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Chapter 5 - A Stolen Kiss
When they arrived in the cafeteria, they were surprised that not many people were there. Only a couple of the Treppies, who still woship Quistis, despite the fact that she was dating Seifer. The Treppies sat a few table from the table Selphie had chosen when they stepped inside. The cafeteria never opens at dinner time, but Cid required a policy, concerning that the cafe should be opened only on Fridays. There were some students complaining about how hungry they were. Zell smirked at that thought. He WAS one of those who complained, mostly about how he never gets hot dog at lunch. Hot dogs were now available at night on Fridays. Zell was happy to hear it. He eats hot dog now and then whenever he was hungry. He followed Selphie to the table and helped her sit down on the chair.
"Thanks, Zelly!" Selphie said, giving him her crutches. Zell cringed at being called 'Zelly.' She used it a bit too much. He nodded stiffly and leaned the crutches on the post behind her. After doing so, he sat down across the timid girl.
Selphie leaned forward and placed her elbows on the table. She clasped her hands together and looked at Zell. "So.... what are you going to order?"
Zell shrugged. "You know me, Selph. I always order-"
"Hot dog?" Selphie cut in. She chuckled half-heartedly and winked. "I know you too much, Zell!"
Zell blushed and stood up. "What about you?" He rubbed the back of his neck. "You wanna a hot dog too?"
Selphie nodded. "Anything that you order would be fine with me!" Zell turned to go. "Wait!" Selphie's voice echoed. Zell turned around, giving her a questionable gaze and waited for her to continue. "Get me a bowl of ketchup too!"
Zell looked at her, but decided not to question her as he walked over to the order line. "Hey, Selina."
A girl with dark braided hair appeared in front of him. "How's my favourite customer? The usual?" she asked.
"I'm fine and yeah, the usual. But make it three this time."
"Three?" Selina looked over his shoulder and found a girl with bouncy brown hair sitting two tables in front of her. "Oh...." Selina looked back at him. "What happened to the Cowboy?"
"Wh- what are you talking about?" Zell stammered, shifting his weight from one foot to the other uncomfortably.
"Well, you're out on a date, so obviously, something must have happened between them!" Selina handed him two, freshly cooked hot dogs and looked at him again.
Zell took a deep breath. "We're not on a date," he replied. "And, can you get me a bowl of ketchup, please?"
"A bowl of ketchup?" Selina arched an eyebrow at him curiously.
Zell shrugged. "I dunno, she asked for one."
Selina stood there for a second, then finally disappeared behind the door where most hot dogs were made and appeared a few seconds later with a medium sized bowl full of ketchup, the one thing that most people use to create fake blood. Zell gave Selina the last of his paycheck. Zell actually used it to scare the girls in Halloween. Including the guys, Squall, Seifer, and Irvine, they all worked together to scare the living daylights out of the girls and crash their slumber party. He took the bowl of ketchup, the three hot dogs, two for him and one for Selphie and went back to their table. He handed the hot dog and the ketchup to Selphie and took out his two hot dogs from the tray. He sat down and swallowed a bite out of his hot dog. It took him a few minutes, until he realized that Selphie was watching him the whole time.
Zell stared at her. "What?"
Selphie nodded towards Zell's other untouched hot dog. "Are you going to eat that?"
"Why?" He looked at Selphie's plate and found that it was empty. "You finished eating already?"
Selphie nodded. "Yeah." She looked at him. "Are you going to eat that?" she repeated.
"You're hungry still? That was the largest size Selina gave us! How could you eat so fast?"
"I'm THAT hungry," Selphie replied. "Well?" She glanced at the hot dog, her mouth watering as she stared at the hot dog like a lost puppy begging for food.
Zell sighed. "I dunno... I always have two hot dogs when I come here and-" He paused and looked at Selphie. She was giving him the puppy dog eyes, the one thing Zell found really annoying. Rolling his eyes, Zell placed a finger on the tip of the plate and pushed it towards Selphie.
