Authors note: I DO NOT OWN THEM OK!!! SQUERESOFT DO!!
Do not sue! Please? It's no use. I don't have the money anyway.

Well Enjoy!

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2. Confusion

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"Aaahhh!" There were a loud splashing sound and then coughing.
"I hate my life..." Ivy had fallen into the water when trying to get a hold of Irvine's hat. And now she was irritated again. She snatched the hat and placed it on her head to be able to get out of there. There was no idea trying to climb up struggling to hold the hat in her hands. The climb was successful. She didn't fall back down anyway.
"Now I need to go and change my clothes again. I hate this... should I find that Irvine guy now or do I change first..." she looked down at the pool forming by her feet's.
"Change first..." She made her way towards her room and didn't notice the tree girls sitting on a bench discussing something. They didn't seem to notice her either.

"Selphie calm down." Quistis put her hands on her friends shaking shoulders.
"Easy for you to say, you heard him. How could he talk like that in front of me? Doesn't he have a hart at all?" Selphie looked down at the floor. Rinoa nodded her head.
"I agree that he shouldn't have talked about that either. But why would he do that? I mean blurt it out in front of you?" Selphie surged.
"I don't know... hey why is there water on the floor." The other girls looked down and then to the left to se the pool of water on the floor. Then they looked the other way and saw a creamed colored coat and black hat disappear around the corner.
"Was that Irvine?" Quistis asked.
"It looked like him... but why was he all wet?" Rinoa looked at the pool of water to the side and then stood and walked over.
"Looks like he climbed out of the water here. Do you think he was spying on us?" Rinoa looked confused.
"Why would he spy on us then walk right past us?" Quistis asked. Selphie stood and followed the footprints.
"Hey Selphie where are you going?" Quistis stood and followed her friend. Rinoa came jogging after them.
"I'm going to se where he is going of course." They followed the footprints to the dorms, then where the hallway split into two, the footsteps went to the girls part. Selphie was fuming and so were Rinoa and Quistis.
"He doesn't own a soul at all." Quistis said. Rinoa nodded.
"He's just a playboy."
"I'm gonna kill him!" Selphie yelled. The other girls jumped a foot then looked at the small girl.
"I don't think that's such a good idea. Why don't we get him barehanded, then you can yell at him. He probably doesn't know that you know where he is going. Let's go to my room. It's the closest to the one Irvine is "visiting"." Quistis said and walked of towards her room, with Selphie and Rinoa following.

Irvine sat at the table and looked utterly confused. And it didn't help that Zell was asking him questions every other minute. But that was soon shoved away for later. There were other things to attend to. And he didn't know where Selphie could have gone.
"Well, you are going to show that new student around in a little while. Maybe you should be going." Squall said then rose from the table.
"Hey Irvine. Mind if I come along?" Zell asked.
"Are you going to make a pass on her or what?" Irvine joked.
"Nah, just going to make sure that you don't." Zell joked back then stood as well. Squall was already making his way towards the door,
"Hey Squall! What's is this chicks dorm number anyway?" Irvine asked.
"336. It's right across the hall from Quistis room." With that he left the room to go and take care of some headmaster stuff. Irvine waved then took the hat that he had placed on the table then stood making his way towards the door as well.
"Well let's go then." They started walking towards the dorms. Zell noticed that Irvine wasn't wearing the hat.
"New hat Irvine?"
"Nah, think I accidentally traded with Ivy last night." He handed the hat to Zell who looked it over.
"It's to small for me."
"Hey Irvine. Did you notice the letters embodied in here?" Zell pointed at the inner trim of the hat.
"No. What does it say?"
"Humm... I.K.V."
"Probably the first letters in her name." Zell handed the hat back to Irvine.
"I would have guessed it was your hat in a hart beat. The first two letters is the same as in your name." Irvine nodded. They soon reached the girls dorms. They had seen odd wet footprints all the way there. Irvine stopped outside door no. 336, and so did the footprints.
"Wonder why there is wet footprints all the way to her room."
"Well you can always ask her when you see her Zell." Irvine smiled then knocked on the door. They could hear footsteps and a muffled answer, then someone tripping over something.
"Just a minute. I'll be right there."
"That sounded like it hurt..." Zell said.

Ivy had just stepped out of the shower when she heard a knock on the door. She walked towards the door toweling of her hair in the process. As she didn't see where she was going she tripped over the small coffee table in the living room. And landed ungracefully on her face. She sat up and called to the door.
"Just a minute. I'll be right there." She wrapped a towel around herself then walked over to the door still toweling of her wet bangs.
"Yes? Can I help you?" She didn't wait for an answer she just turned around and headed towards the bedroom. Not even bothering to look who were standing at the door.
"Whatever it is it can wait for a couple of minutes, I just need to get dressed." She pushed the door, semi shut, with her foot as she entered her bedroom.
"Make yourself at home in the meantime."

