Author¡¦s Note (AN): Hi to everyone who ¡¦s reading this! As you all know, this will be a Seiftis fanfic, so for anyone that dislikes the most engaging couple in FFVIII, please leave immediately. Or, if you dislike Seiftis fanfics, but wish to read on anyways, well¡Kyou know what they all say! This is a free country, so be my guest and read on. There probably will be some character bashings in a few chapters so all readers warned! However, please do not take the fact that because I bash certain characters, I do not like them. I like the characters all the same. After you have finished reading, please take the time to review the chapter. Reader¡¦s comments and critiques (yes, which means that I don¡¦t mind flamers) mean a lot to me, and will hopefully help me improve later on in my fanfic to satisfy your needs as a reader. Thank you lots! ^^ ¡¦¡¦
AN 2: Sorry my first author¡¦s note was so long! I promise I¡¦ll make future ones real short. I just wanted to say that this fanfic will be written in Quistis¡¦ point of view and she might act kind of different in this fanfic than she would in the game, but I just want to portray her feelings more in the way she moves and thinks. Okay! That¡¦s all. ^^¡¦¡¦
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Disclaimer: Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I wish I owned Final Fantasy,
And Squaresoft, too. ^_^
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I Give Love a Bad Name
¡§They say love hides behind every corner. I must be walking around in circles.¡¨
Okay. My life¡¦s just about over. Oh sure, I¡¦m back at teaching Garden again and those Trepies are still taking their time to follow me around, but when I said ¡§life¡¨, I actually meant my love life.
I mean, it¡¦s not everyday that you fall in love with someone and then after you¡¦ve had a crush on them for about¡Koh say¡Kmore than a long time, you suddenly find out that your affection for them was all ¡§misunderstood¡¨. It hurts, really. This indescribable pain that shot through my entire body when I found out that the love of my life was totally committed to somebody else whom he has known for a less amount of time than¡Khe has known me.
The ¡§somebody else¡¨ that was able to break through his taciturn nature and free his inner soul in a blink of an eye when no one else thought he could be saved. Not to get me wrong, tons of people have truly tried to talk Squall into being more sociable and open, me being one of those ¡§tons of people¡¨, but we never quite knew just how that ¡§somebody else¡¨ named Rinoa was able to crack through his shell when we couldn¡¦t.
However, I don¡¦t hate Rinoa for being able to accomplish what I wasn¡¦t able to do. Though I have to admit, I used to. But then I realized that hating her won¡¦t change anything about the way she and Squall feels for each other. I¡¦m definitely over Squall, and I really don¡¦t care if he and Rinoa are now together while I wish them a happy relationship on the by stand. Well, at least that¡¦s what I had kept trying to convince myself with these past few months anyways.
Truthfully, I don¡¦t think that I would ever be able to disregard my past affections for Squall no matter how much I keep telling myself to forget. But one thing is for sure: love hurts and it¡¦s better if I never have to experience it again.
And that¡¦s why I¡¦m trying as hard as I can to avoid it now before it can trap me once more and make me fall for the one person whom I thought I would never learn to love in this lifetime.
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AN 3: There. I hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter! Well, it wasn¡¦t exactly what you would call a ¡§chapter¡¨ because it was kind of short, but I definitely promise that the next ¡§chapter¡¨ will be longer! And please don¡¦t forget to r/r! Thank you!
Oh yeah, when I uploaded this chapter and previewed it, I noticed that the grammar and punctuations were kind of messed up, but I hope you didn¡¦t have any trouble reading! I promise I¡¦ll try to fix this incident in the next chapter! (I hope¡K)
-emina ^^¡¦¡¦