Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy 8..........
Note: No long note here....but this one might not be THAT long....although, I haven't begun writing and I don't plan on going back here....So your just gonna have to read what is here....hehe....OH! I hope you moogles and mooglets enjoy this because I'm spending quite a bit of time on this...
P.S. It has a hint of Seinoa in it.......so for you Seinoa fans, this would be good.....
~*One Fine Day*~
~*Chapter 3: "Pleased to meet you to Seifer."*~
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The taxi ride was a bumpy one as it made its way down the narrow streets of Deling City. It was a nice sunny day in winter. A rare combination. It was usually snowing around this area at this time. Rinoa could remember the days when her mother took her and her friends out to the plains around the outside of Deling City so they had a chance to play in the snow. But that was all gone now. Once her mother had passed away her father was leading her life, and in the wrong direction. He would never take her anywhere unless the words money, spending or buying were used to explain what she wanted to do. He always jumped at the chance to buy something new and/or expensive.
Angelo rested his head against Rinoa's knee. She smiled at him. Angelo was always going to be by her side. She placed her hand to his head and began to softly scratch him behind his ear. The dog seemed to melt to the form of Rinoa's knee as his worries and what not escaped his mind. Angelo was always the type to soften at the touch, or a gentle touch actually.
"Hey kid." the cab driver called to Rinoa. "That'll be 200 Gil." he told her. She reached into her pocket and pulled out two hundred Gil coins. Rinoa threw her bag over her shoulder and stepped out of the car, Angelo close by her side. She looked at her destination, the Car Rent Building. This would be her escape from this place. From all she knew and all she would forget. Behind her the cab drove away and a cloud of dust followed it. She walked forward to the building and pushed open the double glass doors. There was a person at the counter. She smiled. She had heard stories of how horribly long the lines were at this place. They said that only four people worked at this place, and there was only one counter to serve people at.
Rinoa walked up to the desk. The clerk looked at her happily. Obviously business had been low. She could remember the mean expressions on the faces of the employees here. To much work and no one else helping and not enough break time most likely. Now there were no customers, so the employees must have been bored to death.
"How can I help you young lady?" the man asked politely. The man had a small mustache that curled up at the ends.
"Can I rent a car?" Rinoa asked.
"Why of course." he told her. "That's what we specialize in." he added as he turned to the glass door behind him that lead to the parked cars.
"What do you mean specialize?" Rinoa asked with a small smile on her face. "That's all you do." she reminded him. He turned back around to her and placed his hands to his hips.
"Another field we work in is drinks and food." he told her. Rinoa gave him a puzzled look. He pointed to the vending machine and the candy dispenser. He turned back around after making his point and stuck his head out the glass door. "Do we have any extra cars?" he called. Rinoa didn't here anyone answer back but he must have heard someone because he came back to the desk and told her. "We have one car remaining, you are very fortunate you got here when you did." the clerk told her. Rinoa smiled happily. Luck seemed to be on her side at the moment. "I just need to see your drivers license." he told her as he leaned against the desk. Rinoa dove her hand into one of the side pockets of the bag she had slung over her shoulder. She pulled out her laminated drivers license and handed it to the man. "It says here your only 15 dear." he said as he looked to the card and back to her.
"Is there a problem?" she asked, a worried tone in her voice.
"Yes, there is." he told her. "In order to drive without a guardian you must be just one year older than you already are." he told her. She sighed heavily in defeat. The man handed her back the drivers license. She placed the license into her bag once more and left, head down and sulking. She walked back out into the street. Almost on touch of the cement a down poor from the sky began immediately.
"Maybe luck is just toying with me." she thought aloud. Angelo looked up to his master and found her sorrow in her eyes. He began to rub his head against her leg. She smiled knowing that she had companion by her side. "I guess we should probably go someplace where isn't wet." she said to him.
In a matter of minutes one of the cable cars that drove around the city stopped in front of her. She boarded gratefully. Most of the seats were empty. Except one. She took her seat a few seats down from the stranger that occupied the seat. The cable car was much smoother than the taxi. Mostly because it was on tracks. The interior of the car was filled with posters, offering different tourist attractions and new plays that were being shown in the city. Deling had always been a tourist attraction. It's sights were fairly famous but it was the weather that drew tourists to the location. In the summer it was quite hot, in the winter it was quite cold. Always perfect. It was pretty much stereotypical type of weather. Snow in the winter, rain in the fall, warm in the spring and hot in the summer.
Angelo sat directly in front of her patiently awaiting there arrival. Rinoa scratched his head and Angelo relaxed a bit with her touch. He quickly became uncomfortable with sitting on the floor and hopped up to the seat next to her. But he didn't stay there for to long as he spread his upper body across Rinoa's lap. The man a few seats down from her laughed quietly. Rinoa looked to him in curiosity of why he was laughing.
"Seems like your dog there is pretty comfortable." he said to her as he looked to the dog.
"He is always like this." she told the man as she looked down at Angelo.
"I'm Seifer." Seifer told her as he leaned down the row of seats, hand extended.
"I'm Rinoa." she told him as she took his hand and began to shake it.
"Pleased to meet you Rinoa." Seifer said to her as he scooted down a couple of seats towards her.
"Pleased to meet you to Seifer." she said happily as the cable car stopped at her destination.....
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A/N: Well??????????WELL!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! How did you mortals like this chapter!?!?! I really wanna know so....
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