Chapter Three: Lessons

I didn't even stop at the haven at the end of the Training Centre. I was so angry at that girl; I stormed back to my dorm, violently slashing the meagre foes I encountered. I wanted to smash something up, so I demolished my wardrobe by kicking it to pieces while picturing that girl's face before crashing out on my bed.

When I woke up I realised I had ten minutes to get to lesson. My panic to keep sorta in line made me spring into action, only causing me to be five minutes late and look like an untidy wreck.

I arrived in my only other tank top that matched my beloved old one that was now ruined, but it wasn't quite the same, which only made me even angrier. The Instructor glared, but I brushed it off and took a seat alone. All the punk kids kept trying to sneak stares at me, but I was at the back, not listening to the Instructor. I knew this stuff already.

Instead, I logged onto the Garden Network and read the forums.

- The Traitor got let in. AGAIN. He's such a bastard – no-one will talk to him if they've got even the slightest bit of sense – Dzad

- He's nothing. Exams and training is all we should be focused on – Gert

- Exactly. Dzad, do u want 2 waste ur time yellin Seifer, or getting good grades in ur exams and becoming a SeeD? I'm not paying the slightest bit of attention to him – what's the point? It's all in the past an nuthins gonna change it. The End – Sacha

- Huh, fine. I don't care about Lapdog – he just pisses me off being here and swaggering about – Dzad

I gave a quiet chuckle at the havoc I was causing here and looked up to see the bitch who cut me up was sitting off to the side alone. She was taking down all her notes on the panel, which appeared to be the most detailed notes I'd ever laid eyes on. Her head snapped up and turned to face me. Her face was blank, like how she was when she wasn't fighting, and then she turned away, like I was nobody, nothin'! I am not nothing!

She cut a fucking G into my chest! The G was still faintly there as well!

I was restless for the rest of the lesson. I couldn't concentrate – all my fury was on the surface boiling, ready to do damage on this Gaia!

"And that concludes the lesson." Instructor Faraday finished off. Apparently he's a new Instructor that replaced Quistis after she was booted out of teaching and went off to Esthar.

I stormed over to Gaia and grabbed her shoulder. She, in a split second, ducked under my arm and kicked me behind my knee, forcing me down to the ground on my knees. She then looked at who it was.

"Reactions. Seifer, yes?" she coolly explained. She offered a hand. I glared and stood up on my own. She wasn't hugely tall so I towered over her – I'm over six feet tall.

"You..." I fumed and glowered down at her. The class was empty.

"You cannot cut letters into me!" I bellowed. Gaia looked unconcerned.

"...Okay," and with that she walked out of the classroom!