Disclaimers: You can take Simon everything else is copyrighted material. Except the plot, which is, MINE!!!
Not Hyne, It's Quistis
Irvine parked his car in the lot and Quistis placed her book in her bag. They went to a café and Irvine ordered coffee and strawberry tarts for the both of them. Quistis read her book while they waited for their order.
"Do you anything else besides reading?" he asked. He didn't get a respond so he tapped her book. She jumped.
"Huh? Oh, I apologize. What did you say?" she was a bit pink and placed her book back in her bag. "I guess I was too absorbed in it."
"It's ok. So what's on your mind?" he leaned back with his arms behind his head. Quistis leaned on her hands.
"Just that Trepie. I really wonder why I have a fan club. Rinoa seems better fit for it. She has everything," she thought of Squall. Irvine smirked when he peered at Quistis, who had a dreamy gleam in her eye.
"You mean she has Squall." Quistis blushed brightly and Irvine chuckled.
"Well, I – er, um, that's out of the question!" She hid her face behind her hands. Irvine laughed.
"Don't worry. Selphie told me that you still have this "thing" for him." Quistis peeked through the cracks between her fingers. "She did?" Irvine nodded. Quistis dropped her head and it hit the table. The food arrived.
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"Thank you for the breakfast, Irvine. It feels good to have some fresh air from the Garden," Quistis said. Irvine opened the door for her.
"No, problem. That's what friends do right?" Irvine winked. Quistis grinned and sat inside.
Along the way back, there were three people walking on the road. One was white, the other blue, and the other one was brown. As they drove closer, the brown one was limping. They stopped walking and turned around but didn't get out of the car's way. Quistis was reading her book and didn't really notice until the car stopped. She looked out the window.
"Why did we stop?" she asked and looked at Irvine, but he stepped out of the car. Quistis looked ahead and saw Fuujin with a limping Raijin with his arm around her shoulder. 'What are they doing here in the middle of the road?' she thought. She failed to see the white one with blond hair, for he was talking to Irvine.
"Fuujin? Raijin? Are you alright?" she called as she stepped out. Her back was facing the other man.
"NEGATIVE," she shouted. "COMRADE. HURT." Raijin groaned and Fuujin struggled to support his weight.
"T-rexuar, ya know," he winced and pointed to his bleeding leg. His left leg was soaked in blood and was mangled. "Got no more potions or cures, ya know."
"Oh, let me help," Quistis said. She stepped forward to his leg and put out her hands. "I haven't stocked much, and this is the only on I have." She performed a Cure on him and the bleeding stopped, but the leg was still twisted. Then Irvine came behind her.
"Fuujin, Raijin, you can come with us back to Garden," he turned around and shouted. "Come over and help him in!" Fuujin looked past Irvine and Raijin grunted.
Quistis turned around to see who else but Seifer. He came over to help his friend and pulled him into the backseat of the car. Quistis got in and turned around. She examined Seifer. 'He's somewhat different…' she thought to herself. Irvine started the engine and they sped towards Balamb Garden.
Let's see what happened while the two were away…
Back to the gang:
Zell is eating hotdogs and chokes for stuffing 5 at one time. He grabs his cup and is thankful that it is full. He gulps it all at once.
"Aaaaaahhh!! Good thing that Trepe left some…." He stops in mid sentence and starts to blink numerously. He looks at his hotdogs. "I better save some for Quistis if she wants any…."
"Huh? You're SAVING hotdogs?" Selphie burst. "Since when do you save hotdogs for somebody else? I know Quistis is our-"
"Because what if there aren't any more hotdogs and Quisty wanted some?" he asked. Selphie slapped his head.
"She just went out to eat breakfast! Remember? With Irvine?" Selphie stared at Zell like he has gone made. Zell turned red and frowned.
"Irvine? What a lucky bastard…" he stood up and left, leaving 14 hotdogs on the table. He left everybody astonished. Zell…leaving a table…full of hotdogs…oh…my…god.
"Maybe he got sick from eating the hotdogs," Rinoa concluded. She stared at the hotdogs. "But they look perfectly fine to me." She took a bite of one and chewed and swallowed. "Pretty good. Want one Squally?" She offered one to the cold-eyed gunblader but he refused.
"I'll just have water, kinda thirsty," he got a cup that was left from Simon and drank. He felt a wave of nausea overflow in him, but it subsided. A thought of Quistis popped in his head. He smiled. But a bit…too smiley. Selphie's eyes bulged and coughed.
"Rinoa, your boyfriend looks crazy. He's staring off to space…" Selphie squealed. Rinoa looked at her boyfriend and indeed, he had a goofy grin smacked on his face.
"Squall!! Are you okay?!" She scooted closer to him and cupped his face in her hands. He revolted and stood up.
"Don't touch me!" and he stormed off. Rinoa looked dumbfounded and looked at Selphie. Rinoa's eyes brimmed with tears. Selphie ran over and hugged her.
"Let's wash your face okay?" Selphie suggested and Rinoa nodded, accepting the help from her friend.
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Nida and Xu were fixing the Headmaster's air condition. It was pretty old and refused to work. They wiped the sweat from their brow.
"Let's take a break, Nida," Xu said. "Who thought fixing an AC was hard work?"
