Chapter 5
Pain:
Seifer remembered waking up in a white room. There were lights surrounding him. He could hardly see.
'Did I die?' Seifer thought to himself as he began to open his eyes more. Selphie and Irvine were cuddled up on a chair across the room. They seemed so happy. He couldn't be dead. If they were, then why would they be there with him?
"Rinoa! You're awake!" Seifer heard someone say as they came through the door. It was Quistis. She was always making sure people were okay.
'I guess Selphie or Irvine must have called.' Seifer thought as Quistis came closer to give him a hug.
"Hey Quisty." Seifer said in a strained voice. The doctor came in and everyone was relieved. While Seifer was unconscious, the doctor had taken some tests.
"Is there anything wrong doctor?" Quistis asked as Seifer was preparing himself for the worst.
"No, nothing wrong at all, it was just a bug that's been going around lately." The doctor said as Seifer was relieved that he wasn't going to die.
"That's good." Quistis said as Selphie sighed deeply of relief knowing that one of her best friends wasn't going to die.
"Although Rinoa did start her period, but that can be handled." The doctor said as Seifer wondered what it was, but didn't question it.
"When will she be able to leave?" Quistis asked as the doctor said, "She can leave whenever she feels comfortable enough to leave."
Seifer had always hated hospitals. That's where his only living relative he knew of had died of a stroke. He told himself, when she died, that he would never return to a hospital if he had a decision. Of course this time around, he had no choice, it was either stick to a promise, or die. Seifer prized his life very highly so he decided that just this once, he would give in.
"Come on Rin, lets go get your clothes on." Selphie said as Irvine went with Quistis to go fill out paper work.
Selphie and Seifer came up to Quistis and Irvine and waited in the waiting room for quite some time, while Quistis signed papers for Seifer's release. After an hour of boring waiting Quistis stood up next to the snoring Irvine and slapped him on the back of the head.
He jerked up, and became alert. He noticed that it was only Quistis there so he let down his guard.
"Come on sleepy head, lets get back to Balamb." Quistis said as Selphie just about tackled Irvine for a piggy back.
Seifer walked with Quistis to her car, and began to feel a little uncomfortable around Quistis. She must have noticed that he was uncomfortable too, so she began to talk to loosen the tension.
"Hey Rin, you look a little tense. When we get back to Balamb, would you like me to give you a back massage?" Quistis said as Seifer began to sweat.
'Quistis…. Hehehe….. sure I would love to…..that's probably as close as I'll ever get to her.' Seifer thought as he nodded.
Quistis put her car in drive and they took off back to the school. Selphie and Irvine stuck around a little to do a little smooching in the car.
"Hey Sef, you know I love you right?" Irvine said as Selphie looked up at him with her emerald eyes and pulled him closer to her. They were held in each others embrace for quite some time until Selphie noticed the time on the clock.
"HOLY COW! CURFEW IS IN FIVE MINUTES!" Selphie screamed as she put the car in drive.
"Oh no not again." Irvine said under his breath, as he tried to buckle himself up for safety. Selphie was not the best driver when she was pressured. He learned that from experience.
Once Quistis and Seifer had gone back to Rinoa's room Seifer collapsed on her bed, face down. Quistis came up behind him and leaned over the bed, and began to rub Seifer's back firmly, but not too hard for it to hurt.
"Hey Rin, I have a question." Quistis said as she moved to his lower back.
"yeah?" Seifer said not knowing exactly whether he wanted to know the question or not.
"Well, I'm starting to like this guy at school. You know him, and I want to get to know him, and I was wondering if I should ask him out or not." Quistis said as Seifer groaned when Quistis hit the spot that Seifer needed to be hit.
"Well, who is the guy?" Seifer asked.
"You know him, he has blonde hair, and is kind of a malicious little guy, but I have a feeling that there's something he's not showing the rest of the world, and I want front row seats to see it be unveiled." Quistis said as Seifer rolled over on the bed, which surprised Quistis a little.
"You like like Seifer?" Seifer said surprised.
"uhh yeah hehe." Quistis said uncomfortably.
"You know, Seifer seems all bad-guy from afar, but when you get to know him, he's really not all that bad. I mean when I dated him, he gave me all the things I wanted. Seifer said as he made up a story about her and Seifer one night.
"He was so good." Seifer said as Quistis bit her finger as if deciding wether or not to get with him.
"So Rin, it actually went that far?" Quistis asked as Seifer nodded.
