Seasonal Romantics
- Sea Breeze,
(Summer; August)
Seifer, Quistis
The sea gently spayed its salty debris over the young couple who were sitting on the pier. One of them had a fishing rod in his hand whilst the other held an empty bucket. The sun was beating down heavily on the two and the man who had the fishing, placed it on the ground and pulled his shirt over his head. His blonde hair glistened in the sun as he smirked at the woman beside him, "Some eye candy for you." He smirked.
The woman sitting with the empty bucket merely snickered, "Stop worrying about me, Seifer. You just catch us a few fishies and I'll be happy."
Seifer reeled in his bait and cast it out again before taking a seat on his very own customized fishing chair, "Relax, fishing's what I do best. You just sit there and look pretty, Quistis." Hearing some commotion, Seifer looked down to the other side of the pier, seeing three men who were also fishing. One of them seemed to have a large mackerel in his hands and was now prancing around the place with the fish. Seifer groaned inwardly.
Quistis, who was also looking at the man dancing with his fish, sighed to herself. She stared at the empty bucket for a moment. Fishing's what you do best? ...I'd hate to see what you do worst Seifer. Looking to her boyfriend, she gave him a reassuring smile, "Don't let them put you off, honey." The pair had been sitting here for about an hour now and Quistis was starting to become bored. When Seifer had said to her last night that he wanted to take her out for a relaxing, peaceful, romantic day at the pier she didn't exactly think he meant fishing. It wasn't really her style.
Seifer looked over at her and scoffed, "Those men don't appreciate the true meaning of fishing!" He jerked his thumb over the back of his head, "I ought to throw them into the sea. Let the fish get their own back." Smiling evily, he added, "What do you think?"
Quistis chuckled, "Seifer, I'm absolutely starving! Now, stop worrying about others and catch us a damn fish!" She waved the empty bucket in front of his face. Thinking for a moment, she said, "You know... Can we just go out to a restaurant and get fish?" Seifer furrowed his eyebrows and stared at Quistis for a while. After about five minutes Quistis had to look away, "..What?! I was only suggesting."
"Quistis..." Seifer said seriously, casting his bait out again, "I'm trying to be a real man here. Catching us our food, I'm like a warrior! You're ruining the whole warrior like thing I've got going here. If you seen ChickenWuss or Captain Puberty out doing this for Rinoa or some prostitute (In Zell's case) you'd be begging me to take you out fishing.'" Seifer laughed when he seen Quistis' expression.
Adjusting her glasses, Quistis quickly glanced at the empty bucket then to Seifer. "Firstly, you are so mean! Don't be saying that about Zell, he's our friend. Secondly, you're talking complete bull about me begging you to go fishing. This 'sport' is dull! Uninteresting! Now..." Standing up and brushing some of the dust that had gathered on her shoulders, Quistis raised an eyebrow, "I'm going to a restaurant. Adios Seifer!" Without another word Quistis was happily skipping away from Seifer towards the most expensive restaurant on the harbour.
Seifer sat for a moment, not wanting to damage his pride by running after Quistis like a lovesick puppy, so he waited for a while casting out his rod and pretending nothing had happened. C'mon! If there is a God, you will give me a fish. Please! Nothing. This sea is dead. After hearing some more commotion coming from the beach, Seifer swore that he was about to punch somebody if they had caught a fish but... When he looked down to where the commotion was coming from, he was completely flabbergasted.
Quistis stood in her bikini, in the middle of a small row boat, with a large fish above her head whilst waving to Seifer. An old man sat to her right who seemed to be steering the row boat. What the hell!? Seifer thought he was imagining things, but after rubbing his eyes several times and still seeing Quistis with the fish, he stood up, threw his fishing rod on the ground and marched towards his girlfriend.
