I am back! Thanks to everybody who reviewed, thanks ^_^! And for the people who is interested in how the couples are at the end: it is definetely going to be a Squinoa! I hope you enjoy the new chapter!
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A symbol of your love 2 - The liar and the lion
Toc, toc.
Squall was half-asleep when he heard the knock on the door.
Toc, toc.
"Yes…", Squall shouted out sleepily, "just a sec."
Slowly he stood up, ran his fingers through his hair and approached the door, when he suddenly realized it was… "3 A.M.? This just seems too familiar… Well, yesterday it was 4 A.M., but…", he exclaimed silently. Was there still something bothering Rinoa? A bad feeling was raising up in his mind. He quickly opened the door and…
"Seifer?", he almost shouted out, not believing it.
A happily grinning Seifer was standing there, in front of his room!
"Man, what a bad joke." , Squall said motionless and slammed the door closed. He turned around, going to lay down again, when again, Seifer knocked. "Damn, I hoped it was just a nightmare…" he thought, and with a disgusting feeling he opened the door again.
"Well Seifer… A pleasure to see you here, in the middle of the night, and you aren't even allowed to set a foot into Garden, but you know, I have important appointments tomorrow, so…", he quickly blurred out like a waterfall, almost closing the door while saying this. But Seifer put his feet between the door and…
"Ouch!!! Be more careful!", he shouted out loud and angrily.
Squall was absolutely at the edge of exploding.
"What do you want Seifer? Tell me, and then leave or…"
"Yes, alright, alright…", he slowly began, "I just came here to find Rinoa… I wanted to give her back something she forgot. But, well, I couldn't find her anywhere, so I thought you could give it back to her…".
Squall silently nodded, without knowing what to think about this whole, just too unreal situation. Meanwhile, Seifer had found what he was searching for in his pockets. When he opened the closed hand in front of Squalls face, there appeared…
"Rinoas neck-lace!!!", he shouted out, "Seifer, maybe you aren't the bad guy I ever thought you are." Smiling, he took the neck-lace, already thinking about how happy Rinoa would be when he gave it to her.
"Well,", Seifer thought, "let's explode the bomb now…".
"Yes, please give it back to her, she totally forgot it last Friday night, in the hotel-room in Balamb.", he said, with an evil grin on his face.
"Oh man, Seifer", Squall said, still smiling, now almost more then before. "You're such a bad liar… Did I ever tell you?"
For a long moment, Seifer just stood there, stunned, with a confused look on his face. When he finally was able to speak again, he began to get nervous: "What do you mean, I'm a bad liar? How will you know where she was last Friday night?"
"Because she was on a training mission… the whole last week… And besides, do you really think I don't trust her? Well, I think this wasn't going how you expected it to go, was it? Maybe another day, in another life, you can try again. See ya!"
And with this words, he closed the big iron door, and this time there were no feet to stop him from closing it. Just a very puzzled and disappointed Seifer, standing in front of a closed door, thinking about why his plan failed. He turned around and disappeared in the darkness of the hallway, not foreseeing that he would meet somebody on his secret way out of the Garden…
Meanwhile, Squall already was on his bed again, looking at the neck-lace laying on the desk. "What an idiot", was the last thing he thought. With a little tiny doubt raising in a corner inside his mind, he drifted off into a dreamless sleep.
To be continued…
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Who will Seifer meet in the Gardens hallway? You will see in the next chapter!
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Sorry for being this chapter so short, and without real action. The next one will be better.