Title: Knowing You More
Disclaimer: Don't own FFVIII.
Chapter Four: Prank No. 1
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Quistis stared at the empty seats of her classroom the next day. She was sitting behind her desk, waiting for her students to come. And she had been waiting for almost fifteen minutes.
'Where was everyone?' she thought angrily. 'Can't they see that classes have started ages ago?'
The room was so quiet. The only sound heard was her breathing. It seemed, to her, that she could almost hear her thoughts echoing throughout the room. She sighed and rested her head on her hand.
"Stupid students," she grumbled under her breath. "Classes are important, can't they see that?"
"No, you're the one who's stupid," a drawling voice spoke up.
Quistis turned to the voice and wasn't surprised at who it belonged to.
"Seifer," she said almost lazily. "Where are the others? I'm surprised to see you're the first one in class."
Seifer snickered, which made her scowl deeply. "Oh, dear Instructor," he said through his laughs. "You are growing old, aren't you, having trouble with your memory and all?"
"What are you talking about, Seifer?" Quistis asked, standing up and crossing her arms across her chest.
Seifer stopped laughing, walked toward her desk and leaned on it. "Don't complain if no one's here to listen to your usual blabber," he said. "They're all enjoying the Garden."
"I still don't know what you're talking about."
"I've been looking all over for you since I got out of my dormitory room," Seifer went on, ignoring Quistis' impatient expression. "Now I know where you like to hang out: Your classroom. Heheheh!"
"Get to the point!"
"We have to know more about each other! Weren't you reminded by someone?"
Quistis blinked, stared at the Seifer for a moment, then slapped her forehead. "I completely forgot!" she said and smiled sheepishly. "Guess I did you some trouble, huh, looking for me all over the place?"
"Yeah. Now come on! My friends are waiting for me on the first floor!"
"I thought we should know more about each other?" Quistis called after him as he walked briskly toward the door. She followed him outside and toward the elevator. "Seifer, wait up!"
"Hurry!" Seifer replied.
"We should share secrets, do what we like to do together and hang out!" Quistis said, counting with her fingers. "And," she pulled Seifer's arm to stop him, "we have to be TOGETHER!"
Seifer took back his arm and stared at her. She put her hands on her hips and stared back. Both just stared at each other for a moment. Finally, Seifer sighed heavily. He pulled her hand and led her to the elevator.
"We're going to meet my friends," Seifer said firmly. He held up a hand to silence Quistis, who opened her mouth to protest, and then pushed the button to the first floor. They waited in silence for the elevator to stop and when it finally did they got out and saw Fuujin and Raijin standing right outside the elevator doors.
"Hey, Seifer! What's up?" Raijin greeted. He caught sight of Quistis and fell silent.
Seifer sighed. "Where are your instructors?" he asked his comrades. "Aren't you supposed to be with them?"
"NEGATIVE!" Fuujin replied shortly.
"Hey, this is a school activity," Quistis told them sternly. "You should be cooperating, not hang around here doing nothing."
"Right," Raijin said in agreement. "Uh, so we'll be going now."
He and Fuujin turned on their heels and started to walk away, when Seifer stopped them.
"There's no need for them to go and meet their instructors," Seifer said with a bit of a whine. "We can all go to the training center and fight some monsters there!" Quistis frowned.
"Come on, the three of you," Seifer said, tapping his foot impatiently against the floor.
". . . Sure . . ." Raijin said slowly. He and Fuujin looked at each other, then at Quistis, and at Seifer.
Quistis, sensing the unwelcome atmosphere around her, and only around her, forced a smile into her lips.
"Don't worry, guys! I won't tell the headmaster that you don't meet up with your instructors," she said cheerfully. "I'm going to be okay hanging out with you, anyway! At least, Seifer's there if something happens, right?"
Raijin and Fuujin once again looked at each other. Both were at a loss in words.
Quistis clapped her hands together. "The training center, we shall go!" she said. She locked her arm with Seifer and led him to the forest-style training center.
Once they arrived, she let go of Seifer and casually followed them around. She didn't fight any creatures there. She just let Seifer, Raijin and Fuujin do all the work. They even must have forgotten she was there! And it was the perfect way to let Quistis' mind work. The moment she agreed to hang out with Seifer and his friends, an idea was hidden somewhere in her head. And she was already just inches away from it, when they finally went in the Secret Area.
