Disclaimer: I don't and will wont ever own Final Fantasy

A/N: I changed my penname for no reason really, but figured I should tell you. I also will probably change the title to this story when I can come up with a better one. Well here goes another chapter thank you for my reviewers and I hope more people will review as the story goes on. Also this chapter is probably what the rest of my story will be like. I mean that by the amount of language used and topics they talk about.


"See you later honey," Caraway called leaning on the passenger seat to look out the window at Rinoa.

He thought she looked beautiful in her school uniform. The girls had to wear navy blue or black skirts that were only suppose to be four inches from the knee, but no one followed that rule. They had to wear a white shirt underneath a nice navy blue or black jacket that had golden buttons running up the center. They had to wear a small tie around the neck, it could be any color as long as it was a solid color and not too bright.

The men had to wear black or navy pants, with the same type of jacket that was also suppose to have a tie around it. Although, as Caraway looked around most guys didn't seem to have a tie on. (If it helps just kind of imagine what they have to wear as Seeds. It's something along those lines.)

"Bye dad," Rinoa called back.

"I love you."

"Dad please!" Rinoa exclaimed looking around, people were staring at her. She didn't want to draw attention to herself on her first day. Which, she already failed since the retired General of Galbadia drove up in a brand new convertible.

"Is that General Caraway," one student asked?

"I think so," the student that he was talking to replied, "That must be his daughter."

"She is so lucky, having a general as a dad, and a famous singer as a mother. And I'm guessing she takes after her mother," he added at the end.

The other student nodded and eyed Rinoa like a Barbie doll. Caraway drove away and she started walking to her new school. She looked down at the ground as she walked, he cheeks turned red with embarrassment and she didn't want anyone to know.

"Well I want me some of that."

His friend laughed, "what? The money, fame or her body."

"All the above," he responded with a suggestive smile on his face.

As she neared the steps leading to the entrance the two guys who were watching her jumped off the ledge they were sitting on. The more assertive one of them came up and put an arm around her waist, while the other one just followed behin.

"Now miss Caraway--," he started.

"It's Heartilly," she responded sternly. She knew his type and the only way to deal with his type was to be assertive. She couldn't let him get his way with anything.

He only smiled, "I see, I'm sorry, I didn't mean any offense."

"Don't worry."

"Bad day and no wonder, going to a new school, now that's scary ain't it." Rinoa just shrugged. "Well I could show you around you know."

"No thanks, I'm sure I can manage," she said and pulled his hand off her waist.

Rinoa expected that would end it, that's what did it at her old school. Sadly at this school the guys could get away with more and especially this one, he always got what he wanted. He pushed Rinoa into the lockers lining the wall and put his arms on either side of her, blocking her path.

"Let me go," she still sounded stern but inside she was starting to get afraid.

"Come on, don't you want to have some fun?" he said with a smile that caused Rinoa to start to lose the color in her face. Rinoa looked up to see if anyone would help her, but everyone just walked past as if nothing was happening.

"Oh, you see, no one is going to help you," he looked over his shoulder and gave a nod to his friend. His friends returned the nod and then stood there with his arms crossed. Incase if anyone wanted to help, they would have to go through him first.

"You see if I was to pick you up, bring you to my car, drive somewhere, and then have my way with you," he paused as Rinoa looked down at the ground in fear. He lifted her chin so her eyes were looking at him. "No one would care, they don't wanna mess with me, especially for a new girl."

With his right arm not baring her path she tried to make a dash for it. He just grabbed her by the arm and threw her into the locker again.

Rinoa couldn't believe this was happening on her first day. She was only at school for a few minutes and she was already in trouble. She was holding back her tears; she did not want to cry. She knew that if she did it would only make this guy happier. Yet it grew harder and harder to keep them back.

Come on, she thought, someone has to come.

"You know I think that's a great idea actually, you up for a ride dear," he said stroking her cheek.

Rinoa put her head back all way against the wall trying to get away from his touch. She couldn't hold back the tears anymore, just the thought of being raped by this guy. They streamed down her cheeks and she started begging him not to do it.

"Oh my dear," he said in a worrisome voice while he wiped a tear from under her eye. "It wont hurt, well actually I can't say really say that."

