I was woken up at the earliest hour of the morning by Squall grabbing me by the shoulders and shaking the living daylights out of me.
" Rise and shine princess"
He opened up the curtains to let the morning glare come pouring into my room. He left the room with his evil grin.
I'll kill him. I swear it.
I had a quick hot shower and dressed pretty quickly. Last night I had packed everything so I was ready straight away.
Squall was in the kitchen sending a text message to someone on his mobile. That's when it clicked. Danni! I completely forgot to ring her!
I grabbed my bag off the table and dialed in her number.
"Hello?"
"Danni! It's me. I'm so sorry I didn't call when I got here"
" Oh Rinoa! Well you should be ya big meanie! So…is he hot? Come on! Gimmi the goss!"
"What Squall?"
"Yes him! The presidents son!"
" Well…ok so he is kinda cute…""
" Whoa! Rinoa I envy you! I've gotta go anyway, but keep me updated!"
"But Danni! I just rang"
" Sorry gotta go"
She hung up. I had managed to call her and she hung up on me. Well its what I would have expected if it weren't so early. So I typed a text message to her instead. I was pretty sure she wouldn't send back, but I wanted to her get my point of view…
Yeah ok, so he's cute. But that's not the point. He's always moody and doesn't talk to me very nicely and really he's just some no good snobby, rich kid who doesn't have a care for anything, especially me. So don't get ANY ideas.
That would definitely set the record straight. I didn't send it yet. Squall had gone upstairs so I put my mobile on the bench and grabbed some cereal. I wanted to send it when I knew she would be expecting it. Which was probably in about half an hour. She was so readable.
This is when the unfortunate event came by. It all started with Squall running into the kitchen, talking on his mobile and speaking as if he just won the world cup at rugby or something. Not that I know that much about rugby anyway. I didn't catch his conversation because he ran out into the garden downstairs. I wanted to know so I left the kitchen and went into the garden.
He hung up his mobile the minute I found him.
" What was that about?" I asked curiously, but not to sound too interested.
" Oh, that was Jenny…don't worry about it, anyways we're leaving in about…five minutes so get your stuff out round the back near the tennis court. Dave will be there soon"
I saluted mockingly and walked back up to my room. All my 'stuff' was on my bed in a duffle bag. I picked it up and slung it over my shoulder. Before I left I remembered makeup so I left my bag near the door and ran to bathroom.
Squall was already there when I got to the tennis courts. There was a small road leading around the whole presidential palace and it led back through the main gates and out into Esthar. Squall was wearing a navy blue jacket over a red shirt. He looked well suited for the weather…which was very cold. When he saw me he motioned for me to come over.
" Hey, Dave should be here any minute now, don't get too comfy"
I threw my bag down next to him as answer and lied down on the grass. That got me thinking about what type of car Dave had. Maybe a Ferrari…or an awesome sports car. Maybe even a flash red convertible or some wondrous car I had never even heard of.
It turned out he drove…a bluebird? A nice, but small blue car drove up next to us. Some loud music was playing, Metallica I think, but I wasn't sure. How ever, the paint job on the car was top notch.
Squall got in on the passenger seat and got into the back. The girl I saw down on the oval playing with Squall and Dave was there too.
"Hey, I'm Jenny"
I smiled back and introduced myself. Dave swung himself around to face me.
" Dave, nice to meet ya"
I shook his hand and we drove off.
" Dave! For cryin out loud, change the music!" Jenny yelled.
Dave e and Squall rolled their eyes and turned the music off, trying to decide what to put on. Jenny eventually chose a song called 'In Too Deep' by Sum 41. It was pretty good.
Jenny got out a makeup kit and started fixing her makeup. We drove out of the presidential palace and out into the main road. Dave and Squall were talking about a baseball game and Jenny was telling about Esthar. She said the shopping is best near the Hospital area and the best place to buy shoes is at the 'Your Size' shoe shop. She told me all the best makeup places and the ways to get past the booze bus that the police set up every night near the shops.
Our first stop was at…you guessed it…the shopping mall near the Hospital area.
The parking area was packed and it took us a good ten minutes to get a spot. I grabbed my wallet and followed them in.
Not in all cinemas' showing the latest Matrix film or the hottest new chick flick had I ever seen so many people. There were five levels. Stairs on one side and five escalators on the other side. We took he escalator up to the second level and went to a tourist shop; luckily there weren't many people there.
Dave got my a dozen brochures and Squall asked the assistant for a map of central Esthar to give me. I was actually enjoying myself.
I ended up spending 'a lot' of money on our shopping trip and I was expecting to go back to the palace, but instead we were going to a special place that they hung out. The Cazma Drink n Pool Pub. A strange name, but a great place.
It was like one of those pub restaurants except the restaurant was on the other side. The pub area smelt like cigarette smoke and had plenty of 'tough looking' people in it. But, Dave and Squall knew them all. We ordered some drinks and started talking.
"So…do you guys come here often?" I asked
" Yeah as often as we can…after Jenny has her shopping sessions" Dave replied
Jenny shot him a look and he shut up.
I turned to Squall.
" What about Mitch? Does he really let you go here?"
" No…" He answered, " We tell him we're going to the baseball game or shopping for school…stuff like that"
They all smiled evilly and I think I was on my way to understanding Squall.
They told me about the pool competitions that go on in the pub and Jenny and I had a game with some girls that came in and Squall and Dave sat with some mates. I had great time, really, which I thought at the start was going to be impossible.
We stayed at a hotel that night and had pizza. In the morning at about 10 am or so we left to go to the outskirts of Esthar. I was desperate to see the Lunar Station so we took a train there.
The train trip was long but awesome. It wasn't a slow and boring train, it was fast one that rattled a lot. Jenny sang a train song that went somewhere along the lines of " Train, Train take us away… to the future we will go" It was irritating and annoying so Squall, Dave and I went to he back of the train and sat outside. I let my hair out and enjoyed the wind flapping my hair about like a Shakira video clip.
I didn't want the train to stop but like all trains do, it stopped. We got off at the Lunar Station and I was awestruck. I didn't say anything because saying, " Wow!" or, " Cool, this is awesome!" Would be an understatement. So we just went inside and I spent about half an hour reading brochures.
" The Lunar Station transports people up into space so they can go to the special space station and look at the moon!" Said a tour guide. I spun around to see a lady in a blue dress and tie showing some kids around.
" I wanna go to the station and see the moon!" Yelled one of the kids.
We went back outside and waited for the three scientists to be launched into space to go to station and look over Sorceress Adel. A launch was due any minute now and I was told the launch was spectacular.
It was. Three small pods were thrown out into the sky; flying so fast they left as quickly as they came, heading upwards. When they gone, I turned to look at Squall. He looked back at me smiled sweetly. I smiled back nervously and Dave jumped up and announced the train was here.
A/N: Another chapter done. Wow. Thanks to everyone who reviewed and read the story so far. Oh and Shakira and the Matrix doesn't belong to me.