Swapping Souls
Chapter 8
Tired from having a day full of squeezing buns, Quistis dragged herself through the front door of the Presidential Palace, followed closely by Kiros. "I'm so tired…" she mumbled, feeling her eyelids getting heavy.
"You can't go to sleep now, Laguna," Kiros smiled.
Quistis narrowed her eyes and spun around to look at Kiros, "And why can't I?"
"Because we need to get rid of your evil spirits."
"My evil spirits?" Quistis rolled her eyes and pivoted back en route to her bedroom. "Yeah, that's nice Kiros, I'm going to bed now."
"You can't!"
"Why not!!?"
"I've come to the conclusion that you lost this year's contest is because you have too many evil spirits surrounding you."
"Uh-huh…" she shook her head, "And how do you expect to get them away? Do you practice some weird form of Voodoo?"
Kiros smiled and said nothing. Now extremely freaked out, Quistis sprinted back up the stairs, only to be cut off by Ward.
"…"
"He says to not worry," Kiros translated.
"Too late! I'm officially worried!!"
"It will be over soon!"
Looking desperately every which way, Quistis finally screamed, "Stop it! You're scaring me! I'm going to pee my pants if you keep staring at me like that!"
Kiros smiled wickedly and Ward stepped aside.
"You can go on to bed, but we will perform the ceremony tonight."
*Congratulations O Mighty Bun Squeezer*
Zell had managed to make it back to Balamb before everyone else, and when he did he made sure to inform everyone of where Squall had been and what he had achieved while he was gone. Together, they quickly put together a small congratulations party for him in Zell's dorm. Seifer, Rinoa, 'Quistis', Nida, Xu, Selphie, and of course Squall were all invited.
Zell called Selphie on her cell phone and informed her to lead Squall to Zell's dorm as soon as they got back to Garden, and to NOT say anything to give it away.
She did as she was told. The door swung open and everyone jumped out, "Surprise!" they screamed.
"So it sounds like you finally came out of the closet!" Seifer laughed. "Bun Squeezer, eh? If you're going to have such a perverted infatuation, couldn't you at least use real buns?"
"Hi everyone," Squall sighed. "I suppose Dincht told you about the contest."
All who was in the room nodded simultaneously except for Quistis who appeared to be crying in the corner.
"What's wrong with her?" Selphie asked.
"I don't know…" Zell said slowly, "she's been that way ever since we got back from Esthar."
"The pupil has surpassed the master, I know I should have guessed this would happen someday, but he was never even really my pupil! It isn't right! I can't believe, my own son!" she cried into her knees.
"Is she going to be alright?" Selphie asked again.
Zell shrugged.
"Since when does she have a son?" Squall asked, raising his eyebrows, and Zell shrugged again.
"Just leave her alone, she'll come around eventually," Rinoa said with a small smile. "Let's play a game!"
Squall rolled his eyes, "I don't really want to be here. I'm tired, I want to go to bed."
"Nope! Mr. Party Pooper!" Selphie chimed, "We're going to have fun, fun, FUN tonight!"
"What should we play then?"
Zell pointed a finger in the air, as if pointing to a light bulb that just went on over his head, then jumped up and ran to his refrigerator. He brought back a bottle of ketchup.
"No chickenwuss, we aren't going to see who can make the best hotdog!" Seifer rolled his eyes.
"Oh ye of little faith. This is spin the bottle!"
Nida laughed and shook his head.
"What?" Zell demanded.
Everyone else joined Nida in laughing.
"Why are you laughing at me?"
"Spin the bottle was a game you played in the sixth grade, chickenwuss. No one plays it anymore!"
"Says who?"
"Everyone," most everyone said simultaneously.
"Hey, Xu. Do you remember spin the bottle when we were Junior Classmen?" Seifer asked with a small wink.
Xu blushed. Rinoa looked from Xu to Seifer angrily but said nothing. Xu in the meantime recuperated and shot back at Seifer with, "Hey, Seifer, do you remember seven minutes in heaven when we were trainees?"
That did it for Rinoa. She walloped Seifer upside the back of the head. "Jerk!" she screamed.
