Lizette: Hi everybody! Welcome to…MY NEW STORY! Still Love to HATE You! Which is part 2 of Just Love to HATE You.
Zidane: …Yup.
Lizette: Oh, and I almost forgot! Zidane finally decided to assist me on this story. Say hi Zidane!
Zidane: …Hi.
Lizette::stare:: Zidane's just a little bit shy right now.
Zidane: I'm not shy! I just don't want to talk with these idiots.
Lizette: Anyway, I finally did part 2 of Just Love to HATE You! I tried my best on the first chapter, so please no flames. Okay?
Lizette: Oh, and I would also like to say, thank you Krimson Rogue for helping me with the title of the story.
Zidane: …? Krimson? Isn't that a color? Who's he?
Lizette: He's one of my friends, and it's a long story on how he named his nickname Krimson. No more questions.
Zidane: But-
Lizette: I said no more questions!
Zidane: Fine! I'll just read his profile 10 times, and stalk him! Then I'll learn every aspect on his life!
Lizette::stare:: You really need a new hobby.
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from FF9. Not even Zidane. I know Lizette would want to though.
Lizette: Yup yup!
Lizette: Enjoy reading the first chapter of Still Love to HATE You!
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Still Love to HATE You
Chapter 1: Bad Day
"Mother, you said that that was going to be the last photo!"
"Well looks can be deseved sweetie. Now get a little bit closer everyone! This will be the last one. I SWEAR." Brahne told her daughter, Dagger.
Dagger sighed, and her and her friends lined up in a row again. They were all wearing long blue robes, and on there heads were flat, blue hats.
Dagger's P.O.V
Time sure passes by quickly. I remember when I first came to Stony Brook High School. I had no friends, and I didn't know anyone.
But now, everything's turned around. I have many friends, and I have a lot of fun in Stony Brook High.
Too bad that this is my last year.
If you think that today is Graduation Day, then your right! It is! Graduation Day…A.K.A, the day where 101 pictures are taken. But my mother went overboard. She took 200 pictures. Actually, I don't know how many pictures she took already. Me and Rinoa lost count when we got up to 50.
My mother had better not be lying when she said this was going to be the last picture. The sun was beaming down on me, causing me to squint my eyes a little. I was very sweaty with my big graduation robe under me.
I felt Scarlet nudge me a little. I turned around and looked at her bright blue eyes.
"What?" I asked.
"Do I have something in my teeth?" Scarlet asked.
Scarlet then showed her purely white teeth to me. I inspected her teeth to see if they were anything in between them.
"Nope. Nothing." I told her.
"Okay, good! I want to look beautiful in this photo!" Scarlet said, getting ready to smile.
I always thought that photos were never how beautiful you looked in them. Even if you blinked, or had broccoli in your teeth. It was about the memories. The good or bad memories that you can never forget no matter how hard you try.
I turned my head a little seeing all of my friends around me. Tifa patting her hair nervously, wishing it would stay straight. Then there was Zidane with his big blue-green eyes as handsome as ever standing next to me. And there was Alysia some lipstick on her teeth, and Kairi taking up an extra square inch of space.
Author's P.O.V
"Okay…say cheese!" Brahne said, putting the camera up.
"CHEESE!" The group of teenagers sat.
A white flash came out of the camera followed by a 'click!'
"Okay…thank you everyone!" Brahne said, putting the camera in her purse.
All of the teenagers let out a sigh of relief, and leave there places. Dagger immediately ran up to her mother.
"MOTHER! Why did you have to take so many pictures?" Dagger asked her.
"Well darling, this is a very important day for me! Every mother has to take pictures on the daughter or son's graduation! It's tradition!" Brahne told her.
Dagger let out a small sigh. "Well I suppose that's true."
"You bet it's true! Now come sweetie, we don't want to miss the ceremony!" Brahne said, walking into the high school. Dagger walking in behind her.
The graduation ceremony was held in the auditorium of the school. Many parents were sitting in the audience. All of there sons and daughters on the stage, sitting on chairs. The high school band was also on the left of the stage. Ready to play the annual graduation song.
Brahne walked to one of the seats in the auditorium. She turned around, and smiled at Dagger.
"I'll just be sitting in the audience. You go up to that stage, and smile proudly!" Brahne told her.
"I know mother." Dagger said quietly.
"I still can't believe it…just yesterday you were in diapers and I was teaching you how to walk…" Brahne said, tears swelling up in her eyes.
Dagger looked around at the crowds of people. Looking if anybody was looking at her and her mother.
"Mother, please. Not here." Dagger said quickly.
