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'Leona? You ready?'
'Yeah! One second, Zell!' I call out, hurriedly tying up the little scarf on the uniform Quistis gave me. I let out an aggravated growl and stepped out of the little hospital room. Zell uncrossed his one leg and stood up from the chair he was sitting on. I scratched my forehead a little shyly and laughed.
'I ah, couldn't get the little scarf done up properly,' I explained, my hands fiddling with it carelessly. Zell shook his head grinning and walked over to me.
'I don't even wear this uniform but here, I think I know how to do it,' he said and simply pulled back a tuff of fabric that hid a tiny pin. I shook my head bemused to say the least while Zell clipped it onto my uniform then stood back and looked me over. I couldn't help but feel a little self-conscious when he did that. Personally I thought the skirt was a little short on this uniform but oh what the hell.
'You look good in it!' Zell said then indicated his head towards the door, 'come on, I'll take you to the Caf and we can have some breakfast with the gang.'
'Oh wait, Zell I don't have any money,' I said, digging my toe into the hard floor. Zell waved his hand carelessly and grinned.
'Don't sweat it, I got ya covered.'
'Zell. '
'Leona, what do you expect me to do? Let you starve?' Zell asked, chuckling.
'I'll pay you back when I can,' I offered. Zell must have gotten impatient with my urge to not be a burden and grabbed my hand, yanking me out of the infirmary.
'Im buying you breakfast and that's final,' he said kindheartedly then finally stopped pulling me once we were out in the main forum. I stopped dead in my tracks and mouthed a 'wow'. The place was beautiful! Brightly lit, beautiful designs painted on the walls, floors, ceilings and pillars. And the beautiful fountain that surrounded the entire middle was beautiful!
'Its amazing,' I breathed. Zell scratched the back of his head and smacked his lips.
'Yeah, I guess so. I thin its just because im so used to being here that the 'wow' has kinda dissipated but that's ok, he turned to me and pulled my hand gently again, 'I felt the same way you did the first time I entered Garden.'
I nodded my head as he gently tugged me along, my head spinning around every five seconds. I also watched the students passing us, who studied me in return. I wonder if they all knew about me? If squall and the others had made some sort of announcement.
~ An alien girl has fallen form the sky and will be staying with us until she has to go home, approach with extreme caution~
'Hehe,' I giggled to myself, totally sure that once they got to know me they would consider me some alien freak.
'What's so funny?' Zell asked, giving my hand a tight squeeze. I pulled my hand out of his; a little shy about him holding my hand everywhere we went. I barely knew the guy.
'Oh ah, nothing really. Just wondering if squall mentioned anything about me being here.'
'Tch, 'course he did. Just, well squall just simply said you were new here and not to be bothered or examined like some strange alien,' Zell said pulling me past a sign that read 'Cafeteria' and then through a long hall into a large room with a glass roof. I looked over to the left to see two cafeteria lady's preparing food and taking orders and then to the left the tables. I could see Quistis and the others waving they're hands over at us and before I could look the cafeteria any further I was rather roughly pulled over towards the others.
'Hiya, Leona!'
'Hi Selphie,' I said, smiling at her and the others then spun around every now and then to take more looks at the room.
'Man, if she's this fascinated with our cafeteria I wonder what she'll be like when she goes to other cities here,' Irvine said, putting his feet up on the table.
I turned around, hearing his comment and laughed.
'No, no, its just, well this is totally unreal,' I said, amazement obvious in my voice, 'what do you guys eat here?' I asked, probably sounding stupid. They're faces told me I had succeeded.
'Well, we don't know what you eat but well we have fruits and vegetables, dairy products, meat and fish and such,' Rinoa said, stabbing a piece of bacon with her fork and popping it into her mouth.
'Dude, don't forget the hotdogs!' Zell cried.
'Yeah, the hotdogs aren't too bad here, we all like them. well, except Seifer,' Quistis said, indicating over to her husband. Seifer held up his hands and shrugged.
'What can I say, im the difficult one,' he said.
'Yeah, your difficult all right,' Quistis mused then put a hand to the side of her mouth and whispered, 'you have no idea HOW difficult.'
'I heard that, wife dearest,' Seifer said, eyeing his wife.
I couldn't help but giggle.
'you guys are great and yeah, I eat all that food too! Weird, huh?' I said. The rest of the gang shrugged.
