-The missing chocobo-
Part 1 out of 2-
by:GoldenSilence
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Several (suddenly) irritable students in Balamb Garden woke up
to the distinct noise of wood crashing. One student, however, didn't have his sleep pattern ruined at all by the pandemonium coming from Room 112.
His alarm clock had gone off thirty minutes ago and he was already up and getting dressed out of his moogle pajamas into his usual baggy jeans and t-shirt. Hah! he thought truimphantly. Let's see them beat me today-I'll be there so early I'll get the first hotdog made!Mmm...fresh..with pickles.. ketchup..cheese..and mayo..
One look at the alarm clock brought the young man out of his reverie and he cursed. It was only six in the morning.
"Ah, damn it!I could have sworn I set the thing for eight!"
He had grabbed the remote to the tv and was just about to see some high quality infomercials, when he happened to glance at the decorative T-Board lying against one wall and realized a better way to kill time. Grinning impishly at his "daring", the man was out the door in minutes.
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Selphie's room; # 112, was usually sprinkled liberally with at least fifty stuffed animals of every size, shape, and form, but now in addition to that, it was also half a foot deep in feathers. A good number of the feathers were still floating lazily through the air. Selphie and Rinoa were in the middle of an all out pillow fight(it was a ritual of theirs, presceded by staying up all night watching movies, and followed by "girlchat").
"Booyaka!It's like a winter wonderland!"
Selphie jumped around, trying to catch a feather before it drifted to the ground. Of course, not exactly being the most coordinated of all people, instead of catching the feather, she fell promptly and ungracefully on her derriere.
Rinoa, seeing her chance, snuck up behind Selphie and smacked her hard upside the head, sending her flying back and upsetting the layer of feathers that had collected on her carpet. Rinoa grinned truimphantly at Selphie.
"I won!"
Selphie stuck out her tongue.
"That's what you think!" She wielded her own pillow dangerously in one hand.
Rinoa, knowing what was following, ran for her life..and the safety of her noggin..towards Selphie's bed. Selphie, grinning like a madman, sprung up from the floor like a coiled spring and ran after her. She jumped on the bed as well, ready to beat her into submission with the feather pillow..and then it happened.
Maybe Selphie just happened to hit the sagging spot in the bed. Or more likely Selphie and Rinoa's weight together bouncing around on it was just too much for the bed to support, but whatever it was, the old wooden bed crashed to the floor with a resounding bang.
Silence followed as both girls surveyed the damage. Finally, Selphie uttered one syllable.
"Whoops"
That was all they needed to send both girls into a hysterical fit of giggles, lying back on the matress(now) on the floor until they both were gasping for breath. Everything and anything seems funny when you're sleep deprived.
"We had better start cleaning up.." Selphie said, trying to keep from cracking up again.
Rinoa nodded, stifling her laugher with one hand.
"Yeah...but with what?The dust pan buried under this mess..and you don't have a broom."
"I know!We can always try to push the feathers into little piles with our feet!"
"Kinda like raking leaves or something?" Rinoa asked brightly, giving a big yawn.
Selphie laughed. "Yup!"
Rinoa and Selphie kicked at the feathers halfheartedly for awhile until Selphie noted that far from forming into any kind of orderly piles, the feathers were just flying into a sort of whirlwind. Giving up on their efforts, both girls plopped back down unto the broken bed, deciding chatting was a much, much better idea than cleaning up.
They immediately launched into their favorite topic..couples.
"Cid and...Quistis!"
"Ewwwwwww!Come on, if the guy had kids, they would probably be closer to her age than he is!"
Selphie stuck her finger down her throat and pretended to vomit.
"Fine then. Quistis..and..Seifer!"
Selphie reflected on that.
"Hmm..actually, they do seem to kinda like each other.."
Rinoa smiled. "Oh, trust me, they do."
Selphie, sensing Rinoa knew something she didn't, was ready to get the secret out of her.
"Tell,tell!"
Rinoa shook her head. She didn't want to tell gossip, she wanted to hear some...so she asked Selphie a question that was sure to make some.
"Soo,what about you?Do you have a crush on anyone?"
Selphie batted at the feathers still flying around with her hands and fidgeted.
"Promise not to say anything?"
