Try to Remember
Chapter 4
Family reunion
A/N : Like usual I don't own any of them (except Rudy but he's only mentioned once)
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Matron came running in to our bedroom with a girl about her height, who went and put her arm around the guy with the shaved head. I thought they made a cute couple.
i rolled my head toward Seifer, took a lot of effort for some reason.
"How long have I been out?"
The words didn't come as easily as they normally do.
"About ten minutes" he said "I carried you up here after I heard you fall down"
"You hit the ground so hard that we all heard it" the low voice of the tall man behind seifer drawled.
"What's your name?" matron stepped forward pointing a flashlight into my eyes.
"Selphie.... Tilmett.... was it???"
"Yes, where are you?"
"That's easy, I'm in the light house"
"Good, how old are you?"
I froze
"No one ever told me, I don't know"
"You're 23 darling" Seifer spoke up.
"Thanks" I smiled
"Everything seems to be fine, she probably slipped on a bar of soap or saw something that caused her to faint" matron said.
Everyone turned to look at seifer who put up his hands in a mock surrender
"Don't look at me guys, the towel stayed on the whole time"
"Seif, who are they?" I whispered as the room once again focused their attention on me. Everyone except seifer and matron looked puzzled. The dark haired girl let go of the taller man and blurted
"You must have hit your head harder than we though Selph"
Most of the group nodded
"No, she lost her memory yesterday." Seifer and Matron chimed
"I have an idea" matron said in a sing song voice, "Each of you tell her your name and something you remember about her, we'll start at that end"
The leather clad man sighed and stepped forward.
"I'm commander Squall Leonhart, do you mind if I sit down Selph?"
"Whatever" I mumbled.
Squall looked surprised for a moment and started to guffaw. The rest of the group seemed startled at his reaction and quickly joined in.
"WHAAAAAAT???" i asked
And everyone as if on cue replied "nothing"
----- Squall's story ----- let the lameness begin --- from here p.o.v.s are third person (till I say so) ---
:::flash to the past:::
a small group of kids are hanging from a tree like a flock of monkeys (I know monkeys don't hang out in groups called flocks but bear with me) the child who is hanging highest on the tree (by some of his many belts) was placed there by one of the older bully type children. So the other kids are using him for a lookout.
"Hey squall, do you see anything yet?"Asked a small blond boy with permanent marker all over his face.
"Nope, nothing yet...cant you guys climb high enough to get me down yet?" the wind starting to pick up caused the small boy to sway.
"We're tryin'...ya see anythin' yet???" asked a tall skinny brown haired boy in a cowboy hat.
"Nuh uh, help me down before matron finds out I got into a fight with Rudy"
"Do you think that any of the new kids will be girls???" an older girl in a party dress asked.
"I hope so, then we can play house and she can be the baby" said another girl with glasses (about the same age as the first one)
"We've almost got you squall." the two boys stretched as far as they could. The wind was really blowing now.
" I see something" squall said "A car is coming"
The wind blew one last large gust and it was just hard enough to dislodge squall from the tree, barely missing the hands of the two boys, who were blown out of the tree shortly after. Squall landed with a thud and looked around. He patted himself down to make sure nothing was broken.
"I'm ok"
He started to say, but the two other boys landed on top of him. Squall started to scream. Words that involved something about his foot, some words that don't bear repeating, more screaming about his foot and some wailing and gnashing of teeth for good measure, the boys decided it be in their best interest if they all (all four of the children) carried him to matron. She could fix anything. They knew matron would be waiting for the new arrivals at the driveway so they carried the still screaming squall in that direction. The car pulled into the driveway as the children presented squall to matron. Among all of the commotion and matron asking the other children what happened, squall was the only person who saw the two newest orphans arrive.
Little Selphie ran out of the car, weeping. While little seifer proceeded to kick the shins and punch the jaw of the crouching driver.
"Seifer Almasy!!! I will not tolerate this kind of behavior" matron shouted
It sure was taking a while for her sleep spell to hit squall. So he just watched while sobbing s little quieter.
Matron picked little Seifer up by the collar of his gray sweat shirt.
"Hey, lady you let me go this is between me and him, ok??? He made me do it,"
"Do what?" Matron asked sternly.
"He made me make Selphie cry"
Squall stopped watching the argument, and before the sleep spell finally took hold he turned and stared at Selphie. 'Wow, she's pretty' he thought and blacked out.
When squall woke up, he had a cast on his foot. And all the other children were outside picking flowers and "sword fighting" with found sticks.
Squall tried to get up. But was startled by a low "Mmmmm" he turned to see the driver of the car watching him.
"I want to go outside and play. "
"Nnnuhnnnnn" it sounded like he couldn't quite form the words 'nuh uh'
"Why not?...hey, are you ok??? Did you bite your tongue when the new kid punched you???"
"Mmm hmm"
"I'm sorry" chibi Squall said.
"Mmm" was all the large driver said.
They spent the evening playing board games. Selphie came inside and walked up to Squall. At the same time, Matron called the driver out to talk to him.
"I picked these flowers for you" Selphie said as she set them down on the table next to his bed.
"Thank you, that was very nice of you" uttered Squall.
"You were the only one who saw me when I got here." She sat next to him.
"Wanna play checkers?" he couldn't think of anything else to say.
"Yeah, sure she scooted closer"
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Squall leaned in close to me and whispered.
"You gave me my first kiss that day."
He stood up and nodded to the woman next to him.
A/N: Oh look I finished another chapter stay tuned kiddies, for another * yawn * riveting installment of my story