Selphie blinked and smiled. "Thanks, Zell!" She picked up the hot dog and wolfed it down with one gulp. Soon, the girl who Zell usually found skinny and barely eating anything at lunch, finished the large hot dog for only a few seconds. Zell took longer than that, since he enjoyed the taste of the meat and the bun. He looked at the hot dog in his hand and realized he was only halfway down. He glanced up at Selphie and noticed her watching him.
"What? You want this hot dog too?" Zell asked, indicating the half eaten hot dog in his hand.
Selphie shook her head. "No....." She looked at the bowl of ketchup on the table in front of her and looked up, smirking. Zell was not paying attention to her, he was busy eating his food. "Want to do something fun?"
Zell finished the last piece of hot dog, licked his fingers, before looking up and saying, "Fun?"
"Yeah." With one swift move, Selphie dipped her hand in the bowl of ketchup and flicked the red liquid at Zell's face. Zell didn't see it coming. He froze in his seat. Some ketchup were on one side of his face, while the other dripped down at his shirt. Zell reached up with his hand and wiped the ketchup off.
Selphie laughed. "That was my way of thanking you for your generosity!"
Zell nodded, an evil smile played on his lips. "Oh really?" He reached for a napkin and wiped the rest of the red mess from his face and shirt. He looked up at her. "You better get your crutches ready before I return with an assault ketchup to get you." He started to stand up.
Selphie gulped and grinned. "Aw, come on! You know it was-" she paused as Zell walked to the order line once again. With one hand, she slowly reached behind her for the crutches and nervously stood up. Quickly, she put her under arms over the crutches and began to walk away, away from the vengeful eyes of Zell. Before she could step out of the cafeteria, Zell ran after her. Selphie limped faster. Zell was catching up now. Feeling the excitement with Zell chasing her with a bowl of mustard, Selphie couldn't help but laugh. Even with her mind telling her to run, Selphie's eyes were kept locked in Zell chasing her. She laughed and screamed and limped faster. Zell finally caught up to her after a few seconds and smothered her hair and face with the mustard. Selphie fell backwards and screamed, laughing as long as her stomach could hold. She almost dropped her crutches again, but she caught it just in time they fell and just in time Zell went to her. Zell, afraid that she could lose her balance again, grabbed her around the waist and they both fell on the floor with a hard smack. Zell was now on top of her, his face dangerously close to hers.
"Are- are you okay?" Zell asked, almost in a whisper.
Selphie blushed and looked into his eyes. The eyes so green and so emerald, that she found them so hypnotizing. "Huh? What?" She jumped out her trance and blinked.
Zell cleared his throat. "Um... I said, are you okay?" He looked at her, making sure she was still alive and sighed in relief.
Selphie nodded.
"Oh.... good." He nodded and kept his eyes on her. His heart was beating so fast, that he was frozen right there, not really sure if he should just forget about the feelings he had or has for her and move on. Slowly, he moved his lips towards hers, while his two sides of conscience spoke to him. Zell looked at her hair and gently took a piece of strand, now filled with the sticky substance. "Your hair.... it has mustard on it."
Selphie giggled. She touched his chest. "Well, you have ketchup on your shirt!" They laughed again, but they both stopped suddenly to look into each other's eyes. Selphie liked his eyes. She reached up and stroked his blond hair. She ran a finger on his tattooe and smiled. "I really like that tattooe, you know. What it is anyway?"
Zell shrugged. "I saw the design and I decided to have it! I don't really know what it means." He was about to get up, when Selphie pulled him again, forcing him to stumble back on top of her. They looked at each other's eyes.
Selphie smiled. "Thank you for being there for me....." she whispered, leaning her lips closer to his.
Zell leaned forward, her eyes mezmerising his every thought and action. Slowly, they moved their lips closer towards each other and they met in a loving kiss. A kiss so warm and gentle, Zell couldn't stop himself. Selphie kissed him in return, taking each kiss he gave her. Zell slid his hands underneath her and rested them under her head and under her back.
