"Tisk, tisk Riona, I thought you had better judgment than to hang out with someone like Squall, if you continue to hang out with him, let's just say you could get hurt," he said that so maniacally that Riona had to answer. "What are you saying? Squall will hurt me.. or you will?" Seifer didn't answer, "Are you threatening me?" "Let's just say if I do give a threat, I wouldn't take it lightly Riona," Riona shivered and walked out of the door. She settled herself down on the couch but couldn't bring herself to read anymore. Her mind kept wandering to what Seifer had said. Was it a threat.or a warning? Is Squall dangerous.or is Seifer. Squall doesn't seem like the type to. Riona was torn from her thoughts by Selphie. "Hey, instead of cafeteria food tonight do you want to go see if there are any good restaurants? We'll have to leave now because we have a curfew. We have to be back on campus by 8:00." Selphie asked. Riona thought about it. "It's on us, well it depends on how many people are going to go," "Squall, isn't going so I imagine Quistis would rather stay at her dorm with him," Irvine chuckled. "Okay," Riona said she went back into her room, grabbed her purse and follow the two of them to Irvine's car. It was silent on the way there. They stopped at a Mexican food place. Irvine and Selphie were doing all of the talking. Riona's mind was still on Seifer's words. When Irvine went to go to the bathroom Selphie scooted over to Riona and asked, "is everything okay Riona? You are awful quiet," "Selphie do you think that Squall could be. dangerous?" Selphie snorted, "no.why?" "well then.I think Seifer threatened me to not hang out with Squall," She shivered. "It's okay Riona we're right on the other side of the wall, what could he do?" Selphie was right. Riona just needed to relax. So.she did.
Riona woke up in the middle of the night, it was 2:23. She looked around to see what had awoken her. She immediately noticed that Seifer was not in his bed. Riona got up silently and tip-toed through the door. She noticed the door that led to the hallways closing silently. Seifer. Riona's heart told her not to follow, but curiosity got the best of her. She followed him as quiet as she could. But that, obviously wasn't good enough. Seifer whirled around as Riona dodger behind a locker. "Who's there?" he shouted. And for one Riona sensed a bit of fear in him. Riona ran down the hallway, her footsteps echoing. She could hear Seifer's footsteps behind her. And there was no doubt Seifer was faster that her. She needed a way out and fast. Seifer was gaining on her and already Riona was pushing herself to the limit. Her heart beat throbbed inside her head. Her side ached because of her running so fast. For some reason the thought, "I really need to get into shape" popped inside her mind and she couldn't stop herself from letting out a short chuckle. Riona turned the corner and saw a door. She had seconds to devise a workable plan. And surprisingly she did well on her feet, in a few seconds she had an almost unbeatable plan. She opened the door as far as it could go and then dashed behind a statue and held her breath. When Seifer turned the corned he just saw the door close and rushed in. As soon as the door closed behind Seifer, Riona ran back to her room and pretend to be asleep. In about an hour Seifer returned. Riona closed her eyes, just in time as Seifer went to check and make sure she was asleep.
The next day Riona woke up a little earlier than usual. Selphie was already up and hyper. Irvine was up too, but by the looks of it only because of Selphie. Riona immediately told Selphie and Irvine what she saw. They thought nothing of it. Seifer wasn't too evil they said, he was just probably cheating on a paper or something. Riona was still eager to see what Squall made of it, he had know Seifer from before.
Squall hadn't really been paying much attention to Riona, like at math for example ignored her when she tried to send him a note. And at lunch Squall didn't show. Finally Gym came and there was no way Squall could avoid her then Riona thought. But Squall didn't come into the gym until the teacher started explaining what they were going to do. They were learning to climb the rope. Riona gave a glance at Seifer, he was grinning maniacally. Riona was second to last, right before Squall. "Squall!" she cornered him while others were climbing the rope. "Why have you been avoiding me? I have important things to tell you!" Riona lectured him. Squall shrugged. "Why weren't you at lunch today?" Riona asked. "I didn't do my English homework so I finished it during lunch," The answer was reasonable but Riona didn't believe there was one ounce of truth in it. "Bull" she challenged his bluff. "Okay I was" but the Coach/teacher saved Squall. "Riona your up," Riona sighed and walked over to the rope. She climbed it to her best of her ability making it 3/4s the way up. Her friends yelled encouraging phrases up at her and pretty soon she found herself just at the reach of the bell. Riona however was distracted. She held on to the rope tightly as she watched Squall and Seifer bickering. Out of nowhere Seifer found himself being knocked to the floor by Squall, accidentally ruining his evil plan.
Riona felt herself falling through the air. It wasn't real high up, just to the ceiling right? You would think you would just hit the ground and not have time to think about yourself falling. But the fall seemed like an eternity when finally. BAM! Riona hit the cold hard floor of the gym with full force. She recalled hearing her gym teacher say, "Mother of Pearl! Heartily, where did those damn mats go? I had them last class," before blacking out.
Squall saw the whole thing is slow motion. His shove, then a loud click, and then Riona giving a yelp as she fell through the air. Squall looked from Riona to Seifer. He ran over to Seifer pulling out a remote with a bug red button on it. Squall pressed it seeing a little movement up by where the rope used to be tied securely at the ceiling. Then Squall was all over Seifer, because he knew that Seifer was just waiting to make Squall fall from the top of the rope but when Squall had pushed him down, he pushed him on the button causing Riona to fall instead of himself. Squall was torn back off of Seifer from Irvine just in time to hide it from the teacher. Seifer stood up and crushed the remote with his foot. "Squall just seems like the kind of person who could take insults unless it was directed at someone he liked or was close to.isn't that what Selphie said? Well I guess it turns out that my plan wasn't ruined," Seifer said and then winked. "Should we tell Riona?" Quistis asked. "nah, we want her to be able to sleep at night beside Seifer. Besides it was an accident, I mean Riona getting hurt instead of Squall." Zell said. "She said she caught Seifer sneaking off in the middle of the night last night," Irvine commented. "That's probley what he was doing then.rigging the rope," Squall said sympathetically. He wished it was him that had taken the fall. Not Riona.