"That was some exercise, huh?" Seifer said, stretching out his arms. "We'll have to fight some on the way out."
"Yeah," Raijin agreed. "Hey, did you see Fuujin earlier? Heheh, if it wasn't for me, she would have been killed by that T-Rexaur, 'ya know?"
"JERK!" Fuujin said simply. Raijin scowled at her.
Seifer laughed. "That's a first, Fuujin!" he said. "Is it a new word in your vocabulary? Heheheh!"
Fuujin rolled her eyes.
Quistis smiled as she finally got her hands on the idea. Her insides bubbled with excitement. She got it all planned out, and all she needed was someone to notice her. She cleared her throat loudly, which made Seifer, Raijin and Fuujin look at her. She smiled at them widely.
"Uh . . . so, Seifer, how much do you know now about Instructor Trepe?" Raijin asked, turning to Seifer with an expectant expression on his face.
Seifer raised his eyebrows when Quistis nodded at him. He shrugged casually and said, "Well, I know a bit about her now. I know where her favorite place is, that she's forgetful and that she wants to be with me."
Quistis stopped herself from making a gagging noise. She continued to smile sweetly at Seifer.
"What about you Instructor Trepe?" Raijin asked.
"Oh, you don't have to call me that, Raijin," Quistis said politely. "Quistis is my name, so I advise you to call me by that name."
"Oh. . . . Okay."
"I've known Seifer for almost half my life, so there's nothing really to know now," Quistis went on. "Actually, there was one time when we were still kids. We lived in an orphanage back then. Oh, if only you guys were there!"
Seifer looked at her in confusion. "What are you talking about, Quis - uh, I mean, Instructor?" he said.
"You know, the time when you said those five words in front of me?" Quistis said. She turned to Raijin and Fuujin. "Oh, you guys would have laughed your heads off if you were there! He was so funny!"
Seifer was now staring at Quistis with his mouth hanging open and a blank expression on his face. Raijin and Fuujin were looking at Quistis in interest and were obviously listening to every word that came out of her mouth.
"What did he say?" Raijin asked eagerly.
"Hmm, it's bit embarrassing, but since your Seifer's best friends . . . I'm going to tell you!" Quistis said. "He was crying at that time. Sad image of him sitting by the farthest corner and watching us all play. . . . I noticed immediately that he was all alone and crying his heart out, so I went to him and asked why he was crying. He looked up at me with those teary eyes and couldn't say anything. You see, when we were still kids, I know he had a huge crush on me, and that's probably the reason why he can't tell me what was bothering him. So I promised him not to tell anyone and he agreed. Do you know what he said, then? He said . . ." She took a deep breath, "'I pooped in my pants!'"
Raijin and Fuujin blinked in surprise. They stared at Quistis, then at Seifer, and back at her. Suddenly, laughter began to erupt from them.
Seifer's eyes were wide with bewilderment. He looked at Quistis in disbelief and glared at Raijin and Fuujin.
Quistis, herself, was laughing with Raijin and Fuujin. She can't blame them. Friends who just found out that their other comrade pooped in his pants when he was still young . . . who wouldn't laugh at that? But, of course, this was a lie.
She looked at Seifer's angry face and felt a pang of guilt. She stopped laughing and cleared her throat, which made Raijin and Fuujin stop as well.
Seifer's face was as red as a tomato. Steam was almost seen coming out of his ears and nose. He was taking deep breaths, probably to stop himself from bursting in anger.
"Raijin, Fuujin, could you two please go ahead and leave Instructor Trepe and I here for a moment? We'll catch up with you later," he said gruffly.
Quistis bit her lip. She had done it. She had made Seifer angrier with her than ever. She could almost feel the energy from his body, touching her and burning her flesh. She took a couple of steps away from him.
Raijin and Fuujin did as they were told. Before they completely disappeared, however, they glanced back at them one more time. When the door to the Secret Area closed, Seifer turned to Quistis with a demanding look on his face.
"Could you tell me what that was all about?" he said in a shaky voice.
