The Student Teacher
The following morning, very early, Quistis walked into her classroom, and as she expected, the new student had stumbled into the doorway, but he had fallen asleep. She looked down at her watch. It was nearing 7:00. She looked down at Raiun, smiled, then stepped on through into her classroom. The 7:00 bell rang moments later, and Raiun awoke with a start. He sat up, and looked in the doorway, noticing the classroom had now been lit. He saw Quistis, stood, and walked to her shyly. He scratched his head.
"Didn't mean to fall asleep and be in your way, Quistis," he said.
She frowned. She had asked him to call her Quistis, but around the students, he would need to call her Instructor. "I need to remind you to call me Instructor Trepe around my students."
He seemed embarrassed and blushed. "So sorry." His eyes had lit up when his face burned a bright red. He scratched his head as he noticed Quistis was staring at him, but she couldn't help but stare into his large green eyes. "Something wrong?"
Quistis blinked, shaking her back into reality. "I'm sorry." She remembered what he asked of previously. "So, you want to become an instructor?"
He nodded. "Yes, I do."
She crossed her arms. "Well, I'll have to perform a test. You have to teach the class for the day, and I'll instruct you a bit, but my job, for the most part, would be to watch you and see how you do with the students."
He frowned, and seemed a little unconfident. "I don't know."
She smiled, trying to reassure him. "You'll do fine. If you really want to be an instructor, you must learn how to communicate with the students first." She showed him the scedule as to what would happen in class today, and he studied over it. Minutes later, the students began to pile into the classroom as the 8:00 bell rang.
Quistis patted him on the back before moving to a chair at the end of the classroom, where she could observe him. "Good luck."
When everyone became situated into their chairs, Raiun stood from his and addressed the class. "My name is Raiun. I'll be instructing you today. I'm working on becoming an instructor."
He heard a voice from the back of the class. "What are YOU doing here, Raiun?" It was the notorious Seifer.
Raiun frowned. "For your information, SEIFER, I'm teaching today, so you're going to have to listen to me."
Quistis blinked, and was quite amazed by a few things. For one, she was surprised by Raiun's tone toward Seifer, for it caused Seifer to sit back down in his seat, and he ended up remaining quiet for a good while, but how did Raiun even know him?
The class dragged along smoothly, but in the middle of class time, Raiun couldn't help but notice Rinoa and Selphie passing notes to each other. "Ladies, may I see that note?"
Seifer grabbed it in the air when Rinoa had thrown it to Selphie. He opened it, and began reading it aloud, trying to fend off Rinoa from trying to grab the note back. "Hey, Selphie! This guy looks just like Squall! It's crazy. I really miss him, and this Raiun guy reminds me of him: his deep green eyes and long hair. He's so cute, but I still miss my.." Seifer hesitated, and then read especially loud "SQUALLY-WALLY!"
By this time, Rinoa had grabbed the note back, and crumpled it up, shoving it into her pocket. Her face was a deep red, which made Seifer just laugh harder, and she returned to her seat, lying her face down in her hands on her desk. Selphie scooted over to her, walked to the front, gave the note to Raiun, and returned to her seat as well.
The rest of the class proved to have no problems. By the end of class, everyone was anxious to get out the door, but Selphie stayed behind, remembering her detention she had that afternoon, and Seifer stayed as well.
Quistis bid Raiun a farewell, along with his high score. "You did an excellent job," she assured him.
He smiled meekly. "Thanks." He walked out, but not before glancing back at Seifer and making a stern face. Seifer turned the other way, and scoffed. Raiun left, and Quistis returned to her desk, telling both Selphie and Seifer about her discussion with Edea. "She discussed that I should be watching you, and not letting you have any fun."
"Sounds like Matron," Seifer mumbled, "to ruin all the fun."
Quistis frowned. "Don't speak ill of another instructor." She paused, then asked, "Seifer, how does Raiun know you?"
He shrugged casually. "We're brothers."
She was obviously shocked. "I didn't know you had a brother."
He was keeping his gaze away from her. "Mom and Dad couldn't live with another child 'cause it was too expensive, so they dropped me off at the orphanage, while they kept Raiun because he was the older and best-loved child." He appeared to be hurt.
Quistis began thinking: Could Seifer be such a trouble-maker because he was so insecure and jealous of Raiun? When Seifer first joined the orphanage, he was a fairly quiet child, and developed into a rotten one.
Her thoughts were interupted when Fujjin walked in through the door. Though, it was a bit difficult to enter with her large tummy. Quistis saw her, and seemed somewhat relieved. "There you are. Where have you been?"
Seifer stood from his seat, and quickly made his way to the front, and held Fujjin. "She's been in Section C for the last few days."
Quistis was concerned. "You needed surgery?"
Fujjin smiled. "The doctors figured I might have needed it because the fetus is growing so slowly, and they suspected maybe it was dying, but I just wasn't eating enough."
Quistis frowned. "Why weren't you?"
Fujjin took Seifer's hand into her own. "I've been in the hospital for such a long time, almost a month, and I was missing Seifer." Just as she finished her sentence, she heard a faint splashing sound. She looked down, and gasped. "My water broke!"
Seifer gasped as well. "Oh shoot, oh shoot! We need to get out of here and into Balamb!"
Quistis excused Seifer from detention, then said, "Head to the parking lot and get to Balamb by car. It'll be much faster." When they left the classroom, Seifer looked back to Quistis, who added "Good luck."
Selphie ran after them. "I wanna see the baby be born!"
The classroom was silent, then Quistis couldn't help but laugh a little. "I think Selphie got out of class so she wouldn't have detention," she thought to herself, but then her laughter quickly faded. "I hope Fujjin will be okay.."
(Git'r Done! I finally wrote something Oo;! Oh, and by the way, I'm still deciding on a name for Fujjin's baby. It's going to be a girl, so think up them girl names, kay? Don't tell me through the reviews. Email me at so it'll be a secret for the rest of the reviewers. Thanks)