Crescent Moon [Part Four]
Summary: No official summary today. Just a recap of past stories. Irvine has been disloyal to Selphie; Zell is there to comfort her. Zell ends up realizing his true love once again. Will feelings ever be revealed? Simple is it not?
It was already morning, but to Zell it didn't matter. Usually he would be up and about sprinting to the cafeteria for a hotdog, but that morning was different. He wanted to enjoy where he was now; in the arms of his love. It never failed him to believe that he was in love, but the small part of him in his heart says he may not be loved back. He didn't care though, as long as their friendship lasted like this forever. He never once thought of Irvine ever since last night. They had been the best of friends, but something inside told Zell that maybe Irvine deserved it. No, no one deserves death. Everyone has the right to live regardless of his or her actions. Irvine was just a passing memory now. He felt the small girl move in his arms as she readjusted herself according to her comfort. He knew his heart was beating rapidly, and it did bother him because Selphie's head a positioned right over his chest with a full sound of beats running through Selphie's ears. She's probably going to wake up sooner or later, just hope later.
"Zell?" Selphie awoke, but only slightly. She knew she was lying on top of Zell. "Zell you know with you I don't need to worry about how rock hard my mattress is anymore." She giggled while looking up at Zell, who had been staring down at her.
"Good morning beautiful." Was all Zell could say since his mouth was so dry. His voice sounded a bit raspy that morning.
"Aww, Zell you're so sweet and affectionate and. " She was about to finish her sentence when she found out she had made her way up to his face level. She was basically centimeters away from his face, so close she could feel him breathing into onto her. She wanted so desperately to close the gap that separated their lips, but why, why couldn't she move?
"Come on Selphie move!" She screamed at herself from the inside. She wanted to close the gap so desperately, but something was holding her back. She was holding herself back. She stared in disappointment as Zell blushed and started to sit up.
"Damn it!" Selphie yelled out loud giving Zell a puzzling look on his face.
"What? You can tell me." Zell clenched her shoulder.
"It's nothing, just a cramp is all." Her eyes were welling up with tears, but she couldn't cry. She knew that if she did she would embarrass herself. Selphie sat up and leaned against the wall to stare out at the window. The garden was moving, gliding, along the water. Nida was probably piloting it. She watched as Zell handed her the yellow jumper and knee high boots she left on his couch.
"Thank you, Zell." She took her clothes and motioned her way to the bathroom where she got dressed.
Down in the cafeteria, Squall and Rinoa had been enjoying a quiet meal. The other students in the cafeteria weren't as loud as they normally were. It was probably because it was Tuesday, and on Tuesday they always served early breakfasts. The silent muffles of conversations were the only sound that echoed the cafeteria besides the small waves rubbing along side of the Garden. Zell had been wearing sunglasses because they decided to grab a seat under the giant glass, which was called "the ceiling", but that thing looked like it could shatter easily. So the roof was made of glass, it was probably bulletproof, yet it gave life to the giant cafeteria. Zell had unexpectedly pulled up a chair beside Squall who had been too busy trying to get the lemon out of his iced tea to notice him.
"Yo Squall, having trouble there?" Zell pointed out making Rinoa giggle as she took a sip of her sprite, accidentally dropping the lime in.
"Rinoa." A very solemn yet sad female voice was heard behind Rinoa.
"Selphie? What's up?" Rinoa gestured for her to take a seat next to her, but she shook her head.
"Rinoa I need to talk to you." Selphie's eyes started to water up again. Rinoa noticed how Selphie was this morning. Usually she would come skipping in singing a song and dancing everywhere, and just being the spunky Selphie everyone knew, but this morning was different.
Rinoa took Squall's hand as an indication she would be gone for a few minutes. Squall looked up to catch a glimpse of his girlfriend's face, but he was too late, she had already turned around. It wasn't so bad seeing her back. Her raven black hair almost reached halfway down her baby blue and black lined dress.
Zell knew something was wrong with Selphie. Why hadn't she told him? He stood up to go and join the conversation, but Squall held him down.
"It's a girl thing. So if I were you I'd stay here." Squall smiled as he finally pulled out a soaking lemon from his iced tea and flailing it around in glee before accidentally dropping it.
"Well that sucked." Zell eyed his friend who looked like we was about to mourn over the lose of a lemon.
"So Squall, you're the commander, where is the garden headed?" Zell finally remembered to ask that. He wondered why the garden was moving again.
