn't there. Unless he was hopped up caffeine again? "Uh, Jude?"

( 'Is Thursday over yet?' )

They mutinied! Okay, they got busted, and she had double detention, and Hades hadn't switched hair colors or freaked out, but still. There had been a fabulous mutiny and it had been a naked mutiny and it had been a success aside from that whole double-detention thing and since she had already considered that a given? That was totally fine by herSo ( Read more... )

Blitzball was awesome, because blitzball could never fail to be awesome, that's why. Just because the Psyches didn't win didn't mean blitzball wasn't awesome.

And chocobos, Rikku explained, were enormous birds sort of like ostriches, except very friendly and disturbingly cute. They nuzzled and liked eating out of your hands and running the ( Read more... )