Author's note~ Okay I posted this once before but never finished it so I wrote another chapter of it... a lot of this is to test out the new chaptering system. But if you have read this chapter before it is still the same one.
Rinoa glanced at herself in the mirror and bit her lip to stop herself from bursting in raucous laughter. She smoothed her hair back into a ponytail and grinned. She examined the skirt from all angles before she decided she wasn't happy with it. She trod lightly across to the chest of drawers and pulled out her pair of black shorts. She was then satisfied that the skirt wasn't tight enough to show her shorts and that the shorts weren't long enough to peek below the skirt, she shook her head, not believing that they were doing this. The knocking on the door made a broad grin break out on her face. 'You decent yet?' He asked. Rinoa bounced to the door and pulled him through before slamming it shut. She turned to face him and couldn't hold it back. She had an attack of the giggles.
'Oh my god! What do you look like?' She asked him, he tipped back his hat with one finger and raised his eyebrows.
'Me? What about you, little miss show-her-knickers?' Irvine's face broke into a broad grin. 'God, I felt like such a dork on my way here.' He told her.
'I think the cowboy hat was probably a mistake if you wanted to be taken seriously. It just clashes with the uniform.' She grinned, took it off his head and flung it on her bed. He ran his fingers through his hair.
'I know, I just couldn't bring myself to leave it behind.' He sighed, then he looked at her and burst into laughter. 'I'm sorry, but the ridculously short skirt looks wierd on you, and that little yellow ruff thing...' He trailed off in helpless giggles.
'I know, I don't know who designed the female students uniform, I bet it was a man.' Rinoa tugged down the skirt at the back.
'Oh, it's the uniform I would have put young females in.' He said with a bright grin. She gave him a slight smack around the head when he leered at her.
'You think they're all together yet?' She asked and he shrugged.
'Maybe, they won't get it you know.' He told her and she shrugged.
'I know, but we get it and that's all that really matters. They're already SeeDs. I'm not going to be 'that honourary SeeD' if something is mine then I want to have earned it.' She said and pulled down the skirt again, this time the front.
'I still can't believe Xu put the forms through without once showing them to Squall.' Irvine's eyes crinkled in a smile.
'He's more on the, kill, fight,die side of things... new students really don't bother him... as long as there are new students.' She frowned at herself in the mirror. 'You know I'm going to talk to Squall about this uniform.' She decided.
'Hey, what's wrong with flashing a bit of leg?' He asked. 'You do it in your shorts all the time, and Selphie does it too... all the time.' She grinned at the emphasis.
'Oh you're such a man.' She said with a grin. 'Come on, time to tell the others what we're doing.'
'Can't I just tell them and, you know, not dress up already?' She reached up and grabbed him by the ear and he yelped as she dragged him out.
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Squall frowned at the time, he was entirely too curious as to what Irvine and Rinoa had planned to tell them. Selphie was jigging about impatiently and Zell was sprawled across the sofa. Quistis was looking through her teacher's notes. 'What's taking them so long?' Selphie asked in frustration. Squall echoed that thought privately.
'Maybe they forgot?' Zell suggested.
'Rinoa forget something? How likely is that?' Selphie said to him sardonically.
'Hey it was a theory.' He protested lamely, she rolled her eyes at him and he stuck his tounge at her.
'Put it away or put it to good use.' She said and laughed at how his eyes bulged from his head in surprise.
'Woah, I just went to a scary visual hell then.' Zell told her with a grin and she went for him.
'Children!' Quistis said annoyed. 'Behave.'
'Make me.' They said in unison. Quistis slowly raised her head and looked at the pair of them. They were suddenly finding the ceiling very interesting. Quistis lowered her head again.
'You know...' Selphie said, her head still craning up towards the ceiling. 'Why do we paint ceilings, I mean, nobody looks at them, not when they're this high anyway. There sort of superfluous... you know... painting wise.' She lowered her head and looked at them. It was Squall who answered her.
'You have too much spare time on your hands.' He told her.
'Way too much free time.' Zell said. Selphie gave him a warning look, Quistis glanced up at Squall.
'You can cut the sexual tension with a knife can't you?' She observed laconically, Squall nearly smiled and Selphie and Zell went bright red. It was at that point the door burst open and Rinoa and Irvine fell in, their laughter fell in with them. The others stared at them and they grinned at each other. They stood back to back and posed. *Think Charlie's angels*. It was Zell who began to crow with laughter.
'What are you two wearing?' He asked tears of laughter streaming out of his eyes. Rinoa tugged at her skirt.
'Long story.' Irvine told him.
'We want to be SeeDs.' Rinoa supplied. Irvine looked at her and then shrugged.
'Okay so maybe it wasn't that long.'
'You two... you're going to start doing classes?' Selphie asked and they nodded. 'You two?' They nodded again, Selphie joined Zell in a giggling heap on the sofa.
'You don't have to do this, I'll promote you to SeeDs if that's what you want.' Squall told them both, it wasn't that he didn't want them to do this, it was that he was afraid that they'd be embarrassed by all the younger people.
'You see... That's why we're gonna do this, we don't want to be given anything.' Irvine said, Zell and Selphie stopped laughing and looked at him, hearing his tone of voice.
'I think you've earned it.' Quistis said. 'We don't expect our students to face down soceresses on their field assignment you know.'
'Yeah but it will mean all the more to us if everyone sees us earning it.' Rinoa told them, Squall sighed and nodded. Selphie groaned.
'Great, now I'm going to have serious thoughts in my head all night.' Zell began to laugh again. 'What.' He smiled slightly at her. 'What?' Still with the small slow grin. 'What?'
'I was thinking about them taking world history.' He said and Selphie turned to them with bright eyes. It had been her worst module ever.
'Oh yeah...' Irvine and Rinoa looked at each other. 'Don't worry, it's a lot of fun... Quistis teaches it.' Quistis frowned at them.
'It's a lot of fun... you know without the boring part removed.' Zell continued and Quistis frowned.
'You're getting me back for the sexual tension comment aren't you?' She asked them and they nodded. Irvine and Rinoa looked at each other and grinned.
'Squall, who designed these uniforms?' Rinoa asked and he shrugged.
'Edea.' Quistis told her.
'Edea designed this medievil torture device?' She asked.
'You want to be in Trabia in the midst of winter if you think this is torture.' Selphie said to her with a grin.
'No thanks, unlike you, I'm not a masochist.' Rinoa told her with a small smile.
'Well I try.' She grinned. 'Newbie classes start tommorrow don't they?'
'Yup.' Quistis, the fountain of knowledge, replied. Selphie wrinkled up her nose and began to laugh.
Author's note~ Testing out the new system now... so... here goes