Desperate Souls
Chapter 5: Irvine and Selphie plays..Cupid?
Disclaimer: Yeah..yeah, we all know this already. I don't own Final Fantasy 8, nor do I own any of it's characters, Squaresoft does. Happy now? hehe
A/N: I'm hoping I'm doing a good at keeping Irvine, Quistis, and any of the other FF8 characters IC, if I'm not I would appreaciate if you'd let me know. Otherwise, enjoy. I'm pretty sure I'm doing a good job with Selphie, I'm pretty much like her anyways.
Irvine walked over towards his girlfriend Selphie, who was busy along with the rest of the Garden Festival Committee. The stage for the upcoming event was starting to look spectacular, tall beams with neon colored lights ran along the side of them held up the stage where the band would be performing. On a smaller, separate stage that stood opposite the larger one, two large spotlights were being set up by technicians. Irvine had to give Selphie and the others credit, they had done a damn good job on setting this event up.
He was surprised when hands suddenly covered his eyes, nearly knocking off his cowboy hat in the process. He smiled when he heard a giggly voice ask, "Guess who?"
"Umm...Zell? No wait...Squall?", he smirked.
"Noooo....try again!"
"Arghh..oh..could that be my love....Selphie?"
She giggled and removed her hands from his eye's, taking his cowboy hat off and putting it on her own head. "Bingo!"
Irvine turned to look at her, leaning down to place a kiss on her lips. "Hey babe."
"Hey, Irvy. So, whatcha doin'?"
"Oh, nothing much. I just got through talking to Quisty, and I need your help with something."
Selphie grabbed her tall boyfriend by the hand and led him over to the stage stairs, motioning for him to sit down next to her. "Okay, what is it?"
"Alright, one thing though, this has to stay just between us, cuz if this got back to Cid, or anyone else, Quisty could lose her liscence. Okay?"
She placed a thumb and forefinger together, running them along her lips like she was gripping an imaginary zipper, and then pretended to throw away a key. "Secret's safe with me."
He nodded with a smile on his face. "Alright. Well..", he paused, not knowing where to begin.
"C'mon Irvy, don't keep me waiting in suspense!"
"Oh..here it goes. You remember those new cadet's we got yesterday? The one's from that juvy hall in Esthar?"
"Yeah...what do they have to do with Quisty?"
"Well, she's got the hots for one of 'em. She told me today after her class."
"Ohh...yeah, that's something we really need to keep quiet. Umm...which one is it?" She shifted the way she was sitting on the stairs, bringing her knees up to her chin and resting her head on them while looking up at Irvine.
"Heh..this is going to sound kinda funny, especially for Quisty."
"Irvine Kinneas! Stop doing that, you know how I hate waiting for an answer!" She hit him on the arm playfully.
"Ow..okay, okay. It's the only girl in the group, Jade. I had kinda got the idea that she liked her when we first picked them up in Esthar. She had acted kinda jumpy infront of her, and you know how odd that is for Quisty."
Selphie nodded. "Yep, she must really like her if she got nervous. Heck, she had never done that around Squall...which I really couldn't blame her. He's been a real butthole lately, have you noticed that?"
Irvine laughed. "Yeah..anyway, back to the subject at hand. What are we going to do about Quisty? We have to help her out, you know?"
"Yeah. You know, I think I had met this Jade person yesterday. Quisty was showing her around garden I think, and I could definitely tell something was up." She said matter of factly, nodding so Irvine's cowboy hat flopped down, covering her eye's.
He laughed and pushed the brim of the cowboy hat up, so he could see her eye's. "So, you wanna play cupid with me, or not?"
She sprang up, throwing his hat in the air and catching it. "Of course. But we'll have to very discreet about this, and that's the easy part.", she walked back over to him, her face serious now, "Only thing is..how are we going to get them together? I mean, alone so they can talk?"
He stood up, pacing back and forth with his hand to his chin, then suddenly looked at her, grinning. "I've got it! We can like, go to Balamb or something and bring them along. You can say you need Quisty to help you pick out an outfit for the Garden Festival, and I want Jade to come and keep me company while you ladies shop. Then after..we can 'accidently' lose them in the crowd..and presto!"
"Hmm..and while I'm with Quisty, I'll get her to talk about Jade..and you can drop hints to Jade that Quisty's want's to jump her bones!"
Irvine was shocked at Selphie's language, he'd never heard her say something like that. "Selphie! I can't believe you just said that!" He laughed.
She blushed slightly, "Oops, I don't know what got into me.", she giggled a little. "Well, tell me this..'Mr. Cupid', when are we going to do this?"
