Hey! I haven't updated for a while because I've been so busy! And July 19th was my birthday, so Happy Birthday to me! And yay, this chappie gets a little more angsty.
Chapter 5: Miss World
Walking to the table, Squall and Rinoa noticed that the club had become exceedingly crowed.
Despite the loud crowed, you could still here Spike's voice on the microphone.
"Welcome to The Riot Room kids, tonight we have a terrific band performing so please, give a raging welcome to a few friends of mine, Graceful Kill!"
You could here the people in the crowd screaming and cheering for the band. Faye started playing her guitar and opened her mouth to the microphone.
"...I'm Miss world, somebody kill me. Kill me pills. No one cares..."
Squall and Rinoa sat down next to their friends at the table.
"Hey you guys, I'm going to the bar to get drinks now. Want anything specific?" Rinoa asked.
"Oh! Surprise me!" Zell said.
Squall gave him a weird look. "Yeah, whatever is fine..."
"Cool. Selphie, you're coming with me!" Rinoa stated.
"Ok." Selphie told her as she got up.
They walked up to the bar. "What will it be?" the bartender asked.
"A Cosmopolitan, 2 Margarita's, and a virgin Margarita please." Rinoa answered.
"Coming right up." he said.
They watched as he made the drinks. "Is it all right if I ordered you a virgin margarita? I mean, since it has no alcohol. Do you like them?" Rinoa asked.
"Oh yeah, I've never actually tasted them before. Hey, where were you and Squall a few minutes ago?" Selphie asked amusingly.
"Haha. We weren't doing anything. Actually, I ran into my horrible ex..." Rinoa told her.
"Oh. I see." Selphie said, almost disappointed.
"Here you go miss," The bartender said as he handed Rinoa the drinks.
"Thank you" Rinoa told him as she handed him a tip. "Here Selphie, you take yours and Zell's drink."
"Okie-dokie." Selphie smiled.
Selphie looked at her yellow Mickey-mouse watch. "3:00 AM. Zell, we should probably be leaving soon."
"Yeah...but I don't think Squall can drive...not like this." Zell answered still looking at Squall and Rinoa. "Man, they're smashed!"
Selphie giggled a little. "Yeah. Well, I guess I'm going to have to drive us home. I'm the only one who hasn't drank alcohol."
"Ok, let's go." He said as he helped Squall up, while Selphie did the same for Rinoa.
They walked through the club, to the parking lot and into the car. They put the two in the back seat, and Selphie put the keys into the ignition.
"You guys are staying at Squalls house, right?" Selphie asked turning to Zell.
"Yeah. His dad and step mom are out of town, so were safe. Rick and Ellone are home though, but I don't think they'll mind. Your staying at Rinoa's then?"
"Mhm. and I don't think Rinoa's aunt is going to be home tonight..."
They stopped at Squalls house and Zell got out of the car. He woke up Squall and said, "All right, see you guys later." and he walked off towards the immense dark house.
Selphie drove to the apartment. "Squall's just going to have to pick up his car tomorrow." She laughed.
Rinoa stumbled out of the back seat. She reached into her purse. "Where are my keys? Selphie, have you seen my keys? Maybe Squall has them..."
Selphie stared at her. She turned and started searching the back seat. "Found them." She answered.
"Oh, thank you Selphie. Your my best friend, I love you soooooooooooo much." Rinoa said hugging Selphie's waist.
"Uh, no problem Rin. Let's go upstairs now." Selphie half-laughed. She grabbed Rinoa's arm and helped her walk up the stairs.
As she was slowly heading up the stairs, Selphie heard what sounded like footsteps a bit behind them.
"Ok, it's nothing. It's just one of the tenants coming home at 3:30 AM. Nothing to worry about..." Selphie thought.
She started walking faster, just in case it wasn't. And the faster she walked, the faster the footsteps behind her walked. At last, they had reached Rinoa's apartment. Rinoa dug into her purse, looking for the keys. She pulled them out and began trying to hopelessly unlock the door. Finally Selphie just grabbed the keys from her and did it herself.
The Minute they got in the apartment, she slammed the door shut and locked all the locks.
"Selphie dear, why are you being so paranoid? Are you on drugs?" Rinoa slurred.
"No, Rinoa." Selphie began "I'm just a little uneasy. I thought I heard someone following us up hear, but I guess it was just my imag-"
A sudden pounding on the door interrupted her. "Open this door up you bitch! I want my fucking money!! I'm gonna kill you, you fucking whore!!" They heard a man scream.
"Fuck you!!! Fucking bastard! Faye's not here, and she don't owe you shit! So FUCK OFF!" Rinoa screamed back.
Selphie stood there in shock, thinking of what she could possibly do. "Rinoa, don't! Just call the cops!"
Rinoa got up off the floor. "We Can't! There's shit in here the cops can't see! Faye will get arrested and I'll have to move again." she said.
All of the sudden, there was a loud breaking and there was glass all over the floor. The man had punched the window and was now trying to break in.
The two girls ran into the kitchen. "Rinoa! What are we supposed to do?! Why isn't anyone in the building coming to help?!" Selphie screamed.
"I don't know! Everyone's either out or don't want to get involved!" Rinoa answered. "Here, call Zell and Squall"
Rinoa was now rummaging around in the kitchen drawer. She pulled out a knife as Selphie started yelling into the phone.
