Chapter TWO: Friend to Enemy to Friend and Back Again...

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!!!!!!: All right... lets get this straight. The plot? There's none! It's a collection of stories about budding romances in a high school where boys have no idea what to do with girls and girls have no idea what to do with boys! That's it. Can't figure 'the plot' (or setting, as I like to call it) out? Read the summary... alot... very self explanatory. There isn't some evil conspiracy behind the fact that girls are admitted! It doesn't have to make sense! I just wanted to make a cute romance story! That's all... The thing about the parents not telling their kids makes no sense WHAT-SO-EVER!! I just wanted to show their feelings about girls in the rawest form possible, surprise! It's not complicated! Thank you. You can all read now. Wait... think of the plot as 'Complicated budding romances'... perfect. Happy now? There's your plot!

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Squall entered his drama class just as the bell sounded. He sighed with relief and walked to an empty chair. There were no desks in the room, this room was used for drama and drama alone, they had no need for desks... except for the occasional prop. As he took his seat, he scanned the room looking at all the students. It was a surprisingly small class. Only 16 people.

"Alright Performers." The teacher began from the front of the room. "From this day forward there will be no students in this classroom." She said, it sounded odd but she was obviously going somewhere with it.

"No students!? Sweet! Then we can leave!?" Someone across the room exclaimed. Squall looked towards the voice and found Seifer, the most annoying person on campus.

"Ah, shit...." Squall cursed under his breath as he put his hand to his forehead. A tiny, prissy, giggle began next to Seifer. Squall looked to the curious sound and found. A girl with some very large... assets. Her skin was perfectly tanned and her hair, black. She was probably the hottest person on campus and Squall secretly hoped that she wasn't the infamous Yuki.

"Seifer..." The teacher began walking to him. "Sit the hell down and shut the FUCK up!" She screamed. The class became wide eyed as Seifer slowly took his seat, scared and horrified. "If you blurt out another one of your stupid comments, you're leaving this class." She warned. Seifer nodded slowly and steadily and the teacher diverted her attention back to the matter at hand. "As I was saying. You're not going to be students in this class... you'll be referred to as performers." She told them all. She looked to the people in her class, each one individually. "For today's activity you shall impersonating another person in this class. If you don't know anyone then please raise your hand." No one rose their hand. "Good. Now lets begin. Squall..." She began, looking to him.

"Yes?" He said standing, ready.

"You're first, because I know your name. Come up here and whisper to me the person your imitating and we'll have the class guess." Squall nodded.

"Seifer." He whispered in her ear. She laughed and nodded, allowing him. Squall cleared his throat and began. "Blah blah, jibber jabber, ramble ramble, mindless jargon!" He said with a rude and stuck up tone and exaggerated arm motions. The class looked at each other, confused and Seifer just rolled his eyes and smiled, knowing Squall had failed at whatever he was doing.

"Seifer?" A female student questioned. The class burst out into laughter, except Seifer who snarled at Squall who just curtsied with his jacket (that's right, curtsied).

"That was excellent, Squall." The teacher congratulated. "And extra credit points for the answer." She said, nodding to the girl who answered. Squall took a seat with a smug smile and looked across the room where Seifer was fuming... but... the girl next to him was smiling at him pleasantly. Squall just strangely smiled back and waved. She giggled and waved back.

Seifer's hand shot up, ready to go next.

"Ah dammit... fine... come up Seifer." Seifer stood and walked to the front while giving Squall an evil smirk. He whispered his answer into the teachers ear and Squall sighed impatiently.

"Duh duh, I give bad impressions and no one likes me!" Seifer said like an idiot. The class looked at each other, totally bewildered.

"Uhhh.. you?" Squall answered with a brutal smile. The class erupted with laughter. Seifer's face grew red with rage, he raced to Squall and grabbed him by the collar.

"Don't fuck with me you little shit. Remember your place." He whispered venomously. Squall just gave him a cold stare and spit on Seifer's shirt. "Dip shit." Seifer whispered as he pushed Squall against the back of the chair, causing him to fall backwards. The gorgeous girl next to Seifer dashed over to Squall's aid as the class gasped at the incident.

