A/N: You know how people put up quotes and comments in the beginning and stuff? Well, I got one….. Here it is-
What a piece of shit! Crap, crap, crappiest fic. on the net!!!
- Some guy I paid to say the fic. was good
Sorry, just some randomness in this chapter. The Seiftisness starts next chapter !!!
Ch. 2: The Birthday
(One week later)
The crack of dawn was a time in Garden when peaceful cadets slowly rose to the soft chirping of sparrows at their windowsill. Each student would slowly rise and rub the sleep from their eyes to face a new day of hard training. Beams of light were just beginning to shine through the blinds of every dorm and a few students yawned, rolled over, and fell back asleep. Yes, energy was seldom seen in the morning, for this was a time of tranquility, peace and quiet.
BRING!!!! BRING!!!!
Selphie Tilmett rolled over and both her eyes popped open, green orbs twinkling. A giant smile ran across her face. She could hardly contain her excitement. Jumping up out of bed, she turned off her ringing alarm and pumped her fists up and down.
"QUISTIS'S BIRTHDAY!!!" she squealed.
Struggling to put on her familiar yellow dress and brown boots, she kicked open the door to her dorm and ran screaming all the way to Quistis's room; irritating many sleeping Garden students on the way. This was going to be the event of the century, better than the garden festival. Quistis was turning 21!!! Selphie fumbled around in her pockets, trying to look for the extra set of keys to Quistis's dorm when she arrived. "Only use the keys for emergencies." Quistis had said. One thing she deeply regretted was giving a set of keys to Selphie, but then, she regretted a lot of things.
"Quistis, happy birthday!! We're having another surprise birthday for you!!" Selphie managed to squeak from excitement, poking Quistis underneath the covers as she did so.
"When will it occurred to you that surprise birthdays are supposed to be a surprise?"
" I know, but I can't help it. Meet us at the ballroom at four!" and without another word, which was amazing for Selphie, she ran out the door to terrorize other garden members.
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"Squally, please?"
"No."
"Please???"
"No."
"Quistis is going, and Selphie and I want to keep an eye on her and her mystery date!"
Squall kept the same hard-faced expression he had carried for ages; he wouldn't give in, not even to Rinoa. "No. It's too expensive, and I don't have the time. I don't want to have to repeat myself. If you want to go, fine. But I'm not paying for it."
"Squall, you get paid thousands of dollars in minutes. How is it too expensive to go on a little boat cruise?" Rinoa asked, batting her eyelashes to make Squall give in. It didn't work.
"Squall Leonhart, will you please report to the bridge? Squall Leonhart." the intercom buzzed.
"No." he said one final time, and walked away.
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"So Irvine and Zell are renting the movies for the party?" Rinoa asked Selphie, later that day.
"Yup!" Selphie exclaimed, then she asked "Why?"
" I bet they'll get something gross and bloody."
Selphie laughed and hung up some more crepe paper inside the ballroom. " Of course! What do you think they were gonna get? Blues Clues?"
Rinoa grinned and raised an eyebrow. "Matron still has some old kid's video tapes from the orphanage."
"Are you suggesting that we replace their movie with Blues Clues?"
"Thank you, Sherlock. So what do you think?"
"You don't have to get all sarcastic. I think it'll be hilariously funny!!"
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"Headmaster?" Squall Leonhart asked, saluting, as he arrived at the bridge. What does he want now?
"Squall, Squall, Squall," Headmaster Cid turned and shook his head. " Balamb Garden should be known around the world as a family friendly institute. We want to be widely known as putting the good seeDs into this garden. With you being commander, we need to lighten up. Balamb will seem much more kid-friendly if we did something about YOU."
"What…. What could be wrong with me, headmaster? I do all the paperwork, turn in all forms on time…" Squall stammered.
"Your attitude, Leonhart. Attitude is everything," Cid said calmly, while adjusting his dorky glasses. "But I've arranged a plan for you. You will campaign Balamb Garden as kid-friendly by taking care of a boy about 8 years old, for a week. Little Wat. That is, unless you have a mission coming up."
"Who am I taking care of?" Squall asked, confused.
"Wat."
"Who am I taking care of?" Squall asked again.
"Wat. Wat is his name!"
"I don't know! You tell me!"
"His name is Wat!"
"His name is What?"
Cid sighed. This would be harder that he thought. "Well, regardless of his name, you're taking care of him."
Squall had no idea what to say. He didn't even know the first thing about baby-sitting. He knew that kids were annoying little brats who broke things and pulled pranks. That was it, really. He had to escape. Think of some excuse to use. He was NOT getting stuck with an 8 year old. "Well, Sir. I do not have a mission coming up, but I did promise all of my friends that I would take them on that boat cruise the poem contest is about. You know about that cruise right? Its very expensive and everyone would hate me if I didn't go. the cruise is taking us to as far as Trabia." he grit his teeth, and made a fist. This had to work, it had to. If it didn't….
Cid didn't even hesitate to reply. He stood up and smiled. "All the better! Wat can go on the cruise with you! Don't worry! We will pay for his admission; we will assign him to you tomorrow when you depart. Dismissed." With that, he shushed Squall out of his office and went back to work.
"What can go on the cruise with me? Well, luggage and stuff like that." Squall mumbled to himself as he stopped to wait for the elevator to light. He headed to the training center, one hand clutching his gunblade, the other clutching his head. He needed to unleash his anger on some t-rexaurs. He needed to kill. What had happened back there? His plan didn't work. Now he would have to waste all this money, AND take that brat with him… and Quistis's birthday already started! He dropped all thoughts about the kid and the training center and ran towards the ballroom.