Irvin nodded at Zell. And at that moment the door opened and a girl only clad in a green towel stood there toweling of her hair.
"Yes? Can I help you?" The girl in the door asked. Zell's face became red and he turned his head away. Irvine had been right they were the same height. Irvine was about to say something when she turned around and headed towards the bedroom.
"Whatever it is it can wait for a couple of minutes, I just need to get dressed." She pushed the door closed. Irvine and Zell stood there for a little while then entered.
"Make yourself at home in the meantime." They heard her call from the bedroom. Zell sat down on the sofa and looked around the room. It looked exactly like his, well except that it was cleaner. Irvine was standing and made another attempt to introduce himself.
"It's me Irvine, from last night. I'm here to give you a tour around the garden. And I think we accidentally traded hats last night." Irvine walked towards the bedroom without thinking, and Zell was in his own thought at the moment so he didn't notice the tall man walking away.
"Oh, so you are my guide for the day, eh? And you are right about the hat ting. Your hat is bigger and I kind'a drop..." she stopped talking as she heard someone enter the room. She was only wearing her under garments and was in the process of putting on a pair of blue jeans. She hopped into then quickly then turned around to give the intruder a peace of her mind but ended up gaping and only staring at him.
'It's like looking into a mirror... with obvious differences of course.' Ivy thought. Irvine was staring to. He could hear Zell saying something.
"Hey Irvine you can't go in there..." Zell was a little late to give that advice.
"Whoa! What's this?" Zell looked from Ivy to Irvine then back again. Ivy's chock finally couth up to her and she started screaming. If it wasn't bad inuff that there were two guys in her room and she was only half dressed, one of the guys looked like her. That was too much for her. The two boys wasn't prepared for the scream, neither the knife's that were hurled their way. Ivy stopped screaming and looked at the now pinned guys. She grabbed a shirt and quickly put it on. Then she walked up to Irvine and picked up her hat that were laying at his feet's and threw it on her bed.
"Ok, is this some kind of a sick joke or what? Who are you?" Ivy placed the tip of the knife she was holding to Irvine's throat. She glanced sideways towards Zell. He looked utterly confused and didn't say anything. He just looked back and fourth between the other two. The resemblance was incredible.
"Tell me who you are!" Ivy was getting stressed out. This was too much. This wasn't happening at all. It was only a bad dream.
"I'm Irvine Kinneas. And who might you be then?" Irvine asked. Ivy's eyes went wide and she stumbled back.
"Ireen Kinneas Valentine..." She looked away from them. Feeling dizzy all of a sudden. She searched in her memory trying to remember something that was just out of reach. Suddenly her eyes flew open and she jumped up from the floor. Then she slapped Irvine across the face glaring at him. Both Irvine and Zell locked stunned. Then she set them free from the wall they were pinned at.
"How dare you leave me at that ranch all alone? You just walked away not saying a word! You left me with those gross people!" Irvine looked confused then something crept out from the back of his mind.
"When you left they started nagging at me all the time! They thought that I knew were you gone! But I didn't have a fucking clue!" She went quiet for a while then talked in a whisper.
"Do you remember now? Like I remember?" Irvine looked at the floor. Trying to remember. Did the GF's have that much power, to erase such memories?
"But it was during the first sorceress war..." Irvine mumbled to himself. Ivy became angry again.
"You could have taken me with you! Those people didn't want to leave me alone one second. Then some other weird looking people came and took me to Eshtar... there I was placed in an orphanage and when no one adopted me I was sent to a school. I have lived there until now, when they finally threw men out! But I don't get it why I didn't remember you... when you left the ranch I promised myself to find you. That I remember now..."
"When did you first junicate a GF?" Zell asked. Ivy looked confused.
"When I was about ten I think. Why?"
"You mean you haven't heard about the GF's blocking or even erase some of your memories if you use them for a longer time?"
"No. Never. But that could explain a lot of things." She sat down on her bed, looking kind of defeated. Irvine was desperately trying to remember. It was fuzzy, but he could remember the ranch, and Ivy. But he had just used the GF's for 2 years. And that wasn't even frequently. Maybe he had wanted to forget. But why? He snapped out of his thoughts when Zell waved a hand in front of his face.
"Hey Irvine!"
"What!"
"Remember anything?"
"Some..." Irvine raised an eyebrow.
"Hey! You always put me into trouble when we were at the ranch!" Irvine pointed at Ivy? It looked like she remembered to. She laughed nervously.
"What do you mean? I didn't do anything."
"Now I remember why I walked of. It was because I was angry at our "parents", and got lost in the nearby forest. Then when I finally found my way back, everything was gone. Burnt to the ground. Someone must have found me and taken me to Marton's orphanage. I thought you were all dead." Ivy's eyes went wide.
"Now I remember why they didn't leave me alone... there were bombs dropping from the sky. I was terrified, and I didn't know where you were and I wanted to find you. I ran of towards the big hill... and then there was this big explosion. When I looked back there weren't anything there, just burning peace's of wood." She closed her eyes trying to remember more. She sighed.
