Rinoa collapsed against the door after it shut on her, she couldn't believe the nerve of him, keeping her in this castle against her will.
This day was just the worst. None of this would have even happened if her father hadn't forced her to move to in the first place. Not only that, but the one little bright spot she had since arriving was disappearing. Her date with Seifer.
She was about to start crying when she heard a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" she asked trying to keep her voice from cracking.
"Selphie," a voice answered on the other side. Rinoa didn't even know why she bothered to ask it wasn't like she would know who it was even with an answer.
"Go away," Rinoa replied, she wanted to be alone.
Selphie ignored the request and barged in with a giant smile on her face.
"Hi!" she said cheerfully.
"Go away!" Rinoa demanded.
"Sorry to just barge in like this, but I wanted to meet you! Zell told me there was another girl in the castle," Selphie explained while flopping on the oversized bed.
"Another?" Rinoa asked.
"Yeah, for the longest time Quistis and I were the only women working here," Selphie explained.
"Well, I'm not exactly here by choice," Rinoa mumbled.
"Oh? Zell just said there was a new person in the castle he didn't specify that you were a prisoner," Selphie shrugged. "Oh well, want a tour of the castle?"
"What?" Rinoa gasped.
"Want a tour of the castle?" Selphie repeated.
"You do understand that I'm a prisoner, right?" Rinoa asked.
"Duh," Selphie laughed, "that doesn't mean you can't leave this room!"
"That's how it works you know," Rinoa replied, flabbergasted. "Besides, I'd like to be alone if you don't mind."
"Suit yourself," Selphie shrugged pushing herself off the bed. "Some other time then," she chirped before leaving.
Rinoa jumped up off the floor to lock the door so that no one else would barge in unexpectedly.
"How could this day possibly get any worse?" she mumbled before flopping face down on the bed to cry.
The sound of her footsteps echoed through the halls, each step growing louder as she got closer to him. He let out a sigh when the footsteps stopped; he could feel her judgmental gaze without having to turn from the window to face the blonde woman he knew was there.
"Are you insane, Squall?" she asked.
"I'm going to say no, but I know you'll find some reason to the contrary," Squall answered.
"You've kidnapped two people in one day!" she scolded.
"I let one of them go, Quistis," Squall sighed dropping the book he was reading on the table.
"You shouldn't have kidnapped anyone in the first place!" Quistis reasoned.
"They shouldn't have trespassed," Squall said flatly.
"You do realize that the man you kidnapped then let go was General Fury Caraway, don't you?" Quistis demanded after taking a moment to calm herself.
"Your point?" Squall sighed.
"He was sent here to be the governor of this province by President Deling, and now you have his daughter as a prisoner," she explained.
"Get to the point, Quistis," Squall demanded.
"You could start a war between Galbadia and Esthar," she said, baffled that he didn't come to that conclusion on his own.
"That sounds like a case of 'not my problem,'" he shrugged.
"It's going to be your problem when you father finds out about this," Quistis threatened.
"What's the worst he can do? Send me to a town in the middle of nowhere in a different country?" he deadpanned. "No, wait… he did that already."
"Squall," she said, scowling while crossing her arms.
"What?" he asked crossing his arms as well.
"Why are you doing this?" she asked.
"I have my reasons," he answered.
"You need to let her go," Quistis ordered.
"I'm not going to," Squall replied.
"Tell me why " she demanded.
"No," he sighed.
"Then if you won't let her go and you won't tell me why the least you can do is be nice to her," the blonde ordered.
"No," he sighed again, sitting back in his chair.
That was the last straw. Quistis wasn't having any more of his attitude, she squared her shoulders and stomped over to him, gave him a scowl and grabbed him by the ear.
"Squall Leonhart, you are going to go down to that girl's room, apologize and invite her to dinner," Quistis ordered pulling him out of his chair.
"Quistis let me go!" he yelled.
She ignored his pleas and continued to drag him down the hall by his ear. He struggled against her, but he couldn't get free. She didn't let go till they got to the girl's door, Selphie and Zell were sitting outside with amused looks on their faces.
"Why are you two here?" Quistis demanded.
