No One Knows Like I Do
I don't own anybody, Square does, but I do own Rose, Macy and Ashley...darn. I just gave the girl with the pigtail and the conceited SeeD names but that's it. They still belong to Square.
Chapter 11 Hyne...
Rose marched into the library intent on finding a particular person. She had known him for quite some time now and they had gone out a few times. His name was Eric McBride, a conceited SeeD who sometimes did more bad than good. He was a twisted son of a bitch and Rose just knew he was perfect for part of her plan.
She found him leaned against the counter talking to Nina, Zell's girlfriend. He had his eye on her for a while and he was determined to make her his girl. It didn't even occur to him that Zell could possibly pound his face in...or maybe he didn't care.
"Eric!" He whipped around wondering who had just ruined his game.
"Oh, Rose! Excuse me, Nina." Nina was so glad that a distraction came along to tear him away. She immediately went to help a female student who was browsing around the library.
"Eric, I must talk to you! Follow me to the study room," Rose oozed. She led him to the back where she immediately started talking business.
"Could you help me?" She purred as she traced her finger along his arm.
"That depends. What is this favor?" Eric asked flashing his pearly whites.
"Here's the thing. I know a certain girl who's seeing someone I like very much. I don't think she deserves him at all," Rose pouted. She was really turning on the charm.
"Where do I come in?"
"I need you to....distract her. I'll even pay you. She's going to get lunch soon, so I want you to do it there, okay?"
"How much do I get?"
Rose leaned over and whispered the amount so that the other students couldn't hear. Eric raised his eyebrows at the amount.
"Will you do it?"
"Definitely. I could use the money! So who's the girl?"
"Fujin."
"What?! Are you trying to get me killed?!" Several students looked at the pair curiously.
"Calm down!" Rose snapped. "With my plan, she won't even have time to even blink!" Rose tossed her hair arrogantly.
"All right. But the money alone is what's making me do this."
~*~*~
Fujin and Seifer went to the Quad for some privacy since relatively no students were in there at the time. Perched up on a short wall, hidden in the shadow of a large tree, the couple was at a loss of what to say exactly. After a few minutes, Seifer finally gathered some courage to speak his mind.
"Fujin, I was just thinking that um..." Seifer knew what he wanted to say, but was at a loss of words. 'I can't clam up now!' he thought desperately.
"I know," Fujin said quietly. "I figured you would."
"Huh?" Seifer was stunned. He wondered how she would know exactly what he would say. "How do you know?"
"I KNOW you Seifer. I understand." As far as she was concerned, she knew that Seifer wanted nothing to do with her. "You would rather have a nice normal girl...." Fujin picked up a fallen leaf and turned it idly in her fingers.
"You can't just tell me what I want Fujin! How the hell would you know?" He was pissed that she started putting herself down again. Even though he had thought of the pressure of being with a girl like Fujin, he didn't want HER to think about it.
"Because you always avoided me."
"I didn't avoid you for that reason!"
"Oh, no? Do you think I'm stupid?" Fujin glowered at Seifer, calling his bluff.
Seifer fell into an angry silence knowing full well that she was right. In the past he did avoid her knowing that she had some type of feelings for him. He was afraid of having to face someone with so much emotional baggage (mostly due to various people's comments and stares) and opted for numerous short term, meaningless relationships.
"All right, fine. You're right. But, what makes you think that now?"
Fujin jumped to her feet and shouted, "You were just leading me on Seifer! I know you want something different! Stop lying to yourself for my sake and just do what you want, okay?!" Fury ruled her other emotions and deep down Fujin knew that she shouldn't speak for Seifer, but her anger and doubts got the better of her.
"You don't know what I want Fujin! All you know is how to kick and slap people when you don't agree with what they're saying!" The moment he said that, he knew he would regret it, but Seifer was too pissed to even care.
"What?! I don't believe you said that, you asshole!" Fujin couldn't believe that she just called Seifer an asshole either.
"Believe it! I heard about you backhanding that Madison girl. Did you get jealous or something, Fujin? I know she has a thing for me and all, but damn, you didn't have to get so possessive!" Seifer sneered mockingly only mere inches away from her face.
"You're so fucking arrogant, Seifer! I don't know why the hell I bother with you!" Fujin screamed, throwing her hands in the air in frustration.
"Then don't," he answered coolly as he pushed past her and headed towards the main hall.