He took a moment to think, then answered. "Why not today? It's only...", he looked at his watch, "4:27. We have plenty of time if we go get them now."
"Okay, meet me at the front gate. I'll have the car waiting...and make them sit next to each other in the back seat." She gave him a sly grin and winked, then skipped off out of the Quad.
He sighed and laughed at the same time, "Hyne help me..."
Jade sat at the small desk in her dorm, reading the last page of her book. She closed it and set it aside, and looked around her dorm for something else to do. She stood up from the chair she was sitting in, and stretched, and as she headed over to the couch she heard a knock on the door. She sighed, wondering who it was now, and walked over, opening it to reveal a grinning Irvine Kinneas. "Hey Irvine....why are you grinning like that?"
"Oh, no reason. Hey, I came by to ask you if you wanted to come to Balamb with me and my girl, Selphie?"
She cocked her head to the side, crossing her arms at the same time. "Why me?"
"Well, Zell was too busy...and I don't even bother asking Squall..asshole. Anyways, I figured we could go to a junk shop and see if we can find you a better weapon. That old Valiant is on it's last legs, and someone with your talent needs something way better."
"Sure..but you're going to be paying, I don't exactly have alot of money on me at the moment.:
"Oh, no problem, sure. Now get your coat and let's go."
She nodded and left him standing at the door, and returned a moment later with her coat on. She closed the door behind her and they walked down the hall to the front gate, while at the same time she wondered what was going on? She shrugged the thought away, figuring she might as well make the best of it, since it wouldn't be very often that she'd be able to leave garden. They finally arrived at the front gate, and Irvine pointed out Selphie, who was waiting in the rather small, blue jeep. She nearly tripped when she saw who was sitting in the back, they'd never told her Instructor Trepe was going, and now she had the feeling this was going to be a very long trip.
Quistis sat in the back of the small, topless Jeep. She nearly jumped when Selphie all of a sudden shouted at Irvine and started waving him over. She looked over in his direction and her heart started pounding in her chest. She couldn't believe that Irvine had invited Jade, the object of her desire, and didn't tell her about it. She quickly brought a hand up to her hair, which she was wearing down, the blonde locks running down her back with a few strands in her eyes. She started to run her hands through it, making it seem like she was busy fixing it, but really she just needed something to keep from showing how nervous she was.
She looked over at them as they came up to the Jeep, and smiled. Her smile faded when she realized Jade was going to be sitting next to her in the small back seat, but her heart's pounding only increased. Once Jade settled in, she was right up against Quistis, uncomfortable from the look on her face. She couldn't help but wonder if it was because of her, or if it was because when she sat down her knees came up to her elbows. She raised a hand up to her mouth to suppress a giggle, she thought Jade looked so adorable when she was frustrated. Like she was a small child that didn't get what it wanted, or was arguing with it's parents. When her little giggle fit passed, she looked over to see Jade staring at her, and she quickly looked away, blushing slightly. She was about to say something when Selphie turned to look at them, "You guys ready?"
Jade spoke up, the sound of her voice making Quistis want to, well she didn't want to think about what she wanted to do, "Yeah, I am. The sooner we get there the sooner I can get this damn cramp outta my leg.", she said with one of those grins that could drive anyone crazy.
"Alrighty! Let's PAH-TAY!" Selphie put the jeep in gear and hit the gas, making Quistis and Jade accidently bump into each other, their heads bumping against one another.
"Oww..Selphie, how did you ever pass your driver's exam?", Quistis asked, while rubbing her head.
"Hehe..", Selphie giggled.
She heard a moan come from Jade, and looked over. She was smiling while holding her head, then leaned over towards Quistis. "Think someone else can drive back?"
She laughed, and leaned in closer, wanting to be closer than what she was now but she didn't let on to Jade that was what she was thinking, "I think I'd rather walk back and face a few Bite Bugs."
A few strands of Jade's hair flew against Quistis' cheek, tickling it slightly, and she loved it. She wondered what it would feel like to tangle her hands in it while her lips were pressed up against her's, in a kiss more passionate than she'd ever imagined. As these thought's passed through her mind she started to blush, and shied away from Jade, turning her attention to the passing scenery. 'Oh, lovely Quistis. You're lusting after one of your student's.' She closed her eye's, trying to clear her thought's but they just ended up going back to Jade's storm blue eye's.
Jade turned away from Quistis, staring ahead, glancing at her every now and then. She'd wondered why Instructor Trepe had started blushing like that. She wondered if it was possible that she was nervous around her because, maybe, she had
Chapter 5: Irvine and Selphie plays..Cupid?
