A/N: Hello all!! Sorry it's taken me so long review... Please don't hate me!! My life has been SO hectic lately you'd never believe it. Welp, anyway, here's the next chapter! Enjoy!!
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He clicked his silver cellphone closed and sighed.
"...Well?"
He looked at the cellphone with a devilish grin and chuckled cruely," She says that it's not fair that I don't trust her and that I'm the one that cheats, not her. Where she got THAT idea, I'll never know..." Seifer turned his head slightly to see the blonde that was resting her head on his shoulder out of the corner of his eye.
She smiled back at him," Me neither." They laughed together in a mocking manner. "Poor girl..."
Seifer smiled and sat his cellphone on his nightstand that looked cheap and tacky, just like most hotel furniture. "Do you think he suspects anything?"
The blue eyed blonde shook her head," Not a clue."
"Quistus, you are gonna talk to him tomorrow, right?"
"Of course, Seifer. I told you I would."
They smiled and kissed, laying back together on the bed. Seifer hoped no one was in the rooms around their's.
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He had gone back to his room and stumbled like a drunken idiot the whole way. He couldn't believe that he had done that to Quistus... But it felt right. There was something about Rinoa that he just couldn't put his finger on that was so different from every other girl he had ever dated. He finally collapsed onto his bed in his dark room with a rather large and weary sigh. He still couldn't believe he had kissed Rinoa but more so, she kissed him back. He realized that he was smiling. Well, good job Squall. You've officially screwed things up to the point of no return. Gold medal on that one!! His mind was a whirlwind but finally, sleep caught up to him.Just down the hall, Rinoa was lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling. He's got a girlfriend... But he kissed me first.... That makes NO sense.... Tomorrow he'll apologize and things'll never be the same way they were again... I might as well go ahead and talk to Laguna about Caraway so I can go before things get to... Personal. The thought of leaving made her face fall and tears threaten to escape her eyes. But I don't wanna go home.... She quickly put on a stern face and decided she wouldn't do this. She would go home and forget all about Esthar... Irvine, Selphie, Laguna, and Squall. She closed her eyes and feel into a shallow sleep.
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Squall was up earlier than usual, a lot earlier. He was in the kitchen when Rinoa came in, unable to break her habit of waking up early. She glanced at the clock which showed her it was 5:30."You're up early."
His voice startled her and rosed her from her thoughts. "You usually get up this early?"
"Nope, I've never seen a sunrise in my life and as you can see," he made a gesture to the pair of glass doors that showed a peaceful garden that was blanketed by dew and a coming twilight's sky. "I'll see one this morning. This house was built like this just so you could see the sunrise over the city." He was standing at the stove turned away from her, wearing a pair of loose fitting long cotton pants and a black muscle shirt to match. She was wearing a grey hoodie sweatshirt that was too large for her and a pair of long grey sweatpants. Her hair was back in a loose ponytail and to her it was a complete disaster but when Squall stole a glance of her when she turned to look out the doors, he thought she'd never looked better. "You want some breakfast?"
She shook her head," Nah, I don't eat breakfast."
Squall emptied his scrambled eggs onto his plate that also had bacon and toast on it and sat down at the small table, facing the doors so he could see the sunrise. Rinoa gingerly put a hand on the door handle as if it would break and opened it slowly. Squall watched her, wondering what she was doing. She stepped outside and closed the door behind her, walking a ways out onto the wet grass towards a small bench that sat kind of out of place, right in the middle of the garden. She sat down and pulled her knees to her chest and wrpped her arms around them. She didn't hear the door open behind her, or the footsteps that came up behind her. She didn't realize he was there until he sat down next to her and even then, she didn't really acknowledge him. She simply stated," They look better outside. It makes you feel closer."
After a short silence, Squall spoke up,"About last night-"
"I'm sorry..." the words surprised Rinoa as they fell out of her mouth. They were barely over a whisper. "I shouldn't have done that. You have a girlfriend and from what I can tell, you two are close."
At the last line he almost laughed out loud. He had told her they had known each other for years but they were never close. They barely hugged or anything. He couldn't recall a time that they had kissed except for on the cheek. They had never done anything serious. Ever. She never took they're relationship seriously but in a sense, neither did he. They were just close friends that called themselves a couple. Nothing more really. Now, they definately weren't. "Actually, I called Quistus this morning. I wasn't going to-"
Rinoa shook her head and looked at him wide eyed," You didn't break up with her, did you?! No! Don't do that!"
Taken back by her sudden outburst, he shook his head," Why?"
"Because it would never work! I live in Galbadia you live here in Esthar! Your family is so nice and your father is so great and everything and Caraway is just... It'd never work!"
Squall chuckled quietly," Can I finish now?"
Rinoa lowered her head and blushed furiously," I'm sorry."
"I called her this morning to talk to her. Whether I was going to break up with her or not, I didn't know and I was going to judge on how the phone conversation went on what I was going to do. But before I could even give it a thought, she told me that she had found someone else and basically that she didn't need me anymore in not so many words."
Rinoa looked at him," I'm sorry... I just.. I jumped to conclusions. Now I feel stupid.." She laughed lightly and it made Squall smile to see her smile.
His hand almost automatically made a move to touch her cheek and comfort her but he held back, he was afraid it'd scare her away. "Don't feel stupid. Trust me I've done a lot stupider things than that."
"Such as?"
"Well, let's take yesterday for instance.." just the mention of yesterday set Rinoa off in giggle fits. "Yesterday, I got a speeding ticket worth a good 350 gil because a certain someone with the name that rhymes with Rinoa Heartilly, decided to race the almighty ME. Now, isn't that just the smartest thing in the world?" Rinoa was thrown into hysterics and hit Squall playfully in the arm.
"Hey, you took me up on it!! It's half your fault!"
Squall looked at her in shock," Oh so I'm just supposed to tell you,'No, I can't race.' and let you win by default!? I don't think so!" He cocked his head back in laughter and Rinoa quit laughing just long enough to check the horizon.
"Squall, look!"
He looked towards her gaze and saw the most beautiful sunrise that Esthar had seen in a hundred years.
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