Fujin watched him leave while holding back the urge to run up and beat him down mercilessly. 'I don't believe him! He's so infuriating sometimes!' She could register what just happened. They were supposed to talk things out, but instead Seifer had once again shown how much of an ass he could be. Sighing angrily, she decided to get a light lunch since she had lost much of her appetite.
~*~*~
"I thought you said that she comes for lunch at this time. What makes you think I have all day, Rose?" Eric asked impatiently, huffing lightly.
"She'll be here. Just remember the plan okay? I want to make her life miserable!"
"Fine, fine."
Rose and Eric ended up waiting for ten more minutes until Fujin finally walked into the cafeteria. She took her place in line and spotted Seifer who was several feet away from her sitting at their usual table. Fujin firmly set her jaw and turned her head. She didn't even want to look at him.
Nearby, Rose spotted Fujin and shook Eric's arm furiously.
"There she is! Go ahead!" Rose practically shoved Eric in Fujin's direction. He took a place in line behind her, butting in front of a few junior classmen. He cleared his throat rather loudly and practically in Fujin's ear, which caused her to turn around and glare at him.
"Sorry about that, babe. You know how it is don't you?" He flashed his pearly whites at Fujin, who simply was not impressed.
Fujin chose to ignore Eric, but he wasn't letting it happen.
"Don't talk much do you?" Silence was her obvious answer. "Look, babe, I'm not trying to annoy you, I just want to get to know you." Fujin continued to ignore him. "Why are you so cold? Brrr. Ice Queen."
Fujin was growing tired of his talking and decided to end it. "SILENCE!"
"Whoa, babe. You don't have to get nasty.." Eric finally took the hint and stepped out of the line heading back towards Rose.
"You blew it, moron!" Rose snapped crossly.
"Look Rose, the girl is FRIGID, all right? I can't understand why my charm didn't nail her."
"Maybe because you're an idiot! I should've known better! I'll have to try something else."
"Do I still get the money?" Eric perked.
"Hmmm, let me think about it," Rose said sarcastically. "No!" She stormed back to her table while racking her brain, trying to figure out what else to do.
Eric shrugged his shoulders and decided to work his "magic" on Zell's girlfriend.
Back in the lunch line, Fujin was mildly surprised that Seifer didn't jump from his seat and try to kill Eric. She remembered her and Seifer exchange and quickly dismissed the thought. After receiving her chicken salad from the cafeteria lady, she walked over to an empty table and sat there. At a table not too far away, Rose noticed that Fujin was NOT sitting with Seifer at all. She also noticed that Raijin was not at with Seifer. Seeing her chance, she quickly shushed her friends.
"Girls, guess what I just spotted?"
"What?" Macy and Ashley asked curiously.
"Seifer is sitting all by his lonesome! I never thought it would happen in a million years!" Rose clasped her hands together in excitement.
"Great Hyne! You have to go to him!" Ashley squealed excitedly.
"Yeah, go for it!" Macy supplied.
"Does my hair look okay? There's nothing in my teeth right? No food on my chin?"
"Nope! Just go, before it's too late!" Ashley practically shrieked.
Rose stood, holding her tray of food and confidently walked towards Seifer's table. Noticing that he was looking a little down, she decided to play that to her advantage.
"Hi Seifer," she greeted smoothly while carefully putting her tray down.
"Can I help you?" he sighed impatiently, putting his hamburger down.
"Well no, but I can't help but notice that you're looking a little down in the dumps. Care to share?" Rose chewed daintily on a french fry while waiting for his answer.
"Not really." Seifer finally took a better look at Rose and asked, "Hey, aren't you the girl that lives with Fujin?" His emerald eyes seemed to be almost piercing.
Rose winced slightly. "Yeah, why?"
"Because I heard you were giving her problems."
This was not going the way Rose planned. "Maybe so, but I didn't really mean to. I mean, she's no angel either. All she ever does is yell at me."
"And I wonder why that is?" Seifer remarked sarcastically.
"Don't get me wrong. Maybe we're not the best of friends, but she really has no reason to treat me the way she does," Rose lied. She was hoping that Fujin didn't tell Seifer some of the things she had done to Fujin.
Seifer laughed loudly, causing some people to look in their direction. "You really expect me to believe that?"
"Uh, well..."
"I know your type girlie, so you might as well cut the bullshit." Seifer began to eat his burger again while Rose tried to think of something charming to say.