'Hey Leona? You can sit down, we 'aint gonna bite,' Zell said, patting the chair next to him.
'Oh, sorry, just kinda wrapped up in the coolness of this place,' I said smiling. Seifer chuckled and put a hand on my shoulder, I felt a little uncomfortable but that was only natural.
'You'll get used to it reeeal fast,' he said, taking his arm away and picked up his piece of toast.
'Oh, I doubt it!' I exclaimed, rubbing my arm slightly.
'Oh yeah! Leona, what do you want for breakfast?' Zell asked.
'Just some toast would be fine,' I said.
'Gottcha, I'll be right back,' Zell said and got up form the table and walked back over to the line.
'So Leona, I was thinking of taking you to the weapons room, have you pick out a weapon and then start some basic training for you,' squall said, buttering his bagel.
'That would be great, I told Quistis im really up for anything,' I trailed off and tilted my head to the side, 'what weapons do you have exactly?'
Squall shrugged.
'Well, any weapon you can really think of, I want to see what skills you have. I want to see if your any good with hand to hand combat first and then move on to a weapon that fits you,' he explained then took a bite out of his bagel.
'Well, I did take kickboxing for about a year, so while I may be a little rusty I am capable of fending for myself in that sense but I've never used an actual weapon before,' I explained.
'Hm, well I think before we get you in the training area we'll head towards the quad just so we can see what skills you do have,' Quistis offered then put a hand to her cheek, 'but I think first you should get a tour of Garden, to get you a little more familiar and comfortable with the place. I mean, for as long as you're here, it will be your new home.'
I nodded enthusiastically and was about to respond but then Zell appeared with my toast.
'Here ya go, I grabbed some jam for ya. I would have already put it on for ya but I didn't know if you would have liked it,' he said, sitting down with his own meal in his other hand. It looked almost like a pop tart.
'Thanks Zell, that was really nice of you to buy me breakfast,' I said.
'Tch, it was nothing. What did I tell you before?' Zell said then took a big bite out of his chocolate pop tart.
'Hm, that looks nutritious, Zell,' Rinoa teased. Zell shrugged and took another large bite, finishing it. I watched as he lifted slightly from his seat and dug a hand deep into one of his overly large pockets. Finally he pulled out what looked like money.
'Haha, pop tarts here I come!' he called and stood back up to go buy another one. I laughed and picked up a packet of jam, digging my knife into it so I could spread it across my toast. Finally when I had a good-sized glob I slapped it onto my toast and spread it rather sloppily. I looked up to see the others watching me. You ever get that feeling? When you know someone's watching you? I get it ALL the time, its rather frustrating.
'What?' I asked, picking up my over jammed piece of toast.
Everyone just shook they're heads except Seifer who leaned over towards me.
'It's nothing really but would you like a piece of toast to go with that jam?' he teased. I scrunched up my face playfully and giggled.
'Uh, no, im happy with just jam thank you very much,' I said and then took a bite out of my toast.
'She is weird,' Seifer said, leaning back in his chair. I kicked his leg gently in protest but I guess I must have knocked him off balance because before I knew it Seifer was on the floor. I leaned back in my own chair and smiled sheepishly at him.
'I'm so sorry Seifer! I didn't intend to make you fall.'
Seifer gave me a look of death and I swear, when he does that, you KNOW you're in for it. I allowed my head to sink slightly into my shoulders, my fear growing. Suddenly, Seifer started to laugh!
'What's so funny?' I asked, surprised.
'Nothing, its just fun to have a new toy,' he said, picking his chair back up and sitting on it again.
'I'm sorry but I am NOT a toy,' I sent daggers with my eyes in his direction, 'and that could SO be taken the wrong way, Quistis, you better keep an eye on him.'
Quistis and the others laughed.
'Oh don't worry, I'm sharp,' she said and hugged seifers arm. I giggled and took another bite out of my now cold toast. I didn't really think toast was the yummiest thing in the world when it was cold but I finished it anyways just because I didn't want to seem rude. Zell did pay for me after all. And speaking of Zell.
'What did I miss?'
'Nothing Zell, just I drowned my toast in a sea of jam and over powered the almighty Seifer,' I said, proudly. Seifer punched my arm lightly, or at least what he THOUGHT was lightly. It really wasn't all the light at all and it actually hurt a bit. Ah well, c'est la vie.
'Drowned your piece of toast huh? Over came Seifer?' Zell let out a low breath and chuckled, 'I'm impressed girl!'
