In the morning, Lightning sleeps in a little late. Hope wakes up, very tiresome, almost like he had zero sleep last night. He yawns and stretches as he gets out of his bed and makes it out of the hallway. Hope goes downstairs, and goes into the kitchen.

When he's about to enter it, Vanille pops her head out of the corner. "Hiya, Hope!" Vanille says with a smile.

"GAH!" Hope was pretty startled, like Vanille is the most horrible scary thing he's ever seen. It certainly awoken him from his tiresome slumber. "Vanille. What the hell you trying to do, give me a heart attack?"

"No, silly-willy." Vanille says with a giggle.

Hope sighs, then walks past Vanille into the kitchen. "What are you doing here, Vanille?"

Hope opens the fridge. "I was wondering if you're coming to the festival."

Hope pulls out some orange juice while looking at Vanille with confusion. "Festival?"

Vanille's jaw drooped and she slaps her hands on both of her cheeks as she gasps, surprised. "Did you forget? Tonight's the grand opening of Serendipity. The future of Nautlius."

Hope pours himself some orange juice, while doing that, he looks at Vanille, with a surprised look. "Serendipity? That's tonight?" Vanille nods. "I can't believe I forgot about it."

Vanille looks at Hope's orange juice. "Uh, Hope!"

Hope looks at his cup, noticing it's over flowing. "Oh shit!" Hope sets the orange juice down. Hope moans in disappoint and Vanille just gives a soft giggle. Hope grabs a towel and cleans up his miss.

"So, you going?" Vanille asks.

"Depends, if I can convince Lightning." Hope says.

"I think you can. She'll do anything for you." Vanille says.

"I suppose that's true." Hope says.

"Well, I'm gonna run. Ciao." Vanille says, lifting her leg back and pointing at the front door at the 'ciao' part, then makes her leave.

Hope wonders about the festival, he can tell it's fun and all, but what worries him is that if Lightning isn't gonna take him. Lightning enters the kitchen, tiresome. She walks past Hope, rubbing her hand on his hair.

"Morning, Hope." Lightning says, starting the coffee machine.

"Morning, Clair." Hope says. "Hey, I was wondering...can we go to the festival tonight?"

Lightning looks at Hope over her shoulder. "Festival? What festival?"

"Serendipity. It's opening tonight." Hope says.

"Oh...that." Lightning says. Lightning sighs, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. "I don't know, Hope. I would like to take you, but it'll be so crowded, and..."

"But, my dad promised he would take me there on the grand opening...you know, before he went..." Lightning nods, understand what Hope is talking about. "Let's go tonight, it'll be real fun." Lightning doesn't say anything. After hearing the ding, she pours some coffee into her cup, then turns to see Hope in front of her, with his sad eyes and quivering lip. "Pwease."

Normally, Lightning would just roll her eyes, she thinks Hope looks pathetic like this. Instead, she smiles, chuckles and then ruffles his hair. "You are really lucky you're cute, kid...Fine, I'll take you there tonight."

Hope cheers in excitement. Lightning thinks it's pretty silly, it's like Vanille is putting an influence on him.

Some the whole day seems like torture to Hope. He pretty much spend the day watching the clock, watching every hour go by, every minute, every second. You could say he's ticked off (Ha, ha. Good one Kataang9)

Later at night, Lightning and Hope leaves the house and drives all the way to Serendipity. It was a two hour drive from all the way to New Bodhum. About twenty miles away, the city becomes insight.

Serendipity is a very bright lighted amusement park, when they get closer to it, the lights being blinding, they might even have to wear five pairs of sunglasses just to see. (You could say that Serendipty is the FFXIII version of Gold Saucer from FFVII) It was hard to find parking for Lightning.

Lightning and Hope waits for a while to enter the city, since they had to wait in a long line to enter. Why wouldn't they? It is the grand opening of the festival.

Finally, Lightning and Hope enters. "Whoa!" Hope is pretty amazed at the festival. Full of fun and games and it's quite a sight to see. "This is so cool."

Lightning walks up to Hope. "Yeah, well, don't go wondering off. Don't want to lose you."

Hope looks back at Lightning, then nods. "Oh, you guys are here too?" A familiar voice says.