Disclaimer: Yeah..yeah, we all know this already. I don't own Final Fantasy 8, nor do I own any of it's characters, Squaresoft does. Happy now? hehe
A/N: I'm hoping I'm doing a good at keeping Irvine, Quistis, and any of the other FF8 characters IC, if I'm not I would appreaciate if you'd let me know. Otherwise, enjoy. I'm pretty sure I'm doing a good job with Selphie, I'm pretty much like her anyways.
Irvine walked over towards his girlfriend Selphie, who was busy along with the rest of the Garden Festival Committee. The stage for the upcoming event was starting to look spectacular, tall beams with neon colored lights ran along the side of them held up the stage where the band would be performing. On a smaller, separate stage that stood opposite the larger one, two large spotlights were being set up by technicians. Irvine had to give Selphie and the others credit, they had done a damn good job on setting this event up.
He was surprised when hands suddenly covered his eyes, nearly knocking off his cowboy hat in the process. He smiled when he heard a giggly voice ask, "Guess who?"
"Umm...Zell? No wait...Squall?", he smirked.
"Noooo....try again!"
"Arghh..oh..could that be my love....Selphie?"
She giggled and removed her hands from his eye's, taking his cowboy hat off and putting it on her own head. "Bingo!"
Irvine turned to look at her, leaning down to place a kiss on her lips. "Hey babe."
"Hey, Irvy. So, whatcha doin'?"
"Oh, nothing much. I just got through talking to Quisty, and I need your help with something."
Selphie grabbed her tall boyfriend by the hand and led him over to the stage stairs, motioning for him to sit down next to her. "Okay, what is it?"
"Alright, one thing though, this has to stay just between us, cuz if this got back to Cid, or anyone else, Quisty could lose her liscence. Okay?"
She placed a thumb and forefinger together, running them along her lips like she was gripping an imaginary zipper, and then pretended to throw away a key. "Secret's safe with me."
He nodded with a smile on his face. "Alright. Well..", he paused, not knowing where to begin.
"C'mon Irvy, don't keep me waiting in suspense!"
"Oh..here it goes. You remember those new cadet's we got yesterday? The one's from that juvy hall in Esthar?"
"Yeah...what do they have to do with Quisty?"
"Well, she's got the hots for one of 'em. She told me today after her class."
"Ohh...yeah, that's something we really need to keep quiet. Umm...which one is it?" She shifted the way she was sitting on the stairs, bringing her knees up to her chin and resting her head on them while looking up at Irvine.
"Heh..this is going to sound kinda funny, especially for Quisty."
"Irvine Kinneas! Stop doing that, you know how I hate waiting for an answer!" She hit him on the arm playfully.
"Ow..okay, okay. It's the only girl in the group, Jade. I had kinda got the idea that she liked her when we first picked them up in Esthar. She had acted kinda jumpy infront of her, and you know how odd that is for Quisty."
Selphie nodded. "Yep, she must really like her if she got nervous. Heck, she had never done that around Squall...which I really couldn't blame her. He's been a real butthole lately, have you noticed that?"
Irvine laughed. "Yeah..anyway, back to the subject at hand. What are we going to do about Quisty? We have to help her out, you know?"
"Yeah. You know, I think I had met this Jade person yesterday. Quisty was showing her around garden I think, and I could definitely tell something was up." She said matter of factly, nodding so Irvine's cowboy hat flopped down, covering her eye's.
He laughed and pushed the brim of the cowboy hat up, so he could see her eye's. "So, you wanna play cupid with me, or not?"
She sprang up, throwing his hat in the air and catching it. "Of course. But we'll have to very discreet about this, and that's the easy part.", she walked back over to him, her face serious now, "Only thing is..how are we going to get them together? I mean, alone so they can talk?"
He stood up, pacing back and forth with his hand to his chin, then suddenly looked at her, grinning. "I've got it! We can like, go to Balamb or something and bring them along. You can say you need Quisty to help you pick out an outfit for the Garden Festival, and I want Jade to come and keep me company while you ladies shop. Then after..we can 'accidently' lose them in the crowd..and presto!"
"Hmm..and while I'm with Quisty, I'll get her to talk about Jade..and you can drop hints to Jade that Quisty's want's to jump her bones!"
Irvine was shocked at Selphie's language, he'd never heard her say something like that. "Selphie! I can't believe you just said that!" He laughed.
She blushed slightly, "Oops, I don't know what got into me.", she giggled a little. "Well, tell me this..'Mr. Cupid', when are we going to do this?"
