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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[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.