Lightning and Hope turns, surprised. Just as they thought, it's Serah who's with Snow. Lightning is disappointed to see Snow.

"Serah? Snow? What are you guys doing here?" Hope asks.

"We're on our honeymoon." Serah says. "Serendipity is apart of it."

"Oh great, just I want needed. Spenting time in a crowded amusement park with the worlds biggest doofus." Lightning says.

Snow walks up to Lightning, wrapping an arm over her shoulders. "Aw, come on, sis. Don't be such a grumpy dumpty."

Lightning gives a mean look, she punches Snow right in the nose. "I'm NOT your sister!" Lightning yells at him, which made the crowd get her attention.

Snow moans in pain with his hands on his nose. Serah stands next to Snow, putting her hands on his arm. "Uh, why don't we go play some games?"

"Yeah. I think that's a good idea." Snow says, in a stiff voice.

Serah and Snow walks off into the crowd. Hope and Lightning watches them leave, then Hope stands in front of Lightning, grabbing her hands. "Come on. Let's have some fun."

Lightning looks at Hope and offers a smile. "As long as it's away from that doofus, it will be."

Hope couldn't help but laugh at that little joke.

Lightning and Hope went around the festival. Hope is excited to be here, Lightning watches the boy, smiling at his enjoyment. Hope finds this one game, where you had to squirt water until the balloon explodes.

Lightning stands back as she watches the boy playing the game. Hope's balloon was the first to explode. Hope cheers in victory as he wins the carbuncle doll. He walks up to Lightning and offers it to her.

Lightning's surprise to see Hope offer her the doll. Lightning accepts the doll and smiles at Hope. "Thank you. You didn't have to."

Hope shook his head. "But I wanted to." Hope says.

Lightning ruffles Hopes hair, earning a chuckle from the boy. "You're such a sweetie." Hope blushes a little from Lightning's comment. Lightning and Hope walks around to find something to do.

Hope finds this petting zoo that's filled with chocobos and sheep. Hope finds a chocobo and pets it. The chocobo really seems to enjoy Hope's touch. Lightning smiles and giggles at the sight of Hope. After watching the boy, Lightning walks up to the chocobo and joins Hope in the petting.

After the petting zoo, Lightning and Hope wonders around the festival. Hope finds a vendor that's selling snow cones. Hope grabs Lightning and drags her to the cart. Lightning was surprised and almost lost her balance back there, but she regains it.

"Two please." Hope tells the vendor.

The vendor makes two snow cones, lemon and cherry, and gives them to Hope. Hope give the cherry flavored one to Lightning. At first, Lightning hesitates but then decides to eat it.

As they're walking while eating their icy treats, they bump into Vanille and Fang.

"Oh. I'm glad you two could make it!" Vanille says in a cheerful tone.

"Didn't expect to see you here, Light." Fang says.

"Yeah, well, Hope begged me to take him here." Lightning says.

Vanille giggles at Lightning's comment, then she gasps at the sight of the carbuncle doll. "Hope, did you win Lightning that?" Hope nods. "Aww, that's sweet. Well, have fun you two. Ciao." Vanille skips off.

"Hey, wait up, Vanille!" Fang chases after Vanille.

Lightning and Hope watches the two wonder off into the crowd, then they continue on. Lightning and Hope finds a roller coaster ride. Lightning isn't too pleased to see it, she isn't really a kind of person who can handle amusement park rides (I get how you feel, Lightning.) But Lightning can tell Hope wants to get on the ride, and she know's that he's not allowed on without an adult with him.

Lightning decides to suck it up and handle the ride. As they go up, Lightning prays that this won't be as bad as she thought, but she spoke too soon when the ride speeds up when they ride down the first hill.

While Hope enjoyed the ride, Lightning wasn't too thrilled. After the ride, Hope gets off excitedly. Lightning gets off, a little shaken. She sits down on the step to rest for a moment.

Hope receives the snapshot photo from during the ride and laughs. "Hey, Light." Hope shows Lightning the photo. "Look at this. You look pretty ridiculous."

Lightning looks at the photo, it's her and Hope. Hope was screaming with excitement with his hands in the air, while Lightning was holding on fighting screaming. Lightning looks at Hope with an annoyed expression.