Perhaps a couple of steps weren't enough, because Quistis took another step away from him. She smiled at him sheepishly. She knew she had no way out of this. But trying to think of something wouldn't hurt at all.
"Well?" Seifer said when she still didn't say anything.
Suddenly and unexpectedly, an idea popped in Quistis' head. She took off the guilty expression she was wearing and replaced it with an innocent one.
"Well, didn't you say that to me?" she said.
"Why are you asking me when I don't even remember saying it to you?" Seifer asked back.
"So it wasn't you, huh?" Quistis said, pretending to think. "Hmm. . . . Maybe it was my brother. . . ."
"You have a brother?"
"No, but I have a cousin."
Seifer sighed impatiently. "Brother or cousin, I don't care! I never said anything to you like that!" he insisted.
"Hmm, you know what? I think it was my cousin," Quistis said, still looking thoughtful. "I guess I kind of humiliated you, huh?"
Seifer rolled his eyes. "Yeah," he said sarcastically. "You guess."
Quistis hid a smile. Her plan worked and she was off the hook. What could be greater?
"So where do we go now?" she asked him.
Seifer shrugged. "I'm kind of not in the mood to do anything else right now, so I'll just hang out here in the training center for a while. Kill a few T-Rexaurs or whatever there is to kill."
"Okay," Quistis said, pasting her sweet smile on her face once again. "I'm coming with you."
"Hey, if you don't want to, it's okay."
"No, I'm coming with you."
"Are you sure?"
"Yup!"
"Fine."
"Great!"
"Oh, and Instructor?"
"Yes?"
"That's one."
Quistis was surprised at this. She looked at Seifer with her eyebrows raised. Seifer just shrugged and smirked at her. She rolled her eyes and followed him around once more, but her mind kept drifting to what he just said earlier.
''That's one', he said,' Quistis thought as she watched Seifer bend down on one knee and look down on the pond below the bridge they were standing on. 'I wonder what he meant by that. . . .'
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Author's Note: YAHOO!!! Another chapter done!!! Hope you guys liked it!!! Oh, and thanks for the reviews! I really appreciate them!
Disclaimer: Don't own FFVIII.
Chapter Four: Prank No. 1
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Quistis stared at the empty seats of her classroom the next day. She was sitting behind her desk, waiting for her students to come. And she had been waiting for almost fifteen minutes.
'Where was everyone?' she thought angrily. 'Can't they see that classes have started ages ago?'
The room was so quiet. The only sound heard was her breathing. It seemed, to her, that she could almost hear her thoughts echoing throughout the room. She sighed and rested her head on her hand.
"Stupid students," she grumbled under her breath. "Classes are important, can't they see that?"
"No, you're the one who's stupid," a drawling voice spoke up.
Quistis turned to the voice and wasn't surprised at who it belonged to.
"Seifer," she said almost lazily. "Where are the others? I'm surprised to see you're the first one in class."
Seifer snickered, which made her scowl deeply. "Oh, dear Instructor," he said through his laughs. "You are growing old, aren't you, having trouble with your memory and all?"
"What are you talking about, Seifer?" Quistis asked, standing up and crossing her arms across her chest.
Seifer stopped laughing, walked toward her desk and leaned on it. "Don't complain if no one's here to listen to your usual blabber," he said. "They're all enjoying the Garden."
"I still don't know what you're talking about."
"I've been looking all over for you since I got out of my dormitory room," Seifer went on, ignoring Quistis' impatient expression. "Now I know where you like to hang out: Your classroom. Heheheh!"
"Get to the point!"
"We have to know more about each other! Weren't you reminded by someone?"
Quistis blinked, stared at the Seifer for a moment, then slapped her forehead. "I completely forgot!" she said and smiled sheepishly. "Guess I did you some trouble, huh, looking for me all over the place?"
"Yeah. Now come on! My friends are waiting for me on the first floor!"
"I thought we should know more about each other?" Quistis called after him as he walked briskly toward the door. She followed him outside and toward the elevator. "Seifer, wait up!"
"Hurry!" Seifer replied.
"We should share secrets, do what we like to do together and hang out!" Quistis said, counting with her fingers. "And," she pulled Seifer's arm to stop him, "we have to be TOGETHER!"
