Prince Squall
LMY: Another chapter.
Zell: Is that all you're going to say?
LMY: Yeah. Right now all I'm only thinking about the story.
Zell: That makes sense.
Chapter Four
Irvine and Leon walked side-by-side. Irvine was trying to help Leon learn as much as possible before they got their boat to Esther. "Your father is King Laguna. Your mother's name was Raine. You had an older sister called Ellone. She was three years older than you. Your mother and sister both died when they tried to escape the bombs. You look a lot more like your mum but then again so did Ellone. What else is there?" Irvine lifted his finger to his lips in a thinking pose.
"Irvine, I think that's all you really can tell him." Zell said as he sat on his case waiting till he could finally get on the boat. "Hey Irvine can you look after my bags?"
"Sure but why?" Irvine asked curiously.
"I need to buy something." Zell stated flatly. Irvine knew with that tone Zell wasn't going to tell him anything else. Zell stood up and walked away. Leon watched Zell's retreating back. When it was out of sight he turned to Irvine.
"He was lying wasn't he? When he said he was bi. Why?" Asked Leon.
Irvine smiled at the shorter brunette. "You're very perceptive, you know that? I'm not sure if I should say anything."
"Why not?"
"Zell didn't want me to. It wouldn't feel right going against his wishes."
"But you have basically told me that I was kind of right."
"Okay. Zell's gay, which means he finds only men attractive. He was worried that you would freak out about it."
"It d-doesn't bother m-me." Stuttered Leon.
Irvine raised an eyebrow. "Really?"
"Okay so maybe a little but it's not like a won't talk to him. It would help if he wasn't so… bossy."
Irvine laughed. "Well Zell thinks that you're acting really cold towards him. He thinks that if he told you the truth then you would be even colder to him."
"I am not cold to him." Said Leon crossing his arms.
Irvine chuckled. "Really?" Irvine was about to say more when Zell returned with a few bags.
"Did I interrupt something?" Asked Zell. The two brunettes shook their heads. "Okay then. I fixed the passports. So we won't have to worry about not getting on this boat." The queue slowly went down and the three found their room with a bunk bed and a mattress on the floor.
"I get top bunk!" Shouted Irvine.
"How old are you again?" Asked Zell while rolling his eyes. "Fine. Leon you can have the bed. I'll sleep on the mattress."
Leon looked at Zell slightly shocked. "Ah… thanks." He said shyly.
Zell turned to face him, smiling slightly. "No problem."
Irvine sat on the edge of the bed. "Right. Leon you need to learn to dance. And Zell and me are going to teach you."
"Um… Where? It's kind of small in here to dance." Said Leon looking around at their room.
"We can do it on the deck. Here." Zell passed Leon the carrier bag he was holding.
Leon took it. "What is it?" He looked inside and saw some dark clothing.
"It's clothes. I thought you might have wanted to wear something other than rags. I hope it fits. I had to guess what size you were." Leon nodded and smiled in thanks to Zell. "Get changed and we'll meet you on the deck."
Zell left the room. Irvine stayed there sitting on the bed smiling. Zell came back in and pulled Irvine up, which made the taller man hit his head, through his hat, off the top bunk. "Oww. I was only watching." Said Irvine while he lifted his hat and rubbed his head.
"What would Seifer say? Anyway leave Leon to get changed in peace." Zell pulled Irvine out and Leon locked the door.
Leon pulled out all the clothes from the bag. There was a pair of dark brown leather trousers that he liked the feel of. He took of all his rugged clothes, only leaving his boxers on. He put the trousers on and felt that they weren't too tight. There were three belts in the bag. 'Why three?' Thought Leon. He shrugged and put all three on so that they criss-crossed each other. He lifted up the grey t-shirt and put it on. The last piece of clothing was a dark brown leather jacket with a fur collar. He put it on and looked at himself. 'Pretty cool.' He pulled his ponytail so his hair lay over the back of the jacket. 'I really should get my haircut. Soon.' He thought.
