Kai: Hello :D ah yes Fang saves the day :D sorta. She's so very clever isn't she X3? mwahaha. Poor Lia, Fang's going to shove her into this XD While Lightning is going 'WTF?' haha :D this should be fun no? Now Lightning's pov ^^
Chapter 9: Memory Scars
Lightning growled as she stood just outside of the theatre as she stared out to look at all the booths that set up around the plaza, decorations stradled all over with some gifts and souveniers. Today was the day of the festival, and she had practiced her lines for the play, other then the kiss scene. After that day where Fang dared her to french Lia, she hadn't talked to either of them. Mostly avoiding them. Even if it wasn't Lia's fault, that kiss... it felt so different from the kisses Noctis gave her. Like there was a undying warmth, not too hot like fire, but her body sure felt like it. Honestly, she had felt dazed from the short passionate kiss.
Apparently, Lia was a very good kisser since Lightning had felt like she was going to melt under the kiss. It felt like... something she hadn't experienced, like the silverette actually meant it... or something. Nah, Lia was probably just skilled is all. But she just couldn't bring herself to look the silver haired girl in the face for about a month now. After telling Noctis about it, she did feel a bit guilty for kissing someone else even if Lia was another girl, he seemed cool with it. Since it was just a dare after all. Things like that happened in dares, especially when Fang's playing?
Still, it was just something about her... And that dream.. She had thought Noctis was her first kiss, yet after Lia kissed her, a fuzzy dream came to mind that night.
~FLASHBACK~
A fairly tall girl with pink hair, wearing a simple white T-shirt and blue jeans, sat beside a silver haired girl, both having blue eyes. They sat together! With a younger girl on the other side of the silverette, head lying in the other girls lap.
Serah giggled softly as she played with the long silver hair, her fingers tugging at the soft strands. The older Farron, Claire, softly sighed as she looked at her younger sister. Gently giving a scolding look toward the youngest girl. Just then her little sister looked up at the two of them with soft curious eyes.
"Hey Oneechan, does your mommy and daddy put their mouths together a lot? Ours seem to do it a lot and it's really weird.. They looked like they were trying to eat each other." the young girl chirped innocently, her blue eyes filled with confusion on the strange situation.
The silverette only giggled softly. "They're just kissing, Serah. People who love each other do it a lot." she explained, giggling, as she watched Claire sigh at her sisters question.
"Well then why haven't we done it? We love each other!" the younger pinkette complained as she sat up and pouted.
"It's a grown up thing." Claire sighed softly, tilting her head.
"Why can't we do it? I say we should so there let's do it! You two first okay?" Serah cheered softly.
Claire frowned then looked at her friend, who shrugged a bit. Curiousity brought their faces slowly closer, hesitation in both of them as they looked at one another. This looked odd whenever Claire saw her parents do it so she wasn't sure about it but shrugged also. It was only a quick peck on the lips, the two of them blinking and soon giggling.
"Weird.." the silverette giggled.
"Agreed." Claire giggled with her.
"My turn my turn!" Serah chirped happily.
Soon, the three were exchanging innocent kisses with one another, giggling their little heads off as cherry blossom petals gently floated from above them, landing in their hair. The silverette soon thought and grinned a bit.
"Kissing's fun and all... but I think tickling is better, eh Serah?" she grinned.
Serah blinked but giggled, both of them looking mischieviously at Claire who scooted away, before she was pounced on and was under the mercy of the two's tickling. Her giggles ringing out of the air while their laughter sung with her.
Lightning sighed at the dream she had, it was such a peaceful and innocent dream. Yet it seemed so real, she just had a hard time remembering everything before the accident. Just who was that girl? Did she exist? Or was she just a dream, a figment of Lightning's imagination? It was possible, yet she wasn't really positive on that. Maybe she was a childhood friend she just forgot about. She would have to speak to Serah, see if she remembered that girl.
The thoughts disappeared when she saw Noctis stroll over to her, giving a soft kiss in greeting. A blush crept onto her cheeks and she smiled. Yet, her mind flashed back towards the kiss Lia gave her. She mentally hissed, pushing the memory away. She loved Noctis, she couldn't go around and be thinking of kissing other people.
Especially a girl! She didn't go that way, honest, that was Fang's and Vanille's deal. Even they get teased and laughed at for their relationship. Of course, Fang usually kicked anybody's ass whoever dared to laugh or poke fun at their relationship. Or any man who tried to 'convert' them. It's happened before with Vanille, but Fang got there in time. Boy, that guy was hurting for a long time.
"Hey Light, you feeling alright? Plays almost ready to go on." the black haired man said, gently putting a rose in her hair.
Lightning softly sighed but smiled at the flower. "I'm fine, just wish everyone didn't make me do this." she said in slight irritation, her blue eyes glaring towards Fang who was happily eating cotton candy with Vanille on the fountain bench.
Noctis chuckled a bit. "Well at least it's your silver haired friend." he said, chuckling more as she looked at him in confusion. "She seems to be a very kind and dependable person. Everyone in school has been asking her to do things since they first made preparations. See?" he said pointing the direction of the booths.
The said silverette, was running all over hell and back, carrying some supplies to booth to booth, or anywhere they needed to go. A bunch of students would go up, ask a favor and she accepted then ran around all over again. It was no wonder Lia had been just exhausted every night and passed out on the bed when she reached it. Students had in a way, started to take advantage of her good nature. At the same time, her fans started to increase because she about did anything she could to help.
She would comfort those who were sad, even if she had no idea who they were. She would help with any task if asked, she'd help people study, carry stuff, give advice, and more. Lightning thought that Lia shouldn't be so nice, since it just causes trouble on her.
