Disclaimer: STILL don't own Final Fantasy 8....
Note: Read Bears On Broadway story entitled, 'Half of the Flowers are Gone'... That author is my brother and if you like this than you will most likely like that story... ^__^
Dedication: This chapter is dedicated to Dark Raion. 'Cause this ummm... non-mortal, reviewed all of my chapters, and the reviews are big and fat! THANK YOU DARK RAION!!!!!
~*Where Life Begins*~
~*Chapter 6: Kiss on a Moon*~
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Day 10: Kisses so Sweet and yet the Moon Shines so Bright
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"There is only so much I can take when it comes to kissing." Seifer sighed as he and Squall walked along the path that lead to the gardens of Garden. The birds cheeped lightly and flew from tree to tree above their heads. "Why do so many people like it?" Seifer questioned looking to the cloudless, blue sky. "'Oh yes, get your spit all over my lips!'." Seifer mocked. "Yah, sounds romantic." Seifer stated sarcastically as he folded his arms up and looked to the path they were walking on.
"Someone must find it romantic, if people keep doing it." Squall reminded him.
"True." Seifer acknowledged. "Wait, you actually said a full and complete sentence to me!" Seifer said in shock. "You must be quite interested in this topic." Seifer said suspiciously. "Does Squall have a crush?" Seifer teased with a small nudge in the arm.
"Quiet you." Squall commanded. Seifer rolled his eyes and decided to lay off Squall for a bit, well for about a couple seconds.
"Ask her out." Seifer quickly told him, afraid of getting his neck ripped open.
"As if she would say yes." Squall said with a roll of his eyes.
"Ah, come'on! What's the worst that could happen!?" Seifer asked, becoming a bit frustrated in Squall.
"She'll say no and I will become one of those freak hermits who eats his own toe nails and lives in Trabia with only a shack." Squall told him.
"That won't happen!" Seifer exclaimed. "Although that would be very funny." He said quietly.
"What did you say?" Squall asked looking at him.
"Nothing." Seifer said with a smile. There was silence between the two as the gardens came into view. "Xu is supposed to be here, right?" Seifer asked Squall, looking around nervously.
"Don't be so nervous. It's not like were lost and we need her." Squall reminded him.
"I guess your right but I just-" Seifer was cut short by someone popping up from the left path.
"HI SQUALL!" The person screamed loudly. Seifer screamed and fell to the ground while Squall stood looking on at who had just scared his comrade, it was Rinoa.
"Hello, Rinoa." Squall greeted as he offered a hand to Seifer. Seifer graciously took the hand and pulled himself up.
"Did I scare you?" Rinoa asked looking at Seifer who was still a bit fazed from the scream. Seifer brushed himself off a bit and looked to Rinoa for the first time, his mouth dropped.
'Short skirt. Tight, white shirt.' Seifer thought as he almost began to drool.
"Hello?" Rinoa questioned. Seifer looked to her eyes.
"Hi." He said, a bit dazed at her beauty. Rinoa give him an annoyed stare and turned to Squall, hoping for an appropriate answer.
"Is he okay?" Rinoa asked.
"This is how he always is, so no." Squall told her as he looked to Seifer. Rinoa laughed lightly.
"Anyways, where were you yesterday? You never showed up, we waited for you." Rinoa said as she placed her hip to the right and let both hand rest on her hip.
"You were?" Squall asked in shock. 'T-they don't hate me?'
"Of course! Now where were you?" Rinoa asked impatiently.
Squall pointed lazily up to a large window on a black building just a 100 yards away from Garden. Rinoa looked to where he was pointing and looked back to him quizzically.
"Why were you up there?" Rinoa asked. Squall was about to answer until a voice answered for him.
"That's classified information, Ms. Heartly." The voice said, Squall spun around and found Xu.
"Oh Xu. Thank God! I'm so glad you found us! This BAKA got us lost!" Seifer screamed as he scrambled to Xu. He wrapped his arms around her legs and smashed his cheek into where his hands were.
"Get off me!" Xu wailed as she kicked her leg wildly about. Seifer finally let go and backed away. Squall turned to Xu.
"Can I talk with Rinoa for a moment?" Squall asked politely. Xu nodded and Squall led Rinoa to a path to the left, where they couldn't be heard.
