Vince: And I'm also sorry that it took me so long to update this. I promise to be better! Well, hope to be better anyway.
Vale: She wanted to start another story.
Vince: Only because I was depressed that my other story (A to Z) got taken down and I didn't have any of the backup files.
Fantasy Girl: She was depressed for a while.
Thor: Not only depressed, really pissed off as well. And complain-y, and generally tantrum-y.
Vale: She acts like she's pregnant. Which is onlya matter of time before she is now that she's married NYAHAHA! I'm gonna be an aunt. Tee hee.
Vince: Me? A mom? Pfft. Tch. Hah. You're funny. ...maybe. But not any time soon.
CHAPTER FOUR
By:
Vince (Saturn Angels)
Selphie made her way through Balamb Garden, skipping happily the entire way now that she knew the entire thing was just a giant, evil prank pulled by the headmaster and Quistis. Now she could rest easy, well as easy as one can when they have to share a room with Seifer Almasy...
She stuck out her tongue at the thought of one whole week of it, at the least, before pushing the thoughts out of her head. Right now her priority was to show those new students around Balamb! And maybe recruit them for the Garden Festival Committee. She'd heard they were cute so they'd for sure get a lot more people to join!
Stopping before she reached the cafeteria she realized that she had no idea what the students looked like seeing as she'd slept through the concert.
"Urgh!" she brought her palm to her forehead in a resounding slap, "I should have had Quisty introduce me! I won't be able to find them if I don't know what they look like." she pouted to herself before deciding she may as well just drown her sorrows in the cafeteria.
The brunette walked into the cafeteria a bit more glum than she had been just a few minutes previous. While she was waiting in the long line for the world renowned hotdogs of Balamb Garden she didn't notice all the hustle and bustle around her.
If she had she wouldn't have any trouble finding the new students, luckily for her Rinoa soon joined her in line, cutting in front of they annoyed people behind Selphie.
"Selphie!" squealed Rinoa happily as she tapped her friend on the shoulder, not noticing that she wasn't as lively as she usually was.
Selphie turned around and smiled brightly, forgetting her troubles almost instantly, "Heya Rinny." It wasn't often she and Rinoa spoke, especially now that Rinoa and Squall were a couple. Actually, in school they weren't all as close as they used to be. They'd drifted a little, sure they were always there for one another but... it just wasn't the same. But Selphie wouldn't let that fact bring down her mood that had just changed for the better, "What's cooking?"
Rinoa grinned, "I didn't see you at the concert!" she said, "So I figured you must've slept in, I heard what happened between you and Seifer and don't think too much of it. He's just a sheep in wolf's clothing, a big softy on the inside. But, apart from that, the concert wasn't really amazing since it wasn't really my style but the boy who played the guitar! Mm!"
With a giggle Selphie reminded Rinoa that she had a boyfriend who she loved very, very much.
Nodding Rinoa replied, "Yes, I can still look though Selphie. And I wasn't saying I'd like to go out with any of them. You know I love Squall, but I was thinking since you broke up with Irvine..." she grinned, knowing that Selphie would get what she was hinting at.
"Well..." Selphie thought about it for a few seconds, "I dunno. I want to meet them first. I was going to give them a tour around Balamb but I don't know what they look like or even where to begin looking!" Balamb usually seemed pretty small and quaint, but when you had to find someone it proved to be really, really difficult.
"Oh! Well, that's easy. Just look right."
Selphie complied and Rinoa quickly corrected herself, "Sorry, I meant my right, your left."
Again Selphie turned, trying to look as inconspicuous as possible as she looked to her left. They were pretty easy to spot, and she couldn't believe she hadn't noticed before. There was a flock of girls crowding around them, there were three of them from the looks of it, and all three were very good looking.
They made Irvine look like a sea-slug left in the sun to dry up and bake.
Or something to that effect anyway. Selphie was bad with examples.
As Selphie was staring at them, though she wouldn't call it staring- just trying to memorize their features (and one in particular), one of them (the one she happened to be paying most attention to) happened to glance up and catch her gaze. He didn't seem surprised to see Selphie watching him, in fact it was as if he had known that she had been looking at him and only now decided to acknowledge her.
She didn't quite know what came over her at the time, she couldn't tear her eyes away for some reason. Green met blue-gray and neither seemed to feel it necessary to look away. Or even have the decency to look embarrassed at being caught staring.
Rinoa smiled behind her hand, "I'm sensing chemistry!" she squealed delightedly before being forced to push Selphie further in the line. Though Selphie was content standing in the same spot... the guys behind her, in bad moods because of the newcomers, certainly weren't.
Now that their gazes were forced to separate and Selphie had come to her senses she was too embarrassed to chance a look at him again. She bit her nails, "Booyaka... he's so cute! Is he still looking over here?" she asked, finding her shoes to be very interesting.
Her dark-haired friend casually glanced over to the table where the transfer students, and every girl at Balamb (single or not), were. "No, he looked away and is talking with one of his friends." Rinoa looked back at Selphie with a wide smile, "He definitely likes you."
"No way." Selphie replied though she wasn't entirely convinced, why had he been looking at her so intently after all if he didn't like her? ...Wait. "Do I have something on my face?" she asked, she would die if she did.
Rinoa snorted, "No. That's not why he was staring at you Selphie so calm down. I think you should talk to him. Once, you know, the crowds go away a little." She tittered happily, "They're going to be soooo mad if you two get together."
Selphie wasn't sure why Rinoa was so happy about that, strange girl Rinoa Heartilly.
