That's Just The Way It Is: Chapter Four
By NikeGrrrrl
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As he prepared to end
all of the pain and suffering he heard a voice that startled him. "Wait! What
are you doing?!" A feminine voice yelled not too far behind where he was
preparing to take his own life. Seifer swung his stiff body around as quickly
as he could manage to glare at the lady who had interrupted him without any
warning.
The girl was about five
foot eight, shoulder length blonde hair (That was soaked), and her big green
eyes stared back at him curiously as she let her hands fall to her sides. She
was wearing a dark colored tank top, a pair of jean shorts, and thick soled
brown sandals that were all also drenched. She reminded him of a younger and
prettier version of Trepe....The girl took a few steps closer to him and tilted
her head to the side.
"What are you doing?
Trying to kill yourself, eh?" She asked with a heavy accent. The girl held her
hands out toward him. "Come here will ya? You'll catch your death....but, I
guess that's what you wanted, no?" She said grinning broadly at him. The rain started
pouring down on the two of them harder and the girl stared up to the sky.
"Quite the bloody storm, eh? Look over yonder, tis lightening." The pretty girl
said to him sweetly as she a warm smile swept across her full cherry red lips.
Seifer took a cautious
step away from the edge and glared at her for making a joke at his expense.
"Who are you? And why don't you mind your own business and leave me alone!"
He yelled furiously at her and he furrowed his eyebrows together. When he saw
the young girl wasn't daunted by his yelling he frowned deeply and put his hand
to his side to feel for his Gunblade. The boy unsheathed it and let it hang by
his side, just barely scratching the wooden boards of the pier. Still frowning
he waited to see what the girl would do.
Laughing the girl
pulled out a weapon that had been behind her. "Hmmm, killing a lass isn't very
honorable, eh? Well, I have a Gunblade, too, so put yours away before you do
something rash! Come, come, can't you settle and talk to me? Don't you ever
tire of killing defenseless girls?" She said grinning again. Seifer's face
turned bright red as he tossed his Gunblade to the wooden boards of the pier in
anger.
"Just, just leave me
alone! Why are you out here this late anyway? Leave if you don't want to die,"
Seifer screeched at her as he bent down to pick up his Gunblade which he thrown
down in his haste. As he reached down he saw a blade in front of his grasp of
the weapon. He dove to the other side to grab his weapon before the girl would
pick it up.
"Now, now, play nice!"
The girl said to him as she bent down and snatched the Gunblade before he could
get his hands on it. Grinning broadly she sheathed her own Gunblade and turned
his around in her hands. "Hmmm, nice, eh? Looks to be a Hyperion....one of the
most difficult to master, no?" She asked him thoughtfully. When she got no
reply and just an icy glare, she proceeded to ask more questions. "Where did
you ever learn to use such a weapon? There are no instructors to help with a
weapon such as this where I come from." The blonde girl said to him as she
motioned for him to stand up.
Seifer stood up and
stared at her menacingly. "I used to go to Garden." He said flatly. The
girl noticed the resentment in his voice and nodded knowingly. "Now leave me alone!"
Seifer yelled at her. When she laughed at his outburst again he began to lose
it. "What are you laughing at?! I didn't say anything funny!" He said furiously
as he threw his hands about in pure rage.
"Well, I think you
should calm down before you hurt yourself. Now, if you ask nicely, I shall give
you your weapon back. You do want it back, don't you?" She asked tauntingly as
she looked at Seifer. A crack of thunder made both of them jump a little and
look over the ocean to see the coming storm. The girl frowned and looked
piercingly at Seifer, it was defiantly not going to be safe holding two metal
Gunblades in a lightening storm.
Seifer thought for
about these events in his head thoroughly for a moment, did he really care if
she had his Gunblade? It meant nothing to him now; nothing mattered to him
anymore. "Take it; take it as a trophy, I think you'll have more use for it
here than I'll have for it in hell," The desperate boy said darkly as he turned
around and took a deep breathe, so this is what the end felt like....
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"So, is Selphie gonna
be O.K. Doctor?" Quistis asked Dr. Kadowaki in an anxious tone of voice. What
had happened to Selphie was very odd, not to mention that boy Zell said that
the two of them had seen before the accident took place. Headmaster Cid said
that after they had found out if Selphie was going to be alright all of them
were to report to the bridge on time. He was very unhappy with all that had
gone on, they were not to repeat this day ever again.
The middle-aged doctor
managed to smile tiredly as she plopped down into her chair beside her desk.
"Yes, Selphie will be fine in a few days. All she needs is some rest. You kids
should make your way to the bridge before you get yourselves in any more trouble."
She finished with a wink of her eye.
Quistis smiled and
thanked the doctor, for the twentieth time that day, before she motioned for
her friends to file out of the room to make their way to the top floor. Irvine
wore a worried look on his face as he stayed behind everyone else to catch a
word with Quistis before they went to the third floor.
Irvine looked at the
floor and let his hands hang at his side. "Uh, Quis, is she gonna be O.K,?" He
asked moving his gaze up to look at Quistis in the eyes. The cowboy worried
about little Selphie, she was just petite and everything.
Quistis turned around
to look at Irvine who was still standing in the infirmary. "Yes, of course she
will, you heard the doctor. Now get a move on!" Quistis answered to him in a
heartless manner as she brushed past him to follow the others. Irvine frowned
deeply, but followed behind her slowly after a quick thoughtful look at where
Selphie's peaceful sleeping form was resting serenely.
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He felt slender arms wrap around his waist; grab him and pull
him away from the edge of the slippery pier. "Do not do it! I promise it is not
worth it!" The girl said in a hurried voice as she pulled them both to the
wooden boards of the pier with a bump.
Seifer struggled to
break free of her grasp around his waist. "Let go of me! Why do you care about
me so dam much!" Seifer yelled at her furiously as he finally rid her arms from
around his waist. He fumbled around for a second before he regained his balance
and pulled himself up to his unsteady feet. The soaked Seifer turned around and
glared down at her.
The girl was sitting on
the pier with he legs in front of her from their struggle, drenched and still
grinning at him. That grin was going to drive him crazy; now he knew how
everyone else felt about his own infamous grin he would flash all to easily.
"Well, you would try to
stop me if I were trying to myself, no?" She asked as she put her hands behind
her back to support her weight. The girl looked up at him and smiled sweetly, a
truly genuine smile. It irked Seifer the way she grinned so easily.
"No! I woulda minded my
own business!" He screeched as unpleasant as his voice would manage, this young
girl really mad his nerves flare. She was just....too pleasant....
She frowned slightly
for a moment as she stared up at the lightening that was brightening the sky in
an eerie light. The girl sighed deeply before she jumped to her feet and
grabbed his big wet hand and started pulling, dragging him toward the
stairs to get off of the pier.
"Well, we can argue
later. Maybe you fancy looking death in the eye and spitting at him, but I
on the other hand would like to live. Ok, come on let's get off this
before lightening strikes us down." She said sternly as she tried with all that
she had not to slip on the soaked wooden boards while she dragged a
half-willing Seifer Almasy.
Seifer skidded after the young girl as she pulled him down the boards by a iron-tight grip on his left arm. He trailed behind her on his bottom not knowing what else to do. Well one thing about her was for sure, she meant business.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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