Rinoa, who couldn't keep a secret to save her life never the less nodded, wondering who she should inform first, Quistis or Xu. Well, it wasn't like she was going to tell the guy of Selphie's affections or anything, she told herself..feeling sort of guilty.
Selphie clutched her pillow to her chest and focused on it, letting her short brown hair fall around her face, shielding it. She'd never told anyone..except for her chocobo, Boko..and he really didn't count, 'cause he couldn't talk and all.
Finally, in a timid voice, Selphie whispered.
"It's..Zell.."
Selphie was relieved to find that unlike what she had thought, the world did NOT spontanously combust, Zell did NOT pop in, and Rinoa's mouth was NOT hanging open so wide it could catch flies. In fact, Rinoa didn't even look remotely surprised by Selphie's confession.
"You act like you've known for years."
Selphie stared at her, a little offended. Geewhiz, it wasn't like it was that obvious she had a crush on Zell..was it?
Rinoa grinned. "Welll, if you want to get technical-I've known for two months.."
It's that obvious?Yikes! "Mega bummer."
"I want all the details!You guys head over heels in love?" Rinoa pretended to faint dramatically unto the matress, whose springs squeaked alarmingly.
"Teehee, not exactly...but he did say he likes me better than hotdogs" Selphie confided.
"Sooo?" Rinoa looked at Selphie expectantly.
Selphie frowned. "So what?"
Rinoa sighed impatiently. "Look, maybe it's just me..but aren't you usually supposed to be happy when someone says they like you?"
"Rinoa!", Selphie interjected, "He didn't say he liked me..just..."
Rinoa shook her head and used one of Squall's favorite expressions(which happens after you've been dating someone for awhile).
"Whatever. Close enough."
Selphie shook her head and yelled angrily(a behavior of hers that was about as common as a cute teddy bear growing fangs.)
"No,it isn't!"
Rinoa stopped talking, surprised at the outburst. Selphie was obviously upset and Rinoa couldn't quite understand why. From what she had seen, Zell liked her and Selphie liked Zell..so what was the big deal?
"Selphie, what's the matter?"
Selphie felt kind of foolish. "I'm too shy to ask if he likes me"-Rinoa muttered a snort of disbelief and Selphie nodded. "I know I'm not usually..but I am around him!...and I've been trying to work up the courage for, like, forever..and I don't know how to get HIM to admit he likes me..because I can't tell him-'cause the guy has to admit it first..'cause what if I say it and he doesn't like me at all?That would be so emberassing.."
"'Cause?" broke in Rinoa, not so helpfully. Goodness!, she thought..Selphie sounds like Raijin would if he suddenly decided to use "because" instead of "ya know."
Selphie lunged a pillow at her in response. Rinoa pretended to look hurt and offended.
"Fine. Pummel me with pillows...I was just going to offer you some friendly advice.."
Selphie looked at her curiously. "And what's that?"
Rinoa wanted to help Selphie, she really did. But Rinoa's own love life experience was a little different than Selphie's case..all the things that had worked for her probably wouldn't work or even apply to Selphie. After all, she had a feeling telling Selphie to fall off of garden and wait for Irvine to save her probably wasn't the best of ideas. Rinoa, luckily, knew better than to offer Selphie HER advice. There was only one person who might be able to help Selphie figure out what to do....Rinoa's mind was made up.
"We go see Irvine!"
Selphie just gaped at Rinoa. "Oh, come on..it's not that bad of an idea. He might be able to help you!"
Selphie snickered. "Oh sure he will. With his luck, I'll not only end up snagging Zell, but five other guys to boot." She looked at Rinoa skeptically. "Besides, may I remind you his interest is LADIES..what will he know about the guy's side of it?"
"Selphie. He is a guy" Rinoa pointed out practically. Her arguement deflated, Selphie muttered a weak "Oh yeah".
Looking steely eyed and determined, Rinoa grabbed her friend's wrist in a death grip and half dragged her out the door to the still darkened hallways.
Selphie had one last thing to say as they tripped and stumbled down the ill lit hallway.
"Let's hope he isn't "busy"..if you know what I mean."
Rinoa rolled her eyes. "He had better not be."