"Hey! Don't hit me! I didn't even know you back then!"
"But I still want to play it!" Zell whined.
"Oooh, has Zelly-Welly never gotten a kiss?" Selphie said in a joking manner, but once Zell didn't answer she figured she knew the answer. At this Seifer began laughing maniacally.
"HAHAHAHA! Almost eighteen and never been kissed! AHAHAHA! That shit should be on some sort of soap opera!"
"Yeah, thanks for the support Seifer."
"HAHAHA! Chickenwuss never got kissed!"
"SHUT UP!"
Laguna, who had just recovered from his depression from losing the contest, entered the conversation at the wrong time. He wasn't sure what spin the bottle was. "Hey, Zell, I'll play."
Zell looked at 'Quistis' utterly shocked. "Nah, don't worry about it. It's no fun unless it's a big group."
"And how would you know? You've never played it!" Seifer laughed again, now gasping for air.
"I SAID, SHUT UP!"
"What other games do we have?" Xu asked after she got tired of watching Seifer and Zell fight.
"I looked all over my dorm and all I had was Monopoly," Laguna sighed. "I hate that stupid game. I suck at it."
Everyone stared at him amusedly. "Really? You kicked all of our lame asses the last time we played," Squall said.
Laguna shrugged and didn't say anything else.
"I brought my favorite games!" Selphie exclaimed. "See!" she held out two brightly colored boxes.
"Candyland? Chutes and Ladders?" Rinoa asked slowly.
"Yup! Fun, huh?"
"I thought this might happen, so I brought Catch Phrase."
Xu sighed with relief. "Okay, that game is at least decent."
"We need two teams!" Seifer announced.
Team one consisted of Squall, Selphie, Nida and Laguna. Team two was Seifer, Rinoa, Xu and Zell.
"Leonhart's team should go first, they seem the most handicapped," Seifer laughed.
"Hey!" Selphie and Nida said in unison, as Laguna busied himself with looking around at all the laughing faces.
"Quistis! Argue back! You've got to be one of the smartest in Garden!" Nida said, nudging her in the side.
"Huh? I'm sorry, I must've missed what you said. Could you repeat that?" Laguna said, rubbing the back of his head.
"Haha! That just proves my point further!" Seifer laughed.
"Okay, shut up and start the game," Squall said monotonously.
Seifer handed the disk with the words in it to Selphie and started the timer.
"Okay! It's um…slimy! And gross. And it has two googily eyes on top of it's head," she started describing the word on the disk almost too fast to hear.
"Slug?" Nida asked.
Squall leaned over and whispered, "Anyone want to switch teams? I can't understand a thing she's saying."
"I can!" Zell smiled.
"Oh yeah, of course chickenwuss. I forgot that you could speak girl."
"Hey!"
"You can't switch teams once the game has started," Xu said.
"And they have a shell…."
"Adamantoise!!?"
"No! Adamantoises aren't slimy, are they!!?"
"Selphie! Hurry up! Just switch to the next word!" Squall yelled at her.
"No! It isn't that hard!"
"Then hurry and describe it before the buzzer goes off!"
"Uh…slimy!"
"You already said that!" Squall and Nida yelled at the same time.
"Grr! You leave me no choice!" She got down on the ground and started to slither around like some sort of a bug.
"Inchworm!" Laguna yelled. "Oh, uh uh uh!!"
"Shell! I have a shell!"
"A SNAIL!!!!" Laguna finally screamed.
"Yeah! Wahoo!" she screamed, then stood back up, hit the side of the disk so that it switched to the next word, then handed it to Xu.
"Okay. The opposite of…" BEEP!!! The buzzer went off, signifying the end of the first round. "That's not fair!" Xu screamed, throwing the disk down.
"Yes it is! Fair and square!" Selphie yelled.
"If you hadn't taken forever to describe a snail, then it wouldn't have beeped off on me!"
"But it did therefore we won the first round!" Selphie screamed and stuck her tongue out.
"Okay, whatever," Seifer laughed and moved Squall's team's piece forward on the board. "Round two starts…." He started the buzzer again… "Now!"
