The Delinquent
I don't own final fantasy 8
Cheer cheer anyone who reviewed my story or read it or thought about it for more than two seconds when skimming through all the other stories.
Yeah I dunno about the whole dream thing, I know I've got a plot coming and forgive me if it's somewhat outrageous but we're up to chapter twelve and nothings really happened. Sure Rinoa's changed and all but I like a bit of excitement.
After a somewhat uneventful visit to Squall, Rinoa headed back home. She offered Zell a lift but he declined, deciding to stay and talk to Squall. Squall kept repeating over and over again that he was fine and when someone says something enough, you start to believe it. Rinoa of all people should've known that yet she let it go.
Walking inside her house she closed the door and leaned against it. Closing her eyes she only cracked one open when she heard footsteps coming towards her.
"Rinoa," Marcia said as she approached, "are you alright?"
Rinoa shrugged, not really knowing. She had too much going on and it wasn't even the afternoon yet. She wasn't used to this sort of excitement before eleven AM.
"I don't know Marcia, everything's just all fucked up." Rinoa sighed.
Marcia approached her, her arms held out in front of her. On impulse Rinoa extended her own, wrapping around Marcia's body and taking in her familiar scent.
She felt a tear slid down her cheek as she thought about how much of a bitch she'd been. Her best friend and her boyfriend had just come to surprise her and she was acting like a total dickhead about it.
"I'm sorry Marsh." Rinoa sobbed.
"What for?" Marcia exclaimed.
She was going to comment on the improper use of her name but decided against it, this was not the time for her to worry about things like that. It was strange to be called anything other than Marcia, most nicknames she heard her friends using were things like "ball-bag".
"I've been the biggest fucking bitch about you guys being here…" Rinoa said as she pushed Marcia away from her "I missed you so much."
Marcia smiled, feeling her own eyes begin to tear up. Without Rinoa being there everyday was torture for Marcia, seeing someone everyday for basically your entire life and then never seeing them at all was hard.
"Well how about this." Marcia began "Lucas has gone downtown to get some video's, why don't the three of us lax out and watch them tonight?"
Rinoa nodded, a smile settling itself on her face much like the one spread across Marcia's.
"I'd like that."
Later on, roughly 7:47 PM
Squall sat on the side of the road, Selphie on one side of him and Zell on the other. There was a carton of eggs beside each person and they sat waiting for cars. Being seventeen years old with nothing to do and having no one to buy you any type of liquor was frustrating, they had to release some tension somehow.
"Here comes one!" Selphie squealed excitedly as a car came round the corner.
It was dark by now so they could easily escape should anyone decide to get out of their cars, which most people did.
They sat silently waiting; as it got closer they all raised their eggs and threw them with a fair bit of force. They watched them crash on the side of the car, two of them slamming against the window, then jumped a nearby fence and ran as fast as they could.
They'd been doing this for about the past hour so they had slowly dwindled out of eggs.
Irvine spotted a café about twenty meters away and taking it as a sign, they all made their way towards it.
After ordering their food they took it outside, deciding to sit in the dimly lit seat and table.
"So where's ol' Rin tonight?" Zell enquired, his mouth stuffed with food.
"Her 'girlfriends' up remember and I doubt she really wants us mixing with them after this morning." Selphie replied.
"It was pretty funny though." Irvine stated.
"Damn straight." Quistis laughed.
Squall smirked, agreeing completely, it had been hilarious, and he could already tell that he wasn't going to be all that chummy with Lucas.
Squall's thoughts started drifting off, circling inside his head like a whirlwind. Before he knew it his friends were all looking at him expectantly.
"Uhhh… yes?"
"Oh that's great Squall! So your just ganna let him get away with it?" Seifer exclaimed.
"Let who get away with what?"
"There he goes again." Selphie sighed.
"Aye?" Irvine enquired.
"Squall going into his own little world again." Quistis replied.
Squall rolled his eyes but couldn't deny the truth, and it had been happening more and more often lately.
"Shut your face and ask again!" Squall snapped.
"Ow, testy." Zell muttered.
Squall sent him a glare that could melt a glacier; Zell grinned uncomfortably and tore his eyes away from Squall's deciding that it was better to avoid confrontation at this point.
"Are we just going to let this Lucas bitch come and take Rin away from us?" Irvine enquired venomously.
Squall thought about the question, there was no doubt in his mind what he wanted to do. He wanted to waltz his ass around to Rinoa's right now and beat that Lucas boy to a bloody pulp for even touching Rinoa, but he couldn't imagine Rinoa would like that too much.
"My answer still stands."
"WHAT!" They all cried at the same time.
It was times like this that Squall just wanted to say "personal jinx" but didn't think it was really the time.
"How can you say that Squall!"
"This is fucked!"
"You've been bitch-whipped!"
"Squall I don't understand."
"After everything you're just ganna let her go!"
"What a fucking waste of time."
"SHUT UP!" Squall yelled.
Silence followed, excluding the horrified mumbles that were still coming from Seifer. It was obvious that everyone was not happy with Squall's decision. In fact one might go as far as to say it would be safer for Squall to have agreed with them against his own wishes.
Squall looked around the café and noticed that most of the people in it were staring at them, it wasn't that he wasn't used to it, they got a fair bit of attention at school.
"What would Rinoa want us to do?" Squall continued, ignoring the gawks from the random's.
"To wake her up and make her realize that he's no good for her." Selphie stated.
"No, she'd want us to respect her decisions and let her make her own judgment."
