The longest two hours in my life
"Quitsy! Wake up Quitsy!" Quitsis was jerked from her dreams by Selphie bouncing up and down on her bed, her shattering voice, drilling in to Quitsis' head. "Quitsy! Oh come on! Get uuup!!!" Selphie moaned impatiently. Quitsis ignored her and turned over in her bead, and pulled her pillow over her head. It was sooooo early! But she wasn't surprised Selphie was up, she was always up early, bright and chirpy as usual. Quitsis slowly began to crawl out of bed, groaning as she went. But Quitsis was too late. Selphie had grown impatient and was tugging at her feet, pulling her onto the floor. "geeeet," she Selphie hisses through her teeth as she pulled. "uuup.!" Quitsis suddenly fell from the tiny height of the bed and landed on the floor with a loud thump. Quitsis groaned again and pulled her duvet round herself and snuggles in to the soft, clean sheets and inhaled the lovely sweet smell of the fresh sheets. She didn't have to get up now, she had a few more minutes..Selphie couldn't make her. "Come on Quitsy!" Selphie carried on, "No time for layabouts! We had a reply from the dating agency! You're all linked up!" Quitsis immediately sat bolt upright, staring at Selphie, were her ears deceiving her? The dating agency? Really? Was this possible? She had almost given up; it had been over a week of waiting, but nothing had happened. She had been working there to help Selphie out most of the time, filing, decorating - and while she was there she had taken a sneaky look at her files, but there hadn't been anything. "Really?" she said, her surprise was whistling all the way through her voice. "Yes" said Selphie impatiently, "So hurry up and get dressed! You're not the only one who wants to find out who he is! Squall is the one who matched you up, so he's the one who knows, but he's on a flaming mission isn't he?"
Quitsis frowned uncertainly. Didn't she think anything would happen either? Did they all doubt her? Maybe she was stupid to have thought anyone would ever date her anyway..But her own thoughts contradicted the fact that she had got a date, and needed to find out who it was, so she focused her attention back on that. She leapt off the floor and in to the bathroom, grabbing her clothes out of the wardrobe as she went. She locked the bathroom door and began to wash hastily. Meanwhile, Selphie was shouting commands "HURRY!" She yelled, "Shower, dry, dress, simple as that! HURRY!" Whilst shouting to Quitsis, she was running round Quitsis' room, making her bed and tiding the mess of a wardrobe Quitsis had left. She Wanted to be as quick as possible, it was so exiting! Quitsis had a date! They could all hang around in a big group of eight like she'd always wanted. "Look Quitsy! She shouted through the door "I'm gonna go fetch you and everyone else some breakfast! Wake the other guys when you're done ok? Ivry is already up! But Zell and Rinoa are still asleep! Ok, so I'm gonna go! That ok?" Selphie could hear a muffled noise that sounded like ok among the hiss of the shower water, so she closed the cupboard doors and ran out of the room, the door slamming behind her. Selphie ran down the empty corridor in a rush, down towards the cafeteria, tunning as fast as she could. She ran in a rhythmic pattern, listening to the sounds of her feet as she ran. Phut, whoosh, SLAM. Phut, whoosh, SLAM. She was sprinting her way past the infirmary in , her only little world, thinking about the exitment of it all, when she ran straight in to headmaster cid, and recoiled off his round belly on to the floor. "Hey, watch out!" Said headmaster Cid in his usual pleasant tone. He stood over her for a while and suddenly said, "Anyway, you might have bumped in to the tea lady with Zell's hotdogs - and then you would have been in trouble!" Selphie smiled at him, she had never noticed how laid back he was about rules and regulations, how unlike squall. "Sorry." she said apologetically "I was in a hurry." He smiled at her and held out his hand to help her up. She took it politely, and hauled herself up. "Yes, I've heard you've been very busy recently." He said, jingling the money in his pockets as he spoke. "Yep!" said Selphie