"What is the matter with them? He seems so nice! Well, and he's cute.." Aya thought. Everyone's eyes were on her, looking for an answer. Of course, Squall never shows his emotions, and Rinoa seemed not to care about the situation. She just watched as everyone else did the talking.

"What do you mean do I know who that is?" Aya was getting somewhat mad at the fact all these people could dislike Seifer.

"That's Seifer!" Zell started and Aya interrupted. "Yes, I know his name," Aya was annoyed.

"Alright, to make a long story short, Seifer is a mean, cold-hearted, bastard who hates everyone except Fujin, Raijin, and Rinoa."

"Hey! That's not true, Zell!" Rinoa jumped from the table. "Seifer is kind, he cares about others, and he.." Rinoa tried to think of something else, but Squall's eyes met hers and he seemed hurt that she would talk about his enemy like that.

"Well, Zell, you don't have to get worked up about it. I just met him," Although Aya wanted to get to know him a little more, wanting to know if the rumors were true. True, his eyes were cold when he looked at her, but that doesn't mean anything. Aya dismissed the thought and walked over to Quistis. Aya touched her shoulder and said, "Quisty, I have to get going."

"Oh, alright, go if you must." Quistis said and dismissed her with a friendly wave.

"Bye everyone it was nice meeting you!" Aya smiled, waved and promised to do something with Rinoa later on.

Aya walked out of the cafeteria and saw Seifer walking towards the Training Center with Fujin and Raijin. Aya, feeling so thankful she wore boots today, semi-ran towards Seifer, careful not to make too much noise on the marble floors.

Seifer hadn't heard anyone come up behind him when he felt a light tap on the shoulder.

Seifer turned around to face the other blonde. "Seifer, I found something of yours, I thought you might want to have it back." Aya once again noticed the coldness of his eyes, but quickly focused on what he was saying. Before Seifer could say a word, talking and laughter came pouring out of the cafeteria and Quistis and her friends walked out going separate directions. Seifer only noticed Rinoa.

"Come with me," Seifer turned to Aya and started walking towards the dormitories. Aya followed not even noticing the murmur of talking getting louder as she ran after Seifer. Finally he reached his destination, pulled out his keycard and swiped it. The door opened and Seifer led Aya inside quickly.

"Sorry about that," Seifer told Aya.

"Oh," Aya replied looking around. "No problem." She walked over to a chair and sat down. "Now, do you want to see what I found?"

"Yup," Seifer said unknowing that he sounded stupid, he was too busy hoping that Aya had found his ring.

Aya stood up out of her chair and pulled open the long slit in her dress revealing a whole lot of leg. She opened the little pocket and pulled out the shiny, silver ring.

Aya held it between her fingers. "Is this yours?" Seifer tried to take the ring from her and so Aya took that as a 'yes'. "Oh, so you love Rinoa huh? I'm sorry hun, but I don't think she'll be leaving Squall anytime soon. So, babe, I don't know what this'll do." Aya spoke the truth and Seifer knew it. Seifer walked over to his bed and sat on it. He sighed and put his head in his large, callused hands.

Aya felt bad and tried to comfort Seifer. She walked over to his bed and sat down beside him. She placed her hand on his back and he sighed again.

"I'm sorry babe," Aya rubbed his back. Seifer looked up at her with eyes stinging; he tried so hard to keep the tears back. Aya expected tears, but they never came.

"I don't know what I thought I would accomplish by doing this," Seifer tried to look at Aya's understanding face, but couldn't without losing his train of thought.

"Seifer, you may love her, but I'm sorry to say, she doesn't return your feelings." Aya felt horrible saying this to him, "Hun, you can't go on chasing something you'll never catch."