Author's Note: As usual, I'll thank my reviewers first. Thanks, flare draco, and I promise this will be a Squinoa in the end. This promise goes out to the rest of my readers, too. Thank you, lostfallenangel…but where did you get that idea? Thank you, The wise. Um…Zeon is Seifer's dad. Don't know his real dad's name, never was mentioned, so he's sorta made up. Anyways, enjoy the next chapters. I'm already working on Chapter Twenty so I'll be able to update quick a couple of time.
Now, for the story. I think I finally know now why Seifer hates his father. Of course, I still need to figure out how this will come up, but it's going to start coming up in this chapter. Anyhow, enjoy your read!
Chapter Seventeen
Rinoa couldn't help but surrender completely to Squall's affectionate caresses. She felt so comfortable with him; Seifer's touch couldn't compare to Squall's. He's movements were certain while Rinoa's were hesitant. His hand gently rubbed her thigh as she slowly moved even closer to him. They stopped kissing for a moment and looked into each other's eyes.
"I wish I could be with you," she murmured.
"You have a choice," he answered.
Rinoa frowned. "I can't just leave Seifer…"
"Why do you say that? Do you love Seifer?" Squall asked.
She nodded. "Very much," she said. "I want to be with him always." Squall kissed her again and no more of Seifer was mentioned.
Half an hour later, Squall and Rinoa stepped out of the ride and waited for their friends to finish. It seemed as though Seifer, to his great annoyance, was paired up with the ever-hyper Selphie while Irvine, also to his irritation, was paired with the ever-serious Quistis. Once the ride was over, Seifer immediately took his place by Rinoa's side, eyeing Squall with suspicion.
"Well, that was fun!" Rinoa said with a laugh at the weird faces everyone was making. "It's getting a little late, though; I think we had better start heading home."
"Yes, we should," Seifer pressed as Rinoa's arm latched on his.
Rinoa looked at her friends and smiled. "Aren't you guys going to start heading back to Balamb Garden?" she asked them.
"Well, we decided on staying here for the night, and then heading by train to Balamb tomorrow," Quistis answered. "We've already made reservations at the hotel."
"What about you, Squall?" Rinoa asked.
"I'm staying here until morning," he answered.
"We'd better get going," Seifer said. "You do know it takes a couple of hours to drive from here to Deling City."
"Well, I guess I'll be seeing you guys some other time," she said. "I had fun tonight…" she added, with a small, sideward glance towards Squall.
Fortunately, Seifer had not noticed this as he led Rinoa away. "So you had fun?" he asked her when they reached the car.
"Yes, though I feel really tired now," she replied. "Why? You didn't?"
"It would've been okay if Squall hadn't been here," he muttered.
"Squall is my friend, too, Seifer," she told him. "Anyway, let's hurry home. I want to see if Raijin and Fujin actually fed him. I still don't trust them with Angelo. For all I know Raijin could have fed him ham again. That's going to irritate his skin."
Seifer smirked. "I swear, you care about that dog more than you care about me," he said as they got into the car. "Can't you be concerned about me for once?"
"I'm always concerned about you," she said. "That's why you don't notice the difference between whether I'm concerned or I'm not."
Seifer just sighed as they drove off. "I love you, Seifer," she told him.
"I love you, too, Rinoa," he replied.
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Rinoa had fallen asleep in the car an hour before they reached the house. Seifer carefully lifted her into his arms while still managing to close the door and lock the car. He went inside and brought her upstairs.
She stirred when he laid her in bed and carefully changed her clothes. "Seifer…?" she mumbled sleepily. He kissed her lightly and smiled.
"Go to sleep," he told her. Hesitating a little, he handed her the chocobo doll she likes so much and murmured, "I love you. Good night." She yawned sleepily, embracing the doll, and said good night before falling asleep again.
Seifer left the room and went downstairs to the kitchen and drank a bit of beer. He sat down just as his father entered the kitchen. "What do you want?" Seifer asked, not bothering to even look at his old man.
"To talk you," answered Zeon. "Where's Rinoa?"
"Sleeping," Seifer answered. "And you had better not go anywhere near our bedroom."
"Do you really think I'm that low, Seifer?" Zeon asked.
Seifer shrugged. "You've tried to kill her once; you could very well try again. How long are you going to fucking stay here anyway? I'd rather not have a bastard in my house, you know."
"As long as I can," answered his father. A menacing growl rose from behind him and Seifer smirked smugly.
"I guess there's something this dog and I have in common after all," said Seifer. "Come here, Angelo." The dog obeyed and sat beside Seifer.
Zeon sighed. "Why don't you and I do something together?" he asked. "It's time we put our past mistakes aside and acted like father and son."
"You mean forget your past mistakes," Seifer said. "And I'd rather not start acting like father and son. It's a shame to be known as the son of Zeon Almasy."
He got up and Angelo followed him. Zeon frowned as he took his son's seat. 'I still have to find a way to get Rinoa to hater him…' he thought.
Angelo pounced on the bed and lay down, curled up at Rinoa's feet. Seifer watched as his fiancé slept peacefully, unknowing of anything. "If you had known what my father was like before you had amnesia the last thing you'll do is be polite…" he said, kissing her cheek. "I love you so much I'll kill him if you wanted me to. I don't care if he's my father."
He fondled with her hair and said, "He's done too much…he's a lame excuse for a dad and he deserves to die…"
"No he doesn't…" he heard her reply, yawning.
"Um…" he muttered as he stripped down to his boxers, which was his sleeping attire "How much of what I said did you hear?"
She paused as she made room for him on the bed and then answered, "You said your father deserved to die. Why? Was there anything more?"
He lay beside her and said, "No."
"You can tell me anything, Seifer," she murmured lovingly as she rested her hand on his chest. "You know that, don't you?"
"I know," he answered.
"So…" she said, moving closer to him so that she could replace her hand with her head and listen to his heartbeat. "Do you want to tell me anything?"
Seifer said nothing for a while. He just wrapped his arms around her and kissed her hair. "Rinoa…" he finally uttered.
"Yes?" she asked.
"My father wants you dead," he said nonchalantly, as though it was something every man in the world wanted to do with his future daughter-in-law.
"What?" she asked as she sat up in shock. She laughed uncertainly and said, "You can't be serious, Seifer."
"I'm hell serious, Rinoa," he said. "I swear to Hyne, he wants you dead."