cheerfully, "the dating agency has really taken off! We've had everyone! Seifer, Wedge and Biggs, even Laguna!" The headmaster chuckled at the thought of the president of Esthar coming to a garden dating agency, but it was very clear Laguna wasn't a normal president. "Yes, the agency has been very good publicity for the garden, Seifer is even thinking of rejoining since he came. A good fighter, Seifer. Shame about his attitude, we could have done great things with him.I don't know, we have two talented SeeD's with not enough discipline, the other with too much!" Selphie giggled, it was true. " I remember Edea when I met her," the head carried on, " Didn't need a dating agency to find that beauty, found her surrounded by hexadragons when I was searching for . Poor woman, she had just received her powers, and didn't quite have a handle on them, and had accidentally provoked them with her maelstrom! It was quite a sight to see actually. And then when I rescued her, she accidentally set my trousers on fire! It was quite troublesome to get to the river before the fire reached me, and she was so apologetic! She wouldn't stop saying sorry! That's actually how our relationship progressed, she sent me a thank you and sorry card, I sent a thank you for you thank you card, and it just grew from there.quite an odd way to meet actually" Selphie stared at him. It was such a nice way to meet, her and Ivry's story wasn't very interesting; it was mixed in with the massive Squall and Rinoa love story. No-one had ever noticed THEIR relationship blossoming throughout it all... "Oh, sorry!" he suddenly said, "I've kept you! Didn't you say you were in a hurry? And we've been standing here chatting. I'm ever so sorry. Edea will be expecting me back from my walk as well." Selphie jolted out of her thinking trance, and realised that she was supposed to be being quick. She seuddenly remembered why she was so happy. Quitsis had a date! She bolted down the hall again, and left Cid standing in the hallway, chuckling. ***** Where was she? Quitsis sat in her dorm, waiting impatiently for Selphie to arrive. She had been waiting here for fifteen minutes now, and even though it sounds like a short amount of time, it had been the longest fifteen minutes of Quitsis life, debating over who this person could be. She has been through reams of people already, and she had steadily eliminated them all, one by one, she found reasons why they would NEVER go out with her. It was quite a depressing activity really. Eventually, she really couldn't stand it any longer, and took Selphie's direction of waking the others if she was a while. She slowly got up and headed toward Rinoa's dorm. She looked at the time. It was only 7am now, and she had already been up about an hour. She gave a little knock on the door and a fully dressed, sleepy Rinoa appeared at the door. "sorry," said Quitsis " I thought Selphie hadn't woke you yet, but she obviously has, has she been to zell yet? Only I'm dying of boredom waiting for Selphie and the breakfast." "What?" Said Rinoa dozily, "Selphie hasn't got me up. Why would she? Did she get you up?" "Yeah," replied Quitsis, "there's been a date arranged for me, Selphie told me to get you lot up." "Oh? Really? Wow, that's great! Let's go and get Zell. Is he the only one not up?" "Yeah, Irvine is already up, and it's obvious you, me and Selphie are up - let's go." The two walked down the hall as Quitsis explained the rest of the details about the date, and they pondered over who it could be. When they reached Zell's dorm, Rinoa banged on the door viciously. "GET UP YOU LAZY BAG OF WIND!" She shouted, "BIG NEWS, QUISTSIS HAS A DATE!!!!" Rinoa hammered the door and then waited for Zell to appear. "So," said Quitsis, "Why were you up then? If Selphie didn't get you up? You're not like her are you, because you're usually up at about twelve, let alone six." "No." Rinoa said, whilst thumping the door, cursing Zell. " I kind of...er.don't sleep to well..without..er, squall." Quitsis stared at Rinoa, was Quitsis' opinion of her wrong? Quitsis had always considered Rinoa the loudmouthed teenager; she didn't know she had this kind of level. This made Quitsis