*VooDoo mania*
Quistis was awoken when she heard her door fling open. The sudden sound shocked her, but nothing scared her so much as to see what was standing in the doorframe. Kiros and Ward descended upon her, cloaked and wearing facemasks. Kiros was chanting some strange language, and Ward banged on drums.
"Guys? What're you doing?"
Neither answered, Kiros only continued to chant.
When they got to the bed, Ward stopped playing the drums with a loud bang and Kiros stopped chanting. Ward then grabbed Quistis and pulled her out of bed.
"Put me back! Put me back! Put me back! I'll be goooood!" she screamed.
"This is for your own good, Laguna."
Together, Kiros and Ward led the struggling Quistis into a room that she had never seen before. The only source of light was a few lit candles and she could see that on a table a stick of incense was burning and sending its scented smoke every which way. On the floor, many symbols were painted everywhere.
"This is the epitome of creepy," Quistis said wide-eyed. "Can I go back to bed now?"
"No! I forbid it!" Kiros shouted, then he tore off his shroud. Now all he had on was a pair of tight leather pants, his bare chest was painted and he wore a shrunken head around his neck.
Quickly, the dark skinned man picked up some chalk and drew a circle around Quistis. "Don't leave that circle!" he ordered her. She did as she was told, but mainly because she was too scared to move.
Ward began banging on his drums again, and once again Kiros started dancing around, chanting more bogus rhymes.
With another bang of the drums, it was silent again. Then Kiros started shouting, "Now we shall purge the evil spirits from this body!"
Quistis' eyes got even wider. "Whoa, whoa whoa!" she screamed, "Isn't exorcism by lames extremely dangerous?"
Kiros said nothing.
"Not only that…aren't exorcisms painful!!?"
"You claimed earlier that you didn't have any evil spirits. This is just to make sure, so if you don't have any, then it won't hurt, will it?"
"I guess not…" But now, she wasn't so sure that she wasn't possessed by evil spirits. One couldn't be too sure when faced with an exorcism. "I don't want to be exorcized!" she screamed, tears springing to her eyes.
Kiros and Ward ignored her pleas to stop and continued running around, banging drums and chanting. Kiros' chanting got louder and louder to the point where Quistis was sure that he would wake up the entire Palace (though not many people actually lived there).
Momentarily Quistis considered stepping out of the circle and running for the door, but was afraid of some strange Voodoo trick that would prevent her from actually getting out. Then there was the fact that Ward always seemed to conveniently appear before her when she tried escaping anyway.
Her mind had been wondering, and when she snapped out of her trance-like state she realized that she lost track of Kiros. He wasn't within eye-shot and that was not a good sign! Now on the verge of hyperventilating, she started to look desperately around.
"Wooga booga!" someone screamed, jabbing her in the side. She screamed so loud, Rinoa would have been proud of that scream and jumped completely into Ward's arms.
"Exorcism is over!"
"That hurt!" she complained, climbing down from Ward's arms.
"Big baby. It wasn't that bad. You didn't have any evil spirits to exorcize anyway."
"I told you! But you didn't listen! Instead you had to scare the piss out of me!"
"That's alright. Since there were no evil spirits, we'll just have to work you double hard for next season. I've already thought up next season's training schedule!" he exclaimed, taking the mask off and handing her a calendar. "Training begins next week!" he smiled.
I can only hope to Hyne that we switch back before then…"You can go on to bed now, Laguna."
"…."
"Goodnight to you too Ward," Quistis said, holding her forehead with her right hand and walking out of the room. The incense was starting to get to her head and she just wanted to sleep.
*Par-TAY!*
"I still don't think it was a fair game," Xu complained, crossing her arms across her torso.
"Aw, you're just a sore loser, Xu," Selphie laughed.
"I can't believe your still holding Selphie accountable," Nida laughed, "yeah, she caused you guys to lose the first time, but after that everything improved."
"If it wasn't for that first game, we would've gotten to the end before you!" she yelled.
Sure enough, Sefier's team lost to Squall's team by one point.
"Oh, come on, let's just play something different," Rinoa said.
"What's left to do? It's midnight already," Zell pointed out.
