In front of the dorms, Sunday afternoon

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Mellow completely restored after his very successful trip to Toronto, Jude had spent most of Friday and Saturday, to no great surprise, sleeping.

Now, he was engaged in his other favourite pasttime. Or he would, if he could figure out what had happened to his axel after that fountain dive from the second floor of the mall over the dude in the panda suit.

He sat on the steps with his board across his lap, deep in concentration.

[[I live! Sleepily, but I live.]]

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[the_merriest]

So deep in concentration that he didn't hear her sneak up? She hoped so.

Hands clapped over his eyes. "Guess who?"

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Jude started to smile a little.

"Um . . . is it Jen?"

[the_merriest]

"Yes," Rikku said, in a bad approximation of Jen's voice. "I snuck onto the plane because I wanted you to know you aren't wearing the proper padding for those skateboarding activities you engage in. I have brochures."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Ah, man, thanks, bra," Jude grinned. "It totally rocks to know you care."

[the_merriest]

"Also," she said, still in not-even-close-to-Jen's-voice, "I wanted to tell you that I'm totally hot for your bod. Warm for your form. I don't know how it took me this long to see it. Want to participate in some inappropriate teenage activities? I brought special padding for that."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Jen, totally appreciate the offer, but I'm kinda ridiculously in love with my girlfriend," Jude said solemnly. "Maybe another time."

[the_merriest]

"Okay. I'll live, I guess. Maybe I'll go jump Wyatt. He's pretty cute. I'll give the padding to your girlfriend. Hang on, she's standing right here." Rikku dropped her hands from Jude's eyes and instead wrapped them around his shoulders. "Hiya," she grinned, placing a quick kiss on the top of his ear. "What's new?"

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"Oh, hey," he grinned. "Jen was here. She totally propositioned me."

[the_merriest]

"Whoa," Rikku giggled. "Man, you win curbjam and you get all kind of groupies, huh? I hope you said no."

She bounced a little. "You'll never guess who's here. Never. You totally won't."

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Jude considered. "Is this, like, an actual 'guess who' or am I supposed to say, like, Wyatt?"

[the_merriest]

"This is a real one. Not like Jen stopping by a second ago." She wrapped her arms around him and snuggled in. "Someone's here. For good. I saw her yesterday at the picnic. See, she's a she, that's a clue. C'mon."

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Someone that would make Rikku bounce even more . . . Jude carefully replaced Sally with Rikku, his arms looping around her waist and thought.

"Yuna?" he ventured.

[the_merriest]

Rikku leaned in to brush her lips against his. "Nope. Yuna's back in Spira with Tidus. But you're warm." She wriggled a little on his lap. "You're really warm. I like that."

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Jude got a little distracted by the wriggling. Oh, and the lips. Hmm, he would just have to think.

And by 'think' he meant 'kiss Rikku'.

[the_merriest]

They were talking about something, right? Right. They'd get back to that in a minute.

Toronto was great, but not being able to sit and smooch in front of Jude's parents ... not so much.

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Jude was in total agreement about the parents thing. Then again, there was that thing in Ron's office . . .

No Jumbotrons. Another plus to Fandom smoochies.

[the_merriest]

Air was good. Air was one of those things she kept forgetting. Air. Right.

Rikku grinned. "Not Yuna. But you were close. Someone else. Before the kissing. Remember?"

... Probably not if she was going to nuzzle in like that, no.

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"Nope," he said honestly, bumping his nose against hers.

[the_merriest]

Rikku laughed. "Someone's here. You're supposed to guess who."

She considered. "I'll give you a hint! Deadpool said 'oh, she seems very boobs.' Just like you did."

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"Boobs? I mean, Lulu!" Jude gulped.

They floated in front of his vision for a moment, as if threatening bludgeoning.

[the_merriest]

Rikku laughed. "Yup! She's here! She's gonna be teaching here now, and it's even my Lulu, like, the one I know from home, not a different timeline dimensional whatever. Whoa, are you okay?"

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He blinked, banishing the mental image of Boobs Gone Psycho. "Uh, yeah. I'm good."

[the_merriest]

"You're not upset, are you?" Rikku said, failing to mess the inherent fear of the Sentient Rack of Doom. "That she's here. I didn't know she was coming but she likes you, honest, and she's great and I'm going over for tea tonight. She's the one who taught me magic."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Oh! Nah, bra, totally not upset." He smiled for her. "It's awesome that you got a friend around now."

He wasn't so sure how he felt about a friend around who potentially knew the degree to which their relationship had progressed . . .

[the_merriest]

"It really is," she said with a shiver. "I'm gonna be her TA, too. Oh. Uh. Does it ... bother you, about ... the letters? Uh." She scratched her head uncertainly. "I just ... never, uh, had anyone else ... to tell me things. That's all."