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I stepped out of the car and looked around. There were people everywhere! I grabbed my backpack from the seat and slipped it over my shoulders. It was light right now, but I knew that at the end of the day it would be very heavy. I leaned over to the driver.
"Aidan, could you pick me up right here at four?" I asked.
"Certainly, miss." He said.
"Didn't we cover that already? It's Selphie. Not Miss Tilmitt, not miss. Selphie."
Aidan smiled and touched his hat. I shut the door and he drove off.
Just because I was rich didn't mean I was spoiled rotten. I wasn't sure how Father would react if he found out that I was having his servants call me by my first name, so he just wouldn't have to find out. That was the logical solution.
Our family was very rich and had been for generations. It was nice, but most of the time I would have much rather been a normal teenager and not one that had to worry about all this feud business.
I smoothed out my short yellow dress with my hands as I walked up the steps. My palms were sweaty, I noticed. I was really nervous.
I looked around for someone who seemed nice. I saw a girl with short blonde hair; she was wearing a red minidress with black trim. "'Scuse me." I said, and she looked at me. "I'm awfully sorry to interrupt, but could you tell me where the attendance office is?"
She rolled her eyes and turned away. I hadn't expected a warm loving welcome, but I hadn't expected outright rudeness, either. I walked away, watching the sidewalk instead of the people in front of me.
That was how I collided into someone. I looked up immediately. "I'm really sorry!" I apologized quickly before I actually looked at the person.
The girl-it was a girl-laughed. It was a nice laugh, not a mean one. Rather like a giggle, but not quite. "Don't worry about it." She said in a faintly accented voice. She had a soft tone, but a way of speaking that I knew must have gotten people to listen to her right away when she spoke. I could also sense a little bit of uncertainty, deep down in her words.
I looked at her. She was wearing a rose-colored tank top, and a short black skirt. It wasn't as short as mine, but it was close. She had on black sandals and there was a book bag slung over her shoulder instead of a backpack like the one I wore. Her long blonde hair hung down over her shoulders. The girl had deep blue eyes that seemed to capture you. She wore a pair of silver-rimmed spectacles and a small smile hovered about her lips. She was taller than me, but not a beanpole or anything.
"I'm Quistis Trepe." She said.
I gave a small sigh of relief. It would be just my luck if the only person who was nice to me were a Kinneas. I was glad she wasn't.
"Selphie Tilmitt." I said, watching her carefully. There was no change in her expression, if anything her smile broke out a little more. We shook hands.
"You're the new girl, then. My homeroom teacher told us yesterday that you'd be transferring here from Trabia Academy and that we should be polite and help you out because this was probably a much bigger school than you were used to.
"That's me! The teacher was right. This place is enormous." I grinned and looked over my shoulder at the other girl. "She must not be in your homeroom then."
"Who?" She followed my gaze. "Oh, Lily. She doesn't listen to anyone, especially teachers." She frowned and then smiled again.
"Why'd you transfer?" Quistis wanted to know.
"I didn't like private school anymore. The kids there were really snobby. I got sick of it. Plus, I missed my family."
"Well, that's a good reason as any, I guess." We stood there for a minute, and then, looking about the courtyard, I saw the guy of my dreams.
He was amazingly handsome. His long auburn hair was tied back into a ponytail, and he wore a long tan coat and a cowboy hat. I could see part of a dark shirt underneath the coat, and black pants and cowboy boots topped off the ensemble.
"Wow..." I said softly. There were a few people with him, a guy with spiky blond hair and a tattoo on the side of his face, a girl wearing blue, and a guy that had his arm around the girl's shoulder. He was cute, too, I guess, but not as cute as the first guy. Something about him looked familiar, but I couldn't place it.
Quistis noticed who I was looking at. "Does he have a girlfriend?" I asked.
"No. Half the girls in school like him, but he's currently unattached. Wait-you said your last name was Tilmitt, right?"
"Yeah."
"The Tilmitt?"
"Actually, yeah." I wondered if she would decide she didn't want to be friends with me because of that.
She wasn't like that, though. "Don't get your hopes up then."
"Why?" I said, relieved. "Who is he?"
"That, Selphie, is Irvine Kinneas. The son of Viktor and Lysa Kinneas."
"No way." I said dejectedly. The cutest guy I'd ever seen and he was the son of my father's archenemy. Well, rival would probably be a better word, but still…
"He most certainly is."
For the second time that day, I sighed and hung my head.
"I wouldn't be too broken up over it if I were you. He's a heartbreaker." She slipped her arm around my shoulder. "I'm guessing you need to find the attendance office."
"Yeah!" I said, my good spirits restored. Well, a little, anyways. "That's what I asked that girl, Lily."
"Well, you don't need her help now. You've got me." She grinned. "Friends?"
"Most definitely." I smiled back. "So, tell me more about you?"
She made a face. "See that guy over there?" She pointed to the one I had noticed with Irvine earlier, the one who was with the girl in blue. "His name's Squall Loire. His father is Laguna Loire, the journalist."
My eyes widened. "Woow! Sir Laguna!"
She laughed. "Hmm?"