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Irvine, as luck would have it(for the girls, not him)..was not "busy" at the moment. Waking to a pounding noise, Irvine rolled over in bed and put out his hand, mumbled sleepily, "hey sweetie"..and fully awoke as his hand met cold air and he realized that the girl he had brought in last night had left. Arrgh. Irvine, the lady's man had just gotten a one night stand?Impossible. Prepostorous. Unfreakin'believable. Maybe he thought hopefully, she was just in the bathroom.
Irvine had just slipped into a pair of pants and was making his way back from the bathroom(empty) when the pounding noise started up again on his door. Grumbling about the wear and tear on his "fine physical physique" from not getting enough sleep, Irvine went to answer it, not in the best of moods.
He opened it to see Selphie and Rinoa. "Whatd'ya want?" He asked groggily, running a hand through his tousled hair. Neither Rinoa or Selphie looked the least bit apologetic at waking him up, Irvine noted offendedly.
Rinoa smiled sweetly. "Oh, I'm so sorry..did we ruin your beauty sleep, Irvie poo?"
Irvine glared daggers at her from under half open eyelids. "I'm warning you, I am one step away from slamming this door in your face.."
"Alright!Alright!I came here for Selphie!"
Irvine leaned against the doorway. "What does she want then?"
"Well, she having a little guy trouble.." Rinoa would have gone on, but Selphie's head popped up over her shoulder. "Hey, in case you haven't noticed, I can talk for myself."
Noticing Irvine still looked pissed off, Selphie did the one thing she could think of that always seemed to get her on his good side. Flatter him to death.
"Pleeaasee help us?You are the authority on this kind of thing and I can always talk to you about stuff..." Selphie fluttered her eyelashes to boot. Irvine still looked peevish, but his resolve to shut the door on them weakened.
"What am I?Your personal shrink or something?"
Rinoa was about to say "yup", but Selphie clamped her hands over her friend's mouth. Hey, she needed advice..even if Irvine was the last person she would get it from under normal circumstances..he was also the only one that would let them into his room at six in the morning, the softy.
Irvine moved off a tinsy bit to the side, allowing both girls to squeeze in. Selphie and Rinoa flopped down unto his bed. Irvine sighed.
"You're welcome to sit down, thanks for asking."
"Come off it, Irvine..not like there's anywhere else to sit. The floor is covered in women's clothing" said Rinoa, exaggerating a bit. Irvine's eyebrows furrowed together.
"One more word..and both of you are going to have to take your troubles to Dr. Kadowaski."
Rinoa put up her hands defensively. "Hey, at least I didn't ask where the girl was.."
Irvine was beyond pissed. Rinoa had just rubbed salt on a very fresh wound.
"You did now."
Selphie cleared her throat loudly. Irvine and Rinoa were too busy jumping at each other's throats to notice her. This was not the way things were supposed to go.
Irvine seemed to lose some of his murderous look and remembered exactly why he had let the girls inside in the first place
"Right. So what seems to be the problem?"
Selphie looked down at Irvine's carpet, studying the design. If her voice had been tentative when she told Rinoa, it was nothing compared to now. Her answer came out in one big string of jumbled words.
"Ilikezell."
Irvine blinked. "Pardon?Something about a bell?"
Selphie took a deep breath and relayed the information more slowly."No..I..like..Zell.."
Irvine was nonplussed. "Oh that..well, for goodness sake, you don't have to be secretive about THAT. It's not exactly fresh news.."
Selphie looked at Irvine. First Rinoa had known and now Irvine. She was beginning to suspect the only that didn't know she liked Zell was Zell.
"How did you know?"
Irvine lips were about to form the word "Rinoa" when she caught his glance and shook her head vehemently. "Ermm..just saw" Irvine said uncomfortably. He rushed on because Selphie looked like she hadn't fallen for his weak reason in the least.
"What's going on between you two that you need to talk about?"
Selphie told Irvine the same long speech she had given Rinoa. "........'Cause the guy has to admit it first..."
Rinoa was mouthing the speech along with her, playing with the necklace Squall had given her. Irvine was nodding off to sleep as she rambled on.
Selphie cast a suspicious eye on them but kept going anyway. "What if I said it and he didn't like me at all?That would be so emberassing"-Irvine's head drooped lower and
lower- "which is why we have decided to elope". Irvine sat bolt upright. "What the hell?"
Selphie smiled. "Good to know you were paying some attention."
