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Making up appearances	By : blackdiamondprincess Category: Final Fantasy X > Het - Male/Female Views: 969 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 7
- 8
- 9
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CHAPTER 8 : Become one
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Snow was
falling outside the windows of the library, making the few students who sat
inside feel lucky that they were allowed to sit inside during recess.

Shifting
her eyes from the outside scenery to her grammar book that was on her desk in
front of her, Lenne sighed and ran a hand over her forehead. They had a huge
English test tomorrow and she was glad that she had studied this in advance for
she couldn't seem to focus for even a second. Her eyes ran over the letters
that formed a phrase but from which she didn't catch the essence. She realised that she had gotten to the
middle of the page without knowing what she had just read. She groaned in
exasperation and threw the book shut.
As the book
fell close, a piece of paper was blown away due to the little movement of air
that was produced. She grabbed it before it could reach the edge of the table
and frowned out of curiosity to the possible content of it. Turning it around
in her hand, her eyes went sad as she read what was written on it.
In her own handwriting.

"If
love is supposed to be the greatest power of all, if it is meant to last
forever, does this mean that those who have been burned by it are to suffer great
pain until the end of time?"

"Sentimental
bullshit..." she whispered and crumbled the paper into a ball, throwing it
into the nearest thrash can. She then stood up and gathered her belongings in
her bag, threw her hair back and took the books she had
taken out of the library in her arms.
She checked
them in and was ready to leave the room when someone pressed a finger on her
left shoulder. The brunette turned around and froze as she stared into the
deepest colour of blue she had ever seen. Her breath caught in her throat and
she cursed herself for showing her feelings so obviously. Had he been in here
all the time? If so, why didn't she see him?
Shuyin
smiled tenderly at her, feeling sorry for having frightened her and very sorry
that things had turned out the way they did... he knew now how she felt and was
terribly regretting it with all of his heart. When she had thrown the piece of
paper away, it had hit the border of the trash can and fallen to the ground,
only she hadn't seen it miss the can. He had picked up after she had left her
table and opened it.

"Can
we talk?" he hoarsely whispered, pleading with his eyes and his heart
starting a frenzied rhythm, anxious to what she might answer. Seeing that she
didn't answer back and just looked away from him, he gathered all the courage
he had and decided to confront her with what he wanted to say. "I know
I've hurt you very badly, Lenne." He whispered and saw her rolling her
eyes slowly towards him. "And I'm very sorry. But I'm not going to keep
apologizing to you."
Lenne
closed her eyes and sighed, she knew what he was going to say, it didn't matter
anyways because she didn't want to deal with him anymore. All fine and well
that he wanted to talk things out, but that didn't mean that she had to talk
too.
For a
moment there he had thought that she was going to say something, but she just
kept her eyes closed and her lips motionless.
This is
harder than I had imagined it to be... I thought I could settle this easily,
but... I realise that she has touched me... deeper than she thinks she
has...And I too have been burned by love... I'm hurting as I'm standing here...
"I
don't know what caused you to run away from me at the very beginning,
Lenne." He whispered and saw her raise a sceptic eyebrow. "Ok, beside
from me having se...Can we talk in a more private place?"
She looked
at him with annoyed eyes for second and then rolled them up to the sky in
exasperation.

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"I know
that things can't be as they were between us anymore..." he whispered as
she sat down on a desk.
They had
found an empty classroom and Shuyin now sat himself on the teacher's desk,
across from her. He tried to smile at her, but couldn't. His heart felt awfully
heavy, like it was carrying a burden. She softly chuckled and shook her head,
staring out of the window.
"Make
this quick, I have class in 15minutes." She harshly whispered, not
shifting her eyes to look at him.
"I
know; history." He responded, "We share that class, maybe?" He
started to get a little bit annoyed too and took a deep sigh to calm himself.
Lenne gave him an icy glare and he felt it like a spear of ice piercing through
him.