'Hehe, booya! That's right!' I said, shaking my fist.
'DUDE! You said booya!' Zell exclaimed, looking totally flabbergasted, 'that is so my word!'
'Nooo! I called it first!' I argued playfully.
'No, dude, that's not fair! I even have my own attack called Booya!'
'No way! You think maybe we could work on some of my attacks and name one?' I asked excitedly.
'Yeah! Definitely!' Zell exclaimed.
I nodded earnestly and cracked my knuckles.
'Alright then!' I said, nodding my head one last time to confirm everything. I looked around the table to see everyone looking at Zell and I strangely.
'What?' we both asked at the same time.
'Nothing,' Selphie said, giggling. I saw Quistis and Seifer exchange knowing looks.
'You and Zell seem to get along pretty well,' Rinoa said as nonchalantly as she could muster. I raised one eyebrow and looked over at Zell (who looked just as lost as me) and then back at the group.
'Oh give it a break you guys, I've only been awake for a couple hours and your already pairing me off with Zell? Yeesh,' I said shaking my head bemusedly. Selphie giggled then stood up.
'Come on Leona, I wanna show you around Garden,' she said, eyeing Zell. I turned around to look at the others and saw Zell looked as if he was about to object to Selphie taking me but then shrugged and let it slide. Sorry Zell, I know you're cute but Selphie's so nice and it would be nice to get to know her better.
'I'll see you all later at the Quad then?' I asked, well, TRIED to ask. It was kind of hard with Selphie constantly tugging on my arm.
'Yeah, make sure your there in about. ' Squall pulled the sleeve of his jacket up and looked down at his watch, 'half an hour all right? So that's ten thirty. You got that Selphie?' squall asked. Selphie nodded impatiently.
'Yes yes, come on Leona, there's soooo much I wanna show you!' she said and with a final yank she successfully pulled me away from he table, a little awkwardly though. I waved to everyone clumsily and soon we were out of the cafeteria and back in the main forum.
'So, where are we going first?' I asked. Finally Selphie let go of my arm and put a finger to her chin, thinking. After a couple seconds her face suddenly brightened.
'I know, I'll take you to see Headmaster Cid! He hasn't actually MET you since you were in a coma when he did the first time,' she explained then grabbed my arm again, 'come on! We'll take the elevator!'
'O-ok!' I stammered. Man, when Selphie wanted you to get from point A to point B you had to be quick and if you weren't? Well, I was experiencing the penalties for being slow and clumsy.
Selphie pulled me into the elevator and pressed the third floor button.
'Hey Selphie.?'
'Yeah?'
'Do you think you could stop tugging me around everywhere? Its just, well my wrists hurt,' I said albeit gingerly.
Selphie waved it off and flashed me a smile.
'Sure, I'm sorry about the tugging and pulling. I didn't mean to hurt you or anything, but as Irvy-Poo~'
'Irvy-Poo?' I interrupted.
Selphie laughed.
'Yeah, that's my pet name for Irvine. Anyways, Irvine always tells me I'm like some killer teddy bear,' she said and giggled. I giggled too, even though I only sort of understood why Irvine would call her that. I guess Selphie saw the confusion on my face and decided to clear things up for me.
'See, everyone says I'm really sweet but when im in a battle I can be really, well psycho is how he likes to put it,' Selphie tilted her head to the side then smiled, ' I prefer the term 'revved up'.'
'Uh, ok,' I said and giggled a little. I think Selphie was about to say something else but a delightful 'ping' told us we had arrived on our floor. The doors slid open smoothly and Selphie and I stepped out. I looked around the beautiful room we had just stepped into with complete awe. I looked over towards a desk by what looked like another smaller elevator. Actually, it was more of a lift now that I about it. That didn't matter really, what mattered was the man slowly standing from his seat and walking towards us.
'Well hello Selphie!' he said cheerfully.
'Hiya Headmaster Cid!' she greeted equally as cheerful.
'Ah, I see you have brought Leona up here,' Headmaster Cid said and then extended a hand for me to shake. I shook it and smiled.
'Its nice to met you, Headmaster Cid,' I said, remembering to use the good manners my mother had drilled into me for so many years. Headmaster Cid smiled and once I had let go of his hand he held it up and laughed.
'Please, Cid will do just fine,' he explained, a friendly twinkle in his eye. I didn't know what to say really so I only nodded. Cid turned back towards Selphie and put a hand to his chin.