On the word of trouble, remember that girl that Lia helped on Valentine's Day? Well that girl pretty much bolted out of no where and tackled Lia from behind. The silverette fell forward, landing on her stomach, but surprisingly managed to hold the boxes she was carrying above her head so they didn't go crashing with her. Lightning could see the girl raving excitedly and gushing lovey dovey crap as she hugged Lia tightly from behind, squealing like some fan girl. The poor silverette looked like she was choking.
Well that was Flora Witherfield. After Lia had comforted her and cheered up, the girl had been pretty much stalking Lia and would often try to hug, tackle, kiss, glomp, and all that stuff. She made box lunches for the silverette, and of course, Lia just couldn't refuse any gifts given to her. So due to Lia's good nature, she earned a few stalkers slash fans.
Lucky for Lia, some other people wanted her help and pretty much pried Flora off and dragged the silverette somewhere.
The pinkette sighed a bit. "Yes I suppose so, if she lives long enough to finish the play." she answered, blushing a bit as Noctis kissed her cheek and embraced her gently. A blush crossing his own cheeks as some students passed by giggling.
She had been enjoying Noctis's warm embrace, but Fang just had to come running over and grabbed her wrist, yanking her away from the black haired man who blinked in utter confusion. Lightning glared at the Oerban woman with ice daggers before spitting venom out with her voice.
"What?"
Fang rolled her eyes and grinned. "Well it's about time we get ready don't you think? Come on already we need to go and take a nice bath. Later Noctis gonna take her for awhile now!" she said, before forcefully dragging the irritated soldier away.
When they reached the bathhouse, Serah, Vanille and Lia were already there. Apparently, they had managed to drag Lia away from everybody else. But it looked like Lia was trying to get the hell away from them, since Vanille and Serah were just in towels while Lia was still clothed and trying to pry their hands off her clothes.
"Oh no no no no! I can bathe by myself! Thanks I'll just go take a shower back at the room and changetheir!" the silverette said, with a slightly nervous smile, but Serah was pretty much yanking off the boys uniform jacket.
"You are bathing with us with weither you like it or not! You don't need to be so shy! You have such a pretty body! No need to hide it so much!" said Serah as raised the shirt, or attempt to as Lia gripped her clothes tightly into place. Her right hand gripping the bottom of her shirt, pulling it down, while the left gripped the top of her pants, tugging them up as Vanille tugged down on them.
Lightning twitched a bit at the scene, it honestly looked like Lia was going to be raped or something since the two were determined to unclothed her. Fang was currently laughing at the situation, which the pinkette didn't understand. Watching them, Lightning sighed till Serah gave a annoyed huff, before pulling with all her might, the shirt slipping over the silverettes's head as the younger girguy eloped as she fell backwards, landing on her bum. She watched her sister blink slowly before looking up and gasped.
The soldier looked at her sister curiously before looking at what she was staring at. Her own blue eyes widened at what she saw. Scars, so many scars decorating Lia's toned slender body. There were just too many to describe, on her arms, her stomach, her chest, her back, even her throat. One particular scar were the numbers on her chest.
1050
That was such a odd scar, and it didn't look like any tattoo. Most of these scars were large, especially on her back, having huge gashes from something long and sharp. It almost made even the soldier cringe away but she couldn't help but stare. Neither could the others who starred with slightly open jaws. Lightning and Fang had their share of scars, but nothing like this, it looked like Lia lost the war or something but survived it by a sheer miracle.
Lia slightly wrapped her arms around her stomach, a failing attempt to cover the scars from the staring eyes. "Um... Heh... Guess you found out eh?" she chuckled, dropping her arms then rubbed the back of her head with her left hand. Twitching as Vanille unconciously pulling Lia's pants down, revealing more scars on her hips and her legs.
"W-wha... Lia what happened to you?" Serah blurted out before covering her mouth with her hands. "Oh sorry... I... Probably shouldn't of asked..." she whispered, her blue eyes wide with shock.
"Nah it's fine, it's in the past... Guess I just didn't want to scare any of you with these. Makes me pretty ugly ya know?" the silverette chuckled, gently grabbing Serah's hands and pulling her to her feet.
Serah blinked a bit, before blushing and waving her hands. "Oh! N-No! Your not ugly, I just didn't expect you of all people to have scars like that." she said softlyl her eyes slightly wandering over the scars, only to land on her chest. Obviously noticing the numbered scar.
Fang tipped her head, raising a eyebrow. "The hell you do on Gran Pulse? Get mauled by a King Behemoth?" she said, as she started to take off her own clothes.
Lightning watched the silverette simply shrug before stripping her bra and underwear, giving in now since the scars were revealed. The soldier watched as they got into the bath together, before Fang yelled at her to get in also before she fetched Serah and Vanille on her. She growled but stripped as well, soon joining them in the water. She boredly watched as the other girls chattered, a bit nervous because of Lia's body, but didn't dare ask too much.
She couldn't help but wonder about the number though, so she leaned closer to Lia and whispered quietly. "Lia... About your chest scar..." she whispered, a bit embarrassed as her eyes trailed over the silverettes's exposed chest, the rest below it hidden with the warm water.
A smile traced the silver haired girl before whispering back. "...just don't worry about it. It just represents my personality, no need to worry." she replied before patting her back then grinned playfully. "Or do you just want to look at how big they are?" she whispered.
Lightning blinked, then flushed in realization, before turning away from her with a huff, faceraw red as a tomato.
Lia apparently could be such a tease! But she has been staring..
Damn it... Lucky the others didn't notice their interaction.
"Thank you for caring though..." Lia whispered under her breath.
Lightning blinked, turning to look at her, but Lia had turned to chat about the plans of the play. The soldier blushed and sighed softly.
Such a odd girl... But those scars... Where did she get them?