"I was!" Irvine rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. "In fact I have the perfect plan for you..when a girl is really sad and goes to a guy..the guy comforts her, right?"
"Right..but why would I be sad?" Selphie was puzzled.
Rinoa smirked at Irvine. "Looks like your perfect plan needs some working on."
Irvine however, had a genius idea. "Well, first of all..because..because..Boko has escaped!"
His words had the intended effect. Selphie was horrified and Rinoa looked ready to strangle him.
"That's not funny!" Rinoa did all but screech. "Don't lie like that!"
"It's true. He escaped from his pen by the training center last night, but I didn't want to tell you because I was afraid it would upset you."
Rinoa and Selphie, plus Zell when he found out(which he most certainly would) would kick Irvine's ass for lying..but hey, Irvine could stand a little punishment in the name of romance. Zell and Selphie deserved to be together...plus he wanted to make sure the girls never ever came to his room with love troubles again.
Boko was Selphie's pet chocobo she had gotten for her seventeenth birthday from Zell. She had petted, obsessed over him, and even made him wear a little bow tie. The truth was, Boko was with Dr. Kadowaski overnight because he hadn't been feeling well(the bow tie was a little tight), but Selphie didn't know because he had forgotten to check on him last night. For all she knew, what Irvine had said was the truth. Selphie burst into tears and sprinted from his room, barely stopping to open the doorway.
Rinoa was seething. "You liar!Boko's with Dr. Kadowaski!"
Irvine backed up. "Whoa, calm down!Just doing a little matchmakin' is all.."
"Idiot" Rinoa snapped.
Irvine looked proud of himself. "Yeah well, this idiot just got Selphie to go running into Zell's arms..how much you wanna bet she and him are a couple by breakfast?"
Rinoa's face turned into the picture of an angels.Her temper had come and left with the wind.
"You're on."
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A/N=My first ever Zelphie fic!(that's not all angsty)..Don't know why I didn't write one earlier. Selphie and Zell are two of my fav characters!Hope I got their personalities down okay. Reviews would be so, so appreciated..*wishwishhopehope*. Next chapter up...umm..whenever.:) Sorry Zell isn't in this chapter at all..he will be in the next chapter of course!
Part 1 out of 2-
by:GoldenSilence
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Several (suddenly) irritable students in Balamb Garden woke up
to the distinct noise of wood crashing. One student, however, didn't have his sleep pattern ruined at all by the pandemonium coming from Room 112.
His alarm clock had gone off thirty minutes ago and he was already up and getting dressed out of his moogle pajamas into his usual baggy jeans and t-shirt. Hah! he thought truimphantly. Let's see them beat me today-I'll be there so early I'll get the first hotdog made!Mmm...fresh..with pickles.. ketchup..cheese..and mayo..
One look at the alarm clock brought the young man out of his reverie and he cursed. It was only six in the morning.
"Ah, damn it!I could have sworn I set the thing for eight!"
He had grabbed the remote to the tv and was just about to see some high quality infomercials, when he happened to glance at the decorative T-Board lying against one wall and realized a better way to kill time. Grinning impishly at his "daring", the man was out the door in minutes.
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Selphie's room; # 112, was usually sprinkled liberally with at least fifty stuffed animals of every size, shape, and form, but now in addition to that, it was also half a foot deep in feathers. A good number of the feathers were still floating lazily through the air. Selphie and Rinoa were in the middle of an all out pillow fight(it was a ritual of theirs, presceded by staying up all night watching movies, and followed by "girlchat").
"Booyaka!It's like a winter wonderland!"
Selphie jumped around, trying to catch a feather before it drifted to the ground. Of course, not exactly being the most coordinated of all people, instead of catching the feather, she fell promptly and ungracefully on her derriere.
Rinoa, seeing her chance, snuck up behind Selphie and smacked her hard upside the head, sending her flying back and upsetting the layer of feathers that had collected on her carpet. Rinoa grinned truimphantly at Selphie.
"I won!"
Selphie stuck out her tongue.
"That's what you think!" She wielded her own pillow dangerously in one hand.
Rinoa, knowing what was following, ran for her life..and the safety of her noggin..towards Selphie's bed. Selphie, grinning like a madman, sprung up from the floor like a coiled spring and ran after her. She jumped on the bed as well, ready to beat her into submission with the feather pillow..and then it happened.