Seifer took back his arm and stared at her. She put her hands on her hips and stared back. Both just stared at each other for a moment. Finally, Seifer sighed heavily. He pulled her hand and led her to the elevator.
"We're going to meet my friends," Seifer said firmly. He held up a hand to silence Quistis, who opened her mouth to protest, and then pushed the button to the first floor. They waited in silence for the elevator to stop and when it finally did they got out and saw Fuujin and Raijin standing right outside the elevator doors.
"Hey, Seifer! What's up?" Raijin greeted. He caught sight of Quistis and fell silent.
Seifer sighed. "Where are your instructors?" he asked his comrades. "Aren't you supposed to be with them?"
"NEGATIVE!" Fuujin replied shortly.
"Hey, this is a school activity," Quistis told them sternly. "You should be cooperating, not hang around here doing nothing."
"Right," Raijin said in agreement. "Uh, so we'll be going now."
He and Fuujin turned on their heels and started to walk away, when Seifer stopped them.
"There's no need for them to go and meet their instructors," Seifer said with a bit of a whine. "We can all go to the training center and fight some monsters there!" Quistis frowned.
"Come on, the three of you," Seifer said, tapping his foot impatiently against the floor.
". . . Sure . . ." Raijin said slowly. He and Fuujin looked at each other, then at Quistis, and at Seifer.
Quistis, sensing the unwelcome atmosphere around her, and only around her, forced a smile into her lips.
"Don't worry, guys! I won't tell the headmaster that you don't meet up with your instructors," she said cheerfully. "I'm going to be okay hanging out with you, anyway! At least, Seifer's there if something happens, right?"
Raijin and Fuujin once again looked at each other. Both were at a loss in words.
Quistis clapped her hands together. "The training center, we shall go!" she said. She locked her arm with Seifer and led him to the forest-style training center.
Once they arrived, she let go of Seifer and casually followed them around. She didn't fight any creatures there. She just let Seifer, Raijin and Fuujin do all the work. They even must have forgotten she was there! And it was the perfect way to let Quistis' mind work. The moment she agreed to hang out with Seifer and his friends, an idea was hidden somewhere in her head. And she was already just inches away from it, when they finally went in the Secret Area.
"That was some exercise, huh?" Seifer said, stretching out his arms. "We'll have to fight some on the way out."
"Yeah," Raijin agreed. "Hey, did you see Fuujin earlier? Heheh, if it wasn't for me, she would have been killed by that T-Rexaur, 'ya know?"
"JERK!" Fuujin said simply. Raijin scowled at her.
Seifer laughed. "That's a first, Fuujin!" he said. "Is it a new word in your vocabulary? Heheheh!"
Fuujin rolled her eyes.
Quistis smiled as she finally got her hands on the idea. Her insides bubbled with excitement. She got it all planned out, and all she needed was someone to notice her. She cleared her throat loudly, which made Seifer, Raijin and Fuujin look at her. She smiled at them widely.
"Uh . . . so, Seifer, how much do you know now about Instructor Trepe?" Raijin asked, turning to Seifer with an expectant expression on his face.
Seifer raised his eyebrows when Quistis nodded at him. He shrugged casually and said, "Well, I know a bit about her now. I know where her favorite place is, that she's forgetful and that she wants to be with me."
Quistis stopped herself from making a gagging noise. She continued to smile sweetly at Seifer.
"What about you Instructor Trepe?" Raijin asked.
"Oh, you don't have to call me that, Raijin," Quistis said politely. "Quistis is my name, so I advise you to call me by that name."
"Oh. . . . Okay."
"I've known Seifer for almost half my life, so there's nothing really to know now," Quistis went on. "Actually, there was one time when we were still kids. We lived in an orphanage back then. Oh, if only you guys were there!"
Seifer looked at her in confusion. "What are you talking about, Quis - uh, I mean, Instructor?" he said.
"You know, the time when you said those five words in front of me?" Quistis said. She turned to Raijin and Fuujin. "Oh, you guys would have laughed your heads off if you were there! He was so funny!"