"Don't worry, I've pulled some strings, we can stay here all night if we want to," Seifer announced.
"Ahh, the benefits of having a boyfriend in the Disciplinary Committee," Rinoa swooned, hugging Seifer's arm, trying to make sure that Squall was paying attention. He wasn't.
"So then, what next?"
"I still have Candylan-"
"NO!"
"Fine! Meanies!" Selphie stuck her tongue out at everyone.
"Hey, there's always strip poker!" Seifer beamed.
Rinoa hit him again and screamed, "PERVERT!" this time. "I would expect that sort of a comment coming out of Irvine, but not from you!"
"Hey! Hey! Easy does it!"
"I've got a game we can play," Xu said, tapping her lip, "But lets wait until later to play it."
"Okay," everyone agreed.
From there, it seemed everyone broke off into two groups and started talking. One consisted of all the boys in one corner and the other group was all the girls in the other corner.
After Seifer said that everyone could stay the entire night without getting into trouble (as long as they acted 'responsibly'), Selphie ran to her dorm and brought back several sleeping bags, pillows and fluffy toys, then arranged a bed for herself that took up about one fourth of the entire dorm. All the girls sat around on her 'bed' and were talking.
"So, what is your idea of a perfect date?" Rinoa asked, dreamy eyed.
"Date as in where we would go? Or as in a perfect guy?" Xu asked.
"Well, let's start it off with where you would go," the brunette suggested.
"Me first! Me first!" Laguna exclaimed, jumping up and down.
"Okay, Quistis first since she seems the most enthralled at the moment."
"My perfect date would be running through dewy fields without my shoes and frolicking with the animals."
"….of course it is Quistis…" Xu said slowly, then she turned to Selphie and whispered, "How much sugar has she had tonight?"
Selphie shrugged and giggled. When they had gotten there, all Zell had to offer was hotdogs, so her and Rinoa had to go pick up real food from their dorms. Selphie managed to bring a lot of Pixie Stix…which probably wasn't the best choice on her part.
"Okay, moving right on along…my idea of a perfect date is very simple. Unfortunately, Seifer," she glared in his direction, "isn't the romantic that I am."
"What is it Rinny?" Selphie asked.
Seifer, upon hearing his name, turned to listen as well.
"It's very simple," she repeated, "Just snuggling on a couch, watching a chick flick with a fire in the background."
"Oh, Hyne…kill me now," Seifer said looking at Squall.
"Hah! She's your responsibility now!" Squall laughed.
"How about you Xu?" Rinoa asked.
"You know me, I'm the go out to dinner then dancing kind of girl."
"Boring!" Selphie pretended to gag. "My idea of a perfect date is to go to an amusement park! Ride on the roller coasters and stuff!"
"Hey, Leonhart, I'll switch ya! Rinoa for the Messenger Girl."
"Nope. Rinoa is high-maintenance, Selphie isn't."
"So I've noticed."
"Okay, perfect guy? Xu, you go first!" Selphie giggled.
"Is this what they do at their slumber parties? How incredibly boring!" Seifer rolled his eyes, yet still remained listening.
You have no idea, Squall thought, remembering the slumber party he had to host when he and Selphie switched bodies.
"Well, I have to admit, I like gay guys," Xu giggled. "They're so cute!"
All of the other girls giggled along with her, while Squall and Seifer stared confusedly. "I guess that's their equivalence to us being turned on by girls making out…" Seifer thought out loud.
Squall shrugged.
"My idea of the perfect guy," Selphie started up, "has long brown hair, he has to have a scar between his eyes…"
"Getting a little specific, aren't we Selphie?" Xu laughed.
"Oh! I think I know who you're talking about!" Laguna shouted.
"That's great Quistis, nothing ever gets past you." Normally, this comment wouldn't be as sarcastic as Rinoa said it, but lately, their "Quistis" had been acting rather strange…. (Hehe. ::Evil grin)
Squall blushed slightly, and turned away and Seifer just laughed.
"Alright! Me next!" Rinoa said.
"Hey! I wanted to go next!" Laguna whined, but Rinoa only stuck her tongue out at him and continued.