"Well, I think I'm interested. I think I'll go see him right now." Quistis said as Seifer stopped her.
"Whoa Quistis, aren't you late for that meeting with Cid?" Seifer said as Quistis raised her eyebrow.
"What meeting with Cid?" Quistis asked. Seifer had to come up with something fast. Something that worked. Aha!
"Oh my gosh I didn't tell you?" Seifer said in a tone that surprised Quistis.
"Didn't tell me what!" Quistis asked as Seifer got up off the bed, which knocked Quistis over. He began to pace around the room, to make a pretty good show.
"I was supposed to tell you that you were supposed to meet Cid about something at 10:30, it was the only time he had available." Seifer said as Quistis ran out the door. Seifer looked at the clock, and it said 10:45.
That only gave Seifer a little while to get ahold of Rinoa. He took off down the hallway to talk to Rinoa. He kept knocking on the door, saying things like, "God Rinoa open this door right now!"
Rinoa came up behind Seifer and tapped him on the shoulder. It made him jump, and he was screaming so hard, he almost blew her face off. Not like that kind of thing is possible or anything.
"Rin! I need to talk to you." Seifer said in a hushed tone.
"Ok what's so majorly mondo important?" Rinoa said as Seifer began to speak.
"Ok well, I was talking with Quistis, and she said she had a thing for you, well me, and she was going to come speak with me, you, and I had to talk to you first, to not say anything stupid." Seifer said as Rinoa nodded in agreement.
"We only have a few minutes to talk about what you should say, and whatever you say, don't say anything cocky about me. Don't drive her away." Seifer said as he began to plead.
"You really do care about her don't you?" Rinoa said as Seifer nodded with large blue eyes. There was a knock on the door.
"Oh no that's Quistis, I'm going to go hide in the closet, I'll be listening, and make sure you don't drive her away ok?" Seifer said as he hid out of sight.
Rinoa walked to the door as if she were Seifer. She shook her head as if she was getting into personality. She opened the door slowly, and opened it once she saw Quistis.
"Hey babe." Rinoa said as Seifer already began to regret doing this.
"Hey Seifer can I talk to you real fast?" Quistis said as she pushed her way through the doorway.
"So what's up Quistis." Rinoa said as Quistis got right to the point.
"Well, I've been watching you around garden, and I've been wanting to know the real you." Quistis said as she moved closer to Rinoa. Rinoa wasn't sure what to do. Seifer watched from the closet thinking, 'Come on Rin, get in closer, give her a little action, like I did with you.' Rinoa could obviously read what he was thinking, so she moved in a little closer to Quistis.
"Quis, I don't think I'm ready for this." Rinoa said as she backed off.
"What do you mean?" Quistis said as she began to give Seifer a look of confusion.
"Well, it's just I think we should just be friends for while. I'm not ready for a full fledged relationship." Rinoa said with as much honesty as she could. She really didn't want to be in a relationship with Quistis.
Seifer whacked his head on the wall lightly. For one he didn't want to be heard by Quistis. For two, he didn't really want to hurt himself yet. When they switched back bodies, he was going to seriously kill Rinoa.
"Well, then, I guess that we shant even be friends, if you can't stand my presence." Quistis said as she stood up and gave Rinoa a glare. She stomped out of the room and slammed the door. Rinoa jumped, not expecting such an angered action from Quistis.
"What happened?" Seifer said as he came out of the closet with an enraged tone.
"I'm sorry Seifer." Rinoa said as she backed away from the angered Seifer.
"How could you do this to me?" Seifer said as his anger turned into sadness. He began to weep, and Rinoa comforted him.
"I'm sorry Seifer, things like this happen all the time." Rinoa said as she realized what she had said, would more than likely set him off yet again.
"Things like this don't happen all the time, people don't switch lives, or at least tell anyone, and even if they do, nobody believes them." Seifer said as Rinoa began to put the puzzle pieces together.
"Wait… what if we look for people who have switched bodies before, and told, and they knew what happened to them, and they knew how to switch back?" Rinoa said as Seifer was amazed at how Rinoa caught onto what he was saying.
"We can find those people, and ask them how to change back." Seifer said as Rinoa and Seifer could almost read each other's minds. They started to get freaked out, so Seifer decided it was best if he could think about this on his own.
"Well, lets get some sleep, and we can start researching stuff tomorrow." Seifer said as Rinoa stopped him just as he was leaving the room.
