The Delinquent
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Squall sighed but didn't persist the matter. He was used to there antics, hell he was even more used to his own. He couldn't deny the fact that lawn ornaments were very appealing. It was nearly as bad as solar lights… nothing was more alluring than solar lights.
Rinoa approached her school the next day with a fair bit of trepidation, it wasn't that she was worried about the people or the teachers or anything else that she thought that she would be worried about today, it was more that she was scared the school knew who ripped them off and were going to pull her up about it.
She didn't care if they suspended her, in fact she'd be glad for the rest, it was more the fact that they'd tell her father. He was a stern disciplinary and although she would voice her opinion on any occasion if they were arguing, that didn't mean that she wasn't just a little bit scared of him.
She'd felt the force of his anger a couple of times before when she went a bit too far and it wasn't something that she wanted to repeat.
She spotted Squall's car nearly immediately. It did stick out. She wondered whether he couldn't afford a nicer car or whether it was the fact that he didn't want one. He did seem like the kind of guy that wanted to be part of a minority and having a shitty car definitely put him in that position.
She finally got to her home room and noticed quite a bit of chaos going on outside it. The popular kids were all standing in the corridor talking quite loudly and throwing Squall and Selphie the occasional glare. Squall and Selphie leaned against the wall on the far side of the hallway from the room, small smirks apparent on both of their lips.
Selphie was trying to hide hers desperately and it was blatantly obvious that she was trying not to laugh. There was a strange glimmer in Squall's eyes that Rinoa had never seen on anyone else in her life. It was as if he had just invented a revolutionary machine that would save the world and he was dreadfully proud of himself.
Rinoa stood still for a couple of seconds, not really sure where she should go. On the one hand she had a couple of people in that group that she'd had lunch with and would welcome her. On the other she did feel that she knew Squall and Selphie better and felt that she got along with them a lot better. But she didn't really want to be caught up in the wrong situation and hanging out with them could/would put her in that position.
In the end she decided that there wasn't really any decision to make, she enjoyed Squall and Selphie's company more and felt more welcomed by them that she ever had.
"Hey." She said as she approached them.
She stood in front of them, choosing not to lean against the wall.
"Morning camper." Selphie said exuberantly.
Rinoa was shocked that she had any energy at 8:30 in the morning. Squall, who seemed much more of a late afternoon sort of person just nodded in her general direction.
"What happened here?" Rinoa asked innocently.
"I don't know, someone fucked up the classroom." Selphie giggled.
Rinoa turned around and stared at the classroom, absolute shock was written all over her face, she looked as though she'd just found out her pet dog had been run over by a truck.
Then the teacher approached, anger was absolutely seething from him and he looked like he was about to blow up. He walked in his classroom and the howl that came out of his mouth damn near vibrated throughout the whole school. In fact Rinoa found out later that day that someone on the other side of the school actually heard that howl.
Rinoa managed to get a peek inside the class and had no idea that someone could fuck something up so quickly.
The white board that used to be at the front of the class had been torn down and shattered into about a million pieces, every single desk in that classroom had been tipped over and all sorts of things poured over the contents inside. There was a dildo glued to the teachers chair and porno was spread all across the room.
His desk had been spray painted all over with things such as: necrophilia lover! And bestiality freak. There was a fan at the top of the roof with open condoms pinned to the blades, it was going so they were outstretched and circling with the fan.
Rinoa gasped, if that was what she noticed in a couple of seconds she was very curious what it would be like on closer inspection.
"You're fucking sick." Rinoa whispered at Selphie.
"He was trying to make me waste my entire lunch time scraping off already been chewed chewing gum! Now that's fucking sick!" Selphie whispered back.
Lunch time
Rinoa brought her tray over to Squall and co. so far today she'd hung out with them in the classes that she had with them. Which she noticed was a fair bit. A couple she didn't have anyone but had met a couple of people that weren't as shallow as most of the populace at this school.
Quistis gave her tray a disgusted look. She shook her head and nudged Seifer, who was located beside her.
"Oh hell no, don't eat that shit!" Seifer warned.
"Why?" Rinoa asked, looking fairly confused. "Whats wrong with it?"
"Just six months ago Irvine found a dead rat in some of the coleslaw buckets. Him and Zell were in there trying to steal food before they had to go to fifth period." Seifer explained.
Rinoa gave her food the same disgusted look that Quistis had and pushed her tray away from her. At that instant Zell sat down, he looked almost scared the instant he had.
"Nah serious get that shit off the table. I don't want the black plague or something!"
Selphie rolled her eyes and dropped the tray on the floor. She handed Rinoa an apple out of her side bag and smiled. Rinoa smiled back but at the same time was stunned that she'd just discarded the tray on the floor. One of the teachers spotted her doing it and walked very quickly over to the group. By the time he'd got there everyone was seated and already talking about something else.
"Selphie, come with me." The teacher said loudly earning him the attention of everyone in the group.
Everyone thought it was about the mission last night. They quite regularly got everyone together separately so that they could see if there were different stories. It was a lot easier to have the same story when you're together.
"Excuse me sir but what is this regarding." Quistis stood up and said.
Rinoa admired her confidence. She didn't stutter or bat an eyelid as she said it. It was obvious that she never let any kind of authority seem better than her.
"Not that it's any of your business Miss Trepe but you see this tray on the floor!" he said back, obviously a little bit angered by her superior tone.
"Hey, you can't penalize me for protesting!" Selphie exclaimed.
"And just what are you protesting?"
"How shitty this food is. It's a health hazard! You couldn't pay me to eat that!"
