Nail in my hand from my creator.
Show me how to live 2.
Disclaimer: I don't own final fantasy 8.
Ok, this chapter is a bit dumb but it has to be put in cause its for the
long run and yadda yadda yadda...
Squall and his friends stood at their usual locker place. Squall was impatiently waiting for her to walk past again.But today wouldn't be a conversation about how much of a freaky bitch she was, it would hopefully be a conversation with her.
"Here she comes." Zell commented. They all stood at attention. Then as she went past Selphie said. "Hey Rinny, come and talk to us."
Rinoa stopped in her tracks. She tilted her head to the side, so it was still mainly facing the floor, but she could see them. "Alright." She went up to them, but didn't talk much, she mainly listened. Finally Quistis said. "God Rinoa, you have so much potential, come with me. Me and Selphie are ganna make you beautiful."
Rinoa gasped at her using the lord's name in vain, but didn't mention it. "Oh I couldn't, I have to go to class."
Selphie and Quistis grinned at each other. They mutually decided at that moment that right now would be an ideal time to go to the mall.
"So who cares? Come on we're going to the mall, our treat." Selphie pleaded.
"Go on, you can teach us some more about that dude God." Zell exclaimed.
Rinoa smiled to herself. She couldn't help but laugh at Zell's ignorance. She thought about it, Rinoa knew that she would get in a lot of trouble if she did, but for some reason she didn't particularly care.
"Ok, but if I don't like it you have to promise to take me back to school." Rinoa agreed.
They all pilled into their cars. Squall was driving his super clean 1970 Monte Carlo. It has a ZZ4 corvette 350 c.i. 355hp motor for that added pick me up. The paint job is black with red & blue pearl. The interior has been redone in black and grey tweed. Installed is a digital dash, with an Alpine stereo, two 4/6 speakers, two 6/9 mids and 2/15 woofers power by 1000 watts of power. He's sitting on a set roadsters and his next step is to install a hydro set-up. Looking good! Irvine was driving his sweet '00 Silverado Step side! It's lowered 2 & 4 with the NEW Stile Belltech drop spindles. He was rolling on Billet Specialties- GT52 Wheels with - BF Goodrich 245/50/17 on the front & 305/45/17 on the rear. K&N Generation II cold air intake, Flowmaster Exhaust HyperTech Power Tuned engine mods to give them that extra edge. Future plans include: Whipple Supercharger along with JBA Headers! Nice, nice, and nice! Quistis drove a VW beetle her VW has an 1835cc motor with ported & polished heads counter weighted crankshaft, 40mm Weber and a 2.5 inch exhaust. It's been lowered with KYB gas strut inserts in the front and KYB gas shocks in the rear. It has Porsche 928s front bucket seats , opening rear windows Porsche headlights , 16in wheels , fibre glass guards , whale tail (off a 930 Porsche) , and custom stainless steel running boards. That's one cool Beetle. Zell got in his '70 Chevelle Malibu. He bought the car 2 years ago with steelies and hubcaps, and faded beyond repair Astro Blue paint. It currently has 15x8 Cragar S/S wheels with new tires, and it has been repainted Ford (yes, Ford paint on a Chevy) Moonlight Blue. It has a Blaupunkt CD player, and Pioneer speakers. Under the hood is a matching numbers 307, with a 2 barrell, mated to a Powerglide tranny, breathing through stock single exhaust. Zell says it will all change soon, he plans to add a crate 350, 4 barrell, 700R4 tranny, a 3.73 rearend, and dual exhaust with Flowmasters. Seifer drove a 1973 Mustang with a 351 V8. He has it rated around 200 hp. That had taken him about 5 years to completely restore to its current condition. And finally Selphie had a '58 Chevy Belair. She has a 283 punched 60 over -400 lift and duration cam. She's also added high performance lifters, double roller timing chain, and Edelbrock 4 barrel intake with a 600-cfm carb. Selphie got the car for free and saved it from the cutting torch! She cleaned it up, repainted it, removed the door handles, installed a new interior, and is having a blast with it!
Rinoa stood awkwardly in front of the cars wondering what she should do. Till Selphie opened the passenger door of her car and smiled at her. She smiled back and jumped in. They drove with Selphie chattering the whole way, and Rinoa staying fairly silent. When they got there they all parked and entered the mall. Quistis and Selphie quickly grabbed Rinoa and headed for the nearest clothing shop. Irvine followed dutifully; Zell sort of slumped after them, not really wanting to go, while Seifer and Squall stood looking relatively out of place. Until finally, they caved in and followed the herd inside.
