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Chapter 8 - Spiders
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"Seifer?!!" I yelled in a shock.

Squall and Seifer stood still. They didn't put down their weapons or move a step. They did turn their heads my way in confusion. Zell was there too standing still as a statue.

"Uhh....hi?" Seifer said. I was furious. I walked up to him lifted my hand and as I was about to slap him he grabbed my hand and smiled. "See your doing fine, Rinoa"

"What the hell are you doing here?! Oh... wait I forgot your bitch was here!!" I yelled at him.

"What are you doing here?"

"Getting away from you!" I said and pulled my hand away.

"So you two know each other?" Squall said dropping his guard from the battle. He moved back.

"Very well I must say" Seifer told him. I stuck my tongue out at him.

"...asshole..." I said and turned around and sat on the dirty floor in disappointment. I hate that he was here. I wanted to be away from him. Seifer came up to me and put his hand on my shoulder. I just shoved it off.

"Can we be friends?" Seifer asked.

"Wow I've never seen this side of you Seifer" Zell said

"Under one condition" I said.

"What's that?" Seifer asked.

"I don't want to be a witness to any of your stupid romantic shit for your girlfriend"

"Oh... who Quistis?"

"There's the Seifer I know. Three way" Squall said with a single laugh.

"Were not together anymore" Seifer said

"......I still haven't forgiven you for what you did... you really hurt me Seifer" I told him.

"Yup that's him" Squall whispered to himself looking away from us.

"I'll wait till you do" Seifer said and held out his hand to pull me up to my feet.

"Kiss my ass" I told Seifer and got myself up. "What was wrong with you?! Why would you cheat on me? Did she offer you money or something?"

"No. I just loved her too." Seifer said and I started to laugh.

"You didn't love her. I found out that when I came here. She didn't even know me. She didn't know she was cheated on either!"

"I didn't know what I was thinking!"

"Darn right"

"Please... let's be friends" Seifer said with puppy eyes I always gave into.

"...alright. Well, I'm done yelling my ass off. You two can go back to killing each other"

"With pleasure" Squall said.

"Yeah!" Zell yelled.

I walked out of the Training Center silently with some tears coming down. I couldn't stop the tears. Could I still have feelings for him? No I couldn't of. They're tears of disgust.

"Cherish a new life and suffer not again." I told myself out loud.

"That's right." I twisted around. Squall said that. He was smiling.

"Devious aren't you?"

"Yeah…" Squall said back. He walked up to me and walked with me out.

"So why fight with Seifer? Not that I don't like the fact he'll get hurt but why?" I asked.

"…It's the only way to get along…Oh hey… umm… Seifer wanted me to tell you to keep the relationship thing a secret."

"Oh really? …well I guess I should" I said brushing my bangs to the side. We went walking around pretty much in silence and saw Quistis running up to us.

"Hello!" Quistis said stopping when she reached us. Neither Squall nor I said anything to her. "Giving me the silent treatment?" Quistis asked with a confused look on her face.

"No" Squall said.

"Just bored" I told her. Squall sat on the next bench we passed by and I was left standing with Quistis. It was obvious Squall dozed off daydreaming about something so I planned something out. "Feel like playing a little game with me Quistis?" I whispered in her ear.

"What kind of game?" Quistis whispered back.

"Just to find out if Squall is afraid of Spiders" I told her.

"I don't think he is. Doesn't seem like anything scares him anymore."

"We'll see." I told Quistis and took out the plastic spider. I walked to the edge of the bench where Squall was sitting and I leaned on the arm rest facing Quistis. Squall was still daydreaming not noticing me doing anything suspicious. I slipped the plastic spider on Squall's shoulder and I moved away. He Squall moved from his seat and look at me like as if I was trying to grab his ass or something. "What?" I asked.

"What's wrong with you?" Squall asked with no emotion on his face.

"Nothing's wrong~!" I told him.

"Oh really? Then why is there a spider crawling on you?" Squall said. I yelled and shook my shoulder and off fell a real spider!

"What the fuck?" I said watching the spider creep away. Quistis was cracking up.

"Selphie told me when you left the Quad that you were going to pull this on me...... so I grabbed a real one... and gave you a taste of your own medicine." Squall said still with no emotion on his face.

"You can't fool Squall! He's a smart ass!" Quistis yelled still holding her stomach from laughter.

I turned away from them upset. I took another look on my shoulder to make sure there wasn't another one. Quistis cracked up more. "Shut up already it wasn't that funny!" I yelled at Quistis.

"Yes it was" Zell said walking up to us in laughter holding his stomach like Quistis and Squall finally letting out his laughter.

"He only tells the truth" Quistis added.

Zell took my plastic spider off the bench.

"Scared?" He said throwing the spider at Quistis. She moved away in a yell despite the fact that she knew that one was plastic.

"That's something Seifer would do" I said and laughed.

"Seifer?" Quistis said drawing all her attention to me. "You met Seifer?"

"Oh yeah, yeah I just met him in the Training Center. He's a real asshole." I told Quistis.

"So you noticed?" Quistis said nodding her head.