"Look," Rose started, "maybe I have done some things that I should have. I'm only human, right? But, Fujin didn't have to strike me."
"That depends," Seifer sneered.
Rose sighed inwardly seeing that she wasn't getting her way with Seifer. "Enough about me though. Are you sure you don't want to tell me what's wrong? It helps to talk to somebody."
"It's none of your business all right?" Seifer snapped edgily. "Don't you have something else better to do, like primp in a mirror?"
"I'm not trying to annoy you, I just want to help." Too bad Rose wasn't as sincere as she appeared to be. She only wanted to help him so she could get into his "inner circle".
"You already annoyed me. We're finished now, so you can leave."
"All right, then," Rose sighed. She picked up her tray and her remained dignity and marched back to her table. Macy and Ashley waited anxiously for the news figuring that it was good.
"So, how did it go?" Macy asked raising her eyebrows.
"Not bad, but not good. I'll have to try harder." Rose looked at Seifer's direction and found every movement he made sexy. She envied the hamburger he was eating, wishing that she could be that close to his lips.
Relieved that Rose was gone, Seifer found himself glancing in Fujin's direction. He turned his head when they made eye contact and resumed his eating. He knew that Fujin saw Rose at his table; she was watching the whole time, but she appeared expressionless. Fujin's ability to do that left Seifer wishing he could hide his emotions better, but for him, everything showed on the surface.
Seifer wasn't used to be on the outs with Fujin; no matter what he did, she was still by his side.
'Guess I pushed it too far,' Seifer thought regretfully.
He was so used to being able to call the shots, even if they were unreasonable and having Fujin going along with whatever he wished. To have her finally stand up to him and call his bluffs was truly mind boggling to him. Never before had she told him how she really felt about his mindless actions. Never before had she called him an asshole. Never before had she gotten so angry with him. They would have little disagreements here and there, but she had never stayed so infuriated.
'She'll get over it,' he thought hopefully. Deep down, he knew it wouldn't be so easy.
So, how was it? I know it's a little short, but I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Wasn't Rose just darling? Trying to be so helpful, blah, blah, blah...whatever. Well all know that's a lie. Thanks for reading! Stay tuned for more!
I don't own anybody, Square does, but I do own Rose, Macy and Ashley...darn. I just gave the girl with the pigtail and the conceited SeeD names but that's it. They still belong to Square.
Chapter 11 Hyne...
Rose marched into the library intent on finding a particular person. She had known him for quite some time now and they had gone out a few times. His name was Eric McBride, a conceited SeeD who sometimes did more bad than good. He was a twisted son of a bitch and Rose just knew he was perfect for part of her plan.
She found him leaned against the counter talking to Nina, Zell's girlfriend. He had his eye on her for a while and he was determined to make her his girl. It didn't even occur to him that Zell could possibly pound his face in...or maybe he didn't care.
"Eric!" He whipped around wondering who had just ruined his game.
"Oh, Rose! Excuse me, Nina." Nina was so glad that a distraction came along to tear him away. She immediately went to help a female student who was browsing around the library.
"Eric, I must talk to you! Follow me to the study room," Rose oozed. She led him to the back where she immediately started talking business.
"Could you help me?" She purred as she traced her finger along his arm.
"That depends. What is this favor?" Eric asked flashing his pearly whites.
"Here's the thing. I know a certain girl who's seeing someone I like very much. I don't think she deserves him at all," Rose pouted. She was really turning on the charm.
"Where do I come in?"
"I need you to....distract her. I'll even pay you. She's going to get lunch soon, so I want you to do it there, okay?"
"How much do I get?"
Rose leaned over and whispered the amount so that the other students couldn't hear. Eric raised his eyebrows at the amount.
"Will you do it?"
"Definitely. I could use the money! So who's the girl?"
"Fujin."
"What?! Are you trying to get me killed?!" Several students looked at the pair curiously.
"Calm down!" Rose snapped. "With my plan, she won't even have time to even blink!" Rose tossed her hair arrogantly.
"All right. But the money alone is what's making me do this."
~*~*~
Fujin and Seifer went to the Quad for some privacy since relatively no students were in there at the time. Perched up on a short wall, hidden in the shadow of a large tree, the couple was at a loss of what to say exactly. After a few minutes, Seifer finally gathered some courage to speak his mind.
