It was a morning authors seldom write about. An average one where the sun was threatening to rise, slowly waking a less than enthusiastic world.

The alarm clock buzzed mercilessly a heart attack in a box startling Rinoa awake. She has had the clock since 1982 and it still gave her a seizure every morning. Damn that thing was loud.

She slammed on the clock silencing it, slowly rose up and sat on the edge of her bed. Her body woke itself up and waited for the brain to follow suit. Rinoa squinted and took a look at her clock. 6:45 a.m. Cursing under her breath she made her way to the bathroom.

"Ugh, it's too early to be up. It's summer for Christ sakes!"

But she had a promise to keep.

In the bathroom she brushed her teeth, washed her face, picked up the comb to brush her hair, changed her mind, and put her tangled hair in a ponytail. With the sacks under her eyes and pale complexion good hair wasn't going to help much. She tore off the tag on the sports bra and tangled with it before she figured out how to put it on. After that she took out one of her college t-shirts and a pair of sweats as she made her way to the front door. She took a deep breath then and opened it.

Outside a girl slightly shorter then Rinoa was eagerly waiting. She had her hand up as if about to knock.

"Oh, you're actually up, I'm surprised!" The girl said a little too sweetly.

Rinoa let out a sigh.

"Selphie, I think I change my mind. There is no way I'm doing this every day for the rest of my summer. I'll die!"

"Oh don't be dramatic," the little girl said cheerily. " You're not going to die. But you're definitely going to get that little problem of yours fixed…"

Rinoa had made the mistake of telling Selphie one night after seeing a romantic comedy about her inability to get herself a man. Selphie being a health nut suggested that nothing would fix a problem like that like strict dieting and a good running routine. Rinoa thought about it and saw the benefit a toned body would bring to her quest and decided it might be a good idea. It wasn't until standing in the doorway seeing her over energetic friend that she realized that at the butt crack of dawn, nothing was a good idea. As Selphie stretched in a way that no natural human being should Rinoa mentally prepared herself for the jog.

"Alright. Let's just get this over with."

It was by the third of the first mile that Rinoa began getting dizzy. Every muscle in her body was telling her stop and if she didn't then they would find a way to kill her. Selphie kept that brisk pace and that even breathing pattern that stated that she had no intention of stopping anytime soon. How could someone be that healthy? It's unnatural!

"Selphie….huff why…why don't … wheeze … why don't we take a break?"

Selphie turned around and ran backwards while talking to Rinoa. What a bitch.

"No way! Come on no stopping now! We just got started! Only a couple more miles before we turn around! You can do it!" she said optimistically.

A couple of what? Before we what? They better be taking a taxi back to the apartment…

After they came to an end of another block, Selphie halted and jogged in place while she turned to see if there was any oncoming traffic. Rinoa being too tired to run on her own energy was relying on the force inertia to keep going. So instead of stopping on the corner like a wise pedestrian, she … well, kept going. Which wouldn't have been a problem save for the fact that "kept going" was exactly what the oncoming car did too. To be fair though the car did make an attempt to stop.

The screech was deafening to a point where you could barely hear the thump at the end.

"OH MY GOD! RINOA!" screamed Selphie as she ran to her fallen friend. "Rinoa! Are you ok!"

A man came out of the car muttering curses under his breath.

"Is she alright?" he said between clenched teeth.

Rinoa looked from the man to Selphie.

"Ow."

Rinoa lightly touched the bump that was forming on the back of her head and squinted at the pain. "Well, I guess that means I'm not dead…"

The man cleared his throat.

"No, thank God. Listen, are you going to sue?" he asked briskly.

Selphie turned red.

"How can you ask that? We were jogging and you…."

"Jogging…" repeated Rinoa on the verge of unconsciousness.

Suddenly Rinoa jerked her head up.

"Are my legs broken?"

Selphie felt her legs and shins.

"No, I don't think so. You should be running in no time!"

Rinoa glared at the man.

"You couldn't have broken my legs?"

The man gave her a confused look.

"GOD DAMN IT! You know what? I AM going to sue…" she said before blacking out.