'I am to understand you and the others have taken the liberty of teaching this girl some skills?' he said, turning back to flash me a quick smile. I looked down and fixed my eyes on the shoe in front of me. It was my own shoe. ~man, I must look like such a goofball in this uniform and then my big clunky sneakers~ I thought.
'Yes, today at ten thirty she and I are going to be heading back to the Quad and we're going to do some physical exercises then squall wants her to try out each weapon. After we find the one that fits her right, we'll help her a bit with her attacks and such,' Selphie explained, saluting Cid.
'That sounds good, well, ' Cid saluted back and then went over to his desk, 'I'll let you lady's be on your way.'
'Thank you, sir' Selphie said then started heading back towards the elevator. I didn't know what to do so I bowed graciously and smiled.
'It's very kind of you to be keeping me here,' I said genially.
'Its not a problem, for all we know you'll become a very valuable asset to Garden and perhaps. become a SeeD,' he said then smiled, 'I will see you later! Enjoy your tour with Selphie!'
'I will sir, good bye,' I said and turned around and started to walk out when suddenly my foot collided with something, 'Ow, damn it!' I cursed and then slapped a hand to my lips.
'Are you alright?' Cid called.
~Damn it, he must have heard me swear bah! Stupid, stupid Leona! ~ I cursed at myself.
'Y-yes, I'm fine, sir' I said and then hobbled back into the elevator to see Selphie turning blue from giggling.
'Don't you say a word,' I said and stuck my tongue out at her.
'Ok,' she said a sly smile still on her lips, 'oh, I'll take you to the balcony on the second floor and you can see the great view! Then I guess we'll head to the quad early,' she said and smiled, 'I'm in charge of the Garden festival and my stage is there, I'll show you it while we wait for the others,' she explained.
'Sounds like a plan,' I said.
'Yerp! It'll be toooons of fun!' Selphie cried and took my hand, 'you'll really like it here, Leona! And I have a feeling you're going to fit in just fine.'
'I'm glad,' I said thankfully then stepped out of the elevator once it had reached the second floor and headed down the hall with Selphie.
~ I might as well enjoy my time here while I can~
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'Leona? You ready?'
'Yeah! One second, Zell!' I call out, hurriedly tying up the little scarf on the uniform Quistis gave me. I let out an aggravated growl and stepped out of the little hospital room. Zell uncrossed his one leg and stood up from the chair he was sitting on. I scratched my forehead a little shyly and laughed.
'I ah, couldn't get the little scarf done up properly,' I explained, my hands fiddling with it carelessly. Zell shook his head grinning and walked over to me.
'I don't even wear this uniform but here, I think I know how to do it,' he said and simply pulled back a tuff of fabric that hid a tiny pin. I shook my head bemused to say the least while Zell clipped it onto my uniform then stood back and looked me over. I couldn't help but feel a little self-conscious when he did that. Personally I thought the skirt was a little short on this uniform but oh what the hell.
'You look good in it!' Zell said then indicated his head towards the door, 'come on, I'll take you to the Caf and we can have some breakfast with the gang.'
'Oh wait, Zell I don't have any money,' I said, digging my toe into the hard floor. Zell waved his hand carelessly and grinned.
'Don't sweat it, I got ya covered.'
'Zell. '
'Leona, what do you expect me to do? Let you starve?' Zell asked, chuckling.
'I'll pay you back when I can,' I offered. Zell must have gotten impatient with my urge to not be a burden and grabbed my hand, yanking me out of the infirmary.
'Im buying you breakfast and that's final,' he said kindheartedly then finally stopped pulling me once we were out in the main forum. I stopped dead in my tracks and mouthed a 'wow'. The place was beautiful! Brightly lit, beautiful designs painted on the walls, floors, ceilings and pillars. And the beautiful fountain that surrounded the entire middle was beautiful!
'Its amazing,' I breathed. Zell scratched the back of his head and smacked his lips.
'Yeah, I guess so. I thin its just because im so used to being here that the 'wow' has kinda dissipated but that's ok, he turned to me and pulled my hand gently again, 'I felt the same way you did the first time I entered Garden.'
I nodded my head as he gently tugged me along, my head spinning around every five seconds. I also watched the students passing us, who studied me in return. I wonder if they all knew about me? If squall and the others had made some sort of announcement.
