Chapter 4.
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The party had gone… well. Seifer had left with Zell offering to come back later when the girls had gone to help Evan dismantle his new doorbell before it drove him crazy. Selphie had wrote her name in paint on Evan's bedroom wall, luckily on a part that they hadn't gone yet so they just painted over it. Or rather Rinoa painted over it offering to put in her own instead.
Irvine kept rabbiting on about everyone being under a spell.
"Hell of a party." Zell said as they walked down the corridor and got into the lift. Zell was munching on a hotdog, the blonde said he wouldn't be able to sleep without a little snack so they went to cafeteria first.
It was late and the ladies in there were closing up but most of them were used to Zell popping in for a last minute snack before bed.
They got into the lift, Seifer hit the button to go back to the dormitories then leaned back on the wall beside his friend. "So? What did you think?"
Zell took a bite of his hotdog and gave Seifer a questioning look.
"About Evan." Seifer explained.
"Oh. Yeah he's okay, attractive I see why the girls are falling all over him."
"You do?"
Zell gave his friend a look. "Well yeah I have eyes, he's hot."
Seifer nodded. "You going to ask him out then?"
Zell turned and smirked at him. "Nah, I couldn't deal with all those female broken hearts on my conscious." He took another bite. "What about you?"
"I told you, not my type." Seifer said.
"Has Nida meet him yet?"
Seifer grimaced. "Don't encourage the boy, he is living with me now."
Zell sniggered.
They got out of the lift and they walked down the hall stopping outside Seifer's dorm. There was music coming out of there, laughter and talking. Seifer looked worriedly at his front door. "Come with me?" He asked, scared now.
Zell nodded looking amused, he took the last bite of his hotdog and wiped his hands on the front of his jeans.
Seifer tapped in his door code and it zipped open to reveal a party was going on. Both blondes gingerly stepped inside. A guy wearing… not much stopped and looked over Seifer appreciatively before moving on. Seifer looked horrified, putting his hands on himself suddenly feeling naked.
"I feel dirty." He hissed at Zell.
The little blonde bit his lips in an effort not to laugh.
It must have been a hot pants party because everyone was wearing them including people who should never own such clothing. They stood just inside the doorway watching everyone talk and dance in front of them.
"My room." Seifer hissed and walked through the crowded room trying not to touch anyone.
A few people brushed against him and he jumped with each one that did, someone pinched his ass and he must have jumped about a foot in the air. "Please tell me that was you." He whispered back to Zell but he didn't look over his shoulder.
"It was me." A tall lanky red head wearing red hot pants and a small blue t shirt grinned at him and tried to get closer but with every step forward he took Seifer took one back.
The tall blonde glanced around the man noticing that Zell was missing. He side stepped the red head careful not to brush against him.
"Zell." He called, spotting the little blonde backed into a corner by a giggling pair of purple haired twins. He marched over there and glared at them, reaching round the twins and grabbing Zell by the arm and pulling him along. They crossed the room and Seifer reached out and opened the door to his bedroom. He pulled Zell in with him.
Both of them freezing in the doorway.
"Seifer!" Nida exclaimed from his place on Seifer's bed with a large black dark skinned guy both of them were half naked.
"Y-You're back early! I-I didn't expect to see you tonight!"
Zell glanced at Seifer who seemed to have gone into shock he just stared at them. "Nida! What the hell-?" The little blonde said.
Seifer snapped out of it. "What the hell have you done to my dorm?!"
The pilot sat up on the edge of the bed. "I-It's just a little party, a-a house warming party with just a few friends."
"A few?! There's a hundreds of people out there!"
Nida stammered to answer.
"And what the hell are you two doing in MY bed!? I'll have to burn those sheets now!" He remember how they have been lying when he came in. "And those pillows and the mattress and the-"
"It's not the bad!" The pilot interrupted. He got up. "We'll go and you two can stay and join the party."
Seifer scoffed. "I'm not staying in here!" He turned to leave, reaching back a hand to grab Zell and they left.
The taller man relaxed back on his front door as they stood in the hallway. "What the hell was that?!" Seifer shouted. "He's gay-ed up my dorm room!"
"You want me to set up the couch?" Zell asked.
"Would you?"
He nodded. "'Course, come on." They walked down the corridor again. "Maybe we should get Squall to put Nida in my dorm then I can live with you."
Seifer scoffed. "I'm not going anywhere near that room now, he's ruined it with his hot pant party. I won't be able to go back in there now without thinking about guys in hot pants."
Zell raised an eyebrow. "Really?"
Seifer frowned. "Not in good way."
Zell tapped in his door code and Seifer flinched as it whizzed open in case it happened all over again but this time the door opened to a nice quiet, empty dorm room.
Seifer sighed in relief.
Zell lead them inside. "See? No hot pants in sight." He joked. "I'll go and get you some blankets and pillows."
Seifer nodded and sat down on the edge of the couch.
Zell came out of his room with his arms full, he dumped two blankets and a pillow on the edge of the sofa. Seifer folded the blankets and sorted out his bed for the night.
"Are you going back in the morning?"
"Guess I'll have to." Seifer sighed. "I'll need some clean underwear by then."
Zell smiled. "Want me to come with you?"
Seifer removed his jeans, shoes and jacket and spread out on the couch and pulled the blankets over himself. "If you want to."
The little blonde grinned. "Sure." He turned out the main light and headed for his bedroom. "Night Seifer."
"Night."
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Rinoa was eating her breakfast with Selphie the next morning as usual, she looked up when Evan walked in. "There he is!" She hissed.
Their jaws dropped when they saw him walk in with Quistis, both of laughing and talking.
"She beat us to him!" Selphie whispered.
"Evan!" Rinoa waved him over.
"Hi girls." He smiled at them.
