Chapter 7- Swirls and Oreos
"Oh! They're so pretty!" Rinoa squealed running her hands through all of the fancy gowns. "I can't pick!"
"I know me either!" Quistis said looking at the handbags. They turned and looked at Selphie who was just standing there gaping in front of her.
"Oh My Hyne!!" She squeaked and jumped in the air clapping her hands together. "Look at all of these shoes!!" She ran over to the large shelves in front of her and began ogling at all of the designer shoes. "Gucci! Versace! Manolos! Oh My!" Rinoa and Quistis just laughed at her. "Do you know how much I love love love these shoes?" Selphie asked dumb struck. "I could rape them!"
"Ew."
"That's so wrong Selphie." Quistis said shaking her head. Shrugging them off, Selphie kept gawking at the shoes before her.
"We need dresses first!" Rinoa announced.
She began to look through them all and found many that she liked. There was a plain silk blue dress that was very flowy. It was an open V in the back and had silver chains connecting the two sides of the V together with spaghetti straps holding it up.
Another one was black and loose. It was a strapless dress with layered frays. She liked it but decided to keep looking. When she turned around, she gasped and squealed. Selphie and Quistis stopped looking through the gowns and turned to look at Rinoa.
"What's up?" Quistis asked confused.
Rinoa ran over the dress she had found and pulled it off the rack.
"I love this! Oh Hyne! I am so wearing it!" She ran out of the closet leaving two dumbstruck friends behind. They continued looking for about 5 minutes before Selphie jumped up and down clapping her hands.
"Ah! I found mine!" She took hers off the rack and went to her bed.
She set the dress down before running back into the closet to find shoes. She grabbed a pair that matched and ran back out the closet jumping up and landing in front of its doors. Quistis sighed. She couldn't find anything.
'Damn, they have pretty dresses from what I saw but nothing is working for me.' Ready to give up, she began walking out of the closet brushing her hands through all of the dresses.
A flash of color caught her eye and she stopped. She turned a few dresses back until she found the one she had seen. She gasped and grabbed it before running out of the room. The girls all walked in front of their beds so they could see each other. They glanced at each other and screamed loudly before laughing and giggling. They ran together for a hug and then ran off to get changed.
Squall sighed and rolled over on his back. Irvine looked over at him before getting up off his own bed and walking over to Squall. He pulled a chair up and sat down.
"What's on your mind man?" he asked smoothly. Squall looked at him before looking back up at the ceiling. "All right. Nevermind. You don't have to talk." Irvine said getting up. "I'll just go see if Rinoa can do something to brighten your spirits." he turned and began to walk away but Squall was immediately in front of him growling. "Heh, I know that would get you."
Squall smacked the back of Irvine's head before turning and walking back over to his bed.
'Damn woman.' he sighed and drifted off to sleep.
"Rin!" Selphie called. "Will you do my hair?" Rin turned to look at her friend who was having a lot of problems. Rinoa snorted.
"What the hell did you do?" Selphie let go of the small comb that was knotted in her hair and let it hang there. She flicked Rinoa off before pouting and stomping her foot.
"Please?" She whined.
"Yeah yeah I'll help." Rinoa said rolling her eyes at her immature friend. "Leave it to you to tangle your hair that's so short and literally impossible for anyone else to tangle."
"Guys, does my hair look okay?" Quistis asked biting her lip as she watched Selphie stick her tongue out at the dark brown haired girl next to her. Her friends turned to look, smiled and nodded.
"That looks so pretty Quisty!" Rinoa exclaimed.
"Its superly duperly-OW! Rinoa what the hell are ya doin back there?" Selphie asked before swatting her friend's hand away and rubbing her head.
"Sorry, but there was a knot and I don't do well with the patient part of doing hair." Rinoa said shrugging. "Now hold still before I cut your damn hair off! I really don't understand how you could manage to get this damn little comb stuck in your short hair!"
Selphie stuck her tongue out at her and crossed her arms over her chest. Rinoa grinned and continued untangling her friend's hair.
Finally, after 10 more minutes of pulling the strands out one by one, Rinoa took her brush and began to brush Selphie's hair out. She finished it.
"Its the same!" Selphie said unhappily.
