Chapter 2

The pizza parlor was full of all kinds of people as we stepped through. I took Irvine home and made him clean up no matter how depressed he was, I mean I couldn't sit there and eat with a dirty person it wasn't possible. We sat at our usual table, right by the window, this was Zell's hometown, right where the old garden used to be. Zell bought a pizza parlor in his town, the one we were at as a matter of fact. Nothing could have been better.
"He guys so what can I get you." The spiked blonde hair boy asked us.

"You guys are pretty busy tonight Zell, what's the cause?" I asked watching as all his table boys were squeezing through to get to clean tables.
"There's supposed to be some big concert by the dock, a small town band." He said. "I'll be right back with your usual."
Now you may have noticed but he hadn't taken our order in the first place. He always made an excuse to come over and talk with us. God it was good to actually get out of my house, to stop moping around. I stretched and smiled at Irvine who I caught suddenly staring at me. "Isn't this great?" I asked.
"Yeah, yeah it's great." He said the smile fading. "I just wish," he stopped.
"Don't you even say it." I interrupted him. "Don't you dare ruin a perfectly good evening with talk of those two. I'm sure that since we are two mature adults we can find something else to talk about."
He smiled at me, the smile that made my heart flutter, now that I was actually single and alone with Irvine I noticed the dimples he had when he smiled. The slight his eyebrows were shaped and the deep green eyes that gave him that angelic look. He removed his hat setting it on the table and spoke.
"Your right!" he said. "How about we talk about," he looked around for a suggestion but there was none. We just started laughing so hard and loud that the table next to us had to get up and leave. Man it sure was good to just laugh for no reason.
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Irvine watched as Rinoa ate her pizza slice, the girl was already on her second and he on his fourth. He had never just sat and ate with someone, especially one of the friends he treasured the most. Rinoa meant a lot to him, her friendship and kind heart. She had helped him through his little 'ordeal', by taking him home to shower and then feeding him with pizza. He knew all along that she was as depressed and lonely as he was, but there was nothing he could do about it, at least nothing he could do about it in a public place like Zell's pizza place.
He had thought about Rinoa sexually yes, I mean even when she was dating Squall, who wouldn't. Rinoa was drop dead gorgeous, long raven colored hair, dark brown eyes and a smile that brightened everyone's day. The only problem was that had kept him from full-filling his sexual desire towards Rinoa was for one Squall. At the time they were dating, such as he and Selphie were dating. But now when they were both single, and he felt like he did what was stopping him? Was it his loyalty that he still had toward Squall? He watched her take another bite from her pizza the cheese falling from her mouth as she pulled the slice away. He reached out before he could pull back. Putting the rest of the cheese on his finger and held it toward the soft pink of her lips. She looked at him, confused at first, but as she kept her eyes on his she closed her mouth around his finger. Using her tongue to take the cheese from his finger. Irvine had to hold back a groan, reading the intent in her eyes he quickly laid down Zell's tip and both of the got up from the table and left the restaurant in a hurry.