"It's not funny, Hope." Lightning tells him. Hope's expression doesn't change, Lightning looks back at the photo and snickers a little. "Okay, it's a little funny."

"You're first ride?" Hope asks.

"You could say that. I'm not really that fond with amusement park rides." Lightning says.

Hope just laughs hearing that. "So, you can handle airships, boat rides, submarine rides, but you can't handle a simple roller coaster?" Hope asks.

"Oh shut up." Lightning says, shoving the photo on his chest.

Lightning and Hope walks around the park square, where they find a ton of people gathering. They wondered what it could be. Just then, the lights in the area dies down and the stage lights lit up. On the stage is Yuna from FFX (In her Songstress outfit in FFX-2) Everyone cheers for her as she begins to sing '1000 words'.

Lightning and Hope stands in the crowd, watching the girl as she sings. The song is very soothing and gentle. Hope seems to enjoy it, Lightning...well, let's say she doesn't approve of it on the outside but on the inside, it's all right.

Hope looks up at Lightning, noticing the expression on her face. "What's the matter?" Lightning looks down at Hope. "You don't like the song?"

"Hmm..." Lightning looks back at the stage. "Nah, it's all right. Just not really a big fan of music."

"Oh...I thought you were, I just thought it's the heavy stuff." Hope says.

"Nope." Lightning answers.

After the song, everyone cheers. Yuna makes a bow. Everyone tosses flowers to the girl, Yuna manages to catch a bouquet of roses, lilies and daises. Yuna smiles and blows a kiss to the crowd, the boys in the middle front row started reaching their hands and grabbing the air as if they're really trying to catch that kiss, then the girl makes her leave from the stage.

The crowd disbands, expect for Lightning and Hope who stayed in place. "She was amazing. Wish I could meet her."

"Maybe sometime." Lightning says.

When the area was clear, Lightning and Hope wonders off, that is until they bump into Yuna from a blind spot in an ally. When Hope looks, he notices it's Yuna. He's certainly surprised. Yuna looks at Hope and Lightning.

"Oh, sorry. Didn't see you there." She says with a smile.

"You...you're the girl...on stage." Hope says.

Lightning smiles a little. "I told yea maybe sometime." She tells Hope.

"Yeah I am, I take it you're a new fan." Yuna says.

"Yeah. You were awesome up there." Hope says. "The song was beautiful..." Hope nervous rubs the back of his neck, blushing a little. "You...sang it beautifully."

"Aww, thanks." Yuna says.

"Is it really right...I get a picture with you?" Yuna nods, Hope looks at Lightning.

Lightning sighs, reaching into her leg pouch. "You are lucky I decided to bring a camera." Hope and Yuna stands close together, an arm wrapped around each other. Lightning takes a picture of that.

"How about one of this?" Yuna asks. Hope was confused, but suddenly becomes shocked when Yuna kisses him on the cheek. Lightning defiantly got a picture of that, smirking.

Hope passes out from that kiss. Lightning lowers the camera and looks down at the boy with concern, then glares at Yuna when she hears her giggle. "You think it's funny he fainted?"

"Sorry. No, I just thought it was cute." Yuna says. "Is he your brother?"

"You could say that. I'm his guardian." Yuna looks confuse, and was about to ask until Lightning answers her right away. "It's a long story, I don't want to waste your time."

Lightning picks up Hope and she and Yuna departed their ways.

A/N: Hope's lucky. At least he got to meet Yuna and he didn't freeze his blood. Unlike I did with Selena Gomez. Standing out in the cold dark rain for hours for nothing. What a shame.

Lightning lays Hope on the park bench, so she could wake him up. Of course she had to give him a hard slap to wake him up.

"Ow!" Hope sits up and rubs his check.

"Nice to see you awake." Lightning says.

"I fainted?" Hope asks.

"Yep." Lightning takes out the camera, browsing through the photos. "Right after this happened." Lightning shows Hope the picture of Yuna kissing him on the cheek.

Hope is surprised to see that picture. "Oh..." Hope chuckles nervously.

Lightning smirks. "You like her don't you?"

