A Good Other

IV

It wasn't long before the third stop, the one right before the Mall came up.

A panicked look settled onto Zell's face. "Um, well I gotta go! I'll see if I can catch up with you later!" Soon as the doors opened, Zell bolted out of the subway, shoving past a man in an expensive looking suit that yelled at him.

You noticed how expensive the suit looked and the man wearing it. His hair was bright red and long in a ponytail. That's all you could tell until he turned around to get into the subway train when the doors closed.

He began to yell from the other side, his face fell when he saw you looking at him curiously. It was as the subway was pulling away that he reacted in a way as if he was going to say something.

Yuna was shaking her head, the three of you standing up to get ready to walk out the doors. You gave her a look.

"That was someone from school, it's surprising that we're running into everyone again."

Rikku snorted this time in disdain. Her hip jutted out slightly as she looked at her two family members. "It's as if fate knows that you lost your memory and now wants everything to be right as rain."

You cocked an eyebrow in curious wonder of what Rikku meant.

After getting out of the subway and into the actual mall, you were beginning to get an unsettling emotion. As if someone was watching you from somewhere else.

Shaking off the feeling, you came to realize how large the mall was. Four stories and all you did was look up as if you were a tourist. Yuna giggled meanwhile Rikku was looking at a map that was on the side of a soda machine for where the phone store was.

"It's on the third floor! Afterwards we could always go see Tifa!"

Yuna had to loop her arm around your arm in order to begin to drag you towards the elevator that would easily bring the three of you to the third floor. The entire time you watched people and look at all of the different stores until the doors opened onto the third floor.

"Hey Rikku, did I have a job?" You looked at the blonde and green eyed woman who seemed surprised with the sudden question. She frowned.

"I worked with Pops and Brother, You never really told us how you made money."

That surprised you in a way that was unsettling. Slowly nodding your head, there was a strange need of actually wanting to get a job. There was an ounce of doubt that Cor University would allow you to return as a full time student considering the disappearance act.

The three of you walked side by side as Yuna looked at you. "Are you going to go back to school? You were close to graduating too."

Yuna was surprised when she saw you shake your head, when the two of you went to school everyone considered you to be one of the smartest students. "I don't remember anything that was covered, I don't think they'd accept me back. Even if I did, I can't remember anything about that research theory."

There was some strange tug in your chest, sadness. There was a desire to finish something like University, but you couldn't afford it in your current state.

Eventually Rikku pounced ahead and skidded to a stop in front of a phone store.

It was a quick easy and out type of trip. Rikku did majority of the talking to the man behind the counter who seemed unhappy with being there. In the end you were staring at the black touch screen phone.

Stepping back into the main body of the mall, you found yourself familiarizing yourself with the gadget. It was strange, fumbling with the piece as if it was even stranger than anything else in the world.