"Fujin, I was just thinking that um..." Seifer knew what he wanted to say, but was at a loss of words. 'I can't clam up now!' he thought desperately.
"I know," Fujin said quietly. "I figured you would."
"Huh?" Seifer was stunned. He wondered how she would know exactly what he would say. "How do you know?"
"I KNOW you Seifer. I understand." As far as she was concerned, she knew that Seifer wanted nothing to do with her. "You would rather have a nice normal girl...." Fujin picked up a fallen leaf and turned it idly in her fingers.
"You can't just tell me what I want Fujin! How the hell would you know?" He was pissed that she started putting herself down again. Even though he had thought of the pressure of being with a girl like Fujin, he didn't want HER to think about it.
"Because you always avoided me."
"I didn't avoid you for that reason!"
"Oh, no? Do you think I'm stupid?" Fujin glowered at Seifer, calling his bluff.
Seifer fell into an angry silence knowing full well that she was right. In the past he did avoid her knowing that she had some type of feelings for him. He was afraid of having to face someone with so much emotional baggage (mostly due to various people's comments and stares) and opted for numerous short term, meaningless relationships.
"All right, fine. You're right. But, what makes you think that now?"
Fujin jumped to her feet and shouted, "You were just leading me on Seifer! I know you want something different! Stop lying to yourself for my sake and just do what you want, okay?!" Fury ruled her other emotions and deep down Fujin knew that she shouldn't speak for Seifer, but her anger and doubts got the better of her.
"You don't know what I want Fujin! All you know is how to kick and slap people when you don't agree with what they're saying!" The moment he said that, he knew he would regret it, but Seifer was too pissed to even care.
"What?! I don't believe you said that, you asshole!" Fujin couldn't believe that she just called Seifer an asshole either.
"Believe it! I heard about you backhanding that Madison girl. Did you get jealous or something, Fujin? I know she has a thing for me and all, but damn, you didn't have to get so possessive!" Seifer sneered mockingly only mere inches away from her face.
"You're so fucking arrogant, Seifer! I don't know why the hell I bother with you!" Fujin screamed, throwing her hands in the air in frustration.
"Then don't," he answered coolly as he pushed past her and headed towards the main hall.
Fujin watched him leave while holding back the urge to run up and beat him down mercilessly. 'I don't believe him! He's so infuriating sometimes!' She could register what just happened. They were supposed to talk things out, but instead Seifer had once again shown how much of an ass he could be. Sighing angrily, she decided to get a light lunch since she had lost much of her appetite.
~*~*~
"I thought you said that she comes for lunch at this time. What makes you think I have all day, Rose?" Eric asked impatiently, huffing lightly.
"She'll be here. Just remember the plan okay? I want to make her life miserable!"
"Fine, fine."
Rose and Eric ended up waiting for ten more minutes until Fujin finally walked into the cafeteria. She took her place in line and spotted Seifer who was several feet away from her sitting at their usual table. Fujin firmly set her jaw and turned her head. She didn't even want to look at him.
Nearby, Rose spotted Fujin and shook Eric's arm furiously.
"There she is! Go ahead!" Rose practically shoved Eric in Fujin's direction. He took a place in line behind her, butting in front of a few junior classmen. He cleared his throat rather loudly and practically in Fujin's ear, which caused her to turn around and glare at him.
"Sorry about that, babe. You know how it is don't you?" He flashed his pearly whites at Fujin, who simply was not impressed.
Fujin chose to ignore Eric, but he wasn't letting it happen.
"Don't talk much do you?" Silence was her obvious answer. "Look, babe, I'm not trying to annoy you, I just want to get to know you." Fujin continued to ignore him. "Why are you so cold? Brrr. Ice Queen."
Fujin was growing tired of his talking and decided to end it. "SILENCE!"
"Whoa, babe. You don't have to get nasty.." Eric finally took the hint and stepped out of the line heading back towards Rose.
"You blew it, moron!" Rose snapped crossly.
"Look Rose, the girl is FRIGID, all right? I can't understand why my charm didn't nail her."
"Maybe because you're an idiot! I should've known better! I'll have to try something else."
"Do I still get the money?" Eric perked.
"Hmmm, let me think about it," Rose said sarcastically. "No!" She stormed back to her table while racking her brain, trying to figure out what else to do.
Eric shrugged his shoulders and decided to work his "magic" on Zell's girlfriend.