"What? No, no." Hope says.

Lightning just raises her shoulders. "Okay. If you say so-Oh look, there she is."

Hope turns around. "Where?" Hope is suddenly disappointed to see there's nothing, then he looks back at Lightning to see the smirk on her face. "Okay...maybe I kind of do."

Lightning chuckles, ruffling Hope's hair. "You're cute, kid."

Hope shoves Lightnings hand off of his head. "I'm fifteen. I'm not cute."

"Whatever you say." Lightning says.

Lightning and Hope wonder around the amusement park, looking for something to do. Lightning and Hope ran into Serah and Snow. Lightning showed them the picture she took. Serah laughed at the picture of Hope and Yuna and thought it was cute, while Snow pats the boy on the back, congratulating him on his meet of a big time celebrity.

Lightning and Hope overhears fireworks are about to happen soon. The same fireworks festival that goes on back in Bodhum. Lightning and Hope decides to go and see it.

Lightning finds a good spot, a bench on the platform from the distance, away from the crown of thousands from in front to a short distance of the giant sphere. They sit together on the bench.

Lightning and Hope waits for the fireworks to go on, which is starting real soon.

"Hey, Clair?" Lightning looks at Hope, who's smiling at her. "Thank you...for everything."

Lightning smiles and grabs Hope's hand. "No problem."

"I really am glad I followed you. If we didn't became l'Cie, then maybe I wouldn't have meet you and...we wouldn't have been together." Hope says.

"We still could have, Hope. It's possible." Lightning says.

"Yeah...maybe." Hope says.

"I still remembered when we first meet." Lightning says, thinking back. "Seems just like it was yesterday, you were this sad, wimpy child but now..." Lightning gets a good look at Hope. "You've grown real brave and strong."

"Really? Thanks." Hope says.

The fireworks goes on. Lightning and Hope watches the colors of light exploding inside the large sphere It was such a beautiful sight for the both of them. It's just like that night back in Bodhum. Lightning looks at Hope, noticing he's just staring at the fireworks.

"Hope, you're not gonna make a wish?" Lightning asks.

Hope looks at Lightning. "Wishing on fireworks? Really? That's for little kids."

Lightning instantly wraps an arm around Hopes shoulders, pulling him close to her and giving him a noogie. "Who you calling a little kid, you knucklehead?"

Hope chuckles, trying to shove Lightning off of him. "Apparently, you." Silence falls in between the two. "Back in Bodhum, my mom and I had that exact conversion. She was wishing on fireworks and she asked if I wasn't."

"What did she wish for?" Lightning asks.

"That dad would be with us on the next fireworks festival." Hope looks ahead at the fireworks.

"I see. But seriously, do you want to make a wish?" Lightning asks.

Hope looks at Lightning and shook his head with a smile. "No. I already have all I could ever want."

"And what is that?" Lightning asks.

Hope says nothing at first, but then he slowly grabs hold of Lightning's hand on her lap. Lightning looks down, a bit surprised. "I have you." Lightning looks at Hope with the surprised expression. "With you in my life, what else could I wish for?"

Lightning is completely speechless, she pretty much didn't expect Hope to say that. Lightning's 'cold' heart melts and she smiles with her cheeks turning pinkish.

Hope chuckles. "You're blushing...I've never seen you blush before." Hope admits Lightning looks cute doing it.

"That's the sweetest thing you've ever said, Hope." Lightning says. "The having me part, not the other one."

Hope smiles as well. Lightning and Hope looks at each other, speechless an lost in their thoughts as the fireworks explode in the air. After the moment, they slowly lean in, close their eyes and then they kiss.

The moment their lips touched, a pink firework exploded a large heart in the air. They aren't really in love with each other, it's like a special moment kiss, you know. Basically they still love each other like brother and sister, or mother and son.

After a moment, the kiss ends. They held on to each other. Hope lays his head on Lightnings shoulder, looking back at the fireworks. "I love you, Clair."

"I love you too, Hope." Lightning says, gently stoking the boys hair.

This is certainly the best day ever for Hope. He's with Lightning, the one person who he cares and who cares for him deeply. Even through he misses his parents, he's glad to have Lightning in his life.

END