Disclaimer: I do not own ff8 and it's characters, they belong to Squaresoft :(
Betrayed Secrets
People were starring at her, as if she was monster.
They must be thinking why a girl
like me is walking down the streets all alone at this late at night...
with cuts and bruises. She sighed, and pulled the jacket closer around
her.
Rinoa looked around her, Deling was
a familiart place to her. Where am I going to go? Her eyes
gazed down the road, the direction to her house.
She shook her head. No, I will
not go home. Not like this.
"Miss? Are you alright?"
Rinoa turned and saw a women with hazel eyes. "I'm fine thank you."
The women left with a little nod.
Rinoa looked beyond the women and
gasped as she saw the white trenchcoat of Seifer. He was running down the
street towards her, his face was red with anger. She started running, even
though it was very fast, she still ran.
She rounded a corner, and she noticed
that she hadn't gone very far from the hotel. How stupid!
She winced in pain at her leg, and nearly tripped on a bump on the sidewalk.
She looked over her shoulder and her eyes widened in fear at how close
Seifer was.
She ran frantically down the sidewalk.
No one seemed to be around this street, it was just a silent neighborhood
area. Rinoa cried out in pain as she twisted her ankle and fell onto the
cement.
She looked above her, and Seifer stood there, panting and furious.
"I told you not to go anywhere! You bitch!" He grabbed her by the hair and yanked her into a standing position.
Rinoa yelped at the pain from her
ankle. Seifer let go of her hair, and looked around them to make sure no
one saw there. He glared at the girl and led her to the back alleys to
get back to the hotel.
"You won't like it when we get there
Rinoa." He grunted. "I have to teach you that you listen to my words."
Selphie, Irvine, Zell, and Quistis sat around in Selphie's room.
"I think we have to find Rinoa to know the truth of all this." Selphie sighed. "Which will kinda be hard."
"Yeah, without Squall noticing." Zell added.
"Well, I heard Xu say that Squall has alot of work tomorrow, so he probably will be in his office all day. Not like he even comes out anyways." Quistis starred around at her friends.
Irvine nodded,"Where do we start looking?"
"How about Timber? And then Deling? Since Rinoa has friends in Timber, and Deling is where her father lives." Zell suggested, and waited for agreement.
Everyone nodded. "But, how about Seifer?"
"If it's true that Rinoa did it with
Seifer, then Seifer will probably be around her. But let's no worry about
him. We have to find Rinoa and find the truth!" Selphie jumped off her
bed. "And we'll find her!"
The sun rose, making the grass glisten from it's morning dew. Rinoa shivered, but she didn't move.
Her eyes were still wide with horror,
as she watched her own blood flow from her wounds. Last night, Seifer had
bruised her face even more, and had given her even more cuts. Her ankle
still ached in pain from the fall, but she was glad that Seifer was no
where to be seen.
She held onto the wall for support, and stood up slowly. She limped her way to the door.
I don't care anymore. I just want
to be somewhere else! She opened the door, and limped down that
same hallway she had done yesterday. If I have to go down this hallway
a hundred times to get out, I'll do it.
"Ppppst! Zell! You in there?" Selphie knocked lightly on her friend's door.
He opened it shortly afterwards, and grinned. "I'm ready. Where's Quistis and Irvine?"
"Irvine is down the hallway waiting for us, and Quistis is at the front gate. We have to be quiet, cause everyone is still sleeping."
They crept out, joined by Irvine,
to the front gate. Quistis nodded, and they all got into the car, and drove
towards Timber.
Squall awoke an hour later after Quistis, Zell, Irvine, and Selphie's departure. He groaned and got up to go to his office.
He walked slowly, and stopped. He
glanced at the dorm door, room 678. That was Rinoa's. He forced his eyes
away, but his hand went to the knob. He turned it slowly, and opened the
door.
The room was stuffy, since the windows
had not be opened for a long time. Nobody had entered the room since the
last time he had stepped in.
Squall glanced at the blanket, with
the little bit of fabric gone. It was still on the bed, in a curled up
ball. He felt angry, but at the same time, he longed to see his angel again.
But then there was his angry side, boiling over him, and making him build
that wall around himself to block himself from everyone outside of it.
Squall looked at the desk, which was
lightly covered with a bit of dust. On it, was Rinoa's necklace. Squall
reached for it, then pulled himself back from it.
She betrayed me.
Squall clenched his fists together, but something caught his eye. A scarp of paper under the chair.
He bent down, and picked it up.
Help me
The two words in black ink yelled
back at him. He frowned in confusion. The words were in Rinoa's writing,
but why did she write help me.
Squall placed the piece of paper in
his pocket. And left the room, his mind confused by his thoughts.
Quistis sighed. "Ok, we're here in Deling. If she isn't here, then I don't see how we're going to find her."
"Timber wasn't any help, let's just hope that we're in luck," Selphie jumped out of the car.
Zell slowly got out. "I hate car drives. I get car sick you know."
They laughed, but they quickly entered the city with the afternoon sun blazing down upon them.
"Should we check the mansion?" Irvine asked.
"Do you think she would go to her father?"
"Not very likely... but if she was desperate, we never know!" Selphie shrugged.
They walked down the busy streets, and into the shopping destrict. Zell yawned as Selphie stuck a stuffed teddy bear in front of his face. "Isn't this guy cute?! I wish I brought gil with me, but I didn't!"
"Selphie, we aren't here to shop," Quistis reminded.
Zell shoved the teddy bear aside when a figure caught his eye. They person was a block down, but Zell could tell that it was a girl. A girl dressed in black who was leaning against a brick wall.
"Hey guys.... I think that's Rinoa!" Zell started running down towards her, his friends following close behind.
The girl turned to their direction, her wide eyes starred back at them. When saw them, her eyes grew even wider.
"Rinoa!!!"
Rinoa heard her friends calling her
name. Her vision blurred, but she could here them. They were getting closer
and closer, and still calling her name. She felt dizzy, but she could still
here the chant of her friends calling... calling to her. And then everything
was black.
