Disclaimer: Sarah Connor – One nite stand         Puddle of mud - Blurry

Chapter 7: Accident 7: The microphone

Garden Festival program:

1.  Rinoa Heartilly – Eyes on me
2.  Seifer Almasy – She hates me
3.  Catherine Walters – Through the rain
4.  Selphie Tilmitt – One nite stand
5.  Squall Leonheart – Best in me
6.  Quistis Trepe – Ice Queen
7.  Zell Dincht – Blurry
8.  Irvine Kinneas – No one knows

Tonight was the Garden Festival.  Rinoa, Seifer and Catherine were a success (and they were glad they got it over with…).  Now Selphie was on stage:
"Love ya baby
Drive me crazy
Let me be your sugar daddy
Looked into my eyes
I was convinced
That he's real

Girlfriend
Ever had a boyfriend
Looked to be your best friend
Turned out to be a one nite stand

He loves me
He loves me not
He screams my name in bed
Makes me feel so hot
But once he's at the door
He's already forgot
The promises he made
At the break of light
To love me
Protect me
Not leave me
Or hurt me

I was so foolish
And so blind to see
That all he wanted to do was to use me"
Zell was watching her and listening to the song she had written. ~Does she really think it was just a one night stand?  Doesn't she know how I feel?~

After Squall and Quistis' performance, it was his turn to sing:
"Everything's so blurry
And everyone's so fake
And everybody's empty
And everything is so messed up
Pre-occupied without you
I cannot live at all
My whole world surrounds you
I stumble then I crawl

You could be my someone you could be my sea
You know that I'll protect you
From all of the obscene
I wonder what you're doing
Imagine where you are
There's oceans in between us
But that's not very far

Can you take it all away
Can you take it all away
When ya shoved it in my face
Explain again to me
Can you take it all away
Can you take it all away
When ya shoved it in my face"

After the last one everyone sat backstage, exhausted.  Irvine made himself comfortable in the sofa, pulling Catherine onto his lap and whispering something in her ear that made her blush and giggle.  Seifer sat in a corner on a bean bag.  Staying hidden in the shadow he secretly watched Quistis, who was trying to make a conversation with Squall but always ended up with Rinoa answering in his place.
"So Squall, did you write the song yourself?"
"…"
"Yes, he did.  And he wrote it specially for me." Rinoa said with a big smile on her face as she snuggled up to Squall, squeezed his hand and gave him a peck on his cheek.  His face flushed red and Quistis smiled with a happy twinkle in her eyes.
~Hyne, she's beautiful when she smiles…~
Zell and Selphie were a bit further away from the rest of the group and had a private conversation.
"Selphie… It was more than just a one night stand…" he began.
"No, you just used me for your own pleasure."
"That's not true… Sephie, I love you…"
"No, you don't." Her sad face looked down.
Zell gently took her chin in his hand.  Her sad green eyes looking into his own.  "I really love you…"
Selphie now saw it.  He really did care about her.
"Oh, I love you too." And they embraced.

***

"Come on, I wanna take you somewhere…" Selphie whispered in his ear.
They went to the empty control room, where they took care of the music played on the Garden Festival, and closed the door.  Zell pushed Selphie against a control panel.  They were kissing, not looking where they were going.  They didn't see that they had accidentally pushed the "microphone"- button. Seconds later the people at the garden Festival couldn't hear any music anymore but instead they heard moans of a girl and a boy, sometimes followed by an "Oh, Zell!" or "Oh, Selphie!"
Everybody in the quad was listening carefully and trying to hold back their laughter.

This was gonna be a fresh, new rumor around Garden…