He paused. He needed a little advice and he was pretty desperate… desperate enough to ask Auron for advice. He didn’t want Rikku or Lulu, but especially Rikku finding out that he had practically begged Yuna to go out with him. She would probably spread it to half of the school.
“Hey, Auron?”
“Hm?”
“I gotta ask you something,” he winced for Auron’s sure-to-come cynical comment.
“You need my advice? Does this have something to do with that girl you asked to the Homecoming dance and the one that drove you home?”
“It’s the same girl.”
“Then what’s the problem?”
“How do I go out with someone, but keep it… well… quiet?”
Auron actually looked him right in the eye for his answer. “You’re asking the wrong man,” he said flatly. “The first time a girl said she’d go out with me, I announced it to the school over the PA and wrote her name on my bicep with a blue marker.” He paused. “Of course, it wasn’t for another two and a half years that a girl would actually go out with me…”