Maybe Selphie just happened to hit the sagging spot in the bed. Or more likely Selphie and Rinoa's weight together bouncing around on it was just too much for the bed to support, but whatever it was, the old wooden bed crashed to the floor with a resounding bang.
Silence followed as both girls surveyed the damage. Finally, Selphie uttered one syllable.
"Whoops"
That was all they needed to send both girls into a hysterical fit of giggles, lying back on the matress(now) on the floor until they both were gasping for breath. Everything and anything seems funny when you're sleep deprived.
"We had better start cleaning up.." Selphie said, trying to keep from cracking up again.
Rinoa nodded, stifling her laugher with one hand.
"Yeah...but with what?The dust pan buried under this mess..and you don't have a broom."
"I know!We can always try to push the feathers into little piles with our feet!"
"Kinda like raking leaves or something?" Rinoa asked brightly, giving a big yawn.
Selphie laughed. "Yup!"
Rinoa and Selphie kicked at the feathers halfheartedly for awhile until Selphie noted that far from forming into any kind of orderly piles, the feathers were just flying into a sort of whirlwind. Giving up on their efforts, both girls plopped back down unto the broken bed, deciding chatting was a much, much better idea than cleaning up.
They immediately launched into their favorite topic..couples.
"Cid and...Quistis!"
"Ewwwwwww!Come on, if the guy had kids, they would probably be closer to her age than he is!"
Selphie stuck her finger down her throat and pretended to vomit.
"Fine then. Quistis..and..Seifer!"
Selphie reflected on that.
"Hmm..actually, they do seem to kinda like each other.."
Rinoa smiled. "Oh, trust me, they do."
Selphie, sensing Rinoa knew something she didn't, was ready to get the secret out of her.
"Tell,tell!"
Rinoa shook her head. She didn't want to tell gossip, she wanted to hear some...so she asked Selphie a question that was sure to make some.
"Soo,what about you?Do you have a crush on anyone?"
Selphie batted at the feathers still flying around with her hands and fidgeted.
"Promise not to say anything?"
Rinoa, who couldn't keep a secret to save her life never the less nodded, wondering who she should inform first, Quistis or Xu. Well, it wasn't like she was going to tell the guy of Selphie's affections or anything, she told herself..feeling sort of guilty.
Selphie clutched her pillow to her chest and focused on it, letting her short brown hair fall around her face, shielding it. She'd never told anyone..except for her chocobo, Boko..and he really didn't count, 'cause he couldn't talk and all.
Finally, in a timid voice, Selphie whispered.
"It's..Zell.."
Selphie was relieved to find that unlike what she had thought, the world did NOT spontanously combust, Zell did NOT pop in, and Rinoa's mouth was NOT hanging open so wide it could catch flies. In fact, Rinoa didn't even look remotely surprised by Selphie's confession.
"You act like you've known for years."
Selphie stared at her, a little offended. Geewhiz, it wasn't like it was that obvious she had a crush on Zell..was it?
Rinoa grinned. "Welll, if you want to get technical-I've known for two months.."
It's that obvious?Yikes! "Mega bummer."
"I want all the details!You guys head over heels in love?" Rinoa pretended to faint dramatically unto the matress, whose springs squeaked alarmingly.
"Teehee, not exactly...but he did say he likes me better than hotdogs" Selphie confided.
"Sooo?" Rinoa looked at Selphie expectantly.
Selphie frowned. "So what?"
Rinoa sighed impatiently. "Look, maybe it's just me..but aren't you usually supposed to be happy when someone says they like you?"
"Rinoa!", Selphie interjected, "He didn't say he liked me..just..."
Rinoa shook her head and used one of Squall's favorite expressions(which happens after you've been dating someone for awhile).
"Whatever. Close enough."
Selphie shook her head and yelled angrily(a behavior of hers that was about as common as a cute teddy bear growing fangs.)
"No,it isn't!"
Rinoa stopped talking, surprised at the outburst. Selphie was obviously upset and Rinoa couldn't quite understand why. From what she had seen, Zell liked her and Selphie liked Zell..so what was the big deal?
"Selphie, what's the matter?"