- What do you like about her?
~ Everything Zell! She's sweet and kind! Selphie is the person who truly changed me.
- ... you like that annoying type, huh?
~ She's not annoying and you know that, Zell!
- I know. I never really thought of her as a girl friend type, but more of a friend type.
~ Maybe for you, but I love her too much to make her just as my friend.
'He loves her' Zell thought. No, he can't do this to Irvine. He has to stop. Zell gently released his lips from Selphie and looked down on her. Shaking his head, he whispered, "I can't..." He lifted himself off of her and helped her up on her feet. He wrapped his arms around her waist to keep her steady and picked up her crutches from the floor. He handed it to her. "I can't do this... not to Irvine."
Selphie took a deep breath and took the crutched from him, positioning herself on to it. "You're right.... I don't want to hurt Irvine..."
Zell nodded. "Let's say that never happened, that was just a mistake..."
Selphie looked at him, a hurt expression masked on her face, but her face quickly softened of the same girl Zell knew. A happy-go-lucky girl, as well, as a girl with so much hope in everyone's hearts, had come back to quickly. Zell swore he saw a different side of Selphie. He swore he saw Selphie's eyes twinkle from the tears she was just trying to oppress. 'A mistake,' she thought. She knew he was right. She couldn't betray Irvine. She loved him.... Loved? How can she use the word into past tense? She was being a terrible person and she has never felt awful all her life.
For a few moments, they were silent, until a deep and booming voice, startled them out of their reverie. Zell and Selphie looked to their left and saw the Disciplinary Committee, minus Seifer, coming towards them.
"You made a mess, you know?" Raijin contemplated. He looked at them, stradling alongside Fujin, the ever silent girl with only one word to say.
They paused to stand in front of them. Fujin raised her hand and swept it on air, pointing towards the mess Zell and Selphie made on the table where they were sitting. "MESS," she said.
"Yeah! You gotta clean it up, you know? This isn't a playground, you know?" He yelped in pain when Fujin's toes connected with his shin. "What?!"
"IDIOT!" Fujin replied, glaring up at him. She turned her attention back to the two. "CLEAN." She pointed to Selphie's mustard on her hair and then to Zell's red shirt from the ketchup.
Selphie nodded, grinning. "We're sorry, guys! We were going to clean it up! We just got carried away..." She blushed, realizing what she was going to say.
Fujin lifted her mouth up into a slight smile, but before she could say anything, Raijin suddenly bellowed to them.
"Well, you still gonna clean up, you know? We're not responsible, you know? You are, you know?" He looked at Fujin proudly, but Fujin gave him another hit on the shins, where, miraculously never bruised as to how many times she hit him on the same spot. "Ow! What was that for-" He paused and looked at Fujin. "...you know?" He cowered in fear when he noticed Fujin's annoyance. There was no point in arguing with her.
"BYE!" Fujin said, waving her hand. She turned around and started walking away from them.
Raijin ran after her."Hey! Hey! Fuj! Why are we letting them get away with this, you know? Aren't we going to put them on the list, you know? To tell the Headmaster who was in trouble, you know?"
"TATTLE TALE!" Fujin yelled. "SEIFER. NEGATIVE."
Selphie and Zell laughed as they watched the two comical duo leave the premises of the hallway. After that moment, they face each other. Zell was the first one to speak.
He rubbed the back of his neck and cleared his throat. "Well, uh... I think I'm gonna go to clean myself up. I'll see you tomorrow then?"
Selphie smiled, forgetting about the hurt emotions going on inside her head. She had to get over it. She loves Irvine. But being with Zell was quite different than being with Irvine. Zell had a fun quality, despite of the things Zell found annoying about her. Selphie enjoyed being with him. Today was something memorable. Only a day that Irvine has left and she is already smitten with someone else.
She nodded and looked at her hair in disgust. "I think I'm going to wash my hair out too! Yuck!"