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Selphie looked around the ballroom.
Perfect.
Everything was perfect. It had to be. If anything went wrong…. Selphie shook away those horrid, horrid thoughts. Rinoa rushed over.
"I've got the tape!!!"
"I don't know, Rinoa…. I think that's too mean. Maybe we should leave the violence on for them."
Rinoa sighed. This was her chance to get back at Squall. "Fine…but I'll bring it along just in case."
Selphie smiled. Now was the time to sit and wait…. But not for long, for Selphie was sure that everyone would be punctual. She looked at her watch. Exactly 4:00. There wasn't much more time to wait.
(Half an hour later)
Selphie still stood in the same place, rooted. Her smile still plastered on her face. But it wasn't a normal smile. It was the kind of smile you run away from if near. Zell, Irvine and Squall came rushing in.
"Selphie, we are SO sorry. Zell kept saying it was h:00 and no one understood him." Irvine panted. His face was red.
Selphie glared at Irvine, then her face lit up to its usual. She nodded at Rinoa. "That's okay, Irvy," She said with an evil smile, "What movie did you guys bring?"
"Blood and Guts. How about putting it in for us while you're up!" Zell yelled form afar. A safe distance to be standing from Selphie at a time like this. Zell could be smart if he wanted to.
"Sure.." Selphie said with sugary sweet, but very fake, enthusiasm. She and Rinoa went up the VCR and snuck Blues Clues inside instead.
"Enjoy!" Rinoa said, trying to contain her laughter, as she left to go greet Quistis.
"This is going to be so bloody." Squall announced, rubbing his hands together.
They waited in anticipation, wanting to see gore so badly. They gaped in horror when they saw cute, cuddly, cartoon people come on screen, hugging and giggling.
"You can do anything that you wanna do!" Steve sang, waving his arms around and hugging Blue.
The guys were plastered against the couch, eyes wide, jaws dropped in complete and total horror. Each one stopped breathing. They didn't notice Quistis, Rinoa, and Selphie come back. They didn't notice the hundreds of other Garden students entering the ballroom either.
"I thought you guys were watching a bloody movie," Quistis said. Then she saw their faces. "Irvine, Squall, Zell? Are you okay?"
"I wonder why they haven't shut it off?" Rinoa wondered. She and Selphie looked at the guys. "Uh… guys?"
"Zell, are you breathing?" Quistis asked, wildly.
"Irvine?" Selphie shook him violently. "He passed out!" she cried.
"Oh my god! I thought they would start screaming and shut it off! Not go into comas!" Rinoa screamed. "Squall, you alive? Squall? This isn't funny!"
"It's not working. They're frozen stiff!" Quistis said.
"Hurry! Turn on something bloody!" Selphie yelled to Rinoa. Rinoa rushed to the VCR and popped in Blood and Guts, until it came to a really bloody part. She turned the volume way up.
Squall started to blink. "Blues Clues….," he stammered. " Hugging….singing… happiness." He shuddered from horror, and watched Zell and Irvine come to.
"The horrors!" Zell cried.
"Um..," Selphie said in the weird silence. "Its time for Quistis's cake, come on!"
The girls rushed to the cake and lit the candles, scared that the guys would find out what actually happened. "Make a wish, Quistis!" Selphie said.
Quistis watched all of the burning lights, they twinkled. She blew them out. "I wished the Garden wouldn't burn down." She joked.
"Oh Quistis!" Selphie sighed. "Don't you know? If you say it out loud! It won't come true!!"
Rinoa quickly handed Quistis her present before Selphie could say anything else. She opened it slowly, savoring this moment. It was an envelope wrapped in gold ribbon. She gasped.
Congratulations! You have won a free boat cruise. And one million gil!
It was the second line of the letter. The first line was what caught her eye. It said Dear Ms. Trepe,
"I … but… what…. How?" Quistis stammered.
"We entered the contest for you, Quistis" Selphie smiled. "Well, not exactly. We held a contest in the Garden that let the author of the best love poem written, kiss Irvine! And we entered it for the contest. It was my idea!"
Irvine shuddered visibly. "You made me kiss Xu."
"We hope we all could come with you. But Squall said no." Rinoa glared at Squall.
Squall cleared his throat. "Um… actually, about that, I can buy all you guys some tickets. I get paid thousands of dollars in minutes, anyway."
"She made me kiss Xu." Irvine said again, obviously disturbed by that fact.
Quistis politely declined. "I have too much work!" She explained.
"Don't you see? You probably never have to work again! You just won one million gil!" Selphie squealed. "One million gil!"
"So are you going?" Zell asked. "You'll still have to go with the other loser that won the contest."
Quistis didn't care. The fact that she had just won one million gi, had just fully gotten through her brain.
"Yes."
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A/N: Review! REVIEW! Thank you guys so much for 19 reviews!! Thanks especially to Pink-flames and Alonia Everclear who have reviewed both my sorry fics! Alonia is the most dedicated Seiftis lover ever! Thank you so much again!! Was it funny? I tried my best. 0_o
I'm so sorry! Seifer in next chapter, promise! Do you want the next chapter to be how he enters and stuff? Or Quistis meeting him and him telling her how he entered? Please tell me!
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Thankoo Blue-Mich889 andVick330 for teaching me how to use italics!!!! Oh, and I forgot to say thanks to METATTEM also, for reviewing both my ficcys!
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