lust for a boyfriend even more, she was so eager to find out who this person was. She wanted someone to care for, worry about when they were away, not sleep for when they weren't there. Quitsis became frustrate again at her own incompetence, and her long period of celibacy. But luckily, her attention was diverted by this when she saw Selphie running down the hall with a giant tray of breakfast, piled with muffins and eggs and coffee, all sliding about on the tray from one end to the other. She ran up to them, trying to speak between breaths. "Is.everyone... up?" she forced out, whilst Rinoa and Quitsis picked out some of the breakfast from the tray and began to chew hungrily. She placed the tray on the floor and sat down on a nearby chair, trying to catch her breath. "No." said Rinoa between gulps of a rather chewy toast. She swallowed the piece of toast in her mouth and said, "Squall isn't here, and Zell REFUSES to get up..." she kicked his door angrily, in an attempt to wake him. Eventually a distant mumble of 'come back later' could be heard form his dorm. Selphie sighed and rolled her eyes, picking up the tray of food to move to her dorm and collect Irvine. She walked in to the dorm only to find Irvine dressed, but leant against a pillow, fast asleep. She shook him awake, whispering to him gently, as Rinoa sighed at woke him up more effectively. He woke up and picked up some breakfast dozily. Quitsis' head was still filled with the thought so who this person could be, she couldn't seem to think of anybody.. Once all the breakfast had disappeared into a pile of crumbs, they all rushed down the hall to the agency's official storeroom, whilst Selphie and Irvine argued about various uninteresting subjects. Quitsis flew into the room, and rushed to the filing cabinet at the back of the room. She began flipping through the files to find hers. But as she searched, she became unsure. Her speed decreased as she thought about all the possibilities of this turning out to be a disaster. What if it was someone repulsive? What if they didn't like her? What if they didn't turn up and rejected her? She couldn't back out, maybe she shouldn't look. She eventually came to her file, slowly pulled it out of the cabinet, stared at the eager faces around. They all looked so happy. She took on e last gulp, closed her eyes and swung the file open.
"Quitsy! Wake up Quitsy!" Quitsis was jerked from her dreams by Selphie bouncing up and down on her bed, her shattering voice, drilling in to Quitsis' head. "Quitsy! Oh come on! Get uuup!!!" Selphie moaned impatiently. Quitsis ignored her and turned over in her bead, and pulled her pillow over her head. It was sooooo early! But she wasn't surprised Selphie was up, she was always up early, bright and chirpy as usual. Quitsis slowly began to crawl out of bed, groaning as she went. But Quitsis was too late. Selphie had grown impatient and was tugging at her feet, pulling her onto the floor. "geeeet," she Selphie hisses through her teeth as she pulled. "uuup.!" Quitsis suddenly fell from the tiny height of the bed and landed on the floor with a loud thump. Quitsis groaned again and pulled her duvet round herself and snuggles in to the soft, clean sheets and inhaled the lovely sweet smell of the fresh sheets. She didn't have to get up now, she had a few more minutes..Selphie couldn't make her. "Come on Quitsy!" Selphie carried on, "No time for layabouts! We had a reply from the dating agency! You're all linked up!" Quitsis immediately sat bolt upright, staring at Selphie, were her ears deceiving her? The dating agency? Really? Was this possible? She had almost given up; it had been over a week of waiting, but nothing had happened. She had been working there to help Selphie out most of the time, filing, decorating - and while she was there she had taken a sneaky look at her files, but there hadn't been anything. "Really?" she said, her surprise was whistling all the way through her voice. "Yes" said Selphie impatiently, "So hurry up and get dressed! You're not the only one who wants to find out who he is! Squall is the one who matched you up, so he's the one who knows, but he's on a flaming mission isn't he?"