Quistis grabbed a denim mini skirt for Rinoa to try on with a simple white sleeveless top. Rinoa looked at her outstretched hands and gave her a confused look.
"Go to the changing rooms and try them on." Quistis explained.
"WAIT! Try these as well." Selphie squealed.
Rinoa got handed a pair of white knee-high boots and sighed. She headed towards the changing room and tried it on.
"I look like a hooker!" Rinoa complained.
"Just come out and show us!" Quistis yelled back.
"Hold on, take your hair out of that braid first, you look like a nun!" Selphie giggled.
They heard her grumble something, but she took it out.
"Right boys, get ready." Selphie laughed.
Rinoa stepped out of the changing room. Squall's mouth dropped, Seifer wolf whistled. Zell closed Squall's mouth and Irvine smirked. While Selphie smiled approvingly and Quistis nodded.
"How do I look?" Rinoa asked sheepishly.
Quistis let herself grin at her excellent choice of clothes for her, but stopped herself from saying anything that might offend Rinoa.
"I think it would go better with this." Quistis replied.
She handed Rinoa a one shoulder white t-shirt and shoved her towards the changing room. She came out again.
"I think the shoes are a bit much." Zell commented from the background.
All the guys looked at him like he was gay.
"What? I was just saying."
"No Zell's right, go get her some white tennis shoes, they'd be better." Selphie agreed.
She came out again.
"PERFECT!" Selphie screamed attracting the entire stores attention. Rinoa blushed shyly.
"Now we need to give you a makeover." Quistis concluded.
So Selphie paid for Rinoa's outfit and they ventured off towards the next store. Rinoa sat in the chair as the artist started his work. She turned around to reveal herself. She had light lip-gloss on; some natural looking foundation, eyeliner, mascara and some natural looking eye shadow, with a pinch of stuff to make her cheeks look rosy red.
"PERFECT!" Quistis screamed, mimicking Selphie's outburst in the store. Selphie didn't catch on that Quistis was making fun of her so she squealed in agreement.
Rinoa got out of her chair and did a little walk.
"What do the guys think?" Selphie turned around and asked the by standing guys.
What came out was a jumble of agreements, compliments and whistles. Rinoa started blushing and looking at the ground again.
They all got out of the store.
"Whats the time?" Seifer asked.
"Bout ten I spose." Irvine replied.
They all stood there and pondered what they should do, till finally Squall said. "Well should we go to the theme park?"
Rinoa looked confused and said. "But even I know that that hasn't opened yet."
Squall flashed her a grin and replied. "Yeah but my dad owns it."
So that was that. They went to the park. The day was filled with their terrified screams from the roller coaster, there delighted squeals (mostly Selphie) from the impossible games and basically just having a good time. Finally 3:30 came and they thought it would be best if they departed. Well Squall did, but he didn't know where to start looking. He found Irvine and Selphie making out in the chamber of horrors. He had mentally prepared himself to find something he didn't want to in there so he was fine with that.
He found Seifer and Quistis playing the rifle game. Seifer in one of his unnaturally sweet moments. He had his arms around Quistis and his hands on top of hers helping her with it.
Zell was going for the record on the roller coaster, so he had to wait for him to get out of it before he could tell him that it was time to go. But he couldn't find Rinoa. Near the end he figured that she must've gone, but got an inkling that he should look in the house of mirrors first.
He entered the creepy place, all the mirrors contorted to make your body seem like a mangled wreck. He walked through the place, barely recognising what was fact and what was fiction. He saw the glint of Rinoa in one of the mirrors and turned around to see her walk past in another.
"Rinoa?" Squall called out, this place was freaking him out.
He saw her head up the stairs. So he followed. When he got up there he saw her heading up the stairs there as well. The house of mirrors towered over the entire park, he wasn't sure how many stories there were, but he knew there were a fair few. When he got there, he looked to the stairs, she wasn't going up them. Instead he saw her mangled face and body on all the mirrors around him. Then he saw it, she was out on the balcony looking out over the city.
"There you are." Squall sighed.
He walked over to her and leaned on the balcony. She was standing with her arms crossed.