Some people were cheering for Quistis on the beach and quite frankly, she felt proud of herself. When she was on her way to the restaurant an old man on the beach called her over and asked her what bait her grumpy looking friend was using. Quistis replied honestly saying that she didn't know, she even told the man that she found fishing to be dull but... When the old man stated that he had a bulletproof plan to catch the largest mackerel in the sea, he piped her interest. Whilst listening to his plan, she got out onto the rowing boat with him and as he set up the fishing rod and special bait, he asked Quistis to row them out to a particular point which was about ten minutes from the shore.
Once they were out in the sea, Quistis could spot Seifer sitting alone on the pier. It looked as if he was grumbling to himself or something. She guessed he was pretty angry at her for just skipping away, happily nonetheless. I would've died of boredom if I hadn't escaped... Convincing herself that Seifer was fine, she looked over to the old man who was handing her a really old looking fishing rod.
"Here you go, young'un." He wheezed. Pointing over to his right, he motioned for Quistis to cast the bait out. She answered by telling him she didn't know how to. "Ahh, back in my day this was second nature!" She apologised. "Never worry though, you just do this... Then that. Got it?"
Quistis nodded, she always was a fast learner. Ever since joining Garden she found that when she was shown how to do things once, she could always do them by herself afterwards, fishing was no different. "Alright... there!" She cast the bait directly to the point where the old man had pointed her to.
"Excellent young'un, excellent!" The old man cheered, giving her a pat on the back, "Now, reel it in quick!" He screamed with glee when he seen a large fish underwater approaching the bait, "Slow it down just a tad, young'un..." Quistis did as she was told and eventually the large fish gobbled up the bait and unfortunately (For the fish) it also gobbled up the hook, "Marvellous! Quick young'un!"
..Make up your mind...! Again, Quistis did as she was told. Gasping, when she seen a large fish on the end of her line, she smiled brightly reeling it in as fast as she could and jerking the rod every so often. After a while, a tired Quistis hauled the fishing rod and the fish onto the rowing boat. She collapsed onto the boat while the old man quickly killed the fish and washed it in a bucket of water he had on his row boat. "Phew..." Quistis wiped her forehead, "I never knew fishing could be so... Exhausting. But, whoa! I just caught my first fish!!"
"And what a beautiful fish it is!" The old man said, lifting it from the bucket. "Would you like to hold your catch?" Quistis nodded vigorously as the old man handed her the fish. Once Quistis received the fish, the old man started to shout to some business men on the beach, saying she had caught the 'Big Whopper.' "This young'un has caught the fish, get yer ovens ready an' yer restaurants' ready, you suits!"
Quistis looked to the beach to see some of the men in suits shouting something to the old man; she couldn't hear them properly but figured the old man could. He started shouting how it would be free and how he just wanted to celebrate for
his life or something along those lines. Ignoring the people on the beach and the old man, Quistis looked to where Seifer sat, by himself and when h looked over at her, she began to wave the fish above her head. Seeing him throw his fishing rod onto the ground and march towards the beach, Quistis grinned. It was quite funny when Seifer got annoyed, especially when it was over something that he felt he was good at.
Seifer stood at the beach watching Quistis coming closer and closer to the shore, still waving the big fish above her head. He had overheard some men in suits talking about having a party at one of the restaurants tonight and supplying people with free fish while he was waiting for her to come in and decided that if Quistis had a reasonable explanation for showing him up, then he would take her to this party tonight, but firstly, he had a reputation for being a bad ass, and this was exactly who he was going to be for a while, at least. "Quistis!" He growled when she stepped off the boat after handing the old man the fish.
Quistis was beaming when she approached Seifer, "Hey! Did you see me catching the fish?"
"..." Seifer glared at her, "You just upstaged me... Stupid Instructor." He tried to look angry for a few more minutes but after seeing Quistis' face, (which was still radiating joy) he simply grinned, "Don't you know it looks bad when a man's girlfriend beats him at the only thing he's good at?"