"Talk,
Shuyin." She then said, turning her head back to the windows, "But I
have no intention to give it care."
The blonde
sighed, letting his shoulders hang. It seemed like the more time passed, the
more she got unreachable for him. If he was to say what he wanted to say, then
it was better to be said right now.
"I just
wanted to tell you that I miss you, Lenne... and I know that it maybe doesn't
seem that way, but I truly believed that we could've got worked... I still do,
but due to the current setting of things, I can't see how..." his voice
died out when he saw her fervently shake her head.
"Shut
up! Just shut up!" she stood up and turned around to face him, "Don't
give me this! I don't want to have anything to do with you that doesn't concern school, you got it? I just want to go on
with my life and forget that I ever knew you! God..." Lenne looked up to
the ceiling and tried to hold back the tears that threatened to roll from her
eyes. "Why won't you give me the time to forget..."
She hadn't wanted to go so emotional on him and now...
"Forget
that you ever loved me?" He softly whispered and took a step closer to
her. His heart was anxiously beating in
his chest, but he kept closing the distance between them, hoping that she
wouldn't run away from him.
She gasped,
letting her head fall in her hands and then started to sob, her shoulders
slightly shaking. "Go away..." she whimpered, "Oh please, just
go..."
He put a
hand on her shoulder, "Lenne. I ..." he gulped and looked at her wet
cheeks and trembling lips. "I'm having a hard time trying to forget you
too... I keep telling myself that it is for the better, that I got what I need
now, but... What I truly need is you...You're the
reason why my days feel so empty and meaningless... I..."
Here it
comes, you know that you should've got said it a long time before and spared
her the pain...
Lenne
looked up at him and waited. Was he
truly going to say it? Was he?
"Lenne...
I love you...I kept denying it... kept trying to run from it and caused you so
much pain..." his voice faded out as a new load of tears fell from her eyes.
At first he thought that they were tears of joy, but the whimpers that came
along couldn't possibly be joyful. "Lenne..."
"Can't
you see?" she whispered and looked in his beautiful eyes, "We can't
work. My world is way too different from yours... and besides you have
Y-Yuna..." At her name she moved herself out of his grip and took a step
back. "Like I said it before...I'm not like you... I'm not rich or
popular... I'm not the type of girl who gives the first guy she meets a...a lap dance..."
"That's
not what I want either." He whispered, reaching out for her. "I fell
in love with you, not with her."
She took
another step back, "But you had sex with her the same day we met. You even treated me like dirt in front of
her." Her voice broke from the emotion and she took a deep breath, a hand
on her throat to calm herself.
Shuyin let
his head hang; it had no use telling her that it had been Rikku for he had had
sex with Yuna the day after. "I'm not going to argue about what concerns
Yuna, but I did it because I felt hurt. You walked out on me, just like that!
Leaving me thinking that you didn't want anything to do with me! It was only
when you seemed angry and hurt too that I understood that you did feel the
same. I'm sorry, okay? But I do think that it wasn't entirely my fault,
Lenne." He took a step closer and rested both of his hands on her
shoulders. She let him do this, tired of
running away from him and bent her head. "Talk to me, why did you walk out
on me like that? Tidus told me something, but I'm not sure I believe
him..."

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Shuyin
nodded and took a deep breath, "I understand now... and I'm sorry for your
mother, but you and I are different from your parents... I don't think my
mother would have a problem with me marrying a girl who's not from the same
social class... Actually this place is the first one where I got confronted
with these issues. I never had problems with classes before."
She softly
smiled, "Yeah... it's pretty bad around here..." she whispered, now
sitting down on her desk again, her feet resting on the teacher's desk.
The blonde
sat himself next to her and stroked a strand of hair behind her right ear.
"What I don't understand is...umm...you and Tidus? I mean...eh�?"