"So whats your fiancé like?" Squall asked.
He knew that he should go, but he wanted to spend a little time with her first. Rinoa sighed, she's had this question asked to her more times today then she could count. She knew that they were trying to be nice but this was getting out of hand. She thought that for once today she would be perfectly honest, so she let it slip.
"He's a woman hating asshole."
Squall nodded. She wondered why he didn't strike her for saying such vile things about her husband to be.
"Aren't you going to do something?" Rinoa asked.
Squall gave her a perplexed look and replied. "Like what? It's your opinion?"
"My opinion? But men shouldn't tolerate such things from women." Rinoa exclaimed.
Squall started laughing and said. "If that's true then I think that you're the woman hating person."
Rinoa smiled, she understood that he was only joking but didn't understand how they could be so free with each other. She had seen it all day. From Quistis and Selphie's girlish giggles to Irvine and Zell play fighting.
"Did you know that if my father had seen how you were touching me yesterday he would've demanded that you marry me." Rinoa giggled.
Then it hit her, how did he know that he was touching her, it wasn't like there was anyone else in the room.
Squall started laughing at this. Marriage at his age seemed so far away and even talking about it just seemed like one big joke.
"We gotta go, its 3:30." Squall finally said.
Rinoa looked disappointed but then her face brightened.
"Cant we stay here for awhile longer?"
Squall gave her an odd look and replied. "But won't your parents kill you?"
Rinoa gave him a small smile and winked. "I'll tell them that I was converting a non believer." Rinoa giggled.
"Alright," Squall said with a grin.
Two hours and twenty five minutes later. Squall and Rinoa lay on the ground of the house of mirrors. Rinoa was laughing her ass off while Squall told her a story. Rinoa wiped a tear from her eye as it threatened to roll out from laughing too much. She hadn't laughed this much ever. So she was blissfully unaware of the amount of time that had passed.
She looked up at the ceiling of the place and noticed that it too had mirrors on it. It was weird to be in a place like this to her, because her own house didn't have any mirrors. Mirrors were just a way for you to break another rule. Her least favourite of all the rules and regulations that restricted her from normality, vanity was her favourite sin. Still looking at the mirror she looked at Squall, who was staring at her, except not looking at the mirror. (She's looking at his reflection. He's just straight up staring at her)
"What?" Rinoa asked.
Squall didn't answer. He propped himself up on his elbows and leaned over her. Planting a delicate, yet strangely adoring kiss on her lips. Unaware of doing so she returned it. Wrapping her arms around his neck she prolonged it. After what seemed like only a couple of seconds he pulled away and looked her in the eyes.
"Now what would your father say?" Squall asked with mischief in his voice. Rinoa started giggling and replied.
"He'd ask why we aren't on our honeymoon."
Squall gave her a serious look and then said. "You're an amazingly cool chick Rinoa; I don't think I know a chick as cool as you. Why don't you run away from your religion thing?"
Rinoa widened her eyes in shock, not only was today the most fucked up of her life, but it was turning out to be the most interesting.
"You're asking me to run away from everything that I've ever known! I can't do that because you have a simple crush on me. I'm engaged to be married. You can't do this!" Rinoa protested.
"BUT YOU DON'T EVEN LIKE THE GUY!" Squall yelled.
"He will provide me financial security and safety, like has nothing to do with it." Rinoa said in a robot voice that sounded distant from her own.
"Regardless of what you say Rinoa, something drew me to you yesterday. I could've easily just sat there for the couple of minutes. But something said that I should go and talk to you. Now this can either be the biggest mistake of my life or the greatest thing I ever did. It's up to you." Squall continued.
Rinoa looked at him in disgust. He was putting her in a situation all because he had a crush on her. This wasn't fair.
"You're the most selfish person I have ever met. I'm going home now." Rinoa said as she got up to leave.
Squall grabbed her hand on the way up and prevented her from going any further. "It's a long walk; let me give you a ride at least." Squall said getting up with her.
"Thanks but I don't need your pity." Rinoa replied.
She grabbed a hair tie from her pocket and tied her hair up in its usual long braid.
"Turn around." Rinoa demanded.
Squall did as he was bided to do.
"And shut your eyes." Rinoa said noticing that they were in a room full of mirrors.
Squall couldn't help but grin, she had caught on what he was going to do. He could hear her getting changed and nearly gave into the urge of opening his eyes, but stayed true to her wishes.
