Cover Me Chapter 3

A/N: OoOo, romantic suspense! hehe. I won't bore you with a long author's note, so here ya go, characters © to Square. Except for Emma. Seifer's gonna break Rinny's heart, at least in this chapter!!

Seifer Almasy took a seat in the unoccupied seat where the posse waited. He looked at his feet for a good five minutes, until he realized that Raijin was staring at him.

"What?" he asked.

"Well, I was just wondering...where's Rinoa at, ya know?" he asked, and Seifer rolled his eyes.

"She's a little bitch. Why should I care?" he asked.

"SHE. HURT. HIS. MANLY. FEELINGS." Fujin said, and Raijin laughed. Seifer just scuffed up the table more for the nice young pretty waitress to wipe up....wait...the nice, young, pretty waitress?! Seifer thought, then smirked. He had a plan.

It had been a few minutes, and Rinoa had finally summoned the willpower to stand up and leave the bathroom. She walked back to the table where her friends were sitting, and found them all staring at her.

"How did it go?" Quistis asked, and Rinoa assumed that the blonde meant her kiss with Seifer.

"It was all an act. Sorta like him dancing with me. I paid him." she said, and Squall's jaw dropped.

"You PAID him to dance with you?" he asked, and Rinoa nodded. Squall mumbled something under his breath, then Selphie spoke up.

"Does he kiss good?" she asked, then Rinoa looked her friend in the eye.

"I don't know, I really didn't pay attention." she said, and Selphie giggled.

"Liar. You're blood red!" she teased, and then realized that she actually was blushing.

"So!" she said, and grinned. "I told him it was an act." she said, and looked down. "But it wasn't." Quistis said, and Rinoa made a little wimpering sound.

"Nope. I wish...I wish I could...." Rinoa began, but then looked up and saw something that caused her to get up from the table and run away. Selphie stood up to follow, but Quistis grabbed her arm.

"She needs to be alone for a couple of minutes."

Selphie nodded, and sat back down.

"Wonder what set her off like that?" she asked, and Squall was the first to notice.

"That might be a large part of it." he said, and the other three looked to where Seifer had some girl pinned up against a wall, her arms around his neck, and he was kissing her. Selphie's jaw dropped, and her face turned bright red.

"Asshole." she said simply. Zell looked like he was going to barf. Squall was pissed off, and Quistis' mouth had formed an "O" by now. Then she stood up and walked over to the girls restroom, where Rinoa had fled.

Quistis pushed the door open, and looked to see her friend sitting in the corner, crying rather hard. She closed the door, and sat down. Rinoa had mascara running down her face, and was still crying.

"Rinoa, I know it hurts, but if Seifer knows he's hurt you then he'll keep it up. We both know him better than that." Quistis said, and Rinoa nodded.

"I'm such a screw up." Rinoa said, and Quistis squeezed her shoulder.

"No, you're not. Now if you don't go talk to him, I will." she said, and Rinoa's eyes widened.

"I can't!" she cried, and Quistis grinned.

"I'll be back!" she said, and ran out of the bathroom.