"I
know...it happened last summer... I was on vacation in Kilika
and he happened to be there too...At first it was just innocent between us, he
didn't seem to care about my social class and I wanted to forget the boundaries
that I had premised myself just so I could enjoy this 'summer love'. That was
until he started to get a little too frisky for me..." She closed her eyes
and looked away. Shuyin frowned and
wanted to ask, but she beat him to it. "He wanted me to have a three-some with
another guy...he almost forced me to it and I just couldn't stand that so I
broke up with him. Big
shock for me as I found out that we had classes together."
"You
had never met before?" he asked, non-understanding. Lenne shook her head.
"He
always had classes in the other department of this school and only got
transferred to this one this year."
Shuyin made
a face, "Ouch, painful. For him that is..." he smiled at her and she
softly smiled back. He hesitantly approached his head to hers and his lips
barely touched hers when they heard the bell ring. She moved her head and her
cheeks went red from embarrassment.
"I
still believe that this isn't a good idea... I'm afraid that Yuna and the
others find out... I really don't want to deal with them again..." she
whispered, and stood up. Shuyin just
looked at her and bit his lips, "If I break up with Yuna now... It will
lead her to you... Lenne�"
She shook
her head, "It's ok you know... I'm almost used to
it..." Even though she tried to hide the pain in her voice, he had heard
it and shook his head in return. "No... Really Shuyin... It's better this
way...I..."
He
approached her and took her in his arms before she could finish her sentence
and kissed her. Their lips melted together, electricity flowed through their
bodies, the idea of this forbidden love all the more exciting.
Letting her
arms run around his waist in an attempt to bring him closer if possible, Lenne
felt like she was drowning in him. Helplessly drowning and not wanting to ever
resurface. His lips were so soft on hers, his gentle fingers on her face making
her slightly tremble and moaning for more.
The second
bell resounded and he let go of her, feeling like he woke up from a dream. There she stood, her face blushed and her
lips swollen en reddened from the passion they had experienced just a moment
ago.
"Lenne...
you're so beautiful..." He whispered breathlessly. She took the hand that
was resting on her face in one of hers and softly kissed his fingertips.
"I
love you." The words had come out as a mere whisper, all the held back
feelings reflecting themselves in her eyes. "I'm willing to risk it... I'm
willing to be with you, whatever it takes..."
He nodded,
"But you know that I can't have Yuna chasing after you..."
"Then
we will have to be extremely careful."
He kissed
her again and caressed the tip of their noses together, his hands resting on
each side of her head. "Now that I have you, nothing will take us apart
again..."
"Yes, but if we don't hurry, we'll be late for class and that might
wake up some suspicions." She chuckled, removing his hands from her face, "And that I'm not
willing to risk."
He chuckled
back, "I'll come up with an excuse."
"What,
with your pitiful acting?" she whispered back.

Ouch
touch�...
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As December
entered its second week, the halls of the school got decorated with posters for
the Winter Gala that was due to happen in three weeks. Excitement grew
among the students as they read that this year a masquerade contest was being
held, the winners being crowned to be King and Queen of Winter.
The
election wasn't really the most discussed topic among the students, everybody
knew that Yuna and her date would win, but what to wear that night. They all
knew that showing up wasn't the most important thing, but in what costume to
show up. It all got more difficult knowing that there was no theme whatsoever
and that the dress code was absolutely open, you just had to be in disguise.
Although
the dance was now less than two weeks away, the student council was surprised
to see over � of the tickets being sold after the first week.
Shuyin had never seen Yuna so pleased with herself and quite
frankly it was starting to annoy him big time.
It was now lunchtime on a freezing Friday,
exactly one week before the Gala, and the group (with the exception of Shuyin)
was talking about their usual interests being money, designer clothing, their
annoying classes or about where they could spent their expensive winter
holidays and be able to shop for Von Dutch clothing as
well. Or again, in Yuna's case, about the upcoming school event.