"Pff, you can't do much with your hair! Its too short. Just use some mousse and style it or something." Rinoa said chuckling. She turned and began working on her own hair. She finished her hair in 20 minutes. She then began to do her makeup.
She chose to do a smoky, cat style. She took her black eyeliner and put it on the bottom. She then took her liquid, dark chocolate brown eyeliner and made her cat shape on the top of her lid. She put a white frosty shadow over her lids and topped it off with black mascara.
"There we go!" she said proudly. She walked over to Selphie who was having trouble with her make up.
"Shit you!" Selphie said throwing down the brush she was holding.
"Help?" Rinoa asked smiling. Selphie grumbled something about how she would kill the person who invented make up and dinner parties but nodded in response to Rinoa.
Rinoa did a yellow/earthy tone for Selphie's makeup. She had light brown on her lids and above just below her eyebrows was a light barely noticeable sparkly yellow.
The girls got dressed and admired themselves in their mirrors. Rinoa squealed. "Eep! I feel like a princess or something!" Her friends laughed and nodded their heads.
"Shall we?" Selphie asked holding her arms out for her friends to take. They linked arms and began to gracefully walk out of their room down to dinner.
"Damn! I look good in a tux!" Irvine exclaimed. He was checking himself out in the full body mirror by his bathroom. "Yeah. You know you love me." he said winking at his reflection and grinning.
"Shut the fuck up cowboy!" Seifer grumbled.
"Ready guys?" Zell asked enthusiastically. He inwardly grinned. He had spied on the girls and saw what they looked like for dinner. 'Those bastards are gonna die.' They all left and walked down to dinner.
"Ah, good. You're early." Laguna said in a low, creepy tone. The 4 boys looked at each other and shrugged.
"Yup, guess so! Where's the food?" Zell asked clapping his hands together.
Laguna choked on his wine by the sudden outburst. "The ladies have not yet arrived. And we don't have the main course until after the first course."
"Well, what's that gonna be? I'm starved." Zell pulled out a chair and sat with his elbows on the table and his chin resting in his hands.
The other boys took seats around the table, a space between each of them. "It will be any minute now." Laguna said calmly.
Just then, as if on cue, the three girls walked in wearing their gowns. 'Wow.' Squall thought when he saw Rinoa. Oddly enough, the same thing was going through Seifer and Irvine's minds about Quistis and Selphie.
The friends walked gracefully in their gowns to their seats. Rinoa had a white halter top dress with a low V cut in the front and low scoop back. It was crunched up in a line from her belly button to the bottom of the V. It hugged her curves and flowed around her at the bottom. Selphie was wearing a light yellow, silk spaghetti strap dress the fit her snugly and made her complexion glow. There were sequins and diamonds scattered all over it, and it shined in the light.
Irvine stood up and pulled out a chair for Selphie. She smiled and sat down while he pushed her in and walked back to his seat.
Rinoa looked at Squall as if waiting for him to do the same but he was sitting there with a smug look on his face.
Rinoa 'hmmfed' and sat down crossing her arms.
Quistis then looked at Seifer in her pale pink halter top dress that was glittering and showing specks of light that were reflecting off of it. Seifer just stared at her with no expression on his face.
"Aren't you going to sit down? I'm a little hungry." he asked her.
Quistis narrowed her eyes and sat growled. She walked over to Seifer and slapped him upside the head before taking her seat.
"Very well. Now that we are all here, lets eat!" Laguna said clapping his hands together.
Dinner was quiet except for the few quarrels Quistis and Seifer had and the fact that Zell was constantly knocking things over trying to grab another piece of food.
"Oops!" he said for the 12th time. He grinned sheepishly while taking a bite of the piece of bread he grabbed.
Laguna began to rub his temples while waiters began clearing away the spilled platters.
"Must you continue spilling things?" he asked Zell.
Zell turned to look at him still munching on his bread but stopped when he saw Laguna's eyes swirl with black and red.
He muttered a 'sorry' and excused himself. His friend looked after him with questioning looks on their faces.
Squall, Irvine and Seifer excused themselves and went to go find Zell while the three girls sat and waited for a few more minutes before leaving themselves.
Laguna watched them retreat to the staircase and growled before throwing his chair back and exiting the room.