~ An alien girl has fallen form the sky and will be staying with us until she has to go home, approach with extreme caution~
'Hehe,' I giggled to myself, totally sure that once they got to know me they would consider me some alien freak.
'What's so funny?' Zell asked, giving my hand a tight squeeze. I pulled my hand out of his; a little shy about him holding my hand everywhere we went. I barely knew the guy.
'Oh ah, nothing really. Just wondering if squall mentioned anything about me being here.'
'Tch, 'course he did. Just, well squall just simply said you were new here and not to be bothered or examined like some strange alien,' Zell said pulling me past a sign that read 'Cafeteria' and then through a long hall into a large room with a glass roof. I looked over to the left to see two cafeteria lady's preparing food and taking orders and then to the left the tables. I could see Quistis and the others waving they're hands over at us and before I could look the cafeteria any further I was rather roughly pulled over towards the others.
'Hiya, Leona!'
'Hi Selphie,' I said, smiling at her and the others then spun around every now and then to take more looks at the room.
'Man, if she's this fascinated with our cafeteria I wonder what she'll be like when she goes to other cities here,' Irvine said, putting his feet up on the table.
I turned around, hearing his comment and laughed.
'No, no, its just, well this is totally unreal,' I said, amazement obvious in my voice, 'what do you guys eat here?' I asked, probably sounding stupid. They're faces told me I had succeeded.
'Well, we don't know what you eat but well we have fruits and vegetables, dairy products, meat and fish and such,' Rinoa said, stabbing a piece of bacon with her fork and popping it into her mouth.
'Dude, don't forget the hotdogs!' Zell cried.
'Yeah, the hotdogs aren't too bad here, we all like them. well, except Seifer,' Quistis said, indicating over to her husband. Seifer held up his hands and shrugged.
'What can I say, im the difficult one,' he said.
'Yeah, your difficult all right,' Quistis mused then put a hand to the side of her mouth and whispered, 'you have no idea HOW difficult.'
'I heard that, wife dearest,' Seifer said, eyeing his wife.
I couldn't help but giggle.
'you guys are great and yeah, I eat all that food too! Weird, huh?' I said. The rest of the gang shrugged.
'Hey Leona? You can sit down, we 'aint gonna bite,' Zell said, patting the chair next to him.
'Oh, sorry, just kinda wrapped up in the coolness of this place,' I said smiling. Seifer chuckled and put a hand on my shoulder, I felt a little uncomfortable but that was only natural.
'You'll get used to it reeeal fast,' he said, taking his arm away and picked up his piece of toast.
'Oh, I doubt it!' I exclaimed, rubbing my arm slightly.
'Oh yeah! Leona, what do you want for breakfast?' Zell asked.
'Just some toast would be fine,' I said.
'Gottcha, I'll be right back,' Zell said and got up form the table and walked back over to the line.
'So Leona, I was thinking of taking you to the weapons room, have you pick out a weapon and then start some basic training for you,' squall said, buttering his bagel.
'That would be great, I told Quistis im really up for anything,' I trailed off and tilted my head to the side, 'what weapons do you have exactly?'
Squall shrugged.
'Well, any weapon you can really think of, I want to see what skills you have. I want to see if your any good with hand to hand combat first and then move on to a weapon that fits you,' he explained then took a bite out of his bagel.
'Well, I did take kickboxing for about a year, so while I may be a little rusty I am capable of fending for myself in that sense but I've never used an actual weapon before,' I explained.
'Hm, well I think before we get you in the training area we'll head towards the quad just so we can see what skills you do have,' Quistis offered then put a hand to her cheek, 'but I think first you should get a tour of Garden, to get you a little more familiar and comfortable with the place. I mean, for as long as you're here, it will be your new home.'
I nodded enthusiastically and was about to respond but then Zell appeared with my toast.
'Here ya go, I grabbed some jam for ya. I would have already put it on for ya but I didn't know if you would have liked it,' he said, sitting down with his own meal in his other hand. It looked almost like a pop tart.
'Thanks Zell, that was really nice of you to buy me breakfast,' I said.
'Tch, it was nothing. What did I tell you before?' Zell said then took a big bite out of his chocolate pop tart.
'Hm, that looks nutritious, Zell,' Rinoa teased. Zell shrugged and took another large bite, finishing it. I watched as he lifted slightly from his seat and dug a hand deep into one of his overly large pockets. Finally he pulled out what looked like money.