"Can
you believe that there are less than ten tickets left?! Oh my god, I don't
believe that any other Student Council President has ever managed to get that
much of people interested for a school Gala. That's so cool!" Yuna took a
piece of sushi from her plate and put it delicately in her mouth, looking at
her friends' faces for their reaction.
Tidus
nodded while chewing on his piece of sushi, "Uh huh," he swallowed it
and wiped off his mouth, "but then again, the school has never had a
President like you, babe."
Yuna smiled
him a bright smile cocking her head to side, "Oww
that's so sweet, Ty. Thank you."
"Yeah, no other President ever organised
the school Gala on a cruise boat, that's like so wild Yunie!
You rock!" Rikku said with her high pitched voice, smiling at her cousin.
The brunette was totally glowing with pride now as she saw
her three friends nod in silent admiration. She loved the attention for she had
worked her way to get it. That was the main reason why she had wanted to be
President of the school board. Helping people, giving them some good time in
school and in return, the respect and admiration of her loyal subjects. All the hard work was worth the
total submission she received from those who admired her. And that included not
only students, but teachers as well. How else do you think she got to be
president of the student board? Yuna always got what she wanted, no one doubted
about that. She was raised with every thing her little heart had desired and
had never learned what a 'no' was. She had learned to do anything to get to her
objectives...And the ones, who opposed her, were to be crushed mercilessly.
She turned
her head towards the gorgeous blonde sitting silently next to her, his eyes
fixed on his sushi dish.
"You
don't like it?" She whispered in his left ear, running a hand under the
back of his red pullover, caressing his lower back tenderly. "Do you want
me to get something else for you?" She kissed his cheek softly and waited
for his answer. For some reason she felt like she really liked Shuyin, not only
because of his great looks, but also because he had this tenderness in him that
she had never experienced with another man. It wasn't love, far from that, but
every time he was near her, her body couldn't help but cry out for him. Longing
for him to touch her in a way he only could. They would make a wonderful King
and Queen at the gala. That was sure.
His eyes
met hers and he smiled softly. "I appreciate you taking care of lunch
today, Yuna. You're really wonderful." He forced himself to whisper to
her, his gut feeling like it was about to turn itself upside down. "But
I've never liked sushi that much and�" He was hushed by her moist lips on
his.
Oh, God�
hold it in� hold it in�
"It's
alright." She then whispered and brushed a strand of his hair out of his
slightly green face. She then frowned in concern. "I think you should go
to the infirmary too, darling... you don't look so good. I'll go with
you."
He nodded
and slowly stood up, letting her lead him to the infirmary.
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Food
Poisoned. Great...just great� and that at the beginning of the weekend...
He lay now
in his bed in his room, watching the ceiling and feeling like he was going to
die from the pain his stomach was sending through his body. Every now and then
he would manage to stand up and drag himself to the toiled to empty the
content, whatever that was, his stomach couldn't hold in. His throat felt raw
and sore from the unusual flow of gastric acids that had passed by through it
too many times.
What
time is it? Has Lenne finished classes yet? I long to see her so badly...she
will be worried when she sees that I've missed gym and French today... If only
she called...
He had
barely finished that thought when a soft knocking was heard coming from his
door.
"Master
Shuyin?" a soft demure voice whispered at the other side of the door. He
sat up in his bed with difficulty and hoped that his voice would be solid
enough to answer.
"Y-yes
come in, Lynn. What is it?" he whispered, his throat feeling like it was
on fire.
A young
girl came in and slightly bowed her head towards him. "Your mother has
called and said that she would be back late today for she has important
business to attend to."
Tell me
something I didn't know...
"Alright, thank you Lynn." He whispered and wanted to sink back into his covers. But the
maid didn't exit the room. "Something else?" He asked, his eyelids
wanting to close themselves out of tiredness.
"Yes,
there is a young woman named Lenne here. She says she has come to bring you your
homework. Should I let her come up to your room, or do you feel strong enough
to meet her in the library?"
