Seifer walked over the puddle to the walk-in closet to find something to wear. When he opened the door to the closet, he stopped in his tracks, "that's definitely not mine." As he looked into the closet sprawled out on the floor was Fujin and Rajin, but what made him stop and take notice was how they were laying there and what they were wearing.
Seifer thought that he had a big walk-in closet but now he was not as sure as he looked down at Rajin sprawled out taking up at least ninety percent of the floor space. With Fujin laying the way she was, she took up five percent of the floor space leaving the other five percent littered with empty Galbadian whiskey bottles.
He had to laugh outright when he really looked at the pair lying in front of him. Rajin was dressed as a female stripper. He was wearing a lacy off white outfit that consisted of a bra, G-string, guarder belt, and clear plastic stilettos. He also had his makeup not so tastefully done and his hair was out of its usual braids and done up in an afro. What got Seifer was, that there was Gil sticking out of different articles of clothing on Rajin, there was bite, and scratch marks on his chest.
As for Fujin he was just curious as to why she was dressed the way she was, and again he wished that he could remember what happened last night. Fujin, for all reasons unbeknown to him was dressed as a Clown. She had the rainbow colored hair, the big red nose, the costume and the big clown feet. Since she was already pale, she did not need the white face paint that clowns usually wore but had all the other makeup on. In his personal opinion, she rather scared him, and the reason for that was that he saw that she still had her weapon on her.
After he took in the situation with them and the suggestive way that they were sleeping, he decided that he needed to grab his camera so that he could use it for black mail later. After he took a good dozen of pictures, he carefully picked his way through the closet so that he can get a set of clothes to wear for the day.
Seifer knew that it being December and that they were going to be spending a lot of time outside today he decided that he should try to dress as warmly as he could. He finally settled for a pair of warn dark blue jeans, a black t-shirt, a green jacket and a pair of well warn dark brown boots. He went back to his bathroom to change. Once he was dressed, he left his jacket in the bathroom and went out into his bedroom. He looked around his room and he decided that he needed some coffee and fresh air before he starts cleaning his room.
He walked out into the main part of the house to find only Selphie there with a rather large box of decorations. Selphie turned to Seifer, gave him a warm smile, and then went back to her work of organizing all of the decorations in relation to where she wanted them to be put up. Seifer continued on to the kitchen and found that someone had make coffee already. As he poured himself a cup, he heard Selphie walk in to the kitchen. When he turned around, she had an armful of cleaning supplies, a broom, dustpan and a few trash bags. She pushed them into his opened arms, "You better have that room spotless by the time you need to leave or else!"
That 'or else' scared Seifer a lot more than he was willing to admit aloud. Therefore, he just nodded his head tried to grab his cup of coffee, but instead she grabbed it for him and started to push him in the direction of his bedroom. Along the way telling him what each cleaner was for and to make sure he swept everything up and that if it didn't pass her inspection then she was going to clean it herself. The more she talked the more Seifer was wondering how anyone managed to get anything done with her around. Then as abruptly as she appeared, she disappeared. At least she left the coffee, he thought as he dumped everything down on his bed. He grabbed his coffee cup and walked outside sat on the patio chair and propped his feet up on the railing.
After a few minutes, he heard someone walking around below him. A minute later, it turned out to be Irvine and he stopped half way done the beach and looked around, as though looking for something.
"Nice view isn't it Cowboy," Seifer stated, startling Irvine a little bit.
"Yep that it is. What are you doing up there Seifer?" Irvine asked and Seifer could see that he wondering why he was sitting out on the patio.
"Hiding from Tilmit." Seifer responded and a look of understanding graced Irvine face. Maybe he knows what its like to be bossed around by her.
"Ha ha I know what you mean. She has me out here looking for a place to set up a campfire. I told her it was too early. But she insisted that we won't have enough time when we get back to get one going."
"So Cowboy, where are you supposed to be taking me to get me out of the house?" Seifer asked as he stood up.