Hearing that only caused her to really start balling and she started trying to shake herself loose. She had to get away, she couldn't let this happen. The boy grabbed her arms and pinned them against the locker.

"Um, hey Sean," his friend called from behind him.

"Not now," he responded angrily, "I'm a little busy."

"But there might be a problem."

"Oh," he said sarcastically and turned around, "What could b—"

His shock stopped him from completing his sentence. Rinoa stepped to the left and wiped a tear from her eye to see a boy with spiky blond hair and a tattoo down the side of his face standing there. His shirt was unbuttoned and he had a red shirt underneath his jacket.

"I see you're harassing the new girl Sean," the boy smiled taunting him.

"What, harassing," Sean said, and the boy nodded "no not her, we were...uhh…I mean I was just telling her about the school."

"Really," the boy shook his head, "not from what I can see."

Sean now seemed completely scared; he rubbed his hands together thinking and then held them far apart as if celebrating.

"Hey I got an idea, how about you go first and then I go next." Sean playfully punched the boy in the arm. "Come on whadda say."

The boy looked disgusted, "First don't ever touch me and second, I think you're fucking sick." A crowd started to gather to see what all the commotion was about. They could only ignore so much, and they all loved to see a fight.

"Come on, we all know you band chicks Dincht," Sean saw the others approaching decided to try another way to get himself out of the mess. If he could get the crowd on his side, then he would be home free.

"Yeah, but I don't force them," he paused and smiled again, "or rather I don't have to, unlike you."

"Are you trying to picked a fight Dincht," yelled Sean clenching his fists and stepping forward, forgetting whom his opponent was. His friend stood in front of him to stop his advance.

Rinoa watched as the Dincht boy stroked his chin, "Well no actually I wasn't, but since I haven't fought in a while and I think the hotdogs are getting to me." He lifted his stomach and patted his six-pack, "or maybe they're not." He shrugged and smiled. "Any who, I could use a fight right about now."

"Look man, you don't want to do this, you can't win and even if you do. He'll come and we can't take him on." Sean's friend tried to talk Sean out of the fight, he then turned to the blond hair boy, "Look Zell were sorry, you can have the girl."

"What!" Sean exclaimed, "fuck no, he can't have her."

"Oh I don't want her," he started bouncing on his feet and throwing punches in the air. "I want your friend there."

Sean watching Zell throw some punches and high kicks started to remember why he feared him.

"Tell you what," Sean started once again trying to negotiate his way out, "you can have her and we wont bother her ever again."

"What," Zell sounded shocked, "But I thought you wanted to kick my ass."

"I had a sudden change of heart."

"Well ain't that nice, but I guess I could agree to your proposal," he paused and once again stroke his chin, "If and only if you kick yourself in the balls."

The crowd that gathered started to laugh. Sean looked around, his reputation was dwindling. Even Rinoa let a smile slip through her tears. Who is this guy and why is he saving me.

"Hey girl come her," Zell called to Rinoa.

She only nodded her head and slowly walked away, taking a few steps to get further away from Sean before going to stand behind Zell. Zell waited for her to get behind him when he ordered Sean to kick himself in the balls again.

"I wont," Sean angrily hissed through his teeth.

"Well then I will beat your ass, break your fucking jaw and then I pound your nose in so it's flat the rest of your life. Your choice."

Sean looked as if he would attack Zell at any moment. Rinoa kept glancing between the two faces; Zell was cool and still smiling. While Sean was looking pissed, but she could tell that he was actually considering it. He might actually kick himself in the balls. Rinoa let out another chuckle behind Zell.

"What you do think you're fucking laughing at bi--!" Sean started to shout at Rinoa but stopped when Zell took a step forward.

"I will count to five and if I reach five I swear you will be in the hospital for weeks," Zell threatened

Sean's mind was racing.

"One."

"Come on man, you don't wanna do this," Sean pleaded.

"Two."

Sean turned to his friend to look for help, "Come on, I need back up."

"Three."

"No way man, leave me out of this."

"Four!"

Sean didn't know what do to. He couldn't kick himself in the balls; he would be the laughing stock of the whole school. Then again it was that or be hospitalized. He looked at Zell and saw him cracking his knuckles.

"Fi-"

"Fuck it," shouted Sean. Then he lifted his footed and heeled himself in the balls. Hard.