Zell laughed. Selphie liked his laugh. "Well, I think you should. You're starting to smell sour!" he teased.
Selphie punched him playfully in the arm. The kiss they shared together suddenly vanished and all the feelings Zell and Selphie had at that moment, faltered until it turned into dust. "Don't make fun of me, Dincht!" Selphie said. "I better go!" Selphie said. She turned around and walked slowly with her crutches towards the direction of the girl's dorms. She waved good bye to him. "Bye, Zelly!"
Zell watched her go. His heart sunk so deep, that he could almost feel it drown into the water. He knew he couldn't have her. Someone already does, but he couldn't shake his feelings away. His feelings he had tried to hard to contain, managed to escape. He shook his head mentally. "No... I can't do this," he said to himself. "I can't do this to myself, especially Irvine." He looked up into the glass ceiling, as if praying into the heavens and clenched his fists together. "I'm sorry, Irvine..." he whispered. From now, he promises never to touch or make any close contacts with Selphie again.
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He opened his eyes. The darkness of the room could only be seen, except for the never ending cirular paths the lighthouse was making through the window. He stared at his watch and read that it was ten minutes to ten. He missed Selphie so much. There was nothing going on so far with their mission. The resistance did not make any attempts to pry their way through Balamb and destroy all the students and SeeDs there. He looked to his left to the nighstand. Sitting up, he reached for the reciever and dialed Selphie's number.
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Selphie groaned. Her wonderful dreams of being in a place full of chocolates was interrupted by the ringing of the telephone. Opening her eyes slowly, she lifted up the phone from the reciever and whispered, "Hello?"
A deep, familiar voice suddenly perked her interest. "Hi, darlin!'"
"Irvy!" She leaped up, but had forgotten about her leg and fell on the floor with a loud thud.
"What was that?" Irvine asked in concern.
Selphie lifted herself up from the floor and back on her bed, using her hands to hold the edge of the bed. "Oh, nothing! I was startled to hear from you, that I accidentally tripped one of the picture frames on the nightstand." She hated lying to Irvine.
"How are you doing, my Seffie?" Irvine asked, in a baby-like monotone.
Selphie smiled. She liked hearing Irvine like that. "I'm fine, Irvy! I spent the day just thinking about you!" Well, half of it was true, but the other half was a lie. Selphie smacked herself again mentally for lying to him.
"Awwww.... really? You miss me that much already?"
"Of course!"
"Did you go see Zell?"
Selphie's eyes widened at the mention of Zell's name. "Why would I want to go see Zell?"
Irvine laughed. "Usually you do see him and urge him to join the Garden Committee! And I also figured you and him would be hanging out by now, since none of the other SeeDs are there. I know how bored you get and you would pull out anyone just to hang out with."
Selphie took a quiet deep breath, making sure Irvine didn't hear that. Zell... She shook her head. Here she was talking to Irvine, yet she's thinking of someone else. How low can she get? Why did betrayal have to take over her heart? "Oh well, I figured Zell would be doing some training in the training center or something."
"Well, that's Zell," Irvine replied, adding a snort.
Selphie couldn't help but remember Zell's laugh. It had a wonderful noise to it that she could not forget. Irvine's laugh.... was... different as well, but she liked the cute snort he often released when he found something funny. For the first time in her entire life, Selphie Tilmitt, the shy, timid girl, was stuck between two men. There were three to tango in the dance, but one has to walk off with the girl. Selphie had her heart set on both men, but she knew she couldn't dance with both of them. She had to take one and ONLY one.
GoodGurl: Heh! Heh! Am EVIL! Anyway, thank you so much for all your guys' reviews! I appreciate it sooo much! Anyway, how will Selphie decide? Will she be able to dance with Zell or Irvine? Who will she dance with? (And by 'dance' I mean metaphorically speaking!) There's only one way to find out! On the LAST CHAPTER! But... I'm not there yet so hold your horses!