Seifer was now staring at Quistis with his mouth hanging open and a blank expression on his face. Raijin and Fuujin were looking at Quistis in interest and were obviously listening to every word that came out of her mouth.
"What did he say?" Raijin asked eagerly.
"Hmm, it's bit embarrassing, but since your Seifer's best friends . . . I'm going to tell you!" Quistis said. "He was crying at that time. Sad image of him sitting by the farthest corner and watching us all play. . . . I noticed immediately that he was all alone and crying his heart out, so I went to him and asked why he was crying. He looked up at me with those teary eyes and couldn't say anything. You see, when we were still kids, I know he had a huge crush on me, and that's probably the reason why he can't tell me what was bothering him. So I promised him not to tell anyone and he agreed. Do you know what he said, then? He said . . ." She took a deep breath, "'I pooped in my pants!'"
Raijin and Fuujin blinked in surprise. They stared at Quistis, then at Seifer, and back at her. Suddenly, laughter began to erupt from them.
Seifer's eyes were wide with bewilderment. He looked at Quistis in disbelief and glared at Raijin and Fuujin.
Quistis, herself, was laughing with Raijin and Fuujin. She can't blame them. Friends who just found out that their other comrade pooped in his pants when he was still young . . . who wouldn't laugh at that? But, of course, this was a lie.
She looked at Seifer's angry face and felt a pang of guilt. She stopped laughing and cleared her throat, which made Raijin and Fuujin stop as well.
Seifer's face was as red as a tomato. Steam was almost seen coming out of his ears and nose. He was taking deep breaths, probably to stop himself from bursting in anger.
"Raijin, Fuujin, could you two please go ahead and leave Instructor Trepe and I here for a moment? We'll catch up with you later," he said gruffly.
Quistis bit her lip. She had done it. She had made Seifer angrier with her than ever. She could almost feel the energy from his body, touching her and burning her flesh. She took a couple of steps away from him.
Raijin and Fuujin did as they were told. Before they completely disappeared, however, they glanced back at them one more time. When the door to the Secret Area closed, Seifer turned to Quistis with a demanding look on his face.
"Could you tell me what that was all about?" he said in a shaky voice.
Perhaps a couple of steps weren't enough, because Quistis took another step away from him. She smiled at him sheepishly. She knew she had no way out of this. But trying to think of something wouldn't hurt at all.
"Well?" Seifer said when she still didn't say anything.
Suddenly and unexpectedly, an idea popped in Quistis' head. She took off the guilty expression she was wearing and replaced it with an innocent one.
"Well, didn't you say that to me?" she said.
"Why are you asking me when I don't even remember saying it to you?" Seifer asked back.
"So it wasn't you, huh?" Quistis said, pretending to think. "Hmm. . . . Maybe it was my brother. . . ."
"You have a brother?"
"No, but I have a cousin."
Seifer sighed impatiently. "Brother or cousin, I don't care! I never said anything to you like that!" he insisted.
"Hmm, you know what? I think it was my cousin," Quistis said, still looking thoughtful. "I guess I kind of humiliated you, huh?"
Seifer rolled his eyes. "Yeah," he said sarcastically. "You guess."
Quistis hid a smile. Her plan worked and she was off the hook. What could be greater?
"So where do we go now?" she asked him.
Seifer shrugged. "I'm kind of not in the mood to do anything else right now, so I'll just hang out here in the training center for a while. Kill a few T-Rexaurs or whatever there is to kill."
"Okay," Quistis said, pasting her sweet smile on her face once again. "I'm coming with you."
"Hey, if you don't want to, it's okay."
"No, I'm coming with you."
"Are you sure?"
"Yup!"
"Fine."
"Great!"
"Oh, and Instructor?"
"Yes?"
"That's one."
Quistis was surprised at this. She looked at Seifer with her eyebrows raised. Seifer just shrugged and smirked at her. She rolled her eyes and followed him around once more, but her mind kept drifting to what he just said earlier.
''That's one', he said,' Quistis thought as she watched Seifer bend down on one knee and look down on the pond below the bridge they were standing on. 'I wonder what he meant by that. . . .'
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Author's Note: YAHOO!!! Another chapter done!!! Hope you guys liked it!!! Oh, and thanks for the reviews! I really appreciate them!