"Yes." Quistis replied honestly, smirking, "But hey, look on the bright side. I caught us our dinner!" She wrapped her arms around Seifer's neck and pulled herself closer to his face. Reaching up to his ear, she whispered, "And baby... I'll tell everybody in Garden it was you caught the fish."
Seifer gently pulled his head away from hers, "Y-you would do that... For m-me?" He stuttered. Quistis nodded whilst winking.
"You bet... All I want is a tinchy winchy favour."
"...And that is?"
She winked at him again, "You'll see tonight."
Suddenly, Seifer burst out laughing, "Ahh Quistis. You do know how much I love your flirty ways don't you?"
"I know."
Pulling her into a tight embrace, Seifer gave her a peck on the lips, "So, how about we go eat your fish at a party tonight?"
"Tonight?"
"Yeah, I think 'Harbour View' is having a party or something and they're serving your fish," Quistis didn't look too happy about this, "... For free!" Seifer added but Quistis simply raised an eyebrow.
"How many times do I have to tell you that I am straving!"
Seifer shrugged.
"Look, of course I'll go to the party with you tonight but can we please go get something now?" Quistis asked, showing a face that Rinoa had taught her.
Seifer smiled, " 'Course we can." Taking her hand and leading her away from the beach he spotted a cosy looking cafe labelled, 'Sea Breeze.' "You alright for here?" He asked Quistis, when she nodded, he held the door opened for her and casually strolled in.
"Hmm," Quistis said, quickly scanning over the cafe, "Doesn't look like there are any seats. How about we sit outside?"
Seifer nodded, "You go on out, I just need to go to the bogs."
Quistis gave him a playful slap on the arm, "Loo, Seifer. Loo."
"Alright Miss. Posh," He straightened himself up, "If you must know, I need to take a dump. Now, I'll meet you outside in about five. Toodle-loo!" He kissed her cheek and made his way to the back of the cafe while Quistis made her way to the front. Just as he was about to enter the toilets, Seifer noticed something strange about one of the tables in the far right hand corner of the cafe. All the menus on the table had been set upright to shield the people sitting there from the rest of cafe. Seifer peered over the menus only to see his good ole chum, Zell Dincht sitting there with some woman whom he had never seen before. Casually flicking the menus down he laughed when Zell screamed.
"Seifer?! What the hell are you doing here?!" Zell screeched. He stood up and ushered Seifer away from the table.
"Oh looky here... Who's your 'friend' Zelly?" Seifer said, waving to the lady at the table. She turned red and looked away.
Zell looked around anxiously, "J-just a friend." He scratched his head, "Look man, I'd really appreciate it if you didn't tell anybody about this."
Seifer chuckled, "Yeah, I bet you would. Unfortunately for you though, I don't really care what you appreciate. I gotta go to the loo now, Zelly-Poo, so I'll leave you and your 'friend' be." Zell was about to shout something when Seifer casually threw over his shoulder, "You get her from Kinneas?" Laughing evilly he walked into the toilets before Zell could reply.
After doing what he had to do, Seifer walked out of the toilets only to see that Zell and his lady friend had left the cafe. Seifer smirked as he walked out the front of the cafe to Quistis, "Howdy Trepe." He greeted, taking a seat.
"Hey! I ordered us two large ice-cream sundaes and three slices of apple crumble... Is that alright?" Asked Quistis.
"Sure. Why three?"
"One for you, two for me."
"Good, I like my women with some curves." Seifer said grinning, "How much?"
"Four hundred Gil but don't worry, I've got it covered." Quistis smiled.
Something triggered in Seifer's mind at this point, "Oh yeah! Speaking of paying, you'll never guess who I just saw Zell with..."
"Who?!"
"Some prostitute!!"
Hope you enjoyed this, it's my first ever SeiferQuistis central chapter. I don't normally right about this pair so I don't really know how it turned out. Reviews are always welcome and thank you for reading. I think the next one will be about Zell and Selphie set in September maybe. I'm not sure. Anyways, bye!