Leon unlocked the door and slowly walked up the stairs and found Irvine and Zell leaning against the rail bar; talking. Leon decided to listen in for a little bit.
"So who's going to help him learn to dance?" Asked Zell.
"You are." Irvine said as he turned his head to smile at Zell.
Zell glared back. "Why me?"
"Because you're the smallest and the girl tends to be smaller."
"Why does everything I to do with me being short? I'm small so sue me." Zell said as he stood up straight and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Even if we did sue you we wouldn't get very much." Leon said as he walked towards the pair. Zell turned to face Leon and was about to say something, but stopped. "Do you guys like it?" Asked Leon.
"It's very nice." Said Irvine with a smirk. "Zell?"
Zell nodded dumbly. "Yeah it's suits you." He shook his head to clear it. Zell laughed a little bit.
"What?" Asked Leon.
"You were only to pick one of the belts out. But the three looks great too." Zell smiled and walked up to Leon. Zell put his hands around Leon's neck.
"What are you doing?" Asked Leon nervously.
Zell pulled at Leon's neck so that it was over the t-shirt and not under. "I saw you playing with something after your top. So I guessed you were wearing a necklace." Zell looked at the Lion necklace. "It's nice." Zell took a step back. "And it looks even better in full view."
"Thanks" Leon said shyly.
"No problem." Zell stepped forward again. "So, anyway, am I going to teach you to dance?"
"Okay." Leon let Zell take his hand. Zell walked into the middle of the deck with Leon. Zell stood in front of Leon and put on of Leon's hand on to his waist. The blonde took Leon's other hand in his. Zell put his other hand on Leon shoulder.
"I'm going to teach you how to Waltz. It's fairly easy. I'm going to count to three each time. All you have to do is follow my lead." Leon nodded. "Okay. One, two, three. One, two, three." Zell continued to count but stopped after Leon started to get the hang of it. Zell smiled up at Leon. "Well done."
"Thanks. I feel like I've done this before."
"Do you want to try and lead?" Asked Zell. Leon nodded. Leon started to lead and counted in his head.
After a while me stopped counting and was just dancing. While he danced he started to think about Zell. 'I should tell him I know. I wouldn't feel right if I didn't tell him.' He thought. "Umm… Zell?"
"Yes?" Zell looked up at Leon. His pretty blue eyes sparkled. 'Hold on when did I think his eyes were pretty.' Leon mentally shook his head. "Irvine told me that you're gay."
Zell eyes widened. "That bastard. I'll kill him." Zell was about to move away when Leon pulled him back to dance again.
"Don't worry about it." Zell stayed and they started to dance again. "Were you worried that it would scare me away?" Leon asked as he tried to get Zell to look at him.
Zell looked up. "Yeah. You didn't know anything so I thought it might have freaked you out."
Leon smiled slightly at Zell. "Well it hasn't."
Zell smiled back. "Good." They stopped the dance and broken apart. "I think you don't need any more tutoring in dancing. You seem to know it already." Leon nodded and the walked over to Irvine.
"It's getting late. Do you want to hit the sack?" Asked Irvine. The other nodded and they headed into their cabin. "Now Zell don't scare Leon with your normal sleeping habits." Said Irvine.
"Shut up." Came Zell's reply as he took off his t-shirt.
"What is talking about?" Leon asked Zell.
"Irvine is being a pervert. Normally when I sleep it's in the nude, but with company or sharing a room I just wear my boxers. Is that okay?"
Leon nodded. "That's what I normally do anyway."
"Oh. Well at least your extrovert like Irvine. He'll sleep in the nude and walk around in the nude no matter where he is." Said Zell. Leon took off his jacket and his t-shirt.
"Yeah but what Zell isn't telling you is the he gets a hard on every time I walk around like that." Irvine said playfully as he took off his long jacket.
Zell mouth practically fell to the floor. "I do NOT! You have to have a nice ass before I would start checking you out."