"I don't know just into town. All I know is that we are to pick up Squall when he gets in from Esther. Other than that, I would say that it is up to you. It's your day." Irvine stated while looking around the beach. It was silent for a few minutes as each was caught up in their own worlds. Seifer broke the silence; he decided that he was going to help Irvine out a bit.
"The best part of the beach to have a fire is to your right on the other side of that big tree. There's a bunch of wood over there and rocks too," Seifer stated. After he said that Irvine turned around to walk in the direction, he told him to go. Seifer drank the rest of his coffee then disappeared through the sliding glass doors and left them open a bit so that the breeze could come in.
Seifer walked over to his Stereo and flipped to the CD part and pushed play, as the sounds of a local rock band flowed through the speakers, Seifer decided that the best place to start was picking up all the trash that littered his floor. After a good half an hour of picking up trash and clothing that did not belong to him and putting it in the trash bag, Seifer tied the two trash bags that he filled up, placed them outside his bedroom door. With a promise when he was done to take them to the trash, can, after Selphie gave him a glare. He started sweeping his room. He was careful not to be too loud as to not wake up Fujin and Rajin; he decided that he would tell Selphie he left her a present in his closet before he left. As he was sweeping the room, he wondered what was in store for him and if he would ever remember what happened the night before, at this point he could not even remember who was there last night.
After he finished sweeping the floor, he set out to clean the stain on the wall. He stood there for a few minutes looking at the stain trying to figure out what it was and how it got there. When he could not figure out what it was or how it got there, he picked up a random cleaner and sprayed it onto the wall and decided to let it set for a few minutes while he went and cleaned up the puddle of what he hoped was soda on the floor near his closet. After the soda like substance was cleaned up, he went back to the wall with a scrubber in hand.
As he attacked the wall, he found that what ever was on the wall was not going to come off easily. He through more than a few cuss words at the stain on the wall. It was almost gone after an hour of scrubbing, spraying it with every cleaner he had and cussing at it. A few times, he wanted to call in Selphie and have her do it but he told her that he was going to clean his room and every time he went out to get something, she was always busy so he did not interrupt her.
By the time he gave up on the stain, he had spent two hours scrubbing it, and it was still there just faint. He collapsed on the bed and looked at the alarm clock on the nightstand. It was almost 10:30am. He got up and walked into the bathroom to use it. After he used the bathroom, he washed his hands and threw on the jacket. He walked out into the living room picking up his two bags of trash on the way. He walked over to the stairs that lead down to the garage and put the trash bags in them turned around and walked back upstairs and in to the kitchen. He realized that he had not eaten yet and that he was starting to get really hungry. When he reached the kitchen everyone else was there sitting at the bar on the opposite side of the door. He grabbed an apple and walked over to the bar.
"I think that we should wait until you guys get back tonight to…" Selphie stopped once she saw that Seifer had joined them in the kitchen. As he walked closer, she grabbed the paper that was in the middle of them and sat on it. "Hi Seifer, are you done cleaning your room?" She asked in a sweet voice.
"Yea Tilmit I'm done. So can we go I'm hungry? "Seifer told Zell and Irvine. As soon as he finished saying that, he took a bite of his apple and started walking towards the front door.
By the time, the other two caught up to, him he was already in his sports car with the engine running and starting to back out of the driveway. After they joined him in the car, Seifer put the car in drive and drove towards the train station figuring that Squalls train would be coming in soon and he would be hungry too.
"So what have you guys been doing since the end of the war?" Seifer asked them after the silence had gotten to be too much for him.
"Well I'm still with Garden, but only part time. I live in Balamb with my wife Bella, who I married a year after the war. Now we have a three-year-old daughter. I opened a Dojo and I teach martial arts and self defense to anyone who wants it," Zell stated from the backseat. "I only go on missions if they need me and I took over as the Martial Arts teacher in Garden."
Seifer looked over at Irvine and the Cowboy just tipped his hat and continued looking out the window for sometime before he answered.
