The Delinquent
I don't own final fantasy 8
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"Wagging" is a slang term we use when we're ditching school for a period or for the day.
Many people might not like the idea of Zell being a skank but he is in this story. Its not that he doesn't respect chicks or anything it's just that he doesn't like the idea of committing to anything.
"You're not stupid Rin." Squall said tenderly.
Rinoa leaned her head into his stomach, relishing in the fact that he wrapped his arms around her. She felt a tear slide down her face and she knew what she had to do.
"I don't love him anymore Squall…" Rinoa said quietly, "I-I'm ashamed of him."
Squall stared at the back of her head incredulously, not quite knowing what to say he just blurted out with the first thing that came to mind.
"And you're only finding this out now?"
Rinoa lifted her head up and glared at Squall, it wasn't quite the glare that she had pictured it to be in her head but it was definitely interesting.
"C'mon Rin, just…" Squall stopped momentarily, thinking about the words he was about to say. Finally coming to a decision he let the words flow, "just give him a chance."
Rinoa nodded, staring down at the floor the whole while. This was terrible for her, she had a new life, and everything was going swimmingly until they decided to come along. She couldn't say that she hadn't missed them, sometimes she thought about them, what they'd think of her now and whether they'd be cool about it. She knew Lucas, he hated "these" sorts of people in Deling, and Rinoa doubted that Balamb would be any different.
"I don't think I'll be able to see you guys much for a couple of days." Rinoa stated.
Squall nodded, understanding that it was more for her friend's safety than for herself.
He couldn't deny for a second that he and his friends wouldn't absolutely tear them to pieces.
"C'mon, your boyfriend is waiting."
Rinoa walked close to Squall as they approached the now arguing group of teenagers. It appeared that Seifer was about to dive on Lucas and throttle him if it wasn't for Quistis standing in front of him. Selphie was bouncing round the group yelling the occasional "Kick his ass!" while Irvine begged her to shut up. Zell, not surprisingly, was standing near Seifer, his fists clenched at his sides, waiting to back Seifer up should anything happen.
Zell always backed Seifer up; in his warped little mind he had twisted his disdain for Seifer around to "no one's ganna kick his ass but me". No one knew how it worked and Seifer wasn't saying anything because Zell was an excellent backup to have, considering the fact that most of the people Seifer took on were twice his size.
Lucas on the other hand was looking particularly pale. This was understandable though, he didn't exactly have anyone backing him up. Marcia had disappeared.
Rinoa sighed and smirked up at Squall, he was already grinning and way too interested in the insults being thrown around to notice Rinoa smirking at him.
"You sticking your chin out at me! I will rearrange your face dickhead!" Seifer snarled.
Squall clapped his hands loudly, yelling "interception!"
Seifer looked over at Squall his face could only be compared to the sound of a roar coming from a lion. It was literally seething with anger and Squall knew that this could only end in violence. Somehow Quistis still had the courage to stand in front of him, she new that he would never hit her, she'd kick his ass if he did that.
Squall shook his head at Seifer mouthing the word "no".
Seifer glanced down at Quistis, who stood coolly in front of him, apparently not in the slightest bit worried. She looked up at him and smiled.
"Sorry babe but it's a bad idea."
Rinoa scooted between the two fighting groups, lightly tugging on Lucas's shirt, trying to pull him with her. She wanted to get out of here ASAP and quite a formidable group of people had gathered outside the school to watch the quarrel.
"Rinoa you've got school." Lucas finally said his temper completely cooled.
"I'm having today off; we've got a bit of catching up to do." Rinoa sighed.
Seifer stormed away from the group, heading straight for the football field. Quistis called after him but he wasn't listening to anyone.
"Whats got him so anti? He's usually in a good mood after annoying someone." Squall enquired.
"I dunno, he just straight out lost it." Selphie replied.
Quistis turned to Squall, a serious look on her face that made Squall hope she wasn't going to lecture him on something. She had a bad habit of doing that.
"I haven't seen him that mad in a long time Squall."
Squall nodded, he hadn't either, Seifer was supposed to be past all that now.
"Someone should talk to him." Zell stated.
"Off you go then Zell, see how well you'd do?" Irvine chuckled.
"Shut up Irvine!" Selphie scowled, everyone was slightly taken back by her use of his actual name.
"Ok… do you wanna go or do you want me to do it?" Squall asked Quistis.
"You go, I'll follow soon."
Quistis watched Squall nod and walk off; she waited until he was quite a way away before she turned to Selphie, Zell and Irvine. She had a weird look in her eyes, a sort of twinkle that kind of reminded them all of Squall when he was coming up with a plan.
"We're fucking him up." Quistis growled.