"Seifer!" The teacher scolded. "See me after class!" She said, her words, vicious as he walked back to his seat nonchalantly.

"Oh, are you okay!?" The girl asked, very worried. Squall sat up with the 'help' of her.

"Yeah. I'm fine." He answered with a smile. His breath caught in his lungs as he took in her face. She was even more gorgeous up close. Everything about her just radiated purity, kindness and beauty.

"Are you sure? Seifer can be pretty tough sometimes." She said, once again helping him up as if he was seriously wounded.

"I can take him." Squall assured her as he bent down to pick his chair up. She giggled lightly and Squall smiled as the sweet melody rang through his head.

"I'm Yuki Carter." Yuki greeted as she extended a hand to greet him. Squall's smile fell as the name 'Yuki' was uttered. He shook her hand limply, still fascinated on the fact that his greatest fear was realized. After a brief moment of silence Yuki took a seat next to him and asked: "What's your name?"

"Squall." He answered, showing no emotion. He took Rinoa's advise. She had known Yuki longer then he had.

"Have a last name?" She asked him with a giggle. He didn't answer. Her face immediately transformed itself into a scowl. "What has she told you?" She asked.

"What?" He asked irritated. He was trying to be as rude as possible to get her to go away.

"Rinoa. I know you've talked to her. What did she say about me?" She asked, moving closer to him. He could feel her breasts rubbing against his shoulder tenderly. He couldn't tell if she was doing this purposely but it was working. Her little game of 'I give you what you want, and you give me what I want' was working, and working well. Squall could feel himself breaking down.

"She..." He tried to resist, but lost the will to and gave in. "She said that I should stay away from you and that you were a total bitch." He answered.

"Don't listen to her. She's an awful person. She tries to date boys, milk them for all they're worth, have sex with them, then leave them heartbroken." She said. Squall was shocked. He couldn't imagine such a pure and innocent soul like Rinoa's would be capable of such things. "Stay away from her. You can trust me." Yuki insisted as she moved back to the seat next to Seifer and they whispered for a bit.

'Shit...' Squall thought, totally confused on what was going on...

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"I don't believe that for one second!" Irvine exclaimed after school as they stood next to their lockers. Squall had just revealed the information given to him by Yuki and Rinoa.

"Rinoa can't be a total slut and Yuki can't be a total bitch!" Zell insisted.

"You never know." Squall said with a frown.

"I can't believe you're believing these silly rumors." Irvine said with distaste as he shook his head. "I'm sure they're both perfect women. Go with Yuki though... just in case." He finished cautiously.

"You're believing these stupid rumors to!? I can't believe you two." Zell exclaimed ashamed.

"Shut up! Both of you!" Squall demanded with a strong voice. It was obvious he was irritated and tired. They both nodded quietly.

"So... Yuki's boobs were huge?" Irvine asked, diverting the topic.

"Oh hell yeah!" Squall said with a sudden smile. "I'm gonna go after her. She's so damn hot." He said with a serene smile.

"Hopefully she's nice." Zell said with a shrug.

"Who cares." Irvine said with a laugh...

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"I can't help but get the feeling that Squall is avoiding me." Rinoa began. The three friends were sitting up on the roof in a little pocket of shade.

"You're being paranoid." Quistis insisted.

"Yeah. He's probably just shy. I bet he likes you." Selphie said with a smile.

"No... I'd think he'd make that a little bit more obvious. I bet Yuki told him something." Rinoa said, scratching her chin with thought.

"Oh geez... bringing her into this." Selphie said sadly as she shook her head with distaste.

"She's in the same class as him and you all know how uhh... 'close' she gets to people." Rinoa explained, trying to back her point.

"That's true..." Quistis said. She thought for a moment as the three friends were left with silence. "Why don't you go ask Squall? It can't do any harm." She advised thoughtfully.

"He probably won't talk to me after the things Yuki said about me." Rinoa mumbled, not helping the situation.

