Squall's Sister
Prologue: Surprise
Rinoa was walking on Deling City's main street like she was doing sometimes. She was walking, looking for nothing special in this morning. She wasn't thinking about anything either, something unusual to her, usually always thinking about Squall. Not this day, she was just walking, enjoying the city full of life.
Drifting in her own little world, she wasn't really paying attention where she was going so she bumped on someone. By the time she came back to the real world, the person had past. She didn't even think of apologizing. A sudden flash of the person's face her brain had recorded by itself made her stop her walk.
"Hey! That was Squall!"
She turned round, ready to run after the boy and ask him why he didn't say he was there when she stopped after putting a second glance at the person.
"It's not Squall, he doesn't dress like that! Besides it's a girl!" she noticed better looking at the quite thin but still feminine form.
The girl had long dirty hair the exact same color that Squall's. Rinoa wondered how she could have misunderstood her beloved handsome face for that dirty stranger girl's. Thinking it was quite funny, she headed for the car renting shop. She wanted to tell Squall about this. She wanted to see him anyway, so she was just using that situation as an excuse.
"Squall, I just saw your twin except it's a girl!" she giggled on her way.
Meanwhile, Squall was in the Headmaster's office. Laguna has paid a special visit to tell him something really weird. Quistis was there too, along with Xu and Seifer who was back for a while. He was working in the Garden to make himself forgiven for everything he has done.
Laguna was standing immobile with his mouth a little open from surprise as his eyes were on the paper he was holding without really seeing it.
"Why did you have to come all the way here, Laguna?" Squall asked, not used to call his father that way.
Laguna shook his head as he held out the paper to Squall, the same strange surprised expression on his face.
"You…you better read yourself…"
Squall frown from curiosity as he roughly took the paper Laguna was about to let go. He started reading.
"Mister President, we are glad you chose us to help you in your search for your wife long ago. Let us say again how sorry we are for her death. We hope the other information we gave you permitted you to finally find your son…"
Squall looked at Laguna and raised an eyebrow.
"I started researches long ago to find Raine when I learned she wasn't in Winhill anymore." He explained. "I'm just sorry my search lead me to her death… The persons I hired to do that job told me I had a son that have been send to an orphanage after
Raine's death. I asked them to pursue the research to find him. In fact, I found you first. Apparently, I forgot to tell them and they kept gathering information. Keep reading."
Squall put his eyes back on the paper.
"We now have something important to tell you. After all those years, we learned
you
There Squall stopped. Not that the letter ended there, but because he couldn't read anymore. He looked in front of him but wasn't seeing anything. Suddenly, his legs gave way beneath him and he ended up sitting on the ground, still holding the paper in his hand. Thinking he was about to faint, Quistis, Cid, Laguna and Xu ran to him while Seifer crossed his arms on his chest in complete indifference.
"Squall you okay?" Quistis asked with concern.
"You okay, boy?" Cid inquired grabbing Squall's arm with Laguna to make him stand up.
His legs were like marshmallow. He couldn't stand up so they gave up and let him there. They all sat by his side.
"How do you feel?" Xu asked ready to do what could be needed.
Squall opened his mouth but nothing came out. He tried again and something was pronounced.
"I…I got a sister…" he said in an almost inaudible voice.