"Holy shit, he actually did it," Zell was completely shocked.

But didn't he tell him to do it, thought Rinoa, what else did he expect.

The hallway was erupted with laughter, and other students yelling obscenities at Sean. Zell bent over and grabbed his stomach, "He actually did it, he just fucking kicked himself in the balls."

Sean was holding his crouch and rolling around on the floor gasping for breath. Some tears even started to stream down his face. Rinoa started to giggle to herself when she felt a hand grab her whist. It was Zell; still laughing a bit but gave her a smile, "Come on let's get out of here."

She nodded her head and followed him. They continued to walk down the hall until the sounds of laughter faded. Rinoa was wiping her face from her tears, she was still a little shaken from the incident. Zell watched but didn't say anything, he wasn't that good at comforting people. He usually just ended up saying something stupid.

"Um, thank you for saving me," Rinoa suddenly said.

Zell smiled and looked at her, "No worries, besides if I didn't follo-" he stopped and covered his mouth.

Rinoa titled her head in the way a curious puppy would. "Is something wrong?"

Nope nothing's wrong," he smiled and started walking again, "come on let me take you to your first class."

Rinoa nodded and she showed him her schedule. He ran his finger down it and read each class that she had and when.

"Well Rinoa, we only have two classes together," he sadly said.

"First how do you know my name, and second that stinks."

"Well you are somewhat known, and stinks is that considered a bad word for you. Like not even ' that sucks' but 'stinks'."

"Well, I don't really swear, "Rinoa said slightly embarrassed.

Man why didn't you say you do, I don't want to seem uncool, he seems like a nice guy. Well besides the whole ' kick yourself in the balls' thing.

Zell laughed to himself, "Don't worry about it, swearing doesn't really seem like your thing. Anyway here we are."

They stopped at Rinoa's first class, "history of Balamb, sounds boring."

"Oh, don't worry it is," Zell laughed again and started to walk away. He stopped and turned around, "You know I wasn't suppose to do this but there is a girl in there. Her name is Selphie and I think you two would get along. She'll be out of dress code so you can't miss her"

"Really well thank you I'll talk to her and see for myself," she paused for a second thinking, "Um Zell, what do you mean 'you weren't suppose to'."

He scratched the back of his head, "Oh don't worry, I just say things sometime, well bye have fun."

And with that he ran off before Rinoa could respond. She simply shrugged and walked into the class. As she walked in all the eyes were on her, she felt like they were piercing into her soul. She tried to ignore the stares and walked over to the teacher.

"Hey I'm Rinoa," the teacher raised an eyebrow, "the new student."

"Oh, yes, the general's daughter, well take your seat, there are a few left." Rinoa could tell the teacher didn't really want to be there. He had bags under his eyes telling Rinoa that he hadn't gotten sleep for a while. She guessed it was probably form too much stress.

Rinoa scanned the room to see where to sit, and then she saw a girl blowing bubble gum and sitting they with a sleeveless uniform jacket. She had her hair brown hair hanging on her shoulders. Rinoa thought she looked extremely pretty, and for some reason that jacket just added to her look.

Must be Selphie, she thought, well I don't have any other friends might as well listen to Zell's advice.

She walked over and sat next to Selphie, who only cracked her gum as she sat next to her. Rinoa gave a smile Selphie returned it. Rinoa new she was just trying to be polite but as long as she had some manners Rinoa could work with it. The teacher began talking and writing on the blackboard. Rinoa turned to Selphie and stuck out a hand. Selphie glanced down at the hand and then back up at Rinoa, trying to figure out why this girl was trying to be so nice. Rinoa sensing her hesitation just decided to tell her that Zell told her to do this.

"My names Rinoa, and I know you think this is weird that I'm trying to randomly talk to you. But Zell told me to find Selphie if I felt like I needed friends, and well I don't have any," she said waiting to see Selphie's reaction.

To Rinoa's satisfaction Selphie reached out and shook Rinoa's hand.

"Well my name is Selphie and if you're friends with Zell then I'm your friend too," she replied with a smile.

"Well I wouldn't say friends," she took out a notebook and glanced at the teacher, "But he saved me from pretty much getting raped."