Quitsis frowned uncertainly. Didn't she think anything would happen either? Did they all doubt her? Maybe she was stupid to have thought anyone would ever date her anyway..But her own thoughts contradicted the fact that she had got a date, and needed to find out who it was, so she focused her attention back on that. She leapt off the floor and in to the bathroom, grabbing her clothes out of the wardrobe as she went. She locked the bathroom door and began to wash hastily. Meanwhile, Selphie was shouting commands "HURRY!" She yelled, "Shower, dry, dress, simple as that! HURRY!" Whilst shouting to Quitsis, she was running round Quitsis' room, making her bed and tiding the mess of a wardrobe Quitsis had left. She Wanted to be as quick as possible, it was so exiting! Quitsis had a date! They could all hang around in a big group of eight like she'd always wanted. "Look Quitsy! She shouted through the door "I'm gonna go fetch you and everyone else some breakfast! Wake the other guys when you're done ok? Ivry is already up! But Zell and Rinoa are still asleep! Ok, so I'm gonna go! That ok?" Selphie could hear a muffled noise that sounded like ok among the hiss of the shower water, so she closed the cupboard doors and ran out of the room, the door slamming behind her. Selphie ran down the empty corridor in a rush, down towards the cafeteria, tunning as fast as she could. She ran in a rhythmic pattern, listening to the sounds of her feet as she ran. Phut, whoosh, SLAM. Phut, whoosh, SLAM. She was sprinting her way past the infirmary in , her only little world, thinking about the exitment of it all, when she ran straight in to headmaster cid, and recoiled off his round belly on to the floor. "Hey, watch out!" Said headmaster Cid in his usual pleasant tone. He stood over her for a while and suddenly said, "Anyway, you might have bumped in to the tea lady with Zell's hotdogs - and then you would have been in trouble!" Selphie smiled at him, she had never noticed how laid back he was about rules and regulations, how unlike squall. "Sorry." she said apologetically "I was in a hurry." He smiled at her and held out his hand to help her up. She took it politely, and hauled herself up. "Yes, I've heard you've been very busy recently." He said, jingling the money in his pockets as he spoke. "Yep!" said Selphie cheerfully, "the dating agency has really taken off! We've had everyone! Seifer, Wedge and Biggs, even Laguna!" The headmaster chuckled at the thought of the president of Esthar coming to a garden dating agency, but it was very clear Laguna wasn't a normal president. "Yes, the agency has been very good publicity for the garden, Seifer is even thinking of rejoining since he came. A good fighter, Seifer. Shame about his attitude, we could have done great things with him.I don't know, we have two talented SeeD's with not enough discipline, the other with too much!" Selphie giggled, it was true. " I remember Edea when I met her," the head carried on, " Didn't need a dating agency to find that beauty, found her surrounded by hexadragons when I was searching for . Poor woman, she had just received her powers, and didn't quite have a handle on them, and had accidentally provoked them with her maelstrom! It was quite a sight to see actually. And then when I rescued her, she accidentally set my trousers on fire! It was quite troublesome to get to the river before the fire reached me, and she was so apologetic! She wouldn't stop saying sorry! That's actually how our relationship progressed, she sent me a thank you and sorry card, I sent a thank you for you thank you card, and it just grew from there.quite an odd way to meet actually" Selphie stared at him. It was such a nice way to meet, her and Ivry's story wasn't very interesting; it was mixed in with the massive Squall and Rinoa love story. No-one had ever noticed THEIR relationship blossoming throughout it all... "Oh, sorry!" he suddenly said, "I've kept you! Didn't you say you were in a hurry? And we've been standing here chatting. I'm ever so sorry. Edea will be expecting me back from my walk as well." Selphie jolted out of her thinking trance, and realised that she was supposed to be being quick. She seuddenly remembered why she was so happy. Quitsis had a date! She bolted down the hall again, and left Cid standing in the hallway, chuckling. ***** Where was she? Quitsis sat in her dorm, waiting impatiently for Selphie to arrive. She had