Sefier began to listen intently, knowing that she would have to describe him.
"My idea of the perfect guy has red hair and green eyes! Red hair is just so sexy!"
Seifer's jaw dropped. "What about me!!?" he asked, though not loud enough for them to hear.
"I know you're listening over there!" Rinoa laughed. "This is GIRL TALK, go back over and talk to Zell and Nida!"
"But they should really be talking with you ladies, the only real men here are…well…I'm the only real man here," Seifer said, puffing out his chest.
"Whatever," Squall shook his head and walked over to Zell. Seifer followed, though he really did want to hear the rest of their conversation.
"Quistis, you're next."
Laguna thought for a moment, then said, "My idea of the perfect person has brown hair, plays the piano, and they have to look awesome in a dress."
(All the girls by this point-- O.O)
"Um, Quisty, you wanna come with me for a second?" Selphie asked, grabbing Laguna's hand and leading her out of the room.
"Sure thing Sophie!" Laguna beamed.
"Squall, you come too !" Selphie yelled, opening the door and shoving 'Quistis' outside. Looking confused, Squall followed them out into the hallway.
"Uh, Quisty, you've been acting very strange lately, is there something you wanna tell us?" Selphie asked her.
'Quistis' smiled wryly and began rocking back and forth. Only Hyne knew how many Pixie Stix she had consumed. Using a finger, she beckoned Squall to come closer, and uncomfortably, he did. "Squall," she took two deep breaths with her hand in front of her mouth to make the breathing sound raspy. "I am your father." Then she began laughing maniacally.
"!!? What the hell?" Squall asked.
"Oh! Oh! I've seen this movie! I know this one! He's the one with the breathing problems, right!?"
"BINGO!!!" Laguna exclaimed, giving her a high five.
Darth Vader…Squall thought bitterly.
"How about this one? 'Oh, Jedi knight are you?'"
"Oh! Oh! He's the short green guy!"
Yoda…Then suddenly a wonderful thing happened. Squall put two and two together, and he came up with a theory about why Quistis was acting so weird.
"Hey, Selphie, you destroyed that machine, right?" he asked, interrupting Selphie when she was saying excitedly, 'Oh! Oh! Those light sticky thingies!'
"Um, no…I put it under one of the pilot seats…"
"And…who used the Ragnarok after we got back?"
"Quistis went to pick up Laguna for some mission….why?"
Squall hit himself in the forehead, "And my father, as we all know, is not only trigger happy, but button happy…"
"Meaning…?"
"You!" Squall said, turning to look 'Quistis' in the eye, "You didn't play with any strange machines on the Ragnarok, did you?"
"Uhm…"
"That's a yes," Squall groaned.
"No problem! We just need to get them back together on the Ragnarok and poof! They'll be back to normal!"
"Actually, you see…" Laguna spoke up, "Quistis tackled me when I found the machine, and to put it simply…BOOM!"
"Shit…" Squall mumbled. "And that nutcase who made it is probably back in the Psychiatric Center…"
"Maybe we can get Zell to fix it. Remember, he calls himself 'The Machine' because he's supposed to be good with mechanics…"
"Good point, we'll do it tomorrow," Squall nodded. Then, before the three went back into the room, he turned around and pointed a finger at Quistis, "You probably shouldn't talk for the rest of the night."
"That was so not nice!" Laguna yelled at him.
"Finally! You guys are back!" Xu yelled when the three re-entered the dorm. "We're getting ready to play my game!"
"What's it called?" Selphie asked, sitting down in the circle that was already formed.
"Closet Skeletons," Xu smiled. "Basically you have to tell your deepest darkest secrets. Something that no one or very few people know about."
"Oh, wow. Sounds fun!" Selphie laughed. "Count me in!"
"Who goes first?" Xu looked around. "Hey, how about Quistis?"
Squall's face got serious and he got up to run over to where Laguna sat.
"Well, you know how Adel's tomb was in space? It wasn't actually supposed to be there, you see I accidentally pressed this button an-" Squall hit him in the back of the head knocking him out.
"Whoa, looky there. It seems like Quistis is out for the count, guess she can't finish her o-so-interesting story."
