Tears of Pearl.

And we stare each other down, Like victims in the grind. Probing all the weakness, And hurt still left behind. And we cry, these tears of pearl.

Savage Garden, Tears of Pearl.

Selphie lay on her bed, face buried in her pillow as her eyes stung with tears, her cheeks warm and wet from weeping.

How could Irvine have done that to her? She loved him with all her heart and now it was shattered into pieces. Only one other person gave her that light fluttery feeling in her stomach and that was Sir Laguna. But he was just a crush and Squall's father it would be weird if she contemplated anything more with him, or would it?

She pushed that thought from her head but that left her with the pain and anguish that she so wanted to block. She rolled over onto her back, her final tears trickling down her cheeks as she gazed up at the plain white ceiling. She knew at times like this some students would drink themselves into oblivion but she wasn't that self-destructive and disliked the taste of alcohol anyway.

Some of her usual personality reasserted itself and she started thinking more optimistically. In the end she made her way over to the computer terminal in her room and logged in. She gazed lovingly over her Sir Laguna and read his thoughts on the places she too had had the privilege to visit.

She sighted softly and logged into the Garden net chat rooms, signing in as Dark Carbuncle, a name no-one would ever think of as her. She wanted an anonymous chat with anyone online to get out all the pain inside. She then logged into a room she had never visited before called Fade to Black which seemed to call to her.