"What's up?" She asked in her cheery voice.
"Why did you kiss Irvine yesterday?" Squall asked, anger building up inside of him. Her eyes bulged in shock.
"You saw?" She gasped.
"Of course I did." Squall told her. "Now why did you do it? I thought you hated him." Squall questioned.
"I do, but, when he pressed his lips against mine I-I felt protected. Like I wasn't alone anymore. Having his arms around my waist was like a barrier, a barrier of my soul where only the two of us were allowed to enter." She closed her eyes at the memory. A single tear rolled from her eye and smashed itself into the sidewalk below. Squall's eyes became unusually sympathetic, but they quickly snapped back.
'Kissing is like that?' He asked himself. "Well, I have to go." Squall said quickly and turned from her. She meekly nodded.
'Why did I just tell him that? I never tell anyone that kind of stuff before.' Rinoa thought to herself, suspiciously.
The day came and went faster then Squall and Seifer had expected. Being lectured by about everyone must do the day in. Seifer and Squall quietly approached their quite large dorms that Garden had graciously offered. The full moon, high over head, sparkled it's magnificent eerie rays upon the campus of Garden.
"You don't think anyone is gonna jump us or anything, right?" Seifer asked, darting his eyes about as he walked close to Squall.
"Probably. They'll jump us and beat us with their large maces and battle axes and steal all our money." Squall joked.
"Stop being such a shi-" Seifer was about to finish when a voice called from behind them, atop the hill they had just passed.
"HEY!" A womanly voice called. Seifer screamed and fell to the ground.
"I'M GETTING THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!" Seifer screamed. "TAKE THE BROWN HAIRED ONE!! HE HAS THE MOST MONEY!!" Seifer screamed again. Squall, with his guard up, pulled a pistol from his pocket and flung himself around so he was facing where the voice had called. Feeling more reassurance in his friend, Seifer stopped screaming and looked to Squall, pistol in hand.
"You carry a pistol?" Seifer asked, a bit confused. But as soon as he asked that, Squall let his arms drop to his sides. Seifer looked at him awkwardly and looked up to the hill. Seifer's eyes widened.
A perfectly curved figure of a women was silhouetted to the light of the moon, which was directly behind her. The girl stood there for a few brief moments as to let the two boys gawk at her figure. She shifted slightly, allowing one hand to reach over and grab the other.
"God." Seifer said breathlessly.
"Who are you!?" Squall called up, wasting no time.
"Yah, and what's your phone number!?" Seifer called. Squall gave him a cold hard stare, then turned back to the approaching girl. As the girl came closer into view they could make out her features. Blonde hair, glasses and a tight skirt that dropped to her knees and a tight shirt that showed off her naval.
"My name is Quistis." She told the two.
"Quistis, how yah doin'?" Seifer asked flirtatiously.
"Shut up." Squall commanded.
"I thought I should tell you, before you make anymore advances on Rinoa, be prepared for a fight to the death with Irvine." She warned Squall, glaring lightly.
"I'm not making 'advances' on Rinoa. I'm talking to her." Squall told her as he pocketed his pistol.
"I know you aren't. But Irvine thinks you are. I suggest staying away from Rinoa." Quistis told him as she shifted lightly.
"Dude, just stay away." Seifer told him, a strange look of worry in his eyes.
"Fine, but if she talks to me, and he comes after me, I'll kill him." Squall warned as he turned away from her. Quistis sighed lightly and placed a hand to her forehead.
'I couldn't tell him the truth, he would hate her forever.' Quistis acknowledged to herself. Hearing those words from her own mind eased her a tad. She did the right thing, right?
"Your not really gonna kill him are you?" Seifer asked looking to Squall who had an aggravated expression on his face.
"I will if that's what he really wants." Squall warned. Squall's pace began to increase as more anger flushed through him.
"I think he just wants to win." Seifer told him, desperately trying to keep up with Squall's slowly increasing speed.
"I don't care what he wants, because he won't get it." Squall told him viciously.
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A/N: Sorry it took so long to update... I hate projects, and we had 4, all due tomorrow (3-07-02)!! And of course I waited till the last minute to do them... Stupid me.
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