Chapter 3:Secrets
"General Caraway? There's a girl out here saying she's your daughter, Rinoa. Do you want to see her?" asked his receptionist.
General Caraway looked up from his papers on his desk at the receptionist. He nodded his head silently. The receptionist left.
Rinoa walked in. Her father motioned for her to have a seat. She sat down watching him.
"Rinoa, you know I'm a very busy man. Why have you came here? What do you want?" he asked his daughter.
"Daddy you wouldn't lie to me would you?" she studied her father.
"Why? You know I wouldn't."
"Well I need your help? I have been having dreams lately about a man called Strik. I don't know who he is, but even though there dreams and they could mean nothing but I feel like some how I know him and that he's real and…."
"Rinoa? Where is this leading to?" her father cut her off.
"Well he's looking for Julie. My mother. So I was wondering do you know anything about him?" she questioned her father.
General Caraway paused and remembered his forgotten son. He was shamed by Strik that why he sent him to Military School. He didn't tell Julie until he had to go. Julie hated him for sending her dear son away. But he didn't want people to know what he had done. As far as was concerned he had no son.
What puzzled him the most was how did Rinoa know about him? She's never met him and he had certainly not spoken about him. Julie couldn't have told her because she died before Rinoa had reached her first birthday. He missed his wife, he knew his daughter did too. He remembered the horrible accident that took her life.
"Daddy?" Rinoa looked at her father, "Do you know some-one called Strik then?"
"No. I'm sorry I couldn't help you love," he was now lying to his daughter. Could she sense it.
"Thanks daddy," she walked over to her father and gave him a hug and kissed him on the cheek, "I'll see you on Sunday."
General Caraway watched his daughter walk out the door. Once he knew she was gone he sighed in relief.
"So any help?" Squall gave Rinoa a hug once she walked out her father's office.
She hugged him, "He's lying."
"So now what?" Squall put his arm around his girlfriend as the walked out of the mansion that used to be her house.
"I don't know," she said shaking her head.
"Well let's go home then?" Squall suggested.
Rinoa smiled at him and nodded her head.
This isn't over yet; I will find this guy. Rinoa thought to herself.
Rinoa had promised Selphie she would eat lunch with her today so after her class she had to go find her. Of course she found Selphie hanging out with Irvine. Them two weren't a couple yet but everyone knew they had they fancied each other and it was so obvious. Selphie somehow forced herself to part from Irvine when she saw Rinoa.
Selphie jogged towards Rinoa with a massive grin on her face.
"So what's happened?" Rinoa asked, wanting to know why Selphie was so happy.
"Nothing," she lied.
Rinoa sensed she was lying, "You can't fool me Selphie, what happened?"
"Okay he asked me on a date," she squealed with excitement.
Rinoa softly chuckled at her friend, "Come on where we going for lunch?"
"Let's go into town?" her friend suggested. So they both headed off towards the parking lot.
"So what did your father say about Strik?" Selphie asked getting in the car.
"Not much he said he didn't know him, but I could sense he was lying," Rinoa started the engine up.
"Well what you going to do now?"
"Well in my first dream he escaped from Easther Military School so there had to be some news on it."
"So lets check it out in the library records," Selphie said putting her sun shades on.
"You think there will be something?"
"Well if he escaped there had to be a report in a newspaper about it and the library will have every newspaper so maybe will find this guy."
"You can be clever sometimes," Rinoa smiled at her friend.
Will there be something on Strik escaping from the military school in the library, Rinoa asked herself. Well it was worth a try she thought and maybe she might know why she was dreaming about him.
She then pulled into Balamb.
A dark figure watched her step out the car, "Julie," he said.