"Well... that's about it. I can't remember much more before that. Just that it was fun." She smiled. Irvine took a step back. He knew that smile. Then Ivy jumped up and tackled him.
"Yay! I finally found you! And you have to tell me what you've been up to!" she sat on Irvine's stomach and looked utterly happy. Then she jumped of and dragged Irvine to his feet's. Zell looked confused again, and so did Irvine.
"Oh come on! Don't look like that. You look like two goldfishes."
"Well you change moods in a hart beat. Do you blame us fore being a little taken back?" Irvine asked. This whole situation seemed familiar. Then he came to think about something.
"You still tripping over everything Ivy?" Irvine laughed at Ivy's reaction. She looked like a dear caught in the headlights of a car.
"Of all the things you could have remembered, that would be it." She sighed.
"Wait a minute... Now I get it why all the GIRLS have been flirting with me!" Now both Irvine and Zell burst out laughing. Ivy frowned a little then started laughing herself.
"Well, are you guys going to show me around or what? And when you do that you can fill me in what you have been doing all this time." Ivy said.
"Sure thing. Then we can have a laugh of all the odd looks we are going to get." Ivy smiled.
"Yah, but we have to state out that I'm your twin Sister and not your twin Brother. I really don't enjoy being mistaken for a guy. I had inuff of that at my school in Eshtar." She smiled as she walked over to her dresser and took out a pair of socks and put them on. She looked around and saw her dripping wet coat and shoes. She sighed. She roamed through her bag and found her black tennis shoes.
"Yes! You know what Irvine. Someone stole my bags at the station. Can you believe it?" she put on the shoes and grabbed her hat from the bed and placed it on her head.
"You know, it's kind of freaky that you two almost dress exactly alike." Zell stated out when he saw the coat and boots at the other end of the room.
"I kind of agree with you... um... what's your name anyway?" she looked over at Zell and raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, I'm Zell Dincht."
"Nice to meat you Zell." Ivy smiled and once again roamed through her bag. After a little while she dug out a cream colored jacket that reached to her thighs. She shook it out to get rid of some of the wrinkles, then threw it on and headed for the door.
"Hey Ivy. Where is my hat?" Ivy stopped dead in her tracks and turned to her left and grabbed his hat from a lamp just outside the bedroom door. She threw it like a Frisbee, and Irvine caught it.
"Ivy... why is it wet?" Ivy continued towards the door.
"I kind a, accidentally drooped it into the water. Hope I didn't ruin it." She heard soft laugher.
"So that's why there were wet footprints all the way to your door."
"Well I couldn't leave your hat it the water now could I, and when I reached for it I kind a fell in to." She knew it sounded funny. She was just about to say something when there was a knock on the door. She was standing right in front of it so she just opened it. And was greeted by an angry looking brunet. She was just going to ask what she could do to help her, but before she could do that she felt pain across her right cheek. She did the only thing she could think of that moment. And that was hit back. She hit the girl square in the jaw.
"What the hell are you doing?" Ivy yelled at the stunned girl.
"Ivy? What's going on?" Irvine asked from behind her. He saw Selphie sitting on the floor and Rinoa and Quistis kneeling besides her.
"That girl just hit me!" Zell walked up behind the twins and looked at the girls on the floor.
"What happened her?" Ivy glared at Selphie and the two girls on the floor who looked stunned and confused.
"Two Irvine's? But how..." Rinoa was trying to think of something to say. In the meantime Irvine stepped out of Ivy's room and helped Selphie to her feet. Ivy looked really angry. She was cracking her knuckles, partly not to lash out at the girl again.
"Selphie are you all right?" Irvine asked. Selphie moved her mouth but nothing came out.
"I think she is in chock Irvine. Is she one of the many girls you flirted with or what?" Irvine glared a little at Ivy.
"She is my girlfriend."
"Well you must have done something to piss her of. Because I don't think that hit was meant for me. Well let me introduce myself." She looked towards the three girls.
"I'm Ivy Kinneas Valentine." She took of her hat and made a little bow. She was in a sarcastic mood. She smiled a little and paced her hat on her head again.
"What!" The girls echoed together.
"Ah... yes this is my twin sister." Rinoa studied Ivy.
"You look like a guy." Ivy bit her lower lip and cracked her knuckles again.
"Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't know that." She said through clenched teeth. She closed her dorm door and grabbed Zell's arm.
"Hey Zell. Can't you give me the round tour of the garden? I think Irvine need some time to explain to his girlfriend of this whole situation. " Irvine gave her a hard stare.
"Um... Sure..."
"Oh no you don't Ivy. You are going to help out me here!" Ivy had started running down the hall.
"Sorry! That's you prob! Not mine! Com on Zell! You're so slow!"
"I'm not!" Zell didn't think he just started a dead run after Ivy. Irvine suddenly felt very uncomfortable. It could be the fact that the girls were staring at him like he was an alien.
"What just happened?" Selphie asked.




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