"Let me give you a ride. This neighbourhood isn't very welcoming to young girls not wise to that ways of the world." Squall continued.
"You can open your eyes." Rinoa replied.
"Please?" Squall asked again as he turned around.
"Oh fine, but you'll have to drop me off down the street from my house. My father would kill me." Rinoa caved.
Squall did as he was asked. He dropped her off about 100 metres from her house at her request.
Rinoa walked up the lonely street. She could see the sun setting in the distant horizon and the fact of how late it actually was dawned on her. She quickened her pace but knew that that wasn't going to change the fact that she was in trouble. She finally got to her plain house and let out a breath she didn't realise she was holding.
The door opened easily and once again she saw her father sitting at the table, but John wasn't there today.
Rinoa's father stood, walked up to her and struck her across the face.
"You filthy little whore! How dare you be out till all hours of the night frolicking with some boy!" Her father yelled. Rinoa stood her ground though. She was perplexed on how he knew about Squall, and how he could call this all hours of the night. It wasn't even dark yet!
"But father I was only converting a non believer. I don't see the problem!" Rinoa said in defiance.
"And you lie to my face so easily! You're a plague upon this family! I know what you did today, I know you were not at school for the whole day; instead you were in the company of boys! Just like the little whore you are." He hissed at her.
The words cut into Rinoa like a scolding hot knife. She felt terrible for betraying her father, but felt confused about how he knew the details of everything.
"Father, how do you know of this?" Rinoa asked sheepishly.
"Never doubt the power of God. And wipe that make-up off you look like a hooker!"
"But God does not talk to us. We pray that he would but he doesn't. All we get out of him is the right way to turn. So how can you know this?" Rinoa yelled.
Rinoa looked towards the hallway and saw her brothers and sisters huddled up, watching what was going on. She felt sorry for them. Most of them were under ten and the ones above were just pleading with their eyes for her to shut up. But Rinoa couldn't. She just couldn't shut her mouth.
"Are you questioning me?" Her father said in a dangerously low voice.
Rinoa was about to back down at that moment, but she wanted to know. She had to know. But she didn't know how seriously her father was taking this conversation.
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Show me how to live 2.
Disclaimer: I don't own final fantasy 8.
Ok, this chapter is a bit dumb but it has to be put in cause its for the
long run and yadda yadda yadda...
Squall and his friends stood at their usual locker place. Squall was impatiently waiting for her to walk past again.But today wouldn't be a conversation about how much of a freaky bitch she was, it would hopefully be a conversation with her.
"Here she comes." Zell commented. They all stood at attention. Then as she went past Selphie said. "Hey Rinny, come and talk to us."
Rinoa stopped in her tracks. She tilted her head to the side, so it was still mainly facing the floor, but she could see them. "Alright." She went up to them, but didn't talk much, she mainly listened. Finally Quistis said. "God Rinoa, you have so much potential, come with me. Me and Selphie are ganna make you beautiful."
Rinoa gasped at her using the lord's name in vain, but didn't mention it. "Oh I couldn't, I have to go to class."
Selphie and Quistis grinned at each other. They mutually decided at that moment that right now would be an ideal time to go to the mall.
"So who cares? Come on we're going to the mall, our treat." Selphie pleaded.
"Go on, you can teach us some more about that dude God." Zell exclaimed.
Rinoa smiled to herself. She couldn't help but laugh at Zell's ignorance. She thought about it, Rinoa knew that she would get in a lot of trouble if she did, but for some reason she didn't particularly care.
"Ok, but if I don't like it you have to promise to take me back to school." Rinoa agreed.