"That would be true if you hadn't said anything bad about Yuki." Quistis explained with a smile. Rinoa gave her a confused look, but it was one full of hope. "He's probably debating with himself who's right... and until he finds someone guilty, you're both innocent. This is your chance to tell him she really is a stupid bitch and that you're not whatever Yuki said you are, if she said anything at all." She explained.

"Good thinking Quisty!" Rinoa exclaimed with a bright smile. She stood with haste and snatched up her belongings and shot down the stairs. She I had no idea where he would be, but she wanted to find him before Yuki did. Playing off Quistis's advise meant that she had to act fast. Whoever could get to Squall first had the upper hand in this game.

She ran down the steps to the first floor, hoping she would find him where she found him this morning. She looked down the hall and found him... but not alone. Yuki was there, chatting with him with flirting gestures like pokes in the arm, etc. His smile was bright, it was all to obvious he was happy. Rinoa was disgusted, but hid it as she decided to approach them, a stoic look on her face. She wanted to look strong if Yuki had said something about her but she wanted to look normal if she hadn't. Yuki was unpredictable like that.

As Rinoa stepped ever closer, she noticed that her left breast was smashed against the locker, causing both to press together to make one massive cleavage shot. Rinoa grimaced at the site, but kept her cool.

"Hi Squall." She greeted with a pleasant smile, staring straight at him.

"Hey." He greeted lamely with a little smile. Rinoa cursed herself mentally for not getting here fast enough. Yuki had got to him. Rinoa kept staring at Squall even as he turned away. She sighed heavily.

"Hey watch out!" Someone cried in front of her. She was so caught up in thought, she didn't even notice someone called to her.

"Rinoa!" Squall yelled. She snapped back into reality just as someone big crashed into her. She fell backwards and onto her butt.

"OW!" She cried as she rubbed her behind tenderly. "That hurt." She murmured. She looked up to see who was at fault and found Seifer looming above her. She glared at him. "You probably hit me down to see up my skirt." She suspected with a grim look as she stood, dusting herself off.

"I'd never do that!" Seifer insisted, putting on the innocent act a bit to strongly. "Not to you Fairest Rinoa." He cooed as he stepped closer to her. His body surged of masculinity, something Rinoa had been craving for a long time since their brake up. She didn't move as their hands touched delicately. Seifer pushed himself forward a bit, but Rinoa quickly became aware of his advances.

"You won't play me again." She whispered menacingly to him, jabbing a finger, hard, into his stomach.

"You two've met?" Yuki asked as she pushed herself closer to Squall, who only seemed to welcome the advance.

"Unfortunately." Rinoa said as she took a step away from Seifer.

"We dated for a bit." Seifer answered appropriately as he crossed his arms.

"You two should get back together. You're so cute together." Yuki said with a cute little smile to Seifer, but when she turned to Rinoa her face contorted into an evil smirk that could kill any normal person. Rinoa wasn't a normal person though. She had evolved to take Yuki's evil tricks and twist them around to her delight.... but that side of her wasn't really evoking her this time though.

"I don't think so. But I do believe Kid Rock would be quite taken with you if you were to just get another one of those boob jobs you were talking about. Pamela Anderson would have nothing on you." Rinoa said maliciously, wiping that smirk off Yuki's face instantly.

Yuki licked her lips, ready for a real killer but only came out with: "You do!" She said maliciously. Rinoa just gave her a confused look. The three eyed Yuki strangely. She just huffed and stomped off, out the entrance.

"Damn..." Seifer whispered. "Won't piss you off." He said with a little smile, trying to lighten the mood. Rinoa slammed her foot down on his and he wailed in pain.

"There you are Mr. Almasy!" The art teacher exclaimed, wheezing and panting. "You won't get away this time!"

"Oh shit!" Seifer exclaimed and he dashed away, the teacher slowly trailing behind. Rinoa turned to Squall who was looking towards his locker, avoiding eye contact.

"Squall." She began. He didn't make eye contact, but she could tell his attention was on her. "I can tell she said something nasty about me." She said.

"Sorta." He lamely answered.