Back in the lunch line, Fujin was mildly surprised that Seifer didn't jump from his seat and try to kill Eric. She remembered her and Seifer exchange and quickly dismissed the thought. After receiving her chicken salad from the cafeteria lady, she walked over to an empty table and sat there. At a table not too far away, Rose noticed that Fujin was NOT sitting with Seifer at all. She also noticed that Raijin was not at with Seifer. Seeing her chance, she quickly shushed her friends.
"Girls, guess what I just spotted?"
"What?" Macy and Ashley asked curiously.
"Seifer is sitting all by his lonesome! I never thought it would happen in a million years!" Rose clasped her hands together in excitement.
"Great Hyne! You have to go to him!" Ashley squealed excitedly.
"Yeah, go for it!" Macy supplied.
"Does my hair look okay? There's nothing in my teeth right? No food on my chin?"
"Nope! Just go, before it's too late!" Ashley practically shrieked.
Rose stood, holding her tray of food and confidently walked towards Seifer's table. Noticing that he was looking a little down, she decided to play that to her advantage.
"Hi Seifer," she greeted smoothly while carefully putting her tray down.
"Can I help you?" he sighed impatiently, putting his hamburger down.
"Well no, but I can't help but notice that you're looking a little down in the dumps. Care to share?" Rose chewed daintily on a french fry while waiting for his answer.
"Not really." Seifer finally took a better look at Rose and asked, "Hey, aren't you the girl that lives with Fujin?" His emerald eyes seemed to be almost piercing.
Rose winced slightly. "Yeah, why?"
"Because I heard you were giving her problems."
This was not going the way Rose planned. "Maybe so, but I didn't really mean to. I mean, she's no angel either. All she ever does is yell at me."
"And I wonder why that is?" Seifer remarked sarcastically.
"Don't get me wrong. Maybe we're not the best of friends, but she really has no reason to treat me the way she does," Rose lied. She was hoping that Fujin didn't tell Seifer some of the things she had done to Fujin.
Seifer laughed loudly, causing some people to look in their direction. "You really expect me to believe that?"
"Uh, well..."
"I know your type girlie, so you might as well cut the bullshit." Seifer began to eat his burger again while Rose tried to think of something charming to say.
"Look," Rose started, "maybe I have done some things that I should have. I'm only human, right? But, Fujin didn't have to strike me."
"That depends," Seifer sneered.
Rose sighed inwardly seeing that she wasn't getting her way with Seifer. "Enough about me though. Are you sure you don't want to tell me what's wrong? It helps to talk to somebody."
"It's none of your business all right?" Seifer snapped edgily. "Don't you have something else better to do, like primp in a mirror?"
"I'm not trying to annoy you, I just want to help." Too bad Rose wasn't as sincere as she appeared to be. She only wanted to help him so she could get into his "inner circle".
"You already annoyed me. We're finished now, so you can leave."
"All right, then," Rose sighed. She picked up her tray and her remained dignity and marched back to her table. Macy and Ashley waited anxiously for the news figuring that it was good.
"So, how did it go?" Macy asked raising her eyebrows.
"Not bad, but not good. I'll have to try harder." Rose looked at Seifer's direction and found every movement he made sexy. She envied the hamburger he was eating, wishing that she could be that close to his lips.
Relieved that Rose was gone, Seifer found himself glancing in Fujin's direction. He turned his head when they made eye contact and resumed his eating. He knew that Fujin saw Rose at his table; she was watching the whole time, but she appeared expressionless. Fujin's ability to do that left Seifer wishing he could hide his emotions better, but for him, everything showed on the surface.
Seifer wasn't used to be on the outs with Fujin; no matter what he did, she was still by his side.
'Guess I pushed it too far,' Seifer thought regretfully.
He was so used to being able to call the shots, even if they were unreasonable and having Fujin going along with whatever he wished. To have her finally stand up to him and call his bluffs was truly mind boggling to him. Never before had she told him how she really felt about his mindless actions. Never before had she called him an asshole. Never before had she gotten so angry with him. They would have little disagreements here and there, but she had never stayed so infuriated.
'She'll get over it,' he thought hopefully. Deep down, he knew it wouldn't be so easy.
So, how was it? I know it's a little short, but I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Wasn't Rose just darling? Trying to be so helpful, blah, blah, blah...whatever. Well all know that's a lie. Thanks for reading! Stay tuned for more!