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Chapter Fourteen
7:43 A.M.:
Sophia was in Seifer's dorm. Why? Only she knows......
"SEIFER!! WAKE UP!!" She jumped on his bed and sat on top of him.
"Wha?" Seifer opened up his eyes and sat up. "Oh. It's you. Why are you in here? Wait. How did you get in here? The door was locked."
"Well, I know how to pick locks and I'm in here 'cause I thought we could eat breakfast together and then go to the Training Center to train, and then maybe after that-"
"Hold ya horses, kiddo. Why are you all of a sudden making plans?"
"Well, if you don't wanna hang out with your own baby sister, then I guess you don't hafta." Sophia lowered her head.
Seifer couldn't stand seeing her like this...and she knew that..."Fine. You win. I'll come with you."
"Yes!!" She hopped off of Seifer and made her way towards the exit. "Hurry up and get ready. I'll meet ya outside." She left.
Seifer moaned as he quickly got dressed and left the room. He closed the door behind him.
"Sophia?"
"Yep?!" She popped up beside him, making him jump a bit. "C'mon!"
"I do believe she's had some coffee this mornin'." He ran his hand through his hair.
In the cafeteria; 7:51 A.M.:
"So what else do you have planned for the day?" Seifer asked his sister. He wasn't really hungry this morning so he had grabbed him a simple bowl of cereal.
"Well, I was hoping that after breakfast, we could train in the Training Center, then we could chat for a bit." She took a sip of her orange juice.
"Chat 'bout what?"
"Oh, ya know, stuff." She glanced around. "I guess everyone else is sleeping..." She didn't see Squall or the rest of the gang there. "I guess since it is a Saturday they can sleep in..."
Five minutes later, in the Training Center:
"How 'bout us two fight each other first?" Sophia spun her gunblade around. "I need a good fight anyway. Draconis was a bit easy." She complained.
"I guess it wouldn't hurt." Seifer also had his gunblade out.
"And plus, I think training with me will help you fight Ultimecia." She formed a fireball in her hand. "Ignus Globus!" She hurled it towards him.
Seifer blocked the attack with his gunblade, but he was thrown backwards.
"Ow." He stood back up. "Whatcha tryin' to do? Kill me?"
"Oh don't be such a baby, bro. You're lucky I ain't usin' my full power, then I'd more than likely kill ya." She hurled one fireball after another at him. He dodged the attacks, and ran towards her. "I don't think so, Seif." She flew upwards. "Haha! Now see if ya can hit me!"
"Ah, Sophia! Why'd ya hafta go up?!" He watched her fly around.
She giggled. Yep. She was defiantly having fun. "Because, silly, I'm a moving target!"
He groaned. "Sophia..."
"Hiya, guys!!" Selphie ran towards them.
"Hi, Selphie!" Sophia looked backwards at her. She should've paid attention to where she was flying 'cause she flew face first into a tree. "OW!!" She landed hard on her butt.
Seifer sighed. "Hello, Selphie."
"Um, whatcha doin'?"
"Well, we were supposed to be training, but I think now we should take a break." He glanced over at Sophia dusting herself off.
"I agree." She ran over and jumped on Seifer's back. "C'mon, now. Take me over there." She pointed over to a large tree several yards away from them. "See ya later, Selphie."
"See ya!" Selphie turned and skipped off.
Seifer carried Sophia over towards the tree. Once they were beside it, Sophia slid off his back and sat near it.
"Okay, let's begin talking." She patted the ground beside her. "Come. Sit."
Seifer sat down beside her. "I do believe you know about me, so I'm gonna ask about you. Tell me about your past."
"Oh......well...okay. Let's see, you know about Hyne taking care of me ever since I was a baby...um...when I was about ten, I gained my GF, Velox. When I was fifteen is when I found out that I had a brother, but I didn't find you until age seventeen, so I spent a lot of time searching for you." Something just now popped in Sophia's head. "Oh! And you won't believe what I found out at least a year ago."
"What?"
"Our parents. They're still alive and I know where they live." She stood up. "That's where we're headed next."
"Wait. Our parents?? But aren't they the ones who practically abandoned us?"
"Yeah, that's why I wanna go see 'em." She headed for the exit. "C'mon. They have a house in Deling City."
'I don't think this is such a good idea...' Seifer thought as he slowly followed her.
In front of a two-story house in Deling City; 10:33 A.M.:
Sophia knocked on the red door.
"Hold on!" Came the voice of a woman. The door opened and a woman with long, light brown hair put up in a ponytail stood in front of them. She was dressed in a long, tan dress and brown sandals. "Hello. May I help you?"
"Hiya, Mrs. Almasy." Sophia put her hands on her hips.
"Do I know you two?" Mrs. Almasy looked at both of them.
"Did you once have two kids?" Sophia asked her.
"Don't do this, kid." Seifer whispered in Sophia's ear.
"No, why?" Mrs. Almasy looked confused.
"Because we're your kids, mother. Sophia and Seifer." Sophia smiled. "Don't you remember us?"
"Honey!" Mrs. Almasy looked backwards at a man coming down the stairs. He had maize colored hair and was dressed in simply black pants and a white shirt.
"Yes, dear?"
"They say they are our children, dear." Mrs. Almasy looked very happy.
"Our children?" Mr. Almasy on the other hand didn't look to thrilled. "But we don't have any children."
"What?" Sophia, Seifer, and even Mrs. Almasy stared at him.
"Our children died when they were born." Mr. Almasy said to them.
"But we're your children..." Sophia shook her head. "How can you say that we died at birth when we are standing in front of you, quite alive I might add." She added in that sarcastic tone of voice.
"Listen, if you two don't leave us alone, I will call the cops." Mr. Almasy told them.
"No. We are your kids. Why are you saying that we're not?" Sophia couldn't understand why he was saying that. Mrs. Almasy had tears in her eyes.
"Because. You. Aren't. Our. Children. That slow enough for ya?" Mr. Almasy stared coldly at them.
"But-"
"No buts, girl. Now, leave us alone. I won't hesitate to call the cops."
"But-" Sophia never got to finish. The door was slammed shut. Tears swelled up in Sophia's eyes. "This doesn't make any sense... Why would he say that we're dead?"
"I don't know, but this is bullshit." Seifer started banging on the door. He was a bit ticked off.
The door opened. It was Mr. Almasy. "I thought I told you two to go away?"
"I'm sorry. I didn't hear that part." Seifer sounded really ticked off. "Ya know, if you were a true man, you'd be able to handle the children you abandoned coming back. But instead of taking it like a man, you decided to be an ass about it."
"Excuse me?" Mr. Almasy stared at him.
"Why can't you just handle the fact that your kids are back? Huh? Why?"
"Stay. Away. From. Us." Mr. Almasy slammed the door shut.
"C'mon, Sophie." Seifer gently grabbed Sophia's arm. "Let's just leave them alone, now. They obviously don't want us around."
Sophia nodded and allowed Seifer to drag her away from the house. She looked back at the house and saw Mrs. Almasy looking out of the window. She was crying. Sophia turned her head and paid attention to where she was walking.