"It's off to FH for some repairs, nothing big, just a check up, you know the usual." Squall pointed out. "Yeah, and so we should get there in about ten minutes."
"Ah, ok, hey man maybe we can go get some breakfast over there? How bout it?" Zell was so hungry, and cafeteria food just wasn't what he craved that morning.
"Nah, I just finished breakfast with Rinoa, maybe you should ask Selphie to go with you."
"Aw man, I thought we could hang out. Oh well, I hope Selphie is hungry. Say where did they run off too?"
Squall looked up to see his Rinoa and Selphie gone.
"Dang, they ran off." Zell pouted. He really wanted to go with Selphie. "I'll just have to find her."
Walking off into the open aired hallway, Zell could feel the mist of the seawater that was blown up against his face.
"So refreshing"
"It sure is." Zell glanced over to where Rinoa stood.
"Have you been there the whole time?" Zell examined her face as she glanced off into the horizon where she could see signs of the port city of FH.
"Zell, it's about Selphie. She can't tell you because she doesn't want you to hate her, but there's something you should know."
Zell, being as absentminded as he is instantly thought of the first thing that a girl might be afraid of telling a guy about.
"Oh My God! Holy.I swear I never did anything to her. I mean, how long has she known this. Is she sick? Does she have any symptoms? Oh and were not even married yet! I can't believe I got her." He was cut short by Rinoa's hand slapping him on the back.
"No silly, she's not pregnant. Cool off." Zell felt like he was about to barf.
"Oh, and I heard you say you two aren't married YET. Zell, does that mean anything to you?" Rinoa kept her hand on his back.
"Well the truth is Rinoa, I'm head over heels in love with Selphie. It's just I'm afraid of telling her, because she might hate me."
"Oh my god Zell!" She snapped him into reality.
"Oh and what did you want to tell me earlier about something Selphie wanted to tell me, but she was afraid to because she thought I would hate her?" Zell stared at his reflection in the water while Rinoa rolled her eyes.
"Zell snap into it! What did you just say earlier?"
"I said I was in love with her, but I was afraid to tell her because she might hate me?"
"Yes, and now tell me what you said after that."
"I wanted to know what Selphie wanted me to know. You said she wanted to tell me something but she was too afraid to tell me because she might think I hate her?"
"Yes! Zell put two and two together and." Rinoa anticipated Zell to finally figure out the pattern that was going on here.
"Oh my god was she the one who broke my Esthar shot glass, you know from my collection of shot glasses?" Zell pounded his fists together like he was going to kill.
"Zeeeeeellllll!!!" Rinoa screamed to the top of her lungs. "I can't believe you. I can't believe you. How in the world is Selphie in love with such an idiot!" She stormed away.
"Love? Hey what did you say about Lo-." She couldn't hear him and she stormed off.
"Oh well, I didn't her what you said last!" He tried to yell back to her, but it was too late she was out of sight.
Then he started to do something nobody would normally see Zell do.
"Two thousand buns of hotdogs on the wall, two thousand buns of hotdogs! You take 'em all to the ground and wolf 'em all down. No more buns or hotdogs on the wall!" Everyone around the dormitory hallways covered their ears as he continued his singing.
Rinoa continued storming through the first floor as she reached the elevator platform in agitation as she reached the third floor where Squall was silently sitting at his desk with a glass of iced tea enjoying the fact that there were now two lemons in his unsweetened ice tea.
"Argh!" Rinoa hollered to capture Squall's fleeting attention. He practically screamed as he hit his head on the roof.
"Rinoa? Why did you do that for?" He rubbed the small bump on his head as Rinoa came to his desk in full fury, ready to kill.
"Ok, Rinoa we can talk about this." Squall cowered in fear behind his chair.
"I'm not mad at you!" She turned around and stormed off.
"Women." Squall took victory over the claim that he survived his girlfriend's rampage without a scratch. Wiping away sweat from his forehead.
Selphie had been sitting in her dorm room the whole time. Her window was open and a cool ocean mist was blown in. She thought it was very refreshing on her face. Her eyes started to well up with tears again. She really couldn't keep in this raw emotion to herself. But, she was afraid, afraid of what Zell might say if she finally admitted she loved him. She walked up to her open window to see that they already landed in FH. The sun was so bright, and it was such a clear and beautiful day outside. She looked down into the ocean where a bunch of SeeDs and Cadets jumped in the water to have a little fun. They obviously jumped from the Quad; it also was like their diving board. Some of the more daredevil students jumped from the second floor balcony, which she thought was really fun, but dangerous if you didn't land on the water right. She stared down at a two men waving up at her; a tall blonde and brunette. She waved back, and wondered how they saw her from that far down.
