Two needs, Two realizations, One love

Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy 8 I swear! I have no money in my pocket. Well if you count a piece of candy foil wrapper has money, you can have it! I'm just a poor guy with only a computer to type fanfics with.


Hmm, Selphie said that Trent will meet me at the front doors of the ballroom. Quistis thought as she fixed herself infront of the mirror. Too much make up would ruin Quistis' face so she lightly placed some, but not too much. She smiled at herself infront of the mirror. Perfect, Quistis thought.

Locking her doors securely, Quistis walked throught the empty quiet halls of the Garden. Frowning at the thought of being late was bad for Quistis. She was always punctional never had tardies in her life.

Finally reaching the ballroom doors, Quistis could hear the muffled beats of techno music soon ending into a slow song.

Opening the large oak wood doors, she placed her mask on and entered through the doors only to be greeted with Garden's pupil pairs of eyes. All eyes were on her at night. As if on cue, Quistis walked down the flight of stairs awaited by a man behind a silver chromed mask. He placed a charming smile on her and had an arm out for her.

Quistis took the unknown man's hand and was gently wisked to the dance floors for a slow dance.

-"I believe you are Quistis Trepe. Pleasure to meet you." The unknown man said.

-"and you, must be Trent--?" Quistis replied, forgeting his last name.

-"Xandros." Trent replied.

-"Trent Xandros. A pleasure to meet you." Quistis smiled.

Hand in hand, Quistis and Trent entered the dancefloor and danced with many couples with thier masks and costumes on. Quistis looked at Trent. He had long jet black hair slicked back. He had brown eyes and a tan build similar to Raijin. He wore a simple tuxedo and a chromed plated mask revealing his chiseled bottom portion of the face, the forehead and his chocolate eyes. He was quite attractive and he was such a gentleman.

As the song faded out, couples had retired to thier seats and awaited for a spunky happy-go-lucky girl to come up and greet the crowd. Quistis' arm was around Trent's hooked arm. Both finding thier seats with a Spiky haired blond behind a blue mask and a brunetted with pigtails behind a green one. Rinoa, Squall and Irvine were also at the table.

-"Hello everyone. Having a good time?" Quistis greeted.

-"I see your having a good time yourself, Quistis" Irvine grinned.

-"I believe you all met Trent Xandros, he's one of the intructors here at garden." Quistis said.

-"A pleasure too meet you all, I believe you know Selphie. I use to teach her back in Trabia, but since the incident recently, I came here to Balamb and continue my teachings with the students here." Trent smiled and sat beside Quistis.

Quistis was having a good time with her date. It had been a while since she had any fun and she thanked Selphie with the date and her dress. It was absolutely a spectacular evening, and it just only started.

After everyone was settled, Selphie was on stage, holding up a microphone and she placed a biggest grin she could put.

-"How's everybody doing tonight?" Selphie said.

She was greeted with whistles, clapping, a few 'Selphie you rock!' and some 'I love Selphie'. Hearing this, she flashed a peace sign.

-"I'll take that as a yes! Well tonight, we'll be having our costume couple contest! Judges will be scattered around the ballroom judging the best costume from the female and male population. Who ever wins, will be crowned King and Queen of the Maskquerade. May the best man and woman win!" Selphie squealed and jumped on the stage flashing yet another peace sign.

A light dinner was served and soon everybody was on the dance floor. A group of people were in a circle and one dancer was in the middle showing of his moves in breakdancing. The mysterious breakdancer was Zell working with his moves and everyone was getting into the beat. (A/N: LOL I can imagine Zell breakdancing.)

Meanwhile, Seifer finally came into the ballroom and no one had noticed yet. He placed his mask on and went in to find Quistis. Seifer took a break failing on finding his ex-instructor. He couldn't find her in the dancefloor because it was too crowded. So he headed straight for the open bar.

Taking a swig of his beer, Seifer decdied to wait for the right moment and grab Quistis to the balcony so he could tell her. Relived he saw Quistis walking back to her seat. This was his chance, he returned the glass of beer to the bartender and tipped him, but by the time he turned around, he found Quistis holding hands with some mysterious guy that appeared to look similar to Raijin. He saw that she was having the time of her life, it looked like she was having fun with this guy.

Seifer's face turned into an angry face. Don't jump into conclusions, she's probably on a date that's all. I mean he's not her boyfriend. is he? Seifer thought. He waited for the perfect time to confront her, but for now, he ordered another beer from the bartender. He stompped on his foot and stormed off into the balcony.

He wasn't alone, there he saw a pretty short girl. He remebered that she was an instructor as well in his classes. She was just only about 2 years older than him, but shorter than Seifer, even Zell. Her name was Miss Erika Bennett. The lonely, Miss Erika Bennett. Seifer smirked. He had a plan.


A/N: And the cliffhangers keep on coming. Anyways, I was disappointed with the outcome of reviews for the last two chapters. Come on guys. I need your feedback here. It made me not want to continue this story. But, I was doing nothing and decided to write. Well here's chapter 9. One more chapter to go guys, I promise it'll be a long one this time. Geez. I really need to rest. Well, later days.