"That was un-called-for, Leonhart," Seifer said, though he couldn't help but laugh.
"Who's going next?" Xu looked around. "No volunteers?"
"I'll go, but no one can tell Cid I said this!" Selphie said.
"Oooh, this is going to be good!" Rinoa squealed excitedly.
"Alright, when Trabia Garden was first established, unlike Balamb Garden it had a certain age you had to be in order to enroll. That age was thirteen. I was having a lot of problems with my foster parents, so I lied about my age when I was twelve and enrolled into Garden. So I'm really only sixteen."
"Wow, I didn't think you ever acted like you were seventeen," Zell said.
"Oh shut up! Like you do either Zell!" she stuck her tongue out.
"Well, does anyone remember that guy who committed suicide off the second floor ledge?" Seifer started up. "He didn't really commit suicide."
Everyone got silent. "Just kidding! Haha! You should've seen your faces! Hoo boy, that was great."
"Okay, seriously Seifer, what's your closet skeleton?" Selphie asked.
"Um…this is really awkward, so like Selphie's this doesn't leave this room."
"Right-o!" Rinoa beamed.
"Well you see I was really drunk…"
"That's not a good way to start off a story," Zell laughed.
"Shut up chickenwuss! Anyway, I was really drunk and I made out with this guy at a party because I thought he was a girl."
Squall scrunched up his nose and hit himself in the face with his hand, thinking maybe he didn't hear Seifer correctly. But he did, and this was confirmed when Nida continued by bringing up his closet skeleton.
"Yeah, I was that guy!" Nida smiled big.
"Were you drunk?" Selphie giggled.
"Or did you think Seifer was a chick too?" Zell laughed even harder.
"No, I knew it was Seifer." Everyone was silent and motionless, except Xu who began looking at Nida dreamily. Nida in turn was looking at Seifer dreamily, Seifer was banging his head against the nearest hard surface: a wall. To break the silence, Nida continued with a second skeleton. "Oh, I'm also narcoleptic."
"What!!?" Rinoa yelled. "You drive the Garden! If you were narcoleptic, you could fall asleep at any time!"
"Oh, I have that under control," Xu smiled, "I have him hooked up to a shock system."
Nida scowled and rubbed his neck.
"Okay, someone please change subjects!" Squall pleaded.
"Then why don't you go, Squall?" Xu asked.
Squall looked at the floor. "Okay. But this is going to make me sound so cruel."
"Don't worry about that, Squall, everyone already knows you're cruel," Xu laughed.
Squall glared at her then began. "Okay, back when we were in the orphanage for a while Seifer, Quistis and I were the only ones left because everyone else was adopted. Matron went to some farm store for seeds to put in her flower garden and they were selling ducklings. She bought two and brought them back for me since I was still upset about Sis leaving."
"Awww!" Selphie squealed, "Ducklings!"
"One was originally for Seifer, but after he tied some fireworks to a frog, Matron decided against giving him any pets."
Seifer beamed and leaned back against the wall.
"Well, one day I was pulling my ducklings around in my little red wagon…"
"Ooh, Squall had a little red wagon!" Rinoa giggled.
Squall rolled his eyes, he was steadily beginning to hate this game. "Well, one fell out and all of a sudden I heard and felt a KA-THUNK."
Selphie's eyes widened.
"And that's how the first duckling died," he finished.
"What about the second one? Did it get the chance to grow into a duck?" Zell asked.
"Um…no…"
"Then what happened to it?" Nida asked.
"Well, you see, this other day I was riding my Hot Wheels bike around…and KA-THUNK."
"Oh Hyne…"
"It's official, Squall kills babies," Zell laughed.
"Squall! How could you?" Nida asked, and pretended to dramatically cry.
Selphie patted Squall's arm and leaned up against him, "It's okay, they're in a better place now…you don't have to feel bad about it."
Squall thought about saying that he didn't, but he didn't want to sound more cruel than he already did.
"Who hasn't gone yet?" Nida asked.
"The chickenwuss hasn't gone yet, neither has Xu or Rinoa."