"Yeah, maybe we should just ring the food storing healthy place thing." Zell added, also standing up.
Quistis groaned quietly and made a mental note that she had to educate Zell on how to speak English, it was apparent that he had absolutely no idea.
"I don't care, now your going to clean this up or I'm going to have to reprimand all your friends as well." The teacher threatened.
Rinoa was astonished, she'd never seen teachers talk down to people so blatantly before.
Selphie glared at the man, obviously past her anger level, this being a nice way of saying that she looked more pissed off than any person of her happiness is ever supposed to.
"You want this cleaned up." Selphie snarled.
She bent down and picked up a handful of spaghetti, today's special, and dumped it on the mans head. The room absolutely erupted in cheers and laughter. Rinoa didn't imagine that this was the type of thing that they usually got when they did something like this but was caught up in the moment and started cheering Selphie on as well.
"Here you go." Selphie said after smiling sweetly at him for a couple of seconds.
Needless to say Selphie got in trouble. Not only did she have to clean the mess up but she had to serve a month detention. Her parents were brought in and she was warned once again that she was on the road to expulsion for her continuing disruptions.
After school
Rinoa hadn't seen Selphie since the incident and was desperate to apologize for it. She noticed the group standing near a couple of cars and jogged towards them.
"Selphie I am so sorry about what happened. If I'd have known that that was going to happen then I would've…"
Selphie held up her hand and smiled, Rinoa was slightly relieved that Selphie wasn't glaring at her and accusing her of setting her up. Paranoid thoughts had been running through her mind since it happened and from her experience with her old friends she expected it to be quite the issue.
"Don't worry about it Rinny! It's all good. It got me out of two periods."
Rinoa sighed and while she was thrilled that Selphie hadn't taken the event to heart, she was curious as to why she didn't take it to heart and how often these things occurred.
"So, whats on the agenda tonight?" Irvine enquired, doing a complete 180 on the current subject.
Today was Friday so naturally there was going to be something to do. Rinoa was hopeful that they might invite her; she didn't really want to be at home tonight. Her father had gone away for the night for a course that he needed to complete that the job that had hired him required.
It meant he was away all night tonight and most of tomorrow, Rinoa wasn't exactly happy about being left home alone in a new house but she wasn't going to complain about it. She didn't like being around her father, he was a constant irritation and just being in his company made her angry.
She heard a loud familiar tune and nearly jumped out of her skin. The group glanced at her for a second as she grasped at her bag and pulled out her pocket sized cellphone.
On it there was a message that read as follows: Hey babe thought I txt u & c how u r. miss u & luv u.
Rinoa smiled giddily while reading and then re-reading the message at least five times. It was comforting to know that Lucas hadn't forgotten her already. She wished he was here with her but knew that if he was then she wouldn't have gotten the chance to meet Squall and co.
There were people like them at her old school and they weren't what were considered acceptable company. A lot of them hadn't always been that way, in fact most of them were normal at some point, and something usually made them change. Rinoa found herself wondering what it was that made these people change.
Deciding that it wasn't really her place to ask she dismissed the thought and concentrated more on txting her boyfriend back.
"Owww, is that your boyfriend?" Selphie asked in a sing song voice.
Rinoa nodded absent mindedly and continued what she was doing. She didn't notice the disappointed look on Squall's face or the eye roll from Seifer. Even if she had she probably would've dismissed it anyway.
"Whats his name?" Quistis asked.
Rinoa was shocked that Quistis even took an interest; she didn't strike Rinoa as the type of girl who cared for such trivial matters such as this one.
"Lucas." Rinoa replied as she snapped her cellphone shut.
She didn't really want to give out anymore information; she found herself a little uncomfortable talking about it while Squall was around. She just felt like she was letting him down even if she hadn't noticed his let down expression.
"Right, onto other more important matters." Squall interrupted.
He was a little over hearing about the hot new girl's boyfriend.
"I'll ring you guys in about an hour and tell you whats going on. I think the old ladies going away so Dad'll probably let us have a couple of drinks." Squall concluded.
Rinoa couldn't help but notice that whenever Squall was organizing something he sounded like he was briefing them on a mission. She thought that he'd get along famously with her father. Unfortunately for her, as she would learn later on, she couldn't be further from the truth.
"Hold up, what about Rinoa!" Zell exclaimed.
Rinoa felt uncomfortable being in the lime light, as Zell had so thoughtfully put her, and didn't really know if she wanted to be a tag along.
"Well she can come; she's like part of the group now!" Selphie replied.
At that exact moment two girls that Rinoa recognized as on the cheerleading team walked towards their cars. They pretty much had identical beetles, both of which were bright colors, and she nearly immediately noticed the shudders that her company let out.
"So like, tonight's ganna be wild!" one of them said, the blonde one to be more specific.
The brunette beside her defied the well known opinion, she was the dippiest girl Rinoa had ever come in contact with and it was obvious that she really needed to dye her hair.
"Yeah but I heard that Brett's not ganna be there, there's no point me being there if he isn't." the brunette said solemnly.
"C'mon girl, you know he will be! Besides Stacey's party is going to be the like party of the like century!"
Rinoa turned back to her group of newly found friends to see them all smiling at each other. Some smiles looked a little evil and she was a bit scared by them, she'd known them long enough to know that they were planning something. Even if they weren't vocalizing it yet, there was a scheme in motion.
Once again it was just another chapter where I defined the various characters personalities and whatnot. The next chapter should have a fair bit of Rinoa/Squall moments but I'm not promising anything because I haven't written it yet so I can't really say.
But for the time being… what'd ya think?