Chapter 5
Who are you?
"Why must it be so? Why must it be so? Why father? Father why must you be so awful towards me? How come you never talked about my mother ever? Why must I be with the last children?" muttered Shinji into his pillow. The crickets were chirping in that warm night in Balamb Garden. He jumped out of bed. How can he sleep with all these questions swarming in head night after night!
Suddenly what seemed to be a record began to play. The sound quality wasn't crystal clear but it was similar to the quality to a brand new record playing in a jukebox. The first words were about a cheatin' heart. Shinji can relate to the song. "Who is that singing?" asked Shinji as he entered the room across from him. The boy with dirty blonde hair glanced up to him. Squall passed to him a CD case. Hank Williams, It read with large bold blue letters. Shinji sat next to him watching the scale of volume bounce as each chord of the guitar is struck. Once the song was over the boys glanced at each other. They nodded in agreement as if they were talking in thought to each other. Shinji lay on the bed staring at the blank white ceiling. Squall repeated the song and left the control there on the drawer.
"So who were you after?" asked Squall as he turned to Shinji. The third child sighed and whispered, "Asuka and Rei." Squall gritted his teeth a bit. "Um. . . I have some bad news." Shinji closed his eyes and stood up. "I know Rei likes you but she also loves my father as well as me." A pillow dropped as Squall heard this. "She is not a two timer but a three timer! How come I always ended up being cheated or used. This is not cool!" he complained. A riveting Mexican pop song began to play. They glanced at each other. Smiling with a look only mischievous girls have once they have planned an excellent payback.
Frost appeared slowly on the pale face of Rinoa. She sat in a chair sleeping as if she was a queen in a royal thrown. Her hands lay on the arm of the chair relaxed. The girl's head was tilted to the side. "My lilum, How are you this day?" asked the silver hair Kaoru. The girl whispered, "Normal." The lad chuckled as he left her in the room of the auditorium. "You are just an annoying bitch. Don't worry. My use for you will soon run out," murmured the boy. His sneakers sounded as he walked across the floor. The light thump sound echoed slightly behind.
Once Kaoru left the frost increased. The chairs began to increase the quantity of ice and snow. Flakes of ice began to dance around the auditorium. No one showed up to the auditorium since most of the meetings were talking place in the outdoor courtyard. Chairs had been pulled out and replaced with a dancing floor made of fine grain oak tree. The empty dance hall was abandon. The doors were sealed shut. No one was allowed. Now the room was forgotten. The grand piano stood in the middle. The strings were still intact. Not a single icicle was dressed on this fine instrument. Rinoa's eyes stared at the empty black bench near the grand black piano. "Why can't that boy play," she questioned herself.
She calmly walked out of her chair leaving a trail of ice to follow. Her black boots clicked the floor silently hoping to sneak in the quiet silence. A heavy sigh escaped from her pale blue lips. She opened the piano and touched a key. Suddenly her fingers began to dance across the piano. A tingling feeling began to dance back to her body. Her lips were scarlet again and her face full of color. She can't stop herself from playing. She just pounded the keys to let her emotions out.
Kaoru walked through the building looking for Squall. Not a single bit of ice followed him or cold air which was good. This was the only way to hide from Shinji his true unrequited love. He pressed on to discover a young girl in a blue short hair was talking to him. They sat together on the edge of the water fountain. "So you are telling me I am the sixth child," wondered Squall. His voice shivered a bit as he asked. Rei's red eyes glanced to the floor and nodded. "Yes you are." Kaoru bit his tongue as he heard this, "That lilith is destroying the plan. I wanted to die! DIE I TELL YOU!" little did he know he yelled this out.
A girl with a yellow dress walked passed them. "Hello Selphie," stated Squall. There was no tone or mood released with those words. Selphie strolled on as if Squall didn't exist. Seifer tagged along as if he was a lost puppy hoping that the person he was following was his new master. "He is so gone," said Rei as she smiled. Squall glimpsed at Rei's smile. "Why," questioned the boy. "Easy. She has no soul. She is an empty shell. There is more of her in the cloning device," answered Shinji. He sat next to Squall on the bench. Everyone glanced at Selphie then back at Shinji. "No seriously. You have to come and look at this," Shinji began to walk towards the garage. They stole huge yellow car and make way to Fisherman's Horizon.
The fresh air rushed through the open windows. All the windows were rolled down as they enjoyed the ride. The train didn't come to fisherman's horizon anymore due to biohazards thrown into the sea. Now people were either force to walk or ride a bike. However there was the convenient ride by car to get there. The tires bounced on the steel tracks. Rei giggled and glee as her body jumped up and down. Shinji smiled as he bounced up and down in his seat. Squall stared out at the window. His hair was blown around by the rush of fresh sea air. Kaoru tagged along in the back because he had nothing else to do for awhile. Of course no one recognized him so they thought it was no harm done.
Once they arrived they saw the large amphitheater. The seats were empty and a piano stood there. "Hmmm. Seems like someone needs to clean that piano," commented Rei as she pointed from afar. The keys were stained with a blood red paint. Kaoru rubbed his eyes. Could it be? "Did she?" murmured Kaoru as he left his vision with a piano disappearing into the distance. "Rinoa. Don't do this to me now," he thought to himself. Shinji led him to an abandon home. They opened the door. The room was barren. Dust was covered but one spot. It was a latch to an underground stairwell. Once they walked through the series of circling stairs they arrived to a room. "What the f," squall couldn't finish his cursing because Rei placed her finger on his lips.
A huge tank of water filled with Selphies float around the pool. "These are dummies. No offense Rei," Shinji stated. Rei smiled and retorted, "Non-taken. Continue." Squall glanced at Rei, "She's a dummy." "Well…strangely. This Rei has a soul. However, all the Selphies you see here are just empty shells. No soul at all. For you see. I killed her. I'm in the process of killing the 5th child as well," retorted Kaoru. Shinji shrugged. "She is a bit bitchy at times. Hey have I seen you before," noticed Shinji. Kaoru gulped a bit but kept his cool. He pulled his hair back with his long skinny fingers, "No. I don't think so." Shinji pointed behind him. Frost was appearing on the glass window. The Selphies began to freeze in the LCL. "NO! SHINJI YOU ASS!" cried out a familiar voice. They turned to the door that open. It was Gendo Ikari. His glasses were fogged up as he came down to the liar. "Whoa…he must have been in a cold play," stated Squall as he walked backwards slowly. Shinji showed a weak smile while sweat drops appeared by his head. "Oh look at the time. It's time for instrumentality! I GOT TO GO!" yelled Shinji as the group of teens ran out of the basement. They rushed out of Fisherman's Horizon and raced across the tracks forgetting that they left the car running.
"I'm sorry Squall for all the bad things I have done. I really love you but now it's too late to come back," whispered Rinoa as blood spilled across the piano. Her pale blue lips appeared again. The blood was spread across the keys. "They are not going to get…us," the last words escaped from her lips as her eyes closed. The music ceased. The frost covered her body again. The blood cried on the keys.