: - : While You Were Out FF8 Style : - :
: - : The Beginning : - :
It was a day as any other at Balamb Garden...or was it? Seifer Almasy made his way through the Garden's hallways with his luggage. The sound of birds chirping could be heard, and the morning sun peaked through the windows. Making his way down to the parking lot, Seifer mumbled slightly to himself.
"All expenses paid trip...what the hell is a vacation when you wake up at four in the morning?! Winhil! Winhil...not even Esthar...not even Dollet...but Winhil...," A hidden camera zoomed in, as he loaded his things in the back of a standard garden car. He cursed incoherently as his trench coat got caught in the back of the truck when he went to close it. After a bit of fumbling, the car sped out of the Garden.
"Welcome to While You Were Out! The show that makes over less then great rooms while the owner is away,"
A fake spirited lady walked down the Garden hallways, she was fairly short and wore a pair of loose tan capris, some black sandals almost falling off of her. She was also clad in a regular white top and large blue zip up sweater. Her black hair was pulled tightly into two half ponytails on both sides of her head.
"This is a very special episode of While You Were Out, because here we are at Balamb Garden! For the next two days, we will be redoing a dorm room that needs a lot of work,"
Ashley walked into the cafeteria; the place was loud and noisy with much commotion as practically everyone in the Garden was there. The new host slightly tripped over the floor but kept walking.
"We convinced Seifer Almasy that he had won an all expenses paid trip to Winhil for two days, what he doesn't know is while he's away, some of his closest friends will be making over his room,"
Squall, Rinoa, and Quistis came into view. Rinoa had an evil glint in her eye, Squall stood next to her, an almost amusing expression on his face. Quistis just smiled politely.
"Here we have three of Seifer's closest friends, Commander Squall Leonhart, his fiance, Rinoa Heartilly, and Instructor Quistis Trepe," Ashley gestured towards them, looking suspicious as to why they seemed amused.
"Joining us later will be Zell Dincht, Irvine Kinneas, and Selphie Tilmitt," Ashley walked over to stand next to the three.
"Now normally, we wouldn't have this many people joining us to help redesign. But in this case, we made an exception since all of them are so close with Mr. Almasy,"
"Hey wait a minute, we are not at all close with Seifer-" Quistis piped in. Rinoa quickly elbowed her.
"Yes we are, isn't that right Squall?" Squall just nodded, a smug smile on his face.
"So tell us, Squall, Rinoa, Quistis, why do you want to do this for Seifer?"
Quistis went to answer but Squall got to it first.
"Well, he's done so much to us; I mean for us, he really deserves this!"
"Alright let's head off to Seifer's dorm to see what designer, Pheobe Ishcittles has in store for his room," Ashley began walking in the direction of the dorm rooms while Rinoa and Squall tripped over each other trying to get there first. Quistis just shook her head, confused.
Pheobe was already there; she had many supplies with her and was measuring the walls. Squall, Rinoa, and Quistis all walked in, getting there before Ashley. Rinoa walked around, eyeing the place.
"Wow this place is totally....CLEAN?!" She paced around examining everything.
It was very basic, and had only a few major pieces of furniture with a few pictures of the 'posse' and some miniature swords.
"Oh, it's not big deal, I've been here before-" Quistis replied calmly.
Rinoa and Squall questionably glanced at her.
"Right, since he had that thing and I had that thing and had to help him with that thing,"
Squall shrugged at Rinoa and went to see the bathroom. Rinoa sat on Seifer's bed, admiring his silk black bed spread and pillows. Pheobe finally quit what she was doing and snapped to gain everyone's attention.
"My name is Pheobe Ishcittles, I am a designer and no one should question me. Further more, love and bunnies,"
Startled, Rinoa, Quistis, Ashley, and Squall all gathered around.
"This place shall gleam like a steaming pile of chocobo poop on a hot august day,"
Ashley answered everyone's question by whispering, "She escaped from an insane asylum,"
"So friends of Seefer, what does he like?"
"Exactly it's Seifer, and he like's modern-" Quistis began only to be cut off by Squall's hand.
"He likes pink, and teddy bears, and he really really likes dolls!" Rinoa finished.
Pheobe suddenly became very excited.
"WONDERFUL! A PALACE OF LOVE AND A WORLD OF PINK!"
Squall let out a small chuckled while Rinoa looked like she was about to burst.
"But Seifer doesn-" Quistis defended again only to be smacked in the back of her head by Zell. Irvine, Selphie, and Zell all came closer. She scowled at the new arrival of the three.
"Quisty, aren't you forgetting...Seifer loves this stuff," Irvine added, giving her a wink.
Quistis finally understood and a scowl came to her face.
"Fine, but I had nothing to do with this, besides, I love se-"
Everyone looked at her intently.
"I love Seafood; in fact I'll go get some now, bye!"
"Cya! Pick me up some hotdogs alright!" Zell waved.
Pheobe came back in the room, no one seemed to notice she even left. She had a few buckets of paint in her hand and some bags of other odd items.
"Ready to see?"
"YES!" everyone replied at the same time.
Pheobe dumped the bags revealing tons of fuzzy toys and barbies, and other girly stuff. She then took the paint can and opened it...revealing a bright neon pink.
Ashley's eyes went wide and she raised an eyebrow.
"Righttt...well, we have two days, so let's get to work!"
Meanwhile in Winhil...
Seifer, looking miserable entered the small town of Winhil, if it could even be called that. An old man sat on the porch of an old house, the only sound anywhere was the creaking of his chair. Other than that, it was all vacant and the buildings looked ancient. He was more than just really close to leaving right then. However, seeing a nearby pub he decided to kill some of his boredom.
There was only a few people there, most of them old men who had nothing better to do. Seifer slumped down in a nearby stool near the counter. A middle aged waitress approached, underneath her red vest, a shirt that read 'While You Were Out' was hidden away.
"Something's peachy in this town...,"
Lady Eclipse: There it is. The first chapter! It's somewhat short, but whaddya think? Hehe I need reviews and ideas so puh-lease? You know what to do. ;)
:-: Disclaimer for all Chapters :-: I do not eat green eggs and ham, I do not eat them sam I am. I would not eat them in a box, I would not eat them with a fox and so I would not claim the trademarks of Squaresoft-Enix as my own for they make money as I do not, now I shall leave and eat some broccoli I have recently bought. bows