Chapter 5 - A Stolen Kiss
When they arrived in the cafeteria, they were surprised that not many people were there. Only a couple of the Treppies, who still woship Quistis, despite the fact that she was dating Seifer. The Treppies sat a few table from the table Selphie had chosen when they stepped inside. The cafeteria never opens at dinner time, but Cid required a policy, concerning that the cafe should be opened only on Fridays. There were some students complaining about how hungry they were. Zell smirked at that thought. He WAS one of those who complained, mostly about how he never gets hot dog at lunch. Hot dogs were now available at night on Fridays. Zell was happy to hear it. He eats hot dog now and then whenever he was hungry. He followed Selphie to the table and helped her sit down on the chair.
"Thanks, Zelly!" Selphie said, giving him her crutches. Zell cringed at being called 'Zelly.' She used it a bit too much. He nodded stiffly and leaned the crutches on the post behind her. After doing so, he sat down across the timid girl.
Selphie leaned forward and placed her elbows on the table. She clasped her hands together and looked at Zell. "So.... what are you going to order?"
Zell shrugged. "You know me, Selph. I always order-"
"Hot dog?" Selphie cut in. She chuckled half-heartedly and winked. "I know you too much, Zell!"
Zell blushed and stood up. "What about you?" He rubbed the back of his neck. "You wanna a hot dog too?"
Selphie nodded. "Anything that you order would be fine with me!" Zell turned to go. "Wait!" Selphie's voice echoed. Zell turned around, giving her a questionable gaze and waited for her to continue. "Get me a bowl of ketchup too!"
Zell looked at her, but decided not to question her as he walked over to the order line. "Hey, Selina."
A girl with dark braided hair appeared in front of him. "How's my favourite customer? The usual?" she asked.
"I'm fine and yeah, the usual. But make it three this time."
"Three?" Selina looked over his shoulder and found a girl with bouncy brown hair sitting two tables in front of her. "Oh...." Selina looked back at him. "What happened to the Cowboy?"
"Wh- what are you talking about?" Zell stammered, shifting his weight from one foot to the other uncomfortably.
"Well, you're out on a date, so obviously, something must have happened between them!" Selina handed him two, freshly cooked hot dogs and looked at him again.
Zell took a deep breath. "We're not on a date," he replied. "And, can you get me a bowl of ketchup, please?"
"A bowl of ketchup?" Selina arched an eyebrow at him curiously.
Zell shrugged. "I dunno, she asked for one."
Selina stood there for a second, then finally disappeared behind the door where most hot dogs were made and appeared a few seconds later with a medium sized bowl full of ketchup, the one thing that most people use to create fake blood. Zell gave Selina the last of his paycheck. Zell actually used it to scare the girls in Halloween. Including the guys, Squall, Seifer, and Irvine, they all worked together to scare the living daylights out of the girls and crash their slumber party. He took the bowl of ketchup, the three hot dogs, two for him and one for Selphie and went back to their table. He handed the hot dog and the ketchup to Selphie and took out his two hot dogs from the tray. He sat down and swallowed a bite out of his hot dog. It took him a few minutes, until he realized that Selphie was watching him the whole time.
Zell stared at her. "What?"
Selphie nodded towards Zell's other untouched hot dog. "Are you going to eat that?"
"Why?" He looked at Selphie's plate and found that it was empty. "You finished eating already?"
Selphie nodded. "Yeah." She looked at him. "Are you going to eat that?" she repeated.
"You're hungry still? That was the largest size Selina gave us! How could you eat so fast?"
"I'm THAT hungry," Selphie replied. "Well?" She glanced at the hot dog, her mouth watering as she stared at the hot dog like a lost puppy begging for food.
Zell sighed. "I dunno... I always have two hot dogs when I come here and-" He paused and looked at Selphie. She was giving him the puppy dog eyes, the one thing Zell found really annoying. Rolling his eyes, Zell placed a finger on the tip of the plate and pushed it towards Selphie.