Selphie felt kind of foolish. "I'm too shy to ask if he likes me"-Rinoa muttered a snort of disbelief and Selphie nodded. "I know I'm not usually..but I am around him!...and I've been trying to work up the courage for, like, forever..and I don't know how to get HIM to admit he likes me..because I can't tell him-'cause the guy has to admit it first..'cause what if I say it and he doesn't like me at all?That would be so emberassing.."
"'Cause?" broke in Rinoa, not so helpfully. Goodness!, she thought..Selphie sounds like Raijin would if he suddenly decided to use "because" instead of "ya know."
Selphie lunged a pillow at her in response. Rinoa pretended to look hurt and offended.
"Fine. Pummel me with pillows...I was just going to offer you some friendly advice.."
Selphie looked at her curiously. "And what's that?"
Rinoa wanted to help Selphie, she really did. But Rinoa's own love life experience was a little different than Selphie's case..all the things that had worked for her probably wouldn't work or even apply to Selphie. After all, she had a feeling telling Selphie to fall off of garden and wait for Irvine to save her probably wasn't the best of ideas. Rinoa, luckily, knew better than to offer Selphie HER advice. There was only one person who might be able to help Selphie figure out what to do....Rinoa's mind was made up.
"We go see Irvine!"
Selphie just gaped at Rinoa. "Oh, come on..it's not that bad of an idea. He might be able to help you!"
Selphie snickered. "Oh sure he will. With his luck, I'll not only end up snagging Zell, but five other guys to boot." She looked at Rinoa skeptically. "Besides, may I remind you his interest is LADIES..what will he know about the guy's side of it?"
"Selphie. He is a guy" Rinoa pointed out practically. Her arguement deflated, Selphie muttered a weak "Oh yeah".
Looking steely eyed and determined, Rinoa grabbed her friend's wrist in a death grip and half dragged her out the door to the still darkened hallways.
Selphie had one last thing to say as they tripped and stumbled down the ill lit hallway.
"Let's hope he isn't "busy"..if you know what I mean."
Rinoa rolled her eyes. "He had better not be."
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Irvine, as luck would have it(for the girls, not him)..was not "busy" at the moment. Waking to a pounding noise, Irvine rolled over in bed and put out his hand, mumbled sleepily, "hey sweetie"..and fully awoke as his hand met cold air and he realized that the girl he had brought in last night had left. Arrgh. Irvine, the lady's man had just gotten a one night stand?Impossible. Prepostorous. Unfreakin'believable. Maybe he thought hopefully, she was just in the bathroom.
Irvine had just slipped into a pair of pants and was making his way back from the bathroom(empty) when the pounding noise started up again on his door. Grumbling about the wear and tear on his "fine physical physique" from not getting enough sleep, Irvine went to answer it, not in the best of moods.
He opened it to see Selphie and Rinoa. "Whatd'ya want?" He asked groggily, running a hand through his tousled hair. Neither Rinoa or Selphie looked the least bit apologetic at waking him up, Irvine noted offendedly.
Rinoa smiled sweetly. "Oh, I'm so sorry..did we ruin your beauty sleep, Irvie poo?"
Irvine glared daggers at her from under half open eyelids. "I'm warning you, I am one step away from slamming this door in your face.."
"Alright!Alright!I came here for Selphie!"
Irvine leaned against the doorway. "What does she want then?"
"Well, she having a little guy trouble.." Rinoa would have gone on, but Selphie's head popped up over her shoulder. "Hey, in case you haven't noticed, I can talk for myself."
Noticing Irvine still looked pissed off, Selphie did the one thing she could think of that always seemed to get her on his good side. Flatter him to death.
"Pleeaasee help us?You are the authority on this kind of thing and I can always talk to you about stuff..." Selphie fluttered her eyelashes to boot. Irvine still looked peevish, but his resolve to shut the door on them weakened.
"What am I?Your personal shrink or something?"
Rinoa was about to say "yup", but Selphie clamped her hands over her friend's mouth. Hey, she needed advice..even if Irvine was the last person she would get it from under normal circumstances..he was also the only one that would let them into his room at six in the morning, the softy.
Irvine moved off a tinsy bit to the side, allowing both girls to squeeze in. Selphie and Rinoa flopped down unto his bed. Irvine sighed.
"You're welcome to sit down, thanks for asking."