Selphie gasped and almost dropped her gum, "you're that girl, the one Sean was going to have his way with."

"That's me, word travels fast doesn't it," Rinoa smiled trying to sound happy and not bothered by it, but it only told Selphie exactly how Rinoa felt.

"I just overheard a girl who said she saw Sean forcing a girl up against a locker."

She watched as Rinoa wiped a tear from her eye, come on Rinoa, not here just hold it together.

"You poor thing, I'm so sorry," Selphie apologized, she only just met Rinoa but she still felt really bad.

"You don't have anything to be sorry for, it's not your fault."

"I still fell bad though," then to Rinoa's surprise she suddenly perked up, "but you know if you have Zell on your side then you have nothing to worry about."

"Yeah, I was wondering about that," Rinoa not listening at all to the teacher explain how Balamb won their independence. She wanted to know more about the school she was in and her new friends. If she could call them that.

"Well when Zell came they instantly stopped picking on me, and lost the whole tough guy act. In fact I thought they were going to wet themselves.

"I wouldn't be surprised."

"Why though, I mean Zell even got the guy to kick himself in his nuts."

Selphie hearing this burst out laughing and this time spitting her gum out onto the dirty floor.

"Miss Timlett," the teacher sternly said, "Is there a problem?"

"Yeah, I lost my gum."

"What was that," the teacher now sounded annoyed.

Selphie face lit up with a huge smile, "Oh, nothing."

"Well try and keep your outburst to a minimum."

When the teacher turned back to the blackboard Selphie turned to Rinoa, "did he really kick himself if the balls."

Rinoa nodded, and Selphie almost cracked up again. This time she covered her mouth by burying her head into her arms on her desk.

"Um, Selphie, why were they so scared of Zell, I mean besides his tattoo he doesn't really look that tough," Rinoa wanted to know more about him.

When Selphie calmed down she looked over at Rinoa, "Alright since you're knew you wouldn't know, but it's a long story."

"Well the history of Balamb is also quite long," Rinoa pointed out.

"True, true, okay I'll tell you just try and stay with me," she took a deep breath as if she was going to drive into water. "Alright well Zell is best buddies with this person. This person is pretty much the toughest kid in the school besides one other kid. "

Rinoa nodded, finding this very interesting, or at least more interesting than whatever the teacher was talking about now.

"First off, don't think they're only afraid of Zell because he has a badass friend. He can fight, and he is actually one of the best, but if he gets in a fight that he can't win. His friend comes and back him up, and believe me when his friend comes all hell breaks lose."

Rinoa was resting her head on her palms and listen to Selphie tell the story.

"You see in this school you need to be in with a group, or have some friends. "

"Kinda like jail," Rinoa piped up.

"Somewhat, just not as serious, there aren't really gangs here, but you can get pretty messed up. It's just dangerous to be alone as you found out. See if you had at least three other friends, and I mean good friends, they would've tried to stop Sean. Those three, usually have three more friends and it goes on and on till eventually he can't do anything without being crushed by a mob. I mean the worst that will probably happen is a good beating or some sexual things might be done."

"That's very lovely, but Selphie, who is this friend of Zell. The 'badass' as you call him," Rinoa's mind was racing she really wanted to know. Her old school wasn't like this at all, they had their bullies but the worst thing they ever did was just take money from kids.

A small smile spread across her face, "His name, Squall Leonhart."

Rinoa's eyes widened in shock, it just wasn't possible, "You're sure."

Selphie seemed a little surprised by the response she got from Rinoa, "Yeah, I'm positive. You don't know him do you."

Rinoa's face fell into her hands, "He's my neighbor," she mumbled from behind her hands.

Selphie let out a slight shriek and covered her mouth. She removed one of her hands, "he's really your neighbor."

Rinoa's face still buried in her hands nodded her head. She thought back to meeting him on Saturday and she remembered what he said.

"If you really want you can hang out with me but I suggest you make other friends. Because it is only fair warning, that a princess like you would do better not to hang out with someone like me."

After a moment of silence besides the teacher talking, she lifted her head out of her hands.

"All right Selphie, ignoring the shock that he is my neighbor tell me more about this school and Squall," she was still curious. "Like you said there was someone who was just as bad as Squall."

Selphie nodded, "There is this guy named Seifer short blond hair scar on face like Squall's."

