So, Rikku was in jail. This wasn't exactly anything new. Although the drunk tank wasn't technically jail, but close enough. Apparently, when you and your partner-in-crime got horribly wasted while clubbing and then decided to hunt vamps, that counted as "drunk and disorderly ( Read more... )

Okay, so it had been a long, messed-up kinda weekend -- the carnival, which rocked, and then the homecoming dance, catching up with old friends, and then everyone going insane -- not to mention some of her clandestine activities Monday -- but she and Reno were kinda better -- she thought -- and her roommate had totally bought her new earrings, ( Read more... )

Rikku flopped down on her bed with an engineering text and tried to pretend she was reading it.

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Rikku was bouncing on her toes, and singing little snippets of Christmas carols. Only bits, because really, she didn't know most of the words. But hey! The bits she did know were pretty snifty.

She was also packing. Packing, woohoo! She'd be back in time for this whole New Year's thing, and - whoa, she'd been at Fandom almost a whole year. ( Read more... )

( Wow, Reunion. )

( Rikku sucks at dealing with things, and decides not to )

Jude worked the diner on Mondays. Rikku could have gone to see him at the diner. But, uh. She had ...

Okay, she'd totally chickened out. Her weekend had been kinda ... and what if he hadn't forgotten anything, and ... oh, manShe totally needed to find Luke and Dawn and apologize a whole lot, but first, she had to hope she'd never see them again ( Read more... )

Okay, that was kinda weird, Luke not coming to class or anything. And it was a fun class, too. Was he being all avoidy on her, so she couldn't traumatize him with scary pajamas? Right, like that'd stop her ( Read more... )

Rikku set Caladbolg carefully on the carpeting, placing the symbol and the sketch over it. It wasn't much, but it was the best she could do. Now she just had to hope it was enough ( Read more... )

Rikku sat nervously, waiting for everyone to arrive. She hadn't managed much sleep the night before, but the warm-fuzzy-Jude-kitten in her lap was helping. A lot.

Once everyone got settled, Rikku took a deep breath and started talking.

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