There was a pause, no words were spoken as the group mulled over Squall's interesting debate. They all knew that Rinoa was a free-spirit, she didn't like people making her choices for her and if they did it, it might draw her closer to Lucas.
"Squall's right, the only thing we can do is lay and wait." Quistis sighed.
Rinoa roared down the road, her car swinging out at the back as she turned a corner quite fast. Marcia gasped in the backseat and clutched onto her seatbelt tighter. She was never really one for wearing seatbelts but after about ten minutes of Rinoa's driving she had changed her mind.
Rinoa had been all for the movie idea, until the second movie started and she realized just how long her night was going to be. So instead she was giving them a tour of Balamb, subconsciously looking out for any sign of her friends.
"Rinoa, I think you should slow down." Lucas said nervously.
"Alright alright you big baby." Rinoa said sarcastically. "We're here anyway."
Rinoa had taken them out to the docks; she had enjoyed the serenity of watching the stars above the water. It was a pastime she was used to sharing with Squall and co. they were the ones that had showed it to her. Rinoa wondered if Marcia and Lucas would understand and appreciate it like she did.
"So, whats here?" Marcia asked as she hastily got out of the car.
"This." Rinoa stated, raising her arms up.
Marcia glanced at Lucas, who in turn glanced back at her. Rinoa sighed, knowing that they didn't get it, knowing that they'd never get it. They were too closed minded to fully understand anything that she could show them, she was just retracing the steps that Squall and co. had taken to show her around the town.
It had been a night quite like this and they had stayed at the docks for about an hour and a half, staring at the stars and laughing like they'd known each other all their lives.
She'd really enjoyed that night, wishing that she could relive it everyday.
"Ok Rinoa, this isn't like you." Lucas finally burst out.
"Lucas." Marcia exclaimed.
"No Marcia! I'm sick of pretending!" Lucas declared. "You need to move back to Deling before you completely loose yourself in this kiddy fantasy life that you've got going on."
Rinoa closed her eyes, wishing that he would just go away. She let him rant though, not wanting to cut into his raving. Who was she to not let him have his say?
Her thoughts started to wander and she found herself thinking about what the gang was up to.
'Its gotta be a hell of a lot more interesting than this.' Rinoa thought.
"Lucas stop it!" Marcia shouted.
"Why Marcia! 'Rin'" Lucas started, making bunny ears with his fingers as he said her nickname, "doesn't seem to give two shits!"
Rinoa still didn't say anything, she figured he'd stop soon though; he couldn't be too far off… could he?
"But what else should we expect from a fucking delinquent?"
As much as Rinoa tried, the words did hurt. Lucas had never spoken to her this way before; in fact nobody really did apart from Caraway. Her eyes began to well up and she gritted her teeth together. She wanted to say something, to defend herself somehow, but she knew that she couldn't. She couldn't fight alone.
"Lucas!" Marcia yelled again.
"Why do you keep trying to defend her Marcia? She's not Rinoa anymore! She's this cesspool you see before you, nothing but another fucking criminal!"
Squall sat in silence, idly staring out the window, he could hear some kind of commotion outside but was used to seeing arguing couples. Hell he hung out with Seifer and Quistis all the time! He almost felt sorry for the chick though; she just had her head down, taking the abuse.
"Hey isn't that Rinny?" Selphie stated.
"Holy shit…" Squall breathed.
"Haven't you got anything to say Rinoa? Hmm? No you don't, because you know inside that every single word I have spoken is true… You're not the Rinoa that I loved, we've been here all day and you haven't even touched me. YOU HAVEN'T EVEN HUGGED ME! Two years… FOR THIS!"
Lucas was steadily working himself up and he was starting to scare Rinoa. She knew he wouldn't hit her, he couldn't, but she still couldn't get the inkling feeling out of her stomach that if he continued he might.
"So did you have this criminal tendency inside you in Deling?"
Lucas paused, waiting for her to answer, when she didn't say anything it only made him angrier.
"You can't even fucking answer, that's how useless you are now!"
"Well that was fucking charming you gutless dickhead." Squall stated.
He had calmness to his voice that would've worried anyone who knew him, but Lucas didn't know him. It was quite a heavy task for Squall to accomplish to, considering the fact that he was quite literally seething with rage.
"Fuck off you talent-less dog!" Lucas yelled.
Rinoa slowly clutched onto Marcia's hand, sending out a sort of subliminal message that she wasn't to be touched. She pulled Marcia off to the side, not speaking a word. Marcia understood though, anyone would've.
"I'll show you talent you fucking wanker!" Seifer snarled.
"No." Squall said curtly. "This is between me and Lucas. What do you say, mate?"
Lucas's eyes widened and he barely held back his gasp, it was Squall. The guy on the phone a month ago, it was him. Lucas also remembered them coming over together in the morning and the many times she mentioned them the occasional times that they managed to talk.
Lucas balled his fists, enraged with a hate that he was unaware existed. He'd just abused Rinoa and all but that didn't mean that he didn't care about her, he hadn't said anything that he couldn't fix. Now here stood the man that was more threatening to his relationship than any temper tantrum Lucas could ever have.
"Kick his fucking ass Squall." Zell whispered.
And then a fight ensued… nah there is going to be a fight scene but that's for next time. Ok, sorry if the whole Lucas mentaling out at Rinoa seemed out of place and all but I just want him GONE! So now Squall's ganna kick his ass… or is he?
The next chapter might take a little bit, might being the word of the moment, because in order for me to write a GOOD fight scene,I need to be in a bad mood.
Well anyways, all and all I think it was a pretty messed up chapter… what about you?