"I swear! They were swirling! And everything went quiet. He was staring me down man!" Zell thought he was going mad.
Seifer and Squall just scoffed and went to change. Irvine sat by him and changed the subject by asking him loads of questions about the history of a muffin.
A few minutes later the girls walked in the room dressed in their pajamas and walked over to Zell.
"So what happened buddy?" Rinoa asked sitting down with him.
"Yeah Zell, what were you freaking out about?" Selphie asked drifting to his suitcase of snacks.
"That dude's eyes were swirling! I swear! They were all colorful with black swirls! It was creeping me the fuck out!!" Zell exclaimed throwing his hands up.
"That would be cool to have eyes like that." Selphie said plopping down next to Quistis and eating Oreos.
Everyone stared at her with lost expressions.
"What? It would! In a freaky Halloween time of year! Or just to scare some little kids!" she chuckled and looked off into her own fantasy while the others just shook their heads and continued the conversation.
"So, they were just swirling? That's it?" Quistis asked seriously. "Nothing else?"
"No, everything was quiet. I mean you guys were talking but I couldn't hear. All I heard was his voice in my head and a growl from somewhere." Zell explained grabbing some Oreos for himself.
Quistis tapped her chin with her finger and went deep into thought.
"Hah! Right on! Go me!" Selphie said laughing out loud. Rinoa looked at her and rolled her eyes before turning back to Quistis. "What do ya think is going on Quisty?" she asked. "I'm not sure. But we had better watch ourselves. It obviously isn't good."
'Well what about Edea? She was all of a sudden nice when she wasn't around any other workers. Maybe she knows." Rinoa suggested punching Selphie so she would shut up.
''Ow!" she whined and punched Rinoa back. Soon they were in a full out pillow fight. Selphie was the first to grab the pillow she had been sitting on and smacked Rinoa in the head. Rinoa grabbed the pillow from behind Zell causing him to fall back and hit his head on the backboard.
She ran over to Selphie and hit her across the face. They both laughed and Selphie chased after Rinoa.
"I'm gonna kick your ass you crazy Muffin!" Selphie yelled.
She tripped Rinoa who landed face down on the floor but luckily, her face hit her pillow. Selphie rolled her over and sat on her.
She started to smack her face with the pillow but not too hard and all Rinoa could do was scream, laugh and try to hit back as best as she could. Then she rolled Selphie off of her and started hitting her back.
"I'm gonna beat the Oreos out of you!! And then I'm gonna--oof!" Rinoa was suddenly picked up but not fast enough so Selphie couldn't hit her in the stomach one more time.
"Let me go! I was on a roll!! C'mon lemme at her!" Rinoa was kicking and fighting to get towards Selphie who was laughing at Rinoa's face expressions.
"Buddy chill!" Zell laughed before letting her go.
"I'm gonna kick your ass Sunshine!"
"Prepare to face my wrath Zephyr!"
They went at it again and it only lasted for another 30 minutes until they were out of breath and slowly hitting each other on the head.
"Wimp." Selphie said.
"Coward."
"Tramp."
"Loser."
"Freak."
"Tranny."
"Blow me."
"Bite me."
"Will you two old women shut up for 2 minutes?!" Quistis asked. "You're starting to give me a headache!" She couldn't help but laugh a little at her friends though.
"But we're just smack getting started! smack" Selphie said hitting Rinoa and getting hit back.
"Yeah uh huh sure. Let's go! They're crashed anyways!" Quistis said pointing to the four teens who were all asleep in their beds.
"Well our room is too far. Can't we crash here tonight?" Rinoa asked yawning.
"Sure. I don't care. I just want a bed." Quistis said jumping into bed with Seifer which whom she was closest to.
"Ditto." Selphie yawned. She walked to Irvine's bed and fell asleep.
"Ok, I'll take this loaf since Zell takes over the whole bed." Rinoa said snuggling up in the sheets of Squall's massive bed.
Within minutes, they were all peacefully slumbering without a thought in their minds about Laguna's swirling eyes.
Sorry it took so long people!! I had the biggest writer's block and I really still do! So if it takes a while to update again, SO SORRY! But ii shouldn't take as long as this one. I'm bad But Okies, I'm out for now!
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