They all pilled into their cars. Squall was driving his super clean 1970 Monte Carlo. It has a ZZ4 corvette 350 c.i. 355hp motor for that added pick me up. The paint job is black with red & blue pearl. The interior has been redone in black and grey tweed. Installed is a digital dash, with an Alpine stereo, two 4/6 speakers, two 6/9 mids and 2/15 woofers power by 1000 watts of power. He's sitting on a set roadsters and his next step is to install a hydro set-up. Looking good! Irvine was driving his sweet '00 Silverado Step side! It's lowered 2 & 4 with the NEW Stile Belltech drop spindles. He was rolling on Billet Specialties- GT52 Wheels with - BF Goodrich 245/50/17 on the front & 305/45/17 on the rear. K&N Generation II cold air intake, Flowmaster Exhaust HyperTech Power Tuned engine mods to give them that extra edge. Future plans include: Whipple Supercharger along with JBA Headers! Nice, nice, and nice! Quistis drove a VW beetle her VW has an 1835cc motor with ported & polished heads counter weighted crankshaft, 40mm Weber and a 2.5 inch exhaust. It's been lowered with KYB gas strut inserts in the front and KYB gas shocks in the rear. It has Porsche 928s front bucket seats , opening rear windows Porsche headlights , 16in wheels , fibre glass guards , whale tail (off a 930 Porsche) , and custom stainless steel running boards. That's one cool Beetle. Zell got in his '70 Chevelle Malibu. He bought the car 2 years ago with steelies and hubcaps, and faded beyond repair Astro Blue paint. It currently has 15x8 Cragar S/S wheels with new tires, and it has been repainted Ford (yes, Ford paint on a Chevy) Moonlight Blue. It has a Blaupunkt CD player, and Pioneer speakers. Under the hood is a matching numbers 307, with a 2 barrell, mated to a Powerglide tranny, breathing through stock single exhaust. Zell says it will all change soon, he plans to add a crate 350, 4 barrell, 700R4 tranny, a 3.73 rearend, and dual exhaust with Flowmasters. Seifer drove a 1973 Mustang with a 351 V8. He has it rated around 200 hp. That had taken him about 5 years to completely restore to its current condition. And finally Selphie had a '58 Chevy Belair. She has a 283 punched 60 over -400 lift and duration cam. She's also added high performance lifters, double roller timing chain, and Edelbrock 4 barrel intake with a 600-cfm carb. Selphie got the car for free and saved it from the cutting torch! She cleaned it up, repainted it, removed the door handles, installed a new interior, and is having a blast with it!
Rinoa stood awkwardly in front of the cars wondering what she should do. Till Selphie opened the passenger door of her car and smiled at her. She smiled back and jumped in. They drove with Selphie chattering the whole way, and Rinoa staying fairly silent. When they got there they all parked and entered the mall. Quistis and Selphie quickly grabbed Rinoa and headed for the nearest clothing shop. Irvine followed dutifully; Zell sort of slumped after them, not really wanting to go, while Seifer and Squall stood looking relatively out of place. Until finally, they caved in and followed the herd inside.
Quistis grabbed a denim mini skirt for Rinoa to try on with a simple white sleeveless top. Rinoa looked at her outstretched hands and gave her a confused look.
"Go to the changing rooms and try them on." Quistis explained.
"WAIT! Try these as well." Selphie squealed.
Rinoa got handed a pair of white knee-high boots and sighed. She headed towards the changing room and tried it on.
"I look like a hooker!" Rinoa complained.
"Just come out and show us!" Quistis yelled back.
"Hold on, take your hair out of that braid first, you look like a nun!" Selphie giggled.
They heard her grumble something, but she took it out.
"Right boys, get ready." Selphie laughed.
Rinoa stepped out of the changing room. Squall's mouth dropped, Seifer wolf whistled. Zell closed Squall's mouth and Irvine smirked. While Selphie smiled approvingly and Quistis nodded.
"How do I look?" Rinoa asked sheepishly.
Quistis let herself grin at her excellent choice of clothes for her, but stopped herself from saying anything that might offend Rinoa.
"I think it would go better with this." Quistis replied.
She handed Rinoa a one shoulder white t-shirt and shoved her towards the changing room. She came out again.
"I think the shoes are a bit much." Zell commented from the background.
All the guys looked at him like he was gay.
"What? I was just saying."
"No Zell's right, go get her some white tennis shoes, they'd be better." Selphie agreed.
She came out again.
"PERFECT!" Selphie screamed attracting the entire stores attention. Rinoa blushed shyly.
"Now we need to give you a makeover." Quistis concluded.
So Selphie paid for Rinoa's outfit and they ventured off towards the next store. Rinoa sat in the chair as the artist started his work. She turned around to reveal herself. She had light lip-gloss on; some natural looking foundation, eyeliner, mascara and some natural looking eye shadow, with a pinch of stuff to make her cheeks look rosy red.
"PERFECT!" Quistis screamed, mimicking Selphie's outburst in the store. Selphie didn't catch on that Quistis was making fun of her so she squealed in agreement.
