Chapter 2

Balamb Garden: Library

Irvine sat in the Library, checking out all the hot girls walking by or reading. Whenever an instructor came by he would turn to his book, pretending to read. Once the instructor left, he would return to the girls. As he saw each one he would rate every one of them. He rated them by hot, sexy, hot sexy, attractive hot, attractive sexy, and attractive hot sexy. Though the last one was very rare, and of course, he'd find the opportunity to ask that girl out. Irvine just sat there checking out every single girl. He even found an instructor hot, well besides Quistis that is. He left the library, following a couple of girls.

"My oh my, these ladies look fine."

Balamb Garden: Quad

Selphie kept walking over to people that were walking around in the Quad. She's was in need of help since Irvine and Zell were too lazy to come to rehearsal.

"Please help with the festival?"
"No thanks, I'm already busy."
"Doing what?"
"Um, uh, well. Oh look at the time, I must go now."
"Hey wait!"

The student was long gone already. Selphie was furious now. If anyone bothered her she would pulverize them. A sudden tap on the shoulder just triggered her anger and she turned and pounced on the person behind her.

"What do you want!"
"Whoa Selphie! Calm down! It's me Zell!"
"Oh hey Zell! Why are you here?"
"I'm here to rehearse, remember?"
"Oh yeah! I forgot!"
"You forgetting about rehearsal? Are you okay?"
"No not really."

Zell stood there quite surprised to see his brown haired friend forget about rehearsal. Selphie seemed to never forget things but now it seemed things had change. As for Squall and Rinoa, they continued to walk around the main area.

Balamb Garden: Main Area

"Squall, isn't this romantic?"
"No, not really."
"What has happened to you? First you were mean, then kind now you're mean again."
"I don't know…people change."
"Well, your rudeness is ruining our romantic walk."
"Well I'm sorry but there is nothing I can do to change it."

Rinoa let go of Squall's arm and looked at him with a furious look upon her white face.

"Oh yes there is! You can change it! Whether you like it or not!"

This attitude of his just made her from kind to anger. She ran up to him and stood in his way, looking at him with a face that could scare even a vampire.

"Hey, Rinoa calm down."
"Calm down! Why don't you calm down!"
"Well, I can't."
"See what I mean!"
"No, I actually don't see it."
"Squall! You're so stupid! Why can't you focus for once! Why really, I may-"

The angered Rinoa collapsed to the floor, unconscious. Squall stood there for a moment, just staring at her. It took a while but he then figured it out.

'RINOA!"

He picked her up and ran to the infirmary, yelling at everyone to get out of his path. the ignorant Squall ran by, running past those who had no care for what happened. He made it to the infirmary and placed her on the bed, though not seeing the doctor in sight.

"Oh man! What now!"

He paced back and forth, worried and curious on what to do. He left the infirmary to retrieve Selphie, hoping that she would know what to do. Squall ran with all his might, running past students once more and entering the quad.

Balamb Garden: Quad

He ran down the stairs colliding into people for a moment and getting up as quickly as possible. He found Selphie along with Zell, the both of them practicing their instruments. Zell was playing around with his guitar while Selphie played with her flute. She stopped practicing and placed her flute on an amplifier. She noticed that Zell was just having fun instead of practicing. The girl went up to him, a bit annoyed with his actions.

"Zell!"
"What! What did I do now!"
"You're not practicing only playing around. Now come on, get serious with this."
"All right Selphie. I'll be serious about this."
"Thank you."

Selphie went back to her spot and picked up her flute. Just as she was about to practice with Zell, Squall interrupted the session.

"SELPHIE!"
"What! What is it Squall!"
"It's rinoa! Sh-Sh-Sh-She-"
"She died! Oh no! Rinoa! How could you go and leave Quistis and I with that pervert! Why! Why! WHY!"

Zell stood there, seeing Selphie cry as she collapsed to the floor. He turned his attention to Squall, trying his best to ignore Selphie.

"So seriously Squall. What is it?"
"Rinoa and I were walking and all of a sudden she just collapsed."
"Is that all?"
"Yeah…"
"Oh ok then. Never mind."

Selphie stopped crying right when she heard Zell's statement. The girl stood up, wiped her tears and turned to the fool.

"Never mind! That's all you can say!"
"Yeah, why not?"
"Rinoa's dead! Get that through your thick head you moron!"
"No she's not, she passed out."
"She did? But Squall said-"
"He said she collapsed in the middle of their walk. Weren't you listening?"
"No. I was too busy mourning for rinoa."

Zell placed his guitar and rolled his eyes. He got off the stage and started to head to the Infirmary.

"Zell, where are you going?"
"I'm going to check on Rinoa."
"Oh, well I'm coming with you."

Squall turned his direction to Selphie who seemed confused on what was going on.

"You coming Selphie?"
"Sure! I'll come."

So Squall and Selphie caught up with Zell on their way to the Infirmary to check on Rinoa.