His eyes
immediately sprung open and quickly sat himself up again. Too quickly... his
head was now spinning and he felt nauseous again... "Bring her here in ten
minutes; I'd like to fresh myself up a little first."
She bowed
again and exited silently.
Lenne...
you're here... Thank you...
Ten minutes
later he emerged from the bathroom, feeling surprisingly better and looking a
lot better too. He had just put on a clean shirt and comfortable pants when a
soft knocking was heard coming from his study room. He left his room, closed
the door and crossed the study to the entry door. As he opened to door, he
caught her watching a painting that was hanging on the wall across his study
room door.
"Turner." He whispered, causing her
to turn around immediately. "Snowstorm."
"I know, we studied him for history. Why didn't you tell me you had his
most famous work? I love this." She whispered and turned herself around to
look at it more. "I love how he expresses what he feels through this
painting. You can feel the rage but also a strange calm, like he knows that it
has no use to be angry for it will go over, given the time." Her voice
died out as she saw him standing next to him.
"Like
a snowstorm." He then whispered and looked at her. She nodded and looked
back at the painting. He continued, "No matter how bad things look, you
should always believe that they will get better in time."
Lenne
smiled serenely and he could tell that she was thinking about their situation. "I'm
glad you came, Lenne."
"I
just couldn't give you the pleasure to skip the entire afternoon without doing
some work, now could I?" She whispered with a small smile and looked at
him worriedly. "What happened? I was worried sick about you when you
didn't show up for French. Are you alright?"
He just
looked at her and couldn't help but smile. He let a hand caress her left cheek
and pulled her closer to him. They held each other tightly like they hadn't
seen each other in years. "You have no idea how much better you're making
me feel right now."
She smiled
against his right shoulder and pressed a kiss in his throat, "I was so
worried. I thought she had done something to you or that she had found out about
us, I..."
"Calm
down... she didn't and she won't. I ate something wrong at lunch that's
all." He whispered back, caressing her hair and kissing it repetitively. "Don't
worry so much about us... it will be fine. Like the snowstorm?"
She looked
up at him, "Like the snowstorm."
He nodded
and took her by her hand, "Come, I'll show you into my quarters."
She
chuckled, entering his study and closing the door behind her.
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"Come
to the Gala."
They now
where sitting on the edge of his king-size bed and had been discussing school
and other things, when he had suddenly blurted that question out. He had asked
it because he had known that she hadn't bought herself a ticket yet and he
really wanted her to be there and have some fun.
"Shuyin...
you know that�" She started and shook her head. He took her hands in his
and moved a little closer to her.
"It is
a masked Gala; no one will know it is you... only for me... I would like to
spend as much as time as possible with you at that dance. You wouldn't want me
to hang around Yuna and her friends all night now would you?" He asked,
grimacing. She demurely laughed and shook her head. "And I'm sure that
Yuna will be too busy with her organisation that night, so I really don't want
to be on my own. You should have seen her bragging about how great she was and
stuff like that... so please don't do this to me...I'll buy you the
ticket?"
Lenne
sighed and nodded reluctantly, "But I wouldn't know what to wear..."
"I
do." He whispered and stood up, leaving her wondering on his bed. He
walked over to his closet and took out a large gift box. "I hope it will
fit, I didn't know your exact measurements..."
Lenne's
mouth opened itself slowly and she stood up too. "Shuyin... you
didn't..." She shook her head, approaching him.
He smiled
brightly at her and handed her the box, "Open it."
She bit her
lip, sat back down and opened the box.
Neatly
folded in the box lay the most gorgeous dress Lenne had ever seen in her life. She
took it out carefully and gasped, let it fall back down in the packaging and
stood back up to hug to blonde tightly. "It's so beautiful, Shuyin! Oh my
god..."
"Go
try it on in the bathroom." He softly whispered and let go of her. She
nodded and took her gift with her too the bathroom.