"What did she say this time? That I was in cohorts with a jewel robbery and that I seduced men so I could castrate them then steal their money?" She questioned. "Cause that's the only lie she has left to play." She explained.

"I know what you are." He told her.

"Oh no... she said I was a dirty slut and that I'm a heartbreaker?" She asked.

"She also said that you 'Milk them for all their worth'!" Squall exclaimed, thinking that would be the real killer to her conscious. Rinoa just stood there, trying to suppress a smile.

"Like... financially?" She asked as she bit her lip from laughing.

"Yeah." He said, disgusted, thinking he was still punching her conscious. That set her over the edge, she began laughing out loud as she leaned against the lockers for support.

"What?" He asked, totally confused.

"I must be really bad at sex and dating because I'm basically poor!" She explained. "That lie is totally insane! That kind of stuff only happens in B Movie drama films!" She said as she began laughing.

"I guess that is kind of weird..." Squall considered.

"I can assure you of one thing though..." She said with a smile. "We're both totally normal girls having a totally normal fight." She said with a smile. "Don't believe what we say about the other person... it's gonna be a lie." She told him. "You don't have to make a choice on who to believe. You can believe none of us." She reminded him. "I'll promise to stop making up horrid stories about her... for your sake." She promised with a healthy smile as she saluted. He smiled at her.

"How do you get home? Walk, bus, carpool?" He asked, wanting to end her first day at Garden High on a good note.

"I walk. How do you get home?" She asked, knowing this was going somewhere.

"I walk now..." He told her as he pushed a bus ticket into the very pit of his pocket.

"What do you mean, 'now'?" She asked as they walked for the door.

"I need the exercise." He told her, not really answering her question.

"I won't argue." She told him with a smile. They pushed the doors open and the sunlight beamed down on them. Rinoa's light school uniform waved lightly with the winds playful dance.

"You like it here so far?" Squall asked her.

"I love it! So many new people, so many people to meet, just so much better!" She said with a smile as she skipped around in circles....

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"I think Rinoa ditched us." Selphie said with a pout as they looked around outside the school for her.

"I hope everything went okay with that whole Yuki problem." Quistis hoped as she shielded her eyes from the sun's raise above her.

"I'm sure it went off without a hitch..." She reassured her friend.

"Hey..." Quistis began as she eyed Irvine and Zell waving at them viciously from inside the bus. "Wanna take the bus?" She asked slyly. Selphie looked to the bus and found what she was looking at.

"Whoooo... of course." Selphie giggled as she skipped for the bus, followed by Quistis...

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Yuki walked home alone in a sullen state of mind after the incident with Rinoa.

"She probably already made him fall for her. Dammit." She cursed. "Why can't I ever get a good guy?" She asked herself with a whisper as she looked up to the sky, between the trees.

"Hey! Yuki!" A deep voice called from behind her. She turned her head behind her and found Seifer running towards her. She sighed with a smile as she finally had some company. She turned back to face ahead as Seifer came up along beside her. "Where did you go? I was looking all over for you... while running away from the stupid art teacher." He said as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"What did you do to her?" She asked, wanting to go with the latter topic.

"Don't think you can change the subject on me!" He said, reading her mind instantly.

"I just went... to get some stuff from my locker. That's all." She lied. He bought it, that's all that mattered.

"Oh... Well. With the art teacher... I was supposed to get her some paint brushes from the supply closet down the hall, so anyways, I go out and..." He explained his stupid mistakes, his rude insults and his funny pranks to her as they walked home. Yuki and Seifer enjoying the whole time...

Exit Stage Left

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A/n: I hope that was good! I think it felt a bit rushed, but what's important is what YOU thought! So review! Anyways... to important matters... my grammar sucks ass... thank you. I don't have a melodramatic chapter preview for this time... next time I will though. I've started to write chapters in pairs... so in Chapter 3, you'll see a preview for 4. Got it? Good.

P.S. This story isn't meant to have one ongoing conflict (referred to in my bitching above)... so each chapter has a conclusion and there PROBABLY won't be any cliff hangers... each chapter is a mini story, if you will.

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