"Well Sephie and I both live in Esthar now. We both left Garden around the same time that Squall did. We were going to live in Timber but Laguna contacted us and asked us if we would like to work for him. We thought about it and agreed to it. I'm his bodyguard and sharpshooter when he goes out in public. With the opening of the boarders, many Galbadians did not like the way President Loire ran things and some were just jealous that they are more advance than Deling City. There have been more than a few attempts on his life in the last seven years. I help out at Squall's pub when I can. And I have been asking Selphie to marry me for six years now and she keeps saying no, you're not ready," Irvine stopped his monologue there as he heard laughing. He looked over to Seifer to see him laughing, "What's so funny Seifer?"
"Nothing, nothing please continue," Seifer said after his laughing quieted down, smirk in place all the while.
"Anyways Selphie also works for Laguna as his personal assistant, and body guard. She also works with Dr. Odine as his assistant in Guardian Force and magic research. She also helps the Estharian military with her explosive and sabotage expertise. She sometimes helps them out as a spy. "
Just as he finished saying that they pulled up to the train station parking lot and saw that the train from Esthar had just arrived.
They all got out of the car and headed over to the train. When Squall exited the train, he immediately spotted Seifer and Irvine, both being a good two to four inches taller than the rest of the Dollet population. He walked over to them and said hello before walking pasted them to Seifer's car so he could put his stuff away. Once his stuff was placed in the back of the car he rejoined them and asked what they were going to do now.
"Food. Now!" Seifer stated. He started to walk in the general direction of his favorite restaurant down by the Central Square.
When they finally reached the restaurant, they all were ready to eat. They walked in and sat at a table near the back. Irvine and Zell grabbed menus and started looking through the selection, when the waiter came up to the table. When the waiter saw Squall and Seifer, he automatically wrote down their orders. Both of them were regulars and sat in the same booth so all the waiters knew the pair and what they ordered by now.
"Can I get you gentlemen something to drink?" He asked.
"I'll have Water. And I'll have just a plain burger and fries please." Irvine drawled.
"And I'll have an Ice tea unsweetened and a pulled pork sandwich with fries." Zell stated.
As the waiter collected the menus from the table, Zell and Irvine looked at each other then at the rivals because their order had not been taken. Zell was getting ready to say something when the waiter came back with four glasses and set them down in front of them. The waiter also had a salad that he placed in front of Squall who was busy pouring over a think file.
"We come here often so they know our orders." Seifer informed them when the waiter left. "What do you got there Leonhart?"
"A mission file that Xu sent over this morning and she wants my help on." He told them as he put it away so he could eat his food.
A few minutes after he started the other food arrived and everyone eat in relative silence. Occasionally some one would ask a question, it would be answered, and silence would continue. When they finished their lunches, they each paid and left the diner. Once everyone was outside they decided to go back to the car and go to the Hockey game that was going to start in a half hour. By the time they got there, it was 1:55pm and the game was to start in five minutes. They bought their tickets, went to there seats, and waited for the game to start. For the next hour, the guys watched the game commenting back and forth as the game went one.
After the game was over, they walked out of the arena and even though it was only a little bit after 3pm, they decided to head back to Seifer's house to help with what they can and get that fire started. Irvine called Selphie and told her that they were on their way back, that way she wouldn't flip out that they were there earlier than when she told them to be back.
Half an hour later Seifer pulled into his drive way and saw that Rajin and Fujin just pulled up too. Selphie must have woken them up and made them go home to change. And by the looks of it, she must have harassed them the whole time too. Seifer thought as he and the others got out of the car. The Six of them all walked into the house and was surprised that the house was not overly decorated. There were a few streamers up and a happy birthday sign up. Looking around the house Seifer saw a karaoke machine set up in the living room, and in the dinning room, there was a bunch of instruments lying around. The Dinning room table was filled with food and a big cake sat in the center of it all.
There were a few people milling around the house putting the last touches on. Squall went straight to Seifer's room to put his stuff down, seeing that there was a 'Do Not Enter' sign on the closed door. Zell, Rajin, Fujin and Irvine all went to Selphie to see if there was anything that they could do. Seifer just turned around and walked outside and down to the beach to get the fire started.