"Wait a second. That's Zell and Squall." She smiled and waved back towards them, more attention to Zell obviously. Selphie leaned out a little more to catch a glimpse of her blonde bombshell, when it happened. She had leaned so far forward she slipped off the windowsill and plummeted down the side of the garden before contacting with the water.
Selphie felt like she was going to die. She had landed on her back and was descending into the deep abyss. She had no will to make her way up; she had lost all will to fight. When all seemed hopeless a pair of strong arms enfolded her and proceeded to carry her up to the surface; it was Zell. Zell had dove down and found the small girl descending aimlessly. Selphie had looked up into Zell's determined eyes. He was fighting to bring her back up to the surface. She panicked, she hadn't been given time to grab a healthy intake of air since the impact knocked the wind out of her. Se was struggling to break free, but Zell held on. If he let go she would panic herself to her own death. He needed to keep her steady.
"Almost there." Zell thought to himself, mentally trying to keep Selphie under control.
Selphie couldn't take it anymore she needed air desperately. Zell only knew one solution to this, but it could cost him his own life. He turned her around and pressed his mouth distinctively over hers. Her eyes opened in surprise as he forced air from himself into her. She could breathe. She had air. He kept himself pushing until he had only a fraction of air left, the very air he may need to escape. He then heaved her up in hopes that she would swim fast enough. A pair of another man's arms finally picked her up. It was Squall. He lifted her up to a SeeD rescue unit that appeared after she fell.
"Zell!" She screamed his name when he didn't emerge. The team hoisted her up while the other students climbed up back into the ladder as the weather started to shift. "Zell!" She screamed for him again, but to no avail. Rescue divers were sent in right when they pulled Selphie away to treat her for any injuries. "Zell!" Was all she could scream, she was going to give herself laryngitis. She yelled and screamed his name as the SeeD team hauled her to the infirmary to be treated for injuries. She took one last glimpse into the roaring ocean as she fainted in shock of knowing, Zell, her long time friend, and hopeful lover, is gone.
To be continued.
Summary: No official summary today. Just a recap of past stories. Irvine has been disloyal to Selphie; Zell is there to comfort her. Zell ends up realizing his true love once again. Will feelings ever be revealed? Simple is it not?
It was already morning, but to Zell it didn't matter. Usually he would be up and about sprinting to the cafeteria for a hotdog, but that morning was different. He wanted to enjoy where he was now; in the arms of his love. It never failed him to believe that he was in love, but the small part of him in his heart says he may not be loved back. He didn't care though, as long as their friendship lasted like this forever. He never once thought of Irvine ever since last night. They had been the best of friends, but something inside told Zell that maybe Irvine deserved it. No, no one deserves death. Everyone has the right to live regardless of his or her actions. Irvine was just a passing memory now. He felt the small girl move in his arms as she readjusted herself according to her comfort. He knew his heart was beating rapidly, and it did bother him because Selphie's head a positioned right over his chest with a full sound of beats running through Selphie's ears. She's probably going to wake up sooner or later, just hope later.
"Zell?" Selphie awoke, but only slightly. She knew she was lying on top of Zell. "Zell you know with you I don't need to worry about how rock hard my mattress is anymore." She giggled while looking up at Zell, who had been staring down at her.
"Good morning beautiful." Was all Zell could say since his mouth was so dry. His voice sounded a bit raspy that morning.
"Aww, Zell you're so sweet and affectionate and. " She was about to finish her sentence when she found out she had made her way up to his face level. She was basically centimeters away from his face, so close she could feel him breathing into onto her. She wanted so desperately to close the gap that separated their lips, but why, why couldn't she move?
"Come on Selphie move!" She screamed at herself from the inside. She wanted to close the gap so desperately, but something was holding her back. She was holding herself back. She stared in disappointment as Zell blushed and started to sit up.
"Damn it!" Selphie yelled out loud giving Zell a puzzling look on his face.
"What? You can tell me." Zell clenched her shoulder.
"It's nothing, just a cramp is all." Her eyes were welling up with tears, but she couldn't cry. She knew that if she did she would embarrass herself. Selphie sat up and leaned against the wall to stare out at the window. The garden was moving, gliding, along the water. Nida was probably piloting it. She watched as Zell handed her the yellow jumper and knee high boots she left on his couch.