Brahne suddenly took out a handkerchief, and dried her eyes with it. "Alright. Do your best!"
Dagger nodded and walked down the long aisle, making her way to the stage. She suddenly felt that she was being watched. Like every bodies eyes were piercing her back.
Dagger was about to walk up to the stage until…
"Garnet! GARNET!" A womens voice said.
Dagger immediately looked around the auditorium, hearing her name being called. Suddenly, she saw the school principal walk toward her. Mrs.Knickerboxers.
A/N: Hehe…Knickerbockers…:P
Mrs.Knickerboxers had short gray hair. She was dressed up very fancy. She was wearing a blue dress, and black shoes. She looked very stressed out. Dagger was surprised by this.
"Garnet! Thank goodness I've found you!" Mrs.Knickerboxers said relieved.
Dagger looked at Mrs.Knickerboxers confused. "What's the matter? Why are you so relieved to see me?"
"I have terrible news!" Mrs.Knickerboxers said quickly. "Aerith Gainsborough isn't here!"
"WHAT!?" Dagger said shocked. She said it so loud, that most people in the auditorium looked at her with suspicious looks.
"What do mean she isn't here!? She's supposed to be giving the graduation speech!" Dagger told Mrs.Knickerboxers.
"I know! But I have just been informed that Aerith could not attend the graduation ceremony. Her grandmother has gotten very ill, and Aerith went to Midgar to visit her relatives and her grandmother."
Dagger looked at Mrs.Knickerboxers shocked.
"Then…who's going to be doing the graduation speech?" Dagger asked her.
"Well…" Mrs.Knickerboxers started. "I was thinking that you would be doing the speech."
"WHAT!?" Dagger said very loudly. Again, people looked at her with suspicious looks.
"I can NOT do that speech! Especially not the graduation speech!" Dagger said quickly. "I'm not good at speeches! One time in 3rd grade I-,"
"GARNET!" Mrs.Knickerboxers shouted. This caused Dagger to close her mouth.
"You WILL do this speech. Aerith was the student president, and you were the student council. In the graduation rulebook, it states that if the student president is not present, that the student council has to do the graduation speech." Mrs.Knickerboxers told Dagger.
Graduation rulebook? There's a graduation rulebook? Dagger thought.
"But-,"
"No buts! You will go up to that podium, in front of millions of people, and do the speech!" Mrs.Knickerboxers said.
Dagger slowly put her head down, and walked up the stage miserably.
"Oh, and Garnet?"
Dagger slowly turned around, facing Mrs.Knickerboxers. "Yes?"
"Be careful what you say. This graduation speech will be on national television." Mrs.Knickerboxers told her. With that, Mrs.Knickerboxers left.
Dagger's stomach immediately dropped. Butterflies started flying around in her stomach. Why did she have to do the speech? Why her? Couldn't Mrs.Knickerboxers pick Namine? Or Rinoa? But nooooo…it just HAD to be her!
Zidane was sitting in front row of all of the seats on the stage. He looked at Dagger confused as she passed the seats, and starting heading to the podium.
"I have to do the speech." Dagger mouthed to him.
Zidane's jaw immediately dropped and his eyes widened.
"Good luck!" Zidane mouthed.
Good luck? That's ALL your going to say to me!? At least you're not the one that has to do a big speech in front of thousands of people, AND on national television! Dagger thought.
Dagger slowly got up to the podium, and looked at all of the adults. All of their eyes on her.
"Ahem." Dagger immediately cleared her throat.
"Um…A-Aerith Gainsborough couldn't make it. So I-I'll be filling in for her." Dagger said, her voice shaking.
Dagger took a deep breath. She didn't know what to say!
Think Dagger, think…Say something! Anything! She thought.
"A-As we know, high school is filled with embarrassing, emotional, and downright humiliating moments, right?"
All of the adults didn't even nod their heads. They just kept on looking at her with blank expressions on their faces.
"Um…yeah…" Dagger mumbled. "B-But some of the moments in high school aren't that humiliating! You get to make new friends, and um…become things that you never even thought of becoming! And now, we're all going to graduate, and start our new lives!"
Wow…that was very cheesy…Zidane thought.
Dagger took a deep breath, and stared down at the podium. She began to feel very dizzy. She hated doing speeches. She would always get stage fright. The audience was very silent. There was only a few coughs heard, and a baby screaming.
I need to leave the stage…before I faint! Dagger thought.
"Um…I'm gonna go get a drink of water." Dagger said quietly.
Dagger slowly made her way down the stage, walking down the short staircase until…
Dagger suddenly tripped. "Whoa!" She said aloud. She grabbed onto the stage curtains for support, not even thinking on what she was doing.