been waiting here for fifteen minutes now, and even though it sounds like a short amount of time, it had been the longest fifteen minutes of Quitsis life, debating over who this person could be. She has been through reams of people already, and she had steadily eliminated them all, one by one, she found reasons why they would NEVER go out with her. It was quite a depressing activity really. Eventually, she really couldn't stand it any longer, and took Selphie's direction of waking the others if she was a while. She slowly got up and headed toward Rinoa's dorm. She looked at the time. It was only 7am now, and she had already been up about an hour. She gave a little knock on the door and a fully dressed, sleepy Rinoa appeared at the door. "sorry," said Quitsis " I thought Selphie hadn't woke you yet, but she obviously has, has she been to zell yet? Only I'm dying of boredom waiting for Selphie and the breakfast." "What?" Said Rinoa dozily, "Selphie hasn't got me up. Why would she? Did she get you up?" "Yeah," replied Quitsis, "there's been a date arranged for me, Selphie told me to get you lot up." "Oh? Really? Wow, that's great! Let's go and get Zell. Is he the only one not up?" "Yeah, Irvine is already up, and it's obvious you, me and Selphie are up - let's go." The two walked down the hall as Quitsis explained the rest of the details about the date, and they pondered over who it could be. When they reached Zell's dorm, Rinoa banged on the door viciously. "GET UP YOU LAZY BAG OF WIND!" She shouted, "BIG NEWS, QUISTSIS HAS A DATE!!!!" Rinoa hammered the door and then waited for Zell to appear. "So," said Quitsis, "Why were you up then? If Selphie didn't get you up? You're not like her are you, because you're usually up at about twelve, let alone six." "No." Rinoa said, whilst thumping the door, cursing Zell. " I kind of...er.don't sleep to well..without..er, squall." Quitsis stared at Rinoa, was Quitsis' opinion of her wrong? Quitsis had always considered Rinoa the loudmouthed teenager; she didn't know she had this kind of level. This made Quitsis lust for a boyfriend even more, she was so eager to find out who this person was. She wanted someone to care for, worry about when they were away, not sleep for when they weren't there. Quitsis became frustrate again at her own incompetence, and her long period of celibacy. But luckily, her attention was diverted by this when she saw Selphie running down the hall with a giant tray of breakfast, piled with muffins and eggs and coffee, all sliding about on the tray from one end to the other. She ran up to them, trying to speak between breaths. "Is.everyone... up?" she forced out, whilst Rinoa and Quitsis picked out some of the breakfast from the tray and began to chew hungrily. She placed the tray on the floor and sat down on a nearby chair, trying to catch her breath. "No." said Rinoa between gulps of a rather chewy toast. She swallowed the piece of toast in her mouth and said, "Squall isn't here, and Zell REFUSES to get up..." she kicked his door angrily, in an attempt to wake him. Eventually a distant mumble of 'come back later' could be heard form his dorm. Selphie sighed and rolled her eyes, picking up the tray of food to move to her dorm and collect Irvine. She walked in to the dorm only to find Irvine dressed, but leant against a pillow, fast asleep. She shook him awake, whispering to him gently, as Rinoa sighed at woke him up more effectively. He woke up and picked up some breakfast dozily. Quitsis' head was still filled with the thought so who this person could be, she couldn't seem to think of anybody.. Once all the breakfast had disappeared into a pile of crumbs, they all rushed down the hall to the agency's official storeroom, whilst Selphie and Irvine argued about various uninteresting subjects. Quitsis flew into the room, and rushed to the filing cabinet at the back of the room. She began flipping through the files to find hers. But as she searched, she became unsure. Her speed decreased as she thought about all the possibilities of this turning out to be a disaster. What if it was someone repulsive? What if they didn't like her? What if they didn't turn up and rejected her? She couldn't back out, maybe she shouldn't look. She eventually came to her file, slowly pulled it out of the cabinet, stared at the eager faces around. They all looked so happy. She took on e last gulp, closed her eyes and swung the file open.