He took a moment to think, then answered. "Why not today? It's only...", he looked at his watch, "4:27. We have plenty of time if we go get them now."
"Okay, meet me at the front gate. I'll have the car waiting...and make them sit next to each other in the back seat." She gave him a sly grin and winked, then skipped off out of the Quad.
He sighed and laughed at the same time, "Hyne help me..."
Jade sat at the small desk in her dorm, reading the last page of her book. She closed it and set it aside, and looked around her dorm for something else to do. She stood up from the chair she was sitting in, and stretched, and as she headed over to the couch she heard a knock on the door. She sighed, wondering who it was now, and walked over, opening it to reveal a grinning Irvine Kinneas. "Hey Irvine....why are you grinning like that?"
"Oh, no reason. Hey, I came by to ask you if you wanted to come to Balamb with me and my girl, Selphie?"
She cocked her head to the side, crossing her arms at the same time. "Why me?"
"Well, Zell was too busy...and I don't even bother asking Squall..asshole. Anyways, I figured we could go to a junk shop and see if we can find you a better weapon. That old Valiant is on it's last legs, and someone with your talent needs something way better."
"Sure..but you're going to be paying, I don't exactly have alot of money on me at the moment.:
"Oh, no problem, sure. Now get your coat and let's go."
She nodded and left him standing at the door, and returned a moment later with her coat on. She closed the door behind her and they walked down the hall to the front gate, while at the same time she wondered what was going on? She shrugged the thought away, figuring she might as well make the best of it, since it wouldn't be very often that she'd be able to leave garden. They finally arrived at the front gate, and Irvine pointed out Selphie, who was waiting in the rather small, blue jeep. She nearly tripped when she saw who was sitting in the back, they'd never told her Instructor Trepe was going, and now she had the feeling this was going to be a very long trip.
Quistis sat in the back of the small, topless Jeep. She nearly jumped when Selphie all of a sudden shouted at Irvine and started waving him over. She looked over in his direction and her heart started pounding in her chest. She couldn't believe that Irvine had invited Jade, the object of her desire, and didn't tell her about it. She quickly brought a hand up to her hair, which she was wearing down, the blonde locks running down her back with a few strands in her eyes. She started to run her hands through it, making it seem like she was busy fixing it, but really she just needed something to keep from showing how nervous she was.
She looked over at them as they came up to the Jeep, and smiled. Her smile faded when she realized Jade was going to be sitting next to her in the small back seat, but her heart's pounding only increased. Once Jade settled in, she was right up against Quistis, uncomfortable from the look on her face. She couldn't help but wonder if it was because of her, or if it was because when she sat down her knees came up to her elbows. She raised a hand up to her mouth to suppress a giggle, she thought Jade looked so adorable when she was frustrated. Like she was a small child that didn't get what it wanted, or was arguing with it's parents. When her little giggle fit passed, she looked over to see Jade staring at her, and she quickly looked away, blushing slightly. She was about to say something when Selphie turned to look at them, "You guys ready?"
Jade spoke up, the sound of her voice making Quistis want to, well she didn't want to think about what she wanted to do, "Yeah, I am. The sooner we get there the sooner I can get this damn cramp outta my leg.", she said with one of those grins that could drive anyone crazy.
"Alrighty! Let's PAH-TAY!" Selphie put the jeep in gear and hit the gas, making Quistis and Jade accidently bump into each other, their heads bumping against one another.
"Oww..Selphie, how did you ever pass your driver's exam?", Quistis asked, while rubbing her head.
"Hehe..", Selphie giggled.
She heard a moan come from Jade, and looked over. She was smiling while holding her head, then leaned over towards Quistis. "Think someone else can drive back?"
She laughed, and leaned in closer, wanting to be closer than what she was now but she didn't let on to Jade that was what she was thinking, "I think I'd rather walk back and face a few Bite Bugs."
A few strands of Jade's hair flew against Quistis' cheek, tickling it slightly, and she loved it. She wondered what it would feel like to tangle her hands in it while her lips were pressed up against her's, in a kiss more passionate than she'd ever imagined. As these thought's passed through her mind she started to blush, and shied away from Jade, turning her attention to the passing scenery. 'Oh, lovely Quistis. You're lusting after one of your student's.' She closed her eye's, trying to clear her thought's but they just ended up going back to Jade's storm blue eye's.
Jade turned away from Quistis, staring ahead, glancing at her every now and then. She'd wondered why Instructor Trepe had started blushing like that. She wondered if it was possible that she was nervous around her because, maybe, she had