Selphie winced; she had prayed that it hadn't come down to this. Naturally Quistis had waited till Squall was gone before she said it; Squall would be against it on account of his situation with Rinoa.
"Seifer won't like it." Irvine warned.
"That's exactly why Seifer never needs to know. Lucas is just going to have a string of bad luck." Quistis replied.
Squall cautiously approached Seifer; he was sitting in the grand stand part of the field, his elbows resting on his knees. He seemed to have calmed down considerably but Squall was still a bit weary about approaching him.
"What was that about?" Squall enquired.
Seifer sighed, he knew that someone was going to come after him and it was more than likely going to have been Squall. They weren't exactly going to send Selphie to talk to him.
"I dunno. I just lost it." Seifer stated.
Squall nodded, understanding completely what that was like. Most seventeen year olds did know what it was like to just loose it. Your emotions are so tightly wound up its easy for them to break.
"You fully freaked Quistis out." Squall said as he sat down beside Seifer.
It was now Seifer's turn to nod, he knew that he was probably going to have to apologise to Quistis for his outbreak. He'd reminded himself of what he'd used to be like, before Squall and co. were his friends and way before Quistis. Compared to what he used to be he was now a valuable member of society.
"I know, I know."
"She said that she's ganna come and talk to you soon." Squall continued.
"Cool, do you wanna fuck off then?" Seifer asked.
Squall smirked and nodded, standing up as he did so. He walked steadily down the stairs and smiled at Quistis when he noticed her approaching. Squall couldn't help but think that he was so good at consoling others, a skill that he had only recently picked up, but he couldn't work out his own problems. They were more of a mystery to him than why they took Jerry Springer off television.
'I loved that show.' Squall thought as he walked around the corner.
Elsewhere
Zell absent mindedly kicked a soda can towards the exit of his school, deciding that it was Friday and already too much drama had happened for him to even bother with school.
Irvine and Selphie had gone already gone to school, Selphie having too much stuff to attend to today to wag. Irvine dutifully followed her, knowing that she'd probably be the only one of them to actually go to school today so she needed someone to go with her and Zell was volunteering.
He stared up ahead and noticed that girl that Rinoa was friends with sitting on a bench down the road. Zell let his eyes roam over her body, not having the chance to do so earlier, he noted her scantly clothing and smirked, his type of girl alright.
"You lost?" Zell said casually, taking a seat beside her.
"Kinda." She sighed.
"I'm Zell." Zell stated, extending his hand to her.
"Marcia." She replied, taking his hand and shaking it softly.
Zell grinned, his imagination already taking over as he took back his hand.
Rinoa sipped on her iced chocolate, half paying attention to the words that Lucas was saying and half paying attention to the arguing couple that sat two booths away.
"I mean, I just don't understand whats happened to you Rinoa. You're like a different person now. If I'd have known that this was going to…"
"Rin." Rinoa interrupted.
"Excuse me?" Lucas exclaimed.
"Everyone calls me 'Rin' now." Rinoa said casually.
"See! I-I mean it's like you don't even care that me and Marcia decided to come and visit." Lucas stammered.
Rinoa rolled her eyes, quite sick of all the melodrama that Lucas was letting out. What did he expect her to do? Welcome him back with open arms and make googly faces at him until he left. As if!
"Well you come back into my life and expect every single little aspect of me to be exactly the same as it was before. People are a lot different here Lucas."
"No there not, the only different people I see around here are you! You and all your new friends!" Lucas yelled.
"That is it! You are not my father! You can't tell me what I can and can't do Lucas!"
Lucas's face fell; the words had flown out before he had time to catch them. He'd never yelled at her before about anything and here he was acting as though she should do everything he said. He knew how much Rinoa hated that, ever since she was little all her father had done was fly orders at her and Hyne save anyone who did it to her.
"Rinoa I'm…"
"Just fuck off out of my face." Rinoa growled.
Lucas did as he was asked, choosing to fight this battle when she'd cooled down a bit. The way he was acting was just throwing her towards her new friends; he came here to remind her that she still had a boyfriend. He had been going insane back in Deling, knowing that she was making new friends and living a new life without him. Ever since the phone call and that prick on the other end saying something about competition.
Lucas knew that it was one of the guys he had met today, at first he thought it must've been that blonde guy with the attitude but now he saw it differently, it could be any of them.
Rinoa sat with her hands holding up her head while her elbows rested on the table. She was stressed out to the max and had no idea what to do. She needed to talk to someone, someone who would understand what she was going through.
'I wish you were here mum… you'd know what to do.' Rinoa thought.
She shook her head, deciding that it was better not to dwell on the past, her mother was gone and it was just something that she couldn't change.