"Hello?! Squall?! Zell?! Come over here quick! Someone's trying to break in, and we need help come fast!" She suddenly dropped the phone. "Crap!"
"Hey, what was that?" Zell asked as Squall hurriedly get dressed.
"Get dressed! We have to go to Rinoa's. Selphie called me and said someone's breaking in or something and they needed help." Squall told him.
"Oh ok. Let's go." Zell said as they headed out the door.
"Get the fuck out you bastard!" Rinoa screamed as she threw a knife stabbing the man in the hand
"You bitch!" He screamed
"Faye doesn't love you anymore Adam!!! She doesn't have your fucking Tweak either!"
Suddenly a tall woman ran into the room, finally breaking down the door. "You bitch! I'm going to make you pay!!! Don't fucking hurt him!!!!!" The woman screamed, obviously high, as she jumped onto Rinoa.
"Get off me Lydia! You fucking whore, GET OFF!!!!!!!!" Rinoa yelled fighting the girl. Lydia slapped her in the face while Rinoa kneeing her in the stomach.
Squall came rushing into the room, trying to get Rinoa off of the girl, while Zell restrained Adam.
As soon as Lydia saw Squall, she ran off and flew down the stairs. They heard a car start and someone honking the horn. "Get down here Adam!" Lydia yelled.
Adam ran out of Zell's grasp and jumped down the stairs, then hopping into the car as it took off down the street.
They looked at the girls. Selphie was picking up pieces of glass, while Rinoa got out the vacuum cleaner.
"Now I have to clean all this up..." Rinoa said unenthusiastically.
"Uhh, we'll help" Squall said.
"Rinoa, who the hell were those people? Why would they do all of this?" Zell asked.
"Oh, that was just one of my aunts ex's. They were really involved, but he was an asshole and got her into slinging and introduced her to a lot of bad people. Including Lydia. Surprisingly, we used to be pretty close. " She answered nonchalantly "Faye's probably not going to be back tonight anyway so, whatever."
Zell just nodded, as they started cleaning up the rest of the mess.
It was now 5:53 AM. Everyone had fallen asleep after all of the cleaning. They were all sleeping soundly until someone's cell phone went off.
"...Hello?" Squall answered hazily.
"Squall! Where the hell are you?" the voice on the other end asked urgently.
"Oh, hey sis. Sorry, we were just helping clean up." he told her.
"Cleaning up what? Where are you?" Ellone was starting to become impatient.
"Call me back later, I have a headache." Squall said as he turned off the phone and went back to sleep.
Faye was now walking up the stairs, heading to the apartment. "Crap, I must of left my keys...I hope Rinoa's home" She thought aloud.
Faye Froze. She had now seen the broken door and window. ""What the fuck happened here?!" She shouted as she walked inside, waking everyone on the floor.
"Your finally home! Where the hell have you been?" Rinoa asked while she stood up.
"Never mind that, what happened?" Faye snapped.
"For your information, last night when we got home, we had a visitor. Do you know who that visitor was Faye?" Rinoa asked rhetorically.
"I...uh, I know I should have been here. I just-" Faye stammered.
"It was Adam and Lydia. And do you know what they were here for?!" Rinoa yet again asked, her voice becoming more hysterical.
"..." Was all Faye had to say.
"They were here for the fucking Meth. I know you have it too! I defended you! They could of killed Selphie and me, but you didn't give a damn. You were probably off at some guy's house." The argument between the two had now woken everyone else up. They were standing by the door to Rinoa's room, watching the scene unfold before them.
Faye smirked. "Your one to talk missy. Like you haven't had an ex involved with speed, or spent the night at someone's house. Your damn lucky I took you in after what your father did to you. I treat you fucking great compared to the shit he pulled, so before you think of talking like that to me again, you better be prepared to find somewhere else to stay, because I won't put up this shit anymore." Faye said as she stormed into the bathroom, grabbing a pack of cigarettes off the table as she walked by.
Rinoa stood there a moment, tears welling up in her eyes, not daring to look towards the others.
"Fine. If she wants me out of here, so be it. Cause I want out of here too." Rinoa said to no one in particular. They heard the door to her room slam shut.
"Whoa, intense. Now what?" Zell asked.
"I'm gonna go talk to Rinoa, you guys can go back home. We'll probably see you later anyway." Selphie told them.
"Yeah, ok. See ya." Squall said.
Selphie waved and headed off to Rinoa's room. She knocked on the door lightly. "Rin? It's me, can I comein?" She asked quietly
"Sure." she hared her answer.
"Are you ok?" Selphie looked at her.
"I'm fine. I'm sorry you had to see that." Rinoa answered gently.
"It's ok. Hey Rin?" Selphie began.
"Yeah?"
"Where are you gonna stay? Since your leaving and all..."
"I don't know. I know lots of people. I have lots of friends. I'll just ask if I can crash with them. If all else fails, I know one place I can definitely stay..." Rinoa said.
"Where's that?" Selphie asked curiously.
"With my ex-boyfriend. Seifer."
AN: Well, how do ya like it? I finally got more drama! I got just the inspiration I need. And I typed it at night. The best inspiration always comes at night. Ahem. Anyways.... Just review!