Finally reaching the front of the line Selphie tiptoed so the woman at the counter could hear her properly, "Two orders of hotdogs please."
"Sorry, Selphie. We're sold out." the woman said apologetically, "The next batch won't be ready for another hour."
Selphie pouted, "Well, that's okay. Thanks!" She and Rinoa left the line after Rinoa bought some water. "Do you want to sit at a table?" Rinoa asked, and Selphie didn't have anything else to do and so she shrugged and said, "Sure thing!"
The two sat in silence for a while, neither quite sure what to talk about seeing as Selphie's thoughts kept turning to a certain someone new to Balamb Garden. His hair was really nice too, it wasn't really short like Seifer's, a little longer than Squall's and darker. Almost black.
Speaking of Squall... she glanced up at Rinoa and figured she could go ahead and start a conversation, "So! How're you and Squall these days?"
Rinoa smiled in a distracted way, "Absolutely perfect." she sighed happily, "Everything's going really well. At first I thought maybe what we had was just puppy love, nothing really serious. But, it was our one year anniversary not too long ago and... I don't know. It might seem silly because of how young we are but I really think he's..." she trailed off and Selphie took it upon herself to finish the other's sentence.
"The one?"
Rinoa nodded, "Exactly." she smiled again, a faint blush tinging her cheeks, "I don't know. It sounds silly but... when I'm with him I'm just so happy, and when he's not with me it's like a part of me is missing. And whenever's he's away on a SeeD mission I get so worried... what if something were to happen to him?" she questioned worriedly, "I don't want anything to ever happen to him."
Selphie smiled sadly, she had felt that with Irvine. Only with Rinoa and Squall it was different, because Squall felt the same about Rinoa as she did for him. And Irvine, obviously didn't. She was just a number to him, a conquered obstacle.
Grr, that bastard!
She was really glad now that it was ended with him.
It brought her back to her senses. It made her realize that she'd been blinded by feelings she'd thought she had. They weren't real feelings. She'd just been so wrapped up in her own world that she wanted it to be like a fairy tale.
And he was her night in shining armor.
Though his armor had tarnished and she'd seen him for what he was. A playboy, just as everyone had said he was.
But that was enough of Irvine. Right now there was a certain someone walking towards her who seemed to be much, much better.
Rinoa coughed behind her hand and said, "I suddenly remembered something I had to do! Nice chatting with you Selph, I'll...uh... visit you later, hm?" With a wave Rinoa walked out of the cafeteria, peering behind her ever so often before she was gone completely.
"Hi." Selphie offered, glad she was outgoing and didn't sound as nervous as she felt.
"Hello." Was the reply from the dark-haired, absolutely gorgeous stranger.
"Um... did you want to sit down?" she blurted.
"Actually I just came over to give you this," he said giving her his tray of untouched hot dogs, "What's your name?" he asked.
"Selphie Tilmitt!" she said proudly, "President of the Garden Festival Committee." she added, it was one of those things that just had to be said. "And you don't have to give me those, they're really good and more will be out soon- -"
He smiled and cut her rambling off short, "Don't worry about it. You can have them, believe me I've had more than enough. My name is Jasper by the way." he introduced himself with a smile, "Jasper Lumis. I'm new here. Anyway I just wanted to say hi, which I've done and if you'll excuse me I've got something I need to do."
He left Selphie at that moment and she only vaguely remembered all that had been said. His eyes were just so... striking. Dark hair, pale skin, eyes the color of the sea after a storm... "Booyaka." she mumbled to herself, and as soon as he was out of sight she slumped over onto the table.
She just hoped she hadn't made a gigantic fool of herself.
"I see Sleeping Beauty has found her prince." a familiar feminine voice said behind the brunette.
Without turning Selphie answered, "Heya Quisty! Was that one of the band guys?" she asked. Quistis nodded and said, "He certainly was."
"Booyaka." Selphie repeated to herself. "What chance to I have with a guy like him?"
"Slim to none, Tilmitt." a masculine voice said rather close to the table.
"Argh! Go away Seifer!" Selphie said sticking her tongue out, "You're just jealous!"
"Of what?"
"Him. All the girls in Garden are all over him and now no one's giving you any attention."
"If all the girls in Garden are in love with him, what makes you think he'd choose you over them?"
"Seifer!" Quistis reprimanded him. Obviously he and Selphie would need a lifetime to be able to at least be on reasonable terms, "That's no way to behave towards a classmate. Apologize."
"No, it's all right. Seifer's right. Even if he was a complete JERK about it!" she said, loud emphasis on 'jerk' which caused a few heads to turn. "He's just a big meanie and, and, and..." she couldn't think of anything else to say so she stormed out of the cafeteria.
Just when she was getting used to him, maybe even starting to like him.
Not LIKE like him of course. A friendly kind of like.
Quistis looked exasperated and Seifer seemed nonchalant about the ordeal that just passed.
"Can't you two just play nice?" Quistis asked with a sad sigh.
Seifer shrugged and went to find something to do to pass the time. Now he was in a bad mood, and the annoying part was he knew he had caused his own bad mood. But couldn't explain why he'd said those things to Selphie, sure, he liked to torment her but...
...well, now wasn't the time to think about that.
-End Chapter Four-
Vince: Sorry that took so long! Hope you like it, there will be more Selphie/Seifer in the next chapter, more light-heartedness, general humor and what not... and you know. The stuff you actually WANT to read. Hopefully. Please review to tell me what you think :) I'm trying to be a bit more descriptive with my writing so... if you don't like it just tell me.