I realized I'd have to explain to her. "Sir Laguna is, like, my hero! I have every single Timber Maniacs magazine. I post them on my website."
She laughed.
"So, what about this guy, anyway?"
"Well, our parents were best friends. I've had a crush on him for a really long time. But he's with that girl Rinoa." She gestured to the girl in blue.
"Aww...That sucks. I'm really sorry."
"Don't be. It's not your fault."
"So, who're your other friends?" I asked, trying to get her mind off of Squall.
This time she smiled. "Well, there's this group that I hang out-Hey!" She waved at someone and beckoned them over as we walked up towards the school.
A guy and a girl came over. The girl had short silver hair and one red eye. The other eye was covered by a black patch. She was wearing white and silver platform shoes, flare-legged jeans and a white tank top with silver trim. Her skin was very pale and I guessed that she was an albino.
The guy had short blond hair, emerald green eyes not unlike my own, and a confident grin.
"Fujin, Seifer, this is Selphie. She just transferred here from Trabia Academy. Selphie, this is Fujin and Seifer Almasy. They're twin brother and sister."
"Hi, nice to meet you." I said.
"Are you a junior or a senior?" Seifer wanted to know.
"Junior."
"Just like all of us," Quistis said.
Fujin was studying me carefully. "TILMITT. CORRECT?"
"Fu, you can speak normal and all. She's a friend. If she wasn't, Quistis wouldn't be talkin' to her." Seifer said, smiling at Quistis. She ignored him, or maybe she just hadn't seen.
I confirmed Fujin's guess. "Yeah, I'm Selphie Tilmitt. How'd you know?"
"All of you have green eyes." Fujin said in a soft voice. "And all the Kinneas have blue eyes."
I started to ask her something else when someone else came up. "Hi! Did I miss anything?"
The girl who had just spoken had short brown hair that almost touched her shoulders, and brown eyes. She was wearing a blue sleeveless shirt and a cream-colored skirt that almost went to her knees. Like most of the other girls I had seen so far, she wore sandals, and hers were the color of her skirt. Her nice smile showed that she was probably a friend of Quistis.
"Oh, hi, Ellone. I was wondering if you'd show up anytime soon. This is Selphie Tilmitt. She just transferred from Trabia Academy, and I'm trying to get her to the attendance office." Quistis said the last with an exasperated sigh and rolled eyes, but she grinned to let us know she was joking.
"Hi, Selphie." Ellone said. "I'm Ellone Loire." She grinned. "Quisty, you worry too much. There's plenty of time to get her to the attendance office before class starts." She turned to the others and looked them over. "Fujin, Seifer, don't you have homeroom detention for the flood in the teacher's toilets? You'd better go before they make it afterschool detention too."
"Thanks, Elle. We forgot." Seifer said and the two of them ran off. Fujin kicked Seifer as they ran, an impressive feat. I figured it was probably because of his bad memory.
"All right, you two should probably get a move on, too. Mind if I come with?" I didn't know who she was asking, so I let Quistis answer.
"Not at all." I was glad. I was beginning to like the efficient girl. She looked a little older than Quistis and I, and that was confirmed when she said, "I'm a senior this year. I've got a younger brother who's a junior."
"That's Squall." Quistis explained.
"You've met? He's not really my brother, though, his mother adopted me when I was little. I'm actually nineteen, but I started school late."
"She hasn't met them. We just saw Irvine make his grand entrance and she was captivated." Quistis teased.
"Like all the other girls." Ellone laughed. "He's a heartbreaker, so you're probably better off not knowing him."
"Your brother?" I asked, knowing full well what guy she was talking about.
"Oh, no. My brother's pretty quiet. He's not one for showing off like Irvine is. Irvine is the heartbreaker. Half the girls in school are in love with him, and he won't go out with a single one. He says he's waiting for the right girl to come along."
I laughed. "He could be telling the truth." I pointed out.
"Yeah, but we doubt it." Quistis laughed. "Come on, the bell's going to ring any minute, and we've got to get you to the office."
I followed the two girls through the crowded schoolyard. I hadn't been here an hour and already I had tons of stuff to think about. This was going to be a long day.
-End chapter one
Author's Note: Don't ask me where I got the idea to make Fujin and Seifer twins. I still don't know how I even thought of it.
The idea for this story came to me from a dream I had...Weird, I know. I've only done the first chapter but I already like it. I know I've messed up quite a bit of the age timeline, and also the timeline that has some people dead who aren't dead in here, but I decided that I wanted more people in this story than just the main six from the game. Also, I thought that while I could have the girls all be friends and the boys all be friends (i.e. Fujin, Selphie, Ellone, Quistis, Rinoa and then Squall, Irvine, Seifer, Zell) I like it better this way.
Raijin is not in this story. Against my better judgment, it's most likely going to work out a Quifer and I really just don't need Raijin. Now, I like Raijin as much as the next person (more, probably) but I don't think he's going to be in here. I might change my mind though. Fujin'll probably get with someone who isn't a main character later on.
The whole feud thing will be explained in the next chapter. Probably.
This is my first fic where I wrote in Selphie's POV (I think…) so I might not be that good at keeping Selphie in character. I apologize, just let me know if she's majorly OOC, please.