She stage curtains immediately fell down, and they all fell on Dagger. Dagger fell flat on the floor, the stage curtains covering her.
There was a few gasps from the crowd, and Dagger heard Brahne scream "MY BABY!"
Dagger let out a very big sigh, and hid under the curtains.
Maybe if I stay under these curtains long enough, I'll become invisible…Dagger thought miserably.
A Few Minutes Later…
Dagger lyed on her four poster bed, burring her face into her pillow. The covers of her bed over her head. Fresh tears came out of Dagger's eyes and made her pillow a little bit wet.
"Honey, I'm sure it wasn't that bad." Brahne said, sitting on the edge of Dagger's bed.
"NOT THAT BAD? Mother, it's going to be on national television!" Dagger said under the covers of her bed.
Brahne sighed and put her hand on Dagger's shoulder. "I understand that your embarrassed and humiliated right now. But I'm sure that everybody will forget about this by tomorrow. Especially when your senior trip to Rome is almost here." Brahne said quietly.
Dagger didn't say a word. She just buried herself under the covers even more.
"Mother?"
"Yes?"
"I know this is rude, but can you please leave? I just want to be alone right now." Dagger said quietly.
Dagger could hear her mother get off of her bed.
"It's alright sweetie. I understand. Do you want me to get you something?" Brahne asked.
"Tea would be nice." Dagger told her.
"Okay. I'll bring it up later." Brahne told her, leaving Dagger's room.
Dagger sighed and closed her eyes. Trying to forget about what had happened at the ceremony. It was all Aerith's fault. She was the one that had to stay in Midgar and visit her family.
Dagger wished that she could just rewind what had happened and do it over again. But it wasn't that easy. Life wasn't that easy. Every second passes, and you can never go back and do it over again.
I'm tired…Dagger thought. I think I'll take a nap…avoid all of this drama…
Within seconds, Dagger fell into a very deep sleep. When she woke up, the sun was gone, and it looked like it was about 6:00 in the evening.
When Dagger's eyes opened, she saw a figure sitting in front of her. Dagger looked at the figure confused.
"M-Mother?" Dagger said groggily.
"MOTHER!? Are you kiddin me?" A voice said in front of Dagger.
Dagger rubbed her eyes a little, and blinked. She then looked at the figure once again. It was Clair!
"Clair? What are you doing here?" Dagger asked.
"What? You don't wanna see me?" Clair said, smiling.
"No! It's just…I didn't expect you." Dagger told her.
Ever since Clair came out of the Lindblum Hospital, she enrolled in acting. She's been in various commercials. But she still is a maid in the Alexandros's household.
"So your momma told me that you've had a hard day at the ceremony. Mind telling me what happened?" Clair asked.
Dagger sighed, remembering what happened.
She just had to bring it up…Dagger thought miserably.
"I ended up doing the graduation speech, and…I sort of…messed up. And it was on national television." Dagger said quietly.
"Oh…you must feel like crap." Clair said.
"You know, your really not making this any better!" Dagger told her.
"Oh! Okay, sorry. Well…look at the positive side! I know a guy that the exact same thing happened to him!" Clair told Dagger.
"R-Really?"
"Well…no."
"CLAIR!"
"Sorry!"
Clair sighed, and tried to think of things to make Dagger better. She then came up with an idea. Clair smirked.
"Hey Dag?"
"Yes?"
"Are you ticklish?" Clair asked.
Dagger immediately knew what Clair was planning. "No, I am not ticklish!" Dagger said quickly.
"Oh…okay. Is there something that I can do to make you feel better?" Clair asked.
"Nah. Actually, I feel a little bit better. All I need to do is take a hot shower, and I'll be fine." Dagger said, getting off of her bed and stretching.
"And I can always give you Rocky Road ice cream." Clair told her.
"That true! Can you get me some now?" Dagger asked.
"Sure!" Clair replied.
Suddenly, the bell rang. Dagger immediately heard her mother rushing to answer the door.
"Oh GREAT. HE'S HERE." Dagger said glumly.
"Who's here?" Clair asked curiously.
"…JOE." Dagger said, with MUCH distaste.
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Lizette: That's it! The first chapter of Still Love to HATE You has finished! So what do you think's gonna happen? Who's Joe? What did he come here for? What-
Zidane: Stop asking so many questions! You already know what's gonna happen!
Lizette: I know what's gonna happen, but they don't. I'm just trying to give them clues.
Zidane: Oh. …Sorry.
Lizette: Please review my story! I at least want one review!
Zidane: Yeah! Please review Lizette's crappy story!
Lizette::glare::