Fool in Love
By: Goddess001
"Hello beautiful," Leo whispered in a soft voice. He smiled and brought let go of her chin. Instead he took her hand and kissed it like he had on the train. She watched him intently and began to worry. "What's wrong?"
"Oh nothing," she said shakily and snatched her hand back. "So what are you doing here?"
"I live right over there," he said pointing to a small homey beach house. "Well actually it's just a summer home but I love to stop by once in a while just to check up on it and catch some fresh air too. What about you? I thought you were going to Deling."
"Oh yes I am," Quistis replied and tucked and stray strand of hair that had snuck from under her hat, back behind her ear. She hoped Leo didn't notice the slight shake in her hand. "I'm checked into the Galbadia Hotel but um…my friend and I drove over here. He promised he'd take me to the beach."
"Oh that one," Leo said nodding his head and scratching his chin.
"What does that mean?" Quistis asked suddenly becoming angry. 'Who is he to say who I can come to the beach with and not come to the beach with?!?' she demanded in her mind. She watched as he rolled the idea of Quistis and the guy from the lunch compartment on the train, coming to the beach together and not tearing each other apart, in his head.
"Is he your boyfriend?"
"No but we've become…good friends," she said pausing to hear the sound of that come out of her own mouth. Somehow it didn't seem right. All that time fighting the Sorceress War, he was known as the 'enemy' but now they had become 'good friends'. Maybe it was possible.
"Oh I see," Leo replied staring at Quistis intensely. He smiled and reached for her hand again. "Join me for lunch Quistis. Your friend, Seifer was it? He can tag along too if he likes."
"So who do we have here?" a voice behind Leo asked. Seifer stood tall as he looked down upon the two who were sitting in the sand of the beach. His hand reached up and slipped through his hair, slipping it back into place. Quistis sat there astonished watching, as Seifer's sleek look was made even sexier only by his wet hair.
"Quistis? Quistis?"
"Huh? Oh sorry Leo," she said turning bright red and closing her eyes to stop Seifer's infamous grin, which she knew was etched onto his face, from reaching her eyes and making her blush even more. "I'm sorry but I don't think that lunch will be possible. We had a late breakfast."
"Oh well how about dinner?" he asked not bothering to notice Seifer's presence.
"I don't know," she said shaking her head. "It's really short notice and I don't know if I can be ready."
"Don't worry about what you look like, just come and have dinner with me. Please?" Leo asked and watched, as Quistis' features changed and he knew that she was about ready to say yes to his offer.
"She's busy tonight," Seifer said from the background.
"Oh? You are?" Leo asked lifting one perfect eyebrow over at Quistis. She didn't know how to answer his question. Sure something had changed between her and Seifer but what if she passed up this ideal opportunity with this wonderful man? What if she made the wrong decision and left Seifer who could have been the one she was waiting for. 'What? Did I just say that?' she asked herself. She smiled and knew the answer. "Yes I am Leo. I'm so sorry that I couldn't join you for dinner but it was really nice seeing you again."
"Okay," he said throwing up his hands in a defeated position. "Maybe I'll see you around Deling sometime."
"Maybe," she answered and waved as he walked off into the distance. She stared at Seifer as he took his seat next to Quistis. "Don't even," she replied and picked up her discarded book.
"What?" Seifer feigned innocence and Quistis couldn't help but laugh at him.
"So, do we really have something planned tonight or did I just pass up the greatest chance to get out of my hotel room?" Quistis asked lifting a blonde eyebrow.
Seifer laughed and put his hands behind his head staring up Quistis. "No actually if you want, I did have something that we could do tonight," he said grinning. Quistis smiled and obviously her answer was 'okay, don't be late'. The rest of the day was a quiet one, Seifer occasionally throwing in a smart-ass comment here and there. Quistis would retort sometimes, but then she would smile and nod not letting him totally get to her. About an hour later, they had packed their things in the rental car and drove back to Deling. Quistis had forgotten her book lying on the beach but someone was there ready to have a reason to see her again, just to return her book…
* * * *
That night around six o'clock, Seifer had told Quistis to be ready. They would be leaving in thirty minutes to go out. Quistis had insisted that he tell her where they were going so she would know what to wear, and all Seifer said was that it was close by and that they would be on their feet a lot.
"All right but I still think that you should give me more time!" Quistis called from the bathroom.
"Stop complaining and hurry up! I'm going to go down to the lobby to make sure some things are taken care of! I'll be back to get you!' he yelled shutting the door, letting Quistis get ready in peace. Maybe he could be a gentleman after all. She already knew that he could be her knight in shining armor but now he was showing the fragile romantic side of himself and Quistis found it more and more appealing each second.
She dressed up in her long red grown and let her hair down since she knew that Seifer liked it better down. He told her that once out of the blue and Quistis blushed. She sat on the bed slipping on her stiletto heels and walking over to the mirror once more to get a final look at herself.
"Damn Quistis! Why don't you ever wear this kind of stuff around Garden?" Seifer asked slamming the door shut. Quistis laughed and covered her mouth. She lowered her head to hide the deep blush that was climbing into her face. Seifer grunted and walked over to Quistis. "So, are you ready?"
"Of course," she said and slipped past him to grab her shawl that hung in the closet. "So are you going to tell me where we are going tonight Mister Mystery?"
"Nope not just yet," Seifer said coming up behind Quistis and wrapping a blindfold over her eyes.
"What are you doing?!" Quistis yelped.
"Just wait and see," he replied and pushed her through the door. "Trust me Quistis. I won't let you fall," Seifer said taking her arms and pinning them to her sides once he saw that she had stretched her arms out to feel if she was going to hit anything, and not to mention trip over something.
A/N: What do you think? Are things moving a bit too fast? I was going to wait and finish this chapter with all the goody details like where Seifer was going to take her but I figured why not leave it like this so that the readers have to wait and see what happens? *grin* Sorry I know you must hate that! I do too! But I couldn't resist!