Selphie blinked and smiled. "Thanks, Zell!" She picked up the hot dog and wolfed it down with one gulp. Soon, the girl who Zell usually found skinny and barely eating anything at lunch, finished the large hot dog for only a few seconds. Zell took longer than that, since he enjoyed the taste of the meat and the bun. He looked at the hot dog in his hand and realized he was only halfway down. He glanced up at Selphie and noticed her watching him.
"What? You want this hot dog too?" Zell asked, indicating the half eaten hot dog in his hand.
Selphie shook her head. "No....." She looked at the bowl of ketchup on the table in front of her and looked up, smirking. Zell was not paying attention to her, he was busy eating his food. "Want to do something fun?"
Zell finished the last piece of hot dog, licked his fingers, before looking up and saying, "Fun?"
"Yeah." With one swift move, Selphie dipped her hand in the bowl of ketchup and flicked the red liquid at Zell's face. Zell didn't see it coming. He froze in his seat. Some ketchup were on one side of his face, while the other dripped down at his shirt. Zell reached up with his hand and wiped the ketchup off.
Selphie laughed. "That was my way of thanking you for your generosity!"
Zell nodded, an evil smile played on his lips. "Oh really?" He reached for a napkin and wiped the rest of the red mess from his face and shirt. He looked up at her. "You better get your crutches ready before I return with an assault ketchup to get you." He started to stand up.
Selphie gulped and grinned. "Aw, come on! You know it was-" she paused as Zell walked to the order line once again. With one hand, she slowly reached behind her for the crutches and nervously stood up. Quickly, she put her under arms over the crutches and began to walk away, away from the vengeful eyes of Zell. Before she could step out of the cafeteria, Zell ran after her. Selphie limped faster. Zell was catching up now. Feeling the excitement with Zell chasing her with a bowl of mustard, Selphie couldn't help but laugh. Even with her mind telling her to run, Selphie's eyes were kept locked in Zell chasing her. She laughed and screamed and limped faster. Zell finally caught up to her after a few seconds and smothered her hair and face with the mustard. Selphie fell backwards and screamed, laughing as long as her stomach could hold. She almost dropped her crutches again, but she caught it just in time they fell and just in time Zell went to her. Zell, afraid that she could lose her balance again, grabbed her around the waist and they both fell on the floor with a hard smack. Zell was now on top of her, his face dangerously close to hers.
"Are- are you okay?" Zell asked, almost in a whisper.
Selphie blushed and looked into his eyes. The eyes so green and so emerald, that she found them so hypnotizing. "Huh? What?" She jumped out her trance and blinked.
Zell cleared his throat. "Um... I said, are you okay?" He looked at her, making sure she was still alive and sighed in relief.
Selphie nodded.
"Oh.... good." He nodded and kept his eyes on her. His heart was beating so fast, that he was frozen right there, not really sure if he should just forget about the feelings he had or has for her and move on. Slowly, he moved his lips towards hers, while his two sides of conscience spoke to him. Zell looked at her hair and gently took a piece of strand, now filled with the sticky substance. "Your hair.... it has mustard on it."
Selphie giggled. She touched his chest. "Well, you have ketchup on your shirt!" They laughed again, but they both stopped suddenly to look into each other's eyes. Selphie liked his eyes. She reached up and stroked his blond hair. She ran a finger on his tattooe and smiled. "I really like that tattooe, you know. What it is anyway?"
Zell shrugged. "I saw the design and I decided to have it! I don't really know what it means." He was about to get up, when Selphie pulled him again, forcing him to stumble back on top of her. They looked at each other's eyes.
Selphie smiled. "Thank you for being there for me....." she whispered, leaning her lips closer to his.
Zell leaned forward, her eyes mezmerising his every thought and action. Slowly, they moved their lips closer towards each other and they met in a loving kiss. A kiss so warm and gentle, Zell couldn't stop himself. Selphie kissed him in return, taking each kiss he gave her. Zell slid his hands underneath her and rested them under her head and under her back.