Quistis grinning smugly at them from behind.
"Come and sit with us." Selphie pulled a chair from a neighbouring table.
He shook his head. "Thanks but we just popped in for a quick breakfast and then we're off again." He waved as he headed for the breakfast queue. Quistis hung back to gloat.
"You bitch!" Selphie scowled.
"How did you manage that?!" Rinoa asked.
She shrugged. "I asked if he wanted to do some early morning training and he accepted."
They traded a look. "We should have thought of that."
"And…" She added. "I don't swoon over him as obviously as other people."
"You mean you don't appreciate him." Selphie frowned.
She just smiled. "And now we're going to look at the notes for a Trabian mission that coming up."
"He's going on a mission?"
She nodded. "Probably."
"Can I go with him?" Selphie asked. "Send us to a remote desert island just the two of us where we'll have to huddle together for body heat." She went all dreamy again.
Quistis frowned. "No, we have a few possible people to choose from and you're not on the list."
Rinoa opened her mouth.
"Neither are you." Quistis added.
Evan came back to the table holding two cups of coffee. He handed one to Quistis who smiled and took it.
"Ready to go?" He asked.
She nodded.
They waved goodbye to the other two girls who cried at his departure.
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Seifer hopped around Zell's living room on one leg pulling on his jeans. He had neatly folded the blankets and set them on the sofa with the pillow on top.
Zell had yet to emerge from his room yet and it was 8:30. He knocked on the bedroom door.
"Come in."
He turned the handle and stepped inside. The room was empty. Seifer walked farther into the room. "Zell?"
"In here." A voice from the bathroom said.
Seifer chuckled spotting the tub on hair gel on the sink. "Don't tell me you've spent all this time doing your hair?"
"Hey!" Zell snapped, his eyes not leaving the mirror and his fingers not leaving his hair. "This is not just about hair, this is a work of art."
Seifer scoffed.
"A lot of work goes into my hair." He pulled it into the usual little spikes with one hand, the other hand was armed with the hair gel. "You better get used to my hair routine in case Nida's little parties become a regular thing."
Seifer groaned. "Don't even joke about it."
Zell left the bathroom. "Ready?"
"As I'll ever be." Seifer nodded.
They left Zell's dorm and headed for Seifer's. It sounded quiet in there now, the tall blonde typed in his door code and it opened to a quiet deserted living room. Seifer walked in kicking some rubbish aside with his foot, apart from the beer cans that littered the coffee table, the cupboards and in fact every surface, the room didn't look too bad.
"Not as bad as I thought." He confessed.
Zell had moved from behind him to check for damage. "Um- Seifer?" He called, gesturing to the cracked glass on the cabinet, which held the DVD player.
"Fuckin' hell." The tall blonde cursed, studying his damaged property. "I'm going to kill Nida!" He hissed. "Slowly."
He marched over to his bedroom and flung the door open, it flew back and hit the wall behind it. The room was empty, the blankets were on the floor and the sheets were hanging off the mattress and…. Seifer's eyes narrowed. Someone had emptied out his bedside drawers and the boxes he had under the bed were out and open.
Zell peeked his head around the corner, hearing Seifer growl in anger. "What's he done now?"
"Little shit!" Seifer cursed, surveying the damage. He started digging through the heap on the floor and through what was left in his boxes to see if anything was missing. "They've been through my stuff!"
They both tensed when they heard Nida's bedroom door open, the tall blonde jumped up and ran out, Zell hurried after him.
"Seifer! Don't kill him!"
The pilot paled when he saw them.
"I'm going to kill you! What the hell happened to my bedroom?! My stuff is all over the fucking floor!"
Zell had his arms around one of Seifer's arms and trying to hold him back.
Nida looked like he wanted the floor to swallow him up. "There was a little accident and the bedside cabinet tipped over and the drawers came out b-but we didn't go through anything, it's all there."
The door to Nida's room, which had been jarred opened again and that same dark skinned tall guy stepped out glaring at Seifer.
"You can't threaten my boyfriend like that."
Seifer frowned. "MY dorm is a wreck because of your whore boyfriend."
"What did you call him?!"
"Seifer!" Zell scolded.
The dark guy shoved against Seifer, who shoved right back.
"You heard me!"
"Tain!" Nida argued with his lover. "This is-! Stop it!"
"Shut up Nida!" Seifer aid, looking down to face the pilot. "Don't you think you've caused enough trouble already?!"
The dark guy 'Tain' punched the tall blonde in the face. Seifer rocked back on his heels in surprise.
"The bastard hit me!" He touched the back of his hand to his cut lip, eyeing the ring on the guy's hand.
Seifer stepped forward with a homicidal glint in his eye. "I'm going to kill you!"
Zell pulled him back hard and shoved the other guy back with the other hand.
"Knock it off both of you! Or I'll put you both in the infirmary." He glared at Seifer then turned and glared at the other guy.
Tain shifted uncomfortable, sort of strange for two tall men to obey the shorter one. "He started it." He muttered, childishly.
Zell turned and glared at him.
"Seifer." He said. "Let's go."
He turned to leave, waiting the taller blonde to catch up and he pushed Seifer out of the door ahead of him.
Outside Seifer touched his lip. "You should have let me kill him."
Zell scoffed. "What the hell's wrong with you?! Picking a fight with that idiot! Squall would have thrown the book at you!"
"Maybe." Seifer muttered. "But it would have made me feel better."
Zell rolled his eyes. He moved Seifer's hand so he could look at Seifer's injury. "We should go to the infirmary."
Seifer scoffed. "I didn't even go for this." He stroked his scar.
"That's because you're an idiot." Zell said. "Come on, we'll let the Doc look at it."
Seifer sighed in submission.
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TBC