When he arrived, he saw that the place had been cleaned up a little and some folding chairs were brought out so that everyone would have a place to sit. He started collecting the driftwood that Irvine had put into a pile earlier and put into the fire pit. As he was about to light the pit, Squall came walking up the path to help him. In his arms were a bunch of beach towels that Selphie had giving him to take down and set on the little coffee table that had been placed outside. She told him that they were for when they came back from the beach.
Seifer lit the pit by casting Fire. He sat down on one of the logs that had a clear view of the ocean. Squall came and sat down a few feet from him and looked out towards the ocean as well. All of a sudden, Squall said "Happy Birthday Seifer" and it made Seifer jump a little, he had forgotten that Squall was there with him. He once again became lost in his thoughts and the next thing he knew what that he had a Yellow thing attached to him and was dragging him to his feet and towards the house.
Selphie dragged him into the house and as soon as he stepped into the house, everyone started to sing happy birthday. Once they finished the hired band started to play some music and everyone started to dance and have a good time.
Seifer noticed that there was alcohol in the kitchen and mostly everyone had a drink. He made his way to the kitchen to get himself some whiskey when he noticed another table that was set up behind the dinning room table that had a bunch of gift-wrapped boxes on it of many sizes.
As the night went on everyone danced, laughed and had a good time. At about 8pm Selphie quieted down the party so that Seifer could open his gifts. He received many things, some new fishing equipment, and a five thousand Gil gift card to a weapon shop so he can get more weapons for his training center. Some updates for his Gunblade and some gag gifts.
After the gifts were opened and the wrapping paper cleaned up, everyone was ordered to put on their swimming stuff so they could go down to the beach. Through out the night someone went down to the campfire to kept it going and to make sure nobody else took it. When they reached the beach, everyone stopped to look at the full moon and the clear sky.
When everyone was occupied by looking at the sky, Seifer and Squall went up behind Selphie, picked her up and ran with her to the water. After walking to where the water meets Squalls lower back right above his hips they threw Selphie into the water then started to run for shore as fast as they could. When they reached the shore, Selphie was only a few paces behind them. However, they ran back into the water and swam out as far as they could. Once Selphie saw that she was not going to be getting her revenge on them anytime soon she decided to go after the person closest to her, which happened to be Fujin. Selphie somehow over powered Fujin and drug her into the water then pushed her under. Seifer can up behind Selphie, pulled her off Fujin, and threw her back into the water away from him and Fujin. Thus started the war. Everyone was trying to throw each other in to water and those thrown were trying to get revenge. After about an hour of this everyone settle down and the cool night air made everyone go over to the fire. Everyone took a seat and Quistis and Rajin came a few minutes later with the stuff to make s mores. Everyone took a stick, gram crackers, chocolate bar and marshmallows. A comfortable silence fell over the group as everyone cooked and ate their treats.
"I think that this is the best birthday, thank you, everyone." Seifer stated to everyone that was there.
They stayed at the campfire well past midnight. Some light conversations took place but nothing big or lasting. At around 1:30am everyone got up and started to head back to the house so that they could clean up and leave.
They made quick work of all the decorations and put everything back into its place. The band had left hours ago and all the food had been eaten. They used disposable palates so that clean up would be easy. After about fifteen minutes of cleaning, everything was as it should be and everything was put away. Seifer walked everyone but Squall to the end of the ramp. Once everyone was off, he walked back into the house, locked everything up and went to his room. Squall had moved his stuff from his room to the guest bedroom at the other end of the house. Seifer stripped out of his swimming trunks and took a quick shower. When he was done he put his pj's on and went to bed. Looking at the clock it read 2:10am. His last thoughts before going to bed was that he still did not know what happened the day before.
A/N: wow once I started writing I could not stop! Lol well here it is! The fourth and final chapter! I was going to have at least two more chapters but im kind of over writing now, and I want to go back to reading. Lol well I hope you like it, I know that the middle to ending of this might be a bit rushed but I didn't want to drag it out any further. I know that there are many grammar mistakes please just bear with them. Ill go back one day and correct all the mistakes. Thanks again for reading!
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