As she stepped
out in her outfit, he stood up from his seat to look at her and his breath
caught in his throat.
The dress
was a perfect fit.
It existed
out of a moonlight blue corset incrusted with tiny little shiny material that
reflected the light with every move she made. The corset had a slight push-up
effect, making her cleavage more filled. The other part of the dress was made
out of different layers of wavy moonlight blue transparent fabric that formed a
short tail behind her. Her legs were visible from her knees at the front of her
dress showing the calves-enlacing, moonlight blue with little diamonds high
heeled sandals he had gotten her to fit with the outfit. Out of the corset came
a set of transparent light-blue glittering elfin wings. At the base of her
throat was a silver necklace with a big heart shaped, light blue diamond as
pendant. On her head she wore a little silver crown, embellished with little
white diamonds. Her hair was hanging freely on her back now, but when she would
go to the gala, it would be best to put it up a little.
She walked
up to him with a shy smile and stretched out her arms to him, palms down. "Shuyin...
I cannot accept this... it's too much...!"
Shuyin
stood up and took her hands in his, shaking his head. "I want you to have
it... so you know how much I want you to be present at the dance. I want you to
shine like the queen you truly are...to just let go of the everyday torments
and be a queen just for one night. My fairytale queen..." he softly
whispered, his lips barely grazing against hers. "You're so
beautiful, Lenne."
Lenne could only look in his deep blue eyes,
fighting the urge to shed her tears. This was too good to be true... this boy,
no, young man cared so much for her he was willing to spent a little fortune on
her? Never had she had anyone to do that for her...
never had she ever dreamt of feeling this way for a man from the other social
class, to feel so loved by him, to mean so much. She shook her head and lowered her head, "You're too good to be true." She whispered,
eyes closed.
"You're
the one who's too good to be true... you've changed me... I know now that I
would never, ever want to hurt you, nor make you worried over me. You are
precious to me, you know that? And no matter what the future holds for us,
we'll get through it together. Because you and I, we belong together."
Lenne
snuggled herself in his embrace, feeling truly blessed to have him. If only
they didn't have to do all of this in secret...
"I
think that I'll break up with Yuna soon..." he whispered against her hair,
"She is kind of to blame for my illness."
Lenne's
head shot up from his chest, "Are you serious?! Oh my god! What'd she
do?"
"She
brought sushi for me at lunch. I can't stand that. But she didn't know." He
whispered back, "I really thought I was going to die from the smell of it
and from her constant babbling about the gala..."
The
brunette giggled and rested her head back against his chest, "I think you
should carefully plan the way you're going to announce it to her. She mustn't
get too suspicious about us..."
"Of
course... I'll do that..." he whispered back, kissing her hair. "But
for now..." he whispered and reached the zipper of her corset at the back
of the dress, "Would my queen make me the honour of showing me her most
gracious curves?"
He hadn't
thought of going any further out of respect for her, but her next words, made
him shiver all over.
She reached
behind her as well and coaxed him to unzip her. "It would be my greatest
pleasure to grant you that wish." She softly whispered and felt the dress
slip passed her hips.
As the dress fell to
a heap around her shoed ankles, she stepped out of it and walked around him,
sitting herself on his bed. Moving herself to the centre, she beckoned him to move closer. It almost didn't come up to her that this was
her first time with him. When he just kept staring at her she realised it and
laid herself down, waiting for him to join her. She closed her eyes and took a shaky breath.
"Shuyin,
I want to give you this... And not just because of what you gave me, but
because you are right. I belong to you..."
Shuyin
gulped and took a deep breath. Never had he seen a girl who both shone strength
and tenderness at the same time... it truly took his breath away..."And I
belong to you, Lenne." He whispered and approached her. As he made his way
up her body, casually dropping tender kisses, Lenne bit her lips to keep the
moans of anticipation escape her mouth. All that mattered was that they were
here.
Together.
This was
their moment, two souls that were about to melt into one.
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To be continued�
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