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Chapter 14

Meeting the Other Dad

By: The Angel Heaven Sent

Rinoa was walking around Garden humming her favorite song to herself, Eyes on me. Not really paying attention to where she was going, Rinoa found herself in the Library.

"Might as well read a book, I have nothing better to do," Rinoa said to herself.

Rinoa spent hours in the library reading about the history of Sorceresses and their knights. While reading Rinoa stumbled upon a chapter about Laguna, Squall's father, and the sorceress before Rinoa herself, Adel, and how Laguna sealed Adel in space. Rinoa, to absorb in reading, didn't notice that someone was behind her.

Squall tapped Rinoa on her shoulder and Rinoa jumped, letting out a little yelp.

"Holy Hyne, Squall you scared me," Rinoa said with her hand placed on her heart.

"Sorry," Squall told her. "What are you reading," he asked noticing the book in her hand.

"Oh, nothing special," Rinoa said while hiding the title of the book from Squall.

Squall, who noticed this, raised an eyebrow, but decided to forget about it because there were more important things to talk about.

"Hey Rinoa," Squall said hesitantly, "Um…can I talk to you about something?"

"Yeah, but we should go somewhere else. I think were bothering the people actually trying to read," Rinoa said laughing slightly. "Here, we can go to my dorm."

"Okay, lets go."

"So…what do you wanna talk about," Rinoa asked Squall while waling to her bed to sit down.

"Well first," Squall started while taking a seat next to Rinoa on the bed, "why did you run away last night after we…um you know…" Squall said blushing a little.

"Kissed," Rinoa said finishing for him, "Yeah… well about that. Well I saw my dad there talking to Headmaster Cid, and I didn't want him to see me there, because I know he's gonna try to take me back to Deling with him. But that didn't work very well because about 5 minutes he was at my dorm," Rinoa ended with a frown.

"Hehe…I think that was my fault," Squall said looking down at his lap. "I talked to him after you left and I didn't know you were trying to get rid of him."

"Oh…Well that's okay. I was able to get rid of him," Rinoa said with a proud smile on her face. "So what else was is that you wanted to talk about," Rinoa said tilting her head to the side.

"Yeah… you know what never mind about that," Squall said getting up.

"No Squall Don't go! Its okay just tell me," Rinoa said grabbing his arm and pulling him back down on the bed.

"Ok…"Squall trailed off trying to find out exactly how to say it, "Well you about how we um kissed," Squall said shyly, "Well did you see anything, you know, like flashbacks kinda."

"No… Why? Did you?"

"W-well yeah," Squall stuttered. She probably thinks I'm crazy, and why the hell am I stuttering? I never stutter! Squall thought.

"Hmm…interesting," Rinoa thought out loud. Should I tell him about Carway? Rinoa though. No… I have to go talk to Laguna!

"Um Sorry Squall, I uh have to go talk to Headmaster Cid about something," Rinoa said rushing out of the room, and slamming the door behind her.

"Why does she always run away without explanations" Squall mumbled to himself.

Cid was sitting in h is office when he heard someone knock on his door.

"Come in," Cid called to the person outside his office, "Ah Rinoa, It's you. Is there something you need?"

"Yeah, actually, I was wondering if you would allow me to go to Esthar to talk to President Laguna," Rinoa asked Cid politely, hoping that he would say yes.

"Yes of course you can Rinoa," Cid said taking his glasses off and standing up from his seat, "but is there a certain reason that you want to go talk to President Laguna?"

"Yeah, but it's a really long story," Rinoa told him, also hoping that he wouldn't make her explain.

"Well Rinoa, I have time," Cid said mentioning Rinoa to take the seat in front of his desk.

"Okay this is how it starts," Rinoa sighed while sitting down, "You know Squall Leonheart? Well a long time ago his family and my family knew each other and our family would always go to visit the Lories. But one day my mom died and problems started between Laguna and Carway, and still to this day I don't know what caused them. But me and Squall were really close, the best of friends is what some would say, but my mom always used to say that we were as inseparable and a pair of Siamese twins," Rinoa laughed to herself at that memory, "But with the problems with Carway and Laguna, my dad wouldn't let me go to the Lories house, so Carway moved us to Deling City. And last night I was talking to Carway, unfortunately, and I found out that he did something to Squall to make him forget everything so her could stop him from coming to see me or something. Carway didn't want any connections with the Lories."

"And because Laguna is Squall's father and the president of Esthar you think he can help Squall," Cid finished for Rinoa, "I'll get you a train ticket for tomorrow morning, so be reading to go by 8:00am, we don't want Squall to know about this."

"Thank you headmaster," Rinoa said happily, "I know you think of Squall as a son, so I'll do my best make sure he gets better."

"Your welcome Rinoa," Cid told her, "I hope it works out too."

Rinoa stepped out of the train into the Esthar train station. Gasping in awe Rinoa thought to herself, So mush has changed sin the last time I was here and that was about ten years ago. Every thing there was highly advanced in technology, and it looked like they had everything you could ever imagine, and the buildings were huge compared to the buildings in Deling, and the buildings in Deling were pretty big.

While Rinoa was looking around she noticed a big guy dressed in black and looked like a bodyguard sanding next to a huge black limousine.

He walked up to her and asked her, "Are you Rinoa Heartily?"

"Yeah that's me," She told the bodyguard.

"President Laguna is expecting you at the palace," He told her while guiding her to the limo.

2 hours later

The limo stopped and Rinoa looked out of the limo's window and smiled to her self. Everything looks the same even though everything else in Esthar has changed, Rinoa chuckled to herself.

The guard opened the limo door for Rinoa and she stepped out and stretched a little, then was lead to the room Laguna was in.

"He's in here," the guard said quickly before leaving.

"Thank," Rinoa said under her breath to the guard that had already left, before knocking on the door.

"Come in," a happy voice said from the inside of the room.

Rinoa opened the door and walked in. All she saw was a flash of colors.

"Ohmygosh, Rinny it's you," Laguna said happily as he jumping up from his chair and giving her a big bear hug. "Wow, how long has it been since I last seen you," Laguna said pulling away from the hug, "Look you're all big now."

"Hey Uncle Laguna," Rinoa said happily as she remembered exactly how happy he always was. "Were is Ellone?"

"Oh she's in her room, you want me to go get her," Laguna asked using his many energetic hand gestures to prove his point.

Still the same I see, Rinoa thought to herself. "No it's okay I talk to her later. First I have to talk to you about something extremely important Uncle."

"Oh okay, what is it," Laguna asked calming down just a little.

"Well," Rinoa hesitated, "It's actually about… Squall…"

A.N Well I hope you like this chapter. I'm gonna try to update everyday now! Hope you enjoy this chapter. See you guys next time!

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