Tidus PSL

[palindrome]

At the end of her second week as a freshman in high school, the last person Hannah expects to find waiting by her locker is Tidus. They are cousins, so it's not as out of place as it could be for him to seek her out but, well... she's kind of been trying to avoid him. She could play it off as finding Tidus and the rest of the senior boys intimidating, but really it's those four years when she lived on the other side of the country that really intimidate her. When she left, Tidus was just starting high school himself, a charming, boyish friend from Hannah's childhood, and now... Now he's grown a whole head taller than her, and his boyish good looks have become something more adult.

So seeing him standing by her locker makes Hannah's heart skip a beat, and when he asks to talk with her, she can only nod meekly and follow him into a darkened classroom, too afraid of the blush coloring her cheeks to raise her face.

She shuts the classroom door and stands there, worrying the hem of her skirt with her fingers.

"What do you want to talk about?"

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[blondblitzer]

Tidus steps closer to her and brings his hand to rest on her cheek. He turns her head a bit so she can look him directly in the face.

“Hannah..” He says gazing into her eyes. “Just tell me why. I was so excited when I heard you were coming back. I thought I would get my best friend again.” Though that’s not entirely all.

“I mean..I know you’ve become incredibly beautiful while you were away. So of course guys would want to spend time with you. But..didn’t you miss me as much as I missed you?”

[palindrome]

She lets him guide her face up. As much as she wants to put up a cold front to him, this is what she wants more than anything: Tidus touching her gently, speaking to her with concern and love, easing all of her fears and worries.

"I missed you more than you know," she says, her resolve starting to crumble. "But you're a senior, you should be focused on college and your friends and- and senior girls. I don't want to hold you back."

[blondblitzer]

Tidus never hid how much she meant to him in the past. It shouldn’t come as a surprise when she distances herself from him, he’s going to be worried. He’s going to want to know why.

“You..you have never held me back. No matter where I go or what people come into my life, you’re always going to be important to me.” He says earnestly. He’s slowly starting to realize just how deep his feelings for her run.

“I want you in my life, no matter what. And…and I want Claude out of yours.” Like he had any power to tell her who she should date. “He’s not good enough for you. He doesn’t deserve to have you in his life. There are better guys for you.”

[palindrome]

"But I can't have the better guy I want!" Hannah exclaims, tears filling her eyes. "I can't have him,and if he knew I wanted him, he'd hate me, and then I'd lose him completely!"

[blondblitzer]

Tidus honestly didn't know what guy she was talking about. And he'd like to think that whoever it was was better than the guy she was currently dating. But he couldn't imagine any guy that she picked would meet his approval.

"And what guy do you want?"

[palindrome]

"You, Tidus," she replies, her voice quivering with restrained tears. "I've only ever wanted you."

She takes a step back, trying to disengage physically from him. Now that he knows he probably won't want to touch her, and even though the thought breaks her heart, she knows now that she would never have been able to keep this from him. Maybe it's better that it's out and over with sooner rather than later.