"Come off it, Irvine..not like there's anywhere else to sit. The floor is covered in women's clothing" said Rinoa, exaggerating a bit. Irvine's eyebrows furrowed together.
"One more word..and both of you are going to have to take your troubles to Dr. Kadowaski."
Rinoa put up her hands defensively. "Hey, at least I didn't ask where the girl was.."
Irvine was beyond pissed. Rinoa had just rubbed salt on a very fresh wound.
"You did now."
Selphie cleared her throat loudly. Irvine and Rinoa were too busy jumping at each other's throats to notice her. This was not the way things were supposed to go.
Irvine seemed to lose some of his murderous look and remembered exactly why he had let the girls inside in the first place
"Right. So what seems to be the problem?"
Selphie looked down at Irvine's carpet, studying the design. If her voice had been tentative when she told Rinoa, it was nothing compared to now. Her answer came out in one big string of jumbled words.
"Ilikezell."
Irvine blinked. "Pardon?Something about a bell?"
Selphie took a deep breath and relayed the information more slowly."No..I..like..Zell.."
Irvine was nonplussed. "Oh that..well, for goodness sake, you don't have to be secretive about THAT. It's not exactly fresh news.."
Selphie looked at Irvine. First Rinoa had known and now Irvine. She was beginning to suspect the only that didn't know she liked Zell was Zell.
"How did you know?"
Irvine lips were about to form the word "Rinoa" when she caught his glance and shook her head vehemently. "Ermm..just saw" Irvine said uncomfortably. He rushed on because Selphie looked like she hadn't fallen for his weak reason in the least.
"What's going on between you two that you need to talk about?"
Selphie told Irvine the same long speech she had given Rinoa. "........'Cause the guy has to admit it first..."
Rinoa was mouthing the speech along with her, playing with the necklace Squall had given her. Irvine was nodding off to sleep as she rambled on.
Selphie cast a suspicious eye on them but kept going anyway. "What if I said it and he didn't like me at all?That would be so emberassing"-Irvine's head drooped lower and
lower- "which is why we have decided to elope". Irvine sat bolt upright. "What the hell?"
Selphie smiled. "Good to know you were paying some attention."
"I was!" Irvine rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. "In fact I have the perfect plan for you..when a girl is really sad and goes to a guy..the guy comforts her, right?"
"Right..but why would I be sad?" Selphie was puzzled.
Rinoa smirked at Irvine. "Looks like your perfect plan needs some working on."
Irvine however, had a genius idea. "Well, first of all..because..because..Boko has escaped!"
His words had the intended effect. Selphie was horrified and Rinoa looked ready to strangle him.
"That's not funny!" Rinoa did all but screech. "Don't lie like that!"
"It's true. He escaped from his pen by the training center last night, but I didn't want to tell you because I was afraid it would upset you."
Rinoa and Selphie, plus Zell when he found out(which he most certainly would) would kick Irvine's ass for lying..but hey, Irvine could stand a little punishment in the name of romance. Zell and Selphie deserved to be together...plus he wanted to make sure the girls never ever came to his room with love troubles again.
Boko was Selphie's pet chocobo she had gotten for her seventeenth birthday from Zell. She had petted, obsessed over him, and even made him wear a little bow tie. The truth was, Boko was with Dr. Kadowaski overnight because he hadn't been feeling well(the bow tie was a little tight), but Selphie didn't know because he had forgotten to check on him last night. For all she knew, what Irvine had said was the truth. Selphie burst into tears and sprinted from his room, barely stopping to open the doorway.
Rinoa was seething. "You liar!Boko's with Dr. Kadowaski!"
Irvine backed up. "Whoa, calm down!Just doing a little matchmakin' is all.."
"Idiot" Rinoa snapped.
Irvine looked proud of himself. "Yeah well, this idiot just got Selphie to go running into Zell's arms..how much you wanna bet she and him are a couple by breakfast?"
Rinoa's face turned into the picture of an angels.Her temper had come and left with the wind.
"You're on."
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A/N=My first ever Zelphie fic!(that's not all angsty)..Don't know why I didn't write one earlier. Selphie and Zell are two of my fav characters!Hope I got their personalities down okay. Reviews would be so, so appreciated..*wishwishhopehope*. Next chapter up...umm..whenever.:) Sorry Zell isn't in this chapter at all..he will be in the next chapter of course!