"We were trying to get her to come to dinner with us, but she locked the door," Selphie shrugged.
Quistis let go of Squall's ear and pushed him toward the door. He cast her a dark look, but she only crossed her arms and gestured for him to knock on the door. He stood defiantly for a moment before rolling his eyes and turning to knock.
"Come to dinner," he demanded loudly, not even waiting for her to respond to his knock.
"No!" she yelled in response.
Squall gestured to the door silently asking Quistis if she was satisfied.
Quistis rolled her eyes and let out and exasperated sighed; "ask nicely," she ordered.
Squall grumbled and knocked on the door again and like before he didn't wait for her to respond before speaking.
"It would give me great pleasure," he fought against his frustration momentarily before continuing, "if you would join me for dinner," he mumbled.
"No, thank you," she yelled back in a mocking tone.
"Fine, then you can just stay in there and starve!" he yelled before storming off back to his room.
"well that was intense," Zell laughed after a moment.
Quistis glared at him before following Squall down the hallway leaving the two of them giggling like children.
Rinoa listened at the door until it was completely silent when it was she cracked the door to peek out. The hall was empty, she pulled to door open more and stuck her head out to listen. Still silent. It was safe for her to leave the room, for the time being at least.
She crept slowly through the dark halls trying not to make a sound. When the giant staircase was in sight she smiled, and picked up her pace; the front door wasn't much farther now.
When her foot hit the top step, she heard voices. She couldn't tell which direction the were coming from so she darted down the stairs as fast as possible. When she made it to the bottom, she ran full force into someone.
"In a hurry?" he didn't sound happy.
She looked up into the angry face of the man everyone called master.
She cast a scowl and bit the inside of her cheek. She refused to answer him and turned to walk toward the door.
"Where do you think you're going?" he yelled after her.
Rinoa kept walking; she didn't care what he might do she only knew she had to get out.
"Rinny Rin!" Selphie nervously laughed as she grabbed Rinoa's arm.
She appeared almost out of nowhere and spun Rinoa around to head back towards the angry castle master.
"Sorry master, I was giving her a tour, and she got lost," Selphie giggled.
He glared at Rinoa briefly before rolling his eyes and headed up the stairs.
"Let me go," Rinoa protested shaking Selphie off her arm.
"I know you want to go home, but you are still our prisoner," Selphie said calmly.
"Why? Why am I a prisoner? What good could come from this?" Rinoa yelled.
"It's complicated," Selphie shrugged.
"Try me," Rinoa hissed.
Before Selphie could begin to explain she heard Rinoa's stomach growl in protest, she giggled and said; "let's get you something to eat first."
Rinoa thought about making a stand until she explained, but her stomach won the internal argument, so she nodded begrudgingly.
Selphie led the way to the kitchen skipping the whole way, Rinoa practically had to run to keep up with her.
"Eat whatever you want!" Selphie yelled as she whipped the pantry doors open.
"Aren't you worried about making the 'master' angry?" Rinoa sneered.
"Ha! Not in the slightest," Selphie laughed.
"Then why wouldn't you let me leave?" Rinoa pleaded.
"Because if you leave now, it'll cause an international incident," Selphie explained sympathetically.
"That makes no sense," Rinoa yelled.
"You're just going to have to trust me when I tell you that Squall knows what he's doing."
Rinoa glared at Selphie for a moment then rolled her eyes, let out an exaggerated sigh and choose something to eat.
"Squall," Quistis softly called as she entered the room.
He didn't answer, just sat in his chair staring out the window.
"Squall," she called again louder.
"What?" he sighed.
"Please tell me you have a plan for how to deal with this?" she pleaded. "I'd feel a lot better about her staying her if I knew you had a plan."
He turned to look her in the eye and said; "not in the slightest."
My goal with this is to make it a silly as humanly possible. I know this chapter isn't very long but most of the chapters for this aren't going to be, but let me know what you think of it!
Update: If anyone has an idea for a silly thing to happen in this story let me know and I'll see what I can do. This is the only story I will do this with, suggestions for any other of my fics will likely be ignored as I already have them all planned out.