Meanwhile
Squall hadn't known what to once he'd left Seifer, everyone else was nowhere to be seen and he didn't really want to go home. He knew that if he went home he'd have to deal with his father and possibly his mother. She'd been after him since the police had rung up in regards to his whereabouts last Saturday.
He noticed an empty soda can on the ground and kicked it forcefully as he walked towards the car park. He noticed two people making out behind one of the cars; unfortunately it was near his car so he inevitably had to walk past them. He first saw the blonde spiky hair, the male of the couple.
"Zell!" Squall exclaimed, noticing Zell's tattoo a mile away.
Zell launched himself away from the girl, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand but missing most of the lip gloss that had smudged onto his face.
Squall then noticed the girl to be Rinoa's friend; he didn't know the name but recognised her face.
"Squall this is Marcia, she's from Deling." Zell said a little too nonchalantly.
"Hi." Squall waved sarcastically.
"It's a pleasure… Squall." Marcia said seductively.
Squall raised one of his eyebrows but didn't say anything. She had just hooked up with one of his best friends and was now coming onto him.
'Right-o.' Squall thought.
"Well I'll seeya later." Squall concluded.
He shook his head and headed towards his car, the images of Zell's mouth ravishing Marcia's making him shudder in disgust. Zell was such a slut.
Squall turned his stereo on and glanced in his rear vision mirror in time to see the two youths going at it again.
He reversed and took off out of the school, not thinking twice about the day he was going to miss. He had better things to worry about than stupid schoolwork. Like the appearance of Rinoa's boyfriend Lucas or whatever the hell his name was and whether Rinoa was as slutty as her friend back where she was from. Squall couldn't imagine that to be true, she didn't come off that way and he couldn't picture that her personality hadn't really changed that much. People can chance but their morals stay the same.
Squall drove straight past a familiar café and noticed Lucas walking out of it. He stood on the side of the road for a bit before glancing longingly back inside the café. It was then Squall saw Rinoa sitting inside.
'We can't both have her.'
Squall was going to pull over and talk to Rinoa but decided against it. He wanted Rinoa to pick him on her own accord and brushing up against her when she'd just obviously had an argument with her boyfriend wasn't very courteous. Besides, he lived right next to her; there was plenty of time for him to see her.
'I need to talk to the boys.' Squall thought as he travelled down the road.
Balamb roads were never that busy so he could get up to some speed. Police were generally a no show; they didn't really have any real reasons for a lot of police. There weren't murders in Balamb, businesses didn't get robbed and it was normally a pretty gentle natured town.
The kind of town you wanted to retire in, if it wasn't for the constant annoyances that he and his friends put the town through.
Squall drove through his small town, smiling at the various memories he had in the different parts of it.
He soon found that he was driving out of Balamb and following quite an old road further and further away from his town. He came upon an old abandoned building that somewhat resembled the shape of a beehive. Stepping out of his car he took in just how eerie it was out here. He'd never actually been here before and seeing such a magnificent building broken down and forgotten like this was quite depressing. He stepped over the corrugated iron fence that had fallen down and stared at the overgrown gardens that he imagined had once been superb.
Squall was about to go further but instead he reached into his pocket and pulled out his cellphone. While he was usually against txting and cellphones in general but this time merited the use of the infernal object.
Within a couple of minutes Squall had contacted them all and was eagerly awaiting for them to txt him back.
After looking around his surrounding for awhile and not getting anything back he decided to take a proper look around, if any of them showed up he'd hear them.
After having to barge down a huge door to get inside he saw a huge dome area with many paths leading off in different directions. He hadn't quite fathomed just how huge it was from outside but being inside really made him feel small. He found himself wondering how he'd never known this was here, he and his friends did missions out of Balamb all the time and he was only seeing this now. Surely a big stinking building like this would draw someone's attention.
Squall headed towards a large pair of double doors at the top of a small set of stairs. He pried the doors open and gasped as the roof of what seemed to be an elevator caved down on him. He laid there, agony overtaking him and darkness starting to cloud over his vision. He heard someone calling out his name but didn't have the energy to call back. He tried to lift himself up but didn't have the power to move even an inch. He finally closed his eyes and let the darkness engulf him.
Yeah there was no mention of Rinoa's dog but who wants to hear about her dog anyway? This chapter didn't take long and I didn't really want to crush Squall but I figured that Rinoa's having a hard time dealing with Lucas, so I'd add onto that Squall getting trampled.
Sorry if you didn't like it but I tried and I'm having a very stressful time at the moment so my characters shall have stress as well!
Hope I'm updating fast enough!
So… how'd I do?