The park, Sunday evening

[dude_its_jude]

The curb jam was next week. Jude should be in training. He had meant to, he had really meant to, but he had gotten to the park and found himself thinking a little bit too much about Setsuna telling him it was worthless.

Now he was sitting under a tree, fiddling with one wheel kind of vaguely.

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[the_merriest]

It was a park, and parks were awesome. And it had a boyfriend! Boyfriends were way awesome.

So Rikku bounced her way over to her way-awesome boyfriend in the way-awesome park, treating him to a couple lines of Cuban Pete.

And I'll teach you to chick-chicky-boom, chick-chicky-boom, chick--

She stopped, abruptly. "Whoa. Dude. Hey. What's wrong?"

[dude_its_jude]

Jude looked up. "Oh, hey, bra," he said with a small smile.

[the_merriest]

"Hiya," she said softly, dropping down into the grass next to him. "What happened?"

[dude_its_jude]

"Nothin'," he replied automatically, shrugging as he set his board aside and reached out for her.