- What do you like about her?
~ Everything Zell! She's sweet and kind! Selphie is the person who truly changed me.
- ... you like that annoying type, huh?
~ She's not annoying and you know that, Zell!
- I know. I never really thought of her as a girl friend type, but more of a friend type.
~ Maybe for you, but I love her too much to make her just as my friend.
'He loves her' Zell thought. No, he can't do this to Irvine. He has to stop. Zell gently released his lips from Selphie and looked down on her. Shaking his head, he whispered, "I can't..." He lifted himself off of her and helped her up on her feet. He wrapped his arms around her waist to keep her steady and picked up her crutches from the floor. He handed it to her. "I can't do this... not to Irvine."
Selphie took a deep breath and took the crutched from him, positioning herself on to it. "You're right.... I don't want to hurt Irvine..."
Zell nodded. "Let's say that never happened, that was just a mistake..."
Selphie looked at him, a hurt expression masked on her face, but her face quickly softened of the same girl Zell knew. A happy-go-lucky girl, as well, as a girl with so much hope in everyone's hearts, had come back to quickly. Zell swore he saw a different side of Selphie. He swore he saw Selphie's eyes twinkle from the tears she was just trying to oppress. 'A mistake,' she thought. She knew he was right. She couldn't betray Irvine. She loved him.... Loved? How can she use the word into past tense? She was being a terrible person and she has never felt awful all her life.
For a few moments, they were silent, until a deep and booming voice, startled them out of their reverie. Zell and Selphie looked to their left and saw the Disciplinary Committee, minus Seifer, coming towards them.
"You made a mess, you know?" Raijin contemplated. He looked at them, stradling alongside Fujin, the ever silent girl with only one word to say.
They paused to stand in front of them. Fujin raised her hand and swept it on air, pointing towards the mess Zell and Selphie made on the table where they were sitting. "MESS," she said.
"Yeah! You gotta clean it up, you know? This isn't a playground, you know?" He yelped in pain when Fujin's toes connected with his shin. "What?!"
"IDIOT!" Fujin replied, glaring up at him. She turned her attention back to the two. "CLEAN." She pointed to Selphie's mustard on her hair and then to Zell's red shirt from the ketchup.
Selphie nodded, grinning. "We're sorry, guys! We were going to clean it up! We just got carried away..." She blushed, realizing what she was going to say.
Fujin lifted her mouth up into a slight smile, but before she could say anything, Raijin suddenly bellowed to them.
"Well, you still gonna clean up, you know? We're not responsible, you know? You are, you know?" He looked at Fujin proudly, but Fujin gave him another hit on the shins, where, miraculously never bruised as to how many times she hit him on the same spot. "Ow! What was that for-" He paused and looked at Fujin. "...you know?" He cowered in fear when he noticed Fujin's annoyance. There was no point in arguing with her.
"BYE!" Fujin said, waving her hand. She turned around and started walking away from them.
Raijin ran after her."Hey! Hey! Fuj! Why are we letting them get away with this, you know? Aren't we going to put them on the list, you know? To tell the Headmaster who was in trouble, you know?"
"TATTLE TALE!" Fujin yelled. "SEIFER. NEGATIVE."
Selphie and Zell laughed as they watched the two comical duo leave the premises of the hallway. After that moment, they face each other. Zell was the first one to speak.
He rubbed the back of his neck and cleared his throat. "Well, uh... I think I'm gonna go to clean myself up. I'll see you tomorrow then?"
Selphie smiled, forgetting about the hurt emotions going on inside her head. She had to get over it. She loves Irvine. But being with Zell was quite different than being with Irvine. Zell had a fun quality, despite of the things Zell found annoying about her. Selphie enjoyed being with him. Today was something memorable. Only a day that Irvine has left and she is already smitten with someone else.
She nodded and looked at her hair in disgust. "I think I'm going to wash my hair out too! Yuck!"