"Hey Seifer, how about we make a journal about what we did while we were in each others bodies, to see if we can find out what was causing it if the whole other plan backfires k?" Rinoa said as she closed the door. Seifer was amazed. He didn't think she would be that clever.
Seifer went back to Rinoa's room, and fell onto her bed. He began to think about what he could do to research the cause. Then he remembered that Rinoa told him to keep a journal, just incase.
"Paper, need paper." Seifer said as he shuffled through Rinoa's closet, desk, and dresser for a notebook, or a pad of paper.
He finally found a notebook in one of Rinoa's desk drawers. He opened the journal just to make sure that there wasn't anything in it.
Rinoa had scribbled many things in the notebook. Seifer was surprised at what he saw. Rinoa had many pages of depressing journal entrys. One particular entry caught Seifer's eye.
Dear Diary,
Today Squall and I got in a fight. He was mad that I kept bugging him when he was working. I know I shouldn't but I just couldn't help it. He's such a loveable person. I've been trying to get him to be more sociable. Instead all he does is just mope around his office, and sign papers. He knows that I don't like it when he does that, and that's when I bug him while he's in his office. I know that he loves me, but sometimes I wonder. Should I break it off with him? Or should I just keep loving him, and hope that he becomes a social butterfly? I really do wonder. What should I do? I love Squall I dearly do, but does he love me back? Well, I guess I better go talk to him.
Bye for now
Rinoa Heartilly
"Wow." Seifer said as he now knew how intimate Rinoa's feelings could be.
"I wish I could have seen that when I knew her." Seifer said as a tear began to leave a trail on his face. There was a knock on his door. So Seifer wiped the tears off his face, made sure he didn't look like he was crying, and answered the door.
It was Quistis. She was crying, and she threw herself on Seifer, and cried on her shoulder. Seifer comforted her, and knew why she came.
"Rinoa, he wouldn't accept my love. I tried to get close, but he backed away." Quistis said in between breaths of sobbing.
"I'm sorry Quis. Sometimes when people try to get close to him, he backs away. He's just different with me, because, well we knew each other, and I guess he felt comfortable around me.
Seifer spoke the truth to Quistis. He was pouring himself out to her, but she wouldn't get it, because he was Rinoa. He never knew he could be this open to anyone other than Rinoa.
"You know Quisty, how about you stay the night, and we can talk. We haven't talked in a while. You know, girl to girl." Seifer said as he soon regretted what he said.
Quistis got a genuine smile that Seifer didn't want to fade off her face. She hugged him, and answered Seifer's question.
"Yeah that would be wonderful. Thanks Rin for always having my back." Quistis said as she stood up and turned around.
"I can always trust you, and I'll be back, I'm just going to go get some stuff for the night." Quistis said as she turned back and left.
Seifer just sat on Rinoa's bed, wondering what he was going to talk about and what they were going to do. Seifer then remembered what Rinoa told him to do.
He once again went on a search for a notebook, and found an empty one. He began to write in it, and only wrote a few sentences. Then Quistis knocked lightly, then entered Rinoa's room.
"I'm back." Quistis said as Seifer turned around to face Quistis. She had a dufflebag on her shoulder, and was dressed in some very nice, and comfortable looking pajama's.
'How am I going to survive this night?' Seifer thought to himself as Quistis set down her stuff.
"So what do ya wanna talk about?" Quistis said as she sat down on the bed. She almost peeked at what Seifer was writing but he closed the notebook just in the nick of time.
"Well, how have you been lately?" Seifer said as he luckily started a conversation that wasn't to hard.
'Maybe this wont be so bad after all, I'll learn a few things about Quistis, and I'll build Rinoa's and her relationship.' Seifer thought as they stayed up just long enough to watch a movie.
Then they were tired so they fell asleep. Quistis slept on the couch and Seifer slept on Rinoa's fluffy bed. They slept peacefully all night, while they dreamt of sugar plums. Well not exactly sugar plums, but they had nice dreams.
Authors Note: hehe again, sorry about the last chapter and how it was all short. This chapter should make up wht the other chapter lacked, so ya. Umm hope you enjoyed it, and i'll post again soon. I'll now thank my reviewers. Well actually there's only one so far, and ya, i already had it done so i thought, hey why don't i just post this chapter. So yes. Here you have it, chapter five complete. BUH BYE!
QueenAdreena: ya sorry about the last chapter being so short, but this one was longer, so ya. hehe funny. thanks.