Rinoa got out of her chair and did a little walk.
"What do the guys think?" Selphie turned around and asked the by standing guys.
What came out was a jumble of agreements, compliments and whistles. Rinoa started blushing and looking at the ground again.
They all got out of the store.
"Whats the time?" Seifer asked.
"Bout ten I spose." Irvine replied.
They all stood there and pondered what they should do, till finally Squall said. "Well should we go to the theme park?"
Rinoa looked confused and said. "But even I know that that hasn't opened yet."
Squall flashed her a grin and replied. "Yeah but my dad owns it."
So that was that. They went to the park. The day was filled with their terrified screams from the roller coaster, there delighted squeals (mostly Selphie) from the impossible games and basically just having a good time. Finally 3:30 came and they thought it would be best if they departed. Well Squall did, but he didn't know where to start looking. He found Irvine and Selphie making out in the chamber of horrors. He had mentally prepared himself to find something he didn't want to in there so he was fine with that.
He found Seifer and Quistis playing the rifle game. Seifer in one of his unnaturally sweet moments. He had his arms around Quistis and his hands on top of hers helping her with it.
Zell was going for the record on the roller coaster, so he had to wait for him to get out of it before he could tell him that it was time to go. But he couldn't find Rinoa. Near the end he figured that she must've gone, but got an inkling that he should look in the house of mirrors first.
He entered the creepy place, all the mirrors contorted to make your body seem like a mangled wreck. He walked through the place, barely recognising what was fact and what was fiction. He saw the glint of Rinoa in one of the mirrors and turned around to see her walk past in another.
"Rinoa?" Squall called out, this place was freaking him out.
He saw her head up the stairs. So he followed. When he got up there he saw her heading up the stairs there as well. The house of mirrors towered over the entire park, he wasn't sure how many stories there were, but he knew there were a fair few. When he got there, he looked to the stairs, she wasn't going up them. Instead he saw her mangled face and body on all the mirrors around him. Then he saw it, she was out on the balcony looking out over the city.
"There you are." Squall sighed.
He walked over to her and leaned on the balcony. She was standing with her arms crossed.
"So whats your fiancé like?" Squall asked.
He knew that he should go, but he wanted to spend a little time with her first. Rinoa sighed, she's had this question asked to her more times today then she could count. She knew that they were trying to be nice but this was getting out of hand. She thought that for once today she would be perfectly honest, so she let it slip.
"He's a woman hating asshole."
Squall nodded. She wondered why he didn't strike her for saying such vile things about her husband to be.
"Aren't you going to do something?" Rinoa asked.
Squall gave her a perplexed look and replied. "Like what? It's your opinion?"
"My opinion? But men shouldn't tolerate such things from women." Rinoa exclaimed.
Squall started laughing and said. "If that's true then I think that you're the woman hating person."
Rinoa smiled, she understood that he was only joking but didn't understand how they could be so free with each other. She had seen it all day. From Quistis and Selphie's girlish giggles to Irvine and Zell play fighting.
"Did you know that if my father had seen how you were touching me yesterday he would've demanded that you marry me." Rinoa giggled.
Then it hit her, how did he know that he was touching her, it wasn't like there was anyone else in the room.
Squall started laughing at this. Marriage at his age seemed so far away and even talking about it just seemed like one big joke.
"We gotta go, its 3:30." Squall finally said.
Rinoa looked disappointed but then her face brightened.
"Cant we stay here for awhile longer?"
Squall gave her an odd look and replied. "But won't your parents kill you?"
Rinoa gave him a small smile and winked. "I'll tell them that I was converting a non believer." Rinoa giggled.
"Alright," Squall said with a grin.
Two hours and twenty five minutes later. Squall and Rinoa lay on the ground of the house of mirrors. Rinoa was laughing her ass off while Squall told her a story. Rinoa wiped a tear from her eye as it threatened to roll out from laughing too much. She hadn't laughed this much ever. So she was blissfully unaware of the amount of time that had passed.
She looked up at the ceiling of the place and noticed that it too had mirrors on it. It was weird to be in a place like this to her, because her own house didn't have any mirrors. Mirrors were just a way for you to break another rule. Her least favourite of all the rules and regulations that restricted her from normality, vanity was her favourite sin. Still looking at the mirror she looked at Squall, who was staring at her, except not looking at the mirror. (She's looking at his reflection. He's just straight up staring at her)
"What?" Rinoa asked.