"I'm going to pass on my turn," Rinoa said.
"What? Why not? That's no fair!" Seifer said.
"Well, I suppose I could tell you…but then I'd have to kill you," she answered. No one said anything more, knowing that since she had the sorceress powers, she probably could easily smother them.
"Xu! How about you!?"
"Haha, well you see, I have the Garden emblem tattooed on my ass," she smiled wryly.
"That's so sick," Squall shook his head.
"And so cool!" Seifer yelled, his eyes getting big like a little boy's at Christmas. "Can we see!!?"
Rinoa smacked him in the back of the head. "Stop it!"
"Zell you're the last one, now tell!"
"I'm going to pass too."
"No you won't, chickenwuss. I'll make ya go!"
Zell blushed and looked at the wall. "Well, you know those dreams you have when you're naked and standing in front of the classroom and you're really embarrassed, only you can't do a damn thing about it?"
"Yeah…" Selphie said, "Though I've never personally had one of those dreams."
"Well, I was having that dream, and I woke up and I was in the Quad. When I looked down…I realized I wasn't wearing pants, or any other clothes for that matter…"
Seifer began to laugh.
"Then I heard the most horrible thing to hear in that predicament. Someone behind me said, 'Chickenwuss!? What the hell are ya doing'?"
Seifer was rolling in his own laughter by this point. "I remember this!"
"Oh Zell! That's so sad! And yet…so funny!!!" Rinoa laughed, holding her sides.
"Well, that was fun. If only Rinny didn't have to be a poop head and pass on her turn!" Selphie complained.
"Sorry," Rinoa smiled sweetly.
"What time is it now?"
"Three in the morning," Zell said, looking at his clock on the wall.
"Sorry guys, I'm not staying over," Xu said getting up. "I'm running a marathon in the morning, I need to get some sleep." She left the room, Seifer all the while watching her leave and wondering what that tattoo looked like.
"Who else is running in the marathon?" Rinoa asked.
"I do every year to stay in shape," Squall said. "But it isn't until midday so I don't know why she left so early."
"If Leonhart's competing, I'm going to compete too!" Seifer announced, keeping his rivalry with the Commander fresh.
"And I'll compete too!" Zell said, his main and only focus was to show up Seifer after he made all those mean comments.
"I'm competing too," Nida said, "I need to get into better shape."
"What about Quistis? She competes every year," Seifer mused aloud.
"Well, unfortunately she's unconscious at the moment…" Squall said sarcastically.
Only to everyone's amazement, the unconscious 'Quistis' popped up. "Who did that!?" 'she' exclaimed, looking every which way.
Seifer pointed accusingly at Squall, who did the same thing back at Seifer.
"Not nice!" Laguna pouted.
"What next?" Zell finally asked.
"I still have Candyla-"
"NO!" everyone screamed.
"I don't like any of you!" Selphie screamed back, then retreated to her makeshift bed.
*Revenge*
"Oh, Laguna I'm going to get you back for putting me through this…" Quistis muttered to herself as she dragged herself up the stairs into her bedroom. When she got there, she sat on the bed and picked up the phone and dialed the number for the cable provider that Laguna used.
"Hello, this is a recording," the voice on the other line spoke, "If you need to speak with an executive, please press one now. If you need to speak with our manager, press two now. If you need a listing of providers in your area press three now…"
Before Quistis had to hear anymore she pressed one and waited for someone to pick up the phone.
"Hello, this is Bill for Esthar Cable, how can I help you?"
"Hello, Bill, this is Laguna Loire, I was looking at my cable bill this month and I came to the conclusion that it was way too high. I'd like to take off my 6,723 channels of non stop Spongebob and replace them with the basics."
"Yes sir, could you elaborate with what you mean by the basics?"
"International news, local news, the weather channel and a channel that plays Meet the Press twenty four hours a day."
She could hear this Bill typing something into his computer. "Thank you, Mr. Loire. It was a pleasure doing business with you."
"No, no, no, thank you." Quistis smiled triumphantly and hung up the phone. Now she could sleep in peace knowing that once she got her body back, Laguna would be just as miserable in his body as she would be in hers.