"Squall has a scar," Rinoa asked innocently.

"You didn't notice, it's kind of hard to miss. Anyway Seifer is on the same fighting level as Squall. But his attitude is ten times worse. He is a loose canon, an unpredictable savage beast; and he will fight anyone at anytime. If there is one guy you want to avoid it is Seifer."

"Should I try and avoid Squall too," Rinoa asked.

"Hell no, you should do the opposite and start sleeping with the guy."

"What!" Rinoa exclaimed drawing the attention of the nearby kids.

"I'm kidding calm down," Selphie glared at the kids until they went back to their work. "See it's hard to explain but Squall is Seifer's rival. Squall although bad is technically the good guy, well compared to Seifer."

"But you said he is a bad ass," she didn't get it at all, "wait if you're friends with Zell does that mean you're friends with Squall."

"Well I would like to think so, but he might think differently."

For the rest of class Selphie tried to explain what was going on. Rinoa still didn't get it, Squall was bad, but good, yet people were afraid of him. And then there was another one who was just like the devil him self. Selphie gave up eventually and just told her that she would find out soon enough.

The rest of the morning went fairly smooth, no more threats but she didn't make any more friends, although she heard almost everyone talking about her. It was time for lunch and of course Rinoa got lost. She was scrambling down the halls trying to find the cafeteria. In her old school she ate about an hour earlier, causing her to be extremely hungry right now.

She ran around a corner and ran right into someone. The person she crashed into didn't even flinch and just walked right through her, causing her to fall to the floor.

"Excuse you," she called after the guy as she tried to pick up her books that fell on the ground.

He stopped in his tracks and Rinoa instantly wished she didn't say that. He slowly turned around and walked to stand right in front of Rinoa. A small smile appeared in his face. He grabbed her by the neck and rammed her against the wall.

"What'd you say," he said in a voice that scared the shit out of her but yet it sounded happy. As if he has happy that she said it, happy that he had a reason to practically strangle her. Rinoa then saw that this man was actually really hot; he had short blond hair and had a cut down his face handsome face. Then it hit Rinoa who this was, it was Seifer the one person she was suppose to avoid.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to," she choked out.

"Hey you're new aren't you," he said eyeing her up and down.

"Yes," she replied fighting for breath.

"Well then you must be the bitch that chickenwuss saved." He let her go and started walking away, "I don't feel like getting into a big quarrel with Squall today. I have other things to do, consider yourself lucky."

She rubbed her neck and watched him walk away. Just as Selphie said, an unpredictable savage beast. After he initial shock wore off she got up and continued on her search to find the Cafeteria.

Rinoa found it after a few more minutes but now came the question that she feared all day. Where would she sit? She was hoping to meet up with Selphie, but she wasn't to be found. Maybe Zell then but she couldn't find him either. Rinoa got in line for her food and looked around looking for a spot, not knowing that someone was watching her.

In the far back corner of the Cafeteria was a round table that Squall was sitting at, watching her. He was rocking in his chair with his arms crossed. He saw how she stuck her finger in a pudding like substance and licked it, testing to see if she would like it. It caused him to smile a little, he found this girl amusing.

He felt a figure approach and he turned to see Zell walking over.

"Yo," Zell greeted and grabbed a chair and sat next to Squall. He started to pull food out of a brown paper bag.

"What happened, I heard Sean was trying to get her," Squall asked in a low tone.

"Yeah well when you told me to watch her I tried to find her as soon as I could. I guess he saw her as soon as she stepped out of the car and she managed to get inside the school. That's when I saw them and you'll never believe it."

"What!?" Squall said sternly he wasn't in the mood, it was one of those days and he just didn't feel like being in school. He was also slightly mad at himself for caring about Rinoa; he didn't even know why he had Zell follow Rinoa. He just knew that she would have a hard time and decided to at least give her a chance.

"Geez I know you gotta be a bad ass and all but hey it's just me." He paused hoping for an apology but as expected he was only greeted with a glare. "Anyway, I got Sean to kick himself in the balls, I mean he just raised his foot and fucking did it."

At this Squall stopped rocking in his chair. He a smirk appeared on his face, "he really did that."

"I swear he did, it was wicked funny, there was a crowd and everything. They started making fun of him when he did it. I swear best day ever."