"Very, since it runs through the whole school," Cid said behind him. Edea was at his side with lemonade on a try. "Come and have some lemonade with us. You guys need a rest!" Nida and Xu agreed while they drank some lemonade.
"Hmm, this is really good," Nida slurped. "Compliments to the chef." He nodded to Edea's direction, thinking it was her who made the drinks.
"Thank you, but I didn't make these refreshments. There was this nice boy with dark hair who made them for me. I think his name was Simon?"
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"Hey, you cheated!!" a little boy shouted. He stood form his chair. "Gimme my card back cheater!"
"No way!!" the other boy said. "Won fair and square!!!
"Square this!" he picked up his glass of water and splashed it on the other kid's face.
"Arrghh!!!" they started flinging drinks at each other but stopped suddenly.
"Look at this mess! Quistis Trepe wouldn't wanna live in this condition."
"Right. Let's clean up!"
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"Don't worry Rinoa. I'm sure he's just……PMSing!" Selphie shrugged. Rinoa laughed. She was in Selphie's yellow bathroom, rinsing water into her face. "Whatever it is, Rinoa, I don't think its about you, okay?" Rinoa shook for a moment. Then nodded, then left.
"Oi!!!" Selphie plopped down on the fluffy bed decorated with chocobos. She took out a Tylenol and a glass of water. She gulped them down. She burped and blinked.
"I have a headache. Maybe Quistis can help me!!" She ran in pursuit of the blond instructor.
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A gardener is watering his plants in the garden. His wife is sitting on the chair, basking in the sun.
"Come here, dear husband!! Let's have a drink of lemonade this nice boy made!" The man grumbles.
"Now really!! Don't trust people that just walk up and gives ya something to drink!! Could be poison ya know!!!" he waddles over and sits down. "But I'll just drink it anyway."
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"Damn, I feel like a wuss selling lemonade," mumbled Simon as he poured lemonade and took the gil from a boy. "But anything to get the whole Garden…..and my mistress."
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"Okay, I'll get Dr. Kadowaki to come here. Just stay there," Irvine walked out of the car and ran to the Garden. Fuujin went out too.
"THIRSTY," she notified and walked to the garden. "Bring some for Raijin too! He's burning up!" Seifer called out. That leaves Seifer and Raijin and Quistis. There was a moment of silence except for Raijin's breathing.
"So where were you guys going?" Quistis asked timidly. She felt uncomfortable with just being alone with the guy who sided with the sorceress and tried to take over the world and kill them. Oh yeah she was fine.
"We were going to Garden but Raijin needed to take a piss, so he went to the forest, and a T-Rexuar came and attacked him," Seifer said dully, as if this was a daily routine. "Just fortunate you dropped by. What was my dear Instructor doing with that cowboy? Dropping Squally for Irvine now?" he mocked.
Quistis fumed. She turned around and glared at him.
"No. Just needed some fresh air from a Trepie." Pause. "Why were you heading for Garden? Trying to plan an attack?" Seifer growled.
"No! I want to become a SeeD…" his voice dropped.
"…oh," she looked down at her shoes. "Hope you make it." Seifer blinked at her but then Irvine came back with a weird look on his face. "Doctor Kadowaki is not there, and no one knows where she went. But lets bring Raijin in though. Come on – hey weren't there the three of you?" he waved his finger around.
"BEHIND YOU." Irvine twisted to see Fuujin, beaming and blushing…and looking at Quistis. She handed a cup of water to Quistis, who took it slowly.
"Are you ok? You seem kinda red," she held the cup in her hands, but didn't drink it. Fuujin reddened at the moment of having Ms. Trepe talking to her. "I – "
"Hey, give to Raijin here," Seifer said and took the cup away and tilted it so the liquid dribbled into Raijin's mouth.
"Ah. Thanks, buddy. Felt really thirsty ya know," Raijin's eyes drifted to Quistis sitting in the front. "I think I'm dead." He chuckled. Seifer rolled his eyes. "What makes you think that?" Raijin pointed to Quistis who was staring back.
"I see an angel," he says, reaching out to her. Quistis blinked momentarily and turned around. Seifer laughed loudly.
"Ha! Angel my ass. It's only dear Instructor Trepe! Raijin, you are losing it," Seifer laughed. Irvine tapped on the door.
"Yeah, Quistis looks like an angel, but right now your buddy needs help. Get out and lets carry him to the infirmary," Irvine said, opening the door. Quistis got out and watched the two guys helping Raijin standing up and hopping around on one leg. Irvine and Seifer at opposite sides of Raijin, supporting him.
"Use float," suggested Quistis. Irvine nodded and cast float on the bleeding man. Raijin glided with ease. Fuujin smiled.
"CLEVER." Quistis looked at the blushing Fuujin and shrugged it off. It seemed pretty weird in particular, but decided that she must liked Raijin to make a praise to her formal Instructor.
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"Since, the Infirmary is locked, just put him in my room for now until he's better," Irvine told Seifer. "Just talk to Headmaster first about you becoming a SeeD. Then you probably would have your own room, as well for your…posse friends." Seifer nodded and motioned Fuujin to follow. Raijin was snoring loudly now and Irvine and Quistis sighed.
"Hmm. Hope Seifer has his room quickly because I'm not going to sleep in the same room with him," Irvine muttered. "Hope he's a tidy person."