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Chapter 6 - Poisoned dagger
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It was the next day and I had just got out of bed. I washed up and went to Squall's door. I knocked. There was no answer. I opened his door and he wasn't inside. I went back to my room and grabbed my blue jacket. I left to check out the school some more. When I got out of the Student's Dormitory Section I took a right and saw it was the Parking Lot. I skipped looking there and took another right to the Training Center. I saw Selphie sitting on a bench outside of the Training Center. "Hey Selphie!" I yelled then walked up to her.

"Hiya, Rinoa! What's up?"

"Do you happen to know where Squall is? I wanted to hang out"

"Squall is here in the Training Center with Zell. If you want to hang out with him you'll be in the Training Center all day long." Selphie told me then started to laugh. "Lets you and me hang out!"

"Sure" I said.

"Let's go to the Cafeteria to eat first off!" Selphie said getting up.

We were walking to the Cafeteria and then shoved over by a kid jogging.

"Oh sorry about that miss!" The kid said still jogging.

"It's alright" I told him and watched him jog away. When for a moment I though I saw something that couldn't be. I though I saw my ex walking into the Training Center. I shook my head and started with Selphie again. "I think I'm hallucinating Selphie"

"It's expected. From what happened yesterday I wouldn't be surprised if you magically killed someone!" Selphie said laughing. "We all have a little violence in us that should lead to hallucinating! Hehe!"

What did I do yesterday to make her think that? "I guess you might be right." We continued on our path and went inside the Cafeteria. There was Irvine sitting at a table.

"Hey hunnies!" Irvine said to us both

"What are you doing here by yourself? Are you checking out the girls?!" Selphie said mad.

"No way. You worry about me to much! I'm here waiting for the hotdogs to come in. When they do Zell wants me to inform him" Irvine said shrugging his shoulders.

Selphie jumped into his lap and I took a seat across from them.

"Heard your going to the Halloween Party here" Selphie said.

"Yeah. Quistis asked me to come. Are two you going?"

"Sure we are! Right Irvine!" Selphie said looking at Irvine.

"Yeah... I wouldn't but since Selphie is going I'll go. You know I'm surprised you didn't manage this party when you always do the other ones"

"Why not this one?" I asked.

"There were rumors that at my Halloween party one person would be targeted to be killed. I didn't want that to happen so I didn't make one, but... someone decided to do it anyway without me." Selphie said with an upset look on her face.

"I heard it's going to be extremely scary but... the rumors just messed up the whole thing. Not many people are going now." Irvine said.

"Well that won't mess up our fun now will it?!" I said with joy trying to cheer Selphie up.

"...yeah, your right!" Selphie said popping out of Irvine's lap. "Let's go!" She punched her hand in the air then stood stiff. She had a terrified look on her face. Her eyes were piecing out.

"What's wrong Selphie?" I asked.

She gulped and put her arms down to her side. Then came up to me and picked off something from my chair. It was a dagger.

"See the tip? It's blue. It's a poisonous dagger. Someone just threw this at you but has missed." Selphie told me and gulped again.

I got up from my chair and looked around.

"Freaky?! Who threw it?" Irvine said looking around.

"How about we just leave this place before someone tries to hit another one at me." I said.

"I agree" Selphie said and we both hurried out of the Cafeteria.

We both walked out and walked to where all the fog on the ground was coming from. It was from the Quad. We went inside looking around. Watching several people decorating for the Halloween Party. It was already chilling. There was a great big banner above us saying Happy Halloween. The floor was all hazy and spider webs were absolutely every where! Pumpkins were pilled in the corners and lots of mirrors on the wall. Blood that was actually cherry juice was splattered on these mirrors. There were fake dead hands on the benches. The students were opening up a bunch of tables and brining out the chairs.

"Wow! I though I was good at decorating!" Selphie said playing with the spider webs she tangled herself in.

"Hey... who would want to poison me?" I asked her worried. Selphie looked at me with a disheartened face.

"No one wants to... it must be a prank"

"A deadly prank." I looked on the floor scared. "Should we tell Headmaster Cid?"

"I think so. Let's tell Squall first though." Selphie said.

"Let's take a seat" I said moving the dead hands off the bench.

"Ouch!" Selphie yelled.

"What's wrong?" I said. Selphie got up from the bench and looked at the seat. She sat on a plastic spider. "Oh… hey let me have that!" I took the spider and hid it inside my jacket.

"What are you going to do with that?" Selphie asked.

"Just want to have a little fun with Squall. To see if he's terrified of spiders" I said with an evil giggle.

"Oh Rinoa! You're better than I though!" Selphie said laughing with me and clapping her hands. I got up and looked walked around. Watching my step.

"I can't see my knees of all this fog!" I said spinning in circles.

"You'll get dizzy! Slow down" Selphie said covering her mouth from laughing. I fell on the ground and held my head.

"Whoa… Head… Pain… dizzy…" I said as I watched my vision of the room go up and down and all the way to one side then all the way to the other.

"Are you ok?" Selphie said. "I can't see you from all the fog! Get up!"

"Alright… give me a moment to fix my vision" I told her and looked around. I looked at the doors and saw Squall entering. "Squall!" I yelled then laughed. "Squall! I've fallen and can't get up!"

"Who is that?" Squall asked Selphie who was holding her stomach from all the laughter.

"She's somewhere in the fog on the floor. She fell!" Selphie said still laughing.

Squall walked around who knows where. I felt two hands behind me pulling me up from my waist. It was Squall. I could tell because my vision was clearing up but my head kept on moving in a circle. He held my waist with one hand and took his other hand to stop my head from moving around. It felt like a pillow was holding on to me so gently.

"Rinoa. Hold still and close your eyes. Then you won't be so dizzy." Squall told me. I did so and opened my eyes.

"Wow. Much better." Squall smiled at me. He looked at me with that dreamy smile. It just made me want to kiss him but I didn't. He stood silent.

"Done killing beasts already?" Selphie said.

"No… just though I would take a break." Squall said.

"That's a first" Selphie said.

I looked at Squall smiling immense. I had pictured me and Squall kissing. It made me smile. "There's a first for everything" I said to Squall.