Squall didn't reply but continued rocking and scanned the Cafeteria.

"But umm Squall, I did do something, that you might not like."

Once again Squall stopped rocking and glared at Zell, "What'd you do?"

"Well I felt bad, she was so cute and scared about not having friends so I told her about Selph, and well I don't know what happened after that."

Squall slammed the chair down onto the ground, "You dumbass, she is going to hang out with us from now on."

"So is that such a bad thing," defended Zell.

"She is a princess, she wont fit in."

"Well maybe she'll change and quit worrying I bet she didn't even talk with Selph."

"Really, well then look at that," Squall pointed over to the Cafeteria line. Zell turned to see Rinoa just finish paying for her food and then Selphie run up and put her arm around Rinoa's neck as if they have been best friends forever. A wide smile appeared on her face as she started talking with Selphie.

Come on, Squall thought, just don't come over here, not here, somewhere else.

Squall prayed but to his dismay he saw Selphie point over to the table that the two men were sitting at. They walked over and Selphie sat right down also pulling out a paper bag carrying her lunch.

"Hey Zell, hey Squall," she greeted them excitedly.

"Hey Selph, hey Rinoa," Zell greeted back.

Rinoa nodded her head and gave a nervous wave.

"Oh, Rinny there isn't a reason to be nervous," Selphie, said trying to comfort her.

"I'm not nervous," she denied and looked around the Cafeteria, "it's just, everyone staring."

"Because you're sitting here," Zell replied, throwing some chips in his mouth.

"It is that strange."

"Well as you can tell people don't like us," Selphie started, "well not really, people don't mind me and some like Zell," she corrected, "It's just that they aren't to found of little grouchy over there," she finished nodding her head at Squall, who only flipped her the bird in reply. Selphie stuck her tongue out at him.

"Well I don't think he's bad," Rinoa said, causing Zell to open his mouth causing a huge amount of food to fall out. Squall didn't seem effected by it, he just continued rocking. "I mean, I don't really know what Squall is like but after running into Seifer I'm sure he's an angel."

This is what caused Squall to stop rocking, she ran into Seifer, he thought.

"Whoah, you ran into Seifer," Zell exclaimed, Rinoa nodded, "well what he do."

"He grabbed your neck didn't he," Squall asked?

Rinoa not hearing Squall speak yet and didn't expect him to sound so, well scary. She was use to him being embarrassed by his dad and being polite to her dad.

Guess he's just different in school, she thought.

"Well yeah, but how'd you know?"

"Your neck is slightly red," he responded quietly. This being said caused Selphie and Zell both to stare at Rinoa's neck.

She turned to Selphie, "Is it really noticeable," sounding worried. She really did not want to stick out, even though she pretty much knew that everyone in the school knew about the events that too place.

Selphie shook her head, "No I barely can see it."

"Well that's good," Rinoa sighed.

"What trying not to stick out on your first day?" taunted Squall.

"No, well, yes," she responded while playing with her food.

"Failed attempt there."

"Oh shut up, it's hard you know," she shouted at him. Zell and Selphie just stared at the two.

Squall only smirked a little, maybe she isn't so bad, it's defiantly fun to mess with her.

Rinoa trying to give off a mad impression on her face only caused Squall to smile. Once again Rinoa noticed how hot he was when he smiled, even with that scar on his face. It just seemed to fit his whole 'tough guy' look. Then she wondered why she never noticed his scar before, it was fairly hard to miss.

There was another silence for a while but this time it was stopped by another person.

"Hey sexy," a man said to Selphie and kissed her on the cheek. He was tall and had long brown hair that was tied back in a ponytail. His pants were light brown and his jacket was also light brown. He was wearing a cowboy hat and Rinoa thought that it fit the rest of the outfit perfectly.

"Hey there," Selphie giggled.

"How's it going guys," he paused and looked at Rinoa, "Well who's this fine women."

"Irvine this Rinoa," Selphie introduced.

"Oh shit you're that new girl who was going to get raped," he exclaimed.

"Yes that's me," Rinoa sighed.

Squall smirk again, "See everyone already knows who you are."

Rinoa opened her mouth to argue back but some one beat her to it.

"Squall come on, she's new and probably still scared about that."

