When I can't sleep at night
Without holding you tight
Boy, each time I try I just break down and cry
Pain in my head
Oh, I'd rather be dead
Spinning around and around
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'Underneath...I cry'

Rinoa was now a SeeD so she had a room to herself. She was standing in the center of her dorm room on a stool, kneck held up, frowning as if contemplating something. There was a rope hanging on the ceiling from a hook. She wrapped it around her kneck and tightened it until it was tight enough to bruise her kneck.

"No one believes...me
Or is it that they don't care?
Do I care?"
She chuckled softly.

Grinning, a single tear made its way down her cheek, and she grabbed it with her tongue.

'I will not cry.'
'I'm weak to try to escape.'
'But I will not cry.'

"You know.
My "friends"?
I just might do it."

And she kicked away the stool.
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I'm a million miles away
Where I don't have to think at all
Don't have to listen to you whisper
Your little secrets in the hall
Right now I'm miles away
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"Zell, have you seen Rinoa?" Quistis and Zell were at the cafeteria, lunch break was almost over thus there were not many people eating still. She had noticed Rinoa's absence from all her classes, and she didn't go to the cafeteria for lunch.

"No." Zell sneered, "And thank god for that. She's probably banging some junior classman right now."

Quistis gasped, "Zell!"

He just continued sneering, noticing a small figure running surprisingly fast towards them.

Selphie ran up to the couple, ashen pale, especially noticeable against her rosy cheeks. She'd been running around the garden looking for them. Quistis and Zell could hardly hear what she was saying because she was out of breathe.
"R-Rinoa!" She gasped.

"What? Where's Rinoa?" Quistis asked calmly, helping the smaller brunette stand.

"She's...she's..." Now there were tears pouring down Selphie's face.

"Selphie! What's wrong?! Where's Rinoa?!"

"What the fuck is going on?"

"She's dead!" Selphie began to sob harder.

Zell's mouth fell open and he felt feint.
There was a sudden awkward silence between the trio.
A few people at nearby tables looked surprised, some solemn, some angry.
Thoughts came rushing to Zell and he lost hold of himself. He felt his knees caving in from under him.

"Dead?" Quistis gaped, not moving, "Are...are you sure?"

"Yes I'm fucking sure!" Selphie exclaimed, somewhat out of character, "I saw her hanging from the goddamn ceiling!" She began to pound on the table, drawing more attention to the trio.

And then Zell fainted.
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If I could save Time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
'Til Eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
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"Oh..." Irvine had just heard of Rinoa's supposed death and came running into her dorm room. It was full of SeeDs, including Squall and Quistis. "My god..."
He felt sick.
There, hanging with a rope around her kneck, face slightly blue, and where there wasn't blue, there was pure white. Her face was bloated. She almost looked as if she had been hung unintentionally. There was a look of fear on her face, and it looked like she had been tearing at the rope from her broken nails and the state of the rope. But Irvine knew better, because he knew the way she had been acting, and what she felt about Squall, and Zell, and...her face also held an expression of doubt and fear.

"Think she was having second thoughts?" Irvine looked up and winced.

Quistis jumped, and her and Squall turned around.

"Irvine!" He could tell she'd been crying, her eyes were puffy and red, "I didn't see you there."

"Why do you think she did it?" He asked, not really expecting an answer.

"There was a note." Squall spoke up for the first time that day.

"A note?" Irvine asked again.

"Yes, um, it was on the bedside table." Quistis grabbed a ziploc bag and handed it to Irvine, "Don't open it."

Irvine smoothed out the bag and squinted, "I'm sorry." He frowned. "Now I'll be out of your life..." there was scribbling, "your lives."
"Forever."
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Author's Note: *bum bum bum!*
Sorry there wasn't much...or any Squall and Seifer tangy goodness in this chapter. But there'll be a lot next chapter. Don't worry.
^o^
This is all just building up to it.
Rinoa fans don't kill me. *dodges bullets and mallets*
Just stay tuned for the next chapter of:
"Paralysed"
Same FF time
Same FF channel
*bum bum bum!*