and I didn't know that I could be so blind to all that is so real...

Quistis woke up and put on her white robe, then opened her bedroom door to find Seifer still sleeping. She took a shower and dressed in her bedroom, then again walked out of the room to see him still sleeping. She inwardly smiled when he gave a queit snore. How rare it must be to see Seifer so vulnerable. She wondered how many people had actually seen him like this. He almost looked happy.

She grabbed her briefcase with lesson plans and assignments she used in her teaching and left the room, making sure to lock the door.

She walked down the hallway, and went up the elevator, then down another hallway and into her classroom where she saw three trepies were thirty minutes early for class.

"Hello Instructor Trepe!" one said.

"How are you doing Intstructor Trepe?" another asked.

"I did some extra credit!" exclaimed the third, giving her two other trepie friends a smug look as if she had won the "Who Can Suck Up To The Teacher The Best" game or something.

Quistis smiled and sat at her desk. "Hello, I'm good, and give me the extra credit so I can grade it." she said, answering them all. Class was going to be long today.

After her first class ended, which lasted from eight in the morning till lunch, she went to the cafeteria and ate. She didn't bother with Seifer, if he was hungry enough, he'd choke down a few apples. She was now sitting at her desk as the students for her second class filed in.

After second class she'd had to stay late again grading papers.

As soon she was done with the papers she walked briskly to her dorm where Seifer was watching the TV, laying on her bed in her bedroom!

"Seifer Almasy! Get up!" she said in a harsh whisper.

"What?! It's the only TV!" he said back in the same hushed voice.

"Get off my bed! Now! Get off!" she said trying to push him off. He laid there like dead-weight laughing his ass off. She couldn't help but laugh at her own vain attempts to push him off her bed.

After a few seconds of pushing and pulling she grabbed the blanket on the bed and started pulling it off, him coming with it. Soon he fell off, and she fell forward onto him tripping over the blankets. She stifled her laughter as did he.

"Now look what happens when you don't listen!" she said in mock authority.

"Is this another lesson, Intsructor?" he asked. He'd caught her off guard again. Why were his words leaving her speechless lately? It was just Seifer. Same old Seifer. But to hear him say Instructor to her brought painful memories of before Time Compression, when she still taught him in her classroom. When he was still treated fairly.

She quickly came back to her senses and playfully smacked him over the head. She stood up and tried to walked off, but was caught off guard when he grabbed her ankles and brought her back down with a loud thump.

"No, no, no...you never answered my question. Teacher's are supposed to have an answer to everything..." he said. She looked into his emerald eyes. They looking like they were, for once, laughing. She smiled and shook her head.

"No, this is not a lesson, merely advice." she said, again trying to stand up. "Now if you'll let me go, I'll head down to the cafeteria and get us both some dinner." she said.

He nodded. "But won't it look suspisious if you bring two trays back up here?" he asked.

"Precisely, which is why we're sharing. It's alright though, you need to lose a few pounds anyway..." she said teasingly.

"Wrong....that was wrong..." he said with mock saddness as she left the room.