Rinoa watched as a tall but not overly tall girl with hair long hair walked up to the table. Rinoa couldn't decide if her hair was either light brown or dirty blonde hair, it almost looked as though it was brown but then dyed blonde. It didn't matter she was beautiful and that's when Rinoa noticed that everyone at the table was either extremely handsome or beautiful.

She blushed, I hope I look good enough for them to let he hang with them.

Next she noticed how the new girl was completely in dress code, beside herself no one else at the table was. The only thing she didn't have on was a tie. Squall almost was in dress code, but he just had the top of his jacket unbuttoned and it showed that he wore a black shirt underneath. That and he wasn't wearing a tie, but then again the only one who had a tie on at the table was Selphie. She managed to pull it off as a good look; Rinoa was going to ask them later how they got away with not being in dress code and not get into trouble.

"Quistis," Squall remarked, "don't you have a jackass to be with."

She shook her head, "No he's busy, and besides I wanted to meet the new girl."

She turned to Rinoa and held out a hand and Rinoa took it with a smile.

"It's nice to meet you Quistis."

"The pleasure is all mine," she replied with a smile.

Rinoa just found this weird; all the kids she met in 'Squall's group' were extremely nice. So how come Squall was so mean, and why did he like them. She figured that someone like Squall would be a loner, with no friends or if he did have friends they would be like him. She was going to ask but was cut off by a scream behind her.

Rinoa whirled around to see a well-built man laughing at some kid on the ground. He began stepping on the kid and laughing even harder. She turned back and looked at the kids at the table, there were watching but continued to eat their food as if nothing was happening. She then scanned over the cafeteria for any teachers. She found three, but it seemed they didn't know it was going on. Until one of them looked up at the poor kid getting stepped on and just returned to eating his food.

"Why aren't the teachers doing anything?" Rinoa asked the kids at the table.

Irvine just shrugged, "They aren't going to do anything when David is causing the trouble."

"Why not?"

"His father is high in the government," responded Quistis as she watched David laugh and start kicking the kid. "A teacher before tried to stop a fight that he started, and ended up getting fired."

"Well if they don't do anything aren't you guys gonna do something," Rinoa asked impatiently.

"Not our problem," Zell replied before stuffing his face with more food.

"But you saved me."

"Yeah, only because ow" Zell was cut in mid sentence by a kick underneath the table from Squall. He gave him dirty look only to get a glare in returned.

Rinoa looked at Squall, she was trying to read his face but found it impossible. She looked back to see the kid getting pudding poured on him now.

"Squall, come on, you have to do something!" exclaimed Rinoa. Squall didn't respond he just continued to look at her.

"Fine," she said getting out of her chair, "I'll go help the kid if you guys are to scared."

She marched off towards the bully leaving the table behind in shock.

Oh man, what was I thinking, I can't do anything against him, she thought, I can't go back now they would all make fun of me and I probably will not have any friends again. Besides hopefully Zell will come to the rescue again.

Rinoa walked with her back straight and hands in fists, she knew that everyone was now watching her. Even if she didn't look back she could feel their eyes on her. By now since she grew closer to David the entire cafeteria was watching her in silence. They never got to see anyone stand up to David and it only made it better when it was a new girl.

David now dumping some other food on him stopped when he saw Rinoa stop in front of him. .

"What do you want," he snarled.

"Stop picking on the kid, that's what I want," Rinoa said trying to stand tall but David being a foot and half taller then her made it seem a little sad. He just laughed, and without any hesitation he backhanded her in the face sending her to the ground.

"My day just keeps getting better and better," David laughed.

Rinoa looked back at the table to see a worried Selphie and Quistis. Zell was playing with his food not daring to look up, and Irvine was looking at his cowboy boots clicking them together. She then looked at Squall who still showed no facial expression and just watched, as if it were just some kind of show.

Please Squall help, she desperately thought as David stood over her laughing.


Ok well there's another chapter hoped you liked it more. I also hope I can get some more reviewers, so please if you read my story leave a review. As long as it pertains to the story I don't care how offensive it can be. Also tell me if you think I should change the rating to M, I can say that it probably wont get any worse then this. Although they talk big there wont be any explicit sex scenes, just language and maybe later slight gore.