Zell laughed. Selphie liked his laugh. "Well, I think you should. You're starting to smell sour!" he teased.
Selphie punched him playfully in the arm. The kiss they shared together suddenly vanished and all the feelings Zell and Selphie had at that moment, faltered until it turned into dust. "Don't make fun of me, Dincht!" Selphie said. "I better go!" Selphie said. She turned around and walked slowly with her crutches towards the direction of the girl's dorms. She waved good bye to him. "Bye, Zelly!"
Zell watched her go. His heart sunk so deep, that he could almost feel it drown into the water. He knew he couldn't have her. Someone already does, but he couldn't shake his feelings away. His feelings he had tried to hard to contain, managed to escape. He shook his head mentally. "No... I can't do this," he said to himself. "I can't do this to myself, especially Irvine." He looked up into the glass ceiling, as if praying into the heavens and clenched his fists together. "I'm sorry, Irvine..." he whispered. From now, he promises never to touch or make any close contacts with Selphie again.
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He opened his eyes. The darkness of the room could only be seen, except for the never ending cirular paths the lighthouse was making through the window. He stared at his watch and read that it was ten minutes to ten. He missed Selphie so much. There was nothing going on so far with their mission. The resistance did not make any attempts to pry their way through Balamb and destroy all the students and SeeDs there. He looked to his left to the nighstand. Sitting up, he reached for the reciever and dialed Selphie's number.
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Selphie groaned. Her wonderful dreams of being in a place full of chocolates was interrupted by the ringing of the telephone. Opening her eyes slowly, she lifted up the phone from the reciever and whispered, "Hello?"
A deep, familiar voice suddenly perked her interest. "Hi, darlin!'"
"Irvy!" She leaped up, but had forgotten about her leg and fell on the floor with a loud thud.
"What was that?" Irvine asked in concern.
Selphie lifted herself up from the floor and back on her bed, using her hands to hold the edge of the bed. "Oh, nothing! I was startled to hear from you, that I accidentally tripped one of the picture frames on the nightstand." She hated lying to Irvine.
"How are you doing, my Seffie?" Irvine asked, in a baby-like monotone.
Selphie smiled. She liked hearing Irvine like that. "I'm fine, Irvy! I spent the day just thinking about you!" Well, half of it was true, but the other half was a lie. Selphie smacked herself again mentally for lying to him.
"Awwww.... really? You miss me that much already?"
"Of course!"
"Did you go see Zell?"
Selphie's eyes widened at the mention of Zell's name. "Why would I want to go see Zell?"
Irvine laughed. "Usually you do see him and urge him to join the Garden Committee! And I also figured you and him would be hanging out by now, since none of the other SeeDs are there. I know how bored you get and you would pull out anyone just to hang out with."
Selphie took a quiet deep breath, making sure Irvine didn't hear that. Zell... She shook her head. Here she was talking to Irvine, yet she's thinking of someone else. How low can she get? Why did betrayal have to take over her heart? "Oh well, I figured Zell would be doing some training in the training center or something."
"Well, that's Zell," Irvine replied, adding a snort.
Selphie couldn't help but remember Zell's laugh. It had a wonderful noise to it that she could not forget. Irvine's laugh.... was... different as well, but she liked the cute snort he often released when he found something funny. For the first time in her entire life, Selphie Tilmitt, the shy, timid girl, was stuck between two men. There were three to tango in the dance, but one has to walk off with the girl. Selphie had her heart set on both men, but she knew she couldn't dance with both of them. She had to take one and ONLY one.
GoodGurl: Heh! Heh! Am EVIL! Anyway, thank you so much for all your guys' reviews! I appreciate it sooo much! Anyway, how will Selphie decide? Will she be able to dance with Zell or Irvine? Who will she dance with? (And by 'dance' I mean metaphorically speaking!) There's only one way to find out! On the LAST CHAPTER! But... I'm not there yet so hold your horses!