Irvine took off his top. Leon undid and took off all his belts. "So that means you have been checking me out. I never knew you cared." Irvine said dramatically. Zell punched Irvine lightly on the arm.
Leon smiled at the pair. "You two are very close."
Irvine and Zell looked at Leon. "Well we've grown up together." Said Irvine.
"Yeah. The five of us." Zell smiled.
"Five?" Asked Leon slightly confused.
"Yeah. Me, Irvine, Seifer and two others. We all grew up together. You'll meet Seifer and the other two at Esther." Said Zell. Leon nodded.
"Anyway For Leon I will wear my boxer while sleeping. Happy Zell?" Irvine asked the blonde.
"Very." The three got ready for bed and went into there own beds. Mitshi jumped on to Leon's bed and fell asleep at Leon's head. Zell was the first to fall asleep. The Irvine and Leon fell asleep a little bit later.
Rinoa opened her eyes. "Sweet dreams dear Prince. I'll make sure you don't wake up from them." Rinoa closed her eyes again and used all her power to reach the inside of Leon's mind.
Leon stood up from the picnic mat he was sitting on and stretched. He looked around the garden full of beautiful red roses. He walked along the path to a shallow river.
Leon, sleepwalking, rose from his bed and stretched. He walked over to the door and over opened the door. He walked out and down the corridor.
Leon walked until he saw a family swimming in the river. He waved to them and they shouted for him to join them.
Leon walked up the flight on stairs to the deck and waved. He walked to the rail and held on to it.
Leon walked on to a ridge to jump into the river.
Leon climbed on to the rail.
Inside the room Mitshi had woken up and couldn't find Leon. The little bird sensed something was wrong and started to 'wark', loudly. "Wark." No one moved. "Wark!" Still no one moved. "WARK!" Zell jumped out of his sheets, blinking the sleep out of his eyes. He saw Mitshi making a lot of noise and looking worried? If that was possible for a bird to look worried. Zell noticed that there was nobody sleeping on Leon's bed.
"Leon!" Zell jumped to the door and pulled it open and ran to the stairs. "Leon!" Zell came onto the deck. Leon stood on the rail with his eyes closed, smiling. Zell ran forward to Leon and wrapped his arms around Leon's waist to pull him to the deck.
Leon felt arms around his waist and looked around. There was a demon with an evil smirk on its face. Leon punched it in the face.
Zell pulled Leon's onto the flat deck. Leon punched Zell in the face. Zell held his own cheek in one hand and with the other slapped Leon across the face. Leon snapped out of his sleepwalking and stared at Zell. "Zell?" Zell nodded and moved his hand away from his cheek. Leon winced at the red mark. "Did I do that?" Asked Leon. Zell nodded again. "And you?" Leon touched his own cheek, which was stinging. "Did you bitch slap me?" Leon asked with a slightly smile.
"Yeah." Said Zell. "You were about to jump of the boat."
Leon's eyes widened. "Oh. Thanks Zell." Leon looked at the mark he had left on Zell's untattooed cheek. "I'm sorry."
Zell took Leon's hand. "It's okay." Zell lead Leon, by the hand, back to their room. "It's cold out there."
Leon nodded. "Yeah." When they got back to the room Zell made sure Leon was okay in his bed before the blonde went to his own. "Night Zell."
Zell pulled the covers up to his chin. "Night Leon."
Rinoa opened her eyes, furious. "I will get you Squall. No matter WHAT!" Rinoa stormed out of her room heading for who know where.
LMY: I'm so sorry it's so late. I have no excuse. I'm so sorry. I just hope you can forgive me and review. I'm soooo sorry.
Zell: If you keep saying sorry you going to make yourself say sorry out loud.
LMY: I know but I don't really care. I'M SO SORRY. I should hit my head on a wall while saying 'Prince Squall' so I remember to write this story.
Squall: Ooookay. While she is away giving herself concussion please do review. She's written part of the next chapter already so it won't take as long as this one did. I apologise for her lack of a brain to remember this story. I'm personally enjoying it. Anyway, review please.