"Thank you, Zell." She took her clothes and motioned her way to the bathroom where she got dressed.
Down in the cafeteria, Squall and Rinoa had been enjoying a quiet meal. The other students in the cafeteria weren't as loud as they normally were. It was probably because it was Tuesday, and on Tuesday they always served early breakfasts. The silent muffles of conversations were the only sound that echoed the cafeteria besides the small waves rubbing along side of the Garden. Zell had been wearing sunglasses because they decided to grab a seat under the giant glass, which was called "the ceiling", but that thing looked like it could shatter easily. So the roof was made of glass, it was probably bulletproof, yet it gave life to the giant cafeteria. Zell had unexpectedly pulled up a chair beside Squall who had been too busy trying to get the lemon out of his iced tea to notice him.
"Yo Squall, having trouble there?" Zell pointed out making Rinoa giggle as she took a sip of her sprite, accidentally dropping the lime in.
"Rinoa." A very solemn yet sad female voice was heard behind Rinoa.
"Selphie? What's up?" Rinoa gestured for her to take a seat next to her, but she shook her head.
"Rinoa I need to talk to you." Selphie's eyes started to water up again. Rinoa noticed how Selphie was this morning. Usually she would come skipping in singing a song and dancing everywhere, and just being the spunky Selphie everyone knew, but this morning was different.
Rinoa took Squall's hand as an indication she would be gone for a few minutes. Squall looked up to catch a glimpse of his girlfriend's face, but he was too late, she had already turned around. It wasn't so bad seeing her back. Her raven black hair almost reached halfway down her baby blue and black lined dress.
Zell knew something was wrong with Selphie. Why hadn't she told him? He stood up to go and join the conversation, but Squall held him down.
"It's a girl thing. So if I were you I'd stay here." Squall smiled as he finally pulled out a soaking lemon from his iced tea and flailing it around in glee before accidentally dropping it.
"Well that sucked." Zell eyed his friend who looked like we was about to mourn over the lose of a lemon.
"So Squall, you're the commander, where is the garden headed?" Zell finally remembered to ask that. He wondered why the garden was moving again.
"It's off to FH for some repairs, nothing big, just a check up, you know the usual." Squall pointed out. "Yeah, and so we should get there in about ten minutes."
"Ah, ok, hey man maybe we can go get some breakfast over there? How bout it?" Zell was so hungry, and cafeteria food just wasn't what he craved that morning.
"Nah, I just finished breakfast with Rinoa, maybe you should ask Selphie to go with you."
"Aw man, I thought we could hang out. Oh well, I hope Selphie is hungry. Say where did they run off too?"
Squall looked up to see his Rinoa and Selphie gone.
"Dang, they ran off." Zell pouted. He really wanted to go with Selphie. "I'll just have to find her."
Walking off into the open aired hallway, Zell could feel the mist of the seawater that was blown up against his face.
"So refreshing"
"It sure is." Zell glanced over to where Rinoa stood.
"Have you been there the whole time?" Zell examined her face as she glanced off into the horizon where she could see signs of the port city of FH.
"Zell, it's about Selphie. She can't tell you because she doesn't want you to hate her, but there's something you should know."
Zell, being as absentminded as he is instantly thought of the first thing that a girl might be afraid of telling a guy about.
"Oh My God! Holy.I swear I never did anything to her. I mean, how long has she known this. Is she sick? Does she have any symptoms? Oh and were not even married yet! I can't believe I got her." He was cut short by Rinoa's hand slapping him on the back.
"No silly, she's not pregnant. Cool off." Zell felt like he was about to barf.
"Oh, and I heard you say you two aren't married YET. Zell, does that mean anything to you?" Rinoa kept her hand on his back.
"Well the truth is Rinoa, I'm head over heels in love with Selphie. It's just I'm afraid of telling her, because she might hate me."
"Oh my god Zell!" She snapped him into reality.
"Oh and what did you want to tell me earlier about something Selphie wanted to tell me, but she was afraid to because she thought I would hate her?" Zell stared at his reflection in the water while Rinoa rolled her eyes.
"Zell snap into it! What did you just say earlier?"
"I said I was in love with her, but I was afraid to tell her because she might hate me?"
"Yes, and now tell me what you said after that."
"I wanted to know what Selphie wanted me to know. You said she wanted to tell me something but she was too afraid to tell me because she might think I hate her?"