'Haha, pop tarts here I come!' he called and stood back up to go buy another one. I laughed and picked up a packet of jam, digging my knife into it so I could spread it across my toast. Finally when I had a good-sized glob I slapped it onto my toast and spread it rather sloppily. I looked up to see the others watching me. You ever get that feeling? When you know someone's watching you? I get it ALL the time, its rather frustrating.
'What?' I asked, picking up my over jammed piece of toast.
Everyone just shook they're heads except Seifer who leaned over towards me.
'It's nothing really but would you like a piece of toast to go with that jam?' he teased. I scrunched up my face playfully and giggled.
'Uh, no, im happy with just jam thank you very much,' I said and then took a bite out of my toast.
'She is weird,' Seifer said, leaning back in his chair. I kicked his leg gently in protest but I guess I must have knocked him off balance because before I knew it Seifer was on the floor. I leaned back in my own chair and smiled sheepishly at him.
'I'm so sorry Seifer! I didn't intend to make you fall.'
Seifer gave me a look of death and I swear, when he does that, you KNOW you're in for it. I allowed my head to sink slightly into my shoulders, my fear growing. Suddenly, Seifer started to laugh!
'What's so funny?' I asked, surprised.
'Nothing, its just fun to have a new toy,' he said, picking his chair back up and sitting on it again.
'I'm sorry but I am NOT a toy,' I sent daggers with my eyes in his direction, 'and that could SO be taken the wrong way, Quistis, you better keep an eye on him.'
Quistis and the others laughed.
'Oh don't worry, I'm sharp,' she said and hugged seifers arm. I giggled and took another bite out of my now cold toast. I didn't really think toast was the yummiest thing in the world when it was cold but I finished it anyways just because I didn't want to seem rude. Zell did pay for me after all. And speaking of Zell.
'What did I miss?'
'Nothing Zell, just I drowned my toast in a sea of jam and over powered the almighty Seifer,' I said, proudly. Seifer punched my arm lightly, or at least what he THOUGHT was lightly. It really wasn't all the light at all and it actually hurt a bit. Ah well, c'est la vie.
'Drowned your piece of toast huh? Over came Seifer?' Zell let out a low breath and chuckled, 'I'm impressed girl!'
'Hehe, booya! That's right!' I said, shaking my fist.
'DUDE! You said booya!' Zell exclaimed, looking totally flabbergasted, 'that is so my word!'
'Nooo! I called it first!' I argued playfully.
'No, dude, that's not fair! I even have my own attack called Booya!'
'No way! You think maybe we could work on some of my attacks and name one?' I asked excitedly.
'Yeah! Definitely!' Zell exclaimed.
I nodded earnestly and cracked my knuckles.
'Alright then!' I said, nodding my head one last time to confirm everything. I looked around the table to see everyone looking at Zell and I strangely.
'What?' we both asked at the same time.
'Nothing,' Selphie said, giggling. I saw Quistis and Seifer exchange knowing looks.
'You and Zell seem to get along pretty well,' Rinoa said as nonchalantly as she could muster. I raised one eyebrow and looked over at Zell (who looked just as lost as me) and then back at the group.
'Oh give it a break you guys, I've only been awake for a couple hours and your already pairing me off with Zell? Yeesh,' I said shaking my head bemusedly. Selphie giggled then stood up.
'Come on Leona, I wanna show you around Garden,' she said, eyeing Zell. I turned around to look at the others and saw Zell looked as if he was about to object to Selphie taking me but then shrugged and let it slide. Sorry Zell, I know you're cute but Selphie's so nice and it would be nice to get to know her better.
'I'll see you all later at the Quad then?' I asked, well, TRIED to ask. It was kind of hard with Selphie constantly tugging on my arm.
'Yeah, make sure your there in about. ' Squall pulled the sleeve of his jacket up and looked down at his watch, 'half an hour all right? So that's ten thirty. You got that Selphie?' squall asked. Selphie nodded impatiently.
'Yes yes, come on Leona, there's soooo much I wanna show you!' she said and with a final yank she successfully pulled me away from he table, a little awkwardly though. I waved to everyone clumsily and soon we were out of the cafeteria and back in the main forum.
'So, where are we going first?' I asked. Finally Selphie let go of my arm and put a finger to her chin, thinking. After a couple seconds her face suddenly brightened.