Squall didn't answer. He propped himself up on his elbows and leaned over her. Planting a delicate, yet strangely adoring kiss on her lips. Unaware of doing so she returned it. Wrapping her arms around his neck she prolonged it. After what seemed like only a couple of seconds he pulled away and looked her in the eyes.
"Now what would your father say?" Squall asked with mischief in his voice. Rinoa started giggling and replied.
"He'd ask why we aren't on our honeymoon."
Squall gave her a serious look and then said. "You're an amazingly cool chick Rinoa; I don't think I know a chick as cool as you. Why don't you run away from your religion thing?"
Rinoa widened her eyes in shock, not only was today the most fucked up of her life, but it was turning out to be the most interesting.
"You're asking me to run away from everything that I've ever known! I can't do that because you have a simple crush on me. I'm engaged to be married. You can't do this!" Rinoa protested.
"BUT YOU DON'T EVEN LIKE THE GUY!" Squall yelled.
"He will provide me financial security and safety, like has nothing to do with it." Rinoa said in a robot voice that sounded distant from her own.
"Regardless of what you say Rinoa, something drew me to you yesterday. I could've easily just sat there for the couple of minutes. But something said that I should go and talk to you. Now this can either be the biggest mistake of my life or the greatest thing I ever did. It's up to you." Squall continued.
Rinoa looked at him in disgust. He was putting her in a situation all because he had a crush on her. This wasn't fair.
"You're the most selfish person I have ever met. I'm going home now." Rinoa said as she got up to leave.
Squall grabbed her hand on the way up and prevented her from going any further. "It's a long walk; let me give you a ride at least." Squall said getting up with her.
"Thanks but I don't need your pity." Rinoa replied.
She grabbed a hair tie from her pocket and tied her hair up in its usual long braid.
"Turn around." Rinoa demanded.
Squall did as he was bided to do.
"And shut your eyes." Rinoa said noticing that they were in a room full of mirrors.
Squall couldn't help but grin, she had caught on what he was going to do. He could hear her getting changed and nearly gave into the urge of opening his eyes, but stayed true to her wishes.
"Let me give you a ride. This neighbourhood isn't very welcoming to young girls not wise to that ways of the world." Squall continued.
"You can open your eyes." Rinoa replied.
"Please?" Squall asked again as he turned around.
"Oh fine, but you'll have to drop me off down the street from my house. My father would kill me." Rinoa caved.
Squall did as he was asked. He dropped her off about 100 metres from her house at her request.
Rinoa walked up the lonely street. She could see the sun setting in the distant horizon and the fact of how late it actually was dawned on her. She quickened her pace but knew that that wasn't going to change the fact that she was in trouble. She finally got to her plain house and let out a breath she didn't realise she was holding.
The door opened easily and once again she saw her father sitting at the table, but John wasn't there today.
Rinoa's father stood, walked up to her and struck her across the face.
"You filthy little whore! How dare you be out till all hours of the night frolicking with some boy!" Her father yelled. Rinoa stood her ground though. She was perplexed on how he knew about Squall, and how he could call this all hours of the night. It wasn't even dark yet!
"But father I was only converting a non believer. I don't see the problem!" Rinoa said in defiance.
"And you lie to my face so easily! You're a plague upon this family! I know what you did today, I know you were not at school for the whole day; instead you were in the company of boys! Just like the little whore you are." He hissed at her.
The words cut into Rinoa like a scolding hot knife. She felt terrible for betraying her father, but felt confused about how he knew the details of everything.
"Father, how do you know of this?" Rinoa asked sheepishly.
"Never doubt the power of God. And wipe that make-up off you look like a hooker!"
"But God does not talk to us. We pray that he would but he doesn't. All we get out of him is the right way to turn. So how can you know this?" Rinoa yelled.
Rinoa looked towards the hallway and saw her brothers and sisters huddled up, watching what was going on. She felt sorry for them. Most of them were under ten and the ones above were just pleading with their eyes for her to shut up. But Rinoa couldn't. She just couldn't shut her mouth.
"Are you questioning me?" Her father said in a dangerously low voice.
Rinoa was about to back down at that moment, but she wanted to know. She had to know. But she didn't know how seriously her father was taking this conversation.
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