"Yes! Zell put two and two together and." Rinoa anticipated Zell to finally figure out the pattern that was going on here.
"Oh my god was she the one who broke my Esthar shot glass, you know from my collection of shot glasses?" Zell pounded his fists together like he was going to kill.
"Zeeeeeellllll!!!" Rinoa screamed to the top of her lungs. "I can't believe you. I can't believe you. How in the world is Selphie in love with such an idiot!" She stormed away.
"Love? Hey what did you say about Lo-." She couldn't hear him and she stormed off.
"Oh well, I didn't her what you said last!" He tried to yell back to her, but it was too late she was out of sight.
Then he started to do something nobody would normally see Zell do.
"Two thousand buns of hotdogs on the wall, two thousand buns of hotdogs! You take 'em all to the ground and wolf 'em all down. No more buns or hotdogs on the wall!" Everyone around the dormitory hallways covered their ears as he continued his singing.
Rinoa continued storming through the first floor as she reached the elevator platform in agitation as she reached the third floor where Squall was silently sitting at his desk with a glass of iced tea enjoying the fact that there were now two lemons in his unsweetened ice tea.
"Argh!" Rinoa hollered to capture Squall's fleeting attention. He practically screamed as he hit his head on the roof.
"Rinoa? Why did you do that for?" He rubbed the small bump on his head as Rinoa came to his desk in full fury, ready to kill.
"Ok, Rinoa we can talk about this." Squall cowered in fear behind his chair.
"I'm not mad at you!" She turned around and stormed off.
"Women." Squall took victory over the claim that he survived his girlfriend's rampage without a scratch. Wiping away sweat from his forehead.
Selphie had been sitting in her dorm room the whole time. Her window was open and a cool ocean mist was blown in. She thought it was very refreshing on her face. Her eyes started to well up with tears again. She really couldn't keep in this raw emotion to herself. But, she was afraid, afraid of what Zell might say if she finally admitted she loved him. She walked up to her open window to see that they already landed in FH. The sun was so bright, and it was such a clear and beautiful day outside. She looked down into the ocean where a bunch of SeeDs and Cadets jumped in the water to have a little fun. They obviously jumped from the Quad; it also was like their diving board. Some of the more daredevil students jumped from the second floor balcony, which she thought was really fun, but dangerous if you didn't land on the water right. She stared down at a two men waving up at her; a tall blonde and brunette. She waved back, and wondered how they saw her from that far down.
"Wait a second. That's Zell and Squall." She smiled and waved back towards them, more attention to Zell obviously. Selphie leaned out a little more to catch a glimpse of her blonde bombshell, when it happened. She had leaned so far forward she slipped off the windowsill and plummeted down the side of the garden before contacting with the water.
Selphie felt like she was going to die. She had landed on her back and was descending into the deep abyss. She had no will to make her way up; she had lost all will to fight. When all seemed hopeless a pair of strong arms enfolded her and proceeded to carry her up to the surface; it was Zell. Zell had dove down and found the small girl descending aimlessly. Selphie had looked up into Zell's determined eyes. He was fighting to bring her back up to the surface. She panicked, she hadn't been given time to grab a healthy intake of air since the impact knocked the wind out of her. Se was struggling to break free, but Zell held on. If he let go she would panic herself to her own death. He needed to keep her steady.
"Almost there." Zell thought to himself, mentally trying to keep Selphie under control.
Selphie couldn't take it anymore she needed air desperately. Zell only knew one solution to this, but it could cost him his own life. He turned her around and pressed his mouth distinctively over hers. Her eyes opened in surprise as he forced air from himself into her. She could breathe. She had air. He kept himself pushing until he had only a fraction of air left, the very air he may need to escape. He then heaved her up in hopes that she would swim fast enough. A pair of another man's arms finally picked her up. It was Squall. He lifted her up to a SeeD rescue unit that appeared after she fell.
"Zell!" She screamed his name when he didn't emerge. The team hoisted her up while the other students climbed up back into the ladder as the weather started to shift. "Zell!" She screamed for him again, but to no avail. Rescue divers were sent in right when they pulled Selphie away to treat her for any injuries. "Zell!" Was all she could scream, she was going to give herself laryngitis. She yelled and screamed his name as the SeeD team hauled her to the infirmary to be treated for injuries. She took one last glimpse into the roaring ocean as she fainted in shock of knowing, Zell, her long time friend, and hopeful lover, is gone.
To be continued.