'I know, I'll take you to see Headmaster Cid! He hasn't actually MET you since you were in a coma when he did the first time,' she explained then grabbed my arm again, 'come on! We'll take the elevator!'
'O-ok!' I stammered. Man, when Selphie wanted you to get from point A to point B you had to be quick and if you weren't? Well, I was experiencing the penalties for being slow and clumsy.
Selphie pulled me into the elevator and pressed the third floor button.
'Hey Selphie.?'
'Yeah?'
'Do you think you could stop tugging me around everywhere? Its just, well my wrists hurt,' I said albeit gingerly.
Selphie waved it off and flashed me a smile.
'Sure, I'm sorry about the tugging and pulling. I didn't mean to hurt you or anything, but as Irvy-Poo~'
'Irvy-Poo?' I interrupted.
Selphie laughed.
'Yeah, that's my pet name for Irvine. Anyways, Irvine always tells me I'm like some killer teddy bear,' she said and giggled. I giggled too, even though I only sort of understood why Irvine would call her that. I guess Selphie saw the confusion on my face and decided to clear things up for me.
'See, everyone says I'm really sweet but when im in a battle I can be really, well psycho is how he likes to put it,' Selphie tilted her head to the side then smiled, ' I prefer the term 'revved up'.'
'Uh, ok,' I said and giggled a little. I think Selphie was about to say something else but a delightful 'ping' told us we had arrived on our floor. The doors slid open smoothly and Selphie and I stepped out. I looked around the beautiful room we had just stepped into with complete awe. I looked over towards a desk by what looked like another smaller elevator. Actually, it was more of a lift now that I about it. That didn't matter really, what mattered was the man slowly standing from his seat and walking towards us.
'Well hello Selphie!' he said cheerfully.
'Hiya Headmaster Cid!' she greeted equally as cheerful.
'Ah, I see you have brought Leona up here,' Headmaster Cid said and then extended a hand for me to shake. I shook it and smiled.
'Its nice to met you, Headmaster Cid,' I said, remembering to use the good manners my mother had drilled into me for so many years. Headmaster Cid smiled and once I had let go of his hand he held it up and laughed.
'Please, Cid will do just fine,' he explained, a friendly twinkle in his eye. I didn't know what to say really so I only nodded. Cid turned back towards Selphie and put a hand to his chin.
'I am to understand you and the others have taken the liberty of teaching this girl some skills?' he said, turning back to flash me a quick smile. I looked down and fixed my eyes on the shoe in front of me. It was my own shoe. ~man, I must look like such a goofball in this uniform and then my big clunky sneakers~ I thought.
'Yes, today at ten thirty she and I are going to be heading back to the Quad and we're going to do some physical exercises then squall wants her to try out each weapon. After we find the one that fits her right, we'll help her a bit with her attacks and such,' Selphie explained, saluting Cid.
'That sounds good, well, ' Cid saluted back and then went over to his desk, 'I'll let you lady's be on your way.'
'Thank you, sir' Selphie said then started heading back towards the elevator. I didn't know what to do so I bowed graciously and smiled.
'It's very kind of you to be keeping me here,' I said genially.
'Its not a problem, for all we know you'll become a very valuable asset to Garden and perhaps. become a SeeD,' he said then smiled, 'I will see you later! Enjoy your tour with Selphie!'
'I will sir, good bye,' I said and turned around and started to walk out when suddenly my foot collided with something, 'Ow, damn it!' I cursed and then slapped a hand to my lips.
'Are you alright?' Cid called.
~Damn it, he must have heard me swear bah! Stupid, stupid Leona! ~ I cursed at myself.
'Y-yes, I'm fine, sir' I said and then hobbled back into the elevator to see Selphie turning blue from giggling.
'Don't you say a word,' I said and stuck my tongue out at her.
'Ok,' she said a sly smile still on her lips, 'oh, I'll take you to the balcony on the second floor and you can see the great view! Then I guess we'll head to the quad early,' she said and smiled, 'I'm in charge of the Garden festival and my stage is there, I'll show you it while we wait for the others,' she explained.
'Sounds like a plan,' I said.
'Yerp! It'll be toooons of fun!' Selphie cried and took my hand, 'you'll really like it here, Leona! And I have a feeling you're going to fit in just fine.'
'I'm glad,' I said thankfully then stepped out of the elevator once it had reached the second floor and headed down the hall with Selphie.
~ I might as well enjoy my time here while I can~
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